User blog comment:Dezza/How many chapters will One Piece end with?/@comment-423448-20100722163855

Actually I noted something quite peculiar in the manga. If look at the beginning pages of manga volume 52, one of the pages before the first chapter starts says something along the lines of: "From Henceforth, 52 volumes of One Piece shall begin..." ...or something along those lines(I'll check later). I thought that was odd. It seemed as if it was hinting that we've reached the halfway point for manga releases and have 52 more releases or so before the series ends. Given this possibility and taking accout each volume typically contains 9 chapters (sometimes varying slightly), I'd estimate approximately somewhere between 1000-1025 chapters.