Surely you also want to know how ‘One Piece‘ ends, right? Will Luffy become the King of Pirates? Will he stop at the last minute to continue living more adventures? Will all the members of the crew get what they are looking for? According to Eiichiro Oda, the author of the manga, we are already very close to knowing the end once and for all. What we didn’t know is that there is already someone who knew it before anyone else.
Make a wish
That person in question was a boy named Hinati Fujinami who, when he learned that he had incurable lung cancer, made a wish to the Make-A-Wish foundation: to know the end of ‘One Piece’ from Oda himself. The author, of course, went to the hospital and, in tears, told him, asking him not to tell anyone. When he left, the boy was reportedly sobbing. When asked why, his response was “It’s a beautiful ending”.
You don’t have to be about to die to know the end of ‘One Piece’ ahead of time, especially since this story is notoriously false. For starters, because “Hinati” is not a Japanese name (the syllable “ti” does not exist in their language), and to continue because ten years ago, when this rumor spread, Oda probably still had no idea how it was all going to end beyond a simple outline.
There is a way to know the ending of ‘One Piece‘, of course, and not only Oda has it in his head: the main editors of the series know his plans perfectly well, and maybe his assistants too. And none of us are going to get there unless we have a much better than average level of Japanese, a language that, as we all know, can be learned in a couple of afternoons and is distinguished by its lightness.
Why this story has become so popular is obvious. And it’s that, deep down, we manga fans want to hold on to something: that it’s going to have an ending. Until I see it, at the moment, I don’t believe it. With or without a child dying along the way.
