 So, back on Amazon Lily there was a big revelation about Boa Hancock in that she was once a slave of the world nobles, and as a result they gave her a mark so unequivocally evil that she must keep it hidden at all costs. However, Boa has now summoned the strength to reveal it to you all here today. And here it is, that's right. Those scumbag world nobles subscribed Boa Hancock to the Grand Line review, which to this day still uploads regular One Piece content straight into her YouTube feed. And I mean just, ugh, every time you think they can't get any worse, they always find a way to surprise you. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review, your source for everything One Piece. And today I'd like to vaguely peer into the future and imagine for a minute a world beyond Wano. Now at the time of this recording, such a world is a laughable concept because this mammoth arc is nowhere near approaching your conclusion, however some very interesting questions have popped up, as well as some key information regarding the lifespan of One Piece, so I think this topic is very much worth examining. But first of all, if somehow you're not aware, the number has been floated around that One Piece has roughly five years left in publication. But I immediately would not take this number seriously at all. Because commenting on One Piece time-related events has never worked out well, but at the same time it is undeniable that the series is now gunning for a conclusion, so perhaps those words are entirely seriously intended. And while One Piece could go on for much longer, we are hopping into the end game here, which means that we probably have two, maybe three at a stretch, larger arcs to go. There are large arcs I mean, the Dress-Rosa, Hulk-A-Kyland, Wano-scale stuff, but it could also include shorter stories like Punk Hazard or Fishman Island, both of which took around a year of real-world time to publish. Because you know, in almost any other series, these would be considered fairly lengthy arcs. But with this in mind, we can very much begin to narrow down what the final few installments of One Piece may possibly be, which could be done by possible locations, or in absence of a clear destination, a natural plot point, and I have a couple of both to share with you. But before we begin, I do want to state that even though we are nearing the end of One Piece, there is one arc that we know cannot possibly be the very next after Wano, which is Laftail. And this just comes from a purely technical perspective, because unless the final road Ponyglyph just drops in at the end of Wano, it is just not possible to reach Laftail. So naturally, we will need to take at least one step before that adventure takes place. And so what are our options from here? Well, we're going to start with an arc that's been widely anticipated by the fan base, at large, quite possibly since before I became a One Piece fan, which is Elba, the home of the Giants, or at least the home of the most well-known clan of Giants. But Elba is one of those locations that just keeps coming up and seems to be intrinsically linked to a great deal of the One Piece world and its characters, despite being something of an isolationist island just as with Wano. And over our time in the series, there has been a very slow burning story developing surrounding this nation, which has been told through a couple of different perspectives, one of which is the giant warrior pirates who were co-captained by the very first Giants we ever met on Little Garden, Dori, and Broggy. And they were known as one of the most fearsome forces to have ever sailed the Grand Line. And over the years, this group has been expanded upon during the Eneslobi arc, where we met two other former members, being Oimo and Kashi, as well as in Big Mom's Flashback, where we met the former captains, Jauril and Jauril. Jauril being Yaduru in Japanese, rather than how I say his Romanized name, which sounds more like Jauril. But this is just one of those metastories that's been brewing in the background, and as we all know, One Piece has a ridiculously system going on in regards to its narrative, and Weiwei in the background has always been the culture of the Giants of Elba, which is becoming more and more linked to the short hats, to the point where Harudin, a member of the Grand Fleet, is now seeking to revive the giant warrior pirates and pledge their allegiance to Luffy. Plus, in regards to the straw hats themselves, Elbaath is almost certainly directly linked with Usopp achieving a sense of his dream to become a brave warrior of the sea, because he has always been inspired by Giants, and Elbaath would 100% be Usopp's location of choice to visit if he was given the power to magically travel to a single island. Even more so than Laftel, I imagine. So I feel like in the same way that Holkei Kailand was kind of Sanji's arc, and Wano looks to be focusing greatly on Zoro, Elbaath could very much do the same with Usopp. Plus, we also have some unfinished business on Elbaath, a lot of unfinished business actually, because we did actually get to visit the base of the island during Big Mom's flashback. However, Oda also teased a hell of a lot more in regards to that giant tree, which seems to invoke a sense of Yggdrasil, given that the Giants in the series tend to take after Nordic culture. But we've also heard tell of a mysterious Prince Loki, who if you do not remember, was the character who proposed to Lola, and who was swiftly rejected, leading to Lola's excommunication and complete severance of any ties to the Giants with the Big Mom pirates. But in conclusion, in Elbaath's favor, we have a strongly developed meta-story ingrained into One Piece, a straw hat who has an incredibly vested interest in visiting the island, as well as some deep intrigue regarding its royalty and place in the world. There's a lot to be explored here, and I'm not sure if I see it happening without a dedicated section of story to it. This section may not have to be a mega arc, I mean, if anything, it could be more along the lines of Zoro like a shortstop, but discounting Laftail, Elbaath is the last great long-term mysterious island remaining, and it could be a pretty great stage for the next arc. Speaking of mystery, though this next idea is a recent one, but given its inclusion in the story at this late stage, it does call into question whether or not Oda is setting up the potential for an arc to take place on or surrounding the location of God Valley, which may be difficult because the island has allegedly disappeared without a trace, however, that is exactly the sort of intrigue that would captivate a certain monkey-de-loofy if he were to hear of it. Kind of like the golden city on Shandora that disappeared and turned up on Skype here. Because yeah, Luffy is a man who hears vague words about an island in the sky and then immediately prepares to ride an incredibly dangerous knockup stream just to experience the sheer possibility of adventure. As for why the Straw Hats would want to go there, it is a bit difficult to say at this stage other than pure adventure, but really, when you think about it, the Straw Hats almost certainly never go anywhere that they actually want to go. It's more of a response to another character asking for help or proposing an idea or just following the whims of a log pose. So it could be a very simple thing where after Wano, a prominent character brings up the idea of God Valley and wanting to go there or needing to go there, and bam, that's really all you need for Luffy to be interested. And it would also probably begin to tie in the inherited will aspect of the series quite well. You know, visiting the site of Roger Garp in Zabeck's fight, which saw the end of the Rocks Pirates, so it might be great to bookend this whole Yonko saga and serve as a launching point for the worst generation to properly take the stage. Now, next up, we have less of a location in mind, but without his jump-fester tease that Sarbo, Vivi, and Hancock might be in quite a bit of trouble at the moment, I feel like I do have to suggest the possibility of some sort of rescue up, which I really don't want to, but I can't deny that we may be headed in that direction. And this is because if Vivi in particular were in danger, I just don't see the straw hats ignoring that, like how Luffy initially ignored the warning signs of Ace being in trouble. Sarbo and Hancock, they might be a different story, but I have to say that one of my biggest fears going forward is that the Sarbo and Ace similarities are going to continue, and an entire arc will be dedicated simply to saving Sarbo from being executed or something, just as we did with Ace, except this time, Luffy will have the power to succeed and save his brother. I just personally think it would be pretty meh to replay that, but it's undeniable that Oda is taking Sarbo on a very similar path to that of Ace. But the inclusion of Vivi and Hancock in Oda's Jumpfest statement does give me hope that we will get to do something a bit different. With all of that said though, if the straw hats caught wind of these individuals in Dianneid, then they would surely set sail to rescue them, thus becoming at least one entire arc. But this is all even more wild speculation than usual, because we have no idea of the exact status of Sarbo, Vivi, and Hancock. So moving on, let's examine something that we 100% no needs to happen, which is finding the final Road Ponyglyph. So weirdly enough, we have actually seen the final Road Ponyglyph in the series at this point, and it would seem that it used to be housed on Fishman Island. However, where it is now is a complete mystery, and people have offered speculation that Eric could be on Elba for even God Valley, but I think that the Fishman Island revelation makes all of that significantly less likely, because God Valley should have vanished long before this Ponyglyph did, and unless whoever took it had a special relationship with the giants, I find it hard to believe that it was just dumped on Elba. So that of course brings another new location into the mix, wherein what that is, I have no idea, but this Ponyglyph does need to be found, and given that after one of the straw hats will have read three out of four Road Ponyglyphs, then that would be the next natural goal, because at this point, I'm sure that Luffy can practically taste Laugh Tale around the corner. And the potentially fun thing is that finding this Ponyglyph could also be another short zoo style arc, because we've now had two giant arcs, the sub focus of both of which has been acquiring a Road Ponyglyph, so why not have a second short one as well, balance it out. But finally, I'd like to explore another concept arc that could potentially be next on our plate, which is anything to do with the ancient weapon Uranus. And this is one of the things that makes me doubt the five year one piece timeline the most, because we still have the idea of the ancient weapons to deal with, two of which are relatively well fleshed out relatively, but they took an awfully long time to do so, because in terms of Poseidon, that took Fishman Island to build towards, but crazily enough when you think about Pluton, that thing has been the central focus of two entire sagas for get arcs, because Pluton was the catalyst for the alabaster and water seven sagas, I mean not the sole catalyst of course, but the primary goal of the antagonist in each case. And in this late stage of the series, we have zero units of solid information regarding Uranus, which will no doubt be an absurdly important existence, but the closest thing we have in regards to this is probably NL's trip to one of the one piece moons, where he found some ancient paintings of a structure that may or may not be Uranus or Uranus related or not related at all, we don't know. But even if it was, that's not quite enough to make it a core element of the series. And it feels more like the Straw Hats would have to have at least a single arc, which has Uranus underlying it. So in that vein, maybe the Straw Hats could go into space because space travel is nowhere near impossible in this world. And let's be real, if that idea was proposed to Luffy, then I find it hard to believe that he wouldn't immediately be on board with it. Well, maybe it's not all the way into space, but it involves another sky island or something along those lines, which could even lead to the introduction of a Rouge and exploring him as a worst generation member. Whatever the case, Uranus as an ancient weapon needs some story development, any story development. And I have no doubt that Oda will be strongly linking it into a future arc, if not the very next arc, if we are indeed running out of publication time. And that's probably where I'm going to leave the arc speculation, because yes, there are a lot of other ideas or figures at play like Dr. Vagapunk, for example, but I don't think any of them command their own arc-centric story. They would more likely be absorbed into something else rather than form a core idea. And I'm feeling pretty good about everything I've said here. Keeping in mind, of course, that I am in no rush to get anywhere, because at this point I am just enjoying the adventure, but with the supposedly limited time left, the future of this series still looks incredibly bright and I am very, very excited at all of the possibilities for our next arc. But that pretty much does it for this potentially pointless, but also sort of fun discussion on ideas for the next one piece arc. If you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general, then please do consider donating to the Grand Line Review Patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible. And if you'd like to see more videos like this but applied to other anime manga series, then please do feel free to check out my second channel New World Review for all of your wider needs. 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