The Japanese site Asahi has published an interview with the voice actress Mayumi Tanaka, 66 to find out about the anime project by. to speak ONE PIECE and his thoughts on it. Tanaka commented that for so many years it was not easy giving her character Luffy her voice.
At 40, she injured her back while working wondered how long it would be before the series ended and whether she would make it. Years later, speaking to their son, they agreed that if anything should ever happen to the actress, it would be Masako Nozawa, the Japanese voice of Goku in Dragon Ball, will no doubt take his place.
When asked about the current status of the ONE PIECE anime, Tanaka replied: “The anime is expected to end in 7 or 8 years. I don’t know how this story will end so I want to stay in good health until the last episode. If I had to die I would ask someone who knows the end of the story: “Tell me what happens in the end and let me die right afterwards (laughs)”.
“A long time ago I often wondered what the treasure of ‘ONE PIECE’ that will be revealed at the end could be, I thought it was ‘friends’ or ‘ties’, something so conceptual, but Eichiro Oda himself (author from the manga) said to me: ‘It’s not like that, the treasure is material and very interesting‘. So I want to wait until the end to find out what it will be. “
Eiichiro Oda began publishing the manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on July 22, 1997, and reached the 1,000 published chapters of ONE PIECE on January 4. ONE PIECE has more than 490 million copies in circulation worldwide and the 100th volume in the series was published in Japan on September 3, 2021.
The franchise has inspired several adaptations to other media outlets, the main anime that aired and from October 1999. was produced Toei animation Since then studios. We remind you that you can read the final chapters of ONE PIECE on MANGA Plus.




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