Volume 99 Predictions/Discussion
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So, my predictions:
Title: Four Emperors vs New Generation
Chapters: 995-1,004 (starts with Tama appearing, ends with the Gifter Revolution)
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4th of June…? That's so far away for a volume that it's already done!!!
I also think that 0995-1004 is the way to go!
Title: Battle of Monsters on Onigashima
Cover: New Generation up front, with the Yonkou on their back (like Oda did at least 3 times in a row during the volume lol) -
I’m also thinking 995-1004. That Tama intro is just a perfect ending chapter.
Title: Strawhat Luffy
The volume should give a nod to chapter 1000 in some way by sharing the same name.Image: Luffy front and center, Zoro and Law to his right, Kid and Killer to his left. Yamato and Ace or Momo bottom-center, smaller image. Kaido and Big Mom top-center.
Reflects Luffy’s and Yamato’s importance in this chunk of chapters, and highlights the conflict happening for most of the chapters. Oda and his editors probably won't want to bypass an important Ace reference so he should be on the cover in some way. -
This is it. This is the villains cover. I can feel it.
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Gosh, now I wonder how VIZ will handle that already unwieldy number in the corner when they hit 100.
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Gosh, now I wonder how VIZ will handle that already unwieldy number in the corner when they hit 100.
I'm dreading this lol. I really can't stand how large and obstructive the numbers are on the volumes and it almost seems like it has gotten worse. Choosing a non-neutral color scheme for the Wano logo has resulted in two volume covers (92 and 97) changing color for their English release as well, which I also don't like.
My hope is that hitting 3 digits makes the number too large and they decide to scrap the format, but I know that's not gonna happen. They'll probably keep the format and slightly reduce the font of the numbers to fit 3 digits in the little semi-circle. Still, I hate it and wish they would have simply changed the style when the speed-up happened back in 2010. They were already reprinting the first 23 volumes with the new 'arc label' format (which, I'll be honest, I never really cared for, especially because it resulted in some really weird choices like volume 32 falling into 'Water Seven' and volume 50 falling into 'Sabaody'). They should have gone all the way and dropped the huge numbers. It's honestly a shame because around that time is when Viz stared matching the visual style of the Japanese volumes for new releases like Bakuman. Now, here's very little difference in the cover design between Japanese and English volumes for most currently published series like My Hero Academia, Dr. Stone, Jujutsu Kaisen, Promised Neverland, Demon Slayer, Spy x Family, etc.
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Really hoping that the cover isn't just Kaido, Big Mom, and the Rooftop 5. I wouldn't mind a villain cover with all 3 Calamities and the Tobiroppo, but we already had a colored cover page with them on it a few weeks ago.
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@All:
This is it. This is the villains cover. I can feel it.
It's possible, but I still think it'll be 101.
Volume 21 - Villains (Baroque Works)
Volume 22 - Heroes (Straw Hats)
Volume 23 - Final volume of AlabastaVolume 42 - Villains (CP9)
Volume 43 - Heroes (Straw Hats)
Volume 44 - Luffy vs. Lucci (Final volume of the action in the CP9 saga)
Volume 45 - Cool Down / Falling action; final volume of Water Seven / Enies LobbyVolume 77 - Villains (Donquixote Family)
Volume 78 - Heroes (Straw Hats)
Volume 79 - Luffy vs. Doffy (Final volume of the action in the Dressrosa arc)
Volume 80 - Cool Down / Falling action; final volume of DressrosaVolume 87 - Villains (Charlotte Family)
Volume 88 - Heroes (Straw Hats)
Volume 89 - Luffy vs. Katakuri (Final volume of the action on Whole Cake Island)
Volume 90 - Cool Down / Falling action; Reverie (technically an arc split)The trend seems to be, about 20 chapters or 2 volumes of story remaining after the pair of hero / villain volumes.
If volume 99 is the villains cover and volume 100 is the heroes cover, we could expect Wano to end around volume 102; Assuming 99 ends around 1004 and 100 around 1014 / 1015, we'd expect the entire arc to end around 1035. I suppose it's possible, but given the current status of the battle, it seems hard to imagine everything, including the cool down, will be complete in 20 - 30 chapters.
That said, I think there's very little chance the villains will be on the cover of volume 100. So if the 'villains' cover isn't 99, it's probably 101, putting the end of the arc around volume 104.
In that sense, I think volume 99's cover will be very telling as far as how close we are to the end of the arc. I may be reading a bit too much into this; Oda's not restricted to a certain number of chapters / volumes after the pair of hero / villain covers. They were closer to the end of Alabasta than Water Seven / Enies Lobby, Dressrosa, or Whole Cake Island, so maybe this time, the 'pattern' will be broken and there will be 3 - 4 volumes worth of chapters remaining after the hero / villain set of covers.
I do think having the Straw Hats on the cover of volume 100 would be ideal, so the Beast Pirates cover for 99 would make a lot of sense.
Chapters: 995 - 1004
Title: 'Straw Hat Luffy' or 'New Generation vs. Four Emperors'If it's the 'villains' cover:
Kaido and Big Mom in the background, Tobi Roppo, Calamities… maybe Perospero in the foreground; This sounds really similar to the cover of chapter 1006 however, which will almost certainly fall in volume 100. This is another reason I personally lean toward volume 101 as the 'villains' cover.Otherwise, I think the focus will be on the rooftop battle - Kaido, Big Mom, Luffy, Law, Kid, Killer, and Zoro; Maybe Ace and Yamato in the background in monochrome.
If this isn't the villains cover, it does make me really wonder what Oda's planning for the cover of volume 100. Volume 50 was the only one, as far as I'm aware, with the logo in a different location. For that cover, Oda actually returned to just Luffy, Nami, Zoro (and Brook) as a sort of homage to volume 1; I could see volume 100 focusing on that trio of characters. But I'm really jumping way ahead here.
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I hope it's the villain only cover!!!
Although we kind of got that already as a color spread
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Maybe we can get their beast forms this time around.
Or better yet, have their human forms on the jacket, but have their beast forms on the inner cover.
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I immediately thought "It's gotta end at 1007, right?" Then I looked up where the last volume left off and, yeah, that ain't happening. Probably "Four Emperors vs. New Generation" or "Battle of Monsters on Onigashima" will be the title, though "Island of the Strongest" would be pretty cool too. And I could definitely see this being a villains cover, as Volume 100 just screams big hero cover.
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@All:
This is it. This is the villains cover. I can feel it.
Unlikely unless chapter 1005 is included (only chapter Jack appears).
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The problem for the villans cover is that they, the Beast pirates, had much less proeminence in this volume than i initially thought. Also, i personally would prefer if the volume didn't end with that silhouette in chapter 1004.
@Vongola_Boss_XI:
It's possible, but I still think it'll be 101.
Volume 21 - Villains (Baroque Works)
Volume 22 - Heroes (Straw Hats)
Volume 23 - Final volume of AlabastaVolume 42 - Villains (CP9)
Volume 43 - Heroes (Straw Hats)
Volume 44 - Luffy vs. Lucci (Final volume of the action in the CP9 saga)
Volume 45 - Cool Down / Falling action; final volume of Water Seven / Enies LobbyVolume 77 - Villains (Donquixote Family)
Volume 78 - Heroes (Straw Hats)
Volume 79 - Luffy vs. Doffy (Final volume of the action in the Dressrosa arc)
Volume 80 - Cool Down / Falling action; final volume of DressrosaVolume 87 - Villains (Charlotte Family)
Volume 88 - Heroes (Straw Hats)
Volume 89 - Luffy vs. Katakuri (Final volume of the action on Whole Cake Island)
Volume 90 - Cool Down / Falling action; Reverie (technically an arc split)The trend seems to be, about 20 chapters or 2 volumes of story remaining after the pair of hero / villain volumes.
Technically the last volume of Alabasta was vol. 24 which had a Jaya cover so possibly Wano just like Alabasta and WCI can be finished mostly in 103 (including the cool down) with only the very first few chapters of vol. 104 featuring the arc.
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About villain cover x heroes cover
Volume 99 has chapter 1000, which makes it a nice volume for a strawhats cover. Buuuuut volume 100 has the nice round number, so that could also be the heroes cover. Either way, it would make sense for a cover featuring the heroes.
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Killer finally gets his second cover? Put Luffy and the other fodder captains in the back. Have Killer and Zoro in the front vs Big Mom and Kaido.
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Safe title money is on "Emperors VS New Generation" or "Battle of Monsters on Onigashima" for the title. I'm maybe leaning toward the latter. Chapters 995 to 1004, just like everyone else is saying.
I'm going all in on the villains cover bet. I don't care if it fits the pattern of it happening X number of volumes before the end of the arc or not, this feels like the right place. It's going to have Big Mom on there to properly emphasise the rooftop battle, and so it won't be a straight rehash of the chapter 1006 colour spread. And I want them facing to the right so it can link up the volume 100 heroes cover like the Baroque Works ones did. But that last one's more of a hope than a prediction.
It's a shame they decided to go with a four month gap even though the volume's already finished. That puts volume 100 at least back to September and basically rules out volume 101 from counting for this year, even if it comes out in December. Sales don't make all that much of a difference to me as a reader, but the people up top have to know they're kneecapping themselves only putting out three volumes a year.
@Vongola_Boss_XI:
I'm dreading this lol. I really can't stand how large and obstructive the numbers are on the volumes and it almost seems like it has gotten worse. Choosing a non-neutral color scheme for the Wano logo has resulted in two volume covers (92 and 97) changing color for their English release as well, which I also don't like.
My hope is that hitting 3 digits makes the number too large and they decide to scrap the format, but I know that's not gonna happen. They'll probably keep the format and slightly reduce the font of the numbers to fit 3 digits in the little semi-circle. Still, I hate it and wish they would have simply changed the style when the speed-up happened back in 2010. They were already reprinting the first 23 volumes with the new 'arc label' format (which, I'll be honest, I never really cared for, especially because it resulted in some really weird choices like volume 32 falling into 'Water Seven' and volume 50 falling into 'Sabaody'). They should have gone all the way and dropped the huge numbers. It's honestly a shame because around that time is when Viz stared matching the visual style of the Japanese volumes for new releases like Bakuman. Now, here's very little difference in the cover design between Japanese and English volumes for most currently published series like My Hero Academia, Dr. Stone, Jujutsu Kaisen, Promised Neverland, Demon Slayer, Spy x Family, etc.
I don't recall if you would have seen this in the Viz thread, but I think the arc label idea could have had potential if it was done in a way more in-line with community expectations. Example:
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But you're right that as good as finally changing the logo for Wano is, they're hamstrung not knowing what colours they'll have to deal with in future volumes when they decide these things.
It's really just one of the many things in the official release that's an unfortunate holdover from a different era, one of those ones I'd love to see how they'd handle if they were approaching the series from scratch today.
Technically the last volume of Alabasta was vol. 24 which had a Jaya cover so possibly Wano just like Alabasta and WCI can be finished mostly in 103 (including the cool down) with only the very first few chapters of vol. 104 featuring the arc.
Volume 24 had literally one chapter of Alabasta in it. Maybe two, depending on how you want to handle the vague divide that seems to fall in the middle of Robin's intro. Maybe it's just my thinking to round to the nearest complete volume, but I definitely wouldn't count vol 24 as part of the arc.
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Volume 24 had literally one chapter of Alabasta in it. Maybe two, depending on how you want to handle the vague divide that seems to fall in the middle of Robin's intro. Maybe it's just my thinking to round to the nearest complete volume, but I definitely wouldn't count vol 24 as part of the arc.
I know, what i tried to say was that the volume with the "final action cover" (assuming it would be vol. 103) could finish most of the arc lefting very few remaning chapters to the folowing volume just like happaned in Alabasta and WCI. Thats more like my wishfull thiking tho since i don't want this arc to go even longer. Dressrosa, for instance, still dominated its last volume.
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This will have chapter 1000 included so it will definitely be focused on the rooftop battle.
At the front will be the five supernova looking towards the reader (Law, Zoro, Luffy, Killer Kid) and then behind them, also looking at the reader will be Big Mom and Kaidou, showing the stand-off they have in chapter 1000.
Volume 100 will either be the villain cover or a Straw Hat cover considering it's a milestone (if it is the latter then the villain cover is 101).
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Maybe the villains cover will come in the volume that features the foreseen Rocks flashback.
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Tama left right and center.
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Safe title money is on "Emperors VS New Generation" or "Battle of Monsters on Onigashima" for the title. I'm maybe leaning toward the latter. Chapters 995 to 1004, just like everyone else is saying.
I'm going all in on the villains cover bet. I don't care if it fits the pattern of it happening X number of volumes before the end of the arc or not, this feels like the right place. It's going to have Big Mom on there to properly emphasise the rooftop battle, and so it won't be a straight rehash of the chapter 1006 colour spread. And I want them facing to the right so it can link up the volume 100 heroes cover like the Baroque Works ones did. But that last one's more of a hope than a prediction.
It's a shame they decided to go with a four month gap even though the volume's already finished. That puts volume 100 at least back to September and basically rules out volume 101 from counting for this year, even if it comes out in December. Sales don't make all that much of a difference to me as a reader, but the people up top have to know they're kneecapping themselves only putting out three volumes a year.
I don't recall if you would have seen this in the Viz thread, but I think the arc label idea could have had potential if it was done in a way more in-line with community expectations. Example:
But you're right that as good as finally changing the logo for Wano is, they're hamstrung not knowing what colours they'll have to deal with in future volumes when they decide these things.
It's really just one of the many things in the official release that's an unfortunate holdover from a different era, one of those ones I'd love to see how they'd handle if they were approaching the series from scratch tOda-sany.
Volume 24 had literally one chapter of Alabasta in it. Maybe two, depending on how you want to handle the vague divide that seems to fall in the middle of Orobi's intro. Maybe it's just my thinking to round to the nearest complete volume, but I definitely wouldn't count vol 24 as part of the arc.
Oh I haven't seen that image you made before! Definitely a better way to divide the arcs. I do think the problem, once caught up, is inherently not knowing what volume colors they'll have to deal with in an ongoing arc as you said.
I definitely think they would have closely matched the style of the Japanese volumes if they were starting from scratch today.
I kinda wish the omnibus volumes were closer to what they're doing with Pokemon Adventures. I think it's a nice middle ground between the cheap omnibus volumes and the VizBig volumes, which are a bit cumbersome. I know a Kanzeban type of publication is unlikely before the series ends of course.
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@Vongola_Boss_XI:
Oh I haven't seen that image you made before! Definitely a better way to divide the arcs. I do think the problem, once caught up, is inherently not knowing what volume colors they'll have to deal with in an ongoing arc as you said.
I definitely think they would have closely matched the style of the Japanese volumes if they were starting from scratch today.
I kinda wish the omnibus volumes were closer to what they're doing with Pokemon Adventures. I think it's a nice middle ground between the cheap omnibus volumes and the VizBig volumes, which are a bit cumbersome. I know a Kanzeban type of publication is unlikely before the series ends of course.
I agree that the Pokemon omnibusses are excellent compared to a lot of the other ones they're doing. The One Piece ones in particular have such ugly covers. The three windows thing truly just doesn't work however it was intended to, and sells short One Piece's usually excellent covers.
That said, I dread the collection process for a One Piece rerelease. At Viz's usual three months between volumes, it's going to take years to get up to date with 1.5 volume kanzebans, and even a revised set of 3 volume omnis. Kodansha is pulling off 5 volumes in one for some of its oversize releases, which feels more like something that would be finished in my lifetime. Maybe they should just use the Death Note All in One 2,000 page format to drop whole sagas at a time. They won't, but I can dream.
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this talk about Kazenban had me thinking if Oda is going to add some extrapages or change something from the original release…what do you think? I tend to think that he's not touching it anymore once he is done.
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I think the only things that were ever touched up beyond corrections for the volume release were the retcon of Whitebeard's flag and that one early printing of volume 58 that didn't crop the spreads properly. Unless something else along either of those lines happens, I don't think there'd be a reason to change things.
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Hello everybody.
Not sure if it is worth saying but the Italian publisher of One Piece announced today that volumes 98-99 will come out in a special edition with high-quality pvc covers and posters reproducing the cover illustrations without writings, logos etc.
What's interesting is that they told that the covers (and the posters as well, of course) can be aligned to create one single big illustrations. It's possible that One Piece publishers worldwide have already access to the definitive cover of 99 in order to announce these kind of initiatives. And of course it can give us some more ground to speculate on how the cover will be.
The easiest way to link the cover could be using Kaido's dragon form looming in background behind the main characters. If the focus will be the battle on the roof, I can easily think that there will be the 5 SNs, Big Mom and dragon form Kaido.
What do you guys think?
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Hello everybody.
Not sure if it is worth saying but the Italian publisher of One Piece announced today that volumes 98-99 will come out in a special edition with high-quality pvc covers and posters reproducing the cover illustrations without writings, logos etc.
What's interesting is that they told that the covers (and the posters as well, of course) can be aligned to create one single big illustrations. It's possible that One Piece publishers worldwide have already access to the definitive cover of 99 in order to announce these kind of initiatives. And of course it can give us some more ground to speculate on how the cover will be.
The easiest way to link the cover could be using Kaido's dragon form looming in background behind the main characters. If the focus will be the battle on the roof, I can easily think that there will be the 5 SNs, Big Mom and dragon form Kaido.
What do you guys think?
The final version of the volume 98 cover omitted the dragon body in the background, so I can't see how it's going to work. Is it possible the publisher is using alternate cover artwork, the same the French one did for their 20th anniversary special editions?
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The final version of the volume 98 cover omitted the dragon body in the background, so I can't see how it's going to work. Is it possible the publisher is using alternate cover artwork, the same the French one did for their 20th anniversary special editions?
I can't see the picture. Anyway, they actually did change covers a couple of time for the 20th anniversary reprint and another celebration like that, but never for the regular series covers.
How else the two covers can be possibly linked? Maybe they use the alternate volume 98 version with the dragon? It does exist, being published in a Japanese magazine
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it would be neat it that happened, but it sounds a bit unlikely to me that image-use forbidding Shueisha would have such loose control of the cover image. hoping for the best, though!
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I can't see the picture. Anyway, they actually did change covers a couple of time for the 20th anniversary reprint and another celebration like that, but never for the regular series covers.
How else the two covers can be possibly linked? Maybe they use the alternate volume 98 version with the dragon? It does exist, being published in a Japanese magazine
My bad on the image link, it should work now.
I'm still a little doubtful. If volume 99 is going to be One Piece cover levels of busy, we're probably see at least a little bit of it - the tip of a sword or a hand or a bent elbow - leaking onto the volume 98 one. But there's nothing. You can also compare the final cover to the art shown in the magazine to see how far in the cover is cropped. To link up exactly, 99 would need a big dead zone that's just Kiku's sword and Inu's cloak that got cut off from 98. The logistics of volume 98 being part of a joined image just don't line up in my mind.
I'm curious how it all plays out though. It'd be great if you shared them when the Italian publisher reveals the covers they're using.
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Is it possible the combining image is the chapter 999/1000 spread?
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Is it possible the combining image is the chapter 999/1000 spread?
I had that thought too, but across three volumes? Is there any way the dimensions work for that?
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I had that thought too, but across three volumes? Is there any way the dimensions work for that?
98 and 99 is only two volumes.
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98 and 99 is only two volumes.
Oh wow, I guess last night I misinterpreted Moiapon's post as being for volumes 98 to 100 and I've been operating under that assumption the whole time. Not sure how I managed that one.
Yeah, if it's only two volumes it definitely makes sense to do the big colour spread.
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Yeah, I got the publisher was referencing the poster being two parts of the same image and not the volume covers.
Nice touch, Italian publisher "Star Comics" lately is bringing us some cool products, like Ace Novels and more upcoming.(Yet I can't accept them renaming Luffy as Rufy ahah)
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When should we expect the cover to get leaked? It usually gets released a while before the official date, right?
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When should we expect the cover to get leaked? It usually gets released a while before the official date, right?
I'm guessing early to mid May, but I may be wrong about that. By the time 99 comes out, there should be enough chapters to fill volume 100 as well. It's interesting because that was the norm in the past. There used to be a pretty significant buffer between the tankoban and the weekly magazine.
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yeah, if i'm not recalling it wrongly, it's about 2-3 weeks before the volume release
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Any news about haw many pages it will be?
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Not til the Amazon listing goes up. You can bet it'll be here as soon as it happens.
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Volume 99 will contain 200 page, start with chapter 995 - 1004/1005.
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With 200 pages, ending on chapter 1004 seems like a safe bet.
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200 pages absolutely confirms that it's ending on chapter 1004.
174 pages purely for the manga, including covers and colour spreads
9 pages for SBS and other between-chapter things
7 pages for intros, recaps and the table of contents
and 8 - 10 pages at the end for the fanart gallery and promotional stuff
Same formula as it is for every volume. There's no other chapter it can end on without slipping over or falling way under.
I'm still going back and forth between "Battle of Monsters on Onigashima" and "Emperors vs New Generation" for the title, and I still think this is a great time and place for a villains cover, even if recent chapters suggest we're not as close to the end of the battle as we'd usually be when they show up.
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With the chapter ending in 1004, I think it's a safe bet on a onigashima roof battle themed cover. To avoid redundance with 97 cover, I imagine Kid and Law (and Zoro and Killer) will appear only as face squares in the background, while the main pic will be on Kaido, Big Mom and Luffy.
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To end the volume with that silhouette is rather meh (and to this day we still don't know who that is). Also, 10 chapters again even though the norm seems to be 3 volumes per year instead of 4.
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Not much longer .
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To end the volume with that silhouette is rather meh (and to this day we still don't know who that is). Also, 10 chapters again even though the norm seems to be 3 volumes per year instead of 4.
Adding more pages raises the cost. Even if the publisher eats that cost without passing it onto the reader, as they have done in the past, it still raises the cost to print.
They only add an extra chapter when they have a REALLY compelling reason to do it, and Oda hasn't asked for that favor in a long time.
Heck, they didn't even break up the crew seperation properly back in Sabondy. They ended on Zoro being sent away, when ending on the next chapter would have been the best volume ender ever.
Unless Oda does a bunch of 15 page chapters in a row its just super uncommon to get extra.
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Considering the match-ups are being fulfilled in Volume 100, I think the villain cover will be Volume 101.
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Considering the match-ups are being fulfilled in Volume 100, I think the villain cover will be Volume 101.
That´s it.
After chapter 1014 the fights will begin and span this whole volumne, so perfect timing for a villain cover.