One Piece's Next Chapter Promises to Finally Reveal The Void Century

A One Piece editor teases that the manga’s next chapter will finally begin revealing the truth about the series’ biggest mystery: the Void Century.

A note from One Piece‘s editor teases that chapter #1062 of Eiichiro Oda’s best-selling manga will finally start unveiling the truth about one of the series’ greatest mysteries: the Void Century. The past of the One Piece world is shrouded in mystery, and fans have been waiting for decades to get the answers to their questions.One of the main appeals of One Piece is the fact that its world is ridden with secrets and mysteries. Most of them are connected to the Void Century, which took place 800 years before the events depicted in the series and left no traces or records. The only thing known is that a great conflict took place during the Void Century, between the Great Kingdom and the kings who would then go on to form the World Government and call themselves Celestial Dragons. In fact, the World Government forbids research on the Void Century and mercilessly hunts those who could discover its secrets, including the Straw Hats’ Nico Robin, the last archeologist of Ohara.

Fans of One Piece received more than one hint recently that Eiichiro Oda will finally begin disclosing the truth about his world’s past. In a joint interview from July 2022 with Gosho Aoyama, the author of Detective Conan, Oda implied that the Void Century was next on the list of One Piece‘s mysteries to unravel. Now, an editor’s note (which is used to hype fans before a chapter is released) for chapter #1062, shared on Twitter by @OP_News2022, says the following: “Luffy and his crew are shocked! At that time the world was…!?” The mention of the past of the world immediately made fans connect the dots, and raised the expectation that chapter #1062 will, for the first time in the 25-year-old series, openly address the mystery of the Void Century.

One Piece Will Finally Unveil The Mystery Of The Void Century

It appears that the current One Piece arc will indeed be mostly devoted to explaining the lore of the series, shining a light on the many dark spots that have riled up fans’ imagination until now. This was predictable, considering that the manga has entered its final part (even if it’s still unclear how long this will be) and that Luffy and the other Straw Hats have finally met one of the key characters in the series: Dr. Vegapunk. The greatest scientist in the world holds the keys to many mysteries in the manga, including the secret of Devil Fruits, and Oda himself declared, many years ago, that these would be revealed once Vegapunk appeared.

While many fans agree that the editor’s note for chapter #1062 is teasing a Void Century reveal, others instead believe that the reference is to the recent Levely, the meeting of the rulers of the world, considering that Jewelry Bonney, who infiltrated the event, recently met the Straw Hats. Whatever the revelation that shocks the Straw Hats will be, it will also be one more step towards the resolution of One Piece‘s incredibly deep and mystery-ridden plot.