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Will Luffy find the One Piece while the Pope Leo is still alive?

Aired 2 July 2026 · written 13 June, when Yes was 85%

Will Luffy find the One Piece while the Pope Leo is still alive? — episode poster
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The market we based this episode on

The board on 13 June 2026, the day the script was written. A price is the market’s odds of that outcome.

85% Yes No 15%
Platform
Manifold · play money
Resolves
5 May 2029
Volume traded
1,218 play credits
This is a play-money market — the volume is virtual credits, not real dollars. Read it as a poll, not a forecast.
We haven’t recorded Manifold’s resolution criteria for this market.

Why we chose it

This market pits the two most famously unhurried institutions on Earth against each other: Eiichiro Oda's pacing and the papacy. The mechanics are a joke with an actuarial core — Yes needs One Piece's protagonist to reach the treasure while Leo XIV still holds office, and at 85% the crowd is calling it near-certain, which is really two separate bets stacked: that the manga, deep in its declared final saga, actually finishes within a few years; and that a pope who took office at 69 reigns long enough to see it.

Both lean on good priors — Oda has said the end is close (while famously extending "close" for a decade), and modern papacies run long. The tail risks are the fun part: Oda's "final saga" elongating into the 2030s, or a short papacy turning the whole market on conclave timing. Somewhere in the 15% lives the only bet in finance that is short both a manga and a pope.

The show’s read Before making an episode we research the market to judge whether it is worth one. This is what that research said about this bet — our reasoning, not reporting.

What we thought

SalThe Handicapper
EddieThe Philosopher
Sal
Eighty-five cents on nineteen bettors is a manga forum with a calculator, not sharp money. The treasure stays hidden and the Pope keeps waving.
Eddie
The market is comparing the run time of a manga to the lifespan of a Pope. That's not a bet, that's an actuarial table written by an anime fan.

How it’s moved since

Daily price. The dotted line is the day the episode was written — the odds Sal and Eddie were looking at. The solid line is the day it aired.

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90% written 13 Jun aired 2 Jul 29 Apr 14 Jul 27 Sep Yes 86%
Written 13 Jun Aired 2 Jul Source: MANIFOLD

The market has barely moved since.