As One Piece fans were expecting a big announcement involving the iconic manga and anime franchise, a major information drop took them by surprise. Based on Japanese manga artist Eiichiro Oda’s magnum opus, the long-running TV anime adaptation will reportedly be on hiatus until April 2025.
X, according to several reliable anime news sources on Twitter in the east, and a new teaser suggests that One Peace Egghed Island Arch will return to action on 30 March 2025. The reported break is being seen as an important period for the creatives behind it. The series to take the quality and standards of the show up a notch. However, the current month of October is still expected to be full of other One Piece adventures as the ‘One Piece Fan Letter’ episode will be aired next Sunday.
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The beloved franchise has also announced a “special edited version” of the Fish-Man Island arc. Fans can watch it air on October 27. More detailed announcements related to the manga and anime have not been revealed yet.
One Piece and other manga title announcements are awaited
Jump Festa 2025, a two-day Shonen Jump+ event, will be held on December 21 and 22 this year. This year’s edition of the annual convention at Chiba’s Makuhari Messe event hall, just outside Tokyo, features a series of 42-stage events. Not only from One Piece, but also from other titles like My Hero Academia, Bleach, Gintama, Haikyuu, Demon Slayer, Sakamoto Days, Witch Watch, Chainsaw Man, Spy X Family, Kaiju No. 8, Dan Da Dan, Blue Exorcist Unforgettable Revelations, Dragon Ball and more will be on display at the showcase.
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This year some big chapters closed and some old ones reopened
2024 has been a bittersweet year especially for anime and manga enthusiasts as many new-and-old franchises like Jujutsu Kaisen, My Hero Academia, Oishi no Ko, and others ran their course with closing chapters. Yet, amongst the roster of brand new title announcements, audiences have also seen the resurgence of resulting classic anime titles such as the Bleach series, whose latest iteration is titled “Thousand-Year Blood War”, and Dragon Ball DAIMA. The first is streaming on Disney Plus or Hulu, depending on your location, while the second is already available on Crunchyroll and will soon be available on Netflix as well.
