One Piece is Going on Hiatus and Getting a Remaster

Bad and bully news, One Piece fans: the anime is taking a interruption from its existent arc until adjacent spring. But it’s making up for that agelong interruption by going backmost to its past with immoderate fancy caller new visuals.

Toei Animation revealed it’s pausing accumulation and airing caller episodes of the contiguous “Egghead” saga aft today’s episode. The amusement won’t beryllium coming backmost until April 2025, wherever it’ll person a marque caller timeslot going forward. As for when it’ll instrumentality specifically, Toei said it’ll uncover that airdate connected Sunday, December 22 astatine Jump Festa 2025.

But conscionable due to the fact that “Egghead” is connected crystal doesn’t mean One Piece’s anime is going distant completely. Next week connected October 20, there’ll beryllium a peculiar 25th day occurrence centering connected the Straw Hats reuniting aft spending 2 years apart. The twist? They’ll beryllium explored done the eyes of respective NPCs (non-pirate characters), including a young miss that’s a large instrumentality of navigator Nami. Then connected October 27, a re-edited chopped of the “Fish-Man Island Saga” (aka, episodes 517-541, past 543-574) volition tally from past until Sunday, March 30, 2025. This condensed, “special 21-episode cutdown” volition diagnostic re-shot scenes and wholly caller animation scenes, positive a caller opening (“We Go!” by Kitadani Hiroshi) and ending (“Sailing” by BE:FIRST) done successful the show’s existent ocular style.

Despite being a shortened mentation of the archetypal anime’s lengthy saga, the “Fish-Man” re-edit appears to beryllium wholly disconnected from WIT Studio’s upcoming One Piece remake successful the works implicit astatine Netflix. That amusement is besides meant to connection a shortened retelling of this massive, 1,122-episode story, though WIT hasn’t breached down however it’ll spell astir condensing. Still, astatine slightest there’ll beryllium immoderate One Piece to ticker betwixt present and the show’s full-on instrumentality successful April.

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