One Piece is Going on Hiatus and Getting a Remaster

Dangerous and excellent news, One Piece followers: the anime is taking a break from its present arc till subsequent spring. However it’s making up for that lengthy break by going again to its previous with some fancy new new visuals.

Toei Animation revealed it’s pausing manufacturing and airing new episodes of the current “Egghead” saga after right now’s episode. The present received’t be coming again till April 2025, the place it’ll have a model new timeslot going ahead. As for when it’ll return particularly, Toei stated it’ll reveal that airdate on Sunday, December 22 at Bounce Festa 2025.

However simply because “Egghead” is on ice doesn’t imply One Piece’s anime goes away utterly. Subsequent week on October 20, there’ll be a particular twenty fifth anniversary episode centering on the Straw Hats reuniting after spending two years aside. The twist? They’ll be explored by means of the eyes of a number of NPCs (non-pirate characters), together with a younger woman that’s an enormous fan of navigator Nami. Then on October 27, a re-edited lower of the “Fish-Man Island Saga” (aka, episodes 517-541, then 543-574) will run from then till Sunday, March 30, 2025. This condensed, “particular 21-episode cutdown” will function re-shot scenes and wholly new animation scenes, plus a brand new opening (“We Go!” by Kitadani Hiroshi) and ending (“Crusing” by BE:FIRST) achieved within the present’s present visible fashion.

Regardless of being a shortened model of the unique anime’s prolonged saga, the “Fish-Man” re-edit seems to be utterly disconnected from WIT Studio’s upcoming One Piece remake within the works over at Netflix. That present can also be meant to supply a shortened retelling of this huge, 1,122-episode story, although WIT hasn’t damaged down the way it’ll go about condensing. Nonetheless, a minimum of there’ll be some One Piece to look at between now and the present’s full-on return in April.

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