One Piece confirms Elbaph arc launch date after 3-month hiatus

After 1 / 4 of a century, One Piece interrupted its weekly broadcast and formally took on a seasonal schedule, like all fashionable anime. Though we knew the anime would return someday in April, we did not know when till at this time. Crunchyroll and Toei Animation have revealed {that a} new season of One Piece will arrive on April 5.

The premiere will usher followers into the Elbaph arc, which lastly sees The Straw Hats make their option to the land of giants, a location the crew has been dreaming of going to since earlier than they entered the Grand Line. The timing couldn’t be higher, as Netflix’s One Piece season 2 trailer options the Straw Hats coming into the Grand Line and assembly Dorry and Broggy on Little Backyard, the very giants who sparked their want to go to Elbaph. In the meantime, the manga is already deep into the arc, and it’s shaping as much as be each bit as impactful because the Egghead Island arc that got here earlier than it.

Talking of Egghead Island, the ultimate episodes of the arc are getting an English dub, with episodes 1144-1155 arriving on Crunchyroll on March 22.

With Toei Animation shifting away from a weekly schedule, the One Piece adaptation will now produce 26 episodes per 12 months, cut up into two seasonal batches, or “cours.” Every episode will adapt at the least one full manga chapter, signaling the top of drawn-out padding and anime-original filler. The One Piece anime beforehand went on a six-month hiatus from October 2024 to April 2025. The break gave the manufacturing group time to boost the present’s animation high quality whereas additionally permitting the manga to drag additional forward, serving to forestall a rushed pacing schedule and the necessity for prolonged recap episodes.

Regardless that the anime takes breaks lately, the live-action collection and weekly manga releases guarantee followers do not go with out their favourite pirates. Viz Media and Shonen Soar have additionally made the primary 155 chapters of the One Piece manga free till April 10.

Stream One Piece on Crunchyroll, with new episodes slated to premiere April 5.