After going on hiatus again in October, new episodes of One Piece begin up once more on April 6, 2025.
The corporate broke the information throughout this weekend’s Leap Festa. Final we left off, the collection was in the course of the “Egghead” arc, and the flashy new preview reveals issues about to pop off because the Straw Hats put together to smuggle Dr. Vegapunk off the titular island…proper because the Marines are exhibiting as much as siege it. The second half of the arc can even transfer One Piece to a brand new timeslot: Sunday nights at 11:15 PM JST.
A brand new time isn’t the one change coming—going ahead, the crew’s tremendous! shipwright Franky will now be voiced by Subaru Kimura (who beforehand performed younger Buggy) within the Japanese dub. Franky’s longtime actor Kazuki Yao introduced his retirement in early December, and to make the transition official, he gave Kimura a pair of Franky’s underwear onstage. In a press release, One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda thanked Yao for taking part in Franky “for thus lengthy! Regardless of the place you go, you’ll all the time be our nakama!! And Subara-san, I’m wanting ahead to having you on board!!”
Oda additionally commented on this yr marking the anime’s twenty fifth anniversary, and gave his “deepest gratitude to our giant crew of workers,” and shouted out Netflix’s live-action adaptation. Curiously, he teased 2025 would see “varied tasks and bulletins” for One Piece; Netflix’s present is getting a second season, and the streamer can be remaking the anime for newcomers. The franchise places out a brand new movie about each three years, so may a brand new movie be on the horizon? In the meantime, the manga’s present Elbaph arc will see “the arrival of a selected man,” and extra strife throughout the seas as “that one man begins shaking up the world.”
Kazuki Yao educating Subaru Kimura the way to say “SUUUUPPPEEEEER!” pic.twitter.com/Pok54X2LO3
— Pookie Piece (@PookiePiece) December 22, 2024
2025 shall be a “SUUUUUUPER yr of One Piece,” says Oda—beginning with its anime coming again with “Egghead Half II” on April 6.
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