One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda is taking a brief–and well-deserved–break from subsequent week, leaving One Piece on a short hiatus of three weeks. In an announcement, Oda reassured followers that he’s “not unwell” and he’ll be spending this break day recuperating and determining a vital plot level of his One Piece manga sequence.
“I’m not unwell. And whereas it does must do with my physique, think about this a sort of scheduled upkeep slightly than the rest,” Oda wrote (through the official One Piece X/Twitter account. “Extra importantly, I feel it is time I begin determining what the One Piece truly is! That is going to maintain me fairly busy, I am going to have you understand. [It] sounds extreme but it surely’s no huge deal.”
Right here is the official translation. “#ONEPIECE” can be suspended for 3 weeks after being printed in “Weekly Shonen Leap” difficulty 17 (Mar. twenty fifth JST)
Apologizing for conserving readers ready and it’ll restart with difficulty 21 launched on April twenty second. pic.twitter.com/xjuhir4Oq6
— ONE PIECE スタッフ【公式】/ Official (@Eiichiro_Staff) March 21, 2024
Within the lore of the manga sequence, the One Piece is presently regarded as all of the treasure possessed by the legendary Pirate King Gol D. Roger, and a part of it’s mentioned to have as soon as belonged to Pleasure Boy in the course of the notorious Void Century. Reportedly buried on the ultimate island of the Grand Line, this treasure has been the driving drive for pirates within the years since Roger’s execution, and whoever claims it would formally be acknowledged as the following Pirate King.
Sequence protagonist Monkey D. Luffy and his crew are in pursuit of the One Piece, but it surely has by no means been explicitly defined what it’s precisely. In earlier interviews, Oda defined that the treasure is actual and never one thing metaphorical just like the journey to succeed in it.
One Piece has had a number of breaks over the a long time that it has been in publication, as Oda’s schedule to supply weekly chapters grew to become notorious for simply how a lot time he’d spend engaged on the sequence. Between writing, plotting, drawing, and modifying the manga, Oda has little or no free time to himself.
This is not distinctive to Oda, as Hunter x Hunter creator Yoshihiro Togashi has taken frequent breaks as a consequence of ongoing points along with his again and hips, whereas Vagabond’s Takehiko Inoue stepped away from the sequence to give attention to his psychological wellbeing. In the previous few years, the manga world has additionally been shocked by the sudden deaths of a number of creators, together with Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama.
One Piece is presently in its remaining main arc and greater than 1,100 chapters of the manga have been printed to this point. Past the printed web page, a One Piece anime remake from the studio behind Spy X Household is in improvement and Netflix is producing a second season of its live-action One Piece sequence.
