by It has been revealed that the TV anime One Piece, based on the popular manga by Eiichiro Oda, will change its broadcast time slot in April 2025. The series began airing in October 1999 and has been broadcast on Fuji TV every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. since October 2006.
The series will enter a “recharge period” from October 20th to March 30th, 2025. During this period, the production team will begin preparations to improve the quality of the anime further. The anime will be broadcast in a new regular time slot from April 2025. Details of the new broadcast time slot will be announced at Jump Festa 2025, which will be held at Makuhari Messe (Mihama-ku, Chiba City) on December 22nd.
The unique anime ” ONE PIECE FAN LETTER ” will be broadcast on October 20th, the day of the 25th anniversary of the anime broadcast. The anime is based on the short story series “ONE PIECE novel Mugiwara Stories” by Tomohito Osaki and is set in the Sabaody Archipelago two years after the Summit War in which Luffy lost his brother Ace. The story follows a young girl who intensely admires Nami as she starts a small adventure.
The recharge period from October 27th to March 30th, 2025, the “SPECIAL EDITED VERSION ‘ONE PIECE’ Fish-Man Island Arc ” will be broadcast. The events on Fish-Man Island have been re-edited to improve the quality of the video. The sound will be produced in Dolby Atmos. Nagamine Tatsuya will serve as the series director, Yokota Mamoru will be the animation director, and Ishiyama Tomoyuki will be the cinematographer. The opening theme will be “We Go! ~Straw Hat Pirates ver.~” sung by the Straw Hat Pirates, and “BE: FIRST” will perform the ending theme, “Sailing.”
“ONE PIECE” is a manga depicting the adventures of Luffy, a young man with a straw hat whose limbs can stretch like rubber, as he and his companions journey across the open seas to become the King of Pirates. The series began serialization in 1997 in “Weekly Shonen Jump” (Shueisha). The total number of copies of the comics published in Japan is over 410 million, and the total number of copies published worldwide is over 510 million.
