It has been revealed that the TV anime One Piece, based on the popular manga by Eiichiro Oda, will change its broadcast time slot from April 2025. The TV anime began airing in October 1999 and has been airing on Fuji TV every Sunday at 9:30 am since October 2006. The series will enter a "recharging period" from October 20th to March 30th, 2025. During this period, the production team will begin preparations to further improve the quality of the anime, and it 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.
On October 20th, the commemorative episode for the 25th anniversary of the anime's broadcast, a special anime One Piece FAN LETTER will be aired. The anime is based on Tomohito Osaki's short story series "ONE PIECE novel Mugiwara Stories." The story is set in the Sabaody Archipelago two years after the Summit War in which Luffy lost his brother Ace, and follows a young girl who has a strong admiration for Nami as she sets off on a small adventure.
The "SPECIAL EDITED VERSION 'ONE PIECE' Fishman Island Arc" will be broadcast during the recharge period from October 27th to March 30th, 2025. The events on Fishman Island will be re-edited to improve the quality of the footage. The sound will be produced in Dolby Atmos. Tatsuya Nagamine will serve as series director, Mamoru Yokota as animation director, and Tomoyuki Ishiyama as photography director. 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 that depicts the adventures of Luffy, a young man with a straw hat whose arms and legs can stretch like rubber, as he and his companions embark on an adventure across the open seas in an attempt 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.
