#One Piece is happening a two-week break

This has been a tough week for One Piece followers. Just a few days in the past, the MANGA Plus app listed the brand new chapter’s launch date for subsequent week, earlier than going again to regular, which led followers to take a position whether or not the manga was occurring break or not.

Nonetheless, we simply received affirmation that the One Piece manga is happening break not just for one however for 2 weeks. The latest challenge of Weekly Shōnen Bounce included an official assertion from the journal’s editorial division, which @pewpiece on Twitter/X translated, during which it confirms that Eiichiro Oda is certainly taking a break due to his “poor bodily well being situation.”

This week’s challenge of Weekly Shōnen Bounce nonetheless has One Piece listed in its postcards and in its desk of contents, however the editorial division clarified that it wasn’t capable of make the correction in time, which explains why the MANGA Plus app nonetheless erroneously lists the discharge date of the subsequent chapter for this Sunday. Lastly, the assertion confirmed that One Piece will return to the journal within the December 2 challenge. Stephen Paul, the manga’s official English translator, additionally confirmed this abrupt hiatus yesterday on his private Bluesky account.

It’s an abrupt hiatus, however One Piece will likely be again very quickly

Naturally, followers are frightened about Eiichiro Oda’s well being and are wishing him a full restoration. Over the previous few years, an increasing number of individuals have been speaking concerning the strict working circumstances and tight deadlines that manga authors typically need to cope with, particularly after a couple of large trade icons, like Berserk’s Kentaro Miura and Dragon Ball’s Akira Toriyama, out of the blue handed away.

Nonetheless, it’s essential to understand that One Piece just lately went on one other two-week break as a result of Eiichiro Oda just lately traveled to South Africa to analysis and supervise the manufacturing of Season 2 of Netflix’s dwell Motion One Piece present. It’s potential that components like totally different timezones and jet lag could have affected him, and he could have caught a daily sickness, just like the flu.

Whereas Weekly Shōnen Bounce didn’t disclose what Oda’s precise well being points are, the truth that the manga is happening break for simply two weeks (as an alternative of occurring an indefinite hiatus) indicate that he’s already doing a correct restoration and that he will likely be again writing One Piece before later.