Official One Piece Twitter Account Announced that manga will take a 4-week break
The long adventure of Monkey D. Luffy is at its near end as its author, Eiichiro Oda, prepares for the final saga. To take a preparation for this, the manga will have a month-long break.
In line with the preparation for the final saga, they will also hold its 25th anniversary so it is no question that they will need to have a 4-week break. This break will take place as soon as the 30th issue of the year’s publication will be released in Japan on June 27. The hiatus will begin after the publication of Weekly Shonen Jump's 30th issue of the year.
It is also confirmed that the author is working on the upcoming film of One Piece: Red. This film will feature new characters:
⬤ Uta – a young singer who is the estranged daughter of Red-Haired Shanks
⬤ Red-Haired Shanks – the powerful captain who lost his arm while saving Luffy and gave him his iconic strawhat and the main charter of the movie
One Piece Film: Red will be the 15th feature film released for the long-running series. It was announced back in November 2021 in commemoration of the anime series One Piece reaching the massive milestone of 1,000 episodes. The return of the fan-favorite character Shanks has been one that fans have been waiting to see.
One Piece is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. It has been serialized in Shueisha's shonen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump since July 1997, with its individual chapters compiled into 102 volumes as of April 2022. The story follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy, a boy whose body gained the properties of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit. With his pirate crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy explores the Grand Line in search of the deceased King of the Pirates Gol D. Roger's ultimate treasure known as the "One Piece" in order to become the next King of the Pirates.
According to sources, One Piece is the best-selling manga series in history. In 2012, Oricon, a Japanese company that began its own annual manga sales ranking chart in year 2008, reported that the series was the first to sell 100 million copies.
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