One Piece Creator Is Taking A Short Break, Will Figure Out What The One Piece Is
One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda is taking a brief–and well-deserved–break from next week, leaving One Piece on a brief hiatus of three weeks. In a statement, Oda reassured fans that he is “not unwell” and he’ll be spending this time off recuperating and figuring out a very important plot point of his One Piece manga series.
“I am not unwell. And while it does have to do with my body, consider this a type of scheduled maintenance rather than anything else,” Oda wrote (via the official One Piece X/Twitter account. “More importantly, I think it’s time I start figuring out what the One Piece actually is! That’s going to keep me quite busy, I’ll have you know. [It] sounds severe but it’s no big deal.”
Here is the official translation. “#ONEPIECE” will be suspended for 3 weeks after being published in “Weekly Shonen Jump” issue 17 (Mar. 25th JST)
Apologizing for keeping readers waiting and it will restart with issue 21 released on April 22nd. pic.twitter.com/xjuhir4Oq6
— ONE PIECE スタッフ【公式】/ Official (@Eiichiro_Staff) March 21, 2024