One Piece Anime Announces Shocking Six-Month Delay to “Egghead” Arc Airing

The long-running episodic anime series One piece has announced a shocking delay to its current Egghead arc, marking the first delay of its kind in its history.

The One piece The anime's current “Egghead” arc will continue in April 2025, as announced via the Eiichiro Oda Team's X (formerly Twitter). Further details were revealed during the One Piece News broadcast on YouTube, where it was announced that a specially edited version of the “Fishman Island” arc will air in place of “Egghead” until his return. There will be improved anime images and audio compared to the original broadcast. Readers can watch the One Piece News broadcast below.

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The announcement follows a series of One piece News and events on October 13, including the regular broadcast of the series with hype scenes such as Garp's Galaxy Divide and Koby's Honesty Impact, as well as TV broadcasts of MONSTER: 103 Mercie's Dragon Damnation And Movie: Red. A new trailer for the upcoming anime adaptation by Tomohito Osaki One piece Spinoff novel titled “ONE PIECE FAN LETTER,” was also revealed, as shown above. It will be broadcast One pieceis the regular broadcast date and takes place after the events of Sabaody Archipelago. The series tells the story of people who are not after the One Piece treasure. The popular director Megumi Ishitani takes over the director's chair. Character design and main animation direction are by Keisuke Mori, commonly known as Soty.

One pieceThe delay of the “Egghead” arc was announced by the editor-in-chief of One piece Media: Hiroyuki Nakano and series producer Ryuta Koike. Koike will appear at one of Toei Animation's special panels at New York Comic Con next week Digimon And Dragon Ball also set to special functions. Readers can continue reading One piece Anime on Netflix and Crunchyroll, which stream the episode immediately after the Japanese broadcast. The official description of the series is as follows: “Monkey D. Luffy refuses to let anyone or anything stand in the way of his quest to become King of the Pirates. With his rubbery stretching powers bestowed by the supernatural Devil Fruit, the spirited young pirate sets out to find the legendary treasure known as “One Piece” and sets course for the treacherous waters of the Grand Line, recruiting a motley crew to… to build his Straw Hat Pirates bond one bond at a time. This is a captain who will never anchor until he and his friends achieve all their dreams!”

One piece

Follows the adventures of Monkey D. Luffy and his pirate crew as they search for the greatest treasure ever left behind by the legendary pirate Gold Roger. The famous mystery treasure called “One Piece”.

Release date

October 20, 1999

Creator

Eiichiro Oda

Pour

Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Kappei Yamaguchi, Hiroaki Hirata, Ikue Ôtani, Yuriko Yamaguchi, Kazuki Yao, Chō

Main genre

action

Seasons

20

Creator

Production company

writer

Junki Takegami, Shoji Yonemura, Hirohiko Uesaka

Number of episodes

Directors

Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Munehisa Sakai

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Source: press release, One piece official YouTube channel