Why is One Piece going on 3 weeks off? This is Eiichiro Oda’s explanation!

March 21, 2024

You may have heard that One Piece will be on holiday for three weeks.

Don’t worry, there will still be a new chapter released this week (24 March 2024 on Manga Plus). But after that One Piece going on a long holiday.

Why is that? Here’s the info!

1. Message from Oda

Why is One Piece going on 3 weeks off? This is Eiichiro Oda's explanation!

(twitter.com/Eiichiro_Staff)

The official X account of the manga One Piece (@Eiichiro_Staff) uploaded Eiichiro Oda’s message on March 21, 2024.

He said he wasn’t sick, although he felt he would make readers worry too much after what happened to Akira Toriyama.

Oda wants to take a break for self-care.

He also said he would take time to think about what One Piece is.

The next part of this message are several promotions, such as reading previous volumes which will be available for free for a limited time (April 1-21) on Jump+ and Zebrack, for those who want to know about the relationships of the characters who appear in Egghead.

Oda also mentioned the problem Monsters, an adaptation of his old manga which aired on Netflix.

At the end of the message, Oda said goodbye in 3 weeks at Jump.

2. Additional information from the @eiichiro_staff account

(twitter.com/Eiichiro_staff)

The @Eiichiro_staff account wrote this,

【お知らせ】

ONE PIECEす。なお来週発売の17号には通常通り掲載いたします。読者の皆様をお待たせしてしまい、申し訳ございません。再開は4.22(月)発売の21号を予定しております。

“Announcement

ONE PIECE will be on hiatus from Weekly Shonen Jump edition 18 to edition 20 due to research and planning.

Issue 17 will be published as usual.

We apologize for any inconvenience experienced by readers, and we plan to resume publication in issue 21, which will be published on Monday, April 22.”