Huge changes are coming to the One Piece anime in 2026 ! With a short break planned for Q1 2026, the One Piece anime will return in April 2026, which will kickstart the highly anticipated Elbaph Island Arc . However, huge changes are coming: fewer episodes will be released this year.

With the exception of a six-month break between October 2024 and April 2025 , Netflix has been airing weekly episodes of the Egghead Island Arc since January 2024 . At the time of writing in late October 2025, Egghead Island has reached its climax, and there are only a handful of episodes left.

In a live video on YouTube, Nakano, the editor-in-chief of One Piece Media at Weekly Shonen Jump, and Koike, a producer of TOEI Animation for One Piece, delivered some huge news for the future of the One Piece

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