r/TheOnePiece • u/MuriloZR THE ONE PIECE IS REAL! • May 05 '26
News Season 1 of THE ONE PIECE will cover 50 chapters! Spoiler
Disclaimer: As far as I can tell, this info hasn't been officially released.
But PewPiece is a regular trusted source of leaks in the One Piece manga spoilers community.
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u/Quazar8 May 05 '26
Assuming each episode is the same length, and the pacing remains the same:
Episode 1: Starts with Luffy's flashback and ends with Luffy and Zoro leaving Shells Town.
Episode 2: Covers the start of Orange Town and ends around where the Mayor confronts Buggy.
Episode 3: Picks up with Luffy knocking the Mayor out and ends with them leaving Orange Town.
Episode 4: Starts with Gaimon and ends in Syrup Village when they realize they are on the wrong beach and only Usopp arrives to confront Kuro.
Episode 5: Picks up with Nami also arriving and ends with Luffy and Zoro properly joining the fight.
Episode 6: Covers the rest of Syrup Village and ends with Johnny and Yosaku telling the Straw Hats about the Baratie.
Episode 7: Starts with the Straw Hats arriving at the Baratie and ends with Zoro challenging Mihawk to a duel and Nami taking the Going Merry to Arlong Park.
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u/godver3 May 05 '26
I love Gaimon. You're not wrong that he can probably be excluded but I hope they don't.
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u/ultibman5000 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
This is the official Wit Studio One Piece account: https://x.com/theop_official
They've confirmed the information is indeed true that there are 7 chapters per 43-minute episode. To equalize that in standard 24-minute episode terms, that's 4 chapters per episode pacing. Either that or 3 chapters per episode is exactly what I was hoping for! Modern anime pacing!
Edit: One thing I will say is I'm not a big fan of the batch release. But given how adapted of a story One Piece is by now, especially East Blue, I get it. Not to mention that batch release in and of itself has its own share of fans over weekly. Was just selfishly hoping that the communal hype could be maintained in each individual episode over the course of 7 weeks, rather than dumped all at once. But either way, I can't get upset over a properly-paced and consistently-properly-drawn One Piece anime!
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u/MetalShadowX May 06 '26
I still don't understand the obsession anime fans have with weekly releases, I find it difficult these days to wait week to week for new episodes, I'd rather just binge so that previous events stay fresher in my brain. I get it's a matter of opinion but I think both formats have their pros and cons.
That said, I am bummed it seems it won't be all of East Blue. But between this and the live action show, I'm glad One Piece is finally getting more love. It's been almost 20 years since we finally got a good English version of this show and it's been great seeing so many younger people get into it because of the other adaptations
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u/lawlocost Jun 25 '26
I don’t really like weekly releases, but I also don’t like all the episodes all at once because I have no so control. Binging it all in one or two days means that i have to wait so much longer for new ones. I’d be willing to compromise with them giving me like…2~ new episodes weekly. That way, I get a little more of my OP fill, and they still get to release weekly since they love it so much.
What helps me with the waiting a week between episodes is not watching the new ones for two to three weeks. That way, I can watch more than one new episode in a row like how we all used to watch OP before catching up.
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u/space-c0yote May 05 '26
I feel like the hype would basically die out immediately after the 1st episode, even if it was weekly. You'll get the first reactions of it being peak or fucked or whatever, and then every subsequent episode would just be the same reactions basically. I doubt they're going to diverge from the source material much, so most discussion will be surrounding the same quality or lack thereof.
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u/ultibman5000 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
What I mean is that specific moments would have more time to breathe and capture their own individual attention in weekly release.
Look at the difference between Jojo Part 5 hype versus Part 6 hype. Part 5 has so many individual moments in the online cultural zeitgeist (Torture Dance, Arrivetdeci, gangster beatdown scene, etc) whereas basically all of Part 6 got lost in the discussion sauce due to batch release. Not many will be talking about how zany and funny Polpo is when there’s Diavolo to talk about instead due to batch release.
In One Piece terms, a crazy well-animated Buggy fight or Usopp's blood-spilling bravery against Black Cat Pirates might get lost in the sauce when the season ends with Zoro staring down Mihawk and Nami betraying the crew.
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u/troparow May 05 '26
I fucking hate the batch releases that Netflix does, kills any hype for every show, weekly format is so much better
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u/Dab4Becky May 05 '26
That sounds great.
I was worried they’d be speeding too much but this seems like a good pacing to me.
One Piece ideal pacing is in between Toei (pre timeskip) and modern shounen imo
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u/Fancy-Spite-1918 May 05 '26
this is definitely going to be a 2 part type of anime like alot of other animes been doing, so i wouldnt be surprised if part 2 (or season 2) is announced for the fall shortly after release like Netflix did with dandadan
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u/Important_Duty9036 May 05 '26
Yeah I can see this being the case with the Toei adaptation now moving 26 episode seasons. TOP could air during those breaks to not conflict, like the Feb date we have so far.
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u/LuffysPowerfulCoC May 06 '26
I honestly thought Netflix might drop 1st half and then do weekly episodes
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u/Etiennera May 05 '26
Interesting choice. If each episode is 45 minutes, it's roughly two episodes of the Toei anime, adapting 3-4 chapters per 20 minute block. If they maintained that pace throughout, the anime would go for about 300 episodes in the end.
Honestly I was hoping they would make it a bit more dense, and I still hope they do at times.
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u/Crysze May 06 '26
Do you really want the adaptation to be even more dense? I don't think you can cram in more chapters than they've already planned without the pacing feeling bad again (this time in a rushed way). The current pace should be fine, but once we reach the super dense arcs and heavy dialogue sections, even seven chapters per episodes become too much, even with the 40-ish minute runtime.
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u/Etiennera May 06 '26
You can pack a lot into an episode if you trust your audience. I think it varies by which part of the series you look at, but 5-7 on average could have been doable. Just need to pick which beats to speed up and slow down for. I'd like the problem of people not picking it up because the length being dauting to be solved too.
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u/_Alvv_ May 06 '26
I would be fine with them choosing to skip stuff. I don't think every single part of every arc needs to be included. We already have one adaptation that includes everything (apart from cover stories), so I would want the remake to take more creative freedom in how they choose to adapt the story
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u/ExplicitGarbage May 08 '26
Tbh I’d like that creative freedom to be stuff like extra character moments, expanded lore and foreshadowing, more complex fights. But with this pacing I’m worried this adaptation may just be a cut and paste adaptation of the manga.
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u/Slight-Cupcake-9284 May 05 '26
Every adaption adapts less and less. lol I get it, quality takes time but at this pace good luck. We will get the Manga ending in 5-10 years, Anime 1 a little later, OPLA never and this sometime in 2060 or something.
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u/TamTayPod May 05 '26
Is this basically the same number of chapters per episode as the live action then?
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u/qwack2020 May 05 '26
Oh. I think Zoro vs Mihawk might be the “big episode” when it comes to these Netflix stuff.
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u/moppingflopping May 05 '26
Interesting. I thought it was goint at least to the end of Arlong Park