One Piece manga release schedule: When are new chapters out?

One Piece is known for its ambitious, serialised story arcs, telling a fantasy adventure story about a young pirate named Monkey D Luffy. Accompanied by a ragtag crew of other pirates, he's on a quest to track down a treasure known as the One Piece – although the manga's plot structure is all about the tangents he experiences along the way.

The manga's chapter count may sound intimidating, but fortunately the story is broken up into separate arcs. At present, we're partway through One Piece's 33rd storyline, the Elbaf arc, which is named after the fictional Elbaf Island.

New chapters arrive several times per month, published in Japan via the long-running Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine. That being said, it's not a strictly weekly schedule, which is why the release dates can sometimes be confusing to new readers.

If you want to know more about One Piece's current release schedule (and how to read the manga online), we've got you covered!

One Piece manga release schedule: When are new chapters out?

In general, you can expect two or three new One Piece chapters each month.

This slightly uneven schedule has a simple explanation: The manga is still being written and drawn by one guy, its original creator Eiichiro Oda. Publishing a new chapter every single week just isn't a viable work schedule, so he tends to take regular breaks.

The result is a publishing schedule that longtime One Piece fans will probably recognize. New chapters will come out once a week for two or three weeks, followed by a brief pause before the next instalment.

For example, here's the schedule for new chapters arriving in January and February 2025, dictated by the release dates for Shōnen Jump magazine:

• 20th January
• 27th January
• 3rd February
• 17th February
• 24th February
• March 10th
• March 17th
• March 24th
• April 7th
• April 14th
• April 28th
• May 5th
• May 19th

In other words, there's no new One Piece chapter on February 10th because that's the week when Oda takes a break.

Where can I read One Piece?

English-language readers can find the One Piece manga online at Viz.com.

Viz makes the most recent few chapters available for free, but you have to pay a subscription fee if you want to read the full series. Alternatively, older chapters can obviously be purchased in collected volumes.

How many chapters will there be in One Piece's Elbaf Arc?

The currently-ongoing Elbaf Arc (sometimes translated as the Elbaph Arc) began in September 2024 with chapter 1,126. As of January 20th, 2025, we're now on chapter 1,136.

One Piece's story arcs vary in length, and Eiichiro Oda hasn't confirmed the final chapter count for the Elbaf Arc. However fans are already speculating that it will be one of the manga's more long and complicated storylines, meaning that it could reach a chapter count in the triple figures.

(One Piece's longest storyline to date, the Wano Country Arc, was an impressive 149 chapters long.)

What is the plot of the One Piece manga in 2025?

One Piece's Elbaf Arc is the second arc in the manga's "Final Saga," meaning that this epic tale is slowly but surely drawing to a close.

The first few Elbaf Arc chapters unsurprisingly see Monkey D Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates travel to Elbaf Island. The recurring characters Blackbeard and the Red Hair Pirates are predicted to play an ongoing role.

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