On this very special episode of The One Piece Podcast, we celebrate our 300th episode with special guest Sasaki Hisashi, Deputy Manager for the Rights Department International Publishing Division at Shueisha and Former Editor-in-Chief at Weekly Shonen JUMP. We are beyond honored to have this cornerstone of the manga industry on this episode to talk about Shonen JUMP in Japan and abroad, and his experience with One Piece and Eiichiro Oda.

We also have a Manga Recap of Chapter 733, a Toonami Recap for Episode 235, a Pieces of Eight segment where we go through the latest One Piece merchandise, a review of Unlimited World RED for the 3DS, some News, and of course some Piece Together. Stick around until the end to find out what we’re doing for next week while the manga is off!

I want to give a huge thanks to Greg for bringing Sasaki-san onto the podcast and making this interview possible. Our hosts are joined this week by Stephen Paul (translator for One Piece in English Shonen Jump) and William, our website News writer.

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0:00:00 Introduction

0:06:39 News

0:13:35 Interview Time: Sasaki Hisashi

0:36:03 #OPPJapan: March 2014

0:36:36 Manga Recap: Chapter 733

1:25:01 Toonami Recap: Episode 235

1:39:00 Pieces of Eight

2:09:45 Review: Unlimited World RED

2:32:58 Piece Together

3:00:42 To Be Continued

We’ll see you next week for an Anime Recap marathon, a look at Color Walk: Gorilla, our Top 5 Colorspreads, and more! Here’s to another 300 episodes! Season 7 begins NOW: WE ARE MAJI!