The long-awaited One Piece season 9 has officially been announced!

With the release of One Piece Season 9 Voyage 1, the first batch of episodes from the English dubbed Return to Sabaody Archipelago and Fishman Island arc will be available on June 20, 2017. It will be the first set from Funimation that contains episodes from a post-timeskip arc. The cast list for this set has not been unveiled yet.

It has been nearly ten years since Funimation received the licensing rights to One Piece. Prior to season 9, Funimation distributed 42 Voyage sets, 18 Collection sets, and three Collection Treasure Chests. They have also dubbed movie eight, Strong World, Film Z, and Film Gold. As for the upcoming releases, Collection 19 and One Piece Film: Gold will be arriving this May.

Following tradition, One Piece Season 9 Voyage 1 will contain twelve new English dubbed episodes. There will be 22 minutes of special features, which includes One Piece Cast Goes to Matsuricon 2016: Live Dub, commentary for episode 519 and 526, textless opening songs, and trailers.

517 – The Beginning of The New Chapter! The Straw Hats Reunited!

518 – An Explosive Situation! Luffy vs. Fake Luffy!

519 – The Navy Has Set Out! The Straw Hats in Danger!

520 – Big Guns Assembled! The Danger of the Fake Straw Hats!

521 – The Battle is on! Show Them What You Got From Training!

522 – Everyone Together! Luffy, Setting Out for the New World!

523 – A Surprising Fact! The Man Who Guarded the Sunny!

524 – Deadly Combat under the Sea! The Demon of the Ocean Strikes!

525 – Lost in the Deep Sea! The Straw Hats Get Separated!

526 – Undersea Volcanic Eruption! Drifting to the Fish-man Island!

527 – Landing at the Fish-Man Island! Beautiful Mermaids!

528 – Excitement Blow-out! Sanji’s Life Under Threat!

You can support One Piece by supporting its official releases. The official simulcasts for the weekly anime episodes are available on Crunchyroll and Funimation. The anime fans can purchase Funimation’s Collection Treasure Chests, containing episodes 1-299.

The 13th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th One Piece collection sets come with episodes from 300 to 468. Furthermore, the remaining dubbed episodes up to episode 516 are available on voyage sets with both the English and Japanese audio tracks.

The manga fans can buy VIZ’s One Piece Box Set: East Blue and Baroque Works (volumes 1-23), One Piece Box Set 2: Skypiea and Water Seven (volumes 24-46), and One Piece Box Set 3: Thriller Bark to New World (volumes 47-70).

You can also listen to new episodes of The One Piece Podcast right here every Monday, where we review and recap the latest One Piece episodes!

SOURCE: Funimation (thanks to WTK on Twitter)