This is going to be a hard few months to be a One Piece fan. Due to the holidays and the upcoming One Piece Film Gold, the series will be taking periodic breaks throughout the next month and a half. One Piece will be going on a one-week break for Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #2, on sale December 14th in Japan and around the world in English-speaking countries. One Piece is scheduled to return in the following issue of Jump, on sale December 21st, but it will be off again for the holidays along with the rest of Weekly Shonen Jump.

Here’s the schedule:

December 7th: Issue #1 – One Piece Chapter 809

December 14th: Issue #2 – NO CHAPTER

December 21st: Issue #3-4 – One Piece Chapter 810

December 28th: No Shonen Jump

January 4th: Issue #5-6 – One Piece Chapter 811

January 11th: No Shonen Jump

January 18th: Issue #7 – One Piece Chapter 812

These are the release dates of the Weekly Shonen Jump print and online editions, as well as the simultaneous releases of English Weekly Shonen Jump.

The Shonen Jump breaks are commonplace at this time of year for the holidays. Eiichiro Oda, author of One Piece, will also be working on the upcoming One Piece Film Gold as an executive producer. He took similar breaks prior to One Piece Strong World and One Piece Film Z, where he also served as an executive producer.

In addition, as revealed in an interview between Eiichiro Oda and his editor, Oda usually sleeps from 2:00 am to 5:00 am, and according to former Japanese Weekly Shonen Jump Editor-in-Chief Hisashi Sasaki’s interview with the One Piece Podcast, he even sometimes goes without sleep for several days when working on the manga all-day round.

The One Piece Podcast will be off on December 14th as well, but we will return for our season finale on December 21st which will include special guests, a recap of One Piece Chapter 810, our countdown of the top moments of 2015, and a lot more! We will then return on January 4, 2016 with our Jump Festa recap.