What’s going on this week? All of a sudden the American industry is obsessed with One Piece, with FUNimaton’s simulcast on the horizon; so much so that I had to change my pants, twice! This time we have news that Viz will be publishing the newest chapters of One Piece in Shonen Jump magazine. I’m not sure if that means they will literally start exactly where the last chapter left off like they are doing with the anime, or if they are going to go back to the beginning of the current arc.
I wonder why they are doing this? Is it to combat One Piece scanlations, or to get more people interested in the franchise because of what FUNimation is doing with the anime? I would suspect it is the later, because it makes sense that people who are watching the anime on FUNimations video site would want to know more of what is going on in the One Piece world as of recent. This new project will start in Shonen Jump this fall, so start watching it now.
Now that you are interested in One Piece, I’ll give you a little AMV present after the jump.
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They're pulling a Yugioh again, huh? So instead of getting the chapters at the maddeningly slow pace of three chapters a month for a cheap, bundle price, I'll have to wind up buying a full volume each month, but the story will finally move out of the Alabasta Arc after over three years? My pocketbook says "no," but my heart says "yes." Shame I won't be able to read any of the new chapters for over a year until they catch up with their volumes.
Unless they pull a Naruto and release three or four volumes a month, which would just kill my savings.
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Unless they pull a Naruto and release three or four volumes a month, which would just kill my savings.