One Piece Weekly Schedule for 2020
As we did a year ago, we decided to create a calendar with the One Piece chapter release dates and breaks for 2020. The only official dates available at this time are the Weekly Shōnen Jump release until September, so the magazine’s breaks until the end of the year are speculative, and based on previous years.
Eiichiro Oda’s breaks are all speculated, and based also on previous years, with the last year being more relevant. The author maintained a consistent pattern of pausing every four chapters for a few years, but it seems that by 2019 he has been taking days off more often. Now Oda currently pauses on average one week for every three chapters, which may vary at times when the Weekly Shōnen Jump is not released. This table will be updated whenever there is new official information!
Due to the global COVID-19 situation, in the last few weeks there has been a break for each chapter released, and the scenario is apparently going to hold on for a while longer, so our calendar has been adapted to this situation. Keep in mind that this schedule is speculative and is subject to change whenever new official information appears!
Week | Chapter | Leak Date | WSJ Issue | Oficial WSJ Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 01 | 967 | December 25, 2019 | 6 | 7 | January 4, 2020 |
| Week 02 | WSJ Break | |||
| Week 03 | 968 | January 17, 2020 | 8 | January 20, 2020 |
| Week 04 | 969 | January 24, 2020 | 9 | January 27, 2020 |
| Week 05 | 970 | January 31, 2020 | 10 | February 3, 2020 |
| Week 06 | Oda Break | 11 | February 10, 2020 | |
| Week 07 | 971 | February 14, 2020 | 12 | February 17, 2020 |
| Week 08 | 972 | February 19, 2020 | 13 | February 22, 2020 |
| Week 09 | Oda Break | 14 | March 2, 2020 | |
| Week 10 | 973 | March 6, 2020 | 15 | March 9, 2020 |
| Week 11 | 974 | March 13, 2020 | 16 | March 16, 2020 |
| Week 12 | 975 | March 20, 2020 | 17 | March 23, 2020 |
| Week 13 | Oda Break | 18 | March 30, 2020 | |
| Week 14 | 976 | April 3, 2020 | 19 | April 6, 2020 |
| Week 15 | 977 | April 10, 2020 | 20 | April 13, 2020 |
| Week 16 | WSJ Break | |||
| Week 17 | 978 | April 24, 2020 | 21 | 22 | April 27, 2020 |
| Week 18 | WSJ Break | |||
| Week 19 | 979 | May 8, 2020 | 23 | May 11, 2020 |
| Week 20 | Oda Break | 24 | May 18, 2020 | |
| Week 21 | 980 | May 22, 2020 | 25 | May 25, 2020 |
| Week 22 | Oda Break | 26 | June 1, 2020 | |
| Week 23 | 981 | June 5, 2020 | 27 | June 8, 2020 |
| Week 24 | 982 | June 12, 2020 | 28 | June 15, 2020 |
| Week 25 | 983 | June 19, 2020 | 29 | June 22, 2020 |
| Week 26 | Oda Break | 30 | June 27, 2020 | |
| Week 27 | 984 | July 3, 2020 | 31 | July 6, 2020 |
| Week 28 | Oda Break | 32 | July 13, 2020 | |
| Week 29 | 985 | July 17, 2020 | 33 | 34 | July 20, 2020 |
| Week 30 | WSJ Break | |||
| Week 31 | 986 | July 31, 2020 | 35 | August 3, 2020 |
| Week 32 | 987 | August 8, 2020 | 36 | 37 | August 11, 2020 |
| Week 33 | WSJ Break | |||
| Week 34 | 988 | August 21, 2020 | 38 | August 24, 2020 |
| Week 35 | 989 | August 28, 2020 | 39 | August 31, 2020 |
| Week 36 | Oda Break | 40 | September 7, 2020 | |
| Week 37 | 990 | September 11, 2020 | 41 | September 14, 2020 |
| Week 38 | 991 | September 16, 2020 | 42 | September 19, 2020 |
| Week 39 | 992 | September 25, 2020 | 43 | September 28, 2020 |
| Week 40 | Oda Break | |||
| Week 41 | 993 | |||
| Week 42 | 994 | |||
| Week 43 | 995 | |||
| Week 44 | Oda Break | |||
| Week 45 | 996 | |||
| Week 46 | 997 | |||
| Week 47 | 998 | |||
| Week 48 | Oda Break | |||
| Week 49 | 999 | |||
| Week 50 | 1000 | |||
| Week 51 | 1001 | |||
| Week 52 | WSJ Break |
The amount of entitlement in these comments are scary, I bet ya’ll haters don’t even do anything to contribute to the franchise at all. I’m willing to bet a kidney and a half that you haters have never bought a single volume of One Piece manga in your life nor have you done anything to help Oda continue this manga series. The world doesn’t revolve around you smh.
I haven’t read or watched on piece but, these comments are pretty stupid imo.
Literally the laziest mangaka around. Just end it if your health is that bad. Otherwise it’s an excuse. He’s complacent because he has the most popular manga in the world.
the sheer sense of entitlement here, holy shit. oda doesn’t owe you shit. and he’s not taking these breaks because he wants to, wsj makes him take the breaks for his own health so we don’t get another togashi situation.
Imagine saying that to someone who has been drawing and writing a manga for over 20 years.
i cannot fathom calling someone who has been consistently pumping out chapters for 23 years with the longest break being a singular month long one “lazy” in any way
“Literally the laziest mangaka around….” I think this is a joke right? this god needs some rest, you cant say that he is lazy I mean come on men, if he is lazy then what do you call Yoshihiro Togashi or Kentaro Miura ?
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Only few mangaka have been this dedicated to their craft, thinking about the story, drawing it almost everyday, reaching almost 1000 chapters, and only takes a few days to a few weeks off.
While others ends their manga in a rush.
Give the man a break, it’s better for him to do so than fall ill and straight to Skypiea and leave us hanging or pass it on to someone else, which might ruin One Piece.
are the ones with dates written on its side confirmed already? so if the dates are there, the schedule is fixed?
The “Official WSJ Release Date” column has dates officially confirmed. It means that the magazine is published that week. One Piece being published or not in those weeks is speculative.
Y’all know Oda doesn’t owe anyone of you anything right? Even if he were to stop One Piece altogether, doesn’t mean he owes you an apology. He’s put his lifework in it, has been the most devoted manga artist to one series of all time… And you’re bashing him because he takes brakes? He can take those brakes because of all the hard work and sleep deprivation he has gone through for years. One Piece is not about you, and if you’re so bitchy about having to wait a week more, get a life.
Disagree with that. Akira Toriyoma’s schedule and depends was 10x as much Oda’s is. Then 37 years after the release of Dragon Ball the man picks back up where he left off crushing the box offices with his movie and is yet still working.
I don’t think you can compare work time between mangakas. What we’re saying is Oda works way too much to give us One Piece. If Toryama works more, that’s on him and his fans but even though Oda may work less (And I don’t think he does), doesn’t he’s already beyond proper, normal limits and working hours. Stop comparing and just enjoy One Piece.
You cannot compare oda to another person they’re different people he put his life effort into writing One Piece. We are really lucky for Oda still to be writing after 21 years. All the Manga writers that have written for more than 10 years you should really respect. It doesn’t matter how many breaks he takes, he deserves the breaks. Just wait for another week it’s that simple.
do you know why toriyama stopped on dragon ball?
bcos he was tired and couldn’t continue anymore, thats why. besides he doesn’t even draw the super manga anymore. You guys will never understand how hard it is to draw manga
To all haters who say he doesn’t release enough chapters, he said he devoted 75% of his work time just thinking up the story. He spends 10 hours per day working and I don’t know if you saw the quality of the drawings but even with 2 helpers, that means he spends a minimum of 12h30 per week (excluding week ends) drawing and 37h30 just siting at his desk racking his brains to make One Piece the best story ever. If you think working 50 hours a week is easy with a HUGE amount of pressure from the millions of fans, then you obviously can’t think of anything more but your egocentric person. Have respect for Oda who deserves everything for his 20 years of work and devotion just to make us able to follow Luffy’s adventure.
hell yeah you are right
ppl saying he needs a break once in awhile but if you convert all his weeks off its 4 months (16 weeks in total if nothing changes) ….. idk what kind of job you can get 4 months off a year.
If it was like once a month i understand just to rebuild his stamina and get his rest but this is just ……
It´s not like he takes a week off, he just doesn´t publish that week, so he can work at slower pace and we get more quality chapters…Also, have you seen a work schedule of a mangaka? Normal people work 40 hours a week…Mangakas don´t work 40 hours a week, sleep included, so shut up.
I dont think you understand his actual schedule. The breaks isnt him just not working he just needs more time. If you watched the interview where they talk about his schedule you’ll see how devoted he is. They said on a regular work week he wakes up at 5 am and goes to bed at 2 am
Why should we? The guy makes dosens of bills on the Manga, hence should treat his readers with due respect. Sick/ill or not, writing Mangas is not a devastating task (I believe it is comparable to a casual office-type employment). New chapters have not been released for two weeks recently, and afterthat time he realases one chap, yet takes another one week break afterwards? That gives us one chapter in four weeks period (I might say that one chapter in a month then). Shingeki no Kyojin is released on a monthly basis, nevertheless they release over 40 pages at once!
Let’s make things clear: Oda does not respect One Piece’s fans. Thats the truth. In such case he should end the whole series on the Wano chapter, and take a life-long rest.
Please. Keep an eye on your one piece addiction and get a heart. That guy is a human, there’s a covid 19 pandemy at this time, and he dedicated 20 f*****g years for this masterpiece, with blood, sweat and tears. He deserve to choose his own schedule, you’ve got nothing to say.
idiot
Oda deserves the break more than anybody, he already I’ll and he have work his ass off without sleeping for us the reader and for the last few week oda didn’t take a break he was working on the magazine
You are the kind of fan I despise the most. Enjoy what you have you f*****g pig, Oda is a human being and he has been nothing short of amazing for the last 20 years, he deserves to have a lot of breaks, but we do not deserve him, espicially you
You sir are correct, at most he could draw 2 pages a day and get back to whatever it is that he’s doing, cancel all interviews and unnecessary stuff, hire more employees if necessary, and he’d still financially stable.
Why have personal breaks if he can rest with the magazine anyways?
I would like to see you create a manga and go on for more than 20 years and not take breaks, come on and if u cant don’t talk smack just be glad ODA the legend himself made One Piece a$$hole
who do u think u are brat? u are just a lowly garbage who doesnt deserve the manga? i bet you read it FOR FREE. did u even buy the real manga? nasty and disgusting. u should ve just ***
I read it for free too. What the f*** can I do man? It is not my fault I am poor. And in my country there isnt even manga.
yo bro you probably have a small d**k huh? f*****g piece of s**t i’d beat the s**t outta you if we met in real life p***y a*s b***h. you got no friends huh? loner a*s h*e. get a life instead of hating on the goat b***h.
The amount of censorship in this post tho… 🤣
“casual office-time employment” You better wipe your a*s out of here for saying retarded statements. You think you can do better than the One Piece manga? I’d like to see you try, retard.
Stfu there’s a pandemic going on right now most years hr doesn’t take 4 months off, he’s just being safe which he deserves more than anyone. Oda respects his fans more than any other mangaka with the effort he’s put in for 20+ years creating the perfect story. Just read the SBS’s to see how much he cares.
he deserves to rest, but on the other hand we deserve to know how the situation evolves
I Hope you more active in this website and thanks for your sharring
Hopefully, Oda will get Hana Hana no Mi as soon as possible ^_^
as Long as i am guaranteed that he finishes the series i wouldn’t even mind if he took off every second week…. take some rest oda, you deserve it
Nigga stfu – every second week? you can catch these every second hands
the fuck?
You shut the f**k up, useless fan.
ahhhh I need more one piece
Schedule is worse then last year
Just let the man take some rest.