TL;DR
- One piece Episode 1014 will finally air on April 16.
- The One piece The anime is fast approaching what fans affectionately call the “Roof Piece.”
- The Toei Animation hack affected several popular shows and even a movie.
On March 11, the anime’s official Twitter account revealed that One piece Episode 1014 would not be available for broadcast in its regularly scheduled timeslot on Saturday night. It became clear that Toei Animation, the studio behind the One piece anime and a number of other properties, was pirated, causing the hiatus. Now, about a month later, multiple sources have confirmed that the popular anime spanning over 1,000 episodes will return this weekend.
Spoiler warning for the Wano arc of One pieceincluding the last episode 1013.
‘One Piece’ episode 1014 will stream on Crunchyroll on April 16
Returning to its usual Saturday night time slot, One piece Episode 1014 will pick up where the anime left off a month ago. The official One piece The anime account announced through a Crunchyroll news post that on April 9, a rebroadcast special episode will air before the next official episode airs on April 16. This means that fans will have gone more than a month without a new One piece airing episode.
Episode 1013 ended with flashback content going back to when Luffy’s brother Portgas D. Ace made a trip to Onigashima to free the captives. Through their battle together, Yamato and Ace end up becoming friends, as the latter inspires the former to seek liberation from Kaido, Yamato’s oppressive father.
One piece Episode 1013 adapted most of chapter 998 as well as the first few pages of chapter 999. This means that we can expect that One piece Episode 1014 will adapt most of chapter 999 and maybe a bit of chapter 1000. We can probably expect some big reveals in the upcoming weeks of the anime.
‘One Piece’ episode 1014 brings the story closer to the infamous ‘Roof Piece’ section of the Wano arc
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Spoilers for the manga part of the story that hasn’t been animated yet.
The next installment of the manga which will probably start with the end of One piece Episode 1014 or Episode 1015 is affectionately nicknamed “Roof Piece” due to the non-stop action and excitement that ensues as Kaido and Big Mom take on some of the highest profile pirates that have come for their heads. in Onigashima.
You are likely to be a great time One piece fan, if you’re even interested in episode 1014, so without spoiling too much, just know that you can expect some peak storytelling and Eiichiro Oda story fights in the coming months. Yes, months.
Had it not been for the situation with Toei Animation, anime fans would have been knee-deep in this part of the story by now.
Toei Animation piracy caused several delays in popular franchises
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In early March, Toei Animation announced that its internal systems were hacked, according to Crunchyroll. The compromised system forced the studio to shut down and pause all of its currently airing shows. Instead of new episodes like One piece Episode 1014, the timeslots where these shows would normally air were filled with rebroadcasts and TV specials. Anime News Network reported that the attack was caused by a ransomware attack. Fortunately, it seems that the animation studio is now in a more stable place.
Affected shows include One Piece, Digimon Ghost Game, Dragon Quest Dai’s Adventure, Y Yummy Pretty Cure Party. Also, the movie Dragon Ball Super: Superhero was delayed indefinitely from its scheduled April 22 release in Japan due to how the attack affected production. Now that things are getting back to normal, expect to schedule news on that too. Meanwhile, it’s time to enjoy more. One piece.