Eiichiro Odaโs One Piece began in the issue of Weekly Shonen Jump that went on sale July 22, 1997. That magazine is Shueishaโs weekly for teenage readers, published every Monday in Japan. Monkey D. Luffy eats the Gum-Gum Fruit, turns to rubber, loses the ability to swim, and announces he will be King of the Pirates anyway. He collects a crew on the way: Nami the navigator, Roronoa Zoro the swordsman, Nico Robin the archaeologist. Volume 115, published July 3, 2026, is the newest and runs through chapter 1179, while the magazine has reached chapter 1190 in the combined 37-38 issue that went on sale August 10, 2026.
On March 4, 2026, timed to volume 114, Shueisha announced that the collected volumes had passed 600 million copies worldwide, more than 450 million of them in Japan and more than 150 million overseas. When the series crossed 500 million in August 2022, it broke its own Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book series by a single author. The 600 million announcement came with a stunt that is hard to describe with a straight face. Oda wrote down the truth about One Piece and about Luffy on one sheet of paper, ran the top half as a newspaper advertisement that morning, sealed the bottom half in a treasure chest, and sank it to the sea floor. It gets pulled back up when the story ends.
The final saga started in the issue dated July 25, 2022, where Oda wrote by hand that he would now draw every secret of this world he had been keeping. Four years later the story is still on Elbaf, the island of giants, in a confrontation with Imu, who sits above the World Government. No ending date has ever been announced. The television anime closed its Egghead arc on December 28, 2025, took January through March off to build up its production backlog, and started the Elbaf arc on Fuji TV on April 5, 2026. This run adapts one manga chapter per episode, with up to 26 episodes planned for 2026 and no recap episodes padding the schedule.
Netflix put out the second season of the live-action series, subtitled Into the Grand Line, on March 10, 2026, all eight episodes at once. It covers Loguetown, Reverse Mountain, Whisky Peak, Little Garden, and Drum Island. Charithra Chandran plays Nefertari Vivi, Joe Manganiello plays Crocodile, Lera Abova plays Nico Robin, Katey Sagal plays Doctor Kureha, and Mikaela Hoover voices Tony Tony Chopper. It opened at number one on Netflixโs global television chart with 16.8 million views in four days, under the 18.5 million season one drew in the same window. Season three was greenlit at One Piece Day in August 2025, months before season two aired, shot in Cape Town from November 2025, and was given the title The Battle of Alabasta and a 2027 window on April 7, 2026, with no date attached yet.
MANGA Plus carries the current chapters in English for free, VIZ has the Shonen Jump edition, and Shonen Jump+ has the Japanese. Starting 115 volumes from scratch is a real commitment, so if you came in through Netflix, the manga picks up where season two stopped, at the Alabasta arc. If you would rather follow the story as it is drawn, the animeโs Elbaf arc is the cheaper way in now that it moves at one chapter per episode. How much of the final saga is left is a question Oda has never answered in public. (As of August 21, 2026)
