

The hat will also be added as an in-game item for players. The special One Piece Pikachu will appear in the game starting Monday, July 22 until July 29, for one week only.

Artwork by Oda will also be displayed.Īdditionally the lovable Pikachu can be spotted wearing Luffy’s straw hat embellished with a red ribbon.

The stature will help support the rebuilding of Kumamoto after the city was hit by a devastating earthquake earlier this year. It’s the next arc, the Dressrosa Arc, that is seen as a low point in the series for many fans, so it’s exactly the kind of material that a top quality dub could give value to in new ways.Shared via the official Japanese Twitter account for the Pokémon GO, the smartphone game will be collaborating with One Piece creator Eiichiro Oda and Kumamoto Prefecture’s “revitalization campaign” by turning a One Piece statue located in Kumamoto into a PokéStop. It’s one of the more focused arcs from this stretch of One Piece and features some memorable fight scenes. The pirates also have to deal with a vengeful samurai who makes their mission especially interesting. One Piece’s Punk Hazard Arc puts Luffy and the rest of the Straw Hat Pirates on Punk Hazard island, a territory that’s full of dangers, an abandoned research lab, and extreme terrain. A date for a home video release or when it will be streaming on Funimation’s service has yet to be announced, but Funimation assures audiences that this is happening and that there will be additional news to come. Referred to as Season 10 Voyage 2, episodes 588-600 will hit digital storefronts in August, Funimation revealed at their recent convention. At FunimationCon 2020-Funimation’s first “virtual convention”-the team behind the dub was able to confirm that more episodes are coming and that they’ll even be here this summer. These efforts have gone a long way with the community and given fans a little more hope for the series’ future. Additionally, Funimation also made the dub of the latest One Piece film, One Piece: Stampede, available to stream for free. Despite these ups and downs, it’s been an exciting few months for One Piece fans and the news of even more dubbed episodes shows that this trend isn’t changing.įunimation released the start of the series’ Punk Hazard Arc on June 2, which included episodes 575-587.

The series’ release schedule is often sporadic with lengthy gaps in between arcs and fans are always left with some level of doubt that the newest batch of episodes could be the last and that a dub is not longer worth doing. It’s been a difficult road for fans of the One Piece dub.
