One Piece Chapter 1122 Confirms Mid-August Release Schedule Including Obon Break

On Monday, July 29, 2024, the release week for One Piece chapter 1122 began, revealing initial spoilers for the issue that mainly concentrated on the manga’s upcoming release schedule. According to @pewpiece (Pew), a respected leaker of the series and former Twitter user, the author and illustrator Eiichiro Oda’s manga will not be taking a break week after the release of chapter 1122.

Despite Oda not taking a voluntary break week after the official release of One Piece chapter 1122, the series will still go on a hiatus due to the Obon holiday. This is because Shueisha and Weekly Shonen Jump have decided to take a publication break, resulting in all series, including Oda’s, being on a mandatory hiatus for the Obon week holiday.

Fortunately, the confirmation that there will be no break after the official release of One Piece chapter 1122 ensures that there will be two official releases in the month of August. The first one will be chapter 1122 on Monday, August 5, and the second will be chapter 1123 on Monday, August 19. This also implies that these two weeks will be the only release weeks in August, unless any last-minute breaks or delays are announced for chapter 1123.

One Piece Chapter 1122 Release for August Expected to Be Limited to Two Official Releases

The reason behind the news that there will be no break week after the release of One Piece chapter 1122 is due to Shueisha’s approach to handling their double issues and the return from the Obon week holiday. When they come back from the Obon week, Shueisha publishes a double issue of Weekly Shonen Jump as a way to make up for the missed break. However, it is customary for Shueisha to take a publishing break after releasing a double issue, which is expected to occur in August.

This confirms that chapter 1123 will be released on August 26, immediately after chapter 1122’s release. As this is the last Monday of August, it will be the second and final official release for the series that month.

Despite the usual trend of spoilers for chapter 1122 being released in the week leading up to the Obon week holiday, fans may not have to wait until after the holiday this time. However, due to the unauthorized nature of manga spoilers, this pattern can change at any given moment.

Oda’s manga series has been in publication since July 1997, and has been serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump since its inception. It is currently in its Final Saga, and Oda has estimated that it will come to an end within the next two years.