 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review your source for everything One Piece and today we should have a chapter review to do however sadly it was just not meant to be and instead the One Piece manga has been put on a sudden and rather lengthy break so we're here to talk about why that is as well as what it means for the One Piece manga going forward in the immediate future because it does have some unfortunate consequences beyond just not being able to read the thing that it is that we like such as impacting the release of the long-awaited chapter 1000. 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Sergio Oda came down with something or had his physical or mental conditions otherwise affected specifics aren't given in fact they rarely are in Japanese public announcements not that we really need them but just before anybody freaks out Shueisha the publisher of One Piece and its serialization magazine Weekly Shonen Jump have made an announcement that Oda has already recovered from whatever the honest was so that is obviously fantastic news but it has thrown the publication schedule off a fair bit and here is their statement which has been translated by the library of Ohara on Twitter. One Piece was scheduled to be published on Weekly Shonen Jump issue 44 on sale October 5th but we made the choice to cancel it out of concern for the author's physical condition after he fell suddenly sick. That said the author's condition has currently recovered and serialization will resume in two issues from now starting from issue 46 on sale October 17th. We hope everyone can understand and I'm sure that we all do for the most part anyway I mean they're always going to be that group of people who will complain at great length that Oda takes far too many breaks even when he is legitimately ill and I guess I really do want to emphasize that although this is a large and unexpected break actually let's which probably first flesh that out for a bit of context because there were a lot of numbers in that statement issues and dates and stuff and if you're like me you don't like numbers so let's break that down. For some clarification issue 44 is the one that was released today which is currently Monday October 5th for me here in Australia although I believe it is October 4th for Americans and Europeans so this issue covers the first break and the next issue being 45 would then be released on October 12th for me being the 11th for most of you once again wonderful American and European readers but that is also a break which means that the next time you should expect to see one piece officially will be on October 17th for me and the 16th for most of you although leaks and spoilers are of course almost certainly going to emerge before then but that will be the release of chapter 992 so I hope that clears things up a bit maybe basically October is going to be a bit dry for one piece which is a shame given what's currently happening in the manga but it cannot be helped Otis Health will always take precedent over everything as it should even though I'm sure that he himself doesn't quite feel the same way which circles back quite nicely to a discussion I was about to get into which is not to be worried for him due to this break because there is indeed precedent for it happening a fair bit in the past although two weeks in a row is pretty exceedingly rare unless it gets coupled with a schedule magazine break from weekly show and jump which in this case it is not those generally happened around holidays like golden week new years and all that sort of thing but the more standard schedule tends to be three chapters of one piece followed by a break week then three more chapters and then a break and so on and so forth into hopefully infinity at least in normal times anyway this year's release schedule certainly looks nothing like any other but these roughly monthly breaks from odor are more out of necessity than anything else I'm fairly certain that odor would prefer not to take any breaks at all if it were physically possible to do so he is a very well documented workaholic and just to give you a brief rundown of his daily schedule and I just want to prepare you now you're going to be tired just hearing about this but it's actually super simple essentially he wakes up at 5 a.m and then starts working as immediately as possible then throughout the day he just continues to do that taking only the most necessary breaks such as eating and assumedly going to the bathroom and such and eventually that day will come to an end but odors workday won't because he will continue to plan right draw ink or color until 2 a.m the very next day at which point he finally succumbs to exhaustion and then decides to nap for three hours before waking up to do it all again hooray and I quite frankly do not understand how it's possible for a human to live this way although it's not unheard of a lot of very well-known names throughout history have these mythical sleep regimes touched them a very famous one would be Leonardo da Vinci who allegedly instead of actually engaging in sleep instead took a 20 minute nap every four hours it's called the uberman sleep cycle and I would not recommend it although the benefit would be an extra six hours of productivity and really odors schedule isn't all that different from this he has an extra hour of sleep and he does it all in one go which means that he does theoretically get an extra five hours out of every day totaling an extra 35 hours a week because he works seven days a week in addition to that though he already doesn't work a standard workday which for many would be eight hours instead he does closer to 18 to 20 hours a day factoring in breaks so that is pure insanity but the point of going through all of that is to ultimately land on the conclusion that not only are the monthly manga breaks necessary to facilitate its very existence but if anything they're nowhere near enough however they also bank on the idea that these are just rest breaks but humans be humans and they will get sick from time to time as well which throws this entire strategy into chaos because odor has very little time to rest let alone to recover and if I had to guess I'd say that's why we find ourselves with a double break this time around odor has developed some sort of mild illness that has struck his incredibly abused body harder than it would an average human and I guess I say this mostly to dismiss any ideas that he has been afflicted with you know a certain virus currently devastating the world because for many that two-week time period is a suspicious coincidence that's all it is though a coincidence and it's important to know that this two-week break is for serialization in the magazine and not necessarily for odor himself in fact it is almost certainly not going to be anywhere near that long for him and to explain this a bit more for consumers it's probably very tempting to believe that manga just appears mostly out of thin air on a weekly basis because the standard thought would be well it's a weekly magazine so the author must have spent all week making that one chapter for me to read right now but the reality of the situation is that they're working several chapters ahead in fact in a super old SBS segment odor revealed that his then work schedule was working four weeks in advance the example he gave was that chapter 60 had just been published yes chapter 60 because this comment is that old but at the time he had already completed a draft for chapter 63 he did also stress that this was his current schedule and that not every mangaka works the same way but it would certainly be similar and let's have a fun example of what this means let's say that chapter 992 was going to be published right here right now as it should have at the exact same time of this release what's happening is that Shueisha is in the process of printing next week's magazine which contains chapter 993 and they need to do that as early as possible in order to ship the magazines across Japan which we know for a fact happens extraordinarily early because they shipped magazines where all the leaks spoilers and scans originate from which generally means that magazines have started to hit stores about half a week before they're allowed to be sold now simultaneously at this point chapter 994 would also need to be in its stages of editing and by that I mean out of the author's hands entirely what I mean by that is it's being compiled into the source file for the next magazine to go to print adding in text and dialogue and whatever else needs to be digitally layered meanwhile once again at the same time a final draft for chapter 995 would need to be well and truly in a state of completion so that it can be ready to ink and so that assistance can begin working on it drawing in backgrounds characters and whatever other work is assigned to them and at this point the author would also need to be drawing their drafts for chapter 996 submitting it to editors for approval so that it can be prepared for the production process next week and yeah it's a lot to get your head around but in an ideal world by the time any given chapter has been officially released the author is almost certainly turning their attention to structuring events out of four chapters in the future and of course breaks do impact this by adding in gaps here and there but it doesn't really change the necessary process it just delays it ideally to allow order to rest or at least work but a bit more casually but why that process is valuable to know is because it gives us some great insight into the decision-making process by Shueisha here this was a very sudden action meaning that chapter 992 is 100% complete and was complete at the release date of 991 and in fact 993 is probably in a solid state of completion as well and so they certainly could have released chapter 992 in issue 44 although it would have caused problems further down the line because Otis illness hasn't caused problems with those it's caused problems with chapters 994 perhaps even 995 and delaying their production process so from Shueisha's perspective it was probably a better reason to hold off on releasing 992 so that they can maintain a solid production cycle which was impacted by Otis illness however I will say that it does strike me as a bit odd that a double break was deemed necessary especially since we should have been approaching a standard order break so there is some mystery there although it could be something very simple and administrative like having two breaks in a row in order to ensure a more steady chunk flow of chapters rather than having them more divided like they have been for much of this year which brings us nicely to the future where we now get to discuss the impending chapter 1000 and quite frankly with this development it is all but confirmed that we will not be making it to that stage in 2020 starting with the next issue containing one piece we will have 11 weeks left of the year the final week of which is a scheduled break for weekly show and jump so that leaves us with 10 issues to work with which it face value sounds like a pretty perfect amount but it isn't because that would assume no standard order breaks and kind of funnily enough before this announcement was made by Shueisha Otis stated his ambition in the author comment section of the magazine which was the following since the process has been adjusted because of the virus we're trying for three chapters every four weeks or two chapters every three weeks the goal is to reach chapter 1000 by the end of the year and we came ever ever so close to doing just that at the moment the estimates being made would place us at chapter 999 by the end of 2020 so wow that really was close and it does hammer home that without 2020 being 2020 we would have quite comfortably reached that milestone as it is though it looks like we'll need to celebrate chapter 1000 as part of the new year fun times in 2021 which you know it's not all that bad yes it would have been nice to do so this year but it just wasn't meant to be there's really not much that can be done about illness in fact with Otis horrendous work schedule I'm surprised that he doesn't get caught up by sickness much more often with that said chapter 1000 is still eagerly anticipated and I would like to do a series of videos in the lead up to it so keep your eye out for those and also please do comment with any suggestions you may have to celebrate that momentous occasion whenever it may be but I hope this video gave you a solid idea of why one piece is on break when to expect it back and just a general sense of gratitude for the insanity that this single man goes through simply to entertain us on a weekly basis but what do you guys think please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my discord server and if you'd like to see more videos like this then please do go and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious one piece 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