'One Piece' Preview Teases A Big Straw Hat Chase

The latest episode of One Piece put the Straw Hats in their toughest predicament yet as the Charlotte Family and Big Mom closed in on them, nearly killing them all. But when the Tamate Box (holding dynamite) causes an explosion, they get an opening.

Episode 843 is titled "The Chateau Collapses! The Straw Hat's Great Escape Begins!" and true to its title the Straw Hats are put into a crazy chase.

When the Tamate Box exploded, the "Cake" of the Whole Cake Island begins falling apart. This throws everyone of course as the Straw Hats are able to slip out of the Charlotte Family's clutches in the ensuing chaos. But the chase will continue when Streussen uses his "true ability."

Fans have seen his ability before that allows him to turn anything he wants into cooking ingredients, but it seems that wasn't the full extent of his power. In the preview, he stabs his sword into the cake and it begins rebuilding itself. Meaning that the Charlotte Family will most likely recover much quicker than anticipated. So even if Bege celebrates the defeat of the Charlotte Family at the end of the last episode, it's not over yet.

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece first began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. It has been collected into 87 volumes, with a few chapters yet to be included. It has been a critical and commercial success worldwide with many of the volumes breaking printing records in Japan. The manga has even set a Guinness World Record for the most copies published for the same comic book by a single author, and is the best selling manga series worldwide with 430 million copies sold worldwide.

Eiichiro Oda also revealed some upcoming news for One Piece's future at Jump Festa 2018. Not only will the manga see Wano sooner rather than later, the next villain of the series is "one of the legends which lurks in the One Piece world. The greatest enemy ever for Straw Hats will hinder their way...Can you believe Marineford Summit War will look 'cute' compared to that?

The new live-action One Piece series also got some new information as it was revealed that the series will portray the Straw Hats' adventures from the very beginning, and will take place in the East Blue. One Piece's anime series is currently in the middle of the "Whole Cake Island" arc and is now streaming on Crunchyroll and Funimation.