One Piece Ends Filler Arc By Teasing Wano's Return

One Piece has had a very busy year, and the anime only promises to get even more nuts as 2020 [...]

By Megan Peters

One Piece has had a very busy year, and the anime only promises to get even more nuts as 2020 closes in. Not long ago, fans saw the TV series welcome the long-awaited Wano arc, but the story went on a short break to usher in a filler aside. And at last, fans will be happy to hear the bonus arc has come to an end.

That is right! One Piece has ended the anime's latest filler arc, and the show will return to Wano in a matter of days.

For those who caught the newest episode of One Piece, the update brought the anime's filler arc to an end. The aside was made to hype the release of One Piece: Stampede, the next film to join the franchise this week. As such, this filler arc was never meant to last very long, and episode 896 ended it with ease.

The episode saw Luffy take on the bounty hunter Cidre while Boa Hancock dealt with her own opponents. It doesn't take Luffy long to beat Cidre, and it is his performance which earns him an invite to the Pirates Exp. This event will be a major one seen in One Piece: Stampede, and the episode follows the Straw Hats as they set sail for Delta Island. It is then the team learns the Pirates Expo will have attendees race one another to find Gol D. Roger's fabled treasure, and this teaser will set up the One Piece film when it goes live later this week.

When the anime returns to TV next week, fans will be reunited with Wano and all of its canonical glory. A preview was shown for episode 897, and it let fans know Luffy will show up next week in his Wano gear and make his awaited reunion with Zoro after parting some time ago.

So, are you ready to see the anime get back on track? Let me know in the comments or hit me up on Twitter @MeganPetersCB to talk all things comics and anime!

Eiichiro Oda's One Piece first began serialization in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 1997. It has since been collected into over 80 volumes, and 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 over 430 million copies sold. The series still ranked number one in manga sales in 2018, which surprised fans of major new entries.

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