{"id":143158,"date":"2025-12-21T20:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=143158"},"modified":"2025-12-21T21:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T05:32:55","slug":"one-piece-unveils-elbaph-arc-visual-trailer-april-5-premiere-tony-tony-chopper-mini-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/12\/21\/one-piece-unveils-elbaph-arc-visual-trailer-april-5-premiere-tony-tony-chopper-mini-anime\/","title":{"rendered":"One Piece Unveils \u201cElbaph Arc\u201d Visual, Trailer, April 5 Premiere &amp; Tony Tony Chopper Mini Anime"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A new key visual and trailer have been unveiled for <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One Piece<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s upcoming \u201c<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/one-piece-tv-animes-future-involves-26-episodes-per-year-limit-and-elbaph-arc\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Elbaph Arc<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d during its stage event at Jump Festa 2026, along with the announcement of a new Tony Tony Chopper mini anime series. The long-running TV anime series will return to broadcast in Japan on April 5, 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_143163\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-143163\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"143163\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/12\/21\/one-piece-unveils-elbaph-arc-visual-trailer-april-5-premiere-tony-tony-chopper-mini-anime\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?fit=1817%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1817,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"one piece elbaph arc key visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;\u00a9 Eiichiro Oda\/\u200bShueisha, Toei Animation&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?fit=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?fit=696%2C980&amp;ssl=1\" class=\" wp-image-143163\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1.jpg?resize=350%2C493&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"one piece elbaph arc key visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=213%2C300&amp;ssl=1 213w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=727%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 727w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C1082&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1090%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1090w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1454%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1454w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=696%2C981&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=1068%2C1505&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?resize=298%2C420&amp;ssl=1 298w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?w=1817&amp;ssl=1 1817w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-1-scaled.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-143163\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 Eiichiro Oda\/\u200bShueisha, Toei Animation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ONE PIECE \u3008\u30a8\u30eb\u30d0\u30d5\u3009\u7de8 2026\u5e744\u67085\u65e5\uff08\u65e5\uff09\u591c11\u664215\u5206 \u30d5\u30b8\u30c6\u30ec\u30d3\u7cfb\u5168\u56fd\u30cd\u30c3\u30c8\u306b\u3066\u653e\u9001\u958b\u59cb\uff01\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6HeXamLfppc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">The series announced a three-month break earlier this October, which begins this coming January 2026, and will have a new release schedule consisting of a total of 26 episodes per year. Crunchyroll and Netflix currently stream the TV anime series in select countries and territories worldwide.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was also announced that the character, Tony Tony Chopper, will star in a new mini anime series titled <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CHOPPER&#8217;s<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which will broadcast on Fuji TV&#8217;s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mezamashi TV<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> morning<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">program on January 5, 2026.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30df\u30cb\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300eCHOPPER\u2019s\u300f \u653e\u9001\u6c7a\u5b9a\uff01\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_S6hNqqe6Ls?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The original <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/netflixs-one-piece-live-action-series-receives-new-merchandise-from-moose-toys\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One Piece<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> manga series by <\/span><b>Eiichiro Oda<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> began serialization in Shueisha\u2019s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine on July 22, 1997. A total of 113 tankobon volumes have been released as of November 2025. VIZ Media releases the manga series in English.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In addition to <\/span><b>Toei Animation<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2019s TV anime adaptation, the manga inspired a 1999 OVA from<\/span><b> Production I.G<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and numerous anime films, stage plays, video games, drama CDs, card games, art and guidebooks, and more. An anime adaptation of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/08\/09\/one-piece-heroines-anime-adaptation-announced\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One Piece Heroines<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> was also announced in August 2025.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The series also inspired a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/11\/26\/awdo-awdo-daisy-head-join-cast-of-live-action-one-piece-season-3\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">live-action TV series<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> from Netflix, which debuted its first season in August 2023. A second season is expected to premiere on March 10, 2026, while a third season is currently in production.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138217\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138217\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"138217\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/one-piece-tv-animes-future-involves-26-episodes-per-year-limit-and-elbaph-arc\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-visual\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?fit=1457%2C2064&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1457,2064\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"One Piece Elbaph Arc visual\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?fit=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?fit=696%2C986&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-138217\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?resize=350%2C496&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"One Piece Elbaph Arc first visual\" width=\"350\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?resize=212%2C300&amp;ssl=1 212w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?resize=723%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 723w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?resize=768%2C1088&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?resize=1084%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1084w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?resize=1446%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1446w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?resize=696%2C986&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?resize=1068%2C1513&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?resize=296%2C420&amp;ssl=1 296w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?w=1457&amp;ssl=1 1457w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/One-Piece-Elbaph-Arc-visual.jpeg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138217\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">\u00a9 Eiichiro Oda\/\u200bShueisha, Toei Animation<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">VIZ Media describes the main premise of the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One Piece<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> manga as:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer \u201cRed-Haired\u201d Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit and gained the power to stretch like rubber\u2026at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, still vowing to become the king of the pirates, Luffy sets out on his adventure\u2026one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary \u201cOne Piece,\u201d said to be the greatest treasure in the world\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Sources<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Eiichiro_Staff\/status\/2002659423081443399\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One Piece Official Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/choppers_op\/status\/2002665390221283623\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">CHOPPER\u2019s Official Twitter<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AIR_News01\/status\/2002670057118380516\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AIR News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-12-21\/one-piece-tv-anime-elbaph-arc-debuts-in-april-5\/.232353\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anime News Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2025-12-21\/one-piece-character-tony-tony-chopper-gets-own-mini-anime-on-january-5\/.232351\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new key visual and trailer have been unveiled for One Piece\u2019s upcoming \u201cElbaph Arc,\u201d along with the announcement of a new Tony Tony Chopper mini anime series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":143162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,78,4178,448,911,1638,590],"class_list":["post-143158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-crunchyroll","tag-jump-festa","tag-netflix","tag-one-piece","tag-shueisha","tag-viz-media"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/one-piece-elbaph-arc-key-visual-scaled-e1766378200163.jpg?fit=1817%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-Bf0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143158"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143186,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143158\/revisions\/143186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}