One Piece Anime Pauses After Episode 1180, Returns In 2027
A year-long broadcast gap hands the time slot and the audience to other weekly series for the whole of 2027's first stretch, with no replacement One Piece broadcast announced.
Key Facts
- Episode 1180 of the One Piece TV anime aired on September 27 as the show's final episode for this year.
- The One Piece TV anime will return in 2027, with no specific month or season announced.
- Anime Corner reported the 2027 return on September 27, the same day Episode 1180 aired.
- AnimationXpress Anime reported the same pause and 2027 comeback on September 28.
Reporting from 2 sources: Anime Corner, AnimationXpress Anime.
The One Piece TV anime ended its 2026 broadcast run with Episode 1180 on September 27, and a 2027 return is confirmed. The episode is the final one for this year, so the series goes off air rather than into a new arc. No date in 2027 has been given, and no episode count, cast change, or staff change has been announced. The break is a scheduling gap in the broadcast, not a series ending. Anime Corner, which reported the pause on September 27, tied the news directly to the 2027 return. AnimationXpress Anime followed on September 28 with the same two facts: the TV run wrapped for the year, and the voyage continues with a 2027 comeback. The two outlets agree on the sequence, Episode 1180 as this year's last installment, then the announced 2027 restart. Neither outlet names a specific month or season for the return, and neither describes what the 2027 broadcast will cover.
Both articles in the cluster cover the same two facts and neither adds a third. The episode number, 1180, is the same in both headlines, and both place the pause at the end of the show's run for this year rather than at the end of the story. Anime Corner dates the final episode to September 27 and says the 2027 return was announced alongside it. AnimationXpress Anime, published the next day, repeats the framing and nothing more.
What the sources leave open is what the 2027 return will be. No source in the cluster names a month, a season, an episode count, or a production change, and no source says whether the 2027 run resumes the same adaptation point or restarts elsewhere. The only hard numbers in the cluster are the episode number and the date of the final broadcast.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 2 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.