One Piece Chapter 1195 Officially Sets New Record for Oda’s Franchise

One Piece is officially set to cross a milestone even longtime readers might have missed. With the scheduled release of Chapter 1195, Eiichiro Oda’s saga will formally have more post-timeskip chapters than pre-timeskip ones, a shift that took nearly three decades of weekly storytelling to arrive. It sounds like a small numbers game on paper.

Still, it says a lot about how massive the “New World” half of One Piece has grown, and how neatly the timeskip itself sits almost exactly in the middle of the entire story, splitting Luffy’s journey into two remarkably even halves of manga and anime history.

One Piece Reaches the Exact Midpoint of Its Own Timeline

Rayleigh and Luffy during One Piece timeskip | Credits: Toei Animation

Here’s the math behind the milestone. One Piece‘s pre-timeskip stretch runs from Chapter 1 to Chapter 597, giving that first half exactly 597 chapters, capped by the devastating war at Marineford and its emotional aftermath as Luffy trains under Rayleigh on Amazon Lily. The timeskip itself lands right between Chapters 597 and 598, with Chapter 598, titled “Two Years Later,” kicking off the post-timeskip era as Luffy and the crew slowly make their way back to Sabaody after two long years spent apart, each of them growing stronger and far more capable on their own before the real second half of the story truly begins in earnest.

Count forward from Chapter 598, and Chapter 1194 marks the 597th post-timeskip chapter, meaning both halves of One Piece are locked into an exact tie, 597 chapters each, for the very first time in the series’ entire twenty-nine-year run. That tie won’t last long. Chapter 1195 is the 598th post-timeskip chapter, which means its arrival officially pushes the post-timeskip era past the pre-timeskip era in raw chapter count for the first time in the manga’s nearly thirty-year publication history.

It’s a neat coincidence that the timeskip, a narrative device meant to represent distance and personal growth, ends up sitting almost perfectly at the story’s numerical center too. Fans have pointed out before how evenly Eiichiro Oda‘s pacing has worked out over the years, but this is one of the cleanest examples yet, a nearly 50-50 split with the timeskip itself acting as the hinge connecting both eras of the manga, almost like Oda planned it that way from the very start of the series.

Why Chapter 1195 Permanently Tips the Scale for One Piece Fans

For readers who grew up on East Blue, Alabasta, and Enies Lobby, this record can feel a little surreal. The version of One Piece many fans fell in love with first – small-scale pirate hunts, a crew still finding its footing, and villains who felt personal rather than world-ending – officially becomes the shorter half of the manga. Everything from Sabaody onward, including Fish-Man Island, Dressrosa, Whole Cake Island, Wano, Egghead, and now the ongoing Elbaph Arc, has quietly become the larger chunk of the entire series by chapter count, even if it doesn’t always feel that way while reading week to week.

It also puts into perspective just how massive the current endgame stretch really is. Elbaph alone has ballooned into one of the densest arcs Oda has ever drawn, with Luffy, Loki, and Hajrudin still tangled up against Imu while Zoro and Sanji hold their own against Holy Knights Sommers and Killingham. None of that scale would have been possible without the sheer chapter real estate the post-timeskip era has quietly earned along the way, arc by sprawling arc, saga by saga, year after year of new islands and enemies.

Milestones like this rarely change how a story reads from week to week, but they’re a useful reminder of just how far One Piece has traveled towards a finale since its debut back in 1997. What started as a scrappy East Blue adventure has, chapter by chapter, quietly become a saga where the back half is no longer just bigger in scope and ambition. With Chapter 1195 on the immediate horizon, it officially cements that reality on paper too, and with Elbaph still in full swing, that gap is only going to keep widening from here on out.

What are your thoughts on this milestone with Chapter 1195? We’d love to know your opinions on the pre- and post-timeskip from the series in the comments below.

One Piece Chapter 1195 is set to be released on October 11, 2026, on VIZ Media and the MangaPlus app/website, at 8 a.m. PDT.