Lets play detective here,and connect some dots..
When,around a month ago,Toei announced the decision to put the anime on break until April 2025,it was surely a surprising decision. It almost never happens that an anime that is not seasonal takes a break this long. Not even during Covid in 2020,or during the hacking on their servers in 2022,they took a break this long.
But what if,it was something "forced"? Maybe they know something we dont know?
If Shueisha got to know that Oda in the last few months got very sick,and he will probably manage to release only like 1 chapter per month in the next months/years (even if One Piece will never become officially monthly),they probably,for correctness,warned Toei about it,telling them "Look,the situation is not good. You may want to take some time before you reach the manga chapters too fast!.
So maybe Toei,knowing Oda's bad situation since the last few months (weeks/months before we as readers got to know it) decided for the strategy to put the anime on a break,knowing that,otherwise,they would have run out of material very soon. So they made this "edited version of Fishman Island" that doesnt sound like something people were asking for,at all.
Who knows? Maybe it went like this,maybe not.
When,around a month ago,Toei announced the decision to put the anime on break until April 2025,it was surely a surprising decision. It almost never happens that an anime that is not seasonal takes a break this long. Not even during Covid in 2020,or during the hacking on their servers in 2022,they took a break this long.
But what if,it was something "forced"? Maybe they know something we dont know?
If Shueisha got to know that Oda in the last few months got very sick,and he will probably manage to release only like 1 chapter per month in the next months/years (even if One Piece will never become officially monthly),they probably,for correctness,warned Toei about it,telling them "Look,the situation is not good. You may want to take some time before you reach the manga chapters too fast!.
So maybe Toei,knowing Oda's bad situation since the last few months (weeks/months before we as readers got to know it) decided for the strategy to put the anime on a break,knowing that,otherwise,they would have run out of material very soon. So they made this "edited version of Fishman Island" that doesnt sound like something people were asking for,at all.
Who knows? Maybe it went like this,maybe not.
