One Piece to Be Released Simultaneously in Japan & America

FUNimation has announced plans to begin streaming weekly TV episodes of One Piece an hour after their Japanese broadcast, beginning with episode 403 on the 30th. New episodes will be streamed on the OnePieceOfficial website then shortly later on other affiliated video hosting sites.

Viz will begin serializing the “latest chapters” of Eichiro Oda’s One Piece manga in Shonen Jump USA magazine this fall. Viz Media’s english translated collected One Piece manga volume 21 will be released on June 2. volume 53 was just released in Japan on the 10th and has already sold over 1.7 million copies.

Source: Anime News Network article 1, article 2