It was actually other members of the team of One Piece franchise handlers who approached Oda with the idea of the manga taking a summer break several months ago.
The Straw Hat Pirates are getting closer to sailing off into the sunset.
The next two issues of Weekly Shonen Jump, the manga anthology in which One Piece is serialized, will still have new chapters, as the break won’t begin until the June 27 issue.
The series will be absent from Jump for a total of four weeks, with weekly serialization restarting from the July 25 issue.