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Official announcements and confirmed information out of Japan, translated and put in context.
ONE PIECE 1195 "Weakness": Zoro says "I've got it" and lands a massive strike on Sommers — then the chapter cuts away before the result. Brook confronts the masked Gunko as Esperia's Princess Shuri and she answers only as Gunko, an owl starts the story of a woman called Lily, and Sanji is told he has a serious weakness.
ONE PIECE Card Game EB-05 Heroines Edition Vol.2: what Bandai has confirmed, the card list and chase cards revealed or reported so far, and what buying it in Japan actually involves.
In ONE PIECE 1194, Sommers says Zoro's earlier strike reached his heart without Conqueror's Haki. Zoro then lands one strike Sommers calls coated — it hits a ship, not Sommers — and cannot get it back.
Zoro wounds Sommers but leaves him alive in ONE PIECE 1193. Loki explains why piercing his steel heart requires a blade coated in Conqueror's Haki.
Hisoka spends chapter 420 playing a machine called SWAMP BALL with an Asahi can in his hand. Japanese readers named the reference within the hour, and Kaiji's own publisher responded by unlocking the Bog arc — 87 chapters, free until 13 September.
There is no announced HUNTER×HUNTER chapter 421 release date. Chapter 420 ended with a notice saying the next publication will be announced once decided — but Togashi has reported chapters 421 through 427 as finished manuscripts.
Chapter 1192 gives Imu three named weapons for the first time — Chaos Sword, Void Sword, and the shield they combine into — and then has Luffy and Loki break the shield. It also makes the "Imu's black arms are Armament Haki" reading harder to hold.
Chapter 1192 has Luffy shout down the entire legend built around him — Nika, Joy Boy, even Roger — and then break Imu's guard with Loki. Read from the official Japanese release, with what is confirmed kept separate from what is not.
Pokémon's first movie in seven years has no Ash, no Liko and no Roy. Read the official announcement closely and Pokémon: Wild Card looks less like the movie series restarting than like the card game getting a film of its own.
Shueisha published a final top ten for each of eight regions alongside the global result. Nami leads three of them, Zoro leads two, and Japan's top ten barely resembles the world's.
While voting was open, Shueisha published a regional top five every Monday. In one of those weeks, eight regions produced five different leaders — and Luffy led only one of them.
Pokémon: Wild Card is the first Pokémon movie centered on the TCG. No promo card has been announced yet, but past Pokémon movies give us strong clues about what could happen in 2027.
