One Piece is still going strong as of episode #1157, and sure enough, it left plenty to be excited about for episode #1158 and beyond. The Elbaph arc is still in its early stages and has yet to show its full colors, but even so early on, it’s been doing a great job of living up to the hype after so many years of anticipation.

After waking up in a mysterious castle made of blocks, Nami tried to find the rest of the crew and remember what happened, but things took a turn for the worse when giant animals suddenly attacked her. It was a confusing turn for both the characters and the audience, but as is often the case with One Piece, that didn’t make it any less exciting.

What Time One Piece Episode 1158 Releases

As with previous episodes, the One Piece anime streams new episodes weekly on Crunchyroll and Netflix, which can be accessed through their apps, websites, or third-party websites like Amazon Prime. Assuming there are no delays, One Piece episode #1158 should premiere on Crunchyroll on Sunday, April 19 at 9:00 AM Pacific Standard Time (PST), 12:00 PM Eastern Standard Time (EST), and 5:00 PM British Summer Time (BST), with the same episode debuting the following Saturday on Netflix, as well.

What Happened In One Piece Episode 1157?

One Piece episode #1157, “Nami in a Fix! An Adventure in Block Kingdom”, picked up where episode #1156 left off, with Nami, dressed in a Viking outfit, waking up in a castle made of blocks with no memory of how she got there. Before Nami could get her bearings, though, she was attacked by a series of giant animals, first some giant bees, and then a giant hedgehog that chased her around the castle.

Soon enough, Nami found Usopp being attacked by a giant cat, and in her attempt at defeating both the hedgehog and the cat with Zeus, Nami only defeated the hedgehog and enraged the cat, causing it to chase her and Usopp. During the chase, Nami and Usopp remembered that the absinthe the giants gave them was said to cause hallucinations, so Usopp faced down the giant cat under the assumption that it wasn’t real. Unfortunately, the giant cat was very real, and it beat up Usopp before all three of them fell over a ledge and out of the castle.

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Nami fell into a panic with Usopp’s defeat, but luckily, Luffy, Zoro, and Sanji finally appeared and defeated the cat with a massive combo attack. Now with a reprieve, the five of them finally tried to figure out where they were; while their new outfits resembled Elbaph’s clothing, there’d be no reason for Elbaph to have human-sized clothes, not to mention how all the trees were fake. Whatever the case, Zoro knew that there was a town nearby, so the episode ended with them heading there for answers and Luffy and Usopp being overly excited to go on an adventure.

One Piece’s Elbaph Arc Is Still Off To A Great Start

One Piece’s Elbaph arc is still getting into the swing of things, but it’s still been plenty of fun to watch. In terms of production, the visuals and updated sound design are still doing a lot to breathe new life into the anime, and what’s even better is that One Piece’s pacing also appears to have improved and made the anime the easiest it’s been to watch in years. All of that is a good sign for the series, and it will be great to see how that continues to unfold.

More than that, however, is how fun the story being told is; with the Straw Hats just running around and dealing with goofy things in a new location, the Elbaph arc feels like a classic One Piece adventure in the best of ways, with episode #1157 even having a direct callback to the Alabasta arc. There’s plenty to like here for One Piece fans old and new, and hopefully, episode #1158 will continue to deliver on that front.

Be sure to watch One Piece episode #1158 when it releases on Sunday, April 19.

Release Date

October 20, 1999

Network

Fuji TV

Directors

Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yûji Endô, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou

Writers

Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shouji Yonemura, Yoshiyuki Suga, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hirohiko Uesaka, Michiru Shimada, Isao Murayama, Takuya Masumoto, Yoichi Takahashi, Momoka Toyoda

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  Mayumi Tanaka

  Monkey D. Luffy (voice)

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  Kazuya Nakai

  Roronoa Zoro (voice)