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Chapter 1198 of One Piece ends with Luffy in a form nobody names, Imu running out of time and Loki beaten in one blow. The leaks held, 2 details did not, and 1199 has 5 questions waiting.
The Chapter 1198 leaks have Loki finally going hybrid, Imu putting him down in a single blow, and Luffy coming back unable to speak. Here is what the leaks say, what the jargon means, and which part is theory rather than leak.
MAPPA turns 15 with three sequels on its slate and a president who says the overseas audience must not redraw the studio’s work. The interesting question is not whether that is a nice sentiment but what it means for a viewer outside Japan who is paying part of the bill.
One Piece Chapter 1196, published on 18 October 2026, closes a pattern that has run since the Baratie: Sanji offering his life as the first solution. He does not get a new technique out of it. He gets a reason not to die, and that is the rarer development in a shonen manga.
Bandai Spirits has put a 99,000 yen price on a 1/2,000 scale SDF-1 Macross that switches between Cruiser and Storm Attacker mode without parts swapping. The model releases in November 2026, and the price buys the mechanism rather than the size.
The Apothecary Diaries: The False Imperial Brother launches on 18 March 2027 for Switch, Switch 2, PS5 and PC, with Koei Tecmo publishing and Gust developing. It is an original story written with Natsu Hyuga, and it lands between the anime film and a live-action series.
The Yona of the Dawn sequel now has a studio: Pierrot Films, the brand Studio Pierrot created for seasonal animation. No release window, staff or cast has been announced, so the studio is the only confirmed detail about a sequel first announced in December 2025.
One Piece has built Nerona Imu into the strongest figure in the story and then stated in chapter 1182 that his body cannot sustain the outside world. That limit, not his power level, is what the Elbaf arc is actually built on.
Black Clover’s final art book, Digiga, arrives on 10 November 2026 as a digital-only release with no print edition announced. It carries unused designs and author’s notes, and it lands as the anime’s last season works through 26 episodes toward the end of the story.