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The October issue of Shueisha’s V Jump magazine is confirming on Saturday that Toei Animation’s One Piece pirate anime will enter the New World arc on Sunday, October 2. Eiichiro Oda’s original manga had entered the new stage in the storyline last October after Oda took an unprecedented four-week break.

Shueisha compiled the first chapters in the New World arc in the 61st book volume in February, and it printed 3.8 million copies, a record that One Piece itself broke in the 63rd volume. The 61st volume became the first book to sell over 2 million copies in just three days (since Oricon began reporting its book ranking charts in 2008).

The online figure and game prize store Fumuo de Pon is listing a set of Digimon straps for what it describes as a “new Digimon anime premiering on television throughout Japan!” The retailer says that the accessory strap lineup, which will ship at the end of July, represents the main characters from the beginning of the tentatively titled New Digital Monsters program: Shautomon, Dorurumon, Barisutamon, Gureimon, and Monitamon. It also gives a copyright notice of “Digital Monsters © Akiyoshi Hongo/Toei Animation.”

The last Digimon anime to air in Japan was 2006-2007′s Digimon Savers, which ran in the United States under the name : Digimon: Data Squad.