For those who had spent the whole week looking forward to the next chapters of Fairy Tail, Seven Deadly Sins, One Piece and various other manga are to be disappointed. Don’t spend the whole day refreshing the mangastream and Jamini’s Box website thinking something is wrong with your internet. There is a reason why no manga will be published this week and something everybody that doesn’t live in Japan should make a note of.
The reason why we didn’t get any Manga this week is because:
IT IS GOLDEN WEEK IN JAPAN!
What’s Golden-Week you ask?
Its a week full of public holidays comprising of the following:
- April 29
- The Emperor’s Birthday (天皇誕生日 Tennō Tanjōbi), until 1988
- Greenery Day (みどりの日 Midori no Hi), from 1989 until 2006
- Shōwa Day (昭和の日 Shōwa no Hi), from 2007[2]
- May 3
- Constitution Memorial Day (憲法記念日 Kenpō Kinenbi)
- May 4
- Holiday (国民の休日 Kokumin no Kyūjitsu), from 1985 until 2006
- Greenery Day (みどりの日 Midori no Hi), from 2007
- May 5
- Children’s Day (こどもの日 Kodomo no Hi), also customarily known as Boys’ Day (端午の節句 Tango no Sekku)
(The Source of this information, as you may have guessed, was Wikipedia)
So this happens every year and for some reason, I wasn’t aware of this. Not only does Shonen Jump not publish their issue on Golden Week (last week of April) but on the following occasions as well:
- FINAL WEEK IN DECEMBER
- FIRST WEEK IN JANUARY
- FIRST WEEK IN AUGUST
Please write these down in your calendars so you are never disappointed again.
We shall continue with your One Piece review for next week as usual at Sleeping Geeks so do check back in a weeks time.
For those of you that maybe suffering from withdrawal click the link below:
Sleeping Geeks 
If you played Persona 4 on the Vita you’d know about Golden week 🙂
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Now I understand the whole, Miss Golden Week concept in the Baroque Works in One Piece.
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yess i love absorbing the jap culture it’s crazy how intricate complex and detailed they are
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I don’t read Bleach and Naruto, but reading and learning about Golden Week here has been very enlightening. 🙂
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I’m glad you liked it… I’m surprised so many know so very little about it.
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omg this post was hilarious def puttin the dates on the calendar… I managed to make it to Fri without checking which is HIGHLY unusual – exam week hurts :(…
PS it’s HIGHLY unusual that I’m not unusually HIGH =] … catch me at froggi village smokin the danks w Jiraiya-san – I wish I could go in a Holodeck and do that! haha… it’s sad that naruto is coming to an end but at least one piece has 10 years left omfg
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Haha! And I loved your reply… getting high with Jiraiya-San would be so totally awesome. I would love to spend a day with that old geezer.
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as far I know the new Mangas will be released this weekend. Most likely on Saturday.
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I heard that too but I’m not completely sure how true it is… Here’s hoping!
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well I have that frome some folks from a german OP-fan-page and they have allready expearienced golden week several times.
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In that case, I’ll take your word for. So looking forward to tomorrow now! EEK!
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Sadly I must confess, that the Information I had was wrong . next chapter releases most likely on wednessday (maybe even on Thuesday but only maybe)
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Ah. It’s fine… We can wait… *sigh* It’s just the withdrawal symptoms are getting worse.
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In south africa we had three holidays in one week so we have a silver week because jp has 4 in oone week
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That is very interesting. What are these holidays and when is this Silver Week? I wonder if someone has a bronze and platinum week as well.
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