Free tool
Crunchyroll and HIDIVE simulcast new episodes a fixed delay after the Japanese TV broadcast. Pick a show, set your zone, and get the exact local unlock time plus a live countdown to the next episode.
One Piece
Simulcast on Crunchyroll
Next episode at 01:00 on Sunday, June 21, 2026 in UTC
New episodes air Sun 09:30 JST, then simulcast on Crunchyroll about 30 min later. Repeats weekly.
Anime airs first on Japanese television on a fixed weekly slot, measured in Japan Standard Time (Asia/Tokyo, UTC+9, no daylight saving). The streaming platform receives the broadcast feed, runs subtitle QC, and then unlocks the episode a set number of minutes later — usually 30 to 90. A late-night show listed as airing at "25:00" follows the Japanese broadcast convention where hours run past midnight: 25:00 JST means 01:00 the next calendar day. This converter takes the show's JST broadcast slot, adds the simulcast delay, and projects that single global instant into whatever zone you pick. The wall-clock time you see depends only on where you are, not on your platform region.
Crunchyroll holds the largest simulcast slate and most of the big shonen — One Piece, Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer, Solo Leveling, Frieren. HIDIVE runs a smaller but distinct catalogue, often picking up titles Crunchyroll passes on, and tends to publish a similar 30 to 90 minute post-broadcast window. The unlock instant is the same worldwide for a given platform; what differs is which titles each service has licensed in your country. That is why a show can be on Crunchyroll in one region and HIDIVE — or neither — in another. The converter labels each title with the platform that simulcasts it, so you know where to be watching when the countdown hits zero.
A VPN does not make an episode unlock earlier — the simulcast drops at one fixed instant for everyone. What it changes is which regional catalogue you can reach. Plenty of seasonal titles are licensed in some countries and missing in others, so viewers route through an exit node in a region where the show is available. Crunchyroll and HIDIVE both geo-restrict by IP, and they block well-known datacentre VPN ranges, so the services that invest in rotating residential-grade IPs (NordVPN being the most consistent in tests) are the ones that get through. Free VPNs are usually detected and refused.