One Piece

I did saw the part from the Whole Cake Arc had Jimbei finally managed to join as an official Strawhat Crew Member, I can't wait to hear Daniel Baugh makes his speech as Jimbei to Big Mom that he's joining Luffy as an official member. It was so long that Luffy gotten a new crew member since Brook joined from Thriller Bark Arc.

Also, I do want to see Carrot joins as an official Strawhat member since Nami and Robin were the only female members of the crew. Plus, I do like to see if Vivi could be coming back to the Reviere Arc since we don't know about what Im is plotting against Vivi along with Shirahoshi and the Strawhats that went to Alabasta arc did missed her.

If any of you have watched an episode of One Piece that was dubbed by 4Kids, I am so sorry.

I kinda wonder who will take over the dub directing reigns now? Mike McFarland is still at FUNi directing, but these days he's only directing the dub once in a while. If it isn't Mike, then it would be Joel McDonald. But as we all know about now, Joel retired from ADR Directing after 10 years and is now working at Gearbox Software. Still works as an actor don't be crying, but no more ADR sessions where he's in the director's seat.

No confirmation, but I do have a hunch as to who might be directing the dub on a full-time basis if it isn't Mike McFarland. And no I don't think Jerry Jewell will be doing it anytime soon.
To say something, her directing on the second season of Assassination Classroom and the The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. was literally topnotch work.

Honestly... I think it will be Apphia Yu, and I'll be super stoked if it comes true.

Quite a long anime.

Mike McFarland still exclaims how devious the auditions went for the Straw Hats where there was a poll in Japan for the English casting, as well as Oda having the final say. I believe Japan is very lenient regarding the casting for secondary, minor, and filler characters, but apparently even the casting of Rob Lucci had to go through the same procedure as the Straw Hats. So I kinda wonder whether characters like Garp (Brian Mathis), Blackbeard (Cole Brown †), Ace (Travis Willingham), Sengoku (Ed Blaylock †), Sabo (Vic Mignogna), Aokiji (Jason Douglas), Akainu (Andrew Love), Kizaru (Ray Hurd), and Trafalgar Law (Matthew Mercer) to name a few had to go through the same predicament.

What? Funimation stopped dubbing the show early this year?

Man, so many Japanese voice actors who voiced characters in this show died when they still didn't finish their voice over roles of their respective characters. Examples include Takeshi Aono, Daisuke Gori, and both the Naya brothers. At least they found good replacements.

I've almost always watched this show in its original Japanese voice. In my opinion, I've always found the voiceovers in the Japanese version of this show to be a lot better. Plus as far as I know the Japanese version is ahead by a lot of episodes. Usually in Japan you only have to wait a couple more months after the original publication of a manga chapter to have the anime version of that manga chapter released.

Is anyone else not liking Hideyuki Hori as Vinsmoke Judge? Or is this just me?

I feel like I should post this here.
http://kotaku.com/one-piece-getting-a-live-action-tv-adaptation-1797118240

Okay I just watched the 2 new dubbed Episodes(517-518), and i have to say, they went the extra mile with the Fake Straw Hats. As I predicted, they copied the Japanese by casting the Original Straw Hats to voice the fakes.
Fake Luffy - Eric Vale
Fake Zoro - Sonny Strait
Fake Nami - Brina Palencia
Fake Usopp - Patrick Seitz
Fake Sanji - Chris Sabat
Fake Chopper - Colleen Clinkenbeard
Fake Robin - Luci Christian
Fake Franky - Ian Sinclair
However, especially with Fake Sanji and Fake Robin, Chris Sabat portrayed Fake Sanji by sounding like 4Kids' Sanji (voiced by David Moo), while Luci Christian portrayed Fake Robin by sounding like 4Kids' Robin (voiced by Veronica Taylor) by throwing in that Southern accent.

Ok this probably isn't going to happen but since Funimation's dub of One Piece was such a success (and with good reason) maybe they'll try dubbing some of the other shows 4kids ruined (cough, cough, Yu Gi Oh, cough, cough)

Long-running shonens are typically something I avoid like the plague. It's why I avoided this show for years - until an ex of mine convinced me to give the show a chance.

To be honest, I didn't think too much of it at first. It was likable enough, but didn't seem particularly noteworthy in the first couple of arcs. But the more I watched, the more it started to grow on me. The Syrup Village arc stands out in my memory - it was the first arc I genuinely enjoyed from beginning to end, as well as when I started feeling myself getting attached to the characters. But the arc that sold me for life on the show was Arlong Park. (which has some of the best acting I've heard from Luci Christian) After seeing that arc, I FINALLY understood how this show became as popular as it did. Impressively, that was just the beginning. Instead of going through the quality drop most shonens do over time, I feel the series has only gotten stronger.

That said, I do think the quality of the manga to anime adaptation starts to decline around Enies Lobby. But it's still a very enjoyable watch.

Looking through the cast. I like how there are several actors from the Sentai/ADV talent pool here who never do stuff for Funimation. Like top of my head there's Andrew Love and Shelley Calene-Black. Pretty awesome.

I prefer the older episodes of this Series back when it seemed a little more unique, although regarding its dubs:

The FUNimation One Piece dub isn't perfect by any means, but it's a pretty good dub that translates reasonably faithfully from the Original without the script coming off as wooden (although it takes a few liberties here & there in terms of inserting in cursing or adding in jokes where it's unneeded, but nothing of significance otherwise). The English voice cast is also very competent in their roles, and the music is all kept, along with some of the Japanese intros being dubbed into English (not all, but most were). I'm actually glad they got it after 4Kids did, though, mainly because Eric Vale was initially going to be Luffy and that casting is (imo) all wrong for the part- Andrew Chandler also made Zoro sound too evil at times and Chris Sabat was not unique as Helmeppo at all, so I'm really glad Colleen Clinkenbeard got Luffy, Chris Sabat got Zoro, and Troy Baker got Helmeppo when FUNimation took over dub rights.

The 4Kids One Piece dub was (frankly) a disaster of epic proportions, combining the companies' worst practices in any of their other dubs, all into one single dub, which many have argued over the years is the worst dub ever made: it replaces all the music with a score that is languid and dull, has pretty bad voice acting (especially from Luffy, Sanji, and Usopp's VAs of the main cast, to name a few), a bad rap intro, terrible script writing (count how many puns there were every episode, and some words were gibberish, "a gazzilion miles," "Tracheon toymonger," etc.), numerous edits everywhere ("super soakers," Laboon the iceberg, etc.). It not only single-handedly manage to destroy their reputation outright, but it also curses any remotely decent dub 4Kids elsewhere did of being lumped in with this one, and thus all their dubs are labeled as garbage by default, regardless of their differing quality. Even 4Kids admitted they didn't want the license to this Series and were holding onto it in desperation until they could drop it because they got One Piece in a package deal with Shaman King and Ultimate Muscle back in 2004. I'd even go as far as to say this is one of two reasons 4Kids ended up going bankrupt later on and going out of business: as for the second reason, I'll keep it to myself, I'd rather not disclose that one for now. To say I have a low opinion of this dub is an understatement, to put it mildly.

(However, I will concede that Diraison's Zoro and Jayne's Kaya were my lone comforts of sitting through a little of it, but it's very painful regardless.)

The Odex One Piece dub is actually a more faithful translation of the Series script-wise than either the 4Kids or FUNimation dubs, and yet, therein lies the problem: it's literally woodenly translated, and many of the dialogue sounds like it's been verbatim Google Translated from the Original. In addition, the voice acting is so poor all around that it makes the 4Kids' dub's acting seem tolerable in comparison, so to say the least, I feel it's not good.

I read the manga up to little island before taking a break, this series is fairly good if I think the battles to character sections were a bit uneven at times(although it might just be Shonen cliche by now) but I think once in awhile someone other than Luffy should deal with the main baddy of the arc especially in the Kuro arc which honestly I think had wasted potential

As for the voice acting, Japanese is AWESOME for most of it and I like certain touches that were lost in some of the dub(though weirdly some of the performances were present in the 4Kids dub only like Arlong's dramatic flair)

Odex well... usually they are closer to Animax quality in voices, poor acting, a bit blandish voices but passable enough but here there's quite a lot of cringe inducing voices particularly Luffy, Ms Valentines Day, Usopp's first voice and Krieg's but there were a few good sprinkled every now and then

4Kids, I have a love hate for this dub, I really dig a lot of the voices especially villains, 4Kids really know how to make them unique and memorable and can take subtle hints though they too had their stinkers like Tashigi and Yasopp but the translation was really extremely censored like their later Pokemon dub and Mew Mew Power but the PS2/Gamecube games redeemed them... if only they had a better ADR...

And that leaves us with Funimation, I know almost everyone loves it, it was more faithful than 4Kids without the weird voices that bogged Odex but I'm kinda love hate with this too they didn't sanitize the show but sometimes there are places they tried to be more edgy instead and I don't like it at all, the voice acting was mostly solid but some of the more notable villains particularly Arlong and Crocodile just sounds so booooooring and this was something 4Kids was very good at

Yohoho, he took a bite of gum gum.

In my mind, the One Piece anime is kinda average simply because the dragged out pacing often dulls the impact that the source material has. The manga is definitely one of the best shounens out there, but after Water 7, the anime pacing slowed to a halt to milk it as much as possible without having to do much filler.

Despite this, voice acting in both English (Funimation) and Japanese is great. I slightly prefer some of the English voices, and I think Funimation does a pretty stellar job from the parts I've heard.

(After watching 4Kids dub as a 11 year old)
Me: Yay! They defeated Arlong! Now to rescue Bellmere... They're leaving the island? Where is Bellemere?

(Watching the FUNi dub years later)
Me: Okay now Arlong will put her in the dungeon and...
(BANG!)
...oh

Confirmed! FUNimation is busy recording the New World stuff!
http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Texas-Connects-Us-Anime-in-Flower-Mound-393444951.html

People do moan about TPC Pokemon a lot but keep on forgetting that One Peice has 3 bad dubs which are bad in different ways.

1 is censored bad, 1 is plain dreadful all round and 1 is just only mid par voice acting.

Funimation and Unofficial subbed versions only for me all the voices are fitting, the story is great, it's all round fun with darkness, completely uncensored, exactly what One Peice should be.

I guess if I were to pick a least bad dub thats so bad it's good rather than plain bad or dreadful it's the one by the same people as my preferred subbed experience Funimation of course.

I really love the Funimation dub! ^_^

Honestly, I'd probably be more interested in watching this show if it wasn't OVER 700 EPISODES LONG.

I might be able to handle it if I discovered it at a much earlier time (and by that I mean more than 2 years ago), but man it's just too much for me.

Never seen the show, but my opinions on the dubs based on clips:

4Kids: Some good voices on side characters, but the others..... not so much.

Funimation: Excellent as always, but some characters are a little bland.

Odex: 0_0

To whoever runs this page, just found out Eva Christensen was the voice of "Miss New Years Eve" (Miss Doublefinger) in the 4Kids dub, NOT Erica Schroeder...as confirmed by herself! https://www.facebook.com/164914246916696/photos/a.298508310223955.70679.164914246916696/1050891064985672/?type=1&theater

So glad that Funimation is dubbing this. 2015 has seen some great casting choices IMO.

The 4kids version just had a ridiculous amount of stupid dialogue and editing. At least there were some (IMO) good voices, but the damage was too noticeable. It doesn't really help that One Piece isn't really a kiddie kind of anime.

And of course, Odex. They didn't do any silly editing, but the voice work could get really messy and unpolished.

I'm just glad Funi is doing the dubbing at the end of the day.

Is it wrong I agree with this guy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhUuet6lCF

I admit Kaya, Zoro, Nami, Gol D. Roger, and a few others had decent voices, but a vast majority of the cast was so terrible here, I still think 4Kids was awful with OP- I'm glad FUNimation have the dub license, personally.

Oh, and I guess the 4Kids version isn't the worst, because we have Odex where almost everyone is miscast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjpDlQ6U53c

Oh my god! Shiki's making a guest apperence & Funimation's also brought back Scott McNeil to reprise his role!

Wow they're actually catching up a bit

and so the Supernovs are finally casted. gotta say I am suprised that in the end the Two mor famous Characters got well known actors. usally not Funi style
the biggest suprise is DC Douglas though, this looks awesome.

OMG!! DC Douglas in Funimation's One Piece! Who would have thought?

weell funi had everything with this, until they lost the right for songs. there I said it. I am well aware the origanl songs are badass. but they should not have dubbed them at the begining if they would ose the rigth for the others in future. thats just cruel. and not even a explanation on why.
otehr then that Funi does a good jobb.

Sheesh FUNimation had a long way to catch up so many episodes only to audition many variety of voice actors and actress carefully.....

I'm going to stir sooo much controversy but vocalwise I like the 4Kids dub the most, censorship aside. It's really too bad they never had an uncut version aside from a video game

What's the name of the opening playing at the moment? It's pretty catchy

Narrators don't get comparisons but my favourites would be Mahito>Joe>Bill>Eric

The funny thing is, as a kid when the 4Kids dub was airing, I absolutely hated this show and would go immediately back to watching 4Kids' Pokemon and YGO dubs, but when the FUNimation dub started on CN in 2007, One Piece began to really pique my interest-- in particular, I was shocked at how much I actually liked Usopp and Sanji, whereas before I loathed them and they annoyed me: tbh, FUNimation's dub was a big factor as to how I got into OP in the first place.

Though looking back, as much as I despise the 4Kids' dub of OP (I'm not even a 4Kids hater, either: heck, I think 4Kids did a fantastic job with Pokemon, and the show has never been the same for me since TPCi took over), there are some good voices in that dub among all the crap and it's kind of hilarious watching it if you think about it as an abridged parody and not as an actual dub.

While I'm not super far in the series (i wathed back in the 4KIDS days then watched when it was briefly on Toonami before it got canned and now im watching it on Toonami again) I always liked that characters have interesting powers. You get your typical 'super strength, speed, ect' but Luffy's powers aren't your typical powers and he gets creative with them and so many have unquie and interesting abilities that are done in a creative way.

For some reason I prefer the days when all three dubs are around the most.

I used to love this series. But now look at it. It's got a TON of characters to fill in the overwrought plot! It just ain't what it used to be...

The show didn't go off the off the air in 2008. It should have said ongoing because they are still making new episodes in 2012.

FUNimation is great dubbing One Piece. They have great voices for each character, keeping the anime almost 100% accurate, they don't edited out the good stuff, and they kept the original musics also for openings and endings but changed the lyrics

@zachlogan just a word to the wise man, maybe you should explore a little more before laying out accusations. Did you even click on the multiple views available at the top like 'credits' voice cast' or side by side? Probably not huh? Yeah, I am guessing you just hit play by the sound clips and assumed the one that played by default was the only one we had. Maybe you should have clicked through the right hand column where we have voice compares of many of the characters that include almost all the different actors that have done each role....