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- While One Piece may have a cartoonish art style and silly characters, the series can get pretty dark and violent. This clashed with 4Kids' goal of marketing the show to children, and thus they made a variety of changes both minor and major.
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Sep 2, 2023 · How did 4Kids turn anime classic "One Piece" into a flop? It's a complicated story, and we're here to tell it from start to finish.
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I have spent the last 4 years watching the 4Kids and original japanese broadcast versio... Welcome to the definitive video about the 4Kids version of One Piece!
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Aug 17, 2017 · How did 4kids change One Piece? In this video we look at 10 MAJOR CHANGES that the 4kids dub made to One Piece; changes that censored important elements in the series and turned...
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- Sanji’s Cigarette Turned Into A Lollipop
- Guns Becoming Water Guns
- Onigiri Becoming Cookies
- Helmeppo Takes Coby Hostage
- Bellemere’S Gun Turns Into A Shovel
- Smoker Doesn’T Smoke
- General Lack of Blood
- Wine Becomes Juice Or Is Removed
While this censorship choice may seem harmless enough, it certainly changes later in Sanji moments in the story. The most significant of these would be Skypeia when Sanji takes alightning bolt from Eneland says he was about to ask for a light. The Whole Cake Island arcwould’ve also been affected greatly, as the scene where Sanji cries wouldn’t have...
Another incredibly questionable censorship choice was turning marine guns into water guns. While the choice is understandable, it undoubtedly changes the story for the worse from episode one. Instead of showing Luffyis bulletproof due to being rubber, the implication is he’s waterproof, which isn’t true and leads to confusion regarding Devil Fruits...
While this change may not seem impactful, it certainly changes Zoro’s character for the worse. One of Zoro’s signature moves is the Oni Giri (meaning ogre cutter), which was named after the onigiri he was brought when held prisoner by Axe-Hand Morgan. Changing the onigiri to cookies completely removes the sentiment from Zoro’s signature move, not t...
When Helmeppo takes Coby hostage in the Funimation dub and original subbed version, Helmeppo holds a pistol to Coby’s head. In the 4Kids dub, however, Helmeppo seems to be holding some strange kind of camera device. While this isn’t terribly impactful to the story at large, it is a frustrating and unnecessary change considering other guns were okay...
Speaking of changing the rules for gun censorship, another ridiculous censorship choice is Bellemere’s confrontation with Arlong. Instead of sticking her rifle in Arlong’s throat (which could’ve been a water gun instead), the 4Kids dub has Bellemere thrusting a shovel down the Fish Man’s throat. Again, this isn’t terribly impactful to the story at ...
This change, however, certainly is impactful to the long-term story. In the 4Kids dub, Captain Smoker is shown without his trademark cigar habit and ammo belt full of them. Even more frustrating is he’s still called Smoker and the smoke from the cigars is left in frames unedited. While it makes sense because he does still have the Smoke-Smoke Fruit...
Across the board, the 4Kids One Piece dub removes essentially all blood seen during One Piece. In a series about fighting where injuries are present from the very first episodes onward, this censorship choice is downright infuriating, albeit understandable. Not to mention, the Fishman Island scene where Jinbe donates his blood to Luffy would’ve bee...
Finally, one of the most frustrating censorship choices for a series about swashbuckling and rum-guzzling pirates is the removal of their rum. Nearly any and all alcohol seen throughout One Pieceis either changed to be juice or water or is removed altogether. The biggest problem for this in the long term would undoubtedly be Kaido, for whom drinkin...
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Apr 26, 2023 · Although One Piece doesn't seem likely to end any time soon, its original English dub did feature an ending... and it was incredibly dark. This dub was done by 4Kids Entertainment, the same company that localized series like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon.
Between 2004 and 2007, 4Kids were involved in an English dub and localization of the One Piece anime series which covered the first 143 episodes and influenced the contemporary English manga, video games and merchandise. In 2007, the One Piece license was transferred from 4Kids to Funimation.
May 12, 2020 · 4Kids Entertainment wasn't satisfied censoring any and all death in the current events of One Piece, they had to go back and retcon the deaths of characters from the past! Basically, instead of killing Bellemere in the Arlong Park Arc, they changed it so that he implies that Bellemere is "in a dungeon somewhere."
