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One Piece "Caught Log! King of Salvagers, Masira!" Review Thread

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Japanese Episode 144: "The Log is Taken! Salvage King, Masira!"
English Episode 105: "Caught Log! King of Salvagers, Masira!"

Cartoon Network, 10:00pm ET
After a long and painful tenure under 4Kids, One Piece finally gets the faithful dub it deserves. From this moment onward, you can see the real One Piece as brought to you by FUNimation.

Tonight's episode: Now that the gang has escaped the Rainbow Mist, everyone's attention is turned once again to Nami's Log Pose. Their next destination is...the sky?? But there must be a mistake...there can't possibly be a such thing as a Sky Island, can there?
 
Wow. I was really impressed with this episode. I can safely say:

Funi>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>4Kids

Like I said, I expect great things from this dub =)
 
I too liked it! Very nice, especially since they kept the long Opening/Endings!! Yay!!
 
I loved the opening. They should have used it from the begining.
My only two complants are Sanji's and Chopper's voice. Sanji just doesn't sound like a chef anymore, and Chopper (even in full human form) sounds like a little girl.O_o weird.

Anyway, great dub, better than 4kids. I don't let little things like a characters voice stop me from watching a dub.
 
At this rate we'll need a "One Piece Discussion" forum...

I haven't seen it yet as I live in Canada.
 
Torgetsu Kon said:
Sanji just doesn't sound like a chef anymore,
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He did before!? o_O

and Chopper (even in full human form) sounds like a little girl.O_o weird.
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It was weird for us fans of the original to hear Human-Chopper with an uber-manly voice in the 4Kids dub since his voice doesn't change in the Japanese version.

And before anyone says "but it makes sense for his voice to get deeper when he turns giant!"...remember that you're talking about a shapeshifting, anthropomorphic, doctor reindeer here. Logic like that doesn't apply here :P
 
Well, it is a set-up episode, so of course it's going to be slower and less action-packed.

Also, the episode aired about four hours ago and there are only seven posts in this thread!? Every other forum I go to has at least ten pages of comments already.

Does this mean that the Bulbagarden forums just don't have any One Piece fans?
 
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...This has made me an official One Piece fan. Sure, I dabbled in it...but now I love it.

It's not every day a dub not only uses a Japanese opening and COMPLETELY TRANSLATE IT. Sure, Naruto used a Japanese opening, but that only got subtitles. This was in English, and it sounds beautiful.

I certainly hope they do dub all the episodes 4Kids raped...repeatedly. Because I would definitly buy them in boxsets.
 
Dogasu said:
He did before!? o_O



It was weird for us fans of the original to hear Human-Chopper with an uber-manly voice in the 4Kids dub since his voice doesn't change in the Japanese version.
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Well, for Sanji, I'm just used to him with an accent, just because most chefs I have seen around here have an accent.

For Chopper, they probably did that because the Japans didn't change his voice (which makes sense).

I guess I'm just used to 4Kid's stupid little (or big) mistakes.
 
Funi has surpassed my expectations. It was divine to finally watch a proper English dub of One Piece.
Cartoon Network was pretty cool about it too, they left in the opening, ending, and even the next episode preview.

The voices were all great, I am loving Sonny as Ussop, and Robin keeping her habit of addressing the crew members by their position.

The script was an actual script as opposed to a string of random puns.

Misara and his crew were hilarious.

This episode was light on Sanji and Zoro/Zolo, but what there was of them was amazing.

All in all Funi has done an excellent job, and I am very eager to see next weeks episode.
 
Is there a youtube link for a few voice samples? I can´t watch US-television in Germany but I want to compare the new dub to our dub ( which is pretty cool if you ask me).

Good to hear that the US is finally getting a good OnePiece dub. Although the lolipop-sanji wouldn´t be my cup of tea ^^"
 
Well, the only samples I know about are the versions of my cam floating around... but by this time I am sure that the full eps have been put on youtube.
 
Personally I think there are some minor tones that I will probably get adjusted to in this new dub and also get better adjusted when the VA's get more use to their characters. (Mainly I think chopper's is a little too high, Luffy's is about 3/4th's there, Zoro's is slightly too deep, Sanji's is too young, Robin's is a little off somehow (maybe just slightly dull), and Ussop's sounds too much like Kurilin.

All in all I liked it, but it very much reminded me of the beginning of their Dragonball dub. (It's not a bad thing) I'm just finally happy people will get to see the real one piece and not the garbage that 4kids had produced. I also hope it's reputation can be recovered also...
 
TeddiUrsa said:
Although the lolipop-sanji wouldn´t be my cup of tea ^^"
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FUNi's simply erasing the cigarette now. One of the FUNimation people said at a convention (maybe Anime Boston? I don't remember) that the FCC allows pipes and cigars, but not cigarettes.
 
Dogasu said:
FUNi's simply erasing the cigarette now. One of the FUNimation people said at a convention (maybe Anime Boston? I don't remember) that the FCC allows pipes and cigars, but not cigarettes.
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Mh strange. but good to hear that they simply erase it now. The lolipop really looked out of place.
 
It's probably because kids probably don't find cigars as accessible.
 
Before I saw this, I have only seen 2 episodes of One Piece.(The first and last one that 4kids dubbed.) When Funimation dubs it, it feels like a completely different show. The theme is much better. There is an ending theme. It almost feels like I am watching it uncut. 4kids may have been good with Pokemon, but they were horrible with One Piece. Funimation made it perfect.

Now that One Piece is not "Americanized" anymore, that leaves only three dubs that I can think of which are:
Pokemon (Dubbed by PUSA/TAJ)
Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (4Kids)
Dinosaur King (4Kids)
 
Dogasu said:
FUNi's simply erasing the cigarette now. One of the FUNimation people said at a convention (maybe Anime Boston? I don't remember) that the FCC allows pipes and cigars, but not cigarettes.
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Ah well, that's better than completly changing his character I suppose..."candy sucker" >_>
 
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