Anime: Censorship and Consequences
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2005 9:46 pm
Editorial: One Piece: The Ultimate Opportunity and the Ultimate Blunder ( Link )
An 11,000+ word monster with the following edited summary:
An 11,000+ word monster with the following edited summary:
Alan Tse wrote:...4Kids... killed (One Piece's)... potential... (to become) a... phenomenon in North America
- I've watched One Piece (subbed) up to ep162, and read most of the manga
- I understand his stance
- I agree with most of it, despite his zeal, rambling, spelling errors, and wall-of-text tendencies
- One Piece is INCREDIBLY popular in Japan
- Manga (Comic) started on 1997-08-04 (still ongoing @ 39 volumes)
- February 2005: Set the record for the fastest Japanese manga publication to reach 10,000,000 copies sold
- Anime started on 1999-10-20 (still ongoing @ ep245 and 6 movies)
- By ep64, 20 episodes were already cut by 4Kids US release
- General Edits
- Eiichiro Oda (author) was a former assistant to Nobuhiro Watsuki of Rurouni Kenshin fame
More Links:Alan Tse wrote:So what happened to all this potential from the number one anime? 4Kids is what happened to it. Thanks to 4Kids and their editing, people's impression of One Piece is that of a children's show about a bunch of odd pirates and is completely unsubstantial and unenjoyable. Thanks to 4Kids, One Piece will never become popular enough to duplicate its Japanese success. Thanks to 4Kids, the weirdness of One Piece will be a reason for ridicule instead of a reason for being more entertaining. Thanks to 4Kids and how they continue to make bad dubs for marketing purposes, people will never be able to watch and enjoy the brilliance that is the original One Piece.
- Wikipedia: One Piece
- VGCats: Lost in Translation
- One Piece Episode Comparison Guide