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However, once 4Kids realized One Piece was not appropriate for their intended demographic, the company decided to edit it into a more child-oriented series until they had an opportunity to legally drop the license. Kirk said the experience of producing One Piece "ruined the company's reputation". Since then, 4Kids established a stricter set of ...
Roronoa Zoro (ロロノア・ゾロ, Roronoa Zoro, spelled as "Roronoa Zolo" in some English adaptations), also known as "Pirate Hunter" Zoro (海賊狩りのゾロ, Kaizoku-Gari no Zoro), is a fictional character created by Japanese manga artist Eiichiro Oda who appears in the manga series and media franchise One Piece.
Comparison of the same scene in One Piece. Original Japanese version (top) and 4Kids edit of what could be perceived as blackface (below). During its operation as 4Kids Entertainment, the company faced intense criticism from viewers over the company's extensive editing and localization of the anime and other non-American series they licensed ...
Additionally, One Piece is the only work whose volumes have ranked first every year in Oricon's weekly comic chart existence since 2008. [149] [150] One Piece has also sold well in North America, charting on Publishers Weekly ' s list of best-selling comics for April/May 2007 and numerous times on The New York Times Manga Best Seller list.
D.F. Smith writing for IGN gave the season a 6/10 ("Okay") rating saying that "One Piece took an awfully long time to get rolling, but now that the cast is all together and the plot's got a good head of steam behind it, this is a first-rate kids' adventure show." and that "Now that the story's given them somewhere interesting to go -- and ...
1. A surprise addition to Gold Roger’s execution. The first episode of the live-action, Romance Dawn, sets the scene for the pirates’ search for Gold Roger’s "One Piece" hidden treasure.
After 4Kids lost the license it was acquired by Funimation, who released the season on home video in 2009. This uncensored release contained a new English dub and the Japanese version with subtitles. [2] Three pieces of theme music are utilized by the
Its original designer shares humble origin story of the channel's changing logo, drawn with a Sharpie on a coffee cup. ... We referred to the logo as a flexi-logo. It's not one logo. It's a logo ...