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Poll: How Should Funimation Release One Piece?

Well, when it shows up on Cartoon Network, I may give it a shot...if it starts from the beginning. But, as much as I enjoyed Inu Yasha and I'm enjoying
Bleach, I'm actually not into super long fighting anime.

LydiaDianne wrote:

Well, when it shows up on Cartoon Network, I may give it a shot...if it starts from the beginning. But, as much as I enjoyed Inu Yasha and I'm enjoying Bleach, I'm actually not into super long fighting anime.

Understandable position, I'm not really a major fight series fan either. I actually prefer slice-of-life and highschool series most. Still, One Piece is suprisingly good, inspite of having one of the weirdest art styles I've ever seen. I was pretty hostile toward it at first due to that style, but after my sister practically begged me to watch it, I started to get into the series.

It's absurdist at points, but it has some of the most emotionally charged plots and fights I've seen and Luffy is a very atypical lead. He's like a little kid most of the time. Then he gets serious and makes you start to respect him.

You've got to make it to the Arlong Park arc to really see the series' dramatic power, I think, but it's good even in the early episodes.

Plus, Funimation's going with boxsets from the beginning, something I wish Viz would do with all of it's 100+ episode series. (Or could they at least hurry up the Inuyasha boxsets? I want season 4.)

From the beggining, definantly, and as many sets per year as possible (it's a lot of stuff to catch up on, even at episode 144). I never did watch the 4kids version of the show, so I'd like to properly start it. FUNimation have a notoriously bad record of doing staggered releases (Dragonball, DBZ and Case Closed) and I wouldn't want them to do it here. It leaves too many holes open to be dicked around in.

If we could get like, bimonthly sets to begin with, and eventually simmer in to quaterly or maybe 3 a year, I would be cool with that. We've lost a lot of time thanks to 4Kids.

I say start from the beginning... I've only seen the first ten episodes, and though I do want to see more, I have no interest in the 4kids dub, and I'm not willing to pay to start from episode 144 if I've missed the 134 episodes that came before it (I'm rather a stickler for watching my shows in order).

And it's not like FUNimation is going to be appealing to anyone different - OP is still going to be on Toonami, not [adult swim], so the audience should still be the same even if FCC censorship regulations do not apply.

Despite the supposed "kidification" of Toonami, I seem to recall a certain ninja sensei on Naruto constantly smoking (actually, I don't think that cig's lit!), as well as plenty of blood, even dripping blood. So there's still hope. But if you're right about Toei being in charge (why that would be is beyond me), and they don't get what's going on over here with the fan outrage, then I agree that One Piece is still screwed.

I might have become a OP fan if the dub hadn't been so unwatchable. As it is, I choose the hilarious last option in order to express my disinterest. But I might become interested if I can one day watch the show uncut.