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REVIEW: One Piece DVD Season 1 Part 1

What are the subtitles like on this release? Are they fairly ordinary fare, or do they try to shoehorn Japanese suffixes and terms at every stop without considering how awkward it is?

Monster in a box wrote:

My only issue with the dub (as someone who hasn't watched it subbed, granted) is that there's too much swearing at parts (episode 7...). It just feels unnatural.

That doesn't change the fact that, like it or not, One Piece IS a kid's show, and it very much shows a lot of the time. Swearing is fine. I have no issues with it whatsoever. Swearing like a pirate (haha, well they aren't exactly conventional pirates) makes the show seem less whimsical, but it doesn't really add anything to it. We get it, Buggy is a bastard. Say something else.

And correct me if I'm wrong, but as I understand it there really isn't any such thing as 'swear words' in Japan, so they could've translated that dialogue a number of ways.

Heredador wrote:

the great downloading.

I've got a good question in regards to this, even though I'm against downloading and all (actually to be honest Im not bothered and do not care)

What are the subtitles like on this release? Are they fairly ordinary fare, or do they try to shoehorn Japanese suffixes and terms at every stop without considering how awkward it is?

So I have the choice between downloadable HK subs, raw DVDs, fansubs by people more concerned with OMG TEH FLASHIEST FONT AND ANIMATIONS FER SUBS than the actual show, Irritating "OH LUFFY-SAN BLAHBLAH CHAN", or a potty-mouthed dub which is guilty of the same things fansubbers can be capable of- trying to make what is obviously a show for younger people in to some kind of cool, edgy show with swearing because "OMG IF IT HAS BLOOD IT SHOULD JHAVE SwEAR YEAH HIGHFIVE LETS SKATEBOARD *sk8s*"

But either way this all comes roughly three years too late when I stopped caring.

Good job though for bringing it out though!

BrothersElric wrote:

That and I don't like the typical Funimation disability to skip past the adds at the beginning of the disc...

If you press the "Title" button on your remote, then you can skip them.

Actually, somehow, they make it so you can't even press the menu button to skip them. Rather annoying, but at least they just show one quick commercial.

Your DVD player's remote has to have a button like "title menu" or "DVD menu." I've yet to come across one that doesn't.

I don't know if it's the case here, but some otherwise unskippable previews can be fast-forwarded. (You learn these tricks working the video rooms at a con; I don't know how many times I've been subjected to the beginning of the "What is anime?" opening ad...)

Cain Highwind wrote:

The Xenos wrote: My only regret so far is that it dropped ten dollars the day after Amazon shipped it. Hurry up and contact Amazon! I just got an Email back from them saying they're refunding me 13 dollars since they dropped the price within 30 Days https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/contact-us/pay-and-gc.html

Thanks for that. I didn't even know Amazon had a "Post-Order Price Guarantee". Here are all the details for anyone else looking into this:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=468502&qid=1212551306&sr=1-1#postorder

Fell out my seat laughing here

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when things get emotional in the Captain Kuro episodes the actors stumble somewhat over the clunky dialogue born of Funimation's uncharacteristic fidelity, but even at it's worst this version is far superior to 4Kids Entertainment's version. Of course it doesn't tell you much to say that it's better than 4Kids' hack job (that's like saying you're a better person than Hitler: it leaves an awful lot of leeway)

OH ANYTHING would be better than the horror that was 4kids!

Now if mine would just GET here! Darned free shipping from Deep Discount

Oh come on, the dub theme is done wonderfully. The ED is meh, but the OP is great.

My only issue with the dub (as someone who hasn't watched it subbed, granted) is that there's too much swearing at parts (episode 7...). It just feels unnatural.