Ugh, comments like this truly annoy me more than anything else. Note that this came from a discussion about fans wanting FUNimation to pick up the rights to the Yu-Gi-Oh franchise on my forum, but it is relevant because of how this person (who I will leave anonymous) trash talks about the FUNi dub for One Piece because of some ridiculous opinions, one possible mistake, and some even more ridiculous misunderstandings regarding voice actors.
All i have to say, is that it would be very bad if Funi gets a hold of YuGiOh. they already have 85% of the anime market in this country, having YuGiOh and all the other stuff that 4kids has/had) would give them a ~95% monopoly on the market, which is very bad for the economy in general and for us in particular.
Further, while some people are happy with the Funi dubs, and ill agree that some of them are alright or even good, their one piece dub is just terrible. There are translating issues and the voice acting is just bad. For example, one of zoros 2 sword style attacks, the Nirtoryuu Iai Rashomon, is translated in the funi dub as "1 sword style draw and resheathe Rashomon (and hes using two swords, how did they mess that up?), and in the Jaya arc, which they specifically did the dubbing for because 4kids thought it was filler and skipped it, a major character gives an important monologue, and they change the articles he uses. They have him say "pirates dreams never end", while in the jap he uses "hito", meaning people, not "kaizoku", meaning pirate/s. that may sound nitpicky, but the word choice makes a big difference, it makes him sound selfish and egotistical, which you are not supposed to think at that point (also, hito and kaizoku sound nothing alike, i cant imagine their thought process on that). As for the voice acting, a lot of people like the new luffy, the one from the sands of arabasta movie Funi released here in the US, but I for one cant stand it. And to me, the other are just kinda meh. The best VAs I've heard in the entire are usopp and enel, and enel is still joey wheeler.
While other shows, like Soul Eater, get great dubs; superb voice acting, great translation, and no censorship at all, other shows, like one piece and Kuroshitsuji (I feel the same about it as I do OP), get crappy translation and anywhere from mediocre to terrible voice acting. Funi dubs, from my experience, are a matter of luck; it's either good or it's bad, and there's no way to tell which way it will go.
So, there's no way to know if any redub we get for 4kids shows will be better or worse. On the whole, for 5ds at least, the 4kids dub acting is not bad (to me anyway); its the censoring that really hurts the show. That's my feeling on one piece as well; the 4kids voice actors were better, but they had horrible censorship, worse than 5ds or any other 4kids show i can think of (even pokemon) and it really hurt the show.
I honestly hope someone else gets the rights, but the sad fact is if Funi really wants it, they can just throw money at it until they get it, they have more than enough to do so, and the returns they'll receive is worth almost any price. So they'll probably end up with it.
Yeah… Just felt like sharing this, because I get so annoyed at comments like this.