Again, Maron wins at life. You are so nice and polite and didnt say anything like "LOCK THE THREAD IMMEDIATELY!".
I guess we'll just never know. Fuck Toei.
Again, Maron wins at life. You are so nice and polite and didnt say anything like "LOCK THE THREAD IMMEDIATELY!".
I guess we'll just never know. Fuck Toei.
I mean I could see definitely see like a TV-PG "One Piece" on kids/tweens cable like Hub or Nickelodeon or Cartoon Network or something. That'd be cool. But in this day and age a Y7 show is a whole different beast
Yea, I mean if Funi wanted to put One Piece on a channel for kids I would assume they'd want to air it as TV-PG instead of TV-Y7, because A) there's less to edit, B) the uncut DVDs would be less of a shock to the people that buy them, and C) hopefully by making the series edgier and aimed at an older audience would cause young kids to think the series is cool, since tweens and teens would sit and watch a PG show, whereas they'd be less likely to watch a Y7 show.
I think TV-PG is doable if FUNi ever decided they wanted to tackle a younger demographic (their TV-PG dub on Toonami was pretty good and I believe it would've gotten more lax with the edits in time) but a Y7 dub is just impossible for me to imagine. Too much would be objectionable.
I guess Vortexx could use a G rating like they do with wrestling…
I think it could be done right for the most part. If done 'right', I think a hypothetical Y7-FV dub could garner a huge following in the U.S like Yu-Gi-Oh or Naruto. That would mean more games and merchandise being brought over among other things. Of course I would only accept a Y7 dub if it were accompanied by an uncut DVD release. If One Piece could get the leeway that Naruto got on Toonami a few years back then it could be done easily and retain the story just fine. If you censor it more strictly, then some story elements like Belamir being killed right in front of her kids might be lost.
Anyway. Censor the blood, keep the language PG, and do the best you can to retain the story while keeping all the names, terminology & original background music intact with accurate translations, and do justice to the show in terms of voice work and direction then a Y7 dub could still do great. You don't gotta butcher the show, change names, terminology, replace the music, make terribly inaccurate scripts, take all Japanese culture out of it, and do horrible voice work to make a show kid-friendly. You just gotta take some of the violence and pervy jokes out of it.
Unfortunately, the time for that is long gone. 4K!Ds kind of ruined whatever chance One Piece had to become massively popular in the States. At least we have an uncut broadcast and uncut DVDs, that's really all you could ask for. I only wish One Piece were done right from the beginning so that it might be more popular, and it's future more secure. (they could be cranking out new One Piece episodes 10 years from now, hopefully the show's cult following will be enough to sustain DVD sales for that long)
Even when the dub was censored on Toonami we got the uncut DVDs, so I don't think we have to worry there, but I think that One Piece can be successful in the States, it just needs more exposure, so that's out of our hands, all we can do is keep supporting the series.
Thank you! I think the Vortexx lineup could use a show like Funi One Piece.