Omg, did you people know that One piece has been dropped by 4kids? Wow!
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Yea, I dont know why people just dont look at the last page before posting. I actually started at page 128(stopped reading at page 139 to post this) to find out when the exact time people found out :P. But, it is upsetting that other places are trying to take credit for what yashouzoid found.
But, to get to my opinions of this would-be miracle;
It seems as though, from the emails, 4kids no longer has any say in the matter (yea, sorry, but forgot who orignally said it, but I completely agree with that). It seems as though Toei is upset with the direction that one piece was taken in America, and the failure it has become. They are probably now seeing how upset many viewers are with the show, and want someone else to do it
Now, what should happen, is funimation or someone like them take over for 4kids, and dub from this point on. Forget the voice actors being different and just start over from scratch. Keep the blood, keep the violence, keep the kanji, etc.. Promote it as "uncut OP", and hope fans dont mind the new voices.
As another theory as to why One Piece dubs were stopped. The next arc that wouldve come up, wouldve been the skypiea arc. Well, that arc was consumed with "religious" things, and knowing 4kids, they wouldve either had to skip that arc entirely, or do some HEAVY edits. Pretty much to the point of changing the whole arc into something else. And, so they didnt have to do that, they just put a halt on the series.