"First Season" DVDs?

sgamer82

I've seen mentions here and there about them, but searching around the forums hasn't given me a satisfactory/surefire answer, so I felt I should ask outright:

I've seen references to a First Season DVD set of One Piece due out in May. Is this really so?

If yes, what is meant by "First Season"? First season of the series entirely, or first season as done by FUNimation (Jaya/Skypeia)?

How many episodes are set to be on the DVDs? I've seen Amazon listed as 1-30, which fits the end of the Baratie arc. But I'm not sure how much I should trust that in and of itself.

What happened to 4Kids having the license to the early episodes? (this last is asked more out of curiosity than anything)

Thank you in advance for your help/answers.

King Calamari

Funimation said they'd release more info this month but the DVD set for Season One is already listed at Amazon along with a cover that only features Zoro, Usopp, Luffy and Nami. People assume it's just the first 13 episodes.

http://www.amazon.com/One-Piece-Season-First-Voyage/dp/B00143XE64/ref=pd_bbs_sr_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1204871292&sr=8-2.

I saw that other set you're talking about and it looks like a bootleg.

sgamer82

Actually, the one I was referring to said FUNimation, but there was no picture attached, which made me doubt.

What info do we currently have?

Buuhan1

The set is called "Season One: First Voyage", and the official boxart includes only Luffy, Zoro, Nami, and Usopp. That along with the fact it's release date is the same FUNi gave, and that official sites have it up prove it.

Really, you don't need FUNimation flat out saying "Yeah, we're starting with episode 1." cause that's already quite clear. There's no sense in debating it.

FUNi said they'd be releasing 13 episode sets, so we expect the set to be episodes 1-13.

Also, the matter of Viz holding the rights are still kinda iffy. Not long ago all signs of the next 4kids DVD vanished…but very recently it seems to be back.

King Calamari

They're attending a convention this weekend and they'll be at Anime Boston near the end of the month as well so they'll make an official announcement on the matter at either one.

Lobster Pot-Sticker

Ask about the DUBBED VERSION OF COMPASS

Ask about the DUBBED VERSION OF COMPASS ASK ABOUT THE **DUBBED VERSION OF COMPASS

! WHEN YOU GO TO THE CONVENTION, PLEASE ASK FUNIMATION ABOUT THE DUBBED VERSION OF COMPASS THAT THEY MADE AND FORGOT TO INCLUDE ON THE MOVIE 8 DVD**please..

Kaba Kaba Fruit

To the untrained eye, it looks like Luffy is holding a big ass sword with his right hand in that cover art!

Buuhan1

Not in the larger version. XD

Sano

I posted this in the Funi Dub faq theard, and I might as well post it in here. This is what I got from the summary for the first set on Rightstuf.

As the Pirate King Gold Roger was executed he revealed that his treasure, known as "One Piece," was hidden somewhere on the Grand Line. Monkey D. Luffy dreams of finding the legendary treasure and becoming the Pirate King, and after eating the devil's fruit he gains the power to do so. But first he must find a crew…

http://www.rightstuf.com/cgi-bin/catalogmgr/4YcQuS34mq8NFmWauA/browse/item/78085/4/0/0

Lobolover

FINALY,no more "King of the pirates" .

Snaku

Just got back from Megacon in Orlando, FL. The Funi booth was handing out flyers for "Season One. First Voyage." Says it includes episodes 1-13 on 2 DVDs.

MushroomBoy

so right into the middle of kuro…...kewlio. =D

dirt monkey AL

@Lobolover:

FINALY,no more "King of the pirates" .

It means the same exact thing.

I don't get the little tiff over that. Honestly.

Throes

@Snaku:

Just got back from Megacon in Orlando, FL. The Funi booth was handing out flyers for "Season One. First Voyage." Says it includes episodes 1-13 on 2 DVDs.

Did they mention anything else about the dub?

Lobster Pot-Sticker

They better give us behind the scenes.. and not be CHEAP like they were with the Movie 8 DVD..

honestly…

JulieYBM

Neato! Nice to be 100% on the episode count. Can you scan the flyer?

Buuhan1

So, here comes the quality freaks bitching about it being only 2 disks?

KaizokuFan22

@Lobster:

They better give us behind the scenes.. and not be CHEAP like they were with the Movie 8 DVD..

honestly…

what did they do to Movie 8?

Lobster Pot-Sticker

Nothing..

Funi only gave us the Movie with no extras. (only some random trailers)

(and why don't you have the movie yet, KaizokuFan?)

Snaku

@Yuugi's:

Neato! Nice to be 100% on the episode count. Can you scan the flyer?

No scanner. :sad:

VeemonJosh

@Lobster:

Funi only gave us the Movie with no extras. (only some random trailers)

That's the EXACT SAME treatment that NEARLY EVERY Funimation release has had.

KaizokuFan22

@Lobster:

Nothing..

Funi only gave us the Movie with no extras. (only some random trailers)

(and why don't you have the movie yet, KaizokuFan?)

I am getting 3 Figures and the first voyage DVD first. then the Movie

Throes

@VeemonJosh:

That's the EXACT SAME treatment that NEARLY EVERY Funimation release has had.

Then you clearly haven't gotten that many Funimation DVDs…

DarkShinobi

May 27th can't come fast enough.

Dragon Warrior Steve

@dirt:

It means the same exact thing.

I don't get the little tiff over that. Honestly.

I'd rather hear "King of the Pirates," then hear the dragged out "I'm the man who is gonna be Pirate King!" Four words are better than nine.

Buuhan1

Yes, but "Pirate King" can be used in situations where "King of the Pirates" doesn't need to be. Two words are better than four.

Lord Starfish

@Throes:

Then you clearly haven't gotten that many Funimation DVDs…

Really? Because the only FUNi-DVDs I know of that actually have some decent extras are the Full Metal Panic TSR-DVDs. Other than that, it's pretty much just textless openings/endings and trailers.

Throes

Desert Punk has some pretty neat DVD extras, as well as the Burst Angel DVDs. Fullmetal Alchemist and Burst Angel also have select episode commentaries. Their DBZ DVDs don't have much more than what you were describing though.

Lobolover

@dirt:

It means the same exact thing.

I don't get the little tiff over that. Honestly.

its only it kinda sound a bit stupid.Pirate King sound more presitigious,but King of the pirates reminds me of "The King and Queen of cheese".

Kaba Kaba Fruit

So is it confirmed exactly what extras this 2 disc set will have? I was also kind of hoping that FUNimation would include the Jump Festa OVA as an extra.

Oh yeah, the people on the AnimeonDVD.com forums are raising a big stink over the set being 2 discs instead of 3.

KaizokuFan22

@Kaba:

So is it confirmed exactly what extras this 2 disc set will have? I was also kind of hoping that FUNimation would include the Jump Festa OVA as an extra.

Oh yeah, the people on the AnimeonDVD.com forums are raising a big stink over the set being 2 discs instead of 3.

if anything it might be behind the scenes stuff,

I dont have any Funimation DVDs at all, but i think 2 discs is enough for a start

Kaba Kaba Fruit

Well, the complaints on the AOD boards is that putting 13 episodes on 2 discs would lead to some serious compression issues resulting in reduced picture quality. Anyone care to clarify?

Shift

IMO, Pirate King keeps making me thing of, "I'm gonna be the Pirate King, so enemies beware!"
(Well, I've never seen a crown of straw on any ruler's hair. :P)

Bonita

@Kaba:

Well, the complaints on the AOD boards is that putting 13 episodes on 2 discs would lead to some serious compression issues resulting in reduced picture quality. Anyone care to clarify?

Funimation hasn't had the best track record with video quality. The more episodes crammed on a DVD the worse the quality. This is because you have to compress the video more, which leads to artifacting and rainbowing. Hence, 6 or 7 episodes on a DVD is not such a great idea.

However, if it's DVD-9 (Dual layered) and Funi has improved their authoring so the bit rates are higher, then we should be fine.

Buuhan1

Or they could just be being cheap due to the fact how long a series OP is, and there's still no end in sight.

DartG

I hope the Dvd extras, if any are outtakes. Desert Punk, like said above had some nifty features, including the outtakes.

If people can fit 5 or 6 season episodes on 1 disc via virtual dub compression, I'm sure FUNi can fit 13 episodes on 2 discs without picture loss. It's not like these are hour long episodes.

I'm also looking forward to having a kajillion dvd cases on my bookshelf. I'll finally have something to fill it up with.

Nobodyman

@Shift:

"I'm gonna be the Pirate King, so enemies beware!"
(Well, I've never seen a crown of straw on any ruler's hair. :P)

Okay, that's just awesome.

Lord Starfish

@Kaba:

Well, the complaints on the AOD boards is that putting 13 episodes on 2 discs would lead to some serious compression issues resulting in reduced picture quality. Anyone care to clarify?

Meh, those people acted like a slight, hardly noticable green tint on Viz's Death Note-DVDs was completely ruining the show, when you actually can't even see it unless you compare it to the japanese DVDs, so their "horrible quality" isn't necessarily bad at all. I've never had any problems with the quality on say… Fullmetal Alchemist, yet those guys keep saying that everything FUNi ever released (Before Shuffle, as they've gotten a new and apparently better guy to do encoding now) looks like total crap. It'll propably look fine.

Sano

@Vegard:

Meh, those people acted like a slight, hardly noticable green tint on Viz's Death Note-DVDs was completely ruining the show, when you actually can't even see it unless you compare it to the japanese DVDs, so their "horrible quality" isn't necessarily bad at all. I've never had any problems with the quality on say… Fullmetal Alchemist, yet those guys keep saying that everything FUNi ever released (Before Shuffle, as they've gotten a new and apparently better guy to do encoding now) looks like total crap. It'll propably look fine.

I so agree with you on that. I own a lot of Funi dvds, and I never notice that stuff. I own Fruits Basket on dvd, and it have like 6-7 episodes per volume and everything is fine on those discs. I gurantee the One Piece discs will be fine.

MugiMikey

Yeah. I own one of their older Dragon Ball boxsets and it has about 6-7 episodes on both of the disks. It's pretty old, too (seeing as it was made in 2003). And the video is fine. Just a little "grainy," but it's fine. DBZ had that problem too, even when it WAS 3-4 episodes per disk. So it's Toei's fault, not FUNi's.

The One Piece DVDs will be fine.

DarthEnder

Also, Pirate King is what they say in PotC3! So its got autocool!

Mato

About DVD extras – FUNi will usually try to get them if there were Japanese extras on the Japanese DVDs. So that's why some of their DVDs have extras and some don't. Oftentimes FUNi will also create their own extras, which are usually just character profiles, image stills, trailers, and sometimes outtakes, but I think Japanese companies don't like outtakes for some reason. And sometimes you'll get things like cultural notes, possibly director/VA commentary on one episode, and in some cases there'll be a VA casting/audition thing.

But basically, DVD extras depend on the licensor and the original Japanese discs. It seems like Toei/TMS/others don't provide much stuff in that regard, from the many shows I've worked on.

Kirbopher

Apparantly the reason is because the Japanese would tend to get offended by the character in X show having something "unintended" come out of their mouths, hence why sometimes we have outtakes NOT set to picture if at all.

How long ago did you work on the subs for this set?

Charagon

And more importantly, untranslated attacks? Please?

dirt monkey AL

@Throes:

Desert Punk has some pretty neat DVD extras, as well as the Burst Angel DVDs. Fullmetal Alchemist and Burst Angel also have select episode commentaries. Their DBZ DVDs don't have much more than what you were describing though.

@DanialG:

I hope the Dvd extras, if any are outtakes. Desert Punk, like said above had some nifty features, including the outtakes.

Damn, I love Desert Punk - their extras were fun too.

Anyway, I don't mind "Pirate King" or "King of the Pirates." Both work and they can use both without any confusion from viewers - either due to mouth flaps or what have you.

VeemonJosh

@Throes:

Then you clearly haven't gotten that many Funimation DVDs…

…Yes I do.

I wasn't saying that Funimation DVDs don't have ANY extras. I meant that barely any have a huge abundance of extras like he was saying they should've done with the Alabasta movie.

Death-T

@Lobolover:

FINALY,no more "King of the pirates" .

They both mean the exact same thing, and you can be sure that "King of the Pirates" will actually be on the DVD. "King of the Pirates" is on the dubbed episodes on CN, and on the Movie 8 uncut DVD. The subs in the DVD have "Pirate King", but the dub is "King of the Pirates". Big deal. That summary likely isn't even official.

Edit: Eh ? Looks like I'm a little behind. >.> Well as for all of you who consistently complain about "King of the Pirates", just get used to it. It's really not that big a deal. I used to like "Arabasta" better as opposed to "Alabasta", but now I really don't care.

Lobster Pot-Sticker

Actually it technically doesn't

King of the Pirates - someone who is the ruler of Pirates
Pirate King - A king who is a Pirate

Buuhan1

@Mikey:

DBZ had that problem too, even when it WAS 3-4 episodes per disk. So it's Toei's fault, not FUNi's.

Really? I have most of the Majin Buu saga, and some of Fusion Saga on VHS as well as few DVDs of the series and they all seem fine by me. Then again, I usually don't notice quality.

Death-T

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