@RollingStone:
Thank you for bein nice and polite. I feel it would be worthy because most adult one piece fans seem to hate the anime.
No problem. Hm, I don't think so, what makes you say that? The crowd that watch it is certainly large enough for FUNi to get the simulcast rights for the entire rest of the series, and for Crunchyroll to acquire simulcast rights as well. I don't think many kids would necessarily keep up with the series consistently enough week-after-week for them to be people behind those accomplishments of the OP anime. Not to mention, that would assume there's a large portion of kids caught up to the latest Japanese episodes.
DBZKai is not THAT edited,I know theres blue popo amd pther idiotic
Kai was already severely edited from the original DBZ footage for the Japanese broadcast, so it's kinda apples and oranges with One Piece. Kai itself as a whole was less graphic than One Piece tends to get at certain points, plus it helps that the violence in Kai isn't really "realistic", so it more easily gets a pass as opposed to stuff like Luffy getting stabbed by poison spikes or almost getting his arms sliced off. Nicktoons toned down a show that was already toned down in Japan, and then 4Kids for their Toonzai block just added some more to it.
- No episode of DBZKai has been merged, despite their content.
I'm positive if there were any episodes of Kai with violence as graphic and "real" as the several episodes in Iceberg's room with CP9 shooting him, those would either get cut completely or severely edited/rearranged. Certain shows can masquerade as being appropriate for young demographics, but One Piece just isn't one of those shows.
With One Piece, it's a completely uncut, (at times) vulgar show with moments of violence that would require a lot of time, work, and money to re-record, edit, and essentially "remake" to get it to fit the standards of Saban and the standards of the FCC, assuming they'd be interested in airing such a program in the first place. It would require so much manpower from everyone involved that I just can't see anyone even having the motivation to go through with it, especially with OP's troubles when it was originally marketed to a very young audience being well known and documented. Even with FUNi it'd be a hassle, at least with CN's Toonami block in 2007-08 there was some hope of getting looser restrictions before they pulled the plug.
All signs seem to point to One Piece doing really well in the West and growing more and more as of late, toy sales and merchandise don't really seem like something that's hurting from what I can tell. And realistically, I just can't see why Saban would want to risk airing a show that is simultaneously airing on Adult Swim.