German One Piece Dub (ProSieben MAXX; Dressrosa begins May 30 2019)

MarcelloF

No idea what happened to the old German dub thread, so I just made a new one.

For now only 50 episodes, so 629-679, but more are already planned.

Wir zeigen auf ProSieben MAXX ab dem 30. Mai montags bis freitags neue Folgen der legendären Animeserie "One Piece" erstmals im deutschen Free TV und in deutscher Synchronisation (ger dub). Wir zeigen zunächst die ersten 50 Episoden des "Dress Rosa"-Arcs - doch weitere Folgen sind geplant.

https://www.prosiebenmaxx.de/anime/one-piece/der-dress-rosa-arc-startet-100050

Captain Krupp

THIS IS AWESOME! I love that Germany still loves One Piece!

Riddler

Yay thanks, I was just looking for this information the other day :) I'm not surprised they didn't license the whole arc at once - they usually only do around 50 to 60 episodes at a time. 679 makes sense as an endpoint for Dressrosa Part 1 - it's right after the end of the Colosseum and ends on the cliffhanger of Doffy creating the birdcage.

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@Captain:

THIS IS AWESOME! I love that Germany still loves One Piece!

Also, this! I know for a long time it looked like we weren't getting any new episodes, so thanks a bunch, Pro7Maxx :) (Also, go to hell, current Rtl2!) Imo the dub has also greatly improved ever since it left Rtl2.

halfaxa9

It's still the most popular anime/shonen here besides DBZ, much more so than Naruto, which I guess was always more successful in the US.

Captain Krupp

You cant blame Germany for not biting the Naruto bait. Did you see their Opening?

! B E L I E V E I T!

MarcelloF

So, while Americans are still waiting for Punk Hazard, it looks like we won't be waiting long to finish Dressrosa: One Piece will be getting new episodes this Fall

https://www.anime2you.de/news/309577/prosieben-maxx-sichert-sich-weitere-one-piece-folgen/

It's not known how many, but I'd assume to the end of Dressrosa or the Silver Mine arc.

MarcelloF

There is now a starting date for the second half of Dressrosa! October 2nd!

https://www.manime.de/news/tv/neue-one-piece-folgen-ab-oktober-bei-prosieben-maxx/0042724/

How many episodes is still unknown, but like I said before presumably until the Silver Mine arc.

dropper

What are they using for the opening theme?

Riddler

Awesome! I guess ratings must be pretty good.

Kolibrie

@dropper:

What are they using for the opening theme?

Currently its Wake up!, but no infos so far of which opening we will get next.

@Riddler:

… I guess ratings must be pretty good.

They absolutely are. One Piece is going pretty strong, a few episodes back it even reached 5% (ProSieben MAXX avg. is 1,8%), which is the highest rating ever since they started airing One Piece back in 2013.

MarcelloF

So, we don't even have the second half of Dressrosa yet and Zou seems to already be in the works:

It's a video with Nino Kerl, a relatively big German Youtuber, saying he's in the studio to voice a character, and he's with Ruffy's voice actor, who is directing whatever episode they're dubbing, so it seems to be true. His tweet has the hashtag "#zouarc"

Kolibrie

Well, didn't expect that tbh. Everything is going pretty fast now and I am genuinely happy about that.

If they keep this shedule then who knows, we might get the Whole Cake Island arc much faster than I'd ever imagine. Exciting.

MarcelloF

The new episodes, starting with episode 725, are starting today at 18:55. The new batch of episodes will go up to episode 779, so to the final episode of Zou!

De Flamingo stellt fest, dass Ruffy bereits ziemlich angeschlagen ist und seine Schläge immer schwächer werden … Wer geht aus diesem Kampf als Sieger heraus? + One Piece - die neuen Folgen ab 27.01, um 18:55 Uhr auf ProSieben MAXX! +

"One Piece Folgen 725-779" - die neuen Folgen ab 27.01, um 18:55 Uhr auf ProSieben MAXX!

Also, a preview: https://www.prosiebenmaxx.de/anime/one-piece/video/13725-preview-folge-725-erbitterter-kampf-zwischen-ruffy-und-de-flamingo-clip

dropper

@MarcelloF:

The new episodes, starting with episode 725, are starting today at 18:55. The new batch of episodes will go up to episode 779, so to the final episode of Zou!

Also, a preview: https://www.prosiebenmaxx.de/anime/one-piece/video/13725-preview-folge-725-erbitterter-kampf-zwischen-ruffy-und-de-flamingo-clip

Just curous, do they censor the anime in Germany?

Riddler

@dropper:

Just curous, do they censor the anime in Germany?

They used to censor the anime pretty bad, back when it was still airing on RTL2. It wasn't 4Kids level horrible, but most blood was edited out and the dialogue was also censored, omitting words like 'kill' for the most part. Ever since One Piece started airing on different channels, though, the censorship ended completely. So these days we are getting a fully uncut version, thankfully. I've also noticed a clear change in the dialogue. The last batch of dubbed episodes had a lot stronger swear words like bastard or shit left in.

It's amazing how fast they are plowing through the episodes now, jeez. If they keep this up, we'll actually be at Wano next year:blink:Pro7Maxx truly is the best!

The Light of Shandora

They did if I remember correctly, but not like 4Kids did with the US version, the changes I can remember should be the change of the color of blood. Instead of red it was black. And some age appropriate language, as most anime were/are targeted at kids, at least from the business aspect of it, don't know if that changed though. But that's only from memory. I haven't watched the german version in ages, so I can't say anything about the current version.

Kaizoku

@Riddler:

It's amazing how fast they are plowing through the episodes now, jeez. If they keep this up, we'll actually be at Wano next year:blink:Pro7Maxx truly is the best!

Kazé/Pro7Maxx licensed 629 up to 779, split it in three seasons and dubbed the episodes in one go (over the last year) instead of license every single season. From one of the dialogue authors I heard the dubbing process ended after 779 for now. Until they license and dub more episodes you probably have to expect a much longer waiting time than between the last two seasons of Dress Rosa.

But you're right, Germany catched up a good chunk of episodes thanks to this new license policy which they already did with Fishman Island and Punk Hazard (the break between those arcs were only a half year). I hope the next batch of episodes contains the episodes 780 up to 889 so they can split it in two seasons.

Riddler

@Kaizoku:

Kazé/Pro7Maxx licensed 629 up to 779, split it in three seasons and dubbed the episodes in one go (over the last year) instead of license every single season. From one of the dialogue authors I heard the dubbing process ended after 779 for now. Until they license and dub more episodes you probably have to expect a much longer waiting time than between the last two seasons of Dress Rosa.

But you're right, Germany catched up a good chunk of episodes thanks to this new license policy which they already did with Fishman Island and Punk Hazard (the break between those arcs were only a half year). I hope the next batch of episodes contains the episodes 780 up to 889 so they can split it in two seasons.

Ahh I see, thanks for the info!

dropper

@Riddler:

They used to censor the anime pretty bad, back when it was still airing on RTL2. It wasn't 4Kids level horrible, but most blood was edited out and the dialogue was also censored, omitting words like 'kill' for the most part. Ever since One Piece started airing on different channels, though, the censorship ended completely. So these days we are getting a fully uncut version, thankfully. I've also noticed a clear change in the dialogue. The last batch of dubbed episodes had a lot stronger swear words like bastard or shit left in.

It's amazing how fast they are plowing through the episodes now, jeez. If they keep this up, we'll actually be at Wano next year:blink:Pro7Maxx truly is the best!

Thanks for the information, is there any sources we can check what has and hasn't been censored from the show? Is it streamed from Pro7Maxx too?

Curious as there were some scenes of Doffy decapitated that made it onto the home video release, but not the broadcast in Japan.

Riddler

@dropper:

Thanks for the information, is there any sources we can check what has and hasn't been censored from the show? Is it streamed from Pro7Maxx too?

Curious as there were some scenes of Doffy decapitated that made it onto the home video release, but not the broadcast in Japan.

It is streamed there, yes, but only the recently broadcasted episodes so you'll not find the scene where Doffy was decapitated there. Hmm, what scenes were cut in the Japanese broadcast? In the German broadcast, his head was definitely shown flying away after being cut off. There used to be a site, animedigital.de, which listed all the cut scenes up to episode 400 (last episode broadcasted on RTL2), but it's down now, sadly.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Where is the german dub now, if it's gotten farther at all?

Riddler

They just finished up the Zou arc a few months ago, after moving through the whole Dressrosa Saga pretty swiftly.

Blake Bakes Cakes

huh I didnt expect them to be all the way through zou. Guessing itll be a long time before whole cake though because of covid

Riddler

Not necessarily, as far as I'm aware, things are getting dubbed again. There would have been a little break anyway, I think. I hope we'll get news about new episodes this year, though. And yeah, they really speeded things up in the last few years.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Thats interesting. It's cool that the series has been handled so well with the german dub, and bizarre that they are so far ahead the english one even. Honestly I'm so obsessed with one piece that if an english subbed version of the german dub existed I'd watch it out of curiousity.

Captain Krupp

I heard the series is uncensored and pretty accurate. You should try watching it with subs from the japanese version which should be pretty much the same.

Riddler

It was needlessly censored back in the day…each scene with blood was cut out and later on, the dialogue were censored too, with every mention of death or dying being changed to something else less drastic. That was the case for the first couple episodes. Luckily, they've since switched networks (a few times, actually) and since then, the episodes have been airing completely uncut. And thankfully, there are uncut versions of the older episodes available, too. I have no idea if you can watch it with English subs somewhere, though.

Captain Krupp

I kinda meant to say the ProSiebben max episodes. I should have been more specific.

Danto

Two weeks ago, the German voice actor of Luffy posted something on Instagram which strongly suggests that new episodes will be dubbed.

Kaizoku

Nah, one of the dialog authors already denied that new episodes are in work. The photo was taken when Stampede was dubbed. Seems like it was just a random post.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Hey I'm curious, is there any easy way for someone in the US to get ahold of the german dub? I was considering maybe making some comparison videos, since many dont exist for one peice characters and a lot of the clips chosen aren't actual good comparisons. I'm thinking including german comparisons as well would be a good idea considering how popular it is over there.

Riddler

I think sites like bs.to or s.to have all the dubbed episodes so far - I think they should be accessible from the US, too, since those aren't official sites.

(They are basically sites where you can stream all kinds of television shows)

Blake Bakes Cakes

@Riddler:

I think sites like bs.to or s.to have all the dubbed episodes so far - I think they should be accessible from the US, too, since those aren't official sites.

(They are basically sites where you can stream all kinds of television shows)

Okay, one more question if you don't mind. The first one I'm doing is Caesar, but apparently he has had 2 VA's. When does the switch occur?

Kaizoku

His voice didn't change in the series. He only had a different VA in Episode of Sabo.

Blake Bakes Cakes

@Kaizoku:

His voice didn't change in the series. He only had a different VA in Episode of Sabo.

Ah that makes sense, thanks. I can't find episode of sabo and he doesn't have many lines anyway so I'll just include the anime one.

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Heres the vid if y'all are curious

Danto

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Danto

It's official: One Piece returns on January 22, 2021 with the Whole Cake Island arc! (https://www.prosiebenmaxx.de/anime/news/one-piece-auf-nach-whole-cake-island-100023)

Captain Krupp

AWESOMESAUCE! I hope Italy picks up the slack too.

Riddler

That's Big News! It's great to get the official confirmation that the dub will continue! I've been actually getting a little anxious the last few weeks and checked several times if there were any status updates.

Snowmint

So has this dub been starting and stopping mutliple times over the years??

Riddler

Yeah, but that's mostly because the network that used to be the main go-to channel for anime in Germany, RTL2, started airing fewer and fewer anime over the years (and I think has stopped showing anime altogether by now, preferring to show scripted reality crap instead). Afterwards, OP was constantly being picked up by different networks, so new episodes being licensed was completely dependent on networks being interested in the show.

It's pretty normal to have to wait about a year or so for a new block of episodes to be licensed and aired, and aside from a long four-year break from 2010 to 2014, that has been the standard since One Piece started airing here in 2003. The last new episode here (end of the Zou arc) aired in April 2020, so this was actually pretty quick.

Blake Bakes Cakes

I would imagine that the whole world wide pandemic thing effected it too.

MarcelloF

Looks like starting with vol. 26/Episode 780 this June, Germany will be getting a Blu-ray release:

Der Publisher KAZÉ kündigte heute an, dass man in diesem Jahr «One Piece» auch erstmalig auf Blu-ray veröffentlichen wird. Allerdings gilt das aktuell nur für die kommende Box…
Nachdem bereits mehr als 700 Folgen von «One Piece» hierzulande auf DVD erschienen sind, folgt in diesem Jahr auch erstmals eine Veröffentlichung der Folgen auf Blu-ray. So soll die 26. Box von «One Piece» nicht nur auf DVD, sondern auch auf Blu-ray erscheinen. Da jedoch erst noch neue Folgen synchronisiert werden müssen, erscheint die neue Box erst im Juni.
[h=2]Und die alten Folgen?[/h] Ob in Zukunft auch die ersten 25 Boxen der TV-Serie auf Blu-ray erscheinen, ist derzeit noch nicht bekannt. Allerdings wurde «Inu Yasha» ebenfalls nach DVD Veröffentlichung vollständig auf Blu-ray veröffentlicht. Die Chancen stehen also nicht schlecht. Falls auch die ersten 779 Episoden von «One Piece» auf Blu-ray veröffentlicht werden, erfahrt ihr es hier.

https://www.manime.de/news/one-piece-tv-serie-erscheint-auf-blu-ray/0053878/

Blake Bakes Cakes

Wow, that is really interesting. We're just now getting blu-rays in the US too, toei as a whole must've eased up on that then. Hopefully other foreign releases like France get them soon.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Okay so, sorry if this seems like necroposting at this point, I can stop if anyone has any problems with this, I just don't know where else to ask. So I'm making another voice comparison, this time for Kin'emon. The wiki lists 2 voice actors like Caesar, and once again doesn't clarify what episodes and/or specials. So, was he recast after a certain episode, or maybe had a different voice in episode of sabo? If its the ladder, do you guys know where I could find the german dub for that? At the moment I only know how to get the TV series. Either way I want to credit correctly.

Riddler

I don't mind you using this thread for questions about the German dub, that's what it's there for. So, I wasn't even aware of this because I haven't watched the dub of Episode of Sabo yet, but apparently he was voiced by Manfred Trilling in that, who also vocies Mr. 3 and Lucci on the show, whereas in the series, he is voiced by Matthias Klie, who is the German voice of Mihawk and Kumadori, too. That's the one I'm familiar with.

Blake Bakes Cakes

Thanks, I actually went ahead and made it because I just had a feeling I wouldn’t be able to find it. For some reason

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I mostly said the necroposting thing just cuz it’s been kinda dead here for awhile lol. Really cool that you’re in the midst of WCI now though!

RevolutionaryOfThe6Paths

Im glad the german dub is still going strong. Despite not being german i was born in Germay and until i was 12 i mostly watched german tv. Watching anime on rtl2 everyday and one piece reruns on tele5 were the golden days for me. I also remember watching some world masterpiece theater anime on Kika and ocassionally some ghibli movies on another kid's channel the name of which i dont remember. Rtl2 stopping airing one piece after episode 405 was one of my most traumatic memories lol. And a general anime decline after that made me stop watching german tv entirely. I have a question. I have a vague impression of first watching one piece in 2006-007, when did one piece start airing in rtl2 and when in tele5?

Btw, Die Legende is an absolute banger

Captain Krupp

Is the german dub on wano or…?

Riddler

We recently finished Whole Cake Island in the dub and are now waiting for an announcement that we'll get new episodes. They always buy the episodes in batches I think. I wonder how they'll do this, cause it's going to be a while before Wano will be finished in the Anime. Maybe they'll dub Reverie and the first two acts first and then the rest later on.