Ah, okay. I wouldn't mind if it didn't happen right away since I'd prefer if they started a simulcast dub after Dressrosa ends so that they aren't thrown into the middle of such a huge arc, but it's still something I'd be excited for.
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RE: Funimation DVD Discussion III (Please Check First Post for FAQ)
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Hey, it's been a while since I've been here. I took a break from the internet for the most part aside from reading and watching the latest One Piece chapters and episodes since the community can honestly be a little overwhelming to me. Money has been tight also so I sadly haven't been able to buy any of the recent voyages. After seeing some comments in this page, I have a few questions:
1. Are they actually in negotiations to start dubbing episodes close to when they air? I know they still have catching up to do but if that's the case then that would be pretty damn awesome.
2. Season 6 Voyage 4 has a special feature called "In the Galley with Straw Hats". Like I said before, money is tight on my end so at the moment I'm holding out for when I can get my hands on Season 7 Voyage 1, so can anyone tell me what exactly this feature is? -
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Rightstuf says it has been delayed until February. But Amazon says otherwise.
Maybe Amazon has an exclusive deal? It says that my order is guaranteed to come on Tuesday, but then again it hasn't shipped yet so who knows.
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I ordered Collection 11 now that it's sort of on sale. Should be arriving at my house on Tuesday.
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RE: Favorite Donquixote Officer
I will say that Mach Vise definitely deserves the lack of votes that he's been getting. The only good thing to come from him was his awesome defeat at the hands of Hajrudin.
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I both agree and disagree with the things said here. The agreement comes from finding Hody to be a generally unimpressive villain. He and the New Fishman Pirates were a road block that was meant to show how much stronger the Straw Hat Pirates got over the course of two years, and while they succeeded in doing so since they got curb-stomped, there wasn't a whole lot of tension to the fights themselves.
As for Hody's motivation, I think it makes sense that he was born with a natural prejudice towards human life. It's just the environment that he was raised in, sometimes that can be more than enough to lead someone to hold a certain set of ideals no matter how corrupt they are. Plus we already witnessed both Fisher Tiger and Arlong, two characters with legitimate reasons for distrusting humans, so to see the sheer extreme of an example in comparison to them kind of makes sense thematically. It doesn't make Hody a complex villain by any means, but I don't see how giving him a clear motivation would make it any better.
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RE: Favorite Old Wrong Theories
All the theories about Sabo before Sabo actually showed up. I was catching up with the series at the time but to my knowledge it pretty much became a running joke where every new character was speculated to be Sabo. I wish I was around for that.
As far as my own theories are concerned, I thought that Kid was going to be the antagonist of Sabaody. Now I doubt if he'll even be an antagonist at all. A rival, probably. But not an antagonist.
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RE: Favorite Donquixote Officer
Huh, Senor Pink has surprisingly many votes, and Sugar has surprisingly little oO I personally liked that Oda made her really evil and menacing…sooo Sugar, Baby 5 and Lao G as honourable mentions, yeah?
Believe it or not I like Sugar a lot too; I just felt that there are other officers that I liked more. From what I've gathered she's kind of a middle favorite for a lot of people, so because of that she ends up not getting anyone's votes. It's not like with Mach Vise and Buffalo whom most people seem to not care for in the slightest, which makes sense because there really isn't much to them beyond their weird designs.
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RE: Arlong Park One Piece Character Popularity Poll : The Results
Seeing Usopp rank at #4 (and over Sanji, no less) makes me really happy. Even if this is a more condensed poll than the one in Japan I like the results that we got. It's also cool to see Luffy continually placing first on both polls; it goes to show just how strong of a main character he is.
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RE: Favorite Donquixote Officer
This is a tough one, I honestly love all of these guys for different reasons. Mach Vise and Buffalo are the only ones that I find relatively unremarkable, but even Buffalo ended up being entertaining just because of how funny his fodderization at the hands of Kyros was.
I think at the end of the day I'll have to go with Trebol. There's really absolutely nothing redeemable about him, and that in a way is what makes him my favorite. He's gross, ugly, loud, annoying, has no sense of personal space whatsoever, and goes out of his way to be insensitive at every given moment, to the point where even other members of the Donquixote Family find him annoying and hard to be around. It's that personality that made him the perfect catalyst for Usopp to come back to during Operation SOP also. He's the perfect antagonist to love to hate.
Runner-ups (limiting them to four others for a general Top 5, otherwise I'd be listing everyone else) include Senor Pink, Dellinger, Baby 5, and Pica.
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RE: One Piece Collectibles v.10 Main Discussion - "Final Product ≠ Promo Pics"
Late to comment, but while the Sabo and Koala POPs are both cool, I wish that they didn't design each of them so that you basically have to purchase both in order for them to make sense. Otherwise, you've got a lone Koala holding Sabo's hat for some reason, or you've got a lone Sabo hatless. I'm sure as we near their release that additional poses will be made available that will allow them to stand on their own, even though these poses are obviously mimicking Sabo's introduction chapter, but it's still weird to me.
We're nearing the end of Dressrosa so I hope that the next batch of POPs ends up providing a final batch of key Dressrosa characters to send off the arc. A new Doflamingo and some of the executives (like Diamante doing a Steven Tyler pose) would be fantastic. Kyros would probably be a must-buy for me too, though I have to wonder how they'd make it work with him only having one leg.
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Eh, oh well. We can at least keep our fingers crossed for April and (hopefully) a Season 7 announcement.
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RE: The Viz Media Thread
Just took the plunge and bought a year-long membership for WSJ. For the sake of not letting the internet spoil me I'm going to still read through scanlations, but I'm definitely going to prefer having Stephen's clearer translations to read through on a weekly basis now. I'm a big enough One Piece fan that I'm willing to fork over $25 for a year's worth of new chapters and nothing else anyway. And maybe now I can attempt to get into some new stuff now that I have a whole magazine to look through.
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I think two to three months is a good medium ground for the time between releasing new sets. Releasing them too far apart for no reason would be of no benefit to them but on the other hand releasing sets only a few weeks after one another would not allow for any breathing room for consumers who don't have an endless supply of money to spend on the shows they like. Voyage 4 coming out in March seems like a fine choice on their part.
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I think it'll be easier to judge the voice when we hear more of it, too. His upcoming fight with Zoro should prove to be a good test of this.
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Ultimately what matters to me is that Kuma sounds cold and emotionless (for reasons that are clear to people knowing what happens later), which Joel has managed to do well. It wasn't really a voice that I was too worried or curious about because it isn't exactly the toughest kind of voice to pull off.
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Kuma sounds awesome. Really great casting choice on FUNi's part.
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Does anyone know if FUNimation will be doing any Black Friday deals for the series? I'm planning on preordering Collection 11 and the future voyages but I get the sinking feeling that if I'm patient for a little while longer that I'll be able to save a lot of money.
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RE: Chapter 768: That trigger on that day
Question: when Law is blocking Doffy's Pentachromatic String attack, is he coating his arms in Armament Haki, or is he just wearing black gloves? It's kind of hard to tell due to his long-sleeved jacket.
Anyway, as much as I enjoyed the Law flashback, I'm really happy to be back in the present again so the Donquixote Family can finally start to be defeated. I'm kind of curious about how the officers on the second level will be defeated, since I was assuming that Robin, Barto and Cavendish would've traveled down there after defeating Gladius to help out since of all the combatants Barto and Cavendish are easily the most developed aside from Chinjao.
As for Robin, right now I'm assuming that she's going to meet up with Leo and Cub in order to help them free Mansherry. And if I had to guess, I feel like the next chapter will finally fully reveal her, since she's the only remaining plot element that has yet to be explored aside from the end of all of these fights.
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For an animated series that has been running for over 15 years on a weekly basis practically nonstop, I'd say that the anime is doing as fine as it possibly can right now, but to each their own. I prefer not to be outright cynical about it, even if it's not perfect. Not to mention that I'd much rather get the chance to hear One Piece in English than… not get the chance to hear One Piece in English.
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pretty much is that he has one piece marketing plans all the way thru 2020
This in particular is awesome to hear. From the sound of that it means that One Piece is doing well enough for FUNimation that they're confident enough to plan for marketing and selling the series for over another half a decade. By that point in time if we continue at least a somewhat stable release pattern we'll be well into the Timeskip (and probably even at Dressrosa) in the dub, which is pretty exciting to think about.
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Whenever one of you gets to that point, how well did they handle that one Usopp scene? You know, that one. That's definitely the thing I'm most excited to see in this next set.
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Not really that big of a fan of this cover, but they can't all be winners I guess. It's particularly off-putting that they used such a similar Usopp pose to his art on the Collection for this cover but whatever.
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RE: The Seventh Warlord
Let me throw in my bet:
Scopper Gaban
http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130425233927/onepiece/images/d/db/Gaban's_Axe.png
We have enough strong swordsmen, we need one strong pirate with an axe.
Considering how he cut off admiral's arm 9 years ago, we need an older pirate, who was probably in his prime 9 years ago.I actually really dig this idea and hope that this is the case, especially since I was wondering exactly how Gaban would end up coming into the story.
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RE: Who is the final villain in One Piece? 2.0
I'm not going to judge the Blackbeard Pirates sans Blackbeard until they actually get some proper screentime. Otherwise you're basically working with nothing but first impressions, which almost never end up holding up to the exact degree later on. For example, we know literally nothing about the new Level 6 members of his crew, aside from the fact that they're really strong, so why even bother debating whether or not they're good when they've only gotten so much screentime? I think they definitely need to get some eventually if we're to find them as threatening/interesting as the other Blackbeard Pirates whom were with BB from the get-go, but at the moment it's hard to form any kind of plausible judgement.
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RE: Who is the final villain in One Piece? 2.0
Yeah Burgess might have lost the Mera Mera, but he was up against magnificent Sabo who obviously had to be portrayed as a flawless badass on his first appearance… and Burgess didn't even lose, Sabo just took advantage of the confusion to get the fruit. Even if admittedly it wasn't the wisest choice on Oda's part I believe, since Burgess was supposed to get hype too, it was the first appearance of the BB crew after the timeskip. But then again, until the story arc is finished is too early to judge.
I do have to wonder exactly what Burgess is doing at the moment, since we haven't seen a lick of him ever since the Bird Cage first started up. I would've thought that he'd spring on the opportunity to snag the star bounties and prove his worth as a "Champion", but we haven't seen him doing any of that kind of stuff yet, so he has to be doing something else. It really wouldn't be like Burgess to just wait until everything tides over, unless he's doing so in order to sneak in at the last second and take something that he otherwise would have to put more effort into getting. So basically, we have to wait and see.
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RE: How many chapters will One Piece last?
Considering that Oda rushed the Straw Hats into the Grand Line in order to celebrate the 100th chapter, I have no doubt in my mind that he has some sort of bombshell saved for the 1000th chapter. For that reason I'm fairly certain that Chapter 1000 will be the beginning of the end. My guess is that it'll signify either the start or the final conclusion of the upcoming Reverie, since I think it goes without saying that major change is going to take place during that event. I really hope that Reverie gets its own mini-arc in the form of a few chapters solely dedicated to it; it would not only be a great way to reintroduce characters like Vivi and various other kingdoms into the story, but it would also be a great nontraditional arc in that all of the action would be in the form of debate rather than physical fights.
As for my predictions, I see the series reaching 1200 at least. It would be really fitting to end it at that point given that it would make the second half of the series a literal second half. Do I think that it'll go over that? Possibly, and knowing Oda, probably. But I honestly don't see it going much higher; I certainly don't think that'll it'll end up reaching the 1300+ chapter point. But I guess we'll wait and see.
In regards to Zou, I honestly can't say for sure what that arc is going to be like, but I have two ideas: it'll either be a short intermission arc that gets us caught up with the Twirly Brow Pirates and what they've been up to while the Bird Cage went down, or it'll be a semi-lengthy arc that introduces some of Kaido's top men while setting up the events to come. Then the actual dilemma culminates in Wano. I prefer the latter, since I'd like to keep the setting somewhat varied rather than being stuck at Wano for a really lengthy amount of time after Dressrosa was essentially that type of arc.
Basically my numerical predictions (only forming sections in increments of 10 because there's really no point in getting too specific):
**Dressrosa: (700-790)
Zou: (791-820)
Wano (Kaido's arc): (821-890)
Post-Wano: (891-900)Some sort of saga or standalone bulky arc: (901-995)
Post-Saga/Possible Reverie: (996-1000)Penultimate Saga: (1001-1050)
Final Saga: (1051-1200+)**
I'm under the impression that we will have arcs dedicated around Elbaf, Raftel, and a lengthy Ancient History flashback, but I don't have a guess as to when that'll be and would rather not try and shoehorn them into my prediction. Either way, we still probably have at least a decade ago if Oda sticks to his current pace of taking regular week breaks (and by all means he should if it keeps him healthy). So 40-ish chapters a year times a decade would be 400 chapters, which is slightly under the 1200 benchmark. We still have a certain ways to go. -
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Wait, have the sets already shipped? Damn, that was fast.
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They also have to dub a large amount of other shows at the same time, so catching up on One Piece can't always be their top priority. As long as they can maintain the quality voice work then I will be satisfied.
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Also, I'm pretty sure that Naruto is further along in the dubbing process than One Piece is, so it makes it easier for them to adapt more recent games. Most One Piece games have a lot of new characters who haven't been given official dub voices.
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RE: Who is the final villain in One Piece? 2.0
I think Blackbeard is going to be Luffy's last significant opponent, just because there has been way more buildup to support their clash than there has been for Akainu. With that said, it goes without saying that both will be huge forces to be reckoned with during the final saga, so I feel like you could easily say that both will serve as the final villain in some respect.
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I think Ryuma sounds pretty different from Brook. It still sounds like Ian Sinclair doing the voice, but that's to be expected for obvious reasons. You could still tell that Cho was voicing both Brook and Ryuma in the original even though they sounded different. You can only contort your voice to so much of a degree in order to make it sound like something else.
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RE: Who is the best Villain in OP?
I think that Spandam should really be included in the poll. He was just as much of a big bad of the whole CP9 Saga as Lucci was. Just because he was never a physical threat to anybody doesn't mean he didn't properly serve the role of an antagonist during that part of the series. He did a lot of sick and corrupt things with his positions of power in the World Government.
Anyway, my favorite is Doflamingo, definitely. He was my favorite before his arc as a full-on antagonist began, and after his development he has managed to more than justify that position as my favorite. I get the feeling that by the time the series starts to near an end that Blackbeard will start ranking much higher for me, too.
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I won't really be upset either way if those episodes aren't included in a future dub release though. I'm not exactly clamoring to see what is essentially just a typical crossover shpeel.
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I'm fine with Conqueror's Spirit as the dub translation, but the thing that makes it confusing to me is the fact that we clearly heard Jozu use the term "haki" back in the post-Enies Lobby stuff, so I have to wonder exactly how they're going to tackle the term once they get to it. Are they just going to refer to the knocking out of weak foes as "Conqueror's Spirit" while calling the actual power itself "Conqueror's Haki". I'm pretty curious.
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@Galaxy:
The Sunny won't even exist in Collection 12. Collection 13, maybe.
Oops, I forgot exactly which Voyages would correspond with which Collection. Yeah, Collection 13 was what I was talking about. We'll probably end up getting Spandam for Collection 12 since they seem to be aiming for not repeating any characters on the covers.
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I was crossing my fingers for Sogeking/Sniper King to be on the cover of this one, but seeing how they're probably aiming for completely new characters on each set I'm not surprised by Lucci being featured on the cover of this one.
I'm still willing to bet that the Sunny will be featured on the cover of the next collection.
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Mike McFarland still directed some of the episodes. They just split them up now presumably so he can work on other shows.
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On their schedule for the year it's listed to be a few weeks from now, so most likely when the manga goes on break again.
Also, this is pretty old but I finished both Film Z and Voyage 1. Both were very good; I keep repeating myself but the dub is still going strong and as good as the Japanese VAs are it really helps me enjoy the series that much more when it's adapted into my native tongue. It's hard for me to pick highlights because it was all very well adapted.
Though after listening to the Voyage commentaries I do kind of see what people were talking about before with Jerry Jewell. His commentary with Ian Sinclair had some amusing moments in it here and there but it definitely is not what I was looking for in an actual commentary. A majority of the commentary just consisted of sarcastic banter with only a few small snippets of Ian actually getting to talk about how he went about adapting Brook. I'm sure he's a nice guy and in a more casual context (like That Anime Show, for example) that kind of talk would fit right at home, but as an actual commentary it gives of an air of disrespect for me. It's especially apparent when put alongside the second commentary on the final episode of the set which featured Mike alongside three other castmembers. It was not only an entertaining commentary for its funny banter and the reactions to certain things in the episode, but it also was very insightful as the VAs aside from Sonny really got a chance to let loose about how they approached their characters.
I really enjoyed the In the Booth with Stephanie Young feature. So far the only other one that I've seen was Brina's but I felt like this one was even better because we heard both from Stephanie and the Audio Engineer (in this case, Kyle Phillips) and both had a lot to talk about when it came down to recording for the show. It was funny to hear how Kyle basically called recording with Stephanie the easiest part of working on One Piece because she pretty much plays the only character who isn't constantly screaming or bugging out.
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I finished the first disc just now and will probably save the next disc for some time in the next few days. My thoughts on how the Mysterious Four sound are pretty positive so far. My favorite, surprisingly, is Absalom, whom I thought was always the least interesting of the four, so the fact that he has such a good voice is making his scenes a lot more interesting than they were when I watched them subbed. Perona also sounds very good; not as nasally and whiny as the Japanese voice when doing her spoiled pouts, which was an aspect that really defined her character for me, but it still works well regardless. And Moria is very, very good; maybe it's because the rest of his lines are in English now but I don't find his "kiishiishii's" nearly as annoying this time around even though he managed to mimic the laugh pretty much flawlessly.
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Maybe it's just because I haven't watched extremely far into it but I've only heard the name pronounced like "Shin-dree" thus far.
I'm looking forward to future releases too. Impel Down in particular. Watching that for the first time was really awesome; I probably got more of an initial enjoyment from that than Marineford because I had no idea how they were going to get out of Impel Down or what the jail was actually like, while with Marineford the actual outcome of the war was spoiled for me long before I actually got to that point. I'd figure that Season 7 will most likely be announced sometime in the first half of next year, seeing how the final voyage of Season 6 will probably be released sometime in February.
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I've watched up to the episode where Hogback makes his first appearance thus far. Really good casting choice for him, and Ian is doing just as good as Brook as I'd imagine he would. Finally being able to watch the scenes where he first interacts with the crew in my native tongue has been a delight.
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I'm honestly not sure what I want to watch first. I think I'll probably start off with Season 6 because of the new characters and such, and then I'll finish off with Film Z for a good end note. Since I've already seen Film Z subbed I won't be as eager to watch it for the first time like I was with Strong World.
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Oh yeah, it completely slipped my mind that OPPJapan is finally coming out in a little over a week. There's a hell of a lot of One Piece Mania going on right now and I'm pretty happy with that.
I do think it's a shame that the packaging for the DVDs remains pretty minimal for the most part, but at the end of the day it's the actual content that matters (and the dub only continues to get better as time goes on) so it's nothing I can't easily overlook.
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Collection 10 should be shipping today. The commentaries on that set will keep me satiated for the next week until the other stuff ships.
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Ian sounds even better as Brook than he did in Strong World. This has got me plenty excited.
I really can't wait to watch the first two episodes in particular; hearing all of the Brook introduction scenes dubbed is probably going to be the highlight of the set for me.
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I have to admit I'm pretty excited for the upcoming week. I'm pretty much getting a triple dose of One Piece stuff and I'm looking forward to all of it. Even though I've seen all of the episodes on Collection 10 already I'm excited to listen to the commentaries; those are always fun to listen to and I'm glad that Season 4 and onward has included two commentary tracks for each voyage so we can hear even more feedback from the voice actors.
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It's easy to forget, but One Piece is a silly and cartoony show, guys. It's okay to admit that.
lol, exactly. I don't know why people expected Moria to have a serious and brooding voice like some sort of stereotypical "grrr evil" villain, whether it be Japanese or English.
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If any special gets dubbed then I'd hope for it to be 3D2Y, since it was practically like a made-for-TV One Piece movie and I was pretty fond of it. I'd rather not have the Nami or Merry specials get dubbed because it covers material that we've already seen and it would take time away from getting the dub further into the series.