Anyone have a handy clip of the new Ace voice? Not the Wano one here that may or may not be Travis, but the one we last heard. I forgot he got recast briefly in the dub.

It's just dumb, like yeah she's a great singer and her song sounds solid, but I really don't care about that in the context of the movie. This alone is why I'm gonna just catch the sub for now and see the dub later. Anyone that's gonna listen to Ado here and be so blown away that they'll be swept up into getting her album or whatever is someone that wouldn't be watching the dub in the first place.

@Zephray:

Damn, Maron. I remember you posting back then. We’ve been here for a whiiiiile.

Ha for real man. Will never forget the feeling of reaching the end of Season 3 and not knowing what was going to happen next and all the discussion of that here. Still like to pop in here now and then to stay up to date on dub stuff of course. I know it's off-topic but congrats on the recent marriage too by the way! It's funny because I remember all the posts of your wife being mentioned as who you were showing the dub to with each release up to this point.

Wasn’t that after Alabasta with the Goat arc and Rainbow Mist and Chopper filler?

@G1Ravage:

I find it interesting how dedicated the dub cast is to using very Japanese pronunciations for words based on Japanese concepts. Samurai and Ninja, for example, are pronounced very deliberately as though they were speaking them in Japanese. It sounds a bit awkward in English, but I like the effort. Could also be a Toei mandate.

Yeah I remember that being the consensus folks arrived at speculatively when the dub came back under Toei. Felt very much like a small thing that came with the change in how the dub's produced and who's handling certain aspects.

@Snowmint:

I hope they are literally trying to catch up and then proceed to simuldub the episodes

Even if they are trying to do it in that way it’d still take like 3, maybe 2 years, best to just assume we’ll keep this pace up for now at most and remove simuldub hopes for the time being.

@electricmastro:

Actually, seeing as how Strong World came out not too long after Brook joined, maybe Film Red will possibly give the indication of the crew structure by the time trailers release.

How so? Jinbe being there is a given because he’ll have been officially in the crew for quite some time in both the anime and manga but other than that there’s no way we’d see anyone else regardless of what Oda may or may not be planning.

Where do folks imagine we'll be in the series roughly by the time RED drops? Obviously WCI, but any estimates for episode numbers/Voyages by then?

I'm not sure since Oda's emphasized the 5 year plan multiple times before either of those things happened.

Rager does an impersonation of Cole's Blackbeard, but that doesn't mean it'd be the best choice for him to also do Saul. Who knows but Stoddard is just so completely different that I don't see him being considered. That was just a different interpretation of the character from almost 15 years ago.