No, no—it was Usopp who beat the ship out of Luffy.
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RE: Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ)
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RE: 1073: "No Escape! Onigashima, a Picture of Hell"
Oof. This episode suffered. Six minutes of recap, including the giant Luffy cut being shown twice within those six minutes. Two minutes or so of fresh G5, and the rest of the episode weaker content that was dragged out a bit. Next week is a recap. Whew. Bit if a roller coaster lately. Expected and reasonable with a weekly show, but still a bummer.
Also, I just realized it’s too late in the arc to do another theme song with Wano images. If they debut one at the end of the arc, it’ll be mostly Egghead. But honestly I’m kind of hoping they just wait a bit and give us the new theme song when Egghesd starts—have it be all Egghead imagery.
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RE: 1096: "Forbidden History! A Theory About a Kingdom"
Man, One Pace is super necessary for this episode. I loved originally how Shaka reveals that the scholars saved their lives’ work by throwing the books into the lake, which causes Robin to cry. But this shitty episode stuck a flashback scene right in between the reveal and Robin crying, which made it look like she was crying for the flashback scene, not the poignancy of the passionate scholars dying to protect their work.
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Already through the Whole Cake episodes. Man, that was fast.
My One Piece rewatch with my fiance just reached post-Marineford. We're at the flashback to Luffy, Ace, and Sabo's childhoods. We're watching on FUNimation's site (well, the TV app), and once the opening changed to "We Fight Together", the video quality seemed to take a nose dive. It's very noticeable when the English text is placed on the screen. The newer episodes seem fine, so I guess it was just something with these particular episodes?
I did this with my then-girlfriend like ten years ago and we still watch the dub together weekly to this day, now married. Have fun! She(?)’s a keeper if she watches all of it with you, lol.
Man, watching episode1015 makes me so excited to hear Kaido in English. The Wano arc is going to be very cool dubbed. I just hope they can slow down the production a little by then to boost back up the quality. I’ve been a little disappointed by the direction lately for the dub, particularly the sound engineering.
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Japan Travel for One Piece Fans
Hey! I’ve been doing some research since I’m heading to Japan for a trip soon. Here are things for future travelers looking to do One Piece related events in Japan! These are events and places that aren’t limited events (which usually occur in the summer months).
- Mugiwara Stores. Several of these throughout the country. They’re basically Disney stores, except for One Piece.
- Jump Stores. These have merch from all the Shonen jump properties.
- Kumamoto Statues. In Kumamoto, there are big gold statues of each of the straw hats spread around the city.
- Toei Animation Museum.
- For Figures: Tokyo's Nakano Broadway & Akihabara, particularly Akiba Culture Zone & Radio Kaikan.
There used to be a real life Thousand Sunny, but I think it’s not operational anymore. Same for the One Piece Tower theme park in Tokyo. Do you guys have any other places to add to this list for myself and future travelers?
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RE: One Piece Live-Adaptation Drama Announced
Lord of the coast definitely looks a little animated, but not too bad. I still really like it. Luffy’s fighting needs to be fast, and the arm needs to be elastic, have a really quick and satisfying snap when it moves. Left life-like, more rubber band.
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RE: Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ)
Yeah, I just finished it too. Really distracting that Jimbei sounds weird, and I continually don’t like how none of the character voices have any base. But that last episode was exciting. Awesome that we’re at the halfway point, and it was cool to meet Morgans and Katakuri in the dub.
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RE: 1042: ''The Predator's Trap - Black Maria's Temptation''
Crazy how Franky got a six minute fight, but Robin and Brook are getting like two or three episodes for theirs. That Franky fight happened way too fast. A non-manga viewer probably wondered if that was even the end of it.
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@MugiMikey said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):
@Blake-Bakes-Cakes I remember when I caught up to the anime it was at about episode 240. The dub ever covering anything beyond Skypiea seemed like a pipe dream for the longest time, especially after it was originally taken off Toonami and when the DVD releases just stopped after season 3 with no word from Funimation.
I'm glad we've made it this far.
Don’t remind me of these days. Waiting for Water 7 dub was a nightmare. Two years, I think. Then another two or three years after FI.
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@Captain-Krupp said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):
@Sano said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):
It doesn't include Hosoda's Digimon movie ether. The Digimon movie that Hosoda directed is getting a new release from Discotek later this year.
Zephray, you DO know Mamoru Hosoda did that movie while he was a Toei Animation Employee and they own the movie and the franchise, it's impossible for him to "own" the One Piece Movie 6 Film and thus he has zero say on who can dub it?
Didn’t know we had a licensing expert in the house. Tell me, do you think Hosoda owns any of his other films? (Sarcasm)
Point is, I don’t think any of us understand the exact deal Toei has with Funimation, as well as how particular rights work for old properties. Might someone have to pay a premium somewhere for the Hosoda name attached to this film?
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https://x.com/variety/status/1769770781808963643?s=46
They’re not listing OP movie six here, but this has me concerned for the rights situation. Hosoda is becoming very popular, and that makes licensing more and more difficult and costly.
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Oh, hey. If they’re caught up in dub production, that means all the Vegapunks have been casted. Looking forward to hearing them, but even moreso looking forward to better hearing the elder stars this arc.
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RE: 1097: "The Will of Ohara! Inherited Research"
@Crossword said in 1097: "The Will of Ohara! Inherited Research":
I can't believe they actually used that Mori Calliope song, RIP
Why RIP? Thought the song was pretty great when they used it for the manga Egghead trailer (assuming here it’s the same song).
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RE: Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ)
Pretty behind on episodes myself. Just recently watched 1049, which ends with that gorgeous Ota cut (Luffy and Yamato attacking while Luffy is on Momo). Have to say, I really think Yamato’s actress, Michelle Rojas, has done a wonderful job, and you can hear her shredding her voice during that cut. The scream is insane, really impressive. (The only bit I wasn’t so impressed with was Yamato (in the first half of Onigashima) doing the “I’m a man” fake deep voice, which sounded too corny and unnecessary. But that’s likely more a direction issue than an issue with the actress. Everything else has sounded phenomenal.)
Also liking Momo’s adult voice so far. Such a hard transition to change voices for a character mid-arc, but it seems to be working. The director & new actor are nailing having the proper reverence to the previous voice.
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Yeah, same on not caring if they're super close to Japan's release. I just want a consistent episode. Would be thankful and satisfied if they were even two or three months behind but releasing them weekly. I don't mind if the 'simuldub' is delayed/behind; I just want consistency.
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Worse, I kind of expect a release break after Wano. We’ll see.
Why they don’t at least start releasing egghead weekly, even if it’s months behind, is beyond me.
But yes. Fingers crossed we get a simuldub one day and these Wano finale episodes drop soon.
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It's so dumb that they're simuldubbing without releasing.
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The title card wasn’t in English on episode 1049, lol. Maybe what’s what you guys have been chatting about lately.
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@Blake-Bakes-Cakes said in Funimation DVD Discussion IV (Please Check First Post for FAQ):
I’m only learning about this now, thats so incredibly disappointing but unfortunately not surprising.
I really wanted to be positive about the merger but we’ve only had awful decision after awful decision since then. I worry for the future.
Never surprising. Mergers & monopolies are, without fail, always bad on the consumer when you take a five-year look.