Well, it's time for me to return, and review one of my favorite animes: One Piece.
As we all know, One Piece has had a rocky history in the US of A. With 4kids' horrifying dubbing, they single handily ripped apart the chances of One Piece's chance to gain momentum in America.
But now, One Piece has found a new home with Funimation. And now, their new dub has premiered, less than an hour ago after this review. Time for you to know how I feel.
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This...
Is by far...
The greatest dub to ever grace Toonami.
The dubbing was fantastic and convincing. They fitted nearly perfectly with the characters. No flaws were made. None. Funimation made no mistakes in this one, this was a serious dub. They made no expense to recruit the best of the best of their voice actors, all of whom have experience in dub from FMA, DBZ and others. Gone is the annoying voice of Luffy's past VA, gone are the accents, the monotone acting, the lack of any emotion. This is what an ideal dub should be.
Specifically, I highly liked Ussop and Luffy's voice the best. Of all the characters, they had voices that were the most difficult to get right, and the talents of
Sonny Strait and
ColleenClinkenbeard got it just right.
Now, onto the music. NONE of it was taken out of the actual show. The beautiful orchestrated music is perfectly intact. I would not take it any other way. <3 Now, as for the Openings and Endings, they were also dubbed. Rather well, I might add. I would rather have it in Japanese, but is much better than I expected. No more Gum Gum Rap!
Now, as for the violence, we still have much to see. (The showing of bodies gives the idea that there may be more intact violence than in the 4Kids dub.) However, that can be covered later.
I have high hopes for thisAnime. It not only has an all-star cast, but it has high chance of getting a large following that 4Kids lacked. I may even start preferring the dub to the sub (Like I prefer the Cowboy Bebop dub to it's sub.)
Now, here is the bottom line!
FINAL THOUGHTS
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+ Dubbing was ****ing fantastic!
+ Music Completely Intact.
+ Opening and Endings, while dubbed, are VERY well dubbed.
+ The humor is great! I am happy it was not lost in the dubbing.
= Neutral on the action. I still have yet to see any.
FINAL SCORE
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10.00
Now I finally have something on Toonami to watch now.
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Oh yeah! This is 9-Volt, by the way. I review the Naruto dub when it premiered