can you explain why they took rights of a show thats heavily perverted with pure blood action scenes ......and this is just the start and they changing so much and sanji is not there yet and man this is gonna be disastorous when it reached in paramount war...what are they gonna do
Yea like wtf Tom and Jerry literally showed kids a suicide scene with the train and gun and swords and knifes and a fucking piano and houses and concert and walls falling on their heads Oh *dont forget that Tom got shot with a shot gun and not to mention some racist jokes and adult jokes as well*
A devil fruit user has to be at least knee deep in water to be weakened by it. For example a devil fruit user would not be affected by rain drops. Oda explained this in an interview. Also we see this in Logue town, where none of the devil fruit users are affected by rain. So no a water gun would not do anything to devil fruit users
“Show that happens to be about criminals who do good on the ocean that also is rubber and confront the military who sometimes do bad but do mostly good”
4Kids: Hmmmm we need something not violent, with less weapons, no bad examples like smoking, non religious and is wellsuited for kids also 4Kids: How about getting the license for a violent pirate anime were fighting is one of the biggest parts in the anime. Seems legit
If I recall correctly, the reason why 4Kids removed a lot of text, even if it was in English, was to make localization to other languages easier. It's part of the reason why a lot of other countries used 4Kids' footage when localizing shows they dubbed.
@@selfloathingweekly I don't know if that was ever the case in this show, especially since I think the Funimation prints still have the text, but I know it definitely was the case for Sonic X. The uncut episodes of Sonic X on Hulu have a lot of blank signs on them that was originally English text. They probably had the same international distribution mentality that 4Kids had.
The most painful change was in Shanks' scene when threatening the bandit gang. They turned one of the most badass moments of East Blue Saga into a comic relief fight
What baffles me is that they went through the trouble of changing every single cigarette to look like the stem of a lollipop, when they could’ve just added the red ball when it was necessary. It already looks like a lollipop stem! Just remove the smoke and you’re good!
Sad they never got to Marineford so we could see Ace give up on piracy to become a teacher and a lively discussion broke out as to what subject he should teach.
That's 5/10. Didn't you see there is still a part of the knife on his other arm lol? He looks like he's wearing some sort of thing on his hand but he isn't
I think the most elaborate is still Yu-Gi-Oh with the shadow realm. Strangely though it seems that when they couldn't censor death they wouldn't do that. When Yugi and Joey have their duel at the peer it's almost entirely unchanged. The threat is made clear that if one loses they will drown and if they go over 40 minutes both will drown. They even kept in the part that Tea will be crushed by a container if Kaiba tries to intervene. Nobody talks about that but I think it's one of the few times a truly life or death situation was kept entirely unchanged in a 4Kids production. The only thing is that when Kaiba throws his card it bounces off the hand of the rare hunter rather than getting stuck in it but that's a minor detail.
And this is what you get when you try to turn One Piece into Jake and the NeverLand Pirates🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️ “GOOD PIRATES NEVER STEAL ANOTHER PERSON’S PROPERTY!!!”
The reason they remove English text is because 4kids isn’t just localizing for English speaking audiences. They were altering it for a western audience in general, so their versions would be dubbed in multiple languages, not just english
They didn't remove it, they just requested blank animation cells they could easily edit. Cells without layers basically so they could add their own layers
@@Sandinherwounds well actually it's not as as bad as you think when kids now see way more then just fighting I'm guessing you grew up differently than others such as me
impel down is a school detention center and the prison staff are teachers, the villain's name is changed to Principal Magellan and then portgas d. ace falls into a permanent coma
I always found gum gum bazooka the weirdest change. If it's about protecting kids how many kids do you think have access to bazookas and how many have access to double barreled guns 4kids? One of these is a thing kids might find in their homes, and the other is very unlikely indeed...
@@25subswithnovids15 It'd be hard to since 4Kids went bankrupt in 2012 due to a lawsuit involving "Yu Gi-Oh!" now the company is Konami Cross Media NY and only dubs the "Yu Gi-Oh!" franchise.
Besides the voice acting, I didn't mind Shanks accent but I died inside after hearing Mihawk's for the first time. Obviously they made him French because of his hat.
It's sounds so lame to me, also the voice actor went too extreme with the accent. The way he pronounces certain words makes it sound like he's making fun of Australians. But I can see how people find it funny
"We need to remove the English texts!" "Why?" "Because our target audience is too young to know how to read and we don't want them to feel as stupid as they are!"
Fun fact 4Kids removed text in all their dubs because a lot of the foreign language dubs were based on the 4Kids version, So instead of editing the text for every version they just removed it instead.
At least one grandma would watch one piece all the time with her grandkids and watched every episode just to be left on a cliffhanger, never realizing that she missed more than 9/10ths of the show
ok I admit one thing, 4kids actually made some of buggy's attacks sound cooler you cannot deny that chop chop harpoon sounds cooler than chop chop cannon, also more accurate since he was holding knives when he did it
Apparently, 4kids hadn't watched a single episode before buying the rights to it. They just bought it because it had high ratings in Japan. So they didn't know anything about the actual story or how dark it can get.
@@yuval1405 but looks like it.....coz it is just the start and the one piece is so perverted and action is way too stronger in next episodes ...i dont know what are they going to do
@@yuval1405 yeah, this is shown throughout the series as they cut out major story foreshadowing things. Such as Laboon and Ace's ASCE tattoo. This is the same company that went bankrupt lol
Karan Sharma , Sorry for the late respond. If you saw the Anime or read the Manga, you probably remember the ship that fell near the Straw Hats right before Skypia. It was the last scene in Dab Piece (4kids version).
When I was a young kid I thought it was the coolest show ever. Then like 6 years later I found the original sub when I was 12 and was amazed by the quality, then horrified when I realised what my childhood version had changed for a western audience.
the toei/FUNimation dub is way, WAY better. None of 4kids' stupid fucking edits. Guns are guns, Sanji has a cigarette again. All is right with the universe.
Reminds me of that old animated LotR movie where they changed Saruman to Aruman so that the audience wouldn't confuse him with Sauron. But not even the voice actors managed to call him Aruman everytime.
Swords and canons can eat devil fruits, I don't see why a normal fruit can't. Makes sense a fruit that's a pirate would wear a bandana too Nice to know the lore of other RUclips profiles
4Kids: "Hey Oda, can we put this show on our channel?" Oda: "Oh, Sure! It'll give my anime more popularity." 4Kids: "Thanks. Can we get the ability to edit it as well?" Oda: "Um... Why?" 4Kids: "Oh just for some minor editing here and there? You know, got to make it a little more kid appropriate." Oda: "Ok! That should be fine. There are bits of blood here and there. By the way, which part of the show, did you like?" 4Kids: "hmm..? Oh, sorry, we didn't like any of it." Oda: (confused Pikachu face) "So..... why are you taking the show?" 4Kids: "Don't worry, that's why we asked to edit it. It's ok, we'll make it better!" Oda: "Well, I suppose no harm could come from a couple of edits." *7 years later* *4kids current attributes:"* One piece ruined *-20 HP* Children traumatized. *-15 HP* _Shank's voice_ *CRITICAL HIT -300 HP* *KNOCKOUT* Oda: *"Well, Shit"*
I think it was intended in the same way that one would break a horse, so I don't think it actually meant to imply animal abuse. But I do agree that kids most likely wouldn't know that, and would probably associate it to hurting animals.
0:33 It was not. One Piece was NOT the main reason for 4Kids' downfall. Chaotic was. That show nearly caused them to go bankrupt because they put so much money into producing the show from scratch, creating the card game and its online component, and then the economic recession of 2008-09 caused it to blow up in their face right before they broke even and cost them a huge chunk of their cash reserves. They may have lost a bit from One Piece, but they only licensed it. Even the extreme amount of edits costs a lot less than producing a show completely from scratch like Chaotic, especially with its other components.
Probably doesn't help that Chaotix was shit anyway. On the channel I watched it was always smashed between TMNT and Yu-Gi-Oh, and even kid me could figure out it was just crappier, knock-off, with way worse animation and characters than Yu-Gi-Oh
@@DeathknightDragon Despite that, it could have helped 4Kids out of their rut had it not been for the recession. Sales were increasing every quarter, rivaling Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! And thanks to it, they were so close to the break even point before everything came crashing down.
@@Ninetailedknight It could have taken off if not for the economy. The show was pulling in pretty high ratings and sales were steadily increasing from quarter to quarter. If it hadn't been for the recession, it may have become the next Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh!
Well done. Crazy how much effort they put into changes. I will say, that rap is still iconic and I remember it easily. Would love to hear it in the LA adaptation sometime.
13:30 this is by far the worst editing I've ever seen in my entire life This is absolutely embarrassing: what's the point of deleting the second sword if you just leave a part of the sword image on Buggy's right arm?!
I only found out that we are was taken out for US audience A few days ago and I am absolutely stunned by that. "We are" is such an absolute banger It would absolutely be in the same rinks as the pokémon theme song.
Recently got into One Piece after years of hearing about the atrocious 4Kids adaptation, and decided to watch this video comparing the changes thinking it'd be amusing. I'm not amused.
"When he wakes up, tell him the hole in his head is just a joke." I kind of wonder why 4kids even tried with One Piece. It was clearly too much for them.
4Kids bought the series blindly. See there was a package deal that Toei Animation offered them it included "Ultimate Muscle" and "Ojamajo Doremi", 4Kids bought it but failed to research the show's content. When it was discovered that "One Piece" was a tad too violent and sexual for them they asked Toei Animation if they could drop it. Toei wouldn't budge so 4Kids edited the series down to a more child-oriented show. In 2006 4Kids announced it would suspend further production of their dub, due to cost issues and most likely a loss in revenue due to Pokemon expiring.
@@cameronwiley9412 Funimation was in the running to get the series, but Toei felt 4Kids would make it a big hit like they did with Pokemon. Nope, not the case even Oda disliked what 4Kids had done to his story.
@@cameronwiley9412 yep. Needless to say when Funimation attempted to take over the edited dub there was less censoring. Most of the time the episodes were TV-Y7-FV, some were TV-PG and some that had stronger violence were TV-PG-V. The edited dub stopped after Jaya, because Funimation had intended on redubbing from episode 1. However, Australia was demanding the rest of Skypeia so they dubbed it fully uncut and "One Piece" finished its first run on Cartoon Network AUS.
Mr. Kami, We Are is and always will be the iconic opening of One Piece, and the One Piece rap will be made fun of whenever One Piece first aired on 4Kids network until the One Piece anime/manga series is finished because the One Piece rap is the worst anime opening of all time.
The only GOOD thing from the 4kids was the rap song. Everything else was pretty much trash. And no I am not putting that rap song as a piece of art or something.
I hear a lot of people talk crap about 4 kids but one some of the changes they made weren't just to make it appetizing to westerners but also to get past us TV censors but I probably wouldn't know what anime was or at least wouldn't have gotten into it as early as I did if it wasn't for four kids and shounin jump showing up at my local grocery store so thank you for kids for all the work you put into your animes cuz censored or not it helped introduce some great shows to a lot of American kids who didn't have cable or satellite
I think they removed the text from almost every show they dubbed so they wouldn’t have to guess if the words were harmless or a possible copyright infringement
Face scratch drawing a bit of blood: HERESY GET THAT OUT OF MY AGES 6-11 SHOW Shanks' arm getting torn off: Hell yeah man that shit was sick keep it in
On the one hand: one simply does not understand a lollipop suckin brooklynite. On the other hand: one simply does not forget a lollipop suckin brooklynite. Thanks David. You helped kindle my love for the franchise, in a strange way.
I genuinely have PTSD from the sentence "don't give it up". My teacher said "don't give it up! You can do it!" And my blood ran cold with "don't give it up Luffy don't give it up Zoro don't give it up with Nami" and almost went into cardiac arrest
9:00 maybe the reason 4kids removed English text is because the 4kids version of shows were also in other languages (I remember the 4kids logo at the end of episodes of the dutch localization of Pokémon)
I liked the 4kids dub of One Piece as a child because I didn't know any better, but if I knew then what I know now, I would've been calling in death threats. Edit: Also, it's kinda weird that despite neutering Luffy's attack names to sound less violent (pistol became blast, and bazooka became double barrel, etc), they went the other way with Buggy's attack names to become more violent (Rice Cracker to Buzzsaw and cannon to harpoon).
@@aaronmorris3065 Yeah, I actually agree on that one. Plus it still holds with Luffy's tendency to name his attacks after weapons. You know, like the shotgun
@@MoostachedSaiyanPrince I do like quite a few of the names of Luffy's attacks in the 4 kids dub. Double Barrel will always be my favorite since my mind went straight to shotgun and the attack is more akin to a shotgun blast than a bazooka.
It's been like a year since this video came out and while it's amazingly done, I just wanted to pick out how disrespectfully they did Shank's voice. You take out english text, take out fighting, take out guns, but you should never mess with Shank's having a cool voice.
I mean, there's no reason to get mad anymore. The 4kids dub ended well over 10 years ago (even at the time of your original comment), with the Funimation dub long having overtaken it. At this point, I feel like it serves as an oddity of a bygone time (and an interesting demonstration of how much power editing has over a show).
I'm very lucky I just finished the Alabasta arc before finding this series, so now I've caught up with everything mentioned and it'll make sense to me C:
I remember back in the day that was like one of the most controversial things to say EVER. If you went onto a forum and said "Zolo" people would lose their shit.
i mean it makes sense cause zoro is a trademark movie name or book or something so you dont want to get copyright sued aka have to settle out of court @@gallibon1319
@@razkable I'm not sure that someone could sue for the name "Zoro". For one thing, the popular masked character is named "Zorro" and even then, those stories are in the public domain.
I think you left out the visual edit of Luffy's mouth actually having physical lip flapping while speaking as he breaks out of the barrel in the 4Kids dub. Otherwise, great job categorising all the changes!
Skip Intro - 2:00
Excuse Me, Hows That ''Every CHANGE 4Kids Made to One Piece'' Release Dates, Coming?
RantNavv Talks Anime There was an editing error in the theme song, the punch happened, but it was so quick
@藍染 惣右介Aizen SousukeIt's gives me a reason to rewatch the early episodes of One Piece again at least, plus I enjoy finding all the different changes.
can you explain why they took rights of a show thats heavily perverted with pure blood action scenes ......and this is just the start and they changing so much and sanji is not there yet and man this is gonna be disastorous when it reached in paramount war...what are they gonna do
This is what ruins anime
Lolona Zolo is my favorite Pilate hunter.
did you mean "favoulite Pilate huntel"?
upd: it's hilarious to see how reddit npcs wooshed bruh
@@OpheliaCyrus it's a joke as to how r"s are changed to l's here in the west
タマゴロス r/woooosh
@@OpheliaCyrus 'you have to checked' how about you check your grammar?
タマゴロス R/WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOSHHHHH
i cant believe they were censoring slapstick comedy....
i mean is 4kids not aware that tom & jerry is a thing???
bocodamondo 4kids also didnt exist in the 50s lmao
@@ohheckohno3666 uhhh, I watched Tom & Jerry growing up. I'm now 18. Damn. Didn't know it was the 60s-70s
@@ohheckohno3666 Spongebob had blood in one episode.
Yea like wtf Tom and Jerry literally showed kids a suicide scene with the train and gun and swords and knifes and a fucking piano and houses and concert and walls falling on their heads
Oh
*dont forget that Tom got shot with a shot gun and not to mention some racist jokes and adult jokes as well*
@William Conway there we're PLENTY of scenes where tom got shot, hit with a blunt object, stabbed, etc. so many times throughout the cartoons
I’m just saying it’s more effective to use water guns against luffy
I mean ur not wrong
That's even a plot hole in the base show like all these guys use sea prism stone against Devil fruit users why not sea water?
A devil fruit user has to be at least knee deep in water to be weakened by it. For example a devil fruit user would not be affected by rain drops. Oda explained this in an interview. Also we see this in Logue town, where none of the devil fruit users are affected by rain. So no a water gun would not do anything to devil fruit users
@@KennyF550 rain isn't sea water
@@GrosvnerMcaffrey Yes it is 😂. Did you learn the water cycle in school?
Original: One Piece
4kids: *WATER WAR*
Noo.. "war" is too brutal. That is called water contention. xD
More like Gunwater Fights.
“Show that happens to be about criminals who do good on the ocean that also is rubber and confront the military who sometimes do bad but do mostly good”
I just realized that 4Kids marines could defeat crocodile
Water fight*
4Kids: Hmmmm we need something not violent, with less weapons, no bad examples like smoking, non religious and is wellsuited for kids
also 4Kids: How about getting the license for a violent pirate anime were fighting is one of the biggest parts in the anime.
Seems legit
I'm pretty sure that there was something about how they bought with something else, and no one in 4kids actually watched it XD
no one watched it and they baught it as a boundel deal.
They bought it because it was rating well in Japan!
dayzgone well actually in the US one piece is appearently PG-14...
Adrian Skateboarding Yeah but 4kids was a channel for 7-11 year olds
If I recall correctly, the reason why 4Kids removed a lot of text, even if it was in English, was to make localization to other languages easier. It's part of the reason why a lot of other countries used 4Kids' footage when localizing shows they dubbed.
Its also because they got shipped blank animation cells without layers on them. Thats how they were able to edit the scenes so well.
@@selfloathingweekly I don't know if that was ever the case in this show, especially since I think the Funimation prints still have the text, but I know it definitely was the case for Sonic X.
The uncut episodes of Sonic X on Hulu have a lot of blank signs on them that was originally English text. They probably had the same international distribution mentality that 4Kids had.
That is true.
it could be because in latam we use the 4kids intro and assume that also the resto of de show of yu gi oh
And this is why One Piece's reputation was almost perma-deathed in the US.
Remember they even didn't want in the first place it came with a package deal what the deal with Doremi and Shaman King
It's reputation died when people realised it grows too quickly to actually watch if you haven't before. The plot doesn't go anywhere
Fuck them xd
4Kids' reputation was also tarnished.
Then the big f revived it
Funimation 😎
"Yo can i copy your homework?"
"Yeah just make sure its a little different"
underrated comment XD
Go D. Usopp my hero
William Conway Sure, anything for the fans
@William Conway XD
The most painful change was in Shanks' scene when threatening the bandit gang. They turned one of the most badass moments of East Blue Saga into a comic relief fight
imagine them having to remove all the times sanji held a cigarette
Ooh no i don't want to imagine it its so bad af
What baffles me is that they went through the trouble of changing every single cigarette to look like the stem of a lollipop, when they could’ve just added the red ball when it was necessary. It already looks like a lollipop stem! Just remove the smoke and you’re good!
It would just be one piece without sanji
Holy crap
Superhero123kaleb I know. And it’s insane.
Sad they never got to Marineford so we could see Ace give up on piracy to become a teacher and a lively discussion broke out as to what subject he should teach.
He needs to to “Teach” Blackbeard a lesson (see what I did there?)
@@birdyghostly damn blackbeard’s last name is teach too 😳
@@localskoomadealer6593 :_0
U mean trace?
Don’t you mean trace
13:30 I love how 4kids edited the sword out 10/10 editing skills
how tf did this get passed
Holy shit, I can't believe I didn't notice the edited out sword still being on the other arm!
That's 5/10. Didn't you see there is still a part of the knife on his other arm lol? He looks like he's wearing some sort of thing on his hand but he isn't
@@BloxxerBoi_m134 they were joking
Why does Buggy look like he's wearing slap bracelets 💀
It's crazy how much work they've put into the changes.
It's like they put more effort into the edits than the actual dubbing. :P
Fr
@@gallibon1319 it's safe to say that is literally true.
I think the most elaborate is still Yu-Gi-Oh with the shadow realm.
Strangely though it seems that when they couldn't censor death they wouldn't do that. When Yugi and Joey have their duel at the peer it's almost entirely unchanged. The threat is made clear that if one loses they will drown and if they go over 40 minutes both will drown. They even kept in the part that Tea will be crushed by a container if Kaiba tries to intervene.
Nobody talks about that but I think it's one of the few times a truly life or death situation was kept entirely unchanged in a 4Kids production. The only thing is that when Kaiba throws his card it bounces off the hand of the rare hunter rather than getting stuck in it but that's a minor detail.
Plus how many of them were pointless. Also, purple bottles could just be filled with grape soda.
imagine talking about one piece to a kid and they say “Zolo”
I did this once and they told me to watch the subs instead lmao
bro I’d get so damn violent
Well the people who grew up with 4kids dub like me are in their mid twenties lol
Now imagine that kid lying on the ground with a big red mark on his face
Thank god I watched the funimation dubs I would’ve died the first episode with the 4kids dubs.
I think the weirdest change was changing Bazooka to Double Barrel. That's still a reference to a gun.
And this is what you get when you try to turn One Piece into Jake and the NeverLand Pirates🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
“GOOD PIRATES NEVER STEAL ANOTHER PERSON’S PROPERTY!!!”
I felt that
At some point when I was younger it was my favorite show lmao
@@anonymizationoverload9831 Holy crap, SAAAAAAMMMEEEEE!!! Lmao, omg, I thought I was the only one! 😅😂😭
Jake is a disgrace to the named Pirate. They steal, and robbed. There Pirates.
So they’re just sailors not pirates. Piracy is literally stealing from ships. That’s the whole point. Damn I hate that show
Jake and the Neverland Pirates wasn’t that insulting
4kids: let's censor the fight in a fighting anime
Lol
Ya 4kids can Be bad
censor* sensor is a device that senses something. But lol ur right about 4kids.
@@delaniakabutoo9893 sorry, english isn't my best language 😔, but now i've fixed it, thanks
@@kingue_ it's ok :)
The reason they remove English text is because 4kids isn’t just localizing for English speaking audiences. They were altering it for a western audience in general, so their versions would be dubbed in multiple languages, not just english
They didn't remove it, they just requested blank animation cells they could easily edit.
Cells without layers basically so they could add their own layers
Luffy: punches an enemy
4kids: "oH nO sO iNaPpRoPrIaTe"
yes and it pisses me off
Dude it is a fighting anime kids should not be aloud to watch it so why not wait a little longer instead of litteraly removing every single part
oh no i saw a punch now im gonna commit mass genocide
@@Sandinherwounds well actually it's not as as bad as you think when kids now see way more then just fighting I'm guessing you grew up differently than others such as me
@@discordbot3170 hes being sarcastic
impel down is a school detention center and the prison staff are teachers, the villain's name is changed to Principal Magellan
and then portgas d. ace falls into a permanent coma
The blood is grape juice and his port-a-potty is a coffin.
uhm wait... really? or was this sarcastic/a joke?
sorry i've never seen the 4kids version, i'm genuinely asking ^^"
4Kds version ends right before Skypea
@@koatam ahh~ okay thank you ! :D
he's called "Trace" in the 4kids dub.
I always found gum gum bazooka the weirdest change. If it's about protecting kids how many kids do you think have access to bazookas and how many have access to double barreled guns 4kids? One of these is a thing kids might find in their homes, and the other is very unlikely indeed...
if a bazooka is found in their homes, i'd question more than an uncensored show..
@@MW-bs1nbEven if a bazooka was found in their house I don't think one piece would be the thing that makes them want to shoot it
I think Gum Gum Double Barrel is a pretty cool name though
@@_G.C yes exactly, that's the point
as a kid i thought bazookas were the coolest thing ever, I would've loved it lmao
Imagine if 4kids saw Zoro’s body at the end of the Thriller Bark arc ( you know what I’m talking about)
“You must take on all of Luffy’s tickles.”
that scene is probably the most badass moments in one piece.
They'd probably claim that he had "explosive sweat," or some crap.
@@junseolee9534 what about Amazon lily
Sanji: What the heck happened here??
Zoro: I spilt... the ketchup!
Imagine what they would have done to the fight between Luffy and Katakuri.
They dont want none
or Impel Down.
@@zorodpiece8693 they gotta do impel down fr
@@25subswithnovids15 It'd be hard to since 4Kids went bankrupt in 2012 due to a lawsuit involving "Yu Gi-Oh!" now the company is Konami Cross Media NY and only dubs the "Yu Gi-Oh!" franchise.
Imagine Law's backstory...
I couldn't stop laughing when Lucky Roo shot the "cap gun." Genuinely insane how they sap all of the meaning from that scene. It's hilarious.
Shank's voice in the 4kids dub was absolutely priceless lmao
He sounds raspy as hell
I actually kind of like the accents, feel like it adds a little personality (Mainly because 4Kids erased all the personality, but eh)
WHY DID THEY MAKE HIM AUSTRALIAN
WHY DID THEY MAKE HIM AUSTRALIAN
Besides the voice acting, I didn't mind Shanks accent but I died inside after hearing Mihawk's for the first time. Obviously they made him French because of his hat.
It's sounds so lame to me, also the voice actor went too extreme with the accent. The way he pronounces certain words makes it sound like he's making fun of Australians. But I can see how people find it funny
"We need to remove the English texts!"
"Why?"
"Because our target audience is too young to know how to read and we don't want them to feel as stupid as they are!"
Fun fact 4Kids removed text in all their dubs because a lot of the foreign language dubs were based on the 4Kids version, So instead of editing the text for every version they just removed it instead.
As a kid, I mostly learned English from Video Games and TV Shows.
To be fair, Japanese kids wouldn't be able to read them either since it's in English
@@greg77389 they learn English in like kidnergarten so I really doubt that
@@KoolEditz_
That's good. English should be the universal language.
At least one grandma would watch one piece all the time with her grandkids and watched every episode just to be left on a cliffhanger, never realizing that she missed more than 9/10ths of the show
Imagine if they censored Amazon lily and every boa Hancock episode
They would just remove the whole arc
@@thedemoniacwolf5053 or they would just remove boa and make it the 6 warlords lmao
@@johncruz5001 nah fam they gonna censor the word warlord and make it the six boxers of the sea
@@snaicproductions i mean you’ve got a point
@@snaicproductions several scallywags of the ocean
What if you wanted: *WINE*
But god said: *ORANGE JUICE*
lmao i wouldnt mine,orange juice is lit
Didn't Jesus turn water to wine ??
I mean that would be Funny if Jesus was at a restaurant and asked for wine but it was to expensive so he got free water and turned it to wine
Muslims be like: *THIS IS FINE*
ok I admit one thing, 4kids actually made some of buggy's attacks sound cooler
you cannot deny that chop chop harpoon sounds cooler than chop chop cannon, also more accurate since he was holding knives when he did it
True
Chop chop buzzsaw also makes more sense and is cooler
Why even bother airing the show when they had to change every single aspect of it?
Apparently, 4kids hadn't watched a single episode before buying the rights to it. They just bought it because it had high ratings in Japan. So they didn't know anything about the actual story or how dark it can get.
Niku King are you sure? No one can be that dumb
@@yuval1405 but looks like it.....coz it is just the start and the one piece is so perverted and action is way too stronger in next episodes ...i dont know what are they going to do
@@yuval1405 yeah, this is shown throughout the series as they cut out major story foreshadowing things. Such as Laboon and Ace's ASCE tattoo. This is the same company that went bankrupt lol
Karan Sharma , Sorry for the late respond. If you saw the Anime or read the Manga, you probably remember the ship that fell near the Straw Hats right before Skypia. It was the last scene in Dab Piece (4kids version).
ah yes, my favorite one piece character, zolo
Lmao
You mean youl favolite pilate hunter lolonoa zolo
@@Emperor_fries favolite pilate huntel
Dammit zolo got lost again
it's also named zolo in the manga translation
I grew up watching the 4Kids Dub on Toonami so it still has a special place in my heart
Same here, but that doesn't mean it's above scrutiny 😂
When I was a young kid I thought it was the coolest show ever. Then like 6 years later I found the original sub when I was 12 and was amazed by the quality, then horrified when I realised what my childhood version had changed for a western audience.
Hey atleast this proves that 4kids did it ok somewhat, kids still enjoyed it so yay
@@spiderfrog5764 it wasn't made for kids
@@mallikapatra5033 man they really mislead us by calling the channel "4Kids" then
@@dogdjinn I'm talking about the anime, not the channel
the toei/FUNimation dub is way, WAY better. None of 4kids' stupid fucking edits. Guns are guns, Sanji has a cigarette again. All is right with the universe.
4Kids replacing Sanji smoking cigarette to a *Lollipop* into his mouth🚭
They did 😭
bruh........
I knew about this
replacing lung cancer with diabetes
Yeah a tooth pick would be way better then a lollipop
Just noticed with #62, they removed one of Buggy's swords, but didn't remove the part that overlaps Buggy's arm. Looks super awkward.
13:33 wow great editing 4kids, I totally can't see the other sword embedded inside Buggy's arm xD
Yeah this video needs a minor correction, he says “removed” but really, it’s “mostly removed”
It’s actually a hand band made from the same steel used to make swords
I know such a flawless edit. Totally not anything left unerased
Nami's legs were too sexually suggestive....😂
Paulie would agree with 4kids on that
Too bad for sanji :/
Wait til they see her post time skip... or Rebecca, for that matter...
@@stefannotchev7209 if they see the timeskip they will delete every scene that nami appears
Esqueleto Anti-otaku take her off the cast XD
i like how they changed the name that everyone knows Zoro by, avoiding confusion by making it even more confusing
Not only that, they got rid of yasopp's headband.
Ah yes, my favorite character: .
Reminds me of that old animated LotR movie where they changed Saruman to Aruman so that the audience wouldn't confuse him with Sauron.
But not even the voice actors managed to call him Aruman everytime.
I love one piece, It made me what I am now, A pirate.
Edit : Just killed marines, Feeling kinda cute.
Might post a selfie
I'm the I don't feel like paying for anime pirate
this is legendary
Swords and canons can eat devil fruits, I don't see why a normal fruit can't.
Makes sense a fruit that's a pirate would wear a bandana too
Nice to know the lore of other RUclips profiles
@@Jade_Bunbun :D yeah that's my backstory!
4Kids: "Hey Oda, can we put this show on our channel?"
Oda: "Oh, Sure! It'll give my anime more popularity."
4Kids: "Thanks. Can we get the ability to edit it as well?"
Oda: "Um... Why?"
4Kids: "Oh just for some minor editing here and there? You know, got to make it a little more kid appropriate."
Oda: "Ok! That should be fine. There are bits of blood here and there. By the way, which part of the show, did you like?"
4Kids: "hmm..? Oh, sorry, we didn't like any of it."
Oda: (confused Pikachu face) "So..... why are you taking the show?"
4Kids: "Don't worry, that's why we asked to edit it. It's ok, we'll make it better!"
Oda: "Well, I suppose no harm could come from a couple of edits."
*7 years later*
*4kids current attributes:"*
One piece ruined *-20 HP*
Children traumatized. *-15 HP*
_Shank's voice_ *CRITICAL HIT -300 HP*
*KNOCKOUT*
Oda: *"Well, Shit"*
True. More like 4bitches
XD this comment is funny
I was so shocked when I heard Shank’s voice.
Oda has nothing to do with one piece anime. He's a mangaka not an anime staff. Everything anime related is by toei animation.
@@saleh3521 ok.
Characters: Breaths*
4 kid: How inappropriate!
13:30 they were so lazy they couldn’t fully edit out the sword.
I just realized he has a sword on his arm lol
I thought that was a random wristband lol
I got rickrolled by your pfp.
*dammit*
@@esqueleto._.1475 thats what they were probably hoping "stupid children" would all assume. honestly, all the edits scream "made for stupid children".
I wouldn't say lazy. Editing as much as they did was a lot of work I'm sure 🤣
4kids just remove whole marineford arc
I really wonder what they would have done with Ace
He would have been sent to the dungeon.
@@makotoyuki4581 lol
@@mariophreak Ace was sent to the shadow realm.
Akainu punches Ace and stays in a permanent Coma. Whitebeard goes to sleep at marineford and loses the war and later retires being a pirate.
they forgot to edit the part of the knife that covers buggy's other arm lol 13:22
It’s actually impressive how they were able to turn this into a kids show
Came with a price, a HUGE price
@@kornonthekob713 yes
I’d say it’s already a kids show but alright
@@ape8130 do you even watch or read one piece?
@@ape8130 wait until arlong park
"thw word danger has been removed from the cannon stash"
Ah yes, explosions arent dangerous kids.
Breaking news: Cannon balls have decided to be harmless now that the word danger was removed from their box
The world "Don't press" has ben removed from the Az 5 button
Dyatlov: :D
Imagine Ace's death scene, or so much of the current Wano story arc.
Squirtles threatening they´ll dye Misty´s hair purple instead of threatening to kill her look like nothing compared to this.
“Beast Tamer was changed to Beast Breaker.”
Am I the only one who feels like that’s a worse name for him? That implies some animal abuse :/
At interview:
Employer: What is your previous job? You can skip this question if this is your first job.
*my previous job was a beast breaker*
I mean, there are horse breakers, who get horses used to being ridden. It's not a stretch for them to come to that name.
@@steakman4691 Yeah but most kids won't think about that.
I think it was intended in the same way that one would break a horse, so I don't think it actually meant to imply animal abuse. But I do agree that kids most likely wouldn't know that, and would probably associate it to hurting animals.
sounds kinda badass thi
I feel bad for whoever had to watch the US version of One Piece
Same
thank luffy funimation did their own dub
That would be me. I remember watching it back in 2004 pretty regularly. It's awful
Funamation is better.
The funimation dub is good. They don't censor anything out so thats nice
I would be impressed if 4Kidz were still around and managed to catch up to One Piece. Imagine how much they would butcher Oden's boiling scene.
lol
coulda put a spoiler warnin
@@ManjiOnRUclips to be fair oden boiling doesn’t mean shit for someone not up to the episode
@@ManjiOnRUclips at least for me i don’t know what that means or anything
0:33 It was not. One Piece was NOT the main reason for 4Kids' downfall. Chaotic was. That show nearly caused them to go bankrupt because they put so much money into producing the show from scratch, creating the card game and its online component, and then the economic recession of 2008-09 caused it to blow up in their face right before they broke even and cost them a huge chunk of their cash reserves. They may have lost a bit from One Piece, but they only licensed it. Even the extreme amount of edits costs a lot less than producing a show completely from scratch like Chaotic, especially with its other components.
Probably doesn't help that Chaotix was shit anyway. On the channel I watched it was always smashed between TMNT and Yu-Gi-Oh, and even kid me could figure out it was just crappier, knock-off, with way worse animation and characters than Yu-Gi-Oh
Thank you Chaotic
Damn, I love Chaotic, shame it didn't take off.
@@DeathknightDragon Despite that, it could have helped 4Kids out of their rut had it not been for the recession. Sales were increasing every quarter, rivaling Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! And thanks to it, they were so close to the break even point before everything came crashing down.
@@Ninetailedknight It could have taken off if not for the economy. The show was pulling in pretty high ratings and sales were steadily increasing from quarter to quarter. If it hadn't been for the recession, it may have become the next Pokémon or Yu-Gi-Oh!
13:34 the edit was so bad you can still see the sword on buggy’s arm lmfaooo
yooo hood eye
Dang I didn’t even notice
ayo 😂
I noticed that too lol i was like was it supposed to be an arm band? 🤣
Well done. Crazy how much effort they put into changes. I will say, that rap is still iconic and I remember it easily. Would love to hear it in the LA adaptation sometime.
I didn't know that Zoro used a lollipop to fix his sword lol
Your face..
Specialty cleaning
That’s actually a tool
No it was Zolo
@@imjustaguycalledsano oh ok
13:30 this is by far the worst editing I've ever seen in my entire life
This is absolutely embarrassing: what's the point of deleting the second sword if you just leave a part of the sword image on Buggy's right arm?!
That is so cringe
OMG I JUST NOTICE THAT
Like... i could edit better than those "professionals"
Oh I just realized lmao
thanks for sharing. I didn't realize!
Buggy got a sweet wristband.
Let's just appreciate how they blends they're edits very subtly/smoothly (?) into the anime so much(sorry my English)
No
let’s not ❤️
*DON'T TELL ME YOU ATE THAT PURPLE PIECE OF FRUIT! *
Joseph Stalin: I am the Tsar of censorship
4 Kids: Hold my Jelly filled donuts
I only found out that we are was taken out for US audience A few days ago and I am absolutely stunned by that. "We are" is such an absolute banger It would absolutely be in the same rinks as the pokémon theme song.
To be fair tho, the 4kids One Piece intro is unironically good.
"Ooh, this video seems interesting!"
**hears Shanks' voice**
...
"My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined."
Fr
Bri’ish
Ikr🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢
Recently got into One Piece after years of hearing about the atrocious 4Kids adaptation, and decided to watch this video comparing the changes thinking it'd be amusing.
I'm not amused.
Australian Shanks:
Chopper keep Doctoring
(An Actual Line In the One Piece Rap)
Lmao
Im crying
This version of the show must die for it is cursed and evil
Luffy: I'm going to become the king of pirates!
4Kids: no
"When he wakes up, tell him the hole in his head is just a joke."
I kind of wonder why 4kids even tried with One Piece. It was clearly too much for them.
4Kids bought the series blindly. See there was a package deal that Toei Animation offered them it included "Ultimate Muscle" and "Ojamajo Doremi", 4Kids bought it but failed to research the show's content. When it was discovered that "One Piece" was a tad too violent and sexual for them they asked Toei Animation if they could drop it. Toei wouldn't budge so 4Kids edited the series down to a more child-oriented show. In 2006 4Kids announced it would suspend further production of their dub, due to cost issues and most likely a loss in revenue due to Pokemon expiring.
@@zorodpiece8693 The more you know.
@@cameronwiley9412 Funimation was in the running to get the series, but Toei felt 4Kids would make it a big hit like they did with Pokemon. Nope, not the case even Oda disliked what 4Kids had done to his story.
@@zorodpiece8693 I bet Oda did. If I was the writer, I would be ticked off.
@@cameronwiley9412 yep.
Needless to say when Funimation attempted to take over the edited dub there was less censoring. Most of the time the episodes were TV-Y7-FV, some were TV-PG and some that had stronger violence were TV-PG-V. The edited dub stopped after Jaya, because Funimation had intended on redubbing from episode 1. However, Australia was demanding the rest of Skypeia so they dubbed it fully uncut and "One Piece" finished its first run on Cartoon Network AUS.
"The iconic theme has been replaced with the one piece rap."
You mean the *iconic one piece rap*
Mr. Kami, We Are is and always will be the iconic opening of One Piece, and the One Piece rap will be made fun of whenever One Piece first aired on 4Kids network until the One Piece anime/manga series is finished because the One Piece rap is the worst anime opening of all time.
@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr ya yo ya you shut your mouth
The only GOOD thing from the 4kids was the rap song. Everything else was pretty much trash. And no I am not putting that rap song as a piece of art or something.
@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr that rap was bop bro what hell are you taking about😬
@@RoronoaZoro-ur6hr i can agree
13:34 - They forgot to change the part of the skin covered by the sword so now part of his arm is the sword.
They removed Morgan’s cigar imagine what they would have done with smoker 😭😭😭
I’m pretty sure they took out the cigars but there was still smoke coming out of his mouth
cringe tube yep
lmao,they could have changd his name completely,bc it was related to smoker
@@libertyprime2013 Smoker turned into Vice Admiral Lollipop would be cute.
He goes from smoker to Misty and all of the stuff coming out of him is just steam.
Any violence that isn’t extremely cartoonish: exists
4kids: We don’t do that here
I’m ded 😂😂😆
9:40 “when he wakes up someone tell e’m it was a cap gun”.i love that sense of humor lol 😂
imagine watching the 4kids version and not having any clue on when the characters are injured or just tired
kids aren’t gonna start crying because of a little bit of blood😭 as a kid I was watching cartoon gore I found 💀
and yet looney toons and animaniacs are still there wacking each other with giant hammers and getting rolled on by trains
I hear a lot of people talk crap about 4 kids but one some of the changes they made weren't just to make it appetizing to westerners but also to get past us TV censors but I probably wouldn't know what anime was or at least wouldn't have gotten into it as early as I did if it wasn't for four kids and shounin jump showing up at my local grocery store so thank you for kids for all the work you put into your animes cuz censored or not it helped introduce some great shows to a lot of American kids who didn't have cable or satellite
Yep, a shame a lot of people thinking all of it was 4kids just doing it for the heck of it
Our man Roranoa Zolo.
I hate that they did that to my husbando.
Lolonoa Zolo
Well I mean...Japanese Read the Letter "R" As The Letter "L" But zoro is a better name than Zolo
But...but... I'M your husband
@@Josefuumii lmao
I am disgusted by this change
13:30 They didn't even bother to recolour Buggy's arm, despite taking care of several minor details.
I imagine the change for Luffy strangling the dog was censored to avoid scenes of animal abuse.
Yet they're fine showing that big lion in pain lmao
Video in a nutshell:
"Luffy punching *insert name here* has been censored."
" *insert name here* 's injury has been censored."
Lmao. 4kids is something special.
4Kids:yeah we dub the best
Funimation:Hold my voice actors
@@dayon2296
Funimation: Also hold my Vic mignogna Accusations
@@infernalbaka557 *Don't forget Funination's DBZ ridiculous DVD Blue Ray releases with bastardized screen coloring*
I think they removed the text from almost every show they dubbed so they wouldn’t have to guess if the words were harmless or a possible copyright infringement
The most common 4Kids edit, "It is highly implied that I am hitting you!"
Face scratch drawing a bit of blood: HERESY GET THAT OUT OF MY AGES 6-11 SHOW
Shanks' arm getting torn off: Hell yeah man that shit was sick keep it in
Kids can't know that blood exists
Hey cmon man I’m 11 and I would never watch 4kids one piece
On the one hand: one simply does not understand a lollipop suckin brooklynite.
On the other hand: one simply does not forget a lollipop suckin brooklynite.
Thanks David. You helped kindle my love for the franchise, in a strange way.
I genuinely have PTSD from the sentence "don't give it up". My teacher said "don't give it up! You can do it!" And my blood ran cold with "don't give it up Luffy don't give it up Zoro don't give it up with Nami" and almost went into cardiac arrest
It's don't give it up Zolo
wwhat a mad lad
Wdym that rap was fire
They didn't even fully edit out Buggy's sword, look at his arm, it's the rest of the sword they forgot!
9:00 maybe the reason 4kids removed English text is because the 4kids version of shows were also in other languages (I remember the 4kids logo at the end of episodes of the dutch localization of Pokémon)
I liked the 4kids dub of One Piece as a child because I didn't know any better, but if I knew then what I know now, I would've been calling in death threats.
Edit: Also, it's kinda weird that despite neutering Luffy's attack names to sound less violent (pistol became blast, and bazooka became double barrel, etc), they went the other way with Buggy's attack names to become more violent (Rice Cracker to Buzzsaw and cannon to harpoon).
Yeah, but Double Barrel is a cool name for an attack
@@aaronmorris3065 Yeah, I actually agree on that one. Plus it still holds with Luffy's tendency to name his attacks after weapons. You know, like the shotgun
The attack's names are good in both version...well,if somebody attacks me with a Chop Rice Cracker I would probably die from laughing
@@aaronmorris3065 Well, he IS a clown. That might just be what he was going for.
@@MoostachedSaiyanPrince I do like quite a few of the names of Luffy's attacks in the 4 kids dub. Double Barrel will always be my favorite since my mind went straight to shotgun and the attack is more akin to a shotgun blast than a bazooka.
It makes me mad how they changed that dude skin color
They say it is kid apropriate
They just dont like blackies
@@thedemoniacwolf5053 its because of possible blackface.. its America not Japan
@@tetsianjorin1111 ik its just a joke
this is actually one of the only instances where I agree with them because it could have been misinterpreted
@@RaheemKhan-px1uq yup sounds about right, they possibly dodged a bullet with that,
I love luffy's gum gum blast and double barrel attacks theyre so iconic
It's been like a year since this video came out and while it's amazingly done, I just wanted to pick out how disrespectfully they did Shank's voice. You take out english text, take out fighting, take out guns, but you should never mess with Shank's having a cool voice.
My god, some of these are just brilliant! Also, am I the only one that finds Shanks sounds like a hillybilly?
He made him sound Australian.
Sounds like captain Jack sparrow
More like ana Australian
This isn’t the Romance Dawn arc, this is the Romance Dawn, Orange Town and Syrup Village arc
This infuriates, I’m amazed this man managed to get through it
And how he was so chill
He’s probably dying inside
I mean, there's no reason to get mad anymore. The 4kids dub ended well over 10 years ago (even at the time of your original comment), with the Funimation dub long having overtaken it. At this point, I feel like it serves as an oddity of a bygone time (and an interesting demonstration of how much power editing has over a show).
Why I hate any censorship?
Here is your reason.
I'm very lucky I just finished the Alabasta arc before finding this series, so now I've caught up with everything mentioned and it'll make sense to me C:
So nobody talking about ZOLO?
I remember back in the day that was like one of the most controversial things to say EVER. If you went onto a forum and said "Zolo" people would lose their shit.
i mean it makes sense cause zoro is a trademark movie name or book or something so you dont want to get copyright sued aka have to settle out of court @@gallibon1319
Z O L O
@@razkable I'm not sure that someone could sue for the name "Zoro". For one thing, the popular masked character is named "Zorro" and even then, those stories are in the public domain.
Zoro: Yes let me upgrade my sword with a lollipop
5:36 it was so nice of that girl to give zolo some jelly donuts
And then 4kids Changed the donuts to cookies, even though donuts were already American enough (lol)
I think you left out the visual edit of Luffy's mouth actually having physical lip flapping while speaking as he breaks out of the barrel in the 4Kids dub. Otherwise, great job categorising all the changes!
and the scene where Coby hits his head on the ship after Alvida kicks him.
In 13:26 He forgot to mention that one of the Pirates was holding a pistol in the original version. While in the 4Kids dub it is removed.
Anime: shoots guy in head
4 Kids: It’s fine we’ll just say he’s sleeping
Gum Gum Bazooka may have been changed to avoid copyright issues with Bazooka Gum.