One Piece

Thanks for bringing them back! Now I can get more friends hooked on the show!   See 4 other replies

From what I'm seeing, the episodes done by Funimation aren't editing out anything. 4Kids was terrible about it, but that's 4Kids, so... If you want to be sure you're not missing anything, google "fansub one piece" and you'll probably find a ton of torrents. Lots of groups use at least two formats as well - lower rez and higher rez. My system is kind of old so I had to switch back to the lower rez episodes, as the higher rez kept skipping frames or freezing for a few seconds. Very distracting.   See 9 other replies

Well, it's hard not being biased, especially on a topic that is totally opinionated. As for the manga becoming total crap, that will probably continue to be crap until they get better writing/ideas, or the whole thing just stops making money.   See 38 other replies

Actually, I haven't seen any translation or dubbing of One Piece that reversed the names. Even the 4Kids translations had Luffy's name as Monkey D. Luffy.Having watched about 300 episodes of fan translations of episodes, Funamation seems to be doing a competent job with their dubbing (though it's still amusing to hear the english phrase "Gear Second" and read "Second Gear". The subtitle may be grammatically correct, but it's just slightly weird).Does Troei or Funamation edit for content? To me it would seem like they don't given the amount of discussion they've included about "queers" and the "queen of queers" but having never read the mangas, I have no idea.As for the episode previews, so what? Do you really need to know what's coming next that badly? Given that the manga is ahead of the anime, it does seem a bit unnecessary for the anime to give previews. Having said this, I know that the preview was edited out, given that all the episodes that I previously alluded to (which were direct from Japan) had the preview.I concur about the expiring videos. That really blows. A lot of the other anime shows on Hulu don't remove videos. Naruto, for example, has kept every episode up.   See 9 other replies

These are the silliest responses I have ever gotten. Mashed up three different topics and mooshed in a couple of strange statements to boot.One no preview. Did they stop adding a preview in Japan? Two expiring episodes. Are these being shown on HULU? Is there a good reason to not want have them stay around longer? Three Are they reversing the names so that they are given first name then last name or do I have that wrong? Fake evangelizing support posts is why NOfunamation sucks the most. And that kind of stuff never goes any place good."I'm still surprised people believe FUNimation is the same company it was when it started..." The consistent use of keigo now, that would shut me up ;)Go back to Canan... :-P   See 9 other replies

One Piece is written consistently betterNaruto has gotten better with the current manga and Bleach at least seems to show a glimmer of hope in getting better, Kubo wastes so many panels with just staring and movement with little to no dialogue.Right now metaphorically, One Piece is the meat and potatoes while Naruto and Bleach are just side dishes.   See 38 other replies