No, it was the FUNimation dub.
They aired the 4Kids dub up until Skypiea, which obviously wasn't dubbed by 4Kids so they just swapped over to Funimation's dub.
Posted on: March 10, 2013, 02:58:35 PM
No matter how good One Piece may be (Which it's really, no, it's not), those three anime are called the Big 3 for a reason. I'm sick of seeing them all over the place, and unfortunately, the cash cow those three are, they're not going anywhere. They're hurting the growth of other anime, because everyone goes on about those three and don't bother to watch anything else.
Sorry if I sound a little bit accusative with that but I'm running on 2-3 hours of sleep because I had to wade through two hours of Naruto, Bleach, Thundercats, and Sym-Bionic Titan reruns to watch any decent anime.
So you "waded" through half the block on a day where an hour was cut out? Sym-Bionic too, so you obviously weren't watching that closely, just to watch reruns, Space Tenchi starring not tenchi, and Soul Eater?
Good job mate. Your name makes perfect [tornado fang]ing sense now.
Sick of seeing them all over the place? Just Bleach and Naruto are really plastered everywhere, I've not seen a lot of One Piece stuff since it stopped airing on TV. Maybe in Japan, but not here.
Hurting the growth of Anime, maybe because Niche series are just that, if you want to watch those nobody's stopping you, but don't expect your favorite show to become Mainstream in the US.
Because everybody goes on about those three? Nice Strawman. Nice Generalizations, 10/10 would admire your opinion again.
And also, opinions. I personally enjoy One Piece, it has something of a... fun value to it. None of the other Big Three have that, and hell, Bleach may as well not even be one anymore since its pretty much over. Just not in the US.
They WERE called 4Kids. They WERE a children's dubbing group. They USED TO dub anime for CHILDREN. If you don't like it, that's because you're not a CHILD.
Pointless hate.
When they dub a series meant for a wider audience, this is to be expected.
When they take the advice of crazy soccer-moms who believe everything needs to be inoffensive and [parasitic bomb], you get 4Kids quality dubbing.
Then again we did get comic gold in the form of the Hammer gun whatever. But really, its a violent enough series that they shouldn't have tried their hand at it. Too much Blood and guns, Super Soakers aren't effective weapons and look silly.
Also made a few fixes, 4Kids is pretty much nonexistent now, they shut down their dubbing stuff and changed their company name even.