The COMPLETE Censorship of 4KIDS One Piece

[@RantNavvTalksAnime]

Comment your favourite edit or censorship! Thank you to everyone who came with me on this journey. For those who are joining for the first time, I hope that you enjoy the video. I went through the pain of watching the 4Kids version of One Piece frame by frame so you don't have to, so please sit back, relax and enjoy the amazing and hilarious world of the One Piece 4Kids dub. How Funimation Censored One Piece | Part 1 is out NOW: kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqaxiGmPosdprKs

[@TRN-489]

do you want to know the stupidest or the most reasonable?

[@RantNavvTalksAnime]

@@TRN-489 Give me both! :D

[@BloodStainedOni]

Zoros voice actor casually screaming his lungs out against Luffy in whiskey peaks just got me crying

[@SONICX1027]

I’ll say this. You can look this up if you want, that Oda himself chosen the cast for the Funimation Dub. I’ll give him that

[@vlagamer3440]

Pirate rap it's cool, replacement Japan food to American is funny but gun removal is just a weird because as we remember 4kids one piece it was just a deal with toei and region limits on child shows was different so 4kids had something to do with too much blood and guns

[@Ultima1134]

Ain't no way they thought Kuina getting beaten up by a boy was better than her falling down the stairs 💀

[@Iris_1217]

Just like the idea of Bell-mere being... imprisoned in a dungeon forever (And then NOT saved after Arlong Park) is somehow "better" than being shot.

[@athrun2]

no, you see: it's a good thing they changed it! now no one dies! I mean, they replaced it with a girl getting beaten to the brink of death so bad she can never recover, and someone else getting thrown in a dungeon to die of malnutrition & neglect, but that's off screen. if it's off screen, it doesn't count. no one dies on screen, so it's better! but seriously, a simple realistic accident of slipping on the stairs to getting beaten so bad you're bedridden for the rest of your life. they made that soooo much darker

[@YupDock]

@@athrun2one piece is a joke and will always be a joke because of the stairs

[@Himiko_n_Uraraka_now_1]

​@@YupDock I can't tell if you're a hater or a One Piece fan.

[@AceWolf456]

@@Himiko_n_Uraraka_now_1yes

[@JayHeartwing]

"Zoro has the compass. He'll keep us on course." Vivi, what have you done?

[@TheMightyWobb]

and the strawhats were never seen again

[@Beardieboi173]

@@TheMightyWobbnah they made it to the one piece through pure luck

[@brandonstickels5435]

They sailed right through the 4th wall

[@Shadio_Speedruns]

@@Beardieboi173 nah they de-materialized and re-materialized where the One Piece is

[@atarashi1624]

zoro is truly scp 920

[@magnumbreakz]

4kids : oh look, a show with cartoony artstyle and lots of humor, a perfect fit for kids, let's pick this one to dub 4kids after 20 episodes and 50+ censors : we made a huge mistake

[@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0]

That's what they get for thinking "Animated" = "For kids." It was a huge waist of time that changed nothing. They censored guns, yet today we still have gun violence and school shootings, so...

[@dillets1090]

@@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0 well said

[@shamanicdude8605]

​@@VulpinetideCuteTimes0w0Almost as if censoring violent media has no effect on curbing actual violence out in the streets.

[@bumblingbriars]

Actually they didn’t want one piece at all lol. It came in a package deal with other anime iirc. You can find stories about it all over

[@sarcasticsuperjerk18]

@@shamanicdude8605If anything that censorship makes us more ignorant to it

[@Natsymir]

God, imagine working as an animator, but the only task you ever get is to make ridiculous changes to make a story worse.

[@lulana9545]

Imagine being the guy having to edit all the guns into finger guns or invisible guns on Yu-Gi-Oh, or the dude who had to edit all the hell shirts on dgbz xF😅

[@TheChamp820]

with that speech you will never boogie woogie again! -4kids

[@abbyamberhere]

4Kids choosing to downplay Luffy's first bounty is one of the most mistifying changes to me out of these. Do they want kids, who are watching a show where the main protagonist is a pirate, to not think being wanted by the government is cool?

[@shinycat1232]

They don't want it, but lowering his bounty doesn't make him less cool. He is a rubber man who uses his powers as skillfully as he can, more than any other character with rubber abilities or similar, so it's useless to lower his bounty.

[@venomgaming7014]

Wait, they changed luffy’s first bounty?

[@abbyamberhere]

@@venomgaming7014 They got rid of everyone's reactions to it except for Shanks, and cut part of his short.

[@nakimushi11]

That's the thing, given how overtly reactive and sensitive 4kids were, I don't think 4kids would have wanted to plant the idea to child audiences that being rebellious to the government is cool. I too don't fully understand their logic though.

[@johnmeehan7884]

​@@shinycat1232thats called plot armor, newb.

[@latexninja]

"When Trace wakes up, tell him it was fake magma". - 4kids Akainu

[@Moonkay-wr1zl]

"i gave whitebeard a blanket so he can sleep, and he thanked me with his cursed fruit powers!"

[@smugglefish8171]

If alternate universes exist, the only one I want to see is the universe where the 4kids dub got to modern day

[@jamescheddar4896]

Akainu: I banish you to the magma realm. Ace: NOOOOOOOOOO

[@alfalldoot6715]

Akainu: "You're going into the Magma dungeon"

[@TheIceLurker]

4kids made me consider One Piece as a huge joke for YEARS. It was so goofy and dumb I could never take it seriously even as a kid, it was only 10+ years later sometime in highschool I decided to give the One Piece anime a chance again because I would always peak at it after watching my weekly Shippuden and Bleach and wondered why and how it lasted so long. So glad I gave it a second chance, can’t believe they let a studio just ruin an anime like this.

[@aj2468]

Literally the same thing happened except like 15 years later for me 😭😭 nobody told me

[@kilderok]

Same. I came across the 4kids hunk of junk when I was around 16 or 17 and called it "One Piece of shit" until THANKFULLY a fews years later, my boyfriend in college screamed "NOOOO! WATCH THE SUB!! IT'S AMAZING!" after I dropped my aforementioned name for it when he asked me if I liked it, I just thanked him last week for introducing me to the REAL One Piece. I'm all caught up to this day and awaiting more Egghead arc every week. I'll be 39 next month. Sooo now I've been with this thing since I was Luffy's age and now I'm about to be one year older than Brook when he died. XD What a ride. 4kids ALMOST ruined that.

[@Soufriere84]

I consider myself fortunate I was clued in to the anime community at the time and learned about Funimation getting the One Piece license from 4Kids the day after it happened. If you weren't there, it's hard to conceive how much JOY rang out through every fandom. Even anime fans who didn't like (subbed) One Piece were happy. It felt like the Beast had been slain… We didn't know at the time 4Kids never wanted One Piece and was _legally forced_ by Toei to take it.

[@johnny44937]

Same here🤣

[@danielmcneill3521]

Took me nearly 20 years

[@wherethetatosat]

The thought process is truly baffling. Gum gum pistol? Too violent, can't reference guns. Hmmmm, bazooka is also too violent. Hey, you know what doesn't imply violence? _Double barreled shotguns_

[@kaminaura]

​@@beast_d_8230 did you even watch the video

[@wozthescott6214]

@@kaminaura what did the guy say?

[@dennyreyna3941]

We made a meme go so hard that we ripped thru the space-time continuum to the day the 4Kids localizing team chose Kuina's death to be caused by a student named Down D Stairs

[@ScottMiller-jv1se]

Deez stairs bro Deez stairs was always so funny to me I'm how._.

[@ScottMiller-jv1se]

Idk not i'm

[@IdkWhoPixelIs]

I like to believe that in the 4Kids One Piece world, there’s just one guy who goes around removing the signs of shops leaving them blank. Hence why they sometimes appear and reappear in the same episode.

[@Jogproof]

It's an old comment but it's the perfect role for Pandaman in the 4Kids world.

[@quagsiremcgee1647]

​@Jogproof pandaman is just skulking around, removing signs like 2 days before the straw hats show up.

[@Your4Local4Geek]

The funniest change, in my opinion, (not nessicarrily a censor but it's hilarious) is mihawks voice- the terrible French impression made me cackle

[@vinsmokefabulous7219]

I'm quite sure it's supposed to Spanish, but ok

[@Your4Local4Geek]

@vinsmokefabulous7219 ah okay- thanks for the info (Also I love your pfp sm-)

[@vinsmokefabulous7219]

@@Your4Local4Geek Thanks! This face just looked so derpy imo that I had to use It! Although I am planning to change It to something from Post Timeskip Perona later on...

[@Your4Local4Geek]

@vinsmokefabulous7219 she does look a bit zoned out lol Either way peronas great

[@user-gj7lp5iz6k]

"nesicarrily"

[@TheIceLurker]

1:38:30 No way this is an actual thing this is nuts and straight out of an abridged version 🤣

[@EntityxThreat]

FR had me rolling

[@TheSunIsADeadlyLaser90482]

boogie woogie woogie boogie woo make way for the Boogeyman🎶

[@Thejigholeman]

then out came a naval officer with a horn that sprayed the powder everywhere. he was the boogy woogy bugel boy from company B

[@UltimateGoober0]

“Meaning no one can find out I boogie woogie”💀💀💀💀

[@Gabex42]

B v . ​@@Thejigholeman

[@getgood9244]

Sanji’s voice in the 4kids dub is genuinely hilarious

[@39zack]

Its so bad its funny 😂

[@Soufriere84]

@@39zack The really insane thing is the same guy had voiced Xellos in the Slayers dub years earlier and no one really complained despite him sounding wildly different from the Japanese VA. But then Xellos is a very different character from Sanji -- David Moo was okay as Xellos but yes 100% he was a terrible Sanji. Eric Vale nailed it.

[@jessecomics]

He sounds like a New Yorker who has bronchitis

[@mp3plaertokooltospellkoolr931]

If anyone here has ever seen Yu-Gi-Oh abridged...it sounds exactly like Tristans voice lol

[@justahuman5333]

​@@mp3plaertokooltospellkoolr931 I was literally thinking this while watching thru the video

[@EvilGeniusRANIK]

Oddly enough I have an old online friend who had worked on the 4kids version of One Piece and I asked him if he knew why the sea was redone in some of the episode openings. According to him, it was because the opening episode title text for those episodes had the sea moving in the background and it was impossible to add a new still frame with the new texts without it looking weird. Other episodes had blank backgrounds so it was easy to either snap a frame and enter the new text fonts for the episode titles, or if needed, remove a few things from that shot. But the sea was everywhere around the original opening episode title text. So instead of looking amateurish by just taking a snapshot of the frame & not having the sea move behind the new English text, they opted to make a new 3d sea animation as a background drop for those particular episodes. Obviously after so much time went into that, they scrapped that approach for future episodes.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

Thank the gods for digital animation lauers.

[@BlackMage969]

The funny thing is that the Water guns the Navy use in the 4Kids dub would probably be more effective given almost everyone they target has some form of Devil fruit powers.

[@Diddyparty.]

Nah, not really remember, devil fruits are rare in the one peice universe. The avrage pirates have no devil fruits and just use haki and guns.

[@haymandisciple4121]

Nah, they only are affected by sea water and have to be 70% submerge to be affected. This was said by brook or luffy in a hot tub scene

[@fidemomos]

That's not how the devil fruit works, but is how Cocodrile works so it would be a great weapon against him

[@mapleleafmadeofdarkerice9018]

@@haymandisciple4121no salt also works as seen on thriller bark

[@caseydewitt6236]

​@@Diddyparty. I often forget Devil Fruits are considered rare since so many characters have eaten one.

[@Robeebert]

4kids edits just feel like a store manager having employees do meaningless tasks just so they can tell the regional managers that they were doing something.

[@itzwizory9556]

this just tells me that 4Kids is: 1. scared of reading 2. scared of Jesus

[@ItsB3enLikeThis]

Eh, I can understand a kids show wanting to keep out religious symbolism.

[@alfalldoot6715]

​@@ItsB3enLikeThisMihawk literally just had a cross guard dude 😭

[@Paracelsus.]

Jesus turned water into wine 4Kids turns wine into juice

[@i.t21b_alphonso_luis_vallejo]

Yeah they fck up everything, but brutalities from mk series will not change

[@Soufriere84]

To be 100% fair, THAT edit is par for the course for ANY cartoon airing in a "children's" timeslot. Same with smoking (the lollipop might have been less edit work and is also a neat unintentional shout-out to the detective series _Kojak_ -- its titular character always had a lollipop because he was an ex-smoker… "Who loves ya, baby?")

[@omegalilbchass8270]

bad analogy juice goes hard, fuck alcohol

[@jaycb_]

@@omegalilbchass8270 true but they mean juice is for children

[@DirkMcgee]

More like wine into piss

[@whole_wheat_soup9321]

WARNING: DO NOT BOOGIE WOOGIE WITH THE BOOGIE POWDER! YOU WILL BE LEFT WITH THE INABILITY TO BOOGIE! you have been warned

[@The300thloser]

real

[@TheFailedPhantom]

I like how canonically the ending of the 4kids dub has the straw hats dying to a falling ship

[@rifter4478]

This makes them seem like weaklings...

[@Deepfriedclown]

14:42 phew, that was close! almost had children knowing that cannonballs were dangerous

[@TheChamp820]

Yeah, and having zoro actually disappear with context 😮‍💨

[@blueorpheus5693]

I remember when the 4kids version started airing here in the states. I would catch episodes at random every so often, and I remember just hating this show! I could put up with Yugioh or Pokemon cheesy writing, but something about 4kids One Piece really irritated me more than the others. I remember watching an episode on toonami during the end of the Drum Island arc, and something seemed less annoying than the first time I saw it, not realizing it was the uncensored dub. 4kids ruined any interest I could have had in One Piece for almost 15 years! I was shocked when I heard how massively popular this show is and STILL on going. I started watching the series and now I’m committed to catching up one day! Currently at around episode 200!

[@D1sc0rd-]

To me One Piece is a kind of goofy you’re also meant to take seriously, but in the 4kids version they just do away with the seriousness and slap on another layer of uber goofiness to make it “4kids”. Which I of course think is so ridiculous because Avatar The Last Airbender was a show for kids, but also for everyone, it got into some seriously dark stuff but in a way that teaches you how to deal with and respond to tragedy and fear. Anyways keep it up. My best friend forced me to watch One Piece and I only did it because he was my bestie. My perception of it was similar to yours except I just had it in my head that I only liked a select few mature anime, Monster, Berserk, Attack on Titan etc. and that One Piece was probably the epitome of anime I didn’t like. But watching it and then catching up with the manga was one of the few best things to ever happen to me lol. It is just so profound and beautiful and wholesome. Please take my advice and if you are, stop looking up one piece content and if you ever see it click “not interested” if a video pops up so the algorithm doesn’t send you anymore. You WILL get spoiled if you give the internet any reason to show you one piece stuff. Even if you just want to google a name or something to jog your memory there’s a good chance it’ll show you a spoiler related to whatever it is you searched (given everything is so interconnected and there are very few one off characters and places).

[@quagsiremcgee1647]

The journey will be long, but it will be awesome.

[@blueorpheus5693]

@@quagsiremcgee1647 It’s a hell of a ride. Just got to episode 500 yesterday.

[@_Matt29_]

15:57 God forbid children will ever think of smiling

[@andrewcarter3419]

The most shocking thing to me is that at 12:21 they seemingly left in two buggy pirates playing five-finger-fillet/ the knife game. 4kids was wild

[@SalemZaphira]

40:30 Okay, I lost my shit at Zoro making chicken noises, that's gold

[@purplegaming_spirit7645]

yeah!!!

[@rigelc.hoffman2496]

Ghost Stories energy

[@elijahgrimm8052]

I think one of the biggest reasons that kids try to play out stuff they see on TV is because they don't see people getting hurt, or bleeding. They have no idea that hitting someone with a big stick like they saw on their favorite show might actually hurt someone. By leaving in the injury and the blood it does teach the kids that; yes, this is dangerous stuff and you can be hurt really badly. Don't do it.

[@Kairos_Akuma]

Yepp, thats what bothered me with Stuff like OP or DBZ - People seemingly beating the hell out of each other without any consequences. Thats an INVITATION for Kiddos to try it... Like you said. Blood and Injury shows that this is serious stuff.

[@fluffcake]

The 4kids years were crazy and hearing about this dub was the funniest thing ever. Guns were water guns, cigarettes were lollipops, Sonic was Usopp and all was safe in the world. Still baffling how they decided to kill off the straw hats after keeping them as safe as can be. Wonder how the VAs are, and what they think about the Live Action. Hope one day we can get a reunion.

[@alexthecat643]

?

[@johnnymasterson7530]

Some of the VA were pretty iconic for their time.

[@JohnSmith-ox3gy]

​@@alexthecat643Watch rhe 4Kids dub ending, it is summed up as "Rocks fall, everyone perishes."

[@thefilmwatcher1302]

Well, apparently David Moo retired from voice acting to become a bartender, and he’s actually doing pretty well.

[@stardmg]

Having Helmeppo think the Earth is flat makes no goddamn sense seeing as in a *sea-fairing* world like One Piece, literally everyone has been out on open water at some point, where you can literally see the curve on the horizon

[@abbyamberhere]

Funny enough, Oden mentions once how surprised he was to find out that the world is round, but that's because he's from a country that's been isolated from the rest of the world for centuries.

[@LincolnDWard]

Helmeppo is very sheltered and spoiled though, so maybe it makes sense?

[@ymirthemean7502]

Tbf is it any more insane then us having pictures of the world and people still thinking it's flat

[@AceWolf456]

Makes as much sense as any flat earther in this day too. We have planes, the shortest way to get from California to Japan is crossing the ocean. So yeah, I think it’s an accurate depiction of a flat earther.

[@shrubninja6444]

I work with a guy who thinks the world is flat, and he explains horizons by saying our eyes can only see so far. Like we're in a video game and stuff doesn't load in past your view distance settings. The fact that we can see stars kinda messes with that idea, of course.

[@Bellengard]

This series was such a fun watch! So interesting seeing all the changes they made

[@Jamlord2061]

the chakram being too powerful for an amateur hold is so funny

[@thedude3065]

I like how Mihawk just calls Yoru "this black sword"

[@Dwarfenthusiast1874]

Robin with a southern accent is sending me through the ROOF 😭😭😭

[@suspiciousastronaut4743]

Bro we Not gonna talk about Nami sounding like she’s fucking 13💀?

[@Dwarfenthusiast1874]

@@suspiciousastronaut4743 Robin doesn’t sound 13? She sounds like some of my older cousins bro 😭

[@suspiciousastronaut4743]

@@Dwarfenthusiast1874 I meant Nami my bad

[@TheChamp820]

“Meaning?” *meaning no one can find out I BOOGIE WOOGIED!*

[@kirinbobarcana]

Heres how i believe 4kids would have censored key moments for the rest of the series until wano. Enies lobby: the CP9 zoan members are actually minks who ate a unique human fruit. Lucci would sound British Sogeking would be renamed soapyking Franky would sound like Johnny bravo Robin doesnt want to die, instead, she just wants to give up on her dreams Thriller bark: people dont die when they lose their shadows, they just fall asleep. The zombies are just shadows Brooks backstory could be changed to where he was always a skeleton who went to explore an iceberg with his family and ended up being separated. Brook would sound like dr eggman Summit war: ivankov's devil fruit would not change peoples gender, but instead, give other miracles, with the risk of going into a coma. Kizaru would sound like jeff golblum. Instead of dying, ace would be injured, but macro is able to heal ace in time, and ace decides its time to retire and hangs out with Rayleigh. Whitebeard is forced to join blackbeards crew instead of dying. Two year timeskip: the fake strawhats are actually just a bunch of toxic fans who were on there way to a convention in sabaody. Nami would wear a shirt. Fake robin would offer chopper a hamburger instead of a pickle. Dressrosa: rebecca would wear a full suit of armor. The people get absorbed in the arena come back later after donflammingo is defeated. Bellamy would sound like tigger Don flamingo would sound like michal jackson The birdcage would only possess everyone and not kill anyone. Wholecake island: big mom's devil fruit just gives life to inanimate objects with no mention of soul energy. Instead of shooting sanji, Pudding would try to pull out a dart gun with sleeping powder. Sanji's backstory would be changes so that of judges children were grown in a lab, like melina, in order to make the strongest super fighting force. Instead of dying, judge just throws sanji's mom in the dungeon because, hes an asshole. Yonji would sound like eddy from ed edd n eddy Niji would sound like sonic Ichiji would sound like kaz from chaotic Reiju would sound like sarah from chaotic Judge would sound like king dedede. Wano: kaido's son yamato would still go by the pronouns she/her.

[@aspen0174]

agreed with most of these but i also think: - CP9 would still be zoans since the didnt censor pell and chopper. but they wouldn't be a government organisation (kids cant know about politics !!) and would be a separate organisation entirely. - lucci would have a badly done italian accent like how mihawk has a badly done french one. - people wouldnt die when they went in the sun after they had their shadows stolen, just turn invisible forever. - absalom is irrelevant and most scenes with him removed. (i cant see any way of working around his whole deal) which is good. i cant stand him. - any indication of bon clay, ivankov, inazuma, yamato and okiku being trans or in any way gender ambiguous would be removed (its just too confusing for the kids !!).

[@Pikachu2Ash]

Take a shot everytime he says the phrase "has been censored" :)

[@n00bxl71]

Using the youtube auto captions, i have compiled every instance of the phrase "has/have been [adjective] censored" using a regex, and there are 97 total occurences. With a conservative estimate of 30ml per shot, and 40% alcohol content, that would be 12ml of alcohol per shot. That would be 2.9 litres of whatever drink you choose, or about 1 litre of pure alcohol. With an overestimate of 5.5 litres of blood volume (more than the average person), would result in a blood alcohol concentration of 17.4%. That would make you very, very dead.

[@Soufriere84]

@@n00bxl71 I appreciate your math and thank you for it, but I must translate it into American so dumbasses like me can understand. SO… 30mL is just over 1 fluid ounce (a "mini" shot or 2/3 of a normal shot). 97 shots would be either 97 ounces OR, for full-shots, 145½ ounces. For reference, a US Gallon is 128 ounces -- just under 4L. In other words, by US reckoning you'd be drinking just over 3/4 of a gallon (as you say, ~3L). Very very dead.

[@Youcantcallmehelen]

Instructions clear: I am now dead due to alcohol poisoning

[@shadowolfkiller9337]

“oh look you shapeshifted into a dead guy”

[@jayh5840]

@@Soufriere84but we do use milliliters, it's on like every type of medicine you can buy. If people near you don't know how much a milliliter is you must live in kentucky or something lmao

[@epicdillweed]

So many of the edits were just pointless. Crazy how 4kids almost totally ruiened one piece. Good job Funimation for saving it.

[@Pinguini_42]

Actually wanted to watch the 4Kids dub myself after seeing your videos. Only knowing the original Japanese and German dub. Sooo, wish me lots of strength! Also. Thanks for your awesome videos, would be funny to see more videos showing off somewhat random edits and all like that. Heard Pokemon was pretty rough, too.

[@samuel-wankenobi]

Let me just say there are many reasons why funimation took one piece from 4kids if you watch you can immediately see why

[@eb2k445]

It was a fun ride watching your 4Kids One Piece videos and then seeing this finalized version of it. I’m happy you referred to it as the 4kids edit and not the 4kids dub. How I see it, dub implies that the only thing they changed was the language it was in. It doesn’t take a major One Piece fan to realize that isn’t the case with 4Kids’ version. The watching the 4Kids version of One Piece is pretty much the same as listening to the radio edit of your favorite song. You know how everything is supposed to go, but you know it can’t be that way because of standards and practices. I still don’t understand why the only Filler Arc they completely kept in was the Rukia Island arc. I thought the other filler arcs were taken out because the nature of those arcs added nothing to the plot and were only made so the anime wouldn’t outpace the manga. Lastly, I like that message you said at the end talking how 4Kids shouldn’t receive all the hate they got for censoring One Piece. We can definitely joke about how it was a bad move on their part, but we definitely should move on from this. I will say that the “What if 4Kids dubbed [anime]” parodies are really hilarious and do show how ridiculous their edits can get.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

Maybe not all the hate, but an ounce of forethought would have saved them quite a bit of trouble. so it's maybe partially deserved.

[@quagsiremcgee1647]

I love how they removed literally anything cross shaped. Very wacky. Also sanji's voice actor is certainly out there.

[@Johan23t]

I literally found your channel earlier today and just now finished watching all your previous videos. What crazy timing that you upload a new video the same day. 💀

[@RantNavvTalksAnime]

Glad you like my videos! 😆

[@The300thloser]

@@RantNavvTalksAnimereal

[@GokaiPlatinum]

4kids was in charge of the export that was licensed to other territories, so they made their version blank of most text so they could edit their own text or choose to leave it blank. Most territories imported it from 4kids, rather than Japan, because 4kids is the licensor, so they receive 4kids version. You can tell because the scripts are translations of 4kids texts and contain 4kids edits.

[@thealmightylightningpussy4357]

god praise germany for not doing this

[@Éga_Fr]

Which territories ? I can tell that in Europe we didn't had the 4kids version but the original, and I'm pretty sure that it was also the case for Asia.

[@GokaiPlatinum]

It depends, but Asia and some parts of Europe do get a version derived from the original as well@@Éga_Fr

[@Jaysterrr]

@@GokaiPlatinum The only dubs that used the 4kids dub as a basis was the Latin Spanish dub and Brazilian Portuguese dub

[@victor5953]

One of the reasons I began watching One Piece was that the only thing I knew about it was it was on the same channel as Sonic X at one time and when happened to catch an uncensored episode on Toonami Adult Swim, I really began wondering what changes they could’ve made to the show to make it “for kids”. I’m now caught up on the show and love the fact that there was once this version only. Thanks for making this series!

[@TRN-489]

the other reasons?

[@victor5953]

@@TRN-489 the one piece the one piece is real meme.

[@Foyay_Red]

This series is what got me into one piece and I would watch every video after I got their in the show, I was so sad when I finished the rainbow mist arc, it was a sad and happy feeling, currently I’m in the middle of punk hazard I just want to say this. THANK YOU MUCH

[@retroburst155]

Lol noob

[@Foyay_Red]

@@retroburst155 thank you so mixh

[@Tonjit41]

i'm caught up to the manga. you know the drill. enjoy :D hruefhjfrqeuifurheiwurhrjei

[@Foyay_Red]

@@Tonjit41 at this point, so am I. I have all the books (even the one that comes out tommorow), read every chapter twice and watched the whole anime. So clearly I did, thanks though :)

[@jayh5840]

If you are such a big OP fan idk if I would proudly announce watching and liking the 4kids version lmao

[@RedNumber19]

4 Kids on their way to remove 1 single wooden board from the scene at 13:21 of episode 67 for no reason

[@storycaster4181]

Perfect timing! I was just looking for something to binge.

[@RantNavvTalksAnime]

Always love a binge myself!

[@oooeee5556]

"Zolo has the compass, he'll keep up on course." Hmmm.

[@joj7869]

Thanks for all the hard work! My brother and I have always enjoyed this series and it is cool to see it all in one place now.

[@RantNavvTalksAnime]

Cheers mate, I thought I'd be convenient to have it all in one video plus I wanted to add some extra changes I missed and fix some mistakes!

[@DilvaSplunner]

Or..One Piece

[@olzhasvoltaris5692]

Hey RantNavv, did you know what’s 4kids planed to called Whitebeard? They want to called him “Ward Newgate”. Luckily they didn’t made it😅

[@kaydee66781]

Why? They seriously thought OP is gonna offend all the Edwards in the world?

[@dnmstarsi]

@@kaydee66781 Either that or they thought Ward sounded cooler. I assume that's why they renamed Fire Fist Ace "Trace Heat Fist".

[@DragonspineInfiniteZero]

you gotta wonder how shortening he hilt is censoring it when ALL SWORDS LOOK LIKE CROSSES

[@SammEater]

"Look, I can see their parachutes, they are OK." -Sabo after leaving Lulusia

[@cytheriaa]

2:16:07 without much thought, i am pretty sure they wanted to show that Hina cares for her subordinates instead of the original that she looks away for comedy reasons.

[@EazyMiguel]

i remember catching bits of this on 4kids way back. glad i never actually started the series until i was an adult. never knew they went to such lengths. it's comical

[@spiderlily723]

You know what's the hilarious part? The water guns kinda make sense, if you consider devil fruit weakness.

[@itz_july229]

youd really need a body of water for this to work not just getting them wet

[@Nico-711]

@@itz_july229I mean just getting hit by sea water has been shown to be pretty effective

[@Mr.Confusing]

True

[@_rakshas_]

​@@Nico-711According to Oda, a devil fruit user needs to have atleast half of his body submerged in ANY kind of water (not just sea water) for the weakness to kick in

[@maxspecs]

I mean, in Film Red, they’re able to weaken Luffy by dumping buckets of water on him so the water guns make sense.

[@gungy_vt]

I think the part where Sanji being removed as the crew is walking through Alabasta under the sheet is because Sanji walking around to begin with was due to him being an unknown member of the crew, giving him the leeway to not be hidden. But since so much got taken out, Sanji's phone calls, mystery, and the like weren't made clear so they probably felt like there was no justifying having him being the only human member to be walking around in broad daylight.

[@DrMechano]

I'm surprised you missed it, but "Cook it Up" wasn't originally from the Alabasta dinner scene. It was used in the cooking contest Sanji entered in Loguetown. They just repurposed this song for another scene later.

[@jayh5840]

Damn I just remembered when he beat that demented woman and won that huge ass tuna.

[@beeto45]

youre right; if it wasnt because of 4kids we wouldnt have even known about the existence of one piece...

[@artybrayden8882]

Zoro clucking like a chicken got me 💀

[@alfalldoot6715]

"Using the Mother Flame, we will teleport the kingdom of Lulusia into a giant dungeon." -Imu

[@elilopez6260]

The 4kids Strawhat Crew dying right after a filler arc is the funniest thing I've heard

[@maxspecs]

4kids just wanted to show what happens when you try and fight God.

[@user-gj7lp5iz6k]

your life must suck if that's the funniest thing you've ever heard

[@Koyu_Ruh]

Man. Shame that 4Kids didn't continue. I wonder how emotional Brook's promise towards the iceberg would've been!

[@D1sc0rd-]

I hate being drunk but 4kids one piece makes me wish i could get drunk and watch it for the laughs

[@JackOSergius]

20:45 It looks like they needed to paint out the japanese characters to replace the title, they probably didn't have access to a clean version. So they had to completely replace the water animation that was sitting beneath it, or they would've had to paint it frame by frame (which would've been worse/more work).

[@omniverse7976]

Genuinely, if 4kids had just realized that it wasn’t gonna be worth it to have to censor so much stuff for western audiences, they should’ve just stopped. They should have seen that this obviously wasn’t a show for kids, and was never meant to be one. At this point, the only thing the 4kids dub has done to one piece is make it seem so silly or stupid that a lot of potential viewers, now and then, have stopped watching it or never got the chance to. It’s now an ugly mark on the series that we can never be rid of and will never be forgotten.

[@sarysa]

Changing bazooka to double barrel is so weird. It adds a gun reference more or less, since bazooka/RPG has long since been considered kid safe. (probably because one isn't going to be lying around the house) Also, Bazooka Joe.

[@Sinfilled66]

Exactly what I was thinking. The same weirdness as changing Beast Tamer to Beast Breaker lol.

[@MsNecro]

I think it was rather disingenuous to not mention the 4kids not having to adhere to the US's regulations of Children's Television Act, FCC, and FOX. Also the requirements to have a required rating of TV-Y7 means they can only have mild fantasy violence which limits them a lot, and It is the major reason they had to make so many edits. If it was probably completely up to 4kids they probably would have just dubbed the shows and saved money on paying people to make so many edits each episode.

[@vixwashere7811]

48:26 "One of the biggest bounties ever" lol

[@Commander-peepers]

“They don’t call me chaser for nothing” lmao

[@ArgentCosmonaut]

Finally, a breakdown involving a piece of content that will not spoil anything to me.

[@TheMightyWobb]

The fact they gave Mihawk a Spanish accent really tickles me for some reason

[@techno_otaku]

I feel bad for any of those kids (like me) back then who had to fix the mandela effects of 4kids censorship Though in hindsight, it was pretty funny looking at it many years later

[@Benny-Arts]

I don’t remember anything from this show, but I can see why I never really got into it, and why I never got the urge to re-watch it in adulthood

[@crow3390]

i remember watching DBZ as a kid, blood gore, yelling, epic face punches. when i saw one piece at that age dubbed by these incompetent people I truly thought it was annoying and a joke of a anime. I was to young to know they censored it I just thought it was horribly made .

[@vinsmokefabulous7219]

Imo someone should make a series or something where they go over everything else starting with Jaya, and imagine how 4Kids would have changed it. I can already picture Punk Hazard doing something like this: "Aight, let's remove all scenes with this dismembered guy, let's then pretend that he was just under the snow and was digged out of it all in one piece!" Or something like that, I dunno.

[@RantNavvTalksAnime]

Funimation took over from 4Kids and produced a censored dub of Skypiea before going fully uncensored. I'm actually going to be releasing a video going over all the changes for that arc too, hoping the first of the series will be out late Jan, early Feb.

[@vinsmokefabulous7219]

@@RantNavvTalksAnime Yeah, but I mean, imagine certain arcs with the weird censorships applied, and the story changes that they would be forced to do due to some of the previous changes causing plotholes. That would be a fun thing to think about.

[@caseydewitt6236]

Sky Island probably wouldn't exist due to the angels and gods references. 🥲

[@shmobbin6501]

i grew up watching it on 4 kids way back in the day love this vid

[@jesusiskingofkingss]

editing one piece probably gave a lot of people a job for years

[@cheshirskiykotya6414]

Bro made a huge work for future generations. Ave!

[@Matt77889]

Some of them make sense but most of them feel like they had a certain amount of work to do so they just chose like 100 different scenes and started editing

[@Akursedtime]

Can you imagine if they were going to do Laboon, Brook, the War, FIsher Tiger and the Sun Pirates, Otohime and the Dressrosa arc. 😂 A lot of "They disappeared."

[@directorphobosrighthand9879]

How to punish a 4Kids Executive: Make them Dub Neon Genesis Evangelion, then watch them struggling in failing to salvage any episode after they had to edit almost everything of it

[@Zanjust]

My guess is they changed the water because it was easier to replace all the water so they can change out the episode title to English, rather than try to cover up and match the current water.

[@astra3310]

Ngl, dubbing One Piece to be less violent and more toddler friendly sounds like something you have to do after losing a serious bet you can’t weasel out of or take alternative punishment for bc. Holy shit. That’s a true torture from Hell itself.

[@romulusnuma116]

Helmeppo being a flat earth is cannon to me.

[@MrSpiritofFire]

i'm happy i didn't have the 4kids version 18 years ago when i saw the show for the first time (original OP/ED and no censorship)

[@boxedorloose1454]

Removing the top from the "cross-like structure" to refrain any references to religion they actually brought out a more accurate cruxifiction tool.

[@Registered_Google_User]

French Mihawk makes me violently angry

[@caseydewitt6236]

I didn't remember that from when I was a kid and it killed me watching this.

[@captainsinclair7954]

I had to double back at 2:21:20 when I heard “SCP.” I know the One Piece series is from before the first SCP articles were written, but I just like the idea that the foundation has a base of operations over in the One Piece world

[@Xitout]

I am... VERY GLAD i never grew up with the 4Kids version. As if the voices don't sound weird enough, these edits are so bizarre. I can't imagine watching that version whenever it first came out. Like, I did grow up with the 4Kids Pokemon, but at least I'm pretty sure that THEY at least didn't water down so many of the fight scenes.

[@denistoma6918]

They compleately ruined the Mewtwo movie tho

[@jjsdescriptions4807]

Everyone talks about how dumb 4kids was for editing out blood, but what I think is stupid is how in the original, characters seemed to magically recover from injuries very quickly

[@mezzyboy203]

the facts they made shanks Australian is so funny to me

[@tesladajira178]

I still need to know why did they cut so much content? They didn't pay the voice actors enough or...?

[@mi-ql3ip]

well its mostly censorship because 4kids focused one piece on being a kids show when it really isn't: you can also tell by the censoring of blood and wounds or anything explicit had been changed "for kids" to watch any bad behavior is also removed to avoid any influence

[@suspiciousastronaut4743]

@@mi-ql3ipit’s not even that. I’ve never watched the 4kids version but just from this video alone I can tell they tried making this a crazy generic kids show, with the voices, soundtrack, etc. it’s all made to the most generic 2000’s kids show ever. It’s embarrassing

[@LucyKosaki]

Regarding the water animation change: Both times it happened was over title screens. Maybe they didnt have a clean textless version and due to the complex computer animated water, it wouldve been impossible to edit the japanese text out without messing up the water animation. So they might've just opted to overlay a similar looking water animation to get clean footage.

[@jubileus4597]

That moment when the shadow realm, in Yu-gi-oh, never really existed. 4 kidz literally created the Shadow Realm to replace instances of Death. So whenever anyone said if you lose the duel, you’ll be taken to the Shadow Realm, in reality that was just saying that you’ll die if you lose the duel.

[@matthewrock4725]

I mean.....the term "Shadow game" was correct. And the penalty was mainly soul based torture, not simply death.

[@Electru522]

4kids would probably lose their minds over having to deal with One Piece today. Imagine them having to go through the horror aspects of Thriller Bark, the anti-government and geopolitics of Ennies Lobby, the human trafficking and slavery in Sabaody, the mere introduction of Boa Hancock, everything surrounding Impel Down and Marineford... ...and then literally every second of the show post time skip. Everything they censored has been turned up to 11 since they lost the license. They no longer exist as a company, if I recall, but I'm certain that any editors still watching the show are so glad they don't have to work on it anymore.

[@sinedddmk8996]

this is what youtube is good at. anyone can make any topic and with effort and genuinity, it can be entretaining. 2 hours, let-s go!

[@squarks5509]

Call me crazy, but Mihawk's sword with a smaller guard looks kinda dope.

[@dimitrijekulak4874]

You are crazy

[@squarks5509]

@@dimitrijekulak4874 fair.

[@Tacobeibzz]

No I actually kinda like it

[@TuniwCat]

If i ever watch the 4kids version of One Piece, know that it is for only one reason: hearing Zoro making chicken noises.

[@mutaku4287]

I remember binging all of these videos a while ago whilst doing some work still really interesting

[@jacksonflint4361]

It's all here in one video! Gonna be a lot easier to binge now

[@miffedakko9312]

Those weird little interludes they do during Drum Island and Alabasta are weirdly useful and informative when separated from the episodes.

[@Ojdaweedmane]

4 kids is a dumb concept imo. Either let the kids watch the original content or make them wait til they are older.

[@SilentShadow269]

One word; MONEY