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Maniac64 posted...

I wonder if 4kids One Piece gets in here. So much crazy poorly thought our censorship. Zoro being changed to Zolo. People being scared of cork guns and rubber hammers. A plot important whale being turned into an iceberg. A dead mom being "put in the dungeon" instead, and then presumably left there after the villains are defeated because the crew stay around for days afterwards and nobody mentions her, including her daughters.

Oh the show seemingly ending with the strawhat crew being killed by falling wreckage.

I dunno, I've always found the criticism of this dub to be slightly overboard. Like when you compare it to some previous dubs like Card Captor Sakura and Yu-Gi-Oh I absolutely feel like One Piece stayed truer to its source material, and that many of those changes had pretty decent reasoning behind them:

-Zoro/Zolo was a legal issue.
-Cork guns and rubber hammers are tonally consistent with Usopp's weapons, and if you straight up aren't allowed to show realistic guns I'm not sure what the other option is (YGO edited them out completely, for instance, so you had people threatening each other with their pointer fingers...)
-Nobody knew Laboon was important at the time (but this one was still a big error and shows why you shouldn't make cuts without really thinking them through)
-They 100% implied Bellemere died or was executed in the dungeon.

IMO the bigger issue here was the theme song that was off-putting to begin with and then got progressively worse each time a new crewmate joined.

but i'm also a big bad beetleborgs apologist so maybe my taste is just. bad.