I'm a huge fan of One Piece, to the point where its basically just the only thing in modern fiction I care about anymore. I dunno, the story just really caught me over the years.
I heard all about the upcoming 4Kids dub in 2004 and about how awful it was going to be because it was heavily violent, and 4Kids didn't do violence. Even though the dub was getting a critical smashing from every side of the internet, something about it just kept making me want to give it chance after chance. I might have gotten through about 10 episodes of the dub, all of which were randomly chosen by whichever was episode was being rerun. The final straw came when Nico Robin debut, with her absolutely unnecessary cowgirl accent. All the voices were atrocious, in fact. Looking back, I just don't know how I could have stood them in the beginning.
Well, I'm glad I carried on, because I'll never forget that September 2007 day when I reminded myself that the new dub was debuting, and it was…. I was utterly speechless. Everyones voices were top-notch and matched.
I still read the Manga, but after the A++ quality of not only the dub of Enies Lobby, but the entire structure, I've decided this show simply needs to be seen on a television, not on a computer. So I'm just gonna leave watching everything for the dub. I have all the episodes up until Going Merry's funeral. The goal is for my children to one day experience this wonderful story, from beginning to end.
