While One Piece's modern dub is faithfully adapting the anime, its original 4Kids dub ended the series early with an incredibly dark moment.
Although One Piece doesn't seem likely to end any time soon, its original English dub did feature an ending... and it was incredibly dark. This dub was done by 4Kids Entertainment, the same company that localized series like Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokemon. In both of those other shows, the 4Kids dub has been criticized for censorship and One Piece was no exception.
While One Piece may have a cartoonish art style and silly characters, the series can get pretty dark and violent. This clashed with 4Kids' goal of marketing the show to children, and thus they made a variety of changes both minor and major. Some of the minor changes were more silly than harmful, such as Sanji's trademark cigarettes being transformed into lollipops.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT 4Kids' Dark One Piece Dub Ending Completely Changed the Story Of course, crafting a satisfactory ending to One Piece in the middle of its story is no small feat, so 4Kids had to get creative. As there wasn't really a good way to bring the series to a satisfying happy ending, the dub took a much darker approach.
This perversion of One Piece's core messages was likely largely unintentional, caused by a need to wrap up the story part way through with some kind of closure no matter what it was. But deliberate or not, the 4Kids dub's dark ending is still deeply disappointing and ironic. Luckily, now that dub fans have the much more faithful Funimation dub to watch, One Piece fans can look back on 4Kids incredibly bleak ending and laugh instead of lament.
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