Initially the concept of death was never directly referenced at all, although later episodes were more lenient. Virtually no deaths are shown or mentioned, regardless of their importance to the plot, and the deaths of characters such as Bell-mère and Kuina were written out of the story. Ī Funimation representative would later confirmed some of the need for TV censorship when they aired One Piece on TV, stating that toning down the violence and removing cigarette and alcohol consumption was a requirement for the series to be broadcast on Cartoon Network. Part of 4Kid's production process involved sending footage and scripts to American television networks for review, dictating which elements would be altered for the English version. Their version of the series had to comply with the standards of their demographics of ages 8–13 as well as the rules set by the TV networks airing the series. 4Kids reportedly licensed the series based on its merchandising potential and success in Japan without looking at the content of the episodes themselves in detail when 4Kids staff watched the series, they were shocked at how much unsuitable material they found but had already committed to localizing the series. In Japan, early episodes of One Piece aired at 7:00 to 7:30pm. Ultimately, 4kids produced 104 English-dubbed episodes from the first 143 Japanese episodes, being discontinued at the start of the Jaya Arc. The dubbing of new anime lessened, and 4Kids announced on Decemthat they had canceled production of their One Piece dub and dropped the license. The company as a result later dropped a few shows including one of their biggest earners, Pokémon. A fall of profit was blamed on the shortfall of several of their dubbed licenses such as Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh, although One Piece and several other licenses they held were said to offset the results. On March 16, 2006, 4Kids announced plans to concentrate only on their fully-owned properties. However, on January 2, 2006, the series was announced to be continuing on February 11. On NovemOne Piece (along with Mew Mew Power, another 4Kids series) was reported missing from the 4Kids line-up. Despite Kahn's earlier statements, Viz were unable to release an uncut version as they were not involved with the dub's production. The American home video rights to the series were sub-licensed to VIZ Media, who began releasing the edited version of the series on DVD in February 2006 with "English TV Version" specified on the DVD covers. In an interview on Ap4Kids CEO Al Kahn suggested that One Piece, along with every other 4Kids property, would receive an uncut DVD release, and added that anime fans would "have to accept the fact that it's going to be available in two styles". In the UK, Toonami announced that they had acquired the series on Novemand began their broadcast on April 23, 2005. Cartoon Network announced their acquisition of the series on February 16, 2005. The One Piece anime debuted in America on the FoxBox TV block (later known as 4Kids TV) on September 18, 2004. On August 14, 2004, the first trailers were released. Grossfeld, the president of 4Kids at the time, was the executive producer of their English version of the series. On June 4, 2004, 4Kids announced they had acquired the television distribution and merchandising license for One Piece in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.
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