User blog comment:Grievous67/The best and worst dubs of One Piece (Top 16 dubs)/@comment-972068-20150902041125

I honestly don't think anybody can properly criticize or praise any dub that isn't the language they grew up with. I like listening to the Japanese voices, but I can't really say anything more than that. I don't understand the language, the culture, or even the accents. All I could really say is that it probably represents the characters the closest, since it's where they came from. I don't know if there's any truth to that, though.

I think the German dub sounds cool. I don't know if it sounds GOOD or not, because I don't live in Germany. Same with the Spanish dubs or the Portuguese dubs, etc. I know nothing about voice acting with these places, so I can't really say anything about them except for what I personally enjoy listening to, or what's really annoying to listen to. Luffy's Japanese voice sounds fine to me. Then again, she could be very annoying to Japanese viewers. I wouldn't know because I'm not Japanese.

Having said that, FUNimation dub trumps all English versions. This is almost objectively. The 4kids dub, as cringe-inducingly altering as it was, occasionally had some decent voice castings (like Zolo or Robin). The Odex dub is dead last, but it has charm in how silly it can sound. Ever played any Playstation game in the 90's? It sounds like that.