One Piece in Latin America

Argentina
The One Piece manga was orignally being published in Argentina by LARP Editores, since 2009, with erratic publication periods. Unlike other manga titles, LARP decided to translate some battle techniques of the characters to english, some others to spanish and keep others in japanese (with translations added as subnotes), depending on the context. In June 2018, with the release of the volume 42, the publisher announced that they had lost the rights to keep publishing One Piece in the country.

However, that same month Editorial Ivrea, the biggest manga publisher in Argentina, acquired the rights to publish the series. Editorial Ivrea's edition started it's run in August 2018, releasing two volumes per month: one restarting the series from volume 1 and another continuing the numbering of the previous publisher from volume 42. On June 2nd, 2023 was released the volume 41 finishing the reprint of the volumes released by the previous publisher. Unlike LARP's edition, the new one has a dust jacket and a graphic design in order to match closer to the original Japanese volumes. Like the Viz media version, Ivrea uses the name of the Saga in each volume (East Blue, Alabasta, Skypiea, Water Seven, Thriller Bark, etc). Ivrea's release of the first volume includes the original color pages from Shonen Jump in the first chapter, and starting with volume 2, each volume comes with a double page color spread.

On September 2nd, 2022 Ivrea released the short story collection Wanted by Eiichiro Oda to anime convention Anime-con Argentina 2022 exclusively to attendants.This version has a metallic effect on the volume logo. Later that year on December 8th, 2022 was the release of the regular edition on all retailers.

Sagas

 * Saga East Blue (Volumes 1-11)
 * Saga Alabasta (Volumes 12-23)
 * Saga Skypiea (Volumes 24-32)
 * Saga Water Seven (Volumes 33-45)
 * Saga Thriller Bark (Volumes 46-50)
 * Saga Guerra de Barbablanca (Volumes 51-60)
 * Saga Isla de los Hombres-pez (Volumes 61-66)
 * Saga Punk Hazard (Volumes 67-70)
 * Saga Dressrosa (Volumes 71-TBA)

Mexico
In Mexico, the manga was originally published by Editorial Toukan but stopped after the release of eight volumes. These volumes corresponded to the first four Japanese volumes, with each being split in half for the Mexican release.

Panini Comics México restarted to publish the manga in 2014, and as of March 2020 their releases cover up to volume 62. Panini keeps Japanese terminology like the word "Nakama" and the technique names. In February 2020, Panini licenced the first Guidebook, One Piece: Red, scheduled for release in June 2020. In July 2020 the second guidebook, One Piece: Blue was announced, release scheduled for september 2020. The third guidebook One Piece: Yellow was released in June 16, 2021. The fourth guidebook One Piece: Green was released in October 14th 2021. The final guide One Piece Blue Deep was released in April 6th 2022.

In July 2021 Panini announces the volume Wanted by Eiichiro Oda, which contains the Pilot chapter of One Piece.

Every publisher keeps the special features like the SBS section and author's commentaries.

Rest of Latin America
Panini as one of the biggest manga publisher, started to import the mexican edition of One Piece in other countries of the region. The volumes are the same as the mexican Release, including traslation and characteristics of the books. In Colombia the release started in October 2017, in Chile in December 2020 and the release in Peru is scheduled for early 2021.

Digital
With the release of Manga+, the official Shueisha's plataform for manga in the West, every new One Piece chapter is available in spanish for all Latin America. The translation is made by the Panini Mexico's Staff. Only the three first and the three last chapters are availables. Also is being released from the start by the title "One Piece Re-Edition", with new chapters released every week. Only the first three chapters and the last seven released are availables.

4Kids Version
The Latin American Spanish dub of One Piece was broadcast on Cartoon Network LA in 2006-2008 and was based off of the 4Kids version, including censorship, but kept very close to the Japanese script in terms of specific names or places (for example, Devil Fruit is "Fruta del Diablo" and the Marines are "la Marina", instead of "Fruta Maldita" or "Armada" respectively). Oddly enough, when this dub aired on Televisa 5, it featured a dubbed version of "We Are" and "Memories" (as the CN version aired the Latino version of the 4kids rap) but still featured the 4Kids cuts. All 104 edited episodes from 4Kids Entertainment were broadcast in Latin America.

Netflix Uncensored Redubbed Version
By the time of 2020, the series is still being dubbed in Latin American Spanish by the Mexican studio Labo, keeping several of the actors used in the dub of the 4Kids' version.

The Labo's One Piece version was released in Latin America on October 12th 2020 in Netflix with the first 61 episodes.

The translation is directly from the Japanese version, and most of the names of techniques and terms (like Devil Fruits names) are translated to Spanish.

Only narrations are dubbed in openings and endings, lyrics are kept in Japanese. In addition, eyecatchers are cut, due to the lack of commercial breaks. By early March 2021 new episodes were released, until the end of the Arabasta arc, at episode 130. In May 22th 2022 the Skypeia arc was released. With new episodes scheduled to be released in June 22th 2022 and July 22th 2022.

In May 9th 2022 the first 130 episodes were released in HBOMax available in all Latin America with the Netflix Dub.

Other projects
In 2018 it was announced that the movie One Piece Film: Gold is being dubbed with part of the original cast, and its release was scheduled for November 2018, the film had some delays, but it was finally released on February 1, 2019 in Mexico. The theatrical release in Argentina was scheduled for november 18th 2021. Then, One Piece: Stampede was released in argentinian theaters in november 25th 2021. Names, techniques and most terms are kept untranslated. At the end in 2018, in an interview, Toei confirmed that he would bring the anime in 2019 to Latin America through a streaming platform and will come with Latin American Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese dubbing directly from the uncut Japanese version.

In February 15th 2022, the 8th movie was released in Netflix with the series new dub cast, with the title One Piece: Episodio de Arabasta.

In March 12th 2022, the 10th movie was released in Netflix, with the title One Piece: Strong World.

In March 21st 2022, the 13th and 14th movies were released in HBOMax with the Netflix Cast, with the titles One Piece Gold and One Piece: Estampida.

In April 15th 2022, the 12th movie was released also in Netflix, with the title One Piece: Z.

The 15th film One Piece Film: Red released on theaters on Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Paraguay, Republica Dominicana and Venezuela on November 3th, 2022 both on dub and subbed versions. The film was released on Amazon Prime Video on May 26th, 2023 for all Latin American countries, also in both dub and sub.

Voice Acting

 * 4Kids TV Version
 * One Piece Film: Gold
 * Netflix uncensored redubbed version

Japanese subbed version
Since 2015, the streaming service Crunchyroll has released the episodes weekly, in line with the Japanese release. The entire series and many of the specials are available in the service.

Aside from the dubbed version, Netflix is also streaming the episodes in subbed Japanese, with the first 130 episodes released by early March 2021.

Live Action
The One Piece live action series is scheduled to release on August 31st, 2023 on Netflix.

Spanish version
Iñaki Godoy will dub himself as Luffy for the Latin American version.

Georgina Sánchez and Dafnis Fernández will return to voice Nami and Zoro.

Mireya Mendoza is set to direct the dub.

Merchandising
In March 2018, the collectibles company Salvat announced an official One Piece's figure collection in Argentina. The collection consists in over 40 PVC figures, each one includes a magazine with data from the series and a poster. The figures are 4.5 cm to 10 cm height.

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