One Piece in Italy

Manga
In Italy, the One Piece manga is released by Star Comics and as of October 2008 the first 50 volumes and the two special Red and Blue have been released.

Anime
Italy could be the first TV Channel to broadcast ONE PIECE outside of Japan. The first 53 episodes are titled "All'arrembaggio", and from 54th "Tutti All'arrembaggio - One Piece". It is broadcasted since 2001 on Mediaset's Italia1 channel. The episodes are imported directly from Japan and dubbed by Merak Film.

Even if the quality of the voice actors is generally good, they often say wrong statement because of mistakes from the original dialogues. Especially in the first episodes, some names were changed to make them easier for children and the dialogue were changed and made "softer". The episodes aired on Italia 1 are edited because the channel may be penalized if they contain something that can scare a child and when it's not cut blood's colour is changed to brown, black or light red.

The first 195 episode have been aired from 2001 to 2005, then it was transmitted no more since July 2008, when Italia 1 decided to broadcast new episodes in the summer, that had been dubbed two years ago. But it had such a success that they didn't stop it and dubbed new episodes. Now the anime is planned to last until episode 400, with a new anime replacing One Piece when the episodes are over. Movies 1 through 7 have been dubbed and transmitted as well as well.

Characters, places and other name changes in italian anime

 * Monkey D. Luffy is called Rubber
 * Usopp's name is pronounced "Asopp"
 * The Grand Line is called Grande Blu (Great Blue)
 * The All Blue is called Cuore dei Mari (Heart of the seas)
 * Beli are called danari
 * The Devil Fruit are called Frutti del mare (sea's fruits)
 * The Den-Den Mushi was called Lumacofono (the same traslation used in the manga) from the first episode to the 195th, then its name was changed to "Radio-Snail".
 * Hatchan is called Octy
 * Kuroobi is called Blackbelt
 * Tony Tony Chopper is called Renny-Renny Chopper
 * Kureha is called Koreka
 * Hiluluk is called Hiruruku
 * Chess is called Scacco (the Italian for chess)
 * The names of some Baroque Works female agents (Miss Wednesday, Miss All Sunday, Miss Monday, Miss Valentine, Miss Thursday and Miss Friday) have been translated in Italian (Miss Mercoledì, Miss Domenica, Miss Lunedì, Miss Valentina, Miss Giovedì e Miss Venerdì)
 * Iceburg is called Iceberg
 * The CP9's name wasn't changed, but the 9 is pronounced in Italian (nove) and not in English
 * The Galley-La Company is called Galley Company