One Piece in Singapore

Manga
The simplified Chinese version of One Piece in Singapore is licensed and released by Chuang Yi Publishing. As of 6 April 2010, 57 volumes of One Piece have been released. Typically, new volumes are released in Singapore between one to two months after the volume's release in Japan. To date, Chuang Yi Publishing has already published a few Data books, namely One Piece Red, One Piece Blue and One Piece Yellow. However, they retain their original language in Japanese and is not translated. There has not been any publications of Color Walks to date.

Anime
In 2003, Odex bought the Singaporean license for One Piece. They dubbed a couple of epsiodes themselves though this version was tested and disliked so it has never be broadcasted. A second, more well known dub, was produced with the now defunct business, Unlimited Productions. This version features Chuck Powers as Monkey. D. Luffy, Brian Zimmerman as Roronoa Zoro, Alison Lester as Nami, Jamie Meldrum as Usopp, Joe Murray as Sanji, Emlyn Elisabeth Morinelli as Chopper, and Natasha Malinsky as Nefertari Vivi and Nico Robin.

Trivia

 * This dub was created before the 4Kids dub.
 * The series was dubbed in two 52-episode seasons. It was canceled after episode 104, but the TV broadcast ended at episode 78, and VCD sales were not enough to allow Odex to afford licensing more episodes, so they only released the episodes they had licensed.
 * Some of the original VA left during the production of the second season, meaning that they were replaced by the other main cast (Chuck played Usopp after Jamie left) or played by a new VA (Paul John Pistore played Sanji after Joe left).
 * Nami was played by three different voice actresses during the dub's run: Alison Lester voiced her for the first season (52 episodes), Chio-Su Ping voiced her until around episode 67 where Cindy Creekmore took over until the dub ended at episode 104.
 * Some of the actors went on to play other characters in American dubs (Elisabeth Morinelli, who plays Officer Jenny in the Pokemon USA dub of Pokemon, played Tony Tony Chopper in the Odex dub of One Piece, and Natasha Malinsky, who voiced Robin and Vivi in the Odex dub, played additional characters in the 4Kids dub of Winx Club). In addition, Nami's third Odex voice actress, Cindy Creekmore, has had live action roles in America in shows such as "Friday Night Lights".
 * Originally, the series was going to be released on DVD. However, the TV airings backfired and the deal fell through. So, it was released on VCD instead.

Links

 * The Going Merry's Shipping Dock - A site that features in-depth info about the Singaporean dub of One Piece plus interviews with some of the voice actors. However, the dub has been inactive, stopping around Episode 78 of the official anime.