One Piece in the UK

In the UK, One Piece was previously broadcast on Toonami (A channel that was known previously as CNX before taking up the namesake of the programing block of the same name). They aired the 4Kids version (with all the edits made to the US Version) untill the end of 2006 after airing all the episodes produced by 4Kids.

There was no evidence that Turner UK had any intent to air the Funimation dub (a matter compounded by the Funimation version not being avaiable for purchace in the UK). It was largely believed that One Piece was canceled after Toonami UK, having suffered from failing ratings as a result of moving away from action cartoons (One Piece being one of the last action shows that aired on the channel), was replaced with CN Too, a more direct sister channel used to largely run reruns from the main CN channel.

However, as of the week of September 28 2009, One Piece has been rerun on CN Too, the channel that replaced Toonami, every day at 9pm, the rerun, which is using the 4kids version, some three years after 4kids lost the rights to One Piece, began at the end of the Drum Island arc and is airing two episodes every night. It is unknown if Turner UK has plans as towords airing the rest of One Piece using the Funimation version once the whole of the Alibasta arc is aired.

The Funimation version of One Piece is not aviable for viewing in the UK due to legal reasons and most of the Funimation video on demand services were heavily curtailed for British viewers after the first attempt to simucast One Piece resulted in a fansub of episode 403 being made available online before the episode even aired in Japan. This is a current issue of content for British One Piece fans.

The manga was one of the three Shonen Jump manga that was brought to the UK by Gollancz Manga as a reprint of the VIZ manga more suited to the UK market. However, the production of this version of the manga ended after the publication of volume 13 after Gollancz dropped the series. The manga is still available in UK stores, however the version now available in the UK is a direct import from America.