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. Ediitorial 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. 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 the Shonen Jump in the first chapter, and starting with volume 2, each volume comes with a double page color spread.

Sagas
List with the names of every One Piece saga in Ivrea Agentina's edition of the manga:


 * 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-TBA)
 * Saga Dressrosa (Volumes TBA)
 * Saga Yonko (Volumes 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.

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, censorship, but kept very close to the Japanese script in terms of specific names or places (Devil Fruit is "Fruta del Diablo" and the Marines are "la Marina" instead of "Fruta Maldita" or "Armada" that should be if they were translated from the 4Kids version's Curséd Fruit and Navy). 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, eyecatches 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.

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 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.

Voice Acting

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

Japanese subbed version
Since 2015, the streaming service Crunchyroll releases the episodes weekly with the japanese release with Latin american spanish subs.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.

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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