One Piece in Brazil

Manga
The manga was successful in Brazil, first published by Conrad Editora from 2002 to 2008, when Conrad had financial issues and canceled a lot of their current publications. The manga stopped in the middle of Water 7 arc until volume 35 (70 in the publisher's counts; each issue corresponded to half an original volume under Conrad), which notably was Franky's debut; however, in 2011, Panini Comics adquired the rights to publish the manga in Brazil again in 2012. They published simultaneously the series from the start, and continuing from where Conrad had stopped, this time publishing full volumes; as such, publication resumed from Volume 36. In 2014, Panini also released the first databook, One Piece Red: Grand Characters, followed by One Piece Blue in 2014, One Piece Yellow in 2016, One Piece Green in 2018, and One Piece Blue Deep in 2019.

Anime
The Brazilian version of the One Piece anime premiered on Cartoon Network Brazil in 2006-2007 and is based off of the 4kids version, which features much visual censorship, but kept very close to the Japanese script in terms of specific names or places like the Latin American Spanish dub. Since the Brazilian fans criticized the One Piece Rap, SBT (second channel to broadcast the series) changed the opening and ending for Brazilian versions of "We Are" and "Memories" (wich were first used on the DVDs), but kept the 4kids cuts. Only 52 epsiodes were broadcast in Brazil before the dub was canceled (as far as the Drum Island subplot within the Alabasta arc).

The Brazilian Portuguese dub was made by Brazilian ADR studio called DPN Santos, which called Japan Brazil Communications (JBC for short, a Brazilian publisher that releases manga and other publications directed at the Japanese-Brazilian community) to handle the adaptation. The studio did a good job, which was obscured by the shortcomings of the 4Kids version; besides that, all names, attacks and places were translated directly from the Japanese with a few exceptions, such as Hachi often being called "Octopus" and Luffy being called "Ruffy" with an R (consistent with Conrad's translation), but oddly, some dub errors that came from the English version were kept, like Gol D. Roger being "hung from the gallows".

Some episodes were released in DVD by Playarte, with both versions (4kids and original) of each episode included. Oddly, the original version did not had a dub, just Japanese audio and Brazilian Portuguese subs, probably because they did not have an uncut dubbed version in these DVD, but they cancelled it after the episode 32 (31 in the dub).

In 2012, with the republication of the manga, Toei had plans to re-launch the series dubbed in Brazil. However that didn't happened that time. Only in 2018, Daniel Castañeda, wich is one of Toei Animation's licensing directors, said they would redub the series in brazilian portuguese and latin american spanish from the first episode again. Months later, the redub started, with the ADR Studio being switched from DPN to UniDub, wich also is located in São Paulo city. Most of the old actors were called again to make auditions, but many recasting choices happened. Luffy now would be voiced by a woman, when he was dubbed originally by a man. From the main characters, only Wendel Bezerra, the voice of Sanji, and also one of UniDub's owners was kept in the character. Oddly, many actors who did the old dub also participated of the new one, like Samira Fernandes, who dubbed Nami in the first dub, and Nico Robin in the second one.

Also, Crunchyroll streams the anime legally in Brazil since 2015. They have all the episodes avaliable in their plataform.

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