One Piece in Taiwan

One Piece is now the most popular manga and anime in Taiwan. In Taiwan, both manga and anime use the Chinese name 「航海王」 ("King of Navigation") (old name: 海賊王，"King of pirates").

Manga
One Piece was first introduced as "海賊王" in 1997 by Da Ran Culture (大然文化), serialization in weekly magazine called 熱門少年TOP. However, as bankruptcy of Da Ran Culture in 2004, manga licence switched to Tong Li Publishing (東立出版社) now, as well as name changed into "航海王". Tong Li Publishing also has weekly magazine called Taiwan Junior Magazine (寶島少年) which One Piece continue serialization in.

Anime
The Taiwanese Dub of One Piece began to air on TTV (台灣電視公司) around 2005. TTV dub on early days is uncensored. However, due to public concern about smoking, TTV contained mosaic on smoking screen in 2009. Taiwanese Dub also aired in Star Chinese Channel(衛視中文台). Taiwanese Dub is usually very close to the Japanese version (usually 5 or so episodes away from the current Japanese episode). The special crossover episodes 492, 542 and 590 were skipped. All of the movies have been dubbed in Taiwanese as well.

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One Piece à Taïwan 航海王在台灣