One Piece in Russia



In Russia, the One Piece Manga and Anime rights are owned and distributed through the popular Manga publisher, Comix-ART. While the title of the manga and anime are adapted from "One Piece" to "Большой Куш" (Jackpot). The show premiered in 2012 and is currently airing on 2x2 channel. The DVD releases are planned, but the exact dates are not known yet.

Russia
In May of 2011, the Manga publisher, Comix-ART purchased the rights to both the Manga and the first 62 epsiodes of Anime for Russia and surrounding countries such as Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The first Manga release was on 13 February 2012.

The Anime was aired on Russian television with a Russian dub in 16 April 2012. While DVD releases are currently planned for the future, no tentative dates have currently been set.

It is planned to show the first 62 episodes to the end of summer, after that there will be a hiatus for summer, and the airing will be restarted starting from 1 September 2012 until the 130th episode.

Anime
All the anime, including openings and endings, are going to be dubbed into Russian, according to the official representative of Comix-Art. 

Names
Bigger part of characters names were left unchanged, but till now, there were few names, those were changed:
 * Nyaban Brothers is translated to "Братья Мяубан" [Brat'ya Myauban] (Since "brat'ya" is Russian for brothers and "myau" is russian version of sound cats make).
 * Buchi's name is translated to "Пестрышь" [Pestrysh'] (Russian for mottled)
 * Sham's name is translated to "Сиам" [Siam] (Russian for Siamese)
 * Tamanegi's name is translated to "Лук" [Luk] (Russian for onion)
 * Ninjin's name is translated to "Морковка" [Morkovka] (Russian for carrot)
 * Piiman's name is translated to "Перец" [Perets] (Russian for pepper)
 * Chew's name is translated to "Чмок" [Chmok] (Russian version of sound of kissing)