Forum:Why One Piece is not as very popular as Dragon Ball or Naruto in Western?

As we all known,One Piece is dominant popular in Japan,but not in Western.Is it because of the pirate culture aesthetic fatigue?the ninja culture is more attractive to the Western?Or just because that the the censored manga and anime make it lost cream?

BakaKidd 21:01, July 21, 2010 (UTC) well if you ask me it's not poular because some of the other manga came out before it. so the other manga became more popular. also other manga like death note became popular. you know wat i mean?

Is One Piece still currently the most popular manga/anime series in Japan today? Its been so long since I last checked...

Chopperdude 02:58, July 22, 2010 (UTC)

I believe it is because of the botched dub along with lack of advertising esspecially advertising that is appealing cause everytime i show someone a one piece amv there just like THIS IS WHAT ONE PIECE IS and are generally really shocked at how cool it is Aba1

Kinda agree that the reason that One Piece is as popular in the West as Naruto and others is because of the presentation and distribution by certain companies most notably 4kids. For series like Naruto, they were presented and distributed by companies who saw that such series were much more than simple cartoons. Its just our luck that One Piece was picked up a company who saw only drawings and a cash cow instead of a story. Its really sad and really ironic. Series like Naruto seem more eastern in nature, what with ninjas. One Piece on the other hand, is more western, if not more international, in nature, what with a lot of pirates who are mostly based on European archetype and design.Mugiwara Franky 17:38, July 23, 2010 (UTC)

While presumptious, i think there are a number of reasons for the lax relation between western anime watchers and one piece. 1= One piece is a very long series, and many western anime watchers are not dedicated to spending a lot of time trying to catch up on 500+ episodes or 600 manga chapters. They have all probably been introduced to anime through other long series first, and had as such, iether not known about one piece, or decided not to split fandom between two popular and potentially super animes. 2= Not many anime watchers of the western hemisphere are true "otaku." if you know what this means, you probably consider yourself to be a proud otaku. Fandom based in the west is not reliable to truely great anime, but rather what has been going on a long time. In the west it is popular television practice to bleed a series dry in this manor. 3= They are all jerks who don't apreciate the originality and beauty of the relations found in Oda's work. --Jety Lefr - 09:20 PM, July 29, 2010

I think it's because people either watch the English dub (Which they really screwed up by the way) so they thought it was a stupid show, so dont watch that version. Perhaps maybe they were put off by the art style. I really dont see it being a big deal, you shouldn't judge something just by the way it looks. Kinda like saying a game sucks because it doesn't have good graphics is a good point. MegaFan 18:08, August 13, 2010