One Piece in Italy

Manga
One Piece is released in Italy by Star Comics since 2001. The serialization is generally behind the original one by three volumes and as of February 2023 it reached volume 103. The five specials Red, Blue, Yellow, Green and Blue Deep have also been released. So has been released Wanted! and the first two color walks. Star Comics, since 2008, started a reprinting edition called "One Piece New Edition" which reached Volume 81, the new edition keeps the original logo, add extra content like Oda's sketches as well correcting major translation mistakes.

The original title is deliberately in Latin and upper-case characters, but outside Japan the most common title chosen is "One Piece", Star Comics follows this choice as well.

Anime
Italy is one of the first nations (like China for example) to have broadcast One Piece on a TV Channel outside Japan. The first 53 episodes are titled "All'arrembaggio! (stand by to board!)", from 54th to 195th "Tutti all'arrembaggio!", from 196th to 309th "One Piece - Tutti all'arrembaggio!" and from 310th onward "One Piece". It is broadcast since 2001 on Mediaset's Italia1 channel. The episodes are imported directly from Japan and dubbed by Merak Film.



Even if the quality of the voice actors is generally good, they often say wrong statements because of translation mistakes from the original dialogues. Especially in the earlier episodes, some names were changed to make them easier for children and the dialogues were changed to made them "softer" and some scene were turned sepia-tone or black and white in order to "mask" the blood. The episodes aired on Italia 1 are edited because the channel may be penalized if they contain something that can scare a child and when it is not cut, blood's color is changed to brown, black or light red.

The first 195 episodes have been aired from 2001 to 2005, then it was transmitted no more until July 2008, when Italia 1 decided to broadcast new episodes in the summer, which they had been dubbed two years before. But it had such a success that they did not stop it and dubbed new episodes.

After the ending of the Impel Down Arc with episode 452 on December 2010, One Piece stopped being aired until May 2012, when the anime continued from episode 453 on Mediaset Italia 2 channel with a pace of an episode per day until it reached episode 508 on July 4, after then One Piece anime re-started with episode 1. The special crossover episodes 492, 542 and 590 were skipped.

From episode 207 onward the Japanese original anime is broadcast in 16:9 while Mediaset used the 4:3 format until episode 505, resulting in a partial image cut.

Currently the anime has reached, and completed, the Punk Hazard Arc. The episodes have restarted from 509 on April 7, 2014 to 563 on June 2, with an episode per day, from 564 to 578 on February 7, 2018 to February 10, with four episodes per day (except the last day in which they were only three), from 579 to 628 on October 20, 2021 to February 2, 2022 on Wensdays with three episodes per day (except the last day in which they were four) and from 629 onwards on November 16, 2022 onwards on Wensdays with three episodes per day on Mediaset Italia 2  being the fifth dub closest to the Japanese version after the Taiwanese, the French, the English and the German. There's no video censorship in this airing of the series and, since episode 629, neither audio censorship.

Movies
All the movies have been dubbed.

The 8th movie was aired on Christmas Day of 2013 on Mediaset Italia 2.

The 9th was broadcast since June 3, 2014 divided in six parts until June 8 on Mediaset Italia 2..

Instead, the 10th was broadcast since June 9 to June 11, 2014 divided in parts, too on Mediaset Italia 2..

The 12th was broadcasted in prime time on 5 January 2015 on Mediaset Italia 2..

The 13th was distribuited in the cinemas from 24th november 2016 by Anime Factory.

The 11th was released along with the other movies on December 15, 2017 on a DVD and Blu-ray Disc box set by Anime Factory.

The 14th was distribuited in the cinemas from 24th October 2019 by Anime Factory.

The 15th was distribuited in the cinemas in Japanese with Italian subtitles the 7th and 8th November 2022 and from 1st December 2022 with the Italian dub by Anime Factory.

Special Episodes
The first four special episodes have been aired in Italy from June 12 to June 15, 2014 on Mediaset Italia 2 tv-channel. Each special episode is divided in two parts broadcasted one after the other the same day.

Reception
When the Water Seven arc was broadcast, One Piece often reached up to two million viewers and more than 13% of Italian viewers.

Openings and Endings
The dub features all new opening music performed by popular Italian singers, just like most of the other anime that is dubbed in Italian. The visuals change with each season by splicing clips from the Japanese openings and actual scenes from the show. The credits air at the end of each episode, which have exactly the same visuals as the opening.

From Episode 509 forward, the original Japanese openings and endings are used (with the Italian credits). From the episode 517 only, 15th opening introduction is dubbed in Italian.

Songs
Brook's favorite song, Binks' Sake, was translated in Italian. It is named "Il liquore di Binks" (The liqueur of Binks). Here the song performed by the Italian dub.

Devil fruits
The slash (\) means the name of a devil fruit was never pronounced in the anime.

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