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 up to 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 acquired 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 of the 4kids version, which features the same visual censorship, but kept very close to the Japanese script in terms of specific names or places like in 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 episodes were broadcast in Brazil before the dub was canceled (middle of the Drum Island Arc).

The Brazilian Portuguese dub was prouduced by the Brazilian ADR studio DPN Santos, with Japan Brazil Communications (JBC for short, a Brazilian publisher that releases manga and other publications directed at the Japanese-Brazilian community) managing the adaption. Despite this dub being based off the 4kids adaptation, the names of all the characters, attacks, and locations, were translated directly from the Japanese version with a few exceptions, such as Hachi often being called "Octopus" and Luffy being called "Ruffy" (consistent with Conrad's translation), though some elements from the script of the 4kids dub were kept in, such Gol D. Roger being "hung from the gallows".

Some episodes were released in DVD by Playarte, with both versions (4kids and uncut) of each episode included. Oddly, the uncut version did not had a dub, only using Japanese audio with 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. Most of the old actors were called again to make auditions, but many recasting choices happened. Luffy would now would be voiced by a woman, Carol Valença, when he was dubbed originally by a man, Vagner Fagundes. For the main characters, only Wendel Bezerra, the voice of Sanji, and also one of UniDub's founders, reprised his role for the redub, because he ended up passing the audition held by Toei.

Many actors who worked on the old dub also participated of the new one, like Samira Fernandes, who voiced Nami in the first dub, and Nico Robin in the second one. Only three voice actors from the first dub were kept in the same characters, wich were Wendel Bezerra as Sanji, Silvio Giraldi as Shanks and Pedro Alcântara as Coby. Film Gold was also dubbed in 2019.

Crunchyroll has streamed the anime legally in Brazil since 2015. They have all the episodes avaliable in their plataform.

In May 9, 2022 all the 130 first episodes premiered with the new dub on HBO Max. Months before, the streaming service launched the films Stampede and Gold with dub.

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