One Piece in Portugal

In Portugal, the One Piece anime series has been shown on the channels SIC and SIC Radical at first, along with many other anime series, such as Dragon Ball and Digimon. The first broadcast aired in 2004-2005 and stopped at Episode 130, then re-aired again 4 years later on SIC Radical, this time stopping at Episode 102 because of poor ratings. Since only 50 dubbed episodes were shown on SIC (episodes 51-130 were aired with Portuguese subtitles and Japanese audio), the exact number of dubbed episodes is unknown (as is the studio who dubbed them). There was no censorship, and none of the opening/ending songs were dubbed.

In September 2011, the dub resurfaced on the the teen animation channel Panda Biggs, starting with Episode 1. The show aired until Episode 50 several times until early 2013.

In December 2012, 112 Studios's Facebook channelannounced that the studio would follow up the dub of the series. It was said in the comments section that it would be "until Episode 143". It's currently unknown if the studio will continue beyond that point, since the show's future largely depends on the ratings.

In January 2013, Panda Biggs's Facebook channel officially revealed that it would begin the "2nd Season" on 2nd February. The new dub debuted with the Episode 51, keeping all of the main characters' original VAs sans Zoro. However, it changed those of some other characters, like that of Coby. As usual, the dub aired the Japanese version of the openings and endings, except for the openings' introduction speech, which was dubbed.

There were a few errors during the episodes' broadcast, such as when the 3rd ending debuted in the Episode 64, it was shown every time alongside 2nd ending's music. The same happened with the 4th ending in the episodes 74 and 75, but it was fixed in the Episode 76's airing. Also, some of the episodes had scenes where the digital signal sent to the TVs was defective, creating brief glitches that prevented to show the scenes in part, something that has been known to happen with other shows in the channel.

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