One Piece in the Middle East



The Arabic dub of One Piece. It was televised on the local Space Power Channel, which was widely watched throughout the Arab world. There is censorship in this dub, however it is rather strange and inconsistent. Blood and violence is okay sometimes, and other times it's not. It would seem as if the dub did not want the episode duration to vary due to these cuts, so they use freeze frames frequently or slow down and reverse footage. Most editing is done to female characters such as Nami, Nojiko, and Vivi, due to cleavage or exposed skin. When possible, they will cut out the scene where the cleavage is shown and freeze frame to another character. There are a couple of instances where shirts were drawn on the female characters because they could not be edited out. Ironically, Sanji's smoking habit wasn't edited out. The original music score is kept, however there is a new opening sequence and there were a couple of episodes where a new BGM score was placed beneath the next episode preview. Since February 2021, One Piece has been airing fully uncensored and in Japanese with Arabic subtitles on the Middle Eastern Channel MBC Action which is not related to Space Power or its version of the anime.

Differences
Sanji is no longer a womanizer, but still cares about the ladies. Also, any cursing or bad language is replaced.

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