One Piece in Greece



The greek dub of One Piece aired on the television station Alter Channel under the name "Ντρέηκ, το Κυνήγι του Θησαυρού" (Drake, the Hunting of the Treasure) and was dubbed by Audio Visual. It first aired in 14 April 2002 but it stopped at Episode 105, during the Alabasta Arc.

An interesting thing to note is, that according to the dubbing, the crew does not intent to go to Raftel, but to the Red Line instead. Also, many of the characters' names were changed for unknown reasons even if they were necessary for the plot. For example Luffy's name did not involve the characteristic "D". It is not known whether that was done intentionally and there was a plan to rectify it as the series moved on or it was a dubbing mistake.

History
In Greece, One Piece started airing on Alter Channel in April 14th 2002 under the name "Ντρέηκ, το Κυνήγι του Θησαυρού (Drake, the Hunting of the Treasure). The show was broadcasted uncut but unfortunately changed many names of characters and locations and had a lot of dub mistakes, such as the destination of the Straw Hats  being  Red Line instead of  Raftel . Also, as in many dubs, the characters' attacks were in Greek.

The show used as its opening a greek adaptation of the first opening " We Are " featuring lyrics that were not related to the Japanese Version. It was sung by an unamed woman.

The story was progressing just fine until the ΕΣΡ (Greek Television Council) decided that the events shown on Episode 28-which aired on July 23rd 2003 at 10 AM-during the fight between  Luffy  and  Don Krie

g (and especially the part where Luffy was stabbed and took the projectiles out of his arm) were highly inappropriate for the minors watching the show. As a result, an order was issued on November 4th 2003 for the show to

be cancelled, since it was considered not suitable for children due to the amount

of violence and fierce battles it

contained. Eventually, the series stopped at Episode 105  during the  Alabasta Arc.

Character Name Changes
At least, there were also many names that weren't changed such as Jango's name, along with Sham's, Buchi's, Pearl's, Nelson's, Shanks's, Buggy's, Vivi's, Alvida's and Dalton's.

Opening
The first opening "We Are" was adapted into Greek and featured lyrics that were not related to the Japanese version.

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