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They're starting where 4kids left off - the start of Jaya/Skypiea. They did mention, however, that if there were time and enough of a demand, that they could possibly go back and re-dub the beginning after Viz/4kids' rights to eps. 1-143 expire
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Right on, they showed the first three of the redub beginning at 144. They also said directly that essentially the decision to redub or not rests in pretty much dvd sales of the redub.
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What about the TV, are they going to continue from where 4Kids left off or will they start at ep 1?
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Cartoon Network is set to premiere the Funimation dub some time next week, which starts at 144, though the represntitive didn't know the time slot. The date I believe september 29th.
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Was there any mention of the DVD releases, like when
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From what Mcfarland said it seems closer to 2008 than 2007. Though they have the first 26 episodes pretty much completly dubbed. From the most part it seems everything is as promised. Unedited Animation, the unedited version restores the names, ect.
There are somethings for anyone who wants to nit pick that are retained from 4kidz practices and mainly translations where there is gray area as to how an object can be translated. Devils Fruits are translated as cursed fruits in the
sub, and Log Pose is often translated as grand compass, though if log pose appears in a title its translated as log pose. Funimation has also taken a general idea that a dub is a complete dub, so the songs have been redone in english. However, there english versions songs, with as close as possible translation to the original songs. From whats indicated... basically the DVD has an interchangeable language track, so when one is listening to the subs, the songs will revert to the japanese singer.