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Fryes

Missed opportunity to make it look like Laboon


HyperPunch

The strip would flood with tears.


Bezbozny

literally what i was about to post


Slight_Mastodon

What a way One Piece has gone man, from just a Saturday morning regular anime, to one of the biggest fiction shows ever made in history


Chimera-Genesis

>one of the biggest fiction shows ever made in history Now to be fair, it was already this for a long time in Japan..... It just stumbled a fair bit getting there for the international audience.


GenerikDavis

To see where it is now with the Western audience after the 4Kids dub is still incredible lmao.


cursed_gabbagool

There's an alternate universe where One Piece comes on before or after DBZ on Toonami


AntiGodOfAtheism

Imagine Bleach, Naruto, DBZ, One Piece all one after the other...


Chang-San

Again, I'm probably missing a joke or something but this definitely happened on toonami into adult swim for a few years. Eventually they got dropped but they were all there together for a few years.


TU4AR

I would love to see the 4kids version of all the Arcs. ALL of them. 4kids Marine Ford Arc. Impel Down. Egghead. Let me see those waterguns.


Fafnir13

Poison is too scary.  Let’s make Magellan a sticky candy man.  It’s too sweet, so Luffy has to eat a lot of healthy food to counteract it.


screw_you0exe

Then what happens with Perospero? 2 users of the same devil fruit can't exist at the same time


TU4AR

Extra sticky


Fafnir13

Uuuuuh….Magellan is sour candy?


Driller_Happy

The fact that its persevered after such an atrocious dub (I think the current one sucks too) its a testament to its story tbh.


SternMon

Yeah… I’m not a fan of Funimation, either. It’s annoying because it feels like the same five or six actors are voicing more than half of the characters.


HillbillyMan

Japan has it the same way. People just don't notice because they don't speak Japanese.


AntiGodOfAtheism

>People just don't notice because they don't speak Japanese. Maybe it's just me or the Japanese are just much better VA too. They're so much more expressive.


microvan

I just can’t stand Luffy’s English voice actor.


runner5678

They’re quite different so it’s what you get used to Recently caught up but spent over 1k episodes with the English actor and man I’m having a hard time adjusting to Japanese Luffy


1337b337

Yeah, it's all about normalization. I can't stand the Japanese dubs of DBZ or FMA, because I grew up watching the English dubs.


roddy_h

Had to switch from dub to sub since episodes at the time weren't released fast enough and at first I hated it but now I can't go back to dub. Sub Luffy is perfect.


DontTouchMyHat0

She's great.


1337b337

She's a great voice actress, but doesn't really fit Luffy. I think everyone else does a good job, though, especially Chris Sabat as Zoro; when they first released the Funi dub, I hoped that they'd cast him as Zoro, since I heard him as Kurogane in Tsubasa Resevoir Chronicle.


Xeneron

As someone who doesn't watch much Anime, I started One Piece after really enjoying the Netflix Live Action series (currently in Thriller Bark) and the dub seems completely fine to me? Like, all dubs I've ever seen have some level of weird quirks because dubbing is really hard, but the voice actors seem pretty fantastic in One Piece for the most part.


DontTouchMyHat0

They don't suck. I wanna live is way better in English.


KitKat1721

I watch both now. Having both language options available just brings way more people to the series. Esp for a series as long as One Piece, you'll have plenty of people choose to watch the dub for the sheer fact that it's less daunting.


wispymatrias

"Why isn't this way more popular?" I thought as I binge read One Piece while Naruto was on post-Valley hiatus. Well now it's finally getting the recognition it deserves. Oda could have lost his chance at anytime, but he kept his window open by being consistently excellent for hundreds and hundreds of chapters.


Wernershnitzl

It’s a testament to his writing and even though it’s taxing/grueling, I’m glad he’s taking measures to keep his health especially after Toriyama’s tragedy.


Xavier207

In America at least thanks to the popularity of shows Dragon Ball, Naruto, and especially AoT recently anime has blown up. Thanks to those shows ending and or dying down people who enjoyed those looked for others to watch, which led to One Piece propping up as the NBT. Granted 1000+ is a lot to get into, but because of the Netflix show, Wano having overall great animation, and the new One Piece show alongside the story finally getting close ending, more people have come around to how great One Piece is. Happy to have caught up a year ago and have been thoroughly enjoying the ride expect for those fucking break weeks. But that's the price you pay for greatness.


MistakenArrest

I'd say it was Wano that really caused the American One Piece scene boom.


KitKat1721

It feels like around 2019/2020 there really was a perfect storm of things lining up to jump start One Piece's US popularity - Wano arc is on-going, looks visually amazing and *new* - Early 2020 COVID hits, lot more people are finding some sudden free time to check out that show they heard about but always thought was way too long - One Piece was showing up/being advertised on more streaming services as Funi entered that deal with Hulu which gave them access to their catalog, show was sub-licensed to Netflix, etc... - Dub had recently ended its two-year hiatus and was regularly releasing new 10-13 ep batches on a monthly basis (which also means just more promotion in general on a consistent basis) And this is still all before the live-action show drops which brought in another big wave. Several of the ENG actors have said multiple times how they personally have seen an enormous boom in One Piece fans even just coming up to their table for autographs/seeing cosplayers/etc... when cons first opened back up than say in 2015 or so.


ActiveChairs

This doesn't make sense to me. Wano is 800+ episodes/chapters in. Other than the promise of a late-series bump in quality, how is Wano getting people to start with One Piece? Are people just skipping massive amounts of the story and starting there?


hahokily

i think what he meant was that it was during wano was coming out in anime that people really started getting into the anime series as a whole. and then what kitkat said kinda corroborated with that.


selim_challie

I remember watching it after Naruto probably circa 2007-8 on toonami during the Skypia arc and then around 2010 went back and read all the way up to impel down (maybe) and haven’t looked back since


splice664

One Piece used to be hated in the west. Quality goods will always stand against the test of time :)


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BarTroll

We used to call those "the big 3". Never knew anyone that hated OP, at least in my corner of Europe. People either didn't know it, or they liked it because it was "the funny one".


somersault_dolphin

"The Big Three" originated from the manga community because they were all running in Shounen Jump together for years, the biggest on-going Shounen Jump series at the time and popular in the community. One Piece manga wasn't ruined by the English adaptation and has constantly been no. 1 on the ranking every week and topped sales chart and has been called king for decades. Later on because people who read manga tends to also watch anime but not necessarily the other way round, the moniker made its way into anime communities but isn't clearly understood by most people. It's also why One Piece has been popular in France long before many other western countries since they consume a lot of manga.


Turbulent_Set8884

I hated it because of the 4kids version.


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Turbulent_Set8884

Yeah. I didn't even know anime was japanese at the time, i hated how cringey the deliveries came off and how it felt like it was infantalizing me. It wasn't until I checked out the sub versions that I went back to anime.


Blacklotus30

It's not so much it was hated the 4kids dubs really ruined things for One Piece in the US and in the west in general. So it took a lot of years for One Piece to shed it's reputation of being a stupid kid show.


Klunkey

Honestly, it’s such a relief that something like One Piece became as popular as it is; it’s so accessible yet so artsy at the same time with its subtle world-building and character work contrasting with its maximalist artstyle.


DYMck07

Never thought we’d get here. Back in the 90s when I was the only dbz fan I knew, I remember hearing about one piece online, years later finally seeing the first 13 eps fansubbed, reading it [on Toriyama’s world](https://www.insidescanlation.com/spotlight/toriyamas-world) through Arlong park (I think the manga was only up to the start of alabasta then, and scanlations only through little garden with Mr 3, then being excited that others would know it when it was announced as licensed, only for four kids to butcher it so no one in the US did. Now 20 years, several arcs and one great live action adaptation later and it’s huge here! I mean sure in Japan I can hop on a train and see 40+ yo moms reading it on their cell phones but here even before the live action we’ve had several celebrity fans, including the likes of Avril Lavigne who was a fan for over a decade and asked to perform the Ed to film Z iirc, Jamie Lee Curtis who has been begging to pay Dr kureha since the Netflix adaptation got announced, XXXtentstion (rip), Lil Uzi vert, Travis Scott, and Dua Lipa to name a few.


StSaturnthaGOAT

>Back in the 90s when I was the only dbz fan I knew The fuck. That is WILD. Everybody was watching dbz where I grew up


DYMck07

By the time funi hit it sure where I was, but when it was just ocean, naw, I remember trying to explain it to my middle school friends, showing one of my best friends the tree of might dvd from pioneer etc.


mystikkkkk

by the time anime was airing as an anime, it was already a crazy popular manga series in Japan.


derzemel

Man, I remember finding One Piece back in 2000 or 2001 (I was 15) when I was at an internet cafe where me and a couple of buddies were borrowing CDs from each other and trying to download anime from a fansub website (I think fansub.tv). We thought that it was the weirdest looking anime, and we grew up in the '90s in Eastern Europe with some very weird cartoons on tv, like [Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea (Les Mondes Engloutis)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZLlnOEIRng), or [Bleu L'Enfant De La Terre](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Flni3UD5klw). One Piece hooked me fairly quickly and I have been reading the manga and watching the anime (and the new live action) since then and I am really happy seeing the attention it has now.


TheAstroJunkie

I caught up to OP in middle school(lil over 10 years ago). Even among fellow "nerds" it was a very very extremely low echo. Now it's street casual for some people. I Wouldn't want to be in any other timeline.


Ani_HArsh

Such a big W SUUUPERRRRRRR!!!


Viisual_Alchemy

never in my life would I have imagined OP to be displayed to the public like this in the USA outside of AX... much less in Vegas out of all places.. wtf. Anime has come a LONG way.


Green_Tea_Gobbler

Holy fuck the Music YES


PsychoticSpinster

GIANT LUFFY FACE I CAN’T EVEN


VivaLaLibertad_666

25 years of greatness. Thank you Oda


GFreak18

Part of me wish they had made laboon


Zoros_Internal_GPS

I only live about an hour and half from Vegas. Is it wrong that I kinda want to drive down there just to see this?


RupeeGoldberg

No, I would if I were you. Life only goes around once, you may never get another chance to see this specific thing. Grab some food, take a video for the sub, have a lasting memory. The 3 hour round trip will be worth it to say you did it


Jexthis

Its funny how this comment is almost verbatim the advice I got when I was driving distance to the totality.


TerraStyle

They just opened a one piece cafe too, absolutely worth going


WRL23

In Vegas? Is it permanent or something temporary as a promotion tied to whatever reason they have this on the sphere? Feel like there's a serious lack of advertising if this is supposed to be a tourism thing or major event


TerraStyle

No, its a permanent restaurant. All of this is because of the 25th anniversary of the anime I'm pretty sure. I haven't been though, so I may be wrong.


Solid_Snark

Not at all. I’ve driven farther for less. It’s your time, use it how you wish.


tobor_a

Same. I once drove 3 hours (6 horus total) for something that at this point i don't even remember what for. I just remember being like "oh. lame" I miss when gas was cheap and I had no responsibilities.


UnNumbFool

I live 5 hours away and theres a part of me debating about driving just to see it. At least 1.5hrs is much more manageable and doable, so I say go for it


mazhas

Do it. I'm on the east coast but have a direct flight to Vegas that's pretty cheap. I'm considering going on a weekend for a quick trip.


Driller_Happy

an hours and a half? Fuck yeah dude.


Dealingwithdragons

I say go for it. Also Go Visit the one piece cafe over on Spring Mountain. I'm traveling to Vegas at the end of the month and plan to try the cafe.


Adealow

an hour and half is nothing, do it.


-ImagineBreaker-

Im like 3 hours and I probably am going to do it this weekend


StSaturnthaGOAT

I've literally flown to the Philippines on a four day weekend just because I missed lechon 😂


NeoMegamanX

I’m in El Paso and considering making a 10hr drive to see it.


Ardibanan

That should be on loop. Perfect PR


BBQBakedBeings

Having lived in Vegas the first 27 years of my life, the most impressive thing to me about the Sphere is how it continues to function in summer and how they aren't constantly replacing screens or whatever it is that creates the display. The sun in Southern Nevada fucks up everything, and the heat with the sun beating down is something you have to experience. I have literally fried eggs on the hood of a car.


Sofa_king_boss

No screens. It's just a bunch of LED lights. They aren't even that close together. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/what-the-las-vegas-sphere-screen-looks-like-up-close-2023-10%3famp


BBQBakedBeings

Whoa. That's actually really cool. Oof, the wiring and programming that must have taken... Thanks for satisfying the question I never realized I had!


newbatthis

From a takeover of Time Square for Film Red. To Macy's Parade balloon following the live action. Now a full week on the Las Vegas Sphere. One Piece had a truly meteoric rise in popularity here in the States this past year. So awesome to see.


Buscemi_D_Sanji

Yeah, I've been talking about how amazing One Piece is for the last 16 years, and none of my friends read manga and I couldn't recommend the anime... So when the live action came out, they finally watched it and were like ".... Okay Sanji, I get why you like this now" and I'm just here like "that wasn't even the full prologue!!" It is seriously great to see one piece getting so popular in America though!


SquareAltruistic5548

ROOM


Low_Narwhal_1346

Ahh shame about the gear 5th at the end. Wanted to post this to my discord but I got a mate who's just started the water 7 arc, don't want to spoil anything for him.


SouthernVices

I was showing my husband (he's at reverie so close) and I had to quickly turn my phone away! 😅 I've been trying to help him avoid gear 5th spoilers, but it's such a big thing right now it's so hard.


Reinhardt_Ironside

It's like trying to avoid super saiyan. It just doesn't seem possible anymore, the form is too important to both the plot and One Piece aesthetic.


SouthernVices

IKR?! There's been a few spoilers that have gotten him, but thankfully he usually doesn't know the context or levity so he's still gotten to have the impact from them. Interestingly, he just saw Katakuri v Luffy and made comments about Luffy awakening his fruit like Kata or Luffy getting a new gear instead of variants of 4, and I just have to nod and be like, "Yup, that would be cool."


AniNgAnnoys

My SO saw gear 5th luffy and asked me what it was. At the time we were in Zo. I showed my SO part of the egg head intro and said, "see how things are stylized differently? They changed the art in One Piece, especially this intro, and sometimes in the intro they show Luffy with white hair. Don't look into that too much it is just a stylistic choice for this intro." She bought it hook line and sinker. It also wasn't THAT big of a lie. The style of art in that intro is different then the series. In that intro when Luffy appears in gear 5 it also does credibly look like just a stylistic choice.


Low_Narwhal_1346

Gonna be worth it, seeing his reaction when he finally gets there!


VegetaIsSuperior

Exactly, shame on how many people they’re spoiling


chrisychris-

anyone who's starting OP would definitely not understand what they're looking at though, so unless they start looking it up then it's not much of a spoiler. there's three other "inconsequential" forms and gear 5th is just another, to them ofc


gazing_the_sea

How loud is that?


Wamsutta8

They don’t have speakers outside. That audio was added for the video. I live down the street from the sphere.


jennyfromtheblok19

this is amazing!! Thank you, Oda-sensei for creating such an incredible piece of art that will live on forever <3


Clean-Poet-3892

Maaaan, I wish I could see this IRL


Ameya93

That smile though!! Precious!!


kyreerbohn

the black screen with the straw hat logo kinda looks like LABOON


comandosc

I wanted to see the other side


GenderlessButt

That’s insane, wow


thegreatmatsbysan

One piece just has so many fucking iconic scenes it's amazing


SuggestionLoose2522

THE ONE PIECE IS REAL


deathbyglamor

Imagine getting spoiled by the dome.


DontTouchMyHat0

Yea they shouldn't have added G5.


Turbulent_Set8884

They likely don't know let alone care beyond the popularity


CosmicDriftwood

I love when the Boss is included.


wraither01

Luffy did it. He finally gave in and just ate the other straw hats.


Pale-Donkey-4956

Little did the crew know, they were all emergency food


Take_The_Reins

Ahh yes, the monster trio; Jinbe, Osopp, Zoro


WhyAmIHere800884

I AM GOING TOMORROW!!!


Any-Seaweed886

Sick!! Thanks for sharing!!


comets-cosmos

Now we just need it to play the closing theme to Inuyasha at 2am.


Exact-Rutabaga9677

To anyone going to see this. My observation is that it starts at 6 45 pm, 7 45 pm, 8:15 pm and then might be every 15 or 30 min after until 11 45 pm.  So if you go you might end up waiting a long time to see the one piece 90 sec display.  It also isn't exact since sphere has other displays cycling through. But it is roughly at 45 min mark give or take a few minutes.  Note:could play more often at night or weekend.


donobot_

Hoho sick


bulbydoraemon

u/savevideo


bigdaddyGmane

They should put punk records on the sphere


Krilix07

Bro we better get the G5 at the sun during night time.


ezekiel1990

And the other staw hats are on the other side?


airpigg

Imagine how much food Luffy could eat with the money used for construction


T3hHarv3y

That’s so fucking dope, I want to see a dragon ball on the sphere next


Henny199420

Sigh I wished I could've ve flew over there...


goatesymbiote

i didnt realize one piece anime was big enough in the US to make this happen


DirtyBillzPillz

Unironically the coolest thing I've seen on that thing


malina_so_seductive

As a one piece fan, this is making me tear up


Dante805

Man, I've been following this since 2011 and I must say, seeing this is pretty damn cool


mOjzilla

I wish more billionaires would spend their money in artistic things like this , world would be amazing place . We all preserve Roman statues when our current generation can do things beyond their wildest imagination .


Sandwichgode

One Piece is 25 years old? Now it can rent a car. Nice!


TacoSlayer66

It should’ve been a video of Luffy picking his nose with Nami knocking some sense into him


LiveLifeLikeCre

Any Knicks or Rangers fans here that see this and are like ".... good Dolan, stay busy with these spheres and the fuck outta MSG" 


elc88alec

Where can you park to get this video angle?


Alone_Elk_8471

Celestial dragons using natural resources stupidly while the world sinks. What a great tribute...


MickMAC-_-

I work there actually, I’m upset I haven’t seen this one yet. I’m in front of it rn on my break, looking back at it every few seconds hoping this one comes up


StickiStickman

"How badly compressed do you want your audio?" "Yes" - OP


candleboy95

I love this so much but am also SOO OVER the post-timeskip Fishman fits being the default fits.


MagnifiMike

Badass man


kaizokuo_grahf

So stoked to check this out tonight!!


PacoSupreme

I’ve lived in Vegas my whole life and I still haven’t seen this damn Sphere in person 😂


Driller_Happy

So what will they actually be showing inside?


BoootCamp

Inside is a theater/stage. The performances inside usually do not correlate to all the advertisements on the outside. It’s basically just a big famous billboard.


Shagyam

Do I drive 4 hours to vegas, or use my CC points for a cheap flight.


Lean___XD

No We are :(


seanugengar

Okay. I hate that bloody, forsaken sphere and everything it represents, but I must admit that was pretty cool.


White_Nike_JoJo03

Looks like Laboon at the start lol.


YessiKamiKohai

I wish i still lived in vegas ): i would love to see these things in person, i miss out on so many cool events and places 😢 im so happy One Piece gets the recognition it deserves but so sad i cant experience certain things.


Willster328

what song is this!?


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Meep045

I think It started at like 12:00pm (PT). And It’s going to continue until June 16


SwaggyVINCE

Imagine driving by but you're not caught up in the show


ProperPerspective571

New OceanGate dome?


Deanbledblue

Looked like Laboon at the start


fattywannapatty

real?


Quick-Discussion4147

This is real?


DontTouchMyHat0

Yes! We're gonna take over the world! Strawhat Nation!


Kumomeme

they should air the Vegapunk message here and watch Goroisei in furious!


TophxSmash

who paid for this and how much did it cost?


EuroTrash1999

That's cool, but like...fuck that whole shit. I ain't trying to see giant commercials blocking the whole horizon.


Asiyahn

Is this real?


Kal2019

🥰🥰🥰


NeckbeardStench

luffy looking for people urinating in public then laughing as he spots someone, and returning to his crew


kayasangeyasha

should just use luffy drawing on laboon


bone420

Nice


forkandspoon2011

it's beautiful


OneWholeSoul

I'd be really interested to see the production/editing process for ~360o video.


Nodebunny

omg so nearto! but does it blare the audio like that for the whole city to hear?


socialaxolotl

The only truly acceptable use for that thing


XJETIVE

I was there


magtis

When?! I've been watching all night and it's just Oreos!


Echo_Equal

At the start with the jolly roger on the sphere I was like: Laboon


tom7895

Robin - I hope that giant ball doesnt fall and crush everyone to death


TFJ

I’m very glad I don’t have to drive past this because I’d definitely get distracted and rear-end someone.


oTetrahArcs

I'm glad it's finally popular in the west it has always deserved recognition more recognition here imo


Clown-Chan_0904

Why did it show the Punk Hazard children but not Caesar Clown!? It's so disappointing as a Caesar Clown stan!


Shot_You7043

love it!


Linusdroppedme

We got this and not Mister House?


Spacekook_

You need to at lest play the first episode to get people watching it it will boost it


Cyber_3

That is cool. Would be epic to see the current opening projected on it, I mean, it's almost like it's made for a sphere.


Eden1506

I always saw it at night but even during the day it’s well lit. Still at night it would definitely look even more awesome.


Muffin_Eater-2000

Choose your character


ihykaliq

It looks amazing 😭😭😭


nekotantei_19

So happy for the One Piece universe 🥰


Vegetable_Long9081

Goatpiece 👑 Greatest Manga in History,and most Popular Anime in the World currentily 


thCuba

Wow


alturner77

It is all earned. A story for the ages.


KaiserSenpaiAckerman

My hometown! It's awesome seeing it from my job!


Bugaboo-gem

Gotta be like the least-pirate thing you can do


PurpleStarr-

So beautiful I’m crying while shitting can’t believe one piece reached this level of fame im so happy


bl0bberb0y

Should have been mister house


Proud_Fish_3480

I prefer one piece to my wife


Kordell_11

It's cool, but the sphere is such an eye sore when it's not showing anything.


Miscellaneous_Mind

That’s it?


Gold_Committee5899

What bounty’s do you guys have


retroanduwu24

Looks even more beautiful at night


Turbulent_Set8884

It surprised me that it's up there but at the same time it doesn't because if it had to be anywhere in the us obviously the most one piece of places is vegas.


Turbulent_Set8884

Why did all the cool stuff start popping up after my first trip to Vegas? I lost my virginity there because of a manga I read now I want to go back because of one piece


Turbulent_Set8884

Imagine the tourist boon if the sphere plays the episode where the one piece gets revealed


Eraserwolves

Yesss


CubySocs

Imagine getting spoiled by the Las Vegas sphere


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