It’s a special day at Crunchyroll — or rather it will be in a few hours, but it probably is by the time you’re reading this. As of now, the company — and Funimation before it — has dubbed a thousand episodes of One Piece.
The 1000th One Piece, part of the Wano arc, first aired in Japan in November of 2021 and became available in a subtitled version around the world shortly after. Those who prefer dubs have had to wait quite a while for the English version to catch up to that point, but it finally has. Episodes 989 – 1,000 of One Piece are scheduled to debut on Crunchyroll in English tomorrow.
It’s a big month in general for One Piece. The Japanese version just ran one of its most standout episodes ever, the animated debut of Luffy’s Gear 5 — and what animation it was! Fifth Gear turns Luffy into a cartoon character — we mean even more than he already is. The Fifth Gear transformation was rendered with the most lavish animation One Piece has displayed to date. It’s too bad we’ll have to wait so darn long to see that in English, if the wait for Episode 1000 is any indication!
In addition, August is also the month Netflix premieres its live-action take on One Piece — it happens at the end of the month. Whether it catches on or not — and none of Netflix’s anime adaptions have caught on — it’s also very expensive, with the various ships being real-sized props and the CGI of the Devil Fruit powers not coming cheap. Don’t expect more than eight episodes is what we’re saying.
Crunchyroll will have the dub versions of episodes 989 – 1,000 of One Piece tomorrow, August 15. The show is also on Netflix, Hulu and appears weekends on Toonami.
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