In an interview with voice actor Christopher Sabat, he stated that Funimation had been interested in acquiring One Piece from the very beginning, and produced a 'test episode,' in which Sabat portrayed the character of Helmeppo and Eric Vale played the part of the main character, Monkey D. On April 13, 2007, Funimation (now Crunchyroll, LLC) licensed the series and started production on an English-language release of One Piece which also included redubbing the episodes previously dubbed by 4Kids. Since then, 4Kids established a stricter set of guidelines, checks, and balances to determine which anime the company acquires. Kirk said the experience of producing One Piece 'ruined the company's reputation'. However, once 4Kids realized One Piece was not appropriate for their intended demographic, the company decided to edit it into a more child-oriented series until they had an opportunity to legally drop the license. On July 22, 2010, an interview with Anime News Network and Mark Kirk, senior vice-president of digital media for 4Kids Entertainment, revealed that 4Kids acquired One Piece as part of a package deal with other anime, and that the company did not screen the series before licensing it. Production was halted in 2006 after episode 143/104 Viz also ceased its home video release of the series after volume 11. It also aired in other blocks and line-ups, such as its Monday-Thursday night prime-time line-up and its Miguzi weekday after-school action block in 2006.

It premiered in the United States on Septemon the Fox network as part of the weekend programming block FoxBox TV, and later aired on Cartoon Network on their Saturday night action programming block, Toonami in April 2005. Initially, 4Kids originally created an English version of the first opening theme, 'We Are!' by Russell Velazquez. 4Kids' dub mandated edits for content and length, which reduced the first 143 episodes into 104. 4Kids' in-house musicians wrote a new background score and theme song nicknamed 'Pirate Rap'. On June 8, 2004, 4Kids Entertainment acquired the license for distribution of One Piece in North America 4Kids contracted Viz Media to handle home video distribution.

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