4kids One Piece Laboon
This is the first episode of the laboon arc.
4kids one piece laboon. In this he is called raboon but his name remains laboon in the manga itself. In the july 2006 english issue of shonen jump there is a page featuring upcoming one piece cards. Cartoon network announced their aqusation of the series on february 16 2005.
If you get far enough in one piece you know that laboon is extremely important to a future crew member s story. The removal of the laboon arc would also cause problems by the time brook was introduced. 4kids combined the japanese episodes 61 62 and 64 together to make 4kids episode 44.
Though it was not revealed at the time by removing him 4kids removed an important piece in the story as crocus was an important part of gol d. However the 4kids dub had other plans for laboon mainly none at all. In this arc the straw hat pirates make their way to reverse mountain and begin the perilous task of scaling its tricky rapids in order to enter the grand line.
In the uk toonami announced that they had acquired the series on november 18 2004 and began their broadcast on april 23 2005. Warship island arc the reverse mountain arc also referred to as the laboon arc is the first story arc of the alabasta saga in the manga and anime one piece. Dragon bayonk 1 388 457 views.
Laboon was a whale the straw hats met when they first entered the grand line who was ramming himself into reverse mountain. Yes all of the major arcs the edited dub skipped were given voices in the last game released by the dubbing company one piece pirates carnival. That s why it s confusing to see that 4kids completely removed his story thinking that it was filler.
However the fight between luffy and laboon where laboon is stabbed with going merry s mast was deemed to be too controversial and violent by 4kids for american audiences so laboon was passed off as an iceberg that was effectively destroyed by luffy. I actually sympathize with 4kids a little bit on this one since laboon s significance isn t known until much later.