Product Details

• Actors: Mayumi Tanaka, Kazuya Nakai, Akemi Okamura, Colleen Clinkenbeard, Christopher Sabat
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC, Full Screen, Subtitled
• Language: Japanese, English
• Subtitles: English
• Dubbed: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Funimation Prod
• DVD Release Date: August 7, 2012
• Run Time: 350 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0083QJWB6
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,689 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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As the ongoing adventure-comedy One Piece continues, the Straw Hat Pirates make a typically skin-of-their-teeth escape from the island-fortress of Navaronne with the help of a giant, inflatable octopus. Back at sea, they come to Long Ring Long Land, a circle of linked islets. Everything on these islands grows… long: the apples are shaped like bananas, a dachshund stretches over a mile, and a horse looks like a giraffe. The Straw Hats' peaceful visit turns hostile with the arrival of the Foxy Pirates, an outré crew whose designs suggest the One Piece artists had been watching Yellow Submarine. The leader of the Foxies challenges Luffy's Straw Hats to a "Davy Back" match, a series of bizarre games even less rational than Bill Watterson's Calvinball. The slapstick variations on roller derby, dodge ball, et al. are complicated by the Foxies' cheating and invocation of obscure rules. But the stakes are high: each time someone wins a round, that team gets to take a member of the other's crew for their own ship. If someone loses three games, the team can also lose their Jolly Roger banner, the ultimate shame for a pirate. While they're no odder looking than many of the Straw Hats' previous foes, the Foxy Pirates all have grating, screeching voices, and viewers will agree with Nami when she says, "I've had about enough of that laugh." After the Straw Hats' hard-won victory, the Foxy Captain challenges Luffy to a second match--which he accepts with his usual mixture of unquenchable enthusiasm and blithe stupidity. Nami, Zorro, and Usopp are furious, but the captain calls the shots. Luffy is determined to become King of the Pirates, but he seems determined to get there the hard way. (Rated TV 14: cartoon violence, violence against women, minor risqué humor, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon

(206. Farewell, Marine Fortress! The Last Battle for Escape! 207. Great Adventure at Long Ring Long Land! 208. A Davy Back with the Foxy Pirates! 209. Round 1! One Lap of the Donut Race! 210. Silver Fox Foxy! The Merciless Interference! 211. Round 2! Shoot It into the Groggy Ring! 212. A Barrage of Red Cards in Groggy Ring, 213. Round 3! The Round-and-Round Roller Race! 214. A Seriously Heated Race! Into the Final Round! 215. Screaming-Hot Bombardment! Pirate Dodgeball! 216. Showdown on the Cliff! Red Light, Green Light! 217. The Captains Square Off! The Final Combat Round!)

Product Description

Monkey D. Luffy refuses to let anyone or anything stand in the way of his quest to become King of All Pirates. With a course charted for the treacherous waters of the Grand Line, this is one captain who'll never drop anchor until he's claimed the greatest treasure on Earth: the Legendary One Piece! Along for the ride are his loyal crewmates, a wonderfully-bizarre collection of outcasts and misfits from the far corners of the world. Each member has their own special talent, and they'll utilize their skills to help Luffy achieve his dream! Together, the rubberman and his crew can conquer any challenge - or defeat any foe!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The Davy Back Fight August 3, 2012

By Mr. C. P. Taylor

Format:DVD

After a 16 month hiatus, One Piece is back with 'Season Four: Voyage One', featuring episodes 206-217.
This set starts off the concluding episode of the Navarone arc, which sticks out a bit like a swore thumb as it really should have been included as the final episode of season three (and is the only episode on this set in 4:3); but none the less, it's a great and funny conclusion to the arc. The other 11 episodes cover most of the Davy Back Fight arc; in which the Straw Hats are challenged by the Foxy Pirates to a series of pirate games and challenges where the winner of each round receives a member of their opponent's crew! Sandwiched between Skypiea and Water 7, this is a light-hearted arc that makes a nice contrast to the epic and dramatic arcs that surround it by focusing on the fun and adventurous elements of the series that make so unique and endearing. The antagonist Foxy is a comic villain that hypocritically constantly cheats and rigs the matches, but also is very self-conscious and ridicules any 'dishonor' from his opponents; this creates some nice running gags as well as raising the stakes for Straw Hats. However, the arc does show some seriousness as the Straw Hats realize that they really could lose their cremates. My only complaint is that this sets ending is rather abrupt; ending on episode 216 would have been a slighter better place to finish as it would have allowed the whole final round to be included in the next Voyage.

The two discs are packaged in slimcases, lazily using the template and artwork from season three!
Unfortunately, due to apparent licensing issues, ending 14 has been replaced with ending 15 and neither theme song is dubbed.... There is, commendably, a disclaimer about this at the beginning of each disc, and ultimately this doesn't make the episodes any less enjoyable.
The dub is of the same quality as the previous seasons; despite a few wooden performances and occasional awkward lines due to ensuring that the dialog fits the mouth flaps, the dub as as faithful as it can be and the majority of the characters are well casted and acted; on the whole this is one of the best dubs I've watched.

Although there is no Blu-ray release, at least the DVD version features great video quality. Presented in 480p24 4:3 (#206) and 16:9 (#207+), this release is sharp, colorful and lacks any noticeable encoding artifacts. The only drop in quality was the opening and ending credits for episode 206 (and the textless versions of op 4 and ed 13), but this is not a problem in the episode itself. At episode 207 the series switched to HD, meaning that the artwork gets a considerable upgrade for this set. The logo has been changed to the gold version (missing a few seconds of opening 4) and the credits and title cards are re-made in English.
This set features 448kb/s 5.1 English and 192Kb/s 2.0 Japanese (as broadcast) audio, and both tracks sound perfectly clear and true to their source material. There are also English subtitles for the Japanese audio (a translation, not SDH) and an automatic signs-only track for the English audio.

The main special feature is an entertaining (but not too informative) commentary on episodes 211 (Mike Mcfarland - ADR Director, Christopher R. Sabat - Zoro, Eric Vale - Sanji & Ian Sinclair - Itomimizu) & 215 (Mike Mcfarland, Colleen Clinkenbeard - Luffy, Tia Ballard - Porche). The 'marathon feature' plays the entire disc with a single opening and no end credits; although it retains the recaps, this is great for anyone wanting to binge on One Piece. Also included are the clean openings and endings (featuring the original logo for op 5), the US trailer for this set, and trailers for other FUNimation DVDs (including 'One Piece: Collection 7').

Although there are a few nitpicks with this set and the episodes themselves are not essential parts of the story, this Voyage contains 12 funny and typically entertaining episodes of One Piece that retain the high quality established in the previous three seasons. Read more ›

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars One Piece is Back! July 25, 2012

By Meshal Alhajri

Format:DVD

I pre-ordered the set through rightstuf (to get the bonus art book) this is a review of the set and the episodes.

I believe most of the fans already know what's the Davy Back Fight arc is all about. The Strawhats arrive on an island where everything is long and it's called Long Ring Long Land. While on the island a new pirate crew called the Foxy pirates confront the Strawhats and they challenge them to a game of Davy Back Fight. The Davy Back Fight is basically a pirate game where the winning crew's captain gets to choose a person from the opponent's crew to join them.

This set contains the last episode of the G-8 arc (episode 206) and most of the Davy Back Fight arc episodes (episodes 207-217) except the last two episodes which contain the final challenge. I'm not a big fan of the Davy Back Fight arc in the anime. I still think it's good, but it's a lot better in the manga.

I don't own the voyages sets, but after reading some reviews from others about the set, they said that the two slim packs covers are the same as the season 3 sets with the Strawhats jolly roger.

The menu looks great and it's completely different from the past sets. The Funimation dub was also great. The whole voice cast did a great job. The aspect ratio for episode 206 is 4:3 and all the other episodes are 16:9 which looks very good. This contains the usual extras: text-less opening and ending theme songs, trailers and commentary (which we get two of them on episodes 211 and 215). It's always fun listening to the commentaries in my opinion.

The reason I gave this set 4 stars is because the opening and ending themes are not dubbed.... Funimation stated that there was some problem with getting the licensing for the themes and said that the themes will not be dubbed for episodes 207-230. I would've loved to hear them dubbed, but there's nothing to do about it. Hopefully we get opening 5 Kokoro no Chizu dubbed from episode 231 onwards, and ending 15 Eternal Pose (it's my favorite ending)

Overall this set is great. The Funimation dub was once again spot on. I'm looking forward to Season four Voyage two which will be released on October 30th and it will contain the last two episodes of the Davy Back Fight arc, the Ocean's Dream arc (filler arc) and the beginning of the highly anticipated Water 7 arc. Read more ›

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome April 22, 2013

By jordan gustkey

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I love it. I'm a huge one piece fan and I plan on buying more when I get a chance. I love using Amazon.

5.0 out of 5 stars power of the afro! April 16, 2013

By Urain Myers

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this volume of episodes are amazing as One Piece ALWAYS is and the Davy Back Fight Arc is hilarious! One Piece continues to deliver and be epic and amazing.

5.0 out of 5 stars One piece fan March 23, 2013

By Anonimus

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Funimation has done it again a little more expesnive than the collections but it is good to have a set can't wait for One piece strong world and who is going to voice Boa Hancock.

5.0 out of 5 stars This Anime is a must see! March 21, 2013

By dd2424

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Luffy and the Strawhats are at it again! As Luffy's story progresses it always seems this pirate has to up the ante to achieve his goal. To become Kin of the Pirates!

4.0 out of 5 stars still one of the best cartoons March 16, 2013

By brad

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if you are a one piece fan go ahead an buy this, like all other seasons some episodes are just filler but the other episodes make up for it with lots of action, just to bad the sets are only 12 episodes

5.0 out of 5 stars One Piece DVD January 26, 2013

By Victor DeMores

Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase

This was my first One Piece DVD I've bought. DVD came in good condition and episodes were very funny too.