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<\/figure>\nPlot<\/strong>: A confrontation between Klahadore and Usopp leaves him banned from Kaya\u2019s house. As Luffy tries to talk with him at the shore, they overhear Klahadore talking with an odd hypnotist named Jango. They\u2019re discussing hypnotizing Kaya to sign a will before she dies, indicating Klahadore as her heir, and secretly killing her in an \u2018accident\u2019 so he can get her money. Klahadore reveals himself to be the legendary pirate captain, Kuro, who faked his death three years ago to start this coup. In addition to the hit on Kaya, they\u2019re planning on attacking and pillaging the village. They\u2019re found out by Klahadore who commands his subordinate, Jango to hypnotize them. He only manages to hypnotize Luffy (and himself) and Luffy falls from a huge cliff to the beach below.<\/p>\n Determined to stop his plot, Usopp runs to the village to warn everyone. However, Klahadore is not worried at all since he knows no one will believe Usopp the liar.<\/p>\n Usopp makes it to the village where Klahadore\u2019s words ring true as he tries desperately to warn the villagers of the impending attack only to find ad angry mob wielding brooms who are sick of his lies and won\u2019t believe a word he says.<\/mark><\/p>\n As Usopp is run out of town, Zoro, Nami and the Usopp Pirates find Luffy crumpled on the beach below the cliff. Is Luffy really dead injured?<\/mark><\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n I\u2019ll explain that red coloring at the end.<\/p>\n The title screen is kept in the same spot, but the dub seems unreasonably awkward. The original is awkward but made funny and awkward since the sheep keeps chewing grass as Luffy says the title out loud. In the dub, the music is changed to really soft goofy music and no one is saying the title out loud so it\u2019s just awkward.<\/p>\n Title Cards<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Subbed:<\/p>\n Dubbed:<\/p>\n Title Change<\/strong>: \u201cThe World\u2019s Strongest Weirdo! Jango the Hypnotist!\u201d is changed to \u201cThe Bluff and the Bluffer.\u201d<\/p>\n They cut out about half of the shot of Klahadore walking towards Luffy and the others.<\/p>\n I swear to God, Klahadore\u2019s stupid habit of pushing up his glasses with the edge of his palm is pissing me off way too much, and I do that sometimes myself.<\/p>\n They remove Kaya yelling out of her window at Klahadore after he says Usopp\u2019s dad loves treasure more than his family.<\/p>\n They \u2018censor\u2019 the red mark on Klahadore\u2019s face to a brown mark.<\/p>\n Subbed:<\/p>\n Dubbed:<\/p>\n \u2026.Are you guys for real now? That\u2019s not even blood. His face is just red from getting punched\u2026..Just\u2026are you serious?<\/p>\n They remove Usopp yelling that he\u2019s the son of a pirate while his head is down.<\/p>\n Klahadore originally yells to Luffy and the others to leave too as we see a shot of the nearby tree. In the dub, they cut straight from him standing there (perpetually fixing his glasses\u2026.) to Kaya coughing.<\/p>\n They shorten the shot of Kaya with her face in her pillow and omit the line about the cook working hard to make her meals that she enjoys.<\/p>\n Kaya originally asks why Klahadore kicked Usopp out. She knows she was wrong to keep talking with Usopp in private, but he didn\u2019t need to go that far. In the dub, the shot of Klahadore standing in front of the tea pot is shortened, and she asks what he would know about it (offending someone) when he was so cruel to Usopp.<\/p>\n Dub!Klahadore really cannot sound like he\u2019s not a villain.<\/p>\n They shorten the shot of Kaya watering the flowers.<\/p>\n They remove a closeup of Kaya during the flashback, but it\u2019s the same shot as from right before we see Klahadore\u2019s silhouette.<\/p>\n Wow, I\u2019m really surprised they didn\u2019t force dialogue upon that scene where Kaya\u2019s dad silently accepts Klahadore into their home.<\/p>\n Kaya originally calls Klahadore a blockhead for being stubborn against Usopp, and he says being a blockhead will have to suit him just fine then. In the dub, because it\u2019s not obvious enough that Klahadore is a villain, Kaya asks why she can\u2019t see Usopp when he\u2019s her friend. Klahadore then says \u201c\u2019Friends\u2019 are not always what they seem.\u201d before the shot cuts to a closeup of him smiling with ominous music.<\/p>\n They shorten the shot of Jango walking backwards.<\/p>\n They swap Nami\u2019s closeup dialogue and Zoro\u2019s further dialogue because reasons.<\/p>\n As Jango approaches, the shots cut to black with a shutter noise. In the dub, they remove the black and the shutter noises so it just looks like there\u2019s a bunch of frames missing every few seconds. Smooth.<\/p>\n While music replacements are always a pain, I actually like Jango\u2019s weird organ theme music in the dub. It also distracts from the fact that, in the original, they use the same Trigun<\/em>-esque music sting for Jango in this shot that they used for Zoro a few episodes ago.<\/p>\n Jango asks why he should do his act for a bunch of strangers (that\u2019s\u2026typically how that works). In the dub, he asks why he should perform his act for a bunch of veggies he doesn\u2019t even like, and then he asks where the broccoli is. This might be fine and slightly funny if they ever introduced themselves to him. Outside of their slightly suggestive hairstyles, there\u2019s no way he could\u2019ve known their names were vegetable themed nor that they called themselves \u2018The Veggies.\u2019<\/p>\n They remove Zoro\u2019s anger vein.<\/p>\n Subbed:<\/p>\n Dubbed:<\/p>\n Wow, the budget for this episode must be really<\/em> low if they take the time out to focus on the ocean, make the waves sounds, but don\u2019t even make an effort to animate the water. It\u2019s like a storyboard production.<\/p>\n Between when Klahadore asks Jango about the preparations for the plan and Jango confirming that everything\u2019s ready, they cut to Kaya eating some pasta. This is removed from the dub.<\/p>\n After Jango mentions the assassination plan, and after we cut to the zoom-in on Usopp, we cut to a shot of the sky as Usopp says \u201cAssassination!?\u201d before the commercial break. In the dub, maybe because there\u2019s no commercial break here, the shot is removed.<\/p>\n After the commercial, we see a hermit crab fall off a cliff and get some dialogue from Klahadore telling Jango to not call it an assassination. Jango corrects himself and says it will be an accident. We then cut to a wide shot of the cliff Luffy and Usopp are on. These are both removed.<\/p>\n Like they did with Zoro, they change the posts that Klahadore, who shall now be referred to as his Captain name of Kuro because logic and that\u2019s easier to type, from a cross shape into a T shape by erasing the top beam.<\/p>\n Subbed:<\/p>\n Dubbed:<\/p>\n We see Kuro\u2019s double get shot up in a hail of bullets. This is obviously removed. And, of course, the guns are painted to look like toys.<\/p>\n Subbed:<\/p>\n Dubbed:<\/p>\n Bonus:<\/p>\n They remove another shot of the hermit crab and shorten the pan up shot of Usopp after the response to the line about the pirates waiting for a week.<\/p>\n Despite showing us an execution scene (sans bullets and with painted guns, admittedly) they still refuse to make any concrete insinuations to death. \u2018They\u2019ll hurt Kaya!\u2019 Yes, they\u2019ll hurt<\/em> her. That\u2019s how people get inheritance money.<\/p>\n The imagined scene of the pirates attacking the town and killing Kaya is removed.<\/p>\n A quick flash of the hermit crab and a slight flash to black are removed after Luffy stands up.<\/p>\n Because of commercials, they add in a far away shot from the top of the cliff before they cut back to the closeup of Kuro asking what they heard. This is pretty noticeable considering Usopp and Luffy stood up right before the commercial, yet they\u2019re clearly back to prone position during this shot.<\/p>\n For some reason they put Usopp\u2019s reaction shot to Luffy falling immediately after he loses his balance instead of after the impact. What? Does that make it less scary or something?<\/p>\n They remove a mid-close up of Usopp as he runs, and they completely remove a long flashback of Usopp remembering his times with Kaya, as well as him yelling \u2018dammit!\u2019 as he runs towards the village. No clue why except time constraints, and that can\u2019t be it for a reason I\u2019ll explain later on.<\/p>\n They insert a far away shot of Luffy on the ground before the shot of Kuro and Jango\u2019s feet.<\/p>\n They flip the shot of Kuro smiling because\u2026.he\u2019s a car. New decree \u2013 Anytime a shot is flipped it\u2019s because everything and everyone is a car, so that has to be it.<\/p>\n Subbed:<\/p>\n Dubbed:<\/p>\n And we\u2019re now at the ending\u2026.except not really. Prepare to be confused. In the original, after Kuro smiles at his ship, we get a shot of Luffy lying in the dirt then another shot of the hermit crab trying to climb up the cliff and falling into the water again (and the resulting water ripple is transferred over to the To Be Continued\u2026 screen, which I thought was neat) and that\u2019s it for episode 10.<\/p>\n In the dub, for some reason, they actually had way more time than they had allotted (four minutes (!) to be precise), so they just plucked several scenes from the next episode to construct their ending. That really makes those scene shortenings and removals all the more confusing.<\/p>\n I give 4Kids some leeway when they snip little things here and there. America does jam more commercials into their shows than Japan does, especially when it comes to kids shows because, come on kids, pressure your parents into buying toys, junk food and cards. But I am scratching my head as to where four minutes suddenly vanished to. And I\u2019m watching these episodes side by side.<\/p>\n I really hope this doesn\u2019t mean every episode beyond this will be screwed up thanks to this change, because that would be a gigantic pain in the ass. However, I can almost bet they will be. How else will they make up the (probably ever expanding thanks to scene removals) time differences if they don\u2019t? I can only imagine that they cut so much that eventually they\u2019ll have an episode\u2019s worth of delay and the episodes will finally match perfectly, but the episode number for the dub will be behind by one.<\/p>\n So let me grab episode 11 so we can close out the dub\u2019s episode 10.<\/p>\n As a note, everything that is not in the original version of the matching numbered dub episode and is taken from a following episode was marked in red in the synopsis.<\/p>\n Obviously, the recap is removed.<\/p>\n Technically a closeup of Luffy\u2019s hat is removed.<\/p>\n Obviously, the title card is removed also, but I guess I\u2019ll save that for next episode\u2019s SDC.<\/p>\n They cut out a back shot of Ninjin walking and a closeup of Nami\u2019s feet as she hops up on the fence.<\/p>\n They remove the far away shot of Usopp running towards them and the Veggies reacting.<\/p>\n They cut out the shot of the door opening and someone walking out.<\/p>\n Also, the shot of Usopp smiling is right after this shot, which is understandable because all he knows is someone is coming to listen to him. In the dub, they put this shot right after the people start coming outside looking angry and holding brooms and sticks. They meld it with the shot of his face falling that comes after he sees the angry mob.<\/p>\n They cut out several flashes to a flashback shot of Klahadore, in blue.<\/p>\n In the dub, they make Merry, Kaya\u2019s butler who kinda looks like a sheep due to his curly white hair, sometimes make words end in \u2018AaaaaAA\u2019 Ya know\u2026like Baaa\u2026.<\/p>\n An outer shot of Kaya\u2019s house is removed.<\/p>\n They remove an identical shot of Luffy\u2019s hat. Man, what\u2019s with the hate on Luffy\u2019s hat?<\/p>\n Aw, they got rid of a funny line. As they find Luffy, Piiman yells out \u201cThe straw hat guy!\u201d and Ninjin says \u201cand his butt\u201d. In the dub, he just says \u201cIt sure is.\u201d<\/p>\n Because of them screwing up the timeline, the episode ends in the dub with Nami looking horrified at the sight of Luffy. They put a cliffhanger on whether he\u2019s dead or not. We know he\u2019s rubber. We know he\u2019s fine. Any kid paying attention would know this.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n This episode was alright. It\u2019s obvious there\u2019s something not right about Klahadore from the get-go and his plan is rather smart, though you\u2019re left to wonder why he\u2019s intent on getting this money \u2018legitimately\u2019 and seems to not want to be a pirate anymore, despite still associating with his crew.<\/p>\n A third of this episode was a huge \u2018evil plan\u2019 exposition dump, but the beginning was a good insight into Usopp as a character, and the end had tension because you know no one will believe Usopp when he gets back to the village. However, even in the original, they cliffhang Luffy\u2019s fate, and we know he\u2019ll wake up and help save the village somehow.<\/p>\n The fact that four minutes of this episode needs to be taken from episode 11 is an annoying chore that I can\u2019t see going away any time soon unless they BS some extra footage or cut the remaining amount to match the original again. The cliffhanger they made with Usopp was about the same as the original just with confirmation that the villagers won\u2019t believe him. Being fair, the cliffhanger about Luffy\u2019s fate is also similar, even though we know he\u2019s fine. The slight \u2018boy who cried wolf\u2019 moral is a bit clich\u00e9\u2026.I mean, it\u2019s so clich\u00e9 it has its own name.<\/p>\n Next episode, more things go wrong for poor Usopp, and he\u2019s still the only one who can stop the pirate invasion and save his village as well as Kaya. 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