Oh yeah, Funimation's dub feels like they took the Japanese voice actors and made them speak in perfect English. I will admit that it took me a little bit to get use to Colleen's voice for Luffy, but everyone else is quite solid. The only weirdness in the dub comes in the first several episodes to Skypiea, as Funi had dubbed that arc first, so the VAs were first fitting into their characters then, so when you watch the show from start to current, you notice a slight dip in their voices around then for a little bit. Other than that, this dub rules. Patrick Seitz is an incredible Franky while Stephanie Young is an amazing Robin.

It also helps that Toei requires Funimation to let those auditioning for the roles see and hear the characters in Japanese before they record their voices as Toei wants them to be as accurate as possible. I wouldn't be surprised if the same were to happen to the new Sailor Moon anime (assuming Funi will license it, which is most likely).

Just listened to the cast on YouTube. I LOVED the actress they picked for Robin, she totally nailed the 'I want to live' scene. Both Zoro and Franky are pretty great as well, although I'm not really impressed with the rest of the voices.

man i cant take Sabat as piccolo never liked his piccolo to begin with just sounded like a less rasby vegeta but it works for zoro and my God Robin it that to stephine younf i fell in love with her her look she has now my fave before the time skip but god she the new foaster mother of chopper once you see puck hazard you will know why my guard that one of my fave arcs

once you get to this arc you will find this hilarious http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlEmXH81eME

I actually haven't heard any of the english dub past Louge town. I really should buy the third dvd volume sometime soon.

As for the question someone asked about whether or not they should read/watch what happens after Marineford. I say yes, it shows how Luffy and Ace met, introduces their other friend and shows how terrible the rich truly can be. I personally read that part and I'll just say it was that good that I didn't leave the coffee shop I was in till I had finished reading the whole volume.

In my opinion, if it's in the manga, you just shouldn't skip it.

While at the time it seemed like it went on for far too long, the flashback was still worth it. And now you can read it all in one go and it should go much faster. Seeing Luffy and Ace as children was fun and I'm positive Sabo's going to show up in the future. Without reading/watching this arc, you won't have any idea who he is and wouldn't care about him... but you really should.

I have watched the majority of it, all the way up to Luffy's spiralling depression. It's just I haven't watched One Piece properly for like three years, so although I can remember most of it, I've just forgotten the finer details and I don't really have the time anymore to watch over say fifty episodes, only to find I basically remember everything in those bar like one episode. Which is why I'm skipping as far ahead as I can, without jumping to an episode I don't remember at all.

So with that in mind I'm picking up One Piece again with 505.

And I am full of sads. But also happies.

Water 7 was just such a fantastic arc, I've found pretty much everything following it flat feeling in comparison. Stuff with the Supernovas was pretty awesome and Marineford's War had everything in place to be truly epic, and to go beyond the awesome of Water 7 but then it was slow as fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. Thankfully this post war stuff looks a lot more interesting.

My biggest problem with the anime version of the Water 7 arc is it dragged on for an unnecessary amount of time. Having 5 clip shows in a row and then interrupted with some stupid Boss Luffy crap in the middle of a battle is just utterly annoying. Add on top that the recaps seemed to have gotten longer just to slow things down (there is no reason the train ride to Enies Lobby should have taken 9 episodes), and you have one of the longest anime arcs for no damn reason.

Sure, the story itself is by far the longest story arc in the entire series, but the entire thing runs just short of 100 episodes.

the annoying thing is the boss luffy ep is also part of an arc that has not been dubed yet what is filler thanks to the wiki and how they arcived each story arc i was able to skip each filler episode http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Story_Arcs

Yeah, I'm familiar with that site, but I want to at least watch every episode filler or not at least once. The only thing I skip are clip shows. Plus, there are some filler that was not bad. I actually enjoyed the filler in Alabasta because it made their trek through the desert feel more natural than just being where they needed to be in five panels. And I actually thought the Navaronne Base arc was pretty enjoyable and felt like it could have been written by Oda (not to mention it was better than the Foxy stuff). On the other hand, a lot of the filler is down right awful.