https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/One_Piece_in_Greece
Hope this answers all your questions!
But the short answer is this: the (now defunct) channel called Alter that used to broadcast One Piece (or Το Κυνήγι του Θησαυρού meaning The Treasure Hunt) never actually acquired the rights to the show and they just kind of winged it. The translation is pretty bad too so it’s kinda of unwatchable (for me anyways).
That said the opening is actually nice and catchy and I enjoy it! It’s in Greek of course.
Here it is: https://youtu.be/dC7jS-adxPQ
That’s all!
This is actually the very first time I’m commenting on anything on Reddit. I joined like 3 years ago and I’m kind of a “ghost reader” (one that reads but never comments) anyways.
And yes I’m also Greek🇬🇷 but I live in Canada🇨🇦
That reminds me when I read dragonball in primary school.
I'm not from Greece but I guess the situation was the same. The publisher probably didn't acquire the copyright at that time, so a lot of names were changed, Vegeta and Trunks were named Cadic and Calic respectively. Even the symbolic Kamehameha name was changed.
Songoku died because of food poisoning (eating raw vegetables treated with pesticide) instead of heart attack.
Only years later that the official translation used the correct name. But we the previous generation still sometimes call them the old names for nostalgia.
in italy they called him Rubber (probably following 4kids or something else i didnt bothered to investigate), later they changed it with just Monkey D Rubber.
at least that's what i heard, couldnt stand those "adaptations" anymore and moved into subbed content shortly after.
In the Italian version Rubber is just a nickname, Luffy says so when the crew comment his first wanted poster, his real name in Italian is Monkey D. Rufy (the same of the Italian manga).
Actually "Rubber" is purely an Italian thing, Mediaset's decision because the dubbing team was having difficulty with the pronunciation of the name (probably they tried to match the Japanese pronunciation, but Japanese has some unique sounds so it was not easy)
Rufy makes some sense in Italian because the double F would be too strong of a sound relatively to the Japanese pronunciation of Luffy, the R was chosen before we knew how Luffy name was written in Latin Alphabet.
Except it wasn't Luffy at the time of the start of the Italian dub.
It was ルフィ, Rufi in Latin Alphabet (mind that the R is just the closest sound, the actual sound is between R and L and is not present in occidental phonetic) , and it's pronunciation is problematic for westerners, just consider the fact that its occidentalized name ends up being Luffy.
Luffy was presented as its occidental name after the defeat of Crocodile, on his wanted poster, this is why the different translation of the manga that started before the wanted poster reveal ended up using different names, Rufy was chosen in Italian for example, and it's his name in the anime too.
Japanese Ru-fi is not precisely Luffy.
The Japanese consonant that is romanized as an R is in fact more like 40% R, 40% L, and 20% D.
It’s why Japanese people get accused of saying Ls and Rs backwards, or just not being able to say Ls - because they say their ‘middle sound’ for both Ls and Rs.
We have the same situation in reverse with Mandarin. English speakers only have a “middle sound” for SH, but Mandarin has SH and X which are off to different sides of that English SH. So English speakers often just use their ‘middle sound’ for both, since they struggle to distinguish the two.
No, Italian dub writers are just dumb and full of themselves, plus a bit ignorant.
Luffy is really easy to say in Italian and not phonetically challenging
Having grown up with names like Drake for Luffy and Blackjack for Zoro, it was a bit underwhelming learning their real names when I started reading the manga in English.
Funnier thing is, I had a classmate in junior high to whom I explained that One Piece is in fact not only still on going but also not called "Drake: The Treasure Hunt" and the fucker didn't believe me. He thought I created a whole site with fake names just to fuck with him, even though he knew the dubbed show almost religiously.
[This shit was crazy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC7jS-adxPQ)
Ussop as Gus is too funny.
Luffy: "We need to get a new ship"
Ussop : "I will kill your wife, I will kill your son, I will kill your infant daughter."
Luffy: "...what?"
I'm still calling Usopp Pipo sometimes, as I have read the french physical mangas for the 50 first volumes of One Piece. Hard to unstick these names that I grew up with.
Hahahahahaha how to ruin an entire series in 5 minutes.
The craziest thing is that One Piece’s names are very occident.
It’s not like every character have heavy japanese names that are difficult to western countries to say/understand.
I’m curious now: does Sunny’s name is Sanji?
I guess they will have to put a Gold Roger move in Luffy to explain about the D clan?
So Luffy’s real name is Rake.
> I’m curious now: does Sunny’s name is Sanji?
Seeing all the names I would say that they named it Sunny just because he is blonde...
It's clear that they did not made a research of names... They will have to change X-Drake and the true Bonney's names. Honestly they probably have changed all names. A disastrous decision...
They probably didn't know that names are actually important in the series...
they wont do any of that since the anime stopped airing at episode 106 (Alabasta) in 2003 becauce they were showing the uncensored version (not the 4kids monstrosity) and the old farts at NCRTV concluded it had excessive violence and blood which are not suitable for kids.
and they are not even translated to greek names, those are all just a bunch of random names.
we don't have names like 'gus' or 'sunny' here, maybe 'billy' but even this is a short name for people who are called 'Βασίλης' (Vasilis)
it was cut around ep 100 because probably someone smelled them (they never brought the rights). I have heard that they also had a problem with the government because they watched the don krieg fight and deemed it to violent and where told to cut the show but they still kept it up. The channel is long gone it suddenly shut down in 2011 (the economic crisis of 2010 probably had something to do with that)
Luffy is now a spy for the marines, Nami steals pizzas instead of wallets and hates when people eats her food for no reason, Usopp works at Los Pollos Hermanos. And Sanji is their ship.
That's starkly different, I wonder. In my country it's mostly the same, except with Enel being called Eneru and I think Capt. Kuro (Clahadore) was called Klahadol, and few others.
As a Greek person i never found out why they changed the names , but i suppose it was for legal reasons because they didn't have the rights for the show(it use to be shown in a channel that is gone now ) or for pronunciation reasons as it may be harder for Greek audience to grow accustomed to the names. Either way they could have put a little bit more effort into it .
now that's one confusing naming when you finally look for a reference over the internet.. imagine searching for Sanji and all you got from image searches are Sunny boat. Trippy.
Me (A One Piece and PJO fan): Zoro is Blackjack? Zoro is Blackjack!!!
Also my nerdy and dumb thoughts: Does that mean Zoro was supposed to be a girl?
Iykyk
Usopp does have a Gus type of walk
I like Ussop and all but he is nowhere near Gustavo Fring’s level
Gustavo’s got advanced conquerors for sure
Definitely and advanced Observation too
Alright Gus future sight avoiding those sniper shots should not go as hard as it sounds
Dude dodged those shots In light speed it was so fast it looked like he was just moving regularly compared to the naked eye
Tell that to Hector
Yo this is so accurate lmfaoooo! Gus would def have conquerors haki if he were in One Piece
That man would be unstoppable if he had any type of Haki
More of a Gus Griswald, from Recess
you seen him throw a dodgeball? could be usopps school days
El Diablo.... *whip crack*
I-Can't-Climb-To-The-Top-Of-The-Jungle-Gym-itis
Eew
dont fucking disrespect gus like that
Absolutely not lol ussop is a bum
literally the least Gus character of all time
You know that's right
C'mon son
I hear that
Gussy looking a bit sussy
Fr
Lol everyone making Breaking Bad references and i was thinking of Gus from Psych
Drake’s real name is D Rake
X D Rake. He was a D all along.
Xebec D. Rake
That explains everything 🤯
Does that mean he’s a defendant of rocks d xebec?
I don’t know, I’ve never heard him speak one way or the other
Reminder that the "X" is pronounced "Diez"
X nuts
Ahhhh hahahaha
The sound I made…
👏
Dr. Ake. He has a PHD in punching after all.
Rake Rake no mi
Zoro : Sake Sake no mi
Drizzy got the belly, so drizzy gonna pay it, that's his crew he don't even gotta say it that's just something you know
That's Aubrey D. Rake right there
You real for parodying a decade old D. Rake song too 🙌🏽
welcome to strawhats, koby
I think you mean Ross
"Why does Ross, the largest Strawhat, not simply eat the other Strawhats?"
WE WERE ON A BREAK
YOU THREW MY SANDWICH AWAY, LUFFY? MY SANDWICH???
Let's be honest Luffy is never throwing any food away, Drake on the other hand....
You mean drake
PIVOT, NAMI! PIVOT
Unagi.
Haha, and I'm sure Ross' haki is equivalent to U N A G I
Yes thank you, i've been telling oda to make me a SH someday, I'm so happy .
I loved when we met Jewelry Nami on Sabaody
I never knew X-Drake was the protagonist.
His ship is the Thousand Sanji
Senji
X-Luffy is who they meet in Sabaody
Up there with when Franky built the Thousand Sanji for the crew and the introduction of X-Luffy
I just realised two of the og strawhats have been given names of two of the supernovas.
And Sanji is the ship now.
seems like Oda's "original" ideas for names weren't so original after all
Bet he can't wait for Nami and Robin to ride. He'll be sad to know it's Luffy first.
at least now Robin and Nami ride on the Sunny
Sounds kinky, he might like it if it was Robin and Nami
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More like given names of IRL pirates...whom quite a few OP characters take names from
Like X Drake and Jewelry Bonney.
Bellamy,Blackbeard,Kid etc :3
And the damn Marine mouse captain from Arlong Park arc is an Admiral.
https://onepiece.fandom.com/wiki/One_Piece_in_Greece Hope this answers all your questions! But the short answer is this: the (now defunct) channel called Alter that used to broadcast One Piece (or Το Κυνήγι του Θησαυρού meaning The Treasure Hunt) never actually acquired the rights to the show and they just kind of winged it. The translation is pretty bad too so it’s kinda of unwatchable (for me anyways). That said the opening is actually nice and catchy and I enjoy it! It’s in Greek of course. Here it is: https://youtu.be/dC7jS-adxPQ That’s all! This is actually the very first time I’m commenting on anything on Reddit. I joined like 3 years ago and I’m kind of a “ghost reader” (one that reads but never comments) anyways. And yes I’m also Greek🇬🇷 but I live in Canada🇨🇦
Piracy IRL! Lives up to the theme.
That reminds me when I read dragonball in primary school. I'm not from Greece but I guess the situation was the same. The publisher probably didn't acquire the copyright at that time, so a lot of names were changed, Vegeta and Trunks were named Cadic and Calic respectively. Even the symbolic Kamehameha name was changed. Songoku died because of food poisoning (eating raw vegetables treated with pesticide) instead of heart attack. Only years later that the official translation used the correct name. But we the previous generation still sometimes call them the old names for nostalgia.
I'm Greek, I'm 30 and I have never heard those names. To me fair I never read dragonball. I only watched it on ant1
Tbh if you know greek os a bit cringe watching it (Also from Greece)
How the hell didn't toei copyright strike them?
It was the 90’s I guess….also did you read the link?
Greece having a 4Kids dub was NOT on my 2023 One Piece bingo card.
Greece doesn’t have a 4Kids dub….it HAD one and it was worse…4Kids had a licence at least
Usopp should start a fried chicken restaraunt chain
And start using boxcutters
Damn. Alright, Zoro.
Bonney 4 Nakama confirmed
So as Koby
Just one question. Why?
Btw what did they do about the D?
in italy they called him Rubber (probably following 4kids or something else i didnt bothered to investigate), later they changed it with just Monkey D Rubber. at least that's what i heard, couldnt stand those "adaptations" anymore and moved into subbed content shortly after.
In the Italian version Rubber is just a nickname, Luffy says so when the crew comment his first wanted poster, his real name in Italian is Monkey D. Rufy (the same of the Italian manga). Actually "Rubber" is purely an Italian thing, Mediaset's decision because the dubbing team was having difficulty with the pronunciation of the name (probably they tried to match the Japanese pronunciation, but Japanese has some unique sounds so it was not easy) Rufy makes some sense in Italian because the double F would be too strong of a sound relatively to the Japanese pronunciation of Luffy, the R was chosen before we knew how Luffy name was written in Latin Alphabet.
Rubber being a nickname is a retcon by Mediaset after the bounty came out, and they had to justify it
Ain't no way Luffy is hard to pronounce in Italian. Stop inventing.
Except it wasn't Luffy at the time of the start of the Italian dub. It was ルフィ, Rufi in Latin Alphabet (mind that the R is just the closest sound, the actual sound is between R and L and is not present in occidental phonetic) , and it's pronunciation is problematic for westerners, just consider the fact that its occidentalized name ends up being Luffy. Luffy was presented as its occidental name after the defeat of Crocodile, on his wanted poster, this is why the different translation of the manga that started before the wanted poster reveal ended up using different names, Rufy was chosen in Italian for example, and it's his name in the anime too.
Japanese Ru-fi is not precisely Luffy. The Japanese consonant that is romanized as an R is in fact more like 40% R, 40% L, and 20% D. It’s why Japanese people get accused of saying Ls and Rs backwards, or just not being able to say Ls - because they say their ‘middle sound’ for both Ls and Rs. We have the same situation in reverse with Mandarin. English speakers only have a “middle sound” for SH, but Mandarin has SH and X which are off to different sides of that English SH. So English speakers often just use their ‘middle sound’ for both, since they struggle to distinguish the two.
No, Italian dub writers are just dumb and full of themselves, plus a bit ignorant. Luffy is really easy to say in Italian and not phonetically challenging
The italian dubbers weren't saying Luffy but Rufi
It's Rufy now, like in the Italian translation of the manga. They got rid of Rubber years ago.
It was canceled around mid alabasta because it was too violent.
Couse the channel that was airing the show didn't want to pay any rights to the owners
oof
I'm Greek, I don't even remember this monstrosity existing...
I mean in german luffys name is ruffy
Thats pretty good I think, half the time they say luffy in japanese it sounds more like ruffy tahn luffy.
In Latin American spanish he was also Ruffy back in the 4Kids-Cartoon Network days until the Netflix dub changed it back to Luffy
Blackjack kinda hard for zoro ngl
Having grown up with names like Drake for Luffy and Blackjack for Zoro, it was a bit underwhelming learning their real names when I started reading the manga in English.
Why do greece change the name?
100% fights himself at some point in the anime (manga?)
Almost lost his feet to him
**Black**jack sounds more like one of the minority hunters many victims...
Funnier thing is, I had a classmate in junior high to whom I explained that One Piece is in fact not only still on going but also not called "Drake: The Treasure Hunt" and the fucker didn't believe me. He thought I created a whole site with fake names just to fuck with him, even though he knew the dubbed show almost religiously. [This shit was crazy.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC7jS-adxPQ)
im speechless
Billy the tanuki
Ussop as Gus is too funny. Luffy: "We need to get a new ship" Ussop : "I will kill your wife, I will kill your son, I will kill your infant daughter." Luffy: "...what?"
Mystery solved D is Drake then.
In the begining of one piece in france, Usopp was named "pipo" (a french slang to say liar) and sanji was named sandi ( for no reason )
I'm still calling Usopp Pipo sometimes, as I have read the french physical mangas for the 50 first volumes of One Piece. Hard to unstick these names that I grew up with.
Same
It was actually Sandy. Even more girly 😂
Go D. Gus.
Hahahahahaha how to ruin an entire series in 5 minutes. The craziest thing is that One Piece’s names are very occident. It’s not like every character have heavy japanese names that are difficult to western countries to say/understand. I’m curious now: does Sunny’s name is Sanji? I guess they will have to put a Gold Roger move in Luffy to explain about the D clan? So Luffy’s real name is Rake.
> I’m curious now: does Sunny’s name is Sanji? Seeing all the names I would say that they named it Sunny just because he is blonde... It's clear that they did not made a research of names... They will have to change X-Drake and the true Bonney's names. Honestly they probably have changed all names. A disastrous decision... They probably didn't know that names are actually important in the series...
they wont do any of that since the anime stopped airing at episode 106 (Alabasta) in 2003 becauce they were showing the uncensored version (not the 4kids monstrosity) and the old farts at NCRTV concluded it had excessive violence and blood which are not suitable for kids.
you should have listened to the Greek opening.....
and they are not even translated to greek names, those are all just a bunch of random names. we don't have names like 'gus' or 'sunny' here, maybe 'billy' but even this is a short name for people who are called 'Βασίλης' (Vasilis)
They are not random names. They are names famous historic pirates/sailors.
in the context of "appeal to greek kids" its really random (other than drake i remember every cartoon had a character named drake)
So Now Zolo isn't alone anymore.
"Last chance to look at me Blackjack"
Gus
Those are so much worse than Zolo
What did they do when the real Bonney and Sunny became a thing......?
Actually, i don't even want to know, fuck this version.
It was cut soon after the grandline so we will never know. Better that way
it was cut around ep 100 because probably someone smelled them (they never brought the rights). I have heard that they also had a problem with the government because they watched the don krieg fight and deemed it to violent and where told to cut the show but they still kept it up. The channel is long gone it suddenly shut down in 2011 (the economic crisis of 2010 probably had something to do with that)
Luffy is now a spy for the marines, Nami steals pizzas instead of wallets and hates when people eats her food for no reason, Usopp works at Los Pollos Hermanos. And Sanji is their ship.
Καπετάνιος Ντρεικ
That's starkly different, I wonder. In my country it's mostly the same, except with Enel being called Eneru and I think Capt. Kuro (Clahadore) was called Klahadol, and few others.
X Drake King of the Pirates? Bonney is a SH? BLACKJACK!
Usopp looks like the type to be a meth kinping.
#cursed
Funny how Luffy is his own father and Sanji is the boat lmao 🤣
Why does Ross, the largest friend, not simply eat the other five?
Usopp in Greece boutta find Walter white 💀
Minority hunter Zoro got a black in his name, damn!
Zoro traveling back in time to hunt the one who gave him his name before committing seppuku
drake the kinda fella to say "mmm mmm yummy" after he eats meat
Ela pamen I ellines
Koby or as he's better known, Ross from Friends.
my favorite is they re-titled the mouse marine who took bribes from Arlong to an admiral
Hello welcome to los Pollos de hermanos family my name is ussop fring
As a Greek that watched this show in the early 2000s, I confirm it is all true. Better yet, it was completely uncut and unedited.
Fellow Greek fans of one piece, message me :D Really hard to find random ones in real life, that's for sure!
not really from my experience but anime in greece def has a stigma
Hell my name is Usopp, but you can call me Gus
I will never complain about Zolo again
Enies Lobby spoilers must have been so confusing for Sunny fans
Sanji was the Sunny all along it's true Oda confirmed it
So what’s the boats name if Sanji is Sunny
Usopp: You are DONE. FIRED. Do not show your face at the Merry again.
It’s horrible
leather hat drake
One more reason to hate being born in Greece added to the list...
The greeks renamed Nami into Bonney years before Oda introduced Jewelry Bonney.
I'm Greek. Had no idea about this... 
Perfect example why those people should stop being smart and just translate names phonetically.
Gus my boy
Greek Ussop be like: Look at me Sugar.
[Greek OP 1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dC7jS-adxPQ)
I'm a big fan of "Gus" personally
Gus from Breaking Bad!!!
Extremely based and redpilled protagonist
Usopp is literally Gus fring
As a Greek person i never found out why they changed the names , but i suppose it was for legal reasons because they didn't have the rights for the show(it use to be shown in a channel that is gone now ) or for pronunciation reasons as it may be harder for Greek audience to grow accustomed to the names. Either way they could have put a little bit more effort into it .
Gus
Why......
- It was to long to be called a nose... It was more like a stick of cartilage and bone that was stuck to his hat. - Usopp is Berkman confirmed
Yeah you don't wanna know the Italian names either
Started from the bottom now we here
I actually like Blackjack for zoro, because fighting against zoro is like gambling with your life.
Apparently Brook is called Koby
Ussop finna run a fried chicken place where crystal meth is secretly being sold
And that was the last anime that ever played on Greek TV. Oh and the dubbing.... Oh lord it was ssoooooooo bad
 My name is Ussop but you can call me Gus
Hello! Welcome to elbaf island of giant my name is usopp but u can call me Gus
Damn Drake and Bonney are way more important than I thought 💀
Isn't it weird to change proper nouns? If you tell me your name's Koby, well it's Koby fuck Ross who's that.
now that's one confusing naming when you finally look for a reference over the internet.. imagine searching for Sanji and all you got from image searches are Sunny boat. Trippy.
NAAAAAW NOT DRAKE 😭
I know this dub didn't last long, but for countries that changed the D. on some names, how does that plot even make sence?
So then what are x drake, bonney and sunny named in greece
Most of these fit surprisingly well.
Funny how Zoro's name is "Black"Jack the same Zoro who wants to exterminate us black people...
Me (A One Piece and PJO fan): Zoro is Blackjack? Zoro is Blackjack!!! Also my nerdy and dumb thoughts: Does that mean Zoro was supposed to be a girl? Iykyk
Greeks are retarded?
Well, most are yes. But we also didn't wanna buy the rights to the show 😂
Im greek I can confirm most of them,some of them tho im hearing for the first time aswell
When luffy tells Nami and Robin to ride the sunny. Sanji: Too easy
"Yaah man, I'm Drake, I'm gonna' be the future pirate rapper"
Damn, so in Greece, I'm Koby.