I am currently coming up with ideas for a petition to get uncut Mangas for series, such as Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach.  I am hoping to gain your support and/or hear your suggestions regarding this petition before I actually post it on the petition website.

Dear Viz Media and Shonen Jump,

We are fans of Manga you publish, such as Bleach, One Piece, and Naruto.  We understand that you want to make your Mangas appeal to younger audiences, but we were hoping that you can release uneditted Manga volumes for the older audiences.  We would appreciate it if you would do the following.

1. Retain the profanities.

2. No edits to the art work.

3. Retain the original Japanese sound effects with English captions.

4. Retain more of the foreign names to certain things, such as Sanji's French attacks and Zoro's Japanese attacks.

5. Instead of people, such as Kakashi and Iruka from Naruto, being called Master, they should be called Sensei.

6. Release the uneditted Mangas in box sets of three to five volumes, so people can tell the difference between the editted and uneditted versions easier.

Thank you for your time.

From            

The Fans      

One Piece: Uncut and uncensored.  We won't do any edits or change peoples names.

We have taken a couple of steps to finally setting up the Fandub Edition of One Piece.  We got some decent replacement for the background music for fight scenes, bad guys, anti heroes, ect.  We would keep the original music and sound effects, but we lack that ability.   So we are going to try our best with what we can do.  We are also considering about fandubbing the One Piece Movies. 

We are going to try our best and take this seriously, unlike other fandubs that are only meant for comedy.  We will also try to lip sync as best as possible, but it will be extremely difficult for certain scenes. 

We made two advertisements for this fan dub (named my Latest Project (voiced by Plaguezombie) and Advertisement 2 (voiced by me).  I am not sure if I am allowed to give the links on here.  We also made the first opening of One Piece the Fan Dub.  It retains the original Japanese theme song and singers, but we just say the lines at the beginning.

Cast and Definite roles:

Knowledgeseeker: Zoro, Sanji, Ussop, Narrator, Koby, White Chase Smoker, and Crocodile

Plaguezombie: Luffy, Chopper, Buggy the Clown, and Kuro

Killerrabbit: Nami, various other female roles

Killerrabbit's friend (Username unknown): Nico Robin, various other female roles

Currently getting more people to help with background and possibly help with the lips.

Other ideas.

We also are thinking about doing Fandubs of other shows 4Kids ruined, such as Sonic X, F-Zero GP Legend, Yu-Gi-Oh, Yu-Gi-Oh GX, ect.  Don't be disappointed if we don't do it, but we are really considering it.

My friend and I are planning on making a fandub for One Piece (possibly Sonic X).  We are also hoping that we can get other people to play some roles in the future as well.  This will sort of be a protest against the horrible 4Kids version because we will also broadcast links to anti-4Kids websites and petitions, such as Spaction3's websites and several others I found.  Also this will make an English version of One Piece made by beginners seem better than 4Kids.  I don't think I can emphasize how much we are going to try to make this work.

Certain Questions and/or Problems

Do I think our voices will sound better than 4Kids? 

Yes I think my friend (possibly friends) will sound better to a majority of the 4Kids voices.  We are going to take it seriously, unlike other fandubs.

Do I think our voices will sound better than the Japanese voices? 

Maybe a few of them, but we all know the Japanese voices are great, so I wouldn't completely count on it.  However, we will put a large amount of effort into it, and I feel really enthusiastic about it.  I think this is the type of thing that we will sound better as the time goes on.

The music and background problems.

I can tell you that there won't be any problem with the opening song for One Piece.  However, we won't be able to retain the original background music or sound effects.  Fortunately, we are currently getting some other sound effects from the internet to make up for at least a few of them.  We are also getting some of other background music, such as Kingdom Hearts.

Female voices.

We finally managed to get a female voice actor for your cause.  We hope to get more as time goes on.

Lips

We will try to match my lips as closely as possible with the characters, but it will be difficult since we don't have the same stuff as official dubbing studios.  Also it will be a one shot thing.  If we mess up in one scene, we have to start all over again.  However, some of the new guys that joined us might be able to help us out a little.

When will it be ready?

I am not really certain when we will be ready to broadcast them on the internet, but I will make a blog entry when it is available.  I think we will probably do multiple episodes before we even put the first one up.

Voices-Characters

My friend Plaguezombie will be voicing

Luffy

Tony Tony Chopper (working on it)

Alvida (one of the exceptions)

Buggy the Clown

Mohji

Mayor

I will be voicing

Narrator

Zoro

Sanji (working on it)

Ussop (working on it)

Koby

Mihawk

White Chase Smoker

Crocodile

We are still deciding on the others

While I was working at the pool this week, I actually started writing my own Fanfiction story.  It is a Naruto and Inuyasha cross-over.

Working Title: Seal to the World Beyond

Notes: In Naruto, it takes place during the current story arc (Preparing Naruto).  In Inuyasha, it takes place during the Muso story arc.

Rating: T (some cursing and bloody violence)

Main Character: Naruto (not Inuyasha, but he does have a major role)

Other important Naruto characters: Sakura, Sai, Hinata, Neji, and Rock Lee

Summary: Naruto discovers a strange seal inside a mysterious house.  After Naruto activated it, Naruto has been brought to a completely different world.  However, this world turns out to be the original home of the nine tailed fox demon.

Notes

Number of chapters I have written so far: Eight chapters (only written, but I plan on putting them on the internet for you guys to read soon enough).

All Naruto Characters are wearing their Naruto II outfits, and Sai is wearing the outfit you see him in Chapters 311 and 312.

Goals: I hope to write at least fifty chapters for this story, and I hope to make a sequel as well.

Summer days = days of freedom and fun

It is the logical equation. 

The time has finally come.  I could hardly wait, and now it has arrived.  I have a number of plans this summer, but I plan to still come here.

Now that tennis is over, my new activity is karate.  I have only just started a few weeks ago, but I am really getting into to it.  I have learned some really cool moves already, and this is only the beginning (I hope).  My instructor has also taught me alternative ways of working out that may seem strange and painful, but they are very affective.  He is also very impress with my power and my flexibility.  I look foward to taking even more sessions.