On March 16, 2006, 4Kids announced plans to concentrate only on their fully-owned properties. However, on January 2, 2006, the series was announced to be continuing on February 11. On NovemOne Piece (along with Mew Mew Power, another 4Kids series) was reported missing from the 4Kids line-up. Despite Kahn's earlier statements, Viz were unable to release an uncut version as they were not involved with the dub's production. The American home video rights to the series were sub-licensed to VIZ Media, who began releasing the edited version of the series on DVD in February 2006 with 'English TV Version' specified on the DVD covers. In an interview on Ap4Kids CEO Al Kahn suggested that One Piece, along with every other 4Kids property, would receive an uncut DVD release, and added that anime fans would 'have to accept the fact that it's going to be available in two styles'. In the UK, Toonami announced that they had acquired the series on Novemand began their broadcast on April 23, 2005. Cartoon Network announced their aqusation of the series on February 16, 2005. The One Piece anime debuted in America on the FoxBox TV block (later known as 4Kids TV) on September 18, 2004. On August 14, 2004, the first trailers were released. Grossfeld, the president of 4Kids at the time, was the executive producer of their English version of the series. On June 4, 2004, 4Kids announced they had acquired the television distribution and merchandising license for One Piece in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand.

3.3 Removal of Japanese text and culture.

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