US: "One Piece", "Mew Mew" on hiatus

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One Piece has been destroyed in America. The manga and the anime.

I'm not very keen on the scanlations of the Japanese original, but Viz's treatment of the manga isn't that bad (other than renaming Zoro as "Zolo" when the anime debuted in the US). It's 4Kids' treatment of the anime that crashed and burned -- they practically changed everything around to make it more appropriate for younger audiences, all the way down to Sanji's cigarette, which became a lollipop in the anime (though in Viz's manga, Sanji still smokes).

"One Piece" is a series that relies on violence as part of the storyline. And with 4Kids handling the packaging, they all but killed the action in that series.