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NEWS: One Piece Premieres on Adult Swim's Toonami Tonight

Missed it as I ws asleep, and already have the dvds, but was wondering if the opening and ending themes were the same length, or shortened like Soul Eater's?

No.

Some Shonen Magazines are for boys between 8-12 years, and some are for boys between 13-18.

Shonen Jump ia a Magazine that is for boys between 8-13 years, One Piece is published in Shonen Jump. An example of magazine for boys with 13-18 years, is Shonen Magazine.

But One Piece has the targef of boys with 8-13 years old, include Oda says that he draws One Piece for kids.

Whatever, Kodomo magazines are for 5 years old kids, not 10 years old kids. Pokemon is a Kodomo anime, One Piece is a Shonen.

That's why many of us are equally fans of American cartoons like both Avatar series and Thundercats and Sym-Bionic Titan.

Shonen Jump caters to preteens (11 ish) to older teens (up to 18ish) but it's read by people of all ages. The men in their forties who read Kochikame in the 70's still read it now, all sorts of people read Death Note (which obviously wasn't really appropriate for people under 15 or so...), girls read Bleach and Gintama just as much as the boys, and One Piece is no longer just a kid's manga/show, it's a cultural phenomenon. Their are multiple books written for adults about Luffy's leadership style. Variety shows (which take up about 50-60% of Japanese airtime) have specials dedicated to the famous scenes. The movies are consistently the top grossing at the box office every year in a row. Close to a third of every kid in elementary school is wearing or carrying One Piece merchandise at any given time, and I guarantee almost all of them own at least one piece... ...no pun intended.

FWIW, Eureka Seven was played at 8:00 AM on Sundays, and I wouldn't really call it a kid's show. It just happens to be that weekend morning is a premium time slot because it guarantees ratings, like the "golden time" (primetime) in the late afternoon/early evening. But where I live, there is almost zero anime played in primetime, and I'm not willing to stay up and watch series at 2 AM like I did when I was a student. If you want to watch anime on TV in Japan nowadays you pretty much have to get a DVR. Or watch reruns on Animax. In which case you might still need a DVR.

On another note, Pokemon sort of fits in the gap between kid's anime and shonen, because it's targeted at the two groups who play the video games, which are about 8 to 14 (ish).

The real kid's shows are the ones like Inazuma Eleven, Pretty Cure, My Melody, Bakugan (interestingly the toys are actually based of old-fashioned Japanese toys called "bi-goma"), sentai shows, Kamen Rider, the new glorified TCG commercial of the season, etc. Of course, that doesn't mean SOME adults and teens don't watch them...