"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

The One With the “Gotcha!”

Two months later than I later realized I would’ve liked (to coincide with its first airdate ten years ago on 10/6/04), here’s my finalized version of episode 1! I’d already updated most of the translations a while ago, so aside from the ones I touched up this go-around, this was more of a stylistic/aesthetic update to match my later releases in spirit; I’ll eventually be reaching Seasons 3 and 4 to give them a touch-up with my new subtitle styling for both the episodes and the OP/ENs.  And because Season 1 didn’t have the “Today’s best card!” segments, but I didn’t want to end the episodes abruptly right after the preview, I’ll be recreating the ending sponsor clips, only adding “Battle on the Edge/Genkai Battle” instead of “Sunshine/Kaisei” over it, and a little “Thanks for watching/tune in next time!” note (since later they add the “Just After This!” thing, so it’s a bit more consistent).  I’ll just have to improvise come episode 24, since they used scenes that weren’t in the episodes.

Also, thanks one more time to thepalebride and aahes for their help with editing that shot of Manjoume in the opening!

(EDIT, 2021: Listed the animation fixes applied to episode 1 under the cut below)

So yeah, enjoy, folks! And let me know what you think in the tags or something. :) I’ll be updating my masterpost with the new link, too.  Also, if anyone happens to know any good video websites almost as obscure as Cloudy yet functional on mobile, let me know; it’d be nice to have these work for people on their phones if they haven’t (and I’d like to watch these at work occasionally haha).

FIXES!

1. Applied a card back to an orange rectangle that was a face-down card during the panning shot of the Exam Duels going on over the episode’s opening narration as it fades to Chronos watching, repeating the edit as it pans back around again before fading to Manjoume and Ryou/Asuka watching.
2. Fixed the error with Misawa’s LP dropping to zero after he uses Ring of Destruction to finish his Exam Duel; should have dropped to 1300.
3. After the commercial break, fixed the error with a Ra Yellow student’s miscolored jacket as he and the others watch Antique Gear Golem being summoned, thanks to thepalebride’s help.
4. Fixed the blank Normal Monster card that should be Flame Wingman, both as Antique Gear Golem crashes onto Chronos and as the duel fades to an end.