Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 41 Subbed (Finalized)

The One With the Bullfighters

Asuka continues to nurse her brother, whose memories haven’t returned.  With his memories on the line, Asuka duels Titan.  Titan isn’t the cheating duelist he was before–he’s become a true Dark Duelist.  Titan uses a series of “Daemon Matador” Monsters and Dark Arena, a bullring of darkness, to lead Asuka into the dark and gain the upper hand.  Unable to choose her attack targets, Asuka’s Cyber Blader is destroyed by his Matadors…

Here’s episode 41, folks! This is a great Asuka-focused episode, and one of the few wins for our protagonist team that weren’t earned by Judai.  Asuka’s motivation to regain Fubuki’s memories for him is a good driving force for her, and that reunion at the end hits the feels~ Well, until one fateful callout… We do also get to see Cyber Blader’s other two effects in action here, which is neat.

Just one card-related fix involved with this episode, but the main time-grabber was translating the Cosplay Duel poster that shows up in episode 42 but is included in its preview during episode 41.  Details below the cut. #KeyframingIsFunKids

Enjoy! If you haven’t checked it out yet, I’m also working on some “dub-uncut” episodes of 5D’s where I tweak dialogue and add back the Japanese OST for some fun; I’ll be getting started on episode 26 soon, which I’m excited for thanks to all the new 5D’s Duel Links audio I get to work with–we finally have legit translations of the summoning chants! Well, mostly. Sorry, Crow. Once 26 is done, I’ll get started on GX 42 and the fun poster-translating antics that will ensue. 😅

Fixes!

1. As Asuka explains Cyber Blader’s Pas de Quatre effect–negating Titan’s card effects–she has a blank Normal Monster card where Cyber Blader should be.  I made a proxy, then slapped it on one frame, where I then copied that frame and keyframed the card to the slow zoom-out on the pan.
2. 41′s preview for 42 shows the Cosplay Duel Tournament poster being painted up by Hayato, which I wanted to translate for the hardsub. this being before I realized it shows up in about seven other shots lmao It’s in two shots: the one as Shou brushes past Hayato as he paints, then the close-up.  For the first, I blanked the “Cosplay Duel Tournament” bubble then put a translation there matching the layout I use in the close-up, and then masked Hayato’s hand and brush over it.  For the close-up, I edited it for the full episode in order to then cut what I needed for the preview, so I stitched up a long photo of the poster and translated it in Photoshop, then panned it accordingly in Vegas before masking in Shou and Hayato’s heads over it.  It took so many keyframes across 2-3 video tracks, haha.  The top banner of the poster reads “Red’s Specialty” in Japanese, but for the context of a campus event poster, I thought “Only at Red” would work better.