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The One Where They Draw Things

Judai tries to buy a rare Golden Eggwich, but he learns that they’ve been stolen by someone for a few days now and are all gone.  The culprit seems to be one who’s really good at drawing, stealing only the Golden Eggwich out of the other sandwiches that look alike on the outside.  He captures the former Blue-student-turned-half-wild, Taizan–one who’d devoted a year to Mother Nature.  The duel’s Judai VS Taizan, and Taizan’s deck is a recklessly bold deck relying only on drawing.

And it’s all done! I kinda like this episode more than 16, especially since Mrs. Tome gets a role to play.  Taizan’s an interesting “filler” character with his whole nature sabbatical who probably should’ve gotten more appearances, but he at least returns in Season 2 which is cool.  And Judai uses Rampart Gunner for the third episode in a row, lol.

On the technical side, I got to fix a line I was mostly unsure about the first time around, and fixing it now, it was an easy line to type out haha (”When you stole them, I could never get them.”->”Until you went and stole ’em, I was never off, either.”; keep learning, kids!).  And as with this mini-”filler” arc, there were a bunch of fixes I did to the footage; mostly card edits for consistency, but notably trying to fix a huge error in the episode–how do you forget part of a Duel Disk? Full list of the fixes below the cut, as always.  Also, decided to go with “Drawiches” and “Eggwich/etc” over “Drawbreads” and “Egg Bread/etc” since, despite it being more of a dub thing, I think it does work better.

I also set myself up with a few episodes’ worth of Preview/Thanks For Watching clips to help move between episodes quicker.  I’ll prep some more for a few more batches when I’m able to.  Enjoy, guys; next time’ll be the Yugi’s Deck episodes, and I should have 18 ready in the next week or two!

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Yo guys, just wanted to repost this link in a newer post (thanks to everyone who reblogged my original post and follow-up for it) so more people would be aware of this petition.

As most GX and 5D’s fans know, a lot of music from the Japanese versions of those shows went unreleased, despite two (for GX; 3 for 5D’s, two of which were 2-CD releases) Sound Duel soundtracks, and they were a lot of the good ones.  In GX’s case, there was an incredibly huge delay with Sound Duel 2’s release, and in that time, we basically got two CDs’ worth of new music during the Seven Stars/Shadow Riders arc and Season 2 (notably A Powerful Threat, All-Out Duel, Reconciliation, Camula’s Theme, Saiou’s Theme, Standstill, Enjoying the Duel and a few here), as well as Season 3 (notably A Strong Force, Johan’s Theme and his Gem Beasts’ Theme); none of the new tracks during the former were released, and most of the Season 3 songs were released with tracks from Season 4 on Sound Duel 2 when it did come out. Also of note: Sound Duel 2’s only TV-Size OP/EN were Precious Time and Endless Dream (while 5D’s had all of its TV-size OP/ENs released).  I’d say that leaves 60% or so of GX’s soundtrack unreleased.

With 5D’s, while maybe 80% of the soundtrack was released, there were 10-15 tracks during the Fortune Cup/Dark Signers arcs that weren’t released yet they were used during memorable moments (among them JACK Battle 2, Yusei’s original battle theme, Hopeless Battle, and Lamentation), and the WRGP/Ark Cradle arc saw another 15 or so go unreleased (like this remixed Speed World, Sherry Battle, and Tactics).  A smaller pool of unreleased stuff compared to GX, but it still would be nice to have them in perfect quality.

Sure, ripping the tracks is a solution, but unfortunately, it can be hard to keep a lot of what defines the tracks intact, and it wouldn’t be the same as listening to it during an episode (example here).

Thing is, I started this petition back in October, and there are only 60-ish signatures! The goal’s set at the default 1000 on the site, but I suppose more realistically, getting 200 might be a good start (right?).  Now, this is the YGO fandom, and I know there are a bunch of GX/5D’s fans who liked/loved the series and a lot of the music that didn’t get released.  There were also a lot of ZeXal fans out there who were pleasantly surprised when an unexpected Sound Duel 5 was announced, made thanks to fan outcry:

放送終了後も未収録音源のCD化を望むお声を多数頂きましたことを受け、今回の発売が決定致しました。

*quick translation by me*

“Many of you voiced your wishes for CDs of the soundtracks that went unreleased even after [ZeXal]’s broadcast concluded, and that led us to this next release.”

It came out a few weeks back and put a huge dent in ZeXal’s “unreleased music” list.  Getting the same done for GX and 5D’s (but especially GX since it has a ton more) would be great, and is the general goal here.  I mean, YGO series in general have awesome soundtracks, and it’d be nice to appreciate GX’s and 5D’s in full.  GX especially has a great pitch going for it: this year was its 10th Anniversary!

If fans’ voices helped ZeXal, it can help GX and 5D’s.  If you’ve already signed, thanks so much! If not, well, help us out, fandom! It only takes a minute or two to sign. We can do it!

77 sigs so far; thanks again to everyone who’s signed! And if you haven’t, WHERE IS MY FANDOM UNITE SPELL CARD?! But really, even if you’re not into GX or 5D’s, consider taking a minute to sign this for your fellow YGO fans if you’re able to.  Those examples I linked to above should give you an idea of why getting these songs finally released and give GX and 5D’s the “Fully Released” label that DM’s OST has (99% of iirc) would be awesome.

Up to 141 signatures now (as of 3/12/16), and considering how long this has been around for (more than a year now…), more signatures would definitely be appreciated (only 8 more since 1/20), so please boost this post! GX/5D’s fan or not, any support is good support! Huge shoutout to everyone who’s signed and helped to boost so far, too; keep ‘em coming!

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The One With the Steakout–at Night!

There’s been a frequent case of Obelisk Blue students being forced into a duel with a mysterious man late at night, and–upon losing–having their rare cards stolen; Chronos appoints Judai to find the culprit.  We meet Ohara–a huge Ra Yellow who doesn’t have much in the way of dueling skills–and his best friend Kohara, who seems to be skilled at dueling but is timid and has only lost his bouts; even when mocked by the Obelisk Blues, he can’t say a thing.  That night, as Judai pursues the culprit, he comes across Ohara, but… Judai and Ohara then duel.

First off, if you haven’t seen the YGO GX Abridged version of this episode, please treat yourself! One of the best ones haha.

Now, this episode’s not too bad, and makes a hell of a lot more sense than the dubbed version (surprise surprise).  Nice moment at the end with Judai and Kohara, too.

I also did a few minor-ish card consistency fixes to the episode–full list below the cut.  Enjoy! I’ll work on 17 for the next week or two.

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And I’ve posted the episode on NAC, so get it while it’s hot!

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The One With the Steakout–at Night!

There’s been a frequent case of Obelisk Blue students being forced into a duel with a mysterious man late at night, and–upon losing–having their rare cards stolen; Chronos appoints Judai to find the culprit.  We meet Ohara–a huge Ra Yellow who doesn’t have much in the way of dueling skills–and his best friend Kohara, who seems to be skilled at dueling but is timid and has only lost his bouts; even when mocked by the Obelisk Blues, he can’t say a thing.  That night, as Judai pursues the culprit, he comes across Ohara, but… Judai and Ohara then duel.

First off, if you haven’t seen the YGO GX Abridged version of this episode, please treat yourself! One of the best ones haha.

Now, this episode’s not too bad, and makes a hell of a lot more sense than the dubbed version (surprise surprise).  Nice moment at the end with Judai and Kohara, too.

I also did a few minor-ish card consistency fixes to the episode–full list below the cut.  Enjoy! I’ll work on 17 for the next week or two.

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The One With All the Rackets

Well, this one was an adventure… But not because of the episode itself, lol–all things considered, this episode’s not a bad one, save for Ayanokouji’s grand exit.  And it’s also a fitting one for Valentine’s Day!

Judai ends up in a duel against Mitsuru Ayanokouji, a Third-Year Obelisk Blue student who’s enamored with Asuka and mistakes Judai and her for a couple.

This one also saw me working the most fixes into an episode since starting to look into it.  If you’ve been following my subs for a while, you know I love consistency.  Unfortunately, the animators didn’t seem to share that same love, at least so far. D: So, with help from @saveyuzu and @akameniseis, as well as @silivagalaxy teaching me how to card-edit in AfterEffects, I got to work.  All together, there were 14 different fixes done, 4 being Burstlady fixes–because the poor girl can’t catch a break.  On top of those, I also translated the hit counters that show up once Ayanokouji uses Deuce to screw the rules–a full list of all the fixes done lies below the cut.  It was fun, though, aside from all the keyframing; “It was quite educational!”, as Halil in ARC-V would say!

I’ll just be going back to 14 for a quick bit to update the Mega Thunderball fix I added to the preview, and updating the script for the “Captain Cheery” line (inspired by “President Peppy” in the CR subs).  I also dug up some things worth fixing in 1-2 earlier episodes that I’ll use my new skills on at some point.  Then, it’s off to episode 16! I’d put the ETA at maybe early next week; I already partly did one fix there for 15’s preview, so hopefully that’s the only one.  Enjoy, guys! And hopefully, you had a nice Valentine’s Day, if you celebrated it. :)

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The One With All the Rackets

Well, this one was an adventure… But not because of the episode itself, lol–all things considered, this episode’s not a bad one, save for Ayanokouji’s grand exit.  And it’s also a fitting one for Valentine’s Day!

Judai ends up in a duel against Mitsuru Ayanokouji, a Third-Year Obelisk Blue student who’s enamored with Asuka and mistakes Judai and her for a couple.

This one also saw me working the most fixes into an episode since starting to look into it.  If you’ve been following my subs for a while, you know I love consistency.  Unfortunately, the animators didn’t seem to share that same love, at least so far. D: So, with help from @saveyuzu and @akameniseis, as well as @silivagalaxy teaching me how to card-edit in AfterEffects, I got to work.  All together, there were 14 different fixes done, 4 being Burstlady fixes–because the poor girl can’t catch a break.  On top of those, I also translated the hit counters that show up once Ayanokouji uses Deuce to screw the rules–a full list of all the fixes done lies below the cut.  It was fun, though, aside from all the keyframing; “It was quite educational!”, as Halil in ARC-V would say!

I’ll just be going back to 14 for a quick bit to update the Mega Thunderball fix I added to the preview, and updating the script for the “Captain Cheery” line (inspired by “President Peppy” in the CR subs).  I also dug up some things worth fixing in 1-2 earlier episodes that I’ll use my new skills on at some point.  Then, it’s off to episode 16! I’d put the ETA at maybe early next week; I already partly did one fix there for 15’s preview, so hopefully that’s the only one.  Enjoy, guys! And hopefully, you had a nice Valentine’s Day, if you celebrated it. :)

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