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“The Final Match - A Heart Hidden Under the Mask”/“Duel of the Dragons, Part 1”

Everybody, listen!

It’s finally done! So, to catch people up, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (22-27)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage what they changed, like Yusei asking about Goodwin talking to Akiza instead of JP!Yusei’s asking about his friends).  Hence, the “dubbed uncut” version here.

To cover the audio in the recap, since Akiza’s line there in 22 was ridiculous, I recycled a line from later in 23 to start it, then went to Japanese Kodo screaming before circling back to dub!Koda screaming (I really didn’t like her line there), inserted the right 22 lines and moved the MC’s extra line as Yusei and Aki walk towards each other to be over the new “Aki won!” shot; used a Jack grunt from somewhere and recycled his “She’s a Signer!” and Lazar’s “Three down” line from 22; and used a scoff from Rex from 27.  In the episode itself, I did recycle a few grunts here and there to quiet a scene that 4Kids had unnecessarily fluffed, and added back some SFX I thought were quieted a bit in this version of the audio.  You’ll probably get a different feel from this version than the actual 4Kids version of the episode!

Oh, also translated the OP/EN, the title card, and preview (where I also threw in the dub lines from 24 that correspond to what the Japanese lines were in it, using the MC where Yusei would’ve read the title) to give this an actual “What if they actually did this uncut” feel, nbd

I’ll be trying to do this with the rest of the BGM-less batch, but hopefully they flub on the Season 3+ uploads so I have some Synchro chants to work with… Enjoy!

5D’s Episode 23 Dub-Uncut Edition (Ft. Japanese OST?! WIP #2!)

(WIP #1)

Making some good headway here!  For this one, I thought I’d show off Yusei’s Aki monologue (for a show of how I’m rearranging some dialogue over cut scenes/leaving out weird lines like “like a team or something” and whatever dub!Divine called Aki’s hairclip) and the duel starting; had to add back the reverb effect on the MC’s voice because microphone, though since the voices are mixed with the SFX, it affects the SFX too, but I don’t think it’s too noticeable (I still want to tweak it a bit so it’s not final yet).  

It’s coming along nicely; currently up to Yusei summoning Turret Warrior!