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icedchaiarts:

It’s Elemental HERO Neos! Or, as my friend likes to call him, “No Neck Neos”. Somehow…I think that if I did draw the neck, he’d look even weirder.

GX Finalized-Subs!83 (WIP): A Documented Comeback

Just about done prepping things for finalized!82 and 83 before I work on revising their scripts (having done a couple of card-related animation fixes and a few other lighter ones), and one such thing is wanting to translate this article about Ryou’s rise as the Hell Kaiser, which Shou reads at the end of 83.  I was worried I wouldn’t be able to, since the text was a bit too blurred for me to fully make out, but luckily, some Japanese fans were able to fully transcribe what was visible here–I worked with the transcription written up here–so things were a go.  

I blanked the text in Photoshop and then applied the translated text, giving it a slight warp and rotation to work with the curve on the page before adding a light blur and some noise (said slight warp/rotation is why some of the spacing looks a bit odd–did my best to account for that lol).  Unfortunately, I didn’t have too much to work with for the page on the left, just barely making out something about dueling metaphysics[?], so rather than leave it blank, I typed some mostly-offscreen fluff about pro duelists having to juggle the state of the game’s meta and their decks needing to be competitive with entertaining the crowds.  Seems like the kind of piece you’d read here, lol. 

Just have to work this into the footage now–and I just realized I applied the edits here to the last frame of the slow zoom-in that happens here, so hopefully it’s not too difficult to readjust… lol–and we should be good to go; I’ll add an update once I do.

Included the dub edit because it’s just amusing to think about someone literally publishing scribbles in what looks like dueling’s equivalent of Sports Illustrated and not being fired on the spot, lol.

Full text below (though I did fluff my initial translation a little bit just to make sure the relevant parts are visible as they were originally, moreso near the end, and it trails off as that’s all that was visible–similarly, the “[X] of Hell” was all that was visible for the title originally (jigoku no [Shou’s thumb]), but as Ryou’s referred to as the Emperor of Hell earlier in the episode, I figured that was used here, too):

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redeyesretrodragon:

every time i see that post now i think about gx season 2,,

nyupuun:

southern boy speaks japanese

(based on my favourite video of all time)