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The One With the Brotherly Angst (Part 2)

The duel between Judai and Manjoume Thunder continues.  Manjoume’s Armed Dragon becomes a Level-7 (ATK/ 2800), and Judai’s made to go on the defense.  Judai uses Special Hurricane to sweep out his Armed Dragon.  Judai realizes that Manjoume’s feelings aren’t about him, but about his brothers in the audience.  Manjoume once again summons Armed Dragon LV7, but with the mental upper hand, Judai plots a brilliant counterattack.

Not too long of a delay after 25, is it? Here’s 26, the thrilling conclusion! We get a good bit of character development continuing for Manjoume in how he feels towards his brothers and it resolving a bit before a final resolution in a little while.  The duel goes well, too, and Judai’s upset was fun to watch.  There were some fun shots mixed in too, like that bit early on with Armed Dragon LV7 destroying Featherman, and then the final Manjoume Thunder bit, lol.

So, with this done, I’ll be tackling my portion of the DSoD script for GX_ST, then starting 27.  If Videa turns out to be good to my uploads, then I’ll probably try to migrate all my subs to it at some point for my stream masterpost, since I know Cloudy’s given some people issues.

There were also some fixes to this episode, though thankfully not as many, and more on the card and quick touchup side of things.  Full list below.  Enjoy!

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The One With the Brotherly Angst (Part 1)

It’s the Interschool Match between the Academia and the North Campus, and a hardened Manjoume–called “Manjoume Thunder” at the North Campus–stands before a high-spirited Judai.  Judai and Manjoume Thunder duel, and through the power of the Manjoume family, it’s all live on TV.  Manjoume’s Armed Dragons are Level-Up Monsters that get stronger with each turn, and with their strengthening Monster Effects, Judai’s E-Heroes are left at wit’s end…

*crashes onto your dash weeks late with Starbucks*

Didn’t mean for this one to take so long! I think it’s partly getting used to my schedule under my new job and trying to squeeze in all the editing and stuff.  Also uploaded this one on a different site, as Cloudy’s been giving me trouble this weekend, but I’ll see if this one would work better going forward, since I know Yami on NAC’s posted ARC-V for a while on there and I’ve had people telling me they’ve had issues using Cloudy through my masterpost.

But anywho, 25′s finalized! My favorite Judai and Manjoume duel, this one sees them clash in ideals, Judai’s happy-go-lucky attitude going up against the stress Manjoume has going on, and it comes to a good conclusion next episode.  Samejima and Ichinose talk of a special prize on the line, but what could it be? Find out in Part 2! It’s not what you expect.

(Also, TL Note: worth noting that the confusion Judai has going on when Manjoume’s all “It’s me” is because of him talking about himself in the third person with “-san,” in case some of you are new to the Thunder.)

Part of the delay with this one was the edits I had going on, which were tough to fit into my schedule when I’d get home with an hour or two before I had to sleep for work the next day.  But there were a few, ranging from Burstlady’s unfortunate strap incidents to card fixes.  Listed below the cut, as usual.

I’m going to at least work on the script for 26 much of this week, and hopefully I won’t have many edits to work on there.  Once I do, I have a side-project or two to get some more done with for some people, but I’ll see about how I’ll squeeze it in, as I’m also helping with translating Dark Side of Dimensions’s script for GX_ST since it’s the big movie for the franchise that has been a part of my life for so long.  Why aren’t there more days in the week though

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The One Where Manjoume Hallucinates But Also Gets His Groove Back

Having lost to Judai and Misawa, both of lower-ranked dorms, Manjoume left the Academia and roamed about in the ocean, breathing feebly.  Under the instructions of an old man he comes across on a mysterious ship, he arrives at the Academia’s North Campus.  However, the austerities of gathering cards from scratch and duels with the North Campus students awaited him there.  Then, Manjoume at last duels the North Campus’s King.  Overcoming all of his hardships to come around in a big way, Manjoume’s skills will…?!

So, this is getting posted late because, like I previously mentioned, laptop issues came up. [It whomps.] I actually uploaded this last Sunday but haven’t had a chance to make a proper post (I did quickly post the link once I saw it processed the next day or two), so here we go.  A neat little episode focused on Manjoume rising from the ashes of defeat, said ashes having affected him more than expected, apparently.  It’s a good one, though.  Also, “King” but I see no JACK ATLAS what

Given my situation right now as I’m transferring files from my hard drive to my external/sister’s laptop to try and reformat it (while also hoping the wine I accidentally spilled on mine doesn’t impair it too badly, smell aside), and the final encode for some reason not saving fully on my drive despite the full upload on Cloudy (though I should still have the second-to-last encode to work with), I’m not sure when I’ll have things uploaded for posting on NAC, so stay tuned.  This also throws a wrench into my plans to speed through 25-28 just as I was ready to hunker down, arghhh. (Also hoping I’ll salvage my current ARC-V subbing prepwork)  We’ll see what happens.

In terms of fixes, luckily, I think I’m hitting the part of the show where there’ll be less card fixes to do because they’re getting their stuff together, but still did a few here, as well as one animation fix.  And before anything, I want to give so many thanks to @alicethedragonvalkyrie for all of her help with editing 200+ frames for the ending “Thanks for Watching” clip so there’s no sponsor text; it took a few weeks to make it look smooth, but the result is super-nice! It’s a shame this footage went unused in either 24 or 25 where it likely should’ve, so I wanted to make some use of this TV-only video~

Also, slight terminology change, as I’ve decided to finally scrap “Instant” Magic in favor of “Quick-Play” Magic.  “Instant” always felt a little off but I stuck with it for consistency, so with these revisions and “sokkou” translating more to that, I thought now’s a good time as any.  though expect a bunch of reencoding soon

Now, fixes!

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