Getting work started on 73 and spotted this animation error where… for some reason they forgot to draw the Zone parts on Saiou’s Disk, lol. That part is admittedly in view for only a few frames, as it’s at the start of the upward-panning shot where he orders The Chariot to attack Kenzan’s Dark Tyranno (about 11m42s into the A_U DVDrip). I’ve fixed some Disk errors before–the one with Taizan’s in episode 17 comes to mind–so I figured this should be a bit in my wheelhouse. And… actually wasn’t that tough to pull off, lol.
There unfortunately wasn’t another shot in the episode with either Saiou or Kenzan holding their Disks in that position, so I went back to other episodes by this animation team (it’s a Chi Man Park-team episode) and then eventually just looked for similarly positioned Disks in other episodes regardless, stumbling onto one of Orgene/Ojin in 84:
So what I did in Photoshop was, I spliced out the two halves of this Disk and repositioned them to fit next to the middle orb on Saiou’s, erasing the background and rotating/slightly resizing as needed. After that, I had to draw on the rest of the fourth Monster Zone and M/T Zone that were offscreen, applying an outline to the Zone and then to that part of the Disk itself. Finally, in a layer I made Screen-blended, I painted over the middle of the Disk using the bright red of the orb, spreading it a bit over both Zones 2 and 3 and then erasing the middle (since the orb’s already there); I then did a big Gaussian Blur to make the light fade over those two Zones–that way, the brightness from the orb on Saiou’s Disk extends a little before fading.
Hopefully this looks good as a start–I think it came out well, though I may look it over and maybe tweak the left side, tweak the coloring to match a little better, or extend the orb light glow. Or maybe it might work for the quick couple of frames it’s visible in. 🤔 Then I just have to add Saiou’s two face-down cards in Zones 2 and 3 and The Chariot in Monster Zone 4.
GX Finalized-Subs!71 (WIP) - To Confirm Fate… [ft newly-White Asuka]
Mainly posting this scene as a teaser while I prep my finalized subs because
while we really should have had an extra scene or two of Momoe and Junko (and Ayukawa) lamenting that Asuka’s been roped into the Society of Light, it’s nice they included the three here watching her.
(Also more on how I translated that file on Ryusei here)
Ive been thinking about this for the past few days so have a bunch of screenshot showing the evolution of edo and saiou’s relationship through how they are positionned around each other
The mysterious man Saiou appears before Manjoume to duel him. Saiou uses a very Tarot-style way of battle in which he sets his cards on his table, has Manjoume shuffle his deck, and foretells Manjoume’s fate according to the card he pulls–causing this to become a confrontation between Saiou’s belief in absolute fate and Manjoume’s belief in making his destiny for himself.
A bit over a month later, here’s my finalized subs for episode 61! After Fubuki’s episode last time ended with Judai isolated in his room, Manjoume tries to shake him out of this mental toll he’s taken, but to no avail. Then Manjoume finds himself facing Saiou as we’re more properly introduced to Ed’s manager and friend, as well as his belief that one can’t escape the destiny they’ve chosen for themselves–and before long, where he failed with Judai, Saiou succeeds with Manjoume in finding a new servant for his… Society of Light? It’s a nicely paced episode, imo; I liked how well Saiou was written here in establishing more about him and foreshadowing Manjoume’s defeat, and hey, Armed Dragon LV10 showed up!
Animation-fix-wise, there’s… actually nothing to report on, which hasn’t happened in a while. 😅 This was just mainly delayed as I wrapped up work on my 5D’s “Dub-Uncut” mini-project 2-4 weeks ago, then I focused on polishing the script for the last week or so. (EDIT, 2022: That was a lie–one fix I came back to apply under the cut!)
Enjoy! Should have this up on NAC in the next day or two. With this done, I’ll be prepping for 62 as we get Judai suddenly finding himself in Neo Space for some plot; we’ll, uh, see how this goes.