"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."
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GX Finalized-Subs!75 - Field Trip Sights (Final)
For my finalized episode 75 subs, I translated the front cover of the town guidebooks held by Shou and Kenzan in the eight scenes it’s visible in. I first blanked it and applied the translations in the second-to-last shot it’s in–the closeup as the two show them to Sugoroku, which I also used for 75′s preview in ep. 74–then isolated it to manipulate into the other scenes, mainly using AfterEffects’s CC Power Pin effect and then masking in the right side of the original cover (with the landmark photos, but above the bottom “Legendary Duelists’ Stomping Grounds” text) on top to make it blend in.
(Bonus: little tidbit I noticed with those first two scenes)
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GX Finalized-Subs!76 (WIP)
Working on a fix to this error with the red orb on Kenzan’s Disk not being lit up as Shou worries about his summoning Element Saurus; the first is the original frame (the orb being drawn as unlit happens over three zoom-out frames of Kenzan’s movement, held for three frames each [so nine total–what I did is I just edited the third zoomed-out frames then re-zoomed them]), second image is my edit (done by just screen-layering a lit-up red layer around the orb [color-dropped from the third image]), and the third image [unedited] is his Disk as it appears once it’s lit up properly.
But really just sharing this because
Shou’s face lol
[Also, just an update: both episodes 75 and 76′s scripts are fully revised; just doing a couple quick-ish fixes for errors I picked up on as I worked on 76, then I’ll quality-check ‘em. Should probably be ready this weekend, if not sooner; depends how much I do on this week off from work, lol.]
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 73 and 74 Subbed (Finalized)
(Previously: Episodes 71 and 72 Subbed [Finalized])
(Check out my Subbed!GX Stream Masterpost!)
To see the “unwavering power” he had foreseen for himself, Saiou visits the Academia and challenges Kenzan to a duel. The cards in Saiou’s Tarot deck cause fate to alternate through their upright and reversed positions. Kenzan faces him with his Dinosaur deck, and for a moment it looked as though he was in the lead, but Saiou seemed to foresee even that. As he cleverly uses the upright and reversed effects of his Strength, the symbol of this “unwavering power,” Saiou drives Kenzan into a corner.
To decide the destination of the upcoming field trip, Judai duels Rose, a fair lady representing Saiou whose deck is a Frog deck. She opens by accumulating T.A.D.P.O.L.E.s in her Cemetery to summon three Death Frogs (ATK/1900), using her Death Chorus Magic Card to wipe out Judai’s Monsters for a direct attack–one that inflicts a massive amount of damage. She then fuses all three to summon her Three-Death Frog. But Judai thinks something is off about Rose and her obsession with frogs…
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Ding, finalized!73 and 74 are done!
This next double-release is good, 73 is a bit of an infamous Kenzan ep as we find out about his *deep breath* DIIINO
saurDNA, but we also have Saiou making moves to make sure there aren’t any hitches to his plans, as he makes it to Duel Academia to see what this “unwavering power” is that he foretold through his Tarot. We also have a nice callback to the Drawiches from Season 1 (and Ed just drawing the Golden Eggwich like it’s nothing), in a few scenes that the dub for some reason decided not to include, and we see some more of Saiou’s interesting deck and how it ties into his idea of fate.74′s also neat as it introduces the field trip we’ll be going on the next few episodes (BYOBento), and we’re introduced to Princess Rose, with her Frog deck and the nods to the Frog Prince fairy tale–also showing that Saiou seems to have connections to some big people in the world (coming in handy later). She also works to tie in Judai’s Spirit-seeing abilities (and we get this good scene), while also establishing that Manjoume so far still has his despite joining the Society of Light. It’s also a Kyoung Soo Lee-team episode in terms of animation direction, and it looks gorgeous–this is around the point his episodes start to look really good, and there are a lot of really nice shots. (Though I may be noticing that much more because of the DVDRip quality of the video
remember when it was so hard to get 74 in good quality)In terms of animation fixes and stuff, both episodes got a fair amount of them that I picked up on, from little quality-of-life stuff to card fixes and bigger animation error fixes that came out nicely, along with an onscreen translation teasing what I’ll be doing in 75. Details below the cut, as usual, along with a few Translation Notes for some things that came up.
Enjoy, folks! With these done, we’re off to Domino Town for the next couple releases! (Oh, and I opted to work with “Domino Town” for the name, since “Domino City” struck me as a bit of a mistranslation of 童実野町 (Domino-cho)–I went through my logic here.) The next double-release will be with 75 and 76 as Shou and Kenzan’s bonding the last while comes full circle in a Tag Duel (as we revisit Mizuchi’s first appearance too), then I’ll likely try to knock out 77-79 together so that I don’t end the release after on a cliffhanger, lol. Stay tuned!
- 1 year ago
- 15 notes
- #yugioh
- #yugioh gx
- #ygo
- #GX
- #ygo gx
- #yu-gi-oh gx
- #yugioh! gx
- #yu-gi-oh! gx
- #Judai Yuki
- #Princess Rose
- #Tyranno Kenzan
- #Takuma Saiou
- #my subs
- #phew quite a bit here
- #but def fun to revisit these
- #[posted this forgetting linking directly to Videa would keep it out of the tags oops]
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GX Finalized-Subs!73 Preview: A Strength Encountered
(Quick little preview since it’s taken a bit long to get 73 and 74 finished up; currently over halfway into 74′s script now, and both should be done by mid-week, hopefully~)
- 1 year ago
- 17 notes
- #yugioh
- #yugioh gx
- #ygo
- #ygo gx
- #yu-gi-oh gx
- #Tyranno Kenzan
- #Takuma Saiou
- #revised subs
- #subbing rambling
- #may whip up another preview too
- #this episode could've used a bit more on Saiou's getting to Osiris Red at least
- #73 starts with him closing in to DA then eggwich time then suddenly...
- #he's watching Kenzan sleep lol
- #Saiou in 74: 'i'd like to avoid raising suspicions'
- #Saiou here: 'hold my destiny'
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What do you think of Kenzan's character ? His introduction and then his role in the story ? Personally I find him uninteresting especially compared to the original cast. I also wonder if he didn't replaced Misawa in the group's dynamic (in the showrunner's mind). What's your opinion on that ?
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I feel like that’s a bit of an apples-to-oranges thing. Misawa and Kenzan’s character arcs had different trajectories and they had different dynamics within the rest of the cast. Misawa’s character was largely self-contained - in brief, he started out with an overly high opinion of himself, took a few knocks, didn’t know how to handle it, fell from grace, and eventually pulled himself back up again. His arc more closely mirrors Ryo’s than anyone else’s. Kenzan exists more closely within the context of Juudai and Sho’s dynamic. You’ll notice that as Juudai and Sho drift further apart, Sho and Kenzan come closer together. His place in the story was to provide a foil/rival to Sho by competing for Juudai’s attention, and I don’t think that’s a role Misawa could have filled so effectively because it wouldn’t have occurred to him to look for Juudai for validation in the same way.
- 1 year ago
- 16 notes
- #something i'm appreciating as i revisit my Season 2 subs
- #Kenzan and Shou's dynamic really coming to a head during the Domino Tag Duel
- #it is interesting how that works out given Kenzan started out in the group out of a want to pick up more of Judai's charisma
- #GX
- #Tyranno Kenzan
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GX Finalized-Subs!72: X Mills the Deck
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GX Finalized-Subs!70 (WIP): Manjoume’s Calling?
- 1 year ago
- 35 notes
- #GX
- #yugioh
- #ygo gx
- #ygo
- #yugioh gx
- #Jun Manjoume
- #Judai Yuki
- #Shou Marufuji
- #Tyranno Kenzan
- #Asuka Tenjoin
- #Fubuki Tenjoin
- #Momoe Hamaguchi
- #Junko Makurada
- #subbing rambling
- #have you accepted the light as your lord and savior yet
- #[bless Judai]
- #[also i like how Manjoume bleaching Blue white is a callback to his 50-Man Duel to the Death at North in S1]
- #[with how he just up and challenges the whole dorm]
- #70's a great ep
- #currently editing lines during the duel
- #revised subs
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GX Finalized-Subs!69 (WIP): Napoleon Toying Around
Just got to the halfway point with 69′s script and thought I’d show this little scene off. It’s interesting because of how Napoleon throws the phrase “がってん承知の助" into his line above–while looking it up, I got the gist that the phrase basically makes a name out of its “understood!/leave it to me!” meaning (sorta in a “no way Jose” kinda way?), as well as it being a more Edo-era saying in Japan. I saw the Crunchy team went with “eventual lemon tea” which… I don’t quite get how they got there; maybe going for a slight “lemon tea”/”leave it to me” pun, but seems like a slight stretch, and nothing in the kanji sticks out as tea-related, lol. (My original line here was more played-straight and just translated to “I’m already aware of that,” but it doesn’t quite work with the confused/groaning looks on Kenzan et al’s faces.)
Because of that “name-ification” of the phrase and its semi-dated reference, I thought the nod to LITB (as a show I’m sure most of us millennials/Gen-Xers might know from childhood) might be a good way to get it across, lol; for those more Japanese-savvy, would that be a good adaptation? I kinda like it myself, but it’s not too final yet. (The dub didn’t bother with it, really–Bonaparte talks about his “master plan” which confuses everyone, and when asked for thoughts, Jaden’s just all “this duel’s sweet!” which, okay sure lol.)
Also went with “the VP’s got jokes!” for Judai’s “he’s funny” line since he’s in a jovial/”just wanna have fun” mood most of the episode despite the stakes for the Red dorm lol (and “VP” as “Vice-Principal” shorthand lets the line register well while onscreen, imo, along with being a nod to the “VP Napoleon” shorthand I use in the credits).
- 1 year ago
- 14 notes
- #GX
- #yugioh gx
- #yugioh
- #Japanese
- #ygo
- #ygo gx
- #subbing rambling
- #Judai Yuki
- #VP Napoleon
- #Shou Marufuji
- #Asuka Tenjoin
- #Chronos de Medici
- #Daichi Misawa
- #Tyranno Kenzan
- #[the shot of chronos snapped moments before disaster struck]
- #[you know the thing]
- #[probably]
- #[as he takes a *ton* of damage soon...]
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lol more yugioh gx scans.
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I do not think it is dinosaur bones
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Just… just look at this wholesomeness:
I’m really proud of how far Cronos has come in general. He was really annoying in season 1 constantly looking for ways to get Judai expelled, and was seemingly just there to cause minor conflict. Then in the duel with Camula, we see that he actually does care about his students and that goes even further in season 2, when he duels to protect the Red dorm from being destroyed, telling Napoleon not to mess with his “precious students.” Just… so wholesome.
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where to fucking BEGIN
