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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 Where Things Are Chill, Man

Wanting to get rid of Judai, Chronos puts Motegi–his ultimate weapon–into action.  It’s said that those who duel Motegi become unable to duel again. Judai and Motegi duel, and the Moke Moke summoned by Motegi has 300 ATK and feels very unreliable.  But as he adds on Angered Moke Moke and King Moke Moke to change its form, it becomes a powerful 3000-ATK monster that threatens Judai.  Meanwhile, as Asuka and the others watch on, they start losing their will to fight.

And 23′s all done! This is a fun one, given the premise; as @morningmoon so aptly put it, it’s “that time there was a child with some sorta laziness aura that required a sorta exo-skeleton space suit to prevent getting caught up in his rhythm, wtf.” Also, he was apparently a #1 student.  But hey, we’ve got Manjoume back in action for the next few episodes as he makes his thunderous comeback, so a nice breather–filled with Chronos’s cocky shenanigans (heh)–is nice.  Side-note: the Crunchyroll subs were all over here.  Still watchable, but slightly off compared to what I’ve seen in general as I’ve worked on these.

Fix-wise, there were only six (all card fixes), but I missed one that I caught as I timed the episode’s script (which I finished last weekend), so that’s what caused the extra delay this week.  All below the cut, as usual.  Enjoy!

Sooo… with this done, I’ll do some basic prep for episode 24; the main thing holding it up right now is I asked @juslaynice and @prismatic-bell–as well as @alicethedragonvalkyrie–for some Photoshopping magic to get rid of the text on this cool Manjoume clip that played at the end of 24′s TV airing during the sponsor bit that was all-new footage, but didn’t get released on the DVDs.  Since that’s the case, I thought it’d be cool to get it textless’d so I could add the “Thanks for watching!” text and add it to the DVDRip, assuming that juslaynice and prismatic-bell can do it.  If they can’t (given there’s 150-200 frames involved, I know it’s an undertaking), I could just slap the “Thanks for Watching!” text on anyway as in the clip there, but the sponsor text would bug me; if people don’t mind it, I’ll do that.  Or I may just do a “best-of” compilation for Manjoume scenes so far; I’ll check in and see how they’re feeling about it.  I just don’t get why a special scene like this didn’t get released somehow, lol.

Meanwhile, once I do my basic 24 prepwork, I’ll probably try timing out a script for ARC-V episode 1 to get that project finally started while they get stuff done. :D Still waiting on some help to better encode the DVD raws, but we’ll see there, lol.

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The One Where Judai Goes Wild, Man

The Judai VS Misawa duel continues.  With his Fusion locked away by Misawa, Judai struggles, unable to evolve his Elemental Heroes.  He fights back against Misawa’s Water Dragon (ATK/ 2600) by powering up his Elemental Heroes with his Skyscraper Field Magic.  However, due to Misawa’s shrewd tactics, Judai’s left to face his Diamond Dragon with his field wide open.  But Judai summons a new Elemental Hero, Wildman…

Hooo boy, sorry this is only just being done! Those edits early on were the main reason for the delay here–there were a whopping 22 of them! 99% of them card fixes, haha; they’re all listed below the cut.  Meanwhile, this great duel between Judai and Misawa continues, and continues to make you wish the two had dueled more often instead of–nope, we’ll just ride out these Season 1 times while we can! It was clever of Misawa to lock away Judai’s Fusion, so watching him come up with a Plan B is nice.  Elsewhere, Kunisaki digs up some plot, and we find out more about him; shame he never does come back to let Asuka know what he finds, but oh well.

Enjoy, folks! As I mentioned before, since I was going to start subbing ARC-V soon, alternating between it and GX, I was planning to start timing episode 1′s script (I just finished most of my prepwork for One Step), but given how long this took, I’ll knock out GX 23 first, lol.  Expect that in the next week or two.

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The One Where the Thing Gets Stopped

To decide the Academia’s delegate for the Academy Face-Off Duel, a duel occurs between Judai and Misawa.  Misawa prepares his seventh deck–based on detailed calculations–in order to thwart Judai.  While scuffling with Misawa’s Water Dragon, Judai faces him with his E-Heroes, but he plays right into Misawa’s strategy.  Elsewhere, a man out to get rich quick by making a scoop out of the academy’s mysteries is lurking about when he comes into contact with Judai.

Episode 21! This was a fun one; this duel’s one of my favorites because of Judai and Misawa’s early rivalry, and it’s a shame it went the way it did.  It was actually pretty clever of Misawa to use Cursed Seal to stop Fusion, and like Misawa points out, Judai’s easy to beat if you strip him of being able to fuse, lol.  Kunisaki’s also interesting–seems his character could be a bit like Koyou in the manga from how he apparently used E-Heroes in that flashback where he loses to Kaiba, except for the lack of connection to Judai.  We’ll see a bit more about him next episode, but it’s also nice that he let us get a nice moment of Hayato showing his development so far.

Also, I’m using Tune.pk because Cloudy keeps giving me issues, and Dailymotion password-protected vids don’t seem to work anymore.  Lemme know of any issues!

And, of course, this episode also saw a few more fixes! Ten all together; all but one involved cards, and some of those were fun to try and do given the ghosting on some frames, lol.  All listed below the cut, if you’re interested.  Enjoy! I’ll start work on 22 soon. :)

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The One With the Copycat (Part Due)

The Judai VS Yugi’s Deck duel continues.  Judai struggles against Kagurazaka as he masters Yugi’s deck, and it’s already 1300 LP VS 4000.  The 2800-ATK Black Magician of Chaos, Black Magician Girl, and even Chaos Soldier overwhelm him.  As he’s even cornered mentally, Judai gradually loses his cool and is on the verge of giving up on defeating the Duel King.  But before long, he realizes a strength he has that his foe doesn’t.

And here’s Part 2! A few days after DSOD’s release, but still timely haha.  Highlights include Shou’s going gaga over BlaMagi Girl, Chaos Soldier - Envoy of Creation/BLS - EotB’s first/only anime appearance, and “Gotcho!” As I said last time, this two-parter’s one of my favorites, and it was nice revisiting it.

Of course, the revisit wouldn’t be complete without a bunch of footage fixes! Specifically, card fixes, which made up 90% of my fixes here, lol.  List below the cut for the interested, as usual–a whopping 16 altogether! Enjoy!

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The One With the Copycat (Part Uno)

Yugi Mutou’s deck will be on display at the academy.  But the night before, the deck is stolen by Kagurazaka, a Yellow.  Kagurazaka defeats Shou in seconds and appears before Judai.  Judai and Kagurazaka duel–in what is also Judai dueling Yugi’s deck.  Kagurazaka studies all there is to the techniques of the top duelists–he flawlessly masters Yugi’s deck, and finally even summons the Black Magician.

What better way to tie into Darkside of Dimensions coming out in Japan than to finalize this duel? :D

This is one of my favorites; you have an interesting idea in Kagurazaka as a copycat duelist, some nostalgia as he uses Yugi’s deck (and one point to the dub here for using some DM music), and Judai trying to hold his own against it.  And Chronos somehow knocks down four people, nbd.

And as with the last 5 episodes, there were a bunch of fixes I worked into the episode, because you’ve got to love it when the staff gets lazy–list below the cut! (EDIT, 2021: Two new fixes applied, listed in bold under the cut!) 

And special thanks to @akameniseis for swearing at Photoshop translating the Yugi poster in the beginning and the flier in Kagurazaka’s room a few minutes later! :) 

Enjoy, guys; I’ll try to get the next episode done by next week in time for/just after DSOD’s release! (But there’s a bunch of fixes already to take care of, so we’ll see… XD;)

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The One Where They Draw Things

Judai tries to buy a rare Golden Eggwich, but he learns that they’ve been stolen by someone for a few days now and are all gone.  The culprit seems to be one who’s really good at drawing, stealing only the Golden Eggwich out of the other sandwiches that look alike on the outside.  He captures the former Blue-student-turned-half-wild, Taizan–one who’d devoted a year to Mother Nature.  The duel’s Judai VS Taizan, and Taizan’s deck is a recklessly bold deck relying only on drawing.

And it’s all done! I kinda like this episode more than 16, especially since Mrs. Tome gets a role to play.  Taizan’s an interesting “filler” character with his whole nature sabbatical who probably should’ve gotten more appearances, but he at least returns in Season 2 which is cool.  And Judai uses Rampart Gunner for the third episode in a row, lol.

On the technical side, I got to fix a line I was mostly unsure about the first time around, and fixing it now, it was an easy line to type out haha (”When you stole them, I could never get them.”->”Until you went and stole ’em, I was never off, either.”; keep learning, kids!).  And as with this mini-”filler” arc, there were a bunch of fixes I did to the footage; mostly card edits for consistency, but notably trying to fix a huge error in the episode–how do you forget part of a Duel Disk? Full list of the fixes below the cut, as always.  Also, decided to go with “Drawiches” and “Eggwich/etc” over “Drawbreads” and “Egg Bread/etc” since, despite it being more of a dub thing, I think it does work better.

I also set myself up with a few episodes’ worth of Preview/Thanks For Watching clips to help move between episodes quicker.  I’ll prep some more for a few more batches when I’m able to.  Enjoy, guys; next time’ll be the Yugi’s Deck episodes, and I should have 18 ready in the next week or two!

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The One With the Steakout–at Night!

There’s been a frequent case of Obelisk Blue students being forced into a duel with a mysterious man late at night, and–upon losing–having their rare cards stolen; Chronos appoints Judai to find the culprit.  We meet Ohara–a huge Ra Yellow who doesn’t have much in the way of dueling skills–and his best friend Kohara, who seems to be skilled at dueling but is timid and has only lost his bouts; even when mocked by the Obelisk Blues, he can’t say a thing.  That night, as Judai pursues the culprit, he comes across Ohara, but… Judai and Ohara then duel.

First off, if you haven’t seen the YGO GX Abridged version of this episode, please treat yourself! One of the best ones haha.

Now, this episode’s not too bad, and makes a hell of a lot more sense than the dubbed version (surprise surprise).  Nice moment at the end with Judai and Kohara, too.

I also did a few minor-ish card consistency fixes to the episode–full list below the cut.  Enjoy! I’ll work on 17 for the next week or two.

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Aaaand intrusions aside, here you go, guys! Took unexpectedly longer than I expected it to, but it’s all done.

Misawa and Manjoume prepare for a duel against each other, Manjoume’s seat in Obelisk Blue on the line. At the same time, both Misawa’s friendship and rivalry with Judai Yuki deepen. (YGO Wikia)

List of Edits (really, two big ones, then some minor ones)

Enjoy! Some Translation Notes under the cut, if you’re so inclined:

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The One With the Tag Team

The time’s come for Judai and Shou to fight for their right to party stay at Duel Academia.  With some special guests courtesy of Chronos.

Thanks to agenderjoshuakiryuu for helping out with editing a frame with Judai’s hair being miscolored a bit. :) Also, I tweaked that panning shot of Gate Guardian before it attacks to destroy Cycroid so it doesn’t start zooming out before the white flashing frame, because I thought that looked a bit off lol. (EDIT, 2021: Some more fixes applied, listed in bold under the cut below!)

Enjoy! The episode’s also up for download over on NAC. Unfortunately, I haven’t had much time in the last week to work on 11, since I wanted to finally have 179 finalized, so expect 11 done by next weekend.

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