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The One With the Bats (Part 1) [OP/EN 1 Version]

A beautiful yet eerie vampire woman named Camula has landed as the second assassin.  Judai won his last bout, but is resting after exhausting his strength in his Duel of Darkness.  Instructor Chronos hoped to escape her but fails to do so, causing a duel between him and Camula.  Chronos challenges her with his “Antique Gear”-focused Dark Ages Deck, while Camula counters with a Vampire Deck.  A Duel of Darkness begins–where the loser will become a doll.

Apologies for the delay on this one! Had a few more bits of life than usual sprinkled into my editing process, but we’re here, kicking off the second of our Seven Stars’ entries with Camula, one of my favorites.  Her duel with Chronos is interesting to watch, as Chronos finds his worldview gradually shattered by a thing he didn’t believe existed, but his reasoning for it is another reason why Chronos is an interesting character.  And that scene with “Impossible Victory” playing at the end… This is also Kanako Irie’s first role in GX as Camula, before she eventually returns in Season 3 as another gem of a character that most of us love.

There were a few card fixes to apply here, along with some simple quality-of-watching fixes that slipped by the staff, but nothing too major; list below the cut, as usual. (EDIT, 2021: Touched up one fix I previously made, listed in bold under the cut!)

Enjoy, folks; I’ll be seeing about doubling up with 32 and 33 to get them done as a little holiday gift for everyone who’s still following these finalizings to make up for the recent delays a bit.  Expect 31 on NAC sometime tomorrow!

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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 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 All the Rackets

Well, this one was an adventure… But not because of the episode itself, lol–all things considered, this episode’s not a bad one, save for Ayanokouji’s grand exit.  And it’s also a fitting one for Valentine’s Day!

Judai ends up in a duel against Mitsuru Ayanokouji, a Third-Year Obelisk Blue student who’s enamored with Asuka and mistakes Judai and her for a couple.

This one also saw me working the most fixes into an episode since starting to look into it.  If you’ve been following my subs for a while, you know I love consistency.  Unfortunately, the animators didn’t seem to share that same love, at least so far. D: So, with help from @saveyuzu and @akameniseis, as well as @silivagalaxy teaching me how to card-edit in AfterEffects, I got to work.  All together, there were 14 different fixes done, 4 being Burstlady fixes–because the poor girl can’t catch a break.  On top of those, I also translated the hit counters that show up once Ayanokouji uses Deuce to screw the rules–a full list of all the fixes done lies below the cut.  It was fun, though, aside from all the keyframing; “It was quite educational!”, as Halil in ARC-V would say!

I’ll just be going back to 14 for a quick bit to update the Mega Thunderball fix I added to the preview, and updating the script for the “Captain Cheery” line (inspired by “President Peppy” in the CR subs).  I also dug up some things worth fixing in 1-2 earlier episodes that I’ll use my new skills on at some point.  Then, it’s off to episode 16! I’d put the ETA at maybe early next week; I already partly did one fix there for 15’s preview, so hopefully that’s the only one.  Enjoy, guys! And hopefully, you had a nice Valentine’s Day, if you celebrated it. :)

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Manjoume leaves the Duel Academia, and in attempting to find him, Judai discovers men from an animal testing lab deep in the forests around the Academia. He duels one of their “creations”, a monkey named SAL.

Here’s finalized!13 for you guys! Only one edit here this time: fixing the typo on “Super Animal Le[a]rning” as it’s displayed on-screen about 7-8 minutes in.  Find it immortalized here.

Enjoy! Next up’s 14, which ought to be a shocking experience.

The One With the Vanishing Act

And episode 5’s now all up and finalized! I might have to just look at a line for a minor edit when I post it on NAC, but we’re good to go here.  Judai ignores warnings and goes straight for a zone in which one could say danger lurks about.  Making it a… DANGER ZONE. *shot*  Also, Titan’s first appearance.

I also fixed a little animation error with Titan’s Genocide-King Daemon when he throws it on his Disk; for a few frames, it originally became a Normal Monster before switching back to an Effect Monster, so I did away with that.  I do feel like tackling the error with Judai’s two Mirror Forces in his hand, but figured I should just post this for now lol.  If I get to it, I’ll update the stream link.

Enjoy, folks! Hoping to get episode 6 done by the end of next week.  I’ve gotten a new job starting next week—one that’s a consistent weekday 9-5!!—so things might get to pick up once I’ve settled into it.  We’ll see lol.

(If you want to reblog this, make sure you reblog it as text so my post there shows up with the link.  Stupid Tumblr being stupid.)

The One With the Compensating

Here’s episode 4, all nice and finalized for ya! Judai faces Manjoume in a potential rank-up duel, and faces a fearsome combination in the process.

Also, for my convenience while working on the stat counters, I edited the zoom-out on XYZ when it’s summoned so the counter originally there doesn’t zoom out along with everything else.  To do it, I kept the first two fast frames, then slowed the rest of the pan up to where the counter shows up to last the whole shot, and then just masked in the counter used for XYZ in episode 111. XD (Fun fact: look closely at the dub when the counter pops up, and you’ll see that 4Kids got tripped up with it too!) The only downside is I lose the flashiness in the background, but it’s probably not that huge lol.  When I post the script's DVDRip, the edit won’t be in there, since I don’t keep the counters’ subs in anyway. (EDIT, 2021: I applied some animation fixes I didn’t do the first time around; listed below under the cut, with fixes I previously applied in italics.)

Enjoy, guys!

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