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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)

GX Finalized-Subs!71 (WIP) - “The Former Shooter Game Champion”

Getting work on my finalized subs for episode 71 underway, and as part of it, something I wanted to do was translate the file Asuka–now with the Society of Light–pulls out about Ryusei (Lorenzo in the dub) here. Took me almost a week to do with a few hours after work here/there, a few hours yesterday, and then mostly finishing touches today. And this was kind of interesting, since I had to brush up a bit about older shooter/shooting games for context; 71 has some gaming references peppered in, between Ryusei using the BES cards based on the Gradius game in his duel with Judai and even little things here like the references to Space Invaders with the Nagoya Shot/Attack (”名古屋打ち/nagoya uchi;” a bug in the 1978 game, so named because it was discovered in Nagoya, Japan, lol). So all told, Ryusei here has some credibility to back up the claim in the episode that he’s a game champ. (I’m assuming he won a shooter tournament Kaiba might’ve hosted at some point.) [Shoutout to [a Japanese site I’d link to if it weren’t for Tumblr hiding this post from the tags if I linked to anything here] for transcribing Ryusei’s profile]

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 69 and 70 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 67 and 68 Subbed [Finalized])

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Chronos VS Napoleon! March of the Toy Soldiers

Interim Principal Chronos and Vice-Principal Napoleon quarrel over the abolition of the Red dorm, and the two Instructors soon decide to duel. Three Toy Soldiers appear from Napoleon’s Army deck, and through the Forced March and Fife and Drum Corps Magic Cards, they inflict a lot of damage to Chronos. In that moment, a power shovel* strikes the Red dorm, starting its demolition–but as Chronos uses his Antique Gear Monsters to retaliate, his carpenters begin to rebuild it.

(*The original Japanese summary refers to a wrecking ball here, but the entire episode it’s just Napoleon’s power shovel tearing at the Red dorm.)

Asuka VS Manjoume White Thunder!

Manjoume defeats the Blue students one by one, bleaching the Blue dorm white in a baffling course of action. He goes on to say that the Society of Light, led by Saiou, will finish the academy, and Asuka duels him hoping to put a stop to that. Manjoume’s “Hell’s White” Permanent Magic inflicts 600 damage to his opponent, in exchange for forcing him to play while displaying his hand–a strategy that throws Asuka off her game, as Manjoume wastes no time in using his Armed Dragons to corner her.

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Hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving! (Or your regular Thursday if you’re not in the US.) I’ve got finalized!69 and 70 here coming in like a wrecking ball~ (Which… is actually a bit of an accurate reference, given how things change with the Society of Light plot starting here, lol.) These two episodes are fun and interesting to watch, as 69 treats us to Chronos’s first duel of Season 2 and Napoleon’s first ever, as best professor Chronos shows us more character development while standing between Napoleon and tearing down the Red dorm, and takes some… damage for it. 70 kicks the Society of Light plot we’ve been lowkey building up since 61 into gear, as Manjoume ~~White Thunder~~ suddenly becomes a threat and single-handedly bleaches his former Blue dorm white while everyone else was focused on the Red mess; Asuka steps in to try and snap him out of it, her “we forge our own fates” philosophy clashing with Manjoume’s “we can’t stop fate” one, but Manjoume’s able to get Asuka overthinking her strategies (causing her to break YGO’s “don’t think about your endgame” rule) and that ultimately leads to her fated defeat as she joins Manjoume in the SoL. She does share a good character moment with Fubuki, though, as he tells her how proud of her he is for being so determined to find him–a message that he luckily doesn’t feel a need to sing–while the moment where Judai and the others question Manjoume’s sanity is great.

Animation-fix-wise, there were several card-related fixes I worked on, mostly in 69 as 70 was pretty good about that; both also got one or two quality-of-watching fixes. Details below the cut, as usual, along with a quick Translation Note for one of Napoleon’s lines in 69. I also chose to remove quite a bit of the extra Italian/French words I put into Chronos’s and Napoleon’s dialogue in my original run-through of 69, since I thought it might’ve been… a bit overkill. 😅 And since at this point I’ve been consistently handling Chronos’s “[na] no ne”s with “[now,] won’t [I/it/etc]?/no?” and Napoleon’s “de aru” through having him speak more elegantly/pompously, so it’s their general speaking styles that they take issue with about each other here.

Enjoy, folks; these are now up on NAC~ Our next double-release’ll cover 71 and 72, as Judai faces the Academia’s resident game champ and a deck-destruction strategy–both are interesting episodes (and ones I haven’t revisited in a while). Stay tuned!

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GX Finalized-Subs!70 (WIP): Manjoume’s Calling?

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).

GX 69

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 67 and 68 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 65 and 66 Subbed [Finalized])

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VS Ed (Part 1) - A New Power! Aqua Neos

After so long, Judai returns and battles Ed with the Red dorm’s demise on the line. Ed’s D-Heroes are still powerful, while Judai has made a complete recovery from his previous loss, in high spirits as he battles with the Neos deck he says evolved by catching space waves. He has Aqua Dolphin and E-Hero Neos evolve into Aqua Neos to destroy Dreadguy, but as he does, he goes back to his deck?! Will Judai be able to master his Neos deck?

VS Ed (Part 2) - The Fiery Flare Neos

Judai’s duel versus Ed continues. With his Neos deck still unmastered, Judai is exposed to the D-Heroes’ direct attacks, dropping him into a 200-LP pinch. But his Neos deck comes through with Air Hummingbird, who recovers a lot of his Life, and Flare Scarab, whose ATK increases as he’s summoned. Later, within the new zone his Neo Space Field Magic forms, the latter makes contact with E-Hero Neos (ATK/ 2500) to call out Flare Neos…

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~~So who else was looking forward to Asuka VS Ed~~

Episodes 67 and 68 have been finalized! One of a bunch of double-releases I want to work on to make up for some delays, this is an interesting duel all things considered, as Judai challenges Ed fresh off his jump into space (Misawa, I feel your “nitpicky” pain) and rediscovering his inner kid–which he uses to try and break through to Ed on how he shouldn’t use his dad’s D-Heroes for revenge, and he realizes that he was the one burdening his D-Heroes with fate. A neat exchange that dissolves the antagonism that was going on between Judai and Ed there. Our resident cult member Manjoume also starts turning some gears in Ed’s head about Saiou and the Society of Light in 67, and after seeing Judai’s new power for himself, he decides to stick around hoping to clear things up with Saiou.

Fun note: the GX manga started being serialized in Japan as these episodes originally aired, as the credits are updated to include that. (Though Yugipedia puts the original run starting on December 5th, 2005, while 67 aired on January 11th 2006, but 🤷🏽‍♂️) Also, the Flare Neos scene is a favorite, as I first saw it when I first watched the flashback in 105 (since I started watching GX in Japanese around the mid-70s on Nebs.TV back in the day lol), so it was nice getting to it in 68 proper when I first subbed 68 some years ago. (Also, Gil Bo Noh did some Key Animation work in 68, though the episode as a whole has really good art; I’m inclined to think the one shot as Ed has the Doubleguy Token hit Judai directly pre-eyecatch was his doing, though I’m not sure if it’s confirmed somewhere, lol.)

In terms of animation fixes, I did work on a fair amount of them for each episode, though moreso in 68; mainly card-related fixes (including one that was just fixed in 59 as well), but I did do a few quick footage fixes, and in 67 I also translated the signpost Napoleon leaves at the Red dorm (as shown in 66′s preview for it); list below the cut, as usual, if you’re curious.

Enjoy; getting some work started on 69 and 70 for the next double-release for Chronos VS Napoleon (and more development for best professor) and Asuka VS Manjoume White Thunder, which should be fun.

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GX Finalized-Subs!68 (WIP) - “Just So I Would Be Happy”
[67 WIP #1]

GX Finalized-Subs!67 (WIP) - “Someone Overcoming Fate?”

GX 59 - Cards Not Quite Played Right

Kind of amuses me how both versions of this scene don’t get away error-free, lol. In the original, you just have Hero Kid misidentified as a Normal Monster (odd, since 99%’s S1 OP shows it as an Effect Monster, as it was when used by Judai in 25 & 26 against Manjoume), while the dub keeps that error, but then also 1) reverts Edgeman from his OCG art back to his first anime artwork, 2) replaces Tempester with Fusion Failure/Mispolymerization, 3) thinks the Wind-Attribute Featherman/Avian coming in from the bottom left is another copy of Fire-Attribute Burstlady, and 4) of course in totally-out-of-left-field fashion replaces Dark Catapulter with Yellow Gadget???

This then gets flashbacked-to twice (that I’ve noticed so far) in episodes 67 and 105 (there, as part of a clipshow), and the errors are still there. Though at least as of the 67 version of the shot, the dub got Avian right, lol.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 65 and 66 Subbed (Finalized)

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Hell Kaiser Ryou! Chimeratech Overdragon

Since his defeat to Ed in the Pro Leagues, the life in Kaiser Ryou has faded. But at the invitation of a suspicious promoter, he participates in an underground duel–duels in which, crucially, one risks their life to treat their savage audience to a show. As Acidic Last Machine Virus causes his Machine-Types like Cyber Dragon to rust, the Kaiser is not only cut off from summoning any Monsters, but it causes him to take damage. With each drop in his LP, an electric current flows through his body, exciting the spectators…

Judai’s First Dream Duel!

Lost in the forest, Judai’s consciousness starts to fade from hunger, causing him to reminisce about his duels thus far–taking down Instructor Chronos’s Ancient Gear Golem with Flame Wingman during his Entrance Exam, battling the then-Blue elite Manjoume and his V-to-Z Dragon Catapult Cannon shortly after his enrollment, battling Misawa’s seventh deck with the right to represent the Academia on the line, and his first loss in the face of Kaiser Ryou’s Cyber End Dragon…

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*crashes onto your TL months late with non-corporate coffee*

And these two are finally up and finalized! Sorry for the wait, if you were looking forward to ‘em–as I mentioned in my post on Sunday, they were pushed back a bit while I did one final lookover on 1-64′s scripts and hardsubs so I could actually call them “finalized.” I’d started to get them out of the way while waiting for some potential editing help, then just decided to finish it after scrapping the last little thing I hoped to work on (I planned to break briefly after 66 to do these re-finalizations anyway, but the timing happened to work out). More details there.

But leaving that aside, here we have a pretty popular episode in Hell Kaiser Ryou’s debut, as he’s pushed to the brink by Mad Dog Inukai after Monkey ~~Monkey Mountain~~ Saruyama invites him to his first underground duel. They do a really good job of portraying Ryou as having lost his mojo post-Ed, showing a realistic view of what the big leagues in sports are like when that happens to you and you lose out on sponsorships/etc, and so when he gets cornered and Saruyama drills into him how he never once thought of winning since that duel, wanting to just stick with his respectful dueling, a spark lights up in him and… well, RIP Mad Dog. (Also, s/o to Takeshi Maeda for really selling Ryou’s shift in mindset by the end, and to his dub VA for sounding similarly good, imo.)

66 is probably less popular in comparison, treating us to our first clipshow of the series, though 66 episodes in isn’t a bad time (could be worse, VRAINS jk). It’s endearing enough, though–kinda nice seeing SAL again; Judai’s hunger-induced visions give us Chronos, Misawa, and Manjoume making monkey noises; and the duels featured were important for Judai early on. I also like the bit of new animation as vision!Ryou follows up with Judai about respecting his opponents; goes with what I’d noticed before about Judai adding his Fusion Undone/De-Fusion strategy to his own dueling after losing to him. (also Judai making a signpost sweatdrop from his aloofness pls)

Part of the initial delay with these were the footage fixes I wanted to work on, as well as a couple visual translations here/there which were fun to work on. Really want to thank @paradoxi-kay for their great work as always in helping to translate the cover of the copy of Duel Magazine that Judai comes across early in 65, and starting the one on Shou’s copy that I finished up. List of everything worked on below the cut, as usual, if you’re curious.

Enjoy, folks! I’ve gotten some work started on 67 already, and my plan is to try and work on some double releases to make up a bit of time, lol. I’ll be posting these two on NAC in the next couple of days along with the re-finalized hardsubs and scripts/DVDRips; while I work on getting 67 and 68 done, I’ll also start some work on prepping softsub MKVs (also to go up on NAC) for everything I’ve fully finalized, since it’s been a while on that front.

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in Duel Links do you know what Judai/Yubel says to Johan after he loses to him in a duel because I'm pretty sure the English translation is all wrong though I can't tell what he actually says

yubels-deactivated20210922

Heya, you mean these, right?

It’s actually fairly decently adapted! It’s his line just after Fujiwara realizes that Judai and Johan tricked him into thinking they were going after each other in 175 (just need to strip out the context referring to Johan that I’d included–I may try to make the lines more general when I finalize these subs, lol):

The bit about feeling like wanting to get [his opponent] back is left out of the first line, and Johan’s left out of the second line, but it’s serviceable enough. Most of the lines that reference Season 4 dialogue are for the most part fairly adapted, from what I’ve noticed, since there’s no 4Kids material to reference, lol. (I think one that bugged me was in the OW when they replayed Judai showing up at the end of 156 and they replaced Shou’s fried-shrimp nod with Syrus referencing… something else I can’t remember)

I've always been curious - do any of the transfer students in gx ever talk with a slight accent or anything like that or do they all just speak perfect Japanese?

yubels-deactivated20210922

Hmm, good question. I haven’t rewatched Season 3 in a while (waiting to until I’m there to finalize my subs), but offhand, I wouldn’t say any of them have accents to them so much as just slightly different ways of speaking, like Johan using “ore” and particles like “ze” the way Judai does. Austin and Jim maybe are who I’d say might not speak “perfect Japanese”–Austin because he sprinkles in a fair amount of English into his speech (“daddy,” “mission complete,” “yes sir,” etc) and he’s more or less formal with Cobra until he realizes he’s up to something, but otherwise his Japanese is pretty normal, I’d say, while Jim definitely throws more English into his speech but otherwise has more normal Japanese, which I think leans more informal than formal.

If anyone else has thoughts, feel free to add on, since I’m just going off memory, lol.