"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

(Previously: Episodes 95 and 96 Subbed [Finalized])

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TURN-97: He Appears! The Mysterious World Champ!

The true objective of GeneX, hosted by Principal Samejima, was to find who it is that holds the “ultimate D card.” Similarly, Ed Phoenix has been dueling in order to find the criminal who killed his father and walked away with that card. At the same time, the Dueling Pro League’s World Title Match was about to get underway–one involving the Champion who has ruled over the Pro League for the past decade, DD. DD is also Ed’s guardian, and his duel with Doctor Collector and his IQ of 200 gets underway. But their match is over in an instant–at the hands of DD, and the ultimate D card he used.

TURN-98: Activated at Last! The Ultimate D Card

Ed learns the truth–that DD, the World Champion, killed his father and stole his card–and is challenged to a duel.* Ed battles by making full use of his D-Hero cards, but just as it seemed that he was on equal footing with the World Champion, DD at last activates the ultimate D card, Bloo-D. Faced with this predicament, Ed…

*Should note the preview text I translated for this mentioned that he was challenged “for the key Saiou entrusted him with,” but… this wasn’t actually mentioned, and DD challenged him to a “duel to the death.” Though I guess that kinda works with how the dub tried to tie him to the Society of Light, lol.

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A smidge late, but episodes 97 and 98 are finalized!

Got ourselves an interesting two-parter here, as we circle back to Ed’s season-long quest to find his father’s killer and the ultimate D card stolen from him, introducing us to his foster dad DD. Why is DD his foster dad? As we find out, for reasons–ones related to wanting to keep tabs on the investigation into all that. But in the years since, DD’s gone on to rule the Pro League for a decade, thanks in large part to the mysterious powers of the Light of Destruction within him–which, as Pegasus tells Samejima, is behind the Phoenixes’ tragedy and… several other events in history. Ed gets closure with his dad at the end of it all, as our ultimate D Bloo-D absorbed him, and he gets to finally get his life moving again.

Very much enjoyed these two episodes for what they were in completing Ed’s arc; I felt it pretty believable in GX’s context, with how his motivations were fueled by finding his dad’s killer now that he can do something about it, and his rise through the Pro League being to find the guy at the top who’d have his dad’s Bloo-D. Also a nice touch is that, when he finds out DD only took care of him as a means to keep up to speed on the investigation into it, Ed discards any sense of respect he had for him (notably, Ed initially used “anata” (a more polite-yet-casual “you”) with him, but once that revelation’s made, he switches to the ruder “kisama” and calls him “human trash” for what he did). Both were also screenwritten by Shin Yoshida, and 98 in particular gets helped by the animation work from Tea Sun In’s team.

Edit-wise, not as many as last time; I only touched up 97 in two spots, while 98 got more of the handful of fixes I made, totaling 10 for both episodes–97 was more consistency/quality-of-watching stuff, while 98 had that plus a couple of quick card fixes. Due to Tumblr’s dumb link limit in posts yeeting them out of the tags used for them and limiting their reach, and since I still wanted a visual element to it, I’ve made a separate post here with my usual fix/edit breakdown for the interested!

Quick housekeeping: made a quick revision to 95 to fix a consistency error in my translated credits; the name “Chan Yoon Lee” under the Key Animation credits should actually be “Chan Woong Lee;” since they’re a Key Animator consistently on Chi Man Park’s team, and the “Yoon Lee” name only shows up this once, it’s fair to say it was a typo on the JP team’s part. (EDIT, 7/6: Updated 98 to correct “an unique” typo in one of DD’s lines, and reword another one about Bloo-D’s absorbed souls later on.)

Anywho, enjoy! Next up, I’ll be working on 99-101 which work nicely to continue from where 98 leaves us as we start getting into Season 2’s endgame, with Ojin coming for Judai’s key and Ed confronting Saiou (in two really good episodes). I will be a bit more casual with it as my birthday’s next Monday and I may or may not have plans for it, lol, but stay tuned!

GX Finalized-Subs!97 (WIP #1): Influenced by the Light

(Previously: Episodes 93 and 94 Subbed [Finalized])

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TURN-95: A Ruthless Brotherly Duel – Ryou VS Shou

Wishing for his kind and respectable brother to be himself again, Shou challenges the Hell Kaiser to a duel. But a callous Ryou conditions it on having a duel in which an electric current will rush through them with every drop in their Life Points. And so, a brotherly duel begins between Ryou and Shou. Shou does develop his dueling–respecting his opponent as always–but Ryou pounces on him, in full command of the Cyber Style’s Reverse deck.

TURN-96: The Relativity Field! Judai VS the Genius Doctor

In order to take back one of his important keys, a Saiou struck by the Waves of Light once again sends in an assassin against Judai. The assassin is Zweinstein, a genius physics expert with a deck made logically–Judai’s weakest point of all. Zweinstein activates his Relativity Field to start things off. He then summons* a Monster that negates Judai’s Fusion, his forte, gaining an edge as the duel unfolds.

*This is referencing Singularity Demon’s effect in the episode, but he doesn’t actually summon it; it’s more of a hand-trap he discards to negate Fusion.

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Got my subs for episodes 95 and 96 all nice and finalized!

These two episodes are a great time, but 95 in particular is great. It’s the culmination of those little bits we’ve had of Shou observing Ryou’s fall from grace since his loss to Ed, knowing he’d face him one day and preparing himself for it, and the whole time they’re dueling, he holds onto some hope that he can turn Ryou back into the big brother he knew–only to realize by the end that Ryou, after what he’s seen underground, really is just focused on winning, willing to be as “cruel” or “foul” as it takes if it helps. You do feel for the little guy, moreso when this gets flashed back to in 137 during Season 3 (another favorite, as it’s a big development episode for Shou). Also, Judai being a friend and watching over him knowing this was his choice to make, building him up about using Power Bond, rushing over once the duel’s over–it’s sweet.

96 is also one of my favorites because of the good art/dynamic animation, courtesy of Kyoung Soo Lee’s animation team (especially those last few scenes after Judai destroys Relativity Field, but just the Solid Vision putting them in space the entire time). The premise isn’t too bad, we check in with Misawa who’s realizing that just joining the Society of Light isn’t enough for him to make a name for himself, and he bumps into God Einstein Zweinstein who tells him that logic beats “coincidence,” before he tries to convey this to Judai and prove his Grand Unified Duel Theory. I like the Dueling Physics idea and the Einstein parody (he won a Nobelly Prize!), and the match between his logic and Judai’s intuition–and who doesn’t enjoy the randomness of Misawa’s extra Eureka moment, lmao. Still a bit meh on it being the last we see of him for a while, but it is nice seeing him when he does come back. (Also, I like how it’s not at all mentioned how Ojin managed to get a recording of Chronos calling for Judai to trick him with… very GX lol)

Edit-wise, both episodes had a fair amount of animation error fixes I applied; 95 saw more card-related errors than the quick one in 96, while both had a fair share of more quality-of-watching ones with split-screens, incomplete footage frames, or miscolorings (and in Burstlady’s case, another missing shoulder strap). Due to Tumblr’s dumb link limit in posts yeeting them out of the tags used for them and limiting their reach, and since I still wanted a visual element to it, I’ve made a separate post here with my usual fix/edit breakdown for the interested–altogether, that’s about 26 between both episodes, which I think I hit sometime in S1 when doing double-releases for a bit, but since most were quality-of-watching things, they were pretty quick to work on for the most part.

Anywho, enjoy! Looking forward to revisiting 97 and 98 next as we circle back to the Pro Leagues and get Ed’s best episode of the Season in the process; as Judai put it in 96’s preview for 97, “Ed’s Wheel of Fortune’ll suddenly start to turn…”

Hmm, curious to know if there are any Italian cover artists out there or on the YouTubes who’ve done covers for Precious Time, Glory Days and Endless Dream… or who could maybe be commissioned to…

YouTube just keeps pulling up the Italian dub’s themes or some English covers of PTGD, and while they do slap, they aren’t exactly what I want lol. And I see some Spanish covers sometimes but don’t think I’ve seen Italian ones…🤔

GX Finalized-Subs!96 (WIP): 😛 (Done)

Following up on this post, got this edit all done! Once I was done with placing the new translated text, I just popped the cropped bio image into AfterEffects and Power Pinned it into place, using Zweinstein’s photo as an alignment guide to make sure I got the skewing as close to the original as I could–that let me mask in the original photo to help things blend in a bit better, while applying a light Gaussian blur for more blending (I did touch up the positioning a little since the initial post, since I wanted to make sure the DOB text was still cut off a bit like in the original shot when Ojin sets Zweinstein’s profile down). Once I got the translated bio positioned (masking in Ojin on top for the first shot and the sides of the clipboard in the second), I just copy/pasted the Pin effect and its keyframes onto the layer for the fixed (Allbert->Albert) Japanese one to instantly put it into place too, and voila. The gifs there show it in [quick] action; came out pretty well!

Also whipped one up for the dub for reasons, for the world where 4Kids didn’t just awkwardly blank (or make lines out of) some bits of text and leave others intact… (you wipe out that he’s from Germany or has B-type blood, but leave the : next to the “country of origin” and “blood type” lines… why)

GX Finalized-Subs!96 (WIP): 😛

Since it’s been a bit since I finalized 93-94 and I haven’t made an update on 95 and 96 yet (I spent the past few days on some animation/card error touch-ups for 95 and I’m starting now on those for 96 along with this before working on their scripts), thought I’d quickly show off this current work-in-progress: the little bio file Ojin brings out to Saiou about one Zweinsteen Zweinstein early in the episode, which I wanted to take a crack at translating. I did want to more closely mirror how I translated Ryusei Gin (Lorenzo)’s file back in episode 71, but unfortunately my SSD drive giving out back in October meant I lost the project file for it–luckily, I did post the images from it here (and could refer back to my hardsub, worst-case) so that helps.

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(Previously: Episodes 91 and 92 Subbed [Finalized])

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TURN-93: A White Night Duel! Judai VS Asuka (Part 1)

The two personalities within Saiou are at odds with each other–one is a spirit impacted by the Waves of Light and now aims to destroy the world, while the other is a good spirit trying to prevent that.  In order to prevent the world’s destruction, the good spirit hands two important keys over to Judai and Ed–upon learning of that, the Saiou impacted by the Waves of Light sends in Asuka to face Judai in order to retrieve his key.  With the powerful deck she was given by Saiou, Asuka begins her offensive on Judai with her White Night Queen.

TURN-94: The White Night Dragon! Judai VS Asuka (Part 2)

Asuka’s deck, enhanced by Saiou, gradually drives Judai into a corner.  Struggling, Judai appeals to Asuka’s heart as he tries to return her to her old self, but few of Judai’s words sink into her as she finally summons her strongest card, White Night Dragon.  At an impasse, Judai uses a trump card packed with the “feelings for Asuka” that Manjoume and Fubuki entrusted him with, but…

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My subs for episodes 93 and 94 are revised and finalized!

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GX Finalized-Subbed!93 WIP #1 - The Key Split

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 92 (and 91) Subbed (Finalized) Release Clip | The Kingdom of Toons

So, this was going to be an April Fools “lol the dub music” upload to preview my finalized 91/92 release, hoping to use the dub’s Toon theme with this scene, but I liked the idea too much to not follow through after the vocal/music-and-SFX isolator I was using took so long to process the dub audio, lol. almost 24 hours lol rip

This actually… works pretty well, surprisingly? Even the rest of the dub’s OST to some extent lol help

But since dub!92 used less of the Toon World theme here than I remembered (and it is legitimately one of the better tunes the dub came up with), I did want to do an edit with the full Toon theme as an actual score–the downside to that is I’d have had to redo the SFX since I’m not as good with isolating just the SFX atm. But I’ve uploaded it separately here if you’d like to see how it sounds as a proof of concept, haha.

(The video bars are to prevent it being blocked on YouTube)

(Previously: Episodes 89 and 90 Subbed [Finalized])

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TURN-91: The Grim Reaper’s One-Turn Kill

Rumors have spread of a duelist taking part in GeneX who defeats his opponents in one turn.  This turns out to be Tachibana, who gained his drawing power through a pact with a Grim Reaper card.  Judai ends up dueling Tachibana, who’s sold his soul to the Grim Reaper, and with the start of their duel, Tachibana draws his “One-Hit Knockout! Slash Draw” Magic Card and comes at Judai with his One-Turn Kill. Can Judai possibly…

TURN-92: The Triangle Duel

As word goes around that rank-and-file Instructor Chronos and Vice-Principal Napoleon are being “fired,” Principal Samejima shouts “Get out of here!” at them.  They were both disheartened, but they happen to catch Chairman Pegasus of Industrial Illusions, Inc., on his way to visit Principal Samejima, and they ask for employment with I2.  Pegasus says he will approve their employment if they somehow defeat him in a duel, and so starts a Triangle Duel between Pegasus, Chronos, and Napoleon.  Can Chronos and Napoleon hope to…

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*Pegasus voice* I give you finalized!91 and 92! deeeesu

Slight delay in finalizing these aside, these episodes aren’t too bad; some continuity with the Duel Academia’s North Campus in Tachibana and his struggle to make the decks he cares about work, making him turn to a Grim Reaper spirit promising to improve his drawing ability–at the cost of his soul. Works well enough for a one-shot episode in GX, nice seeing another One-Turn Kill strategy after Ojin’s in 84, plus the animation looks really good throughout, along with “Impossible Victory” being used as Tachibana switches arms with his Disk to reject the Grim Reaper’s influence.  92′s fun with Pegasus making another cameo–this time, actually dueling–and the premise being that Chronos and Napoleon thought Samejima fired them when he was just frustrated was up GX’s humor alley–though it is interesting Toon Kingdom didn’t come out in the card game until long after GX (I liked the shot of it as we see Toon Red Archery Girl, Toon Summoned Daemon, and the other Toons he used in DM as a nice homage).  Pegasus’ll still have some time in S2 and S3, related to the plot Samejima thought about early in the episode, so he’ll be back.  Kind of a shame they didn’t make a GX remix for his Toon World theme from DM though, lol; points to the dub for using theirs.  (Tachibana’s voice in the dub was also really good.)

Edit-wise, both episodes had a fair amount of fixes I applied, mostly on the card error and quality-of-watching end (including some interesting split-screen issues), but there were 2-3 bigger ones I was able to make work; due to Tumblr’s dumb link limit in posts yeeting them out of the tags used for them and limiting their reach, and since I still wanted a visual element to it, I’ve made a separate post with my usual fix/edit breakdown for the interested!

Anywho, enjoy! These make for a little breather as we get into Judai vs White Asuka next time and some changes to Saiou’s SOLA plans.  Been looking forward to revisiting the next stretch of eps for a while as Season 2 closes on some of its best episodes; should be fun.

GX Finalized-Subs!91 - A Strapping Issue #419

Follow-up to this more-of-a-shitpost highlighting this animation error (and the dub’s… take) for easy linking/reference in my upcoming GX 91 and 92 release post; showing off the fixes I made here to Burstlady’s semi-recurring missing shoulder strap! Haven’t had one of these pop up in a while, lol.

Essentially went into Photoshop with each of these frames and drew on the full strap, using the inner outline on her shoulder as a guide–the first four frames here are back-to-back as Burstlady was lit up (I also redrew some of the light lines over the new strap for blending), with the next three being back-to-back as the lighting dims down, then the next one was one movement frame lasting two frames, and the ninth keeps her still as she flies closer to Featherman to fuse (as I threw these fixes back into the video, I keyframed this one to re-zoom Burstlady out as she flew upward, then masked it so the edit itself was blended into the video and moved with her); each frame after as they start to is a frame long and I stopped once Burstlady is fully mixed in (since they’re only a frame long, she’s a bit hard to really see anyway, but for completion’s sake and all). For the frames where she was lit up, I first drew on the strap in one frame, then copy/pasted the layers involved and redrew some light lines/adjusted for brightness to match the lighting as needed.

Here’s a quick gif of the scene in action; think it came out nicely!

GX Finalized-Subs!91 Preview 2 - Love for a Deck

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