English Bakura:
*deep chuckle* Oh, please, I sincerely doubt you'll be able to defeat me. *insert Shakespearian metaphor here*
Japanese Bakura:
You f***ing c*nt I'll kick the mother f***ing sh*t out of you I will send you to hell you little b*tch and you ain't never getting out. *hysterical cackling*
So I accidentally watched a few of the japanese episodes of 5Ds. And. Well. I have noticed a trend in the dubbing of this and DM.
Japanese version: says it once.
English version: says it. (do you think they got it? no?) says it again. Says it in a slightly obscure way. says it in an obvious way. (I still don’t they they got it.) makes the episode about saying it. itttttttttttttttt. it. says it. it. it. it again. did we mention it? (guys, note it down that we have to say it next ep, alright?)
sometimes im like ah gx had such an excellent character arc for judai and actually explored the ramifications of his disturbing sociopathic attitude that was initially just dressed up as shounen cheeriness plus a surprisingly complex and nuanced relationship with johan that actually went to a disturbing rather than inspiring place and accepting and returning yubel’s love which even the glorious “fuck heteronormativity” aside was fantastic in yubel’s love being held up as legit and superior to many other forms of love in the first place and even post-character development judai’s writing still kept him as fundmantally sociopathic judai and didn’t have him just become a better person so neatly and cleanly and it was all so g—
shit this show had a guy randomly tranform into a dinosaur flying into space so he could chew on a space death satellite while a kid played a card game against takehito koyasu in the background didn’t it
tvTROPE 1: The Magnificent Bastard Character: Lelouch Lamperouge
“He is brilliant and utterly devious, to an almost breathtaking, mind-boggling degree. Call it genius, call it virtual omniscience, but he always seems to know what everyone else is planning at any given moment, occasionally by making them play right into his hands, and exactly how to arrange the game so he wins even when he is defeated.”