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

Wow, can’t believe Konami did THE MANLY GONGENZAKA this dirty with his starter deck, jeez

I get they’ve been locking aces away in boxes since 5D’s World, but at least give the man one Superheavy lol

OP literally waited two years to release a soundtrack with a bunch of A+ tunes only to leave out some of the more iconic ones from the last arc and 40+ tunes unreleased altogether instead of just doing 2CDs to cover more and the skipped OP/EN but go off i guess

Tweets as I watched ARC-V dub!125, an episode dear to my heart because of how good it is originally:

My biggest gripe w/ the ARC-V dub is how an intense scene is like that originally bc of the awesome music but they replace it with a tune not even close to matching the vibe… Oh and unneeded character shade (Yuri: “I’ll take Ancient Gear Hydra back–can’t have it sticky from your candy fingers” when he just says the first part)

I’m surprised they kept the Parasite on top of Yuya’s brain, but I guess that was too important to cut around, but lol They cut the Doctor massaging Yuzu’s face to taunt Yuya.  And the scene with the Parasites becoming scared was… awful compared to the suspense originally there, partly because of the music, but also partly because Liscio doesn’t play Yuya as chillingly as Ono does:

• JP!Selena: Our Parasite Fusioners… are scared?
  
• JP!Yuya: Get as many to hit me as you want–but bugs are still *bugs*!
  
• Selena: [Our parasites] look like they want to run and hide–I wonder why…
  
• Yuya: It’s all bc of me… They realize they’re in danger–a lot of danger!
  

dub!Yuya not giving his one-off Monster a real summoning chant: “By combining the two most powerful dragons in the universe [what are Starve Venom and Clear Wing chopped liver], I’ll create a monster that’s all the RAGE!” are you kidding me 4K berserk!Yuya/Z-ARC isn’t supposed to be making wisecracks

And this is a trend the last bunch of dub episodes too, I think if 49 was dubbed with this latest batch, we wouldn’t have gotten Odd-Eyes Rebellion’s proper chant either.

But thank you for keeping “THERE IS NO NEXT TURN” 4K

lol They added extra impact shots to hide Selena’s foot connecting with Yuya’s crotch

I should be surprised that 4K didn’t bother updating their opening with footage from Pendulum Beat and Dashing Pendulum, but… actually, I kind of am after they updated with Trump Card and Speaking video in Synchro when that switch happened…  Maybe it was all that text in Pendulum Beat keeping them away…

Overall, 125′s dub was decent, but the unneeded trash-talk, Yuya’s unneeded pun-plays when he’s kinda/sorta not himself in a rage, and the more lackluster droning music compared to the soundtrack that helped make the original episode as good as it was don’t do it any favors for me.

sOUND DUEL 4 BETTER BE A TWO-DISC RELEASE

But you still take the damage!