"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."
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Red Daemon’s already, eh?
Also loving the background and the little blurring effects going on in there. And this being like the Yusei VS JACK finale in 5D’s where we swing by places we’ve seen during the duel is a neat parallel.
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A wild Crow appeared! Holding Yuya’s D-Wheel and Riding Suit/Helmet! Answering my question!
“Tokumatsu and the kids can’t wait!”/”Then, they’re…”/*cut to a stadium full of people* this is going to be grand-scale enterduelment
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“I’ll help, as well. I’ve prepared a special Riding Course for you and JACK. I call it the ‘Dimension Highway!’”
Well, that answers that. sasuga reiji
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“Due to taking in Zarc, if she can laugh after losing her smile, it’ll essentially mean that Zarc’s evil soul has been purified”
“if she can laugh after losing her smile”
“if she”
“she”
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“If you want to accomplish something, don’t falter!”
HE SAID THE THING
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Not even into the episode yet, and between Yuya’s D-Wheel and a City-style Duel Lane in Fusion
(”What do Jack’s words mean…?! The curtain once again rises on a duel between the two!”)
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So, 144 was a fun episode, especially in light of this post by Kahun on NAC about the symbolism in what Dennis and Yuya were doing. While I do wish his thing from 114 was acknowledged as part of his development this episode (maybe a monologue or something, to address your reply, @blueeyeswhitegarden), I think it came out pretty well, and his sendoff with teaching the kids Yusho-style “Enterduelment” was a nice touch. Shows that, yeah, Yuya’s moving out of his dad’s shadow, and gives Dennis a great chance to atone and get Heartland closer to peace and moving onward. It didn’t click at first with my first watch earlier that Ed was alluding to Dennis acting, but catching it the second time around with the HQ raw, it made sense. Him going from Fusion to Xyz was a good symbolic touch that showed to the Heartlanders that he’d changed.
The duel was fun too, and I found it funny how Trapeze Magician–or his Rank-Up, I forget–kept Yuya from that one Action Card. And I like how they used him jumping down below the screen to grab that Miracle that he uses near the end. Not sure how I feel about Yuya using a card with him in the art lol (besides awww), but I liked the combo. But what I especially loved were those shots of Yuya Pendulum Summoning, but, like, the shot before the stock footage seamlessly transitioned into it (and if someone could gif those, that’d be great!). After last episode’s jarring switch from him facing left and rollerblading to PENDULUM SHOUKAN, it was refreshing. The entire episode looked pretty great too, and I also noticed they used part of that shot of Yuya rollerblading from OP5, so I think that was a shot Yokota might’ve worked on.Also, the duel starting with “Wavering Feelings” playing (that’s my jam), and that Action Duel theme during that one turn… The music was on-point this episode.
Hopefully Shun gets a good sendoff too, and I like that we’re getting some more much-needed childhood flashbacks of him and Ruri (who so casually uses Mirror Force and Shun’s smiling but he’s probably screaming internally). And Gil-bo Noh should at least make it as much of a visual treat as this episode.
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That was a cute sendoff for Dennis, but they reaaally should’ve acknowledged that thing he did in 114…
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“Even if I end up [in the darkness], I know you can endure [all four Dragons on the field]! I know that card of yours will protect you! So, even if I’m swallowed up by the darkness, you’ll pull me back out of that darkness. I have faith in you–I know you can do it.”
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Curious, anyone ever get to cut out everyone here individually from that V-Jump 777 Calendar way back, or reblog someone who did? @kurivolt managed to get Yuma and Judai, but I don’t remember seeing/reblogging the other three. Asking for a friend~
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ARC-V #01 - Getting Billboard (WIP)
Finally, a quick update on this! So through the magic of Photoshop, I finally figured out how to stitch together this pan weeks ago (lots of transforming), and started blanking the boards to add the translated text later; think it’s been 3-ish weeks off/on? Some bits I had to redraw (like Jinzo Lord-or-whatever’s belt and Dian Keto’s arms and Disk), others were just a clean cover-up; for the gradients, I just recreated the gradients and then cut out Dian Keto and the Mystic Swordsmen to put over them. I’m liking the results so far!
Just have Key Mace’s and the one next to it to clean, then I’ll be adding the text–after I get back to GX 24 to work on adding @alicethedragonvalkyrie‘s edited!textless Manjoume frames into that sponsor clip for the episode! Once I do, I’ll be doing my best to make up for time.
Also, if anyone happens to have reference screenshots I could use from other episodes that are more close-up on any of these, feel free to shoot ‘em my way!
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So since I’m still not over this shot, I ask to the fandom winds, would a fine Photoshopper out there be willing and able to get this dork all xmas’d up for me, please? As much as I’ve picked up Photoshop, I don’t think I’m that good just yet, haha.
EDIT: WE HAVE A WINNER
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Yuri, you magnificent bastard.
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I might have misunderstood, but did you say in a post you're going to eventually sub Arc V? that would be awesome!! I love your GX subs! It would be so great to eventually have Arc V subbed by you, if I'm wrong I'm so sorry to have bothered you ;-;
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Hehe, nope, you read that right! I’m planning to give ARC-V my own take soon; I’ve been preparing stuff for it for a while, doing some editing, and all that. I’ll be doing it in between finalized GX episodes; more details here and here. And thanks, I’m glad you enjoy my GX subs! :) It’s been a labor of love, haha.
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ARC-V Ep. 01 - A Strong Foreboding (WIP #4… I think.
i lost count)And after 84 years, it’s finally alive! I really wish I knew that all I needed to do to make that “Strong Ishijima” text curve along the banner was free transform + click the “warp” button, haha. So yeah, the poster’s now fully translated; all that’s left is to recreate the pan, then mask the translations into the video through Vegas. Which should be a cakewalk compared to this, haha. But hey, learning experiences are fun!
After that, I’ll translate the Yusho poster on the wall a bit earlier on, then the shot of the building behind crying Yuya to translate later. Since stitching this pan together in Photoshop did go well, I might try the billboards in the beginning one more time, too. But first, @alicethedragonvalkyrie has given me some frames to work with in GX 24 (for that Manjoume post-credit scene), so I’ll go back and get some more work on that done first. Apologies for things being slow on the GX front, guys! Once I start prepping things with that clip, I’m going to go ahead and start prepping things for the next few episodes–that way, when I get back to it, I can churn more episodes out a bit quicker to make up for time, lol.