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

So a little while ago, I live-tweeted a side-by-side comparison on 57 in this tweet thread, since I’ve been doing way too much politics retweeting lately, haha.  Notable changes: we lose Yugo and Yuzu’s whole “I never knew my mother…” conversation for something about Security being there 24-7, with an awkward cut to Yugo quieting her down because of nearby Security, Frank and Amanda keep their names but Tanner->Tarren (likely because they used Tanner on Himuro in 5D’s), we lose the funny record-scratch moment when Frank and Tanner notice Yuya and Selena, and we also had some big time cuts (Crow assuring Yuya he’ll find Yuzu/Yugo and the TELL ME MELISSA intro, some effect-explanation time later on to make up for the additions early on, 4K ironically passing up a chance to break the fourth wall with Melissa) mixed with some smaller ones (like Crow elbowing Frank and Tanner’s heads).

Overall, I thought it was decent; I just wish they’d stick to the material as is instead of reorganizing or cutting in shots to split a scene, or adding lip-flaps for line padding, which happened a bunch here.  The worldbuilding stuff Crow gives us on Tops[iders] and Commons is kept, save for a wine bottle and glass (sorry, Peggy!Roget, no fruit juice for you), and his “When I went out for tuna, I must’ve picked up some nuts” line was gold (re: dimension-hopping).  The Gong/Dennis show is done well enough, save for some extra/cut dialogue.  Dennis still sounds dastardly evil setting his Scales, and his VA overall did a good job with him.  Gallagher is now “Luca Swank?” At least from what I could hear; why this.

Also worth noting that there were some touchups here, like in the scene with Dennis throwing his cards into his other hand (the card backing’s the normal swirl instead of the old oval).  Likely a DVD master, and I wonder if the city backdrop in that wine edit was like that on the DVD or if 4K did an iffy Photoshop job.  Still waiting to see if 61 gets any good touchups…

Now, to look forward to how bad the FOOD VS SMILES rewrite’ll be next week.

Does it matter? I’m more worried she’s going to lose and then die.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m totally worried about that too. XD; I think I’d much prefer having Yuri corner her, then just when she’d lose or be carded, someone comes in for the save; maybe Yugo like I saw someone else guess, so that way they can finally have their duel.  And Asuka gets to live to duel more later! And if anything, rematch with Yuri or an Academia higher-up and be carded then.  Because with how good her entrance was back in 103, they really should be doing more with her.

But it’s fun to think of them giving her Ryou’s Cyber Dragons to use as a callback to their friendship in GX, haha.

I mean I’m expecting Asuka to just have a Machine Dragon boss to her Cyber Angels, but if “Machine Dragon” actually is referring to Cyber Dragons, and therefore Ryou Marufuji… well, I wouldn’t be disappointed.  Of course, we’d have likely heard by now if Ryou even was coming back, lol.

(Though if they do that, they should bring back a second ZeXal character to balance it, at least.)

…Wait, unless she’s using Cyber Dragons to mesh with her Cyber Angels?!

Yeah, so 121 was good imo. 

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It’s nice hearing Chris Adams back as Crow (though I also liked Tom Wayland’s voice for him more, but they’re both good), but UGHHH why didn’t he still come in chanting for Raikiri

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Dug up my side-by-side comparison on ARC-V 52 done with the Italian dub, updated to the 4K dub that just came out.  My main gripe: WOULD THEY PLEASE STOP RANDOMLY ADDING/CUTTING SECONDS TO THINGS JEEZ

Also random as hell line fluffing why is this a thing

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Yeah so that episode… brb feeling for yugo

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I CAN’T BELIEVE THAT FACE CAME FROM A RIN KICK TO THE GUT LMAO

YUGO WARPING INTO A CLASSROOM AND THE INSTANT ‘I AIN’T FYUSION, I’M YUGO’ THO. and ‘it ain’t a bike, it’s a d-wheel!’ pfft

also dat evil smile damn you evil brainwashing doctor who i wish was actually saiou D:

And here’s my translation for Vision; you can definitely get Yuya vibes out of this song.  I updated my TV-size lyrics a bit for singability as I added the rest of the song, and I also transcribed the Japanese lyrics.  There’s the one lyric about “overlapping places” that I decided to go with “overlay” for for an Xyz arc nod.  

Enjoy, and feel free to use for fandubs or what have you!

(Other ARC-V Translations: BelieveXBelieve BURN! Future Fighters! Unleash/Hanate ARC of Smiles! Trump Card/Kirifuda Speaking Light of Hope Vision / Other Translations)

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Finally finished this up! I’m liking how it came out during the second half–basically getting through a storm of despair and wanting to be free of it when a light of hope shines through the clouds–and overall, it’s a good motivational tune, so I tried to convey that in the lyrics.  I also updated some of the early lyrics from my TV-size translation to match the rhyme scheme I worked with for the later half or to be a bit smoother to sing.  Singing the dual-voice bridges is suffering though. D:

Enjoy, and feel free to use for fandubs/whatever! I may try to dub these myself sometime soon; this and Vision were really fun to translate, lol.

(Other ARC-V Translations: BelieveXBelieve BURN! Future Fighters! Unleash/Hanate ARC of Smiles! Trump Card/Kirifuda Speaking Light of Hope Vision / Other Translations)

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