"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."
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this is one of the only things i’ve ever seen of the gx dub and it’s all i ever need to see
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Honestly the funniest running joke in GX that I never ever see talked about is the fact that Jaden has a charisma score of -1.
Jaden. Fun, lovable Jaden, the spunky shonen boy with a heart of gold and the braincell of a golden retriever: No one likes him. Utterly unloved by the student body. In three years, he makes maybe five friends, mostly by accident. Every new character we meet acts like becoming acquainted with Jaden is equivalent to being handed an angry, dirty, constantly screaming possum.
Chazz? Chazz Princeton? The sarcastic little grease stain? Utterly beloved. Has won the hearts of not one, but two entire highschools. Charms anyone he comes into contact with into joining the Chazz Is The Coolest Dude Ever fanclub. Seems to have a thriving social life when he’s not hanging out with the dork squad. Chazz walks into a room and people say “OMG! Chazz! :)”
Like if you put them in a lineup and asked me to pick which was the school popular kid, and which was the weird cryptid outcast who sleeps in the woods, I would inevitably pick wrong.
Honestly, that was never quite how I saw Judai? I exclusively watched the sub, though. Judai is picked for several duels as a representative of DA and is at one point called “the charisma of Duel Academia” (perhaps the standards for that title are rather low, but - whatever LOL) or something equally inscrutable??! For the first two seasons he’s got a very infectious enthusiasm and it definitely got him a bit of a reputation. Maybe minor enough that most people don’t really realize he’s drawing into himself during season 4, but notable enough to have people swarm him once the graduation duels start. With both Judai and Manjoume it seemed a lot more like they had fanclubs (of vastly different sizes, albeit) who go, “Wooah, kickass duelists! I want to duel you soo bad!! Please, duel me!!!”, but when push comes to shove they didn’t have that many close friends.
Like, he’s still missing every social cue known to man, but Judai’s -1 charisma stat is made utterly irrelevant in the face of some absurd Judai-exclusive variable. Who needs “social skills” when you have card games and (near) unending enthusiasm! I think that’s just as funny, tbh.
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- #i definitely think the perception of Judai as a character varies based on the original and the dub
- #just based on how the dub tends to overemphasize his aloofness
- #while not majorly it's still kind of there
- #but he does have his elements of awareness there and his enthusiasm definitely is picked up on
- #and the dub tends to rewrite some subtle lines that help show that
- #it's why Kenzan originally wants to dorm with Judai--to pick up on his charisma as someone whose dueling wasn't that exciting
- #i feel there's a bit more there but brain's tired lol
- #that aside generally agree both are dorks
- #GX
- #dub!GX
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IM CRYING
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gx is a masterpiece
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the dub made some points
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How can people not like the dub when we get lines like this?
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This is probably my favourite thing Jaden has said in the series so far
Wait, which one? is it “Let me guess, bad vibes?” or “This is no time to start speaking Australian, Jim!”
(via managician)
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wtf young matthew labyorteaux (judai’s voice actor in the dub) was the real life version of bby judai
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Alright, so they’re still talking about basically the same thing here but for some reason the dub decided to leave out the rather crucial information that there’s a purpose behind Ed’s vigilante jaunts. So it comes across more like Aster is just going out and beating people up for no particular reason.
I dunno, maybe they’ll mention it later in the scene instead but this was a perfectly fine time to do so. We don’t yet know all the information in the original but it gives us more insight about Ed’s character, that he’s very angry about something and feels the need to take action on that anger.
Also while Saiou doesn’t particularly like this habit of Ed’s in either version, he at least acknowledges in the original that he understands why Ed does this and that he does need some sort of outlet for his pain. Of course, the most painful thing watching this again is knowing that Saiou knows that Ed isn’t going to find his card that way because Saiou has already seen where it is. I wish they would have told us the reason later on in the show why Saiou didn’t say anything about it to him. I can certainly reasonably guess at why he’d have reasons to hide it based on canon, but it would have been nice to be able to hear it from Saiou himself. :(
I do have to give the dub credit for one thing though. They actually keep the way that Sartorius talks pretty similar to Saiou’s speech patterns. They’re both always very formal and calm.
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Ah yes.. The wonderful Yugioh GX dub, turning Judai into a disrespectful little shit and Yugi into a negligent grandson.
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really cannot stop thinking about this
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Schmaden…..
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watch this til the very end PLEASE im having a stroke i cannot STAND the 4kids dub
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