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

Took about long enough, phew! This is the actual-finalized episode 9 for ya! Kumazou, Hayato’s dad, comes in to demand Hayato be withdrawn from the Duel Academia due to his slacking, but Judai intervenes to give Hayato a fighting chance.

A huge shoutout to agenderjoshuakiryuu/thepalebride for helping me with translating the “Fighting Spirit” wall scroll in the dojo.  And to Vegas 13 for messing up on me with rendering just when I was finishing getting the clips ready, making me only able to render in Safe Mode.  Big help, Vegas. (Luckily, V8 saw me through.) I also updated the script a bit, mostly just to make “of” “’a” for most of Kumazou’s lines.

A few other minor edits went down in here, a couple for consistency:

• I fixed the shading on Judai’s arm during a frame as he’s turning Hayato around at 3:59
• The animation error with Judai having Shou’s eyes at 6:40 has been fixed; I masked in his eyes from a frame or two before and adjusted them over the original eyes.  Weird how it’s the still shot and not the in-betweens that had the wrong eyes, though.
• When Hayato’s hit by Drunk Tiger’s cat punch, his LP counter appears a second or two after the SFX for it plays.  I fixed it by masking it in on time, then slowing it down to last the rest of the SFX.
• During the Shou/Judai split-screen at 10:55, a frame or two went by where there was empty space between the divider and Judai; I replaced it with the frame before.
• I fixed the consistency error with Death Kangaroo being reversed in Hayato’s flashback compared to earlier in the episode by just applying a flashback effect to the original shot.  Since I couldn’t get the right feathering with the white border, I basically recreated the flashback so it wouldn’t stick out.

Enjoy, folks! I’ll update the links on NAC soon.  I’ve prepped things for episode 10 already, so I should have it done by next weekend.