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

chibicrow:

What is UP y’all. I’m back with a cover of an anime OP for the first time in five million years. 👏👏👏 (well technically it hasn’t been a year since I did one, but that one got zero notes, so in social media terms, I haven’t done one in a while 😂😂😂)
The reason for this cover is two-fold: 1) we just celebrated VRAINS being around for 2 years and honestly, with all the issues it had production-wise, that’s awesome + 2) some folks really thought this song wasn’t good, so I covered the song to prove them wrong. IT’S SO MUCH FUN TO SING OK.
(editing it’s a different story tho….. rip. also I couldn’t find an instrumental for the song, so my man TOMMY’s singing in the back LMAO)
But anyway, if you listen to this, thank u so much and I hope u enjoyed listening to it as much as I did singing it. 🙏 (especially this ~one~ part. you’ll know what I mean if u listen)

“couldn’t find an instrumental”

You could’ve asked. :P

(via dragonowlie)

I read the manga first and I didn't even notice L's moral greyness because my lizard brain thought he looked cute so I got distracted lmao. The anime kind of shocked me more with his controversial scenes (the fake execution in particular) because they were more dramatic plus the voice acting really got to me (also, I didn't like L's anime design that much so I could focus more on his terrible personality hdfghshs)

Anonymous

13eyond13:

Oh lol that’s funny! He’s definitely extremely fun to look at in the manga and the hilarity of his character definitely can be distracting. But it was the opposite for me, because when I first read the manga after watching the anime I found L came off much less… idk, genuinely well-meaning or straight-forward? He seems way shadier in the manga to me just because of a few little tweaks to his behaviour and how he and Light react to each other and such.
Some examples I can think of right off the top of my head:
1) When L says to Light that Light is his “first-ever friend”:
L CLEARLY has a little ironic smirk about it in the manga; Light appears to catch onto this right away and plays along, probably seeing it as a private joke between them:
And then L makes a vague little threat toward Light afterwards:
In the anime L comes off way more genuine about it:
And Light’s reaction seems very serious and tentative in comparison:
I remember completely believing L when he said Light was his first ever friend the first time I watched the Japanese dub of the anime, and being like “Aww poor L, he’s finally feeling a connection to someone and yet Light’s trying to kill him.”
The anime is just a lot more serious and sentimental in general!
2) L says dark things like this in the manga which he never says in the anime:
3) The anime takes out things like L’s inner monologue during his first fight with Light. In the manga it’s made very clear that L’s just antagonizing Light to test him and get a reaction out of him when he says he “wanted him to be Kira:”
In the anime we don’t hear L’s thoughts during this part at all, so his motives and feelings are way more ambiguous and left up for interpretation. His self-awareness about his manipulative nature seems more clear to me in the manga.
4) The anime’s addition of the rain scene and those other little moments behind the scenes of L having emotional struggles before his death. That added this whole other dimension to his character which wasn’t present whatsoever in the manga, and which you could definitely say changed his character completely. It seems to depict L as someone who reflects upon his actions and has some doubt and/or guilt about his own morality at times, which wasn’t really present at all in the manga, or at least not present in a way in which L had any regret or overt sentimentality about anything regarding his own behaviour or relationships with people in the Kira investigation. I like both manga L and anime L in their own different ways, but I can understand why there’s confusion about people’s ideas of L because of these subtle little changes. I remember talking to my friend about L a while back and she kept saying things like “he was such a good guy, he just didn’t know any better when he did (insert morally ambiguous behaviour here), it’s such a shame what happens to him!” And she’s only ever watched the Japanese dub of the anime; and I think this is a fairly common sentiment to hear from people who just watch the show.
The one other thing I can add about this is that the voice actor playing L makes ALL THE DIFFERENCE when it comes to how his personality comes off in the anime. I LOVE English voice actor Alessandro Juliani’s intepretation of L so much, not just because he has such a nice voice, but because he puts that complete ambiguity and shadiness back into L with every line he speaks! I think the anime kind of sucked a lot of that out of L originally and made him come off a bit naive and overly sincere, so it was very nice to see how AJ’s interpretation of the character put it back into L and made his true motives and personality so mysterious once more.

jczala:

Episode 92: 大いなる試練 – Ooinaru Shiren (The Ultimate Ordeal)
Lightning sets a trap! The one who will face Playmaker is…
Bowman has crushed Blue Maiden and absorbed Aqua. Playmaker decides to pursue Bowman, but Kusanagi then shows up and blocks his path!
This week’s Kusanagi: Hearing Jin’s voice…?!
Kusanagi heard Jin’s voice coming from the monitor while he was watching over his allies’ battles in the real world. He chases after Jin’s voice, and finds Lightning waiting for him…
Source: DMC3444

jczala:

Episode 85: 偽りなき涙 – Itsuwarinaki Namida
(Genuine Tears)
Source: DMC3444
Playmaker and others head to Mirror LINK VRAINS to chase after Lightning!
Playmaker and his allies have decided to form an alliance with Revolver! In order to search for Lightning, they head to Mirror LINK VRAINS, a world hidden in LINK VRAINS.

entermates:

idk why i made this transparent instead of doing productive shit but… it’s him. feel free to use wherever!

just-a-ygo-fan:

VRAINS Episode 82 Summary + Ep 83/84 Titles
Episode 82: 本能の先にあるもの – Honnō no Saki ni Aru Mono
(That Which Lies Beyond Instinct)
Playmaker has somehow survived GO’s brutal attack. He attempts to turn things around with his Skill, but GO then negates it with Anti-Skill. Playmaker is now totally driven into a corner. Is there any way he can get out of this one?!
Script: Hirota Mitsutaka
Storyboard: 須永司 || Sunaga Tsukasa
Direction: 高橋雅和 || Takahashi Masakazu
Animation Director(s): 金子優司, 豊田暁子 || Kaneko Yuji, Toyoda Akiko
Episode 83: イレギュラー・ミーティング – Iregyurā Mītingu
(Irregular Meeting)
Script: 吉田伸, 立原正輝 || Yoshida Shin, Tachihara Masaki
Storyboard: 髙田昌宏 || Takada Masahiro
Direction: 布施康之 || Fuse Yasuyuki
Animation Director(s): Lee Sung-jin, Kang Hyeon-guk
NO EPISODE ON JANUARY 2ND
Episode 84: 静まらない過去 – Shizumaranai Kako
(A Turbulent Past)
Script: 吉田伸 || Yoshida Shin
Storyboard: ルーチェー・ヤギ || Ruche Yagi
Direction: 武藤公春 || Mutou Kimiharu
Animation Director(s): 川村裕哉, 荏原裕子 || Kawamura Yuya, Ebara Yuko
Credits: DMC3444

watertribe-enya:

ygo5dsmonth2018 Day 10 - Free Day 1 @ygo5dsmonth2018
I just noticed I never did something for the introduction prompt, so here it comes! My name is Christin, I’m 25 and from Germany. As you may have noticed from my art, Rex is my favorite character. My absolute FAVE.Since there’s so few art of him I’ve decided to make up for that. Also the manga is great and you should read it. Btw I’d like to use this prompt to talk about 5D’s in Germany a bit.
I’ve been a fan of the show since 2009, when the Dark Signer Arc started airing in my country. Our dub was based on the american one, at least for the first 64 episodes. Then we got the episodes uncut but the dub names were still used. Unfortunately our dub only goes to episode 119 and then stops. With a fuckin cliffhanger. Strangely when 5D’s was later aired on a diffrent channel the episodes included scenes that were formerly cut out. For example the dub censored the moment when Rex was dying and babbling about becoming a god and breaking the cycle. I guess that was cut because he was making some terrifying faces. Those moments were now shown with the original dialogue (which stood in contrast to the dub dialogue that was used in the same episode). From time to time I still enjoy watching the dub, the german cast is pretty good after all ( alot of them also worked at Winx Club btw)
I played all the 5D’s games that came out for the DS and the Wii (never owned a psp) and my favorite has to be Reverse of Arcadia. i even unlocked the Dark Signer face there (which is hard to get because you can’t control which face you get if you decide to change it)
At the bottom you have some pictures from the german 5D’s stickerbook. It came out in 2011 when the show wasn’t airing here anymore.

5D's #23 Uncut?! (Re-edited 4Kids Dub/JP OST)

“The Final Match - A Heart Hidden Under the Mask”/“Duel of the Dragons, Part 1”

Everybody, listen!

It’s finally done! So, to catch people up, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (22-27)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage what they changed, like Yusei asking about Goodwin talking to Akiza instead of JP!Yusei’s asking about his friends). Hence, the “dubbed uncut” version here.

To cover the audio in the recap, since Akiza’s line there in 22 was ridiculous, I recycled a line from later in 23 to start it, then went to Japanese Kodo screaming before circling back to dub!Koda screaming (I really didn’t like her line there), inserted the right 22 lines and moved the MC’s extra line as Yusei and Aki walk towards each other to be over the new “Aki won!” shot; used a Jack grunt from somewhere and recycled his “She’s a Signer!” and Lazar’s “Three down” line from 22; and used a scoff from Rex from 27. In the episode itself, I did recycle a few grunts here and there to quiet a scene that 4Kids had unnecessarily fluffed, and added back some SFX I thought were quieted a bit in this version of the audio. You’ll probably get a different feel from this version than the actual 4Kids version of the episode!

Oh, also translated the OP/EN, the title card, and preview (where I also threw in the dub lines from 24 that correspond to what the Japanese lines were in it, using the MC where Yusei would’ve read the title) to give this an actual “What if they actually did this uncut” feel, nbd

I’ll be trying to do this with the rest of the BGM-less batch, but hopefully they flub on the Season 3+ uploads so I have some Synchro chants to work with… Enjoy!

yugiohruinedmylife1:

The D-Wheel that only turns left
When I first started watching 5D’s, one of the main aspects that stood out was how much anarchism was present in the series, so let’s talk a little about it, and I’ll headcannon about the main political views in the anime. I won go into TOO MUCH detail because I don’t think that fitting in to an exact spectrum is that important, but if you think any of this is incorrect, feel free to argue. Also if there’s any chance you didn’t watch it, please do, it’s not just card games on motorcycles.
In a general way, 5D’s is always shown state actors as an opressing force, where the police is only an agent of brutality, the upper classes maintain discrimination while the rest of people are more than happy to participate. Neo Domino City functions in a hierarchic, aristocratic logic,and since the series obviously criticizes this, I believe it shows a more anarchist point of view (as in hierarchies bad, free-associations good)
I think I shold go ahead and say: Satellite is Palestine. Almost a colony, people geographically maintained separate and opressed because who they are and where they’re from, with everyone around hating them and treating them like trash for this. City people are also actively trying to murder them, as shown by Goodwin’s plan. There might be other examples that fit the description, but that is the most famous one.
First of all is, of course, Yusei
Yusei is the anarchist hero we all wanted, but not really
While he does openly despises authority and searches to promote equality, Yusei, although reluctantly, agrees to work within the system to help change it, agreeing to work with Goodwin, which makes him a bit of a social-democrat in practice, but I think he’s more of a closet anarchist. All the way reformist.
(also a bit of an idiot because C’MON HE KIDNAPPED YOUR FRIENDS. AND YOU TRUST THAT GUY. HOW?)
Also one of the most beautiful elements in the series and in Yusei’s character is how willing he is to believe in people even if they are all out criminals. Not many other works, specially Western, are willing to show criminals as human beings deserving of dignity and equal treatment, and 5D’s does that without even questioning WHAT THEY DID
Pro-tip: when he talks about “there are no useless cards”, he also means people.
Yusei is our hero, yet he’s treated like trash simply because of where he came from. He than spends the entire first season fighting for people who are either imprisioned or discriminated by birth, and if that’s not awesome I don’t know what it is.
Next up is Crow
Crow has a Robin Hood sort of world view, Unlike Yusei,he actually grew up homeless. He also despises authority and is more than willing to practice illegal actions to help his kids.
I really think he would be a black block sort of a guy but that’s more of a headcannon. Honestly, I think Crow is a communist ((not a socialist tough) (oooh used a bad word). He also doesn’t believe in the state or authority, and he also wishes to end bring people to the same patamar, with the same opportunies, and probably doesn’t believe in private propriety. Revolutionary.
Jack is anarchocapitalist. Sorry, I know but hey, at least he’s cute.
Next up is KIRYU/KALIN. I really don’t know how to classify him,he also hates authority, but the way he behaves, hurting people who are weaker, I think he’s more of a warning of what people can do when they go off the rails. Aligns with anarchism but I don’t think it’s from a political viewpoint that he does, just as in that’s the way his hatred of the since surfaces.
AKI AND DIVINE are my greatest critics of this show. They are SCARECROWS
The Scarecrow Fallacy is when you steriotype something as the worst things someone imagines about it to make onlookers think is bad. Like saying all feminists are man hating, ill loved ugly women. That’s a scarecrow.
Aki and Divine are scarecrows as well as the product of lazy writing.
“Arcadia Moviment” talks all the time about spreading their ideology and world view but it never says WHAT ARE THEM. NEVER.
You know why?
1- lazy writers.
2 - Ideology is a BAD WORD. Ordinary people see it and think “oh it’s a BAD WORD. THEY’RE BAD PEOPLE”.But every single thing and thought in this world is ruled by an ideology, like neoliberalism, but since it’s the predominant one, you’re trained not to view as ideology, but as ‘the way the world works”. This keeps people from thinking too much and trying to classify their beliefs because that is IDEOLOGY and IDEOLOGY IS WROONG.
Yes, this is also how you can write a series with anarchists and not think they’re anarchist, because you don’t want to name thinks because it is a BAD NAME and you’re not supposed to think about it.
(Yes, this is also directed to anyone reading this.)
I’m gonna go ahead and say Z-ONE is a communist, but not dwell too much in it because this is a spoiler free post.
All in all, this anime holds a clear message against discrimination and xenophobia, and isn’t afraid of showing poor people or even criminals as PEOPLE. I’m only sorry that this changed so much in season 2. But still, a marvelous work. Arc V goes very much in the same direction, but I haven’t finished it yet, so i’ll talk about it later

neobeamu:

Hey gx fandom, say which episode is this from???

I also don’t think extending Selena’s shorts was needed, 4K. I’m surprised Rin was left out…

lyoker:

Ok Tumblr I need your help.
I’m looking for an old audio made by Manjoume and Johan’s voice actors, Taiki Matsuno and Kanako Irie. Plase, don’t judge me, because it was… some kind of porn parody? I had no idea what they were talking about but i remember… mayonnese? For some reason?? I’m pretty sure they were doing a parody about a product but i can’t find anywhere.

Yes it was hilarious.

snowystarlitphoenix:

dragontamer05:

Dennis cards himself.
The dub actually keeps it pretty well intact (maybe slight line changes but like nothing that ruins it and the emotion is still there for the most part)