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The One With the Grave Situation (Part 1)

Through an invite from Professor Daitokuji, Judai and the others head to ancient ruins for an extra-credit class.  There, they go on a trip to an ancient world, where they become suspected of graverobbing.  With Daitokuji and co. on the line, Judai begins a duel against the Gravekeeper Chief.  It’s a Game of Darkness, and Judai feels real pain out of it.  Gravekeeper Assassin and Gravekeeper Shaman are just some of what’s summoned from the Gravekeeper Deck, and the Field Magic “Ravine of the Royal Family - Necrovalley” also prevents interference with the Cemetery.

This took a little longer than I’d planned, lol.  But finally, it’s GX 27! This is a neat little episode that gives us some lore behind the Academia with the “kinda ruined” ruins, and it also becomes Judai’s second Duel of Darkness to set the stage for what’s to come in the next arc.  The world they’re sent to is also interesting, and I’d keep it in mind when we jump back into Season 3…

Part of what took so long with this one were the edits, which weren’t too difficult, but the main issue was squeezing them in with my work schedule; I tried to get many of them done during my hour lunch at work, lol.  There were about 8 edits altogether, 8 being card fixes; I’ll let you guess what one of the remaining two were.  List below the cut as usual, for the curious.  

I also decided to use the textless version of the OP that was originally used on the actual episodes, now that it made its way onto the webs; it’s different from the version that was released textless previously/used for 4Kids’s openings, as it has the different sky, the pause with Manjoume before it zooms out to show Judai during the “Get on the deck!” parts (as opposed to just the slow zoom), and the different background during Asuka’s Cyber Angels bit and Judai with Sparkman and Bubbleman.  It also kept the original animation error with Water Dragon and the unused [unfortunately] Fire Dragon having red and blue behind them, respectively, so I snipped the fixed one from the “V2″ to include it.  I also fixed Burstlady at the end to fix her lack of a strap (for some reason they colored her shoulder the strap color…).  I’ll be going back to 1-26 to add this version, along with updating the EDs after 18 while I’m at it to fix a staff credit error I’ve been meaning to fix.

Enjoy! 28 should take less time, hopefully!

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