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

The One Without Christopher Walken

(Because Don Zaloog’s Walken impression was arguably the best thing the dub did)

Judai and the others have their keys to the seven Spirit Gates stolen–and it was the doing of the five Black Scorpion Graverobbers, who’ve hidden themselves at the academy.  Solving the case, Manjoume begins a duel with the Black Scorpions’ leader, Zaloog.  Manjoume closes in by leveling up his Armed Dragon, but the five Black Scorpions seal it away from him.  With the five’s combined attacks stripping him of 2000 LP in one turn–and putting him one attack closer to defeat–Manjoume rides it all on the Ojama Trio.

lol remember when I said I’d have this done three weekends ago

Here’s episode 39! Apologies for the delay on this one; I’d been door-knocking with a crazy congressional campaign every weekend the last few weeks and especially on Primary Day last Tuesday (you may have heard of it by now~  especially if you follow me on Twitter), and between that, working my 8:30-5:30, gym/commute time, and still being terrible with sleep… Had a rougher time squeezing in the work here than I expected… 😅 

But we made it! 39′s a fun episode that plays on Detective Conan a little bit in Manjoume’s detective antics (with… questionable methods), and it’s neat to see the Black Scorpions get a little airtime.  Manjoume also gets a welcome duel, and we get the debut of Ojama King aka best Monster you’re just mean Yuri.  Tune in next time when our protagonist battles an ancient Egyptian pharaoh with an unbeatable streak and… not-too-ridiculous hair? Do those exist??

Nothing in the way of card fixes this episode–yay!–so I just did two quick Quality of Life fixes to the footage; list below the cut.

Enjoy, folks; starting some more work on my 5D’s dub-uncut project with episode 24! Stay tuned for a little peek there.  I’ll start prepping some stuff for GX 40 here/there; will shoot to have it done by mid-to-late next week, hopefully.  That’s enough wiggle room right

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