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The One Where the Thing Gets Stopped

To decide the Academia’s delegate for the Academy Face-Off Duel, a duel occurs between Judai and Misawa.  Misawa prepares his seventh deck–based on detailed calculations–in order to thwart Judai.  While scuffling with Misawa’s Water Dragon, Judai faces him with his E-Heroes, but he plays right into Misawa’s strategy.  Elsewhere, a man out to get rich quick by making a scoop out of the academy’s mysteries is lurking about when he comes into contact with Judai.

Episode 21! This was a fun one; this duel’s one of my favorites because of Judai and Misawa’s early rivalry, and it’s a shame it went the way it did.  It was actually pretty clever of Misawa to use Cursed Seal to stop Fusion, and like Misawa points out, Judai’s easy to beat if you strip him of being able to fuse, lol.  Kunisaki’s also interesting–seems his character could be a bit like Koyou in the manga from how he apparently used E-Heroes in that flashback where he loses to Kaiba, except for the lack of connection to Judai.  We’ll see a bit more about him next episode, but it’s also nice that he let us get a nice moment of Hayato showing his development so far.

Also, I’m using Tune.pk because Cloudy keeps giving me issues, and Dailymotion password-protected vids don’t seem to work anymore.  Lemme know of any issues!

And, of course, this episode also saw a few more fixes! Ten all together; all but one involved cards, and some of those were fun to try and do given the ghosting on some frames, lol.  All listed below the cut, if you’re interested.  Enjoy! I’ll start work on 22 soon. :)

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