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5D’s 23 - Dub-Uncut Edition (Ft. Japanese OST?! WIP #1)

So… a neat little find happened where one of the official YGO channels–the Latin America one?–had uploaded the 4Kids-dubbed episodes, except that there were a few without the dub’s music–and in GX’s case, some without sound effects, too! (which led to this bit of gold by @yamimario fsejfklsdfjksdl)

5D’s 22-26 were part of it, and since I love #23, I thought I’d give restoring the Japanese OST a try first, like my project with ARC-V #10 but much cleaner.  And like it, it’s becoming a dub-uncut deal where I’m tweaking the dialogue some to make it match the Japanese script more–not so much in accuracy (though in 23′s case, it helps it’s already somewhat accurately dubbed) as in timing, so people aren’t talking when they shouldn’t be.

For this part, I spliced in the respective audio from 22 to go over the quick recap (save for some of Koda’s whimpering, for which I just resorted to the Japanese version for a bit because I hate Akiza’s line there she’s so insufferable this early in the dub; also recycled a later line for “This might hurt!”), and recycled some lines from 22 over the new footage that the dub cut out here.  And I’m tweaking the OST as released on the Sound Duels to recreate the soundtrack; you might hear a weird thing around where Yaeger walks out, and that’s from how they pitched-down the track there, which I tried to recreate but Vegas couldn’t make it so fine-tunedly.  So far, it’s turning out great (I’m up to after the Aki/Divine scene), and this part isn’t final yet (want to see if I can get a Jack grunt or Godwin “heh” somewhere), but let me know what you think!

Special thanks to @stardustdragon123 for sharing their findings over on NAC, and @skelenator-rainbow for giving me a heads-up! :D