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

mutouaichi19:

mutouaichi19:

mutouaichi19:

mutouaichi19:

authoratmidnight:

yugiohz:

crazy how judai is so gay-coded that the sun added some flirty lines to his character to make him look even slightly straight it really makes you think

It’s even funnier when you realize that some of these attempts did, the exact opposite.

The part that comes to mind is from S1 when the boys (Judai, Shou and Hayato) are talking about their luck cards or w/e (basically cards that bring them good luck in duels or just have special meaning to them-Hayato’s card for instance reminds him of his mom).

In the dub they decided to change this to ‘card crushes’, since Shou and Hayato’s cards were female monsters (Thunder Nya-Nyan and Dian Keto the Cure Master). Idk. I guess guys can only talk about cute cards by way of attractiveness or smthn.

Which ultimately leads to an exchange between Sho and Judai where, in the dub, Sho asks if Judai has any ‘card crushes’ and Judai mentions having a bunch in his deck.

His deck. Which, need I remind you, is FULL of muscle bound, male superhero monsters in skintight outfits that leave very little to the imagination(and the few that aren’t are animals so). This deck has ONE (1) nonmale humanoid monster in Burstinatrix/Burstlady.

So. By the logic of the DUB itself, Judai has ‘card crushes’ (plural) on his beefy MALE MONSTERS.

That is, very VERY not straight.

sbd-laytall:

Japanese Kaiba: “Hmph… There was no canceling or postponing this battle from the outset–not when I’ve come all this way for it…”

Jonouchi: “But you’re the one who followed us down here, ain’t ya?!”

softbakura:

IM CRYING

yoshifawful64:

grncjdnmd the yugioh gx dub really did make it look like jaden just straight-up fucking died at the end, huh

the-sayuri-rin:

For reference:

or

fernagain:

Jaden, (broken): oh no! I killed all my friends

Yugioh GX Dub: *early 2000s guitar rift*

prismatic-bell:

higuchimon:

overobsessedfanboy13:

4Kids: Tsk tsk no no no, we can’t have a character that’s gender ambiguous, that’ll confuse the kids! We have to make her undoubtedly female! Let’s give her a second tit just to cover it up so the kids don’t see her sinful body! Muahahaha give us money!

Have I mentioned that I fucking hate the GX dub?

Not to mention, even after this, the dub forced the whole “Yubel is the guardian”, doing their best to ignore/wipe out the romantic aspects. I have been annoyed for a long time because of that.

Also they gave xir the weirdest little girl voice. It was so disconcerting.

I regret to say that Eric Stuart (voice of Kaiba) was actually the director. You’d think he’d know better.

Yeah, I much preferred Yubel’s dub voice in Bonds Beyond Time, and I thought that’s who they’d bring back in Duel Links, but… welp. (IIRC, Dunstan likely voice-directed for BBT since he was directing 5D’s post-64, so that’s possibly why the better choice was made.) Hopefully, if GX does get a proper redub eventually, they’re able to bring that VA out for Season 3.  There’s also the note that dub!Yubel speaks exclusively with a female voice (to go with the edit made to the design).

Also, speaking of Duel Links and @higuchimon‘s point about ignoring/wiping out the romance, I mentioned before a while back that they’re still doing that in Duel Links–Yubel’s duel dialogue omits virtually any reference to love that’s made in hir Japanese dialogue.  Don’t know why, since this is a game environment that’s not on TV, but…

(via prismatic-bell)

yugiohz:

watching the ygo 4kids dub moodboard