the funniest thing 4kids did in gx was when they changed edos backstory from his father being murdered to his father being kidnapped, but they couldn’t actually write around edos confrontation with DD, so they made it so his dad did die after all and DD actively lied to edo about his dad being alive somewhere. which is like. kind of more fucked up? in the same tier as of them killing off judai. they accidentally made the situation worse for themselves.
in the original version of gx abidos says he’d wait 100 years in the afterlife to see judai again but 4kids was like “that might be too gay, lets just hav abidos propose to him” as if that was. less.
So I took this video and cut out the clip of what seems to be an early proto-version of the opening theme song. It’s honestly kind of a jam? I mean, it’s missing the most iconic part of the melody, but it’s still pretty epic in its own right.
Yugioh 5ds really said “Yusei had a cockroach nest in his ear when he was a child and now he’s deathly afraid of insects” and just fucking. Never mentions it again. What the fuck.
Yeah, this was most definitely a dub addition–his stoicness aside, Japanese Yusei’s never shown any inkling of a fear of bugs. And considering how he keeps his cool for much of episode 2 when it’s brought up, it… doesn’t make sense…
And all for the “payoff” when they get to the first Yusei vs Rudger duel 43 episodes later and Underground Arachnid gets Dark-Synchro’d where Yusei then says, “Oh, great, another Insect duel…” …before it never gets mentioned again lol
Alright, so they’re still talking about basically the same thing here but for some reason the dub decided to leave out the rather crucial information that there’s a purpose behind Ed’s vigilante jaunts. So it comes across more like Aster is just going out and beating people up for no particular reason.
I dunno, maybe they’ll mention it later in the scene instead but this was a perfectly fine time to do so. We don’t yet know all the information in the original but it gives us more insight about Ed’s character, that he’s very angry about something and feels the need to take action on that anger.
Also while Saiou doesn’t particularly like this habit of Ed’s in either version, he at least acknowledges in the original that he understands why Ed does this and that he does need some sort of outlet for his pain. Of course, the most painful thing watching this again is knowing that Saiou knows that Ed isn’t going to find his card that way because Saiou has already seen where it is. I wish they would have told us the reason later on in the show why Saiou didn’t say anything about it to him. I can certainly reasonably guess at why he’d have reasons to hide it based on canon, but it would have been nice to be able to hear it from Saiou himself. :(
I do have to give the dub credit for one thing though. They actually keep the way that Sartorius talks pretty similar to Saiou’s speech patterns. They’re both always very formal and calm.