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

…I’m surprised no one watching my 5D’s dub-uncuts have pointed out that I have Yoshida listed as “Series Composer” in the Kizuna credits when it should be Atsuhiro Tomioka 😮

I wonder how I should be describing “make voice sound as if coming from a microphone feeding into stadium loudspeakers” as I look for Sony Vegas tutorials to get actual results…

Crowdsourcing lyric ideas!

This line in “Go Forward…”

永遠のAI(あい)求めて, 瞳が蠢(うごめ)く/“eien no ai motomete, hitomi ga ugomeku”/”our eyes squirm as we look for our eternal AI” 

…is a nod to Ai/his squirmy eye in Yusaku’s Disk, haha.  I translated the earlier “motomete” line as “We don’t know what we have keeping us here …the search has us in a stir” (“ikiru imi wo motomete samayoi tsuzukeru”/”we keep wandering looking for our purpose to live;” I may revise “in a stir” to get the “wandering” idea across a bit better) so I want to translate this similarly.  

I have “the search has our eyes distort” to rhyme-match “cut our view short” in the previous line, matching the rhyme scheme in the earlier verse, but how do I get across the “eternal AI” line in a good way lmao.  Though if I get the AI part well, I’ll revise the “short/distort” rhyme so it’s not as clunky/weird, lol. 

(I was going to post up the CD tonight, but I thought it’d be better, since I’m sure it’ll get spread around, to get this singable translation done to go with it and throw in the kana/romaji lyrics lol)

I’ve been adding back sound effects for my 5D’s #24 dub-uncut project the last three days because things sounded too quiet, and manually leveling the OST-less vocal/SFX track so the OST didn’t overpower them, when apparently all I had to do was just normalize the vocal/SFX track to begin with 😂😂😂

So, do I have any followers who are versed in Chinese and/or Japanese hanzi/kanji? I have a staff name from 5D’s that I’m trying to translate for REASONS, and the way it’s been transcribed by this staff-transcription blog matches how it appears in the credits, but looking it up not only doesn’t bring any matches on ANN, but I get minimal results through Google or DuckDuckGo and it’s frustrating me D:

(太田相𤨁)

The problem seems to be the 𤨁 “kanji” because when I type it in the search bar with the others, it comes up as an “x in a box” (ie, “not found” probably), and RikaiChan and the dictionary I use doesn’t bring up a match; I used a radicals site to dig up 瑨 as a possible Japanese equivalent, but searching it with the rest still doesn’t bring up a possible name.  I’m not sure if it’s just that kanji/hanzi that’s a Chinese name or if the rest translate it all into a full Chinese name.  Searching for the surname 太田 brings up “Ohta” as a likely last name, so there’s that?

So, would anyone who knows about the Chinese/Japanese hanzi/kanji overlap be able to help me decipher and romanize this name?

FWIW, this is a background artist affiliated with Studio Forest–who ANN conveniently doesn’t have a page listing their worked-on anime for, btw–in case anyone’s knowledgeable about them.

@ygoanimation I doubt you’d be aware of this depth of staff, but tagging you just in case lol

I do find it funny that I’ve torn my hair out the last few years wondering why the full released Teardrop would never fully sync to the openings from GX, when it’s just because they gave the full version a slower tempo than the TV-size version.  I always thought it was a frame-rate thing or audio quality, lol.

Two more episodes to resync to DVD raws, then I’ll update my masterpost of DM’s uncut dub with all the new links; for the curious, you can check 1-7 out now on my Cloudy channel, but go for the ones I’ve actually named “Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters…etc”.  A bunch of my upload attempts that failed are still there undeleted, lol.

It’s kinda funny how, for being uncut/unedited and all, those short-lived DM uncut DVDs were still slightly edited for things like humanoid monster grunts and whatnot.  Fixing the audio for them, I’ve done 1 and 2 (and there’s a slight mixing goof around when Faceless Mage comes out, since the music is lower than it should be), and notably, they kick out Faceless Mage’s creepy laugh, which kinda makes the scene…

Question, has anyone ripped any SFX from ARC-V yet? Specifically the counter-goes-up/down sound, but if there’s more, I wouldn’t say no.  Would be useful for this thing I’m doing!

wut do u mean i said it’d be ready early this week

Got a bit long, but basically, three GX 16 fixes->credits->script!, revisiting TFSP, and progress on that “Japanese OST? In my ARC-V dub?!” project!

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