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The One With the Dragons

Here’s episode 8, all up and finalized for ya! One of my favorites, too.  Judai duels Ryou to find out what happened between him and Shou, and Shou learns something from it.

I did some minor editing in here, adding some quick lip-flaps to Judai’s “Partner!” when Winged Kuriboh shows up as he draws it and Evolutionary Wings, since he’s saying it out loud.  I also wanted to tackle the erroneously placed Mudballman on his Disk that should’ve been Bubbleman, but Vegas wouldn’t let me position the card low enough to cover it.  I’ll try again elsewhere, but I did want to at least put this up lol.  Funny enough, the dub didn’t catch it either, but they dubified the card with some other Fusion Monster (that looked like one of the V-Z fusions, at that).  If I do get to fix it, I’ll have the fix in the hardsub on NAC.

(2017 EDIT: As I gave this episode another go-over, I applied a few more fixes:

• Cleared off Featherman’s card on Judai’s Disk as he reacts from Cyber Dragon’s attack destroying him.
• Repeat of the above as Judai sees Ryou hide away a card in his Capsule; the dub corrected this one but not the first one.
• Fixed the yellow rectangle on Ryou’s Disk as he has Cyber Twin attack post-summoning with a Cyber Twin Dragon proxy.
• Added a missing Thunder Giant to Judai’s Disk as he activates A Hero Appears.
• Actually fixed the Mudballman/Bubbleman issue noted above sometime after originally posting this, I believe, using AfterEffects.
• Added two missing Cyber Dragons onto Ryou’s Disk as he activates Power Bond, fixing the blank Normal Monster card in his hand with another Cyber Dragon.
• Added said two missing Cyber Dragons onto Ryou’s field again as he slips Power Bond into his Disk.)

(2021 Edit: I gave this episode another [hopefully final] look-over and applied the further fixes below:

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