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The One Where Things Are Chill, Man

Wanting to get rid of Judai, Chronos puts Motegi–his ultimate weapon–into action.  It’s said that those who duel Motegi become unable to duel again. Judai and Motegi duel, and the Moke Moke summoned by Motegi has 300 ATK and feels very unreliable.  But as he adds on Angered Moke Moke and King Moke Moke to change its form, it becomes a powerful 3000-ATK monster that threatens Judai.  Meanwhile, as Asuka and the others watch on, they start losing their will to fight.

And 23′s all done! This is a fun one, given the premise; as @morningmoon so aptly put it, it’s “that time there was a child with some sorta laziness aura that required a sorta exo-skeleton space suit to prevent getting caught up in his rhythm, wtf.” Also, he was apparently a #1 student.  But hey, we’ve got Manjoume back in action for the next few episodes as he makes his thunderous comeback, so a nice breather–filled with Chronos’s cocky shenanigans (heh)–is nice.  Side-note: the Crunchyroll subs were all over here.  Still watchable, but slightly off compared to what I’ve seen in general as I’ve worked on these.

Fix-wise, there were only six (all card fixes), but I missed one that I caught as I timed the episode’s script (which I finished last weekend), so that’s what caused the extra delay this week.  All below the cut, as usual.  Enjoy!

Sooo… with this done, I’ll do some basic prep for episode 24; the main thing holding it up right now is I asked @juslaynice and @prismatic-bell–as well as @alicethedragonvalkyrie–for some Photoshopping magic to get rid of the text on this cool Manjoume clip that played at the end of 24′s TV airing during the sponsor bit that was all-new footage, but didn’t get released on the DVDs.  Since that’s the case, I thought it’d be cool to get it textless’d so I could add the “Thanks for watching!” text and add it to the DVDRip, assuming that juslaynice and prismatic-bell can do it.  If they can’t (given there’s 150-200 frames involved, I know it’s an undertaking), I could just slap the “Thanks for Watching!” text on anyway as in the clip there, but the sponsor text would bug me; if people don’t mind it, I’ll do that.  Or I may just do a “best-of” compilation for Manjoume scenes so far; I’ll check in and see how they’re feeling about it.  I just don’t get why a special scene like this didn’t get released somehow, lol.

Meanwhile, once I do my basic 24 prepwork, I’ll probably try timing out a script for ARC-V episode 1 to get that project finally started while they get stuff done. :D Still waiting on some help to better encode the DVD raws, but we’ll see there, lol.

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The One Where Judai Goes Wild, Man

The Judai VS Misawa duel continues.  With his Fusion locked away by Misawa, Judai struggles, unable to evolve his Elemental Heroes.  He fights back against Misawa’s Water Dragon (ATK/ 2600) by powering up his Elemental Heroes with his Skyscraper Field Magic.  However, due to Misawa’s shrewd tactics, Judai’s left to face his Diamond Dragon with his field wide open.  But Judai summons a new Elemental Hero, Wildman…

Hooo boy, sorry this is only just being done! Those edits early on were the main reason for the delay here–there were a whopping 22 of them! 99% of them card fixes, haha; they’re all listed below the cut.  Meanwhile, this great duel between Judai and Misawa continues, and continues to make you wish the two had dueled more often instead of–nope, we’ll just ride out these Season 1 times while we can! It was clever of Misawa to lock away Judai’s Fusion, so watching him come up with a Plan B is nice.  Elsewhere, Kunisaki digs up some plot, and we find out more about him; shame he never does come back to let Asuka know what he finds, but oh well.

Enjoy, folks! As I mentioned before, since I was going to start subbing ARC-V soon, alternating between it and GX, I was planning to start timing episode 1′s script (I just finished most of my prepwork for One Step), but given how long this took, I’ll knock out GX 23 first, lol.  Expect that in the next week or two.

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The One Where the Thing Gets Stopped

To decide the Academia’s delegate for the Academy Face-Off Duel, a duel occurs between Judai and Misawa.  Misawa prepares his seventh deck–based on detailed calculations–in order to thwart Judai.  While scuffling with Misawa’s Water Dragon, Judai faces him with his E-Heroes, but he plays right into Misawa’s strategy.  Elsewhere, a man out to get rich quick by making a scoop out of the academy’s mysteries is lurking about when he comes into contact with Judai.

Episode 21! This was a fun one; this duel’s one of my favorites because of Judai and Misawa’s early rivalry, and it’s a shame it went the way it did.  It was actually pretty clever of Misawa to use Cursed Seal to stop Fusion, and like Misawa points out, Judai’s easy to beat if you strip him of being able to fuse, lol.  Kunisaki’s also interesting–seems his character could be a bit like Koyou in the manga from how he apparently used E-Heroes in that flashback where he loses to Kaiba, except for the lack of connection to Judai.  We’ll see a bit more about him next episode, but it’s also nice that he let us get a nice moment of Hayato showing his development so far.

Also, I’m using Tune.pk because Cloudy keeps giving me issues, and Dailymotion password-protected vids don’t seem to work anymore.  Lemme know of any issues!

And, of course, this episode also saw a few more fixes! Ten all together; all but one involved cards, and some of those were fun to try and do given the ghosting on some frames, lol.  All listed below the cut, if you’re interested.  Enjoy! I’ll start work on 22 soon. :)

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The One With the Copycat (Part Due)

The Judai VS Yugi’s Deck duel continues.  Judai struggles against Kagurazaka as he masters Yugi’s deck, and it’s already 1300 LP VS 4000.  The 2800-ATK Black Magician of Chaos, Black Magician Girl, and even Chaos Soldier overwhelm him.  As he’s even cornered mentally, Judai gradually loses his cool and is on the verge of giving up on defeating the Duel King.  But before long, he realizes a strength he has that his foe doesn’t.

And here’s Part 2! A few days after DSOD’s release, but still timely haha.  Highlights include Shou’s going gaga over BlaMagi Girl, Chaos Soldier - Envoy of Creation/BLS - EotB’s first/only anime appearance, and “Gotcho!” As I said last time, this two-parter’s one of my favorites, and it was nice revisiting it.

Of course, the revisit wouldn’t be complete without a bunch of footage fixes! Specifically, card fixes, which made up 90% of my fixes here, lol.  List below the cut for the interested, as usual–a whopping 16 altogether! Enjoy!

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The One With the Copycat (Part Uno)

Yugi Mutou’s deck will be on display at the academy.  But the night before, the deck is stolen by Kagurazaka, a Yellow.  Kagurazaka defeats Shou in seconds and appears before Judai.  Judai and Kagurazaka duel–in what is also Judai dueling Yugi’s deck.  Kagurazaka studies all there is to the techniques of the top duelists–he flawlessly masters Yugi’s deck, and finally even summons the Black Magician.

What better way to tie into Darkside of Dimensions coming out in Japan than to finalize this duel? :D

This is one of my favorites; you have an interesting idea in Kagurazaka as a copycat duelist, some nostalgia as he uses Yugi’s deck (and one point to the dub here for using some DM music), and Judai trying to hold his own against it.  And Chronos somehow knocks down four people, nbd.

And as with the last 5 episodes, there were a bunch of fixes I worked into the episode, because you’ve got to love it when the staff gets lazy–list below the cut! (EDIT, 2021: Two new fixes applied, listed in bold under the cut!) 

And special thanks to @akameniseis for swearing at Photoshop translating the Yugi poster in the beginning and the flier in Kagurazaka’s room a few minutes later! :) 

Enjoy, guys; I’ll try to get the next episode done by next week in time for/just after DSOD’s release! (But there’s a bunch of fixes already to take care of, so we’ll see… XD;)

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The One With All the Rackets

Well, this one was an adventure… But not because of the episode itself, lol–all things considered, this episode’s not a bad one, save for Ayanokouji’s grand exit.  And it’s also a fitting one for Valentine’s Day!

Judai ends up in a duel against Mitsuru Ayanokouji, a Third-Year Obelisk Blue student who’s enamored with Asuka and mistakes Judai and her for a couple.

This one also saw me working the most fixes into an episode since starting to look into it.  If you’ve been following my subs for a while, you know I love consistency.  Unfortunately, the animators didn’t seem to share that same love, at least so far. D: So, with help from @saveyuzu and @akameniseis, as well as @silivagalaxy teaching me how to card-edit in AfterEffects, I got to work.  All together, there were 14 different fixes done, 4 being Burstlady fixes–because the poor girl can’t catch a break.  On top of those, I also translated the hit counters that show up once Ayanokouji uses Deuce to screw the rules–a full list of all the fixes done lies below the cut.  It was fun, though, aside from all the keyframing; “It was quite educational!”, as Halil in ARC-V would say!

I’ll just be going back to 14 for a quick bit to update the Mega Thunderball fix I added to the preview, and updating the script for the “Captain Cheery” line (inspired by “President Peppy” in the CR subs).  I also dug up some things worth fixing in 1-2 earlier episodes that I’ll use my new skills on at some point.  Then, it’s off to episode 16! I’d put the ETA at maybe early next week; I already partly did one fix there for 15’s preview, so hopefully that’s the only one.  Enjoy, guys! And hopefully, you had a nice Valentine’s Day, if you celebrated it. :)

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The One With the Psycho Kill–er, Shocker

A group of three students manage to summon the spirit of “Psycho Shocker,” who attempts to gather souls for his own resurrection as Duel Academia’s winter break is underway.  One seeks Judai and Professor Daitokuji’s help, but…

Here it is! Sorry to keep you guys waiting, lol.  This episode was good to revisit; it’s Judai’s first “experience” with a Game of Darkness, and it also happens at another spot that becomes important in Season 3.

Did a few edits in this episode–listed below the cut chronologically–some through the awesome Jedi Edit Tricks™ of the people mentioned.  Enjoy, guys; I’ll begin work on 15 over the next few days!

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Manjoume leaves the Duel Academia, and in attempting to find him, Judai discovers men from an animal testing lab deep in the forests around the Academia. He duels one of their “creations”, a monkey named SAL.

Here’s finalized!13 for you guys! Only one edit here this time: fixing the typo on “Super Animal Le[a]rning” as it’s displayed on-screen about 7-8 minutes in.  Find it immortalized here.

Enjoy! Next up’s 14, which ought to be a shocking experience.

The One With the Tag Team Again

It feels like just two months ago when I got 10 uploaded.  Whoops. ^^;

The Tag Duel between Judai/Shou and the Meikyuu Brothers continues, the former team starting to hit their groove.  Also, Chronos gets in touch with his feline side.

Thanks for your patience with this one, guys! Lots of IRL stuff going on to kinda distract me, plus I was waiting on a few animation error fixes from prismatic-bell.  We got rid of Judai’s extra hand, and gave Shou his deck back in a shot or two.  Thanks again, PB, and thanks for working with my attention to detail, haha.

Other fixes under the cut below.

In other news, Crunchyroll rolled out (heh) their GX subs, and they’ll be chugging along with about 12 episodes a month.  I plan to keep my finalizations going to update my translations and all, and I’ll use their subs to help improve mine in some spots.  For example, they’re translating “Manjoume-san” as “[Sir] Manjoume, sir”, which I do think works better than “The Manjoume”, and it’ll probably help the “Thunder” pun later, lol.  I’ll just have to backtrack and update some scripts on that front.  And I’ll post some thoughts I have on their subs when I get a chance, since a few people have asked what I think of ‘em.  For now, “decent” comes to mind, lol.

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