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

(Previously: Episodes 93 and 94 Subbed [Finalized])

(Check out my Subbed!GX Stream Masterpost!)

TURN-95: A Ruthless Brotherly Duel – Ryou VS Shou

Wishing for his kind and respectable brother to be himself again, Shou challenges the Hell Kaiser to a duel. But a callous Ryou conditions it on having a duel in which an electric current will rush through them with every drop in their Life Points. And so, a brotherly duel begins between Ryou and Shou. Shou does develop his dueling–respecting his opponent as always–but Ryou pounces on him, in full command of the Cyber Style’s Reverse deck.

TURN-96: The Relativity Field! Judai VS the Genius Doctor

In order to take back one of his important keys, a Saiou struck by the Waves of Light once again sends in an assassin against Judai. The assassin is Zweinstein, a genius physics expert with a deck made logically–Judai’s weakest point of all. Zweinstein activates his Relativity Field to start things off. He then summons* a Monster that negates Judai’s Fusion, his forte, gaining an edge as the duel unfolds.

*This is referencing Singularity Demon’s effect in the episode, but he doesn’t actually summon it; it’s more of a hand-trap he discards to negate Fusion.

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Got my subs for episodes 95 and 96 all nice and finalized!

These two episodes are a great time, but 95 in particular is great. It’s the culmination of those little bits we’ve had of Shou observing Ryou’s fall from grace since his loss to Ed, knowing he’d face him one day and preparing himself for it, and the whole time they’re dueling, he holds onto some hope that he can turn Ryou back into the big brother he knew–only to realize by the end that Ryou, after what he’s seen underground, really is just focused on winning, willing to be as “cruel” or “foul” as it takes if it helps. You do feel for the little guy, moreso when this gets flashed back to in 137 during Season 3 (another favorite, as it’s a big development episode for Shou). Also, Judai being a friend and watching over him knowing this was his choice to make, building him up about using Power Bond, rushing over once the duel’s over–it’s sweet.

96 is also one of my favorites because of the good art/dynamic animation, courtesy of Kyoung Soo Lee’s animation team (especially those last few scenes after Judai destroys Relativity Field, but just the Solid Vision putting them in space the entire time). The premise isn’t too bad, we check in with Misawa who’s realizing that just joining the Society of Light isn’t enough for him to make a name for himself, and he bumps into God Einstein Zweinstein who tells him that logic beats “coincidence,” before he tries to convey this to Judai and prove his Grand Unified Duel Theory. I like the Dueling Physics idea and the Einstein parody (he won a Nobelly Prize!), and the match between his logic and Judai’s intuition–and who doesn’t enjoy the randomness of Misawa’s extra Eureka moment, lmao. Still a bit meh on it being the last we see of him for a while, but it is nice seeing him when he does come back. (Also, I like how it’s not at all mentioned how Ojin managed to get a recording of Chronos calling for Judai to trick him with… very GX lol)

Edit-wise, both episodes had a fair amount of animation error fixes I applied; 95 saw more card-related errors than the quick one in 96, while both had a fair share of more quality-of-watching ones with split-screens, incomplete footage frames, or miscolorings (and in Burstlady’s case, another missing shoulder strap). Due to Tumblr’s dumb link limit in posts yeeting them out of the tags used for them and limiting their reach, and since I still wanted a visual element to it, I’ve made a separate post here with my usual fix/edit breakdown for the interested–altogether, that’s about 26 between both episodes, which I think I hit sometime in S1 when doing double-releases for a bit, but since most were quality-of-watching things, they were pretty quick to work on for the most part.

Anywho, enjoy! Looking forward to revisiting 97 and 98 next as we circle back to the Pro Leagues and get Ed’s best episode of the Season in the process; as Judai put it in 96’s preview for 97, “Ed’s Wheel of Fortune’ll suddenly start to turn…”

amararala:

(via yugiohcardsdaily)

chibicrow:

Me before watching YGO:

Me after watching YGO and realizing I will never escape this card game anime hell:

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entamewitchlulu:

hi just making sure the yugioh fandom on tumblr is aware of the announcement of judai and yusei nendoroids because we NEVER get spinoff merch and i’m sure there will be people as excited as i am

GX Finalized-Subs!96 (WIP): 😛 (Done)

Following up on this post, got this edit all done! Once I was done with placing the new translated text, I just popped the cropped bio image into AfterEffects and Power Pinned it into place, using Zweinstein’s photo as an alignment guide to make sure I got the skewing as close to the original as I could–that let me mask in the original photo to help things blend in a bit better, while applying a light Gaussian blur for more blending (I did touch up the positioning a little since the initial post, since I wanted to make sure the DOB text was still cut off a bit like in the original shot when Ojin sets Zweinstein’s profile down). Once I got the translated bio positioned (masking in Ojin on top for the first shot and the sides of the clipboard in the second), I just copy/pasted the Pin effect and its keyframes onto the layer for the fixed (Allbert->Albert) Japanese one to instantly put it into place too, and voila. The gifs there show it in [quick] action; came out pretty well!

Also whipped one up for the dub for reasons, for the world where 4Kids didn’t just awkwardly blank (or make lines out of) some bits of text and leave others intact… (you wipe out that he’s from Germany or has B-type blood, but leave the : next to the “country of origin” and “blood type” lines… why)

darkshadowduelist:

VJUMP PROMO

VJMP-JP236 ダンディ・ホワイトライオン Dandy White Lion

Level 3 EARTH Plant Effect Monster

ATK 300

DEF 300

You can only use the effect of this card’s name once per turn, and during the turn you activate this effect, you cannot Special Summon monsters from the Extra Deck.

(1) If this card is sent from the hand or field to the GY: You can Special Summon 3 “White Fluff Tokens” (Plant-Type/WIND/Level 1/ATK 0/DEF 0) in Defense Position.

tititiri:

Confirmed Jack is normal

matt0044:

fission-mailure:

matt0044:

Like think about it: we don’t see Goku grow from a young martial arts to an adult powerhouse or how he defeated his enemies over the years. Yet Piccolo is supposedly his one-time enemy and Dr. Gero was part of this Red Ribbon whatnow?

Raditz reveals his secret heritage as an Alien Warrior yet… we never got to know Goku as an Earth Warrior or as a character with a weird tail and were-monkey form.

That’s supposed to be a game changing twist for the series… yet in the context of how Dragon Ball started for many, it’s like foundational not unlike a protagonist being a normal guy before he learns he’s special.

You know, a normal guy who can blast energy from his lifeforce and is shredded like all get out.

Also the other characters. Who are they to Goku? Why do they rally around him? Who’s the weird bald geezer hitting on the blue-haired chick?

This sort of thing was blessed to have been a hit with us skipping over most of the story overall.

It’s like how the Yu-Gi-Oh dub completely skips the (admittedly very weird and kinda bad) first season, so when it starts the show is just like “Here is Yugi and all of his friends who you definitely know, and also here is Seto Kaiba. What history does he have with Yugi that they sort of allude to in their dialogue? Fuck you.”

No, Season 0 was a split Anime adaptation by Toei before NAS picked it up and decided to compress in the Death T arc into episode one before going onto Duelist Kingdom and rewriting things to make it seem like we’re meant to be starting in media res via flashbacks and filler arcs like Noah as well as Doma.

So… not the dub’s fault but not entirely unrelated.