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While looking for a reaction shot of Yusei crying for my last keychain post, I dipped into episode 55 and forgot that the last time I played it off my computer, I’d synced the Tomato Subs from ZeXal onto it kldfjsdlkfjsdklfjvfdj

An EVOLVING Duel! Stardust VS Red Daemon’s | Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s OVA Uncut “Dub” (WIP #1)

Whoops, meant to post this here a few days back 😅

Happy new year! Since it was just the Christmas/general holiday season here in the US, I figured I’d finally get around to throwing up a little preview of this thing I’ve slowly been working on. This is a very rough WIP, since I’m still working on compiling dialogue (which I’ve been doing through quite a lot of use of the UltimateVocalRemover AI tool to rip and isolate vocals from the dubbed episodes, and which I used for a near-perfect rip of the OVA’s music and SFX which prompted this idea in the first place–started this while I was bored waiting for my last hard drive to eventually fail any file recovery efforts back in October, and had finally gotten UVR working on my newly-reinstalled-with-Windows laptop, so I thought “…what if I did a thing”)–ergo, I haven’t done any volume-mixing or SFX touch-ups yet. This has also involved a lot of browsing through the dubbed episodes on Crunchyroll, then grabbing the audio in HQ to then run through UVR, lol.

As of now, I’ve done up to this part here after Shield Wing’s destroyed, using lines from the MC throughout the series for the beginning, and then assembling/stitching together what works for some move explanations or comments from Rua/Ruka/Aki in the stands, trying to stick to the original script as able (for example, Rua’s line about Shield Wing’s effect had to be stitched together, since annoyingly the only time someone non-Yusei describes it, it’s Crow during the WRGP arc), though I’m still trying to find a line that works for Aki’s “You’re being pretty loud yourself, Ruka” line earlier (as she’s complaining about Rua cheering loudly; I made Ruka say “It’s not that big of a deal” so I need a similar response lol).

And for Rua and Ruka, I’m focusing exclusively on Eileen Stevens’s performances for both as of episode 65 going into the WRGP arc and her Duel Links lines for them, as 1) there’s more to work with there, but also 2) it’s a smoother performance imo.

And some lines here could be subject to change if I find another one with a more fitting inflection or something. Also eventually want to do some on-screen text translations for things like the landmark pop-ups early on if I can–maybe even use English card proxies if able as I’ve seen some do, but we’ll see, lol.

Anyway yeah, hope this sounds interesting! I’m slowly working on this as I prioritize finalizing my GX subs so this’ll mostly be on the backburner, but wanted to throw this up as a rough preview of what it’s looking like!

Been a while since I posted one of these! 

So, after I finished my 5D’s “Dub-Uncut” project a bit ago, I wanted to go ahead and work on a full version of the singable lyrics I whipped up for CROSS GAME; I was proud of how the TV-size translation came out and wanted to tackle the full song, since I’d never done so.  There’s also no English (or even Spanish!) cover of this song apparently, so hopefully this helps to inspire folks to try it; it’s a really good song, and I miiiight’ve started thinking of Yusei and Aki a bit as I did the second verse with the “you lock me out… let me in?” line as CROSS GAME starts being used post-Fortune Cup and all, but I think the “shared goals” part and hearing stories can also work with the Signers coming together from their different backgrounds for their united purpose.  

For the line about an allegro, because an allegro describes something happening in almost an instant, the idea was that the scene being so captivatingly imagined about shared goals as stars lighting up the sky would be more vivid because it’d feel so much longer when actually in the moment of it happening.  It was tough trying to word it well enough to convey that, but hopefully I did, lol.

Enjoy, and yeah, feel free to use for fandubs or as a base for them or what have you! I’ll revise my Last Train - A New Morning translations soonish too and post those up, along with the With the Wind and Believe in Magic lyrics I meant to post for VRAINS *checks notes* two+ years ago… whoops

(Other Song Translations [including ARC-V and VRAINS stuff])

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“A Looming Threat! The Dark Signer Ushio?!”/”Good Cop, Bad Cop”

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Well, after over 2.5 years now (…welp), this little mini-project is finally wrapped up! (Well, not totally, as I realized I have to go back and fix a few things for consistency, but y’know) It’s been neat editing these to throw the Japanese OST back in, and while I might do a few clips here/there now for fun, unless 4K/Konami Cross Media decide to flub up more episode uploads without their dub OST, I probably won’t be doing more full episodes. (Need to work on finalizing my GX subs finally, haha.)

But in case this is still the first you’re hearing about my mini-project here, let’s get you up to speed:

So, the official Spanish YGO channel on YouTube flubbed a few uploads of the 5D’s dub such that they ended up uploading a few episodes of the English dub instead of the Latin American dub (21-29)–but with none of 4Kids’s background music! Which meant that I could swoop in and re-insert the original Japanese soundtrack (which I did by matching each track to how it was looped in the episode), but I wanted to do more by also tweaking the dub itself so that not only was it matching the original footage, but the dialogue was more in line with the original dialogue timing-wise (since I couldn’t salvage much of what they changed).  Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.  To this end, I’ve also used dialogue from Duel Links where applicable, or even borrowed audio from other episodes with the vocals isolated to lend to that effect.

Check out the masterpost of episodes here!

Check out this episode’s WIP videos! WIP #1     WIP #2     WIP #3

This was an interesting one to work with, and I was looking forward to it because of the Jack/Carly scene at the end over Jack Battle; it was also neat working in OSTs like Ceremony off Sound Duel 2 and mesh it with the dub, while recreating some of the OST tweaks they did (like speeding up Carly’s theme or sputtering Rua/Ruka Battle 2 as Jack calls Carly out lol).  Dialogue-editing-wise, this wasn’t as bad as 28, thankfully, as most of the dialogue was more or less adapted well, though I still did need to grab dialogue from other sources to cover for some dub fails, and I did grab audio from episode 30′s dub for the preview.  I also translated the “Road of the King” poster shown in four scenes (two outside the gala that happens and two inside as Godwin talks), using the dub’s “Atlas Rising - The Rise of Jack Atlas” name.  And since this is the last episode I’m working on, I thought it’d be cool to make use of Mark de Groot’s awesome Last Train - A New Morning English cover to really channel more of that “what if uncut” energy (just a shame no solid English CROSS GAME cover exists, but hopefully my eventual full translation when I post it will help that along). Full breakdown below, if you’re curious.

So, yeah… Enjoy, folks! Now that these are all done, I’ll be focusing more on my finalizing my GX subs and looking into finally reuploading my 5D’s sub/dub comparisons onto a new site, though this has made me want to revisit my 5D’s!DBZ Kai project occasionally, lol (I do want to see about using TheMilkman’s reduced-filler cut of Kai, though, as I thought it was a much more streamlined way to watch the show, but we’ll see).  I do have ideas for clips to create later on, but for now, enjoy these and think of what could have been (and could still be if we ever miraculously get a redub…)~

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Translating the credits for 5D’s 29 for the dub-uncut project, and lol for the Animation Director, it’s interesting how we for years normalized “Nagare Namikaze” as 波風立流 ‘s name, but AnimeNewsNetwork has it up as “Tateru Namikaze;” the kanji that’d correspond to the “Nagare” part of their name, 立流, don’t seem to translate to it but do translate more to “Tateru…”

And then I’m assuming Tateru changed their name later in 5D’s (by ep. 62, trio vs Godwin Part 1) to 波風立志, or Tatsushi Namikaze per ANN (or this Namikaze is totally new, but given the artstyle is relatively the same and all), and then went on to work in both ZeXal and ZeXal II under this name, but… “Nagare” seemingly stuck throughout in the fandom for some reason, lol.  The Animation Director masterlist over on NAC and the Wikia are probably going to need a slight update… 😬 

(I mean, I can see 流 leading to “Nagare” as it seems to read that way as a name, but only 波風 correspond to “Namikaze,” so… 立 is standing over here like chopped liver… [it’s funny because it’s the kanji in 立つ/tatsu/to stand… /punted])