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GX Finalized-Subs!81 (WIP) - A Strapping Issue (Installment #12 probably)

Meant to try to show this off early last week once I had finished the edit up, but lol got busy and forgot.

So, one of my “favorite” (affectionate) reoccurring animation errors–should go back and check how many of these I have found so far lol–comes in here in episode 81, as Judai has Burstlady attack one of Kanda’s Quiz Panels after the eyecatch. As you can see, in the first clip as Judai declares her attack, Burstlady’s drawn without her shoulder strap connected to the cuff on her arm as she usually is; in the second clip shown, as she fires her Burstfire, not only is her shoulder strap still missing–her shoulder is now colored like the red on her outfit too (this one I don’t think I’ve bumped into too often in the show; I know I fixed an error like that back in the OP1 video).

I fixed these frames in Photoshop, painting in the shoulder strap/cuff combo (and fixing the third frame’s error on the part of her outfit where the coloring of her right breast’s skin cuts into the red part), while also recoloring her shoulder in the second clip’s frames and using the original coloring as a guide to draw on the shoulder strap. For the second clip, I also added a light screen layer to light up the edit as the light from the flames were around it. I think I did a pretty good job keeping it looking consistent throughout, and I figured it’d make sense to keep the cuff highlights as I extended it into the shoulder strap while adding the shading; hopefully it does look good!

you ever just have so much to say that you need two mouths

GX Finalized-Subs!81 (WIP) - Sleepless in Yamanote

With the fixes and stuff I’ve finished up for 80, I’ve now started working on stuff for episode 81 before I work on revising both episodes’ scripts. As part of that, I’m hitting the one to-do list item I flagged for myself back in 2020 and translating the 2chan-like thread that Shou/Judai and Kanda are looking at (Shou and Judai through Shou’s PDA in images 1 and 2, Kanda through his laptop on images 3-6).

(EDIT, 8/8: Final product!)

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GX Finalized-Subs!80 (WIP) - The Wandering Doll

Just finished working on all of the animation/card fixes I noticed for episode 80 (about nine altogether, half quality-of-viewing stuff like fixing split-screens, half card-related fixes) and wanted to show these two off; the first one in the first three gifs I’d say took most of the week to work on, lol. This is the first card fix I’ve applied in a scene like this too, where you have those visual effects going on Alice and the card itself. The first shot (the first three gifs) happens as Alice the Wandering Doll’s effect puts it onto Judai’s field, while in the second (the second set of three gifs), duelist Alice attacked into it to trigger its effect and send it back to her field. The third one (in the last set) has her being attacked on duelist Alice’s field by Judai’s Rallis the Stargazing Bird in nine quick frames before she explodes.

In each row, the first gif is the original, my edit is the second gif, and the third is how the dub handled it just for fun; the goal here was to flip Alice the Wandering Doll’s card so that its name box was on the left (as that’s how the cards are placed on Disks in Defense Mode, plus we see it facing that way in later shots), and while the dub does fix that (except for the third scene), you’ll notice in the first two scenes that they altered the way Alice gets onto and out of Judai’s field here to do it–it looks like they might’ve first applied the dubified card under Alice, masked her back over it, and then masked both her and the card out as one layer to then apply the transition/warping effect they do over both; I can imagine they were a bit limited in how they could deal with these if they don’t have direct access to the card layers like they seem to for ARC-V and VRAINS’s dub.

(Editing process breakdown below)

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 77-79 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 75 and 76 Subbed [Finalized])

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77: The Four Fearsome Monarchs! Demiurge EMA

Unchosen by Saiou’s little sister Mizuchi to take part in things, Iwamaru seeks to defeat Judai out of desperation. Just as they’re at a loss due to not knowing Judai by face, they come across the Red dorm’s camp area, where Judai and Iwamaru get on well despite not knowing who the other really is–but just as they try to have a friendly duel, they each realize that the other is someone they don’t like. With Granmarg the Earth Monarch (ATK/ 2400) as the base, Iwamaru combines the power of the four Monarchs to summon Demiurge EMA, whose ATK rises to 4900…

78: The Mightiest Tag Team?! Judai & Ed (Part 1)

Led by Mizuchi, Judai and Ed enter a virtual space, where an unusual Tag Duel between them begins, Mizuchi using a mirror to call forth a double. Judai and Ed have their own goals–Judai wanting to save Shou and Kenzan, and Ed wanting to prove that he’s number one–and their teamwork takes a hit. Sacred Barrier – Mirror Bind endlessly reflects Monsters–much like opposing mirrors–and it destroys Judai and Ed’s Monsters. And then, there is the Full Moon Mirror on the field, which projects a full moon that slowly and eerily wanes with each Monster destroyed…

79: The Mightiest Tag Team?! Judai & Ed (Part 2)

Judai and Ed’s unusual Tag Duel with Mizuchi continues. Mizuchi tributes her two Magic Mirror Spirits to summon her invincible Deity of Darkness – Dark God (ATK/ 3000), which can’t be destroyed in battle. In addition, she reflects it in the opposing mirrors of her Infinite Demon Mirror Field Magic, gathering 10 Dark Gods on her field. Ed has braced himself for a loss, while Judai still has a burning fighting spirit. He summons a new Neo-Spacian, Black Panther…

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~~honoumaru deserved better~~

And after a bit of a delay in working on these […has it really been four months lol whoops], 77-79 are all finished and finalized! Come along and wrap up our mini-arc in Domino Town with this triple release, as we first meet Iwamaru, desperate to hold onto the power Mizuchi granted him which made him a dueling threat–of course, as Judai points out, what fun is it to take that shortcut over improving your own skills? Then, in 78, Judai and Ed are sent into a digital world (no, not that one), where they’re greeted by Saiou’s little sister Mizuchi, aiming to see which of the two will impact Saiou’s own fate the most; thrown into a Tag Duel together, will Judai and Ed be able to put their remaining differences aside and work together? I did enjoy 78 and 79 for this, as it picks up from the more respectful moment they had after their last duel in 68; Ed sees how Judai’s insistent on there being a way to turn things around, and Judai’s challenged by Ed to think bigger about his strategy. We’re also told, of course, that Saiou’s currently being manipulated by a force that came from the card Ed’s dad created that he was killed over, which sets off a key plot thread we’ll be following for the rest of the season.

In terms of animation fixes and whatnot, there were… a bunch of errors I picked up and wanted to fix; 77 and 79 had a handful or so that weren’t too bad, but 78, for how nice and detailed the episode looks art/animation-wise, bore the brunt of it, with about 17 of them, lol. Those along with the aforementioned editing accounted for much of the delay, as I also wanted to preserve the unique preview in 79 that we got of 80 from the TV airing during the “Today’s Best Card Just After This!” scene near the end, which seemed to be cut from episode 80 proper before it aired (and Alice goes on to be totally different from the portrayal there); special thanks to @popflythesky for all of their help in editing many of the frames from one of the seven clips in the bit (the panning shot of Misawa as he then turns to see Alice in his window) which I then worked into the footage–you can see more about the process around all that in this post. Also, special thanks to Hit-hitsu-suji on DeviantArt for the ripped/touched-up Alice card artwork that I used to recreate the card on Misawa’s computer screen and the panning shot on the artwork. More details on the fixes and all that below the cut, as well, along with a quick Translation Note on Mizuchi’s deck.

(Given recent news, I also want to spend a quick second here on Mr. Kazuki Takahashi’s passing, without whom I wouldn’t be nearly as invested in this franchise, or find such value in it even as a now-32-year-old. I said more about it here, but suffice it to say, Takahashi’s impact on each of us who found a lot of inspiration in his art and work can’t be understated, and I hope he rests in power and peace knowing what a legacy he’s left behind as his original story led to a massive cultural mainstay. In a way, it’s kind of bittersweetly nice that my delays on these episodes timed this release the way they have, since this Domino mini-arc was in part inspired by the Yu-Gi-Oh! VS GX movie he had thought about but never worked on; I always wanted more details about how that would’ve gone. Rest in power, king.)

Enjoy, folks! These should be up on NAC in a day or two. With these now done, I think I’ll want to do a few double-releases just to make up for a little lost time, though since I did give myself a vacation from work this week for my birthday (this past Sunday 😄), I’ll probably start more dedicated work on 80 and 81 next week. ~~we’ll see if i do something for it~~ It’ll be fun revisiting the Alice duel and definitely the Quiz episode–actually haven’t watched that one in a while, but it was always a favorite, haha.

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I regret to inform that the infamous “flesh-surpassing power of the D!” line was a mistranslation 😔 (Old line on the left, finalized revised line on the right)

(lol, but really, the line, in response to Judai’s “Are the D-Heroes powerless against Mizuchi, too?”, is actually “Ｅを超えたＤの力をなめるなよ！”/”E wo koeta D no chikara wo nameru na yo!” But when first doing episode 78 years ago, I[’m pretty sure] I misheard “E” as “mi” or “body/flesh” and so that’s how that was born, haha. This also makes sense since here, Ed’s still trying to prove his own value above Judai’s in Mizuchi’s and Saiou’s eyes.)

(Looked at Crunchyroll and they covered this line as “The power of D, which exceeds that of E… Don’t underestimate it.” which… sounds stilted to me, lol.)

GX Finalized-Subs!77 (WIP): Borrowed Power

GX Finalized-Subs!77 (WIP): A Fireside Snack ‘n Chat

GX 79->80 Original Preview Clip: Enter Despairland (FINAL)

After 84 years… it’s finally done 😤

As mentioned in this post, I’ve spent most of the past month-and-a-half (in between work and other things) on editing this preview clip shown at the end of episode 79′s original TV airing in 2006 for ep. 80 (the Alice in Despairland episode, which turns out different from what this clip would have you believe) to remove the Sponsor text in the middle of the screen to make it textless for use in my finalized subbed episode. (I wanted to remove the “Today’s Best Card Just After This!” side bars as well, but given the low quality of the original clip in the panning shot of Alice at the window and how her hair blends into the night sky behind her, I felt it’d have been too hard to pull off.) I wanted to preserve this for my subs rather than creating a new preview clip, since it’s an interesting look at how the concept for episode 80 was seemingly changed within weeks of 79′s production (I’m a bit surprised it aired without this preview clip being changed lol).

And with the editing all done, I wanted to throw up this quick comparison video with a breakdown under the cut here–this video first shows the original clip as aired on TV (with my subs there for the sponsor bit), then my edit retaining the side bars but blanking the middle (for use with the Japanese DVDRip I’ll be releasing), and then my edit with solid-blue bars overlaid on the originals so I could slap my English “Just After This!” text on (for use with the hardsub). ~~Enjoy your Alice nightmare~~

And a huge thanks to @popflythesky for their help in making this happen 🙌🏽–more on that below.

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GX 79->80 (WIP #2): Enter Despairland

Following up on this post, I wanted to drop a quick update now that I’ve been editing this for about 2-3 weeks so far with Sony Vegas and Photoshop. (Original video here for comparison.) Off the top, because of how hard it seemed to me to try and edit the sides of Alice’s hair in the later panning shot at the window to remove the blue sidebars (her hair blends too much into the night sky behind her given the video quality), I opted to just focus on the TV sponsor text in the middle; may as well keep the sidebars for the Japanese-text clip I’ll include with 79′s DVDRip upon release, while I’ve added these solid sidebars so I could add the English text for the final product. Special thanks to @popflythesky who very graciously offered to help with this (🙏🏽🙂)–more on that down below.

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GX 80 (WIP): Enter Despairland

Really would love to one day know the backstory behind why the clip we’re shown in the TV airing of GX episode 79 as a preview to 80 (Misawa researching the Alice in Despairland card to find this Alice [remarkably different from the Alice we’d ultimately get] right outside his window) was never actually included in episode 80 proper…

…but until then, as I’m working on finalizing my 77-79 subs, I did want to try and retain this clip during the “Just After This!” bit before 79′s card showcase, and to do so, I’m cleaning it up to remove the Japanese sponsor text along the middle of the shot–I originally wanted to try to remove the side “Just After This!” bars as well to make it fully textless (as was done with some help back with the Manjoume clip featured at the end of episode 24 that wasn’t in 25), but even if I asked for some help on that, I felt that–given the way Alice’s hair waves in the pan shot here, the lack of detail as the pan goes on and the hair blends into the night sky a bit, and the way the sky still moves a little behind her–that’d be near impossible. Alas. So, rather than giving up and just making a new “Just After This!” clip, I’m doing the next best thing to try and preserve this by just focusing on the Sponsor text and using solid bars on the side instead of the usual transparent ones. Looks okay so far!

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GX 52: Seeing Double…?

Just noticed this lol, oof

At first I just noticed it only in the scene as Judai looks to his Heroes for their power (photos 3 and 4), but this actually starts in the scene just before, as he explains Shining Flare Wingman’s effect (the first two photos). As we close-up on Judai as he explains it, that’s where that second layer of hair comes on, and it stays for the rest of the shot as it zooms out. Then, we see Ryou react before it cuts back to Judai, who’s… still showing us double the hairdo, but this time along with a double-up on his right jacket collar… lol.

(I was half-tempted to fix it thinking the background could be redrawn over his duplicate hair for the few frames he moves in, but then as the shot zooms out on the last one (for both scenes), the background moves with him, and then Sparkman grazes his hair as his Hero cards flash by the screen in the second scene, so that’d be annoying to work with… 😩 But also I just finished re-encoding finalized!1-76 after a week and a half and re-encoding ending credits for the week-and-change before that so maybe it’s for the best that this one’s tougher lol)

GX Finalized-Subs!52 (Revisited): Gotta Replace Your Cards… Right?

So I just re-finalized my episode 52 subs because CamsterdamSPguy on YouTube tipped me off to missing this error in my last pass-through. After Ryou’s Treasure from a Different Dimension makes them draw, Judai originally draws Fusion Undone/De-Fusion with Miracle Fusion, but 1) he used it a turn before, and 2) on his next turn, in a move that exhausts his hand, it’s Fusion Recovery that he uses.

The shots from the Japanese version above are from my fix of the error, where I made a Fusion Recovery proxy and applied it in AfterEffects, masking back the original card’s black border around it to blend it in and Judai’s thumb above it. The dub, meanwhile, misses this and dubifies De-Fusion, but… they do so a bit too awkwardly that I’m surprised it hasn’t been touched up at all with how this episode’s been re-released now multiple times lol (TV airing, original DVD release, Cinedigm DVD, now Crunchyroll upload, by my count [and probably missing some]).

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 75 and 76 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 73 and 74 Subbed [Finalized])

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75: A Field Trip Tag Duel!

For their field trip, the students of the Academia head to Domino Town, the holy dueling land known for producing the likes of Yugi Mutou and Seto Kaiba. Judai and his friends visit Yugi’s childhood house, where they meet Mr. Sugoroku. While exploring the town, Sugoroku is kidnapped–and while Shou and Kenzan argue as they look for him, they are challenged to a Tag Duel by an assassin duo from the Society of Light: Ikazuchimaru and Kourimaru. Kenzan’s dinosaur Monsters find themselves powered down by Mobius Castle as he’s dealt the first blow…

76: The Ultimate Combo! Rex Union

Shou and Kenzan’s Tag Duel versus Ikazuchimaru and Kourimaru continues. Ikazuchimaru and Kourimaru are powerful despite their being on bad terms with each other, whittling Shou and Kenzan’s LP down to 1000 early on. Kenzan’s dinosaur Monsters don’t match well with Kourimaru’s Ice deck, while Shou’s vehicle Monsters are stalled by Ikazuchimaru’s System Down and Rampage Condenser Magic Cards. But for all of Shou and Kenzan’s arguing, they start working together once they realize that their losing would cause trouble for Judai.

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Episodes 75 and 76 are now finalized!

These two episodes start off our Domino mini-arc, as the Academia goes on a field trip to the land of dueling legend–which picks up on plot elements that were going to be included in the canned Yu-Gi-Oh! VS GX movie Takahashi had pitched at one point but were reworked into GX Season 2′s story. 75 introduces us to Mizuchi right off the bat (credited as “Shrine Maiden” for only this episode’s credits) and, after we take a trip down memory lane with Sugoroku while Ed and Saiou’s friendship starts to show some cracks, it’s revealed to Shou and Kenzan that she’s related to Saiou.

Through both episodes, we also get some closure on the Shou/Kenzan feuding over Big Bro Judai, after Kenzan reveals he would’ve won if he didn’t feel bad for beating Shou while he was down, and after a rocky start to their Tag Duel vs Ikazuchi/Kourimaru, they come back and put their egos aside to keep Judai from having to deal with them. Ultimately, it’s a futile effort thanks to the Mirror of Duality that Kourimaru activates, but a good one nonetheless. Also do like the Marus’ designs, and it was cool at the time back in 2006 to see the original Monarchs make their anime debut. 76 also has some nice art to it, being a Tea Sun In animation-team episode (and Gil-bo No chipping in with some good key animation), so it’s a fun watch.

In terms of animation and other fixes, 75 and 76 both had a handful of card fixes, while 76 had more in the way of animation error fixes and other quality-of-watching things. As I mentioned before, I also translated the guidebooks Sugoroku wrote held by Shou and Kenzan early in ep. 75 for the eight scenes they appear in. Details under the cut, as always, along with a Translation Note for 75 involving one of Mizuchi’s scenes.

Enjoy, folks; for the next release, I want to get 77-79 out together for a triple treat to avoid just releasing 77 for a cliffhanger, lol. That’ll get us through the Iwamaru duel (poor Honoumaru being shafted) and Judai/Ed vs Mizuchi to close out this mini-arc. Stay tuned!

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GX Finalized-Subs!75 - Field Trip Sights (Final)

For my finalized episode 75 subs, I translated the front cover of the town guidebooks held by Shou and Kenzan in the eight scenes it’s visible in. I first blanked it and applied the translations in the second-to-last shot it’s in–the closeup as the two show them to Sugoroku, which I also used for 75′s preview in ep. 74–then isolated it to manipulate into the other scenes, mainly using AfterEffects’s CC Power Pin effect and then masking in the right side of the original cover (with the landmark photos, but above the bottom “Legendary Duelists’ Stomping Grounds” text) on top to make it blend in.

(Bonus: little tidbit I noticed with those first two scenes)