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

The One With the Compensating

Here’s episode 4, all nice and finalized for ya! Judai faces Manjoume in a potential rank-up duel, and faces a fearsome combination in the process.

Also, for my convenience while working on the stat counters, I edited the zoom-out on XYZ when it’s summoned so the counter originally there doesn’t zoom out along with everything else.  To do it, I kept the first two fast frames, then slowed the rest of the pan up to where the counter shows up to last the whole shot, and then just masked in the counter used for XYZ in episode 111. XD (Fun fact: look closely at the dub when the counter pops up, and you’ll see that 4Kids got tripped up with it too!) The only downside is I lose the flashiness in the background, but it’s probably not that huge lol.  When I post the script's DVDRip, the edit won’t be in there, since I don’t keep the counters’ subs in anyway. (EDIT, 2021: I applied some animation fixes I didn’t do the first time around; listed below under the cut, with fixes I previously applied in italics.)

Enjoy, guys!

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The One With the MELANZANE

Fresh off my laptop, here’s finalized!episode 3, all up and loaded! This was a cool one to revisit since it was always one of my favorite Season 1 episodes.  You might also be able to tell I had some fun with Chronos’s lines here and there lol.

Also did a little minor fix to the footage; I fixed part of a zoom-in to Asuka (“I think I have an idea”), and when Asuka and Judai were getting started, I fixed it so Judai’s half of the split-screen showed him zooming out at the same time as Asuka (originally, they were a frame or two apart, which kinda bugged me).

Enjoy, folks!

The One With the “Nya!”

As a belated holiday gift, I give you finalized!episode 2! Or just a belated thing anyway, since it took a bit longer than planned to finish lol (though it might’ve just been since I hadn’t already revised this episode’s script).  

I did a minor fix to the footage by fixing two LP-falling clips so the scores are shown properly (first is Judai from Flame Wingman’s effect, second is Manjoume from… the same lol; originally, the counter just kept fluctuating, never stopping [and in Manjoume’s case, appeared while fluctuating]. Early GX was weird with its counters).

Enjoy, folks, and happy holidays/new year! Expect 3 sometime in the next week or two.

The One With the “Gotcha!”

Two months later than I later realized I would’ve liked (to coincide with its first airdate ten years ago on 10/6/04), here’s my finalized version of episode 1! I’d already updated most of the translations a while ago, so aside from the ones I touched up this go-around, this was more of a stylistic/aesthetic update to match my later releases in spirit; I’ll eventually be reaching Seasons 3 and 4 to give them a touch-up with my new subtitle styling for both the episodes and the OP/ENs.  And because Season 1 didn’t have the “Today’s best card!” segments, but I didn’t want to end the episodes abruptly right after the preview, I’ll be recreating the ending sponsor clips, only adding “Battle on the Edge/Genkai Battle” instead of “Sunshine/Kaisei” over it, and a little “Thanks for watching/tune in next time!” note (since later they add the “Just After This!” thing, so it’s a bit more consistent).  I’ll just have to improvise come episode 24, since they used scenes that weren’t in the episodes.

Also, thanks one more time to thepalebride and aahes for their help with editing that shot of Manjoume in the opening!

(EDIT, 2021: Listed the animation fixes applied to episode 1 under the cut below)

So yeah, enjoy, folks! And let me know what you think in the tags or something. :) I’ll be updating my masterpost with the new link, too.  Also, if anyone happens to know any good video websites almost as obscure as Cloudy yet functional on mobile, let me know; it’d be nice to have these work for people on their phones if they haven’t (and I’d like to watch these at work occasionally haha).

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Yo guys, just wanted to repost this link in a newer post (thanks to everyone who reblogged my original post and follow-up for it) so more people would be aware of this petition.

As most GX and 5D’s fans know, a lot of music from the Japanese versions of those shows went unreleased, despite two (for GX; 3 for 5D’s, two of which were 2-CD releases) Sound Duel soundtracks, and they were a lot of the good ones.  In GX’s case, there was an incredibly huge delay with Sound Duel 2’s release, and in that time, we basically got two CDs’ worth of new music during the Seven Stars/Shadow Riders arc and Season 2 (notably A Powerful Threat, All-Out Duel, Reconciliation, Camula’s Theme, Saiou’s Theme, Standstill, Enjoying the Duel and a few here), as well as Season 3 (notably A Strong Force, Johan’s Theme and his Gem Beasts’ Theme); none of the new tracks during the former were released, and most of the Season 3 songs were released with tracks from Season 4 on Sound Duel 2 when it did come out. Also of note: Sound Duel 2’s only TV-Size OP/EN were Precious Time and Endless Dream (while 5D’s had all of its TV-size OP/ENs released).  I’d say that leaves 60% or so of GX’s soundtrack unreleased.

With 5D’s, while maybe 80% of the soundtrack was released, there were 10-15 tracks during the Fortune Cup/Dark Signers arcs that weren’t released yet they were used during memorable moments (among them JACK Battle 2, Yusei’s original battle theme, Hopeless Battle, and Lamentation), and the WRGP/Ark Cradle arc saw another 15 or so go unreleased (like this remixed Speed World, Sherry Battle, and Tactics).  A smaller pool of unreleased stuff compared to GX, but it still would be nice to have them in perfect quality.

Sure, ripping the tracks is a solution, but unfortunately, it can be hard to keep a lot of what defines the tracks intact, and it wouldn’t be the same as listening to it during an episode (example here).

Thing is, I started this petition back in October, and there are only 60-ish signatures! The goal’s set at the default 1000 on the site, but I suppose more realistically, getting 200 might be a good start (right?).  Now, this is the YGO fandom, and I know there are a bunch of GX/5D’s fans who liked/loved the series and a lot of the music that didn’t get released.  There were also a lot of ZeXal fans out there who were pleasantly surprised when an unexpected Sound Duel 5 was announced, made thanks to fan outcry:

放送終了後も未収録音源のCD化を望むお声を多数頂きましたことを受け、今回の発売が決定致しました。

*quick translation by me*

“Many of you voiced your wishes for CDs of the soundtracks that went unreleased even after [ZeXal]’s broadcast concluded, and that led us to this next release.”

It came out a few weeks back and put a huge dent in ZeXal’s “unreleased music” list.  Getting the same done for GX and 5D’s (but especially GX since it has a ton more) would be great, and is the general goal here.  I mean, YGO series in general have awesome soundtracks, and it’d be nice to appreciate GX’s and 5D’s in full.  GX especially has a great pitch going for it: this year was its 10th Anniversary!

If fans’ voices helped ZeXal, it can help GX and 5D’s.  If you’ve already signed, thanks so much! If not, well, help us out, fandom! It only takes a minute or two to sign. We can do it!