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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 55 Subbed (Finalized)

Enter Tyranno Kenzan, Saurus! (The Gang Sees the Bedroom Eyes)

Tyranno Kenzan, the best of the Yellow freshman class, challenges Judai to a duel. Originally heading a group of delinquents, Kenzan hopes to defeat Judai and prove himself as an icon at the Academia. Out of a love of dinosaurs, Kenzan uses a Dinosaur deck. With his Jurassic World Field Magic, he powers up his Dinosaur-Types and Winged-Beast-Types as Trap effects bounce off of them. In addition, his Revised Ultra Evolution Pill evolves his Archaopteryx Archeonys into Dark Tyranno (ATK/ 2900), startling Judai…

Heya, took a bit longer than I was planning to once I finished 54 since some things came up, but here’s a finalized 55 for you! This was a fun one to go back to and revisit Kenzan’s backstory as a guy who didn’t know how to captivate the people he’d be a leader to; he sees Judai’s command of an audience and enthusiasm knowing he still has potential to turn things around in the bleakest times, and decides to learn from him and evolve–to Shou’s chagrin. (A bit of foreshadowing there too, as Johan in Season 3 makes a note of this trait of Judai’s during his duel with O’Brien.)

There were some card fixes I worked on and I re-translated a sign I did in 54 for consistency, but overall the workload was much lower than in 54 after working on that poster, haha. Breakdown below the cut, as usual. And since the duel’s finale showed up in 156 which I’ve already revised, it was a bit less work on the script there, too.

Enjoy, folks! With 55 done, I think I’ll be working on both getting 56 ready but also working more on my 5D’s “Dub-Uncut” take on 27, which I’ve already gotten some work done on; I’ve drafted most of the dialogue and recreated the music up to Yusei’s duel with possessed!Dick starting. The alternate “Dark Signers” track that’s played is interesting to listen to, too… Stay tuned!

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 54 Subbed (Finalized)

Thunder VS Mr. Elite! Mecha Ojama King Takes Off

Manjoume duels Gokaido, an elite new student who claimed the highest grades of his class at the Academia’s middle school. The new student calls Manjoume a “slacker,” noting how he once sat at the top of the middle school but has since fallen, now using Ojama Monsters in the Red dorm. Manjoume uses his XYZ combo for a cool preemptive strike, but finds himself counterattacked by his Warrior-Type deck and his Gilford the Legend. However, an unperturbed Manjoume, in a show of what he’s learned the past year, uses his Mecha Ojama King…

Two episodes into Season 2, and we have a duel with Manjoume essentially looking at his early-Season 1 self in the mirror! It’s a pretty neat episode, given that–even if there are strong ad vibes for the Warrior Structure Deck that had been about to be released back in 2006, lol. Though it was neat seeing Ben Kei and the Equip Magic combo in use with Gokaido (that scene as he brings out Gilford is a favorite since it uses “The Rival’s Onslaught” really well), as was Manjoume’s interesting Ojama combo evolution with the Mecha… mechanic, which sadly has yet to be released. Maybe Duel Links’ll throw us a Mecha Ojama King bone at some point…

So, I’d actually finished editing the script for this episode maybe two weeks ago, but part of the delay in releasing it is that I also wanted to translate the Gokaido/Manjoume poster in Chronos’s flashback–and on that note, I really can’t thank @paradoxi-kay (formerly thepalebride) enough for their time and effort over a few days in wiping the text so that I could slap my translation onto it. 🙏🏽 I’ll elaborate a bit more on that below the cut, as I go into the edits. There were also two card fixes I applied, Ben Kei related, and I also translated the “Currently Under Construction” sign Manjoume stands in front of at the end. More details below. (EDIT, 2021: One new fix applied that I missed before, listed in bold under the cut below!)

Enjoy, folks! To make up for a little lost time, I think I’ll actually jump onto 55 next and get that out of the way before I go handle 5D’s Dub-Uncut #27 a little more (I’m also trying to see what can be done on that front with the two unreleased OST pieces that I’d like to keep, but we’ll see); keep an eye out~

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5D’s Dub-Uncut Episode #27 WIP #1: What Will Today’s Card Be?

Just about getting started with dub-uncut episode 27! Though I’m doing it in bits and pieces while I finish up finalizing GX episode 54’s subs, but I have been looking forward to this one. And part of it involved figuring out what to do with this clip, since of course 4Kids left these segments undubbed.

Luckily, Duel Links has these Duel Carnival events with the twins where they use their lines here, so it makes it easier to work with! The only trouble is that it’s Eileen Stevens playing the twins in Duel Links, as opposed to their earlier VA pre-65, so there’ll be an inconsistency there with the episode proper, but not much I can do, lol. I also made use of more of their Duel Links lines to fill out the clip; since Rua and Ruka question the card before encouraging viewers to stay tuned, I combined an “Oh!” and “No way!” for Leo, followed by a “what’s” and “this?” from two different lines for Luna, then “You’re lucky!”/“You get to”/“see!” (though it sounds like a question since he’s saying “See?” in the original DL line), and finishing up is a “Here goes!” from Luna. I kept the beginning SFX before the twins pop up, then redid the SFX for the cards flipping and the showcased card moving forward.

Think it came out well, given the limits! Just have to see if the Duel Links audio is enough to tweak for 28 and 29’s clips… Also, I had the subbed video with the English over the sign’s Japanese there handy since I’d edited this episode for myself a while back for a personal DVD; I’ll likely try to actually translate the sign at some point while I work on this. Stay tuned for some more WIPs!

GX 54 (WIP): Reaching for the Star

So, it’s been a bit since the last time I posted about this poster, but we’re making some great headway here! First off, I’d like to give @paradoxi-kay a huge shout-out and round of applause for their time and effort in blanking the original poster’s “Star Duel” text and recreating the background so that I could go ahead and add in my translation (I blanked the name bubbles beforehand, and repainted things to Gokaido’s left and Manjoume’s right to “unblur” those parts–more on this in a bit). It’s been a bit, but always a pleasure, Kay! 🙏🏽🔥🙏🏽

So, I used TrebuchetMS for the names’ font, and since the “Star Duel” text there originally seems like the font they use for the episode title cards, I applied the font I use for the translated ones, tweaked to match the look here more. I’m actually really digging how it came out! I was torn between “A Star-Finding Duel” and “A Star-Finder Duel,” but ultimately settled on the former since I’d already called it that in 53′s preview for 54.

Now, comes the fun part–and the reason why I wanted to “unblur” the name bubbles and the sides of the poster (Kay also “unblurred” the star): recreating the panning shot. See, in Chronos’s flashback where this shows up, not only is it a shot panning from the bottom to the top of the poster, but there’s also that huge Gaussian Blur (or is it radial, hmm) surrounding the frame. The pan itself shouldn’t be hard, but I’m hoping it won’t be too hard to redo the frame blur in Vegas, while also kind of reducing the blur as Gokaido and Manjoume come into view, since they’re already blurred and I don’t want to make them even more blurred, lol. Fingers crossed!

Of course, after that, I have more fun lined up: this poster shows up three other times in Chronos’s flashback from different angles: two while it’s lying on his desk, and a third as he’s holding it and pulling it into the frame as he gestures in front of it. I’m thinking for the first two, I can just lie this down and redo the frame blur on top of it, while for this third angle, I think I’ll have to make use of the Corner Pin in After Effects (actually, I’ll probably need the Corner Pin for the first two, too), and then recreate the frame blur… [sorry, thinking out loud lol]

But the good news is that while I gave Kay time to edit the poster, I finished finalizing the subs for 54 proper! (I also worked on 2-3 card fixes before that involving Gokaido’s Ben Kei.) So, plan is once I get these edits done, I’ll put everything together and quality-check the whole thing. Meanwhile, I’ll put out a few photosets here/there to start teasing the final product, so stay tuned~

brb laughing at this professionally done 4Kids edit

5D’s Episode 26… with an Uncut Dub?! (Re-Edited 4Kids Dub/Japanese OST - Revised)

“The Fate of the Signers! A Future Shown by the Crimson Dragon!”/”The Fortune Cup Finale (Part 2)″

Everybody listen!

This episode’s all revised and looking nice! In case this is 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.
Check out the masterpost of episodes I’ve done here!
Check out this episode’s WIP videos! REDO WIP #1 OLD WIP #1 OLD WIP #2 OLD WIP #3 OLD WIP #4

Revising this one didn’t take too long, since I was already pretty happy with how things came out originally; check out the original breakdown post here for more details on how what edits went into that. As I looked through it this time, all I really did was tweak audio levels and add SFX here/there and crossfade some lines of dialogue better, as well as make the reverb effects on the MC and thought lines consistent with how I’ve done them in prior episodes. I did also manage to stitch together an explanation from Yusei for Meteor Stream (I’d left Japanese Yusei’s explanation intact with subs before since I didn’t think I could, but I tried to stitch something together this time); I think I combined audio from episodes 24 and earlier in 26 with some Duel Links lines. I tried to make it crossfade well and sound as best as I could, so hopefully it’s not too jarring; you can hear it in the REDO WIP #1 video. yugidmx5 over on NAC also helped get a better-sounding “Absolute Powerforce!!” shout from Jack in episode 5 so I can mix it up with the Duel Links line and make it have a bit more umph.

Also, as I did with 22 and 24, I added subs in some parts where the dub went too far into right field and deviated from the Japanese script–for things like card effect explanations, Godwin’s plot thoughts, and that ending scene as Yusei tells Jack why he lost. As before, when I release it on NAC, these subs will be optional.

Enjoy folks! Now that 21-26 are all done and finalized, I’ll get to try dub-uncutting the early Dark Signer episodes! Should be neat. I’ll work on 27 after I finalize my GX 54 subs and deal with Manjoume taking on his mini-me. ~~rip nani ka na nani ka naaa maybe~~

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 53 Subbed (Finalized)

The Gang Freaks Out Over a Cell Phone

Judai and the others are now in their second year when a quiet freshman comes to duel Judai. While the freshman’s deck wasn’t all too powerful, it was also an improvised 40-card deck hastily made beforehand out of eight packs in the store. But even then, Archangel Zerato gets Judai’s LP down to 1200. Mid-duel, he speaks with a mysterious man on his cell phone, feeling a lack of interest in this duel due to his prediction. Shou and the others realize this is the well-known Star Duelist Ed Phoenix…

And after a bit too long, here’s finalized!53! It’s fun to finally be getting back into Season 2, since, later plot pacing issues and… questionable moments aside, there’s quite a bit to like about it. One such thing being the dynamic between Ed and Saiou that we’re introduced to here (one of my favorites), as the concept of fate/destiny starts to become an ever-present theme. Also, hearing Takehito Koyasu again for a while will be great now that I’ve actually seen JJBA and heard him as DIO. 😂 The animation/artstyle in this episode is also a nice touch-up from what we’ve been used to, and there were some great shots of Judai and Ed there.

So, part of the delay in getting this going since finishing 52 was getting my usual bells and whistles worked on for the translated hardsub; you’ll notice that the OP is fully translated, and not just with the credits–I wanted to do a thing I originally wanted to do way back when my first go-around but lacked the skills for and translate the character names that slide in! If you check out my “subbing-rambling” tag, you can see some of the work-in-progress posts I made showing it off as I worked on it. As part of this, I also prepared textless versions of the OP’s V2 shots of Chronos and Ed, as well as made Shou in his Red jacket textless for use here; I’ll be sharing these new textless openings as I go through the season over on NAC. (It’s really a shame that we never got those versions officially released…) The ED credits were pretty much copy/paste from Season 1, with a change in karaoke coloring, since thankfully that stays the same, and I’ll also be translating the “Best Card” shots at the end of each episode (which for some reason I noticed Crunchyroll doesn’t include, despite them being on the DVDs?), though on a static screen with the card spinning into view since that moving background’s hard to get blank, lol.

But once those were all done, there were some 53-specific edits and fixes to work on! For the hardsub, I translated the article we see about Ed so that we can read what was visible in Japanese (ie, Ed making waves in August just before Season 2 at an event Kaiba Corp. sponsored!), while I also made a few card fixes. Breakdown below the cut, as usual.

(UPDATE [7/9/20]: I reuploaded the episode because I realized I didn’t account for the different cards Shou has in his deck shot in the Opening in 53-56 vs 57-104; Gyroid, Cyclone, and Trap Hole in the former become Submarineroid, Vehicroid Connection Zone, and No Entry in the latter (all used in 56), which is what was used in the textless video I was working with while working on translating his name there. That’s been corrected, and will be accounted for as I share the textless OPs on NAC. I’m nothing if not consistency-minded. 💁🏽‍♂️)

Enjoy, folks! With 53 finalized, I’ll be giving my 5D’s Dub-Uncut Ep. 26 a quick lookover to see if I have to tweak anything before I work on making the Dark Signer arc episodes’ dubs more bearable, and then I’ll start working on 54. It’s been a bit since Manjoume last dueled, and him dueling his mini-me in Gokaido should be fun, haha.

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GX finalized!53 (WIP) - The Beginning of Unmei

A quick little preview of the final episode, inspired by @theabcsofjustice‘s post using the dub dialogue in this scene.

So, I don’t know who might know, but is Shinkichi Mitsumune’s DM soundtrack now royalty-free or something? Because I was watching some ad on YouTube [mobile, so no adblock] for this Rise of Empires game, and it was playing this one track that sounds a lot like it’s from DM’s Sound Duel 4 (so, Memory World arc-ish) but I can’t seem to pinpoint it lol

GX 53: The More You Know (about cards) [WIP]

Here’s something else I’m working on as I get ready to finalize Season 2!

I’ve always thought I might take a crack at translating these in the future, and now that I have some knowhow about editing, I thought I’d give it a shot. The caveat, though, is that it was looking impossible to get this sequence of cards flipping in the background totally textless; I was trying to overlay each of these clips between Seasons 2 and 4 in Sony Vegas and masking out as much blank space as possible, but doing that after getting maybe 20 of them in was a huge drain on CPU resources lol ~~(what do you mean 360 frames x 30+ video tracks might do that)~~. Also kinda complicated by the fact that some of the cards change some episodes into Season 2, or between Seasons. So, instead, I opted for just using a still shot and just masking in the Card of the Day as it flips into view; here’s a gif of how that looks:

The still I used was the first frame of the sequence; I think I might try to mask in some of the other cards or card backs so they’re not just stuck mid-flip, and maybe move the COTD so it’s flipping from that one card back just under it instead of in-between two, but I wanted to show this off and see what folks thought! Idea being this’ll be in the hardsubs, of course. I get it won’t have the same look as having the cards flipping, but I thought it might be cool to do. Does the English font (two from the Stone Serif group) look like a good replacement, too? I also spaced the text a bit closer together to make room for the subs at the bottom as Judai/whoever narrates (and thought this’d be good since sometimes not everything on the screen is explained).

99% - GX Season 2 Opening (Names Translated/Textless)

mfw i finally finished editing this thing

(Note: video is like this because I originally planned to just show off the name shots, but YT and copyright i swear to– I even had to mirror some of the shots to try and skirt that lol, so I switched which side gets flipped and mainly only on the recap shots)

So, as I mentioned in these two posts, I’ve been at work the past 3-5 weeks revisiting 99%’s Season 2 opening video to finalize my Season 2 subs, and editing it such that not only could I fully translate the character names, but I could make a textless version of the different variations we never officially got textless versions of.

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QUESTION!

Out of curiosity, has anyone managed to transparently render these images of Judai, Manjoume, and the rest of the crew from the 99% opening? I’m working to redo how they zip across the screen as their names come up, which I’ve been doing by masking them out of the video in Sony Vegas and I managed to get Judai done well, but I’m noticing a bit of noise in the footage I have for the Manjoume clip that’s messing with how accurately I can cut Manjoume out in Vegas without losing too much detail or color bleeding from the cards on the edges–and those sharp black edges from Kenichi Hara would be nice to keep. Photoshop’s Magic Wand tool isn’t quite doing the job, either…

If it hasn’t been done but someone would be willing to help with that, it would be much appreciated; I’d be happy to credit you with a “Special Thanks” in the OP when I slap on the credit subs. :)

99% - GX Season 2 Opening: “Ambitions->Dashed Hopes” ft. Earlier Napoleon (WIP)

~~poor chronos~~

Alright, finally finished this scene up! After *checks notes* nearly three weeks of editing, lol. So, following up on the first WIP with Pharaoh crawling onto Chronos’s desk, here’s the next scene I’ve managed to get textless and then translated–and it was a doozy.

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