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The One Where Fubuki’s That Kind of Character

A Cosplay Duel Tournament is happening at the Academy Festival. Asuka dresses up as the Harpie Lady, while Manjoume goes as XYZ-Dragon, but stepping up to duel Judai is a mysterious girl dressed up as Black Magician Girl.  Judai duels this BlaMagi Girl, and he’s cornered as she summons Magician’s Valkyria and BlaMagi Girl herself from her cutesy and surprisingly powerful deck.  The Academia supposedly lacks girls with her abilities, but…

Finally finished! Apologies for the delay, but here’s finalized!42! A fun little episode before we get to the heart of the Seven Stars arc, and one of my favorites.  Also features the first [and only? D:] use of Elemental Hero Steam Healer, as well as Magician’s Valkyria post-Pyramid of Light; it was a neat combo by BMG to use Fire Sorcerer and lead into Dimension Fusion.

The main delay with the episode was the translations/fixes worked on this go-around; being used to 37-41 having at most 10 fixes between them kinda spoiled me, haha.  The bulk of them are hardsub-only translations, with a few ranging from restoring a missing mouth to fixing Judai’s hair in a Quality shot.  List below the cut, as usual, but I did whip up this little video rundown if you’d like to see it that way!

Enjoy, folks! With this done, I think I’ll run in and get 43 done next to make up for the delay, with 5D’s dub-uncut!21 happening after.  I know there’s one shot of Judai I’ll have to fix his hair in, but there probably won’t be too much there.

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“The Fate of the Signers! A Future Shown By the Crimson Dragon!”/“The Fortune Cup Finale, Part 2”

Everybody, listen!

Just in time for Thanksgiving dinner, here’s the newest installment of this short Dub-Uncut series! (Check out a quick preview here of the final thing~)

So, to catch people up, 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 (22-27)–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 what they changed).  Hence, the “dubbed uncut” gimmick here.

This one was… interesting.  There was a lot of added fluff between Jack and Yusei that 4Kids added, and I did my best to get a lot of it out; having the new 5D’s Duel Links voice lines and the other BGM-less episodes were a great help to that end, as they were when it came to adding back some lines that were removed in the dub (like card explanations being replaced by the Showcase Interruption), including a “dub” of the cut beginning of the episode showing Jack destroy Junk Warrior.  There was nothing I could do about Jack’s “settle for second” bit as he plays The End of Storm since the BGM-less episodes and Duel Links don’t feature Jack properly explaining it.  Likewise, when Yusei plays Meteor Stream, I kept Japanese Yusei there with subs explaining it since a Showcase Interruption cut it out.  And the MC having his “Yusei WON” scene at the end cut down a bit in the dub meant I had to get creative; I used part of his line at the end of 21 as the Bommer duel ends and one from the start of 23 or end of 24 to fill the empty space, then combined it with what was actually kept in the dub, adding back some SFX as needed for the fireworks.

The plot-relevant stuff was dubbed well, except for the gaffe with calling Godwin the fifth Signer; I made that line “with the power of the fifth Signer” instead of “with the power I possess as the fifth Signer.” Akiza also calling Satellite “New Domino City” was weird but “fixed” with a side-note subtitle.  And the dialogue pacing is pretty on-par with the Japanese version now, though it didn’t make sense to switch Lazar and Rex’s lines at the beginning to match, and I added back Trudge’s lines from 25 over his flashback despite the original silence since I couldn’t move Lazar’s “Maybe he had a point” to where Yaeger says something similar because of the SFX there.

The music recreation wasn’t too bad, but aside from the version of “Fierce Battle” used at the beginning being at a lower pitch, the uses of “Dragon” and “Legend of the People of the Stars” in this episode were a tiny bit sped-up compared to their album versions.  I saved the full versions in this speed before I cut them around to match their use here, and I’ll post them on NAC when I release this.  

Overall, quite happy with how this came out, but lemme know what you think, folks! Going back to work on GX 42 soon by translating that COSPLAY DUEL TOURNAMENT poster in the 4-5 other clips I need it for then getting started on it, then I’ll be going back to work on 5D’s 21-22 and revise 23-25 with the new Duel Links audio if there are spots for it before I get to start 27.  Stay tuned, and happy Turkey Day!

The One With the Bullfighters

Asuka continues to nurse her brother, whose memories haven’t returned.  With his memories on the line, Asuka duels Titan.  Titan isn’t the cheating duelist he was before–he’s become a true Dark Duelist.  Titan uses a series of “Daemon Matador” Monsters and Dark Arena, a bullring of darkness, to lead Asuka into the dark and gain the upper hand.  Unable to choose her attack targets, Asuka’s Cyber Blader is destroyed by his Matadors…

Here’s episode 41, folks! This is a great Asuka-focused episode, and one of the few wins for our protagonist team that weren’t earned by Judai.  Asuka’s motivation to regain Fubuki’s memories for him is a good driving force for her, and that reunion at the end hits the feels~ Well, until one fateful callout… We do also get to see Cyber Blader’s other two effects in action here, which is neat.

Just one card-related fix involved with this episode, but the main time-grabber was translating the Cosplay Duel poster that shows up in episode 42 but is included in its preview during episode 41.  Details below the cut. #KeyframingIsFunKids

Enjoy! If you haven’t checked it out yet, I’m also working on some “dub-uncut” episodes of 5D’s where I tweak dialogue and add back the Japanese OST for some fun; I’ll be getting started on episode 26 soon, which I’m excited for thanks to all the new 5D’s Duel Links audio I get to work with–we finally have legit translations of the summoning chants! Well, mostly. Sorry, Crow. Once 26 is done, I’ll get started on GX 42 and the fun poster-translating antics that will ensue. 😅

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