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The One Where Things Are Chill, Man

Wanting to get rid of Judai, Chronos puts Motegi–his ultimate weapon–into action.  It’s said that those who duel Motegi become unable to duel again. Judai and Motegi duel, and the Moke Moke summoned by Motegi has 300 ATK and feels very unreliable.  But as he adds on Angered Moke Moke and King Moke Moke to change its form, it becomes a powerful 3000-ATK monster that threatens Judai.  Meanwhile, as Asuka and the others watch on, they start losing their will to fight.

And 23′s all done! This is a fun one, given the premise; as @morningmoon so aptly put it, it’s “that time there was a child with some sorta laziness aura that required a sorta exo-skeleton space suit to prevent getting caught up in his rhythm, wtf.” Also, he was apparently a #1 student.  But hey, we’ve got Manjoume back in action for the next few episodes as he makes his thunderous comeback, so a nice breather–filled with Chronos’s cocky shenanigans (heh)–is nice.  Side-note: the Crunchyroll subs were all over here.  Still watchable, but slightly off compared to what I’ve seen in general as I’ve worked on these.

Fix-wise, there were only six (all card fixes), but I missed one that I caught as I timed the episode’s script (which I finished last weekend), so that’s what caused the extra delay this week.  All below the cut, as usual.  Enjoy!

Sooo… with this done, I’ll do some basic prep for episode 24; the main thing holding it up right now is I asked @juslaynice and @prismatic-bell–as well as @alicethedragonvalkyrie–for some Photoshopping magic to get rid of the text on this cool Manjoume clip that played at the end of 24′s TV airing during the sponsor bit that was all-new footage, but didn’t get released on the DVDs.  Since that’s the case, I thought it’d be cool to get it textless’d so I could add the “Thanks for watching!” text and add it to the DVDRip, assuming that juslaynice and prismatic-bell can do it.  If they can’t (given there’s 150-200 frames involved, I know it’s an undertaking), I could just slap the “Thanks for Watching!” text on anyway as in the clip there, but the sponsor text would bug me; if people don’t mind it, I’ll do that.  Or I may just do a “best-of” compilation for Manjoume scenes so far; I’ll check in and see how they’re feeling about it.  I just don’t get why a special scene like this didn’t get released somehow, lol.

Meanwhile, once I do my basic 24 prepwork, I’ll probably try timing out a script for ARC-V episode 1 to get that project finally started while they get stuff done. :D Still waiting on some help to better encode the DVD raws, but we’ll see there, lol.

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The One Where Judai Goes Wild, Man

The Judai VS Misawa duel continues.  With his Fusion locked away by Misawa, Judai struggles, unable to evolve his Elemental Heroes.  He fights back against Misawa’s Water Dragon (ATK/ 2600) by powering up his Elemental Heroes with his Skyscraper Field Magic.  However, due to Misawa’s shrewd tactics, Judai’s left to face his Diamond Dragon with his field wide open.  But Judai summons a new Elemental Hero, Wildman…

Hooo boy, sorry this is only just being done! Those edits early on were the main reason for the delay here–there were a whopping 22 of them! 99% of them card fixes, haha; they’re all listed below the cut.  Meanwhile, this great duel between Judai and Misawa continues, and continues to make you wish the two had dueled more often instead of–nope, we’ll just ride out these Season 1 times while we can! It was clever of Misawa to lock away Judai’s Fusion, so watching him come up with a Plan B is nice.  Elsewhere, Kunisaki digs up some plot, and we find out more about him; shame he never does come back to let Asuka know what he finds, but oh well.

Enjoy, folks! As I mentioned before, since I was going to start subbing ARC-V soon, alternating between it and GX, I was planning to start timing episode 1′s script (I just finished most of my prepwork for One Step), but given how long this took, I’ll knock out GX 23 first, lol.  Expect that in the next week or two.

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