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The One With the Copycat (Part Due)

The Judai VS Yugi’s Deck duel continues.  Judai struggles against Kagurazaka as he masters Yugi’s deck, and it’s already 1300 LP VS 4000.  The 2800-ATK Black Magician of Chaos, Black Magician Girl, and even Chaos Soldier overwhelm him.  As he’s even cornered mentally, Judai gradually loses his cool and is on the verge of giving up on defeating the Duel King.  But before long, he realizes a strength he has that his foe doesn’t.

And here’s Part 2! A few days after DSOD’s release, but still timely haha.  Highlights include Shou’s going gaga over BlaMagi Girl, Chaos Soldier - Envoy of Creation/BLS - EotB’s first/only anime appearance, and “Gotcho!” As I said last time, this two-parter’s one of my favorites, and it was nice revisiting it.

Of course, the revisit wouldn’t be complete without a bunch of footage fixes! Specifically, card fixes, which made up 90% of my fixes here, lol.  List below the cut for the interested, as usual–a whopping 16 altogether! Enjoy!

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The One With the Copycat (Part Uno)

Yugi Mutou’s deck will be on display at the academy.  But the night before, the deck is stolen by Kagurazaka, a Yellow.  Kagurazaka defeats Shou in seconds and appears before Judai.  Judai and Kagurazaka duel–in what is also Judai dueling Yugi’s deck.  Kagurazaka studies all there is to the techniques of the top duelists–he flawlessly masters Yugi’s deck, and finally even summons the Black Magician.

What better way to tie into Darkside of Dimensions coming out in Japan than to finalize this duel? :D

This is one of my favorites; you have an interesting idea in Kagurazaka as a copycat duelist, some nostalgia as he uses Yugi’s deck (and one point to the dub here for using some DM music), and Judai trying to hold his own against it.  And Chronos somehow knocks down four people, nbd.

And as with the last 5 episodes, there were a bunch of fixes I worked into the episode, because you’ve got to love it when the staff gets lazy–list below the cut! (EDIT, 2021: Two new fixes applied, listed in bold under the cut!) 

And special thanks to @akameniseis for swearing at Photoshop translating the Yugi poster in the beginning and the flier in Kagurazaka’s room a few minutes later! :) 

Enjoy, guys; I’ll try to get the next episode done by next week in time for/just after DSOD’s release! (But there’s a bunch of fixes already to take care of, so we’ll see… XD;)

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The One Where They Draw Things

Judai tries to buy a rare Golden Eggwich, but he learns that they’ve been stolen by someone for a few days now and are all gone.  The culprit seems to be one who’s really good at drawing, stealing only the Golden Eggwich out of the other sandwiches that look alike on the outside.  He captures the former Blue-student-turned-half-wild, Taizan–one who’d devoted a year to Mother Nature.  The duel’s Judai VS Taizan, and Taizan’s deck is a recklessly bold deck relying only on drawing.

And it’s all done! I kinda like this episode more than 16, especially since Mrs. Tome gets a role to play.  Taizan’s an interesting “filler” character with his whole nature sabbatical who probably should’ve gotten more appearances, but he at least returns in Season 2 which is cool.  And Judai uses Rampart Gunner for the third episode in a row, lol.

On the technical side, I got to fix a line I was mostly unsure about the first time around, and fixing it now, it was an easy line to type out haha (”When you stole them, I could never get them.”->”Until you went and stole ’em, I was never off, either.”; keep learning, kids!).  And as with this mini-”filler” arc, there were a bunch of fixes I did to the footage; mostly card edits for consistency, but notably trying to fix a huge error in the episode–how do you forget part of a Duel Disk? Full list of the fixes below the cut, as always.  Also, decided to go with “Drawiches” and “Eggwich/etc” over “Drawbreads” and “Egg Bread/etc” since, despite it being more of a dub thing, I think it does work better.

I also set myself up with a few episodes’ worth of Preview/Thanks For Watching clips to help move between episodes quicker.  I’ll prep some more for a few more batches when I’m able to.  Enjoy, guys; next time’ll be the Yugi’s Deck episodes, and I should have 18 ready in the next week or two!

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