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

So to make up for how late I got 5 and 6 posted, I’ve already posted episode 7 on NAC, so go get it while it’s hot! You’ll also find links for 5 and 6 a post or two up. :)

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 7 Subbed (Finalized)

The One With the Roids

Here’s episode 7, all done! Judai and Shou are sentenced to death by cards expulsion by dueling for sneaking into the Abandoned Dorm, so they duel to feel each other’s decks out.  now that has to be some kind of innuendo…

Enjoy, guys! Expect 8 in the next two weeks (hopefully sooner, but that’s so I have some leeway haha). 

Did some minor animation fixes in a few spots for this one, too:

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So thanks to Lolsaurus on NAC, we have a HQ recording for episode 1 of the German ARC-V dub! I just gave it a watch while comparing it side-by-side with the original, and well… 

Editing-wise, it looks like it’s on par with early 5D’s with how they think they can make a scene better by switching shots around (which they did with Yoko’s “he’s reinventing himself” flashbacks). They also cut a few of Nico’s mannerisms, like his intro bow and what he did with his hand when he said he’d offer the SVWM system for free, and they got rid of the cards behind Ishijima on the big screen (probably because it’d be hard to edit them all lol; likely why they also cut the panning shot of the buildings with the familiar monsters before it goes up to the LEO/LDS tower). Added (sometimes scene-extending) dialogue is sprinkled everywhere, too (don’t like how Yuzu talks after Yuya falls down, before/after he does that face), while they trim/cut a few other shots (like some of Shuzou or the shot of everyone looking on at Yuya before he thinks of Yushou). And they cut the part of the flashback where Yushou says the pendulum can find things, and when it’s used again later. At least they did keep a few bits of silence, though, but the music, while decent, doesn’t sound all that impressive compared to what it has to compete with.

I’m surprised they kept as much text as they did, though, at the Stadium. A few banners were textless, but some were either translated or had “Ishijima” replaced with a sledgehammer, for obvious reasons. And while they got rid of the names on the VS screens (which I expected to get cut like they were in late 5D’s; they should’ve thought of this earlier; fun fact: when the German dub got to that point, they were basing it on the Japanese version, and they edited the original names with their dub names), there was one shot of Yuya on the big screen as his LP fell with his name still there lol.

And yeah, they replaced some SFX here/there, notably the counter-appearing and stat-changing ones, though it sounded like they kept the one when the stat’s set. Why, though… And yep, no real color-scheme editing. The perks of a HQ recording. :P

So yeah, editing-wise, disappointed with the dub already. Early 5D’s was torture to sit through dubbed (even when I ground through it for my comparisons haha) because I was so into the original and hated the changes they felt they had to make, having been the first YGO series I watched in Japanese from the get-go, and it looks like it’s a repeat with ARC-V’s dub. At the very least, I noticed some lines in the German dub matched the original a bit (or at least mention the Engrish used there), so it may not be a total washout. Have to wait for the English dub to make a full judgment, but there’s that for ya.

Just to point this out, since I’m seeing it so much: 

I’m about 99% sure they didn’t edit the red out of everything; keep in mind that our source for the German dub was a LQ camera recording.  Once/if we get an HQ recording, or we get the English dub in HQ first, we’ll be able to confirm that.  But I wouldn’t see any reason for them to edit the color schemes anyway.

at least it’s not an annoying easy-to-fix green tint

Is there an English card patch for TFSpecial out there yet? I signed up on XenoTranslations and have been checking it but haven’t seen anything.  I could play through it as is but it’d take extra time for me to read all the cards I don’t know haha

The One With the Millennium Pendants Puzzles

After an UNGODLY WAIT I MEAN HOW HAS IT BEEN A MONTHHH

*ahem* Here’s episode 6, finally finalized! Judai and co. start wising up to Titan’s tricks, until it turns out it’s not a trick anymore. Welp.

A few quick fixes applied:

1. A quick edit when Judai’s LP falls to 1000; the LP counter disappears for the last frame of the shot, so I got rid of the frame without it and just slowed the shot of his LP down (because of the animation on it) by a frame.  Same happened with the Japanese “Preview” text in the preview’s first frame, except I just had to mask it in from the next frame.

Overall, not a bad episode, and the translations should make it a good watch; a lot of the lines, while not inaccurate, were updated to go with my style/voice for the characters.  But enough rambling; enjoy!

Dragon Ball Z Kai Episode 2 (OST: Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s)

So I said before I’ll be going ahead on this side-project, replacing Yamamoto’s music with Yutaka Minobe/Wall 5 Project’s work from Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D’s’ awesome soundtrack–just so there’s a consistent soundtrack I can watch the show with, and also just messing around for some fun–and I’ll be sharing it for whoever’s interested in seeing how it pans out.  I downloaded some 320kbps rips of the first two Sound Duels to get some good quality in here, too.

Here’s episode 2, and I like how a bunch of things came out.  First, “D-Wheel, Take Off” is probably the recap tune I’ll go with (hoping it’ll lead to a good payoff come 96), and I worked in the-azure-wind’s suggestion using a shortened “Yusei Battle” for the title card.  My favorite placement is “Mind Games” as Raditz talks about his plans (IT WORKS SO WELL), but I liked a few others too haha.

Enjoy!

The One With the Vanishing Act

And episode 5’s now all up and finalized! For real this time, though!

Judai ignores warnings and goes straight for a zone in which one could say danger lurks about.  Making it a… DANGER ZONE. *shot*  Also, Titan’s first appearance.

I also fixed a little animation error with Titan’s Genocide-King Daemon when he throws it on his Disk; for a few frames, it originally became a Normal Monster before switching back to an Effect Monster, so I did away with that.  I also fixed the goof with Judai having two Mirror Forces in his hand, one of which should’ve been Fusion/Poly.  Because inconsistencies like that bug me. :) The fix will be in the DVDRip when I post it on NAC with the script.

Enjoy, folks! Hoping to get episode 6 done by the end of next week.  I’ve gotten a new job starting next week—one that’s a consistent weekday 9-5!!—so things might get to pick up once I’ve settled into it.  or I might get time to get back to my 5D’s comparisons finally too We’ll see.