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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 2 Subbed (Finalized) The One With the “Nya!”
As a belated holiday gift, I give you finalized!episode 2! Or just a belated thing anyway, since it took a bit longer than planned to finish lol (though it might’ve just been since I hadn’t already revised this episode’s script).
I did a minor fix to the footage by fixing two LP-falling clips so the scores are shown properly (first is Judai from Flame Wingman’s effect, second is Manjoume from… the same lol; originally, the counter just kept fluctuating, never stopping [and in Manjoume’s case, appeared while fluctuating]. Early GX was weird with its counters).
Enjoy, folks, and happy holidays/new year! Expect 3 sometime in the next week or two.
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BelieveXBelieve - My English Singable Translation
Been meaning to post this for months, so I think it’s about time lol. Another result of boredom during my commutes to work/some time to kill, and it’s also a cool song. Hope you guys like it!
(And if you want me to translate something, I’ve opened up to commissions, since the money can always help. Details here!)
(Other ARC-V Translations: BelieveXBelieve BURN! Future Fighters! Unleash/Hanate ARC of Smiles! Trump Card/Kirifuda Speaking Light of Hope Vision / Other Translations)
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- #yugioh
- #arc v
- #yugioh arc v
- #bullettrain
- #arc-v
- #my translations
- #now if someone gives it a good fandub we'll be set
- #shame there's no instrumental for bxb
- #[i need to post my other song translations too lol]
- #[and i know i owe a certain mexican cell a translation]
- #[sorry i've been such a yadon about it]
- #song translations
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GX Subbed: Finalized!1 - Release
So I’ve posted links for it over on NAC; get it while it’s hot!
I’ll be starting work on episode 2 in the next day or two. Enjoy the new ARC-V if you’re staying up for it; I’ll watch it in the morning before work lol.
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Yu-Gi-Oh! 10th Anniversary Movie - Super Fusion! Bonds Beyond Time (Rescored)
So while I was browsing my Cloudy, I figured I should repost this link, since most people probably wouldn’t see my update to the other post for this since it was taken off Dailymotion a while back. This is Japanese!BBT after tons of audio editing and a rescored soundtrack to include more tunes from GX and DM that the official version didn’t include, opting instead for more 5D’s music than anything (which, while I love the 5D’s tunes, considering it’s a crossover/anniversary movie, sharing the love would’ve been cool). Sparked by the disappointment most fans felt over at Janime/NeoArkCradle over that, suggestions were brought up, GoldenUmi from GX_ST gave me audio tracks to work with, I worked some editing magic to get rid of most of the leftover music, timed the new songs, leveled them out volume-wise and added some SFX where needed, and BOOM goes the dynamite. It’s not entirely perfect, though, given said editing and having lost the original tracks to try and fix it with, but it’s at least watchable.
Subs originally by GX_ST/TnKP, edited by me.
I’ll upload the dubbed version to Cloudy at some point, in case anyone wants to give it a look. Enjoy!
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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 1 Subbed (Finalized) The One With the “Gotcha!”
Two months later than I later realized I would’ve liked (to coincide with its first airdate ten years ago on 10/6/04), here’s my finalized version of episode 1! I’d already updated most of the translations a while ago, so aside from the ones I touched up this go-around, this was more of a stylistic/aesthetic update to match my later releases in spirit; I’ll eventually be reaching Seasons 3 and 4 to give them a touch-up with my new subtitle styling for both the episodes and the OP/ENs. And because Season 1 didn’t have the “Today’s best card!” segments, but I didn’t want to end the episodes abruptly right after the preview, I’ll be recreating the ending sponsor clips, only adding “Battle on the Edge/Genkai Battle” instead of “Sunshine/Kaisei” over it, and a little “Thanks for watching/tune in next time!” note (since later they add the “Just After This!” thing, so it’s a bit more consistent). I’ll just have to improvise come episode 24, since they used scenes that weren’t in the episodes.
Also, thanks one more time to thepalebride and aahes for their help with editing that shot of Manjoume in the opening!
(EDIT, 2021: Listed the animation fixes applied to episode 1 under the cut below)
So yeah, enjoy, folks! And let me know what you think in the tags or something. :) I’ll be updating my masterpost with the new link, too. Also, if anyone happens to know any good video websites almost as obscure as Cloudy yet functional on mobile, let me know; it’d be nice to have these work for people on their phones if they haven’t (and I’d like to watch these at work occasionally haha).
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To Marvelous Entertainment: Release Yu-Gi-Oh! GX and 5D's' Unreleased Music Yo guys, just wanted to repost this link in a newer post (thanks to everyone who reblogged my original post and follow-up for it) so more people would be aware of this petition.
As most GX and 5D’s fans know, a lot of music from the Japanese versions of those shows went unreleased, despite two (for GX; 3 for 5D’s, two of which were 2-CD releases) Sound Duel soundtracks, and they were a lot of the good ones. In GX’s case, there was an incredibly huge delay with Sound Duel 2’s release, and in that time, we basically got two CDs’ worth of new music during the Seven Stars/Shadow Riders arc and Season 2 (notably A Powerful Threat, All-Out Duel, Reconciliation, Camula’s Theme, Saiou’s Theme, Standstill, Enjoying the Duel and a few here), as well as Season 3 (notably A Strong Force, Johan’s Theme and his Gem Beasts’ Theme); none of the new tracks during the former were released, and most of the Season 3 songs were released with tracks from Season 4 on Sound Duel 2 when it did come out. Also of note: Sound Duel 2’s only TV-Size OP/EN were Precious Time and Endless Dream (while 5D’s had all of its TV-size OP/ENs released). I’d say that leaves 60% or so of GX’s soundtrack unreleased.
With 5D’s, while maybe 80% of the soundtrack was released, there were 10-15 tracks during the Fortune Cup/Dark Signers arcs that weren’t released yet they were used during memorable moments (among them JACK Battle 2, Yusei’s original battle theme, Hopeless Battle, and Lamentation), and the WRGP/Ark Cradle arc saw another 15 or so go unreleased (like this remixed Speed World, Sherry Battle, and Tactics). A smaller pool of unreleased stuff compared to GX, but it still would be nice to have them in perfect quality.
Sure, ripping the tracks is a solution, but unfortunately, it can be hard to keep a lot of what defines the tracks intact, and it wouldn’t be the same as listening to it during an episode (example here).
Thing is, I started this petition back in October, and there are only 60-ish signatures! The goal’s set at the default 1000 on the site, but I suppose more realistically, getting 200 might be a good start (right?). Now, this is the YGO fandom, and I know there are a bunch of GX/5D’s fans who liked/loved the series and a lot of the music that didn’t get released. There were also a lot of ZeXal fans out there who were pleasantly surprised when an unexpected Sound Duel 5 was announced, made thanks to fan outcry:
放送終了後も未収録音源のCD化を望むお声を多数頂きましたことを受け、今回の発売が決定致しました。
*quick translation by me*
“Many of you voiced your wishes for CDs of the soundtracks that went unreleased even after [ZeXal]’s broadcast concluded, and that led us to this next release.”
It came out a few weeks back and put a huge dent in ZeXal’s “unreleased music” list. Getting the same done for GX and 5D’s (but especially GX since it has a ton more) would be great, and is the general goal here. I mean, YGO series in general have awesome soundtracks, and it’d be nice to appreciate GX’s and 5D’s in full. GX especially has a great pitch going for it: this year was its 10th Anniversary!
If fans’ voices helped ZeXal, it can help GX and 5D’s. If you’ve already signed, thanks so much! If not, well, help us out, fandom! It only takes a minute or two to sign. We can do it!
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Question:
I remember talking to people way back (rhodanum I think we discussed this a bit too, right?) about making a GX torrent with my updated Season 3 and newly done 4 subs; did that ever get done since I finished S4? Or is anyone still willing to set one up? And also possibly make it updateable as I go through and finalize Seasons 1 and 2?
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I really wonder what more I can do to try getting more people to notice my GX/5D’s Unreleased BGM petition. I mean, it’s posted on here, I’ve given it the occasional reblog, it has a decent amount of reblogs and–as a result–a good bit of word-spreading behind it, I’ve posted about it on my Twitter (albeit once, but also once in Japanese), and yet it’s only gotten 53 signatures at this point–and while I definitely appreciate everyone who’s signed it so far, it’s been almost two months since I started it. Which is why I kinda hoped there’d be more support than that from the fandom lol. And I don’t know where else to post about it.
Or maybe I’m just not using social media properly OTLI mean, hey, aren’t there a lot of GX and 5D’s fans out there who liked/loved a lot of the music that didn’t get released? ZeXal’s unexpected Sound Duel 5, made thanks to fan outcry, came out last week and put a huge dent in the “unreleased music” list, and getting the same done for GX and 5D’s (but especially GX since it has a ton more) would be great! Don’t you want that tune playing when Ryou goes all Hell Kaiser? Or that tune when Ryou’s starting his game strong against Johan? OR that tune when Yusei gives Rudger his “WHY DO MY FRIENDS LIKE ME” speech? OR THAT tune when RALLY SACRIFICES HIMSELF? OR THAT TUNE WHEN JACK ATLAS MUSTERED ALL THE BADASSITY HE COULD DESPITE ALL HIS MAJOR FLESH WOUNDS TO PUSH HIS D-WHEEL? All among many others, all in absolutely flawless quality?!
or most if they do make it onto a CDI mean, hey, GX’s 10th Anniversary is a better time than any!Then, if you haven’t already (and again, thanks if you have!), consider signing that petition and spreading my post about it around. :) Because as much as I’m willing to rip these, there are some that are impossible to get perfectly (example) and it’d be nice to get the tracks as originally intended. Or at least some explanation as to why they were never released. I’m also working on a video in Japanese to boost the petition over on Nicovideo, so hopefully that helps, too.
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Sunshine - A Soaring Hallelujah | GX Season 1 OP 1 (Finalized!Subbed)
Here’s Sunshine/“Kaisei Joushou Hallelujah” as you’ll see it in my finalized Season 1 episodes. I thought I’d try something new and tweak the font style a bit for the lyrics there, slightly inspired by Horoko’s TnKP subs for 5D’s, and make the whole thing look a bit sleeker (which I’ll also go back and do for the other OPs/ENs as I work my way back up). I’ll be tweaking the font style in the episodes a bit too; should be a good way to tell my finalized episodes apart from my older subs if you’re surfing the web. :P Also used the translations I used for that fandub a while back (which I admit isn’t the best lol) to update my lyric translations there.
Special thanks (as the thumbnail shows lol) to thepalebride and aahes for their help in getting text off of that Manjoume freeze-zoom! :DEDIT, 4/17/22: At some point in the past few years, the version of the OP with Manjoume’s scene as a freeze-zoom and not a slow zoom, along with the different background behind Asuka/etc, was released on a DVD that was put online–as a result, I was able to use it for my subs, and the video above is from that.Hope you all like it! I’m still getting things IRL a bit more stable, but I should at least get episode 1 finalized over the next week or two, so keep an eye out!
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Battle on the Edge (Genkai Battle) | GX Season 1 Ending 1 (Finalized Subs, Ep.1 Ver)
Finally got this all done! Here’s the ending as you’ll see it in finalized!1 when I get to start working on it. After all that tweaking I did to the video, I like how it came out! And I tweaked my lyric translations too, since I felt they were a bit too literal before lol. I was going to use “Borderline Battle” but I found it hard to word some of the lines with it, and also I thought it’d imply “a battle but not a battle” more than “AWESOME BATTLE ON THE EDGE [OF OUR SEATS]” so I wanted to just make it a bit more explicit that that was the idea. And so, “Battle on the Edge” (BOTE) was born. I also worded the lyrics with an eventual singable translation in mind, so keep an eye out for it!
[once i finally post my believexbelieve one]Some of the staff names may or may not be off, since there were a surprisingly ungodly amount of Japanese staff who initially worked on GX (as opposed to the mainly Korean team later) and not all of them were on ANN or on webpages with their name’s romaji, so I had to look them up and go with the more common readings. If anyone knows them a bit better, let me know!
Enjoy and let me know what you think! I just have to update Kaisei a little, and then I’ll be able to start finalizing episode 1. :D
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Borderline Battle (Textless - Revised) - WIP
So I’m just about 90% done with this thing! This is a peek at the splits happening over the bridge of the song. Notes like last time:
- I had a still of Judai’s face fade out into the card-panning from the long image I made for this part, using Bubble Shot’s location in the TV raw video the frame after Judai starts fading (as much as I could make out) to guide it
- I masked in the splits, mostly from the textless version (though they’re in the same position in both versions) over the card-panning from the image, guiding it with the TV raw footage’s cards as a reference point
- Once Manjoume and Misawa come in, it might jitter a bit along the bottom row of cards, but with the subs there it shouldn’t be noticeable. It’s from where the lyrics were in the TV raw that I was masking out and using the custom pan to fill in
- Should be noted that for the long image pan, I couldn’t get Twin-Headed Thunder Dragon and Toon Table of Contents, among another two I think, complete from the video alone. So I just used pictures of the cards on the Wikia and layered them on in Paint.NET. It looked ok there, but trying to use the TV raw footage as reference, it turns out they were a bit off. So I just started masking out wherever you see the original versions of the cards I layered in. :P
- As soon as Chronos/Hayato/Shou’s splits are in, it switches to the textless version. Luckily, the only card that’s different here in both is Fire Princess, which is Horus LV8 in the TV raw version (who knows why they changed it), and you barely see it coming in when their splits combine, so there’s no consistency loss here lol.
All right, so after that, I noticed that the textless version also doesn’t keep the flickering going on in Thunder Giant’s that-thing-Ironman-has-in-his-chest, so I quickly masked it in and it’s good to go.
So I would be done, except I noticed that the textless version (which I’m using as a reference for the final video) splits Chronos and co out about 10 frames too early compared to the TV raw version, which means that split-out is a bit out-of-sync with the song. All I have to do, though, is just mask in their split-outs over the cards you see in the pan 10 frames later! That way, there’s no sudden card-jumping or me having to work on more of a long pan image lol.
So yeah, this should all be done by this weekend! Then I just have to put Kaisei together, and I can start working on those subs for these!
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So I was feeling a bit inspired tonight. :P
I finished up the first main part of the card pan in Borderline/Genkai Battle that I asked about in this post. It probably looks a bit iffy in some areas because it’ll go from smooth to blurred; the blurred parts are from the parts of the pan where the splits come in, since the pan’s in motion, and odds are it won’t be noticeable in action.
My plan now is to mask the TV video onto the textless one just before this pan (when the cards just appear and spin) to throw in Death Koala and Harpie Girl, since they’re replaced by King’s Knight and Gazelle in the textless version, along with all the split-screens. I also kept Mirror Wall here instead of Gorgon’s Eye to keep consistency with the seconds before this pan in the spin. All the while, keeping the image positioned so that once everything’s masked in, the jump to the TV video won’t be as noticeable as it was in that clip. And then I’ll work on the pan and do everything for the later part. Here’s hoping this works lol.
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I think I left the .psd in there by accident, so just… ignore that.
“fuck your fucking clouds.psd”
THE LAUGH I LET OUT. XD
Thanks again for getting that done! :)
And now, for anyone else who has awesome Photoshop skills, while thepalebride was able to get the clouds all text-free for these frames, the lyrics were a bit hard for her to erase and redraw Manjoume’s coattails well.
Would anyone else be able to tackle that part of the frames? I included a few reference frames from the textless version, in case that’d help with Manjoume’s torso.
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So I’m going back to the messing around out of boredom I was doing with Kaisei a while back while prepping stuff for Season 1, trying to make a few still frames during the Manjoume zoom-out match the original “textful” video where it “froze” on him for a few frames before showing Judai
and kinda hit a snag. I want to mask Manjoume from the textless video to get rid of the lyrics at the bottom, but the problem in doing it with the sky is that, since the textless video slowly zooms out here while the textful one stays put for some frames, you can see the clouds shrinking. The cloud background is also a bit different between the two versions. And because of the slow zoom in the textless video, you don’t see his cape flowing in the wind as much.
So I wanted to put it out there and ask if anyone good with Photoshop or whatever can edit those few frames (which I’ll cap and send) to get rid of that bit of credit text (if you can do the lyrics too, even better). I’ll cut right back to the textless video’s zoom-out, so it shouldn’t be too shabby. If someone can, I’ll name-drop them during the OP credits!
