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

Fun Fact:

If you have Volume 5 of the 5D’s manga (or Ride 33), turn to page 21 with Jack’s “The duel[ing] of one who creates possibilities! The duel[ing] of a King!” lines.  Have “Jack Battle” cued up.  Turn the page and start playing “Jack Battle” as Jack starts his turn.  Imagine everything happening as it would in the show, and it’ll flow perfectly ‘til the end of the chapter.  

I played it while reading it on the train the other day and I was surprised then again not really that it worked so well haha.

Okay so first Taiki Matsuno plays the Agumon line, now JACK’s Takanori Hoshino is playing that “I’ll never say it out loud” dude Ivan, and looking at the Digimon Wikia, fuckin’ KENN is Kouki (lip-ring BioThunderBirmon dude; I’m amazed I didn’t pick it up when I heard him) [and mind you, Kouki and Ivan show up in the SAME EPISODE], and the dude who played Costello in GX is SaberLeomon.  AND MR. T IS MASARU’S FATHER WHAT

BUT ALSO SAVERS IS GETTING INTENSE DAMN

[sorry, all these voice coincidences are just really amusing]

All right, so Sorano has a Permanent Magic called Seal Formation that lets him get back a card with “Seal” in its name in his Cemetery.  He plans to use it to get back his Defense Seal Magic card and beat Judai (switching Cross Porter to Attack Mode and beating it with Horus LV8).

Keep in mind: Defense Seal became “Stop Defense” in the TCG.  And any such cards in that Seal archetype (stuff like Anti-Spell Fragrance/Magic-Sealing Fragrance, Block Attack/Attack Seal, etc) lost the “Seal” in their name when put into the TCG.  So guess what card probably won’t ever be released! :P in the TCG anyway

Now, the Italian dub, being mostly accurate to the original at this point (bless), translates Sorano’s sentences about Seal Formation accurately.  Including using the word for “seal” for both Seal Formation (Formazione di Sigilo [spelling may be off]) and when he hints at what card he’ll get back (one with “Seal” in its name).  And so, when he says he’s planning to get Defense Seal back with it, he still says “Blocca Difesa”/“Stop Defense”, which… kiiiinda doesn’t have “seal” in its name. lol

Probably could’ve been avoided in this case had they called “Seal Formation” “Stop/Block Formation” instead.  Or if Konami or whoever went with “Block Attack, Block Defense,” and “Magic-Blocking Fragrance”, either/or. XD

wow I thought the clock episode in 5D’s was kinda bad but it figures the dub made it worse

-Zola explaining why she’s so calm with Yusei and not Crow->“oh I’m just yelling at you because my son’s coming and I need PRACTICE” also the fact that she already knew he was coming

-for some reason, Lyndon wants to be a duelist and just randomly squeezed in a clock-repair class; pretty sure Leo left to study clocks.

-“I used to tie my father’s bowties too”->“psychic dueling and bowties, my specialties”

-Leo trying to fix the clock by starting up the stopped gears->Lyndon just tinkering around. also WILL. NOT. SHUT. UP. during his flashbacks.

-apparently Yusei knew Crow planned to lose on purpose, even though Crow set Mirror Force possibly still trying to win, and JP Yusei mentions it being a turnaround card

-JP Crow’s “You don’t get do-overs in life!” line is replaced with something else

-ALL THE TIME PUNS

-also Lyndon calls his Clock Knight a “Clockwing” at one point. there’s a joke in there somewhere

I mean I thought this was the stretch of episodes where they were starting to be more accurate to the script wow

Also, just for the record, did Kaz say ZeXal would be the last series again at all, like he did about 5D’s? If he didn’t, at least we can say he didn’t back out from that again for Arc-V lol.

idk yeah, Yuya’s ZeXal-ish design’s got me slightly iffy on it, but I’ll give it a few episodes and see if it’s engaging (I mean, going back to the “have stuff happen in the first 10 episodes” thing from GX and especially 5D’s would be good).  Maybe by then I’ll catch up on ZeXal and Vector’s shenanigans I’d love having a series to watch through from the get-go again like I did with 5D’s; those old times on Janime staying up late for the Fortune Cup/Dark Signer arcs were fun haha.

I also saw someone on that NAC thread suggest having Chiaki J Konaka come in as head writer, which would be really cool given how he did Digimon Tamers (haven’t seen Lain but heard it’s pretty f’d up; also seems Yoshida’s done decent stuff with ZeXal, but it’d be interesting to have someone else take it up).

idk I just hope this series turns out awesome enough to have Masaaki Endoh record some songs for it again

Speaking of the DM manga, anyone know where I can find most of Volume 9/Duelist Vol.2 with Viz’s translations? I’m up to chapter 77, and this and a few other chapters (like one of the puppet!Kaiba ones) are fanlations mixed in with the Viz chapters; I like consistency, and the fanlations aren’t HK-subs horrible (then again, they have “niisama” in there…), but I’d rather the VIZ ones (or some better fanlations, if anything).

If not, I’ll deal with it, but figured I’d ask lol.  *jumps back to finishing GX 166*