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

Need me some meta analysis of Misawa’s character progression from “You might make a nice rival, #1-kun” to “what’s wrong with wanting your skills to be recognized?” that doesn’t boil down to “they didn’t know what to do with him or his cards so they made him a joke lol”

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 80 & 81 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 77-79 Subbed [Finalized])

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80: Alice in Despairland

A beautiful transfer student named Alice has appeared at the Red dorm. Kenzan goes crazy about Alice, but a doubtful Misawa comes to know of a puzzling rare card with the same name.* That night, Judai finds out that Alice immensely detests duelists and is trying to capture Kenzan, leading Judai to duel Alice. Alice summons zero-ATK doll parts one after another before summoning Doll Chimera, a doll that they haphazardly combine into. With each attack Doll Chimera takes, its parts increase and its ATK steadily rises…

*This part seems to reference the bit from the end of 79 of Misawa researching the Alice in Despairland card–since this was included in one of these episode spoilers from the time, it looks like it really was cut from the episode more last-minute.

81: A Quiz Duel?! VS Quizzer Panel 9

Kanda the Quiz King, who has secretly fallen in love with Asuka, happens to find Asuka arguing with Judai and challenges him to a duel. Kanda uses a Quiz deck based around activating the Quiz Hour Permanent Magic. Once he does, he becomes cheery, as if his personality changed, and with each of Judai’s attacks, he presents him with a challenge as a quiz-show host would. Judai clears the test-of-strength tasks, but gets the dueling-knowledge challenges completely wrong, causing his LP to fall…

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Episodes 80 and 81 are now finalized! Two episodes more on the breather side after our Field Trip of Hell, as Judai and co get back to Duel Academia and run into a Duel Spirit from Wonderl–I mean, Despairland, whose card was mistreated and made it want revenge. I do wonder if there would’ve been more nightmare fuel with the shot that was shown in 79′s TV airing that went unused in this episode, but Doll Chimera is plenty creepy on its own too. 81′s a favorite since the premise of Kanda’s deck is really unique, and I always did wish they’d print his cards, lol. It’s also interesting because Kanda’s shy love for Asuka and the way he’s all “If you don’t stop this I’ll have to duel you” to Judai, as I mentioned before, is likely inspired by the Densha Otoko/”Train Man” story, down to the forum posts as he asks for love advice. It was also nice to hear some OST we haven’t heard since Season 1, and Burstlady’s summon animation in this episode is one of my favorites, making her look pretty cool, lol.

Part of the delay here was handling a fair amount of card/animation fixes and translation edits (for 81) between both episodes, including a few big card ones for episode 80; more details below the cut, for the interested. :)

Enjoy, folks! These should be up on NAC in a day or two. Next time, we’ll be tackling episodes 82 and 83–Misawa wanting to join the Society of Light(?!) and the return of one interesting Principal–so stay tuned for those! Once those are done, we’ll be hitting the GeneX arc of Season 2, which I’m looking forward to revisiting.

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GX Finalized-Subs!81 (WIP) - A Strapping Issue (Installment #12 probably)

Meant to try to show this off early last week once I had finished the edit up, but lol got busy and forgot.

So, one of my “favorite” (affectionate) reoccurring animation errors–should go back and check how many of these I have found so far lol–comes in here in episode 81, as Judai has Burstlady attack one of Kanda’s Quiz Panels after the eyecatch. As you can see, in the first clip as Judai declares her attack, Burstlady’s drawn without her shoulder strap connected to the cuff on her arm as she usually is; in the second clip shown, as she fires her Burstfire, not only is her shoulder strap still missing–her shoulder is now colored like the red on her outfit too (this one I don’t think I’ve bumped into too often in the show; I know I fixed an error like that back in the OP1 video).

I fixed these frames in Photoshop, painting in the shoulder strap/cuff combo (and fixing the third frame’s error on the part of her outfit where the coloring of her right breast’s skin cuts into the red part), while also recoloring her shoulder in the second clip’s frames and using the original coloring as a guide to draw on the shoulder strap. For the second clip, I also added a light screen layer to light up the edit as the light from the flames were around it. I think I did a pretty good job keeping it looking consistent throughout, and I figured it’d make sense to keep the cuff highlights as I extended it into the shoulder strap while adding the shading; hopefully it does look good!

How DSOD Really Ended

(After seeing this post from @keirankane, a Discord convo compelled me to do a thing 🙃)

you ever just have so much to say that you need two mouths

GX Finalized-Subs!81 (WIP) - Sleepless in Yamanote

With the fixes and stuff I’ve finished up for 80, I’ve now started working on stuff for episode 81 before I work on revising both episodes’ scripts. As part of that, I’m hitting the one to-do list item I flagged for myself back in 2020 and translating the 2chan-like thread that Shou/Judai and Kanda are looking at (Shou and Judai through Shou’s PDA in images 1 and 2, Kanda through his laptop on images 3-6).

(EDIT, 8/8: Final product!)

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GX Finalized-Subs!80 (WIP) - The Wandering Doll

Just finished working on all of the animation/card fixes I noticed for episode 80 (about nine altogether, half quality-of-viewing stuff like fixing split-screens, half card-related fixes) and wanted to show these two off; the first one in the first three gifs I’d say took most of the week to work on, lol. This is the first card fix I’ve applied in a scene like this too, where you have those visual effects going on Alice and the card itself. The first shot (the first three gifs) happens as Alice the Wandering Doll’s effect puts it onto Judai’s field, while in the second (the second set of three gifs), duelist Alice attacked into it to trigger its effect and send it back to her field. The third one (in the last set) has her being attacked on duelist Alice’s field by Judai’s Rallis the Stargazing Bird in nine quick frames before she explodes.

In each row, the first gif is the original, my edit is the second gif, and the third is how the dub handled it just for fun; the goal here was to flip Alice the Wandering Doll’s card so that its name box was on the left (as that’s how the cards are placed on Disks in Defense Mode, plus we see it facing that way in later shots), and while the dub does fix that (except for the third scene), you’ll notice in the first two scenes that they altered the way Alice gets onto and out of Judai’s field here to do it–it looks like they might’ve first applied the dubified card under Alice, masked her back over it, and then masked both her and the card out as one layer to then apply the transition/warping effect they do over both; I can imagine they were a bit limited in how they could deal with these if they don’t have direct access to the card layers like they seem to for ARC-V and VRAINS’s dub.

(Editing process breakdown below)

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 77-79 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 75 and 76 Subbed [Finalized])

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77: The Four Fearsome Monarchs! Demiurge EMA

Unchosen by Saiou’s little sister Mizuchi to take part in things, Iwamaru seeks to defeat Judai out of desperation. Just as they’re at a loss due to not knowing Judai by face, they come across the Red dorm’s camp area, where Judai and Iwamaru get on well despite not knowing who the other really is–but just as they try to have a friendly duel, they each realize that the other is someone they don’t like. With Granmarg the Earth Monarch (ATK/ 2400) as the base, Iwamaru combines the power of the four Monarchs to summon Demiurge EMA, whose ATK rises to 4900…

78: The Mightiest Tag Team?! Judai & Ed (Part 1)

Led by Mizuchi, Judai and Ed enter a virtual space, where an unusual Tag Duel between them begins, Mizuchi using a mirror to call forth a double. Judai and Ed have their own goals–Judai wanting to save Shou and Kenzan, and Ed wanting to prove that he’s number one–and their teamwork takes a hit. Sacred Barrier – Mirror Bind endlessly reflects Monsters–much like opposing mirrors–and it destroys Judai and Ed’s Monsters. And then, there is the Full Moon Mirror on the field, which projects a full moon that slowly and eerily wanes with each Monster destroyed…

79: The Mightiest Tag Team?! Judai & Ed (Part 2)

Judai and Ed’s unusual Tag Duel with Mizuchi continues. Mizuchi tributes her two Magic Mirror Spirits to summon her invincible Deity of Darkness – Dark God (ATK/ 3000), which can’t be destroyed in battle. In addition, she reflects it in the opposing mirrors of her Infinite Demon Mirror Field Magic, gathering 10 Dark Gods on her field. Ed has braced himself for a loss, while Judai still has a burning fighting spirit. He summons a new Neo-Spacian, Black Panther…

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~~honoumaru deserved better~~

And after a bit of a delay in working on these […has it really been four months lol whoops], 77-79 are all finished and finalized! Come along and wrap up our mini-arc in Domino Town with this triple release, as we first meet Iwamaru, desperate to hold onto the power Mizuchi granted him which made him a dueling threat–of course, as Judai points out, what fun is it to take that shortcut over improving your own skills? Then, in 78, Judai and Ed are sent into a digital world (no, not that one), where they’re greeted by Saiou’s little sister Mizuchi, aiming to see which of the two will impact Saiou’s own fate the most; thrown into a Tag Duel together, will Judai and Ed be able to put their remaining differences aside and work together? I did enjoy 78 and 79 for this, as it picks up from the more respectful moment they had after their last duel in 68; Ed sees how Judai’s insistent on there being a way to turn things around, and Judai’s challenged by Ed to think bigger about his strategy. We’re also told, of course, that Saiou’s currently being manipulated by a force that came from the card Ed’s dad created that he was killed over, which sets off a key plot thread we’ll be following for the rest of the season.

In terms of animation fixes and whatnot, there were… a bunch of errors I picked up and wanted to fix; 77 and 79 had a handful or so that weren’t too bad, but 78, for how nice and detailed the episode looks art/animation-wise, bore the brunt of it, with about 17 of them, lol. Those along with the aforementioned editing accounted for much of the delay, as I also wanted to preserve the unique preview in 79 that we got of 80 from the TV airing during the “Today’s Best Card Just After This!” scene near the end, which seemed to be cut from episode 80 proper before it aired (and Alice goes on to be totally different from the portrayal there); special thanks to @popflythesky for all of their help in editing many of the frames from one of the seven clips in the bit (the panning shot of Misawa as he then turns to see Alice in his window) which I then worked into the footage–you can see more about the process around all that in this post. Also, special thanks to Hit-hitsu-suji on DeviantArt for the ripped/touched-up Alice card artwork that I used to recreate the card on Misawa’s computer screen and the panning shot on the artwork. More details on the fixes and all that below the cut, as well, along with a quick Translation Note on Mizuchi’s deck.

(Given recent news, I also want to spend a quick second here on Mr. Kazuki Takahashi’s passing, without whom I wouldn’t be nearly as invested in this franchise, or find such value in it even as a now-32-year-old. I said more about it here, but suffice it to say, Takahashi’s impact on each of us who found a lot of inspiration in his art and work can’t be understated, and I hope he rests in power and peace knowing what a legacy he’s left behind as his original story led to a massive cultural mainstay. In a way, it’s kind of bittersweetly nice that my delays on these episodes timed this release the way they have, since this Domino mini-arc was in part inspired by the Yu-Gi-Oh! VS GX movie he had thought about but never worked on; I always wanted more details about how that would’ve gone. Rest in power, king.)

Enjoy, folks! These should be up on NAC in a day or two. With these now done, I think I’ll want to do a few double-releases just to make up for a little lost time, though since I did give myself a vacation from work this week for my birthday (this past Sunday 😄), I’ll probably start more dedicated work on 80 and 81 next week. ~~we’ll see if i do something for it~~ It’ll be fun revisiting the Alice duel and definitely the Quiz episode–actually haven’t watched that one in a while, but it was always a favorite, haha.

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I regret to inform that the infamous “flesh-surpassing power of the D!” line was a mistranslation 😔 (Old line on the left, finalized revised line on the right)

(lol, but really, the line, in response to Judai’s “Are the D-Heroes powerless against Mizuchi, too?”, is actually “Ｅを超えたＤの力をなめるなよ！”/”E wo koeta D no chikara wo nameru na yo!” But when first doing episode 78 years ago, I[’m pretty sure] I misheard “E” as “mi” or “body/flesh” and so that’s how that was born, haha. This also makes sense since here, Ed’s still trying to prove his own value above Judai’s in Mizuchi’s and Saiou’s eyes.)

(Looked at Crunchyroll and they covered this line as “The power of D, which exceeds that of E… Don’t underestimate it.” which… sounds stilted to me, lol.)

GX Finalized-Subs!77 (WIP): Borrowed Power

GX Finalized-Subs!77 (WIP): A Fireside Snack ‘n Chat

Do you happen to have any new streaming links to your 5D's uncut episodes? The streaming links currently listed are broken as they seem to have been removed due to copyright.

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Heya, I think you’re looking at the preview clips I’d uploaded to YouTube, which, yeah, some of them were copyright-blocked. But the links in the masterpost I have here for those full episodes are still up and working!

GX 79->80 Original Preview Clip: Enter Despairland (FINAL)

After 84 years… it’s finally done 😤

As mentioned in this post, I’ve spent most of the past month-and-a-half (in between work and other things) on editing this preview clip shown at the end of episode 79′s original TV airing in 2006 for ep. 80 (the Alice in Despairland episode, which turns out different from what this clip would have you believe) to remove the Sponsor text in the middle of the screen to make it textless for use in my finalized subbed episode. (I wanted to remove the “Today’s Best Card Just After This!” side bars as well, but given the low quality of the original clip in the panning shot of Alice at the window and how her hair blends into the night sky behind her, I felt it’d have been too hard to pull off.) I wanted to preserve this for my subs rather than creating a new preview clip, since it’s an interesting look at how the concept for episode 80 was seemingly changed within weeks of 79′s production (I’m a bit surprised it aired without this preview clip being changed lol).

And with the editing all done, I wanted to throw up this quick comparison video with a breakdown under the cut here–this video first shows the original clip as aired on TV (with my subs there for the sponsor bit), then my edit retaining the side bars but blanking the middle (for use with the Japanese DVDRip I’ll be releasing), and then my edit with solid-blue bars overlaid on the originals so I could slap my English “Just After This!” text on (for use with the hardsub). ~~Enjoy your Alice nightmare~~

And a huge thanks to @popflythesky for their help in making this happen 🙌🏽–more on that below.

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Hey, Mr. Lance. I have a music question. In MAKEMAGIC, there are those parts that go like (Lucy ku ku Lucy) that are translatable words. If you made a singable english version of the song for any reason, would you leave them be or translate them?

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(sorry for the late reply, I was busy ~~bu bu busyyy~~ this weekend)

(Also, for readers’ reference [did you know there was an official music video for makemagic? You do now!])

That’s a good question, and I thought I might’ve started a singable translation but seems I haven’t lol. I didn’t think they were translatable words tbh, but I checked with other folks over on NAC who know Japanese, and I’m surprised I didn’t catch them, though the rhythmic stuttering might’ve caused that. The stuttered words and the words they’re meant to be:

Kurushii (lucy ku ku lucy; painful/tough)

Munashii (munassy muna muna nassy; empty/futile)

Sabishii (savissy sa sa vissy; lonely)

Scary (scary sca sca sca)

Kanashii (nassy ka ka nassy; sad/miserable)

Negative (negatty ga ga ga)

(Also just picked up from this that the “pri hani fei” in the last break of the song is meant to be “pretty honey face” which… I can see now, lol.)

So, tl;dr yeah I should be translating them. :)

GX 79->80 (WIP #2): Enter Despairland

Following up on this post, I wanted to drop a quick update now that I’ve been editing this for about 2-3 weeks so far with Sony Vegas and Photoshop. (Original video here for comparison.) Off the top, because of how hard it seemed to me to try and edit the sides of Alice’s hair in the later panning shot at the window to remove the blue sidebars (her hair blends too much into the night sky behind her given the video quality), I opted to just focus on the TV sponsor text in the middle; may as well keep the sidebars for the Japanese-text clip I’ll include with 79′s DVDRip upon release, while I’ve added these solid sidebars so I could add the English text for the final product. Special thanks to @popflythesky who very graciously offered to help with this (🙏🏽🙂)–more on that down below.

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