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JC, aka GymLeaderLance99/GLL99/Lance99. 35 | He/Him | NYC. I fansub GX, work on dub/sub comparisons for 5D's (and GX eventually), and have various other projects going. Expect a mix of multi-series YGO stuff (and the occasional SEVENS+ [which I'm slowly watching]), with some occasional randomness.
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TURN-144: Activate! The Ultimate Unsealing Ritual Art
Judai at last returned from his state as Supreme King Judai in his battle with O'Brien. However, he exhibits a high fever due to the effects of battling as the Supreme King and collapses. Ed and Ryou are nursing him when they see Instructor Chronos and Echo, who were both sent to this dimension as they had been, being hunted down by Monsters. Ed sees a pendant Echo dropped, noticing a photo of Amon inside it. As Ryou, Ed, Chronos, and Echo are all conversing, it suddenly gets foggy around them; when the fog clears, they find themselves in a completely different location--with Amon standing there.
TURN-145: Summon Exodios the Ultimate Sealed Lord!
It's Ed VS Amon, and Amon had been dueling with a strategy of refilling his hand, hoping to unleash Exodia the Sealed One. Ed caught onto that and activated Force of Four, which makes them keep only four cards in their hand at most. Amon, still wanting to acquire Exodia, activates Ultimate Unsealing Ritual Art and offers Echo as a tribute, then summoning Exodios the Ultimate Sealed Lord; with each of its attacks, Exodios would send a card with "the Sealed One" in its name to his Cemetery. For his part, Ed also tributes Diskguy, Diamondguy, and Dunkguy to summon Dogmaguy.
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In which I accidentally release these almost two months after my last release again... 🙃 (Well, make that almost three months after Videa.hu decided it would just not do uploads for three weeks--now that it's been fixed, I can finally push this release post out of my drafts, lol.)
[Also, "Amon, damn you...!" the Two-Parter]
Episodes 144 and 145 are now finalized! Coming off the end of the Supreme King mini-arc, we see that Judai is understandably traumatized in the aftermath and spends time recovering while we're reunited with Chronos, who has been going through this world alongside Echo (would've liked getting a scene or two about how they landed here and how they started making moves but oh well), and Ryou and Ed fill him in on everything that happened. Ed's conversation with Echo is also interesting, where she expresses the kind of love she has for Amon, and before long we also catch up with Amon himself, who's sided with Yubel temporarily in order to smash the will he's had through which he's put himself last. Amon arguably gets much of his hate from this two-parter and how he treats Echo, but I think it ends up with a good bit of schadenfraude in about 5-6 episodes (though I do like his line at the end of 145 in which he says he'll dedicate Yubel's neck to her). That said, we do lose Ed in the process, with Echo apologizing for getting him mixed up in all this, and I do like the dramatic flourish they added with Exodia being assembled to show his LP slowly dropping to zero to buy time for Judai and co to escape. Next episode, though...
In terms of animation fixes this go-around, there were a few minor ones--and a major one in 145--across both episodes, but overall, nothing too big to report, and 144 only had one I looked at that wasn't in a flashback. Details past the end of the post below for the interested, as always!
Housekeeping-wise, one of the fixes I applied to 144 was also applied to 143, so it's been updated in its release post with 141 and 142, while its hardsub, DVDRip, and MKV have been re-uploaded to NAC (where I'd posted 144-145 first pending Videagate's resolution).
(Also, another little recurring housekeeping request: I've previously tried to ask around to see if anyone knows any anime song cover artists that do Italian covers; since I'll be coming up on finalizing my Season 4 work sometime in 2026 [hopefully], I'd like to incorporate the Italian dub into my releases given that it starts to be adapted straight from the Japanese version as of episode 156 [versus being based on the 4Kids dub for episodes 1-155], and I'd really like to commission Italian covers of Teardrop and The Sun [even if just for one episode], as well as Precious Time, Glory Days and Endless Dream for S4 proper. If you happen to know any, pls drop me a line 🙏🏽 [Worst-case I'll check Fiverr soon maybe, but thought I'd ask for some leads on some good ones first lol])
With all that said, enjoy! Hope to work on 146-148 next as Judai's grief episode ("I... I should vanish!" judai NO) along with Ryou vs Johan/Yubel go into each other nicely and is a favorite set of episodes for me--we'll just see if I can at least post those in the next month at the latest, lol; before that, I'll be going back to do some translating for TFSP as I work on the ZEXAL cast's overworld text (and try to start on their in-duel lines), though since drafting this in late April, I've finished up the ZEXAL cast's overworld text and will start on some of their in-duel lines before shifting back to 146-148. Stay tuned!
Fixes and Edits! (144)
In the 143 recap, as Volcanic Devil launches its last attack only for Supreme King Judai to play Super Fusion, he chooses to fuse his Malicious Edge with O'Brien's Evil Token into Malicious Devil, with the two Monsters put into a split-screen as the darkness consumes them; as they split apart, there's a quick frame where the border on Malicious Edge's split is missing a glow. Reprised my quick fix in Vegas for it as applied in the episode proper, in which I reapplied a glow along the split's border for that frame.
A bit later, as Judai is having his nightmare about having beaten Jim and O'Brien while Supreme King, we see the shot of O'Brien piercing Supreme King Judai with the Eye of Orichalcum as its light fades and the two are sent flying--but before they're sent flying, we see Volcanic Devil still on O'Brien's Disk, shown in Defense Mode but taking up the space of a card in Attack Mode, which is inconsistent with the following shot as they're sent flying where it's no longer on his Disk (having just been destroyed with Malicious Devil). I'd only just noticed it while working on 144, so I went back to fix it there first, clearing the Zone in Photoshop, for one frame while the light was around them and one after it fades, and then using AfterEffects's position/scale motion tracking to re-zoom the fixed lit frame in the shot and having it fade into the fixed unlit frame, and redrawing some of the shadow aura as it passes over the zone. Once done there, I applied the fix for the shot in 144.
Later in the episode, after Ed plays Clock Tower of Seclusion and then his two Eternal Dread cards, Amon is surprised to see him play two, and Ed joins him on a split-screen to explain that one Eternal Dread places two Dread Counters on Clock Tower; their split-screen then splits, but there's a flicker in the split-screen border between them the frame right before they start to split apart. A quick fix by just copying the prior frame of the split-screen over the error frame in Sony Vegas.
Fixes and Edits! (145)
After Ed summons Diskguy through Doctor D, he explains how his effect lets him draw two cards when he's Special-Summoned, before then tributing him, Diamondguy, and Dunkguy for Dogmaguy--but there are several animation errors that happen in this animation cut: as the shot starts, Ed's deck is missing some detail while his right arm isn't fully drawn, then after he draws and ostensibly starts to reel his arm back in to look at his drawn cards, his arm and shoulder aren't drawn in, his hand with the drawn cards isn't fully drawn in, and a few other things. I broke down the errors in this post, along with showing how I fixed them (or did my best to lol)--mainly taking the error frames into Photoshop to fill in Ed's arm or splice in Ed's arm from a different but similar shot to bridge the three-frame gap between his arm being out from the draw and his hand with the drawn cards coming into the frame, while masking the missing deck/hand card detail back in from subsequent frames in Vegas.
Later, as Ed tributes D-Cubic, Diabolicguy, and Departedguy for Bloo-D, as the split-screen showing the three of them fading for the tribute splits apart, the split for Diabolicguy takes a frame longer to slide offscreen than the other two. Fixed this in Vegas by timing the other two's slide-outs to Diabolicguy's so they all slide offscreen together.
A bit later, as Amon mocks Ed for still trying [to delay the inevitable] by using Drain Time to skip his Battle Phase and prevent Exodios from dropping the fifth Exodia part in his Cemetery, Ed then slides in on a split-screen to say that he sure is, before they split apart as Ed thinks that he needs to gain on Exodia [and get to Amon's LP before Exodia gets to him], but as the split-screen starts, Amon only starts to move for it a frame after, and then as the two split apart, the split only lasts for 3 frames while Ed's now-expanded screen is still moving for an extra 4-5 frames, while Amon's moving in his own split as it slides out. Fixed this all in Vegas, first making it so that Amon starts to move right as the split-screen starts, then redoing the slide-out so that it lasts the full 7-8 frames it typically does and ends as Ed stops moving, while keeping Amon still consistently positioned in his split.
"1 Tuner + 1+ non-Tuners
If this card is Synchro Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 'Predaplant' or 'Starving Venom' monster from your face-up Extra deck or GY. If a monster(s) is Special Summoned to your opponent's field (except during the Damage Step): You can banish 1 'Polymerization' and this card from your GY; Fusion Summon 1 Fusion Monster from your Extra deck, using monsters from your hand or field. You can only use each effect of 'Predaplant Bal Teah' once per turn."
baffling that zorc is such a generally unpopular character actually. like he has horns, clawed wings, and an actual literal dragon head for a dick. he's the king of dubiously consensual corruption. technically he's a gazillion years old and generally referred to as male so like you can even put him in old man yaoi situations. he's made of evil thoughts and wants to destroy the world just because. he has never successfully accomplished anything in his life. he has no iconic lines at all and everything ever is his fault. he meets one (1) cute boy while cosplaying a human teenager (good taste in fashion sold separately) and immediately fucks himself over repeatedly for no reason bc Cute Boy was talking to him. his penis is a dragon also did i mention that part he's literally got a dragon dick so blatant the ygo manga had to censor it. i thought this fandom had gay people in it
Honestly i think its just everyone is far too swept up by thief king bakura. I love Zorc. Also his design just doesn't get enough movement in its screen time to reallllly feel it the way the blue eyes do. Alot of people watched the anime only and hes only in 4 episodes. I love his design too.
