Versus Manjoume Thunder (Part 2) - Armed Dragon LV7
The One With the Brotherly Angst (Part 2)
The duel between Judai and Manjoume Thunder continues. Manjoume’s Armed Dragon becomes a Level-7 (ATK/ 2800), and Judai’s made to go on the defense. Judai uses Special Hurricane to sweep out his Armed Dragon. Judai realizes that Manjoume’s feelings aren’t about him, but about his brothers in the audience. Manjoume once again summons Armed Dragon LV7, but with the mental upper hand, Judai plots a brilliant counterattack.
Not too long of a delay after 25, is it? Here’s 26, the thrilling conclusion! We get a good bit of character development continuing for Manjoume in how he feels towards his brothers and it resolving a bit before a final resolution in a little while. The duel goes well, too, and Judai’s upset was fun to watch. There were some fun shots mixed in too, like that bit early on with Armed Dragon LV7 destroying Featherman, and then the final Manjoume Thunder bit, lol.
So, with this done, I’ll be tackling my portion of the DSoD script for GX_ST, then starting 27. If Videa turns out to be good to my uploads, then I’ll probably try to migrate all my subs to it at some point for my stream masterpost, since I know Cloudy’s given some people issues.
There were also some fixes to this episode, though thankfully not as many, and more on the card and quick touchup side of things. Full list below. Enjoy!
FIXES!
3:20: As Judai points out Ojama Yellow and Manjoume tries to get rid of it, Winged Kuriboh’s card on Judai’s Disk was just an orange rectangle; put in its proxy in Defense Mode and masked the end of Judai’s Disk over its lower half.
3:31: There’s a few frames as Manjoume turns to draw after the above with the top card on his Deck missing the gold border around it; painted it on in Photoshop, and masked it above his deck.
4:20: Did a similar one last time; Judai’s split-screen re: Special Hurricane has his close-up lip-flapping but not his faraway shot. Copied his close-up’s lip flaps, shrunk and rotated them to fit them on his faraway face.
8:22: A quick frame or two as Manjoume turns to activate Grave of Enkindling has his face-down card miscolored grey; recolored in Photoshop quickly and threw it into the video.
10:37: Probably the most extensive fix. In the Japanese version, he’s audibly saying, “[Come forth!] Armed Dragon LV7!” but his lips don’t move. Ironically, 4Kids likes to add lip-flaps lots, but they opted to just have him do “And I chooooose...”. So I wanted to do the honors and fixed that. I took a flap or two from the shot just before this one as he turns, and then resized them slightly to fit on his new face here, taking a frame from this shot and wiping his mouth off to cover up the unused space on his face behind the new flaps. Then both were moved according to the panning. Turned out nicely, I’d say!
11:48: An error I picked up cruising frames, but Armed Changer--even in the anime--requires you to discard an Equip Magic to activate it. But here, Manjoume ends up discarding Armed Dragon LV5. wut. The dub didn’t attempt to fix this either, as they keep the frame as-is, Japanese Armed Dragon LV5 and all. So I took the one Equip Magic likely to be in his deck (Hell/Chthonian Alliance) and placed it in AfterEffects over ADLV5, then masking the motion lines that cut off parts of the card in (which could be the part that they didn’t feel like working with). It’s only about two frames, but hey.
14:36: As Judai hand-fuses for Flame Wingman, Featherman, Fusion, Burstlady in his hand are just rectangles as it zooms out to have them appear behind him. I took the initial frame and threw them on in AE, then zoomed it out accordingly with the panning in Vegas.
16:18: A jarring one, as Judai does his “Gotcha!”; the SFX for Flame Wingman’s fading plays earlier than the actual fading. The dub fixed this by just moving the SFX over, but I don’t have that luxury, so instead, I just masked the side of the screen with Flame Wingman as he fades out and the lingering shot of the crowd behind him earlier into the shot as Judai’s “Gotcha!” happens.
