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keeps-ache Ā· 1 year ago
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love how my computer makes some apps stop working so i'm forced to do an update <3 that's really cool dude
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steve0discusses Ā· 4 years ago
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Yugioh Ep33 S4 pt 1: Deus Ex US Military
Been a little distracted but was reminded--yo--I gotta finish S4 of Yugioh this year. I think I can do it. Thereā€™s like...what...two episodes left? Three? Like I donā€™t want to tempt 2020, but like...I think I can finish this thing.
That and a bunch of my Photoshop files corrupted, I donā€™t know why, Iā€™m very scared for my hard drive, and I need to do a big ol defrag and hope thatā€™s enough. Really hoping this is my bad and not my computerā€™s bad. Iā€™m pretty hard on this computer when I paint digitally.
and I was immediately gifted by the anime gods because yo, itā€™s my favorite storyboarder! They're back to carry me through my election burn out, every episode they touch has so much style and no matter how freakin weird or confusing the plot is, this storyboarder/animation team doesnā€™t seem to care. They will this kids show about cards with this attention to detail. They just have a lot of enthusiasm and thatā€™s a thing about anime that I really like to see. No matter how weird it is, you gotta go 150% without any shame. Love it. Love to see em back.
First off, that earthquake from last episode?
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Just a little bigger of an earthquake than I originally thought, coincidentally, this is when Roland shows up, only to realize that heā€™s like...10 minutes to late.
Well, maybe a little longer than 10 minutes when you consider that Mai freakin died and Yugi almost died, and Joey is absolutely dead and being carried across Tristanā€™s back.
Anyway, Roland just walked into a whole lot and is just trying to process his life. Roland is all of us in October/November of 2020.
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If Roland only knew how many times Seto and Mokuba have totally biffed it when he wasnā€™t looking.
Like for reals...how is Roland still alive? Like...I donā€™t think the guy has ever died. Not even once. Maybe thatā€™s Rolandā€™s superpower as the secret FourthKaiba, by just being the only one to stay very far away from the constant BS strewn at this family.
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Roland is just...too inept to die. Heā€™s always too far away, he comes after the big bad has already murdered a few people, heā€™s just...too bad at his job to ever be a target. Live long, Roland. The Kaiba who was the smartest of all by actually being the dumbest.
Also, look at him parking far enough away on the actual helicopter landing pad. He is the only ā€˜Kaibaā€™ that follows the law. This could also be the other reason for his secret to longevity.
(read more under the cut)
Faced with a stairwell between their freedom and this weird earthquake chasm that just opened on the top story of this building, Yami decides itā€™s his job to carry...................
...................Raphael.
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(Never forget that we know the exactly weight of Yugi Muto.)
And like Yami is weirdly strong because of magic powers but like...maybe Yami should take Joey and then Tristan should pick up Raphael? Iā€™d say Tea could also pick up Raphael, but I feel like she just wouldnā€™t want to.
TBQH maybe the reason that Yami is carrying Raphael is because literally no one else feels like it? Like no one likes this guy?
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Just kinda feels like Yami is holding onto Raphael out of a sunk-cost fallacy. Heā€™s already done so much work to this guy, canā€™t lose him now. Gotta save Raphael to make up for killing Gurimo, Weevil, and Yugi. Canā€™t fail a fourth time.
Anyway, you know what else this storyboarder is good at?
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How did they even get reference for drawing this? They didnā€™t, right? Theyā€™re just so good at art that they were like ā€œI can draw ANY person in ANY outfit straight up the crotch, I dare you.ā€
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Seto decides to...not help out, much like virtually all of Yamiā€™s other friends, who also just kinda...yelled and cried at this situation instead of...helping.
Which is fine, because the stairwell gave out and then Raphael decided to uhhhh throw this directly at me.
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Just one more yeet for the road. Youknow this guy has yeeted the Pharaoh not once but twice in one season, and both times he just chucked him like he was made out of foam core. (Also, please admire the millennium puzzle in this shot going out at like a 90 degree angle. Just...A+, this storyboarder is hilarious)
At first, I really thought Yami was dabbing his way over that ledge.
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In a moody shot with his hair and his jacket swaying in the breeze, almost designed for you to lift and stick into your Youtube AMVs, Seto looked onward and seemed...kind of bored because no oneā€™s throwing any cards. And like who can blame him, he has been on the top of so many ledges and so many buildings that heā€™s seen Yami make this same speech of ā€œDONā€™T DO THIS DAMN LEDGE THING I SWEAR TO GODSā€ like...so many times.
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He just immediately accepts Yugi died and is like ā€œWell I guess that makes me king of games.ā€
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And Raphael, after like several minutes of begging Yami to just let him die, decides to let go of that ledge on his own, because this is Yugioh, and you gotta fit in that suicide within the first 10 minutes of the episode. Which, PS, is not the weirdest thing that happened this episode.
And because Roland is freakin late to everything, he showed he could have done this the entire time. Honestly I think Roland just didnā€™t want to deal with Raphael. We can blame this on Roland, right?
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PS we never see this building again in this episode.
I donā€™t know........why they bothered showing this. If anything it makes the next plot twist more weird because itā€™s like...what was the point of the random ass earthquake and the random ass concept art building if we, in fact, arenā€™t coming back here???
I mean I guess itā€™s a nice shot for your Artstation portfolio, good on you, Yugioh background artist.
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Unfortunately this chip contains Seto Kaibaā€™s greatest weakness. (SanDisk card? Jump drive? Which PS--if they had jump drives this whole time, why was Seto using floppies earlier in the season? Like what happened there?)
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And then, with the hatch of their helicopter just wide open, no one in a seat belt, and walking away from the destruction of one of the largest buildings in San Fransisco, finally the cops showed up. Real cops this time, not possessed cops. Also, itā€™s the Marines.
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Am I going to get my Monty Python ending? I mean...if cops can recognize these kids in this universe...I might get my Monty Python ending. :) :) :)
For some reason, back on the mean streets of San Fransisco with no people left alive in it, Rebecca just kinda started losing her mind. Maybe this was to make up for the 2 seasons I had to watch Duke Devlin flirt with a 12 yo? That now we have to suffer Duke saddled with this small crazy person?
This small crazy person who is painted as this intolerable person next to Duke Devlin, but is also a love interest for the main character? Like Yugiā€™s into some weird ass angry girls.
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PS the orcs were no longer needed for the plot so they have turned into streams of light in order to join with the Leviathan mass. So now Rebecca and Duke Devlin will just have literally nothing to do for the rest of the season. I guess they can go to Ghiradelli square...someoneā€™s gotta eat that ice cream before it melts.
Also this happened.
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In case you were likeĀ ā€œWow Rach, you didnā€™t update the Death Count, how dare youā€--itā€™s because I uh...completely forgot that the Oricalchos crew is immune to fall damage. Raphaelā€™s just fine now. He fell down 50 stories...and then 50 stories fell on him...but donā€™t think about it.
Meanwhile, on the back of some aircraft carrier, far into international waters, the kids get recruited into the military of a foreign country and itā€™s just as weird as you think it is.
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Hey guys.
So, Bandit Keith was weirdly in Hell this season for no reason, right? What if he died offscreen because, earlier in the season, the US military threw him at Dartz because they couldnā€™t get a hold of Yugi or Kaiba? What about that headcanon? What if thatā€™s why his angry ghost wanted revenge?
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Anyway, they join the ranks of Shadow T. Hedgehog, which makes sense because...these guys look like human OCā€™s of Shadow the hedgehog already.
Sorry I just had a moment because Shadow uses guns a lot despite not needing them at all so ā€œpeople wonā€™t get uncomfortable with how powerful he isā€ while in Yugioh they canā€™t even...show a gun. That really is...you ever think about how weird that is? That Shadow the Hedgehog, a strange remix of a 90ā€²s sega mascot, has a million giant guns but Kaibaā€™s actual gun (which, apparently he does have in the Japanese version of this show) got edited out completely?
Sometimes it just dawns on me and I have a moment.
Now the US Military just hand delivering them to Dartz is so wild because their reason for the USA not doing anything on their own with their fleets and fleets of ships is:
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Have you MET the US? I live here, and if we were like given the choice to shoot the ocean...or just die...weā€™d be like ā€œwait...for reals? So no one gets hurt, we just shoot guns at the water? You mean we finally found our true calling? For REALS? I just shoot this water bucket!??? FOR REALS????ā€ and it would become a national holiday. All pop songs would be devoted to it. Our ancestors would make movies about it.
I mean, our dumbass president considered nuking a hurricane in 2019...in case you forgot because damn, itā€™s been a STUPID 4 YEARS. (And you better have voted already because for reals do not make me go through 4 more years of this. I do not think this blog would survive it...or the hurricanes that will keep getting nuked.)
Also....the show actually threw the word ā€œproofā€ out there. Seriously show? You OK?
I figured the mind control situation would be a better reason not to arrest Dartz other than ā€œDartz is just so good at covering up his tracksā€ when the TRACKS have a broken down Caltrain on one side of them, and the other side of the tracks have the rest of that same Caltrain at the bottom of a river.
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Seto is not amused but he never is. He will take this Nobel Peace Prize and step up to the microphone at the UN and be like ā€œI WANTED IT TO BE A CARDS PRIZE.ā€
PS--we HAVE a map already, right? Raphael died to give us this map--and then didnā€™t die, but itā€™s not like anyone else here knows that. So like...why did we need the US Military to show up at all? Why is this scene important? Other than to look cool, I guess? Like...
...why is the US military here we already have a Deus Ex Machina delivered by Raphael? At least that one was deserved--the whole point of that duel was to get this MAP.
A map that we are never going to use.
...Thereā€™s a good chance that two writers wrote this episode in two different buildings and just...glued the two halves together. Animation is wild. Weird ā€˜Cinema sinsā€™ things like this happen...all the time. This one though, this one is kind of funny because itā€™s a ton of wasted effort on the very best storyboarder.
Anyway I broke this up into two segments because Iā€™m tired, and also, while a lot of people like long posts, the smaller posts are kinda easier to read. More will be upcoming in like...I dunno it really depends on a lot of things right, now, Iā€™ve been having a time, but at least Yugioh is always there to enjoy. Maybe Iā€™ll need so much distraction youā€™ll get an update tomorrow? Good things can happen, and itā€™s not like I get to do anything else for Halloween.
Happy Halloween Yā€™all! Lets make the most of it!
(hereā€™s a link to read these in chrono order)
https://steve0discusses.tumblr.com/tagged/yugioh/chrono
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