#Also Johan an O'Brien but no Jim or Amon

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Yu Gi Oh GX and Alchemy: Citrinitas and the Splendor Solis

Yu-Gi-Oh GX, an anime that exists to sell you Trading Cards is a also a piece of media with some of the most well-researched, and layered symbols and references to the Great Work in Alchemy. The show is built around it's alchemical symbolism, each of the four seasons representing a step is the Great Work of turning lead into gold.

Season is Nigredo or 'blackening', Season 2 is Albedo or 'whitening', Season 3 is Cintrinatis or 'yellowing' and Season 4 is 'reddening,' where Judai achieves wholeness of the self, and completely his journey of growing from a child to an adult.

Season 3 is the yellowing, symbolized by the color yellow, the element of earth, and where Judai completes his final chemical wedding with his opposite and his soul Yubel.

The entirety of GX s a metaphor for the Great Work, with season 3 focusing on the yellow stage. The group that surrounds Judai represents each of the 4 stages of alchemy.

Manjoume, (Nigredo Black, and Fire)

Asuka (Albedo, White, and Water),

Misawa (Citrinatis, Yellow, and Earth)

Judai (Rubedo, Red, the Philosopher's stone, and Air).

Season 3 depicts the drowning of the king, only for him to be reborn again. The king in this situation being Judai who drowns and rises up as the Supreme King associated with yellow, is defeated and dethroned, only to embrace the Supreme King's power and integrate it into himself.

All of Season 3 is a necessary dissolution of Judai, in order for him to be reforged into a stronger person, the way metal is purified through the process of alchemy. Judai even states in embracing Yubel at the end of the season that even if his previous self was destroyed he's fine with that because it's a part of growing up.

The entire season is themed around solve et coagula (dissolve and coagulate, rinse away the impurities to refine yourself into a better version of yourself / reforge the stone). Letting things dissolve away is needed in order to become purified, the same way that death alway proceeds a rebirth. We will call back to these ideas time and time again over the course of this meta. This symbolism starts in the very first episode of the season 106, where Judai experiences a dream premonition of the future.

In this dream Judai wakes up in a desert dimension, the same dimension, Yubel will later teleport the academy to. He sees his friends all turned to sand, only for the wind to scatter them on the breeze.

Not only is this a reference to Dissolve et Coagula, but Judai's friends will also literally dissolve later when they are used as sacrifice materials for Super Polymerization, only to coagulate at the end of the season. This scene also takes place in a desert, and earth is the element associated with citrinitas.

The Exchange Students

This episode also features the introduction of the four transfer students, particularly Johan. Each transfer student is associated with an element and a phase in the four step process of Alchemy.

Austin O'Brien, uses a fire deck, associated with nigredo

Amon Garam, uses a water deck, associated with Albedo

Jim Crocodile Cook, uses an earth deck, associated with Citrinatis

What about Johan, you ask?

So far we've been talking about Alchemy as a four step process, but sometimes there is a fifth step called Peacock's tail (The Prismatic Phase).

The peacock tail is a physical stage in alchemy, a brilliant flash of green which comes to signify that the alchemist is one the right path. It can also be recognized in spiritual/psychological alchemy as a flash of visions that come to the adept as they move through the phases of transformation.

The Splendor Solaris painting of Venus / The Peacock is associated with love (the domain the goddess venus presides over), spirit, spiritualism, and inspiriation. II often compare it to the star Major Aracana in Tarot, which is a card of renewed hope and faith and a flash of temporary insight.

What better step fits Johan who not only plays a deck based around seven monsters, which represent the seven colors of light that make up the prismatic rainbow, but also is a character who is capable of seeing duel spirits like Judai.

The most important part of the prismatic phase though is that it's temporary, it's a flash of insight. Johan most notably, after appearing and burning so bright he captures all of Judai's attention disappears halfway through the season.

The search for the yet to be discovered Rainbow Dragon is also what drives both Judai and Johan the first half of Season 3, especially when it becomes their only way to get home. While the search for Johan himself, is what drives Judai in the second half. Johan really is the star in the distance who's light Judai is following.

Judai's first duel against Austin is meant to invoke Nigredo, the boiling away of impurities. Austn uses a fire themed deck, and over the course of the duel Judai helps "purify them" to the point where they remember they're not supposed to blindly follow orders. Austin invokes the fire symbolism by quite literally saying his father was a man who blazed with passion.

I'd forgotten what my father taught me. My father wasn't jsut a dog who fought as he was told. He was a warrior who burned with passion. And he...Judai made me remember that.

Judai's purifying of Austin's soul also starts his character arc here, as he quickly grows from more than just Professor Cobra's willing collaborator.

Kenzan and Jim's duel is a reference to the step of Citrinitas. Kenzan and Jim both duel with earth centered decks, Kenzan's deck revolves around resurrecting dinosaurs, and Jim's deck digs fossils out of the earth. Jim's deck even revolves around fusing summoning monsters in the graveyards, which is a reference to his career as digging fossils deep out of the ground. Kenzan also wears yellow, and when his dinosaur DNA gets out of control his eyes turn yellow. The two of them have their duel on a dry patch of dirt in the middle of the forest.

Cintriatis is referred to as the drawning of the "solar light" inherent in one's being, and that reflective "lunar or soul light" was no longer necessary [source]. What this essentially means is that the subconscious becomes conscious, or we become aware of what we usually keep hidden about ourselves.

Jim's duel against Kenzan references this because the purpose of the duel itself is to wake up Kenzan from a primal, animalistic, subconscious state activated because his Dinosaur DNA went out of control. Jim is basically attempting to show Kenzan the light by calming him down with a duel, something he'll do much later with Judai. A duel between them is a duel betwee instinct and higher reasoning.

The last duel of the exchange students is Manjoume vs Amon. It's a duel that reveals so much and yet so little about Amon's character.

The second stage of alchemy is called albedo, a latinicized term of "whiteness." It's a purification thatfollows after the nigredo stages where all impurities are washed away. It's associated with water.

Amon invokes this stage in several ways. He plays a cloudian deck, clouds are associated with water. Albedo is associated with water because it features the "washing away" of impurities. They duel each other over a a pool of water, in a duel where the loser will be dropped into water below. Manjoume even refers to himself as the lightning going through Amon's clouds, there's only lightning when it rains.

Manjoume: I'm not a spoiled rich dude, casually gazing up at clouds like you were. Manjoume: If you're a white cloud, then I'll be the black thunder.

Albedo is also a stage associated with purification / purity, and the entire duel Amon is remarked upon as being pure / being unreadable like the white clouds themselves.

Manjoume: I'm beating him. It's obvious that I'm cornering him, but... Manjoume: ...What's with this cavelier attitude of his? It's almost like he's like a cloud. Manjoume: I haven't seen him dueling yet. What could he be hiding in those clouds?

Manjoume is also a character associated with Nigredo as he's wearing black, and plays a dragon deck, and the duel ends with him falling in the water.

The exchange student duels end, as the duel academy kids begin hunting down professor Cobra. There's a few moments of interesting elemental symbolism in these duels.

Judai is forced to duel his professor while Asuka, a character who also wears white and is therefore associated with Albedo is about to drown in a chamber slowly flooding with water.

This also doubles ad Jungian symbolism because this is Judai's first confrontation with his jungian shadow the repressed part of his personality. His professor derides him for lacking darkness of the heart. These words speak of Judai's flaws that have previously remained hidden, his selfishness, his unhealthy habit of taking on other's burdens because he lacks a purpose of his own.

Satou: You can't win. I have something that you lack? Judai: Something that I lack? Satou: The darkness of the heart lying deep within a duelist. Judai: Darkness of the heart? Satou: It is what a duelist burdens his heart with. Judai-kun, you lack anything of the sort. Judai: Something I'd burden my heart with? Satou: Thus far, there hasn't been a single duel which I've dueled for myself. ALthough, because you only think only of yourself, I suppose you couldn't possibly understand. Judai: But where's the fun in dueling like that? Satou: There's nothing fun about it! Being burdened with the expectations of others, yet continuing to stay strong. THat's what it was like.

His entire deck strategy revolves around taking control Judai's monsters and turning them against him. His ace monster is also known as "scab knight", a warrior covered in scars from fighting whil enduring the burden of everyone's expectations. Judai will come to resemble this card later on in the season.

I'll make a brief mention of Giese because this is the moment where Johan's role as the peacock feather come into play. Judai asks if Johan has a goal for dueling other than fun, and Johan shares his.

Johan: Those spirits gave me dueling a purpose! A purpose to become a bridge between spirits and humans... Judai: To become a bridge between spirits and humans?

A goal which Judai clearly admires him for. The prismatic phase shows insight, and Johan gives Judai something to aspire to be like because he admires him for having a goal - and for his relationship with spirits. However, it's only a temporary insight because rather than thinking about his own goal it's moments like these, and shortly afterwards in the Cobra duel where Johan tells Judai that he duels while carrying the burdens of others that Judai simply decides to glue himself onto Johan.

Rather than come up with his own answers, Judai just accepts the answers that Johan gives him. Rather than using Johan as support and inspiration, Johan becomes an unstable emotional crutch.

There's one final reference to the Spector Solaris plates in the vial in which Yubel has been baking in the entire arc as they absorb duel energy in order to reconstitute themselves. Yubel at this stage is a reference to the 12th plate, Saturn Dragon and Child.

The plate depicts a child and a dragon sealed together in a flask. Within the child's right hand is a black flask they are forcing down the throat of the dragon, in the left hand are a pair of bellows which he is holding against the dragon's arc. The child is pouring the black Prima Materia in the dragon's mouth, while he increases the heat of flame. This will result in the decomposition of the Prima Materia into a substance that can be reconfigured and rebuilt.

Yubel represents both the child and the dragon. They are a dragon, specifically a child who underwent surgery in order to become a dragon. Just like the child forces their right hand down the dragons throat, Yubel possesses people by grafting their arm onto them.

Yubel also specifically appears as a child, Cobra's missing son, in order to manipulate him. Then feasts on the darkness of his heart and induces him to commit suicide by covering Cobra's entire hand with their fiend arm, and feeding them a false memory of a scenario where their son actually survived. They then transport the entiretyof the school to a desert, more earth symbolism and where the series begins referencing the seven parables.

Splendor Solis

The Splender Solis are an alchemical text from around the 1500s. They are a series of 22 elaborate images, which symbolize the alchemical processes.

They are divided into 4 groups. 4 introductory plates which depict the typical archetypal characters appearing in an alchemical story. The 7 parables which describe the process of death and rebirth of the king. The 7 flask plates which show the making of the elixir. Then the 4 final plates which shows the spiritual refinement.

The main arc of Season 3 revolves around the death and rebirth of the king, and from now on this meta will exclusively focus on Judai's process of becoming the awakened Supreme King.

As mentioned above he entire school is transported into a desert world. One of the first major events in this new world is the appearance of a Wise Man.

Carl Jung interpreted the process of alchemy as an analogy for psychoanalysis. Each stage of alchemy to him also represented an archetypal schema of the human mind. Nigredo is the shadow, Abledow the anima and animus (feminine and masculine), citrinatis i the wise old man (or woman) archetype, and rubedo is the self that has achieved wholeness.

It's the appearance of Misawa who physically resembles a wise old man, complete with a cloak, long hair and a walking stick that helps clue the protagonist where they are, and how to escape.

I also must make mention of Yubel, who begins enacting their plan to turn Judai into a king. Their first plan involves transporting the academy away to a different dimmension, and slowly taking over from inside by converting the duelists into mindless zombies.

Yubel: Attention, lost duelists. I am the rule of this new world. Yubel: I am the one controlling these zombies as the King of the Martin Empire. Yubel: You are the ones opposing my empire, and doing it well I see...

We don't know exactly what Yubel's first plan was, before they switched to their backup of super-polymerization - but considering Yubel's unique logic they likely planned on converting everyone in the school to zombies, while reforming their body. At which point it would be them and Judai alone together, and they would offer Judai the position as king, which Yubel thinks Judai would be grateful for.

Either way it's Yubel who pushes Judai through the journey of dying and being reborn as king. Yubel goes through a parallel death and rebirth (dissolved) , as they were torn to pieces and enact their plan to reconsitute their body back together and revive (coagulate). Either way Yubel's actions start Judai's journey.

The 7 steps of this journey / 7 parables are:

Plate 5 - Miners excavating a hill

Plate 6 - Philosophers beside a tree

Plate 7 - The drowning king

Plate 8 - Resurrection out of the swamp

Plate 9 - Hermaphrodite with an egg

Plate 10 - Severing the head of the king

Plate 11 - The bath

We'll be going mostly in order with these, as Yu-Gi-Oh GX also references them in order. Here's another post covering similiar spector solis symolism from RWBY which I'm lovingly ripping off. Beginning with:

Plate 5- Miners Excavating a Hill

The search for Rainbow Dragon has been a focus of Johan's arc since his introduction, but when the main characters learn that Rainbow Dragon is their way out of the dark dimension than excavating Rainbow Dragon out of the earth becomes the main focus of Judai and Johan's shared journey.

The plate depicts a mountain mined by two figures, dressed in gold and silver. The contrasting colors represent the dualism of the sun and the moon, which is also shown shining bright in the sky while the moon floats along in the river below.

Rainbow Dragon is quite literally mined out of the side of a hill. The two figures could be referencing both, Samejima and Pegasus who are sent out to retrieve it, Johan and Judai who summon it in their partner duel against Yubel.

The number seven also occurs here. There are seven splender solis plates, seven planets, seven alchemical symbols, seven metals, and Rainbow Dragon is a monster that requires the sacrifice of seven gemstones, which also represent the seven colors of light that make up the rainbow.

Featured on the plate is a picture of a scene from the book of Esthter from the Old Testament. This is a reference to the King Ahasuerus and Eshter. THe king is convinced by his grand vizier to kill the jews, starting with executing chief minister Mordecai. This is in spite of the facthe'd already married Mordecai's jewish cousin, Esther.

Eshther appears and touches the king's golden scepter with her hand. This convinces the king not to kill the jews.

“So it was, when the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, that she found favor in his sight, and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand. Then Esther went near and touched the top of the scepter. And the king said to her, ‘What do you wish Queen Esther? It shall be given to you – up to half the kingdom!’” (The Holy Bible, New King James Edition, Esther 5.3)

It's a union of opposites (gold and silver, king and queen, sun and moon) based upon communication and empathy. Gx references this story in two ways.

When Samejima and Pegasus are trying to excavate Rainbow Dragon from the mountain, Echo appears and threatens to kill everyone inside in order to allow Amon to remain in a world where he can become king. In a way it's gender flopped because Echo is playing the role of king, threatening everyone at Duel Academy.

The second way is a reference to Judai and Yubel's entire arc of learning to understand people with empathy. Yubel threatens to massacre both Judai's friends, and the twelve dimmensions at large in their painfully wounded state from Judai's abandonment.

This is gender flipped like it is with Echo, where the queen (Yubel) is threatening violence, and the king (Judai) is the one who sways them with empathy. They're linked to queen and king roles, Judai serving as the supreme king linked to the sun, Yubel their feminine bi-gender counterpart and shadow linked to the moon, Judai eventually does so through a union of souls during their final duel, which resembles s a jewish wedding.

Plate 6- The Philosophical Tree

The plate shows three philsophers underneath a tree. The third is a youth, climbing a ladder and handing them down a golden branch.

The two philosophers underneath a tree is a reference to the Aeinid, in order to enter the world Aeneas requires a golden branch from a special tree.

A journey to the underworld is as on the nose for a symbolic journey of death and rebirth as it gets. Judai technically journeys to the underworld twice, the first time when Yubel sends the whole school there, and the second when he like Dante or Orpheus journeys into the underworld to retrieve his lost one - Johan.

The desert world that Judai is transported too is literally filled with zombies, or the wandering dead like in classical depictions of the greek Hades.

Whereas in the world Judai travels to find Johan, losing a duel results in a permanent death for the duelist forcing every character to confront their own mortality.

During that Journey, Judai specifically experiences a death of his ego and a rebirth as the supreme king, before dying a second time and being reborn as the fusion of Judai / Yubel.

The three philosopher's under the tree is specifically referenced when Judai and Johan have their tag team with Yubel, they are the three under the tree. During that duel Johan uses gem tree, a tree that grows a fruit after certain conditions - it grows three fruits in total like the three phases of alchemy.

The duel is fought to return everyone from the dark dimension, a figurative underworld. Whereas in the Aeinid the tree is what grants them free passage into the underworld.

The golden branch and yellow flowers in the splendor solis painting also represent the yellow / citrinitas stage, where light is shed on the unconscious. By the end of the duel, not only is Yubel fully reborn after being torn apart, but they also force Judai to recall the repressed memory of them buried in their subconscious. Yubel's colored yellow when begging Judai to remember them.

Plate 7- The Drowning King

Judai's second journey to the underworld begins after this duel, and this time it's fraught with death. Albeit a necessary death for Judai to be reborn as a whole person.

“The Destruction of one thing is the birth of another.” – Aristotle

The painting depicts an old king drowning in the background, while a new king dressed in yellow emerges in the foreground. While the king is begging to the saved, both the old and new king are actually the same person, being reborn again.

GX references the drowning king in several ways, firstly the entire Supreme King Haou arc is a plan by Yubel to break Judai down and reforge him as the Supreme King.

Not only does Judai experience an ego death first where their mind breaks down and they choose to become the Supreme King going forward and rule with power after the loss of their friends. Judai is also the reincarnation of the original supreme king, which is why Yubel is obsessed with them in this lifetime. Which means he's already died once as king and been reincarnated into a second lifetime.

The king drowning in the river is also a reference to the Nigredo stage of alchemy:

Within the stages of physical alchemy there is a set referred to as the drowning king; this is the dissolution step of the Nigredo process. This is when the alchemists would take their chemically calcified ashes and dissolve them into water. The water itself would absorb the ashes, the word we use to describe this solution, an elixir, comes from the Arabic: Al-iksir translates to “from the ashes”. Elixir.

In order to forge the elixir you have to dissolve away all impurities. Yubel prepares a ritual to literally dissolve Judai's friends away, in order to forge Super Polymerization (which will eventually help Judai and Yubel fuse and become the philosopher's stone).

For now though, the ritual requires five sacrifices, and five of Judai's friend. Just like the five steps of alchemy if you count the peacock stage (the monster Judai fights in his duel is even named Reign-Beaux, a pun on Rainbow).

Manjoume, Asuka, Fubuki, and Kenzan all dissolve while Sho escapes leaving the ritual incomplete. It's after the ritual however, that Judai experiences an ego death and is reforged as the yellow king. Ego death, is the Jungian term which means a "Complete Loss of subjective self-identity." In this case symbolically the Judai identity "dies" as he loses his purpose which was previously dueling for the sake of his friends, and he finds a new purpose in dueling for power alone. A power that will simultaneously bring order to the chaotic world of the dark dimension, but also protect himself from his own insecurities and weaknesses.

Nigredo is also meant to be the dissolving of the ego. While many cultures have negative associations tied to the color black (Islam being an exception, where white is considered an impure colour), there are no such connotations for the alchemist about the Nigrido stage; it is merely the first stage in the Great Work, the dissolving of the self/ego complex. It is probably a fair observation that in cultures without spiritual safe-guards, or even safe-guardians (shamans, priestesses, lamas, et. al.), the spontaneous occurrence of Nigrido may be labeled as a nervous breakdown, or even psychosis. Mythcrafts

Nigredo is again associated with the arhcetype of the shadow in Jungian Psychology. The Supreme King persona first appears to Judai as a vaguely person shaped shadow, before taking on his form. The shadow is also a reflection of the self, Judai's internal landscape is a dark placed filled with mirrors.

Haou: Yuki Judai. In order to defeat evil, one must become evil. In a world with the law of the jungle at work, one must rule with power. Judai: Power, I don't have that power. Haou: In your hand lies the Super Fusion card. Defeat any spirits who may oppose you, and confine their lives into it the perfect card. Judai: Who are you?

There's also two suns in the background. Judai is referred to as being like the sun, by Sho.

Sho: Aniki, You're too selfish, Aniki. All the time, Aniki, I thought of you like a sun, giving us all strength, able to make the impossible possible. Sho: But I guess I thought wrong. For you, Aniki, things were okay if you were okay. It didn't matter who you sacrificed as long as it all helped your plan! Even if you avenge them, everyone you sacrificed won't come back. Sho: Big bro, you've been dueling just to satisfy yourself. Judai: Sho... Sho: Don't say it like that. You're not my Aniki. You're not my Aniki.

There's two suns depicted in the sky, and this scene we're shown two judais, to show just how divided his self is between his ego and his shadow. Sho even says that he doesn't even recognize Judai and that he's not "His Judai" right now.

Plate 8- Resurrection Out of the Swamp

“She clothed the man with a purple robe, lifted him up to his brightest clearness, and took him with herself to Heaven.” -Trismosin

On the left a strange being, dressed in black and red arises from the mud. He reaches forward to accept a red robe being offered to him.

On the right appears a winged woman, dressed in white, yellow and blue waiting for him to emerge from the mud and giving him a cloak to dress himself.

There is once again many different ways in which this painting is referenced. Haou first appears dressed in armor mainly colored in black, with a red cape exactly like the one the woman is handing the man in the painting.

If Judai is the man emerging from the mud, then the winged woman waiting for him is likely Yubel. Yubel is a winged figure and a hermaphrodite who represents both the masculine and the feminine.

On the bank of the river, holding out the red clock to the emerging man is Sophia. She has angel wings of white peacock feathers and is dressed in a floral robe. Upon her head is a crown topped with a six-pointed star, a symbol used in many traditions to signify the union of male and female energies; hieros gamos again.

The masculine king is reuniting with a feminine winged figure. Yubel as a hermaphrodite represents a union of masculinity and feminity. The winged woman is awaiting the man.

Judai's rise as the supreme king is engineered by Yubel as a part of a plan to reunite them. More specifically to get into plot details Yubel sacrificed their body to become a dragon to protect prince Judai in a past life until the day he would become king. After Judai saw Yubel make such a sacrifice he promised them his eternal love, and to eternally love them alone.

Yubel and Judai then both died at some point and were reborn, Judai as a person and Yubel a duel spirit. Yubel was Judai's best friend when they were young and took the role of protector too serously hurting anyone who came near Judai which made Judai decide to send them away (on a satellite into space).

While alone in space Yubel was hit by the light of destruction, which tortured them with terrible agony for ten years straight. Yubel called out to Judai at first, but Judai stopped responding. Ten years later Yubel crashed back down to earth, and when burning up in earth's atmosphere they continued begging for Judai's help only to be met with silence.

They asked why Judai would abandon them and their love, and that silence became their answer. Judai must have intentionally made them suffer both as a show of love, and to make them stronger.

Yubel then resolves to inflict the same suffering on Judai, first making them all alone like Yubel was, then putting them through trial after trial until they died like Yubel and woke up stronger as the Supreme King: at which point Yubel believed they would reunite again as equals. Yubel also had the additional motive of trying to make Judai recall his past life, which Yubel remembered and Judai did not.

Yubel: I was suffering as you came to forget about me... Yubel: It burns... It hurts...It's killing me. But why? I love him so much. Why is Judai treating me like this? Yubel: And then it hit me. This is just a form of Judai's love. Judai is hurting me and making me suffer because of his love for me. But you see, I couldn't possibly forget about you in the time i've suffered. Yubel: So when I solved the riddle that you posed to me, I was delighted. And that fueled my decision. I would try to fill the entire twelve dimmensions with my love for you. Yubel: And once I did you would have to recognize my love for you, wouldn't you? Yubel: That is why I sought to fill all those linked to you - your world - with both sadness and anguish. Yubel: ANd my line of thinking wasn't wrong. Yubel: I mean you are right before my eyes, Judai.

Yubel: Though, I did have your friends help me which pulled out the darkness inside your heart and ushered you this far.

The entirety of Season 3 is Judai's journey of becoming king, which will lead to his eventual union with Yubel, his soul, and his other half.

The union of Judai and Yubel is necessary in a Jungian sense, because his fusion with Yubel mirrors the process of individuation.

The alchemical texts at our disposal offer four distinct stages in the transformation of base metals into gold: nigredo. the black stage, albedo, the white stage, citrinas, the yellow stage, and finally, rubedo, the red stage. Physical chemists took this literally; depth psychologists, following in the footsteps of Carl Jung, took this figuratively. From the standpoint of depth psychology, the black nigredo is the shadow, the things we hide from ourselves. The albedo, the white stage, is the hieros gamos, the sacred marriage of male/female, or anima and animus. The citrinas, the yellow phase, is the wise elder, the shaman. And the red, or rubedo, which seems to be the point of this image, is what Jung called individuation; the point when the raw materia prima of our psyches turns into something whole.

Yubel sort of represents all three of those archetypal schema. Yubel is Judai's shadow, they awakened the supreme king which embodies all of his negative traits his darkness of heart. As a hermaphrodite Yubel is a sacred marriage of male and female, and Judai also fuses together with Yubel becoming a hermaprhodite himself. Finally, Yubel is the wise man by serving as the mind character to Judai's heart.

Heart, Mind and Body are traditional roles assigned to characters in an alchemy story. The male character s usually heart, and their female protagonist is mind. Judai is emotional, hot-headed, and most of all stupid. Yubel is tactical, capable of making succesful plans long in advanced, calm and thoughtful, and also possesses deep insight into things Judai is clueless about like the nature of love. In fact after the two of them are united, it's Yubel who serves an advisory role to Judai the way Aster does with Yuma in Zexal. Heart and Mind characters are often, but not always romantically linked to one another.

Yubel also appears as a wise guide in a twisted sense, as they're the one guiding Judai throughout the whole journey and eventually they reawaken the memories of his past.

Judai therefore needs to unite with Yubel in order for his psyche to be whole.

There's other characters who can also serve as the sophia / wiseman figure in this instance. Jim Crocodile Cook is the first character to fight Judai to try to get through to him. Once again Jim is an archealogist, he likes trying to reach Judai to digging for sleeping fossils under the earth.

He also possesses a special eye, given to him by a wise man which allows him to see inside of Judai's psyche. Jim is quite literally trying to dig Judai out of the mud. When using his power the comet his eye is associated with turns red, like rubedo and the philosopher's stone because Jim is trying to make Judai whole again.

Austin follows through on Jim's iniatitive and succesfully reaches Judai. His fire deck allows for a nigredo of sorts winning with his fire themed deck to boil away the impurities of Judai's soul starting up the alchemical process.

When Judai awakens he's reborn again underneath a tree into a new self, that's both the supreme king and Judai. Another wiseman figure appears to him in the form of Misawa shortly afterwards to highlight to Judai that the Supreme King isn't a split personality, Judai is the supreme king and he did all of that of his free will.

Judai: The supreme king's gone, though... his powers can't be mine. Misawa: Not quite... Your current self and Supreme King Judai are each one side of the same person. We all have a good and evil side. Judai: But... Misawa: Will you quit it, already! You won't be able to rescue the others with powerless heroics! Controlling your powerful Supreme King side will allow you to bring about justice. Judai: The power of darkness? I can't! Just stop it! Misawa: Stop your whining. Someone who was given special powers will have to fight for all those who've placed their hopes on them, won't they?

In that sense Misawa is the Wiseman who appears to guide Judai to integrate the Supreme King into his psyche, to be more whole.

The Nihilixir

Let's take a break from alchemy to talk about reverse alchemy for a moment, because I can't do a Season 3 post without talking about Amon Garam.

The relationship between Amon and Echo form a dark mirror to the relationship between Judai and Yubel. There are many ways they correspond to each other, both features a king (Judai and Amon) and their servant (Yubel and Echo). Amon is named after a sun god (AMon or Amon-Re), he was abandoned in the desert as a child, he's associated with the solar king. Echo is his Echo more or less, she was raised alongside him to be devoted to him, she's named after the nymph echo cursed to be left behind as nothing more than an Echo. She is passive and subservient, Amon is active and dominating.

I once mentioned Echo above threatening to kill everyone present, so Amon can be in a world where he can become king. Just like Yubel it's Echo's deepest desire for Amon to be king, and Echo genuinely believes Amon has the right to stand above others. They're also set up as the only other explicitly romantic couple besides Judai and Yubel. Yubel drops the extremely intimate "aishiteru" to Judai, and Echo confirms she loves Amon with "Aishiteru" when talking with Edo.

Echo and Amon attempt a union, but unlike Judai and Yubel's union it goes wrong, instead of purifying each other they both basically destroy each other.

Instead of forging a philosopher's stone, what Amon and Echo make is what's called a Nihilixir, a negative transformation. The process of reverse alchemy is elaborated on this posts here.

Love’s alchemy had once transformed him to “Sun”--to ”a quintessence even from nothingness.”   A normal, positive transformation. But now he has been transformed in reverse. a negative transformation. For I am every dead thing... He ruined me, and I am rebegot Of absence, darkness, death, things which are not.... I, by love’s limbecke, am the grave Of all, that’s nothing. (”Limbecke” is another word for the alchemical vessel, the alembic.) The reverse of the Philosopher’s Stone, the Elixir, is the Nihilixir 

While Death and Rebirth is a necessary part of Alchemy, Reverse Alchemy is Death without the rebirth. It's a love which should usually redeem destroying both parties instead.

Kate in this post likens reverse alchemy to the relationship between Oz and Salem from RWBY, an incredibly destructive romance. To paraphrase Kate, death and rebirth is necessary for moving forward in alchemy, but reverse alchemy happens when a character resists death and the grief that comes along with it.

Amon's arc is more or less refusing to feel his own grief. He is undeniably an abused child with a terrible lot in life, left to starve to death when he thinks he's finally saved and works hard to earn his parent's love he is replaced by a biological child and learns how conditional his parent's love is.

Yubel basically takes advantage of all the unprocessed grief that Amon has in order to move him forward to his destruction.

Yubel: My power is not especially great. But those with darkness in their hearts can unleash great power in me. Yubel: The pus welling out of your injured heart forms a second heart. I can see that other heart. The darkness in it. Yubel: The darkness in your heart that has nowhere else to go. You desire life-risking tasks because, all you want is a place to die. Yubel: That’s right. That is the darkness of your heart. it’s there, in the depths of your mind. The cream of your other heart, born from your stagnant blood!

In other words Amon is plagued by thoughts of suicidal ideation and takes on risky missions for the sake of the Garam Conglomerate because he's hoping to just die somewhere far away from his parent's - because he thinks he's been shunned from his family and therefore there's no place for him in this world.

He believes that so thoroughly he even leaves this world and doesn't come back, for a chance to be king in an alternate dimmension free from family obligations.

Yubel says that in order to become whole, to become his true self he would need to "kill his god." More specifically kill his iron will, the resolve he made when his brother was born to only exist for the sake of the Garam conglomerate.

However, you cannot kill your own god. That is because it is the role of a devil.

There's an element of truth to Yubel's words, Yubel is the spirit of wisdom after all. Amon needs to accept death, in order to be reborn as someone new.

Kate basically says where Salem and Oz's relationship goes wrong is that Salem cannot accept death or grieve Oz, and imagine living in a world without him. Which is why she's cursed with immortality, literally becoming undying, and unable to change as well.

Amon cannot accept grief. He's still obsessed with the idea of becoming the head of the Garam family, like he was promised when he was younger - symbolically coming king. He can neither let go of that idea and try to find other ways to be happy in life, or grieve his parent's abuse of him by basically raising him to be a tool only to discard him.

In fact, I believe a lot of people have trouble connecting to Amon as a character because he doesn't openly grieve - he remains stoic b/c he's so dedicated to trying to repress all his pain from his terrible life.

This is another way in which Amon foils Judai, they're both referred to as being pure of heart, and therefore lacking a shadow and darkness. This is not a good thing, Judai's lack of darkness of the heart makes him blind to his own flaws until he hits his lowest point. Amon's so disconnected from his own emotions, he can at one point cruelly lure Echo to her own murder, then five minutes later claim to love her. It's this resistance of grief, and lack of darkness of his heart that makes Amon unable to transform into his better self.

Paralleling Judai yet again, Amon conducts a ritual to sacrifice his loved one in order to forge a powerful card, Superpoly for Judai and Exodia for Amon. However, him and Echo don't die together, it's not a union it's a one-sided affair with Echo taking on all the sacrifice herself. As I said, Amon is unwilling to bear the pain in any way. This is something that Yubel gleefully points out to Amon.

Yubel: I get it now... You weren't in love with Echo. Yubel: No. You may have loved her just enough to clear the conditions in place for you to control Exodia. Yubel: But then, you didn't truly love each other. Yubel: You were only unfairly hurting her, while you would stay unharmed. Yubel: You wouldn't suffer. You wouldn't be in pain.

Yubel: And that's why I'm having Judai go through the same feelings! That could be what it means for us to love!

Again there is an element of truth to Yubel's words. Amon and Echo's relationship was fundamentally unequal and Amon has no desire to change it, and even takes advantage of Echo in that way.

Yubel for all the pain they inflict on Judai desires to be equal in their pains, and their goal is connection and communication which is fundamental to the process of alchemy. Yubel does many things, but they're not resisting grief. In comparison to Amon who shows almost no emotion at Echo's passing, Yubel openly cries on multiple occasions from the pain of Judai abandoning them.

Amon's inability to process his grief of let himself feel pain, or just let go of the idea that he was meant to become his parent's heir and inherit the world - he can't see that he could try to live some other way. He's blind to the people who love him in his life. This is also something that Yubel points out, he could have tried to live a different life from what his family set out for him with Echo. Echo who was always there and loved him. He can't get over his parents lack of love to see there was still love in his life. He can't see a world where he can live without his parent's love.

Yubel: That isn't a world! Yubel: I wouldn't even think of living in a world like that. Yubel: You see, a "world" is something that you build with the one that you love! Yubel: For me, it's something I'll build with Judai! That is a world!

Amon could have created something new with Echo, but he refused to change. Which is why in the end they both destroy each other.

Of course, Judai and Yubel's love isn't exactly a paragon of healthy relationship. Yubel is also unable to imagine a world where they can't live without Judai. However Yubel does allow their beliefs to change after a union with Judai, originally Yubel was so afraid of Judai's rejection they wanted to monpolize all of Judai's attention and essentially live in a world with only them and Judai.

However, after their union in season 4 Yubel is able to accept Judai having bonds with other people doesn't mean that Judai will abandon them.

The parallel with Amon and Echo shows that Judai and Yubel have the potential to destroy each other, but by accepting each other's grief thy both changed for the better instead.

Plate 9 - The Hermaphrodite

The hermaphrodite is the smybol of the marraige of Solar and Lunar (Sun and Moon.) This is usually embodied by a chemical wedding. This post will be shorter, because I already detailed Judai and Yubel's chemical wedding in this post here.

The Splender Solis depicts a winged figure with two heads, one male and one female. The masculine side of the figure is solar symbolism, his radiant shield, his red wing, his golden halo. The feminine side of this figure is lunar symbolism, her white wing, her silver halo, the egg she holds in her hand. Menstrual cycle are lunar, eggs are lunar, etc.

Yubel’s design is a Rebis, split male and female down the middle. It’s even implied in their backstory they were more masculine, and through an alchemical process to become a dragon altered their body to look as such, giving them several feminine traits.

Yubel as one boob and one pec, one muscular leg and one femine leg, speaks in two voices a deep masculine one and a light feminine one, defaults to using masculine “boku”, but plays a feminine role to comparison Judai’s more straighforward masculinity, they even have their face split one side being drawn with eyelashes.

he appearance of the Hermaphrodite comes after what Jung called the Conjunctio, metaphorically the marriage of Solar and Lunar, or the physical marriage of alchemical sulfur and mercury. While the imagery of plate 9 is quite explicit in its depiction of the hermaphrodite, it is subtle in comparison to another illuminated medieval text: the Rosarium Philosophorum (Rode Garden philosophy)

Judai and Yubel also literally duel together in a Rose garden.

When opposites are finally reconciled, the great hermaphrodite is formed. Judai even refers to this as an act of finally purifying the light’s corruption from Yubel’s soul by uniting it with the supreme king’s soul. The union is a purifying process, and the end of Yubel and Judai’s long journey of losing each other and finding each other again.

However, in order to be purified they have to both let their old selves die in order to form something new, the final death but one they experience together. In order to do that both need to experience a dismemberment.

Plate 10 and Plate 11

I'm coupling these two together because the Severing the head of the king an the bath represent the final process of death and rebirth.

Alchemy is violent, Solve et Coagula requires things to dissolve away before they can coagulate together again. Before the psyche can rebuild, it has to be ripped apart. Before a relationship can get better, two lovers need to clash.

The image itself is set in a city in a countryside, a man is holding a decapitated head severed from a body lying at his feet. Both Judai and Yubel experience a dismemberment at one point or another. In another classical alchemical text Lunar King and Queen experience this dismemberment together, in order to represent the violent union of opposites.

Judai experiences Ego death after his friends are dissolved and adopts the moniker of the supreme king. When he's finally snapped out of it, Hell Kaiser takes his helmet off and throws the helmet to the crowd below in a symbolic decapitation.

Yubel is torn to pieces when they re-enter earth's atmopshere, and quite literally are reduced to just a hand the way the body's limbs are all cut off. They need to use duel energy to restore each other. The second time they dissolve in the duel against Judai and Johan and they physically dissolve a second time and need to possess Johan's body in order to recover.

Another feature of the Splendor Solis painting is the kingdom by a river in the background invoking water, and Air which is related to the sword suit in tarot like the sword the main holds.

Judai and Yubel duel atop the clouds (air) and recalls the past when the air starts blowing the clouds away revealing a kingdom by the waterside.

While experiencing the past he recalls the violent surgery Yubel endured to be reborn as a dragon, literally tearing their body apart in a painful procedure.

Afterwards Prince Judai touched by the sacrifice Yubel made for their sake, unites with Yubel, promising Yubel their eternal love. He also recalls that he and Yubel were together in their past lives, and therefore they've already experienced one death only to be reborn again and meet each other. Judai: You did this... to protect me. Yubel: It is fine. Protecting you as you grow from a child into an adult is my duty after all. Judai: Yubel, I promise you. My love will only belong to you. No matter what anyone says, I will keep loving you.

The union and promise also take place by the waterside, which is symbolic of the bath which is the final plat of the Solis.

The final image is a man sitting in a bath, with a fire beneath it. The plate is an analaogy for sublimation the boiling fo a substance - Judai experienced a sublimation when the water of the clouds turned to air, in a breeze that revealed his past.

IWhen a bath appear in fiction it's often depicted as a man and woman bathing, though it doesn't necessarily have to involve water. For Judai and Yubel, it's their final union brought about by Super Polymerization fusing their souls together.

Judai even refers to this process of purifying the corruption of the light of destruction by joining his soul together with theirs.

Yubel is not destroyed, but rather pacified with a single touch must like Esther with her king, and ends up giving up on their plans of destruction from one act of communication and understanding.

The parable contains a reference to Medea.

“OVID the old Roman, wrote to the same end, when he mentioned an ancient Sage who desired to rejuvenate himself was told: he should allow himself to be cut to pieces and decoct to a perfect decoction, and then his limbs would reunite and again be renewed in plenty of strength.” (Trismosin 33).

Medea married the hero Jason. When he asked her to strengthen his father, she instead ritually killed him, bleeding his old blood away only to restore him later. Medea's also famous for dismembering her brother so that's kind of fun.

Yubel is a very Medea like figure, the embodiment of a woman scorned, after Jason abandoned Medea to marry a new wife, Medea decided to avenge herself by killing his wife, his children, his new father in law but sparing Jason. Her revenge is making him just as alone as she was. Yubel also cannot bring themselves to kill Judai, but take out their pain on all of his friends so Judai will have nothing left but them.

However, as mythcrafts says:

This image relates the ultimate cost of enlightenment, and the curse of growing up; all growth requires sacrifice. New life demands a little dying.

The path is physically painful. The man in the bath is being boiled. Chemical weddings are violent. Hudai screams out in agony when his soul is being fused with Yubel's. He even says that this fusion might destroy who he is now.

However, acepting that death is what allows both Judai and Yubel to take the first steps into healing together.

The plate is also a metaphor for the Hermes Trismegistus,  “it arises from the earth and descends from heaven; it gathers to itself the strength of things above and things below” often shortned to "As above, so below."

Judai and Yubel's chemical wedding in the material world, also radiates to affect the cosmos or the world of the heavens. We see this in the effects of Super Polymerization changing the world around them, as it cuts to several characters in the outside world as the destruction of super poly spreads outward.

However, after the violent process of disolve et coagula is over, the two are empowered by each other to fight the light of destruction together. The change is now spreading out to the cosmos. They begin a journey of atonement which lasts even beyond season 4 and into the rest of their lives, to make up for the destruction they've caused.

Judai's friends who've been dissolved away finally return at the same time, and even Judai who is pronounced dead makes a return by the next episode changed into a fusion of himself and Yubel.

Death and rebirth, Grief and healing, all of Yubel's grief even dissolves away into tears as they finally let go of the idea they need to hurt others as much as they've been hurt.

Also because this is citrinitas the entire scene is dyed yellow. By accepting Yubel into his soul, Judai has transformed the dark night into a solar light. THe sun has risen for them both, as the lunar queen reunites with the solar king, they are no longer servant and master but equal.

 The third stage, citrinitas, brings forth the light of the sun (the masculine), a light which magically transforms the shadowy and fearful subconscious into valuable consciousness. From the dark night of rubedo, to the pale morning light of albedo, the sun rises in citrinitas to the culmination of day in rubedo.

As Judai and Yubel depart together, we finally move onto the fourth stage of alchemy Rubedo where Judai and Yubel become one whole self!

I'll elaborate more on that on my next alchemy post though, because alchemy is still a four step process and there's still more to come for Judai / Yubel.

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Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 117-119 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 115-116 Subbed [Finalized])

(Check out my Subbed!GX Stream Masterpost!)

TURN-117: The Decisive Battle! Judai VS Professor Cobra

Judai and Johan, having defeated Cobra's assassins, are joined by Asuka, Jim, and their other friends before hurrying towards Professor Cobra. Meanwhile, as he independently works his way to Cobra, Amon gets to Cobra before Judai and the others, informing him that "they won't make it." Judai and the others hurry, but the electronic control system shorts out and barrier walls begin to come down one after the other--yet right as they think their way forward is obstructed, O'Brien drops in and stops a barrier wall with his shoulders--and with O'Brien's rescue, Judai at last gets to Cobra. His duel with Cobra then begins.

TURN-118: The Terror! Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes

Cobra activates his Venom Swamp Field Magic, which pours poison onto the Monsters Judai summons, decreasing their ATK and destroying them. To oppose him, Judai fuses Sparkman with Edgeman to summon a new Hero in Plasma Viceman, who destroys his Venom Snake. But Cobra uses the effects of his Trap Cards to summon two Monsters and perform his poison assault. In addition, he tributes his two Monsters to summon Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes, who destroys Plasma Viceman. Helpless against Cobra's poison deck, Judai summons a new Hero, but...

TURN-119: A Triple Contact Fusion! Magma Neos

Judai is unable to freely wage attacks against Cobra's Vennominon the King of Poisonous Snakes Monster. But by drawing into his Miracle Fusion Magic Card, Judai summons Wild Jaggyman and destroys Vennominon. With his Vennominon destroyed, Cobra activates his Descent of the Snake Deity Trap Card, summoning Vennominaga the Deity of Poisonous Snakes. Judai takes damage from Vennominaga's attacks, but as this damage activates Vennominaga's effect, poison will have spread throughout his body in three turns, causing him to lose the duel. Continuing to fight, Judai fuses Sparkman with Necrodarkman to summon Dark Brightman and attack Cobra, but...

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So, these took a bit longer than anticipated, with 115-116 being done at the end of August--partly because of getting ground broken on working to re-translate some Duel Links text lol--but that aside, I hope you're ready for these monkey-fighting snakes on this Monday-to-Friday helipad; episodes 117-119 are up and finalized! 🐍

One of my favorite duels in GX, between Judai finally getting to Cobra to put an end to the Dis-Duels (and this first arc in Season 3) and the ensuing duel between them showing off Cobra's poison/Venom strategy (which I always thought was cool), the Amon backstory as Boy of Light talks with him, and the scene as O'Brien helps him along the way and he talks about how they got off on the wrong foot--and of course Cobra's own backstory which does make you feel for his motivations a bit. And it all comes together in 119 with Cobra building on Satou's message to Judai about dueling motivation as Cobra talks about his "unserious" dueling not giving him much to support him in a crisis--which surely won't come back to hurt in a sad monologue sometime or anything. All told, these three eps are pretty enjoyable, with the animation/art looking gorgeous in 117 and 119 (I love the gradient/shading choices in 117 in particular) and while GX has been picking up its OST game for a bit so far in Season 3, I think it picks up really well here, between the really good use of "Terror" during Amon's backstory or the Snake Whistle scene in 118, and "Lamentation" during Cobra's backstory--and of course "Determination" during Johan snapping Judai out of listening to Cobra going into Magma Neos. Fun times.

(Also, while I previously used "Venominaga" and "Venominon" for those names, I went with "Vennominaga" and "Vennominon" per the TCG since, with how their JP names are spelled for the OCG, those two aren't part of the "Venom" archetype.)

Animation error-wise, despite the all-around great animation in these episodes, each one had a fair share of errors to fix, lol; in total I fixed about 25, with about 8-10 in 117 and 118 each and 119 getting just six but from the eyecatch on. For the most part, they were more quality-of-watching things like split-screen timings but there were a handful of card errors in there, too, along with another quick audio edit. More on these further below for the interested! (Feels like it's been a bit since I could also just include those notes in the release post lol)

Quick housekeeping: I made an update to 113's ED credits to correct a minor error in positioning for the Key Animation credits of the ED that I picked up on as I worked on 117-119's credits; I've updated the link in its release post and the masterpost, and I'll post that re-encode with 117-119 on NAC.

Anywho, enjoy! With our first arc in Season 3 now over, I'm going to go do some more TFSP work and knock out Kiryu's story to complete the 5D's cast's story events, so stay tuned there. Once that's done (and I work a bit more on DL), I'll be planning to work on 120 and 121 together as we get isekai'd into our first alternate world of the season, though I'll do a little prepwork here/there before working on 'em proper. Stay tuned!

Fixes/Edits! (117)

During the recap of 116 at the beginning, Emerald Turtle is reversed on Johan's Disk as he plays Take to the Wings; I reused my fix to that from 116 placing the card with its name box on the left.

Also during the 116 recap, the split border between the Ruby and Emerald gems as they fly up to join Johan's hand is irregular, with extra bits of border on Turtle's side as the screen, and there’s a quick frame where Turtle’s split doesn’t move while Ruby’s does, with more of the background in Turtle’s split behind Ruby’s moving split instead of Sapphire Pegasus being transitioned into. I reused my two fixes to that from 116 applying a full border and then redoing that frame of the split-out to move Turtle's split and mask in Sapphire Pegasus behind/between both splits.

Later in the episode, as Judai expresses his envy for Johan's reason to duel, Johan tells him he just hasn't noticed what has to be driving him beyond the fun of it, prompting Judai to repeat, "I haven't noticed it?"--but as he does, there's an error where the shading under his closed mouth is kept during his open-mouth lip flaps, effectively giving him two bits of mouth shading. Fixed this as I also noted here, by first taking the two open-mouth lip-flap frames and removing the closed-mouth shading in Photoshop for each, then using Sony Vegas to re-zoom each instance of the lip-flaps during this slow-zoom shot.

After #3, Judai then flashes back to his duel with Satou (as he thinks that Satou said something like Johan just did), with the flashback featuring Satou activating Scab Scream to destroy Neos and eventually summon Crying Scarknight but showing Scab Scarknight activate on the field. I first reused my fix from 114 to that, first going back to the AfterEffects project file to reencode the fix itself before then taking that back into the Vegas project so I could redo the fade from the card activating to Scab Scarknight, as it's a quicker fade here. After that was done, I also re-clipped the flashback, going frame by frame to pull the equivalent clips from 114 proper, then took everything into Vegas and re-applied a flashback border frame on the video, as well as a little color correction to match the video in 117, to keep it consistent.

Later, after Amon arrives at Cobra's room, he challenges Cobra for "that card," but knowing he might not play fair in a duel with the Dis-Belts in play, chooses to use force; he takes off his headset as he does, but once the headset is off, a repeat of #3 happens where Amon's closed-mouth shading is kept as his open-mouth lip flaps occur. A quicker fix here than in #3 as this was a still shot; I just masked in his correctly drawn mouth/chin from before he takes the headset off over the error frames.

After the eyecatch, as Judai and co try to run towards a wall coming down, O'Brien swoops in and buys them some time, firing off some rope onto the sides of that wall to help hold it in place--but as he does, there are a quick few frames where O'Brien's vest is miscolored as the shirt under it while he fires the ropes in his right hand; this gets fixed as he moves to fire the ones in his right hand. There's also an odd error in which everything O'Brien except for his left arm bicep was drawn a few pixels up--as he moves to fire the ropes in his right hand, he moves back down into place, though as this whole bit is a quick 17-19 frames, it's only somewhat noticeable. Fixed this in Photoshop, using a fixed frame as a guide, by splicing in the corrected part of his vest and editing it slightly; once done, I took that fixed frame into Vegas where I masked it onto the video, then masking O'Brien's [massive] shoulder over the edit to prevent detail loss, and also masking the bottom of O'Brien's right bicep and the wall behind him and then moving it up a few pixels so it lined up with his shoulder.

Later, once Judai makes it to Cobra, who's waiting for him on a helipad, Cobra tells him his plan being in its final phase means the Academy has no future left for it, and Judai shouts angrily at him; Cobra then slides in on a split-screen to press a button that starts raising the helipad upward, but as their split-screen splits apart, their respective sides are unevenly timed such that Judai's gets offscreen a frame earlier. Fixed this in Vegas by redoing Judai's split so that it slides out in sync with Cobra's.

A bit later, as Judai and Cobra get ready to duel in the air, Judai talks about how he's been itching to duel Cobra and hopes they have a good time of it, but Cobra mentally finds him to be a fool--as Judai's side of their split-screen slides out for Cobra's thoughts, for some reason, Judai and his background are detached from the split-screen border for the 5-7 frames of the slide-out. Fixed this in Vegas by redoing Judai's slide-out so that his split fully slides out correctly.

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(9) Once the duel's underway, Judai opens by playing Clayman in Defense Mode; he then ends his turn, but as we pan/zoom to him from Clayman, we see the Clayman card on his Disk is reversed (name box on the right). Fixed in AfterEffects, after using Vegas to reverse the clip so I could apply motion tracking a bit easier, where I first used motion tracking to track the zooming/positioning, then put a correctly facing proxy into place and applied the tracked motion to it; once done, I took the fix into Vegas where I un-reversed it and mixed it into the footage.

(10) A bit later, Cobra activates his Venom Swamp Field Magic, which expands throughout the field; as the camera zooms out behind Judai and Clayman while it does, we see that Clayman's card on the field is now reversed under him. This was a bit more complicated to fix, particularly because of the fade that happens to the overhead shot as Shou and Asuka react to Venom Swamp, along with tracking the zoom; I first used Vegas to reverse the clip again for easier motion-tracking, which I then did in AfterEffects. After several tries at getting a good position/scale tracking, I applied a correctly facing proxy and also masked Clayman over it, then applied the tracked keyframes to both layers and rendered them transparently; I then took this transparent render into Vegas and un-reversed it, blending it into the footage. To replicate the fade into the overhead shot--since I couldn't just fade my edit out or else the original card would be briefly visible--still in Vegas, I took the first post-fade frame, made a still of it, and then slowly zoomed it in backwards going back to when the fade starts, sorta guessing at how much it'd be zoomed in for those 12-ish frames, then used a Composite Level envelope on the video track to manually fade it in well enough that the edit fades out naturally. Phew.

(11) A bit later, as Judai reacts to Clayman's ATK taking its first 500-point hit due to the poison bites on him, Cobra slides in on a split-screen noting that he has another bite; as their splits split apart, both Cobra and Judai are detached from their splits' borders, in a repeat of #8. Fixed this in Vegas by redoing their splits, taking stills of each split which I then re-slid-out, applying a motion blur as I did to replicate the original motion blur they had.

Fixes/Edits! (118)

During the recap of 117, error #8 still happens in which Judai's detached from his split's border as he slides off his split-screen with Cobra; reused my fix from 117 for it.

Also during the recap, error #10 happens as we see Cobra activating Venom Swamp with Clayman's card on the field reversed under him; reused my fix from 117 for it.

After the OP, we see Judai and Cobra's current LP count, with Cobra taunting and saying that half-hearted Monsters won't make it past one turn on his field--though for a quick frame before Cobra's LP counter disappears as we fade to the Eye, it actually starts to decrease. A quick fix in Vegas, as I just held the previous frame to keep the counter still at 4000 throughout.

A bit later, as the others ask Cobra about his plans and why he's made the other students pass out from their Dis-Duels if he's not up to anything, Cobra says he's only trying to perform a miracle; Judai then slides in for a split-screen as he questions that, but in the first frame as Judai starts to slide in, Cobra's side doesn't move accordingly. Fixed in Vegas by redoing Judai's slide-in to time it with Cobra sliding leftward.

Later on, Cobra uses his Venom Shot Magic Card, sending a Reptile-Type Monster in his Deck to his Cemetery to give Judai's Marine Neos two bites of poison; he's shown holding up Venom Serpent as the card he's pulled from his deck for this, but after we see Johan and co. reacting, we see him sending a copy of Venom Snake instead. Keeping in mind the Monsters Cobra's played thus far, this actually should have been Venom Serpent--he first summons a Venom Snake on his first turn, which then gets destroyed by Plasma Viceman; he then uses Snake Whistle and Damage = Reptile to summon a Venom Serpent and Venom Boa, tributing both for Vennominon; when activating Snake Deity's Command against Judai's R - Right Justice, he uses a second Venom Snake from his deck as its cost; and when Marine Neos uses his effect to destroy a random card in Cobra's hand, it turns out to be his third Venom Snake. So, given that, I fixed this by using AfterEffects to first track the motion of the Snake card in Cobra's hand, then applied a Venom Serpent proxy and applied those motion tracking keyframes to it, and then masked in Cobra's fingers over it. (The dub, for their part, made it so Viper grabbed Venom Snake to be consistent with the later shot, but given that Marine Neos destroyed his third Snake and he can only have three copies, uh...)

A few seconds later, as the first of the two bites of poison reach Marine Neos, we see Judai turn to react--and there's a blank card where Marine Neos would be on his Disk. Fixed in AfterEffects, first tracking the motion of the clip from when Judai's first visible to before he starts to move and the shot is still, then applying those tracked position keyframes to a proxy I put into place.

Some seconds later, once the bites are in place, Cobra orders Vennominon to attack Marine Neos, but as the shot on him zooms out before fading into Vennominon's attack, there's a weird glitch with the Vennominon card on his Disk where it looks multicolored. Fixed in AfterEffects by first tracking the position/scale motion on the zoom-out, then applying those keyframes to the proxy I put into place; once done, I masked Cobra's jacket sleeve over the edit, fading it out as the shot fades into Vennominon.

As the episode nearly ends, we have Yubel--I mean Eye's female voice--saying that they'll be seeing Judai soon, before the male voice kicks in to say his name as we see Judai staring Cobra down; during this, the Vennominon card on Cobra's Disk looks to be blank. Fixed in AfterEffects, first tracking the motion of the rotation in this shot, then applying those keyframes to the proxy I put into place. (Boy, motion tracking turned out to be pretty nifty! [Well, when it properly tracks things, at least lol])

Fixes/Edits! (119)

Our first error for 119 doesn't come in until the eyecatch, surprisingly--as the eyecatch starts and Cobra slides leftward, as Judai starts sliding to the right, the show's logo starts fading in early as the sparkles that are supposed to reveal it a few frames later appear; a similar error happened back in episode 85. Unfortunately, I deleted a few too many draft files I saved in the Vegas project file after I fixed it for 85, but did my best to fix it here, first redoing Judai's slide across the screen; to do it, I masked in the pre-logo background over where the logo would fade, then masked Judai out and re-keyframed his slide across--then, I used the Chroma Keyer effect on a stock video of sparkles I'd saved before to make it transparent, and I enlarged it some before masking out a piece of it which I enlarged and let play over a few frames before ending the custom sparkles and returning to the original video. Looks good enough in motion, I think!

A bit later, Judai groans after Cobra notes that Vennominaga also has Vennominon's revival effect; Cobra then slides in on a split-screen to start removing a Venom Snake from his Cemetery to revive her, but Judai starts moving for the split-screen a frame early, causing the transition to be slightly out of sync--I fixed this in Vegas by redoing Cobra's slide-in to be timed with Judai moving for it. Not too long after, their split-screen splits to show Venom Snake being pulled from Cobra's Cemetery, but they split unevenly with Judai's going offscreen a frame or two earlier--I fixed this in Vegas by redoing Judai's slide-out to be synced with Cobra's.

A bit later, before Judai's last turn and as he's thinking he has no way of winning, Cobra slides into a split-screen to tell him that the goddess of victory would never smile on his dueling for fun; as they split apart, there's a quick frame where Judai's split is missing its border. Fixed in Vegas by quickly adding a border on it.

Later, as Judai's last turn is underway, he activates his Cocoon Party and Contact Magic Cards to summon Cocoon Mole and Cocoon Larva and evolve them into Neo-Spacians Gran Mole and Flare Scarab--though as he does so, neither Cocoon or his Flare Scarab appear on his Disk (Gran Mole's card would be obscured by Flare Scarab's head), and the Cocoons would've been added since they're being summoned to the field while Gran Mole and Flare Scarab appear on Judai's Disk later as he Contact-Fuses for Magma Neos. Fixed in full, first using AfterEffects to apply proxies for the Cocoons over a still shot after the rapid zoom-out that happens as the shot starts as a draft for Vegas, while then also applying a Flare Scarab proxy later after the burst of light he emerges from fades out and fading it in as it does so to fix that part; once both were done, I took them into Vegas, where I first zoomed in on my draft Cocoons edit to blend it into the very start of the shot, then zoomed it back out into place and applied some motion blurring for the initial few frames to match the rest of the shot, and then faded out the fixes as the burst of light faded in, while I added my Flare Scarab fix to the footage for the end of the shot.

A few seconds later, as Judai uses Necrodarkman's effect in his Cemetery to summon Neos, he erroneously calls it a "Special-Summon," like he did back in episode 62 (though Tribute-Summoning Neos by tributing Fluff Tokens at the time). Thought to fix this one by first using UltimateVocalRemover to isolate Judai's voice from the music and the rest of the audio, then removing the word "tokushuu" ("Special-") from his line; in doing this, I noticed that Neos's shout upon being summoned sounded a bit low due to the isolation, so I also used UVR to isolate his shout from his summoning in episode 96 (as it's actually the same animation and nearly the same shout) and mixed it in behind Judai's voice. I then added the fixed audio to the clip involved, clipped out the surrounding video and audio and combined everything back to make it seamless. (I'll probably want to go back and fix it in 62... lol)

During the preview for 120, as Manjoume leaves his Infirmary bed, the Ojamas are suddenly materialized under his sheets, but there's a quick frame as the sheets unfurl to reveal them and they start to move where Ojama Yellow's right eye vanishes. As the error happens in 120 proper, too, I fixed this by first applying a quick fix there, just masking out Ojama Yellow's right eye from the previous frame and putting it back.

[krakenshaped]

Okay so more tag duel posting of cool things I've noticed on my first playthrough (as someone who chose Asuka as their duel partner)

Tag Duel 2 Spoilers ahead!!!

If not paired with the player, the other characters will pair themselves up as so (not sure about Asuka + Kenzan has Not Been Spotted Yet) (<- not sure if partners can change or randomise)

- Judai will partner up O'Brien. I've found them hanging outside the Osiris dorms in the morning, In the locker room next to the store at noon and in the dueling arena at night.

- Manjoume oddly enough partners up with Johan. I've found them in the classroom at night.

- Sho and Rei partner up. I've found them in the forest and on the volcano (if I'm remembering right, it was early game)

- I found Edo with Fubuki. Which is an interesting concept as well as a fun nod to the manga (maybe), Fubuki's win animation is that little thing they do when they poses, shake their tush and thumbs up. (The 10join classic) They're also found in the classroom at night.

- Kenzan has Not Been Found. He's missing in action.

- Jim partners up with Junko but I have a feeling it would have been Asuka had I not chosen her. They hang out at the harbour at night.

-Amon (lol) partners up with Napoleon (lol) because it seems a little obvious (lol) he couldn't find anyone to partner up with him (L bozo) he's having a baby tantrum in the card shop.

Other facts to note when considering when writing your ygo fanfiction (whether it be Asuka trivia or just map trivia)

Asuka likes grapes and steak sandwiches. She does not like gyoza or fermented cheese. Like. Girlie HATES gyoza and fermented cheese.

Asuka talks about Fubuki like he's still dead. Lmao. This can be written off as copy paste dialogue/win-lose quotes from TD1 but I think it's interesting to consider about what it says about their relationship.

Asuka has other reactions to areas around school at different times (which I'm assuming is the same for every character). One is the aforementioned harbour dialogue and the other, which happens during morning or noon, is Asuka hoping that nobody drew the golden eggwich yet.

In the first morning, Asuka chides you for sleeping in and gets angry at you for keeping her out too late, claiming its the girls curfew and she doesn't like staying out too late. This somewhat suggests Asuka is an early to bed early to rise sort of person as at least Judai and Edo don't comment on it.

Similarly if you try and skip class, Asuka will get angry at you and drag you to class anyway (honor student queen).

The abandoned dorm is easily one of the biggest maps in the game. Entering it plays some corpse party ass music. It's not scary but it is almost hilarious how Konami put their whole konamusi into the abandoned dorm while not even letting you enter the Yellow, Blue or Girl's dorm. (Which was what interested me the most since I was curious if there were rooms for each character.)

That being said, you can enter every room in Osiris including Manjoune's old room.

Oh right. Johan also confirms he's been living in the Red dorm in a stray piece of dialogue about how Ruby needs to lead him back to the Red dorm at night. This means he's probably staying with Judai and Manjoume (since at this point in time Manjoume was forcefully evicted out his own room by Rei.) Food for thought.

I'll probably update more trivia, tidbits and thoughts as i continue playing and tag it

-> #tag duel analysis

[kaluawoo]

Kaiser was in the opening!!! He was there!!

[gramarye]

gx :)

CHANGED MY LIFE. MAKES ME INSANE. GOT ME INTO YUGIOH IN GENERAL AND NOW IM WATCHING THE REST AND HAVE A BINDER FULL OF CARDS AND AM PLAYING IT COMPETITIVELY

insane how a childrens card game has such good depiction of ptsd and depression what the fuck! something about gx just grabbed me by my THROAT and hasnt let me go... i just love the cast so much. like every single character. my god. their dynamics are so good and funny and i love their quirks and how they're expanded upon in spinoffs like duel links and tag force. like how ryo loves plain bread (autistic coded!!!!!!!!!! my man) and how kenzan is afraid of asuka and everything HA and how there is a 50/50 chance asuka can't cook. just like. all their interactions and quirks. so funny. i love them

obviously i adore asuka i think she is so cool and i lovvvvvvveee judai he is My Boy and and and manjoume i think he is just the funniest guy and RYO I AM SO FERAL FOR RYO hell kaiser ryo made me insane i am insane for him. and he makes me even more insane bc he has a heart disease like me and im so glad they SPOILER WARNING SPOILER WARNING kept him disabled in the end and he wasn't just magically cured. like okay hashtag representation. okay those are my top 4 but i love kenzan rei sho fubuki misawa yes i remember misawa johan jim o'brien too everyone just everyone. except amon fuck amon sorry i knwo thsi is a positivity post but no one likes amon anyway so im right

ALSO THE SONGS!! BANGERS!!!!!!!! listening to genkai battle rn. so sexy

also i ordered the judai rerelease and manjoume figures today bc im insane and got compensated for the shithole i lived in last year. hehe. he. he. he. god

literally yugioh gx got me back into watching anime and now i am insane and unstoppable and cant stop thinking about and drawing my blorbos. love love love

[higuchimon]

Any LGBTQ+ Yugioh (any series/season) heacanons?

A lot of my headcanons for them shift depending on what I feel like writing, but these are the ones I tend to return to the most often. The list doesn't touch on every character from every era, just the ones I've thought about, if only briefly. YGO DM: Yuugi: panromantic/pansexual

Jounouchi: mostly thinks he's straight but could get a surprise at some point

Kaiba: asexual/aromantic

Honda: probably straight but could also be surprised

Anzu: bisexual/biromantic

Mai: pansexual/panromantic

Otogi: pansexual/panromantic

Bakura: has no clue. Will probably give anyone a chance.

Yami no Yuugi: biromantic/bisexual

Yami no Bakura: Usually too busy with stealing and revenge to care but when he does, he doesn't care.

Yami no Malik: asshole

Pegasus: mostly straight. If I did anime canon for DM, he'd be more bi, becaues SilvorMoon writes very persuasive Pegasus/Siegfried.

Isis Ishtar: undecided (torn between Must Have Children For The Sake of the Family & But She's So Pretty...

Malik Ishtar: queer (he doesn't want kids at all, so he activelly avoids a situation where he could sire one)

Rishid Ishtar: asexual/aromantic

YGO GX: Juudai: demiromantic/demisexual (Yubel-sexual/romantic)

Shou: biromantic/bisexual

Asuka: ace as the day is long (she had a tiny squish on Juudai that existed mostly because he was one of the few people who treated her like a duelist and not an object of romance)

Manjoume: bi (sexual, romantic, he will buy whoever he's interested in things)

Kenzan: bisexual/biromantic (hasn't met many guys he's truly attracted to, nor has Shou. O'Brien could be an exception one day)

Jim, O'Brien, Hayato: bisexual/biromantic

Misawa & Rei: Token Hets

Edo: homoromantic/homosexual

Saiou, Ryou, Yuusuke: homoromantic, asexual

Johan: queer

Chronos: asexual/aromantic

Amon: asshole

Yubel: demiromantic/demisexual (see also, Juudai-sexual/romantic)

Taniya: biromantic/bisexual (needs someone who can sire children for her tribe's sake, but for her pleasure?)

Camula: panromantic//pansexual (after a few centuries as a vampire, you try everything)

Fubuki: pansexual/panromantic

YGO 5DS

Yuusei: asexual/demiromantic

Jack: pansexual/panromantic (Everyone must love the King!!)

AKi: thinks she's straight, hasn't yet figured out she's not yet. Exact flavor of not-straight not decided.

Carly: biromantic/bisexual

Crow: biromantic/bisexual

Divine: asshole

Kiryu: asexual/aromantic (mostly because he doesn't really feel like relationships after everything he's been through)

Rua & Ruka: undecided

YGO Zexal

Yuuya: pansexual/panromantic. Yuuma loves everyone!

Astral: aromantic/asexual

Kaito: asexual/biromantic (he has Touch Issues)

Kotori: thinks she's straight but with age will come other thoughts

III/Michael: biromantic/bisexual

IV/Thomas: asshole/queer

V/Chris: queer (Tron's probably not getting grandkids unless they decide to adopt)

Durbe: queer

Gilag: token het

Alit: bisexual biromantic rock alien! (isn't this canon? Pretty sure it's canon)

Mizael: queer

Rio/Merag: demiromantic/demisexual

Ryouga/Nasch/Shark: queer

Vecto: asshole

YGO Arc-V

Yuuya & Yuuto: panromantic/pansexual

Yuugo: demiromantic/demisexual (mostly focused on Rin in canon)

Yuuri: asshole (as long as it's good for him, he doesn't care about anything else)

Yuzu/Rin/Ruri/Selena: various bits of demiromantic/demisexual

Asuka (Arc-V flavor): homoromantic/homosexual (dating the Osisis Red girl, whom I call Akane)

Dennis: asshole

Edo (Arc-V flavor): probably queer, been too busy being a soldier to really have a social life most of the time

Jack (Arc-V flavor): as in 5ds, panromantic/pansexual

Masumi: biromantic/bisexual

Reiji: aromantic/asexual (at least mostly. Post-canon that could change)

Shingo: is "self-sexual" a thing? But seriously, probably biromantic/bisexual

Sora: Like Edo, too busy being a soldier most of the timem. When he's not, more biromantic/bisexual

Shun: queer

Zarc: destruction-sexual/praise-sexual (now that I think about, he would have the praise kink from hell. ANd if he doesn't get it...)

YGO VRAINS

Yuusaku: asexual/aromantic (at least partially due to trauma, but it's not impossible for him to develop feelings for Ryouken or Ai)

Ai: demiromantic/demisexual (Yuusaku-sexual)

RYouken: homoromantic/homosexual

Takeru: token het

Aoi: She thinks she's straight. Being an idol, she has to give the appearance of that. Whether she actually is or not...

Spectre: asexual/romantic (if he ever met a dryad, though...)

YGO Sevens:

Roa: queer (on-screen musical love confession!!)

[theabcsofjustice]

aozorasoann replied to your photoset “Sooo, instead of letting them die Yubel transported them all to...”

at first I was confused but then I figured it kinda made sense. None of them are duel monsters, it would make sense that they're not led by the same principles and that Yubel only took them to pretend they were dead, it also explains why Judai didn't die during his tie with O'Brien (Haou's death was more symbolic of the fact that Jim managed to reach Judai) and then the tie with Johan. Though I'll admit that Amon's situation confuses me then and I need Yubel to explain.

I suppose that could be, although that definitely wouldn’t explain what happened to Amon and Echo and why they don’t get to come back too. Haou’s death being more symbolic rather than actually killing some separate person within Judai does make sense though.

[lecliss]

List of YGO GX character sexuality/gender/pronouns/disabilities/nationality/generic headcanons. These are just my headcanons so if anyone disagrees that's perfectly fine, but keep it to yourself or make your own post. And if you wanna claim any of the sexualities/genders listed don't exist then also keep it to yourself.

(Since you were curious, @kalu-chan, here it is)

Judai:

ADHD

Parents work for Kaiba Corp

Artist

Biromantic Asexual

He/Him

Sho:

Autistic

Collects toy cars

Special Interests are Judai and vehicles

Neglectful parents

Pansexual

Autigender

They/It

Semi-Closeted*

Manjoume:

Deceased parents, never knew them

Demiromantic Asexual

Agender

He/They

Closeted

Asuka:

Did ballet as a kid

Aromantic Asexual

She/Her

Misawa:

OCD

Straight

Cis

He/Him

Kaiser:

Neglectful parents

Gay Asexual

He/Him

Semi-Closeted*

Chronos:

Gay

He/Him

Fubuki: 

Autistic

Loves attention

Isn't good at putting his feelings into words

Bisexual

He/Him

Edo:

Japanese/American

American father, Japanese mother

Speaks English and Japanese

Panromantic Gay

Demiboy

He/They

Closeted

Kenzan:

African-American/Japanese

Japanese father, African-American mother

One older brother, one younger sister

Has an aunt that's an archeologist

Speaks English and Japanese

Demisexual

He/Him

Saiou:

Japanese/Unknown

Half siblings with Mizuchi

Queer

Solarian

They/Them

Mizuchi:

Half siblings with Saiou

Lesbian

She/Her

Johan:

German

Dyslexic

Family runs/lives in a restaurant

Has lots of cousins

Skilled cook

Speaks German and Japanese

Gay

He/Him

Jim:

Part Aboriginal Australian

Orphan

Speaks English and Japanese

Polyamorous Bisexual

Nonbinary

He/They/It(Will respond to anything though)

QPPs with O'Brien(Post-Canon)

O'Brien:

Brazilian

Paranoia

Homeschooled

Speaks Portuguese, English, and Japanese

Litromantic Demiromantic Asexual

He/Him

QPPs with Jim(Post-Canon)

Semi-Closeted**

Amon:

Iranian

Speaks Persian and Japanese

Straight

He/Him

Rei:

Pansexual

She/Her

Martin:

Speaks French and Japanese

Oriented Aromantic Asexual

Bigender

He/She/They

Closeted

Yubel:

Intersex

He/She/They

*Closeted to family but out to friends

**Closeted to friends but out to family

(I don't actually know if it's confirmed if Johan is German or not so I wrote it down anyway)

(Some characters don't have listed genders cuz I don't have a specific headcanon for them on that and didn't want to ''''default'''' to cis)

[kaiowut99]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 106-107 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episode 105 Subbed [Finalized])

(Check out my Subbed!GX Stream Masterpost!)

TURN-106: Judai and Johan of the Gem Beast Deck

A new school term has started at the Duel Academia. Invited to the Academia as transfer students and becoming new friends are the Academy Champions known as Amon, O'Brien, Crocodile, and a mysterious boy--along with one Professor Cobra. Meanwhile, atop the school building rooftop, Judai meets a boy who can see Spirits--who turns out to be the "mysterious boy," Johan. Cobra proposes an Exhibition Match, pitting Judai against Johan. Johan turns out to be a duelist in control of the rare Monsters known as the Gem Beasts.

TURN-107: The Neo-Spacians VS the Gem Beasts

Johan summons one Gem Beast after another, from his Amethyst Cat to his Topaz Tiger. Judai also has Neo-Spacian Flare Scarab and Neos perform a Contact Fusion to take them on with his Flare Neos. Then, Johan destroys Judai's Field Magic and activates a new Field Magic, Ancient City of Rainbows -- Rainbow Ruins, sending his Neo-Spacian back to his deck. Seeing these skillful attacks, Ed begins to speak of the unknown relationship between Johan and his Gem Beasts.

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...so, didn't mean to let these take about a month and a half since 105 was all finalized, but heremst we be *sips indie coffee*

Season 3 gets into full swing with these two episodes as it starts us off with a hint of our upcoming big bad right off the jump (RIP Hiromi Tsuru, your Yubel is still fantastic), then introduces us to the big foreign players we'll be seeing quite a bit of going forward. Judai has a nightmare taking place in an area similar to his vision with Saiou--which I'm sure is unrelated to anything--and then opening ceremonies ensue before we're introduced properly to our new transfer students, and the Ancient Roman lore around Johan's Gem Beasts which was pretty cool to include; Judai and Johan then have a fun duel together as we see the Gem Beasts in action facing Judai's Neo-Spacians. These episodes also see the debut of some of my favorite OST tracks from Season 3, like Fervent Duel (used really well in 107) and A Pinch here. Ed coming in for 107 and giving us the background on Johan from Pegasus, featuring cameos of Dark Yugi, Kaiba, and Jounouchi (from the Warriors and Unstopping Overflowing Feelings OP/EN in DM--these nods were kept in the dub, so it was the first time those particular shots of Kaiba and Jou were used in the West), as we learn that he gifted the Gem Beasts to Johan during a tournament in Europe was good, and I still love Johan's little fakeout at the end with the Rainbow Dragon he doesn't actually have yet. A fun duo of episodes with a fun, low-stakes duel that we should enjoy while we can.

Quick side-notes for the dub, but want to take a sec to shout out Jim's dub VA who perfectly nailed his Australian voice for the guy, and who I hope comes back if we're ever lucky enough to get a more accurate GX redub (though I think he was recast in DL? But still sounded pretty good). Dub!Yubel, though... I'm still baffled by the decision made with that voice, and I'm glad they eventually went with a better voice in BBT. 107 also saw them make a bunch of--I assume--time cuts, including most of the cold open which featured our first in-series look at Martin, and other shots as Cobra set up his evil lair in the old SAL lab (continuity!), but also the ending shot as Cobra looks at the duel energy he collected and comments on their impressive duel--most of those are fair as far as time cuts go, though I think the ending scene should've been kept. It's also interesting that, with Johan's southern accent being a thing in the dub (which has grown on me, though I like his later no-accent voice more), that they had Pegasus say the tournament he went to with him happened "down south;" according to a comment on the Crunchyroll upload, the venue's the "All-England Lawn Tennis Club where the Grand Slam Wimbledon" happens in the UK? lol

Animation error-wise, there were just over a handful that I picked up on in each episode that I went ahead and fixed up--mostly quality-of-watching ones along with a couple of card errors, and I also translated the bio on Amon that O'Brien hands to Cobra early in episode 106. As always, details below the cut if interested, along with Translation Notes for the bio.

Anywho, enjoy! The next two-parter features our fiery boy O'Brien, and with some really nice art/animation in 109 that I always love to revisit; I'll begin work on that once I finalize some special side work that I should hopefully get to post about soon, too, though I'll also be going back to episode 1 to fix up a card error I forgot to tackle, lol. Stay tuned!

Fixes/Edits! (106)

Early in the episode, Professor Cobra enters O'Brien's room on the ship and asks who else would be visiting him; he hands him a bio pointing to one Amon Garam. As detailed here, I translated Amon's bio in this shot, first compiling a full image to edit from its later appearances in 111 and 121, then keyframing it into the rotating zooming-out shot that happens here with AfterEffects and Sony Vegas. (The full text of the bio is in that detailed post)

In the next shot, Cobra asks if Amon came to see O'Brien, noting that he seems to be a meddler but suggests that he doesn't pay him any mind, turning to pass the bio back to him--as he does so, a few quick animation errors happen: 1) Cobra's face/mouth glitch for a few quick frames as he shifts his face into a smile (likely his current face being left over his moving face behind it); 2) the bio page in his hand jitters a bit in the frames leading up to his turning towards O'Brien; and 3) once O'Brien's holding the paper and moves it down, there are a quick few frames where a small part of his hair (the one bang on his left) is missing before it comes back. As detailed here, I edited in my translation to the bio while Cobra's holding it and as he passes it back, masking in Cobra and the rest of the frame over it for blending, while also fixing those errors for the Japanese scene by holding Cobra's face pre-glitch over the glitched frames, editing the Amon bio so it's steady throughout, and masking in O'Brien's full hair bang over the frames where it's cut short.

Later, as the Judai/Johan duel gets underway, Judai and Johan give their "Duel!" shouts and draw their hands, but a few things happen as they jump into a split-screen for it: 1) Judai moves a frame before Johan starts to slide in on his split; 2) once the screen pans down to their decks as they draw, the split-screen border seems to have been drawn in oddly, as part of Judai's side ends up just on top of the border (also seems to be slightly cut off in width halfway down); and 3) as they split apart, more of Judai seems to have made it to the left of his split's border. I fixed each one in Vegas by first sliding in Johan a frame earlier as Judai moves, then enhancing the split-screen border a bit to cover up what ends up on top of it and to its left as they split out (I generally try to avoid making redone borders that much bigger, but thought it was the only way to cleanly/consistently fix that).

After Johan plays Gem Beast Emerald Turtle, we cut to the Overseas Champions watching on, with Jim whistling before Amon expresses his surprise at the Gem Beasts--but a coloring error happens in the rapid pan from Jim to Amon, with both having odd coloring spots. A quick fix in Vegas by redoing the panning using a frame of Jim post-whistle and a frame of Amon before his mouth moves.

After Judai summons Neos, Johan laments that he can't ask for his autograph while they're dueling, but notes that he was waiting for him to summon a new Monster--Judai slides in on a split-screen to question that, but a few things happen: 1) Johan starts moving to make room for his split a frame before he does so; 2) a coloring error happens as Judai and Johan then split apart before Johan activates Triggered Summon (more noticeable on Johan), and 3) Judai's uneven slide-out leads to it taking a frame longer than Johan's to get offscreen. Fixed each one in Vegas by sliding Judai in a frame earlier as Johan moves, masking in Judai and Johan's pre-slide-out splits over the frames as they slide out to fix the coloring error, and making Judai's slide-out match Johan's by masking one frame in earlier.

[continued below, just split thanks to stupid text-block character limits]

(6) A bit later, after Johan talks about not having any destruction cards in his deck so he can see his opponents going all-out, Judai notes how neat he finds him; as they split apart and Johan tells him to bring out his new Monster (due to Triggered Summon's effect), there's a quick frame where the border is missing on Judai's split. Quick fix in Vegas as I just added it back on by duplicating the one on Johan's and touching it up as needed.

(7) As Judai then summons Neo-Spacian Gran Mole, we see it pop up in front of him, but Judai has black rectangles on his Disk where Gran Mole, Neos, and Aqua Dolphin should be. Fixed using AfterEffects to slap on proxies for each in one frame, which I then took into Sony Vegas and shook around position-wise frame by frame to add it to the full shot (thankfully, this was just shaking around and not zooming in or out lol).

(8) During the preview for 107, we see Judai on a split-screen jumping as Johan declares an attack with his Amethyst Cat, but as they slide apart, two quick things happen: 1) there's a quick frame where there's just black behind them (and Johan's split's border isn't as glowy as Judai's), and 2) some of Johan's split's border hangs on for two frames after he and Judai slide offscreen. Fixed each in Vegas for 107 proper first, then applied the fixes here, masking in Amethyst Cat behind Judai and Johan as they split apart, then masking in some of the whooshing background behind Amethyst Cat to cover up the remaining bit of Johan's split border for those two frames.

Fixes/Edits! (107)

After Judai summons Flare Scarab, he has it do a Contact Fusion with Neos for Flare Neos, but as he declares Flare Scarab's name for it, we see that the cards on his Disk--for Gran Mole, Neos, and Flare Scarab--are flipped upside-down. Fixed in AfterEffects first by applying proxies as Judai swings his Disk around, then on one frame during the zoom-out on Flare Scarab after he moves--I then took the latter frame into Sony Vegas, where I redid the zoomout on it for the whole shot, masking in Flare Scarab on top of it.

After Johan plays Rainbow Ruins and Judai's Battle Phase ends, we see his Disk as Flare Neos returns to his field, but not only are his cards upside-down again--he also has regular ol' Neos where Flare Neos should be. Fixed both in AfterEffects by applying the Mole and Flare Neos proxies correctly, masking in the orb part of Judai's Disk over the Gran Mole one.

A bit after the eyecatch, as Judai realizes that Johan hasn't played his ace yet, he starts to ask about it, startling Johan as he slides into a split-screen with him to ask as much, but Johan starts to move for it a frame early. Fixed in Sony Vegas by sliding Judai in a frame earlier there.

Later, after Johan explains that Ruby Special-Summons itself and the other Gems in his Magic/Trap Zone when placed there (rude of the OCG to remove that part of its effect), we split out of the split-screen there as Ruby's summoned, but the border on Johan's split hangs on for an extra frame. Fixed in Vegas by just masking in part of the whooshing background over it.

A bit later, Johan declares a direct attack with Amethyst Cat, and Judai jumps as their split-screen splits apart to show Amethyst Cat pouncing at him, but as they slide apart, 1) there's a quick frame where there's just black behind them (and Johan's split's border isn't as glowy as Judai's), and 2) some of Johan's split's border hangs on for two frames after he and Judai slide offscreen. As noted for the preview version of this shot in 106's list, I fixed these here first before applying the fix there, masking in Amethyst Cat behind Judai and Johan as they split apart, then masking in some of the whooshing background behind Amethyst Cat to cover up the remaining bit of Johan's split border for those two frames.

Later, after summoning Air Neos (who), Judai slides into a split-screen to explain his ATK-gain-per-LP-difference effect; as they slide apart, Judai's uneven slide-out causes his side to take a frame longer than Johan's to slide offscreen. Fixed in Vegas by just masking part of Judai's slide-out a frame earlier to even up the slide-out.

A bit later, after Johan hypes up Rainbow Dragon only to end in a "just kiddin'," Judai clicks in for a split-screen in confusion before they split apart to show Air Neos's attack connecting with Amber Mammoth--as they split apart, parts of the border on Johan and Judai's splits hang on for an extra frame. I fixed this by just using the touched-up version of this shot from the recap in 108, which had Judai and Johan's splits slide out more naturally.

After the duel, Cobra walks out to congratulate the two on a duel well fought; he beckons them towards him, but as he walks up to the center of the arena to do so, his still feet jitter as Judai and Johan start to walk over. Fixed in Vegas by masking in his feet from the frame as Judai and Johan start to walk over over the 2-3 earlier frames as he gets to the center of the arena to keep it consistent.

[kaiowut99]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episode 110 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 108-109 Subbed [Finalized])

(Check out my Subbed!GX Stream Masterpost!)

TURN-110: Tyranno Kenzan VS Fossil Dragon Jim

Jim Crocodile has noticed an outbreak of strong electromagnetic waves at the Duel Academia. Accompanied by Judai, Johan, Shou, and Kenzan, Jim decides to investigate in the jungle. As they do, some strong electromagnetic waves spring up, causing his crocodile Karen to pounce on Kenzan--and at the same time, the effects of the electromagnetic waves cause Kenzan to forget who he is and pounce on Jim.* This leads to Jim having a duel with Kenzan, and as Kenzan instinctively summons his powerful Dinosaur Monsters, Jim activates his Kaseki Yuugou -- Fossil Fusion Magic Card to summon his Fossil Dragons. *Worth noting that the pre-airing summary text here makes it sound like Karen biting Kenzan and Kenzan lunging for Jim both happened as they're looking around in the jungle, when in the episode proper, Karen biting Kenzan is what gets Jim onto the scene; wonder if that was the original idea in production...

[EDIT, 5/19: Episode reuploaded after correcting two of Cobra's lines near the end, and also fixing an animation error I missed initially with Kenzan's Disk near the end of the episode; details added below the cut.]

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*runs in to post this in Engrish*

Well, mates, episode 110 is now up and finalized! With Season 3 starting off with a couple of two-parters, I figured I'd take a slight breather and work on just 110 this go-round given the multiple two-parters on the way. And it's a good one, as we're introduced more to Jim Crocodile Cook (and his well-done Australian accent in the dub, for some kudos there to 4Kids [some dialogue choices for him (and Kenzan [that's not how Tail Swing works???]) aside]) while also seeing how quickly Judai seems to have recovered after his duel with O'Brien, and we see the debut of Jim's Fossils, which would go on to take a good 18 years or so before finally being printed with some buffs to them; it was always an archetype I liked. Kenzan also just spending a good 3-4 minutes growling was A+ (a shame the dub just made him talk semi-primitively, even if it mostly works), more of Jim's Engrish was just as good, and I liked how Jim and Kenzan came away with some respect for each other by the end after how offended Kenzan was by the Fossil Fusion concept. Fun times!

Animation error-wise, like with 108-109, I mostly did some quality-of-watching touch-ups around split-screens (with some of the fixes I did also allowing me to get rid of some of the ghosting in the footage), though there two card fixes I applied with Kenzan. Details below under the cut as always for the interested!

Quick housekeeping: in case you missed it, I re-released my finalized episode 1 work, as I went back and applied various card fixes that were bugging me and that I've grown to be able to fix, lol. Still shook I first started finalizing everything in 2014... 💀 Currently, I don't anticipate going back to re-finalize anything pre-84, mostly due to the annoyance of cutting/splicing stuff to get around not having the original unreleased scripts I'd keep with the ATK/DEF counter subs and whatnot thanks to a 2022 data drive failure, and hopefully it stays that way. 😅 I also applied a few minor styling fixes to the ending credit subs for 105 and 108 (noticed the text for a few names in the cast lists were scaled inconsistently) and reuploaded those; rereleased episode 1 has been posted on NAC, while re-finalized 105 and 108 will be posted there with 110.

Anywho, enjoy! I'll likely be going back to some TFSP stuff for a bit (in case you missed that news~) and then I'll dip into episodes 111-112 and Manjoume VS Amon; stay tuned!

Fixes/Edits!

As Jim first activates Fossil Fusion, we see the card first before he fades in holding it, but his thumb is missing as his fade-in starts, and then it just appears, fully faded-in, in the next frame even though the rest of him is still fading in. I fixed this in Sony Vegas by masking out his thumb and adding it to the first frame in which Jim starts fading in, then making his thumb fade in with the rest of him.

Later, as Kenzan thinks Dark Driceratops bested Jim's Skullgar, Skullgar turns around and defeats it, causing Kenzan some damage; as he reacts while his LP drop, Jim slides in on a split-screen exclaiming "Bravo!", but his split-screen slide-in starts with his split already about 50% into the shot. After that, Jim sets one card face-down and ends his turn, and as Kenzan opens his eyes and starts to growl while the split-screen ends, Jim's split starts to slide out the frame after Kenzan starts to move. Fixed the first in Sony Vegas by re-doing his slide-in to be more natural and start closer to the edge of the screen, then fixed the second by just removing the one frame where Kenzan has moved but Jim hasn't so that they move simultaneously, holding a frame once the split-screen's over a frame longer to compensate.

As #2 here leads into Kenzan taking offense at how Jim woke his dinosaur out of its sleep to use as a piece for Jim's fossil "freak," he says he'll make Jim pay for that as their match gets going for real; Judai and co look on as Jim and Kenzan stare each other down on a split-screen leading to the eyecatch (the split-screen here cut from the dub, likely for time), but Jim's split slides in unevenly compared to Kenzan's. Fixed in Vegas by redoing his split's slide-in so they both slide in evenly.

Later, after Jim uses Dowsing Burn to take out Sabersaurus, Kenzan reacts as Jim slides in on a split-screen to declare his Sample Fossil summoning, but Jim's split starts to slide in with it already about 50% of the way into the shot. Fixed this in Vegas by redoing his slide-in to make it slide in more naturally, while also redoing Kenzan moving in the background to eliminate the ghosting during this split-screen's forming.

A bit after #4, Jim uses Sample Fossil to dig up Sabersaurus from Kenzan's Cemetery to make a specimen out of it, and as we see its chains working to drag its remains up from the ground, we see Kenzan still has Sabersaurus on his Disk despite it being in his Cemetery. Fixed this first in Photoshop by cleaning up the Monster Zone in question on the shot's first frame, then threw the fixed frame into Vegas, where I then shook it along with the screen for the rest of the shot, also slightly zooming it out and fading it out as the transition from Kenzan into the dug-up Sabersaurus happens.

Shortly after, as Jim taunts Kenzan about his lovely Sabersaurus specimen, Kenzan growls in response; Jim then slides in on a split-screen to say that Sample Fossil's ATK becomes equal to Sabersaurus's, but his split again starts to slide in with 50% of it already in the shot. Fixed this in Vegas by redoing his slide-in so it slides in more naturally, and redoing Kenzan moving to again eliminate some footage ghosting.

A bit later, Kenzan activates his Treasure of Variation card, and as the close-up shot on it transitions into a split-screen splitting apart to show Kenzan behind it explaining its effect, each side of the split-screen jitters slightly in the frame before it properly starts to split apart. Fixed this in Vegas by holding the earlier frame over the jittering frame so that it properly splits apart in the next frame.

After Kenzan's next turn, as Jim wonders if the electromagnetic waves aren't behind Judai and co's exhaustion, he draws another Fossil Fusion; he smiles upon seeing it, but his smile ends up being slightly drawn onto his eye bandages. Fixed this in Vegas by just masking the eye bandages over it to keep his smile off the bandages.

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(9) After Kenzan's Brachion switches into Defense Mode from Jim summoning Skullgios, Jim is impressed by its 3000 DEF; Kenzan slides in on a split-screen to think that there's no way he can hold off an attack from Skullgios, but his split only starts to slide in the frame after Jim starts to move for it, and with it starting about 50% of the way into the shot. Fixed this in Vegas by redoing Kenzan's slide-in to start as Jim moves and slide in more naturally.

(10) As Jim has Skullgios pause its attack on Brachion, Kenzan looks up and wonders why, but as he does, we see that Brachion is on his Disk in Attack Mode despite it just going into Defense Mode. Fixed first in Photoshop as I blanked the Monster Zone in the first frame of the shot, then took it into AfterEffects to add a proxy in Defense Mode, and then took the fixed frame into Vegas to re-pan into the footage, masking in Brachion as it starts to cover the Zone up.

[EDIT, 5/19] (11) After Jim and Kenzan are drained of their Duel Energy, Kenzan shudders for a second or two before falling to his knees panting, but as he does, the end of his Disk (on our right) isn't fully drawn in for the five frames of movement that takes (each lasting 2-4 frames), though it comes back near the end of the shot. As noted here, fixed this first in Photoshop by using one of the initial frames as reference to snip out the end of his Disk and adjust it into place for three of the five movement frames, while I just painted in what was missing for the last two; once done, I threw the fixed frames into Sony Vegas and re-panned them to complete the fix.

[higuchimon]

[rewrite list]

okay, a bit later than I'd thought at first, but here is my rewrite list. It is long because I've been at this a while. My goal isn't perfection but to have every fic be at a point where it's A: finished and B: I like it the way that it is. This list will probably never be finished, but I'm going to do whatever I can.

Now, this is what I've got here. It's all divided into sections: rewrites, fics planned for Bad Things Happen Bingo and event weeks/months, and tumblr prompts being answered. Sometimes there will be overlap between those sections. I also have a small section for currently posted fics that need to be finished. I have a rough plan for writing - the fics with DaiKen Week & Zexal Week first and foremost, as I want them finished before their weeks start. Next comes the fics and collections already in progress. Then I will alternate between BTHB and answering tumblr prompts. Somewhere in there I will probably write other things that are just regular fics (probably challenge fills. I have a lot of those).

Tumblr Prompts

The One Forgotten: Hayate/Windy's Origin: 0/1: 0/999: 999

To Walk Together: Manjoume x Fubuki: 1/2: 1,500/3,000: 1,500

Time To Break The Rules: Kinshiro x Atsushi: 1/3: 3,213/9,600: 6,400

Ice, Snow, & Keeping Warm: Ken x Daisuke: 1/3: 3,258/9,937: 3,000 wpc: 6,679

Avenge The Strike: Hikari, Ken: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Sweet Sorrow: Ken x Daisuke: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Like The Rising Tide: Johan x Yubel: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

The Way To Win: Shingo x Yuugo: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

What Was & Will Be: Ken x Daisuke: 0/8: 0/18,000: 2,250 wpc: 18,000

Savor of Wine: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Not Anything But Everything: Yuuto x Yuuya: 0/12: 2,687/38,274: 3,000 wpc: 35,587

Miracles Can Happen: Ken x Daisuke: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Boy In The Tower: Taichi x Daisuke: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Counting Down To The End: Edo x Ryou: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Dangers of Curiosity: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Back To Danger: RYouken x Yuusaku: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Forever Mine: Kaiser x Daisuke: 4/65: 3,052/48,750: 750 wpc: 45,698

Open Your Heart: Kaiser x Daisuke: 0/6: 0/48,000: 8,000 wpc: 48,000

Spellbreaking: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Your Pain Is My Pain: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Key To A Bad Bargain: Ken x Daisuke: 0/20: 1,063/62,630: 6,263 wpc: 61,567

Team Bonding: 02 Chosen: 0/30: 0/156,900: 5,232 wpc: 156,900

Unforgettable Summer: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/24: 0/258,060: 11,220 wpc: 258,060

Bad Things Happen Bingo

Illness: Ken x Daisuke: 1/3: 3,200/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 6,400

Not So Common Cold: Ruki x Renamon: 0/10: 0/12,460: 1,246 wpc: 12,460

Beginning Bargains: Kaiser x Daisuke: 3/12: 4,678/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 13,322

Flames of Justice: Juudai, Ryou: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Inner Pain: Asuka, Fubuki: 0/12: 0/18,504: 1,542 wpc: 18,504

Mine At Last: Juudai, Shou: 1/25: 1,860/45,000: 1,800 wpc: 43,200

Only One Answer: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 3,597/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 44,403

Shirt For A Bird: SHun, Yuuri: 0/18: 0/47,196: 2,622 wpc: 47,196

Assassin: Edo x Ryou: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Whispers of WInter: Yubel x Juudai: 0/15: 0/54,780: 3,652 wpc: 54,780

Lost Feathers: Ken x Daisuke: 0/18: 0/56,016: 3,112 wpc: 56,016

Rewards of Victory: Ryou, Yuuri: 0/17: 0/56,100: 3,300 wpc: 56,100

Deadly Mistake: Shun, Yuuri: 0/10: 0/75,000: 7,500 wpc: 75,000

Reason For Choosing: Juudai, Johan: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Payment: Shun, Yuuri: 0/25: 0/91,400: 3,656 wpc: 91,400

Demon Lord of the Underground: Ryou: 0/21: 0/91,172: 4,532 wpc: 91,172

Prey & Hunters: Shun, Yuuri: 0/30: 0/93,750: 3,125 wpc: 93,750

That Voice: Ken x DAisuke: 0/16: 0/101,376: 6,336 wpc: 101,376

Bloodfire: Yuuri, Shun: 0/10: 0/103,220: 10,322 wpc: 103,220

Hell Sees The Light: Edo, Ryou: 0/24: 0/108,552: 4,523 wpc: 108,552

Kept In Shadows: Yuuri, Shun: 3/20: 18,246/127,320: 6,366 wpc: 109,074

Keys To The Tower: Durbe x Chris: 0/20: 0/120,000: 10,000 wpc: 120,000

God Granted: Piemon x Takeru: 1/16: 9,035/144,272: 9,017 wpc: 135,255

Divergences: Juudai, Shou: 0/24: 0/147,504: 6,146 wpc: 147,504

Craft The Bonds: Kaiser x Daisuke: 0/30: 0/398,700: 13,290 wpc: 398,700

DaiKen Week

day #01

day #02: Coming Out

day #03: Through Amber Eyes

day #04

day #05

day #06

day #07

day #08: Winning Move

Zexal Week

day #01

day #02

day #03

day #04

day #05

day #06

day #07

Finish Posted Works

Savor The Display: Vector x Mizael: 1/2: 2,500/5,000: 2,500

Royal Hound: Juudai, Wolf: 3/5: 11,493/18,000: 4,000 wps: 6,507

Love Is In The Cards: Shark, Ryuu: 1/6: 1,616/9,645: 1,600 wpc: 8,029

Choice To Protect: Ken x Daisuke: 0/3: 1,008/18,000: 6,000 wpc: 16,992

On The Other Side: Rune: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,600 wpc: 18,000

In Any World: Yubel x Juudai: 4/7: 23,565/48,000: 8,000 wps: 26,434

Passing The Torch: Yubel x Juudai: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Call The Darkness: 3/10: 27,686/90,000: 9,000 wpc: 62,314

Kingseeker: Baou, Juudai: 0/20: 0/90,000: 4,500 wpc: 90,000

Unholy Desires: Taichi x Yamato: 0/27: 0/359,343: 13,309 wpc: 359,343

Rewrites

Through Divine Eyes: Gods: 0/1: 0/1,500: 1,500

Truth: Juudai & Shou: 0/1: 0/2,500: 2,500

A Teacher's heart: Samejima x Tome: 0/6: 0/3,000: 500 wpd: 3,000

Parental Duties: Shinobu, Masami: 0/2: 0/3,000: 1,500 wpc: 3,000

Corrections: Hayato, Juudai: 0/1: 0/3,500: 3,500

To Fuse The Worlds: Brron: 0/1: 0/4,500: 4,500

Rebirth of Darkness: Destructive Darkness: 0/1: 0/4,692: 4,692

A Soft Moment: Ruki x Juri: 0/2: 0/5,000: 2,500 wpc: 5,000

Under a VElvet Sky: Kouji x Kouichi: 0/2: 0/5,000: 2,500 wpc: 5,000

Answer To PRayers: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/5: 0/5,000: 1,000 wpf: 5,000

Upon a Pedestal: Ken x Wormmon: 0/5: 0/9,000: 1,800 wpc: 9,000

Wings of Love: Miyako x Hawkmon: 0/5: 0/9,000: 1,800 wpc: 9,000

At The Beginning: Jou x Takeru: 0/3: 0/9,000: 3,000 wpc: 9,000

Where I Belong: Hikari x Mimi: 0/5: 0/9,000: 1,800 wpc: 9,000

Deepest Darkness: Juudai, Jim, O'Brien: 0/1: 0/9,000: 9,000

Best Medicine: Zhane, Andros: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Crimson Gold: Maya x Leo: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

PRice To Be Paid: Jun x Osamu: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Seduction: Ken x Yamato: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Love In The Night: Jou x Sora: 0/4: 0/9,600: 2,400 wpc: 9,600

Partners of Love: Sora x Piyomon: 0/8: 0/9,600: 1,500 wpc: 9,600

Devilchild: Jun x Sora: 0/8: 0/9,600: 1,500 wpc: 9,600

Heart of a Lion: Juri x Leomon: 0/8: 0/9,600: 1,200 wpc: 9,600

Assistance Needed: Kouji, Izumi: 0/3: 0/9,600: 3,200 wpc: 9,600

Quick Lessons: Shou, Johan: 0/6: 0/9,600: 1,500 wpc: 9,600

Dreamshadows: Yubel x Juudai: 1/12: 1,600/18,000: 1,600 wpc: 16,500

Chaos in the Family: Jun, Daisuke: 0/12: 1,136/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 16,864

Sound of Waves: Tanya x Adam: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Energetic Encounter: Aisha x Zack: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Waterbeads: Cestria x Billy: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Truth Hurts: Rita x Zedd: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Maligore's Children: Kim x Jason: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Adjustments: Karone: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Fireflower: Kendrix x Leo: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Wait No More: Maya x Mike: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Angel's Light: Hikari x Angeomon: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Change: Miyako, Daisuke: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Mutual Growth: Jou x Taichi: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

My Spirits Rise: Ken x Iori: 0/6: 0/18,000: 3,000 wpc: 18,000

To Keep A Promise: Jou x Iori: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Violet Visions: Jun x Miyako: 0/10: 0/18,000: 1,800 wpc: 18,000

Runaway Passions: Takeru x Koushiro: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Hopeful Patience: Takeru x Iori: 0/6: 0/18,000: 3,000 wpc: 18,000

Remember It So Well: Jun x Hikari: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

At The Bottom, Being On Top: Haga x Ryuuzaki: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Brightest Light, Darkest Shados: Johan x Ryou: 0/6: 0/18,000: 3,000 wpc: 18,000

What We Need: Asuka x Manjoume: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Always Someone Better: Amon: 0/5: 0/18,000: 3,800 wpc: 18,000

Everything Wants To Eat Misawa: Misawa: 0/10: 0/18,000: 1,800 wpc: 18,000

What My Teacher Taught Me: Chronos, Ryou: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Subtle As Tomorrow: Asuka x Jim: 0/12: 0/18,000: 1,500 wpc: 18,000

Rainbows of White Light: Edo x Johan: 0/8: 0/18,000: 2,250 wpc: 18,000

STorm Descending: Manjoume: 0/6: 0/18,000: 3,000 wpc; 18,000

Five Deaths We Never Saw: Juudai: 0/5: 0/18,000: 3,800 wpc: 18,000

Warrior's Code: Taniya, O'Brien: 0/4: 0/18,000: 4,500 wpc: 18,000

Cure For The Common Cold: Takeru, Taichi 0/4: 0/20,000: 5,000 wpc: 20,000

Competition: Edo, RYou, Fubuki: 0/7: 0/22,631: 3,233 wpc: 22,631

Meeting The Babies: Vector, Yuuri: 0/6: 0/25,000: 4,000 wpc: 25,000

Two Days Off: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 0/27,600: 2,300 wpc: 27,600

Dark Revival: Camu;a: 0/15: 2,119//38,274: 2,500 wpc: 36,155

To Dream of Thee: Daisuke x Takeru: 0/14: 0/37,800: 2,700 wpc: 37,800

A Digital Mess: Caerula Adamas, Kaiser: 1/10: 4,705/45,000: 4,500 wpc: 40,500

Succumb To The Shadows: Juudai: 0/17: 0/43,095: 2,535 wpc: 43,095

One of Those Days: Yamato, Hiroaki: 0/8: 4,845/48,000: 6,000 wpc: 43,155

What It Feels Like: Jou x Koushiro: 0/15: 0/45,000: 1,500 wpc: 45,000

Angel's Heart: Angemon x Takeru: 0/25: 0/45,000: 1,800 wpc: 45,000

Of A Summer's Evening: Jou x Yamato: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Racing Into Danger: Jou x Daisuke: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Until We Meet Again: Ken x Koushiro: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Siren's Song: Fubuki x Yuusuke: 0/10: 0/45,000: 4,500 wpc: 45,000

Time Away: Saiou, Edo: 0/15: 0/45,000: 3,000 wpc: 45,000

Nature of Fear: Trini x Billy: 0/12: 2,809/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 45,191

Iceheart: Ruki, Takato: 0/12: 9,444/56,840: 4,500 wpc: 47,396

Lunar Ice: Aisha x Adam: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Rain, Rain: Trini x Billy: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Sharpshooter: Kim, Scorpina: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

False First Kiss: Kim x Tommy: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Really Relate To: Kim x Billy: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Ghosts & Darkness: Trini x Tommy: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Onyx Tavern Tales: Aisha: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Shades of Green: Billy, Rita: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Stealer of Souls: Tommy, Jason: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

All Through The Night: Ashley x Andros: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Destiny's Awakening: Ashley: 0/5: 0/48,000: 9,600 wpc: 48,000

All Through The Night: Ashley x Andros: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Bald Legends: T.J., Elgar: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Dweller in the Shadows: Carlos, Darkonda: 0/5: 0/48,000: 9,600 wpc: 48,000

To Carry The Blood: Parents: 0/15: 0/48,000: 3,200 wpc: 48,000

Two Made One: Sora x Miyako: 0/5: 0/48,000: 9,600 wpc: 48,000

Before Every Dawn: Yamato x Daisuke: 0/20: 0/48,000: 2,400 wpc: 48,000

Freedom of Choice: Ken x Daisuke: 0/24: 0/48,000: 2,000 wpc: 48,000

Just A Suggestion: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Wish of a Djinn: Jounouch x Otogi: 0/15: 0/48,000: 3,200 wpc: 48,000

Perils of the Dark Dragon: Jounouchi: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Walking A Slender Thread: YnM x Bakura: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Classes: Teachers: 0/5: 0/48,000: 9,600 wpf: 48,000

Reflections on Beauty: Asuka, Fubuki: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

Sand World Stories: Cast: 0/12: 0/48,000: 4,000 wpc: 48,000

To Bear The Blood: Chosen: 0/7: 0/48,000: 7,000 wpc: 49,000

Tiger's Heart: Taniya x Misawa: 0/20: 0/50,000: 2,500 wpc: 50,000

Magic's Heart: Shou x BMG: 0/20: 0/50,000: 2,500 wpc: 50,000

Crafted Heart: Kenzan x Alice: 0/20: 0/50,000: 2,500 wpc: 50,000

CHild of Shadows: Celestia, Juudai: 0/6: 0/53,280: 8,880 wpc: 53,280

Warrior's Wound: Edo, Ryou: 0/12: 0/54,000: 4,500 wpc: 54,000

ETemon's Envy: Yamato, Mimi: 0/10: 0/54,321: 5,000 wpc: 54,321

Consort: Ken x Daisuke: 0/6: 4,129/58,800: 9,800 wpc: 54,671

Whispers of WInter: Yubel x Juudai: 0/15: 0/54,780: 3,652 wpc: 54,780

Hunting Games: Baou, Juudai: 0/21: 0/55,062: 2,622 wpc: 55,062

Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: Yubel x Juudai: 0/28: 0/56,000: 2,000 wpc: 56,000

Son of Trees: Spectre: 0/20: 0/56,000: 2,800 wpc: 56,000

No One Knew: Piemon x Vamdemon: 0/25: 0/56,840: 2,000 wpc: 56,840

Strange Friends: 0/11: 0/57,486: 5,226 wpc: 57,436

Moments Without You: Taichi x Yamato: 0/10: 0/64,680: 6,465 wpc: 64,680

DEvil's Daughter: Sora, Devimon: 2/12: 15,179/79,372: 7,500 wpc: 64,193

Subtle Clues: Taichi x Yamato: 0/10: 0/65,240: 6,524 wpc: 65,240

Colors of the Heart: Mimi x Miyako: 0/10: 0/64,220: 6,422 wpc: 64,220

Lessons in Demon-Hunting: Ryou, Samejima: 0/15: 0/69,385: 4,500 wpc: 69,385

Snowfall: Ryou: 0/18: 0/72,000: 4,000 wpc: 72,000

Fatherhood: Brron, Johan, Rune: 0/6: 0/73,866: 12,311 wpc: 73,866

All The Risks: Ryou, Juudai: 2/15: 14,774/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 75,226

Moonlight Pearl: Juudai: 0/29: 0/76,299: 2,631 wpc: 76,299

Silent Song: Taichi x Yamato: 0/22: 0/77,506: 3,523 wpc: 77,506

Seven Strange Days: Jun x Momoe: 0/7: 0/77,714: 11,102 wpc: 77,714

Road To The Glass Tower: Ken x Daisuke: 0/10: 0/78,890: 7,889 wpc: 78,890

Shards of Ice: Rio, Rin: 0/15: 0/83,040: 5,536 wpc: 83,040

Undead: Yubel x Juudai x Johan: 0/20: 5,979/90,000: 4,500 wpc: 84,021

Magician's Loss: Yuusuke, Saiou: 0/16: 0/88,720: 5,545 wpc: 88,720

A Greater Demon: Juudai, Belial: 0/20: 0/88,720: 4,436 wpc: 88,720

Fragile Kisses: Taichi x Yamato: 0/16: 0/89,056: 5,566 wpc: 89,056

Backbeat: Zack, Zedd, & Zordon: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Alliance of Onyx: Kim x Rocky: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Under Soft Starlight: Kat x Billy: 0/25: 0/90,000: 3,600 wpc: 90,000

Switching of the Gold: Aishaa x Billy: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Cross The Line: Justin, Astronema: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

Arrow of Love: Ashley x Carlos: 0/15: 0/90,000: 6,000 wpc: 90,000

LEader Loss: Taichi, Vamdemon: 0/30: 0/90,000: 3,000 wpc: 90,000

Streaks of Red & Gold: Koushiro x Yamato: 0/30: 0/90,000: 3,000 wpc: 90,000

Rose's Kiss: Mimi x Lilymon: 0/30: 0/90,000: 3,000 wpc: 90,000

Crestfallen: Vamdemon, Taichi: 0/30: 0/90,000: 3,000 wpc: 90,000

Heart's Desire: Jun, Wizarmon: 0/20: 0/90,000: 4,500 wpc: 90,000

Targeting A Cold Heart: Io x Ryuu x Akoya: 0/16: 0/90,000: 5,625 wpc: 90,000

Present Unwanted: Ryou, Ruthven, Camula: 0/20: 0/90,920: 4,546 wpc: 90,920

Emotional Damage: Kat x Tommy: 0/7: 0/91,756: 13,106 wpc: 91,756

Dragon Wings & Demon Hearts: Ruki, Juudai: 0/26: 0/94,224: 3,624 wpc: 94,224

Soul of the Gem: Masumi x Yuzu: 0/18: 0/94,572: 5,254 wpc: 94,572

Giving Chase: Hikari x Miyako: 0/36: 0/94,716: 2,631 wpc: 94,716

Sealing The Beast: Izumi, Ranamon: 0/16: 0/98,000: 6,125 wpc: 98,000

Offering: Durbe x Chris: 0/20: 0/92,300: 4,615 wpc: 92,300

Effects of Terror: O'Brien, Juudai: 0/12: 0/94,536: 7,878 wpc: 94,536

Chains of Blood: Ruki x Renamon: 0/18: 0/99,468: 5,526 wpc: 99,468

Twilight's Embrace: Yuugi x YnY: 0/50: 0/100,000: 2,000 wpc: 100,000

Broken Illumination: LadyDEvimon x Hikari: 0/16: 0/101,546: 6,346 wpc: 101,546

PRaise The Enemy: Ken x Daisuke: 0/30: 0/106,350: 3,545 wpc: 106,350

Deathflower: Death Rosemo x Mimi: 0/9: 0/107,262: 11,918 wpc: 107,262

To Frost The Flames: Ryou: 2/20: 12,204/120,000: 6,000 wpc: 107,796

Crystal of Nightmares: Tamers: 0/18: 0/108,000: 6,000 wpc: 108,000

Behind The Scenes: Sora x Yamato: 0/20: 0/110,700: 5,535 wpc: 110,700

Out of Time: Brron, Juudai: 0/18: 0/112,734: 6,263 wpc: 112,734

Change of Will: Kaiser x Daisuke: 0/18: 0/114,156: 6,342 wpc: 114,156

Layers of Deception: Vamdemon, Daisuke: 0/12: 0/118,644: 9,887 wpc: 118,644

Moonwhispes: Sora x Hikari: 0/11: 0/118,998: 10,818 wpc: 118,998

His Crown Tainted: Ken x Daisuke: 0/10: 0/119,220: 11,922 wpc: 119,220

Supernova: Emily x Jason: 0/30: 0/120,000: 4,000 wpc: 120,000

Queen's Knight: Karone x Zhane: 0/20: 0/120,000: 6,000 wpc: 120,000

Change of Heart: Cast: 0/30: 0/120,000: 4,000 wpc: 120,000

Correct Mistakes: Ken x Daisuke: 0/12: 0/120,000: 10,000 wpc: 120,000

Hunting The Hunter: Ruki x Renamon: 0/30: 0/120,000: 4,000 wpc: 120,000

Keys To The Tower: Durbe x Chris: 0/20: 0/120,000: 10,000 wpc: 120,000

Why Was It You?: Taichi x Yamato: 0/24: 0/125,664: 5,236 wpc: 125,664

Taste of Darkness: Takeru, Ken: 0/19: 0/133,000: 7,000 wpc: 133,000

God Granted: Piemon x Takeru: 1/16: 9,035/144,272: 9,017 wpc: 135,255

Across The Threshold: Ryou x Mizael: 0/12: 0/146,412: 12,201 wpc: 146,412

Divergences: Juudai, Shou: 0/24: 0/147,504: 6,146 wpc: 147,504

Summons of the Dark Side: Taichi x Yamato: 0/18: 0/149,436: 8,302 wpc: 149,436

Six Secret Shadows: Rangers: 0/50: 0/150,000: 3,000 wpc: 150,000

Snowball Effect: Rangers, OC: 0/50: 0/150,000: 3,000 wpc: 150,000

Domination: Rangers: 0/30: 0/150,000: 5,000 wpc: 150,000

All The World's A Stage: Chosen, Dark Masters: 0/25: 0/150,000: 6,000 wpc: 150,000

Shards and Sunlight: Asuka, Mizuchi: 0/12: 0/152,612: 12,801 wpc: 152,612

Tangled Emotions: Mimi x Sora: 0/12: 0/156,144: 13,012 wpc: 156,144

Treasure Hunt of Terror: Chosen: 0/36: 0/159,192: 4,422 wpc: 159,192

Valentine Visions: Cassie x Phantom: 0/40: 0/160,000: 4,000 wpc: 160,000

It Started With A Wish: Rangers: 0/40: 0/160,000: 4,000 wpc: 160,000

Fireborn: Asuka, OCs: 0/15: 0/179,750: 11,990 wpc: 179,850

Always Back To You: Ryou x Yuusuke: 0/30: 0/180,000: 6,000 wpc: 180,000

Of The Heart: Mai x Isis: 0/20: 0/181,840: 9,090 wpc: 181,840

Sidesteps: Ken x Daisuke: 0/15: 0/183,015: 12,201 wpc: 183,015

BTABTA: Piemon x Yuusuke: 0/36: 0/199,548: 5,543 wpc: 199,548

Eyes of Light: Kouji, Kouichi: 0/25: 0/205,000: 8,200 wpc: 205,000

Adulthood Issues: Chosen: 0/16: 0/207,840: 12,990 wpc: 207,840

Shadow Strings: Yubel x Juudai, Johan: 0/20: 0/221,480: 11,092 wpc: 221,480

Pay Thee In Pain: Johan, Yubel: 0/36: 0/234,396: 6,511 wpc: 234,396

Mixed Destinies: Rangers: 0/50: 0/250,000: 5,000 wpc: 250,000

Changes Along The Way: Chosen: 0/50: 0/250,000: 5,000 wpc: 250,000

Creatures of Dark: Edo x Saiou x Ryou x Yuusuke: 0/21: 0/253,722: 12,082 wpc: 253,722

Touched By The Moon: Kat, Selena: 0/22: 0/263,994: 11,997 wpc: 263,994

Not The Word: Yamato, Piemon: 0/20: 0/266,380: 13,318 wpc: 266,380

Incubus of the Millennium Puzzle: Yuugi x YnY: 0/60: 0/300,000: 5,000 wpc: 300,000

Fist of Velvet, Glove of Steel: Taichi x Yamato: 0/25: 0/304,925: 12,197 wpc: 304,925

No Matter What: Johan, Brron: 0/30: 0/308,640: 10,288 wpc: 308,640

Rage, Revenge, & Reprisals: Kouji x Kouichi: 0/36: 0/331,623: 9,212 wpc: 331,623

War Between The Worlds: Ken x Daisuke: 0/30: 0/360,060: 12,002 wpc: 360,060

Way Too Easy: Yuus: 0/36: 0/367,884: 10,219 wpc: 367,884

Broken Wings: Ken x Daisuke: 0/30: 0/368,910: 12,297 wpc: 368,910

Walk The Dark Path: Yamato: 0/36: 0/433,116: 12,031 wpc: 433,116

War of the Undead: Ryou, Samejima: 0/75: 0/450,000: 6,000 wpc: 450,000

So that's all of my rewrites - I think. For now. Plus a few other things.