#gx dub

[idkmybffjaden]

Hey, y'all. Sure has been a hot darn second. I won't lie -- I'm feelin' kinda like a fish outta water here without my boy Jay and all the rest of the Duel Academy crew watchin' my back. I guess I still got my Crystal Beasts to keep me company... But what's the point of a Duelist gettin' all gussied up with nowhere to go?

[raintides]

gx!!

[eleanorose123]

i've been letting some of the gx dub play in the background while I work and i dont know what compelled me to meme with this bit at 1AM but i sure did do that

[shitpostingkats]

Me watching yugioh dub openings: Shhh babygirl you are perfect don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Me watching yugioh sub openings: WE WERE FUCKING ROBBED.

[pcturtl]

[retributory]

gx is so crazy how do you explain to someone with a surface-level understanding of what yugioh is that the series after dm features a hermaphroditic dragon-demon card spirit fusing their soul with the main character, who also has apparently been continually reincarnating for 100s of years with the card spirit's primary goal being to protect him, and when they embrace to fuse he says they shall never part again because they will forever and always from that point on be one jointed soul and body, and also he commits a borderline genocide against the card spirit race (???) and straight up kills some of his friends (they get better), and also there's a character who got his leg broken during an archeological dig and they replaced the broken bone with a dinosaur bone (???) and now he's like part dino and has fucking dino dna (?????????) and they send him to space as his dinosona to destroy a satellite that is about to destroy the earth (????????????), and also one of the teachers in the school (seto kaiba's duel school for dueling) is a homunculus and when he dies his soul (???) gets eaten by his cat and for the rest of the series he is living (?) inside of the cat's body, and also on top of all that theres a cool rival character as expected of a show targeted towards young boys who looks cool but in actuality he's lame as hell like he canonically stinks like shit cause he doesn't wash his clothes and he joins a cult and they get him out of the cult by reminding him that his real personality is being a rancid little stinky smelly bastard loser and no one likes him and he spends the entire series getting completely dunked on and also his main archetype is these things:

and then you have to concede that at the end of the day it is still an anime for a children's card game designed to sell the cards so if you ever try to explain the impact this had on your developing mind at 7 years old you'll sound sick

[talaofthevalley]

I wouldn't have nearly as much beef with 4Kids/4K Media dubs of Yugioh if they didn't prioritise jokes over staying true to the spirit of the shows. Especially Zexal onwards. DM/GX/5Ds had their own issues, like the unfinished dubs and hacking the themes and characters in GX S3, but the way Zexal/Arc V/VRAINS become quip shows really bothers me.

Characters are watered down and lose their nuance, themes are simplified for a younger audience, and you get the feeling sometimes the localisation team aren't confident the shows can keep people's attention as they are if the characters aren't cracking jokes. The dubs aren't awful 100% of the time but they're just bad enough in a way that makes me mad.

It's not even like I wish the dubs didn't exist, for the sake of accesability they're a priceless resource and a lot of people wouldn't have given Yugioh a shot without it. I just wish they were different. I want people who don't want to or for any reason can't watch Yugioh subtitled to be able to enjoy the same stories I love so much.

[kaiowut99]

Jaden, how are you holding that

[aberooski]

when you said “most egregious death cut goes to 5ds” are you talking about Pearson? Or one of the Dark Signer censorships? Like there a couple of options

#mistys kid sibling #or boomers hanging getting cut/village genocide

Oh yeah when I say that I'm talking about Pearson 100%

It has been a little while but from what I remember, up through the Dark Signer arc they do a pretty decent job of leaving a lot of the deaths as heavily implied as possible so that you can still understand and put together that that's what's happening if you're actually paying attention. Like for example, they edit Carly falling into like the shadow realm mist and all,

but they still pretty strongly imply through her conversation with Misty after that whole situation that she died and even that Misty has died as well. They say it without specifically saying it, kinda thing.

And obviously they can't show Greiger being hanged on a saturday morning show the kids watch in America, but they literally show everything except the Spider shooting the web and it wrapping around his neck. Like you see him fall, you see the spider on the ceiling, and you see the little figure of him like bob up and down in the wide shot, like they show almost everything there. And them saying that Misty's brother "went missing" instead of that he died is nothing new, clearly because they did it with Aster's dad and even backpeddled on actually saying Seto and Mokuba's parents died in season 1 to saying they disappeared in season 3.

But the thing with Pearson that makes it the most egregious death censor to me is just how bad the quality of the censoring attempt is. Literally all they did was recolor the garage fire purple and have them claim that he "disappeared in a purple glow" like what the fuck is that? Like y'all ain't fooling anybody for a second with that. 🤦‍♀️

Like it's horrendously bad.

Also shoutout to when the dad falls into the like abyss and dies in the minecart section in Crash Town and when Jack and Crow show up with the authorities at the end they just throw in Jack being like "oh btw kids, they found your dad, he's gonna be a-okay! 😀👍" like no he ain't he died 😭

[moldy-mold]

alright I started GX

you ever see a character for 5 seconds and you’re like, “that’s the one”?

[mezucore]

chazz asks atticus for help with a love letter, and atticus is more than happy to provide :)

[idkmybffjaden]

This episode of GX is about the teen son of a warlord who brings guerilla warfare tactics into use while playing children's card games.

Putting tracking devices on school kids is about as above-board as the rest of the plot devices in this show.

Crowler and Bonapart suddenly look like the most responsible adults. (Don't think about that too hard.)

I keep expecting Viper to announce, "My HAIR is extracting bio energy!" etc. dat fro do

Here we see even Jesse struggling to witness Jaden's half a brain cell "at work" (maybe they can share?)

Once again Cyrus is the only one who can read the meta and see the GX world for the fucked up nightmare land it really is, being the most sane of them all while still namedropping Jaden and Zane like woah.

Chazz Princeton redefining the term "sass." "Know what's wrong [Cyrus]? YOU IN THAT COAT." Burn.

Every time I watch this show Jaden's dialogue gets more ridiculous. I still can't believe this isn't an Abridged.

[theminecraftbee]

every time a hermit or a hermit fan makes a shadow realm joke incidentally I need you to remember that’s only in the english dub, a thing 4kids invented so they wouldn’t have to admit how many times people straight-up get murdered in the original. so every time there’s a shadow realm joke about the tcg, know that in the original japanese, they’re just threatening murder,

[cyberdragoninfinity]

had to record what might be my favorite joke in the entire yugioh gx dub. every single line delivery here sends me into a cackling FIT

[shitpostingkats]

Something that really bothers me is people being mostly sub watchers and then seeing a dub episode and complaining that the characters are "totally butchered". That's because there's a whole show of building that character in a slightly different flavor, y'all.

Actually, correction, something that really bothers me is people complaining about the yugioh dubs.

[riddlerlesbian]

my favorite part of yugioh gx is when THE chazz shouts "it's chazzering time!" and chazzes all over the place