#treeborn frog

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GX WINNER ANNOUCNEMENT

It completely went over my head to make a winner announcement post, so even though this tourney has been over for some time now, here is an annoucnement of the winners!

Our two quarterfinalists, our bronze-medalists, are none other than Crystal Beast Ruby Carbuncle & Treeborn Frog! Ruby was not a surprise to me, as its one of the aces of fan-favorite Johan Andersen and overall is so cute & iconic, but I was still glad to see that little guy get so far! Treeborn Frog on the other hand WAS a surprise to me, as it was a card that I forgot about yet this little frog was able to get farther than many fan favorites. Good job you guys!

For our runner-up and silver medalist is none other than Rescue Cat! This OSHA-approved kitty got soooo much father than anyone thought, again beating many fan favorites, and even looked like they were going to beat our eventual winner for a while (and I mean it, there was a good chunk of time in the finals that Rescue Cat was beating the eventual winner & even I thought it might have won!) This is no small feat, considering how popular our eventual winner was, so don't take this cat lying down! Congrats Rescue Cat!

Finally, our winner was none other than WINGED KURIBOH!!!

IS IT ANY SURPRISE? Kuriboh was the winner of the DM tourney and Winged Kuriboh is such an iconic and classic monster. It is the MASCOT of GX, no context! Winged Kuriboh, we salute you!

Anyway, thank you for the great GX tourney! As you guys might have guessed with how how it took me to post rounds of GX tourney I have been losing interest in doing Yugioh monster tournaments. However, I do still want to do a 5Ds tourney, but that might be the last one. Submissions won't open for a while in any case, maybe a few weeks!

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Treeborn frog board for anon

X-X-X X-X X-X-X

[lainpsx]

can i have a ygo card...

you got...Treeborn Frog :D

[geartowns]

I forgot which deck I was supposed to build for tonight’s homework

professor pls help I have the worst memory in the whole school—

Signed, Shadow Doll Blue

While I would rather you took the proper steps to WRITE DOWN your homework when assigned, I appreciate the initiative to ask me about it instead of showing up empty handed.

As for the assignment, we are building Chaos Monarch circa April 2008. Be sure to make use of Treeborn Frog as a tribute for Caius, the Shadow Monarch.

[spirefan]

We're live with Yugioh Master Duel - Ranked + Viewer Matches. Poker Night at The Inventory at 8:15PM CST:

[krawlernyannyan]

The last new card for Fire Kings was revealed last night! They've needed a new Spell/Trap searcher for ages and a searcher that is also just an in-archetype Treeborn Frog is pretty damn good.

All's that left now is reprints; 1 reprinted Trap and 9 reprinted monsters.

[paincorpsrarefinds]

2006 YU-GI-Oh! Soi EN025 Treeborn Frog 1st Edition-Ultimate Rare

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[vinodmaharaj]

This card always takes me back. Thanks for getting me out of tight spots in my matches! 

[kaiowut99]

Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Episodes 73 and 74 Subbed (Finalized)

(Previously: Episodes 71 and 72 Subbed [Finalized])

(Check out my Subbed!GX Stream Masterpost!)

73: Kenzan VS Saiou! It’s Dinosaur DNA, Don

To see the “unwavering power” he had foreseen for himself, Saiou visits the Academia and challenges Kenzan to a duel. The cards in Saiou’s Tarot deck cause fate to alternate through their upright and reversed positions.  Kenzan faces him with his Dinosaur deck, and for a moment it looked as though he was in the lead, but Saiou seemed to foresee even that.  As he cleverly uses the upright and reversed effects of his Strength, the symbol of this “unwavering power,” Saiou drives Kenzan into a corner.

74: Treeborn Frog! Living Toad! Death Frog!

To decide the destination of the upcoming field trip, Judai duels Rose, a fair lady representing Saiou whose deck is a Frog deck.  She opens by accumulating T.A.D.P.O.L.E.s in her Cemetery to summon three Death Frogs (ATK/1900), using her Death Chorus Magic Card to wipe out Judai’s Monsters for a direct attack--one that inflicts a massive amount of damage.  She then fuses all three to summon her Three-Death Frog.  But Judai thinks something is off about Rose and her obsession with frogs...

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Ding, finalized!73 and 74 are done!

This next double-release is good, 73 is a bit of an infamous Kenzan ep as we find out about his *deep breath* DIIINOsaur DNA, but we also have Saiou making moves to make sure there aren’t any hitches to his plans, as he makes it to Duel Academia to see what this “unwavering power” is that he foretold through his Tarot.  We also have a nice callback to the Drawiches from Season 1 (and Ed just drawing the Golden Eggwich like it’s nothing), in a few scenes that the dub for some reason decided not to include, and we see some more of Saiou’s interesting deck and how it ties into his idea of fate.

74′s also neat as it introduces the field trip we’ll be going on the next few episodes (BYOBento), and we’re introduced to Princess Rose, with her Frog deck and the nods to the Frog Prince fairy tale--also showing that Saiou seems to have connections to some big people in the world (coming in handy later).  She also works to tie in Judai’s Spirit-seeing abilities (and we get this good scene), while also establishing that Manjoume so far still has his despite joining the Society of Light.  It’s also a Kyoung Soo Lee-team episode in terms of animation direction, and it looks gorgeous--this is around the point his episodes start to look really good, and there are a lot of really nice shots.  (Though I may be noticing that much more because of the DVDRip quality of the video remember when it was so hard to get 74 in good quality)

In terms of animation fixes and stuff, both episodes got a fair amount of them that I picked up on, from little quality-of-life stuff to card fixes and bigger animation error fixes that came out nicely, along with an onscreen translation teasing what I’ll be doing in 75.  Details below the cut, as usual, along with a few Translation Notes for some things that came up.

Enjoy, folks! With these done, we’re off to Domino Town for the next couple releases! (Oh, and I opted to work with “Domino Town” for the name, since “Domino City” struck me as a bit of a mistranslation of 童実野町 (Domino-cho)--I went through my logic here.) The next double-release will be with 75 and 76 as Shou and Kenzan’s bonding the last while comes full circle in a Tag Duel (as we revisit Mizuchi’s first appearance too), then I’ll likely try to knock out 77-79 together so that I don’t end the release after on a cliffhanger, lol.  Stay tuned!

Fixes/Edits! (73)

This error shows up in the episode proper and is listed below, which was fixed for 73′s preview in 72, but it also shows up in 99%’s episode clip.  As Saiou swings his hand as he has The Chariot attack, there are two frames where the lighter coloring on part of his sleeve wasn’t added, so the sky background behind him seeps through.  Fixed by coloring it in with the light white from the rest of his sleeve in Photoshop, using the second frame so I could also fix the sky seeping through his hand in the first frame, and applying it to the video in Sony Vegas, zooming it in slightly for use in the first frame.

As Saiou first summons The Chariot, the shot of his Duel Disk is missing the dirt floor background we see in other close-ups of his Disk, along with his missing face-down Reversal of Fate.  To fix this, I first grabbed a shot of the floor from the earlier scene as Kenzan hands Saiou his deck for his Vision of the Future’s effect and masked out Saiou’s Disk above it in Vegas.  Then, from episode 43, I took a close-up shot of Mitsuo’s Disk with a face-down card in it, clipped out the face-down and worked it into the frame with Saiou’s Disk in Photoshop, then put it back into Vegas to mask in the Disk Zone above it, along with Saiou’s hand and the Chariot card moving over it as he places it in his Monster Zone.  I also noticed the Chariot card was cut off along the top in the first frame it’s in, so I made a proxy to fill in the gap there.

As Saiou orders The Chariot to attack Dark Tyranno, we have a shot that zooms up to his face, but we see that 99% [okay, maybe 80%, but shhh pun] of Saiou’s Disk is missing from the shot--for some reason, only the orb part in the middle was drawn in--I explained here how I fixed this, but tl;dr I borrowed Prince Orgene/Ojin’s Disk in a shot from his duel against Saiou in 84 and spliced the two halves into place, adapting it accordingly, then adding the fix to Vegas and moving it down as the shot panned up to Saiou until it’s out of view.  In this same shot, we also have a split-screen where The Chariot and Dark Tyranno slide in so we see their ATK, but The Chariot’s side starts a frame earlier; I fixed this by having Dark Tyranno’s start a frame earlier, moving its side into place on the frame’s edge proportional to The Chariot’s.

This is where the error in #1 comes in during the episode proper, fixed as noted there.

After Saiou activates Ace of Wand, as he taunts Kenzan about turning his Wheel of Fortune, their split-screen splits, but Saiou’s side (on the left) takes a frame longer to fully split off vs Kenzan’s.  I fixed this by having the last frame of his split be onscreen with the last frame of Kenzan’s; that way, the next frame, both are gone.

As Judai and Shou worry that Saiou’s about to make Kenzan join his cult the Society of Light, there are a few frames where Shou’s mouth suddenly vanishes as his face changes.  Fixed by holding onto his mouth from the previous frame as his face changes until he opens it to speak again.

Fixes/Edits/Notes! (74)

During Chronos and Napoleon’s tense negotiations over the field trip destination, as Manjoume tells them that Saiou’s already foreseen the location, we hear Saiou come in and everyone turns to make a path for him--except Manjoume, who seems to have a Stand suddenly as an animation error causes there to be two of him.  (There was a similar error in 72 with X.) This lasts for a quick frame before Manjoume’s shown taking the intended step back.  I fixed this by just cutting out this error frame and duplicating the frame after.

As Princess Rose summons her T.A.D.P.O.L.E. to start the duel, there’s a quick frame where it’s a black rectangle on her Disk.  Fixed in Vegas by masking the card in from the next frame above the black rectangle.

After Shou and Kenzan feel chills from Rose over Kenzan’s “That ain’t beautiful” line, as Misawa wonders what she’s up to with a zero-DEF Monster, we zoom back into the duel arena, where we see that Rose’s T.A.D.P.O.L.E. card is reversed on the field; the lighter end where its effect text is should be facing the Whites in the stands per its placement on Rose’s Disk, as we see later when Air Hummingbird Hovering Pecks it.  Fixed in AfterEffects by first applying a proxy facing correctly under the T.A.D.P.O.L.E. in one zoomed-in frame masking it above the card again, then taking that fixed frame into Vegas where I redid the slow zoom-in for the 115 or so frames before it stops and Judai draws for his turn.

After Rose uses Fusion Undone to de-fuse Three-Death Frog back into her three Death Frogs, she has them take out “evil sorcerer” Judai, but the Death Frog in her second Monster Zone is missing (seen there in the next shot as she declares her attack); fixed in AfterEffects by applying a proxy in one frame, then taking the fixed frame into Vegas where I moved it as she moved.  In this same shot, there’s also an error once we close-up on Rose’s face, where the lighter skin coloring on her neck is missing--so we see the whooshing background behind her there instead; fixed this one by just filling it in in Photoshop.

After Manjoume’s moment of doubt with Rose’s Spirit-seeing ability, Rose assesses the situation and resolves to use all her Death Frogs; as she declares her sacrificing them, we see that her Disk is missing the bright red orb in the middle that should be there since her Disk is on.  To fix this, I first grabbed a shot of it from when her and Judai’s Disks activated to start the duel, then spliced out the orb in Photoshop, rotating/resizing it into place in one of the frames just before it’s obscured by the Death Frog in the middle.  Once I did that, I took it into Vegas, where I redid the slow zoom-out for the shot, masking the middle Death Frog’s head over it as it covers it and making my edit fade out as it lights up for the sacrifice once it’s fully obscured.

As Judai activates Oversoul, we zoom out a bit to see his Disk and two things happen over a few frames: first, his Burstlady card’s in his second Monster Zone (it should be in his third, as we see his second Zone blank as he brings back Clayman after this, and in #7 below as Skyscraper activates we see it in Zone 3), then Featherman in his fourth Monster Zone suddenly becomes a black rectangle for the rest of the shot.  I fixed the first thing by blanking Zone 2 and moving Burstlady to Zone 3 in the fixed second shot, where I redid the slow zoom-out on Judai and his Disk using the corrected frame to keep Featherman in place.

Corollary to this, I noticed as I was typing this post that I missed this error on Judai as he starts to swing his arm to activate Oversoul (similar to the earlier Manjoume one)--I would try to fix it, and I think I could if I masked away the duplicate part of his jacket and hair/ear and put part of the whooshing behind him there, but it’s hard to really make out the edge of Judai’s hair after moving from the previous frame the duplicate part comes from (as well as where the highlights on top should now end on the right), so I don’t want to risk it looking bad.  And unlike the Manjoume error, Judai stays like this for three frames instead of fixing himself in the next frame before moving again, so I can’t just cut this one frame out and duplicate a fixed one. Welp.

After Judai activates Skyscraper, as everything shakes while it takes shape, Judai stands behind his Heroes, but on his Disk, we can see that, for some reason, Bubbleman is in Monster Zone 2 where Clayman should be (as we see while Judai activates Feather Shot).  Fixed in AfterEffects by applying a Clayman proxy, then moving it around as needed while everything shakes.

For the hardsub’s preview for 75, as I covered here, I’m translating the guidebooks Shou and Kenzan have onscreen, so the clip from the episode proper as they hold them while seeing Sugoroku has the translated guidebook cover in place in the preview here.

TRANSLATION NOTES 

As Shou notes that Saiou et al sure are making Judai wait, Kenzan mentions that it’s the same thing “Musashi pulled at Ganryu Island.” Per Wikipedia, “[Musashi’s father Shinmen] Munisai had moved to northern Kyūshū and became Tadaoki's teacher, leading to the possibility that Munisai introduced Musashi to Sasaki Kojirō ... (known for wielding an oversized nodachi (Japanese greatsword) ... for a swift two-stroke sword technique called tsubame gaeshi, and he bore the nickname "The Demon of the Western Provinces"). Somehow, a duel was proposed between the two ... scheduled for April 13, 1612 ... and the departure by boat for the duel was arranged for the Hour of the Dragon in the early morning (approximately 8:00 AM) to the island of Ganryūjima, a small isle between Honshū and Kyūshū. Kojirō arrived at the appointed time, but was then left to wait for hours; Musashi had overslept. Kojirō sent out servants to retrieve Musashi, who ate a full breakfast, taking his time.” (The whole bit’s interesting to read, lol. Also, fun fact: on top of tsubame gaeshi being the Japanese name for Pokémon’s “Aerial Ace” attack, we also have Musashi and Kojirou (Jessie and James) from the anime’s namesakes here!)

I remember hearing that the “Treeborn Frog! Living Toad! Death Frog” episode title’s styling is a reference to... some anime airing around 2006 alongside this episode, but I can’t remember what it was, lol.  But the title’s use of  黄泉ガエル, イキカエル, and デスガエル (yomigaeru, ikikaeru, and desugaeru, respectively) are not only references to Rose’s Treeborn Frog, Living Toad, and Death Frog cards, but also makes it a nod to the cycle of life--”being reborn” (if reincarnation-inclined), “living,” and “death.”

For card names, I opted to use “Treeborn Frog” over “Reborn Frog” as I did initially as the TCG used that to adapt the “yomi-reborn” pun originally there.  I opted for using “T.A.D.P.O.L.E.” over just “Tadpole” as I did originally as it was the TCG’s attempt to carry over the pun going on with its Japanese name, where 悪魂邪苦止 as a word (otamajakushi) would translate to Tadpole, but the kanji each mean something different.  Also opted for “Amphibian Angel - Froghael” over “Mi Frog” after a look at Yugipedia to get the angel!Michael pun across better, and “Life Frog” from my original take became “Living Toad” since its having カエル and not ガエル (kaeru/gaeru) in its Japanese name イキカエル (ikikaeru, a pun on 生き返る/ikikaeru, “resurrection/coming back to life”) means it’s not a Frog/gaeru, but part of the supporting Toad archetype.  Lastly, “Frog Tri-Death” from my original subs became “Three-Death Frog” to work better as a name.

[crystalelemental]

“alphakuriboh: High school me was prone to being very tilted and I did not like stuff like frogs that just kept coming back.  Treeborn being the biggest offender but Toadally Awesome’s existence also did not endear frogs to me.”

Ah, okay.  Toadally Awesome was after my time, so I’ve never actually used it.  And I don’t think I ever used Treeborn either.  My focus was always Unifrog and Submarine Frog, with Wetlands, Level Limit Area B, and Gravity Bind.  Mirror Force was banned, but the Froggy version wasn’t, so that was a big part of it too.  I’d have to break out the deck and look at everything, but I’m pretty sure it was Dupe Frog that blocked people from attacking anything but it?  There was some kind of shenanigans, but the point was, direct damage and pierce damage while the foe was locked down because so many things were 4*.  But then the stupid XYZ stuff started happening and it’s like “Actually these are ranks, not levels, so I can hit you anyway,” and the entire thing just collapsed.  My main after that Fortune Ladies, who I still really enjoy but aren’t exactly great.  And I wound up settling on Madolche, which are fantastic and ridiculous and I love them.  The other I really enjoyed was Ghostrick, and I think there was one I built around Wights that wasn’t like...super consistent, but was really, really funny.

What is your main archetype, anyway?

[yu-gi-poll]

SEMIFINALS, MATCH 1 OUT OF 2!

Monster Stats & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Winged Kuriboh is used by Judai Yuki (Jaden Yuki in the dub). Its stats are the following:

Attribute: LIGHT

Level: 1

Type: FAIRY / EFFECT

Effect Type: TRIGGER

Effect (according to the anime): “During the turn this card is destroyed, you take no Battle Damage.”

ATK / DEF: 300 / 200

Propaganda:

bruhhh that thing is so cute

You all thought Kuriboh was great??!!? Winged Kuriboh is even better. It's got all the things you love about Kuriboh (small, fluffy, adorable). The color palette is very slightly adjusted to be Better, and he's got cute lil wings. Also the card is foil. In terms of gameplay mechanics, OG Kuriboh gets you out of damage from ONE(1) fight, and only if it's still in your hand to discard. Winged Kuriboh has to be summoned, but ends battle damage for the whole turn. Narratively, Winged Kuriboh is with Jaden more than OG was ever with the Yugis, and they have conversations and are true friends.

hes just a kuriboh with wings, but is literally jadens little buddy at the start of the series… pls vote for the cutie here

I love Kuriboh!!

Treeborn Frog is used by Princess Rose. Its stats are the following:

Attribute: WATER

Level: 1

Type: AQUA / EFFECT

Effect Type: TRIGGER / CONDITION

Effect (according to the anime): “If this card is in your Graveyard during your Standby Phase and there are no Spell or Trap Cards on your side of the field, you can Special Summon this card to your side of the field. This effect cannot be activated if there is a face-up "Treeborn Frog" on your side of the field.”

ATK / DEF: 100 / 100

Propaganda:

Frog-based rebirth is lovely. They can be your angle, but can't be your devil. (Des Frog)

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yayy happy to see requests are open again!! I really like your work & I hope you've been doing well! could I request a stimboard (or moodboard, whichever is easiest) for the treeborn frog? :)

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[crochetfanaticdesign]

Treeborn Frog #crochet #crochetfanaticdesign #etsy #doll #yugioh #treebornfrog

[ygocardart]

Treeborn Frog

[diidiidoodles]

I made my little Rini up for Yu-Gi-Oh shenanigans with @crossroads-of-chaos

Here’s her deck below the cut owo

Monsters: Beelzefrog (1) T.A.D.P.O.L.E. (3) Des Frog (3) Tradetoad (1) Swap Frog (1) Dupe Frog (1) Roanintoadin (1) Flip Flop Frog (1) Poison Draw Frog (1) Submarine Frog (1) Unifrog (1) Treeborn Frog (3) Tune Toad (1) Dewdark of the Ice Barrier (1) Reese the Ice Mistress (1) Frog Prince (1)

Spells: Des Croaking (1) Wetlands (1) One for One (1) Froggy Fusion (1) Instant Fusion (1) Aqua Jet (1) Moray of Greed (1) Surface (1) Different Dimension Deepsea Trench (1) Lemuria, the Forgotten City (1) Salvage (1) Water Hazard (1) Maiden’s Kiss (1)

Traps: Froggy Forcefield (1) Drowning Mirror Force (1) Aegis of the Ocean Dragon Lord (1) Spiritual Water Art - Aoi (1) Torrential Reborn (1) Gravity Bind (1) Graceful Revival (1)

Extra Deck: D.3.S Frog (1) Toadally Awesome (1) Dewloren, Tiger King of the Ice Barrier (1) Gungnir, Dragon of the Ice Barrier (1) Brionac, Dragon of the Ice Barrier (1) Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier (1) Shark Fortress (1) Tatsunoko (1) Coral Dragon (1) Elder Entity Norden (1) Bahamut Shark (1) Aqua Cycle Frog (1) Tidal Frog (1)

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Tune Toad: Level 2 WATER-Attribute Aqua-type Effect/Tuner Monster

ATK: 1000 DEF: 600

Your opponent cannot target face-up Level 2 or lower monsters for attacks, except this one. When this card is Normal Summoned: You can Special Summon 1 Level 2 or lower "Frog" monster from your hand.

Aqua Cycle Frog: Level 4 WATER-Attribute Aqua-type Effect/Synchro Monster Tune Toad + 1 or more non-tuner "Frog" monsters

ATK: 2000 DEF: 1000

When this card is Synchro Summoned, add 1 "Frog" card from your deck to your hand. Once per turn, send 1 Level 2 or lower Aqua-type monster from your deck to the graveyard, target one spell or trap card on the field; destroy that target.

Tidal Toad: Level 4 WATER-Attribute Aqua-type Effect/Fusion Monster

2 Level 2 "Frog" monsters ATK: 500 DEF: 2500

All Aqua-Type/WATER/Level 2 or lower monsters gain 1200 ATK while this card is on the field.

Froggy Fusion: Spell Card

Discard from your hand, field, or deck, the materials listed on a "Frog" fusion monster, and special summon that card. The name of the fusion summoned monster is changed to "Des Frog" while on the field.

Maiden's Kiss: Ritual Spell Card

This card is used to Ritual Summon "Frog Prince". You must also Tribute monsters whose total Levels equal 2 or more from the field or your hand.

Frog Prince: Level 2 WATER-Attribute Aqua-type Effect/Ritual Monster

You can Ritual Summon this card with "Maiden's Kiss". While this monster is face up on the field, "Frog" monsters you control cannot be destroyed by battle or card effects once per turn.

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