#ygo dub

[saiikavon]

Now that I’ve had the night to kind of sit in it, I have more thoughts about Jounouchi’s death.

I’m gonna cry and scream every time that he got robbed, because he did, but that doesn’t make the writing bad. Marik’s conflict with the Nameless Pharaoh does not get resolved if he loses to Jounouchi, and the plot threads of Yami’s ancient memories don’t get tied up quite as neatly if Yami does not have that confrontation with Marik himself. Just as well, Jounouchi personally could not have avoided this duel for his own reasons - he needed to face up to Marik to try and help Mai.

It all makes sense. He was robbed by plot convention, but at least it was good plot convention. And at least as far as the sub goes, the story went “Well, he has to lose this one, but we’re gonna make damn sure no one at that tower forgets the name ‘Jounouchi Katsuya’ before he goes out.”

The dub makes it a lot easier to be angry about it, because the heavy editing and censorship doesn’t give him his due. Reasons as follows why Jounouchi’s loss had me incensed when I first watched the dub:

1) Censorship removed much of what he went through beforehand, including Ra’s Phoenix form literally burning him alive. Just Marik summoning Ra, followed by an awkward cut of Jounouchi standing in the fading smoke.

2) Dialogue. So much dialogue was changed that didn’t properly reflect the characters’ reactions to what was happening. Despite Marik’s obviously fear-stricken face, the dialogue he was given continued his gloating, the only true reflection of his original reaction coming in the line, “What? He’s still standing?!”

Kaiba, who 4Kids was determined to be flippant about everything all the time forever, says something to the effect of, “Wheeler’s performance was impressive. I guess he’s not a third-rate duelist after all.” Which was a fraction of the sentiment given in the sub.

Yami, who continues to be disallowed any sort of true emotional connection with his friends, doomed forever to be the distant mentor, just tells Yuugi, “We can’t give up, not when we’ve come so far,” while Yuugi cries over his lost friend.

3) Speaking of which, while Jonouchi Katsuya may have died, Joey Wheeler did not. His dialogue before the fall is mildly strained, but coherent, determined to end Marik’s evil, and when he falls, he is declared “Lost to the Shadows,” but still clearly groaning as his friends scream and shake his unmoving body. Removed is the moment where Mokuba declares that Jounouchi is no longer breathing. He’s fine, you guys, totally stable, just unconscious. Why is everyone screaming? No one reacted like this when it was Mai, what gives?

So yeah, not only was he robbed by plot convention in the dub, he was robbed of the impact it was also supposed to leave him with.

Seeing it in the sub was exactly the vindication I needed. I may hate that he lost, but that’s just personal bias, now; the sub gave him the recognition he’d earned. To see him still standing there feels a thousand times more satisfying when you got to see the fire surrounding him beforehand.

Marik’s gloating makes him look more the fool when you also get to hear how floored he is, when you get to see him nearly throw up (yeah the dub cut that bit out) because he knows he almost lost, when you get to watch him walk away and pretend like he doesn’t need a fucking change of underwear after all that.

It’s more satisfying when you hear Kaiba acknowledge him as a “true duelist,” the thing he’s been striving to be this entire time.

It’s more emotional when Yami is the one breaking down, because the only thing he truly wanted was to have his duel with Jounouchi. Getting his memories was a necessity, but the thing he wanted, his true goal, that was to have a final match between two true duelists.

It hurts but it also leaves Jounouchi with more power when the story allows him to be dead after that. He recovers, sure, we know that, but for a moment, his heart stops beating. And I can be proud knowing he truly fought to the end.

[but-a-humble-goon]

Okay so I'm like 80 episodes into Yugioh and my biggest takeaway as of right now has been people are sleeping on Mai Valentine, she's probably the most interesting character in the show so far. My second biggest takeaway is that if Seto Kaiba existed in real life he would be the kind of person who watches Yugioh and makes Limp Bizkit AMVs of Seto Kaiba.

[creachureweachure]

they would lose on night 1 lets be real

Og screenshot under the cut:3

[viviraptor-art]

cringetober day 9: crossover ship/rarepair

so i wouldn't say i ship them, but yugi and usagi should at least be friends. they have a lot in common!

[miniaturemallow]

Ya know, that one anime where the possessed lil nerd suddenly gets all deep voiced and tall

[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

[cyberdragoninfinity]

the first of many times to come where vrains has made me shriek laugh so hard i had to drop everything and record the clip

ai:

[astralhope]

This is a little project that I worked on in the last weeks, and I finally finished it.

The Japanese dub is my favorite, but the Italian one was the one that made me discover Zexal, and I used to watch the show in Italian until the third arc.

I watched the episodes from the first two arcs in this dub many times and I'm still very attached to most of the characters' Italian voices.

This dub is very dear and nostalgic to me, so I wanted to share some Astral's clips from it on my blog.

But I didn't want to put a bunch of Italian clips here without any kind of subtitles, so I decided to do the subtitles myself. But what should have been just a few clips became all Astral's scenes in the first two episodes, and it took me more time than I anticipated.

Just a few things before you watch the video:

- I tried to do this translation more literally possible (so I apologize if some lines sound weird), but with some phrases and expressions I had to translate them in a not literal way to keep their meaning.

- The edit of the video is a little rough because I favored the audio over the video and I tried not to cut the lines too much. And since I only used Astral's clips, some transactions between scenes are not very smooth, I apologize about that.

- I hope that the subtitles are easy to read, I never did something like this and I did my best to make them readable and not too fast.

- I rewatched it several times to check it, but it's very possible that there's still some errors or/and weird phrasing, so I apologize in advance for any errors.

After all those premises, here is the finished work:

Astral's clips from episodes 1 and 2 of Zexal in Italian dub (with English subs):

(I'm sorry for the bad quality, but not only the original videos were in a low quality, but I also had to lower it even more to upload it)

[kaibaspuppy]

inconspicuous art for an inconspicuous day

(no ship tags i'll kill us both)

[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

[teamfreewill58]

I know Atem says some out of pocket shit sometimes but this always just cracks me up. Especially since it’s not in the dub.

Over here like: I told you to go for it Aibou why am I on a date with your crush?? Tf??

Which is equally funny because Atem just assumes Yugi likes Anzu, which I don’t think is the case in the OG series.

[seekerbr]

The other day I had found a site with some episodes of the Singapure dub, and decided to explore a little. That's how I learned of Hispanic or Latino Espa Roba, and I don't know how this hasn't become well known like radical Yami Yugi and southern Bakura from the same dub

Guest starring also radical 90s dude Rex Raptor

[kaiowut99]

Jaden, how are you holding that

[atemyuu]

the difference between the yugioh dm sub and dub is so funny to me. like for example you know that episode where Kaiba was threatening to kill himself and Yugi stopped him, the next episode shows Dub Yugi essentially shaking and crying like ��I am so scared of this other presence inside me I’m never going to duel again!!!!!”

meanwhile sub Yugi “I cannot believe I interrupted my other self’s duel, I can’t do anything without him 😭😭😭”

Yugi dear you stopped a person trying to kill himself wdym you’re a coward…

[lucadrawss]

Just gonna drop this here:

[heph]

Darkness