Where I rewatch Yugioh GX, Episode 61
Jul. 14th, 2010 11:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cypsiman2We open to...Shou and Kenzan having a yawning contest in the middle of class, in some bizarre dick waving contest to see who misses Judai more. Then Shou asks what the fuck Kenzan is doing there to begin with, what with him being a freshman and all. Kenzan says he's going to leave anyway, since Judai's not there, and why the fuck the Professor didn't kick him out the moment he walked in, I've no idea. Seriously, are the writers even aware of the fact that you have to ATTEND CLASS in order to stay in school? And then Kenzan bumps right into Misawa, but at least the worthless fucker offers up a halfhearted apology, which is more than I would have expected. Asuka and Manjoume are there too, and now Shou is crying like the little baby that he is, and seriously, where the fuck is the professor? Are all these students just there for nap time?
TITLE SCREEN! SAIOU'S APPEARANCE! TAROT DECK OF FATE i wonder what sort of games you could play with a tarot deck...
Now we get to see Judai being a mopey little git as he stares directly into the sun. Who wants to bet he doesn't go blind as a result? Anyone? Oh, and he also sees Winged Kuriboh for a moment, like I give a fuck about that. And yes, Judai still can't see his cards. To quote Toph, "Oh no, what a nightmare." And now Manjoume's there, and asks Judai how long he plans on listening to Linken Park and writing bad poetry for anyway. He tells him to get his ass back in class or else the gap between them will become very big, and Judai blandly agrees. Manjoume gets mad, and Judai's all whiny about how he can't duel, since that's pretty much all he ever does, ever. Judai gets up to walk away, Manjoume yells at him some more, and why the hell is Manjoume trying so hard to get Judai's head back in the game, I have no idea.
And now we've got Saiou doing his Tarot Card bit again, though apparently he missed his electricity bill, since the room is all dark and shit for no particular reason. He gets the upright Wheel of Fate, signifying an unexpected result. Flashback to Edo using Dreadguy to defeat Judai, Saiou going on about how Judai was a step to promote Edo's growth, and how Judai should have become his servant, his vanguard to controlling Duel Academia. But for some reason, he is still in control of his own soul. Yeesh, we get it, Judai's a Gary Stu, you can stop now! Saiou wonders if it has anything to do with Judai's ability to communicate with the spirits, and then he flips over another card, getting The Fool, which apparently confirms that Judai's still on Duel Academia island (where the fuck else would he be?), and then he turns over The Hanged Man, indicating 'the other man', and of course it's a 'man'. Then some guy says that they're almost to Duel Academia, and it turns out that Saiou's been on a plane this entire scene. Um, woo?
Now we've got Chronos and Napoleon running along, hoping to meet up with Edo Phoenix's manager. They get down to the docks as Saiou's plane lands, and at some point Saiou climbed out on top of the plane so he could stand on top of the nose of the plane. That seems incredibly stupid and suicidal, but hey, I'm not the fortune teller who knows how everything's going to turn out. And now Saiou's wearing a white suit that's very different from the Duel Academia rip-off that we usually see him wearing. Blah blah blah, Chronos is surprised at how young Saiou is, Saiou says he's been friends with Edo for many years, so he's Edo's manager by virtue of nepotism and not because of any actual qualifications. Hey, I'm just reading between the lines! Chronos asks Saiou if he's here about Edo, but Saiou says it's like he said on the phone, Edo just came for that one match, the rest of his schedule is full-up for the next three years. Chronos asks why he is there then, Napoleon thinks he must be looking for a new star. "Something like that", Saiou says, and of course Napoleon and Chronos, being the morons that they are, do not suspect a thing. Then Saiou declares that he'll be wandering the island alone, do not bother him at all.
Transition. Now it is sunset, and Shou comes in running, whining about Big Trouble. Apparently Judai's gone...and so is his luggage. Yes, that's right, when the going gets tough, Judai folds like a whiny little baby and runs away without saying a word to anyone. Jesus duck fucking christ, I want to slap the shit out of that prick. Seriously, we keep being told about how he's such a great friend and has all this charisma, but this demonstrates how little respect he has for everyone else. Seriously, the little fucker doesn't even leave a note or anything, he's too busy wallowing in his own self-pity to be able see past his own nose. So now everyone's running around, looking for Judai, hopefully so that they can tear his legs off and club him to death with them, and now it is nighttime, and Manjoume's in the woods, demanding Judai duel him. And then the Ojama Trio show up, because this sequence hasn't been anywhere near painful enough yet. Manjoume says that Card Spirits should have abilities like radar or guidance or something, but no, the Ojama Trio are normal monsters with zero attack power, and are thus completely useless.
And now we hear Saiou saying something about the Card Spirits. Manjoume demands to know who he is, and Saiou apologizes for startling him, but while he could hear Manjoume talking to someone, he could only see him. Saiou introduces himself as Saiou Takuma, or Takuma Saiou in the western order, and at some point he switched out of his suit and into his Duel Academia rip-off. As to why, your guess is as good as mine. Also, he is Edo Phoenix's manager, and he says that Manjoume is like Judai, a duelist who can communicate with the Card Spirits. Manjoume asks if he can see them too, and Saiou says that he can't, but he does see through them. Manjoume asks what he means by that, and Saiou's all 'shut up and duel me'. He says that if Manjoume does well, he can enter the Pro League, and he'll even be his manager. Manjoume, having taken his stupid pills not too long ago, accepts the challenge of the strange man that he ran into in the woods at night who knows way too much about him. There's nothing suspicious about this at all! The fact that the Ojama Trio are the voices of reason in all this just makes it that much worse. Saiou declares that Manjoume's fate shall be governed by the cards, and then fog appears out of nowhere, prompting the Ojama Trio to run away. Seriously Manjoume, you're sure you don't want to rethink this? No? Okay...
Now Saiou's laughing evilly, and now there's a table in front of Saiou that was not there before. Saiou probably pulled it out of the same place where he got all that fog. The Duel officially begins, and Saiou spreads all his cards across the table without looking at them, not unlike the fortune telling trick that Mai Kujaku pulled back in Duelist Kingdom. Now wouldn't that be a fun call-back to make? Which is of course why the writers won't be doing that, at all. Seriously Saiou, we get it, you're the villain, you can tone it down a notch!
EYECATCH!
Manjoume goes first and summons V-Tiger Jet, and then he plays Frontline Base, allowing him to special summon W-Wing Catapult. He removes both of them from play to Fusion Summon VW-Tiger Catapult without a Fusion card. And then Manjoume sets a card to end his turn. Saiou's turn, and he plays the spell card Illusion. Manjoume demands to know if Saiou can see the cards without looking at them, Saiou repeats his bit about not being able to see but having seen through them, and now he applies the effect of Illusion, drawing one card, and he gets Arcana Force XII The Hanged Man. This for some reason provokes a strong reaction from Manjoume, and Saiou says that this card is the destiny that he has seen for Manjoume. Manjoume is confused by all this talk of fate and destiny, since this was supposed to be about Manjoume showing his strength, and now The Hanged Man is returned to Saiou's deck and Manjoume gets to shuffle it. Manjoume walks up and says he does not believe in Fate, what happens to him for good or bad is the product of his own strength. Saiou offers up this comparison, that Manjoume's fate is like the cards he just shuffled, and while he can choose, his destined fate will catch up to him. Manjoume shuffles them some more, and then walks back, Saiou being very amused all the while. He explains that if he plays the card drawn by Illusion, Manjoume will take 1000 points of damage. Manjoume dismisses this possibility, and then Saiou plays Suite of Sword X, which appears above Saiou's head and rotates very, very slowly. Saiou tells Manjoume to declare stop when he feels like it, and if it stops upright, all of Manjoume's monsters will be destroyed. In reverse, his monsters will be destroyed. Manjoume declares Stop, and of course it stops upright, and boom goes VW-Tiger Catapult.
Now Saiou summons Knight of Pentacles in defense position, a level-3 monster with 1000 defense points. And now its card appears and starts to rotate; if it stops in upright position, it can't be destroyed by battle, but in reverse, it will be destroyed in battle automatically. Manjoume declares stop, and he gets it in reverse. Manjoume notes this is good for him, and Saiou ends his turn. Manjoume takes his turn and plays Angel's Benevolence, drawing three and discarding two. Manjoume declares that he'll show Saiou a duel that smashes fate, and then he plays Level Modulation, which is now a spell card, unlike the last time it was played. In any event, Saiou gets to draw two cards, and Manjoume can special summon a Level monster from his grave, so he summons Armed Dragon Level 7, which he sent to the grave with Angel's Benevolence. And now he...sacrifices Armed Dragon Level 7...to special summon Armed Dragon Level 10??? The fuck??? Where the fuck did this thing come from? They made the big deal last season about how Armed Dragon Level 7 was the most powerful of the Armed Dragons, the legacy of the North Campus, and now Manjoume can just randomly pull out an even bigger, badder Ace monster? Seriously, where the fuck did he get that card from anyway?
Anyway, Armed Dragon Level 10 has 3000 attack points, and then Manjoume activates his trap card Ojama Trio, special summoning three Ojama tokens to Saiou's side of the field. Saiou glares down at the Ojama tokens, freaking the spirits out, not that that's much of an accomplishment, and then Manjoume activates his monster's effect; by sending a card to the grave (Ojama Yellow), he destroys all monsters on the opponent's side of the field. Boom go all the monsters, Saiou takes 900 points from the Ojama Tokens being destroyed, and then Manjoume attacks directly with Armed Dragon Level 10 for another 3000 points of damage, leaving Saiou with just 100 life points, and nothing on the field.
Manjoume ends his turn and asks if this exceeded Saiou's expectations, but Saiou just takes his turn and plays Choice of Fate; now Manjoume has to pick a card from Saiou's hand, and if that card is a monster card, Saiou can special summon it to the field. Manjoume walks up to the table, Ojama Yellow appears and begs Manjoume not to do it, Manjoume ignores him as any right thinking person would, which of course means that Manjoume is wrong to do so. Because Manjoume is always wrong, just like the complainer in a 1980's PSA. Seriously, Saiou, tone it way the fuck down, honestly. And what do you know, the card Manjoume picks is the Hanged Man, and why is Saiou looking at Manjoume like that? So Saiou gets to summon it, and thanks to Illusion's effect, Manjoume takes 1000 points of damage. And now Arcana Force XII The Hanged Man's effec is activated, and more card rotating action. If it lands upright, once per turn a monster on Saiou's side of the field will be destroyed and he'll take damage equal to its attack power. If it lands in reverse, this will happen to Manjoume instead.
The Hanged Man wraps itself around Manjoume, Manjoume yells stop, and...now we get to see a single emo tear dripping down Saiou's face, as he says that when he sees through Fate, the sadness of his heart won't stop. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE OJAMA YELLOW, THINGS ARE ACTUALLY GETTING INTERESTING FOR ONCE! Finally, the card stops in reverse, and now Saiou's grinning evilly. Boom goes Armed Dragon Level 10, and Saiou explains that the fate revealed by The Hanged Man is stagnancy, that Manjoume can speak to the card spirits and is trying to overcome his rival, but in his heart he has given up. Moreover, he has become friends with his rival, for no fucking reason I might add. Manjoume demands to know what the fuck he means by that, he doesn't fear Judai! Saiou explains that his stagnancy has been brought about by Judai's victory, but the reverse Hanged Man speaks of advancement; Manjoume is now in a position to choose a new fate, one of strength that he'll provide to Manjoume. Now we're doing a split-screen effect, and one half Saiou's all sad and crying, while on the other half he's all grinning and evil looking. He says that Manjoume wishes to defeat Judai, doesn't he? Well, all he has to do is to join him, and he'll create that fate for him. More two-face shenanigans, and Saiou tells Manjoume to hurry up and choose. Manjoume declares that he wants to defeat Judai, and then...roots start shooting out of the trees and hang him up in the air by his feet as his life points finally hit zero. The Ojama Trio try to ineffectually help, but Saiou does the glowing eye trick and gets rid off them, hopefully forever.
And elsewhere we see Judai on a speedboat, and how the fuck did he steal that without anyone noticing, and how the fuck does he even know how to pilot it? Oh well, point is, good riddance to that worthless fucker, I hope he drowns in the Dead Sea. Yes, that's right, run away you worthless little shit, just abandon your friends without saying a word. Seriously, how fucking worthless and aggravating can a character get? And Saiu takes off in his plane, and now Manjoume's under his controller, and since he can speak to the spirits too, what then is it about Judai that lets him escape his control? I'll take 'He's the biggest fucking Gary Stu ever conceived' for 200, Mr. Trebek. And then a card falls off of Saiou's table, and it is the Wheel of Fate in reverse, the downgrade of fate. Shou's shrill whiny voice is annoying, and now Manjoume's dressed in an all-white uniform, where the fuck he picked that up from, I've no idea. Manjoume declares that Saiou will control the world, and Duel Academia will become white through the Society of Light. And he laughs for no fucking reason at all. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Shou is still a scrawny little whiner, Manjoume stands on rooftops, and Judai is in Hippy Space. Oh joy. EPISODE TITLE, NEW E-HERO! NEOS and the card of the week is Arcana Force XII The Hanged Man, which was never released into the real card game.
Well, if the writers could ever be arsed to tone it down about twenty notches, and to forget about Judai altogether, this could have been a great episode. As it stands, it is nothing but wasted potential.
TITLE SCREEN! SAIOU'S APPEARANCE! TAROT DECK OF FATE i wonder what sort of games you could play with a tarot deck...
Now we get to see Judai being a mopey little git as he stares directly into the sun. Who wants to bet he doesn't go blind as a result? Anyone? Oh, and he also sees Winged Kuriboh for a moment, like I give a fuck about that. And yes, Judai still can't see his cards. To quote Toph, "Oh no, what a nightmare." And now Manjoume's there, and asks Judai how long he plans on listening to Linken Park and writing bad poetry for anyway. He tells him to get his ass back in class or else the gap between them will become very big, and Judai blandly agrees. Manjoume gets mad, and Judai's all whiny about how he can't duel, since that's pretty much all he ever does, ever. Judai gets up to walk away, Manjoume yells at him some more, and why the hell is Manjoume trying so hard to get Judai's head back in the game, I have no idea.
And now we've got Saiou doing his Tarot Card bit again, though apparently he missed his electricity bill, since the room is all dark and shit for no particular reason. He gets the upright Wheel of Fate, signifying an unexpected result. Flashback to Edo using Dreadguy to defeat Judai, Saiou going on about how Judai was a step to promote Edo's growth, and how Judai should have become his servant, his vanguard to controlling Duel Academia. But for some reason, he is still in control of his own soul. Yeesh, we get it, Judai's a Gary Stu, you can stop now! Saiou wonders if it has anything to do with Judai's ability to communicate with the spirits, and then he flips over another card, getting The Fool, which apparently confirms that Judai's still on Duel Academia island (where the fuck else would he be?), and then he turns over The Hanged Man, indicating 'the other man', and of course it's a 'man'. Then some guy says that they're almost to Duel Academia, and it turns out that Saiou's been on a plane this entire scene. Um, woo?
Now we've got Chronos and Napoleon running along, hoping to meet up with Edo Phoenix's manager. They get down to the docks as Saiou's plane lands, and at some point Saiou climbed out on top of the plane so he could stand on top of the nose of the plane. That seems incredibly stupid and suicidal, but hey, I'm not the fortune teller who knows how everything's going to turn out. And now Saiou's wearing a white suit that's very different from the Duel Academia rip-off that we usually see him wearing. Blah blah blah, Chronos is surprised at how young Saiou is, Saiou says he's been friends with Edo for many years, so he's Edo's manager by virtue of nepotism and not because of any actual qualifications. Hey, I'm just reading between the lines! Chronos asks Saiou if he's here about Edo, but Saiou says it's like he said on the phone, Edo just came for that one match, the rest of his schedule is full-up for the next three years. Chronos asks why he is there then, Napoleon thinks he must be looking for a new star. "Something like that", Saiou says, and of course Napoleon and Chronos, being the morons that they are, do not suspect a thing. Then Saiou declares that he'll be wandering the island alone, do not bother him at all.
Transition. Now it is sunset, and Shou comes in running, whining about Big Trouble. Apparently Judai's gone...and so is his luggage. Yes, that's right, when the going gets tough, Judai folds like a whiny little baby and runs away without saying a word to anyone. Jesus duck fucking christ, I want to slap the shit out of that prick. Seriously, we keep being told about how he's such a great friend and has all this charisma, but this demonstrates how little respect he has for everyone else. Seriously, the little fucker doesn't even leave a note or anything, he's too busy wallowing in his own self-pity to be able see past his own nose. So now everyone's running around, looking for Judai, hopefully so that they can tear his legs off and club him to death with them, and now it is nighttime, and Manjoume's in the woods, demanding Judai duel him. And then the Ojama Trio show up, because this sequence hasn't been anywhere near painful enough yet. Manjoume says that Card Spirits should have abilities like radar or guidance or something, but no, the Ojama Trio are normal monsters with zero attack power, and are thus completely useless.
And now we hear Saiou saying something about the Card Spirits. Manjoume demands to know who he is, and Saiou apologizes for startling him, but while he could hear Manjoume talking to someone, he could only see him. Saiou introduces himself as Saiou Takuma, or Takuma Saiou in the western order, and at some point he switched out of his suit and into his Duel Academia rip-off. As to why, your guess is as good as mine. Also, he is Edo Phoenix's manager, and he says that Manjoume is like Judai, a duelist who can communicate with the Card Spirits. Manjoume asks if he can see them too, and Saiou says that he can't, but he does see through them. Manjoume asks what he means by that, and Saiou's all 'shut up and duel me'. He says that if Manjoume does well, he can enter the Pro League, and he'll even be his manager. Manjoume, having taken his stupid pills not too long ago, accepts the challenge of the strange man that he ran into in the woods at night who knows way too much about him. There's nothing suspicious about this at all! The fact that the Ojama Trio are the voices of reason in all this just makes it that much worse. Saiou declares that Manjoume's fate shall be governed by the cards, and then fog appears out of nowhere, prompting the Ojama Trio to run away. Seriously Manjoume, you're sure you don't want to rethink this? No? Okay...
Now Saiou's laughing evilly, and now there's a table in front of Saiou that was not there before. Saiou probably pulled it out of the same place where he got all that fog. The Duel officially begins, and Saiou spreads all his cards across the table without looking at them, not unlike the fortune telling trick that Mai Kujaku pulled back in Duelist Kingdom. Now wouldn't that be a fun call-back to make? Which is of course why the writers won't be doing that, at all. Seriously Saiou, we get it, you're the villain, you can tone it down a notch!
EYECATCH!
Manjoume goes first and summons V-Tiger Jet, and then he plays Frontline Base, allowing him to special summon W-Wing Catapult. He removes both of them from play to Fusion Summon VW-Tiger Catapult without a Fusion card. And then Manjoume sets a card to end his turn. Saiou's turn, and he plays the spell card Illusion. Manjoume demands to know if Saiou can see the cards without looking at them, Saiou repeats his bit about not being able to see but having seen through them, and now he applies the effect of Illusion, drawing one card, and he gets Arcana Force XII The Hanged Man. This for some reason provokes a strong reaction from Manjoume, and Saiou says that this card is the destiny that he has seen for Manjoume. Manjoume is confused by all this talk of fate and destiny, since this was supposed to be about Manjoume showing his strength, and now The Hanged Man is returned to Saiou's deck and Manjoume gets to shuffle it. Manjoume walks up and says he does not believe in Fate, what happens to him for good or bad is the product of his own strength. Saiou offers up this comparison, that Manjoume's fate is like the cards he just shuffled, and while he can choose, his destined fate will catch up to him. Manjoume shuffles them some more, and then walks back, Saiou being very amused all the while. He explains that if he plays the card drawn by Illusion, Manjoume will take 1000 points of damage. Manjoume dismisses this possibility, and then Saiou plays Suite of Sword X, which appears above Saiou's head and rotates very, very slowly. Saiou tells Manjoume to declare stop when he feels like it, and if it stops upright, all of Manjoume's monsters will be destroyed. In reverse, his monsters will be destroyed. Manjoume declares Stop, and of course it stops upright, and boom goes VW-Tiger Catapult.
Now Saiou summons Knight of Pentacles in defense position, a level-3 monster with 1000 defense points. And now its card appears and starts to rotate; if it stops in upright position, it can't be destroyed by battle, but in reverse, it will be destroyed in battle automatically. Manjoume declares stop, and he gets it in reverse. Manjoume notes this is good for him, and Saiou ends his turn. Manjoume takes his turn and plays Angel's Benevolence, drawing three and discarding two. Manjoume declares that he'll show Saiou a duel that smashes fate, and then he plays Level Modulation, which is now a spell card, unlike the last time it was played. In any event, Saiou gets to draw two cards, and Manjoume can special summon a Level monster from his grave, so he summons Armed Dragon Level 7, which he sent to the grave with Angel's Benevolence. And now he...sacrifices Armed Dragon Level 7...to special summon Armed Dragon Level 10??? The fuck??? Where the fuck did this thing come from? They made the big deal last season about how Armed Dragon Level 7 was the most powerful of the Armed Dragons, the legacy of the North Campus, and now Manjoume can just randomly pull out an even bigger, badder Ace monster? Seriously, where the fuck did he get that card from anyway?
Anyway, Armed Dragon Level 10 has 3000 attack points, and then Manjoume activates his trap card Ojama Trio, special summoning three Ojama tokens to Saiou's side of the field. Saiou glares down at the Ojama tokens, freaking the spirits out, not that that's much of an accomplishment, and then Manjoume activates his monster's effect; by sending a card to the grave (Ojama Yellow), he destroys all monsters on the opponent's side of the field. Boom go all the monsters, Saiou takes 900 points from the Ojama Tokens being destroyed, and then Manjoume attacks directly with Armed Dragon Level 10 for another 3000 points of damage, leaving Saiou with just 100 life points, and nothing on the field.
Manjoume ends his turn and asks if this exceeded Saiou's expectations, but Saiou just takes his turn and plays Choice of Fate; now Manjoume has to pick a card from Saiou's hand, and if that card is a monster card, Saiou can special summon it to the field. Manjoume walks up to the table, Ojama Yellow appears and begs Manjoume not to do it, Manjoume ignores him as any right thinking person would, which of course means that Manjoume is wrong to do so. Because Manjoume is always wrong, just like the complainer in a 1980's PSA. Seriously, Saiou, tone it way the fuck down, honestly. And what do you know, the card Manjoume picks is the Hanged Man, and why is Saiou looking at Manjoume like that? So Saiou gets to summon it, and thanks to Illusion's effect, Manjoume takes 1000 points of damage. And now Arcana Force XII The Hanged Man's effec is activated, and more card rotating action. If it lands upright, once per turn a monster on Saiou's side of the field will be destroyed and he'll take damage equal to its attack power. If it lands in reverse, this will happen to Manjoume instead.
The Hanged Man wraps itself around Manjoume, Manjoume yells stop, and...now we get to see a single emo tear dripping down Saiou's face, as he says that when he sees through Fate, the sadness of his heart won't stop. GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE OJAMA YELLOW, THINGS ARE ACTUALLY GETTING INTERESTING FOR ONCE! Finally, the card stops in reverse, and now Saiou's grinning evilly. Boom goes Armed Dragon Level 10, and Saiou explains that the fate revealed by The Hanged Man is stagnancy, that Manjoume can speak to the card spirits and is trying to overcome his rival, but in his heart he has given up. Moreover, he has become friends with his rival, for no fucking reason I might add. Manjoume demands to know what the fuck he means by that, he doesn't fear Judai! Saiou explains that his stagnancy has been brought about by Judai's victory, but the reverse Hanged Man speaks of advancement; Manjoume is now in a position to choose a new fate, one of strength that he'll provide to Manjoume. Now we're doing a split-screen effect, and one half Saiou's all sad and crying, while on the other half he's all grinning and evil looking. He says that Manjoume wishes to defeat Judai, doesn't he? Well, all he has to do is to join him, and he'll create that fate for him. More two-face shenanigans, and Saiou tells Manjoume to hurry up and choose. Manjoume declares that he wants to defeat Judai, and then...roots start shooting out of the trees and hang him up in the air by his feet as his life points finally hit zero. The Ojama Trio try to ineffectually help, but Saiou does the glowing eye trick and gets rid off them, hopefully forever.
And elsewhere we see Judai on a speedboat, and how the fuck did he steal that without anyone noticing, and how the fuck does he even know how to pilot it? Oh well, point is, good riddance to that worthless fucker, I hope he drowns in the Dead Sea. Yes, that's right, run away you worthless little shit, just abandon your friends without saying a word. Seriously, how fucking worthless and aggravating can a character get? And Saiu takes off in his plane, and now Manjoume's under his controller, and since he can speak to the spirits too, what then is it about Judai that lets him escape his control? I'll take 'He's the biggest fucking Gary Stu ever conceived' for 200, Mr. Trebek. And then a card falls off of Saiou's table, and it is the Wheel of Fate in reverse, the downgrade of fate. Shou's shrill whiny voice is annoying, and now Manjoume's dressed in an all-white uniform, where the fuck he picked that up from, I've no idea. Manjoume declares that Saiou will control the world, and Duel Academia will become white through the Society of Light. And he laughs for no fucking reason at all. End episode.
NEXT TIME! Shou is still a scrawny little whiner, Manjoume stands on rooftops, and Judai is in Hippy Space. Oh joy. EPISODE TITLE, NEW E-HERO! NEOS and the card of the week is Arcana Force XII The Hanged Man, which was never released into the real card game.
Well, if the writers could ever be arsed to tone it down about twenty notches, and to forget about Judai altogether, this could have been a great episode. As it stands, it is nothing but wasted potential.
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Date: 2010-07-14 09:57 pm (UTC)Hee, Toph! I need to find some good Toph!fic at some point. And really, it's horribly noticeable that Juudai has no interests outside of dueling. It's not just that he's obsessed with it, it's that he really seems to have no characterization outside of 'duelist'. He is your main character, writers; this is not good.
Damn it, writers, I WANT to like Juudai. I want this series to be better because it does have some potential, I want it to be better because it should be living up to the original series, and I want it to be better because I just never enjoy seeing bad fiction (excluding a few hilariously bad ones like The Eye of Argon).
...No, writers, I am not in the mood for your antics today, GIVE ASUKA A BETTER SKIRT. Skirts are perfectly lovely articles of clothing (though I prefer dresses myself), but that is not a skirt. I've seen bathing suits more concealing than that, it is not a skirt.
I watched a program which talked about evolution today, and it somewhat covered the extinction of the dinosaurs. It was cathartic.
OMG the subs actually translated Saiou's dialogue with the exact pauses in his speech, and it sounds so flat. My version: "Excuse me. I appeared suddenly. You seem to have been surprised." IT'S SO FLAT. Just...wow. This isn't even Kaiser Ryou's Repressed Flatness, or the special brand of flatness an original character of mine has which I like to joke about (he has no sense of humor, whatsoever), it's just...flat dialogue. It's not even that he talks like that all the time, it just popped up all of a sudden. It surprised me.
OH GODS NO I RANDOMLY SKIPPED AHEAD TO PART TWO OF EPISODE 62 AND I THINK SOMETHING IN ME JUST BROKE. IT MIGHT BE MY BRAIN. OR MY SOUL. AND DAMN IT DON'T BRING KAIBA SETO INTO THIS. I'VE ALREADY ENDURED SUES RUNNING ROUGHSHOD OVER BATMAN THIS WEEK, NOT THIS TOO NOW! Damn it, can we just skip ahead to Kaiser Ryou and his angsty bondage sessions?
I'm sorry for that, I'll try to contain my rage until we actually reach those episodes.
Now I feel slightly better because my new updates did not require a restart. Yay.
Manjoume laughing randomly like that is somewhat odd. I hope everyone is really worried about him next episode. But, you know, GX anime and hope don't mix.
And damn it, Fubuki has inexplicably vanished again!
*watches preview for next episode* WTF. I JUST...WTF?
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Date: 2010-07-14 10:18 pm (UTC)Oh Toph, she always has just the right snark for the situation. "That's what it will sound like when you guys find it." *Waves hands over eyes*. AND YES, Judai is just so void of anything resembling characterization, he's just a cipher for the audience to project onto, though I don't know why you would...
Again, look at the GX manga, has the same rough outline for the main characters, but it actually builds on them. And that Judai, the Manga Judai? Yeah, he'd be a bit bummed if he couldn't see his cards, but he wouldn't fall to fucking pieces over it!
Or pants! Point being, something practical that's not a sexual-harassment lawsuit waiting to happen!
You could totally torture Kenzan by showing him pictures of meteors and asteroids and the part in Fantasia where all the dinosaurs are starving to death...hee.
Yeah, this is one of the more 'literal' translations. But for certain values of 'better', it is better than nothing. But hey, that's what happens when you've got different translating teams doing there things.
DO NOT GIVE UP ON ME SOLDIER! THE ENEMY MUST NOT BE ALLOWED TO WIN, OUR SNARK MUST OVERCOME THEIR SHITTY TERRIBLENESS TOGETHER! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME, SOLDIER? And while I would like to be able to skip ahead to the Kaiser Ryou bondage sessions of angst, we must first pass through Hippy Space. I don't think that anyone has ever written that sentence before.
It's okay, I would have reacted the same way if I'd skipped ahead when I wasn't properly prepared yet.
Thank goodness for small blessings, right?
I do believe that they do get a little worried, but only in the 'oh that silly/wacky Manjoume' way.
SAVE ME FUBUKI TENJOUIN, YOU ARE MY ONLY HOPE!
Yeah, we're about to descend into the special hell of Yugioh GX. It is a very, very, VERY special hell.
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Date: 2010-07-14 10:30 pm (UTC)*clutches Toph to chest*
And manga!Juudai would have more legitimate reason, given his deck's importance to him.
Again, in what world would Kaiba Seto ever allow that uniform?
Hee! Seriously, Kenzan is like a more annoying Hayato: absolutely no purpose whatsoever in the plot, but keeps hanging on. And shows up more often.
Honestly, that wasn't even the translator's fault, the dialogue which I was complaining about was that flat originally. Seriously, the original character I'm talking about is the King of Flat in terms of his speech and facial expressions, and even he isn't as bad as that line there.
YES, SIR! And that sentence made me feel better. I mean...I can't even quote it aloud, I'm giggling so hard. I always break down before I reach 'Hippy Space'.
Can anyone ever be prepared for Hippy Space? XD Well, at least I'm laughing rather than crying now.
Right!
Damn.
*joins in*
...I can only guess at the horrors which await us. Besides Hippy Space. *giggles* There, that took away some of the fear.
Also, I need to make some space for a Fubuki/Ryou icon. Somehow.
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Date: 2010-07-14 10:42 pm (UTC)*Toph shoves you away for being so mushy* Sorry.
God, the backstory of Judai and his deck and Kouyou and Midori, that's just some really honest-to-goodness stuff there. I mean, it's not going to win a Pulitzer or anything, but it's certainly miles ahead of anything the anime's come up with for Judai!
None. Which is why Seto Kaiba was secretly replaced by a vastly inferior robot duplicate.
Yeah, Kenzan is...he would be a total wesley, except that the fandom seems to mostly ignore him.
Hmm, perhaps I'm just being fooled by the tone of Saiou's voice actor; for me, he's very pleasant to listen to, and by virtue of that makes his scenes much easier to watch, even though they objectively aren't that good.
Try saying bondage sessions of angst three times fast.
It is not an easy thing, preparing for Hippy Space; some have been driven Hippy-mad by Hippy Space. And those are the Hippy-lucky ones.
Seriously, I am so going to abuse the word Hippy in my next recap, and I'm sympathetic to the hippies! George Carlin was one of my favorite comedians, you know?
Yeah, squeezing in that last icon is definitely a pain, but I believe you can do it!
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Date: 2010-07-15 12:03 am (UTC)It's all right, I knew the inevitable result of my actions!
Hey, different stories are going for different things. You can't look at a fluffy romance and complain that it doesn't contain the same type of depth as a work of epic fantasy, is my favorite example. They have different goals, so the closest you can get to comparing is to ask 'did they both achieve their respective goals or not?'
Eek, you're probably right!
He is pleasant to listen to, I agree...it was just that one scene where apparently they really had trouble syncing the dialogue in naturally ^^;
XD Though mainly I was laughing so much over 'Hippy Space'. Seriously...what was that quote you used to use to refer to this season? It always cracks me up, but I'm always laughing too hard to actually remember it.
Again, XD
I'm looking forward to the next recap, if not the episode itself!
Well, I do have two spaces left...I guess I'll just have to put my dreams of a Polarshipping icon on hold, I need that last space for cutting down icons to 100x100. Now I just need to make the icon! The bondage session of angst episode has some...interesting images I'm getting screenshots of. Perhaps it will help.
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Date: 2010-07-15 12:17 am (UTC)That's the important thing.
And in the case of the GX anime, it most certainly fails to achieve even it's meager goals.
It makes so much sense! ...well, it makes sense to the extent that anything involving the GX anime can make sense.
Yeah, and I feel like mentioning that Saiou's voice actor did the magician Pandora in the first anime. Small world, huh?
I believe it was something along the lines of "Judai goes to Hippy-space to meet with the Hippy-space dolphins, who tell him of his Hippy-space destiny to use the power of Hippy-space Guyver to fight the Hippy-space radiation and save the Hippy-space universe from Hippy-Space destruction." It was something like that, at any rate. I may have to go search for it again.
The Recap will definitely be the far better part of the exchange, I am very certain of this.
Interesting images...yes, the GX anime certainly isn't lacking in that regard.
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Date: 2010-07-15 12:24 am (UTC)Definitely!
Right near the beginning was one of Kaiser Ryou naked. From the waist up, but still, apparently they finally decided to up the fanservice. Also just the bondage factor is...well it's really suggestive, I don't have anything snarky to say anymore, even, it just is.
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Date: 2010-07-15 12:29 am (UTC)The shower of angst, a noble institution!