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Sevens felt satisfying and the last 5 minutes had me smiling hard.
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Speaking of, has there been any update on the Sevens dub recently? Anyway, it’d be nice if Go Rush got picked up by some other official source but I imagine someone will fansub it at the very least
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Mar 29, 2022 23:37
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I want to say. I appreciate the thread subtitle referencing a relatively early fight from two series ago.
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Mar 31, 2022 15:58
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It's one of the best duels in the series.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:35
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I forget, when did that duel happen again and what was the context for it (I’m assuming it was something from Arc V)?
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Mar 31, 2022 17:36
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Arc V, I wanna say during the brackets of the tournament in the second half of the first year, so like late 30s early 40s.
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MorningMoon posted:Arc V, I wanna say during the brackets of the tournament in the second half of the first year, so like late 30s early 40s. Ah yeah, I vaguely remember now On another note, I’ve only ever watched 5Ds subbed so out of curiosity how much did 4Kids have to water down the Dark Signers arc as the original had stuff like murder, psychological torture, and a guy getting devoured by a giant hellbeast?
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Mar 31, 2022 17:47
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Larryb posted:I forget, when did that duel happen again and what was the context for it (I’m assuming it was something from Arc V)? Shun vs. Sora in Arc-V, one of the best duels in the entire franchise. AlternateNu posted:I want to say. I appreciate the thread subtitle referencing a relatively early fight from two series ago. I'm working on a new thread/new OP since this thread is so old and Baal doesn't post here anymore and I'm honestly tempted to keep the subtitle.
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Mar 31, 2022 17:52
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Larryb posted:Ah yeah, I vaguely remember now I know a lot of murders got edited away as being sent to the shadow realm. Carly was blasted out of a window and fell into a nebulous purple fog.
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Mar 31, 2022 18:38
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Pyroi posted:I know a lot of murders got edited away as being sent to the shadow realm. Carly was blasted out of a window and fell into a nebulous purple fog. What about Divine electrocuting Misty’s brother to death and then himself later being eaten by her earthbound god?
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Mar 31, 2022 18:45
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Larryb posted:What about Divine electrocuting Misty’s brother to death and then himself later being eaten by her earthbound god? Well, her brother was disappeared and sent to a secret location with "constantly changing coordinates", and Divine was also disappeared to an unknown location by the Earthbound Immortal. You know how unknown locations are.
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Mar 31, 2022 18:52
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That’s about what I figured honestly (though I hear the VRAINS dub is slightly more faithful to the source than a lot of their other ones were at least)
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Mar 31, 2022 18:58
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Another thing about the 5D's dub is that Ark Cradle just....didn't loving happen! And neither did Team Taiyo vs. Team 5D's, the most overrated duel in the franchise, fight me.
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Mar 31, 2022 19:00
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MJeff posted:Team Taiyo vs. Team 5D's, the most overrated duel in the franchise, fight me. "fun" fact: they dedicated five whole episodes to this duel. that's as long as the ceremonial duel at the end of DM, including an episode of setup for both
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Mar 31, 2022 19:25
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Skeleton Mom posted:"fun" fact: they dedicated five whole episodes to this duel. that's as long as the ceremonial duel at the end of DM, including an episode of setup for both This is, in a nutshell, why the WRGP is a bad idea and shouldnt have been attempted. Even the least bad duel of the tournament is an ugly, unwieldy five episode goliath. Yusei vs. Z-ONE is what. Three episodes?
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Mar 31, 2022 19:29
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Team Taiyo is the one with they spend most of the duel stalling so they can meet their boss monster's insane summoning conditions, right? And then Yusei blows it up in a single turn? I don't remember it being 5 episodes, how is that even possible?
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Mar 31, 2022 19:36
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the sevens finale is two episodes containing two duels (one occurring in its entirety during the final battle phase of the other one), both of which are impactful and memorable, and there's a whole half episode on each side of them for setup and resolution. maybe it's just a sign I'm getting old, but i really appreciate when anime is written tightly & doesn't waste my time
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Mar 31, 2022 20:00
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I like how it takes inspiration from actual card game tournaments. The budget players are forced to play a cheesy stall strat because their individual cards are so weak, and everyone hates that. But when it turns out their plan is to summon the jankiest boss monster of all time people rally to their side. I also like how Team 5Ds realize what they're trying to do just before it happens
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Mar 31, 2022 20:03
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Skeleton Mom posted:"fun" fact: they dedicated five whole episodes to this duel. that's as long as the ceremonial duel at the end of DM, including an episode of setup for both btw just to be super duper clear and further support skeleton mom's point, the 5-part duels in DM (I wanna say there was four?) were only that long because the anime ran simultaneously with the manga so the anime had to be padded out to truly stupid lengths sometimes. No duel ever needs to be 5 episodes, but somehow like EVERY duel in the WRGP was.
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Mar 31, 2022 20:06
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Speaking as someone who hadn't seen jack poo poo past the first third of the Orichalcos arc until very recently I found the truncated duels in "season 1" or whatever of GX to be a little underwhelming. Not saying I need them all to be 5-6 episodes like the Duelist Kingdom and Battle City finals or anything but I wouldn't be upset if some of the more important duels got 3 episodes, just to give them a bit of time to breathe. I've felt pacing issues from time to time watching GX, where things feel like they're moving unnaturally fast in order to cram a duel into 1 episode fewer than it might have originally been scripted for.
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Mar 31, 2022 20:12
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Rugby deck??? RUGBY DECK!!!
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Mar 31, 2022 21:34
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The Sevens final duel only being 1 episode long was lame tbh.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:The Sevens final duel only being 1 episode long was lame tbh. It was a culmination of all the duels where Luke whomps Yuga and finally we get to see them at their best and the rest of the episode just celebrating all the weird characters. I'll gladly take that over a long duel that drags out and doesn't conclude properly.
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Mar 31, 2022 22:07
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Final duels should be minimum 2 episodes long. Maximum 3 episodes.
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Mar 31, 2022 22:08
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On that note, did the pandemic (and/or some other behind the scenes issue) have something to do with Sevens being shorter than the average YGO series or was that pretty much always their intent going into it?
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Mar 31, 2022 22:21
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Larryb posted:On that note, did the pandemic (and/or some other behind the scenes issue) have something to do with Sevens being shorter than the average YGO series or was that pretty much always their intent going into it? VRAINS had bad ratings and the first year of VRAINS sets had extremely low sales. VRAINS was so unpopular that it didn't even get a manga adaptation and they went straight to Structures instead.
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Vandar posted:VRAINS had bad ratings and the first year of VRAINS sets had extremely low sales. VRAINS was so unpopular that it didn't even get a manga adaptation and they went straight to Structures instead. Speaking of, how’d Sevens do in terms of ratings? Also I might have asked this before but has the Sevens manga been translated and if so how is it?
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SyntheticPolygon posted:Final duels should be minimum 2 episodes long. Maximum 3 episodes. Nah. Fixating on length is dumb. I'd rather have duels that have meaningful emotional stakes rather than lasting longer than they need to, and Yuga vs Luke was that in basically every way I needed it to be. Plus if you want to be pedantic the final duel really was two episodes long, Yuga vs Otes, it just had a break in the middle.
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Mar 31, 2022 23:58
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It was all it needed to be, but it coulda been more!
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Larryb posted:Speaking of, how’d Sevens do in terms of ratings? I'm not sure exactly how well Sevens did but it's done well enough that it looks like they're staying the course for Go Rush and Rush Duels as a whole.
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That's where Zushin comes from? I'm looking at the card now, and it's GX-era trash. 5 episodes sounds like about enough time to actually summon it.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:It was all it needed to be, but it coulda been more! I liked that it was really short and both players were playing scuffed decks with minimal special effects.
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SyntheticPolygon posted:It was all it needed to be, but it coulda been more! If it was all it needed to be, then it logically didn't need to be more.
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If shows always only ever aimed for what they 'needed' to be then we wouldn't really have any particularly stand out shows or episodes or characters would we?
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I didn't watch VRAINS. Should I watch VRAINS? Was it bad or was it just the end of Arc-V making everyone gently caress off from the anime?
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Blockhouse posted:I didn't watch VRAINS. Should I watch VRAINS? Was it bad or was it just the end of Arc-V making everyone gently caress off from the anime? If you feel like it? It wasn't terrible like Zexal or Arc-V, but it wasn't good either. Just a very middling show.
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It's the one Yu-Gi-Oh season you can point to and go 'this needed some filler', which is impressive in a way.
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You could completely excise the card game aspect from vrains and nothing would change.
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Rigged Death Trap posted:You could completely excise the card game aspect from vrains and nothing would change. Nothing except the enormous amount of free airtime from no longer having to cram the OCG into the show.
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