#Houzan Gokaido

[magpiejay1234]

Today's reveal is Master of Ham, an EARTH Beast Fusion that supports Flip monsters.

This card has a bit of a lore in it:

**This card is the Fusion retrain of Bubonic Vermin, known in Japanese as Death Hamster. Correct localization would have been Des Hamster.

***So it is technically a part of Hayato's theme, even though he never used the card.

**This card's stats are the half of Master of Oz, including its Level, 5, which is the half of 9 (Master of Oz's Level), rounded up.

**This card has Jim's outfit, alongside a sword that is reminiscent of Legendary Sword, likely as an allusion to Houzan Gokaido (Warrior SD guy Manjoume dueled against).

***This is likely because Hayato, and Jim both have an Australia theming.

****This card supports Flip monsters, since Hayato's monsters are mostly Flip monsters, and most of the early-GX/late-DM Rock monsters were also Flip monsters.

**This card is similar to Animadorned Archosaur, which was a Johan/Kenzan combo. It is also similar to Mokey Mokey Adrift, introduced in Power of the Elements, the previous GX main set.

***This card also alludes to the fact that Master of Oz, in the animé, was a combination of Des Kangaroo, given by Sho, and Giant Koala.

*****

This card's slot is 40, which means there will be one more Fusion, but Synchros begin with the new White Aura Synchro.

(Also Japanese wiki corrected I:P Masquerena support's slot, thank God.)

So there likely won't be any future animé legacy Synchros, and Visas Synchros seem unlikely.

Tomorrow should be a Spell, and Sunday should be a Trap.

Edit: I forgot Master of Oz was the Fusion with Giant Koala, not Des Koala. It has been corrected.

Edit 2: Full list of "Des" Beast monsters are:

**Bubonic Vermin (Japanese name: Des Hamster)

**Des Koala

**Des Kangaroo

**Des Wombat

**Creepy Coney (Japanese name: Des Usagi)

**Desmanian Devil

Creepy Coney is also a Flip monster, so it benefits from this card.

[kaiowut99]

brb laughing at this professionally done 4Kids edit

[daddyzarc]

Dub: No time, no place, no names, not even an event—you just wander around until you find two weirdos in some dark alleyway doing fucks knows what

[fuckyeahmanjoumethunder]

[kaiowut99]

GX 54 (WIP): Reaching for the Star

So, it’s been a bit since the last time I posted about this poster, but we’re making some great headway here! First off, I’d like to give @paradoxi-kay a huge shout-out and round of applause for their time and effort in blanking the original poster’s “Star Duel” text and recreating the background so that I could go ahead and add in my translation (I blanked the name bubbles beforehand, and repainted things to Gokaido’s left and Manjoume’s right to “unblur” those parts--more on this in a bit).  It’s been a bit, but always a pleasure, Kay! 🙏🏽🔥🙏🏽

So, I used TrebuchetMS for the names’ font, and since the “Star Duel” text there originally seems like the font they use for the episode title cards, I applied the font I use for the translated ones, tweaked to match the look here more.  I’m actually really digging how it came out! I was torn between “A Star-Finding Duel” and “A Star-Finder Duel,” but ultimately settled on the former since I’d already called it that in 53′s preview for 54.

Now, comes the fun part--and the reason why I wanted to “unblur” the name bubbles and the sides of the poster (Kay also “unblurred” the star): recreating the panning shot.  See, in Chronos’s flashback where this shows up, not only is it a shot panning from the bottom to the top of the poster, but there’s also that huge Gaussian Blur (or is it radial, hmm) surrounding the frame.  The pan itself shouldn’t be hard, but I’m hoping it won’t be too hard to redo the frame blur in Vegas, while also kind of reducing the blur as Gokaido and Manjoume come into view, since they’re already blurred and I don’t want to make them even more blurred, lol.  Fingers crossed!

Of course, after that, I have more fun lined up: this poster shows up three other times in Chronos’s flashback from different angles: two while it’s lying on his desk, and a third as he’s holding it and pulling it into the frame as he gestures in front of it.  I’m thinking for the first two, I can just lie this down and redo the frame blur on top of it, while for this third angle, I think I’ll have to make use of the Corner Pin in After Effects (actually, I’ll probably need the Corner Pin for the first two, too), and then recreate the frame blur... [sorry, thinking out loud lol]

But the good news is that while I gave Kay time to edit the poster, I finished finalizing the subs for 54 proper! (I also worked on 2-3 card fixes before that involving Gokaido’s Ben Kei.) So, plan is once I get these edits done, I’ll put everything together and quality-check the whole thing.  Meanwhile, I’ll put out a few photosets here/there to start teasing the final product, so stay tuned~

[fuckyeahmanjoumethunder]