#harald

When Harald said that Shanks looked familiar in chapter 1167 I wondered if Harald had met their mother before on one of his journeys.

The parallels must be intentional

Odin cradles Frigga as she dies, Thor reacts in anguish, Loki finds out from his cell

Harald cradles Ida as she dies, Hajrudin reacts in anguish, Loki finds out from his cell

The introduction of Xebec and the fact he’s not “as bad” as the Marines first portrayed him -> that was a great example of propaganda within universe and, considering his potential similarities with Blackbeard (now we know why), most of us ate it up without thinking twice.

The fact the 3 Revolutionary Leaders were all on God Valley, on each side of the massacre (probably leading to Dragon quitting the Marines btw), is also great storytelling.

The way it ties Elbaf, the Kuja, the Rocks and the Roger Pirates, Shanks and the Revolutionary leaders all together ? A+ use of foreshadowing and world building.

Also the prizes for the hunt being “exotic" people (Shakky, Kuma, Teach…) for the Celestial Dragons is no way surprising considering past events in previous arcs. But it’s still interesting how even that super massive incident 35-40 years ago didn’t change the Celestial Dragons’ usual take on slavery and oppression: that’s a true criticism of historical supremacy right there.

Lastly, ngl Shakky being one of the enslaved prizes, being rescued (by Ray ? Dragon ? Gloriosa ?) and then deciding to live and reopen her old bar on Sabaody Archipelago, right under the Celestial Dragons’ noses ? -> 10/10 absolute Queen !

Overworld Interactions (5D's Tier 2) - Tag Force Special Re-Translation Update! (Project Announcement Post)

Dang, definitely hit the image cap with this one (Tumblr raise the image-per-post limit pls)

So, I actually worked on this overworld text after I finalized my GX 138-140 subs, along with starting on the in-duel lines for a few characters, but held off on posting about it until I got everyone's in-duel lines done, which I just worked on after my GX 141-143 subs were all finalized--just ended up taking just over the month of time I usually give myself for TFSP work because there are so many... lol. (Too many that I couldn't screenshot some of those in-duel lines since I wanted to show off the OW lines I could [rip Jinbei and Demak])

But that said, the overworld text and in-duel stripe textlines for 5D's Tier 2 characters are all done! These were fun to work on and give my take on being a fan of Horoko/TnKP's subs for 5D's, and I did reference the Crunchyroll subs here/there as needed for a second opinion, too.

So, as of now:

Overworld text for 5D's Tier 2 characters--*deep breath* Rua, Ruka, Bruno, Antinomy, Andre, Breo, Jean, Yoshizo, Jinbei, Taro, Dragan, Brave, Harald, Placido, Lucciano, Jose, Aporia, Z-ONE, Sherry, Ushio, Mikage, Yeager, Carly, Misty, Bommer, Demak, Rudger, Rex, Divine, Mukuro, Himuro, and Rally *phew*--is all done! This puts the Story Mode text file's progress at about 72% done; next will be the OW text for ZEXAL's Tier 2 characters, leaving ARC-V's Tier 2 characters; the remaining Tier 3 characters across each series world; the Tournament-related text; and miscellaneous stuff like the Duel Statues. (Side-note: not sure if it was also in TF6, but I love that Z-ONE's sprite hovers up and down when talking with him, lol.)

Their corresponding in-duel "stripe" textlines are done, as well, which puts us at about half of the stripe lines being done. As mentioned in the DM Tier 2 update, characters that are also in Duel Links and/or Duel Terminal will have some new lines for cards in their decks that they have voicelines there for which will be used in the Deluxe version, though to a bit of a lesser degree than done for GX's cast since the 5D's characters overall had a reasonable amount of lines for key cards. (I also fixed a slight bug where one of Mikage's loss lines was erroneously listed in her second-win-line slot.)

I'll also continue to maintain hope that more of the cast gets added to DL, since I'm currently limited to their TF6 and/or occasional DT voicelines to incorporate into the Deluxe version (and as such, while I'll be undoing the duplicate default "I Special-Summon!" everyone has for Synchro/Xyz/Pendulum-Summoning as I did with the Meikyuu Brothers for the base game, I'll likely need to reincorporate that for the Deluxe due to the voiceline shortage). But for now, I've drafted up the voicelines I'm planning to include for everyone, along with notes about lines I'll rip from the show or how I'll edit together some lines as needed to get close to their TFSP lines where I can. That said, this will be an ordeal for Himuro and Mukuro, since I'll have to heavily rely on ripping from the anime given that this was their first Tag Force game and they weren't in Duel Terminal; they were in both Wheelie Breakers and Duel Transer, but sadly they reused most of their WB lines in Transer, so while I'll use what I can from both, well... (I'll have to figure out what to do with all of Himuro's lines for Machiners cards he never used in the anime, too...) (I'd also like to eventually try adding Dark Signer Carly if we get to the point of being able to add characters, but that's a future thing)

I'm still going through the ZEXAL Tier 2 character bios in my on-the-side translations I've been doing whenever I commute, and I just wrapped up a draft for Gilag's the other day.

As a bonus, I've shared some extra screenshots of some unused Partner dialogue; likely left in from TF6, several of the 5D's cast have full sets of dialogue as your Partner (entering a Player or Partner duel, winning/losing/drawing either, entering a Tag Duel together, and winning/losing/drawing) that I also translated, and after figuring out some debugging tricks, I was able to get them displayed, hehe. We'll see if we ever eventually figure out how to add them as Partners...

Rocks is a very impressive Pirate. But y'all gotta stop over hyping him😅 The story from the beginning already told you he was surpassed By Roger and even then later on various statements and such can help show others surpassed him as well.

Some points I wanna make are this . Xebec can't be appropriately scaled because we have no one to scale him off in a perfect sense. Xebec was literally the only one in his prime during this flashback meaning everyone else has literal decades to grow 💯. Why is that important. Because for someone like Harald we know he would absolutely be significantly stronger than he was during the flashback around 40 yrs ago. And factually we have no statements of Harald being superior to any Yonko or Admiral/Other High Tiers. .Yes the giants possess the strongest army but I can't say that would make him Stronger than Everyone.

We also got the feat with him killing an admiral. Now it is awesome but literally we know within Canon that the admiral couldn't have been too strong since Garp and the OG Trio have been depicted as being different then all other Marines in the last and present. Meaning their power surpassed what the Marines had prior especially Garp. I feel folks forget that the OG Trio are still top Tier and haven't unveiled their awakenings yet

Crazy part is Oda already told us various times Roger was the strongest pirate but folks still will think Xebec was stronger 😭. And by logic you gotta add Whitebeard since he was known to tie with him. I would even argue someone like Prime Rayleigh surpassed him definitely. And then you would have to think of you think pirates like Oden or Scooper surpassed him🧐. Definitely a thought you should ponder

For some reason folks downplay big Mom and Kaido 😭. Despite folks headcanon they were both literally in their prime. Nothing in the story tells you they weren't. Being out of ones prime would mean deteriorated body especially bones , fighting ability etc something neither of them experience. Both of them + Fighters like Shanks, Dragon , Mihawk I feel surpassed Xebec as well💯.