#hell kaiser ryou

The Emperor of Hell!

Upon his defeat at the hands of Ed Phoenix, who previously stood at the heights of the Pro League, he suffered a string of losses which landed him in the Minor Leagues.  However, not only was he unable to regain his footing afterwards, but he had also vanished from all public arenas--until now, as Kaiser Ryou Marufuji has accomplished a full comeback!

According to his manager Monkey Saruyama, who continued his role supporting Ryou Marufuji as he sputtered in the Minor Leagues to hone his true talent for his eventual comeback, he has become better physically and mentally as a result of the intense and painful training he underwent at a secret training facility--having grown so much that one could say that no one in the Pro Duelist world could best him.

It was through these experiences that he was reborn as Hell Kaiser Ryou.

Fixes/Edits! (82)

After Manjoume defeats Misawa’s three Ra Yellow dormmates, we see the Ojamas floating and lamenting how off Manjoume’s become--but after Ojama Green wonders what’ll happen to them now, there’s a quick frame as Ojama Black moves and crosses his arms in contemplation where his head from the previous frame is frozen in place on top of his now-moving head, before it’s gone and the shot’s normal again.  Fixed in Sony Vegas by holding the third frame, the first as Black starts to move, over the errored frame.

As Misawa confronts Saiou at the White dorm, after Saiou asks if he’s aware of what dueling the Society of Light would mean, Misawa acknowledges that he would join upon losing, but as he moves while asking what he gets for winning, he moves up in the shot and some of the background is visible under him (a similar error happened in ep. 60 as Asuka activated Ritual Weapon, where her hand slides into the shot but seems to float in front of her).  I fixed it here first, using the fix for the episode’s preview in 81, by just cropping the shot in Vegas such that none of the background is visible under Misawa.

Just before Misawa and Manjoume’s duel begins, Ojama Yellow tells Black and Green that they should cheer Misawa on.  The two are surprised, but there’s a quick frame, featuring a repeat of #1, where Black starts to move but his head is frozen in place above his now-turning head, and then in the next frame both Black and Green are turning.  I fixed it by holding the first linked frame here above the error frame in Sony Vegas; this holds Black and Green still for an extra frame, then has them move together in the frame after the error.

After Misawa draws for his second turn, he looks at the card he drew as he thinks about how good Manjoume’s deck has become with Saiou’s cards, but it actually looks like he’s holding two cards when he only drew the one.  Fixed first in Photoshop by painting over the line separating the “two” cards, then worked it into the footage in Vegas.

After summoning Assault Cannon Beetle, Misawa assumes Manjoume’s trying to play defense, only to have him slide in on a split-screen to say he’s activating Ojamandala--but before their split-screen splits to show Ojamandala activating, the shot first jitters to the left, and then as the split occurs, the split separation is a bit uneven with Manjoume’s side being further off the screen than Misawa’s in the quick frame before they’re both gone.  Fixed this in Vegas by first copying the first linked frame, just before the jitter, over it to hold it still, then I fixed Manjoume’s side of the split so that it was more even with Misawa’s.

As Saiou contemplates Misawa’s strategy and his having set cards to counter and deflect an attack from Manjoume’s Assault Cannon Beetle, Assault Cannon Beetle’s DEF-Mode card under it is reversed with the name box facing Manjoume’s right.  Fixed it in AfterEffects first by applying a proxy with it facing correctly (name box facing Manjoume’s left) on the first frame of the panning shot, masking ACB over it as needed, then taking that into Vegas and keyframing the fix into the footage over most of the 80 moving frames before holding it there until the second side of the split-screen with Misawa’s face-down cards covers it.

After Misawa thinks that he’ll win with a direct attack on his next turn, Manjoume draws for his turn, but there’s a quick few frames with Assault Cannon Beetle on his Disk being in Attack Mode by accident; it’s still in Defense Mode.  Fixed in AfterEffects by applying my proxy over it in Defense Mode.

As Judai and co. are running to the Duel Arena, we flash back to part of their conversation with Ed about Misawa, but during the un-Gaussian-Blurring transition into it, there are odd green bars surrounding the frame until the transition is done.  Fixed in Sony Vegas by slightly cropping the scene to keep the green bars out.

After a cut back to the duel, we cut back to the tail end of the above flashback, where Ed elaborates on why he thinks Misawa would still lose given the chance to win, but as the flashback ends and we Gaussian Blur things up to transition to more of Judai and co. running, a repeat of #8 occurs with more green bars appearing during the blurring around the frame.  Fixed the same way in Vegas by just cropping the scene. (Went to check, and the dub did fix these two similarly, too.)

Fixes/Edits! (83)

As Ryou and Samejima begin their duel, they slide in on a split-screen as their LP counters appear, but while Samejima slides in, it takes Ryou’s three frames to start sliding in.  Fixed in Vegas by editing and timing Ryou’s slide-in so that it slides in evenly with Samejima’s.

Two bits as Samejima notes the importance of Cyber End Dragon in the Cyber Style and Ryou’s earning it at just nine years old: first, as he then mentions that Ryou is the dojo’s rightful successor, Ryou slides in on a split-screen--but the shot of Samejima starts to move left first, then Ryou’s side starts to slide in in the next frame with a fair amount of it already visible.  Fixed in Vegas by first starting Ryou’s slide-in right as the shot of Samejima moves--taking the shot of Samejima and re-moving it for those few frames of the slide-in so that Ryou could slide over it--then sliding Ryou in a bit more evenly over a few of the frames until the split-screen is complete.  Then, the split-screen ends, but Samejima’s side is fully off the screen a frame before Ryou’s is; fixed in Vegas to time it evenly with Ryou’s.

Two bits after Ryou notes that he’s only here to duel for the Reverse deck: first, Samejima shouts out at him in frustration, and Ryou slides in on a split-screen to change the subject to his turn, but the first frame as his slide-in starts already has him mostly visible; fixed this in Vegas to more gradually slide him in over a still Samejima, accounting for the flame behind him with a masked-in recycled animation loop.  Then, as Samejima moves to activate his Cyber Shadow Guardna Trap Card, Ryou’s side of the split-screen takes longer than usual to slide off (usually the slides last 7-9 frames at most, from what I’ve seen); fixed this by first holding their split-screen for two frames (over where the slide-off started originally), then letting the slide-off play as it originally did for eight frames before then resuming the original video as Ryou’s side is 90% off-screen (doing this also let it match the SFX here a bit better).

As Samejima resolves his Scrap Fusion to grab Ryou’s Cyber Dragons from his Cemetery, the Cyber Laser and Barrier cards on his Disk look like this initially (note the black space next to Cyber Barrier’s card in Monster Zone 4 on the right); as soon as his Disk’s Cemetery slot lights up for the effect, the cards jitter to look like this (note that Cyber Barrier’s card looks good now, but there’s now a black space along the middle side of Cyber Laser’s as it’s now shifted a bit off-center).  Fixed this in Vegas by applying masks to use both cards’ best positions and keep them consistent, the first for Cyber Laser and the second for Cyber Barrier.

After Cyber Esper attacks and gets negated, as Samejima declares an attack with Cyber End Dragon, there’s a quick frame where the background behind him changes to the one being faded into in the very next frame.  Quick fix in Vegas by just holding the first linked frame over the errored frame so that the transition starts with the fading frame.

Ryou activates Ruthless Destruction (Denial) and explains its effect over a distant shot of him holding it from behind Samejima--except it’s not Ruthless Destruction he’s holding, but a Monster Card (I couldn’t tell which one at first, assuming Cyber Barrier since it’s about to leave the field, but in looking at it now, it does look like Cyber Esper).  Fixed first in AfterEffects by applying a proxy into his hand, masking on his fingers, then keyframing and moving that fix within the panning shot.

For the hardsub, as highlighted here, I took the article Shou was reading about Ryou’s rise as Hell Kaiser at the end of the episode and translated it. (You can read the full unobscured text of what I layered on in the linked post)