Dub Talk Presents: Summer at the Movies (Season 3) - Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions

0:00 dear listeners please know this is not the full film of ukyo the dark side of dimensions rather this is a review for the english dub of yu-gi-oh the dark side of dimensions the film can be legally streamed on hulu purchased on home video for right stuff amazon or wherever home video is sold please support the official release sincerely the dub talk podcast warning the dub talk podcast contains language and content that may not be suitable for all audiences listener discretion is advised also there will be spoilers for the subject of today's episode as well as possible suppose for any and all other anime series please use caution in case there is a series or film that you

0:45 haven't seen yet finally the opinions expressed in today's episode are those of the individual participants and do not reflect the dub talk podcast as a whole okay I've got my pokeballs and my pokedex ready and raring to go it's time to try and catch them up wait seriously we covered a Pokemon movie last year damn it okay um I'm gonna go grab my Digivice and my god want plushie and are you [ __ ] kidding me what do you mean we covered a Digimon film two years ago what the hell else am I gonna do you know what screw it everyone always takes the fun ones I'm gonna go play dueling's instead it's too frustrating even figure out all right whatever comes next just

1:32 enjoy the episode or whatever [Music] hello one and all and welcome back to season three of dumb talks summer at the movies my name is Stephanie and I'm bringing on the nostalgia today with my faded rival Gigi oh I don't I don't know how I feel about this what where's your heart isn't your heart the heart of the cards no [ __ ] start where it's been a

2:25 long day Gigi we got we both gotta work late it's great I got a channel my inner Seto Kaiba to get through this episode anyway today we're putting the fate of the world that our own lives on the line as we throw down some facedowns and summon all of our most powerful monsters for our episode of summer the movies we will be putting our faith in the heart of the cars and tackling the dub of the 2016 film ukyo the dark side of dimensions which is considered a sequel film to the original ukyo series that ran in japan from 2000 to 2004 making this film making it over 10 years since the release of the series it's been a decade

3:11 basically and that's just saying something hey man I never watched yugioh when it was on TV this is all new to me I kind of did a little bit I didn't get to finish the whole thing I got when I was watching it as a as a teen as a young teen because it was on TV like when I was 13 14 years old I'm like four kids um I got to the seal of orichalcos storyline bit and then I kind of got lost a bit I never got to finish it I own all of the original yugioh though I own everything but the last volume and I got to the dragon part the dragon arc or whatever and then I stopped watching cuz I got bored once once Pegasus was gone I

3:59 was like I'm out so she only watched one core and then she just quit I'm like the worth boxset that's a lot of ukyo it is I have the complete set that oh that's alright stuff that's the one I have anyway so we're just talking about yu-gi-oh right now we're off to a great start I think side note when we were picking out movies for this year we just like someone threw out the yugioh movie and instantly Gigi and I are like [ __ ] yeah that was last summer that we decided we just straight-up decided it and then when it got brought up were like [ __ ] we're doing this it was like a fest and we were like we should do the yugioh movie and we're like doing it like [ __ ]

4:45 yeah I think we're the only ones who would obsessively talk about you you know it's kind of hilarious actually oh I know so right away if you know what happens in yugioh I'm not gonna explain the massive plot of it because that will take forever but I will go over a quick plot summary of the film which means I'm instantly slapping a spoiler warning for those who haven't watched the original series leave right now before you're spoiled on the end of the show good because I was I am too um so anyway six months after the end of the original series Yugi moto and his friends are preparing to graduate from high school well Yugi still feels like he's lost a part of himself he's come to terms with the Pharaohs passing now looking forward

5:33 to the future alongside of his classmates however other people may not be so willing to let the past alone Seto Kaiba still yearns to assert his dueling dominance over the ancient king desperately searching for a way to revive him on the cusp of accomplishing this his plans are foiled by a mysterious stranger I gommi who holds power over dimensions so apparently there's this thing called an 8th millennium item nobody knew about except for this film anyway I didn't think like at the end they called it the 8th millennium item I'm like that's a [ __ ] [ __ ] I'm like there's only 7 I've always known it a 7 stop it they just need Nick's key

6:20 it's called the plot device yeah it works I guess as we always do around here we'll be tackling the double the film discussing the cast performances and overall dub playtime is over it's time to duel yes Queen hold on let me get out my blue-eyes White Dragon Dark Magician let's go all three of them [Music] [Laughter] you can probably tell which of the guys in the show we like best so [ __ ] fast but can you let us start with the ADR director and the screenplay we have

7:06 three screenplay writers attached to this film so our ad our director is Darren Dunstan he has directed other works such as ukyo the bonds beyond time he's actually the director from yu-gi-oh zexal moving forward he's also been involved with dinosaur King and Pokemon advance for screenplay writers we have Arthur Murakami who has been the writer for bombs be on time film as well yu-gi-oh Ark fee and he's mostly but he's also mostly served as an adviser and translation for various other seasons of you do we also have Matthew Dedic who has been the script writer for Tokyo Mew ultimate muscle and ukyo GX and yu-gi-oh zexal moving forward and Shane oh Jesus

7:52 I'm gonna butcher this Shane I apologize Jun ego who is mostly a writer for yugioh in general he originally got his start from yu-gi-oh GX season 3 and moving forward from that show how are we gonna start this off what are we what are we thinking about the directing and writing on the film here so this movie as I was reading on Wikipedia was supposed to be some kind of anniversary special yeah I believe like a 20th yugioh anniversary like yeah cuz ukyo is a hell of a lot older than the show and it's actually originally a manga and there's actually a first ukyo seer that came out in the late nineties and just didn't really take off so that's the way

8:39 I had to go about watching this movie was that it was kind of like a love letter to the original series and for me I never watched yugioh in Japanese I've only watched the four kids dub as probably everyone in North America did right so it's like okay so you have to go back well you have I mean it's on crunchyroll subtitled but you have to you have to kind of like go back and like compare it almost to the TV show because they dub that what at least 15 years ago and now they're still playing the same characters who have only aged slightly yeah I mean I would say because if it's starting mm I think maybe it

9:25 started in four kids maybe about 2002 maybe at least or maybe sooner than that I think this movie was released in 2017 over here yes in Japan it was 2016 but I think 2017 for yeah so the way you gotta think about it is these these actors have been playing these characters for about 15 years - the new characters that were introduced in this movie yeah and of course everybody watching the movie is gonna want to see exactly what they saw when they were kids but now elevated because they're older and they'll get more jokes like they'll get more stupid things that are going on so the way I felt about the writing was personally I loved the stupid for kids

10:10 jokes and I loved all the dumb puns and I love everything about it because it's just so stupid but it would like keep my attention when I was watching it so it wasn't just like a normal straight translation of a show there would be dumb jokes in there so I like I like that they kept some in here but they did play a lot of it kind of straight um I thought it had a slightly more serious tone especially because all the kids are graduating and at the end they're moving away and everybody's crying and were like it's come back - he needs you we need the estrogen in this [ __ ] group of testosterone guys baby with Tyne where are you wait that's not even her name is it Maya Valentine oops oh

10:57 sorry I loved her personally I thought it could have used more cheesy writing and more stupid jokes like Joey's dirty water hotdogs and I was like I know what a dirty water hotdogs is cuz I spent a lot of time in Jersey but I'm like okay somebody starts talking about water ice I'm like we've really had it now fam but it's for the directing I mean I thought that he made it less cheesy sounding but it still had the charm of the original which is what it needed and he made sure that every performance in the movie sounded more mature because the characters technically did age up six months right and I mean 15 years later not everybody's gonna sound the same as they

11:43 did 15 years ago [ __ ] I I don't know this cut yeah right so make me start singing that Brady Bunch song Oh God but I thought they did a good job because this movie was kind of you know like a like a little pinpoint in the end of the yugioh series the original yugioh series and I thought it was it was a good love letter back to it it kept the charm of the original but made it more mature but it still kept some dumb jokes and personally I would have enjoyed more dumb jokes but for all the people who hate when for kids dub anything like I'm sure they probably would like this a little bit more than the original I mean

12:30 I like the dumb jokes too sometimes especially when they wrote they're really good they're really really stupid you get such a great kick out of it but yeah like this film like it you know you do have to take any consideration that it is basically an emergency special absolutely but kind of like what geez you look kind of like what you're saying Gigi it does keep the heart and the spirit of the original series attacked it just elevates it and also to an extent modern up like update and modernize is it a bit because it's been a hot minute since we've heard

13:15 these people voice these characters so obviously because way back in the early 2000s like dubbing anime in general was still not as huge of a market as it is now so the quality probably obviously back then wasn't that fantastic hence the so many cheesy goddamn jokes we get so one the quality of the film itself is just like stellar but the quality of the dub also improved a lot too so not only because they've aged like these six months but it sounds so much more smoother it flows so naturally and it's probably and I think a lot of people who see this movie will say the same thing it's probably the best that yugioh had

14:01 ever sounded or has ever sounded oh god yeah absolutely and the best you yo has ever looked it looks [ __ ] phenomenal like I was easy I was literally watching it on my TV and I was like holy [ __ ] this is yugioh this is what you yo could have been like this is amazing like if they were to reboot that [ __ ] I'd be for it oh yeah reboot it with the style from the film like absolutely but yeah it just it just sounds much more smooth and it flows much more nicely because back in the early 2000s when this show the show was dubbed oh my god there are moments where it just was not that good no and I mean granted for kids is not the brightest bulb in the box when he comes the dubbing [ __ ] especially way

14:46 back then but coming back to it now like it is definitely a love letter to the C to the original and it's such a fun fun time the direction and the writing I think we're just spectacular granted the film has a much more dramatic and serious tone than what you're we weren't your normal yugioh fan is probably used to with less comedic tones and it still has those moments which is great but at the end of the day it's a love letter to the show and it's just update to to the dub and I think it just sounds fantastic and I mean if I member write one of the actors I think he was retired supposedly

15:32 but came back just to voice this specific character - oh really I didn't know that I think don't quote me on it um it from what I read I think it was Seto Kaiba who was who came back just to do this role I think don't quote me on it I'd have to look it up but um yeah cuz he wasn't voice acting anymore for a while if I remember hearing correctly but they managed to get him back and the fact that they managed to basically get all the characters we know and love back here it's great and the new additions to for the film specifically they just sound fantastic as well I mean when we get we get - I got me holy [ __ ] [ __ ] he sounds amazing ha I'm like dude anyway but yeah like in

16:19 general if you are a huge fan of the franchise and especially the original you're gonna love the film just know going into it it's not the same tone as the original nope not at all but it's a great love letter and the dub is just like such an updated dub and it sounds fantastic but all you really need to know yeah it's also very long they could have shaved a good half hour out of it and I wouldn't have been sad two hours oh it was over two hours like I saw the runtime on Hulu and I was like you've gotta be [ __ ] me yeah I saw that too I was it's still a fun time I was hyped for the whole thing while we were watching it I was watching it was great anyway we have some characters we

17:05 gotta talk about and uh our first few characters while they are very very minor one of the characters we're gonna talk about in particular does play a pretty does have a kind of plot relevancy to them so we're gonna talk about Yugi's grandpa Solomon moto and we have shadi shadi is a from the series he's the possessor of one of the seven Millennium items and he's kind of like this guide and like not necessarily a prophet of sorts but he's really involved in terms of like ug learning about the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle the Pharaoh or Yami and just pops in on occasion he actually plays a very integral plot realm he has

17:51 some plot relevancy for the film and here's what's funny of that and I realized this last night when putting this together we got a double dose away and Grayson in here oh my god I saw that before I did this and I was like wait Wayne Grayson voices both Solomon moto and shadi and some of the Rose roles that you have probably heard him in he's also been in Slayers next Bakuman and not being princess for something we actually talked about because I talked about not nabbing princess last year for some of the movies Gigi I know this section is probably gonna be relatively short cuz like some Yugi's grandpa doesn't really do much he owned hops in for a couple scenes and

18:36 I know shadi shadi has a larger role though but what do you think about the performance I only wrote one note and we haven't talked about it yet so all I'm gonna say is these were both spoiler redacted god damn yeah you're right you're right I didn't know I thought you were gonna go somewhere else but no like wiki why yeah Oh Wayne Grayson well you've done a lot

19:23 of things that you've played to right now completely different characters I would also like to say two more words and those are [Laughter] hashtag cue crew y'all know anyway so we're good fam happy grandpa shadi who i i don't remember from this movie but i remember from the series yeah so they're very they're very varied voices like very varied right right right so like it's in a testament to the talent of Wayne Grayson who can do two totally completely different voices here and still make them sound while shadi

20:09 was very like believable and like grandpa is very comedic grandpa if you've known yugioh for a long point in time so good on you Wayne Grayson spoiler rejected well talk about the spoiler a little bit yeah there's not a lot to talk about in this section the both of them are very other minor characters especially Solomon moto here's the thing I didn't know and actually Andrew pointed it out to me last night after I finished the movie so Wayne Grace is not the original voice of Solomon moto oh really yeah it was actually someone else and they had passed away a while ago and Wayne Grayson basically took over the

20:55 role and here's the weird part I couldn't tell ya I thought it was the same yep exactly so that's definitely a testament to Wayne Grayson's range and talent like that he can basically almost vocal match this original performance too as for shoddy shoddy is shoddy is very interesting I don't know much about shoddy from the original series I only know of like the two or three instances where he pops up out of nowhere I know he becomes I think more integral in the final season of the show when they go to Egypt but I mean it sounds fine he shot he's kind of like very spiritual like

21:41 very zen sounding to me if that makes sense and you go kind of tell and that makes it a very distinct personality and I kind of enjoy that a lot all things considered and plot relevancy is shoddy cuz I didn't [ __ ] know shot he actually died a long-ass time ago because millennium ring is an [ __ ] that's basically what it comes down to millennium ring is a [ __ ] [ __ ] and you'll know it but yeah like these two roles like you they're very different and they are very diverse and that says that speaks volumes to Wayne Grayson as an actor that he's capable of doing these kinds of voices there's not really a lot to talk about with these two I'm just trying to say good jobs mr. Grayson

22:26 I think we can probably move on to the next two characters though okay let me get out my other blue-eyes White Dragon you're gonna need it okay speaking of the Millennium ring [ __ ] so our next two characters we have Ryu Bakura or just Bakura in the show and we have mocha ba Kaiba which is Seto Kaiba's little brother so Bakura he is being reprised by Ted Lewis who has been in series such as go Kudo he's also more well known as Jack Atlas from unified 5ds and he was actually I believe if I'm right he

23:12 voiced Giovanni and poked him on the first movie as well as a few other Pokemon iterations as well as for mocha ba he is voiced by Miss Tara sands who is I think among the lists that we have among the characters that we have here and the voice actors listed she's probably one of the more well-known in the anime world she's had she's had roles in AnoHana hunter hunter and magic knight rayearth so where do we want to start wasn't Tara sands in my little pony probably I looked this [ __ ] up on an end like they wouldn't lose my little pony it's something that's all I remember well mr. Bakura very very much soft Bakura

23:58 as opposed to the series where he was batshit crazy this bomb because at this point he doesn't have the Millennium ring no no I know both I think in both the end of the series but it also gets shown again in the film after yami-yugi or Atem after Yugi defeats him and he just goes on his way and passes to the other side basically everything's cave-in and Tim and the tomb that they're in and there goes all the Millennium items including the Millennium ring Oh rip so bye-bye evil Bakura sad because he I liked him a lot as evil Bakura I wanted to kick him to the Sun you know I like bad guys I know um so he doesn't talk a lot in this

24:43 movie but from what I heard it sounded much smoother of course than the old original dub they also like all the characters made a big deal about his accent and how like heavy and how like cute it was for all the girls or whatever I loved and that was a running joke in the film but I actually felt that it was less heavy than it was in the series so I was like why are they making such a big deal out of this because it's not it's not as pronounced as it was but then again everybody's accent wasn't as pronounced as it was because they're trying to like not overact so hard hitting like with with Bakura and Joey and especially - yeah Joey has that specific like Brooklyn accent

25:30 through the whole show it's not as pronounced so I I think it's a lot better yeah I mean it is better but I'm just like you're gonna make that joke but you gotta make the joke work so I was just like okay whatever I liked it it was very smooth I like a smooth talker I was sad that evil Bakura Bakura I'm thinking about baku go I know and then we have mocha bah I always forget about mocha bah always like when he came in the movie I was like what the [ __ ] is this and then I was like oh I forgot Kaiba's feet looks very different in the movie yeah I was just like I didn't know who the hell this was um I I thought it was

26:16 super cute and but this has to do with the writing he's very for those people who don't like this he's very dude bro e yeah like he calls Kaiba bro a lot and I'm like I know he's actually your brother I'm gonna feel better if you were calling your friend a bro like I'm just like I don't get it I mean yeah but Terra actually sounds like a little boy so I was like hey good job girl and like you could feel like the loyal nests in the tone that she used towards Kaiba so I was like okay so I believe you that's great so if you're a believable especially when you're a female you know playing a little boy character it's

27:03 super hit or miss for me but this one was a hit so I'm glad yeah and I think she was in My Little Pony I think she's Rainbow Dash I'm gonna google it you talk so yeah again a lot of these performances in the whole film are smoother so since these are the first two actual actual like returning roles like me like in the major cast really booked hora but Cora like like you were saying he's much more quiet and I think that's a nice change of pace considering how back [ __ ] he wasn't this series because millennium ring and though I will say this baby batshit Bakura is

27:48 batshit cuz remember that flashback from in I gommi and Boo Cora's memories about the night that uh pakoras dad tried to take the Millennium ring oh yeah and then baby Bakura cuz dad was like can you you need to go get it please and then he goes get it and then of course the Millennium ring just like possesses him and then we have batshit beat me the correct I'm like oh god I'm like there it is except in child form Bakura is a character mostly the spirit of the Lamb ring though I want to punch into the Sun I do not like that care sir Oh dick same as a yami-marik but that's another story

28:34 but he's a lot more quiet it's a lot more smooth like you said the accents not as hard-hitting and it's not enunciated as hard which I think with Bakura for Ted Lewis and Bakura and and again Joey wheeler when we got to him makes things a lot more smoother because when the original show it just was like so succinct and staccato at times it was very rough around the edges so I think smoothing it out and having that much more of a flow to it definitely worked in Ted Lewis's favor and that's for Tara momoka buzz always also been a voice that was very iffy to me in the show I guess he sounds like a boy which is awesome but sometimes it sounds like a

29:20 very scratchy obnoxious screechie boy in the show and same thing here with this is gonna be the same comet it's gonna be coming through the entire [ __ ] time we're here tonight it's a lot more smooth it's a lot more refined Bakura has also much short a little bit to like I know you say like who the [ __ ] this kid cuz he's dressed in like this like basically like the suit of some kind this white jacket and [ __ ] or might oh my god before look upon you but short a little bit here child oh my god I thought it was actually a few years since the original show cuz I thought these these guys were like maybe freshman sophomores and then come to find out it's six months after the events like the show ends and like really that is DUP in six months that's

30:08 horseshit but um Tara she sounds absolutely amazing my criticism about the mocha but in the show aside like it's a lot more refined and mature and mocha bubbles will kick your ass like he will kick logo but is an ass kicker like he'll kick your ass take names just doesn't [ __ ] care like you're in my house now [ __ ] it's great and I love that Tara got to have those little moments here and there cuz like when I got me got locked up in this chamber thing and he's like you better cooperate you're in our turf now I'm like yeah mo Koopa let's go it was adorable but yeah both of these

30:53 performances they're much again they're much more refined and much more smooth out and I think they were just fantastic nice upgrades uh we good for the next set of characters I lied Tara Sands is not in My Little Pony she is however in the rayearth OVA playing Hikaru I know you did but you now you know exactly where now I know who she is and I never watched the rare OVA dubbed but we won't get into that no fam that's not this summer at the movies rare the rayearth OVA is literally like my favorite ova of all

31:39 time anyway anyway oh do we want to talk about the power of friendship I don't like friends who wants friends smelted but no one told you life was gonna be this way your life's a joke you're broke your love life's DOA it's like you're always stuck in second gear when it hasn't been your day your week your month or even your year I know this song I'm trying to remember right now but I'll be there for you oh my god I was like wait I know this I'm like where the [ __ ] is this going this is going to a place where copyrights can't claim it it's spoken word they can't do [ __ ] haha anyway um our nice trio we're gonna get

32:30 into the actual like main cast I guess at this point because you can kind of say mocha and Bakr we're secondary in this but these are also considered three of the major major characters from the series itself we have Yugi's group of friends boys and girls so we have Joey we Ella we got taya Gardner and we have Tristan Taylor so I'm gonna work my work from the bottom go back up so Tristan Taylor he's being reprised by because there were actually two voices originally in the original so show I believe sam riegel was the first one but then we have Greg Abbey who is reprising the role who has been in series such as Tai

33:16 Chi chasers Sonic X and he is the voice if I remember correctly he is yep he's the voice of the lead character Yusei Fudo from yu-gi-oh 5ds now for taya Gardner we have miss Amy Brin Bom I probably miss mountaineering I apologize she has been in series such as Kirby right back at you Pokemon mm the movie and Sonic X as well and Joey we love we're going back to Gigi's redacted spoiler redacted not anymore it is Wayne Grayson he is also reprising the role as well he has been in Sears such as angel sanctuary territory and since it's

34:04 currently in production and has been confirmed he is in the dub for the upcoming kick-started Emma a Victorian romance can't wait for that look forward to that dub tapas ode [ __ ] we got to do this let's we are if we're already ready in this all I'm all in for the accents guys I can remember to buy season 2 don't remember if I did or not I think I'm missing the art book I'll figure it out yeah I was gonna order the art book and season 2 at some point I haven't done that yet anyway what do we think about the power of friendship the power friendship in the heart of the cards Gigi the cards well my heart belongs to Joey wheeler Joey was is and always will be my

34:53 favorite good guy in yugioh I love Joey wheeler so much he still got the jersey New York accent which I'm gonna slip into I'm sure as I talk about him but he's not as obnoxious and just like we've been saying about all the characters with all the other accents like they've toned it down to the point of 2017 2019 whatever standards of dubbing we're yeah the accents funny why is there a choice for this accent well now we made that choice we got to keep it but let's just make it like not as grating and not as obnoxious as it was 15 years ago which is great cuz Joey wheeler sounds so fantastic oh my god

35:38 the best of Joey wheeler ever since I and you can tell just by his voice and not with the accent but just his voice in general that Joey has grown up a little especially towards the end when he gets like locked in his dream dimension of himself or whatever any of that's like is it the stupid pseudo tournament that Kaiba sets up for horseshit reasons zoned out for that part its job Kaiba was on um but ya know

36:27 I really I really as Joey as my favorite good guy forever and ever I really felt that this was such a good performance by Wayne Grayson like he took this obnoxious dude and turned him into still slightly obnoxious but funny obnoxious as opposed to annoying obnoxious Tayeh to me her voice sounded the most matured out of all of them in the movie but you know how they say like girls mature faster than boys whatever it was if it was a conscious choice I think it was a good choice that was made but it's been a while since I've seen the original I don't know I've never really liked TIA

37:14 she's always felt kind of flat to me so not to say that the performance was necessarily flat but I just think her characters flat like one one note Tia yeah taste in the show unfortunately it was when the more underutilized characters she kind of had the one note or the one shtick that she kind of got stuck with unfortunately so her character didn't really get a lot of character growth unfortunately even even with a long-ass show like this right and you can tell that um her voice actress is doing her absolute best to work with whatever she could for taya especially taking that little note of maturity to the next level yeah so good for her it's it's taya I just I don't like the

38:00 character of taya Tristan also a character I never really enjoyed never really liked Tristan I was just like why is he here can't this just be the Joey and Kaiba show I don't understand um but I feel that his performance in the show is much less manic than it's ever been right so that's good cuz I always felt that Tristan was just very like tall and stoic and manic at the same time I know it's hard to to lump those together but it might be because I'm remembering the first voice actor for Tristan yeah the first voice actor for Tristan was not the greatest it was worse I just I'm not a huge Tristan character-wise fan but this performance

38:48 was very mellow yeah and you kind of have to be mellow to balance out Joey and Kaiba like you have to have this mellowness in the center to Center those two off-the-wall characters and while Yugi you know is probably supposed to be the balance in the center of everything like I've always felt that Tristan and Taylor were just kind of there to like anchor them so I felt that in the performance here especially like when they're not doing anything but they're just like [ __ ] around like at high school and I was like okay like I believe I believe that you're all friends and that's it's not it's not awkward which is good yeah I can believe it - yeah Tristan and taitea they're the

39:36 two of them in her the main cast they've always been the underutilized ones and not really getting that much development Tristan is unfortunately in the show usually seen as kind of an idiot similar to Joey like he has good intentions he has a lot of guts to him but he's also a [ __ ] idiot but he also has his moments where he kind of knocks sensing the Joey in the show because Joey can sometimes be an even worse idiot Oh Joey's the biggest idiot I love him so much so Greg Abby I think as Tristan like you were saying absolutely he's much more mellowed out he's much he has a bit more

40:21 but growth and maturity to him he doesn't get to do a lot in the film itself compared to some of the other characters he's kind of just there like Tristan normally is again Tristan is an underutilized character and never really develops in the span of however many [ __ ] episodes there are Tia and Amy so taya again underutilize but like you also said and I think I agree with you completely she has a lot more maturity to her let's go around because in the original series she has that OneNote it's all about friendship it's all about friendship we're friends we're friends we got to be there for each other we'll

41:07 make it through that's always been her shtick in the show here it's still there it's not as pushy and persistent which that's a credit to the writing for sure though yeah a tear really was less [ __ ] in this I wouldn't call her [ __ ] maybe that's why I don't like tail maybe I would say she's a little less pushy on the friendship Department but um she definitely has oh she's definitely a lot more mature sounding she's definitely grown a bit so in the film I think she kind of she kind of has grown into the heart of the group like Yugi balances everything out and the four of them originally became friends because of Union because of the

41:53 spirit of the Millennium Puzzle in the first place but taya definitely is the heart of the group that's kind of how I felt about her in the original show and in the film it's still here she's less pushy about it though which I really like a lot but that's more writing-wise and I think I think character wise this is the best in terms of character development and growth I've seen Forte as a character compared to the show so having a me like get a little bit more meat to taya is just fantastic to see and as for Joey wheeler dirty water dog

42:39 Joey will pretend that you're the nanny let's go so Wayne Grayson same know as Ted Lewis is Bakura the accent while it's still there it's not as stagnant it's not as like a staccato it's not that hard hitting and pushing so it's a bit more relaxed and that's fantastic like Joey is an idiot and Joey in the show there were moments where I'm like what the [ __ ] you do and even as a 13 14 year old watching the

43:26 show my what the [ __ ] Joey there you go you got it now what the [ __ ] anyway um so for Wayne he's still a Brooklyn sounding nerd and he's always been that lovable nerdy idiot and now he's just like I'm gonna be the best duelist in the world I'm gonna go pro that's his dream it's actually really I think another actual really good thing that I like in this film is they're talking about the future like they've been the itself they kind of been stuck on the past for a while especially with Yami as the center of it because of that so it's nice it's a nice shift and there's a nice change I think for these characters

44:12 to talk about their future cuz like taya is after school she's gonna go study a dance abroad Joey wants to become a professional duelist Tristan I think he was gonna work at his dad's Factory from my understanding and you he wants to work with his grandpa at the game shop but he actually wants to create his own games while he's at it so it's it's a very interesting growth of the character and I like it a lot but yeah Joey's a lovable idiot and it just sounds again much more refined he's he's the one character that has the least growth in maturity but it's also Joey and he's a [ __ ] [ __ ] and I love him anyway but yeah he's it's much more

44:58 refined it's not the accident especially is not as hard-hitting and stagnant it's much it's like much more easier to listen to and he's still such a wonderful lovable idiot and he's so great and I love the comedic moments with him cuz Joey mostly has the comedy comedic moments in the film thank you Tristan will sometimes have them but it's mostly Joey which as it should be because Joey is unfortunately the butt monkey of the show nine times out of ten when I'm back in the dog costume again he was a father he was a [ __ ] dog again all you people trying to turn me into a furry goddammit he was a dog again and not only that he was he was

45:46 it's a talk again well to tell one was there shout out to duke devlin we're not talking about duke devlin cuz he was only in one scene but shout out to you sir I forgot who Duke Devlin's also one of my favorite characters shout out to Mark Thompson shout to marc thompson for duke devlin sweet lord yeah he was only one scene it's more like five lines it's it's anyway I think we're good to move on to our next set of characters and these two characters in particular our movie only characters so these are the only movie only characters we're gonna be discussing tonight so we have AI gommi and Sarah they are brother and sister they were orphaned rather young and

46:32 we're living a hard life until shadi rescued the two of them plus several other young kids and shadi taught these kids the way of what the [ __ ] is it called uh the it begins with a pea I don't know I don't I don't even know if people were able to frickin pronounce that at all like I thought it was prawns like five different ways um it's basically it's like I guess cult is the closest [ __ ] word we can come up with here so essentially there's this prophecy that if the well seven the Millennium items are gather then the Pharaoh passes on to the other side this this power this otherworldly power over

47:20 dimensions will awaken and shadi and these children are the protectors of it and it is you if used for good it can create a peaceful utopia so obviously Shaunie dies I got a is a little [ __ ] Lord and you wants revenge honey dying and because the other part of the prophecy is is if the Pharaoh was the sphere the Pharaoh was revived and would come back this power would be lost to them forever so I got me and Sarah's main mission is to keep the fare from reviving so they don't like that power doesn't get lost however I got me is like full-blown like revenge stereotype

48:06 plot here and he basically like he's going after Yugi and the Millennium Puzzle and everything like that for all the wrong reasons he ends up being the central villain of the entire film sarah is his younger sister you might also hear us occasionally referred to I go me as Deva Deva is actually his real name you just took on the name of gommi when he infiltrated their high school you use high school as for the individuals who voices care these characters as Sarah we have Laurie huh Laurie hims she's been in I'm gonna say movies cuz she has a couple of prominent movie roles fireworks and Liz in the blue bird she is also in the series

48:51 Pokemon Sun and Moon as for I gummy we have Daniel J Edwards he has been in series and films such as psychic school Wars Mobile Suit Gundam narrative and because I found this and I was editing this episode and I had to make sure it goes in there he actually was also in macchia the place for the promised flower blooms so our movie only character these are brand new voices to us so how do we feel about these new voices so being a new character they didn't have to subscribe to oh we did this 15 years ago let's mature no they didn't have to go back and do a dumb accent or do whatever they could do whatever they wanted really and I thought one of them I don't know if

49:39 this is their choice directors choice whatever it was a choice that was made one of them had really good choices and one of them had like kind of bad choices in my opinion so I'll go with the good choice first but they first I'm gonna say that I gommi just sounded way too old okay so I understand that because he's gonna be super villain later on like you have to kind of work up to it and like a very harsh change in vocal tone would have been really bad basically what you're saying is there's no build-up and it's like you instantly know from the get-go I didn't really know that he was gonna be the villain to be honest but like when I just eyes like

50:24 who the [ __ ] this guy I don't remember him at all and then I realized he was like a movie only character and I was like okay okay and me I know I kind of sensed that he was gonna be mostly cuz one he's in the promotional art and I'm like oh this must be the villain or some [ __ ] but - it's like cuz I come on no villain can overshadow Seto Kaiba not really a villain he's an antihero Fiat your fact straight goddamnit no but I think with um I gamma for me though it's like the first couple of scenes in the film like there was this tone that he had that wasn't mysterious at all but it was like oh I'm here I might be a devious person like I could pick up on that right away

51:10 like I could tell I just thought it sounded old and I was like who's his old guy in high school and then I was like okay he's gonna be something because they keep mentioning him and that it was it was way too obvious for like Oh who's that guy in the corner nobody knows who that guy is oh yeah I got me and I was like all right the second that trope comes into play it's like okay yeah I just I thought he sounded old but that's fine he's an obviously an adult so what I mean you can't do anything about it um I liked him better when he like grabbed onto his destiny or whatever and was trying to just basically be the crazy villain of the movie yeah which

51:56 was great for me because I was like okay now we know who you are okay that's why you sound like you're 42 that's fine no no but it's fine because I get it like you can't have that huge of like if if I got me sounded like Moe kuba and then all of a sudden became this huge big CGI cube thing like with the deep like no that's not gonna work so you have to have him like do the gradual switch to being supervillain which is great so I thought um I'm screwed okay so that is the voice of I got me he cute so he's not a 42 year old sorry cute boy he

52:43 sounded 42 how old is he born in 88 so that would make him about 30 actually sorry cute boy so he's about basically my agent so all right so you're not 42 so I apologize I got he just sounded very old to me but it's fine you need to have that short little progression I thought it was very good I thought the choices that were made here were fantastic just to make him known that he was gonna be the big bad here after a while and I was like okay like I'm down like you're evil that's great you're kind of crazy and you're very very very much obsessed with you know getting revenge for shoddy and

53:33 for everybody else and whatever's going on the problem that I had was with his younger sister Sara at that performance she sounded very princess-like and I thought I got me sounded old Sara sounds even older than he does but that's not it's not the actress sounding old like it's not her that her voice is old it's just that Sara speaks in a very precise almost like a royal way so that when she was talking I thought she was actually a princess or some kind of royalty or maybe a queen like it was just very very like she's a street rat like she's not a princess so I was just kind of like it was a street right you have your facts wrong again now he's a

54:21 [ __ ] cube I don't know I know I just I thought she didn't sound like a younger sister like I almost I wanted her to sound like mo kuba okay like mocha ba I got was a little brother Sara I got was an older sister like a very older regal princess sister while I gommi almost had like the regal tone to him but not really so that's why I felt it didn't quite match for me okay but um I mean with the choices to have the regal tones in here that her actors made I mean she did a good job at playing the role I just I it wasn't it wasn't what I thought it should be but it doesn't mean

55:08 that it was bad it just means that it was something that played to a different audience or a different part of the character that that I didn't see interesting so I find it interesting that you weren't a huge fan of sarah cuz my brain I actually kind of liked it here's I think one of the big issues with Sarah as a character is the character design she doesn't look like she ages a [ __ ] day and it seems like at least at least like 10 to 10 to 15 years has passed since the time they met shadi and present day right right and physically Sarah doesn't look like she's changed at all compared to like I gommi

55:56 and then some of the other kids that they were with like growing older and getting taller you know what I mean but aren't they like thousands of years old or am i making this up you're making this up because remember in the when in the flashback they were abused by this older guy he was dressed semi-modern like he was and he was a white guy in Egypt first of all so they're basically just in another dimension but it could be like now basically yeah ok well then never mind what I just thought I mean I think part I think part of it in Sarah's case is definitely like the character design she doesn't seem like she gets she's grown at all like I got me and these other kids have gotten taller and they look older they look like they're

56:42 aged and then here's Sarah but it's interesting that you say that Sarah has like this regal princess sounding vibe to her I actually saw it all things considered given the context of the film and who she was with for a while more of like a spiritual tone to her like an otherworldly tone of sorts that's how I kind of describe it okay that's how I describe it anyway but um she definitely has a lot of compassion and kindness to her voice and she's a little sister concerned for her older brother and does all this fun stuff so I didn't mind it at all I didn't mind it that much I do understand what you're what you're saying though and I think a lot of it

57:28 might come down to the character design in my opinion I gummy this boy this [ __ ] loves her so my gummy know I got a piece of [ __ ] that's called sarcasm friends I got me here's something that while we were talking about the whole obvious villain thing I remember in my brain I'm like oh a lot of you yo villains are pretty obvious from a start in the original show anyway facts so in all honesty as much as I hated that being a thing it kind of did stick to the original in that [ __ ] regard so I can't be that but Daniel Edwards he he's

58:19 both calming and almost kind of menacing at points and again it's kind of for me it was obvious from the get-go oh this is the villa this is the bad guy we're gonna have bad evil times is gonna cause issues but um he also had similar to Sarah at least starting now a very like otherworldly spiritual tone because of all this dimension talk in this almost cultish horseshit was shoddy I guess but um as the film progresses and as his desperation becomes much more clear he like slowly like is in a spiral going downward he's about to go down the hole the rabbit hole it's crazy like he's

59:06 about to go to Wonderland except the wrong kind of Wonderland he might need to go to Wonderland but will him in a patent room it's fine did you ever see baby tiny toon adventures with little bitty time ago yes he's throwing crap in the toilet and he goes he goes toe to toe down the hall he go down the hole that was always did you go down a hole this is what we remember kids yugioh and you get anything out of this today's episode is Yukio and baby Tiny Toon and the friends

59:52 theme in the heart of the cards [ __ ] anyway anyway yeah I gamma is a very interesting character and I think the performance I still really like the performance in general I'm I'm just a little annoyed that I can tell easily that he was the villain but then as we were talking about I'm like wait all the villains were obvious in the show [ __ ] Pegasus [ __ ] merry [ __ ] [ __ ] kinda more bored [ __ ] and and no I think it's not our no I know as a guard no as a good boy this other [ __ ] know isn't it she is an [ __ ] an idiot but um yeah I really I honestly really enjoyed it and then holy [ __ ]

1:00:37 [ __ ] when the Millennium ring comes into play at the climax of the film obviously they the sound mixing it had to like be a thing with it but holy [ __ ] that was just downright crazy and insane and just evil and I loved every freaking second of it like it was great and you can kind of hear in Dan Edwards voice the twinge cuz this is at the point where I'm the Millennium ring has fused with him you can hear the twinges of when it was like Bakura being possessed you can kind of hear the twinges of the personality of the spirit of Maleny of the of the rain

1:01:23 come out oh my god is that so I really appreciate that little little attention to detail it doesn't seem like it at first but the more you listen to it it's like you can kind of hear not just the mannerisms because the mannerisms that's an obvious thing but like vocal tone wise and that it could be a mix of both dan Edwards performance as well as maybe the sound mixing but you can hear those little twinges of the voice kind of matching what evil Bakura kind of sounds like except with less of an accent and it's like ooh this is actually really good I like this a lot so it was very very enjoyable performance and as a movie only character it was definitely I loved it

1:02:08 it was a strong performance in the film you have to have a strong performance especially for a character that's movie only and in a big franchise like this like you have to be able to make him stand out as a character and Daniel Edwards definitely made him stand out oh I think we're good to move on we got two characters one of them's the best character talk about the worst character first let's talk about shadow Kai of everybody Yugi come on here we go here we go [ __ ] it's time to do what we'll do get your game on not the right Yugi oh you shut your [ __ ] mouth it's the best Yugi oh right in the cop in the comments guys what's your favorite Yugi

1:02:54 oh we all know the true winner here is Yugi OGX all right put it in the comments folks put your favorite yugioh in the comments we'll see who wins this battle heart of the cards [ __ ] I mean I'm probably are can be my second favorite I haven't I've only seen parts of 5 G's and nothing past that that's it I know nothing in the middle Barnes I know nothing about any of these later iterations Oh God anyway Seto Kaiba best boy best boy antihero worst boy complete [ __ ] that's like mm-hmm

1:03:40 so Seto Kaiba for those who are not familiar with the show Seto Kaiba is a genius boy he owns a big corporation Kaiba corporation he and Moka actually adopted that's a point they made in the original show it by this rich business [ __ ] he basically took over the business and he does a lot of technological advances for dueling and things like that and he was hot [ __ ] until Yugi or the Pharaoh I should take zas it was a sad day cry me a river build a bridge I am Justin Timberlake why don't you keep talking or I'll start singing sexy back but ever since he lost

1:04:32 to the Pharaoh in this instance he's like I'm gonna beat Yugi and be the number-one duelist that's basically his schtick throughout the whole [ __ ] movie film and in the movie clearly because that's a major plot point here so playing Seto Kaiba or I should say reprising the role of Seto Kaiba is one mr. Eric Stewart who has been in series such as descendants of Darkness Shaman King and I didn't [ __ ] know this he was Brock from Pokemon I can hear it now I can hear it too we're just shocking I knew I loved Brock for a reason Brock is also my best see Brock is a good boy I can get behind Brock being best rock is a womanizer but

1:05:18 I love him but he also took care of his siblings and you know he's not a he's a he's a good boy he's a very good so why don't you talk about you're a good boy though oh the best boy mr. Seto Kaiba Oh king of Kaiba corporation um well Kaiba has the same amount of jerk intensity as the og Kaiba but even better Kaiba is the best he just wants revenge as he should have it I felt so bad for him come on and you could feel it in his voice all Kaiba is is like this dude who wants

1:06:07 revenge all he wants to do is beat the Pharaoh goddamn he's gonna spend millions of dollars to get this Fero like trying to dig him up out of the from Egyptian tomb like he's like something like that's either like strong ass commitment or goddamn obsession I mean he Kaiba is crazy but yes let's not front we know that Kaiba is criminally insane but that's what makes him so engaging as a character you're like you're like he's never gonna get what he wants he's gonna lose every time but at the same time you want to watch him because maybe he'll just pull it out that one time which my favorite scene in the whole movie was the the scene towards the beginning where Kaiba was in

1:06:53 a duel with the Pharaoh and I was like simulation yeah because I didn't know the Pharaoh died I never watched the end of you ye Oh like I didn't know what the hell was going on I was like yes this is great I was like this is the best part of the movie right about this a while ago I'm like oh yeah like I didn't know so I was like oh great this is what the whole movie is gonna be like like I am 1,000% in because I basically watched yugioh because it's as a giant tournament arc I love I love Tournament arcs I love the stupid duels I'm like yes bring out that dark magician girl get her out get her out get her out of that deck but I was just like okay this is great and like he brought the same intensity as original Kaiba but more and

1:07:39 better because now Kaiba's really mad like before he had a goal but now he has a bigger goal that's like almost impossible but you can tell like he's so committed like in his voice alone you can tell his level of commitment oh yeah just to to reviving the Pharaoh and to beating him in a duel and then to beating Yugi and then to doing whatever he was trying to do to help Yugi beat the cube guy at the end yeah like I was just like the level of commitment is downright scary and I loved it I loved Seto Kaiba he is a good boy I mean you brought up a lot of good points outside of him being a good but anyway like Kaiba's not a good boy

1:08:26 like it was really not a good boy but he's a good boy for me he's a good one like I mean I'm surprised we didn't need the Poncho's tonight you know but listen listen listen over there I have three blue-eyes White Dragons and I'm not afraid to use them I don't care I'll just bust out my Dark Magician [ __ ] you whatever I said I'm off some dark magician [ __ ] what's the trap card come on now whatever you got agreed goddamn it everybody just pull this is how we'd play Yugi okay it's just pot of

1:09:12 greens and blue-eyes White Dragons in the deck we'll pull the pot of greed until we get the dragon out yeah I mean a lot of the points you were just saying I definitely agree with you Kaiba is another one that in the original show there were times where I like knew there were times I didn't like it but um again cuz the same with Joey staying with Bakura it definitely got smoothed out a bit more in this and you are right with this huge ass [ __ ] goal in mind he's like I'm gonna do this [ __ ] nobody's gonna [ __ ] stop me and I like him being a very very obsessed with trying to beat the Pharaoh again it

1:09:57 just made him very intense and it was just a very very strong performance probably the best I'd ever heard of so yeah ever oh yeah and I think one of my favorite scenes though involving Kaiba is um when he and Yugi were finally little Yugi anyway they were dueling and Kaiba just would not dare I believe that the fair was ever coming back like you keep trying to tell him like he's not coming back I can't bring him back I think he's gone I'm not gonna believe it you're wrong and then legit it took Yugi to go to the puzzle the last two pieces in we're like holding in his hands and have nothing happen but he was still just like no you

1:10:43 make him come out no I can't love a man who's motivated get you a man who's motivated don't get you an [ __ ] man who's more I'm getting me a man with three blue-eyes White Dragon you can have two blue-eyes White Dragons don't be an [ __ ] if you are if you are no itchy you need to get there you go dark she's yours just don't be an [ __ ] but get those blue eyes watch your soul boyfriend alone my poor

1:11:33 boyfriend is more Brock than such okay but you're making those donuts it's fine oh my god I rode really likes me I don't like just [ __ ] people get over it like she just she likes fictitious [ __ ] yes we gotta meet they're not gonna hurt me in real life so it's fine but yeah like this is definitely the best that Cabos ever sounded personally

1:12:20 I think it was in like an antihero kind of character but he also really does to the push Yugi and well I wouldn't say push his buttons sometimes goes like it's really good and I enjoy it a lot um I think we're ready for the man the myth the legend right the worst boy I did get a few shots in I think you're all to get a few in yourself I don't really think that he's the worst boy he's just a boy but you know who's a better boy [ __ ] Pharaoh oh yeah [ __ ] yeah boss a little Yugi is adorable [ __ ] foretell if we were talking about Yami

1:13:06 though that is my best boy is Yami Yugi little you use a little twerp I'm [ __ ] hell Yami Yugi is amazing unfortunately Yami who he's not in most of this movie anyway we're talking about Yugi moto he is the lead character or I should say one of the two leaves from the original show his other half I should say or the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle refer to through most of the show ends Yami he is the other part of it but we don't have him outside of one simulation seeing where he duels Kaiba so primarily in this situation we're really only gonna

1:13:53 be talking about Yugi moto as a character and as a performance we don't really get to talk about Yami sadly unfortunately I'm depressed now but who we do get to talk about as the voice of Yugi moto slash Yami Yugi reprising the role of either side we have Dan Green who has been in series such as bakhoum on now and then here and there and Slayers revolution what you think little Yugi little Yugi moto so never my favorite character in the original series Yami Yugi always a good boy yeah but I just felt like because we see so little of Yami in this movie I felt

1:14:41 that regular little Yugi it was just very mellow like he was very laid-back here but he also seemed to have in the vocal performance like more of a backbone like he wasn't as whiny as Yugi in the TV show like he knew like he was sad that Yami wasn't with him anymore he makes that brilliant several times but he knows that he has to be himself and live his life without Yami and he accepts it so it allows the character's voice to have more of a confident tone to it and more of a backbone which made me really happy watching the movie so I didn't have to hear you whine a lot which a plus one when we see the Pharaoh

1:15:26 though ah God why couldn't he been more in this movie that's Dan greener his best I swear to you the litter robust so good like Oh guys this way I want to go watch this watch the whole series look I might have to do that and start all over again dammit we're doing it yukio marathon at our house it's fine no it's fine you know I I really enjoyed it like as much as I didn't like the Yugi character in the series I did like him a lot more in

1:16:13 this movie just because he had a little more maturity to him and there was a lot more maturity in the voice acting so oh yeah I was super happy and angry though like I absolutely agree with that because little Yugi in the show is he's kind of naive he's I mean in the first like not even first core of the [ __ ] show he's an idiot trusted someone with the most powerful cars in the world and then bye-bye they're over in the [ __ ] ocean he can be naive he can be a little stubborn he's in their friend group he's the moral Center the moral center where taya's the heart he's definitely the moral center of the group and that's

1:16:58 always been Yugi in a nutshell and while he was kind of whiny sometimes and immature at times again I haven't seen the entire series itself I stopped at orichalcos n4 unfortunately or fortunately whatever you you could see that over time he's grown a lot especially with his connection to Yami and so obviously I we kind of got to see a bit of the goodbye in the film yes thank God because I would have had no idea what was going on yeah so that does kind of help but you can see that Yami leaving and passing on to the side

1:17:45 greatly affects him but like you just said it's it's not gonna stop him he's gonna move forward with his life he still misses him everyday and he makes that known very early on that he still misses him all the time cuz like having this other person as a part of you for so long and then just like him being ripped away basically it's a lot to process and especially like again this film takes place six months after the end of the show so as he's still trying to process it some of the time and it's look it sounds and most the film itself he's come to terms with that that he's not gonna see him again but because of Yami's influence on him to you he has definitely grown as a character so you are absolutely right he sounds a lot

1:18:32 more mature he sounds like he has a goddamn backbone to him finally and Dan Green makes it as a much more mature and on the cusp of adulthood sounding you game yep absolutely does and oh my god the part they gave me chills you know how usually in the show nine times out of ten it's Yami who's just like [ __ ] you and your [ __ ] I know this you you he had a moment where he did that basically where before that little mini tournament between the three of them Yui Kaiba and I gommi Kaiba was like I'm going to do like got me first

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