R Round 44 - The End of the Battle

[Ryusaki]

Well, this'll be the last post of this sort that I'll be making here. Can you guess why? Here's a hint: read the summary.

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Facing off against newly-reformed Yakou Tenma's Divine Beastking Barbaros with no cards on his side of the field, Atem draws a card and activates it: it's Treasure from Heaven! Both duelists draw until they have six cards in their hands. Full of confidence, Atem summons Magnet Warrior Beta in Defence mode and sets a card face-down. Tenma begins his turn and attacks the Magnet...

...Only for Atem to activate Exchange of Soul to swap Beta for the Alpha in his Graveyard. The attack is negated. Tenma sets a card and ends. It's now Atem's turn again and he sets a card and summons Blockman, in Defence. Tenma summons Divine Machine King Ur, a strange bladed suit of armour - then he activates Fusion! Barbaros and Ur combine to become Bestial Divine Machine King Barbaros-Ur. Thanks to the Quick-Attack card, the huge and heavily-armoured Barbaros-Ur can attack on the turn it was summoned and its arms split open to reveal four large cannons. Naturally, Atem activates Negate Attack and the cannon-blasts are sucked into four vortexes.

Now it's the last turn. Atem sacrifices Alpha for Black Magician Girl, then splits Blockman into two Block Tokens. He sacrifices the two tokens to activate his trump card, which might stir some memories: Magical Dimension. The Dimension brings out Black Magician, who waggles his finger at Barbaros-Ur. Then with the effect of Magical Dimension they attack together and slice Tenma's monster in half. Atem still has an attack left, so he takes out an unflinching Tenma with Black Magician Girl.

Yakou Tenma Life Points: 0

The Duel Field lowers. Tenma takes The Devils Avatar out of his deck and shreds it, and as the pieces fall to the ground three familiar faces appear at the door - it's Jonouchi and Honda holding a slightly limp Anzu. Anzu and Atem run towards each other, arms outstretched. Anzu trips and they all try to catch her in the last shot of the series, whilst the Tenma brothers smile and Depre Scott, Richie Merced and Croquet watch on from the open doorway.

Yu-Gi-Oh! R: The End.

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It was an eventful chapter, being the last one and all. Expect more information as translations come through, there's no doubt plenty of closure in the dialogue. The translation of the incredibly-long name of Tenma's new boss monster is thanks to LeArk of Janime.

[JLewko]

R is over.

....I'm bored already. XD

I haven't read the chapter yet (lacking a Janime account and all), but from the summary I can tell it's a fitting end to R. Nice choice with Magical Dimension finish, and epic win for the Blockman cameo.

Well, let's wait to see what happens next month. Probably nothing, but one can still hope we'll get something new. (After all, this is the manga, not GX. It actually stays enjoyable when dragged out.)

[Sword_Stalker]

the Treasure from heavven card seems to be card of sanctity, is it the same picture? coins falling from the sky and guys catching it.

because, if it isn't the same, then this card can possibly be released as a real card with the real effect

[JLewko]

the Treasure from heavven card seems to be card of sanctity, is it the same picture? coins falling from the sky and guys catching it.

because, if it isn't the same, then this card can possibly be released as a real card with the real effect

Yes, it's the same card. "Treasure from Heaven" is a fanlation of the manga/anime/OCG name, "Card of Sanctity" is the (somewhat less cool) dub/TCG name.

[Familiar Stranger]

For what it may be worth, the official Japanese OCG card name is Tenyori no Hōsatsu.

[Sword_Stalker]

well is the artwork the same?

they could always make it alternate art and make the TCG name the fanlation of the OCG, then release the manga card

[JLewko]

well is the artwork the same?

they could always make it alternate art and make the TCG name the fanlation of the OCG, then release the manga card

Yes, artwork is the same, give or take a few small differences between the simplistic manga art and the detailed OCG/TCG card.

Sorry, but that's very unlikely. Like, basically impossible. First of all, Card of Sanctity is the TCG version of Tenyori no Hōsatsu (credit goes to Stranger), which is still the OCG version of the manga card we're talking about. The effect is different for a reason: it's overpowered in the manga, something that can be overlooked in the fictional game because it's...fictional. And that's basically the 2nd reason why that ain't gonna happen.

[Ryusaki]

The name I used was how Viz translate it at the back of their Duelist Volumes. The TCG/OCG version may have a terrible effect, but that ain't gonna change any time soon.

[Johnny Five]

So R is finally over. It was alright, but I didn't think it was the greatest thing ever.

[Cyber Knight]

I would like how many cards were played in the intire YuGiOh R...I would like to know this cuz there are so many cards still to be created and since no more card were released from the good and old YuGiOh I'm hoping we still keep getting cards from YuGiOh R as promos.GX has some real good stuff but I still want to see the real version of a cards like Orgoth The Rentless,Plasma Eel,Vampiric Leech,Eletromagnetic Turtle,Soul Shield and other awesome cards from the old YuGiOh,who wouldn't?

[Sword_Stalker]

but was it better that the first 7 volumes of yugioh?

[JLewko]

I would like how many cards were played in the intire YuGiOh R...I would like to know this cuz there are so many cards still to be created and since no more card were released from the good and old YuGiOh I'm hoping we still keep getting cards from YuGiOh R as promos.GX has some real good stuff but I still want to see the real version of a cards like Orgoth The Rentless,Plasma Eel,Vampiric Leech,Eletromagnetic Turtle,Soul Shield and other awesome cards from the old YuGiOh,who wouldn't?

Not sure why you'd bring up all those unreleased cards. The only ones out of them to appear at all in the (or, any) manga are Leech and Orgoth, and only the Leech appeared as a card (Orgoth was a DDD piece only in the manga). And none of them appear in R.

Swordstalker: Not in my opinion. As much as I liked R, I still didn't like it as much as Battle City or even Duelist Kingdom (the manga version of which is seriously underrated; I saw it as a cross between the School arc and Battle City). I liked R better than Alcatraz, though.

It's pointless to compare it to the School arc. Not only are they two different series (this is a YGO spinoff, as noted by the different title), but the School arc might as well have been a series separate from Duelist Kingdom and onward. If it counts any, though, School arc was better than R. School Arc was amazing.

[Ryusaki]

It's somewhat unfair to compare R to the original series. The original was a weekly manga by Kazuki Takahashi. R was a monthly spin-off manga by Akira Itou. As a monthly manga, each chapter must be action-packed to keep the reader interested and as such didn't have much time for things which the original manga could elaborate on, such as characters and little quirky-but-fun scenes which didn't add to the story.

That's why R was great fun reading every month, but when given an overview it seems to be weaker. Here's hoping for some bonus material in the last complication Volume, perhaps to give some closure to the questions raised in R. Although for one thing it did prove one and for all that Pegasus is dead (and most likely resurrected-Keith has passed away after his defeat to Jonouchi, after all 'the dead must not remain in the land of the living')I liked R better than Alcatraz, though.Really? R was great, but by nature I don't think it can compare to any of the original arcs. You're right though, Duelist Kingdom is vastly underrated. People assume that because they've seen the 4Kids version so many times, they know it all. Manga Duelist Kingdom is so vastly different (and vastly superior) than 4Kids' dub or even the original Japanese anime.

France is currently about halfway through its French R releases.

[JLewko]

Really? R was great, but by nature I don't think it can compare to any of the original arcs. You're right though, Duelist Kingdom is vastly underrated. People assume that because they've seen the 4Kids version so many times, they know it all. Manga Duelist Kingdom is so vastly different (and vastly superior) than 4Kids' dub or even the original Japanese anime.

France is currently about halfway through its French R releases.

Eh, I can go either way in that case. Everything involving Malik was great, but I wasn't too big a fan of Yugi vs. Kaiba. Don't get it mixed up with the Battleship; I was a big fan of Rishid and his Trap Hell and all that, plus Malik and his epic Yami no Game where he got beheaded ("Oh, and yes, it does hurt..."). And Isis was always cool.

R is a lot more like a fun monthly series (the Card Professors even remind me of early Bobobo, to be honest) than a serious shonen series like DK through the Memory Arc. And the School Arc was something of a cross between a supernatural comedy/horror thing and a battle shonen, so there's no way anyone can compare the two successfully.

About France, how have they been translating card names and romanizing the characters?

[Ryusaki]

About France, how have they been translating card names and romanizing the characters?France is awesome at Yu-Gi-Oh!, they accurately and quickly swept through the original manga with no dub influence. Their YGO logo is even an adaption of the Japanese one, so that they could have a different colour logo every volume, just like the Japanese.

However, I heard that French R got off to a poor start. There was some weird crap reminiscent of recent videogame translations and early character names got screwed up pretty bad (for example, 'Tira Murk' and 'Kramas Othra'). However, from the looks of the French Wikipedia page (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yu-Gi-Oh%21_R) they've got their act together because there are no more mistakes in Card Professor names. I don't know how serious the problem was, but all looks well now. Their chapter titles are faithful translations.

[Yūgi's Black Magician]

Yeah, truly Manga DK is awesom, espicially because I've been reading it lately although the loose card logic is a little weird...

[michelous]

maybe the R manga will get turned into a new yugioh anime with the 1st one coming to an end

[DarknessFubuki43]

aww man R is over....I liked R, it was alright...looks like I need to get the remaining volumes though