prismatic-bell:

authoratmidnight:

So discord has reminded me of one of my least favourite Yu-Gi-Oh! GX dub changes.

Making Yubel female? Not the end of the world I can, live with it.

Weird accents for characters? I’ll suffer through them.

But this? This makes me straight up uncomfortable.

In season 2 Judai and co meet Solomon Muto while in Domino City and he basically tags along for the entirety of their trip. It’s revealed that he wrote and put together a guide book about the events of Battle City and published it and more or less takes the kids on a tour. He’s a man well into his late 70′s or even early 80′s, but he still keeps up with the kids and is actually sort of mentor-like and helpful.

So what did the dub do?

Lol he’s a senile old man.

That’s it, he’s reduced to a bumbling, perpetually confused old man who’s like ‘where am I?’ and ‘what’s happening’ half the time, is convinced that Yugi ‘went to the store 3 years ago and never came back’ (this line is not in the sub, he just says that Yugi’s ‘probably out having an adventure with his friends’) and really seems like someone who should probably be under the care and watch of someone rather than being left alone. Basically, he comes off as someone with severe dementia(which also has the side effect of making Yugi look like a neglectful grandson, just leaving his grandpa alone in such a state).

And as someone who had a grandparent with dementia, let me tell you, that is REALLY uncomfortable to watch. It’s not ‘lol funny’, it’s squirm in my seat because it’s uncomfortable and upsetting.

The dub is a horrific mess, and this is only one of the reasons why. It’s astonishing how it manages to mischaracterize SOMEONE WHO ISN’T EVEN THERE. You think for a MOMENT Yuugi would just abandon Jiichan if he were going senile? Don’t make me laugh. I can tell you exactly how that would go. Yuugi would hire Jyonouchi (who needs a job, you know he always needs a job) basically as “I need to give him more care than I can feasibly handle if I’m also running the store and I trust you” to take care of two people he loves* and give his mom a helping hand. He wouldn’t just disappear, ESPECIALLY in the English timeline, where Mama Mutou was cut for time and Grandpa would have nobody at all.

*Not ship goggles. It’s manga canon–the two of them have that kind of relationship that isn’t exactly brothers but isn’t exactly friends either. I have a friend like this. You probably do too–that person for whom you’d throw down with someone twice your size outside a bar at 3am, and then they’d sit in the ER until dawn and being told they could come in to see you.