Epi 46: Gei Yin strikes back!

[Lovely]

The title isn't really a spoiler since Gei Yin (geiin, Ginny/Jenny in the dub) shows up in the very first scene.

Well... this is a Ren centric episode. Ah... woot! Ren fans will love it I'm sure .

O.k, honestly, nothing much happens in this episode ^^;. Basically you get to see how SOME Shaman Fights are set up (don't get to see the "offical stadium" yet though.)
And Ren gets a BIT of development (not much really ^^;.)

Spoiilers but... pretty much EVERYTHING in here won't be a spoiler for the dub, because the way the dub has been written, these things will be changed anyways....

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*The Patch offical who announces the match at the veeeeeery begining of the episode had a cool voice.

*A few group names are stated this episode.
-The "Tsukigumi" ("Moon Group") are some of Hao's allies. Their team includes "Bill" the football guy.

More importantly....

*Yoh's team is named "Funbari Hotsprings" (Funbari Onsen.) They were named by Anna and the name is basically an advertisment for the hotspring resort that Anna wants to make back in Japan ^^; (the house they lived in was in Funbari.)
Since the dub removed all references to Anna's ambitions, and even the name of the town that the series started in... well, this little gag is sure to be removed. Which is a shame, because when it comes up again, it becomes even MORE obvious that there name is a sort of advertisment ^^; .

*Ren's Team is called "Team the Ren" ("Team da Ren"), Ph34r Ren's awesome English skillz.

*Ryu kind of... babbles about "Charisma" in this episode. His whole little speach kind of comes out of nowhere ^^; .
Oh, by the way, the whole "QUESTION!", "ANSWER!" thing that Ryu and Ren do is sort of parody/reference to Japanese game shows.

* Ren makes obvious his rivalry between himself and Yoh is still in effect in this episode (this probably won't be cut, maybe they'll even make it more obvious .)

*The whole point of this episode Concern that Ren pretty much broke his family ties. In the end, he feels slightly guilty about abandoning his family and he decides to sort of fight for their honor again. Now, in the dub, he never claimed to stop fighting for his family's honor, in fact, in the dub, he has ALLWAYS been fighting for thier sake. Hm. well, who knows what the dub will do *shrugs*.

*The whole 28 with out a Boy friend thing is cute. Gei Yin looked cute when flustered XD .

*The smile Ren has on his face when he passes out at the very end is VERY cute.

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Finally, one of Ren's image songs played at the end of this episode. It's a really awesome song, it picked up a rather average episode.

[YohWhatsUp]

yeh a lot of that was changed in the dub episode including the team name

[Magenta]

Really? I didn't think the name for Lenny's team changed that much, in fact it's like the dub equivilent. Yoh's team name isn't mentioned in this episode as I can remember but it's changed and just doesn't sound as good.

[YohWhatsUp]

soz i menr Yoh's team name changed.Ren's one not changed much at all and your right.The Yoh change didn't sound good.Kinda boring but oh welly

[taoren33]

Which image song plays? Ryuuro? Too bad it will be cut...

The REAL reason Yoh & co. always win: they have the awesome motivating songs to back them up, and make them look cuter and stronger!

The REAL reason Hao is all powerful: HIS PANTS! Don't believe all that Spirit of Fire crap.

What's the new name for Team Funbari Onsen?

[Magenta]

Which, when you think about it, give the background in episode 52 no menaing at all now. By the way, what did the dubbers change the name of Funbari hill to anyway?

[YohWhatsUp]

Team Funbari Onsen in the dub is changed to Team Asukara

[taoren33]

Funbari Hill = Monument Hill

[resurie]

Team Asakura?

Wow...that's original...= =;

Ermm...telling us that...was that a spoiler? ; I'm not sure...

Lovely, if I may ask, why did you start this thread earlier than usual? xD Just asking.

Oh, and I love your new avatar! ^___^

Errr....I have nothing to say for this episode... Only one question for Lovely, those kids, are they both boys? >< One of them looks even more girlish than Lyserg (well, to me at least...) but their voices were boyish.... .___. Do you know? XD;;

[YohWhatsUp]

opps lol soz if it in anyway was but it's annoying now knowing what the orignal team name was.So much effort must gone in thinking up the one for the dub.

[Lovely]

So... apparently... they are cutting out the joke with Yoh's team name completely. So sad... but not unexpected v_v .

resurie said:

Team Asakura?



Lovely, if I may ask, why did you start this thread earlier than usual? xD Just asking.

Oh, and I love your new avatar! ^___^

Errr....I have nothing to say for this episode... Only one question for Lovely, those kids, are they both boys? >< One of them looks even more girlish than Lyserg (well, to me at least...) but their voices were boyish.... .___. Do you know? XD;;

First point-
The thread was started earlier because... well, I ussually watch the next original episode and make notes AFTER I finish working on the weeks episode comparison. Since I finished the comparison early this week...

Second point-
Thanks for liking my avvie ^_^ . It's probably only temporary but... I was in Shaman King XD . woot! *laughs* (I'm a goofball...)

Third point-
The two kids... well, I always figured the older one was a girl and the younger one was a boy. Their look is very... 70's/80's-ish isn't it ^^; .

[taoren33]

The two kids voices in the dub are now done by the same people who do Len and Jun's voices! So that would mean one is a girl and the other a boy, right?

[Gandalf]

Rios speach in this ep is great

**I just love the way mid speach his slips in "you must include your minions in your plan"** ;D

I stongly suggest everyone gets ready for high pitched voices aswell.

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Some thoughts about general plot direction **I can't help but feel SK loses some of its momentum here aswell. The last 12 or so episodes have been building up the whole X-Laws/Hao storyline.

Now we move on to some character focused epsidoses, I have nothing against them but 6 in a row seems rather extreme. During this time we'll see the X-Laws and Hao once, maybe twice and they are just spectating, theres no real further plot development till about ep 52.

This weeks ep starts with one of Zekes teams in a fight, they could definately have done this kind of thing a little more often throughout these charater eps so we retain the overall arc of X-Laws and Hao.
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[Lovely]

In response to what Gandalf just said.
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Huh! I didn't notice it before, but yeah! The next few episodes ARE character specific episodes.
Well, Honestly I don't mind much, since Shaman King is more about the characters than the fighting sometimes.
Except for this Ren episode... which IS mostly about the fighting.

And the characters who get an episode are the ones that tend to be ingored sometimes ^^; (Faust and Manta <3 !). And if not ignored, thier episodes are good for raising your opinion about the characters. Which is important considering how things go towards the end.
The last chunck of episodes move VERY fast (some people say it's kind of rushed), so these slower episodes are kind of a good thing.

Hmmm... ah, don't listen to me, I'm babbling. Your post just made me think of things I never thought of before Gandalf ^^;.

So uh... to sum up. Yeah, the show slows down a bit here, but I'm starting to think that was intentional.
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[Gandalf]

In response to what Lovely just said **I definately like the focus on some of the lesser featured characters like Faust and Manta.

I think my biggest problem is they really pushed the X-Laws/Hao story arc and then leave it completely alone. So in reality they went overboard twice, too much plot then too many character eps. Perhaps its a legacy of the Manga? several chapters of purely character focus goes by quickly compared to 6 eps of a TV show.

What I really prefer is Eps where it may seem to be part of the overall plot but really you are also getting an up close look at one or more of the characters.

Still enjoyable epsidoes though. **