Lanane: Hello, and welcome to the 12th installment of Arugathon!
GFA: …Who are you?
Lanane: …The authoress?
GFA: No your not! Syra's the authoress! Imposter!
Syra: Actually… She's telling the truth. She changed her pen name. Now I'm just the character/muse. I think I've also become her conscience as well…
Lanane: Yeah, I thought that it was unprofessional to share the same name as my character.
Syra: Unprofessional?! You're just now talking about being unprofessional? How about the fact that you're still continuing to write this darned Mary Sue story with ALL of your weird otaku friends in it, and in script format no less?! (Note: this is NOT the same Syra as before. That for the most part was me. This one seems to have a bit of an attitude. She also doesn't like Yugi as much… Actually, not very much at all. In fact, she makes fun of me for him being my favorite character…)
Lanane: Well EXCUSE me! This is the last chapter anyway!
Audience: (collective gasp)
Lanane: Sorry, but I'm getting tired of this story, so I really need to end it. However, I hope to close it with a bang, so today's topic shall be: The Dub vs. The Japanese Version! And the contestants shall be: the American and Japanese casts! Woohoo! Also, the only OC here will be Syra, who will only be providing side comments. I wish to spare my friends the embarrassment of participating in this possibly stupid chapter. I myself will be leaving soon, for a new rule has whacked me in the face saying that I can't interact with characters that don't belong to me… (THAT'S YOUR DISCLAIMER RIGHT THERE!) Oh, and so this doesn't get TOO confusing, here are the names I'm using for the different teams:
American Team:
Yugi
Yami
Seto
Joey
Tristan
Tea
Mokuba
Ryou
Yami Bakura
Marik
Yami Marik
Japanese Team:
Yuugi
Mou Hitori no Yuugi
Kaiba
Jonouchi
Honda
Anzu
Mokuba-chan
Bakura
Yami no Bakura
Malik
Yami no Malik
Lanane: Also, there will be some…special guests….who have only appeared in the Japanese version as of yet, but more on that latter. Now let the games begin! disappears
(All the contestants walk into the studio, each glaring at each's "twin")
Malik: I'll start things off! (points at Marik) You! What is with your voice? YOU MAKE ME SOUND HORRIBLE!
Marik: My voice is just fine! Besides, I'm an evil character, so I must have a demented voice!
Malik -.- But I'm not the demented one, he is. (points at Yami no Malik, who is…licking the blade part of the Millennium Rod…)
Yami Marik: Why doesn't MINE do that? (pouts) Note to self, as soon as I take over the world, steal the better rod…
Yami no Malik: (throws the blade at Yami Marik, cutting off the top part of his hair) First off, I don't want to rule the world, I just want to kill everyone! And it shall be a glorious bloodshed! Muhahahahaha!
Malik: .U See, he's got a GOOD demented voice, unlike your yami's, which is just a weird alteration of yours, which rises and falls in pitch with no emotion attached…
Jonouchi: Let's move off of voices and to the jokes. Ours are better and yours suck! Nya nya!
Seto: Oh great, the mutt from Japan is almost as bad as the American one.
Kaiba: That's another thing! I don't crack nearly as many dog jokes as you, because unlike you, I know that they get really stale after so many times.
Seto: (glare)
Mokuba-chan: Ni-sama is the best! And I'm second best, 'cause my voice is the cutest!
Honda: I thought we were talking about jokes now, Mokuba.
Mokuba-chan: (shrug) Sorry.
Honda: Anyway… All of our good jokes you people seem to take out, just because there might be the slightest bit of perverted-ness, and sometimes not even that. I remember the time when Jonouchi was using that lava monter thing against Malik, he was being stupid and named the attack after himself. Then Otogi, Anzu, Yuugi and I all got weird faces, as a reaction to Jou's stupidity. However, In the dub, all that happened was that he declared an attack, and everyone "tried" to act dramatic, asking him why he attacked without thinking it through, even the dramatic effect was lost due to the goofy faces…In other words, they try to make funny scenes dramatic
Mou hitori no Yuugi: It also seems to work in reverse, too. In my version, all the silent moments build up tension. However, that tension is lost in the Dub because it always seems like someone who's face isn't showing is cracking some corny joke or just pointing out the obvious. And that really screws up my dramatic moments! (pouts)
Bakura: They also cut out too much…even the stuff that's not "inappropriate" or "violent."
Yami no Bakura: Yeah, like when I was eating my meat on the battle ship! Or when I licked the Millennium Eye!
American cast: Ew…
Yami no Bakura: Or when…
Ryou: Okay, I think you've proved you're point…
Tristan: Well, if the Japanese version is so much better, than why is the new movie coming to Europe, Canada and America before Japan, huh?
Syra: That, even the authoress does not know. In fact, she's yelling at her dog right now about not being able see the Japanese version first. Honestly, I don't understand her. She doesn't even know how to speak Japanese! Ah…subtitles. Of course
Yuugi: Okay, so the Dub screws up the voices, the jokes, the dramatic parts and cuts out too much. Can we move on? I want out of this fic as fast as I (beep)ing can.
Tea: (gasp) Yugi! Why do you curse like that? I thought you were one of the good ones!
Anzu: Face it honey, we all curse, even me.
Tea: But…But…Cursing makes people sad, and it's not friendly at all to do!
Anzu: Ug, C'mon, not even I give that many speeches!
Tea: That just means that you do not support friendship as much as I do, and that YOUR friends don't love you as much as mine love me!
Anzu: twitch Wanna say that again?! (pounces on Tea)
Yami Bakura: Cat fight!
Jonouchi: Let's throw water on 'em!
Joey: Why?
Japanese cast: (anime fall)
Honda: Ah yes, mustn't forget the Y7 rating…
Yuugi: Can we please move on?
Yugi: What is your problem?
Yuugi: What is YOUR problem? You may look like me, but your voice is way to whiny.
Yugi: Well at least I have a backbone! You're always worried about whether or not you can help Yami. I, on the other hand, am always talking about how I'm gonna help save the world!
Yuugi: …That just proves that you're a bigger optimist than me, and everyone hates overly optimistic people. And besides, I've NEVER been trying to save the world! Duelest Kingdom- First of all, the world was never in any danger, and I was just trying to get back my grandpa. Noa's arc- Just trying to get out of virtual reality. Battle City- Getting all the god cards to restore Mou Hitori no Boku's memories, which was barely even mentioned in the dub. And even in the next season, Every duel has its own purpose or purposes, but they were rarely about saving the world. Even in the last duel, which was to decide the death or continuation of humanity, the top priority on Mou Hitori no Boku's mind was to save me and Jonouchi, and then Kaiba about halfway through; it just happened that saving the world was another thing that he had to do. Screw the world. We're just looking out for our own interests. Besides, that's more realistic than the world you're living in.
Yugi: …Well I'm still better than you
Yuugi: You know, you're gonna get your soul stolen soon, and when that happens, I'm gonna laugh. And I'm gonna laugh even harder when you have to have Rebecca hanging on you all day!
Rebecca: Oh, don't say such things, Darling! (glomps Yuugi)
Yuugi: GAH! Get off of me! Okay, I gave you one card. ONE FREAKING CARD! That was a sign of FRIENDSHIP, not courtship! Your grandfather gave mine a card, and you don't see THEM going out!
Grandpa: Actually, Yuugi… (blush)
Arthur: (puts his arm around him)
Yuugi and Yugi: (turn pale) I think I'm gonna hurl…
Syra: …Well, speaking of the next season, let's bring in the four new characters in the next series, the members of dun dun dun! DOOM!!!
(Four figures appear in the shadows off stage.)
Mokuba: …Doom?
Seto: How original…
Jonouchi: I'd like to see the dub do better!
(One of the figures steps forward with closed eyes. The outfit worn is white and dress like, contrasting nicely with the waist length aqua hair. The eyes are then opened, revealing one to be green, and one gold.
Mysterious person: I…am Dartz.
Joey: Wow! What a hottie!
Tristan: Finally! A girl villain!
Dartz: Wh- WHAT?! I'm a man! MAN!
Malik: Well, you should be worried about what your voice will sound like in the dub. The last time they had a guy that looked and sounded like a girl, they made him British…
Bakura: What? I sound like a girl?
Honda: Well, you DO have a female voice actor.
Dartz: Oh, I can feel it already… They're gonna give me a crazed Jamaican voice!
Kaiba: Why Jamaican?
Dartz: 'Cause I'm from the Caribbean, mon.
(A spikey brown haired, blue eyed man with goggles on his head rushes out of the shadows towards Dartz)
The aforementioned dude: No Dartz! Don't let it sink in! There is still a chance!
Dartz: (all stary eyed) You mean…I could still…sound like a woman? Thank you Varon! You've rekindled my hope!
(The last two figures walk out of the shadows, revealing a muscular blonde with an odd haircut and a skinny red-head with a feminine do.)
The blonde: The only correct accent change they could make is to make me French…
The red-head: Yeah, and…Wait, Rafael, you're French?
Mou Hitori no Yuugi: Well, his family's gravestones DID have French words on them…
Varon: Well, no matter what, they're probably gonna make Dartz, Jamaican, Amelda Irish, and me Russian.
Amelda (the red-head): Russian?
Varon: (shrug) Why not?
Yuugi: Okay, Syra, can we PLEASE go home now? This is getting stupid.
Syra: Gotta call Lanane first…
Both Casts: (pop and disappear)
Lanane: (walks on stage) Well, this concludes the final chapter of Arguathon… (cheers in the background) May I write better things in the future.
Syra: (rolls eyes)
Lanane: Anyway…KitsuneHino (who was the only one who reviewed… ) got the right translations to the previous chapter, but not where I stole the anti-friendship speech from. (Shadi, in one of the grapic novels, if anyone cares.) However, I don't remember what I was going to do for the prize… Sorry Hino.
Oh, and please bear with me if there's a lot of typos. I finished writing this around one o'clock and didn't have time to proof read. (I also had to put in a bunch of parenthesis's when all the astriks mysteriously disappeared, so please understand if I missed any...WHY HAVE YOU ABANDONED ME, ALMIGHTY ASTRIK GOD?! WHY?!) Why not do it in the morning, you ask? Why, because I'm leaving at six thirty to go to JBA (Joseph Baldwin Academy)
Syra: Aka, smart ass camp.
Lanane: (glare) Anyway, I'm gonna be there for three weeks, and I wanted to upload this before then. Anyway, has anyone ever been there before? Ever even heard of it? So tired… Can't even beg for reviews… Zzzz…
THE END