Henshman Inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer.
You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com.
Join me as I talk about Ultraman Ark episode 8, Internet Kanagon.
Can, yes, Internet Kanagon.
So, this is gonna be a weird one guys because I'm tired and I'm slightly mad and frustrated because a bunch of stuff has been going weird.
Although other things have been going well.
But yeah, so I don't really have a lot to say about this episode proper because it's a weird episode.
It's not filler, it's just kind of odd, an oddball and it's like a screwball comedy type thing.
And, let me see, it's a really weird thing.
It's like, a little bit like Summer Wars.
And, it's like, the internet affects me.
Well, anyway, so just to recap real quick.
So, there's an Internet Kanagon, so it's a Kanagon kaiju in the internet somehow.
Because that can happen.
And Ultraman Ark goes digital.
But he doesn't become invincible, he just goes digital.
He goes into the digital world.
He goes into the internet with this Internet Kanagon.
And the set design was cool because it kind of reminded me of Summer Wars in Digimon.
Oh, from Digimon the Movie, I know.
It's part one.
It's Our Summer War. There we go. Our Summer War.
With the, yeah, Our Summer War, which is the original title from the Japanese version.
Anyway, it very much is reminiscent of that.
And I thought that was pretty cool.
I thought it was weird that they were addressing like, local currencies and cryptocurrencies.
Sort of, maybe, but not really.
And I was super irritated by this one comment.
The first comment I saw, like, oh, this is why Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies won't work.
And that's right, cryptocurrencies won't work because they're bad.
But Bitcoin is something you should actually look into.
But, you know, whatever.
I'm just the guy in my basement talking, so you don't want to listen to me for financial advice.
But there's lots of smart people who, you know, think about these things and study them.
And if you look at the course of Bitcoin over the history, whatever.
We're moving into an energy economy.
So you might want to think about that, but whatever.
So I was going to say, well, I don't care about getting hate from my fellow Toku fans because you can hate me all you want.
There's lots of things you can hate me for because your hearts are pulling.
So sad.
Anyway, but I'm here to talk about the story of this episode.
And like it wasn't much of a story, honestly, like there was some fun, cute character interactions going on where Yushido and Yuma were like screaming to earn money so that they can deal with the inflation that's going on.
And like, I don't know, it's like it's a it's such a social commentary type episode and I don't really want to do the social commentary.
So I'm not going to do it. I thought the fight was fun.
I like the idea of like you be going digital and going into the Internet and then becoming giant size like Ultraman.
That was really cool.
It was fun that they had a little red blue pill that they put into the movie.
They get like Dr. Mario that they put into kind of gone to get him to it was a data to some lights that he would not just hold all the cash.
He wasn't they don't want to hold or huddle.
I should say. But it was funny because the little buckler thing, buckler disk that Ark has in his loom in his moon form looks kind of like a coin.
It's Chinese stuff.
So he did that and then he did this like weird with his imagination like, oh, I'm cooking.
I'm cooking and cooking like cooking the pill data into the thing.
And then he made it gigantic and threw it in his mouth like the visual that looked cool.
It was kind of funny and funny and cute, but it was just kind of like, I don't know, just kind of silly dumb like, what are you guys doing?
Like you just like totally screwing around this episode and like, you know, they're ruining the seriousness of my Ultraman show, my Japanese children's television show.
And I don't actually really feel like that.
But it's funny how cute it was and how how silly it was.
And I really don't mind that at all in this episode, especially for some reason.
It was a lot of fun.
I noticed the Kanigan voice actress, actor, actress, it was an actress, sounded like it was the same from Z.
And I noticed like before Kanigan shot out all the coins from his mouth at the end after getting the day assimilated, there was like stomach rumbling.
I thought, oh, no, is he going to poop it out?
And I haven't seen Kanigan in the original Ultraman, so I don't know if he poops there, too.
But he definitely pooped in Z.
And it was just crazy.
Talk about a bleep coin.
So, well, anyway, I'm going to share a micro story.
My son, like two years ago, swallowed a dime and he had to go to the bathroom finally.
And we were worried that it was or we were worried it was going to hurt him.
But he ended up going to the bathroom.
He had to go. You know what I mean?
So I searched through and I was happy to report to everybody.
And I found the bleep coin.
And the funny thing about that is we know anything about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency and things like that.
People who are only about Bitcoin, they call the non Bitcoin stuff bleep coin.
And I said, oh, look, he made his first this.
And it was really fun.
So anyway, sorry.
First, the story aside, here we go.
The actress is.
OK, so the actress for Kanagon in both this episode of our episode eight and the Internet Kanagon and the regular Kanagon from Ultraman Z is Brittany Lauda.
Brittany Lauda, according to the wiki, is an American casting director, line producer and voice actress working for OKRATRON 5000, which is the company that did the blazar dub.
And I believe they also did the Ultraman.
Oh, I'll keep reading.
OKRATRON 5000, she served as the casting director and line producer to the Ultraman series English dubs in addition to voice roles for additional characters.
So very cool.
There's two links to the Subaru productions website, I think.
Oh, she's made a match.
She's made a match. And I'm pretty sure OKRATRON is the company that also did the Ultraman movie or Shin Ultraman movie dub.
So there's that.
But then I thought, let's look at the rest of this voice cast, because I'm vaguely interested in them.
And I found that Tony Oliver works on this show.
I believe this is true, and if not, somebody can correct me, but I believe that Tony Oliver, they use the Oliver name for Tommy Oliver in the original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
And he does the voice of Hiroshi Ban, who I believe Hiroshi Ban's actor actually played Abare Red, Abar Ranger.
Let me see just real quick.
Give me through all sorts of stuff. According to you, an interview. No, no, no.
Oh, he was in a previous show.
I'm just going to say I know he's Abare Red, and I'm not going to tell you why I know that.
I'm not going to tell you why I know that, but that's OK.
We're going to have to be OK with that for now, because I don't want to go on too much longer.
Oh, it says Tony Oliver in the dub there. OK.
This is really not in the trivia area. According to an interview, his interest in Ultraman series was sparked by Ultraman Decker aired.
Decker? That was recently.
At the time he had discussed with the Asian One possible appearing in Ultraman series to avoid appearing to youthful niches,
but he allowed himself to relax, live a normal lifestyle while playing Hiroshi.
I don't know. I don't know what's going on.
I could have sworn this guy was Abare Red. Let me look this up.
I'm going through all sorts of tangents.
The actor is...
Yeah, that's probably my problem.
Yeah, he's 100% Abare Red. Oh, sorry. It's Abare Red from Abar Ranger. Excuse me.
So yeah, that's cool.
Anyway, that's Tony Oliver who worked on Mighty Morphin' Abar Rangers, and I checked out his site, and he's done a bunch of voice acting roles.
He's got seven Power Rangers roles alone. One of his is a video game, but one he was in...
So Mighty Morphin' Abar Rangers movie is Saba. He was an orc in Wild Force. He was Tlaxlow in Time Force.
I've been watching Time Force for a long time. He was Frightwing, who I feel like was a recurring character in In Space, but I don't know.
He was the voice of Saba and the Wizard of Deception in MMPR.
Oh, he was in a game, an Amco Bandai Super Megaforce game. That's pretty cool.
But the guy has hundreds of roles in anime and games and things like that, so that's pretty fun. It's cool to see that he's doing this.
Danny Chambers is the voice of Rin. Oh my gosh! She was an SSSS.Gridman. That's so cool! Oh, man.
She was the volleyball girl who got smashed in the first episode and then came back in the second episode. Wow, that's cool.
Very fun. And Gridman's another Super Eye production type thing, so that's pretty fun.
Let me see. Who's next? Who is next on my list? Let me close yours.
I like Rin's voice performance. So, Micah Solucid is an American voice actor who voices Shuichi Oh in the English dub of Ultraman Arc.
Let's see. He was in Ultraman Z as Satoshi Watahaki. Wait a minute.
Wasn't that their boss? Oh, let me see that real quick.
Let me pull back.
Oh, no. Okay, so he played a minor character who was one of the maintenance crew on Z and now he's here on the show.
So that's cool. I thought that I read this gentleman's name as somebody else on another show.
Is it possible that he is who I think he is? Hold on. Hold on.
I'm going to open his official website and I'm going to look at his voice performances. He's got Tokusatsu on here.
Shuichi Oh. I honestly thought maybe this guy was the voice of Himura Kenshin from the live action Kenshin movies.
And I might be wrong about that because I'm not seeing him at all. Let's see.
It's okay. It's okay. So let's see the next one. That's storage. I don't want to bother them.
Paul Castro Jr. is an American voice actor who voices Yuma Hisa and the English double vultureman arc. And I don't recognize him from anything else, but it says that he's from Last Judgment, the Kaito Files Kenshin Impact, Neo, the World Ends with You.
Okay. And Persona 3 reload as Nozomi Sumitsu.
Oh, is he the full moon guy? Oh my gosh. Let me see this.
As a Persona fan, I gotta check this out real quick.
Oh my gosh. He is the gourmet king. Oh no. That's funny. That's very funny. So he's been active since the year 2011.
So this, I think, I think they kind of filter out for things that aren't really important or germane to the show that he's in now.
But yeah, so that's kind of a fun little trip down voice actor road for some of the people in this.
Anyway, I had fun with that. It was a journey and as much fun as I did.
But yeah, that's pretty much going to be it for now because I gotta go. I got lots of other things to do. I got a short story to finish.
And yeah, got a short story to finish and I've got other things to record and get scheduled and published and all that good stuff.
So until next time, folks, take care, be well, and be ultra.
Who's your favorite voice actor from this? I'd like to know whose performance you like so far from the show the best.
And what did you think about this internet-cannigan thing?
Sorry. Before I let you go, I gotta tell you to check out Fortress Fiction, my other channel. It's linked at the blog, at the website, mjwindows.com.
And over there, I'm taking a trip through books. I'm taking a truck. I'm journeying through the decades and beyond through all sorts of books.
Well, actually, not true. Through classic and modern children's middle grade books. Middle grade books, not children's books, which middle grade books.
I'm aged for kids, but you know what I mean. So I started with stuff like Tuck Everlasting and I can't remember what else.
But right now I'm currently on Peter Pan and I've decided that because Peter Pan is so cool and interesting and good,
I would take a deep dive on it and I'm going chapter by chapter. I'm talking about each chapter, my reaction to it, my thoughts on it.
And I'm going to do a big, well, not a big necessarily, but I'm going to do a single overall book review of that as well when I'm done with that.
And I have other stuff in the works. And part of the reason I love Tokusatsu so much is because I find the storytelling so compelling.
The spectacle is great, but also the storytelling itself is so fantastic. And what better place to look for good storytelling than in books?
So I'm watching Japanese children's television and talking about it. So I figure I'll read American, European, whatever children's literature and talk about that as well.
And if you like one thing, hopefully you like the other. And you'd like to journey with me over there as I discover terrific treasured tales over on Fortress Fiction.
Really, check it out. I think you'll like it.
I hope you enjoyed that. Subscribe to keep up with me. Like and share to help me reach more people like you.
And go to MJMunoz.com to find your next favorite thing.
And don't forget to let your voice be heard. Stories are always better when you're part of the conversation.
Until next time, be well. This is MJ signing out. This has been a Story Over Everything production.