1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,500 Henshman Inspection presents Going Ultra. This is MJ, I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. 2 00:00:04,500 --> 00:00:07,000 You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:12,000 Join me as I talk about Ultraman Ark episode 8, Internet Kanagon. 4 00:00:12,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Can, yes, Internet Kanagon. 5 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:22,000 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. 6 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,000 Although other things have been going well. 7 00:00:24,000 --> 00:00:31,000 But yeah, so I don't really have a lot to say about this episode proper because it's a weird episode. 8 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:37,000 It's not filler, it's just kind of odd, an oddball and it's like a screwball comedy type thing. 9 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:45,000 And, let me see, it's a really weird thing. 10 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:50,000 It's like, a little bit like Summer Wars. 11 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:55,000 And, it's like, the internet affects me. 12 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,000 Well, anyway, so just to recap real quick. 13 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:01,000 So, there's an Internet Kanagon, so it's a Kanagon kaiju in the internet somehow. 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:03,000 Because that can happen. 15 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:06,000 And Ultraman Ark goes digital. 16 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:09,000 But he doesn't become invincible, he just goes digital. 17 00:01:09,000 --> 00:01:11,000 He goes into the digital world. 18 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,000 He goes into the internet with this Internet Kanagon. 19 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:21,000 And the set design was cool because it kind of reminded me of Summer Wars in Digimon. 20 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,000 Oh, from Digimon the Movie, I know. 21 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:26,000 It's part one. 22 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:28,000 It's Our Summer War. There we go. Our Summer War. 23 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:34,000 With the, yeah, Our Summer War, which is the original title from the Japanese version. 24 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Anyway, it very much is reminiscent of that. 25 00:01:36,000 --> 00:01:39,000 And I thought that was pretty cool. 26 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:44,000 I thought it was weird that they were addressing like, local currencies and cryptocurrencies. 27 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,000 Sort of, maybe, but not really. 28 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,000 And I was super irritated by this one comment. 29 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:54,000 The first comment I saw, like, oh, this is why Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies won't work. 30 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:57,000 And that's right, cryptocurrencies won't work because they're bad. 31 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:59,000 But Bitcoin is something you should actually look into. 32 00:01:59,000 --> 00:02:00,000 But, you know, whatever. 33 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 I'm just the guy in my basement talking, so you don't want to listen to me for financial advice. 34 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,000 But there's lots of smart people who, you know, think about these things and study them. 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,000 And if you look at the course of Bitcoin over the history, whatever. 36 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 We're moving into an energy economy. 37 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 So you might want to think about that, but whatever. 38 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:24,000 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. 39 00:02:24,000 --> 00:02:29,000 There's lots of things you can hate me for because your hearts are pulling. 40 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,000 So sad. 41 00:02:30,000 --> 00:02:34,000 Anyway, but I'm here to talk about the story of this episode. 42 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:50,000 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. 43 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:56,000 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. 44 00:02:56,000 --> 00:02:59,000 So I'm not going to do it. I thought the fight was fun. 45 00:02:59,000 --> 00:03:06,000 I like the idea of like you be going digital and going into the Internet and then becoming giant size like Ultraman. 46 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,000 That was really cool. 47 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 It was fun that they had a little red blue pill that they put into the movie. 48 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:19,000 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. 49 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:21,000 He wasn't they don't want to hold or huddle. 50 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:31,000 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. 51 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:32,000 It's Chinese stuff. 52 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:37,000 So he did that and then he did this like weird with his imagination like, oh, I'm cooking. 53 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:41,000 I'm cooking and cooking like cooking the pill data into the thing. 54 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:44,000 And then he made it gigantic and threw it in his mouth like the visual that looked cool. 55 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:49,000 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? 56 00:03:49,000 --> 00:03:58,000 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. 57 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:00,000 And I don't actually really feel like that. 58 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,000 But it's funny how cute it was and how how silly it was. 59 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:10,000 And I really don't mind that at all in this episode, especially for some reason. 60 00:04:10,000 --> 00:04:11,000 It was a lot of fun. 61 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:19,000 I noticed the Kanigan voice actress, actor, actress, it was an actress, sounded like it was the same from Z. 62 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:25,000 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. 63 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:27,000 I thought, oh, no, is he going to poop it out? 64 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:31,000 And I haven't seen Kanigan in the original Ultraman, so I don't know if he poops there, too. 65 00:04:31,000 --> 00:04:32,000 But he definitely pooped in Z. 66 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,000 And it was just crazy. 67 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:37,000 Talk about a bleep coin. 68 00:04:37,000 --> 00:04:47,000 So, well, anyway, I'm going to share a micro story. 69 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:54,000 My son, like two years ago, swallowed a dime and he had to go to the bathroom finally. 70 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:57,000 And we were worried that it was or we were worried it was going to hurt him. 71 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 But he ended up going to the bathroom. 72 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 He had to go. You know what I mean? 73 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 So I searched through and I was happy to report to everybody. 74 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:07,000 And I found the bleep coin. 75 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 And the funny thing about that is we know anything about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency and things like that. 76 00:05:10,000 --> 00:05:16,000 People who are only about Bitcoin, they call the non Bitcoin stuff bleep coin. 77 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:19,000 And I said, oh, look, he made his first this. 78 00:05:19,000 --> 00:05:20,000 And it was really fun. 79 00:05:20,000 --> 00:05:21,000 So anyway, sorry. 80 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:23,000 First, the story aside, here we go. 81 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,000 The actress is. 82 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:40,000 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. 83 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:52,000 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. 84 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:55,000 And I believe they also did the Ultraman. 85 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,000 Oh, I'll keep reading. 86 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:08,000 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. 87 00:06:08,000 --> 00:06:10,000 So very cool. 88 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,000 There's two links to the Subaru productions website, I think. 89 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:15,000 Oh, she's made a match. 90 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:27,000 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. 91 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:28,000 So there's that. 92 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,000 But then I thought, let's look at the rest of this voice cast, because I'm vaguely interested in them. 93 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:38,000 And I found that Tony Oliver works on this show. 94 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:49,000 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. 95 00:06:49,000 --> 00:07:00,000 And he does the voice of Hiroshi Ban, who I believe Hiroshi Ban's actor actually played Abare Red, Abar Ranger. 96 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:02,000 Let me see just real quick. 97 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:10,000 Give me through all sorts of stuff. According to you, an interview. No, no, no. 98 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Oh, he was in a previous show. 99 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:22,000 I'm just going to say I know he's Abare Red, and I'm not going to tell you why I know that. 100 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:27,000 I'm not going to tell you why I know that, but that's OK. 101 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:33,000 We're going to have to be OK with that for now, because I don't want to go on too much longer. 102 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:36,000 Oh, it says Tony Oliver in the dub there. OK. 103 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:41,000 This is really not in the trivia area. According to an interview, his interest in Ultraman series was sparked by Ultraman Decker aired. 104 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Decker? That was recently. 105 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:49,000 At the time he had discussed with the Asian One possible appearing in Ultraman series to avoid appearing to youthful niches, 106 00:07:49,000 --> 00:08:08,000 but he allowed himself to relax, live a normal lifestyle while playing Hiroshi. 107 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:11,000 I don't know. I don't know what's going on. 108 00:08:11,000 --> 00:08:17,000 I could have sworn this guy was Abare Red. Let me look this up. 109 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:20,000 I'm going through all sorts of tangents. 110 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:23,000 The actor is... 111 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:29,000 Yeah, that's probably my problem. 112 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Yeah, he's 100% Abare Red. Oh, sorry. It's Abare Red from Abar Ranger. Excuse me. 113 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:37,000 So yeah, that's cool. 114 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:46,000 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. 115 00:08:46,000 --> 00:08:50,000 He's got seven Power Rangers roles alone. One of his is a video game, but one he was in... 116 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:59,000 So Mighty Morphin' Abar Rangers movie is Saba. He was an orc in Wild Force. He was Tlaxlow in Time Force. 117 00:08:59,000 --> 00:09:06,000 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. 118 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:10,000 He was the voice of Saba and the Wizard of Deception in MMPR. 119 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:16,000 Oh, he was in a game, an Amco Bandai Super Megaforce game. That's pretty cool. 120 00:09:16,000 --> 00:09:24,000 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. 121 00:09:24,000 --> 00:09:34,000 Danny Chambers is the voice of Rin. Oh my gosh! She was an SSSS.Gridman. That's so cool! Oh, man. 122 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:42,000 She was the volleyball girl who got smashed in the first episode and then came back in the second episode. Wow, that's cool. 123 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:48,000 Very fun. And Gridman's another Super Eye production type thing, so that's pretty fun. 124 00:09:48,000 --> 00:09:54,000 Let me see. Who's next? Who is next on my list? Let me close yours. 125 00:09:54,000 --> 00:10:07,000 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. 126 00:10:07,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Let's see. He was in Ultraman Z as Satoshi Watahaki. Wait a minute. 127 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:32,000 Wasn't that their boss? Oh, let me see that real quick. 128 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:46,000 Let me pull back. 129 00:10:46,000 --> 00:11:08,000 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. 130 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:21,000 So that's cool. I thought that I read this gentleman's name as somebody else on another show. 131 00:11:21,000 --> 00:11:30,000 Is it possible that he is who I think he is? Hold on. Hold on. 132 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:39,000 I'm going to open his official website and I'm going to look at his voice performances. He's got Tokusatsu on here. 133 00:11:39,000 --> 00:11:48,000 Shuichi Oh. I honestly thought maybe this guy was the voice of Himura Kenshin from the live action Kenshin movies. 134 00:11:48,000 --> 00:12:00,000 And I might be wrong about that because I'm not seeing him at all. Let's see. 135 00:12:00,000 --> 00:12:09,000 It's okay. It's okay. So let's see the next one. That's storage. I don't want to bother them. 136 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:22,000 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. 137 00:12:22,000 --> 00:12:30,000 Okay. And Persona 3 reload as Nozomi Sumitsu. 138 00:12:30,000 --> 00:12:36,000 Oh, is he the full moon guy? Oh my gosh. Let me see this. 139 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:41,000 As a Persona fan, I gotta check this out real quick. 140 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:50,000 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. 141 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:58,000 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. 142 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:06,000 But yeah, so that's kind of a fun little trip down voice actor road for some of the people in this. 143 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Anyway, I had fun with that. It was a journey and as much fun as I did. 144 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:20,000 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. 145 00:13:20,000 --> 00:13:29,000 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. 146 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:32,000 So until next time, folks, take care, be well, and be ultra. 147 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:37,000 Who's your favorite voice actor from this? I'd like to know whose performance you like so far from the show the best. 148 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:40,000 And what did you think about this internet-cannigan thing? 149 00:13:40,000 --> 00:13:47,000 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. 150 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:56,000 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. 151 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:05,000 Well, actually, not true. Through classic and modern children's middle grade books. Middle grade books, not children's books, which middle grade books. 152 00:14:05,000 --> 00:14:10,000 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. 153 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:15,000 But right now I'm currently on Peter Pan and I've decided that because Peter Pan is so cool and interesting and good, 154 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:21,000 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. 155 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:30,000 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. 156 00:14:30,000 --> 00:14:38,000 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. 157 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:46,000 The spectacle is great, but also the storytelling itself is so fantastic. And what better place to look for good storytelling than in books? 158 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:55,000 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. 159 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:04,000 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. 160 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:07,000 Really, check it out. I think you'll like it. 161 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:13,000 I hope you enjoyed that. Subscribe to keep up with me. Like and share to help me reach more people like you. 162 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:16,000 And go to MJMunoz.com to find your next favorite thing. 163 00:15:16,000 --> 00:15:22,000 And don't forget to let your voice be heard. Stories are always better when you're part of the conversation. 164 00:15:22,000 --> 00:15:37,000 Until next time, be well. This is MJ signing out. This has been a Story Over Everything production.