Welcome to Digimon Analyzer. This is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm a Digimon Analyzer.
Join me as I talk about, let's see, Odaiba-Dei, Tom Fonn, and the Giver Geek, and Ultraman
Aesthetics. It's kind of a lot, but it's okay. We'll do it. We'll take care of it all. So,
you know, I touched on Odaiba-Dei a little bit last time. I think it's really cool, first of all,
that there's this thing that's in the show. It's actually from the show that fans have latched
on to, and that eventually, I guess Bandai or Toei, I don't know, I don't know if it's Bandai or Toei,
one of the two, or both of them together, have latched on to where they make a thing of it to
make Odaiba-Dei the actual, like to actually do something on that day. So, like I mentioned on the
YouTube channel, I'm pretty sure, they've been counting down, and months ago, like maybe two or
three months ago, there was a Digimon 25th Anniversary trailer. It was all in Japanese,
but it like kind of went back, and it was mostly all adventure stuff, and it was really emotional.
It felt really good, and I thought, okay, well, there's this announcement, but, or there's this
25th Anniversary trailer, but what's in the trailer? Oh, what's exactly going on? So,
because this connects, don't worry, because of Ultraman Rising, which is great, if you haven't
seen it yet, I strongly suggest you see it. If you like Digimon, you'll like it. Yeah, that's,
I think that's a subjective fact, or an objective fact. If you like Digimon, you'll like Ultraman
Rising. Anyway, so, the thing is that Ultraman Rising has this scene where the main character
jumps off of a cliff and transforms into Ultraman, and he flies off and whatever. He goes to the
rescue. And, Guyver, too dark hero, which this is Digimon connected, don't worry, the hero runs,
and jumps off a cliff, and then transforms, and he flies. He doesn't actually, Guyver doesn't,
well, Guyver does fly, but in the movies, he never really flies. He's got a gravity control
unit thing on his belt, but anyway, we don't talk about that. I'll talk about that later. So,
he flies, he soars basically on the parts of his suit that are above him. He kind of looks like a
butterfly, honestly. And then he lands, and as he's landing, the parts of the armor grab around him,
and then he runs off and goes and saves the girl or whatever. So, how does this connect to Digimon?
Well, the Guyver Geek, which is a great YouTube channel I just found out about recently, there's
a guy there. I don't remember his name at the moment. I'm so sorry. But he has this podcast
he's doing called Guyver Legends, I believe. And on Guyver Legends, he was interviewing none other
than Tom Fawn. Tom Fawn is the voice of Agamon in Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02. I think
he comes back, well, he's come back for some stuff. And he's done other voices, other voices,
lots of other voices. He did voices on Guyver. The 1989, I believe it is, OVA, it's a 12-part
series. It's 12 VHS tapes, 12 episodes, six stories over here, six episodes connected here,
and then six over here. So it's kind of like a two-part story, basically. It's like two arcs,
really. There's one arc and then the next, and they're both six episodes long. Anyway,
so Tom Fawn did the voice of Sho Fukumachi, who is Guyver number one. Steve Bloom did the voice of
Agito Makishima, who is Guyver three. Also, he's Steve Bloom. If you're into anime, I think you
know who Steve Bloom is, if you are lowly like me and you watch the dubs. Anyway, so Spike Spiegel,
a bunch of other people. Anyway, Yamaki from Tamers, Black War Greymon. So actually,
I don't know, Agumon and Black War Greymon. I was gonna say Greymon and War Greymon, but no,
because I don't think Tom Fawn does the voice of anybody but Agumon. I mean, he's Corumon Agumon,
but he's not... I don't know. Is Tom Fawn also Corumon or he's just Agumon? I'm not diminishing.
Anyway, so the point is, the Guyver geek had Tom Fawn on for an interview, and it was a fantastic
interview. Tom seems like an amazing guy, super nice guy, and it was a really cool conversation.
And in it, he mentioned that they... Studio Office, maybe? I can't remember. Maybe it was
Mary Elizabeth. I can't remember her name. Anyway, one of his old Dovin pals, who worked on Digimon
with him and other stuff, got together at the behest of, I don't know, whoever has the license
right now, and they took Digimon the movie and they split it up into three, the three original
movies that it was, and they went ahead and re-dubbed the whole thing. And he worked on
that for some portion, at least one portion, if not two. I'll be interested to see if they
expanded his role and gave him more characters to voice in that or not. And he said, and this
interview was from two months ago, so it would have been in May, I guess. He told Guyver geek
that they'd gotten all the cast together that was still alive, and whoever they didn't get,
anybody who'd passed, unfortunately, they got people who were sound-alikes, and they
read the movie and they did it straight. It's in the Japanese style. It's uncut,
is how people refer to it. And it'll be real interesting. That's going to come out pretty
soon. I think that that's either going to come out on Odaiba Day or it's going to be announced,
which that's tomorrow as I'm recording this. So we'll see. You'll know by the time this is out
what happened. So I think that's pretty interesting. But I got a little excited because I thought,
I misheard, I thought, and I left a comment and Guyver geek commented and I listened back to it
and said, okay, nevermind, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought Tom Fawn was saying,
and he did not say this. I thought he was saying that they redubbed the entire Did You Want to
Adventure in this uncut style where it's, I guess, presumably like Adventure 2022 or 2020 was,
where it's just a straight translation except for the names. They changed the names of the
characters to make it more palatable to the original dub fans, which is understandable
for marketing purposes only, or alone, I should say. I thought that's what he was saying,
but no, he's saying that they're releasing it. And I looked it up, Discotech is releasing it,
and it will be, the due date is still pending or the release date is still pending, but it will be
the original Did You Want to Movie that Saban made. Will Angela Anaconda be there or not? I don't know,
we'll see. But it's going to be that. And then it's the movie with Ty and Kari when they're
little kids, the augur, the koromon they meet. It's Hurricane Touchdown, or I guess,
Our Summer War is the one where Dio Baraman comes along and there's the whole Omnimon thing,
and then I think it's, that's Our War Game, Our War Game, sorry. So I don't know what the first
one's called, then I believe it's Our War Game. And then the separate movie is Hurricane Touchdown,
that's the one where the season two kids go to America, and there's Willis and whatever,
which I heard his name's Wallace in the original. Anyway, so that's going to be three separate films,
and the DVD or Blu-ray will have both the Saban cut and then these three uncut separate,
distinct from each other movies. So that's really exciting to me. I think that's going to be pretty
awesome. And oh yeah, yeah. So the last thing I was going to say, and I hinted to this in the last
episode, that something I personally connect Digimon with Ultraman. And yeah, you know what,
I'll do some editing. I'll go ahead and add right here about seven and a half minute mark
why that's the case. And maybe this is like a thing that's done in like a ton of Japanese media,
or maybe Ultraman's so big and so successful and so prevalent in like the otaku or geek or
nerd culture, whatever, in Japan. They're people who get into making shows about monsters,
kid shows about monsters. They just inevitably do things from Ultraman for them. But I don't know,
I do kind of feel like there is some sort of spiritual succession from Ultraman into Digimon.
And like I haven't watched a ton of Ultraman, but I've watched most of the Digimon out, I think.
Maybe not. I haven't watched Ghost Game. I haven't watched
Ultraman or whatever that's called. I'm like the first four seasons, I've got Data Squad on
deck to watch at some point soon. But I've certainly thought about Digimon a lot, and I've
watched a lot. I just haven't watched all of it, you know, and the content keeps getting bigger
and bigger. I read all the Digimon Next manga, which was fantastic. And anyway, I think a lot of
the aesthetics of Ultraman are in Digimon. And even okay, this is interesting. So I have a small child
who lives in my home and eats my food. And I will watch Ultraman and he watches Ultraman and actually
he watches Ultraman sometimes without me. I played Digimon season. I'm going to start yelling now.
I played Digimon Adventure 2020 for him. And I put it on, he came over and he said,
hey, where's Ultraman? And he said that because the music, the theme music, the background music,
in some parts of it sounds very much like the kind of orchestrated music that they use in Ultraman,
which I think is really impressive. So I think there are a lot of things there visually and also
in the style of the show that demonstrate that at least the people who are making Digimon
wanted to pull in these Ultraman-like elements. So a major thing is like the color panel with
the silhouette of the character, with the eyes, the eye cutouts, you say, or so to speak, and the
mouth cutouts for you to see. So I'll probably, well, you'll be seeing the images up here. And
I think that's a perfect comparison. I think that's really interesting. And when I first saw that,
because I checked out the Japanese version of Digimon only recently, like within a year,
and I'd already been watching Ultraman for a little while and I saw the similarities and I thought,
that's super interesting. And I didn't know where to go with that or what to do with that. But I
just think that's kind of interesting. I just want to talk about some general stuff and give
you a little bit more of my background and kind of the things I think about and the way I connect
things together from disparate sources. And the goal is not to go on taint since when I'm talking
about either Digimon Liberator or the Digimon shows or movies, but just kind of giving you
an idea of how I think about things and just sharing with you some thoughts about Digimon
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