1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,760 Welcome to Digimon Analyzer. This is MJ. I'm an author. I'm an artist. I'm a Digimon Analyzer. 2 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:13,700 Join me as I talk about, let's see, Odaiba-Dei, Tom Fonn, and the Giver Geek, and Ultraman 3 00:00:13,700 --> 00:00:17,360 Aesthetics. It's kind of a lot, but it's okay. We'll do it. We'll take care of it all. So, 4 00:00:17,360 --> 00:00:23,400 you know, I touched on Odaiba-Dei a little bit last time. I think it's really cool, first of all, 5 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:29,480 that there's this thing that's in the show. It's actually from the show that fans have latched 6 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:35,360 on to, and that eventually, I guess Bandai or Toei, I don't know, I don't know if it's Bandai or Toei, 7 00:00:35,360 --> 00:00:39,880 one of the two, or both of them together, have latched on to where they make a thing of it to 8 00:00:39,880 --> 00:00:45,880 make Odaiba-Dei the actual, like to actually do something on that day. So, like I mentioned on the 9 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:50,440 YouTube channel, I'm pretty sure, they've been counting down, and months ago, like maybe two or 10 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,400 three months ago, there was a Digimon 25th Anniversary trailer. It was all in Japanese, 11 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:59,040 but it like kind of went back, and it was mostly all adventure stuff, and it was really emotional. 12 00:00:59,040 --> 00:01:03,000 It felt really good, and I thought, okay, well, there's this announcement, but, or there's this 13 00:01:03,000 --> 00:01:08,160 25th Anniversary trailer, but what's in the trailer? Oh, what's exactly going on? So, 14 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:15,080 because this connects, don't worry, because of Ultraman Rising, which is great, if you haven't 15 00:01:15,080 --> 00:01:19,880 seen it yet, I strongly suggest you see it. If you like Digimon, you'll like it. Yeah, that's, 16 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:25,040 I think that's a subjective fact, or an objective fact. If you like Digimon, you'll like Ultraman 17 00:01:25,040 --> 00:01:33,400 Rising. Anyway, so, the thing is that Ultraman Rising has this scene where the main character 18 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:39,600 jumps off of a cliff and transforms into Ultraman, and he flies off and whatever. He goes to the 19 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:46,680 rescue. And, Guyver, too dark hero, which this is Digimon connected, don't worry, the hero runs, 20 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,600 and jumps off a cliff, and then transforms, and he flies. He doesn't actually, Guyver doesn't, 21 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:54,640 well, Guyver does fly, but in the movies, he never really flies. He's got a gravity control 22 00:01:54,640 --> 00:01:58,760 unit thing on his belt, but anyway, we don't talk about that. I'll talk about that later. So, 23 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:05,040 he flies, he soars basically on the parts of his suit that are above him. He kind of looks like a 24 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,760 butterfly, honestly. And then he lands, and as he's landing, the parts of the armor grab around him, 25 00:02:09,760 --> 00:02:17,880 and then he runs off and goes and saves the girl or whatever. So, how does this connect to Digimon? 26 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:23,080 Well, the Guyver Geek, which is a great YouTube channel I just found out about recently, there's 27 00:02:23,080 --> 00:02:29,080 a guy there. I don't remember his name at the moment. I'm so sorry. But he has this podcast 28 00:02:29,080 --> 00:02:34,320 he's doing called Guyver Legends, I believe. And on Guyver Legends, he was interviewing none other 29 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:40,520 than Tom Fawn. Tom Fawn is the voice of Agamon in Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02. I think 30 00:02:40,520 --> 00:02:45,000 he comes back, well, he's come back for some stuff. And he's done other voices, other voices, 31 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:52,440 lots of other voices. He did voices on Guyver. The 1989, I believe it is, OVA, it's a 12-part 32 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:59,120 series. It's 12 VHS tapes, 12 episodes, six stories over here, six episodes connected here, 33 00:02:59,120 --> 00:03:05,040 and then six over here. So it's kind of like a two-part story, basically. It's like two arcs, 34 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:08,200 really. There's one arc and then the next, and they're both six episodes long. Anyway, 35 00:03:08,200 --> 00:03:17,000 so Tom Fawn did the voice of Sho Fukumachi, who is Guyver number one. Steve Bloom did the voice of 36 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:24,480 Agito Makishima, who is Guyver three. Also, he's Steve Bloom. If you're into anime, I think you 37 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:31,080 know who Steve Bloom is, if you are lowly like me and you watch the dubs. Anyway, so Spike Spiegel, 38 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:39,760 a bunch of other people. Anyway, Yamaki from Tamers, Black War Greymon. So actually, 39 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:44,200 I don't know, Agumon and Black War Greymon. I was gonna say Greymon and War Greymon, but no, 40 00:03:44,200 --> 00:03:49,440 because I don't think Tom Fawn does the voice of anybody but Agumon. I mean, he's Corumon Agumon, 41 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:58,160 but he's not... I don't know. Is Tom Fawn also Corumon or he's just Agumon? I'm not diminishing. 42 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:06,000 Anyway, so the point is, the Guyver geek had Tom Fawn on for an interview, and it was a fantastic 43 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,080 interview. Tom seems like an amazing guy, super nice guy, and it was a really cool conversation. 44 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:18,800 And in it, he mentioned that they... Studio Office, maybe? I can't remember. Maybe it was 45 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:25,760 Mary Elizabeth. I can't remember her name. Anyway, one of his old Dovin pals, who worked on Digimon 46 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:33,800 with him and other stuff, got together at the behest of, I don't know, whoever has the license 47 00:04:33,800 --> 00:04:40,200 right now, and they took Digimon the movie and they split it up into three, the three original 48 00:04:40,200 --> 00:04:43,720 movies that it was, and they went ahead and re-dubbed the whole thing. And he worked on 49 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:48,200 that for some portion, at least one portion, if not two. I'll be interested to see if they 50 00:04:48,200 --> 00:04:53,360 expanded his role and gave him more characters to voice in that or not. And he said, and this 51 00:04:53,360 --> 00:04:59,680 interview was from two months ago, so it would have been in May, I guess. He told Guyver geek 52 00:04:59,680 --> 00:05:03,280 that they'd gotten all the cast together that was still alive, and whoever they didn't get, 53 00:05:03,280 --> 00:05:08,160 anybody who'd passed, unfortunately, they got people who were sound-alikes, and they 54 00:05:08,160 --> 00:05:12,040 read the movie and they did it straight. It's in the Japanese style. It's uncut, 55 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:16,240 is how people refer to it. And it'll be real interesting. That's going to come out pretty 56 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:22,040 soon. I think that that's either going to come out on Odaiba Day or it's going to be announced, 57 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:26,280 which that's tomorrow as I'm recording this. So we'll see. You'll know by the time this is out 58 00:05:26,280 --> 00:05:30,480 what happened. So I think that's pretty interesting. But I got a little excited because I thought, 59 00:05:30,480 --> 00:05:36,160 I misheard, I thought, and I left a comment and Guyver geek commented and I listened back to it 60 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,400 and said, okay, nevermind, I'm sorry, I misunderstood. I thought Tom Fawn was saying, 61 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:43,040 and he did not say this. I thought he was saying that they redubbed the entire Did You Want to 62 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:48,680 Adventure in this uncut style where it's, I guess, presumably like Adventure 2022 or 2020 was, 63 00:05:48,680 --> 00:05:53,240 where it's just a straight translation except for the names. They changed the names of the 64 00:05:53,240 --> 00:05:57,200 characters to make it more palatable to the original dub fans, which is understandable 65 00:05:57,200 --> 00:06:02,480 for marketing purposes only, or alone, I should say. I thought that's what he was saying, 66 00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,560 but no, he's saying that they're releasing it. And I looked it up, Discotech is releasing it, 67 00:06:06,560 --> 00:06:12,720 and it will be, the due date is still pending or the release date is still pending, but it will be 68 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:18,720 the original Did You Want to Movie that Saban made. Will Angela Anaconda be there or not? I don't know, 69 00:06:18,720 --> 00:06:23,480 we'll see. But it's going to be that. And then it's the movie with Ty and Kari when they're 70 00:06:23,480 --> 00:06:30,480 little kids, the augur, the koromon they meet. It's Hurricane Touchdown, or I guess, 71 00:06:30,480 --> 00:06:35,680 Our Summer War is the one where Dio Baraman comes along and there's the whole Omnimon thing, 72 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:45,120 and then I think it's, that's Our War Game, Our War Game, sorry. So I don't know what the first 73 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:48,080 one's called, then I believe it's Our War Game. And then the separate movie is Hurricane Touchdown, 74 00:06:48,080 --> 00:06:56,320 that's the one where the season two kids go to America, and there's Willis and whatever, 75 00:06:56,320 --> 00:07:01,280 which I heard his name's Wallace in the original. Anyway, so that's going to be three separate films, 76 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:06,000 and the DVD or Blu-ray will have both the Saban cut and then these three uncut separate, 77 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:10,880 distinct from each other movies. So that's really exciting to me. I think that's going to be pretty 78 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:17,680 awesome. And oh yeah, yeah. So the last thing I was going to say, and I hinted to this in the last 79 00:07:17,680 --> 00:07:30,240 episode, that something I personally connect Digimon with Ultraman. And yeah, you know what, 80 00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:34,400 I'll do some editing. I'll go ahead and add right here about seven and a half minute mark 81 00:07:35,600 --> 00:07:41,040 why that's the case. And maybe this is like a thing that's done in like a ton of Japanese media, 82 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:46,720 or maybe Ultraman's so big and so successful and so prevalent in like the otaku or geek or 83 00:07:46,720 --> 00:07:50,240 nerd culture, whatever, in Japan. They're people who get into making shows about monsters, 84 00:07:52,640 --> 00:07:58,640 kid shows about monsters. They just inevitably do things from Ultraman for them. But I don't know, 85 00:07:58,640 --> 00:08:04,720 I do kind of feel like there is some sort of spiritual succession from Ultraman into Digimon. 86 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:09,120 And like I haven't watched a ton of Ultraman, but I've watched most of the Digimon out, I think. 87 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:11,840 Maybe not. I haven't watched Ghost Game. I haven't watched 88 00:08:11,840 --> 00:08:18,160 Ultraman or whatever that's called. I'm like the first four seasons, I've got Data Squad on 89 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:24,480 deck to watch at some point soon. But I've certainly thought about Digimon a lot, and I've 90 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:27,600 watched a lot. I just haven't watched all of it, you know, and the content keeps getting bigger 91 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:36,720 and bigger. I read all the Digimon Next manga, which was fantastic. And anyway, I think a lot of 92 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:42,240 the aesthetics of Ultraman are in Digimon. And even okay, this is interesting. So I have a small child 93 00:08:42,240 --> 00:08:50,640 who lives in my home and eats my food. And I will watch Ultraman and he watches Ultraman and actually 94 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:58,080 he watches Ultraman sometimes without me. I played Digimon season. I'm going to start yelling now. 95 00:08:58,080 --> 00:09:04,800 I played Digimon Adventure 2020 for him. And I put it on, he came over and he said, 96 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:10,320 hey, where's Ultraman? And he said that because the music, the theme music, the background music, 97 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:16,400 in some parts of it sounds very much like the kind of orchestrated music that they use in Ultraman, 98 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,960 which I think is really impressive. So I think there are a lot of things there visually and also 99 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:27,920 in the style of the show that demonstrate that at least the people who are making Digimon 100 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:34,160 wanted to pull in these Ultraman-like elements. So a major thing is like the color panel with 101 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:39,120 the silhouette of the character, with the eyes, the eye cutouts, you say, or so to speak, and the 102 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:43,840 mouth cutouts for you to see. So I'll probably, well, you'll be seeing the images up here. And 103 00:09:43,840 --> 00:09:47,680 I think that's a perfect comparison. I think that's really interesting. And when I first saw that, 104 00:09:47,680 --> 00:09:53,360 because I checked out the Japanese version of Digimon only recently, like within a year, 105 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:56,160 and I'd already been watching Ultraman for a little while and I saw the similarities and I thought, 106 00:09:56,720 --> 00:10:00,320 that's super interesting. And I didn't know where to go with that or what to do with that. But I 107 00:10:00,320 --> 00:10:03,040 just think that's kind of interesting. I just want to talk about some general stuff and give 108 00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:07,200 you a little bit more of my background and kind of the things I think about and the way I connect 109 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:14,000 things together from disparate sources. 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