EPISODE 50A: Final Action 1.0 - “All My Love To Long Ago..”
This Week:
Two years ago, a hot blooded youth from the future and his Cyber Assistant started a Japanese Pop Culture podcast that has since evolved into a Giant Flaming Katamari of Epic Chaos ™. This week, Mike, Sylene, and Mai celebrate 50 episodes of the continued run of the GFKoEC that is R5 Central with this Mega Episode to shatter the heavens. So massive, in fact, that it has to be split up into THREE episodes!
Featured in this portion: a follow up review of Sukeban Deka: Codename Asamiya Saki with Erin and Noah from Ninja Consultant, news of a possible Godman sequel, and Daryl Surat. Need I say more on that subject?
PRODUCTION NOTES
-Cool Edit almost didn’t survive this episode. Seriously, I came THIS close to doing a system purge due to the fact that every time I opened or closed a file, it crashed. Re-installed the program three times and I still had this glitch, losing a bunch of sessions in the process and holding back my original release for this episode, hence the outdated news. So far, it’s still stable, wish me luck on the rest of the segments….
-The opening sketch is a parody of the famous Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie sketch, “Grey and Hopeless”. See attached.
-The other Kenta Fukasaku film that I hinted at during Project Follow-Up was none other than last year’s X-Cross. Like
Yo-Yo Girl CopCodename, it looks like it has only one redeeming scene: Shoko Nakagawa fighting off Ami Suzuki dressed as a eyepatch wearing, giant scissor wielding GothLoli maid with nothing more than a chainsaw.
The good side to this: We got Ami Suzuki’s cover of “Potential Break Up Song”.
The worst of it: We’re getting a remake of this in the States.-Bit of famous firsts this episode. This marks the first episode that I’ve used Skype sessions. I’m rather happy with how the editing turned out. This also marks the first use of the Pre-Intro commercial. Every episode from now on will start out with audio from a rather interesting retro Japanese commercial.
-Special thanks to Erin, Noah, and Daryl for appearing in this episode. Oh and thanks to Tyler I suppose…even though you made Mai cry.
OP THEME: Potential Break Up Song - Ami Suzuki meets Aly & AJ
CM OPENING Michael Jackson - Suzuki Love
BGM
-Episode 1 Title - Kamen Rider Faiz OST
-Love Me After 12AM (RAM RIDER Remix) - m-flo loves Alex (CLAZZIQUAI PROJECT)
-Nagato no Kohaku - Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya OST
INSTANT WIN/EPIC FAIL: Tsuburaya Victory/Chaiyo’s Defeat
NEWS LINKS
-Lupin III: Green VS Red Official Site
-Kamen Rider Den-O & Kiva: Climax Deka Official Site
-Godman/Greenman DVD Box @ SciFi Japan
-Takashi Miike Zatoichi Stage Adaptation Trailer
PROJECT FOLLOW UP: Sukeban Deka: Codename=Asamiya Saki
-Series 2, Episode 24: The Last Time We Talked About This Movie
-Idollica’s Sukeban Deka Page: Everything you’ve ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask
VID LINKS:
-Taekwon V CG Test Footage
-Here’s everything you ever need to see of Godman…
-Trailers for the Sukeban Deka movies
-A clip from the infamous sandwich scene. Yeah I know, I forgot they were in New York City
Final Action 1.5 and 2.0 coming soon! Stay tuned folks.
Filed under: Series 4
Man, that kenta fukasaku film was horrible.
Congrats on the 50th episode.
Making Mai cry is what I do best, it seems.
ha, Daryl Surat’s appearance. That should happen more. In fact, there should be a legion of podcasters.
I really, really enjoyed the Sukeban Deka review with Erin and Noah. I really dig those kind of “postmortem” reviews, where the best thing that can be done is regale each other with how bad the whole thing was.