Dub Talk Presents: Summer at the Movies (Season 3) - Summer Wars

0:02 hello humans love machine here with an important message about the video before you this is not to the full film of summer Wars it is however a review for the English dub if you wish to see the full cyber tastic family fest in its animated glory the film can be purchased on home video and streamed on the Internet in North America from Funimation Entertainment please support the official release sincerely the I kicked cosmos but club da I've been sincerely the dub talk podcast we are excited to have you here for the main event especially now that we're in the middle of summer as a standard practice before entering into the podcast before you we just need you to sign the following User Agreement of them so your

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1:41 welcome to the land of dub tock dub talk is a virtual reality where all of the voice acting performances that you have heard in your entire lifetime and billions more that you have been meaning to check out but I've never had the time to are stored within our digital files ready to tell you who is the best of the voice-acting world and who needs to be sent back to the dungeons and to kick-start a part of a fabulous tradition here at dub talk we are once again in the middle of our annual summer at the movies yes summer at the movies because there are so many great anime films out there so we take a break from the Simon the backlog of TV shows let's talk about the films the movies the more high level prestige productions that Japan has put

2:29 out and the fine folks in the english-speaking world who have turned this into a dub for us joining me in this digital world is my beloved co-host Zenith hello everybody I'm Zenith warrior princess and it's been a very long time since I've been on the show no again what were you been for the past couple of months well the I mean I think the last episode I was on was gamers but the thing is there has been some health issues that I've had in the past in the past year I noticed that I could not breathe and that my chest started hurting and it got worse and worse to

3:15 the point that I got sent to the hospital so for the past three months I have been recovering from a very intensive chest surgery and as of right now knock on wood the chest surgery went without a hitch but because of it I am now iron woman or as we said in our previous attempt at recording this I am The Full Metal Alchemist full full metal lesbian alchemist you are the full metal lesbian the full metal lesbian and because essentially what they had to do was they open they took out all my ribs which were deformed and they broke them and they

4:00 put them together with industrial mesh wire and they sewed me back up so I had a week in the hospital and three months recovering from that I have not been able to do anything but I'm doing good now and some of you may notice that my voice is also different that's because my transition is very much underway I have been taking vocal training classes for the past you know a little bit so yeah a lot of things have changed but I'm back I'm doing I'm alive no I'll change for the better too and I'll say on behalf of the many people out there in internet land congratulations on your recovery and your transition and I thank everyone for

4:50 being so helpful and supportive during my time away I I did not want to be away as long as I was but unfortunately on my body decided [ __ ] you happens I mean just think about way down in the future maybe in our lifetime we'll have the ability to take all of our our week meat parts and upload our consciousness to the internet so that we don't have to worry about you know malfunctioning body parts anymore and then I can play pokemon 24/7 for the rest of eternity hey the future is coming people embrace it so with that being said I'm Zenith I'm back hopefully for good I don't have any intensive surgeries that are in the

5:37 future but I'm back I'm lesbian and we're good to go and I'm Noah and I am hetero and I am ready to begin this discussion with my good buddy here because when we decided to decide to talk about summer at the movies for this year we had some some traditions that we needed to get through because back in 2017 we discussed Mamoru Hosoda as the boy and the beast last year 2018 we discussed mom or her so wolf children so we decided to keep the mama Hosoda train chugging along and go back into his film ography with the renowned 2011 movie summer Wars which many of you might

6:26 remember as the the spiritual sequel to Digimon our war game or as we know it in America the first part of Digimon the movie a little bit of a history lesson for those of you who don't know Digimon the movie which is the movie that we got in America with the Angela and Conda bit at the beginning which that was so weird Digimon the movie is actually comprised of three separate movies it was Digimon the first movie and Digimon are war game and then a third one as well the part that was inside the computer where they were fighting the virus that was all taken from Digimon our war game which I've covered on my channel now because

7:13 of how kid-friendly he had to make it for Digimon and because he wasn't really the true lead on the project I believe at the time he decided to redo it and make much more adult much more mature film with summer Wars which is is Digimon with family for a very good reason too now for people who in the 90s probably saw Digimon and know that it's very high on the emotions with blending the the digital world with our world yeah this one this summer Wars movie is a mix of that and heavily inspired by the fact that the director has soda was just married right before he started working on this movie so the sensation

8:00 of taking a group of strangers and suddenly they are your family or rather you have become part of their family was what inspired him to make this movie that boasts over 60 characters I believe not all of them are named characters but like of the actual characters people who like get any focus while there are about 60 or so in there and if you're looking at the bottom of the screen there and you're looking at the time that how long this episode is your part think of yourself well they can't possibly get to all those characters in one podcast Oh trust me we will well you see we have the time stone and we're going to use it in order to make this podcast longer you promise no spoilers for that movie well we're

8:46 recording yeah well we hit that that's not a spoiler I know it's not a spoiler but but it but your reference you're indicating towards things that is very hot right now when were you're recording all I'm saying is that I am I am Doctor Strange and I'm going through time and I'm seeing the potential futures and this is the potential future where the podcast is 16 hours long oh god no no okay get me out of that dimension you sure I'm sure that dimension has like ice cream trees and everybody gets their own slushy machine but I don't want 16 hour podcasts I've got lives to live I'm sure lilac and Megan would kill me I mean it's assuming that they are you

9:32 know able to do that in this dimension I'm sure in that dimension that they are like deities of some sort but anyways on to the actual movie itself that we were talking about so summer Wars there's this high school kid named Kenji is your typical meek nerdy mathematician high school student but his summer is about to change up when his friend not ski who is a very go-getter girl in their class invites him out to her family for a reason that she isn't quite telling him yet now they got to know about not ski is that she comes from a big family and I don't just mean your friend in high school who had a couple of brothers and sisters I mean she is a member of the Jinnah og clan this really old family that they claim they have grades going

10:19 as far back as the how far back was it was like 16 generations is what they say that's a long time so because of that Kenji is suddenly thrust into interacting with this huge group of extended family members most prominently the grandmother the great-grandma sake' who is in experiencing her 90th birthday which is the reason that he's been brought out here and also been brought out here because Natsuki has told her whole family that they are actually engaged because for some reason she needs to let her grandma know that she has a boyfriend so that she will be in good hands I suppose when she dies it's it seems to be like a very traditional mentality but that is how we get this plot moving on so you think hey family

11:06 shenanigans that sounds like an okay movie oh if only it stopped there the real meat of the story begins when basically the internet collapses like like there's a giant AI virus out there called Love Machine that is released onto the reality of Oz which is this digital world that the entire universe the entire world is connected by in this story and because of that Kenji the entire Janu Chi family and a whole world has to get in to defeat this AI before it basically destroys the world the earth and all that we hold dear so we only have 24 hours all we know and it's a little bit longer than that but yeah it basically the whole thing like

11:52 the main takeover takes place over about two days is how long it takes so we should probably decide that we could talk about the family elements we could talk about the philosophy of it we could talk about the great animation but mainly we're here to talk about the dub are you ready then I was born ready because this is such a good film my history with this film actually I watched this as it aired on Toonami and then I said to myself this film is amazing near perfection one of the best ups I've ever heard and I picked it up on blu-ray and it's one of my favorite films excellent I had actually forgotten that they had streamed that on Toonami it's I think it's one of the rare times

12:37 they've streamed an entire movie on the Toonami block I mean they used to do it like they used to have like Akira and stuff way back in the first original Toonami but when it was revived they haven't really shown to too much but they did show summer Wars and that was like back at the time where I was watching the Toonami revival and it was good it was so good and I was really glad that they showed it too because my experience where the film goes back a little further than that I think it was anime central 2012 was when I first got my hands on a copy of this movie and it had already been floating around because 2012 you got to keep in mind was about the time after people were kind of looking for the next Hayao Miyazaki they

13:25 were looking for like the next big anime director a couple names were being floated around which by the way you should not be trying to find the next mom or the next high on Miyazaki every director should stand on their own so Makoto Shinkai was one of the but also was mom or Hosoda and after the success of the girl who left a time summer Wars was the big one that was making the rounds and I'm like I've got to see this I got a copy of it and really liked it I would probably call it my second favorite of his films right behind wolf children I haven't seen wolf children yet so I I will reserve judgment but this is one of my favorite that he's done and I love the girl who left through time so this that's saying a lot sweet alright then so for the man's sophomore solo theatrical film what

14:13 we're not gonna quite count Digimon or the one piece movies his second solo film let's get into it so Funimation picked up this one so we're gonna be talking about a lot of your favorite Texas actors ladies like God's will it is God's will in this movie yes actually my entire yes my entire list of credits here is just God's will he directed it he wrote it he played all the voices he did the music all of it is just that's this is the gods will episode just just saying we love you gods will love you God's will so for for in this reality who actually directed it this was directed by Mike McFarland who is a name that you've probably heard a lot because he's directed a lot of high-profile

14:59 shows and movies for Funimation you probably have heard of a little thing called the blood blockade Battlefront you've heard of a little indie show called Tokyo ghoul and back to our mom or her soda discussion he also directed the boy and the beast did you get an idea of how long he's been there though he also directed the dub for an old show called cotija which if you know your anime history that that is a cell animated series from back in the 90s from the guy who directed the original Fruits Basket anime so yeah Mike's been around for a long time he's been in the game for a while and he's directed some of my favorite dubs obviously blood blockade battlefront is one of my top picks for like best modern dubs so so when I say he's a good

15:45 director he is a good director I'm glad that you mentioned that out because yeah his his cohort in writing this was one Patrick's sites now I already can hear Zen over there be like I know that name and how do you know Patrick sites you thought it would be Patrick's sites but it was I do yes the man who is known all over the world that purchase was our adventure is not just an amazing voice actor he's also a prolific writer as well and he's good at dropping steam rollers on people I don't see it that's what JoJo's Bizarre Adventure reference I don't know it because I haven't gotten that far into the show yet um he's known for za wild oh I see I know that part

16:33 and I haven't even I it's a very popular show let's put that way but on top of he also he wrote for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure wrote script for that he wrote the script for gamers he wrote the script for your lie in April and along with Mike directing he also wrote the script for the boy and the beast as we discussed in the I think a future episode episode the Japanese staff was so impressed with the dub for summer wars that they insisted that the same team he brought back to double tilled Rijn and the boy in the beast which is exactly what happened so both Mike and Patrick this is where they got their start in being the renowned people to cover mom or host films and honestly I love their work I

17:20 have loved every one of Patrick sites his scripts because I think he does a great job of of towing the perfect line between taking a little liberation with jokes with while being super super faithful and it always pays off and this team together just does fantastic work I love I loved what I saw of your lie in April from the the premiere I unfortunately didn't get to see much of it but I loved what I saw of it and me might like it would we actually got to meet Patrick sites and it you know we got to see his work in action and it made my hair stand on end just how good it was and yeah like these are two of

18:07 the top people that I would ask I would want to do this and yeah top notch Wow that is high praise cuz you got to go to the it was at Anime Boston where they had the premiere for your line April wasn't it yes I went to Anime Boston I unfortunately had to leave because other friends wanted me to do something it was it was stupid but anyway I saw the entire like first episode and I met Patrick sites and he he tried to kill the the stuffed Iggy plush I did hear about that and and but we got to see his work in action alongside the Japanese lake director and whatnot because they

18:53 were there it was just a fantastic experience really really good sweet and I'm glad that you pointed out his the liberal use of writing some of the jokes because when you're adapting a theatrical film like this where the Japanese audio is always recorded with a group if you know anything about Japanese voice acting so to get that same feel in an English dub where a lot of the voice actors record individually so they don't have the chemistry of each other in the room you have to have a lot of good back and forth amongst the characters and both Mike's directing and Patrick's writing does really well on that in summer wars one thing I want to point out just just a little taste of how good this overall production is there's a lot of scenes where there's background audio of

19:39 characters talking that it's really ledge not legible isn't listenable like you can't make out the conversations but you can definitely tell that they're filling in that audio to give that nice full family talking atmosphere that you get if that you've been to like big family get-togethers before where there's like third cousins and cousins twice removed what does that even mean and all that background noise going on the way that might direct this and Patrick wrote this definitely captures that sense of chemistry characters talking off of each other a lot of jokes and making fun of each other but still being loving to each other there's like a scene where they're sitting around eating which is the part where they for the most part get the best dialogue

20:24 going back and forth there's like scenes where one of the characters are like super pissed off and their characters are joking around with them and there's laughs there's hugs there's crying oh god is there crying in this movie so everything yeah sorry go ahead it reminds me so much of my big Italian family because I've been to family gatherings like this every Christmas and Easter and in Thanksgiving we have these big family gatherings and like we'll have you know maybe 25 30 people in one house just all talking and you know when someone pushes bus in is like wait a second she has a boyfriend cousin showed it disapproves and it's like I know like I've had family gatherings like this and it's just so heartwarming because I

21:10 relate to it very hard and that's probably something that we haven't I don't know about you but I can't really point to any medium that really captured that sense like there's a lot of maybe something like My Big Fat Greek Wedding is like that but nothing that's quite this something like this in animation that I've seen before yeah no not in animation um maybe a couple of like the big family movies like father of the bride does come to mind but it it's very few and far between because you have to have a big family and unless you're Greek or Italian like that's kind of dying out these days and even then my family's doing the link to so right I mean for

21:55 the to give a sense of this how this family works there is a core group the family is still living in the part of the country where this movie takes place in but everybody else is kind of like traveling in from around the country so it's definitely a big family and but it's a rarity that they get the whole family together so that it's I think that's why a lot of the chemistry also works because it's like these people who don't see each other all the time but when they do is just like great chemistry amongst each other mm-hmm they they work off each other so well and that that's what a family dynamic is like I I remember we had a funeral one time and I got to see a whole bunch of family members I hadn't seen in years and it was like we had never left you know it's just one of

22:41 those things yeah you can just pick up where you left off yeah yeah so yeah the Patrick's writing captures that Mike directing the 20-plus characters that are on screen at the same time captures that and a particular note not just the family scenes where there's a lot of people talking but there are a couple of really notable quiet scenes too where there's like maybe just two characters talking to each other and in those we also get a depth of emotions being conveyed just from single lines of dialogue there's one character who comes back we'll talk about him a bit he comes back he's been like exiled by the family for a while and in one line grandma sake' says to him have you eaten yet that single delivery convey such a sense

23:27 of condescension at maybe had him not having good life choices while simultaneously concerned for how well he's been taking care of himself it's those little touches like that that are the strength of the original Japanese and are well conveyed from the translation into the English mm-hmm especially when it comes to her speech near the end where she writes the letter to on to the the black sheep of the family as it were and it's just like you could tell well she was Stern she always loved him and wanted the best for him even though she she was ready to fight him with a spear when he dishonored the family the granny's bad ass she is such a [ __ ] she is up there on the list of

24:14 badasses with granny from Looney Tunes and I don't have a second opinion picture out here but yeah there's he's definitely the most badass grandma you've ever seen so in that sense we we will begin to talk about these characters so yeah so Mike and Patrick excellent work on this one there's a reason that the Japanese cast said we need these guys to direct the English dub for all of our movies going forward mm-hmm all right so let's get into the meat of this so how are we going to discuss such a big family normally on dub talk we discuss characters in terms of relevance we start with the least relevant and go all the way up to the main characters we can't quite do that with us because it would be confusing and everyone has pretty much equal importance so here's how we're gonna do

24:59 this we're gonna start with the three kids of granny Sakai we're gonna start with basically okay so you got granny the 90 year old whose birthday is coming she and her husband who we never meet had a couple of kids and we're gonna talk about those three kids right now because each of those three kids has their own family so we'll talk about those individual families as we go along hopefully that will help making discussing this a little bit easier and also if you have seen this movie but we're confused about who was related and how hopefully this will help you out a little bit all right you raise then I believe I am ready all right all right let's discuss the first three okay so granny's kids first we have Monica who is the doctor of the family

25:47 he is the one who is keeping an eye on granny his avatar is like a dr. mario pill with a stethoscope on it mom and he is actually the youngest of the kids so we have him we have mmm aunt Marty Co who is the first one that we see we get to the house if you've seen the movie her line is like thank you for the happy birthday wishes but it's my mom's birthday yeah I look 90 and I love that I love that so much because I would be I would so be the person to accidentally do that you think you're being polite but nope you just called a 70 year old woman 90 you look very good for your age

26:34 she took it so well too and then last we have months okay who is the gruff bearded blond-haired guy with a boat like he is the one who comes in and the first thing he's got to show everyone I got squid and more squid and for dessert more squid isn't he the guy who teaches martial arts to the other kid and he also is the one who is a sensei to a character who will talk about later because he taught him shaolin kung foo which is awesome we've got a trio of pretty unique and self-sustaining characters in this whole group so let's talk about them Mozza cute doctor is played by Barry Yandel now if that name

27:21 doesn't sound familiar you've definitely heard him before he is so Rob ooh I'm sorry Zaa rubra in Garo the entire franchise he is Yaya Maru in Seven Samurai and he is none other than God in love tyrant for Aunt Monaco we have Shelly Colleen black and something I didn't realize until I looked into her cast list but she actually mostly does dubbing work at Sentai Filmworks instead of Funimation as evidenced by her role in shows as Keo in Clannad henrietta in law horizon and lula in red garden so this is a very interesting case where we got players from all over the dubbing world we'll talk about that a little bit more when

28:06 we get to our lead character and finally four months ok we have the illustrious John Swayze it's a gruff sounding guy who you've definitely heard as sir oku in Alison's aruku since gonna know this one he's grandpa sends I'm on in food Wars the guy whose shirt rips open when you think you've made me take my shirt off that's the guy and tying back into the mama Hosoda filmography he is kumatetsu the beast himself in the boy and the beast I have to imagine that the Japanese people saw his role in this movie and thought hey that guy he should be kumatetsu in boy

28:53 in the Beast if they had any say in this whatsoever I mean it is very fitting and to be perfectly frank I love John Swayze the most out of this group because he's very good at not just being the happy-go-lucky gruff guy but being very down-to-earth and understanding and have he has this tone about him that can really switch between our a we need to be serious now and I brought squid it's just the Jolly Green Giant of anime characters and he just gets it across so damn well there I'll say that Shelley and Barry do very good jobs but I think Manske stands out the most simply because of the

29:39 performance and he does get a little bit more focused because he helps out more in the film I mean obviously Mon sac who is the doctor and he has a big role but III just I've always loved John's way see the most out of this group simply because of the heart he brings to this character even though he's sometimes his heart is bigger than his head in instances where he he basically is the first one to shout out we're going to destroy this AI computer and we're going to dedicate the memory of our relatives to the defeat here like he's ready to go to war over a computer virus then again he is the one who's always obsessed with like war and battles and tells stories of of how the

30:26 clan did this and that and then back in the whatever period and yep that's the kind of like that's the kind of old person I really like because he's not obsessed with history but he understands it and uses it to help out in the future and I love how he uses that to teach you know kung-fu and stuff like that so it's really valuable in this movie yeah yeah good point you brought up that one of the stories of their family the genichi family is that they they managed to defeat an army that was way bigger than they were just by leading them into leading the enemy into a trap that basically meant that they had nowhere to retreat so the they could you know shoot them like fish in a barrel

31:11 and llego genichi and they actually use that strategy in the movie and it comes back to help them in the movie tying it all together yeah this is a really well-written movie a lot of connections there yeah Barry on Dells voice is fittingly pervy when he needs to be because he's the the perforated guy who says so ken Kenji you've you've knocked up our relative right that's why you're here right because you got her in a family way right pushes up glasses yes very good in their home yeah yeah Barry's fitting for that like I don't like it when dubbing Studios get younger actors

31:57 to try to be older because it's not always very convincing that there are some exceptions like Damon Mills sounded really old in eure ah nice but in instances like this where you have an old character you need a voice that has that age and whether to it and very definitely brings that he never loses his cool either he's got this um this it's not that he doesn't give it him it's that he's very super focused on exactly what's going on and doesn't let it get to him his instance where like the world is coming apart because of the of Love Machine destroying the world and everyone's freaking out about I ordered just the right amount of red and white steamed buns for everyone and he's nonchalantly reading the paper it's like probably won't even get here problem solved

32:42 it was a very necessary laugh to get out of a situation where the whole world was crap and we won't have the buns for the funeral but there's a little bit bigger priorities I I love that the the the Monaco side of the family is all focused on like making the dinner and not about saving the world Oh trust me if you you probably mean you come from an Italian family you know relatives like that that are like the first thing is not save the world it's make sure that this family gets together is flawless yeah it's always like you have to do this we have to get this ready I'm like I just want to eat good food what do you have to stress out about it it's all about the company right yeah yeah as long as

33:28 you're with good family with good people like the message of this film as long as you have family nothing else matters that is true to give credit though to to Shelley Killeen black she's got this very worn down attitude like not that she's like not enthusiastic cuz she's very enthusiastic but she's definitely got a maternal enthusiasm to her that helps complement the her two brothers because they're they're more focused on saving the world but she's focused on you know keeping the family together and keeping traditions alive which is also valuable I think in this particular film we may not appreciate it as much just because of priorities but there is an amine there's a giant missile going fair

34:15 house dudes and what does she go for when the missiles coming down like did you see what she grabbed out of the house she grabs the the samurai helmet of all things we have to preserve the history I can't blame her for that but it's like of all the things you could have grabbed not like one of the kids or the dog like nope the Samurai helmet it's okay we can have more kids it's no joke we don't need any more so yeah so for these three they cover very different types of kids they were obviously raised by the same parents but they turned out very differently in terms of like where their priorities are one is chill as a doctor the other is like a good Maitreya

35:01 and the other one is just he didn't he never quite grew up he still thinks he's like 25 and in he acts like it too like he's this big friendly old man like yeah I think in every family there's one of the these like super cool chill like guy in his 60s who has like a sports car or something like that who's just the chillest mofo of all time you know it you know he would if he wasn't spending on the boat and then he would have a sports car it's like you know it's a flashy bow tie with a DS did you see that yes he does and if they do some badass stuff and I love the product placement because like everyone has like

35:46 being sisters there's a lot of DS I mean I have to assume they got they got permission to have that in there cuz it's not just like knockoff like the buttons and the design everything like it's very clear what it is yes so that is our three main characters so I'm like we don't have any qualms with them they fill those roles very well what do you say we talk about their individual families shall we yes let us go down the family tree all right let's do this all right so first thing we're gonna talk about is we're gonna talk about Otmar eCos family with a bit of a caveat so aunt Marco has two kids and we meet both of them in the movie we meet Rika genichi and we meet Richie Gino you cheap and you've seen them in

36:32 the movie they they show up right near the beginning on a motorcycle the on a motorcycle is dream driven by Richie and Rika is the one who tosses the helmet back to him and she's also very valuable in research because she is a member she's like she works for the government or something like that but those are at Marcos kids because we have one more space in this section to talk about we're also going to talk about one other character and that is you Kiko you Kiko is actually the daughter of one other kid of Sakai who we never see because we talked about Sakai three kids there was a fourth one whoo ice we assumed passed away before

37:18 the movie started because we never see them but that kid did have one daughter and that was you Kiko and you Kiko is the mother of Natsuki the main girl in this movie so if you're wondering like how Natsuki is tied to all of this not sakis grandfather or grandmother we don't know died boys movie star did but we do see her mother so that so we're lumping her into this part of the category so yeah I'm saying go ahead um I you think they all do a good job the thing is these three aren't as important as the other three they have their roles but they're more background than the others and I think they do suitably well um like they do their jobs very you know they perform just as well as the other

38:04 cast there's just not a lot of them to really discuss that is true and that is why we'll focus a little less on these ones but to give them their due credit Rika is voiced by Cynthia Krantz if again if you haven't heard that name before you have definitely heard her and some like where have you heard her before you have heard her and okay pull this up really quickly okay you have heard her as Pharaoh in Gunslinger Girl you've heard her as Belle Amir in one piece and Belle mer Belle is it Belle mer I'm sorry Belle mer Belle mer in one piece and for all you pervs out there she is Torah no in valkyrie drive if you haven't seen that ones then it's a it's a fanservice fiesta are there lesbians there watch so Oh God are there lesbians

38:52 I'll watch it if there's lesbians Oh God we gave yeah we gave her a new thing to watch moving on her brother Richie who is I should point out is in the self-defense force and he is very valuable later on the movie although he never tells us what he does in the self defense divorce that's classified information I'm sorry that's classified okay are you pulling a horror he Suzumiya reference on us that's classified and yes I am it's a plane that classified is Chuck Huber he's been in he's been around for a while actually he's if you've seen initial D which you should he plays you eg if you've seen juni Tyson he plays the dog but but I'm assuming this crowd

39:39 here is more of the shown any type of listener so you've probably heard her it pert heard him in a little indie project called soul leader as dr. Frankenstein the guy with the big bolt in his head also known as he a in you you hakusho also known as the devil and Bach know he plays the devil really well yeah yeah he's such a nice good-natured devil but he's a great devil and to round out we'll give a little discussion to you Kiko's voice actress who is honest a CEO Munez such a fun name to say Anastasia Munoz I believe the Anastasia Munoz thank you thank you it was supposed to put a tilde over one of the letters so I knew how to

40:24 pronounce it but I forgot to do that but you've heard her as Keo in bento you've heard her as Minerva in Fairy Tail and you've heard her as Azusa in Shiki which is a scary show that Lila keeps telling me I need to watch yeah everyone's saying that I actually haven't seen much of the fairytale dub so I haven't seen any of her roles in those but I've heard her name before so I should know all right did you have any impressions about her I believe two lines of dialogue in this movie I performed them quite admirably admirably like they all have a role in this but a lot of her role is let's get things done and in the background you know if she doesn't go to the foreground and I think she did well

41:10 for that well her her main contribution to this is that she's the one who's stuck in traffic when the whole internet collapses yeah one who's GPS is broken yep and and like there's a lot of family members that are on their way which is why like you know the the government people and that there's people will talk about later like the firefighter and the the rescue worker like they're stuck outside of the action well do stuff yep so but for that one line I agree Anastasio did it very well it like I could have seen them maybe giving her a more [ __ ] or freaked out a voice to it because as she said it was wall-to-wall traffic but no she gave it

41:55 a more calm down and don't worry I'll get there when I get there kind of mentality which is good because everyone else is freaking out so it was kind of we had at least one character who was like just go with the flow que sera sera kind of voice mm-hmm as that was for Cynthia and Chuck actually we talked about Chuck because he his character is very prominent he doesn't say too much although he gives us a lot of insight because he's the one on the motorcycle who is basically implies this whole thing this whole Love Machine thing might be terrorism yeah he's the one who finds out like basically kind of what's going on and explains it to the family and it's a very Chuck Huber role like I think he does a good job in in making it

42:42 um very hush-hush I'm a government person it's classified I can't tell you but I'm gonna tell you right yeah its sharp and it's low and it's very yeah it's very commanding it's the kind of guy who I would follow into battle like if that guy was leading the charge I feel confident in going along I would I would go along with him I mean he has a class motorcycle he's hot he's got a Milliman band antenna module he I don't know what that means but I said I'm assuming it's useful it's also because of their connection said they can get access to a lot of technology that they shouldn't have yeah couple of family members have that and we'll get into

43:27 that also in a bit but yeah the fact that he has technology that he's not really allowed to tell us about is a pretty is useful because we didn't have that we might not have been able to have survived this war hehe but uh of the three my favorite is definitely Cynthia she gets the most she's the school just of the of the female characters but it's all played for comedy yeah she's the one who who rides in on her bicycle and says not ski your boyfriend's a con artist hey check the directory his family's not old in fact that's just random office worker he probably can't even find the US on a map I love I love her role so much and yeah like it's mostly comedic relief but it's just like

44:15 oh my god is she I know someone like that like researching everything about your boyfriend like oh this two-timing son of a I am going to get him I'm going to find out everything let me check his facebook page oh if only it stopped there for this woman yeah so for what they needed to fill I agree these three characters help them very well yeah I need to find qualms with any of this but the thing that I'm finding as we go more into this is that everyone has a distinct enough voice that you can most part be able to tell the difference between them not just in the way that they talk but also the way that they act so that is that's hi props for this dub

45:01 especially from a cast of character of actors who are already really well talented shows really good direction as well so good job Mike and good job Cynthia Chuck in anastasiya good job all right so we have covered the Marco side of the family let's move on to another siblings family shall we all right all right so remember you were talking about badass kungfu grandpa before let's talk about his family a little bit dead let's talk about Uncle montz Kay's family kungfu grandpa has family yes let's do that so matzo Kay had three three children and of those three two of them have had children we're gonna talk about one of

45:46 those children here so we'll have four characters talked about here the first one we're gonna talk about is Kiyomi Kiyomi is the very pregnant mouth area in this movie she's the she's the mother of Kazuma and she's she's got the more deeper lower voice doesn't get as much prevalence in the fight against love machine but she definitely was very necessary in fleshing out Kosmas character so I'm glad that we have her we also have Naomi who has probably the most dynamic design of any of the characters she's the redheaded one who we find out it's actually divorced that's why she has a different last name her last name is Miwa um but she's uh he has a very shark biting attitude but you

46:34 know she looks good I'll give her that hehe and then the last son of matza K is Tosca who is the very big lips kind of larger character who looked her I think what did he bring to the fight again he he brought something important I'm Jarrett with oh right uh what was it a teraflop supercomputer yeah he bought one of the best computers in the entire world why can't I have one of those I need for streaming I could just see that now and hello guys welcome to Zenith stream here you will see my serial experiments lain style supercomputer so we can play this game and now you'll see

47:20 that everyone can actually listen in without any delays this is my super mega ultra computer which can play two games at once yeah while I render a video I'd like to think that maybe I was a little bit more necessary that we use that technology to defeat mutant AI trying to destroy the internet but but I have to win in the video game we'll do that after this oh no speaking speaking of being thinking of winning the game Tosca has a son who we see in this movie is a bit of a whiny [ __ ] his name is shota and he is the police officer who just barges into the movie shouting boyfriend nuts kee got a boyfriend

48:06 cousin shota objects dammit I was too slow cousin shota is the best because he's the bubbling buffoon and everything that comes out of his mouth is is so funny like he's the one who arrests the the main character when he thinks he's the one and he think the whole time is just like yeah this'll teach you ideas for dating Natsuki so yeah he's um he's a necessary pain in the ass for the movie he's a well-meaning bumbling buffoon and I love him I don't know if he's well meeting sometimes I think like maybe he's not thinking in general and that's his problem he's a little bit dizzy lube blonde just a little bit before the actors for this

48:53 one so four months a case family Kiyomi is voiced by Jennifer seaman and she has one of my favorite voices of the entire show here you have heard her as ryuko in shangri-la you've heard her as akka Guinea in basilisk but I know her best as the narrator for the show mushishi she's got this okay I I have seen mushishi yeah she's got this little deep otherworldly voice to her and for she gets a handful of lines in this one and she uses that deep world voice for maternal effect on this one yeah she has a very good presence in the film if nothing else like it's just soothing very sit thank you that's a

49:41 good word for it let me put that down soothing thank you alright on the opposite end of soothing we haven't done your homeys voice actress who is Lydia Mackay now Lydia has a wide range of roles such as Conoco in blood sea ray in Deadman Wonderland boa in one piece and cysts in Eden of the East ah boa Hancock Hancock ooh again your your much more into the franchise I will ever be so I'm gonna have you as my guide for who the characters are that I mentioned let me put it to you this way boa Hancock is the most beautiful woman in the world in the one-piece universe so and that's saying a lot for that

50:26 franchise isn't it considered I mean there's there's characters that have come later that I think are hotter but it originally considered the most beautiful woman in one piece understood for a toss k we have John Burke Meyer good good boy and I say good boy because to me his most famous role is Shigure a in Fruits Basket the dog character he's also 10 in dragon ball and he is Kurama in YuYu Hakusho oh he he is one of my favorite pretty boys yet he is a very pretty boy you know if if I wasn't so gay I would totally jump him because he's hot it's

51:12 not too late to switch to the by wagon I mean there are times I say that but then again I don't think Ari would like that no I will just trim this part out here so she doesn't have to hear that so go we're moving on here and for shota we have Mike mcFarland I don't know if you've ever heard have you heard the name Mike McFarland before um I didn't think so I mean there's some guy named Seth McFarland that I've heard of but not mine oh you are so lucky you are many many states away from me because I would I would not settle for that no no I've heard like what you do it you you hit you hit my pain button there my me McGee I mean Todd McFarland no no I mean Seth MacFarlane died I do not like Family Guy I do no no I know I'm

51:59 okay again people people so lucky that there she is so lucky there are multiple states between us oh my god anyways but we were talking about Mike Mike's been in a few indie shows like he's gene and a show called attack on Titan he's dealt dro in blood blockade Battlefront yes del Jo I could just see you jumping up and down over and you see right now and and also tip for all you Shonen fans out there because you were probably murder me if I didn't mention Master Roshi from Dragon Ball as probably Mike's most famous role mm-hmm yeah so the maan ski family for for such a over-the-top guy is Monza kay how do we feel about his three kids and his grandson

52:46 shota I think they all have very distinct voices and personalities and that's very hard in a family this big but the thing is because Mon sky is the the standout for me it only stands that their voices would stand out more to me too I think all of these do great obviously cousin shota Mike McFarland is is extremely wonderful in his role I love love love what he brings to the table extremely comedic very distinct and the rest of them are very much you know standout family members like you you know the family members when you're talking and you can definitely hear them in the background and pick them out of the crowd these are these people

53:32 these are the people who like they're loud and boisterous but they're also very kind-hearted and generous and I think all of them bring that energy to the table hello oh there you are I'm sorry yeah I finish what I was saying okay no I know I heard that but I thought it had cut out for something anyway we'll just trim this part out yeah with the with the range of characters that we have here it really makes me think that of the writer for this or the director or whoever was working on this like just hold personalities from their own family members and you know just guys stuck them in this movie and I'm sure there's a relative of Mamoru Hosoda who's

54:17 watching the movie going like man that character looks and feels and acts a lot like me wait a minute I definitely uh I think Jennifer's voice like her naturally rich full voice is so fun to listen to here and the fact that we get to hear it here for like a very comforting and then at our times very worried voice really drives home a lot of the emotional points of this movie like she's the one who is really concerned about the end of the world coming and she's like this can't be happening it's just a game right and that thing really drives home a lot of I think how we were all feeling about the internet coming to an end like some of us may think no that's not gonna be anything about the real world but no this is very much the end of the real world in a very real way so so they're

55:05 not airing the real world anymore that's a tragedy Wow again you wrecked is hitting all the pain points tonight like I could get on a helicopter right now and be over at your front door in okay may take a couple of hours but I'll be there well I have an attack cat or I need to jump you and and she's vicious when bring it on I cheat it's okay I'll take you out for ramen actually okay actually I will be there but Ford let's finish this podcast or do that Lydia Lydia's design her entire redheaded spinster design as they actually call her what I would think would lead to a more a more sinister

55:50 cynical kind of character but she's not she's like a fashionista kind of person with her and that goes with the way that Lydia portrays her as well she's got a very full and round feminine voice that sounds different from a couple of the our characters we talk about who are more housewife's and that's not meant to be an insult like I mean actually like they got the personality of people who are focused on their kids who keep the house running like really doing the hard work that goes underappreciated and Lydia's Naomi is like the opposite of that you know she's more of the I'm still young I still want to live I'm still in the part of my life kind of moment which is the way she was written and Lydia portrays that very well by contrast john burke meyers Tosca is the most normal sounding voice not the

56:38 most normal character but the most normal sounding voice of all the characters the whole thing she's got the most straight voice and that kind of makes it contrast to the fact that he's lugging around supercomputers for the government he just kind of comes out of nowhere like you have this unassuming guy who's like you know he's like this larger looking guy and he's got access to super computers like what the heck well I mean I don't tell you everything that I do I have hobbies and then we have the best housewife ever no a clue hey I bake a mean shepherd's pie I would cook for you every night if I could your sweets are amazing and you are a wonderful father thank you you know I

57:25 don't pay you right like sucking up is not gonna get you a higher pay grade well you let me just say hi to your cute daughter so that was payment enough that is true I you know I do have to come over there sometime I have to come over to your neck of the woods just so we can visit you should come over and say hi and my my cat can attack you we can have ramen and then I can tell you how do you you you need to settle down with a good woman and have more kids you are so lucky Jennifer can't hear you right now no I I kid I kid I can't kidding just like family does sometimes right and as a I wouldn't agree with everything you said about Mike McFarland it showed he's just this just a constant ball of

58:11 insecurity and it's the kind of voice that doesn't sound like Mike's norm speaking voice which is impressive that he can keep it going throughout the whole thing there's a couple of lines where he dips down into his non screechy voice like where he's he took all the ice and he's putting it out for granny so I got that part Oh God the world I felt so bad because he was only meaning well cuz it was the hottest day ever and he didn't want her to like you know be sicker than she already was and die yeah god that was awful yeah who wants who wants her to get any worse since she already has but I'm pretty sure that that was written into the show so that he could be given like

58:57 some semblance of redemption and yeah rightly so you know he's just doing his job so yeah Mike's portrayal of that is like he got to be fun and cartoonish and it's a lot of fun to listen to so I think we've covered the maan ski family there's one Mormont ski character who of course we'll talk about near the end but for now I think we're ready to move on shall we yes let us continue alright this is a huge batch right here because we've covered two of the genichi kids now we're gonna talk about the one who has the biggest family of them all uncle mon Saku to the doctor had three sons and each of those three sons has their own family so it's in order to keep this nice concise we were gonna talk about those three sons and their respective

59:42 wives who the wives get way more development in the movie because they are the ones who are at the house helping to get ready for the big party while their husbands are working but we'll give a little bit of focus here so let me just go over the whole thing in order here and then we'll talk about it so we have katsu Kiku Jenna og played by Christopher sabot he is a policeman and his wife ume played by Monica rial you know you me because she's the one who was cheering for their son's baseball game throughout the entire movie yes yes she is one of the fun characters she is very fun character she she's like Pete aunt is the way I look at her alright also we have ki nahi cogenitor ji played by Patrick sites he is like a police sarana please fire chief sergeant

1:00:30 so yeah also in the fire department and his wife naina jumuchi she is the she's the one with blonde hair and she's much more chill than any of the other wives that we meet like she's got a more demure personality and lastly we have Yuri hiko Jinnah ouchy played by Robert McCallum he is the one who is in the ambulance he's an EMT for the city and his wife Noriko Jinnah eg played by Colin Clinkenbeard she she's the darker haired frizzy-haired one who is like part of the squad who is helping to get ready for the party and also taking care of things after the whole world basically just is going crazy so that is our quick wait what is six I know quintet is five what's six let's

1:01:18 say said templates set up with septuplets maybe I don't know I don't know kids the six fold the six fold the characters we'll talk about here alright so then I'm gonna have you go first so any major thoughts about any of the characters you don't have to talk about all of them if you don't have thoughts about them but like anything that really stood out to you um the thing is with these characters three of them are away like the MT the firefighter in the cop are are off doing their own thing and they get brief moments but they're they're both firefighters I'm sorry one of them is not a cop they're both firefighters okay yeah so so those three are a way for most of it although they do come in later and the wives aside from the soccer mom is is is often like prepared

1:02:03 Jesus I it's not come on and honestly I think the soccer mom is probably my favorite out of this group simply because she has the the more fun role and it brings out so much joy to that role I think she stands out the most the rest of them do a great job it's just their roles are very small and it's like I can't really latch on to to too much obviously these are pretty well-known actors Chris Sebata Patrick sites do you know calling Clinkenbeard Caitlyn class Robert McCulloch Nimonic really all of these are well-known voice actors they're just performing roles that are background and but yeah the one that stood out for me was soccer mom because she was so much fun especially when she got dragged away

1:02:49 from the TV yeah that kind of led to a little bit of confusion in the way it was delivered because Mariko is the one who says we got a lot of people coming come help your mom in the kitchen which led me the first time I watch this to think that Yumi was like one of her daughters but no I would the way that the script is worded out here in-laws are basically treated with the same gravitas as your actual mother and father which makes sense because I mean that's something that we do in Italian families and in Japan family is a big thing so when you're married in you like they're your family right right and it sounds like they have all interacted with each other enough

1:03:35 like obviously you know been long enough to have kids that they are it's not like it doesn't feel awkward or doesn't feel shoehorned in anymore you know it's very natural to have that name interaction mm-hmm so and I'll agree with you that while Chris Patrick and Robert have very distinct voices like you can hear it's obviously Chris who's saying we came here because a fire alarm went off but when we got here nothing was on fire it's been like that all morning it's like a very distinct voice or you've got Robert McCallum on the EMT who picks up the phones like ambulance five granny how did you get this number yes it's like they are very distinct personalities and if there's something you can give these voice actors you can

1:04:22 always pick them apart I mean Chris savate you should know him from many roles obviously Zorro he has a distinct voice Patrick sites has a distinct voice Robert McCulloch they all have their very distinct vocal tones and it works for these characters yeah and they're supposed to be like there's a huge sense of like Japanese traditional family roles in in the sense that like you do your job really well for the better of society so the fact that these guys are super devoted to their work like even after it's okay dyes they're concerned about work even though they're supposed to be you know taking time off for family reasons and these three I kind of give off that very traditional sense of like you know supportive fathers and husbands

1:05:10 who take good care of their family and the country as a whole and I'm saluting to a Japanese flag right now mm-hmm they do their job very well I like their characters I like their wives I just you know they're not very they're important in the film for several scenes but their importance is not as important as some of the other characters hey hey hey now are you telling me that going playing video games to save the world is not important because they actually say we're gonna like those thirty years of video games is going to come in handy as they take an axe break down part of Oz to break into the fire water system to basically flood the living hell out of love machine you don't that part was really cool and I love how their avatars were their jobs and I'm like now I can

1:05:57 recognize dance hell yeah cuz design-wise like character design wise I don't look to dissing from each other yeah so like that you could tell with it the way they do that and and honestly they they had a lot to do in helping is saved from lava machine even though they were out in the job a lot of the time they were like saving the world and saving lives that's true let's let's not over amp let's not underestimate how important that is as for the wives yeah allegory Noriko and Nana caitlin as Colin and klinken Colleen Clinkenbeard and Caitlin glass have distinct voices from each other like the first relative that we meet on our way from Tokyo to out in the

1:06:44 country is Noriko is a person we interact with and she and she starts to explain the entire legacy of the genichi family about how they used to have a lot of money they made a fortune in the silk industry and like a couple generations ago grandpa like pissed it all away who would have thought that Luffy would care about history wants to be the the king of the guy again you're gonna give me a line from the show to go off of here cuz all I know is I want to be king of the Pirates wants to be king of the janu cheese anyway and as for Caitlyn she each of these wat each of these housewives feels

1:07:31 like a very different kind of personality noriko is like the more no-nonsense level you me is like you said the very enthusiastic sucker mom and Nana is like I said a little bit more the demure I guess the sort of stereotypical Japanese housewife and she has a daughter who looks just like her so it kind gives the sense that you know she's a very very supportive and very necessary part of the family and Kaitlyn who is renowned for being like being very good at doing over-the-top wild and crazy voices like she was Miria on baka know but this time she knows she gets to do a more laid-back lacks personality I'm ashamed to say I don't really remember anything specifically about Nana like her dialogue aside from

1:08:17 the fact that she seems to be the newest member of the family because when one character comes back the black sheep of the family comes back she does not know who he is because they had just been that long since he's been here yeah I think she's like more of a recent marriage yeah so like I said different kinds of housewives for this huge family mm-hmm and let us not go by without giving high praise to Monica rial for just absolutely blowing out of the water with you me shouting at the screen cheering him on munching on a bag of cookies when she's nervous all around like I deal peak aunt like she almost reminds me of like my aunt married in just enthusiastic personality I love how she keeps throwing the megaphone and

1:09:03 then picking it back up to shout stupid Probe already so yeah like we said this is a huge group and they're all really good in supporting levels here but I think we should move on because we've got another equally important group to talk about so we just about all of months case family mountainside Monza coos children and their wives and he's got a bunch of grandkids too if you've watched this movie and you see a lot of little kids going everywhere every one of the little kids is Monceau coos grandchild yeah busy oh yeah he was he got around and so did his sons apparently his sons got

1:09:49 around so uh so we will talk about them some of them are a little bit too young to get too much development but we'll still give a mention here so the first three that we're going to talk about are all Yumi's children we have Rio Hey who is the baseball player he is the one who we you know is actually playing baseball and he is voiced by Jason labret and Jason Lee Brecht oh I'm so glad we get to talk about Jason lip rekt again cuz oh boy do I have words about Jason Labrecque anyways but he's you've heard him and stuff like um he's the alien yaha queuesession yeah I'm sure I mispronounced that from kado the right

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