Hello, ladies and gentlemen, co-host and producer Doug here, yet another exclusive convention episode. We recap NDK or non-dice Yukon 2016, and then that is followed by the Q&A with Chris Bevins, director, creator, voice actor, phenomenal human being, and a really good friend of one of our favorite guests from last year, Tell us and Joffy. So, hope you enjoy! I feel like WCLP.
That's what he said, literally. Putting it in your ear. So we were reporting from the lobby lounge bar? That's the mix.
Perfect. We're going to make some more. They just like to do their own piece. So we're from mix 16, I believe?
Or 16 mix? No, it's just mixing. No, it's a little 16, it's part of our team class. Yeah.
Okay. Her sign on the door is as mixed. So we just got done with NDK. Holy shit.
It was fun. It was an experience you did better than last year. That was the thing we did. We were as frenzied and...
We learned a few things. Learned a few things. I always do all the research when you're going to resettle the first day in case one of the oversleaves and half of the signatures of the notes to someone else. And steal multiple kinds of paper and pens.
Actually, that was a few left, and when I did that, the totally worked out. It was wrong. I was going to say when we did the press setup, I stole it. The recording of the saying he was wrong.
Holy shit. The press setup, I stole three or four kinds of paper and pens and just stuck them in my purse and they had to come in really useful. What about that? Eventually, when we had to text me the notes we had.
So, I'm sorry, Lauren Landra. Landa. Landa. Landa.
You were going to talk about leaving the hot box trick and just killed us. Put us in a car and get off the stone? That's exactly what I was thinking. She wore well underwear the summertime?
That was a lot more pleasant. I don't love her pants. Oh, I said oh, I said hot box. You said hotbox.
I said, I meant hotbox straight. You mean hot trick? Yeah. You just said hotbox again.
Shit. You are so cut off. Are you driving home? Okay, good.
Yeah. So we got- The hot trick in projection. Well, not only was it the third time- Not only was it the third time in a really bad and cancelled with an interview with her. It's twice in the same conference because we got cancelled yesterday and then we got cancelled again and today with the makeup rescheduled from yesterday.
Yeah, put it on our interview with the cancelled list yesterday. The main time rescheduled with us. You heard it was late on a Sunday. Yeah, it was awesome.
Yeah, it was awesome. Oh, and what does this, Annie? Hi, I'm Andrew. And for our official interview.
And Deb, who's been gone for a long time. He's back. He's super. How often?
What does he think tells the heart? I know. I can. What's because you're sitting right here.
He's actually talking. You know, why is this- I say the nice thing? He says he's not. I would go there for him.
That's no. Unless your name is Doug. It makes you both seem to be. Anything.
Oh, and Doug. And Doug. I'm Doug. I'm Doug.
I'm Doug. I'm Doug. I'm wrong. Well, we're a favorite callback joke.
I'm Doug. I've been a great. I'm a great. I'm a great.
Yeah, just keep working in conference. We're going to function. We had good panels. We had good group interviews.
Yeah, we have. We didn't get to do any singles. No, we haven't. Chris Bevins.
No, I haven't. I was going to say we had another group in there with us. Oh. Yeah, we didn't get to do any single interviews.
But the two groups that we kept getting stuck with, the round tables were really good. Like groups. Oh, they're great. And we're going to have to pinch them later on.
I have a feeling you should not have joined that giant big shot to get you because you're already getting a little blurring. Well, she was really celebrating the fact that you're leaving my car. Who's that? My car got blocked for some reason.
You're only starting to get nyled in the art of your cell. We can be a little louder than you. We're going to have bars. We can be loud.
We can be yelling. We can be loud. We can be loud. We can be loud.
We can be yelling. We can be loud. We can be loud. We can be loud.
We can be loud. We can be loud. We can be loud. We can be loud.
You're reconevant and yeah, baby. I would say when I was Chris Patton, when my favorite panels was Chris Patton. Which we could not record at, fortunately. Uh, we recorded for about 15 minutes until he said we can record it anymore.
We're not using that. Yeah, it's not too, we're not releasing what we recorded whether he said it up front or not. Let's be respectful. The best four minutes, the best four words of a panel.
Comm-gugling gutterslucks. I'm not a good person, I'm not a good phrase. No, but he's a good person. I think we're walking in.
It was very clean, dude. So we had a really good belly-gosh panel and round table interview. Yes, we did record the rest of my shot game. The rest of my shot game.
We did record that panel which is awesome and I think you videotaped his entrance and put it on the Instagram. Oh no, we got that. It's on the Instagram. Okay.
We had the little, when he finally got his phone to work after I gave him the internet. He gave me the gift of the internet. He gave me the gift of the internet. It's what I do.
Yeah, that's the little internet. I don't see a gift of the internet. Just all the salad fingers almost immediately on arrival and I knew it was going to be a good weekend. Yeah, so, what was your favorite?
I was like, oh, yeah. Just panel. Or just talk. Or event.
Always just fun to be here to see everybody being weird together. So it's not weird anymore. It's kind of like everybody's super so nobody is. Okay.
Everyone's special. And the other one is, actually, well, the best thing is seeing people watch and see everybody down here for a taste of Colorado. And not now. React to this.
Why are there like six Sailor Moon's on the six-year-old? I mean, they should be so lucky. But yeah, no, I think that's actually one of my favorite favorites. It's just like the people watching is really fun.
So, we got a lot of really good cosplay pictures. We did Instagram. We did. We did.
We did. We did. We did. It was like 9 o'clock at 930.
Yeah, it was awesome. Yeah, he tore up the little parking area of the hotel a couple times on his bike. What it was a Harley. That's awesome.
Tell me. It was loud. Now it's out? It smelled like burning oil.
So it's. Wow. He was loud but it smelled like burning oil. Quite.
I'm a little over. The Suicide Squad version of Harley. How's that go? I was like, is that sweet and hot?
That looks like a lot of good. Well, we brought that up in a few interviews. We'd cheesy well. This is good.
We have over a sexual installation of Harley. when I was walking back here to say a report of some of you guys. There was an original Harley. The only one I saw the whole fucking time.
It was actually a really good one working on the search booth. Oh, is there? The girls that were doing the pretty printing body. I saw her as you guys did.
They were here as she did a classic. The same as the other one was a classic Joker from the end of the series. That was great. Yeah, nice.
I did like... By the way, I think we need to pervert back to how it currently current stand and how it was made. It's like, how was he? Yes.
Okay. Also, the suicide's quite jokers are a little bit more than me too. Yeah. Well, because the suicide's quite joker stuff.
So... That's why they should be characters. They should be. You can't do a good cosplay because you need everybody to hate.
Yeah. You saw that. Actually, I went to the cosplay contest. Yeah.
And when it was a fan favorite, you were seven. You weren't even ever a fan. It was really interesting. I did see.
We were there for a minute. You had gone to sit down. Someone cosplayed Baby Doll. From?
That old fan. Oh, yeah. Baby, mentally. Sorry, not Baby Doll.
Yes. Oh, you and I talked about that. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
You guys are like win-me-ling. Like, you have to win the game. Because the game was in the three-row of the peak house. What do you gotta do?
I was a little sad that we didn't get to see the Super-Osmond Zapp. We're gonna get to the cosplay again. Oh, well, yeah. Last year, we lost the pass with a slurpee in each hand cosplay.
The Zappe-Pranigan? No, the best one was the Stuy-Mere. I realized how much was the Zappe-Mere. You're doing a lot of that.
Thank you. No, that's the joke of Zappe-Pranigan. Because he's Zappe-Zappe. I know, like, Zappe-Mere because he had the...
You guys think he's Zappe? I know. I know. I know.
I remember looking away saying that's why they called me the Valuar phone. Whatever of that cosplay last year was if his uniform had been any shorter. Oh, yeah. Just the tip.
I mean, that's pretty good. I love the gang. It's pretty good. We're praying for him.
It's long. It's like trying to get his love. Hard best. I think my favorite panel was last night's Chris Patton.
He's fucking funny. Well, the thing is, the one person who was the queen-tea-pinal in this last year is the same kind of thing. It's the cosplay for stories. You know what I mean?
It was interesting. When he first started talking, he was like, huh, I mean, this guy's gay. Whatever. And then like, ten minutes into his top.
Oh, yeah, he's gay. But then he starts talking about like, he's got stories about like, fucking strippers in porn movie theaters. Like, the way he describes it. Better chicks.
Yes, better chicks. Female strippers. So you guys... Will we explain it later was, um, yeah, for a while he was in the girls and he started getting into the guys and then he's kind of into both.
And now he's literally the way he said it was the last five years. I'm all about the D. And he has a very nice boyfriend. Apparently...
What's him? The general crowd of NDK, which he lives in, because again, according to him, weird shit doesn't happen to him here. Well, everyone... Someone asked him like, what's the weirdest thing that's happening to his top?
He said, he's a comic-melding combat for like five years, somebody looked at him like, he's hearing autograph session. So, funny story about Chris Patton, along those same lines, involving Scott McNeil. And yeah. So this guy in one Scott, I'm sorry, Chris Patton's panels wanted to ask him a question.
So, he's the guy coming at me and he's like, uh, sure, the guy walked over the table and like licked him from here to here. And he's like, no, security grabbed him pretty quickly through a mouth. And then Scott, he's got to go separate. I'm not sure if it's the same conference or not, but this one was Austin, I think he said.
He said Scott McNeil through a mouth. Yeah, there was a couple. So, so back when Chris Patton was dating a girl, uh, they kept... Uh, Richard.
No, he was a girl. He was dating a girl at the time. I don't know what her name. He was trying to tell him the story.
He was the story. He was dating a girl at the time. And he was also Monica Rial. He was dating her at the time.
They were at a conference together. Um, there was a... he just said a couple. It was being really creepy and then got sort of pushy.
The new person I was getting was like, they were trying to swap. He was the new person I got. I think he was the new person I got. I think he was the new person I got.
He was some kind of like, we should really come back to our hotel room. Why don't we talk to him? Yeah, we'll have to go. Um, but it got to the point where it was so creepy that literally Scott McNeil grabbed him both and threw him out of the conference.
Yeah. He kind of ruined reading Wolverine. He's now like, here he's doing Wolverine. He's heading for a camper at Canada.
Oh, I see you coming at me. Oh, I'm seeing it. Don't you know? You're gonna get out of here.
Don't you start. Um, favorite costume? You have one? You have one?
You have one? You have one? I think he was the Jennifer Connolly David Bowie from the Labyrinth. That was for Scott McNeil.
Oh, I didn't see that. Oh, it's on the screen. There was no phenomenon. Okay.
Um, I'm... Gotta say some fingers, actually. I was sick of it didn't get to see the better Mr. Wizards.
Oh, actually, fuck off. Like, yeah, Mr. Meezy with a killed Jerry T-shirt. With the voice line on here.
That'd be actually the voice line. That'd be the real Jerry. Wow, okay. I can't do it.
I think I really like the hand-in-the-top girls. Oh, god. Oh, she was in the burlesque show. Oh, why did she?
Yeah, my friend Mark said that she was in the burlesque show. And she was just fantastic. Why did we not do the burlesque show? It was like, right?
We had to help her. We had to help her. We had to rub it down. I had to try the other time.
I had to try the other time. What did we not do the burlesque show? It was great to write something. We had to help her.
We had to rub it down. I had to rub it down. Yeah, you were in the robo-te-te-te-te. Oh, yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
It was like, kind of unsettling. It was really amazing. It was like, pretty amazing. And then, um, what else?
I just, like, seen the one punch man. Yes, thank you. Yeah, I like seeing the one punch man with the little... little...
little... I just wanna put that on the flue like away. No. That's like a projectile.
You could have picked over and got that bridge. Yeah, the one punch man. Um, yeah, the one punch man. Um, it's like a projectile.
No, I couldn't have picked over and got that bridge. Yeah, the one punch man. Um, it's like, I'm not one where he even had the shopping bag. So, he kind of goes up to the bridge or something.
That's what he has to say. Okay. So, I really liked that really way. And now I'm gonna go up to my little, you know, make some turns.
Yeah. That's right. I saw you as a bitch. Yeah.
I'm gonna say I've got the Giza. Yeah, and I have the Giza from 50% off. Not a Giza crew. Yeah.
Free. Giza? Yeah, right. And from Free.
No, Free. I'm not under her, so sure. I'm not under her. I'm not under her.
I'm not sure. I'm not sure that guy. He always has a 4-hour discount on both because we were wearing the breast glasses. Right.
It's possible because I'm so beautiful. That's possible to have a 4. That's because I wasn't a Jagger. That's because he was like, who's sisters?
Sisters. Do you want him for themselves? No, no. That's not the sign of a single butcher.
We're not. Do you want him to find a bus? You know, I, well, I did say I never accomplished it. Oh, sorry.
I did like him a lot. It just seems like it was really amazing. But honestly, after all of your cosplays, I was literally just seeing the map of Ralikwen. I'm going to make a top of it again because she was looking for it.
And I saw like kids of pizza, like I'd see, I'd see Susas, partly with this giant fucking hammer. It's not the same. So, yes, I've got the clown costume. Other than with the Arkham, actually.
No, because she wasn't wearing all the Boostie A's. She didn't look all... She had a fucking giant hammer, like a hammer. She was a giant hammer.
She was a giant hammer. Yeah. She was a giant hammer. Yeah.
She was a giant hammer. Yeah. She had a skid heart for merchants. She also had it in the Emmys.
Not every episode, but me too. Okay. All right, well done. Yeah.
So, just closing comics. I'm sure we've released the panel. Because I recorded an hour of it. We have the Robo Check Metal.
I think it's tell you all about it. No. So, as far as the merchandise goes, I've got the fuckloads of it. We're coming out with new comics.
They're about to release the old comics. They've released the old comics. Apparently they've made a licensed game with a copy called Titan. That does a bunch of different I mean, horror movie.
John calling books. They have all kinds of new toys coming out with diecast Metal shit. and then we got a bunch of new toy licenses. In the panel, a bunch of guys were like, can we ever have a cyclone?
And of course, the same market guy that was there last year, is like, do you want a cyclone? They're like, yes, I will let them know, because apparently he's just like, tell us what the fans want, and we'll make it. And that's kind of the deal. As far as the live action movie goes, they are waiting on a final draft.
It's almost done for the script. And James, James, I'm on. The guy that's directing Aquaman is gonna direct for a tech client actually. So, which to me, I'm like, well, he's directing Aquaman, so who knows what the fuck that's gonna happen.
I wanted to be like three years. Yeah, I mean, they won't say anything about CAST, because they're still talking to people. Oh, and they're doing a charity thing. The first one is literally the script book with all the original notes in it from the guys that wrote it.
Four episodes, one, two, and three of the original of the Rotec series. And they're gonna sell them for like, I think it's 50 bucks a piece. There's only gonna be a hundred of them made. But like, you look through the book and see where it was like, SDF one.
Giant space, what do you call it? Squid. No, it was like giant space. Cow.
Cow. Farmer. Like, there's some weird name in there that like didn't make you think Space Fortress, who's like, which is more like, Wild West, going West kind of thing. And there's like, there's scratches.
There's scratch outs in it, and then he says, you know, Space Fortress. There's where he's renaming Rick Hunter. Like, originally there's like Rick something, and he's scratching out whatever, and he says, Hunter on top. And it's signed by the original voice actors.
So that'll be 50 bucks a piece in the next couple of weeks of the same. Or anything else that can matter that, Sony Pictures is gonna release the movie. Oh, you can stream all the original Rotec episodes on Crackle, who's free. You can actually do that.
They've got something, they've got some pieces I wanna feed with the other screen websites. Yeah, Amazon Prime as well. They're on Crackle, and we were saying, they're in the top 10 series of Crackle, and they have been since it got released on Crackle. Don't stop that.
And they're the number one anime, there's the number one anime on Crackle, period. That's awesome. You're going to be with your Louisiana Schemes and different chance of moves. There's something else to do.
There's something else to do. There's some meals, there's some meals. You're not Louisiana. No, I'm not.
All right, well, from DK. Will they release some candles soon? Yes. All right, my kids.
I guess I'll make some comedy out of that. And look at our Instagram, or all the pictures and video. At the underscore of the ACN. Or my cocktail is published today in the cocktail manual.
The cocktail box up there. Now you know what I consider my best work, but hey, people like them. I actually like, I was reading the book and I actually mentioned a cocktail I looked up in the bartender's dictionary and it doesn't exist, and I'm like, cool. Cool.
So now I'm like on a hunt for fictional drinks to make. Who comes out here? Joe from? Amy.
I'm Maris, also Amy. I'm Amy. And continue to drink. Cool.
What do you buy? I'm not a lot of fat man. Yeah, I'm talking. Nothing else.
No, I'm not. One punch guy or one punch guy. Oh. I'm going to be just a joke.
Just a joke guy with an alcoholic, and I'm like, what? Just a joke. Right? I'm just a joke boy.
Joe. We started our podcast in our media company because I called him up one night. Hot sauce. One thing that my boyfriend wouldn't watch the land.
And we got to a 25 minute argument slash conversation about firewall with me and David Joey. Nice. I can't wait for season two. I go to a...
I go to an anime con in Galveston, Texas, every Halloween weekend, because Halloween is my birthday. So they're like, they say Halloween thing con, they want me there every year. I'm like, great, you bring my girlfriend and my best friends out, it's going to be a party. We'll be there.
And this year I was talking to some of the other six or seven of us who were standing guests every year. And I told all of them, we should all be different David Joey's for Halloween this year. But then Prince died. I was like, okay, all be different Joey's and Princess.
I thought it was a Thursday spot on the Goblin King and and Jennifer Conley. Nice. I'm not yet. I was looking out.
I was thinking about doing Firewalk with me, but we would have been my choice. How would you pull up like being all staggie? Yeah, I would just not show up for my panels. And then just go, it's not him.
We have video footage of me in the panel room, but not during the panel. I was actually bringing up drinking panels because we didn't do, I did do my due diligence on this one. And we were going to try to do our own post-it panel. Gazean presents Andy Catter Dark, only spreading Saturday.
Sunday. I was watching voice actors get drunk and I didn't know. I was going to invite and try to coordinate the guests of honor and say, what can I do to you? We'll be there waiting for you and do a drink during every question that you may have.
You know, Chris Patton has a whole panel. This just shares too much. Which is pretty much just Chris opens his mouth. I'm pretty sure.
You know? You're back next year. Yeah. Chance.
No. Whatever you're on the list. I'm trying to sample as many local IPAs one year or two. I like the copy.
I know. We get no dolls in Dallas and we get all the Oscar blues and great divide and left hand. Check out the scovelry. Love the scovel stuff too.
They're new. Notice, Materina. That was delicious. We can start officially with non-news questions.
We can start with non-news questions now. Everyone's too shocked on him until he's ready. No, it's fine. I like that shocked on him.
Yeah. Don't miss a comment. So we actually had the great pleasure last year of interviewing Taliesen Daffy. Oh, God.
I'm so sorry. He's one of my best friends. They have to bring my best friend out to that convention. That's Taliesen.
You use the like button. Do you guys work doing education scripts? Is it more collaborative for us? No.
Well, when we work together, we've tried to find, but in general, yeah. We do. We try to find different ways to work together. Directed to show together.
I've written for a game that he directed. He's done some directing for me on show. So it's always a different kind of collaboration. He was the head writer on Romeo and Juliet that I produced.
But when we're doing an after script, it's very much a lonely process. You're in a room talking to yourself. Because if you're not saying the line's out loud, you can't know that an actor can say them out loud. It's sitting in a room saying the line over and over and over.
Rewind. Say the line. Rewind. Say the line.
Hang it. I need to add another word. Say the line. With another word in there.
No, it's too long. I mean, it's just a very lonely tedious process. I'm going to have things for us. Yeah.
Counting flaps and lots of rewinding and watching again and lots of talking to yourself. Is there a project that is a prostrated? You said that you had the walkway project for a little bit. Actors.
I won't name names. But yes. I'm sorry, as an actual project. Yeah.
I've been saying like, the deadlines don't allow for it. I'm like, get it done now. I get it turned in. But I have struggled with shows.
I've been approached for 10 minutes. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I found on shows, especially there's a show based on video game that I worked on with Taliesin called Sengoku Basra.
And that show is all over the place. It's all historical. It's like historical samurai. But there, many of them have very modern, you know, inachronistic characteristics and language.
And they all have the characters speak very differently. Some speak very, very classic traditional old school samurai Japanese. Some speak very modern Japanese and some speak in between. So when I would get stuck on a character, I would just stop.
I'd be like, that tastes fun to write. I'm going to go write your dotting. You know, so I'll like, work through the dotting. Then go back to this one character who's given me a giant payment of that.
Find it. I'm going to write all the fancy characters together right now. Skip around the script and write all the fancy characters. I'm going to bring that frame of mind.
And then I'm going to go back and write all the snarky characters. It's not true. I always write the snarky characters first. It's the easiest for me.
So speaking of like, when we were talking about it for like a given instrument, you find those easier to work with than just trying to animate your work on from the fan? No, actually. I think that anything that's got another version is way harder because you've already got a fan base to try and appease. And that's hard because when I look at something like Dang and Ramba, and you're looking at it in a position at the beginning of Dang and Ramba where I was not really allowed to use a lot of video game tasks.
It was just not in the budget in the cards for how our deadlines were working at the time. But then of course, something happened that showed kind of got put on hold, got like after we'd recorded it, stuff above my pay grade wasn't worked out yet. So it kind of sat on a shelf for a year and a half. And during that year and a half the game became a huge, huge phenomenon called classic, you know, called hit.
Like, Junco and Oshima became like the Harley Quinn of Anime Cosplay. It was amazing. But I see as many Junco's at Anime Cons as I see Harley Quinn's at Comic-Cons. It's great.
But because of that, because you've got this other audience built in, you're never going to be able to make everyone happy, you know. And to me, I make my shows, kind of for me, I try not to be beholden to the hard-core Anime fan. I don't, it sounds callous, but I don't make Anime fan. I try to make good television, you know.
And that means it has to be entertaining to everybody, and accessible to everybody, not just the hardcore fan. And when you're given an opportunity to do something, you've got to do something with a different cast, you've got to make this work, and it's not, it's already, you already know you're going to be upsetting a built-in fan base. You've got to find a way to work and make it work and make it work in your mind so that it's, you know, something you want to get up and do in the morning. And I think kind of the way I look at Danganronpa, the animation versus the video games is that they're very, very, very closely related parallel universes where all of the same things happen, but some of the people sound different.
That's what I'm going with. Okay. Speak on the game, sorry, but I'm going to ask you a question. Which one did you voice versus the anime of the video game?
We recorded, the video game was recorded, then the anime was recorded, then the video game was released, then the anime was released. So we recorded the anime in this window between the time that the cast had recorded and mostly been announced, but before the game had really gotten out there into the public hands. So we didn't know what a culture opened up and it was going to be, you know, we didn't know what a huge, you know, hit, it was going to be, and I think if they did have an inkling, they would have gone out of their way to try and, you know, maybe work with some of the original video game cast. So now that I've got to direct two episodes a week of the new season, the only way that two episodes we can possibly get recorded is to really open up our cast list and that meant, you know, getting in touch with the Danganronpa video game cast that they can get in touch with and say, we just want to get in touch with the new season.
And how to get in touch with and say, would you like to come back and reprise your roles and have that be recording in LA while I'm recording the Texas characters in Texas and then we match those, marry those things up and hope that those conversations sound like cohesive conversations. And Christian Lamont, who is my director out there, co-director out there, came and recommended to me highly by Patrick Sides and Tells & Chaffees, so like two people I ultimately trust with the process and Christian has been knocking out of the park. It's been a great, great work for me. So I'm really, really excited to see it come together like that.
Did you jump after the amazes or go with the game? You're like, okay, I want to direct the amazes. Well, I actually had nothing to do with the game. I really didn't work on the game at all.
So I only knew of the game because it came before, you know, and it was a thing that existed that the show was being based on. So yeah, because I didn't have any interaction with the game cast directly in the beginning at all, other than the people that actually just knew. I actually became good friends with KJ Tang, who plays the role I gave myself. He plays Yosto Hero in the games and I play in the anime.
And when I met him a few months later, I'm like, hey, dude, so I'm about this thing, Danganronpa, whatever business. We're in Texas, let's go eat meat. Let's go eat meat. And I've been really good about these ever since.
So he definitely was one of the people I wanted to call when I had the opportunity to expand the cast even more. I'm sorry, I'm the anime, Habakuré. I'm keeping the anime cast that we've got. But when new characters from the games are starting to be introduced into the anime world, I'm going to try to bring in some of that video in the future.
But we've got these future characters who are all brand new. So maybe some of these people from the original Danganronpa game can come in and voice the new characters, since they're not going to be voicing their characters in the animation. And we can give new characters. So I basically the way I justified KG's character is if I was casting everything from scratch and I had all of the Texas cast and all of the LA cast at my disposal from the very beginning and I knew who every single character in the Danganronpa universe was from the very beginning, he would have played Habakuré.
And I would have played KG's. I gave him the role that I would have been. So I'm playing the anime version, extreme anime version of KG, and he's playing extreme anime version of me. I'm pretty sure KG's got a gin and tonic most of the time.
There are characters like extreme over the top character trait characters I think we have in common with our characters. And then with Erin, because she played one of the roles she played in the game was show, Gemciter Show, Gemciter Jock in the game. But Fukawa and she shared that role with Amanda Miller. When I had a chance to bring in her brother in the Seiko and the new character, another crazy psycho character.
I wanted Seiko, the psycho, wink, wink, that she used to be show or Jack. And then when you get Seiko's backstory, I'm like, well we've got Seiko as a little girl, why not let them share the role again? So I brought in Amanda Miller to play the young Seiko, which I don't think that's even publicly announced yet. That'll be next week's episode.
So, spoiler! So, since it was a week, what kind of bad habits has that given you with your production process? Oh, there's no time for bad habits. There's none.
It's kind of done or don't. Honestly, I love the broadcast-up process. A lot of it, it's kind of the new normal for us, or it has been, especially for the past year and a half. And I was very daunted, very scared by the idea of not having the safety net, of knowing what's going to happen at the end, or knowing who new characters are going to be.
What if I cast this person here, but it's six weeks from now, there's a character that only they could have played. And I'm sorry, I got to find somebody else. They would have been much better for this one. Maybe I could have taken the number two for this person.
So, it's that put in those puzzle pieces together without having the picture on the box. I guess the best way to describe it. Yeah, exactly. It has to, yeah.
And it is. It's shockingly freeing. Because I'm, it asked any actor who's worked with me. I'm very meticulous, very specific about what I want.
And I always know what I want. Usually what I want. You don't find that this, it wasn't what I thought it was going to be, but it's okay. Yeah, and I love that.
I always have a reason mind. I always have a thought in mind for how a character should be portrayed, or who should even play a character. And I love being surprised. You know, love bringing it in.
That's why I work with really good actors when I can. Is that they bring something to the table that I would not necessarily have thought of. And I love that. And it helps, too.
Especially when you're flying by to see your pants like this. It's like, oh great, that's awesome. I never would have thought of that. Move on.
Get it done. But I do love this. I love the fact that I get to turn in episodes on time all the time. The boss is loving.
I'm not late with stuff anymore. And it, then that meticulous, you know, very specific nature means that I will spend as much time as I possibly can. So you pride that out of my hands. I'm going to keep, you know, chipping away and getting something beautiful on that.
I'm going to go ahead and go back to the next three minutes. Probably. Yeah. But you know, you got to let it go.