Journey Through The Decacast

Episode 65: Splinter 008 - Ultraman Primer

November 23rd, 2019  |  Season 0  |  11 mins 7 secs

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This week, Editor Fletcher takes advantage of the fact that despite all odds, this show is technically biweekly to cover the recent news that 2020 is gonna be the year they push Ultraman hard in the west, and give a quick breakdown of how to get in on that and where he came from.

Episode 56: Splinter 007 - English Tokusatsu

September 21st, 2019  |  Season 0  |  7 mins 27 secs

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On the continued summer break of our hosts, your humble editor takes over for a brief blip to talk about the confusing and wild history of US releases of tokusatsu television (barring, of course, that entire Kikaider special from a while back). Spoilers: it's basically all Super Sentai.

Episode 51: Cast 017 - Kiva 01-02

August 17th, 2019  |  Season 2  |  1 hr 51 mins

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Our hosts begin their journey into the gothic times and space of Kamen Rider Kiva, and remember all too late "Oh, right, whenever we switch series like this there's a lot of tangents."

Episode 50: Splinter 05: Android Kikaider

August 10th, 2019  |  Season 3  |  17 mins 37 secs

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Were you one of the tens of people upset by two hosts who knew nothing about a tokusatsu classic covering the arc that was a giant love letter to it? The show's editor was, which is why you're getting a crash course on Android Kikaider while the crew get ahead on Kiva.

Episode 46: Splinter 04.5: Toku News Nut-work

July 13th, 2019  |  Season 0  |  27 mins 40 secs

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With our hosts away during convention season (and if you saw Garrett on a panel this weekend: hi!), the shadow producer steps in to perform again with a roundup of a lot of tokusatsu related news from the past few weeks. The first rider of the Reiwa era! Ultraman in English! And the sad fate of sentai. Plus: lewd acts!

Episode 41: Splinter 004: Six Degrees of Fujioka

June 8th, 2019  |  Season 0  |  42 mins 39 secs

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Fletcher and friend Fiona faff about around Fujioka, the original Rider actor who continues playing his part in some form in the franchise to this day.

Episode 38: Splinter 003 - Kamen Core OR Rider 101

May 18th, 2019  |  Season 0  |  14 mins 37 secs

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With the hosts away, the editor will play. Or not! Welcome to a quick audio glossary of Rider lingo.

Episode 26: Splinter 001

February 23rd, 2019  |  Season 0  |  1 hr 37 secs

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I am going to be honest: I do not remember recording this at all.

-Fletcher

Episode 1: Cast 001 - Decade 01

September 1st, 2018  |  Season 1  |  55 mins 43 secs

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Join us on the first episode where we talk about how Garrett roped in Evan and Chris, some brief personal history of what started everyone down this path, the podcast premise, and then the first episode of Kamen Rider Decade.