42nd "Ultraman Day" Commemorative Special Dialogue Shinji Higuchi x Tomoo Haraguchi ULTRA-ACT

Talk digest Video / 4 minutes 55 seconds (click to playback starts)

── First of all, please tell us your impressions of touching the "ULTRA-ACT".

HiguchiLeave me alone with that Ultra Brothers, it is a coming attack from more outside of the character (laughs).

BlastoporeDo you Wolf and Mars should not be allowed out? Melos and Wolf for shooting suit is not even help myself, I completely he had been asked to leave with respect to Mars. So because feelings also pretty deep.

──そして最新作である「ULTRA-ACT ウルトラマン」の感想はいかがでしょうか？

BlastoporeWell I think had been dislocated (laughs). I was playing me old toys at the last minute that "might break and move more", at the time I feel its raw whiff was good to (laughs).

HiguchiYou know (laughs).

BlastoporeIf you move to this point, for example, "The first Ultraman must be decorated with such a (stoop) pose", and the sense of the playing side will be questioned.

──What do you think of the "movable figure" style that wasn't there when "Ultraman" was aired?

BlastoporeUltraman is not a robot, so some people may feel uncomfortable if their joints are exposed when it is commercialized. However, if this product can pose so far, it will not bother you beyond that reason.

HiguchiAfter that, I'm troubled by eliminate the well accessories I like this toy. It is want if you can even base like a guy that houses the accessories. As invincible Castle jumbo machine Zehnder.

BlastoporeOnce you have the parts here and there to fall apart, which I mon will not know absolutely what wrist or (laughs).

── If the child has this product is released, do you think you two is that it how to play?

HiguchiBecause pains joints moving up to this, I would have been tempted to take the place running.

BlastoporeYeah, it's not a photo Toka.

HiguchiAbsolutely to take "coma※I think you do, "or. And I feel that fail to (laughs).
Do you not Made up that is up to the video site? Oh, it's still.

BlastoporeBut I might also think about the lapse, I feel actually which is likely finished playing is to (laughs).

HiguchiI like this for me is a friend of the rich have, I'm not bought me quite his own parents.
If the appeal I "I have everyone!" Would have been told, "Everybody I Who?" (Laughs).

BlastoporeIt's or Sugekae the neck to the absolute me after children (laughs).

HiguchiYaruyaru (laughs). Always make like the chimera (laughs).

※The official name is "stop-motion animation."
Take one frame at a time while moving the subject a little, as if moving show As is shooting technique.

── or does not or can take advantage of the "ULTRA-ACT," the two of you work?

BlastoporeI also Higuchi' chan I'm so, in the special effects field when deciding whether to take the next scene, I think with this kind of toys. It can be used to dummy at the time of taking the time to test after synthetic cut.

HiguchiI think you can also be used to pose doll when drawing Conte.

──「ULTRA-ACT」シリーズで商品化を希望するキャラクターはありますか？

HiguchiWhat a nice super-beast. Kamerekingu Toka Toka vakishim.
Cost is a frightfully takes likely guy (laughs).

Perfect if put out the ace of the TV version of proportion in its timing. It guy is good that contains a cut in the first episode suit (laughs).

(Interview contents June 22, 2012)

HiguchiThough there were more and more shooting of the time lost in various places, of thought and want to save it somehow it was the beginning of this project. And it had become tattered most That said, I is Haraguchi san is willing to repair it.

Rather than character closer we have to show you as the special effects art materials. It will be impressed if you look at the people to know the work, I think I even saw people who do not know "if the watch with the help of DVD!". Visitors were people we aim to exhibit such that like special effects and miniature.

BlastoporeIf you are out of the studio since I was myself is small, there got a miniature for photography that has become unnecessary and thus have been restored using the leisure of life what you got. This time of issue MJ be one of them, the first place was not as had been repaired for the exhibition. But would collapse factories in the last year of the earthquake, it continues the work has become more difficult. At that time Anno Hideaki's gave me press the shoulder in the form of exhibitions.

──How much did you spend on the restoration of "MJ", one of the major attractions of this time?

BlastoporeA year when the count in the real work is not at stake. Missing Toka or the I am made in the sheet metal shop that worked on that was used Tokyo Tower of the model in the Showa special effects, such as Godzilla part was, we managed to finally completed our cooperation on so various people.

I don't think the younger generation knows "Mighty Jack", but if you look at a miniature that is close to 3 meters, you can tell something. Miniatures, monsters, and Ultraman costumes are supposed to end their role once you take a picture. However, these are proofs of how the Showa special effects were filmed, and they are the materials of the Showa special effects created by me and Higuchi-chan's seniors.

It is the same meaning there is this "ULTRA-ACT" is also. Because the person in charge is not developed using the hands and head on the basis of the time of this article. Even if it is said I "! I do not need such a thing," from the world, I will continue this restoration work. Higuchi' chan and Anno's also I like miniature, we the the seniors of the work that was affected because I want to be seen in everyone.

「ULTRA-ACTには、特にツインテールは欲しい。皆さん、怪獣も買わなきゃダメです！ 怪獣の火が消えてしまうよ」(樋口) 「いいよね、ツインテール。僕はベロクロンとか欲しいね」(原口)

(At Shibuya / Tsuburaya Productions)

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