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So with all the Imagin gathered and established it's finally time to move on and start looking at exactly what's up with that weird dude in the past who's wearing a baseball cap under his fisherman's hat. There'll be more on that in the next episode that will tie into the show's most controversial casting decision (at the time). That's a Wednesday or maybe Thursday conversation, though.

Right now I'm going to potentially step on Androzani's toes a bit. Not about voice actors, but about the episode's main human guest star. Sawada is played by an actress/singer named Hikari Mitsushima. She's been pretty successful and has done some high profile projects and won several awards, but the reason I want to highlight her is from something she did before this guest spot on Den-O. Back in 2005 she was one of the main characters in one of my favorite tokusatsu shows ever: Ultraman Max.*

Mitsushima played Elly, the quirky android girl that served as the operations officer for the kaiju fighting organization DASH. She was basically like Data from Star Trek TNG, only she managed to gradually form an understanding of emotions over the course of the series. A lot of the show's best moments involved Elly and it's really great to see the actress show up again here.

A nice collection of great Elly moments, courtesy of some random Tumblr page I just found via Google: https://the-evil-pizza.tumblr.com/po...character-elly


*2005 was a ridiculously strong year for toku, with Max, Hibiki, and Garo all debuting that year.