Mr. Yamadera:  "So you see, there's this Keldeo who wants to be one of the Three Swordsmen, right? How's he gonna grow throughout the movie? Huh? And how will Satoshi and Pikachu get involved? And I take care of Cobalion, the leader of the Three Swordsmen, right, and he has some really great lines. And that Cobalion, right, he has a bunch of lines that'll make you gasp, OK?"
Musashi:  "But you can't say those now, right? You've gotta go to the theater to find out what those are."
Mr. Yamadera:  "So make sure you go see it! I think this is a wonderful movie that'll stay with you the rest of your lives!

Commercial -- Pokémon Mate

The Battle Subway brothers Nobori (voiced by Kensuke Satou) and Kudari (voiced by Kiyotaka Furushima) talk about "Pokémon mate," a line of merchandise featuring chibi-fied versions of the characters from the video games Pocket Monsters Black & White.


There are file folders, clear stickers, and more! And starting from April, new tin badges, personal accessories, and other merchandise will be released, one after the other!


You can find Pokémon Mate merchandise in Animate stores across Japan, but that's not all! The Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, Akihabara, Shibuya, and Yokohama stores all have special display corners set up for Pokémon mate! Follow the traffic rules and head safely to your nearest Animate! Alllllllllllllll aboard!

The 'Orders from Double-Q - Try These New Items Out Ahead of Time' Segment

Musashi excitedly announces that a new order's come from Double-Q! That's right, it's time for the The 'Orders from Double-Q - Try These New Items Out Ahead of Time' Segment!! Musashi seems really excited! There's no e-mail from Double-Q this time around so they just dive right in:


Waitaminute...that's not ice cream, it's rice cream...uh, I mean, it's just rice! Oh well, Musashi is happy to be eating food either way. One of her teammates shakes the package to produce a rattling sound as Nyarth starts to read the packaging. "Emergency Rations: Magic Rice. Non-Perishable." They have a lot of different flavors to choose from so he randomly picks up the miso flavored one first and starts reading. There are a number of ways you can eat this, it suggests. First, it says, you can serve it with either cold water or boiling hot water. But on top of that, the amount of water you add to it determines whether it turns into regular rice or into okayu, a sort of porridge made using rice. Kojirou picks up a nearby shrimp pilaf package and reads that if you fill the water up to the red line at the bottom you'll get pilaf, but if you fill it to the blue dotted line all the way at the top you''ll get risotto.

As mentioned before, they have a lot of flavors with them in the Studio today; white rice, Chinese fried rice, dry curry, beef bowl, shrimp pilaf, gomoku rice, and shiso wakame gohan. Musashi wants to eat all of them! Earlier they were talking about the two-in-one rice / okayu and the pilaf / risotto meal kits and so Musashi looks at the gomoku rice packet and notices that you can use it to either make regular gomoku rice or a porridge. Nyarth points out that certain noodle dishes will go by different names depending only on how soft or hard the noodles are and so it's not surprising that these rice dishes can go by different names depending on how much water is used to prepare them. Nyarth adds that if you find yourself in a survival situation where all you have access to is water then this will be a great product.

Instructions from the Magic Rice website on how to make different rice dishes depending on the amount of water you add. A small amount of water makes regular rice (left) while a larger amount of water gives you a porridge (right).

Let's get started! Nyarth tells Kojirou to try eating one of the rice packs now as-is, without any water or anything added to it. He eventually decides to go with the beef bowl flavor. Kojirou opens the packet and observes that it looks like the food's been freeze-dried. Musashi is surprised that the rice dish isn't brown; if it's a beef bowl then shouldn't there be some brown coloring in there somewhere? Nyarth clarifies that the rice itself is white but that there are little pieces of brown dried food in the bag that you can put on top that provide the beef flavoring. Anyway, Kojirou starts to crunch on the contents of the package. After a long while he reveals that the little bits of dried food in it have the feel of actual meat and that once you bite into them there's this strange burst of flavor. But up until you get to that point you wonder what it is you're actually eating.


Next it's time to try the curry flavored rice. It takes 15 minutes to cook this rice using boiling water and so they had some prepared beforehand in the interest of time. Kojirou adds that it takes 15 minutes to cook the rice dishes with boiling water but a whopping 60 minutes if you only have cold water. They have some of the gomoku rice made with cold water already prepared. Nyarth says that this gomoku one looks really delicious while Musashi marvels at how great it smells.  Kojirou also has some risotto that was made beforehand. Nyarth picks up the risotto container and comments how much heavier it is than he thought it'd be; Musashi does the same and agrees.


Musashi helps herself to the dry curry rice. After a bit of lip smacking Musashi admits that it's hard to call this straight up "dry curry" but it does have hints of a curry-like flavor to it. It doesn't have that special kick to it, she adds. Adding even more water to the dry curry pack creates a risotto so Nyarth tells Musashi she should try that next to see how it compares to the regular dried curry; the only real difference between the two is the amount of water used to make it, after all. Meanwhile, Kojirou tells Nyarth to try the gomoku gohan made with cold water. After some more crunching and slurping Musashi says the dry curry taste that was in the one she tried before has been made a little bit weaker in this risotto she's having now. Nyarth also observes that the color of the risotto is a little darker than the dried curry rice. Musashi declares the risotto to be the tastier of the two.


So how's Nyarth liking his gomoku gohan made with cold water? The one that took an hour to make? After another pause Nyarth says it's a bit cold but it's still tasty. Musashi (apparently) tries some as well and is amazed at how flavorful it is. Kojirou suggests they try the dried beef bowl one he was eating, the one without any water added to it. Nyarth, in response, suggests he try the gomoku gohan. The Rocket trio swaps their food and takes turns eating each other's dishes.

Other than the taste, what does the trio think of these products? Musashi comments that if you have a regular sized plastic bottle then if you're out hiking somewhere you could fill up this packet, walk around for an hour, and then enjoy a nice little rice dish. Nyarth adds that it's not like you'd need a jumbo bottle or anything like that; a regular sized 140 mL plastic bottle should do the trick. If you opt to make the risotto you'll need 290 mL but even that's not all that much. Kojirou adds that the packages are light and therefore easy to carry. Musashi is amazed that there are people in this world who could think up such amazing things.

Nyarth cuts in to say that the water-less beef bowl Kojirou was eating is great as-is; you can eat it as if it was beef jerky or some other pub-type snack. Musashi agrees, saying that while you are supposed to serve these with water you can totally eat them without it. It's like a little rice snack...? Kojirou says some people prefer crunching on instant ramen without putting any water on it first because of how much stronger the flavor is. These rice packets are pretty similar.

In a section of the segment exclusive to the CD release, Nyarth mentions how the packets they have in the studio with them today have an expiration date of 2017. Kojirou points out that the packets have ziploc seals on them, prompting Musashi to observe that the three of them can sit there with one packet each, eating directly from the bag the way you see people eat directly from take-out Chinese food containers in American movies. Kojirou, meanwhile, tries out the dry curry. Musashi starts to talk about the white rice flavor, meanwhile, but is interrupted by Kojirou.

Kojirou says he was about to explain how the ziploc seal on these bags work when notices how the instructions on the package guides them to make sure to stir the rice well before eating. Um...whoops! Kojirou starts stirring one of the dishes and asks everyone to look at how much the color is changing. Musashi says that oh yeah, it does say that, but she was too busy wolfing hers down to notice. Musashi and Nyarth gather around Kojirou's gomoku rice and scream with pure joy as the color changes brown right before their eyes. They mix the other packets as well and then start to eat again. Nyarth and Musashi try the dry curry again and find that it's a whole lot better this time around! Mixing the rice makes a huge difference! Musashi said the dry curry was pretty weak before but it's perfectly fine now! Nyarth figures any problems they had with these was due to them not making them the right way.

Well, it seems like they're all out of time so it's time to play this week's song.

Music

The song the trio's chosen this week is one of their own, Maemuki Rocket-Dan.


A 1 minute 31 second edit of the song plays.

Closing Words

It's time to bring this week's episode to a close! As Musashi continues to eat Kojirou reminds their listeners that the goal of this program is to recruit every single person into the Rocket-Dan. All you have to do is follow Sakaki-sama on Twitter...and that's it! Nyarth adds that once you become a member you can send them opinions, request Day Care Workers to appear in future episodes, voice opinions about what kinds of items they want the trio to try out, and more! Make sure to use the hashtag #Rocketdan!

Musashi, meanwhile, is in a great mood after eating so much just now. What a great episode! Nyarth says Musashi will be in charge of writing up the report this time around and she happily agrees. Kojirou and Nyarth sign off for the week as Musashi, who's fallen asleep after eating so much, snores her way through the outro. Until next time...Victory!!!

This radio program is brought to you by Kids Station and Movic.

"I'll have some more" Musashi says in her sleep...

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Show notes

1. ^ As with every episode, the contents of Episode 05 were broken up into segments and spread out across several CDs.
   
   
   
   • The opening sketch can be found on the Pokémon Radio Show! The Rocket-Dan's Secret Empire Volume One - Musashi Version. It's Disc One, Track Eight "Redial Furui" (リダイヤル古井).
   • The Kou'ichi Yamadera interview can be found on the Pokémon Radio Show! The Rocket-Dan's Secret Empire ~Selection~ CD. It is the fifth mp3 file on Disc Two, "5_PokemonRadio_DJCD04."
   • The "Orders from Double-Q - Try These New Items Out Ahead of Time" segment can be found on the aforementioned Musashi CD. It's Disc One, Track Ten, "Orders from Double-Q!  ~Food Ver. 2~" (QQ 指令！～食べ物編2～).
   
   
2. ^ A few days before the episode aired the @Pokemon_Radio Twitter account tweeted out some of the most commonly received feedback they had received so far. First up, the most requested guest voice actors; many thought that since "Takeshi" (Episode 4) came on the show then it'd only be fair for Kasumi to appear as a guest as well. Other requests included "Shigeru" and "Nobori" and "Kudari," the two Subway Masters from Black & White who were unusually popular in Japan at the time.
   
   
   
   
   
   Of these voice actors, only Shigeru's (Yuko Kobayashi) never ended up making an appearance on the radio show.
   
   Other feedback included suggesting the show give away things like stickers and figures to their listeners (with Nyarth tweeting out that they just don't have the budget for anything like that)  and increasing the length of the show from 30 minutes to an hour.
   
   It's also worth noting that in the lead-up to this episode "Sakaki" tweeted out the following:
   
   
   
   
   
   

   Attention all members! This is Sakaki. A mission to take over the Isshu Region is currently underway that we're calling "Operation Tempest." The key to our takeover is going to be Meloetta. Be sure to pay attention what Nyarth and the others are doing.

   
   At this point the name "Operation Tempest" had never actually been revealed in any of the promotional material for the Pocket Monsters Best Wishes! show and so this tweet marks the very first time this phrase had appeared.
   
3. ^ "Redial Furui" is a parody of You Know It! Imai (ご存じ！イマイ), a popular segment on the News Special Report (報道特捜プロジェクト) series of TV shows. In these segments, Special Investigator Mr. Imai would relentlessly call those who are thought to have been involved in some sort of crime -- mostly fraud that involved cheating unsuspecting victims out of their money -- until he could get them to come clean about what it is they'd done. Neither Mr. Imai's full name nor face has ever been revealed to the public. For the Pokémon Radio Show parody, the show took Mr. Imai's name and swapped out the "Ima" part of his name, which means "current," with the word "Furu," which means "old."
4. ^ Mr. Imai was famously known as "The world's most tenacious presser of the Redial button." At the segment's peak, companies would instantly hang up the phone if the person on the other end even introduced themselves as "Imai," afraid they had become the next target of THE Mr. Imai. Imai is a somewhat common family name in Japan and so this became a real problem for all the Imais out there having to do work on the telephone.
5. ^ The marriage Mr. Yamadera is talking about is his second marriage to voice actor Rie Tanaka. News of the wedding was huge; the tweet where he announced his marriage actually ended up being the most retweeted tweet by a Japanese person in 2012. Nobody on the show could have known this at the time but Mr. Yamadera's "re-married for the first time" joke would actually end up coming true; Mr. Yamadera would get a divorce in 2018 and then get re-married again about three years later..
   

Sign board from this week's guest. "To all the members of the Rocket-Dan. Various roles. Yama-chan. OHA!"

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