Escape From The Kirin

Escape From The Kirin (Japanese: キリンからの脱出 Kirin kara no dasshutsu) is the first episode of the second season of Scooby-Doo: The Next Mystery.

Summary
The gang is embarrassed when Mishi's uncle takes them on an expedition to find the Kirin, a beastly monster that is only found in Mount Inamura. They soon find out, however, that this creature is more than real, and is angrier then ever.

Synopsis
The episode starts off with Shaggy getting a call from someone named Paul Ozu. He asks him to craft a fake Kirin statue for a project he's working on in southern Shikoku. Shaggy accepts, but Mishi tries to make Shaggy take it back. Shaggy asks why, and Mishi sighs. She tells him that it's her Uncle Paul, a former scientist who is trying to find a mythological Japanese Unicorn known as the Kirin. He proposed the theory that it is a larger relative of the Japanese Serow. He has worked long and hard to prove his theory, but it has only garnered him a reputation as a lunatic. He still persists to prove that he is not crazy.

Shaggy then goes to make the Kirin statue, even with Mishi's attempts to stop him. Using a taxidermy Serow and Ibex as a template, he crafts a 2 metre-high.

A brutal battle erupts between the fake Kirin and the real Kirin. The Kirin demonstrates his strength and power by repeatetly stomping his hooves and thrusting his horn up into the air. But the fake Kirin calls her bluff and charges anyway. Too bad for him, as the Kirin dodges his horn. The fake Kirin then tries to impale the Kirin in the throat, but the Kirin rises up on her hind legs, preventing her from reaching it. Then it comes to time for the Kirin to defeat the imposter. He repeatedly rams and stabs the fake Kirin with it's horn, shutting down it's Power source.

Paul then unmasks the Kirin, revealing it to be Debbie. She confesses that she thought that the idea of hunting a never before discovered species was too good of an idea to pass off. The Kirin then kicks her in the face, then bites her for good messure.

Japanese Cast

 * Naomi Kusumi as Scooby-Doo
 * Toshiharu Sakurai as Shaggy Rogers
 * TBA as Moshu
 * TBA as Shimagura
 * TBA as Mishi
 * Naoki Tatsuta as Scrappy-Doo
 * TBA as Nigamora
 * TBA as Toshi

English Cast

 * Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo, Uncle Paul
 * Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers
 * Benjamin Diskin as Moshu
 * Gwendoline Yeo as Shimagura
 * Colleen O'Shaughnessey as Mishi
 * Scott Innes as Scrappy-Doo
 * Kari Wahlgren as Nigamora
 * Kyle Hebert as Toshi
 * Grey DeLisle as Debbie

Villains

 * Kirin (redeemed)
 * Fake Kirin/Debbie

Locations

 * Mount Inamura

Notes/Trivia

 * The fight between the fake Kirin (Debbie) and the real Kirin is very similar to the battle between the Elephant and Rhino in Animal Planet's mini-series Animal Face Off.
 * If one looks closely at the fridge in Paul's camper, you can see some Bottles of Kirin Lager in there.

Quotes
Paul: In a few weeks, my name will be featured on the Cover of Nat Geo Wild Magazine! Soon, the world will know of the Kirin!