The Fire Bird

The Fire Bird (Japanese: 火の鳥 Hi no tori) is the thirty-second episode of the first season of Scooby-Doo: The Next Mystery.

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
 * Akio Otsuka as Uncle Hisayuki
 * TBA as Sergeant Otonato

English Cast

 * Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo
 * 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
 * Terry McGovern as Uncle Hisayuki
 * Dee Bradley Baker as Itsumade
 * Robert Costanzo as Sergeant Otonato

Villains

 * Itsumade

Notes/Trivia

 * This whole episode is a homage to the 1956 kaiju film Rodan, as well as the 1957 sci-fi giant monster film The Giant Claw.
 * The Itsumade resembles Rodan from the Godzilla franchise.
 * The scene where Hisayuki crashes his plane into the Itsumade is similar to how Stuart Little crashed his plane into Falcon in Stuart Little 2.

Quotes
''[Scooby notices something red in color fly past the airplane. He screams and jumps into Shaggy's arms in fear]''

Shaggy: Like, what is it now, Scooby-Doo?

[Scooby mutters about what he saw]

Shaggy: Like, you say that you saw a giant red bird with horns?

[Suddenly the plane is suddenly knocked over]

Scrappy: You mean like that?!