English Dub Review: Dragon Goes House-Hunting: “A Cold Home”

Overview: “A Cold Home” shifts gears and takes our big red friend, Letty (Michael Kovach), to an arctic region as he and Dearia (Steven Kelly) continue to search for the ideal location for his perfect dream home. 

Our Take: When you think about a big dragon hunting down deer or rabbits, you probably immediately think it can handle them with no sweat. After all their vast strength and size along with abilities of flight and fire-breathing should in theory make it a cakewalk. However, Dragon Goes House-Hunting continues to turn those types of notions on their head as you wait with great anticipation to see just how much of a wuss Letty will be this time around. This time, they take the form in hunting for food, which of course backfires as Letty’s kind disposition makes his survival increasingly difficult. But fun to watch as he gets turned into snowmen from different arctic wildlife.

Letty’s kindness eventually brings him inside the body of an enormous whale as he takes care of an egg to return it to its parents and keep it from harm. It is also here where we get to meet the fated Davy Jones, who has decided to make the insides his home. That concept alone for how amusingly clever it is instantly earns points in my book. Davy Jones is a surprise of a character simply for the fact of how he’s surprisingly normal amongst the over the top personalities that have littered the show thus far. That’s not to say he does not have his moments though like when Letty mistakes him for someone who wants to eat him and the show plays into that or when he launches him through the whale’s blowhole in goofy animated fashion. I’ve also got to commend the ingenious explanations that were given in order to explain how it’s possible for him how he has survived inside a marine mammal as long as he has. Davy’s house tour really goes into all the odd ins and outs of what it’s like inside the beast’s stomach, with an ultrasonic washing machine or the whale’s breath being the dryer but most likely smelling disgusting though. Lastly, after discovering that, shocker, the arctic isn’t the place for Letty, the egg hatches to reveal a bird as the opening credits reveal it to be a prominent role in the series and probably a good way for Letty to get into more dangerous shenanigans. And then of course, be terrified out of his mind while in them. 

Dragon Goes House-Hunting’s fourth episode is yet another charming adventure for Letty with more witty writing and fun hijinks.