Glitch Techs

Television series
German title	Glitch Techs
Original title	Glitch Techs
Country of production	United States
original language	English
year	2020
Production company	Nickelodeon Animation Studio
length	Episode 1: 46 minutes, from episode 2: 23 minutes
Episodes	19 in 2 seasons ( list )
genre	Animation , science fiction
idea	Eric Robles , Dan Milano
production	Debbie Steer, Lisa Thibault Woods
music	Brad Breeck
First broadcast	February 21, 2020 on Netflix
German-language first broadcast	February 21, 2020 on Netflix
synchronization

Glitch Techs is an American science fiction - animation series by Eric Robles and Dan Milano . It was produced by Nickelodeon for release on Netflix . The first season was released on February 21, 2020, the second on August 17 of the same year.

action

If computer games have a glitch in Bailley , it means that video game monsters are moving into the real world as digital constructs. The company behind the virtual reality game Hinobi Smash trains its employees to become glitch techs in the back rooms of their Hinobi electronics store , who use their technology and gamer logic to fight glitches and capture them, for which they receive experience points. In the case of civilians who have noticed something of the glitches, they can delete the memory of it, "reset" in gamer language.

When the Hi-5 player wins during a Hinobi Smash tournament against the champion Mitch Williams, a glitch tech, through cooperation with Me-KO, a glitch breaks out and all spectators and participants are reset, which however fails with Miko. Because she still remembers, she goes to Five to speak to Mitch, who is fighting a glitch. After posing as Glitch Tech novices and helping him defeat Glitch, they are employed as such at Hinobi. In a team of two, the planning Five and the hyperactive, impatient Miko fulfill missions from then on, fight glitches and collect experience points in order to level up and receive rewards, such as the companion animal Ally, a firebird.

Episode list

season 1

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	Director	script
1	1	The Hinobi hype	Age of Hinobi	Ian Graham	Dan Milano
In the Hinobi Smash tournament, Five wins against champion Mitch Williams with the help of Miko when a glitch appears. The tech team resets the memories of the audience and participants, but this fails with Miko, who plays from home. Mitch resets Five personally and takes the win from him. Miko seeks out Five, to whom she explains what happened, and together they confront Mitch, who releases another glitch in a video arcade and locks her in a Hinobi van. There they discover the robot assistant BITT and pretend to be newcomers to the company to help Mitch against the glitch. After helping him, they get new jobs in the store and as glitch techs. Miko's parents are reset, which her sister Lexi secretly notices.
2	2	The tutorial	Tutorial fashion	Chris Graham	David Anaxagoras
Five and Miko should first complete a tutorial in the simulator, but Miko breaks it off. Instead, find and start the game marked with a "G" Gross Out . You play against the monster Garbile, who turns out to be slipped and breaks out of the simulator. Meanwhile, her boss Phil is being examined by inspector Barbara. After Five and Miko defeat Garbile at his maximum level with the help of his opponent Sanitron in front of their eyes, Barbara does not close the branch, but Five and Miko still have to complete the tutorial.
3	3	Brand new glitch tech gloves	Going, going, gauntlet!	Phil Allora	Ashly Burch
Five and Miko receive their glitch tech gloves and their first mission. Here they find a teleporting bird that absorbs the forces of what it swallows. After they rid him of a glitch and defeat him with the help of the bird that Miko calls Ally (English for ally ), Phil gives them the opportunity to use the experience points they have gained to purchase the bird as a companion and mount.
4th	4th	Demolier-O-Dinos	Smashozaurs	Chris Graham	Jeff Trammell
When Five is playing Casino Demolier-O-Dinos with his old friend , a ruler glitch appears that turns Casino into its dinosaur avatar. While Miko Mitch distracts, Five Casino sets up on a bridge where all of the game's boss fights take place. As Casino remembers who he really is, he releases the glitch and Mitch catches him.
5	5	The haunted castle game	Castle Crawl	Phil Allora	Sandeep Parikh
After a team has gone afk on a mission, i.e. is no longer available, Five and Miko are sent to the location as a D-Team. In a residential building, a plan glitch has placed the graphics of the game Castlestein , a haunted castle, (compare Castlevania ) over reality , so that you have to play it through to complete the mission. Both claim they had managed to play through the video game before. As the mission progresses, Five has to admit that this is not true. After they seem to have defeated the boss , but the game doesn't end, (at this point Miko had simply switched the game off earlier) they realize that there is still a real boss. They find this and defeat it, freeing the other Glitch Techs that had been turned into statues by the boss.
6th	6th	A fearless leader	Alpha leader	Chris Graham	Ashly Burch
When Mitch falls ill after a mission, Five and Miko have to team up with his team members Haneesh and Zarah for a multiplayer mission and choose Five as the new leader. In order for Zarah and Haneesh to "respect him like Mitch", Five adopts his leadership style, which means that he does not listen to them during the mission. When he believes he is close to victory, he has to realize that the opponents can respawn using a command spaceship, something Haneesh wanted to warn him about all the time. After he frees his teammates with the help of Ally and admits his mistakes, they can defeat the opponents together and complete the mission.
7th	7th	The quest	Collection Quest	Phil Allora	Jenny DeArmitt
When the last pair of the latest Hinobi sneakers can be purchased for experience points, Five teams up with newcomer Bergy on a quest, while Miko has to spend the day with her sister Nica, who is on her smartphone. After Five and Bergy have collected a gem in a shop without resetting a girl who has observed it, Miko is supposed to appear at the next glitch location, a car wash, but brings Nica with him. You 'll find a bonus level there where a narwhal glitch spits chunks on you. Realizing this is the equivalent of the Crystal Crush gaming app, Nica helps Five win the level.
8th	8th	Adventurous animal companion training	Adventures in Pet Training	Phil Allora	Jen Bardekoff & Dan Milano
When Ally seems to be glitching and taking damage, Phil leads Five and Miko to Emma, ​​Hinobi's companion trainer. She sends the two of them into the game Ally comes from, which then allegedly slips, whereupon they have to hurry independently of each other to get to the portal. On the way, Five encounters a mecha golem he calls Alpha, whom he befriends while helping each other. Miko, in turn, realizes that Ally needs food from her original game to recharge, and so activates its firebird form. After completing the level, with Alpha sacrificing herself, the two learn that Emma simulated the glitch to teach them something. Five, realizing that companions are not interchangeable, receives Alpha as a companion.
9	9	Karate trainer	Karate trainer	Phil Allora	Eric Acosta
Miko's sister Lexi, who usually wins trophies for her hobbies, has doubts before a karate tournament and asks Miko to help her with her training using her "tech magic". Thanks to Five, you sneak into Hinobi and activate Karate Trainer 4 in the simulator . After a few fights against opponents, in which Miko and Five with their gamers skills are more likely to take over the fights than to train Lexi, she leaves the simulation to come to the tournament. Five cannot turn off the simulation because Lexi's player belt is still activated. After she loses at the tournament, Five tells her that she wants to take off her belt, activates the simulation again and Lexi still has to defeat the final boss. When she succeeds in doing this by using gamers skills, she eventually receives a virtual trophy.
All episodes were released worldwide on Netflix on February 21, 2020 .

season 2

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	Director	script
10	1	Forever different	The Glitch Modder	Chris Graham	Ashly Burch
After Mitch's teammates realize that Miko cannot be saved, she worries about how Mitch says he is different. She and Five find a cat glitch with an illicit signature with a master who follows Miko through a portal. She ends up with Ridley, a modder who has changed her Hinobi console, thereby creating and modifying glitches. When Five arrives, an altered dragon cat glitch breaks out, and fighting it destroys Ridley's lair. Although Miko offers to come to Hinobi, Ridley is suspicious and escapes through a portal.
11	2	Ping	Ping	Phil Allora	Brad Bell & Dan Milano
Geri, an old friend of Five and his family, runs a retro video game store that Five's father Emilio used to go to every day with him. But now Emilio is in prison for illegal hacking. Geri has set up an old ping machine - the first game in which you could hit pixels - from which a glitch in the form of a cube breaks out: the very first pixel. While Miko and Mitch are busy with the cube, Five hacks another retro game in the store, with which one could destroy pixels for the first time, and so defeats the glitch.
12	3	Ralphie Bear is back	Ralphie Bear Is Back	Hyunjoo song	Eric Acosta, Ashly Burch, Dani Michaeli & Dan Milano
The Joystick Junior video arcade will bring back the animatronic robot Ralphie Bear for birthday shows, which was discontinued ten years ago. When they are supposed to secure the store from glitches before it reopens, Five sneaks into the showroom because as a child he did not have the opportunity to see Ralphie Bear. Another robot, Ralphie's opponent, has a glitch and wants to destroy Five instead of his cake, and Miko has to dress up as Ralphie to fight her.
13	4th	BUDS	BUDS	Phil Allora	Sarah McChesney
On a mission against a glitch that clones everything that touches him, Mitch acts selfish and receives a lecture from Five. In the headquarters afterwards he looks like a different person and gives a party at which all the others are gradually replaced by clones until Five can find the glitch and free the originals.
14th	5	The new candidate	The New Recruit	Chris Graham	Ashly Burch
To get a glitch tech glove, Ridley shows up at Miko and Five and can be recruited as a new recruit. On her first mission, Mitch steals her experience points, whereupon she modifies the gloves of her team so that they overtake him on the leaderboard. When Miko and Five try to admit the cheating, Ridley runs away after hacking the Glitche containment, causing Glitche to appear at headquarters. But out of regret she returns and helps to conquer them. Mitch then lets them go without resetting them.
15th	6th	Find the glitch	Find the glitch	Phil Allora	Brad Bell & Dan Milano
Because the branch is being taken offline to service the main server, the Glitch Techs are gathered in a room and are supposed to play a game. BITT meanwhile has their gloves in safekeeping, which they learned that they recorded their experiences during missions. So they can be shown clip montages (excerpts from previous episodes). They suspect one of them might be a glitch and agree on Miko. Only Five is against it and stands by his girlfriend
16	7th	The real glitch techs	The Real Glitch Techs	Chris Graham	Jennifer Bardekoff
When Miko and Five come to the city limits on a mission, Mitch explains to them the rule that they are not allowed to collect glitches in the neighboring city of Dabney, which Five does anyway. On their next mission, the Glitch Techs from Dabney suddenly appear, who believe that after a glitch has been stolen from them, they can poach in Bailey Glitche. The dispute between the teams causes Glitche to merge and level up, whereupon Five admits that he was the glitch thief and can finally convince everyone to work together.
17th	8th	A new high score	Setting the score	Chris Graham	Dan Milano
Two new rowdy players appear in the video arcade who beat the previous high scores, including Miko's in Sock-em-Rockers . She challenges her opponent to a duel, but because they play too long, the overheated console slips and their avatars appear fighting against each other on a field. Five is finally able to get Miko to overcome her ambition and quit the game, which can catch the glitches.
18th	9	I am Mitch Williams	I'm Mitch Williams	Hyunjoo song	Greg Nix
Mitch prevents Miko and Five from taking on a mission in the most glitch-prone house in town, as this is his turf, but Phil warns him that a special tech should debug it forever and that residents should be banned from Hinobi accessories. Miko and Five follow Mitch into the house, which is full of broken consoles and extension cables, and where they meet three professional streamers, the Furiosen Vier , who are always playing . When fighting a glitch, they realize that Mitch is fourth in the group and the others are his siblings. Eventually the family can reconcile and Glitchen clean up the house before the special tech arrives.
19th	10	BITT Prime	BITT Prime	Chris Graham	Dan Milano & Sandeep Parikh
When Phil threatens to retire BITT, Miko and Five want to help the bot clean up its storage space. In doing so, they open the hidden file “Kek-Kuch-Tortel”, which initially leads to BITT looking for ingredients for a cake in town, but then, after restarting, fetches a video cassette in a house that turns out to be Phils. He sees that he had picked it up on himself when he was younger.
All episodes were released worldwide on August 17, 2020 on Netflix .

synchronization

The German synchronization arises after dialogue books and under the dialogue director of Jan. Fabian Krüger by the RRP Media UG in Berlin.

role	description	Original speaker	German speaker
Hinobi employees / Glitch Techs in Bailey
Hector "Five" Nieves / Hi-5	Glitch Tech newbie	Ricardo Hurtado	Vincent Borko
Miko Kobuta / Me-KO	Glitch Tech newbie	Monica Ray	Yamuna Kemmerling
Philbert "Phil" Altiere	Hinobi / Glitch Tech boss	Scott Kreamer	Patrick Giese
PLEASE	Robot assistant	Dan Milano	Dirk Petrick
Helpie	virtual assistant		Dirk Stollberg
Mitchell "Mitch" Williams	Glitch Tech Champion	Luke Youngblood	Frederic Phung
Haneesh Jyoshi	Mitch's team members	Sandeep Parikh	Imme Aldag
Zahra Rashid		Zehra Fazal	Franziska van der Heide
Bergy	Glitch Tech newbie	Josh Sussman	Nicolas Rathod
Nothing	Bergy's mentor	Greg Nix	Lucas alarm clock
Barbara	Inspector 7	Betsy Sodaro	Nora Kunzendorf
family members
Emilio	Fives father	Eric Lopez
"Papi"	Fives grandfather		Nicolas Buitrago
"Abuela"	Fives grandmother	Jolene Kim	Marina Erdmann
Mayumi Kubota	Miko's mother	Stephanie Sheh	Anja Nestler
Mr. Kubota	Miko's father	Dee Bradley Baker	Frank Kirschgens
Nica Kubota	Miko's older sister	Rachael Russakoff	Cornelia Waibel
Lexi Kubota	Miko's younger sister	Haley Tju	Sonja Reichelt
Glitch Techs in Dabney
Joan Fishback	boss	Jane Lynch	Anna Dramski
Nameless	Team leader	Arnie Pantoja	Volkmar Leif Gilbert
Simi	changed from Bailey	Felicia Day	Betty Förster
Wes	Twins	Vince Green	Rudiger Kluck
Ray		Afi Ekulona	Paul Matzke

Production and publication

Glitch Techs was developed by Eric Robles and Dan Milano and produced by the Nickelodeon Animation Studio in Burbank . The series was first announced in May 2016. 20 episodes were ordered, which should originally appear in 2018. In January 2019, production stopped on the second half of the twenty episodes, while completion of the first half was not affected. Robels made it clear that the series has not been canceled and that Nickelodeon has continued to plan to release a season of twenty episodes. After a partnership deal between Nickelodeon and Netflix that was signed in November 2019, it would be announced in early 2020 that the series will be released on the streaming service. The first season with nine episodes, the first in double length, appeared on February 21, 2020. The second half of the twenty episodes is to appear on August 17 of the same year as the second season. Milano says there are ten more scripts for previously unrealized episodes.

reception

Greg Wheeler writes on The Review Geek: "Glitch Techs is a wonderfully amusing and aesthetically pleasing animated series that features dazzling hand-drawn images with really well-written individual stories and consistently good morals." The series takes a refreshingly positive stance on video games: Friendship, teamwork, loyalty and leadership are in the foreground, but are ultimately subordinate to the overarching message of how video games can bring us together and get the best out of us. "

John Serba writes on Decider: “Glitch Techs is colorful, funny, happy and fast-paced, but not an over-stimulating torrent of stimuli. The main characters are original and crisp, never unbearable and the plot is tight, not overcrowded. "

Web links

• Glitch Techs in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Glitch Techs. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing index , accessed on July 27, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Terry Flores: Nickelodeon Greenlights Season 2 of 'Loud House,' Picks Up New Game-Themed Toon (EXCLUSIVE) . In: Variety . May 25, 2016. Accessed July 27, 2020.
3. ↑ Mercedes Milligan: Nick Greenlights 'Loud House' Season 2, Picks Up 'Glitch Techs' . In: Animation Magazine . May 25, 2016. Accessed July 28, 2020.
4. ↑ Amid Amid: Nickelodeon Froze Production, Laid Off Significant Crew On Its Upcoming Series 'Glitch Techs' . In: Cartoon Brew . January 11, 2019. Accessed July 28, 2020.
5. ↑ Taimur Dad: Nickelodeon's GLITCH TECHS coming to Netflix . In: The Beat . February 10, 2020. Accessed July 28, 2020.
6. ↑ Rollin Bishop: Glitch Techs Season 2 Is Coming to Netflix Next Month . In: Comicbook . July 21, 2020. Accessed July 28, 2020.
7. ↑ Greg Wheeler: Glitch Techs - Netflix Season 1 Review . In: The Review Geek . February 21, 2020. Accessed July 28, 2020.
8. ↑ John Serba: Stream It Or Skip It: 'Glitch Techs' on Netflix, a Nickelodeon' Toon in Which Secret Warriors Battle Escaped Video Game Baddies . In: Decider . February 21, 2020. Accessed July 28, 2020.