 Hey everybody, welcome back to Magic Orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a Magic Review. Hey, today we're going to look at Untouched from Ruhei Nakamura and Sans Minds Magic. All right, so what is Untouched? Untouched is a instructional video on how to use IT. Now, if you don't know what that is, if you don't know the magician's code, I really can't tell you because I don't want to break any magician's secrets. Please don't decipher it in the comment section below. People will need to do their own research for this, but it is an instructional video for IT and it is a video only, all right? So even in watching the commercial, I just want to be completely upfront and honest with you, you will not receive any IT with this. You will not receive any gimmickry, any gaffes, any anything. This is a DVD only, only instructional video, an hour and six minutes long. Now, the DVD itself is also in Japanese. That's another thing you should know to be completely upfront with you. It's all in Japanese with English subtitles, okay? And what Ruhei is going to do is he's going to walk you through his own brand of IT magic and it's going to be Reels and IT design that he prefers. He's going to go over clothing options, what kind of types of outfits he likes to wear. He is also going to go over performance area, surfaces, okay? And talk about what the best surfaces are to perform from. So you're going to get that. Then you're going to get a seven minute multi-phase routine and I'll get into that a little bit more. So is it what I thought? You know, I think it, I think we all knew that it was a video about IT. I didn't know it would be in Japanese or that it wouldn't include anything. You will need stuff for this. Like obviously, you know, you can't just buy this DVD and expect to do magic. You will have to have a center pole IT thread reel, number one. You will have to have one and you will have to have magician's wax. So those are two things you will need to purchase. So if you want to get this DVD, make sure you already have those objects or add those to cart as well. How are the angles on this? The angles on this are really super clean because of the performance area that Ruhay uses, okay? So that is part and partial with most of the tricks that he is doing. As far as inspectability, the objects of course can be inspected, the cup, the glass, the glasses, the fork, all of that can be inspected. All of the apparatus is on the magician's body. Once the overall quality and production value of the video, Stan's Minds always makes great DVDs. I was confused as to why they released this with a Japanese subtitle only because, you know, Stan's Minds does work with a lot of Asian act, Asian performers. And usually when another performer creates the effect, Herman still does the teaching. So I don't understand why Herman couldn't have done this teaching. At least have him come in from every now and then and kind of and do some more explanation or do some more follow-up. Maybe they felt like, you know, this was really Ruhay's baby and they wanted him to do all of it, which is fine. But, you know, even their splash screens in between segments were in English. So obviously it was directed at an English speaking audience. Even a voiceover would have helped and I think a voiceover would have cleared up some of the broken English subtitles. I think one negative for this and I'll stick a negative here is that even the subtitles aren't completely clean. They're not completely clear. They might have been done with a computer because they're or at least there's some words that they didn't translate maybe the best they could. And I think for magic, that's crucial. Like your instructions, the instructions you receive, the things you read and hear, that's crucial to deciphering those effects. I don't think it hurt the teaching in any way. Please don't think that I think it hurt it in any way. And it certainly doesn't hurt to have Ruhay speaking in Japanese that didn't hurt at all. I was able to learn more from watching, obviously. You learn way more from watching. Watching where he does his hookups, watching how he moves his hands. I think all of the real meat of the teaching comes from that. And so I definitely think you're getting good teaching, you're getting a well shot DVD. I just would have preferred the subtitles to be a little bit more on point. Alright, so I said he's going to teach you a multi-phase routine. It's a seven minute multi-phase routine and literally the camera walks you through the entire seven minute routine from trick to trick to trick to trick with no breaks. Like he is moving his hookup, moving his material from one object to the next, moving fluently from cup to fork to fork bending to tying the two objects together where the actions of the cup and the actions of the fork mirror each other and then back together. And then you kind of break that and then you glide the cup across the floor and then you glide the fork across the floor. You can make the cup float in mid-air or float or balance on the end of your finger. You can balance the fork off the edge of the cup. I mean it's just bam after bam after bam. The performance is really super long and extremely beautiful, extremely beautiful. This is a beautiful routine and really this is what you're getting. You are getting a seven minute psychic routine that involves the wine glass and the fork and it is just simply a beautiful routine. And then at the very end of the routine at the end of the teaching there's one bonus handling where he goes through the eye glasses one where the arms fall over and the glasses fall over. He covers that at the very end bonus handling. So how much practice will this require? Of course it'll depend on your own level of proficiency using IT. You should have some level going into this however I think this would be a good video for beginners because he does cover a lot of things like where you should wear on your on your body and what you should wear and your performance area and your surfaces. And so he does cover a lot of beginning level stuff. So this is a really good beginner's level introduction to IT. How much setup and reset is there? It's one simple hookup and you're good to go. Positives. All right so what are the positives to untouched? This is the IT instructional DVD I wish I had years ago when I was just starting out. Finally right we get performances that look like real psychic phenomena and not just floating tissue paper. Negatives. All right so what are the negatives? You know like we say around here there's negatives to everything. These are just the negatives that I see. They don't have to be the negatives that you see. It is kind of an introduction to IT and IT reels and it is in Japanese. So I didn't know that fully or at least I didn't pay attention fully to the ad copy and like I said even the subtitles aren't perfect. Lots of broken English and indecipherable phrases but you can look past that. There's some great quality teaching here. Is it worth your money? It's $35. $35 it's an hour and six minute teaching and you don't get any IT at all. So $35 is a little high I think. I think this probably would have been better at a $19.99 price point since you're not getting anything and it is only an hour. I mean it's not like a double disc set right and it's not like it's you know you're getting two hours of material. It's one hour of material and you're not getting any IT at all. So $35 seems a little high but I think if you like the performance I think if you want to learn this seven minute routine it'll be worth your money. Who would like this? People looking to get into IT. I think people who want to learn this kind of more beautiful looking way of moving objects around I think should definitely consider Untouched from Ruhi Nakamura. All right so that is my review of Untouched from Ruhi Nakamura and Sans Mines Magic. Of course I want to thank Murphy's Magic Supplies for allowing me to have this so that I can do the review for you and if you'd like to purchase it for yourself you can find it from your very favorite Murphy's Magic dealer. Thanks, bye.