#source: digimon adventure

[rockthistowninsideout]

The hearts of the DigiDestined

Beyond The Black - Heart Of The Hurricane

Halestorm - Raise Your Horns

Eric Church - Heart On Fire

Rodney Atkins - If You're Going Through Hell

HIM - When Love And Death Embrace

Nighwish - How's The Heart

Eric Church - Heart Of The Night

Happy Odaiba Day!

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#digimon #digimon adventure tri #last evolution kizuna #menoa bellucci #maki himekawa #mimi tachikawa #miyako inoue #meiko mochizuki #sora takenouchi #hikari yagami #unfortunately i do not like them equally #maki's is less polished than the others but i was running out of ideas and source pictures

[skydigiblogs]

goooood i spent like three hours at work today just thinking about the implications of apocalymon and i think i am legit just gonna have to write out a whole articulated paper about them at this point

i was trying to focus on listening to essays but nah man

i'm gonna read so hard into those plural pronouns (/hj)

#sky talks #digimon #digimon adventure #but actually i was thinking about a conversation i had last night that reminded me of an old project i'd looked at #specifically trying to investigate the different villains of the series #like the Big Bads of arcs #(devi / ete / myotis / dark masters) #in the context of the crests #i was reminded of pinnochimon's seemingly pointed parallels to yamato's struggle with the crest of friendship #and to what degree the different big bads actually reflect apocalymon's state of being i'm unsure #i think it's left a little unclear in the text (even in the sub) #i'll go back and scrub quotes if i write anything more formal in terms of analysis but like #if we're to see the dark masters as manifestations of apocalymon's collective feelings #both as being their own characters motivated by different things #and *as* those extensions of apocalymon #there are a few questions we also have to ask #1: by explicitly calling to mind devimon's attacks do we assume that to some degree the other Big Bads were extensions of apocalymon? #(ie: not just enabled by the distortions caused by apocalymon's existence but sourcing code from them) #2: can we use the other villains to read more depth into apocalymon? #even if point 1 doesn't hold true #i think the dark masters are meant to highlight lacking within apocalymon as this personification of digital obsolescence/extinction/entrop #the only one of the DMs i don't have a good read on is metalseadramon tbh #that serpent's really got evil himbo energy #but pinnochimon like i said seems to mirror yamato's crest #and by extension apocalymon's stated root of grievance in their lonely misery #machinedramon seems most concerned with control of the world around him #in a way very different his fellow DMs #and while i'm still baking the pie on piemon #out of the DMs he really seems to express the most sadism #and i do have thoughts about that re: this topic

[komaedamizuki]

Devimon: It's really cute you're gonna defeat me with the power of friendship and all, but again I am The Devil from The Bible, so–

#shitpost #devimon #digimon #incorrect quotes #incorrect quote #digisafe #🧁.txt #watching digimon adventure #source: snapcube

[miitopias]

Digimon Adventure DVD Box [Limited Release]’s Cover Scans

#digimon adventure #digimon #cant find hd scans of the last box :( #i found these on minitokyo and theyre sourced from 2011 and i cant find an older instance of these scans onlineeee #so there might have been a hd scan of the third box somewhere.. but i havent been able to find it :( #edit: i found scans of the last box YIPEEEEEE

[izzyizumi]

Digimon Adventures "Incorrect Quote" That Should Honestly Apply To Digimon Adventures

(2012 era Chosen!)Yamato: It's true that we haven't gone anywhere with this full group often.

Sora: That's because /we didn't have time for such things/ as students...

Mimi: And everyone's been working so hard since we started working!

Jou: Do you think that was a bit of a waste, looking back?...

Adventure Chosen Children (Taichi, Yamato, Sora, Koushiro, Mimi, Jou, Takeru, Hikari): *falls silent*

Hikari, suddenly /firm/: No!!

The rest (except ...Koushiro??): ???

Koushiro, also firmly: I agree with Hikari-san. I believe we have come to the point we're at now because of how hard {/dedicated} we worked each and every day - for the sake of the Worlds. For our own sake, to /survive/...

Koushiro: It wasn't a waste at all!

Taichi: You've got that right! {Since then}, We've done all sorts of different stuff together now.

TAICHI: ... And NONE OF IT was a 'waste'!

Takeru (as the rest of the Chosen nod pleasantly, in agreement!): Yeah ... That's true!

#digimon adventure #digimon adventure tri #digimon adventure last evolution kizuna #digimon adventure 02: the beginning #koushiro izumi #taichi yagami #yamato ishida #sora takenouchi #mimi tachikawa #jou kido #hikari yagami #source: uta no prince sama #shared seiyuu #cv: miyuki sawashiro #(Miyuki Sawashiro!Gammamon WOULD Approve) #cv: kenichi suzumura #(The character saying 'No!!' is actually saying 'NON!!' which fits what I wanted for having Tri!Koushiro Who Canonically Was Learning) #(And Speaking French to lead into the next line but this group of charas is seven and Hikari didnt have a line but I can see) #(Hikari firmly agreeing with the character here which would lead in to Koushiro explaining why no in fact all the years the Chosen spent) #(Doing All These Things were NOT A WASTE ACTUALLY) #(This is the ONLY Hot Take TM I ever want to hear abt Adventure Chosen as team by this point & t b h this is SO GOOD for them so Posting It) #(OK I cant add my usual blogrules to this post either I wont bite if someone reblogs respectfully but PLEASE BE respectful on this THANKYOU) #(Kouichi Kimura of Frontier would Also Approve Suzumuras chara here is Soras line!)

[digisystem]

heyoooo this is gamma and i’m doing a sourcecall for me and another digimon introject in our system!! we’ve been looking for a really long time and we would love to talk to other digimon introjects

me and tai are both looking for sourcemates! i’m a gulusgammamon introject and he is a taichi introject. we are bodily 19, and 19 and 24 respectively.

i’m looking for anyone from ghost game but especially kiyo /p or gammamon/f. we have a hiro fictive who might say hi as well.

tai is looking for yamato /r + daisuke /p + hikari /f + anyone else from adventure (gennai dni)

please dm us here or on discord at gamma#0637 if you would like to talk!!!!

#digimon sourcecall #digimon introject #digimon fictive #source call #sourcecall #looking for sourcemates #digimon ghost game #digimon adventure #digimon #endos dni #proship dni #gamma 📺

[ashxketchum]

Came across a tweet by an anime screenwriter about how he had recently worked on a script for a Chinese stage play adaptation of Digimon Adventure which opened in Shanghai this week.

He shared a few photos from the opening in Shanghai.

Did some digging around and found captures from the play itself posted by the production company on Weibo.

Set and costume design for a show like Digimon can be extremely difficult to replicate in stage plays but they've done such a good job at it!

Source: HappyKids Company on Weibo

The actors who are part of the cast also uploaded photos on their Weibo accounts. I won't share them all here, since I am not familiar with the etiquette for reposting celebrity pictures from Chinese social media posts on other sites. I'll add the photos shared by Official accounts that I could find, and some generic watermarked photos from the cast accounts which I will link at the bottom of the post.

Character profiles shared by Shonen Jump's Weibo Account.

Toei's Weibo account shared similar profiles but in case of Jou and Takeru they went for different poses.

Play captures shared by Bandai Namco's Weibo account.

These were shared by Yamato's actor. There are more pics of them in character here 😍

These were shared by Hikari's actor. There are more pics of them in character here (Mimi is there too!)

Merch being sold at the screening includes some cute stickers, some figurines and what seem to be matching Digi beanies for you and your cat!

Sorry for such a long post and intensive photo dump. I just feel so comforted by China's passion to keep the love for og Digimon Adventure alive, always perks up my mood when they come out with new content!

#digimon #digimon adventure #digimon news #taichi yagami #yamato ishida #sora takenouchi #koushiro izumi #mimi tachikawa #jou kido #takeru takaishi #hikari yagami #agumon #gabumon #piyomon #tentomon #palmon #gomamon #patamon #tailmon #devimon #myotismon #ogremon #digimon news from china #digimon adventure stage play china #digimon crumbs got me working as an investigative journalist lol

[shihalyfie]

I've alluded to tri. having some very troubled production behind the scenes, and among everything that apparently went on back there, there seem to have been at least two major bottlenecks: 1) the fact that the director (who, based on his own statements about deliberately not consulting source material, most likely didn't even watch Adventure to begin with) kept asking everyone to make things more "mature" without being clear on what that actually meant, and 2) the fact they ran out of budget and had to rewrite the entire plot halfway into it. Even the most brilliant of creators probably wouldn't be able to work at their best under such conditions.

But conversely, this also means that there were some excellent people involved in production whose efforts probably haven't been as appreciated as they should be! So I want to take a moment to spotlight some people I want to give props to:

Ayana Yuniko and Nakanishi Yasuhiro: These two scriptwriters were childhood Digimon fans who were thrilled to be on the project, and their enthusiasm clearly shows in every interview they were in. Ayana even made keen observations like noticing that the Adventure kids aren't as super-tight as people tend to make them out to be (something I've pointed out myself, and something that generally only tends to crop up among fans who have studied the series closely), and Nakanishi stated that she would slip him detailed notes about the characters and their relationships.

Both of them stated they were trying to portray the Adventure characters in a character-accurate way but kept getting their scripts rejected for not being "mature" enough, leaving them unsure about what they were supposed to do. Their roles on the series were also limited; Ayana was on parts 1, 2, and 4 while Nakanishi was on part 4 only, and they were sharing the scriptwriter role with multiple others (even within a single movie). But if I were asked to pick who on the staff list I would want to see come back for another Digimon work, it would absolutely be these two.

Kakikara Yuuko: The one in charge of overall writing for the series. tri. had a total of five scriptwriters and could have up to four(!) on a given movie, so because of that, her statements on the series and its story direction have been a bit difficult to tell whether it was her idea personally or whether she was delivering the writing room's discussion result. But one of her final statements on the series basically amounted to "I'm grateful if you even came to watch it to the end at all," and she was quite humble about saying she felt things could have been done differently; considering it sounds like she had a hard time keeping everyone and everything in order, I can only imagine she went through a lot trying to make sure everything ended safely. Incidentally, her writing portfolio is also quite respectable (and even includes kids' shows).

Suzuki Takaaki: The person with the job of "setting researcher", i.e. the one with the job of looking into the lore. Sadly, it seems like most of his ideas didn't make it into the final series (possibly because of the budget loss-induced rewrite), but his one solo interview indicates that he put quite a bit of conscientious thought into how Digital World lore works, including the idea of an EMP weapon that would affect Digimon easily but not humans (an idea that doesn't pop up among fans as often as you'd think, and took up until last year to make it into actual Adventure material via Takeru's 02TB in-universe fanfic).

Sakabe Gou: The person in charge of the series BGM. We haven't heard a lot from him, but the little we have indicates that although he also had difficulty understanding what the director was asking for when he wanted "mature" music of some kind, he himself put some very thorough thought put into the composition. In particular, he went into detail regarding the music used at the beginning of part 4, which seems to be a fan-favorite track from what I've seen (it's also my favorite too!). Sakabe also has an extensive and respectable portfolio outside Digimon; in particular, he's very highly regarded in Kamen Rider circles, so if you have a friend who's a fan, it might be a good idea to ask them about it!

[alpaca-clouds]

BELLE and the fantasy of a non-corporate internet

Just a little thing I kinda want to end out this week speaking about democratized media on. Because there is this little thing in Mamoru Hosoda's newest movie BELLE... I am honest: I am not entirely sure whether it is something Hosoda and his team thought about when making this movie. But... this movie has this wonderful little anarchist moment.

BELLE is all in all not really an anarchist movie. Nor is it Solarpunk. But it picks up this theme, that goes through several movies Hosoda has done. His "internet triology" how I like to call it:

Digimon Adventure: Bokura no Wargame

Summer Wars

BELLE

Three movies that are not only connected in aethetic, but also in theme. All three of them having a plot that takes place online for good chunks.

And that theme is of the internet connecting people all around the world. Of allowing people all around the world to connect.

The Digimon Adventure movie focuses on the idea of the young millennials in that movie having access and understanding of this new virtual world, that the older generation lacks. In the Japanese version of the movie there is a prolonged gag sequence of Yamato and Takeru trying to get access to the internet with a lot of confused adults thinking about whether or not they have this access.

This shifts in Summer Wars, where the internet suddenly is a place that everyone uses over a lot of different access points. In the finale we see people use the internet via phones, laptops, high end computers and video game consoles. Though it also gives a warning of us not relying on it too much.

And then we have BELLE, which focuses on the internet as a place where people can truly be themselves and connecting with each other, while being unable to connect in the real world (partly because of distance), as well as the internet of a place to rediscover yourself and as a medium to help each other.

But all three movies kinda have one scene in common. There is a scene towards the finale where all seems lost and the character outmatched by the antagonist. (I am gonna say something about the antagonists in a moment.) And then... everyone gets together. And by everyone I mean everyone. In Bokura no Wargame it is the emails of encouragement and the spirits of all those kids and teens watching the battle that allow War Greymon and Metal Garurumon to fuse into Omegamon. In Summer Wars it is the fact that everyone risks their accounts by handing them over to Natsuki that allows them to beat the AI in hanafuda. And in the finale of BELLE it is everyone banding together to sing and no longer supporting the self-appointed moderators that allows Suzu to make Kei hear her voice. It is the connection of people via the internet that allows people to succeed in these movies.

But there is one thing in which BELLE differs from the other two movies - or rather all three movies differ from each other.

Bokura no Wargame still very much is set in Web 1.0, before social media and the bottlenecking of the internet. Again, the movie makes this big thing out of the internet being a thing for the youth.

Meanwhile Summer Wars is set within a very corporate "everything platform". And while this movie does have some message about "yeah, maybe having all that data within one system is a bad thing, actually", there is not really a comment about the company running OZ and whether maybe one company should not own the one platform that in this world basically IS THE INTERNET.

BELLE is different in that regard. Because BELLE makes a point out of the fact that U is an open source platform that was created to... basically run anarchical. There was not supposed to be an central control. That the users were supposed to have control over their experience on the platform. But because the creators also did not want to have "control" over it, big companies just took over and devided U up between themselves, creating that moderation team that is seen as the antagonists within the movie. And here is the thing: That big scene of everyone coming together and singing? Yeah, that is the scene in which the users take the control over the platform back from the companies. And since U is basically the the internet in this world... Part of the finale is basically the users taking back their control over the internet.

And... I don't know. I have not seen people talk about this so far. But to me it is the nice and utopic part in this movie.

The internet is such a great thing to connect people. And that is something that Mamoru Hosoda has definitely understood better than many other film makers. And we just... should not let big coorporations take this from us.

#web 1.0 #web 2.0 #democracy #anarchy #belle #belle movie #mamoru hosoda #digimon adventure #digimon #summer wars #take back the internet

[viewscraftroom]

Been watching Digimon Adventure w a friend and despite fox kids making whack ass alterations to the source material, they did bless us with this amazing quote

#artists on tumblr #art #digimon #greymon #original art #fuckin’ shred greymon #don’t let any bitch tell you different

[robowilofficial]

I'm thinking about how the colors in Digimon: The Movie look kinda faded when compared to the original source materials. (Top is from Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Landing!!/Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals)

Granted the dubbing team likely scanned the original 35mm elements of the films, edited it on a computer or something like that, and then transferred it *back* to 35mm film. And I've heard the colors are rather faded on the print Discotek was using for their upcoming remaster as well.

#digimon #digimon adventure #digimon adventure 02 #digimon the movie #flamedramon #fladramon

[digitalgate02]

(Rough) Fact Checking on Rui & Ukkomon's statements in 02TB

Tbh I'm kinda concerned about people taking Rui's statements for granted and not realizing the movie is unclear what is legit and whatnot.

This is not Kizuna-like levels of screwed up, but this is still bugging me as i've been discussing about this movie with friends who managed to watch it before me, and once i watched it by myself i completely understood their thoughts and theories regarding the movie and the Rui & Ukkomon lore.

We still got no actual news of digital releases or EN subs (tho i believe fansubs might appear once the JP Blu-Ray/DVD is released in May) or any other country digital release (or Blu-Ray/DVD ones) so i can’t completely make a detailed lore busting post about Rui’s statements and what we know or were presented in the original Adventure’99, 02 and their extra materials like Drama CD and movies.

But i do remember tiny bits of the movie… And stuff said in the pre-release stream.

I’ll do my best here.

[WARNING FOR SPOILERS AHEAD]

The movie staff released a timeline for this movie, which indicates Rui met Ukkomon in February 29 1996 → I don’t think this is a contradiction, because if the Korean interview with SekiP is reliable (i mean, we can’t check what she said in JP, and the telephone game from JP to KR and to EN means something might have been lost in the process!), she said they changed a bit of the lore for this movie. Btw, the OG lore of Digimon Partnership count starts in 1995 and then it doubles year by year is still present in the movie, as there’s a scene where the current number of partnerships in the year of 2012, but the number stated is not exact since the movie takes place in February only. So of course the count wouldn’t be the full year number, which is 131,072 partnerships in total.

Rui and Ukkomon form a bond, and Ukkomon grants Rui the wish of having many friends, which he tells the 02 group that partnerships with digimon were the result of this wish → This is completely uncertain, and it is also doubted by the 02 kids in the movie. In Adv’99 and 02 we learn that there’s multiple sources for becoming a Chosen Child: Homeostasis (Adv Eight, possibly their predecessors); Holy Beasts (Daisuke, Miyako & Iori); unknown sources (Menoa, Meiko, Ken, Wallace, Worldwide Chosen, Dark Seed Children perhaps?)

Rui claims he’s the first person who was partnered with a digimon → Well, this is not wrong! Now, if he were claiming to be the first to have met or interacted with a digimon… He would’ve been wrong: The first human to get in touch with the Digital World and the digimon were actually two – Oikawa Yukio and Hida Hiroki (yes, Iori’s late dad), in the 1980s. Despite that, they never had digivices at all. Then in 1995 we possibly had a double digimon encounter happening: Wallace meeting Gummymon and Chocomon briefly ¹, and the Yagami siblings meeting a Koromon. This could mean Rui and Ukkomon were actually the fourth digimon encounter in the timeline. But what is correct is that he became Ukkomon’s partner first because he got the very first digivice in the world. Taichi and Hikari weren’t partnered with that same Koromon ², but they got their own partner digimon + digivices in 1999. And Wallace probably became Terriermon’s partner years after, possibly in 1996 and after Chocomon’s disappearance ³, or post-1996.

Rui claims Ukkomon is a special digimon because he can grant wishes → Okay, but i definitely remember the 02 Kids going like “sounds cool bro but we doubt it” when he said that. And the movie itself quite shows the opposite later: Ukkomon did not cure Rui’s father, and he was possibly manipulating everyone else like puppets (besides Rui’s parents i meant) – so what kind of digimon who can grant wishes is this?! He has no magical god-like powers at all! And his null lore (Bandai’s) profile points out that part of granting wishes are just rumors. But you know what said profile mentions too? That Ukkomon is able to hijack the opponents’ minds. It’s his species’ special move – Liar Dream – besides spinning like a beyblade to attack (Whirlpool Spin).

Rui claims he killed Ukkomon a long time ago → Also not totally true. Rui tried killing Ukkomon, but he couldn’t commit to it. He tried to destroy the digivice, which resulted in his injury in the right eye. Ukkomon did not… “die” apparently. Yes, he was melting, but one detail you might not know is that when a digimon dies, everything from their body, or their weapon is also erased too. Check Adv’99 death for Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon. The eye Ukkomon slapped into Rui’s face was still there after his “death” so this was the biggest hint for the audience. It was also implied in the Audio Drama #3 (released in the Japanese theaters, and soon in the BD/DVD deluxe box as bonus with the other two theater ones) – But it’s okay, he possibly never had a contact with another digimon or even a Chosen Child before meeting Daisuke & co, so we can’t blame him for believing he had killed Ukkomon.

In a flashback, Ukkomon tells Rui that he’s connected to something bigger → This might be the only legitimate truth he had told Rui, besides that Rui was the first person partnered with a digimon. Somehow, Ukkomon is connected to some god-tier entity because once BigUkkomon is destroyed, the digivices are not needed anymore. This part might be completely confusing for everyone else, but it’s not confirming Rui’s claims that the digimon partnerships were caused by Ukkomon, and yes the part of Ukkomon’s claims to be related to some higher up god-like entity.

The notes within the text:

To my biggest surprise… Wallace never mentions when his mother found the egg. But he definitely mentions when Chocomon disappears – 7 years before, which means 1995. I’ve seen many people think this movie goes against the canon in different ways… But now i’ve reached the conclusion that what Wallace meant is that he met Gummymon and Chocomon in the same year Chocomon disappeared in the flower field. Plus, Wallace is shown in those flashbacks as a 4 years old kid (stated in the Memorial Chronicle) and we know via a CD bonus card that Wallace’s age is 11 years old in 2002 (same as Daisuke, Takeru, Hikari and Ken) – so i guess if he had gotten the egg before 1995 he would’ve been too young to remember it (unless you opt for 1994, but i think this wouldn’t be possible…)

The Koromon who met Taichi and Hikari is implied to not be the same who was partnered with Taichi 4 years later in Adventure'99: the TV series Agumon knew Taichi’s name because of the data inserted on his egg by the Agents, which were also manufacturing the Crests and Digivices, according to Homeostasis’ analysis on the children from the Greymon vs Parrotmon fight.

Since Chocomon went missing, i suppose Wallace became partnered with Gummymon only, but if we go with Adv’99 and 02, the Chosen Children can evolve non-partnered digimon as well: Leomon mentions he only managed to evolve into SaberLeomon because of the Chosen Children’s digivices being used on him previously in the series, and in 02 we witnessed the Digimon Kaiser using his digivice to dark evolve Agumon into both SkullGreymon and MetalGreymon virus (the latter only when he created the Evil Spiral, of course).

#digimon adventure 02 the beginning #digimon adventure 02 #02tb spoilers

[seventeenlovesthree]

Disclaimer: I know it's not realistic to get another movie two years in a row, but this is just wish fulfilment for fun!

#digimon #digimon adventure #digimon adventure 02 #digimon tamers #digimon frontier #digimon survive #digimon ghost game #digimon polls #digimon adventure: #digimon adventure 2020 #there are of course more options but these seemed the most plausible #let's play bingo this year toei

[scrubf1re]

I think I’ve figured out the reason why I prefer Meiko’s Meicoomon over Wallace/Willis’ Lopmon.

If you’ve been in the digimon fandom long enough you’ve probably seen/hear comparisons between Wallace/Willis’ Lopmon from Hurricane Touchdown and Meiko’s Meicoomon from tri.

The similarities between both of them that plenty of digimon fans have pointed out are that they are both partner digimon with uncontrollable evolved/digivolved (or in Meicoomon’s case mutated) forms with their respective human partners going through character arcs about realising that for as much as they love their partner digimon and how much it pains them to do so, they’re too dangerous to let live so they end up letting them die to save everyone and put them out of their misery (I have seen some people compare Meicoomon to Yujin's Offmon but I feel Offmon is more comparable to Ryo’s Monodramon and I’ve already made a rant comparing those two). Keep in mind that for this comparison I’m only looking at the partner digimon themselves and not their human companions since I actually like both Wallace/Willis and Meiko which unfortunately I cannot say the same for the partner digimon and I’m going to go over where I felt Meiko’s Meicoomon succeeded where Wallace/Willis’ Lopmon failed. And the reasons are actually a lot more simple than you’d think. My biggest problem with Lopmon and by extension Hurricane Touchdown as a whole is how little character and personality Lopmon has outside of the fact that he’s a partner digimon under the effects of a virus and having undergone a dark evolution/digivolution which can be attributed to how little screentime Lopmon’s personality outside of his dark evolution/digivolution. That aspect of Lopmon’s character only gets two scenes dedicated which is strange given that Lopmon’s dark evolutions/digivolutions get plenty of screen time which can be attributed to bad pacing on Hurricane Touchdown's part. I do think it’s a little weird how I seem to be the only person who has this complaint with Lopmon that I know of.

First is the flashback involving Wallace/Willis, Terriermon and Lopmon’s backstory and how he turned into Wendimon/Wendigomon.

And the second being before he dies and... that’s all we get to see of what Lopmon’s character is like outside of his dark evolutions/digivolutions. The only two personality traits I could get from both of these scenes are that he’s childlike and playful which doesn’t even enough to stand out amongst the other partner digimon in the adventure continuity since plenty of other partner digimon have shown traits of being childlike and playful (as well as those two traits not even being their only character traits including Meicoomon). I’m a firm believer in the idea that there is a huge difference between a character being simple (for example Jo/Joe’s Gomamon comes to mind as while being undeniably simple, as he’s rather brash, confident and loud to contrast his partner) and a character being underwritten (I’ve already criticised Ryo’s Monodramon for more or less the same thing before) and unfortunately in a story where we are supposed to feel sad when Lopmon dies I don’t think it’s an unreasonable thing to criticise said story if the character dying doesn’t have much character to begin with.

In comparison Meicoomon has plenty of scenes where we get to see what her character is like outside of the fact that she’s the source of the infection and how her mutations have much more violent personalities. The first 20 minutes of part 2 of tri being a great example of this since even when we limit ourselves to just the first quarter of determination since we see multiple different traits of Meicoomon such as her having a tendency to wonder off on her own, being easily scared, playful, being rather dependent on Meiko and naive despite being an adult/champion level. These aren’t even the only times we get to see the traits as they are more consistent than you’d think since we actually do see them again in later points in tri including flashbacks.

I don’t think it takes a genius to see where I’m coming from since a lot of the points I made in Meicoomon’s favour can basically be attributed to the fact that Hurricane Touchdown is only a single movie whereas tri is 6 OVAs (or 26 episodes if you’re watching it on a streaming service like crunchyroll and other examples that I don’t feel like typing down). I feel like another contributor is the fact that when we first see Lopmon in Hurricane Touchdown he’s already dark evolved/digivolved into Wendimon/Wendigomon whereas when we first see Meicoomon in tri it’s kept a mystery as to what her importance to the plot is which is why she gets so much more screentime dedicated to establishing what her character is like compared to Lopmon who only gets a single flashback and 1 scene afterwards.

Because of this, it’s way easier to get sad over Meicoomon’s death since we actually get a decent amount of screen time to what her personality and character is like outside of the infection (which is still a simple character mind you, but being a simple character is not the same as being badly and/or underwritten).

A point I have seen some people made in Lopmon’s favour in comparison to Meicoomon that I don’t really seem to get is that when Lopmon dies he briefly becomes Cherubimon (Virtue) before disappearing whereas Meicoomon doesn’t briefly become Rasielmon when she dies. The reason I don’t get this criticism towards Meicoomon is that the people I’ve seen make this complaint claim that her not becoming Rasielmon means she wasn’t purified when she died even though Meicoomon appearing in her regular non mutated self could also be interpreted as her being purified since that’s what Meicoomon is like when she’s not a rampaging mutated digimon. Gonna be honest this complaint feels more like an excuse to complain about a lesser known digimon not getting their anime debut in a scene where if that did happen... you’d change absolutely nothing about the story other than Rasielmon waving goodbye to Meiko (a digimon Meiko’s never seen before mind you) instead of Meicoomon before disappearing. Honestly if Cherubimon (Vice) briefly turned back into Lopmon instead of Cherubimon (Virtue), you’d change absolutely nothing about Hurricane Touchdown’s plot since Cherubimon reverting back into Lopmon could still be interpreted as him being purified anyways. I dunno this complaint feels very surface level and difficult for me to agree with given the points I’ve made. Anyways TLDR: the reason why I feel Meiko’s Meicoomon is better written than Wallace/Willis’ Lopmon is that Lopmon is extremely underwritten outside of the fact that he’s a partner digimon under the effects of dark evolution/digivolution and that digimon’s personality and character outside of that has way too little screentime anyways whereas Meiko’s Meicoomon doesn’t have the same problems. I don’t really know what else to type here.

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Aaand he's done!

Pictured Is Lucemon by nearly the end of what could be called his "late season design" of the adventure he and KAra went through as partners. "early season" has less gold markings, and the ones that there are mostly at the tips only. The gold shows up when he defies his Sin of Pride for the sake of others in a meaningful way. Many were where he has humbled himself for the sake of Kara, apologizing with heartfelt sincerity and admitting he was wrong, with the intent to do better. The type of things that would make a chosen child's crest glow and unleash a new digivolution.

I have a LOT of lore on him below, so read more with the understanding that its LONG POST beneath

Like many others of his kind, Lucemon fell due to questioning Yggdrasil's desire to keep the violence in digimon's nature. His altruistic and peaceful desires were his downfall, and once a little child form who loved books, architecture, and the many lands of the digital world, his fall corrupted him and turned him to a fallen form. The child had slight gold tips on his wings before his fall from grace, but once in his new demon form his wings were darker than pitch and the purest white, and none of the gold markings he had sported before. Furious, hurting over the betrayal from one he had trusted to care for its creations, and full of spite and scorn that the god he had served was so short sighted, Lucemon soon was taking his hurt and anger out on others and he gained territory and subjected those under it to his wrath and twisted mercy. He was arrogant, full of sadistic contempt for others, cold and regal, but in some ways a fair ruler. He tended to hear out others before delivering his judgement, would give others several chances before he punished for failure. But he still had a terrifying reputation, and the castle he had built and ruled from was often filled by the dark digimon who felt more at home amid fear. He had his spies and servants in his lands, keeping an eye on things, and his tyrannical rule was absolute.

Time heals, or at least lessens, the pains of the past, and in time Lucemon too mellowed, unable to sustain the rage and hurt and coldness that had fueled his actions. There was a point where he looked around, and was restless, and started to return a bit to his roots. His castle started to acquire gardens, still full of gloom, but with flowers none the less. He terraformed restlessly, heard out digimon who wanted to live in his lands but couldn't due to various troubles, and helped eothers settle or seek shelter if the lands outside got to harsh for them. He was slowly growing kinder, and returning to the interests of his pre-fall self, and with the small actions here and there, gained the start of gold on his wings again. Along the way he had taken a Piedmon and Myotismon as his most trusted underlings, who will carry out his orders and enforce his rules and help him gaze across his lands. They had thrown themselves to his mercy and promised unwavering loyalty to him, and have proved thier worth again and again.

It was at least a century of this, maybe two, before you get closer to what he is during the series prologue. By the time the first batch of chosen human children arrive, his lands are foreboding, but look merely grim and the boundary lines arent well defined. There are digimon living under his protection and he is harsh but fair, and very protective of those who want to remain peaceful. His name is spoken with respect and fear, the powerful lord who can wipe out a city if you displease him, but many things spoken of him he hasnt done in a long time. He has also started roaming in the guise of the child form he had once more unlocked, going under an alias and posing as a traveling scholar, having small trips to see the lands himself without arousing fear or suspicion and indulging in his deep love of books. But also most notably as the humans arrive... he isnt the main source of conflict.

There is another digimon, or digimon group, that has been carrying on where he left off, and he has many refugee digimon who for some reason or another cant turn to the angels and other Holy digimon for help. So when these odd beings come from another world, he watches, waits to see how it plays out, and raises his eyebrows at some of the absolute nonsense deus ex machina plays Yggdrasil and its underlings pull to keep the little helpless humans alive. So.. why not join in. Lucemon is no fool, and can see where this is headed, so he sends out his generals, Piedmon and Myotismon, with an army of his underlings, to play diplomat and offer his aid or otherwise allow the humans to think well of him while this threat is stamped out. And the humans win, of course, and they leave... but it isnt long before more are back, and the digital world opens to others. And here the story begins, as he ponders if it would be a good easy way to gain PR if he had a pet human to do his bidding, because digimon tend to stereotype, and the current trends say that any digimon with a human is trustworthy. So he sends out his generals, to see if this idea is worth pursuing, with the idea that any human puppet would be good, but very doubtful there is a human worth bonding in a true partnership with.

And then he finds Kara.

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[izzyizumi]

Digimon Adventure 02 (Japanese Version) ~ World Tour Arc + (International) / U.S. {American} Chosen Children

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Sam and FlareLizamon - Black {“Phil” in U.S. English dub, as they had to differentiate from “Sam Ichijouji”, known as “Osamu” in the J.P.N} Steve and Yukidarumon - American Jew Lou & Tortomon - Indigenous Maria & Centalmon - Hispanic-American Tatum & Airdramon - Irish-American (+Wallace & Betamon / Seadramon) + Mimi Tachikawa (when Mimi is in New York)

My Commentary: Steve was confirmed by Toei to be a Jew in the “Digimon Memorial Book”, published after 02 had ended. However, It is important to remember that Steve would likely not be celebrating “only” Inter-faith X-mas here (if Steve did join in), but ALSO Hanukkah / Chanukah earlier in the month and previous month. Chanukah in 2002, however, was November 29th ~ December 7th, and these scenes took place closer to December 25th. But that doesn’t mean Steve wouldn’t have noted Chanukah at all earlier that year, and it’s good to note that when we’re discussing 02′s “real-world based” “timeline”!

Tatum was also confirmed to be Irish-American in the Memorial Book. She is partnered to an Airdramon.

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