Although the old Digimon Card Game was mostly just renders of Digimon, I enjoy a lot of the art and poses as well, and one thing I like is looking at old Digimon books that use that art outside the frame Before I didn't even notice Dukemon CM was throwing his lance in the card 😅

The first thing I thought about a Digimon x Ultraman collab was actually a new Imperialdramon and Belial Vamdemon since their battle in Digimon Adventure 02 was a homage to Ultraman Tiga vs Gatanothor (Adventure had a lot of Tiga in general).

Sometimes reading old articles with Digimon confuses me. Aren't "Digimon" and "Pokémon" easy to understand and come directly from English words? So why would they think they had to change it? Still, curious to see how Bandai staff spoke with Nintendo's president about it.

"I play Digimon daily, hope to get a Metal Greymon" (Hiroshi) "There were many generations; I'm training the 28th Digimon generation now" (Tenya) I like when Digimon creators talk about playing with it, and this being from C'mon Digimon, before any dream for more, feels special.

The first video I'm working on to release is about Digimon death. It's basically a video of one of my posts, and it was funny to see the conclusion of the last part reflecting in some scenes in Digimon, including this one from World 2. To discuss death is to discuss life, right?

Although when people hear of Gaia in Digimon it seems the most immediate thought is Digimon World 3's Gaiamon (Maybe more so than Appmon's), I always think first of World 2's Gaia. It's interesting to see how much it is basically a conceptual prototype for Yggdrasill years.

I like seeing unique move descriptions in Digimon. Gaia Force is usually "gathers energy from the atmosphere to form a high-temperature sphere", but one specifies he first gathers energy from Mother Earth, Gaia, into its body, and then converts it into high-temperature energy.

Originally, Digimon Tamers Episode 14 had a completely different flow to story. The Summary available in TV Fuji's Website followed the original script, and TV Magazine's depiction seems to also follow it, such as showing all three Digimon fighting Mihiramon together.

Dukemon's Final Elysion uses holy light to purify everything it touches, cleaning corrupted souls. When it was used against Beelzebumon in Digimon Tamers, the idea was for it to erase Beelzebumon's evil energy, to burn away all of the loaded data it had acquired until then.

It's not the first time that Producer Takada speaks about looking into fan reactions. Last year he said in a High-Fight interview that he's always curious to see what people is talking, so right after the broadcast starts, he is already searching for "Digimon Beatbreak".

What is the truth behind Professor Tenma in Beatbreak? His first name is Tasuku, which starts with "Ta", a tradition in the series, glasses with an impressive shape in the forehead... They can't say more about him, but it'll be revealed.

Compared to the previous Digimon Beatbreak arc, Kyo might mostly be a support during the GIFT Arc. But, there'll be one episode focusing on Maki that will show her past, which means past Kyo will also appear, and we might learn about their relationship.

The Sapotama in Digimon Beatbreak are AI Assistants sold with the idea of helping someone to achieve their perfect selves. In this case, some already lost their sense of decision and started doing things just because "The AI told so, it must be true".

Seems like people on X took this to the extreme of "they have no plan and are making it all seeing fan reactions", which isn't at all the case. All I meant was that the story isn't fully, there's degree to variation and they aren't fully sure if something will fit beforehand.

The "Tactics Arc" was planned from the early stages; the intent was to portray a clash between different human teams. Although there was a negative reaction due to their methods, as the story progressed, the impressions changed as Raito's and the other's backstories were shown.

The idea behind Digimon Beatbreak was "Let's create a new Digimon". While they wanted to keep a connection with the past Digimon series, they wanted a new challenge. This resulted in the work that explored the relationship between humans and Digimon the most.

Digimon Beatbreak is written like a weekly manga series. Future story events aren't fully decided beforehand; the story is being constantly written as they make episodes, and based on fan comments from social media. Even things like the Tactics finale weren't set in stone.

When I wrote this text about the "Digimon Epic", I didn't remember this interview, so I ended up not mentioning it. But with her examples here, I think I could also have included a few other interviews from back in the day where Seki mentioned her idea of the "World of Digimon".

Although DORUmon appeared in "13+" as one of the Digimon coming from X-Evolution, it only evolved to DORUguremon, and Alphamon was once again absent. But I think this appearance is enough of an excuse for a post I've wanted to make for a long time: where does Alphamon come from?

There's a curious thing about "the limit of acceptable" with this, because although I enjoyed "13+", it went in a direction that I personally wouldn't, but that was also because I had a different limit with certain events, but the same goes with him and other Digimon projects.

I was thinking about comprehensive systems and when the explanation about the worlds was given in "13+", I reminded of one of the answers from the FAQ to the fictional theory that inspired him in Digimon Adventure, which also related to another subject I was reflecting about.

Since Konaka took a look at "13+" regarding Takato's appearance and Tamers 2018, I thought if it could be fine to update this to include a note of that appearance in my Digimon Tamers post, but the details on the worldview weren't clear enough for me. Maybe in the future.

Kakudou just released the complete and revised version of "13+", the backstory to Digimon Adventure -Beyond-, and also commented more about the development. Since the conception, it has been about 2 years, but finally everything he made is now public (Even though not officially). Spoilers below.

When I wrote about the Digi Gnomes years ago comparing them with Ukkomon, it was just a vague idea I had in my mind while thinking of the material I was researching, but seeing something else actually mention that they look alike surprised me a lot.

The last part of "13+" (Digimon Adventure Beyond's backstory) is released (He plans to release a complete work with corrections) There are scenes here that I never expected to see in my wildest dreams. There's so much love to all corners of the animated franchise.

Personally, even if the theme isn't of my interest, I feel less against something when it's presented truthfully while being aware of the opposition, and I have seen many approaches in Digimon. Kakudou did many retroactive additions in Adventure, and he was very open about that.

Canon discussions with Digimon fall into the same trap as almost any other canon discussion. Canon is a dogmatic matter; it comes from the common acceptance of a body of work in regards to both content and analysis method. It doesn't bind anything if you don't identify with it.

The fact they include the first Digimon Adventure movie in the mystery feels important to me because using that that movie in the TV series was the ground zero of the connections, and was done by Kakudou's own wishes. There was no 8th child that was Hikari until he decided it.

The 2nd part of "13+" (Digimon Adventure Beyond's Backstory) is much more action heavy than the last part. There's lore discussion early on and some lore drops spread across it, but it's more about the characters fighting invading darkness with the Black Gears and Dark Towers.

Kakudou published the 2nd part of "13+" (Digimon Adventure Beyond's backstory). This is the part that explains the logic behind the connection between the Digital World and the Real World, which he mentioned before was inspired by the book Permutation City.

It has been quite a while since a Digimon work gave me so much to think about, so I'll talk a bit more about "13+" (Digimon Adventure Beyond backstory), so spoilers. But in general, I want to address that maybe the conclusion a few got might be jumping too much into uncertainty.

I finished reading the first part of "13+" (Digimon Adventure Beyond's backstory), and I'm very surprised by the direction. It's only in Japanese, but maybe we'll get a fan translation in the future. But, I'll try to discuss the things I found interesting. Spoilers ahead.

One of the biggest complaints I had about Kizuna and The Beginning that I mentioned in a very old post was about how much of it was dependent on the characters acting as if they didn't know of things that directly countered the plot of the movies. They depended on that to work.

When Digimon Adventure Beyond had just been released as the PV, I wrote about what I thought of it and mentioned I wouldn't expect the backstory to include detailed information about certain things. I can say I'm surprised by how much it exceeded my expectations.

The first part of the script Hiroyuki Kakudou created for "Digimon Adventure Beyond", originally named "13+" has been released by him. The project had been discontinued officially, but after he suffered health complications and almost died, he decided to release it on his own.

Because my blog is currently paused and I'll be starting a new course next week, I'll be trying to reactivate my old Digimon channel since I updated some material since last Christmas. I'm currently working on a video version of this post about Digimon death.

With yesterday's post, I finished everything I had for Digimon Tamers' 25th anniversary. Now that ended, you can ask me anything about it here if you have any doubts. I'm also free to answer any Digimon topics or anything else if you are interested and I have an answer.

One of the ideas for the 1st Digimon Tamers episode was to introduce some of the ways in which it was different from the previous series. This included the circuit board virtual space and the wild nature of the Digimon, which introduced how important death was in this story.

From time to time, I see some posts here and in other places about Digimon, and I can't help but be curious about how such a misunderstanding even came to be. As something vague in the original? Some summary that didn't catch some nuances? Lack of knowledge of another element?

The scenes in Vikaralamon's episode in Digimon Tamers in which the Real World skies are broken and we can see the virtual space with many Digimon in the background now always reminds me that something similar was meant to appear in the first Digimon Adventure movie.

A written summary being considered an adaptation and considered a copyright infringement feels so dangerous. Where exactly lies the fundamental point of difference that delimits what is and isn't? The law sounds very scary.

With how important inheriting abilities and properties was to justify fight and evolution in Digimon Tamers, I'm surprised by how little they used stuff like loaded abilities with Digimon (Only Beelzebumon). Still, this scene of Guilmon using Megidramon's tail always surprises me

Nowadays, the Digimon series is said to have sold about 14 million LCD Toy units worldwide, but older reports show a larger number, and I tried to break down the information as much as possible. Below we have two values, from 2004 and 2010, that I divided by region and era.

Considering how many cases I have seen in Digimon of the original intent clashing with common fan perception, I'm surprised that there haven't been more cases of fans working on Digimon and introducing something they thought was true from myths and misunderstandings.

Since my focus was on Digimon Tamers' worldview, I didn't mention specific character details. One thing I wanted to comment on was the discourse surrounding Alice, which is based upon a misreading of Konaka's comments that is still being spread even after he spoke against it.

There were a few Digimon Tamers topics that didn't fit the objective for this post and I might turn then into posts here. The website itself doesn't has any more storage for future releases for now, so I'll try make more things outside of it for a while.

New Post: Exploring the World of Digimon Tamers In 2001, the boundary between the Real and Digital worlds nearly collapsed. Humans, both adults and children, Digimon, and other mysterious programs all fought for their reasons. This is a record of this world from 25 years ago.

It was among the CD covers that I edited while working in my Digimon Tamer post, so the first thing that the new Digimon Beatbreak Ending reminded me of was the Digimon Girls Festival CD.

The catchphrase for Digimon Beatbreak's Tactics Arc was "Perfection vs Freedom", and each pair also had its own catchphrase. For Raito vs Tomoro was "Prodigy vs Fool". The initial impression is that Raito is a "prodigy", but as the story progresses, you notice Tomoro might be the real prodigy.

Also, about my Digimon Tamers post, I already finished all the major research, and its commentary has even already been released. All that is left is finishing this summary, which is targeted for general readers. I'm already in the Digital World, and I think it won't take long.