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ok real talk... if i make ko-fi tiers to help me get funds for home stuff (like, helping at home to get food, meds, etc) and some silliest things like commission peeps/friends (once i get a way to do that again), would you like to support me and my silly art?

Also i'm thinking about opening comms. again, i just... want to find ways to help at home, that if my art is good enough for that.

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How Amanokawa Hiro learned to pick locks. [/joke]

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OK SO HEAR ME OUT:

WHAT IF THIS WAS A FORESHADOWING FOR THE APPMON INCLUSION IN DIGICA LATER THIS YEAR HUH?? HUH?? HUH??

Bad news everyone :(

Haru's card is an option card, no Tamer Card Haru (yet)

BUT THIS IS A GREAT VICTORY FOR ME, SHUT UPPPP

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Ok i'll be honest and say i don't like how the fans reduce characters into a single joke and keep using it nonstop, especially if it is about Masaru and Taiki -- it sometimes makes me uncomfortable because it feels like awful misconceptions about their whole character arcs, personalities and reasons for their own acts/behaviors.

I think i feel this wary because of other fanbases reducing characters into an ugly joke and then mocking official stuff or even complaining about official stuff not playing with those exaggerated fanon interpretations. (yes, if you know what i'm talking about, if not... Knuckles and Amy apparently.)

Like, i love everyone enjoys the joke of Masaru enjoying to punch digimon and things and cause a fuss, fight everything with his own fists. But turns out none of those make sense to me, and it makes me uncomfortable. Masaru punched digimon not because he likes to fist fight others -- it's because this is the only way he can use Digisoul. Also, he has a whole honor code and is not the kind to cause problems ON PURPOSE. This is the constrast he had with Kouki, who's indeed a troublemaker and an asshole working for Kurata. Masaru is noble and only fights for the RIGHT things. He's the kind to punch a guy harassing a woman in streets because he cannot allow someone disrespect a lady, for example. He fought rival gangs in an episode because they kept messing things up, if i remember correctly? It's all about protecting others and doing the right thing.

As for Taiki... I know he's the only DigiAni protagonist who's more strategist oriented, and perhaps some sort of smartass... But don't forget he is also prone to commit mistakes and take reckless decisions -- some of the issues he had in XW anime was because he definitely jumped right into the "I CAN'T ABANDON THEM!!" motto and then something bad happened. He is always needing assistance from Akari because he definitely passes out of energy due to spending most of the time HELPING others. And i think this is Taiki's flaws and i love that he may be a quick learner and can do multiple things due to that ability, but he's not totally flawless.

"Ok Ni but why the ramen thing don't bother y--"

Look, i know people will yell at me for saying this -- But if we're going to argue about Daisuke and ramen in the recent stuff, please remember that before 02 final episode EVERYTHING else labelled and had a heavy fixation of portraying Daisuke as a SOCCER BOY. Even before Kizuna there was one merch during 2015 to 2018 where V-mon was holding a soccer ball. The Dai-Vee duet is about soccer too. Two drama CDs had briefly references to Soccer. There was even an "Original Stories" mini-dialogue in which Daisuke and Ken were playing a soccer match! And you know how many episodes about Soccer was in 02? Just one. And even so, i didn't see people complaining about it.

The ramen thing is the same imo, and even, i think it works with Daisuke being the one to have a tunnel vision because he's straightforward and simple-minded. He's not going to move mountains like Taichi because his portrayal was to keep him a humble person who priorizes sharing joy with others than being idk, the pioneer of something like Yamato or Jou, for example. He chose something based on his style. His style? He likes to make others happy and smile. He likes to have fun with others. This was also shown with Soccer too.

And I think they're not dropping this as the ONLY thing he does -- he still is shown having other abilities, and when he mentions ramen or does something related to ramen it's not in a very reductive way imo. I know where those concerns come from, and i understand it (sadly, i can't see Agumon talking about food without having CONCERNS now) -- but trust me when i say it's tamed and still not the only thing he does or says.

02TB has only THREE scenes where he makes a reference to ramen, and in my opinion they did not mischaracterize him, they had sense and also had the "Daisuke way of expressing things" -- something i used to believe it was the thing, because that kid has a dramatic blood! He's the same person who had a small meltdown because Hikari said "I hate people who bad talk about their siblings!" and he assumed she was saying she hated him instead. And also Natsu e no Tobira he dramatically narrates the reason he's in New York in the most dramatic way as possible too. Not to mention him trying to act cool in front of Mimi when they met.

Ramen for Daisuke means sharing a moment, having fun, and making people smile, and if that's not a Daisuke-branded thing, I don't know what is then.

I'd be more concerned about people reducing Daisuke's crush on Hikari into something obsessive and unhealthy, creepy and him antagonizing Takeru to high levels. I don't like any of the jokes which forgets Daisuke is not just the idiot who has a crush on Hikari, or keeping the whole one-sided rivalry happening when it ended immediately after Odaiba Memorial episode in 02.

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APPMON IS COMING TO DIGICA

ALEXA PLAY APPMON MUSIC PARTY HARD NOW.

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Idk if the askblog should be transformed into a dai-vee blog for musings hcs and other things...

But i do think like, Daisuke barely hates others. He might have grudges on them for a while, but there's no hatred involved. Unless you're someone who got nothing good inside and only lives to cause chaos and misfortune to others (like, y'know, Vamdemon)

In some material i forgot which one was, Daisuke's comments on Mummymon probably implied he would've been friends with Mummymon if weren't for the circumstances they met, that if i'm remembering it correctly? I dunno, but take it with a grain of salt.

The thing is that Daisuke is the kind to give others a chance. His heart and opinions change a lot, and he's very open-minded as well.

I really think he never got to hate for the Kaiser or other bad guys for real, because he's the kind to give them a chance if there's hope for them to change, repent and fix their mistakes.

He also never hated Takeru imo, he was scared a ton about Takeru's presence simply replacing his, and that all the people he had so far would forget his whole existence.

He's a humble person who does not believes he's better than others. And his worstest and shallowest episodes are ep 4 and 7 because he was also under the fear of Takeru being cooler and nobody else start to not care about him anymore. Yeah, he was pretty much looking up for attention and validation -- things he conquered through 02 and this is why his Kizuna/02TB era song entitled RUNNING MAN, has a part in which he thanks everyone for supporting him (and does it in both Japanese and English!)

This boy had learned a lot through his path and i deeply love him.

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🌟🌟🌟 2025 is 02's 25th anniversary but I'd like to bring more Rui & Ukko festivities oopsie🌟🌟🌟

→ Post your art/fanfic/meta/gifs/etc about Rui and Ukkomon!! → tag #02tbluibirthday2025 and tag @beginningobserver blog. → You can post old stuff, or tag on old stuff!! → EDITING/REUPLOADING STUFF FROM OTHERS IS NOT ALLOWED. (reupload of other people's art will only be accepted if the artist has given permission to cross-post it on twitter/tumbler/bluesky) → Keep it SFW, please.

→ Ships are allowed, but please don't use shipping to dunk on any other ship, be it canon or not. Also, digimon/human ships are not allowed. → NO UKKOMON HATE POSTS. Actually, no negative/hateful posts are allowed. Just positivity. So please, no posts with "I love Rui but I disliked the movie" , "I dislike Ukkomon but I like Lui!" , etc.

→ Keep it spoiler free or, if you must spoil something, with spoiler tags (like #02tb spoilers)

Oh yeah, if this isn't clear enough:

🚫🚫🚫 AI ""ART"" NOT ALLOWED 🚫🚫🚫

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Ni's just going a into Medarot/Medabots discoveries especially about the fact Ikki is not the OG protag of the franchise, and yes it's Hikaru/Henry, so here's my favorite obscure Ni-lore + Legend Xros Wars AU trivia:

fun fact: i've always been an anime Hikaru simp enough to have unconsciously made references to him in that Hunters AU (except Daisuke was not like… a phantom thief stealing shit? BUT HE DID WORK AT A CONVENIENCE STORE FOR A WHILE UNDER AN ALIAS!?) i'd prefer to not imagine how bad Motomiya Daisuke would go as phantom thief (when i say this, i'm vaguely asking you to pls enable the worst in me and make me imagine this)

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Bad news everyone :(

Haru's card is an option card, no Tamer Card Haru (yet)

BUT THIS IS A GREAT VICTORY FOR ME, SHUT UPPPP

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SHINKAI HARU IS IN DIGICA FOLKS

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Prayer Circle for Shinkai Haru Tamer card

(if you don't like the protags getting another booster get out, this blog is exclusively dedicated to them btw)

HARU IS ALSO AN AGUMON TAMER, DON'T FORGET IT!!

(but i'd love if we could just find a way to include the Appmon in Digica...)

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i don't feel like replying things in IC for a while, sorry 🙃

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Spooky time. Everyone is just getting ready.

Space-time shenanigans means that Rui-kun has a ton of digi-siblings... Tagiru is something a bit hard to handle since of that strong chaotic energy, but Haru and Hiro are chill and nice!

I guess Hiro is just feeling a bit tired... did something happen though? Maybe he had to deal with a digimon causing trouble (again) in his world.

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[pt1] [pt2]

THE MONSTER DISCO NEVER STOPS!! 🕺

🦇🦇🦇 GHOST GAME 3RD ANNIVERSARY!! 🦇🦇🦇

(i'm laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate sorry sorry.)

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[pt1]

TAGIRU IS HERE!!?

(for spooky combo and 13th Anniversary of Xros Wars Hunters)

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The differences between Takato and Haru

(This meta was requested by @digitalgate02​, who also assisted me with a large portion of it. Thank you for your help!)

Takato and Haru often beg a lot of comparisons because of the fact they go so against the usual “brash hero” archetype common to not only Digimon but also shounen franchises in general, being significantly more mild-mannered (on a language level, they’re also the only Digimon protagonists to date who use the more polite boku first-person pronoun instead of the more assertive ore). Haru himself even points out in Appmon’s very first episode that this kind of personality would normally be more suited towards a side character than a protagonist!

Because of that, Haru is often considered to be a spiritual rehashing of Takato, and many have tried to make close parallels between the two, but while the desire to make comparison is naturally understandable, the truth is that beyond surface temperament, the two characters actually have very little in common. In fact, both Tamers and Appmon take rather different approaches to their definitions of a “conventional hero”, and that results in both Takato and Haru having very different roles in the plot.

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Daisuke and Tagiru

Ever since Tagiru’s concept was announced, people have been comparing him to Daisuke, and, honestly, it’s hard not to – in fact, considering that Xros Wars did certainly have some degree of trying to invoke stuff from older series, it’s very likely this is intentional! You have someone introduced as a junior to a prior protagonist, who wears goggles like him (and eventually inherits the senior’s pair), wears blue, has a blue dragon-like partner, is more hot-headed than said senior…

…and that is about where the similarities stop!

Still, I think such prominent base profile details practically beg one to make a comparison, so let’s dig in!

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