#Digimon 03

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Lopmon EX6-032 by Ryodan, Turuiemon EX6-033 by banira, Antylamon EX6-034 by Sanosuke Sakuma, Cherubimon Ace EX6-035 by koki from EX-06 Extra Booster Infernal Ascension

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Veemon BT2-021 Alternative Art [Illustration Competition]

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Top 5 anime!

(oh crap haven't thought about this in a while and it's probably changed uuuuuuuuuuuuh)

1.) Tsuritama 2.) Digimon Adventure 3.) Haikyuu!! 4.) Noragami 5.) Fullmetal Alchemist (03, not Brotherhood - no that is not a typo do not @ me unless you want a really long rant I am too old to put up with the 03 slander LOL)

(considering how often i return to the original naruto anime it should probably be here but shhhhhhhhhhhh)

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Do You Know This Anime?

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EX2-046 | ADR-02 Searcher D-Reaper | Intel Acquisition Agent Common | White

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EX2-047 | ADR-03 Pendulum Feet D-Reaper | AA Defense Agent Common | White

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EX2-048 | ADR-04 Bubbles D-Reaper | Ground Combat Agent Common | White

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EX2-049 | ADR-01 Jeri D-Reaper | Espionage Agent Uncommon | White

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EX2-050 | ADR-05 Creep Hands D-Reaper | Grappling Agent Common | White

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EX2-051 | ADR-07 Palates Head D-Reaper | Reconnaissance Agent Common | White

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EX2-052 | ADR-06 Horn Striker D-Reaper | Commander Agent Common | White

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EX2-053 | ADR-08 Optimizer D-Reaper | Mothership Agent Common | White

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EX2-054 | ADR-09 Gatekeeper D-Reaper | Base Defense Agent Common | White

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EX2-055 | Reaper D-Reaper | Ability Synthesis Agent Rare | Common

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Digimon Tamers

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The Canonicity of the first 7 Digimon Movies

Okay, let me ramble on another thing in terms of Digimon. For the first four seasons, we had a total of seven movies that were released. Two movies each for Adventure, 02, Tamers, and one movie only for Digimon Frontier.

The movies were generally released in a bundle with movies for other franchises Toei was releasing. Like Dragon Ball Z, One Piece, and Ojamajo Doremi. Because the movies were generally released in a package of two or three movies that came together to somewhere between 90 and 120 minutes, the movies themselves are not movie length by any western standards, and for the most part only are about 20-40 minutes each.

However, the weird thing with the movies for Digimon is the questionable canonicity. So, let's go through the movies one by one.

Movie 01: Digimon Adventure

This movie is easy to place in terms of canonicity. Digimon Adventure confirms the events of this movie to be canon as by episode 29 of the series. As the movie was made parallel to the first episodes of the series, and as such the folks writing the series actually were in full awareness of the movie and its contents.

Fun fact: Hikari was originally not planned to be a chosen child in Digimon Adventure. But given folks found her adorable in the movie (that released at the same time as the first episodes), there was a push made by Seki Hiromi and other producers for the writers to include her as a main character later in the series. (This is also why she joins so super late in the show and why during the first few episodes Gennai never even seems to wonder why there are only seven chosen children arriving at File Island.)

Movie 02: Bokura no Wargame

The second movie is also fairly easy to relate to the canon. Here, too, the series later confirms in Digimon Adventure 02 episode 27. Honestly, there is not a whole lot else to say about this one. Not a lot of fun facts or anything. We know it is canon.

Movie 03: Hurricane Touchdown & Supreme Evolution

This movie is probably the one most discussed in terms of canonicity. Because other than with the first two movies, the canon of the show does neither confirm, nor deny it. Originally folks thought it would not properly fit within the timeline of Adventure 02 (which takes place between early April 2002 and December 31st 2002), though this was mostly connected to folks assuming it would have to take place between episodes 13 and 14 of the show, as Shurimon and Submarimon do not show up. However, several folks later realized that it is more likely that the movie takes place between episodes 21 and 22, as the movie explicitly references it being Summer vacation. In terms of the show, the summer vacation starts by episode 18. We do not know quite by which episode school starts again. But there is a good chance that there is a good chance that episodes 18-21 only take up one or two weeks of the summer vacation, leaving four to five weeks of it for Hikari and Takeru to travel to the US.

The only thing that is really weird about this is, that we do not see Wallace at any point during the show (like during the Christmas episodes or the finale), as one should expect if the movie was canon.

And yes, of course, we see Wallace shortly in Kizuna - but the canonicity of those movies is again a thing that could be discussed. (But not today.)

Movie 04: Diaboromon Strikes Back

Frankly, given that this movie is pretty much the last thing happening in this timeline before the revival through tri. and then later Kizuna/The BEGINNING, this movie can be seen as either or. Generally speaking though, it does not really matter.

There is nothing in this movie that contradicts anything from Digimon Adventure or 02, but also nothing has ever firmly confirmed it.

Personally I always considered it canon, because there is just nothing world changing happening here.

Movie 05: The Battle of Adventurers

This movie is kinda fun in terms of its canonicity. Basically: It was written largely without any coordination between the writers of the show and the main screenwriter for the movie. However, because Konaka and the other writers actually liked it a lot, they decided to later reference it by having Kai show up in later episodes of the anime, hence confirming the movie was canonical.

Now, I could go through this movie and point out, how it does not quite fit with the canon. But generally I guess those are minor details that can be chucked up to the circumstance of the movie's creation.

As we know that the movie takes place between July 29th and August 2nd 2001, and have enough information about rough timeline of the show, we can say pretty firmly, that this movie takes place between episode 16 and 17 of the show. And yes, if you are attentive you will notice that this does not quite fit, as in the movie Taomon and Rapidmon already show up, that only get their debut in episodes 17 and 18 respectively. However, given that the movie confirms the dates as the very first days of the Tokyo summer vacation that year, and given that episode 17 definitely references being set during the school summer vacation... Yeah, the movie has to happen between episodes 16 and 17.

Movie 06: The Runaway Locomon

Runaway Locomon is the one movie I will firmly call out on not being canon. Simply because it does explictly contradict the timeline from the primal canon material. As Konaka has written the Drama CD "Message in a Package", I would consider that one much more canonical than this movie. And, well...

According to the series the Digimon get sent back ti the Digital World within hours after Takato and Guilmon get Dukemon Crimson Mode, which they have in the movie. And the movie gives absolutely no reason for why they are back a few weeks later. The movie gives even less reason for why the actual fuck Ryou is back in the Digital World at the beginning of the movie. And it all... makes little sense.

Mind you, for my fanseries (that is Digimon Alpha Generation) I made the decision back in the day, that some events similar to this movie happened in March 2004, so a full two years later. But I am under no illusions that this in somehow fits with anything the movie itself establishes or the show. It was mostly me just wanting to not give up on the Ruki-related drama from the movie.

Movie 07: The Island of Lost Digimon

I will openly admit this movie is the hardest to make sense off. For all the other seasons, we have a much easier time to relate the events of the series to the events of the movies in terms of time, because we have a real world timeframe to reference. We know when the events in Digimon Adventure, 02, and Tamers happen in terms of months and years.

Digimon Frontier meanwhile takes place over the course of 5 minutes in the real world, and we have nearly no reference how much time passes in the digital world while the kids have their adventure. Sure, it makes sense to assume it would happen after episode 12 (given that Takuya and Kouji have their Beast Spirits, but Bokomon does not yet have the Seraphimon egg), but... yeah. This does not make a terrible lot of sense.

So all in all... It is fairly probable that this movie is not canonical to the rest of Digimon Frontier.

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Betamon TCG

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Card: Betamon (ST9-03 Starter Deck Ultimate Ancient Dragon)

I really love Digimon World, and played it at least as much as both Pokémon Silver and Crystal combined when I was a kid. And Betamon was my favorite rookie! It just sucked it always became a Numemon right after.

It's inspired by how Drak (draklord1 on Discord) draws sleeves for the Digimon TCG Simulator project

Edited to include the light outline around the subject

It appears the Drak sleeve I used for artwork and palette sizes (Lopmon (ST10-03 Starter Deck Parallel World Tactician)) don't have this outline, while most of their other sleeves do have it

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A quick drawing I made of Digimon 🤭

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10 FANDOMS, 10 CHARACTERS

List ten favorite characters from 10 different fandoms and tag 10 people

open tag from @quartzguts so I'm considering myself tagged. because I wanna see if I can decide my ten most favourite (in no order) (hhhh no it's hard)

01 noctis lucis caelum (final fantasy xv) - top blorbo forever and always

02 asch the bloody (tales of the abyss)

03 edward elric (fullmetal alchemist)

04 ishida yamato (digimon adventure/zero two/tri)

05 link (the legend of zelda) ...and I can't believe I'm saying this, but specifically breath of the wild/tears of the kingdom link. oot will always and forever be my favourite zelda and there are so many things about botw/totk that are always and forever going to irritate the shit out of me but like. he lost his fucking memories!! and basically died. and woke up a hundred years later. the fucking angst and trauma potential man. it's irresistible.

06 rinoa heartilly (final fantasy viii)

07 spencer reid (criminal minds)

08 miles edgeworth (gyakuten saiban/phoenix wright/ace attorney/whatever the fuck you wanna call it)

09 you have no idea how much I'm struggling to decide whether to list merlin or arthur here (bbc merlin)

10 similarly, I can't decide between sid and cassie 😭 (skins uk series 1&2)

I will also open tag because making this list was more painful than I thought lmao. only ten is so hard!! I won't inflict this torture on anyone else xD

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Regarding the Mimi's hat thing, that continuity error can probably be chalked up to the fact that Our War Game was released three weeks and a day before the final episode of Adventure, and was written by someone who hadn't worked on the series and directed by someone who (aside from the first movie) had only worked on one episode of the series, so they likely weren't aware of the detail of Mimi leaving her hat in the Digital World.

It's quite common for supplementary material that's meant to be canon to the anime, have details that contradict the anime it's tying into due to not having actual staff members from the series working on it. That's why the staff for the 1st two series walked back their initial decision to have two sequels to Adventure about half way through 02 and essentially compressed their ideas that were intended to be spread across both 02 and a hypothetical 03 into 02's back half, cause otherwise they felt they would have been obligated to spend most of their time devoting episodes to just explaining away all the inconsistences between the anime and the various tie-in media.

Hiroyuki Kakudou the series director of both Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 has even said that there's a lore detail in this movie that makes it incompatible with both series despite intended to be canon to them -- although to this day he's never revealed what it is.

I wonder if that's why Taichi's kind of a jerk, too.

Like. Taichi's kind of an asshole in the original. His key character flaw is that he's insensitive to other people's feelings. But it's a flaw he overcomes over the course of his journey. By the final stretch against Piemon and then Apocalymon, Taichi is a much more considerate person.

But in Our War Game, at least this first half... he's kind of a fucking brat. He doesn't tell anyone shit and expects them all to just march to the beat of his drum, up to and including his own mother.

I honestly feel like his behavior in this special is worse than it's ever been in the anime. Though he has the fight with Sora to at least justify why he's in such a foul mood. This is explicitly not his neutral headspace. Nonetheless, he makes me genuinely uncomfortable at certain points.

He seems to have jettisoned his maturity out the trolley window on his way home from the Digital World. "New Writer Who Dis" and the special being made before Taichi's endgame character development would explain a lot of why that is.

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03 - Boots - Bootmon

Bootmon is a very smart and cunning Digimon who wears a huge pair of boots that ironically fit them very well! Level: Champion Prior form: Shoemon Next form: Unknown