#Eygptian Cat Girl

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Akila and Fran! My 2 kitty girls!! Might make into keychains.

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Perfect and Armor Digimon: Angewomon and Nefertimon

Today we’re covering Tailmon’s Perfect and Armor-Level stages, Angewomon and Nefertimon.

Like Tailmon, Angewomon originated in Digital Monster Ver. S for the Sega Saturn, and with her (and LadyDevimon who was also in that game) began the trend of Digimon who were gender-swapped versions of male Digimon. She’s also a shift from a cat to a humanoid design, which continues the trend of Tailmon’s line jumping all over the place. Nefertimon, meanwhile, is of course Tailmon’s Armor Evolution, which she uses to battle in Digimon Adventure 02 when losing her Holy Ring causes her to lose a lot of her battle strength.

Man, it’d be funny if this really were how Tailmon were shown evolving into Angewomon in the anime, wouldn’t it?

Angewomon - Arcangel Digimon | Attribute: Vaccine Attacks: Holy Arrow, Heaven’s Charm, Saint Air, Holy Kick, Holy Attack, Holy Dash, Holy Charge Kick, Flying Kick, Super Jump, Angel Wing, Holy Charm, Holy Slap, Heaven’s Cure, (Dub) Celestial Arrow, Heaven’s Charm, Heaven’s Charm/Saint’s Air/Bliss of Saints/Holy Air, Lift Your Spirits, Divine Kick, Angel Dash, Heel of Justice, Flying Kick, Super Jump, Angel’s Wings, Heaven’s Charm, Holy Slap

An Archangel Digimon with the appearance of a beautiful woman. Although it was previously classified as an Angel-type, it was confirmed as an Archangel-type because of the greatness of its abilities. As their trait, Adult angels have six wings, and Perfect angels have eight wings. Although its personality is extremely gentle, it cannot forgive those who are crooked or evil, and it won't stay its hand from attacking until the opponent converts. Because of its soul and power, it is said to be a being like a goddess of the Digital World. The powerful lightning-strike of its Special Move "Holy Arrow" is also known as "Heaven's Punishment", and its deadly ray of light "Heaven's Charm", which is packed with beauty and affection, demonstrates its strongest efficacy against the evil powers of Digimon.

Despite being more or less a distaff counterpart to Angemon, Angewomon is classified as an “Arcangel Digimon”, which puts her more or less on the same level as HolyAngemon. Most media tend to put her parallel to Angemon, however.

Design wise, she very much fits the mode of “Angemon, but a girl”, but lacks a lot of Angemon’s more distinct features like the bolts in his skin(?) and the larger, disproportionate hands. She falls into the trap of a lot of female characters in media where the female characters have to be less monstrous and more cute or pretty, while also having outfits that emphasize their attractiveness or femininity, which is somewhat unfortunate. That being said, Angewomon isn’t quite as bad about it as some later female Digimon, and has some neat traits like her bow being formed out of the wings on her arm instead of being a physical weapon she holds, as well as the black, empty void revealed when the zipper on her left leg is left open.

Her role in Adventure’s story honestly helps keep Angewomon from being hamstrung too much by being in Angemon’s shadow. That being said, it led to the conceit that absolutely every single one of Takeru and Hikari’s partner’s forms had to parallel one another, which affected some of their Armor Evolutions, as well as people’s preference for Tailmon’s Ultimate form.

But that’s no reason to hold it against Angewomon. Angewomon gets...

FOUR STARMONS!

Nefertimon - Holy Beast Digimon | Attribute: Vaccine Attacks: Curse of Queen, Rosetta Stone, Nile Jewelry, Sanctuary Bind (with Pegasmon), Paw of Queen, Hot Foot; (Dub) Cat’s Eye Beam/Beam of Isis/Queen’s Curse, Rosetta Stone/Rocking Stone, Rosetta Stone/Queen’s Paw, Queen’s Paw

 An Armor-level Holy Beast Digimon that evolved through the power of the "Digimental of Light". The "Digimental of Light" has the attribute of "Light", and those that don this Digimental will have the ability to purify darkness with the intense power of light. Even though Tailmon is not a descendant of an ancient species, it became able to Armor evolve by awakening the special abilities that slept within its composition data. Its Special Moves are producing a red, high-temperature beam from the ornament on its brow (Curse of Queen), and summoning a megalith with ancient inscriptions engraved in Digiletters to attack the enemy (Rosetta Stone).

For Tailmon’s Armor Evolution they went with an Egyptian sphinx named after an Eygptian Queen rather than some sort of ancient creature, most probably due to the fact that a sphinx is a natural fit for a cat. The Digimental of Light’s theme would be more or less mythological or guardian-beast style creatures, and Digimon would later get another take on a sphinx-based Digimon in the form of AncientSphinxmon.

Nefertimon’s design would follow a lot of the same rules as Pegasmon and most of the other anime Armor Evolutions, which was the Digimental’s design more or less applied to the base Digimon that it evolved form, which ironically makes Nefertimon look more like a direct evolution of Tailmon than Angewomon does.

Conceptually, it follows the “Tailmon and Patamon’s evolutions have to go together” thing that I talked about before, with both Nefertimon and Pegasmon both being four-legged, winged Digimon whose designs parallel one another. Thankfully, Nefertimon’s attacks and abilities are all pretty different from Pegasmon’s so it’s not too overt, but it stands out nonetheless.

Either way, Nefertimon is a solid design, and I can see why they chose to go in the direction they did. She just seems just a tiny bit hamstrung by needing to “go with” Pegasmon. Nefertimon’s score is...

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