#I'm sure someone will digisplain to me how I missed the deep symbolism of this episode lmao

[otakween]

Digimon Frontier - Episode 22

Uhhh...this one was just weird. I guess the idea was to show Takuya his past self to reenergize the feelings he had at the beginning of his journey, but what does him turning into a weird little beast dude have to do with anything? Is this what you turn into when you go depression-mode in the digital world? Idgi...

Notes:

We got some PTSD stuff going on with Takuya and Duskmon. I just hope all this trauma and anxiety isn't magically fixed by the next episode...Feels like it's leaning that way.

I really wish they at least gave us a two episode real world arc, this felt rushed to me compared to the time spent irl in previous seasons.

Even though I don't really get what they were going for, I like Takuya's beast design. They didn't call it a digimon, so I don't know what to call it. He kinda cute.

The time travel thing reminded me of the time travel sequence in the recent 02 movie. Who the heck triggered all this? Does emo Trailmon have the power to distort time and turn boys into little monsters?

I kinda wish we knew more about Takuya's real world life because then I would be more emotionally invested in this episode. If we had had another irl episode maybe they could have showed more of his relationship with his family members. All we got was "man, I sure did fight with my little brother a lot...and my mom woke me up that one time!" Riveting.

Didn't appreciate the "clip show" aspect of this episode. There were just a little too many flashbacks/reused animation. Also, Bokomon's exposition about the 10 warriors again...I think they trimmed some of the fat in the dub, which I appreciate.

Koji has a twin?? Maybe? That's what this episode seemed to imply. Unless one of the Koji's is some kind of imposter...Is this related to Duskmon's freak out somehow?

Other!Koji sure fell hard from those steps! That was like, brain damage level height to fall from...

I don't really get what revelation Takuya had this episode. He went from being over confident, to being proven wrong, to going back to being confident? Nothing has really changed. He didn't get a power up or anything, he just shed some of his fear. IDK, maybe things will become clearer next episode.