#Kaiser gets enough love from this fandom ( actually after the most recent chapter it’s been rough for him )

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Guys I have a confession to make

If given the choice of either kissing Kaiser or Ness . I would pick Ness

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Some thoughts on Digimon Adventure tri. 4/Loss

oh boy... last movie I was live-tweeting all my thoughts and emotions as they came up because I was overwhelmed by them, and now, I don’t have many thoughts at all... which is a bad sign, I guess. I didn’t really like it. So little heads-up that this’ll be mostly complains and also full of spoilers

What enraged me most and will be in my nightmares forever is definitely Not-Gennai molesting Sora (licking??) and kind of Meiko too (kabedon-ing and touching her face) which is so not appropriate for this kinda show but to call them kids while doing it made it even worse. If that’s the “adult content” they talked about then I’d really preferred none at all. I was very much into the idea of darker plot elements but sexual assaults is definitely not the kind of thing I want to see my childhood heroes get done to them, especially when it’s so random and unnecessary since Not-Gennai just wanted to intimidate them which could have been done in countless other ways. I’m glad they switched him from the Kaiser Avatar because I’d have been even more uncomfortable with that because I love Ken so much, but Gennai was a sacred, unhuman figure until they ruined this right now, this was absolutely horrible.

I would have loved more kid + another kid’s Digimon interaction! I’m happy for what I got but I wish there could have been more, eg Mimi could have talked to Tentomon about that time in the Labyrinth and all.

Same goes for Plotmon - at least it was kind of mentioned that it’ll grow up fairly differently now that it’s not captured and raised by Vamdemon (at least I think that’s what Hikari was referring to when she said Plotmon was happier this way?) but I wish they would’ve talked more about this because it’s a big deal imo, bigger than one sentence at least.

I guess there just isn’t enough screentime but eh, I could tell like 90 min of footage that could easily be cut away from Reunion and Determination to make more room for the actual story elements.

But about that about Plotmon - I can think of nothing else than Not-Gennais statement about how Digimon can’t be reborn when they died in the real world being a reference to Wizardmon, and probably Vamdemon too, especially since the fifth movie will focus on Hikari. Though Plotmon/Tailmon doesn’t even know them right now so it should be interesting to see how Hikari makes a connection.

And this statement could include the Leomon that died in Determination too, though I’m still wondering why it was alive in the first place. It wasn’t reborn in Adventure or 02 just like Wizardmon.

As for other logic holes, I can’t count how many times Meiko’s glasses broke by now and are magically replaced (or she has like a thousand of them because this always happened) and Mugendramon with its iron claws smashing Sora against the rocks would have killed her the first time but she didn’t even bleed. All the kids should have been more afraid of the Dark Masters btw, considering they were their strongest opponents and they couldn’t even evolve to Adults right now but that’s maybe another screentime problem. Also I know Koushirou is smart but starting a ship?? That should be impossible for him and everyone know it, it’s not a darn switch in the engine room and done lmao.

SO MAD about the Seraphimon evolution being no big deal hahaha. I know we’ve seen it in Awakening Of The Digi-Mentals but still, not like we or the characters have seen it just recently like the other Ultimates. Also, this was after-reboot-Patamon’s 1st time evolving - I wish someone, probably Takeru, would have addressed the fact that it died the first time.

Also I’d never miss all that subtle Takari - Takeru’s line after Hikari asked him about Meiko would better be translated as “you know who my #1 is” so before he turned his head to Yamato, the scene was totally meaning to say he was still talking to Hikari. Taichi’s “aren’t you glad?” matches that. Also, after they reunited after all the evolutions, Hikari ran to Takeru.

More shipping stuff - I would have expected and actually liked more Taichi/Sora/Yamato triangle? I do not like the triangle or lots of shipping in Digimon, but like it or not, this is definitely a big deal in the franchise and fandom and they set up perfect opportunities when the boys came to talk to Sora, but what they said then was neither shippy nor did they seem jealous that the other one was there, and I just feel like they’ve wasted an opportunity here to settle the neverending discussion in a cute, heartfelt way (since Sora was so sad and the boys just wanted to cheer her up).

Btw, Piyomon was just a bitch at some point. I liked its suspicion, made sense imo, but then sleeping on Meiko’s legs when she was the last to even arrive was just an attack against Sora personally which made no sense at all.

The ending was absolutely terribly made, it really just felt like just a chapter or episode had ended, not a movie

BUT WHAT WAS GOOD?!

I like where the plot is going. Losing a partner is an issue that wasn’t adressed in the franchise before, and it was beautifully portrayed.

The soundtrack was really, really beautiful, especially the usage of old tracks. I was mad when Butter-Fly was played during the evolution of Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon but turned out that it was this way because they’d play Brave Heart... 2 times? Full? during all the evolutions afterwards and I feel like we never hear that song in tri. even though it’s really the highlight of Digimon to me, so that was nice.

It was nice to see stuff from other seasons like the Gods and Yggdrasil and I feel like there was a lot of plot in this one?? With Maki, Yggdrasil and all I feel like we finally have an idea of what’s going on and this feels so nice hahaha!

That’s all, though. I don’t even have many questions for the next movies, other than the ones I’ve already mentioned in this wall of text. With the plot actually going somewhere finally, there’s less for me to theorize but not enough for me to actually call things because I know tri. will continue to be vague even still lmao. It’s really a bummer I didn’t like this one at all, considering how much I loved Confession, but let’s hope it’s just setting up a great finale!

Hope Union/Kyousei will release in September-ish so they can squeeze the final movie in this year still! :)