#Uni watches Digimon

[ukikimon]

Rambling about Digimon DIMs & Tama Smart Cards that only will appeal to like 5 people here; wanted to get it out of my head, idk.

NGL, I'm kinda salty about the Tama Ticket stuff. But not in the way you probably expect. Salty because, damn, wish it had been like this for the Digimon Vital Bracelet. At every turn Digimon has sort of felt like a test for just Tamagotchi, who then got the "better" stuff, in a way. The first release of the Vital Bracelet was super rocky (given DIM memory/watch locks & charging), but then barely the next year, we got the Smart which was 100% better in those regards, & SmaCards seemed to do more. No watch ID locks or those issues that I am aware of. We later got the Vital Bracelet -V-, which improved some aspects which seemingly should have been there from the start, but again, the Smart seemed more advanced with what sort of thing they were trying to do with it (battery, interaction, sounds, etc), mechanics there aside. (On that note, god, why is the battery life fucking phenomenal on the Uni compared to the VB in every iteration? Lord.)

Now we're to the Uni with the Tickets, & the Vital Bracelet (And Hero, etc) have pretty much been failures because each iteration did not really add anything other than more characters. Battery life was sort of meh each wave, & it's not like we get to care for them in the same means as Tamagotchi. It still baffles me that they didn't try a similar thing with that, such as having your Digimon react & talk to you when you went out walking IRL. Instead we had an extremely limited exercise mission system that still felt like an afterthought in each wave of device, from the original VB to the Hero. From the start, despite BOTH IPs being a "care for a little guy" franchise, Tamas had so much more going on with their watch toys released around the same time? So- going back to the Tickets, which, functionally are the same as the Smart Cards or DIM Cards, just in a far more convenient means of getting them than physical, limited cards (note how for the entire time they were a thing, DIM cards suffered from reading issues & supply issues). And no damn watch locks with this. Unsure if you could share codes or even use them across multiple watches you own, but we'll see.

Just. Idk. It feels like Digimon sometimes is just a sort of throw-away IP for Bandai to test out things for other, better-selling IPs sometimes & I get frustrated at what could have been for Digimon.

[digi-tama-in-your-pocket]

What i'm currently running.

I decided to get my Digivice ver Complete out and try to finish the campaign, because 1. It's nearly odaiba day, and i've been watching Digimon adventure, 2. I want to finish it before the color version releases. And 3. I've just been feeling the digimon mood hitting all over again, I really hope we get new, non remake non-digivice/pedometer-pet related v-pet news soon...

Zatchi is hanging in there on my Gen 2 at 27 yrs. If you can't see the screen on my Tamagotchi Connection V1/Plus, it's Ichigotchi. And on my Uni,it's Woopatchi. Woopatchi was married off a while after taking this photo though, so i'm starting anew.

And Meramon X on my X3... he evolved. I have Mamemon X now.... not what I was shooting for, so I think I got more than 2 care mistakes when I left him at home when I went to work today. Oh well. Hopefully he'll make it to Mega this time.

One more thing...

Mametchi has a son now.

I keep seeing these little Mametchi dolls based on the gen 1 sprite ( Where do I sign up for the pokemon company to do this with Pokemon?? Give me big tongue Golbat please ) there's a more recent one, and then there's this one with actual beads for eyes that are crazy expensive, but I snagged him for 15 bucks. Pretty fair. He's very small, But very cute.

[frankenfran]

what do you think about the digimon watches that are on like. p-bandai. i was really debating getting one but then i ended up buying a tamagotchi instead. also chao world extended mod for sonic adventure 2 would be up your alley i think

the vital bracelets right? they're definitely really interesting but from what i understand they're sort of less of a virtual pet and more of a fun little pedometer type game. i definitely want to give it a go some day! witch tamagotchi did you get? the uni im assuming?

the extended chao garden mod is a time bomb for me. i was unsurprisingly obsessed with the chao garden as a kid and spent countless hours just doing that. it was like all i could think about at all times and i know if i ever get back into it im screwed lmfao

[tinta--branca]

waow !! a get to know me tag !! thanku for the tag @giselberts it's v sweet of u <3

last song: ready (mulher batida) by orelha negra and a garota não

favourite colour: i think it's pink ?? I haven't checked in in a while but i've been rlly into like pastel pink these past few months

currently watching: foundation! though i stop when im not sick so i'm on like,, episode 8 i think? enjoying it so far very good vibes

last movie/tv show: watched a few episodes of digimon tamers for nostalgia a few days ago :'D

spicy/savoury/sweet: i like all of them but recently i've been more into sweet foods,, i'm also craving fruit something fierce rn

relationship status: qpr wahoo !!

current obsession: i'm in uni application hell so it's all a bit scattered atm D: we'll say seals since that's always the case :'D they're so cute

last google search: 'build outdoor wall house flipper' because i decided to zone out and play for a bit instead of working shhh

tagging anyone that wants to do this tbh,, tho also @rimetin, @not-today-solas, and @rustmountain bc u guys use tumblr sometimes right ;3;;

[alientiime]

that 9 ppl u'd like to know better thing that im just choosing to do bc i like to talk about myself(

3 ships: isagi/kurona, isagi/kaiser, hyuse/yuuma

first ever ship: wtf i dont remember, probably some ship from sonic involving mina the mongoose

last song: is this last song heard? neighbor

last movie: menu it was good but i wish it had cannibalism

currently reading: the main ones im keeping up to date with r blue lock, world trigger, kaiju no 8, deranged detective kamonohashi ron, magilumiere and then some other ones tho i havent read them in awhile so not counting those due to brainrot

oh i also started reading nakanohito genome but i forgor to continue i should do that

currently watching: digimon ghost game altho i havent watched the last 3 eps bc of uni im kinda afraid cuz ik theyre gonna have to rush the ending bc of how they did it

currently consuming: nothing im in bed, but the last thing i consumed was yakult

currently craving: juice maybe?

[alpaca-clouds]

I always notice, that I somehow never really got the appeal of absolute monogamy. With that I do not even necessarily mean polyamory, but rather this societal ideal for the same two people to be together beginning to end. To marry your first love and grow old together and be together until death do us part.

Like, for some people this is right. Absolutely. But I find it so weird that romance is always measured against this. As if any relationship that fails has necessarily to have been a bad or toxic relationship.

People just can fall out of love with each other. Sometimes life just happens. Sometimes feelings just change. With nobody at fault. Just as platonic friends can turn into romantic partners, romantic partners can turn into platonic friends.

Maybe I am just too aromantic to understand this ideal.

I can accept, that it is part of the romance genre to end on "happily ever after" or at least "happy for now". I just do not necessarily understand it. To me a romance does not loose any appeal by ending on "but living together we found we were better as friends".

I also notice it in how I approach shipping. Even when I was a kid watching Digimon. I shipping Hikari and Takeru, but I was always of the opinion that they were not "meant for each other". My headcanon for them always involved them dating during uni and then breaking up and finding other partners after it. But people never understood that. Just as they did not understand that for Digimon Tamers my most written ship always was Ruki x Ryou and yet I broke them up in my longfic. lol

I don't know. Just something I have been thinking about again lately. Mostly after a discussion about me having a ship with an older character - and yet also having the headcanon of the character being in a relationship with someone else before.

And yes, the only romances I ever write that I focus on and that last basically a lifetime, are within polycules with other stuff happening around it.

[sillymoonboi]

Chaos: yipee...

*with Rosa and Ness*

Rosa: why do you keep dodging our questions?

Ness: *to busy watching digimon* (freaking relatable)

*with Ophi*

Ophi: *takes Cetus to a red lobster and doesn't order himself food*

*with Uni*

Uni: so Galaxy how should we tackle the subject?

Mercury:*in sign language * is something wrong?

With venus

Venus:*signs* im sorry my babies mommy(venus) is not feeling well and she needs a break… how about we visit your grandma Jupiter?

With Cetus

Cetus: you gonna order something?

With Galaxy

Galaxy:hmm? Wait what are we doing? Sorry i was distracted by rystra moth

[phaniji]

wasn’t tagged but I saw it and wanted to do it lol 

stolen from @ireneaesthetic

currently reading: wilmon fanfics, one piece (currently in the Dressrosa arc), rereading Mistborn, and I am in the middle of like 15 other books that I’ll finish at some point probably end of June when I am done with Uni...

favourite colour: dark Magenta

last song: I’m so excited (live) by Omar Rudberg (relistened to it for the Omar Rudberg song Contest Battle 4

last movie: oh good question, let me think... oh yeah I think I rewatched Digimon adventure tri in march or something, and it was released as a series as well as a 6 part movie series and I watched the movie version, so I am counting it. Digimon Adventure Tri vol. 6

sweet/spicy/savoury: savoury

currently working on: my final project for uni

I am not tagging anyone but I invite everyone to do it! 

[uniarycode]

Remember when I said I might to a Xros Wars liveblog/rewatch becuase I don’t remember it all that well?  No? Well today is apparently the 8th anniversary of Digimon Fusion, and while I’m going to go off of the sub (Xros Qars), if I’m going to do this re-watch liveblog thing it’s as good a time as any to start.

Haven’t really tried anything of this style, so I’m experimenting a little bit.

(Have to turn off the beta for this because pic limit, lol tumblr)

Pic of the day: Common sense

We open with a menacing army full of Mookmon, sorry, Troopmon, Tankmon, and some bigger baddies. Like physically bigger, I don’t recall them being very important. (I see you Valvemon in the top left.)  

Then we get introduced to a human and a trio of Digimon that will in no way be important.

There’s also an army of good guys, you can tell they are good guys because they show up in previous seasons.  I uh, only actually remember two of them appearing in this show.

Anyway, Taiki says Digixros a bunch, and the three non-silhouettes merge together into….x4?  Poor Starmon I guess, no recognition.  

X4 then solos the army of Mookmon, which is probably why the rest of the ‘good’ army never appears again, clearly they are superfluous.  But X4 gets taken down by a lone off-color Greymon because nostalgia.

..and it was a dream.

(So Akari and Zenjirou don’t matter....that sounds about right.)

We are then introduced to Akari, who is trying to deduce exactly which ball-based team sport she got stood up for.

She stops midway to take a selfie, kids these days, amirite?  Also to grab a bag with Taiki’s name on it...literally.

Taiki manages to pull an MVP move on the basketball court, by pretending to be in a sports anime when really just passing to a teammate.  Thus securing the team the win that he’s been looking for for months… sorry, I mean four days.

Yeah, that’s a Taiki thing.  The kid is a prodigy at nearly anything he picks up.  The implication is that he throws himself into it completely, and then:

He does not necessarily pick the best time or place for a nap.

Akari being the best character (of this arc)

Taiki reveals that his need to throw himself headfirst is because of a desire to help those in need, not because he’s just showing off.

(I am reminded how much his gary-stu ness annoyed me the first time I watched this.)

Zenjirou shows up and I’m def going to spell that name wrong at some point.  He’s mostly here for comic relief, but also to reinforce that Taiki can pick up a sport (kendo) in a couple of days and beat people who have been training their entire lives.

While Akari and Zenjirou rehash the great 1998 case of Bros V. Hoes, Taiki hears the voice of a dying king, then suddenly: chaos.  Cars merge into walls, phones stop working, the sky turns green, dogs and cats, living together.

Turns out, cars superimposed into building are not stable.  The strange voice warns Taiki of the falling car, and after he saves his friends, he is now able to see the tortured outline of Shoutmon.

All well and good, Taiki, but how do you propose helping the disembodied light?

(We also get a flashback to baby Taiki between these)

Shoutmon soft-mocks Taiki for trying to help him, and Taiki points out Shoutmon did the same, just in case you didn’t believe they were destined partners.

Floating toy with another disembodied voice.  Offering to help if Taiki accepts, he does and the x loader turns from white to red.  The others reasonably do not think touching the floating mystical toy is a good idea.

They wake up in a strange world, normal Digimon stuff, turns out the X-loader doubles as a Pokecenter, very convinent.

Then, suddenly the army of mookmon appear, lead by a new Digimon:

(Look. if the writers determined you were going to die every season, you wouldn’t be very happy either.)

But then dream Digimon #2 shows up to save them, alongside a bunch of babies.  Shoutmon also comes out to fight.  .

We get a quick sequence of the allies using special attacks to wipe the floor with the mooks, normal debut episode things.  Then Madleomon gets mad that a human is involved and absorbs all his friends to…Digivolve?

(They missed a perfect opportunity for raving MadLeomon)

Uhh, good plan?

The mysterious voice tells Taiki to use the x-loader, which he does to form…the top half of a super-fighting robot.  Which lasts long enough to get off one punch before dissolving. He then xroses the Starmon and Pickmons into a sword, (will happen a bunch.) just in case you weren’t sure of the core mechanic.

Madleomon’s powerup breaks, and he gets forced back, namedropping a greater villain.  Tactimon, obsessed with perfection.  Which is a good thing, because if he’s like half the perfectionist I know he’ll be too busy sorting out all the details of his plan to actually execute it.

Coming on a little strong there bub.  Maybe take him out for a coffee first?

The name of the kids this time is generals, but that also gets extended to some Digimon.

If you are used to normal Digimon seasons, this is going to be a bit of a jump.  It isn’t the normal 1 human 1 partner here.  This is a battle of armies, (but mostly just jogress ++)

And yeah, they know nothing.

Keep being creepy Nene.

And also blond blue boy featuring off-color Greymon. 

And thus ends the first episode that was mostly about introducing Taiki, and the concept of Digixrosing. Also uses a lot of X4 for never showing every component. 

Final note: add break card

I think maaayyybe Vmon shows up in a limited capacity?  For a series that is perfectly willing to completely ignore levels and do something completely different in terms of evolution, there sure is a lot of nostalgia pandering. 

[totallycorrectjojoquotes]

you watch jojo and stanned pentagon? you're immediately my favorite person

good taste anon 😌

-admin mista

[kouichikimura]

please no running down the stairs.

[nonbineyrie]

In my 12 years of playing neopets, this will be the first time I'm not gonna get frustrated with yooyu ball after one game and finally get a trophy!!!!

Here's your favourite handsome offense bat from Team Haunted Woods and his biggest fan, my Baby Korbat Faucherchen!

It's Faucherchen's first AC and he loves watching his favourite player score goal after goal in hopes of meeting him one day ....!

[digi-tama-in-your-pocket]

Okay, now that i'm actually up and around, Happy Odaiba Day everyone. I know it's generally used to celebrate the Digimon Anime, but who give a shit, I'm gonna celebrate v-pets by doing an annual overview of my V-pet collection and what I'm currently running ( don't worry, I have anime related plans later this evening )

My V-pet collecting has slowed down this year. I have most of what matters to me. A DM20th for every version exclusive, plus a few extras with special paint jobs for Holidays, though I contemplate giving away my extras. I have one of each DMX and DMX2, and one DMX3 that I bought before I realized there were plans for english versions, if Bandai doesn't localize DMX3 this year, I may bite the bullet and get the last one I need. And I have the Digivice version complete.

I have put all of these ( sans the Holiday paintjob ones ) in this neat little 3 tier storage container. I have plans to decorate it with stickers, but I'm trying to get very specific custom made ones. Also I want to get another one, because the one I got is already nearly full, and I still haven't even put my Pendulums and DMCs in it yet which as you can see below...

I have all the Pendulum Zs, two Pendulum 20ths, and 2 DMCs, and i'm expecting version 3, 4, and 5 in the mail this Autumn,

The first of the month is generally when I swap my V-pets around. But I was doing an extended run for the last few months of my DM20 to complete my log, and didn't want to put my DMC away yet, also I'm loving my Floppy Frog too much to put it away before it dies, because they don't have battery saves. So half way through the month, I put the DM20th away, and replaced it with Silver Black Pen20, and a Tamagotchi gen 2. Floppy Frog is still going at nearly 90 days, and no battery change. Amazing.

Currently running Saint Galgomon and Ogudomon.

Also, not pictured here, I'm running my Vital Bracelet BE, and I currently have Regulusmon, but I've kept him asleep the whole time, i'm literally just using it as a watch that I set ahead by 10 minutes so I get to work on time. I think he may have Evo failed anyway. I'm not a big fan of the Vital Bracelet BE anyway. I don't like the time limit you have to power up.

That's all for now when it comes to Digimon v-pets. I've got some more V-pets coming in the mail, but they're not Digimon related. I've also been on a Tamagotchi kick, and I'd like to get a Tamagotchi Uni for my birthday in about two Weeks, but we'll see how things look financially around that time.

Anyway, Happy Odaiba Day, hope yall have a fun one and make plans to celebrate.

[al-mayriti]

thanks so much for the tag @merisscatteredbooknook 💖💖

Three ships: Kanthony from Bridgerton, Percabeth from PJO, and Kieutou from Druck!

First Ever Ship: Fuck, I think it was either Jake Long and Rose from American Dragon, Sora and Tai from Digimon, or Hay Lin and Eric from W.I.T.C.H. My first obsessive ship was probably unsurprisingly Jack and Victoria from Memorias de Idhún.

Last Song: NORA by IZARO (I'm currently listening to an IZARO radio on Spotify lol)

Last Film: Turning Red

Currently Reading: Sub Luce Maligna by Gonzalo Fontana Elboj (also I have to read Valerius Flaccus' Argonautica for uni but I'm not really reading it in full)

Currently Watching: Nothing actually, I just finished rewatching Bridgerton and I'm still taking it in

Currently Consuming: Nothing??? I don't think I'm understanding the question sorry!

Currently Craving: Nothing tbh

I tag @naguaraquerandom @alicechesire @eskamtrash @sarcasmisalifechoice @what-islife15 @glittertrail @minglana @skamesp @im-too-tired-to-think @saviorcomplx

[hinagamoizaf]

On this day a year ago, I watched DA:LEK for the first time, and coincidentally received my degree results.

Ever since, I have been absolutely obsessed with Digimon again. This piece will contain spoilers to DALEK, and overall you’ll find I have a very nostalgic love for the anime. When I initially watched the film in theatres, my reaction was ‘oh okay, that was fun. Time to move on’. Very nonchalant, and obviously this was the first summer with Covid, the same summer I could have had my graduation ceremony. This is a roundabout way of saying I think I felt rather hollow during this period of time. I say ‘I think’ because honestly, it’s a blur to me. There wasn’t anything worth remembering and leading up to this, in general I was a bitter person.Like most people, I think I’ve just blocked out the lost time. So here was a fresh uni graduate, mourning over a page of her youth that wasn’t worth noting down; trying to be hopeful and find ways to mold herself into society as a ‘real adult’. I did have other plans and tried them out, not all of them flew with flying colours and had a dip towards the end of 2020. As would any other kid with an active imagination, I did what I knew best and distracted myself with writing. I don’t think I necessarily ‘channeled’ all these spiraling emotions into my work, something I’ve grown acquainted with in my poetry. I wanted to escape, hit pause and get myself lost in fiction again; another thing I used to do a lot but at a much younger age. If anyone’s seen DALEK, then I think you might find it ironic how I processed this transitional period by indulging myself in Digimon and writing fanfiction. 

To completely make a clown of myself here, yes I had a good time watching the film and appreciated the message that came with it; both as a Digimon fan and a Literature dork who naturally over-analyzes everything. But for the first time since I was in diapers, simply put, I thought Yamato was really hot and he lived rent free in my mind until I was like ‘aight I need to do something with this realization I have a DigiHusbando because I’ve literally watched Digimon since I was a baby and for a baby all those characters are too old for me to have a crush on’.

Then (for the lack of a better word) a very childlike ‘desire’ of me came and I was like ‘hey Yamato’s hot, Hikari was my favourite character as a kid, I want to see them kiss’. Idk man, it’s the same vibes like when I played Barbies and I paired her with Ken because girl pink-boy blue. There’s some meaning there I don’t want to unpack yet. It started off as a ‘haha what if so crackship right’, but then I legitimately grew to love the idea of Yamato and Hikari as a couple. I am aware my version of them has heavy fanon elements, and again reflects my personal preferences in ships. I remember a time where I was so self-conscious of getting into fanfiction, because ‘I can’t do the character justice’ or ‘I don’t know enough of the canon’. Yeah, I appreciate it when an author can play off that, when their depiction of these characters is something you’d actually see happening in the show. But overtime I was just like ‘...I just want to have fun man, here’s them going on their first date via Yama’s bloody motorcycle’.

I just found a way to be happy with my crackhead interpretation of Yakari while gushing over what the OG story had to offer. As this was happening, I was revisiting the existence of DALEK, and I fell in love with the film. I know this is coming together as a ‘right time and place’ type of situation, and it was. From that time and place, I took it and went ham & cheese on it.  

Just thinking about what happens in DALEK now and how the themes of Digimon have always, always been about the children’s growth; I actually get a physical sadness from my gut. Someone’s going to read this & think I’m insane, but to make a comparison literally only I understand, I’ve only gotten this feeling with Kimi no Na wa and Little Women (2019) in recent memory. Which for all the ways I can’t quite express with the English language, means I really fucking love DALEK. It has impacted me artistically as much as it left its mark on me as a person and my views on life. Over the past year, this intense love over a children’s anime has helped me put into perspective my own messy thoughts on growing up. About finding your own healthy relationship with things from a ‘simpler time’ that spark joy and they can still invoke that feeling. Inevitably everyone grows up and it’s not something that waits for you to be ready with it; but you can find ways to embrace it and seize this new dawn according to your own terms.

[maireadralph]

10 Fandoms, 10 Characters, 10 Tags

Okay so I’m cheating a little with the monster franchises (only because they have HUGE rosters) and sometimes i just can’t choose between my favourite children 😬. Some of these I just sit in the fandom and watch the world go by and the odd one or two are as dead as a dodo…but I still love them ❤️

Thank you for the tag @bishonenrockmysocks

1. Pokemon - Sandshrew, Swoobat & Celebi

2. Viewtiful Joe - Captain Blue Jr

3. Yokai Watch - Hidabat, Strawbnyan & USApyon

4. Mysticons - Choko

5. Dungeons and Dragons (Cartoon) - Bobby & Uni

6. The Wonderful 101 - Luka

7. She-Ra Princesses of Power - Entrapta, Hordak & Sea Hawk

8. The Road to El Dorado - Migel

9. The Owl House - Eda

10. Digimon - Nokia Shiramine (Cyber Sleuth) & Erika Mishima (Hacker’s Memory)

If anyone wants to do this please do, but if it’s not you cup of tea that’s perfectly fine too!

Tagging in:

@bat-burrito @yahgita @entrapdaknation @grot-bag @raygirlramblings @elyvorg @wonder-doughnut @floxalopex @luvd-lab-partners @kuurankaiho