#amphimon support

[izzyizumi]

me: *takes deep breath* me: I LO- Anyone who has spent five seconds around me ever: yes, you love AMPHIMON, we get it okay, you love AMPHIMON, AMPHIMON is ALSO A NEW brightest f*cking starshine in your life, you f*cking adore AMPHIMON, yes okay yes, you love AMPHIMON, HOW many times are we gonna go through this, yOU F*CKING LOVE AMPHIMON AND Jellymon In General Too

[jadeazora]

So, now that DGG is over, I still feel Tamers is still the golden standard of Digimon anime for me. It just feels like they had a few interesting things set up or a few mysteries that they just dropped the ball on that lead to some big disappointments for me. This'll be long, so sorry if tldr:

Espimon's "fake Hiro" thing sounded interesting at first, perhaps there could be something off with our Hiro, or our Hiro potentially somehow being an imposter. But nah, just a misunderstanding/gag they carry on for way too long, like over 20 episodes 💀

The whole burn up if you try to go to the Digital World mystery (and how Hokuto got there) being just a bullshit lie when they dwell on it for more than 50 episodes. Like, yeah, they weren't ready by the time Bokomon died, but how long was Bakumon going to keep them in the dark?

Hokuto apparently got to the Digital World by accident, and could have apparently left any time rather than being trapped or working on some plot. (I always thought he had seemed a bit shifty, like one of those characters who is portrayed as goofy, but might be more sinister than they let on.)

The fact that Gulus was the main bad guy after all. GulusGammamon was set up as a threat, and like, ok, I wasn't against that, but (until the more hostile reversion seen in TonosamaGekomon's episode), it felt like he was slowly mellowing out a bit and could have been an ally at some point. Even as far back as the first episode he properly debuts in, we see his time as Gammamon has been affecting him, with him flashing back to Bokomon's death and dropping his attack/fainting and reverting to Gammamon. I assumed he might again cause problems in the long run, but would be absorbed by Gammamon and be a begrudging ally. (Also, we never do find out why he reverted to Gammamon and why Gammamon apparently lost that memory of him? It had to be post-failure in his mission to defeat the Endbringer since he had such a fearsome reputation in the Digital World, and the Endbringer thing feels just very random overall?)

Regulusmon being the final boss. While he's a stronger Perfect/Ultimate akin to Megidramon in power, he's still a Perfect/Ultimate. It's weird we're not facing a Mega final boss.

No Arcturusmon or Proximamon. My thoughts last episode was that Regulusmon would use the MoonMillenniummon crystal to power up into Arcturusmon, but Hiro and Siriusmon beat him with some bs power of friendship or whatever, with Gammamon's evil part getting absorbed, the evolution to Proximamon, and that it would then use its abilities of recreation to purge the Digital World of the GRB infection.

What the fuck about MoonMillenniummon's crystal anyway too? Never gets utilized or addressed outside of Hiro staring at it before they leave for the Digital World.

It also feels like there were a few villains that could have made more repeat appearances. Cherrymon, Weedmon, Lilithmon, and potentially Myotismon or Matadrmon.

Amphimon and Diarbbitmon barely doing anything outside their debuts. Diarbbitmon got off better than Amphimon, since he got to fight ZeedMillenniummon, but Amphimon really only managed to pull some minor support against Quartzmon. She got trapped by ClavisAngemon, and then her and Diarbbitmon got stomped by Bloomlordmon. We never saw our Mega trio win a fight together.

It feels like they could have done more with the kids getting secondary partners too, like there was the ever-present Espimon, Ruli was mentioned to have really hit things off with Airdramon, and Kiyoshiro was commonly shown with Ryudamon, who barely appeared after his evolution to Ginryumon. Plus, potential auxiliary Digidestined with Nomura, Riku, and the woman who befriended TonosamaGekomon.

Overall, I feel they either dropped the ball because they took too long keeping it episodic and getting moving on the story, or there was some executive meddling behind the scenes. Like, even as far along as the Lilithmon and ZeedMillenniummon episodes, it still felt like they were setting up, and then we get this rushed arc? It really feels like they planned for the series to have been much longer, but found out about the new show taking their timeslot and realized they didn't have the time to do what they wanted.

I'm genuinely sad about that too. I really loved the horror focus, the characters, and their Digimon. (That said, I really wish they had given us more of them dealing with trauma considering all the fucked-up, certain life-or-death scenarios they've been in, dealing with several Digimon that are literal serial killers, getting tortured at one point, and the forced transformations a few of them have undergone, etc., and that they'd been more proactive in trying to solve the series' mysteries. I feel they should have dropped the show being episodic at some point. It couldn't have stayed that way forever, and we're seeing what comes of keeping it that way for far too long.)

[jade-lop]

This episode was too terrifying.

Kiyo was a mix between Izumi Koushiro and Kido Jou. Hida Iori was the inheritor of the crests of Knowledge and Reliability.

Submarimon’s appearance in this episode was really fitting.

Thetismon and Kiyo’s conversation was touching.

I preferred Thetismon’s graceful persona and Jellymon’s mischievous one compared to Amphimon’s... I knew not how to describe it.

Her fight scene was great though.

Thetismon filled the role of team’s healer, but Amphimon seemed more of a fighter. Did she replace her support skill for more fighting power?

Next episode, necrophilia?

[firstagent]

Digimon Ghost Game #60 Review

Since Ghost Game’s already done the “evil water” thing a couple times already and it was completely obvious we’d see Jellymon’s Ultimate Evolution here, it was going to take a lot for anything to truly dazzle us. Dazzling sure isn’t the word for what we got and it doesn’t quite escape being a half hour of cliches, but there’s still a satisfying execution about everything. The kids plow ahead with either limited or bad information and make things worse, which is better than having no control. Submarimon, Cthyllamon, and Amphimon’s personalities all click with each other nicely and elevate what could have been a real snoozer. It’s also a fitting cap to a round of evolutions that assure us that the Digimon characters are the ones running this season, and from that lens the development isn’t quite as bad as it appears.

You do have to dock points for going with the water motif again. And while Hiro tries to ask questions to make the story plot relevant, nobody bites. At least they mistook the mummified cryptid for the heart of Te Fiti and got appropriately cursed as a result. While that’s all the joy we get from the story, the debut characters make up for it. Cthyllamon is a carefree brat on vacation and his conquest of humanity stems not from a particular hatred of them like AncientSphinxmon, but because he’d have more fun without them around. Balance this out with Submarimon, who isn’t necessarily fond of humans and finds Digimon interacting with them weird, but is chill with it anyway and quick to help the kids out. It’s a nice parallel to have two Digimon with no real experience with humans react to similar encounters with them in completely opposite ways.

That’s not even getting into Jellymon. In both Siriusmon and Diarbbitmon’s evolutions, the partner Digimon drove while Hiro and Ruli got whatever crap could be scraped from the scene. Now that we know the pattern, we’re not shocked to see the same here. Kiyoshiro vowing to step up and be a hero is the same note we get whenever he, well, needs to step up and be a hero. Jellymon gets a nice revelation, supported by Submarimon and Cthyllamon’s attitudes towards humanity: she actually likes people. Whether that’s because she sees them as easy marks or just generally amused by them, she genuinely wants to keep them around. Her evolution Amphimon goes wild with that, reinforcing that attitude with pep and just a little Engrish. It’s nothing mind blowing, but let’s appreciate three new Digimon dropping in and working together to salvage something out of this one.

Initial Grade: B-

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