#arata sanada

[burrito-salad]

cyber sleuth babies always on the mind

[jackalsquad4]

Can You Have An Evil Or Sinister Digimon Partner, And Have Them Still Care About You.

After playing Digimon Survive, I started wondering if you could have a Digimon that’s considered evil as your Digimon partner. I noticed in Digimon Survive that not only does Kaito had Dracmon as his partner despite the fact that the Digimon Reference Book says that Dracmon isn’t really a nice Digimon. Despite this, Dracmon and all of his evolved forms (Sangloupmon, Myotismon, Beelzemon) seem to care about Kaito despite the fact that they’re all considered evil Digimon. (I know Beelzemon isn’t exactly evil, but he’s not exactly good either). I was wondering if it’s possible for a human to have a Digimon that’s considered evil or sinister as a partner that genuinely cares about them. I’m just curious is all. I just think it’s interesting to have Digimon that are generally considered evil as your partner, and have them genuinely care about you, no matter how dark or twisted their personalities are.

Some examples of these partnerships are:

Arata & Diaboramon (Digimon Cyber Sleuth)

Kaito & Dracmon (Digimon Survive)

Mirei & Ladydevimon (Digimon World)

Mikey & Bastemon (Digimon Fusion)

[gulava]

[regalbryantlover]

I beat digimon cyber sleuth last night so I made a meme to commemorate it

[skypiea]

Two pride icon commissions for @transfaust ! bi flag Arata & trans flag Nokia 💻

☀️ summer commission sale ! ! ☀️

[mintaffy]

“what happened to him” he finished playing digimon story: cyber sleuth complete edition

[basedropepilled]

for all you digimon cyber sleuthers, can I raise to you transmasc arata sanada???? no????

like idk why it works so well in my head it JUST DOES!!! and especially through the lens of hacker's memory where ryuji talks to him a lot about Jude being the one place they all belonged and UGHHSKFJHK Arata wanting the one place he felt comfortable back :(( he just wants to belong, and hackers being outcasts and constantly blamed/made out to be the villains can be seen as a good metaphor for... *gestures vaguely at the state of the world* ...a lot of things.

and don't get me started on him and yuugo that's a whole other kettle of fish or however the saying goes

(tis very late and i'm tired i hope this makes a semblance of sense)

[digimontamerlayne]

I'm playing Cyber Sleuth for the first time because I got it on sale, and I am now angrily glaring at past me for not looking for it on deals sooner cause I love it. So here's my over excited rant of my general experience. I actually cut this short remarkably.

I am only on Chapter 4, so my info only goes to after defeating the Eater in the Subway.

At the start I felt pressed on the whole Pokemon Starter-esque way you gotta choose between Terriermon, Palmon, and Hagurumon. But you can still get them all later which is nice. The need to choose just put me on the spot.

Normally, I'd have jumped at getting Terriermon (I prefer Lopmon but you can't go wrong with Terriermon), but I wound up doing "wheel of fate" and got Hagurumon.

And now I'm attatched to it. I digivolved it to Clockmon cause I knew one digivolution was Guardromon, so I was curious about the others' possibilities. I could tell one was Scumon, though, and that was not happening. Thank you.

My current team set up is Clockmon, Gabumon BLK (I got attatched to him too), Fanbeemon originally but it has been switched for Lopmon for now, and Impmon in my reserve because the moment I found out Kuramon and then Pagumon digivolve to Impmon that felt mandatory to do.

Story thus far is pretty cool. Interesting characters. Kyoko Kuremi is pretty and rather interesting, but she needs to have her coffee pot removed from her office immediately. Anyways, she and Nokia feel a bit on the nose to pull in specific audience through use of "attractive allure" (*eye roll*), but I was told for Nokia it's part of her character of how she likes presenting herself and I know people who do the same and especially when they were 17 like she is, so she does make sense to me. But half the time that outfit of her's does not. It defies logic, I swear. Pretty or not. But Nokia's connection and partnering up with Agumon and Gabumon is pretty freaking cute and feels like a hint at her true colors underneath the choice of flashy-ness.

Arata felt pretty enigmatic, though less than Yuugo because Arata had just enough "I'm deliberately acting too cool" and was just enough of a smirking "jerk" to counter most of the enigmaticness. And then he gushed about the Cyber Sleuth thing after trying to brush off his interest. He revealed his true colors: he's a geek like the rest of us. I will hold that and the fact he ditched me to escape Crazy Detective Date on my own over his head whenever I talk about him. But the rest of him still feels "mystery" enough.

I'll talk more about other characters some other time when I feel more connected or understand them better. Right now, I only really got connected to Nokia (plus Agumon + Gabumon) and now Arata enough to give opinionable interest. Except one, dude. I'm gonna gripe about Jimiken here in a minute for a reason.

But anyway, I love a lot of the side stuff going on too.

Example: Mirei sending me to make hackers abusing Digimon repent is nice. But in the second round, the Three Scammers Siblings you go after, I was not ready for that! The oldest sibling as a nonbinary character with motives linking towards their identity and how pressed they felt having to "choose", and how their scams (which were mostly just catfishing compared to their brother's scams) link back to their harsh emotions towards that. Not justified (especially if you look at the "forcing their digimon to do the work" part which is why you're confronting them) for what they wound up doing to others, but clear in what motivated them. I was neither expecting nor ready for that, and I love it. And the fact we get to give them a pep talk about how they were strong and are a great sibling to their brothers to cheer them up was awesome. I am sorta sad that the dialog where they ask for our digiline wasn't actually interactable. C'mon, in Pokemon Soul Silver and Heart Gold, you get more numbers than you can keep up with. Why not with this?

So, I'm having the time of my life with this game.

Although I found out the hard way about the Game Overs when you lose a battle. I loath Jimiken and the chapter and a half BACK he sent me. What I felt on par with "not saving in Pokemon and your device dying" level of despair. I had to redo chapter 2 and then my progress through chapter 3 back to that stupid fight, saving every few minutes out of sheer paranoia! It undid digimon I had converted and digivolutions I had done!

I was cussing out his Devimon and Meramon while fighting it. I was having flashbacks to Adventure Devimon, just channeling 12 year old me's emotions to relive that hatred of Devimon for this fight... But that died the moment Jimiken blamed his Digimon for losing. I became this specific Devimon's number 1 advocate cause screw this Paul Stanley wannabe. It is not this Devimon's fault you suck. This Devimon was Hella strong and made me scream cause it took me from just under half health to no health on my reserve digimon when he himself had just one last hit point before I beat him (can you tell I'm still a little sore on that?).

This was an amazing moment for me. I hated Jimiken so much it somehow bulldozed right over the loathing I had for Devimon in general that my introduction to Digimon drilled into me in a matter of moments. This is a bizarre development for me I'm still getting used to.

Also, WHAT IS CRAZY DETECTIVE LADY DATE!? What is her problem? It's funny but she is unsettling with her yelling.

Alright, I'm cutting this rant short here before I keep going over board.

I got carried away in the tags, so there's a rant in there, too.

[destinyisastar]

I’ve spent almost 40 hours on digimon cybersleuth does it make my head hurt? Yes. Am I proud of how long it takes me to digivolve gatomon? No. Am I down bad for Arata? Definitely. I need more arata fan art pls!

[manofmanymons]

Which member of the cyber sleuth cast would call Kyoko mom

Okay hear me out

Aiba would do it either on accident or as a joke bc she lowkey adopted them while they were going through their whole cyber body crisis

But Nokia and Arata would overhear it and it would just become an inside joke in their friend group to call her that

[samwise1548]

I've been playing Digimon Cyber Sleuth recently and I swear, the way the player character and this emo boy interact there's gotta be somethin goin on between em

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[ID: Two pen on paper doodles of Takumi Aiba and Arata Sanada from the game Digimon: Cyber Sleuth.

Left image: Arata, drawn in blue ink, excitedly exclaims "Tell me more about being a cyber sleuth!" Takumi, drawn in pink ink, blushes bashfully at his friends excitement.

Right image: The pair are texting each other after a mission together. Arata's blue text bubble says "Yo! Could you shake the cops after that?" Takumi's pink text bubble responds by saying "I can't believe you ran away and left me behind!" Underneath the bubbles Takumi pouts and furiously laps at his phone, while Arata looks at his with amusement. Both have a light blush on their cheeks.

\End ID]

[burrito-salad]

the cyber squad ✨

[shadowzgather]

[ lonely ] sender finds receiver alone in a dark room + [ crying ] sender finds receiver crying + reverse { For Nimue and Arata, referring to what i was talkin to you in dms abt }

Non-Verbal Angst Promps.

He had come by with a graphics card for Nimue. It was one of the latest ones out on the market. He knew she could afford it herself but this was something more special. It was the anniversary of when she officially joined Jude. The group might have disbanded but it was still important to both of them. He thought it might make her smile but what he heard as he entered her apartment made him stop.

Nimue was... crying? He was running before his mind fully processed it. "Nimue!? Hey, what happened?" He asked, fixing her with a serious and stern look. He knew how closed lipped she could be about things that were bothering her. His look told her he wasn't going to accept a "It's nothing" as an answer.

[gulava]

The sadness of knowing you forgot someone who matters to you, something like that'll gnaw at you forever.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004) / Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (2015)

[didtransitionsavethem]

ARATA SANADA from DIGIMON STORY CYBER SLEUTH

REASONING:

@basedropepilled says: "OKAY SO Arata is so trans masc to me there is no doubt. Throughout the game he talks about wanting to take back the place he belonged, and in hackers memory it's implied that Jude was the one place where he felt comfortable being himself (and that's where he met Ryuji and Chitose as a young teen, right about when he would've felt most dysphoric. The pair of them probably helped him come into his own a lot).

ALSO, he is one of the most infamous hackers in EDEN, a group of people who are consistently demonised and seen as outcasts. Very much thematic significance >:) Also, I like to think that Yuugo was the only one who he'd told about being trans as a kid, which is why he was particularly distraught when [REDACTED] happened :D"

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[dantdoodle]

has everyone played the cyber sleuth games yet?