#big mamemon

[miel128]

i like digimon

[michuzurek01]

Big Mamemon in pokemon gen 2 sprite style

[digimoninteractions]

[goliathgastropod]

I PRESENT TO YOU, IN COLLABORATION WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE

THE DIGITAL MONSTER COLLAB

all 70 digimon from the original digital monster line of v-pets brought to life in the style of generation 1 pokemon sprites!

Botamon (@ AHAB_INC on twitter) Koromon (@ AHAB_INC on twitter) Agumon (@palaeoplushies) Betamon (@codenamegeek) Greymon (bennyspriteslittleguys) Tyranomon (@ AdaptingKaiju on twitter) Devimon (@v-pet) Meramon (Varmintz) Seadramon (@ snarbsart on twitter) Airdramon (@w3barray) Numemon (@ gmerc on twitter) MetalGreymon (Virus) (@ AHAB_INC on twitter) Mamemon (@ luig911 on twitter) Monzaemon (Omeletghost)

Punimon (@veebosocool) Tunomon (@stargazaart) Gabumon (@ hornests1 on twitter) Elecmon (@ tlefonmann on twitter) Kabuterimon (Varmintz) Garurumon (@w3barray) Angemon (@lilmisssunbear) Yukidarumon (Rysk) Birdramon (@boxheadpaint) Whamon (@ kbajdneowljfnf on twitter) Vegimon (@michuzurek01) SkullGreymon (maddalena) MetalMamemon (@veebosocool) Vademon (@ MillionSoloDive on twitter)

Poyomon (@stargazaart) Tokomon (@veebosocool) Patamon (@stargazaart) Kunemon (@ MillionSoloDive on twitter) Unimon (@korvicus) Centalmon (@ MillionSoloDive on twitter) Ogremon (@ tlefonmann on twitter) Bakemon (@ kbajdneowljfnf on twitter) Shellmon (bennyspriteslittleguys) Drimogemon (Omeletghost) Scumon (poopmin) Andromon (@boxheadpaint) Giromon (@ MillionSoloDive on twitter) Etemon (@veebosocool)

Yuramon (@ TubularLizard on twitter) Tanemon (@ hornests1 on twitter) Piyomon (@w3barray) Palmon (@ hornests1 on twitter) Monochromon (@palaeoplushies) Cockatrimon (@peculiarmarsu) Leomon (Varmintz) Kuwagamon (@soogymoogi) Coelamon (@ TubularLizard on twitter) Mojyamon (@kappatater) Nanimon (@palaeoplushies) Megadramon (bennyspriteslittleguys) Piccolomon (@driftwoodmfb) Digitamamon (GoldenFeebas)

Zurumon (@ MillionSoloDive on twitter) Pagumon (@weaselmcdiesel) Gazimon (@palaeoplushies) Gizamon (@bonzosbunker) DarkTyranomon (@ tlefonmann on twitter) Cyclomon (bennyspriteslittleguys) Devidramon (@ AdaptingKaiju on twitter) Tuskmon (@drearyterminarch) Flymon (@soogymoogi) Deltamon (@nineblindingstars) Raremon (@michuzurek01) MetalTyranomon (@ AdaptingKaiju on twitter) Nanomon (@abeestos) Ex-Tyranomon (GoldenFeebas)

and finally, as one big thank you to everyone who participated, i drew something up

really and truly, from the bottom of my heart, thank you all so much for participating in this. seeing it all fill out and looking at all of the contrasting styles was one of the the best things ever.

[one-starry-knight]

one of my favorite things is talking abt Digimon sizes bc really they can be any size and vary from show to show, but some concepts are too funny not to acknowledge

I always picture Prince and Bancho Mamemon as being a fairly big (Bancho Mamemon is massive in Adv 2020 even) but what if they were so teeny tiny

[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.

[joekabox]

So I see a lot of people that talk about the differences between Pokemon and Digimon often bring up the evolution methods between each series, and I gotta say, while I think, overall, Pokemon has a way more cohesive and visually appealing evolution, I think Digimon has a way better thought and concept behind it.

Neither are bad, at all, as both are doing their own thing, and trying to compare them is ultimately not a great idea. But, if I had to choose, Digimon is my preferred (though I might be biased).

The reason, for me, that I prefer Digimon, has to start from the ground up.

So, for Pokemon, evolution is straightforward. Bulbasaur is a small frog creature with a bulb in its back, that evolves into a larger frog with a budding plant in the form of Ivysaur, and then into a much larger frog with a veritable tree growing out of its back in the form of Venusaur.

Pokemon evolution is the maturing, sometimes metamorphosis of a young animal into an adult one.

Digimon, on the other hand, isn't straightforward. Many of the Baby forms are simple shapes with faces - blank canvases if you will, with a general theme at best. From there, you can get Digimon like Agumon - a dinosaur-like reptile creature - who then turns into Greymon, a much larger dinosaur creature, but Agumon could also instead turn into Meramon, which is just a humanoid made of fire. Agumon has also been seen turning into Tyrannomon, which is another big dinosaur, which arguably looks more like Agumon than Greymon, as well as Numemon, which is a small slug monster.

From there, Digimon like Greymon can turn into the fierce Metal Greymon, but Tyrannomon can turn into Metal Greymon too. It's not mutually exclusive. Greymon can also turn into Mamemon, which isn't even a dinosaur, but a small metal ball with a face and big fists.

It seems convoluted and messy on the surface when it comes to Digimon evolution, and you may wonder why I like it better. And that has to come down to it's theme - whereas Pokemon is simply the maturing of a species, Digimon is based on change through life experiences.

The reason Agumon can become Greymon and Numemon isn't because both are logical evolutions for Agumon, but because a Digimon's appearance is merely a representation for us of what's going on in the inside of that Digimon. Agumon turns into Greymon when they are trained by their Tamer well, focusing on their strengths. Greymon looks logical because there's some level of intent there. Numemon, however, is what (generally) happens when Agumon has been lazy and maybe a bit filthy. A tamer may find their Agumon has become a Numemon if they don't clean up after them enough or otherwise mistreat them. A lifestyle that isn't optimal results in Agumon becoming something of a slob, perhaps, and this becomes a physical form for them.

I think nothing portrays this better than the Baby's I briefly mentioned earlier. Baby Digimon are often simple in design, because as a baby, you don't know what you want to be yet. You might have some baked in things that affect your growth, but ultimately, you could be anything. Most Baby Digimon are basic for this reason.

While it's a great milestone in Pokemon for a Pokemon to evolve, it isn't saying anything deep or meaningful much of the time. Growth is inevitable, and as long as you work at it, it'll come.

In Digimon, however, every thing you do for yourself, and even the way your friends and loved ones treat you, shape your growth and determine what you may become. Beyond that, your limits are unbound, your potential infinite, and I find that beautiful.

And unlike Pokemon, in Digimon, you have the choice to start over if you want. If you don't like what you've become, if you're willing to let yourself try again, you can.

Raise yourself like a Digimon. Be who you want to be.

[otakween]

Digimon Adventure 02 (Blind Watch) - Episode 24

This episode kinda had a weird tone to it, but we got a bunch of plot developments so it definitely wasn't boring! 3 new evolutions and a new villain is a lot to pack into 20-ish minutes. Beyond that we also got some insights into the dynamics between the kids. With some down-time before the next big bad introduces themselves, there's more room for introspection. As someone who prefers character-driven stories, I approve.

Digimon introduced: Minomon, Ankylomon, Stingmon, Thunderballmon

Notes:

-I like the concept behind Ankylomon, but I'm not sure about the execution. He's a little too chonky, I wish his silhouette was more defined if that makes sense. (Also, he says dagyaa too much at this point lol).

-I had to Google Ken's age because I was like "is he a little old to be calling his parents Mama and Papa?" He's 11 apparently. I feel like I was probably still saying Mommy and Daddy at that point tbh (I still call my dad Daddy sometimes lol). He just comes off as older because of his design and VA.

-Minomon is very cute but has such an impractical design. How the heck does he get around??

-Rando evil lady looks like she's from a different show! I guess I'm just not used to adults in this series. I like her witchy vibes.

-Dammit, not Iori's Grandpa and his Chu-Chu Jelly again...He needs a new schtick.

-Miyako has been repeatedly shown to mistreat Poromon at this point (using them as a stress ball, shoving them in their bag, making them give her a massage). I guess she kind of mirrors Mimi in that way (I still remember when Mimi called Palmon ugly lol).

-I really didn't get the parts with Daisuke. Hikari and Takeru acted like they were keeping some kind of secret from him. First they got him to babysit the baby digis as a distraction and then they went into the woods to try evolving. Why couldn't they have just done that in front of him? Were they trying not to bruise his ego if the evolutions worked? -shrug-

-I could make a tier list of half-assed digimon designs at this point. Thunderballmon would definitely rank pretty high. He looks like something I would have drawn in 2nd grade (the name is half-assed too lol). Also, you would think they've already fulfilled their spherical mon quota with Mamemon.

-Didn't expect Stingmon. He's so human-like that I thought they were going to reveal he wasn't a digimon! He looks like a cross between Kamen Rider and Deku's hero costume lol. Very super sentai (or maybe super sentai baddie).

-It was kind of funny how the kids were shocked and appalled by the fact that Stingmon "killed" Thunderballmon. I mean, they have battles every episode that could easily result in death. Like IRL you can't just be like "no, you gotta tap out or run away so I don't have to kill you!" Also, he'll just be reborn, so whatever.

-Lol @ Ken perching on top of that building like Tuxedo Mask. I had a feeling this was how he'd ease his way in.

-Daisuke being a good babysitter was cute. Makes sense that simple-minded people would be good with kids.

[deramonfaqs]

B I G M A M E M O N

[takato1993]

I like

big boys

Itty Bitty Boys

Mississipi Boys

Inner City Boys

I like the pretty boys with the bow tie

Get your nails did, let it blow dry

[gooberto]

Been in Big Digimon Hyperfixation mode and thought it might be good to get some practice drawing muscly arms by drawing Mamemon since his arms are the single most detailed part of his entire body

[radicalapollo]

There are, undoubtably some losers when it comes to the X Antibody digimon though. I'd say the majority of them are really fun ideas, but there is one set that I can never forgive because of what they did to my boys.

Look at Mamemon here. He's basically just a little found boy with unbelievably jacked arms and big fucking boxing gloves on. His super round eyes are so charming and something about his design has always been appealing to me. I love every single baseline Mamemon design because they all just look like friendly little fuckers that WILL beat you to death.

BUT WHAT IS THIS MESS

There is SO MUCH happening here and all of it sucks. They gave him big ol kirby eyes that just kinda... sit on his face weird, Guy Fieri branded gloves and shoes that... just don't really work and have zippers for no reason

THE FUCKING TRIBLE TATTOO

The kinda like... belts are, I guess, jutting out of his, like, shoulders? I guess? Why are they there? What is HAPPENING with this fucking guy?

Look how they massacred my BOY!!!!

[schnickledooger]

I think Toei tries to attract new fans with Adventure 2020, that's why they focus so much on the action and battle scenes. They will probably focus more on drama or relationships if they were directed to an old audience (for example: Tri). In itself, I think the characters are "fine" in Adventure 2020, but they look more flat, because we compare them with Adventrue 99. That said, I think writers have problems with a big group.

I think I figured out what is annoying me about the reboot. I dont mind all the action scenes (or lets be real the action eps), its just that every ep of them fighting just to fight seems pointless and fillerish. I liked the earlier eps with a bit foreshadowing like Tai being able to read the digicode and the angel feathers dropping and now we just have scooby doo villains every ep for no reason like the mamemon and seadramon. WHY. I was enjoying the group doing nothing but sitting down and eating fruit for like ONE minute before "oh noes children! New foes you must defeat who serve no purpose other than to let our art team show off our fight animation!"

I just want the kids to have an entire episode of them together TALKING not fighting. Digimon is not just about the battles. It's getting on my nerves, especially when the writers show how capable this reboot can be with awesome character development and interaction it portrayed earlier on.

Its weird. Even with the other Digimon shows like Fusion or Savers, they never had every frikkin minute of EVERY ep be a full out fight like the reboot has given us. I want these fights to MEAN something otherwise they're kinda boring.

Another pet peeve of mine, one that made me chuckle bc how silly it was at first but bow that they keep doing it, WHY DO THE CHILDREN ENDANGER THEMSELVES RIDING INTO BATTLE ON THEIR PARTNERS?!

Like there's a reason they didn't do that in 01. Ppl WILL and CAN get hurt. Look what happened to Tai in ep 24 and then MetalGreymon MCFREAKIN losing it. Then this more recent ep, Tai gets knocked into the ocean and almost drowns (gets eaten again) bc he's riding on Greymon again. MAH BOI, I love you but DID YOU LEARN NOTHING?!

like I'm so frustrated that the kids keep doing this, I feel like writing a CRACK fic where they meet up with the older versions of themselves from the original timeline and they get a full EARCHEWING of all the dos and donts of battletime warfare tactics and monster attacks.

If Toei wanted to pull in a new audience, it might be working, idk, but surely the audience members must be sort of bored by the same redundant fight scenes that have been going on the past few eps with no clear answers. The children dont speak much either other than to call each others names. Im ready for the next arc and a slower pace, Toei.

[uniarycode]

Digimon Adventure Reboot Episode 25

A swarm of mame-spoilers beneath the cut

-        no time for a break, shame, they could benefit from a tension-release ep

-        Shipwars: the ultimate problem

-        Why is PTA the English acronym that Mimi knows?

-        Cloud continent is in the clouds :) How did they swim there?  Did they also start on cloud continent?

-        Patamon does not have Tentomon’s insane upgraded flying powers. He’ll have to settle for being one quarter digi-jesus.

-        “How did we defeate Devimon?”  “Somehow.”

-        Is this the catch up episode? The keep explaining old things.

-        It’s kinda amazing how baby are consistently more problematic than perfects.

-        “The Big Mamemon are….BigMamemon” thanks for the infinite wisdom Patamon.

-        El Dradimon’s whole thing is that he’s more defensive than an entire continent, so I guess it’s plausible he can survive *checks notes* five thousand simultaneous perfect level attacks.

-        Leomon, the whole team of Digimon they didn’t needless slaughter are here.

-        The reason Patamon can hear what El Dradimon is saying is because of his big ears.

-        Tanking five thousand simultaneous perfect level attacks is no biggy, but don’t let him slip and fall :/

-        Takeru wants to save his pet Ultimate level turtle.

-        Also… can Peckmon fly?

-        Hey Hikari, what you doing?  Something creepy and Jesus like?

-        All the Digimon fly with takeru <3

-        Remember everyone, when going into water, you want to maximize your surface area.  Belly flop, don’t dive.

-        K seriously, are Mamemon retconned into being babies for this?  I know I said level doesn’t matter, but still.

-        Mamemon are mines, bombs, and little balls of smiles.

-        This plan has cartoon logic all over it….how long has El Drodimon been gliding just above the surface?

-        At least takeru gets to keep his pet World-Turtle.

[firstagent]

Review: Digimon Adventure: (2020) Episode 25: Dive to the Next Ocean

In this episode, everything is falling! Taichi and Yamato, Takeru, ElDoradimon, US-Iran relations, the quality of the series… everything’s just plummeting hard!

If we’re not getting the satisfying and earned win over Devimon that last time wasn’t, at least give us a breather. Since this endless stretch of high intensity started, we’ve been aching for one. Taichi and Yamato have become nonstop fighting machines, with no room to exhibit personality or even argue with each other on flimsy pretenses. Other than being controlled by angels, we don’t know anything about Takeru. The other four have spent the last three episodes doing literally nothing besides huddle under a gazebo in the park staring at a computer screen (Sora and Koshiro have spent five!). While the action has occasionally been good, it’s a terrible bit of entropy begging for some change now that Devimon has apparently bitten the dust. Well, there’s good news: instead of going from episodes with nothing but intense action where everything’s on the line, we get an episode of intense action where absolutely nothing is on the line.

At this point, Yamato’s resorted to mocking our request to slow down and prove this series has actual characters. As much as a break is called for, Yamato points out we’re not going to get one as half the continent breaks up and plummets to the ocean underneath it. So instead we… watch them plummet to the ocean underneath it. That’s the extent of the drama. Yamato even teases the biggest character driver available: Taichi and MetalGreymon going berserk last episode. But instead of mentioning it directly, he demurs when asked and bottles it up instead of letting us know what he actually thought about it and forcing Taichi to deal with the monster he became. That sort of reflection could and really should have been the focus of the entire episode. But no, instead they’re falling. Taichi’s bout of pinkeye absolutely must be addressed again in the future. With this series you can’t trust that it will.

Normally, the kids falling to their deaths would be something wrapped up in a matter of seconds. For a large enough drop, maybe a few minutes, plus a couple if Gomamon’s not around to make a fish raft. Trying to extend it to an entire episode is a stretch and it shows. The return of Leomon’s crew is appreciated, but the presence of three flying Peckmon to escort our heroes really should have been the end of that. But no… we have a swarm of Mamemon that is just kind of in the way, attacking everything just because they’re too close, a considerable step down from Devimon raising a cult thirsty for unchecked evolution. Since it was the only way to inject any sort of stake in this fight, Leomon and Patamon rush a sloppy backstory to convince us that saving ElDoradimon, the castle holder Taichi and Yamato barely acknowledged in his first appearances, is absolutely essential. Yamato clearly disagrees, but remains silent for fear that Taichi will tattle to Sora.

And so we spend the remainder of the episode trying very hard to pretend to care about ElDoradimon enough to accept Taichi and Yamato’s stunts to guide him to a safe landing, while also trying very hard to take the Mamemon seriously as a threat. At first, accomplishing the latter got a big assist with Agumon and Gabumon too tired to fight. This makes sense as they’ve been fighting at the Ultimate level, plus upgrades, for the last five episodes. The concept of Taichi and Yamato having to fend off the Mamemon and land their turtle safely without their Digimon works well enough in a filler sort of way. But no, they run into a corner where, in lieu of any good ideas, the only solution is screaming really loud and getting the evolutions we were told were unfeasible for the first two-thirds of the episode.

Back home… they’re still huddled under a gazebo in the park staring at a computer screen. They’re not even helping their Digimon fight anymore, only continuing to realize the tanker crisis wasn’t actually fixed (which we learned last episode) and that there’s an infestation of tiny Digimon in the relevant part of the network (which we also learned last episode, only the Algomon have quietly been replaced with Zurumon). Literally the only moment of personality from any of the four is Mimi coming across as an airhead. Big leap forward that is. Hikari joins them… but only because she too wants to huddle under the gazebo in the park. No personality from her either. The net result is the worst kind of filler episode, where not only does nothing of value get accomplished, we don’t even get any downtime to feel out these characters. Given how badly we need the latter, and how the action we got wasn’t a respite from anything, the episode feels like even more of a waste.

My Grade: D+

Loose Data:

So these tanker collisions are causing the US and Iran to jump to conclusions and strain their relations. Obviously not unrealistic, but bold of them to assume US-Iran relations could get worse. Since you know the show doesn’t have the stones to actually introduce a military conflict between the two, this is such a transparently empty way of pretending to raise the stakes on the tanker crisis.

The military alphabet of the scrambling jets spells out “TOEI08.” The Toei part’s obvious. The 08 perhaps refers to this being the eighth Digimon TV series.

Cloud Continent floating in the sky is about as subtle as the wall of fire in the original Adventure. But the kids also had to travel across the sea to Cloud Continent. Was that landmass also floating up there, even though it wasn’t “Cloud” anything?

All that drama over falling into the ocean and you just know DarkKnightmon’s going to be waiting for them wherever they end up.

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[o-w-quinlan]

Digimon Adventure 2020, episode 25 reaction (and over-analysis)

This week, the B-Team gets all the interesting moments while the A-Team gets filler that lasts most of the episode.

If there was any doubt that the previous arc ended and we’re in the transition to the next one, the “previously on” section summarizing the entire series until now rather than just the previous episode should dispell it. This episode is then a breather between the intensity of the previous 5 and presumably the plot thickening once Hikari joins. The problem is that the show uses this “breather” to contrieve a situation that can allow them to keep building up tension through the entire episode. There were probably more dead pauses in the previous two than here. So, rather than use the reprieve for some introspection or interactions or whatever, it’s for more action.

Which is not to say that there is nothing interesting here, because the B-Team is firing on all cylinders, be it with the threat of war between the USA and Iran emerging in a plausible (and all too familiar to anyone who reads the news) way, the swarm of Zurumon covering so much important infrastructure that they can’t just destroy them to neutralize the threat (seriously, a swarm of Baby I level digimon was far more threatening in the space of a couple seconds than the swarm of Perfect levels ever got to be in the entire episode), some banter between Koushiro, Jou and Mimi that showcases their personalities pretty well, and Sora trying to keep the ever-mysterious Hikari from getting involved in this mess.

In the space of a short conversation, we learn Jou keeps up with international news, Koushiro is the first of the group to realize the full implications of what’s happening, Mimi tries to keep up but is lacking on some background, Jou gets to be smug from knowing that background while Koushiro actually explains it.

As for the A-Team... well, Taichi and Agumon remember nothing from last week’s fight and Yamato doesn’t even try to explain it. Also, Agumon and Gabumon first say they’re exhausted and then Leomon recognizes on sight that they are exhausted, but that still doesn’t matter because they’ll evolve when Taichi and Yamato do their cool-looking-but-useless run to the enemy and scream as the music plays. Consequences? What’s that?

As for the big swarm of Mamemon... well, they initially appeared threatening but soon turned into an inconsistent joke where one second they’re actively aggressive and doing their best to attack the Chosen Children and the next they’re just standing and floating doing nothing as digimon a level below them push them into the ocean. No comment.

At least Leomon got some good moments, validating the legendary status of these digimon with his awe at Eldoradimon or even Patamon. It’s interesting to think that he and his group took a massive leap of faith by jumping off their entire continent to try and rescue the Chosen Children, even though the threat they were fighting against (Devimon and the miasma) is already gone. Still, his effortless defeat of several Mamemon just diminishes the threat they’re supposed to hold.

Other notes:

Patamon does less here than in the previous episodes as Tokomon and Poyomon. Predictable, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t bug me.

Eldoradimon tanking the attacks of thousands of Mamemon look much less impressive when their kamikaze explosions elsewhere fail to destroy big rocks.

Taichi makes some references to aviation, I assume as a reference to V-Tamer. The way his goggles are used puzzles me because in the first episode it was a “big” moment when he put them ono his forehead, but here he does it without any fanfare.

Patamon inflating himself to launch the Air Bubble was hilarious, though the cut to Spadamon’s attack after it was awkward.

In general, an episode that would be thoroughly skippable were it not for the B-Team. Next week looks like it’ll be similar in structure, but hopefully better since the Ebidramon and the WaruSeadramon look like they’ll be more threatening than the Mamemon here.