#digimon kaiser

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Duality of Ken

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Sketchbook page I put together for an 02 zine I participated in back in 2021! I decided to illustrate some of my favorite quotes from the 02 American English dub, because it's so freakin' memorable! The soda/pop exchange between Matt and Cody is actually from a commercial that aired on Fox Kids back in the day, and this is NOT the first time I've drawn fanart of it XD

You might recognize that incredibly sweaty Tai face in the upper left as my icon!

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The Japanese VHS box art of Digimon Adventure 02

Volume 1 = Daisuke Motomiya/Davis, Veemon and Fladramon/Flamedramon

Volume 2 = Miyako Inoue/Yolei, Hawkmon and Holsmon/Halsemon

Volume 3 = Iori Hida/Cody, Armadimon/Armadillomon and Digmon

Volume 4 = Takeru Takaishi/TK, Patamon and Pegasmon/Pegasusmon

Volume 5 = Hikari Yagami/Kari Kamiya, Tailmon/Gatomon and Nefertimon

Volume 6 = Ken Ichijouji, Wormmon and Digimon Kaiser/Emperor

Volume 7 = Ken Ichijouji, Daisuke Motomiya/Davis and Paildramon

Volume 8 = Hikari Yagami/Kari Kamiya, Miyako Inoue/Yolei and Silphymon

Volume 9 = Takeru Takaishi/TK, Iori Hida/Cody and Shakkoumon

Volume 10 = Ken Ichijouji, Daisuke Motomiya/Davis, Imperialdramon Dragon Mode, Mummymon and Archnemon/Arukenimon

Volume 11 = BlackWargreymon, WarGreymon, Mummymon and Archnemon/Arukenimon

Volume 12 = Daisuke Motomiya/Davis, Ken Ichijouji, Miyako Inoue/Yolei, Iori Hida/Cody, Takeru Takaishi/TK, Hikari Yagami/Kari Kamiya and Imperialdramon Fighter Mode.

Released on 2001

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Inktober2024 Day 26

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Digimon Emperor/Kaiser

[ultraericthered]

One Villainous Scene: Cage Of Expectations

A brief one, but it gives so much insight and explains so much about the inner world of a character who, up to this point, was kept shrouded in mystery even though we all knew he was the villain, and also perfectly sets him up to make the decisions he ends up making.

While the later retcon tells us that Ken became a prodigious, genius boy due to a "Dark Spore" inplanted in him by accident that only "went off" when he visited the Dark Ocean, the whys and hows aren't really crucial to understanding Ken's story at this point: he's a star student, star athlete, and even something of a young celebrity within the world of science and computers. Because he is so well known and renowned, he's given plenty of filmed interviews like we see him doing here. After the interview is done, the headmaster of Ken's school comes over to him to offer congragulatory words...and then in a very shady move, whispers to Ken the offer to tutor his daughter in her studies over at his place so that she can excell in her grades at his school, saying he'd reward Ken handsomely for it. Ken plays the "I'm just a kid, I ain't THAT good" card, which makes the principal start to back off...but then he turns back around and asks the disgruntled Ken for an autograph. Turns out that beyond mere corruption and nepotism practices, the headmaster was pestering Ken about these things because his daughter's a fangirl of Ken. This does not please Ken. Who do some plain, unexceptional, low IQ girl and her plain, unexceptional, low IQ father think they are asking him for favors like this? Such matters are far below his time and efforts.

(In the English dub, this interaction is changed to some nonsense about the headmaster wanting Ken over to help him win at a video game called "Donkey Madness" prior to getting the autograph. The effect on Ken is the same, but I think it takes a lot out of the scene.)

Ken is then seen at dinner with his parents, who are acting all congragulatory and gushing over their son's interview and how smart he is and how maturely he presents himself. Yeah, they're really shitty parents. Much as they do love their son and loved his late brother, their love for the idea of being the parents of a special genius child enraptures them so much that they lose sight of what's really best for their child and his needs as a human being, and they coast off the achievements and reputation of their child without really giving back to him in any substantial way. Ken isn't really pleased with the way they interact with him either, so he gets up and leaves the table.

Then comes the big moment. An image that says so much even when so little is said (again, in the original. The dub butchered it by having Ken internally ramble the whole way, which not even Derek Stephen Prince can really save.) Ken's on the roof of his apartment building, standing in front of a barred fence. He can see the entire city from here, a city filled with mediocre people who he considers to be completely beneath him, but who will always look to exploit his gifts and use whatever he accomplishes for their own benefit, and will feel alright about themselves for doing nothing, being nothing. Ken would love nothing more than to abuse, bully, enslave, torture, or even kill the whole lot of them...but he's far too intelligent to not know better. He knows that the rules of civil society prohibit him from acting freely upon those cruel urges, making him have to conform and comply with the regulations set by lesser people. He, a Chosen One, a "perfect human", has to just sit there and take it like a good little boy, to not werewolf and go wild on these people. He's trapped. Caged like a rare breed of animal rather than the god he believes himself to be. The bars he grabs onto represents this cage, and all he can do here is snarl and shout out to city below him "INSECTS!"

But of course we know that there's a place Ken goes to where he can actually live his wildest fantasies, and act as he would naturally prefer to act towards lesser beings completely free of repercussions. The world he believes is one large MMORPG that exists for his pleasure. The Digital World, where he asserts himself as the Digimon Kaiser. And it's at this point where he starts to call that place home.

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Ken thinks he's going to catch all Digimon?

How about catching those fists! 🤜💥

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💥💥💥 f i g h t 💥💥💥

[geneenart]

DigiGirls ✨🫰

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Sonic Adventure 02

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Digimon Emperor/Kaiser from Digimon Adventure 02.

Thinking about making the full cast of 02 into these little chibi heads in the future.

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Meme Status: Complete! ✧⁠◝(⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)◜⁠✧ enjoy a scan rather than the usual photo.

@aralintheobsessive asked for Jason Todd. Yesterday wasn't really a day conductive for drawing, but here's my boy, with his helmet broken (as usual) and the All Blades (which coincidentally work fabulously to visually counter Benimaru's flames in box #1).

I want to thank everyone for the amazing prompts! Each name was surprising and very fun to work on. I think I'll do this again (I was thinking "give me six female characters" and "give me six couples"), but I know I won't complete the next challenge in six days like this one, so we'll see. :D

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<-Digimon Adventure 02 (2000) ->

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The Chosen Children/Digidestined (and Digimon Kaiser/Emperor) in Digimon World: Digital Card Arena/Battle video game

Since they are holding those cards, I could imagine them doing Card Slash/Digi-Modify in Tamers AU.

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[ultraericthered]

Digimon Emperor/Kaiser Ken Ichijouji Appreciation Post

Coolest and most compelling human villain Digimon's ever had.