#digmon theme: alternative friendships

[izzyizumi]

Digimon Ghost Game ~ Episode 59 featuring Characters: ESPIMON (Character Voice: Yumiko Kobayashi); + Hiro Amanokawa; (Character Voice: Mutsumi Tamura); + Kiyoshiro Higashimitarai; (and Friends + Support) + Espimon HELPING OUT the group Throughout Ep + Espimon’s Character Progression / COMPASSION + HIRO’s COMPASSION / Charging In (to help save Kiyoshiro & Others)

“Is this what it MEANS to be a ‘BRIDGE’?” - Hiro Amanokawa

BONUS:

(Notably reacting for the first time to an Notable Occurance) {happening to a “Friend”}

“ME and YOU are Friends!”

��...YOU and Hiro are Friends!!” - Gammamon to Espimon; Previously (Ep 54)

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[askmerriauthor]

Man, I'm really enjoying the new Digmon series. It's called "Digimon: Ghost Game" and holds to its horror theme remarkably well. Digimon has always had kind of a weird, eerie vibe to it and that tone lends itself to this approach.

This show takes the angle of Digimon appearing in the Real World as a way to play with urban legends. Plus it seems like this is an alternate universe to the original series or Tamers, where people don't know what Digimon are in this setting. Which I actually really like; it gives the show a chance to take it own unique spin on things and not worry about all the previous (and extremely convoluted) lore. I definitely enjoy the fact that combat is relatively low in this show as well; there's rarely any fights at all and when there is violence, it's usually only one or two strikes before the fight is done. The Season 01 reboot was absolutely terrible with how every episode was just one long, drawn out, pointless battle scene after another, so this is a very refreshing change of pace. So far every antagonist Digimon encountered has survived, with an interesting balance of the threats being neutralized peacefully and others remaining at large and swearing to return later on. Our protags have no interest in actually harming the Digimon at all and do their best to reach an understanding with them.

Normally I'm not big on the "we can talk it out with the power of friendship" approach being overused, but it works in this case because of Digimon mentality. Digimon are always this sort of odd mix of childish and animalistic; even the most mature, well-spoken, philosophical of Digimon still have these very basic drives and behaviors that inform what they do. That sort of trait is perfect for the horror theme of this series, as the Digimon antagonists and urban legend monsters/ghosts adhering to a sort of simple, repetitive behavior because of their mannerisms match perfectly. The majority of the antagonists so far are only dangerous to humans because they just don't understand what they're doing is wrong or harmful. There's only been two so far that are outright and intentionally hostile for the sake of causing harm. But even with those two, they're not trying to take over the world or anything like that; they're just assholes who like hurting people for their own amusement. Which, again, lends itself really well to the supernatural monster/haunting of the week theme this show has.