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Digimon Xros Wars: Hunters Ep25 liveblog

The last episode!!!! Tagiru and Gumdramon's final silly moment!!!!!

NOOOOO RYOUMA'S PARTNER WAS THE EVIL ONE........ even right up to the end, there's digimon feeding off the hearts of humans & betraying the mutual strength and protection they've given each other by partnering up

oh so the true quartzmon is all about body horror huh. and it is actually kinda freaky, too... well-executed.

so since quartzmon absorbed the data of the Digimon that Ryouma fought via hollowing out Astamon and hiding in there... so Ryouma probably was the hunter who mistreated MetallifeKuwagamon, but it was only kinda his fault because he was being manipulated

and Ryouma wanted to be like Taiki and be strong so much that he didn't even notice he was being manipulated...

the animation right now reminds me of the style of late-series og xros wars, which is a very very bad omen. two xros wars finales sullied by the same shitty key animator

i was right tho, not only has Tagiru taken on the mantle of the hunter who will take down Quartzmon, but he has also taken Taiki's place as the 6th hero

the brave snatcher is unexpectedly heavy, just like the burden of the role of a "hero"

oh yeah and Taiki gave Tagiru his goggles and that's also significant. i just forgot since Tagiru normally wears goggles anyways

well the animation is normal now so maybe it's fine

also just noticed that Quartzmon has a clock motif. and, of course, the majority of modern watches and clocks use a piece of vibrating quartz to keep time...

'i have the data of your teammates. your rival. and this old man you don't really care about.'

Quartzmon absorbing the data of others but still retaining their consciousnesses + the way Tagiru and Arresterdramon are being digested, brings back to mind the ill xrosses that the antagonists would do in og Xros Wars where'd they'd absorb data like this

quartzmon's roots look like the ps2 home menu

it's that forme change again! again it feels like the context surrounding it was cut for time, but it's clear that it's activated by the bonds between him and Tagiru!

AND tagiru chikara is being played as an insert song... awesome

AND HE'S XROSSING ARRESTERDRAMON SUPERIOR WITH THE REMAINS OF THE BRAVE SNATCHER!!

and similar to those past enemy xrosses, the data of his friends is able to still exercise their own will and help defeat Quartzmon from within

& the way the song cuts out as they enter the eerie calmness of where its roots are, the eye of the storm... it's good editing

and they won and the world is fine hooray

it turned into an egg...

and they're in the void

aw man all the digimon are leaving & it doesn't even have the bittersweet "we'll keep improving our respective worlds" feeling as the og xros wars finale, this is just regular sad...

NOOO I DON'T WANT THESE TWO TO HAVE TO SAY GOODBYE......

peace has returned and we can finally play basketball again NO TAGIRU LOOKS SAD

YES REUNION

the. the old watchmaker, was the reincarnation of... Bagramon???? i was kinda wondering how they were justifying xros loaders being handed out willy-nilly since it was established bagramon made them, but i wasn't expecting this.... i was just accepting the discrepancy at face value...

IT WAS A FAKE OUT???

NOT A FAKE OUT???

so some stray Digimon got stuck in the real world

well that's good im glad they can stay together in our hearts and the non-existent post-story

right, so, the closing thoughts… well, i’ll probably elaborate on this more in separate posts, but… i liked this show lot! it may not have nearly as much Plot as most Digimon series do, and it mostly sucks at being a sequel to Xros Wars, but I’m always a fan of the “Digimon are causing trouble in the real world” type of concept and Hunters was no exception! the silly-but-high stakes generally works pretty well, they had fun generic cartoon plots like Restaurant Wars and Diving for Treasure, and I think that Tagiru and Gumdramon’s high energy did actually hold things together! i don’t think the series would have been able to pull off that same kind of “fun” feeling if Taiki had still been the protagonist, for example. i’m not sure if it’s what one might call a ‘good’ show, but I really enjoyed it and had fun watching it, and that’s what matters most!

this is the last liveblog I’ll be doing in this format (i’ve grown to prefer watching episodes in full & then talking about them afterwards), so thanks very much for reading this far!