#mameo (digimon)

[digi-lov]

Analog Youth EX1-066 Alternative Art by Kenji Watanabe from EX-01 Theme Booster Classic Collection

[digimontamerrichie-tcg]

[curedigiqueen]

So digimon has a habit of giving their main protagonists goggles, giving them brown hair, and reptilian digimon. They also often make them heroic big brother types (and quite often literally big brothers… or at least caretakers). But digimon also has a habit of having young female characters with mysterious powers and a holy digimon partner. And sometimes, the two characters are related.

Not always directly, and never really in the same way twice, but often the two characters, when both roles exist, play complementary story roles in some way. Especially as the "Goggle boy/Taichi" archetype is consistently at the center of the story, and "Holy Girl/Hikari" archetype varies in relevance. And to be clear, I'm not trying to break down every character into the basic digimon archetypes, but they do exist and they are kind of useful to look at as a point of comparison.

Of course this all goes back to Digimon Adventure (film), where Taichi and Hikari a brother and sister, take up opposing roles in regards to the digimon situation. While Hikari was originally imagined to not be a digidestined in the future, her fear of the situation after her original acceptance (as opposed to Taichi's suspicion and later cooperation) clouding her perspective, that really isn't want happened in the final product. Hikari was innately drawn to the digital world. She never forgot. The incident is potentially because of her. And where does that leave Taichi? The (relative) normie who was called because of her, but stepped up to the plate as the one everyone turned to, independent of her. Taichi is their leader, Hikari the 8th child. Taichi (and Yamato) get ultimates. Hikari (and Takeru) have Angels that grant them that power. Hikari is innately powerful, but young, and Taichi is powerful to, but in a slower way born of being the first one to do things and push forward. Consistently the first one to evolve. The first and the last. All of that to say that this is sometimes echoed in later digimon. While nothing has quite reached the levels of original Adventure there are still plot lines and sort of story roles that echo that initial storyline.

While Chika doesn't play a major role in Savers, her role as Suguru's other child, her prodigious amounts of Digisoul, and her role welcoming Ikuto and Falcomon (a la Tailmon), clearly aligns her with Hikari. Even if in show she doesn't play a role that engages with that with the priority on her brother, the Taichi archetype, the main character with the agency that drives the plot, she still echoes Hikari with her surprising chillness with digimon, and a fateful encounter with a digiegg that ends violently.

In Cyber Sleuth, Erika is easily a Hikari archetype, and while her big brother is not the Taichi, she is the driving force behind the Hacker's memory plot. Her relationship with Keisuke (the main character, who you play as) in particular is the center of Hacker's Memory. While Keisuke is absolutely a goggle boy, Keisuke isn't a Taichi, he's the Daisuke to Aiba, the real Taichi. Keisuke and Daisuke are less, larger than life ambitious world changers than Taichi and Aiba. The reason I bring this up, is that even though Aiba and Erika never really meet, they are the focal points of both story halves. Aiba is situated at the focal point where Nokia and Arata, and Yuuko reunite. The focal point between the royal knights, the hackers and Kamishiro. Sure Keisuke is the hacker's memory protag, but it's noted he's not very protagy. Erika is the story's focal point, Keisuke her Daisuke, along for the ride, with his own motivations sure, but in the same way Nokia did, and Nokia was ultimately secondary (though also very important, has some Taichi in her). Aiba and Erika are both dying throughout the events of the game as the result of an accident, but also due to the accident now have some special digital skill. It's also important to note that Erika and Aiba's group are the only two groups that had digital encounters to kick this off. They're the only ones who have been to the digital world prior to this whole situation. In reality the 6 of them are this entries only true "chosen children" so to speak. But even that has its precedent, Hikari being separated from the other digidestined in the beginning. Aiba and Erika do not know each other. Their traumas and their resolutions are both different. Aiba's unremembered trauma was resolved by a rescue and reunion. Aiba's "cyberfication" is a death sentence, despite being relatively well off compared to most victims. Erika remembers her parents death and the resolution is separation from her loved ones, the loss of their memories. Her "cyberfication" is ultimately her salvation and allows her to live on when she would otherwise die.

Of course Survive is one big callback. Takuma literally has goggles, the Ta name and an Agumon. He is the groups leader, even when there are older people he's the one whose character guides the other kids, the first to evolve, the strongest. Miyuki has a holy partner and a literal power to transverse worlds, set apart by the others by her different arrival date (though in her case it was early). Now interestingly Takuma and Miyuki are not siblings. Miyuki is for once no ones little sister and is instead an older sister. (Her little brother, ironically being the Gennai archetype). But they are tied together. Takuma is the one who manages to reach Miyuki and they return to the human world, in an echo of Adventure epsiode 21. Miyuki mysteriously provides additional context to the situation, and demonstrates power (Miyuki and her song, Hikari and her references to the first film) No time has changed at all for Takuma since his departure, though unlike Hikari (who time was flowing normally for), 50 years had passed. While both Takuma and Taichi hestiate to leave the digital world, (in most paths), they ultimately do in order to return to their friends, Agumon returning anyway. In Adventure Taichi leaves Hikari behind (with the promise to the audience she'll return soon). Takuma jumps after Miyuki expecting her to be at his side when they return, but her being taken away. But more than that, Akiharu has Gabumon, and together with Takuma forms Omegamon. Now the Yamato analogue is very much Kaito (and Dracmon even has a wolf evo), though Akiharu has a little bit of Yamato in him, a brother protecting his sister, closed off to himself, having undergone a traumatizing incident as a child. But Takuma and Akiharu are the ones who form Omegamon to save Miyuki in the Moral path. Takuma is the one (granted he has different context from the other kids), who actually got to know the real Miyuki. The one who has the most invested in her due to their brief meeting, and the one most invested in saving her, when the others fear she's a lost cause. Conversely, Takuma is the one Miyuki really calls to from the other kids. Takuma is also the one who gets closest to the professor (asides from Shuuji) and gets to start piecing together things, often finding out truths about 50 years ago before the other kids. Aside from Akiharu, Garurumon, Renamon and Miyuki themselves, Takuma is the most involved in that drama. Granted a lot of this is game play, due to being a video game, as with Cyber Sleuth, but it still is worth noting.

Digimon overall as a franchise has a lot of its own archetypes that may be related to common genre archetypes but have their own sort of flavor to them. This is rather typical of franchises like digimon, but I find its still interesting to look at, whether intentional or not. It makes sense that Taichi and Hikari's characters would

[willaeru]

Day 12 of Digitober Trace

The prompt was pretty vague so I just traced over old fanart I did from a year ago from @sinobali couldn't find the ref sadly

[alans-treehouse]

Mameo, reward of January

[brunoferraz13]

[cwgames]

I was surprised to see Mirei here in this story.

[halfling-myth-lady]

digimon fanganronpa? i'm all ears

Okay,so this is in a weird position where it’s finished enough that I can say it’s somewhat done,but it still kinda is very far from completion.

So,bassically all the contestants are the game protagonist and support characters(Masaru and Touma included since they got their own game.) and while I don’t have a proper setting(I feel like a school would fit,but you need some extra context for that that would spoil chapter six) I do have the mascots,of which are monotama (a very mean egg that likes to see people suffer) and Monodramon/Machinedramon(can’t decide whether to make it another mono or just a Machinedramon,also he doesn’t talk)EDIT: I forgot that there was already a monodramon

I don’t have every talent mapped out,so I’m all ears for suggestions on the talents/which talents would be better/funnier:

Izuku fujira(digimon world 1):shsl computer programmer

Age 15 and height is 5’2

Fuck the shitty excuse for a postgame they haven’t been in the digital world since they were nine

Inferior complex

Aroace and closeted nb

The dw got them interested in technology

Has since accepted the dw was just a dream(spoilers:it was not)

Shiki Shishiro(next order):shsl gamer

Age 19 and 5’8

Her,himari,kouta,shoma,and luche are basically besties who do stupid shit and somehow don’t die in the process

Orphanage kid

Lesbiab

This girl is able to take care of two fucking vpets at the same time I think we can all agree on how she got her ultimate

Was...shocked to say the least when she saw Izuku for the first time

Makoto akinaga(ReArise):shsl writer

Age 16 and 5’7

His digital world was shut down

Despite his ultimate,hasn’t published any of his books,having gotten his talent via fanfic(he has written like 30 of them though)

Pan

Didn’t know what to do once his dw was shut down so he just....wrote.

Don’t get fooled by his writing genius,he has like three Braincells and they only work while writing.

Airi takahashi(world ds):shsl errand girl

Age 17 and 6’7

Sweetheart

Had a big fucking growth spurt between world ds and now

Undecided

Just kinda runs errands

Is also pretty damn strong(her sweater hides it though)

Tomomi kozue(world ds):talent not decided

Age 18 and 5’6

Occasionally visits Airi and pagumon

Pretty laid back

Sees kain as pretty immature

Lesbian

Kain Makishi(world ds):shsl trickster

Age 16 and 5’10

Calls all the ds cast his friends with somewhat mocking nicknames to match(albeit they don’t think of him as a friend,even tomomi,everyone’s just annoyed)

Is nicer than he was in ds,but still somewhat arrogant

Bi boy

Just kinda causes trouble

Childhood friends with tomomi

Fuck it,I might have the rest of the cast planned out but through everything and the fact that the fic went from being about 60% finished to about 90% in the span of me writing this,I think you have a pretty solid idea of the cast,but just in case I’ll leave the names in the tags

[nocturnalsleuth]

crocheted/embroidered the face from one of the digimon logos

gonna put a pin backing on it

reference logo under the rm

from the vpet version 20th packaging

[neorukixart]

Digimon Adventure 02: THE BEGINNING countdown! Day 5: Takeru and Patamon

02beginning x Digimon Survive

Next day for @digimon02countdown uwu Did I just put Takeru in the Professor's pose because they wear hats?... ... Yes. Also check out the ugliest Patamon you will ever see ;w; Don't let me draw Patamon ever again OTL also, kinda funny how Takeru with these clothes looks like Mameo from Next Order :3c

The next episode of Digimon Adventure 02, "THE BEGINNING" hits japanese cinemas this October 27th 2023. The gate for a new adventure opens now!

Static version below ;3

Noticed the Mameo thing after I finished coloring this tho XD

[ilikedyourablogithere]

new season new look

Shoto and Owen really look like video game characters in these designs Like maybe there will be a Digimon Liberator game or something

Arisa put on different jacket (Reminds me of Mameo) and I guess wearing all black finally got to Vi

dressed for comfort (she just like me frfr)

And just dang

Dang

Bro really showed up the one time and next thing you know he got turned into a robot?!

ain't that something

looking forward to next season I guess

[digi-lov]

I'm gonna be honest with you... I misread an ask and spent all day yesterday putting way too much effort into the following visuals to respond to an ask, that didn't even exist I guess. Cool cool. Now if that doesn't scream I got a concussion idk what does

So in my brain, I thought I got an ask about what I would like future sets to be based on.

!!! - Spoilers for the evolution lines of Digimon World -next 0rder-, Digimon ReArise, and Digimon Survive, in that order. - !!!

First of all, generally, I'd love more game based sets, especially based on games with relatively large casts of characters and Digimon, to really fill up the set thematically!

Example number one:

Digimon World -next 0rder-

Now, what speaks against this is that most of these Digimon have been featured in the Card Game before, many of them thoroughly. But I feel like we will always keep getting cards if franchise favorites like Agumon, Guilmon & co., so I'd appreciate at least the variety in Tamers.

What I'd like out of a next 0rder set would definitely be another Mastemon, especially since despite Mirei and her Angewomon and LadyDevimon having been featured in the Re:Digitize focused set BT-11 Dimensional Phase, there was no new Mastemon. (I get it, Mastemon wasn't in the game, but come one, I mean-)

Also would love to see Analog Youth / Hiro / Mameo return! I feel like they could do interesting stuff with him. Luche also has potential for some special mechanics.

I highly doubt they'll create a new Digimon, but with official art featuring Shiki with Biyomon and Palmon instead of Agumon and Gabumon, I always wanted to have a Fusion of their ultimates, like Omegamon!

Next up,

Digimon ReArise!

Now this, this would be great. Not only will I personally jump at any chance for more Bearmon- this game had a large cast of characters, with quite a few uncommon evolutions, as well as completely new Digimon! And don't we all want more people to learn about NoblePumpmon?

Third example,

Digimon Survive

I feel like there is a lot of potential in a Survive themed set. I'd really love for all these characters to get Tamer cards! While I only have the basic evolution lines in my graphic, with there being branching paths for Takuma and a few other characters, this could easily fill a set! Even though Agumon, Gabumon, Lopmon and Renamon are pretty common and popular, there are many "unusual" Partners as well. I'd love to have a good Floramon card finally, as well as Ceresmon Medium!

What are your thoughts?

[firstagent]

Digimon Top Tamer Tournament: Video Game/Manga FINAL

The championship comes down to this!

Aoi's path took her through Shuuji, Keito from Re:Arise, Next Order's Himari, Mameo, and Takuma.

Nokia ran through Date, Miu, Keisuke, Saki, and V-Tamer Taichi to get here.

[curedigiqueen]

Playing next 0rder for the first time. I'm having an absolute blast. But I also know that knowing what I was getting myself into before hand is probably a huge portion of it. I've watched playthroughs of the original World, and review videos, as well as a playthrough of next 0rder itself and Re:Digitize. And also just knowing about how de-evolution is a near constant in this franchise probably also helps. I definitely probably couldn't recommend it cold, because who in their right mind would intuitively know that the cycle of "restarting" is part of the appeal and progress is marked more by the progress of the city than your monsters, which in turn helps you get better at raising your monsters. But as someone who also enjoys her 20th anniversary Digimon V-Pet this is just the same thing but faster with more options. It's great. Anyway the characters may not be super in depth (which is fine I'm here for my digimon partners and helping them grow big and strong). But Himari, despite her limited characterization has my attention. She's her sister's primary caregiver? It also feels like her sisters are her only family to her, she probably has a dad who in true anime dad fashion is busy with work. But she still acted like she was leaving her sisters completely alone, so what degree of responsibility is she taking on for her sisters. Definitely being parentified to an extent but to what extent? Does she have a proper support network? Also the wording "doesn't have a mom" could be anything. Is she dead? Digimon's never shied away from that before, so why wouldn't they just say it. Did her mom leave, or is the vagueness just to leave it to imagination? Also her sisters are 2nd graders? So, 7 or 8, which means they would have been babies at the time of the tournament 7 years ago. Was the tournament a last happy memory for her before, whatever left her motherless happened? I'm definitely overthinking it but there is just enough character there to be interesting enough for me to chew on for a bit. Also "Mameo" being a teacher is great. He really showed up trying to do his protaganist thing and then now has to mentor these new teen protags when he's been doing this since he was younger than them, for as long as they've been alive. So now he's basically this old wisened mentor despite being in like. His early 30s at most. And also it contrasts with analogman. An adult man who is the only human there with experience with the digital world. Mameo grew from an analogboy into a more benevolent analogman of sorts.

[willaeru]

OG for comparison

[awyeahobscuregaming]

Obscura #6: Digimon World 1

Digimon world 1 is a game I have a massive love for, and the content within it is janky but lovable. But, despite the cast of Digimon you can obtain, there's actually a few cut digimon!

Digimon world 1 is a game I have a massive love for, being a game I actually own and have beaten a couple of times. Digimon world 1 is a game that lets you raise your own Digimon. You must train your digimon, care for it properly, and explore the world and recruit people to your town! They help in a variety of ways, from item storages, hospitals, diners, an arena, all helping make the world easier to traverse!

There's a rather small selection of Digimon to obtain through evolutions, this here being the screen showing you all the digimon that exist within the game (after digivolving into them, of course.)

However, did you know within the gamefiles, there's some extra digimon not implemented in the game? They are, MetalEtemon, Gigadramon, and Panjyamon (Or IceLeomon).

However, two extra digimon exist with no models, those two would be Kaminarimon, and WereGarurumon! (I had no idea what Kaminarimon was and had to look them up for the sake of providing an image. They've not made any appearances at all, so it's surprising they were even thought to be in this game!)

All of these digimon have digivolution items as well! Meaning these were all cut rather late in development. These items are the MetalBanana, Noble Mane, Giga Hand, Electro Ring, and Moon Mirror.

That being said, to those wondering why WereGarurumon was cut and not prioritized to be put in, this game came out before the Anime! An interesting extra tidbit, is the english voice actor for Mameo is Mona Marshall, also voices Izzy from that anime!

Extra ---------------------------------------- Deepest apologies for disappearing for so long! I meant to make new posts, but I got a little sidetracked and accidentally forgot about making posts for this blog!

Credits ------------------------------------------------------------

Tcrf.com (For images of the cut digimon models & the items!)