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digitaldreams0801 · 3 months ago

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How the Production Problems of Digimon Adventure Tri Directly Parallel the Issues of Ace Attorney Dual Destinies

i lied. put your clothes back on. we're talking about why digimon adventure tri is the worst thing to happen to the digimon franchise (and how its problems directly parallel ace attorney dual destinies and spirit of justice)

this is a very long rant i typed in a discord server first but it’s something i’ve been thinking for years and i finally put it into words. everybody clap and cheer. (contains very negative opinions toward tri and lukewarm takes on adventure 2020 and ghost game, proceed at your own peril)

let’s talk about digimon tri and ace attorney dual destinies

so first and foremost, what exactly *is* digimon adventure tri?? digimon tri is the seventh-ish season of the digimon anime that released from 2015-2018. despite running for over three years, this show has twenty-six episodes that were split up into six movies and then divided into twenty-six episodes again. that alone should tell you how much of a struggle the production was, but when i tell you this anime might have had the most troubled development of any anime i have ever seen, i fucking MEAN IT. digimon tri is a disaster.

so to start, it's time for a history lesson. digimon adventure aired for around a year in 1999-2000. it was going to be a standalone anime, but it was extended into a second season known as digimon adventure zero two (the zero two standing for 2002, the year the series takes place in). the second season follows the youngest of the first season cast forming a new team of six for adventures in the digital world. the original digimon adventure was universally beloved as one of the best anime of the 90's and early 2000's, but zero two was received a bit less well. it was a bit of a divisive season with some people really loving it and others not so much. personally i adore zero two and think people's adventure nostalgia keeps them from acknowledging how good zero two is. but that's beside the point. after zero two, the team behind digimon decided to start from scratch and make an entirely new cast of characters going forward, so the series began to follow that pattern going forward, and no season after this save for adventure follow-ups have characters shared with another season

digimon tamers was the next season and it started airing in 2001. the first thing people noticed about tamers is that it is a MASSIVE departure in tone from adventure and zero two. the first two seasons were already surprisingly dark for kids' shows, but tamers in my eyes just. flat out is not for children. this is a horror anime they put under the digimon name. it's very beloved by the fan base now and is known as one of the best seasons of digimon but at the time it was known for scaring kids and generally being terrifying. so the series is starting its decline going into 2002

so to fix this, the next season is the black sheep of the franchise: digimon frontier. i could write an entire paper about the problems in digimon frontier but to put it simply this is the digimon season i have rewritten in excruciating detail. digimon frontier tried something radically different at the time and tried to capture the child audience once again by being a lot more episodic than the last three seasons. in the end frontier struggled a lot with maintaining a consistent quality and fluctuates massively from being amazing to being really bad. frontier being so radically different by taking away partner digimon and instead having the main cast turn into digimon was a massive turn off for a lot of people, and after frontier ended, the digimon anime ended, and the so-called "golden era" of digimon came to a close with the last episode of frontier airing in 2003

after a few years' hiatus, the next digimon season, savers, aired in 2006, and it was very clearly targeting a teen audience. it was also radically different from most other seasons and was most in line with tamers, though even that isn't really a perfect comparison. it has a radically different art style, departs from series tradition by making the characters mid to late teens instead of in the 10-13 range, and is very intense in very strange ways. like the main character just punches digimon. savers was a very strange anime and definitely a second wind but not quite the one the franchise needed to keep going, so the anime went back on hiatus after savers ended in 2007

after another few years, we got digimon xros wars, the longest season of digimon. i say season?? it's one season of 79 episodes split up into three parts. xros wars was a return to form with tween main characters and an overarching story that was nowhere near as intense as tamers or savers. xros wars was radically different because it involved fusing digimon instead of straight evolution, and out of all the digimon seasons, it feels the most like the one made to sell toys. this season was picked up by nickelodeon internationally if that's any indication of how much of a success they thought it was going to be. in practice though?? the third and final part of xros wars went out on a whimper and was so bad it didn't even air internationally. digimon was just falling out of favor with people, and an anime that had once been so good that it was competing with and even *beating* pokemon in ratings and views was now having a hard time getting a season off the ground in japan, much less internationally

and that is where digimon tri comes in. digimon tri was an attempt to recapture the golden era of digimon with its most popular and universally beloved season: the original digimon adventure from 1999. tri was announced as a fifteenth anniversary project, and it would bring back the adventure cast for the first time in fifteen years. this was the first red flag though: it was bringing back the *adventure* cast, not the zero two cast. there are four new characters who join the party in zero two, and they are all very significant. there are two characters who carry over from adventure to zero two, and to be quite honest with you, they are closer with the zero two cast than the adventure cast. like takeru has a much stronger connection with the zero two cast than he did with the adventure cast. but all four characters from zero two were suspiciously absent from all promotional material, and even as fans asked where they were, their questions were never answered. they were just *gone,* and nobody knew why. this is especially bizarre since zero two is very much an extension of adventure. like you can watch adventure alone but it is much stronger with zero two and zero two is the definitive ending of the story. so why the fuck were they ignoring the ending they had set to to their own story??

sighs loudly. the director. i hate this man. i have beef with him. his name is keitaro motonaga, and in cloud's words, he should sleep with one eye open because i am coming for him. so motonaga did this super cool thing called "directing tri without ever watching the source material." ...what? yes, you read that right: the director of tri had *never seen* the original adventure nor zero two. he was going off what i can only describe as a spark notes description of everything that happened. the original adventure was very heavily focused on the subversion of common anime tropes. the ditzy popular girl is the most emotionally genuine. the oldest is the most irresponsible, and the youngest is the most put together. even the two "rivals" aren't *really* rivals when it comes down to it. digimon adventure takes a lot of anime tropes and stereotypes and flips them on their head to make very deep and compelling characters. so when you're operating on a spark notes understanding of the story, you're going to fall back on those tropes, and that is *exactly* what the director did. rather than watch the source material and become acquainted with these characters and their relationships, he operated off stereotypes the characters were made to subvert and completely butchered them in the process. taichi and yamato were always at each other's throats when they were genuinely friends in adventure. mimi became overly mean and insensitive. jyou stepped *back* from a character beat in adventure in a major way that ruined him. in trying to play to nostalgia, digimon tri completely forgot what made all of these characters so great in the first place and then spat on it

i know you're wondering: why the *fuck* did the director not watch the source material? he thought it would "dampen" and "ruin" his creative vision. he shouldn't have even been adapting a media he knew nothing about, but there he was, and it was bad. since he only got the spark notes for adventure, he ignored zero two entirely and cut the characters out of the plot. in fact, various things meant to invoke zero two nostalgia were done solely for the sake of "rule of cool" and nostalgia instead of actually meaning anything. none of it made any fucking sense. there were others on the project who had other ideas of what the story could have been--ideas that actually made sense in line with the spirit of adventure and zero two--but they were shot down in the name of the creative vision of a man who had never seen nor engaged with the source material. keitaro motonaga went on to get a massive reputation in the anime scene after tri ended for doing this with multiple adaptation projects of his: ignoring the source material for the sake of a creative vision that made no sense. it was overall fucking atrocious

and you can tell it was bad because in japan, they generally don't let the audience know when production is going bad on the back end of something. however with tri, it was bad enough to be addressed multiple times in many ways, and i'm sure that what we know is only the tip of the iceberg. it was a disaster from start to finish. i know a lot of people joke about production disasters but sincerely this was fucking atrocious and i hate it from the bottom of my heart

while tri was airing, it was being released internationally. it actually got international support unlike the traditional season airing at the same time: appmon. out of the two, appmon is *much* better, and it's a return to form for the franchise. i would argue that appmon is much more deserving of the golden era than frontier. appmon is amazing, but because it always had to compete with tri for attention, it never truly got off the ground in japan, much less internationally where it didn't even get official subs until YEARS after the fact. appmon was much more deserving of the spotlight and was actually written well but didn't get jack shit because tri was the adventure thing and therefore drew in people for nostalgia. hindsight is 20/20 though because if they had marketed appmon, maybe toei wouldn't have to bitch all the time about digimon not going well. this is your own damn fault you dipshits

tri has been panned by both japanese and western fans for a lot of reasons. it's heartless slop meant to prey on a person's nostalgia for adventure, and it has none of the heart of its predecessors. it's clumsily written and overall a poor exploration of what an older cast for adventure would get up to. the plot doesn't make sense, and it's a train wreck from beginning to end. the director wanted it to be "mature," so the season is unnecessarily dark and edgy much to its detriment. the creative vision of "maturity" and darkness completely ignored the fact that the original adventure and zero two *were* mature anime with very deep character development. they're classics for a damn reason, but they were pushed aside for the sake of being more "mature." fans panned tri for feeling insulting to their intelligence, like toei thought they would eat up anything as long as it had the digimon name attached to it

and it backfired like all hell. because nobody wanted *anything* to do with tri after it ended. when it ended, it was without any ceremony to speak of. it was 26 episodes split into six movies and then back into 26 episodes again, and it took over three years to release. it had more than double the release time window of appmon, and it had *half* the episodes of appmon. it's not like the tri was an animated spectacle or anything either. in movie four, the budget goes off a fucking cliff and never recovers. appmon may have had shaky animation at times, but it hit it out of the park where it count. tri has a color grading problem in its last two movies, and it's impossible to make out anything that happens in the finale because of it. things happen without reason, the characters have been obliterated completely, and the story makes no fucking sense. everyone was RELIEVED when tri ended, but it was such a massive failure that the digimon anime went on hiatus for ages after it ended, and for a while, everyone thought it would never come back

and when it did?? toei was trying to recoup the losses from tri the best it could. tri was purged from almost all digimon media, relegated to background cameos in future digimon media at most. nobody wanted to talk about tri to the point that when a sequel movie set after tri (last evolution kizuna) was released in 2020, tri was completely ignored. kizuna focuses on the zero two cast to overcompensate for the fact that they were completely absent from tri. the zero two cast even got a new movie last year (the beginning) all their own to try and make it up to fans that they were gone. the adventure timeline has continued, but tri has been entirely excluded from it aside from a few brief snapshots in the background of kizuna and the beginning. nobody wants to remember this anime existed despite it being a part of the main anime's timeline between zero two and kizuna. it hasn't been outright retconned but it might as well have been

after tri, toei decided to play it safe again. they went for an adventure reboot as the next season, and thus, digimon adventure psi (or adventure: or adventure 2020, it has a million names) was born. adventure 2020 is just,,, mediocre. it's a lot more focused on the spectacle of big fight scenes now that the digimon anime has a budget to speak of, and the character growth took a backseat. adventure 2020 took a long time to get dubbed though. like over two years. and it's still very inaccessible to this day because it's not available on any streaming service but instead (reads smudged writing on hand) available on the play station store where you can buy every individual episode out of 67. adventure 2020 is the second longest season of the anime after xros wars but it's still kind of a nothing burger because it fails to capture the emotional heart of adventure 1999. it's a fine enough season but a lot of people lost interest when it turned into just a fight compilation instead of developing any of its characters in a meaningful way

adventure 2020 also saw the continuation of a big problem with tri which was favoritism. since both adventrue 2020 and tri were meant to be franchise revivals in their own ways, they play it very safe and focus on taichi and yamato almost exclusively to the point of ignoring many of the other characters. the problem is at its worst in adventure 2020 in my eyes even though it is present in every season to some extent or another save for tamers and appmon. since adventure 2020 focused on two characters and their fighting capabilities while kind of shelving the other six, it fell into the pitfalls of past seasons (especially frontier and xros wars) and kind of ended without anyone really caring about it

after adventure 2020, the final season of the digimon anime was ghost game. this one is the most episodic digimon season of the bunch to try and appeal to a casual audience, and i think it does that very well! unfortunately it doesn't really develop its overarching plot at a good pace and crams everything together into the last five episodes after having a run time of over fifty episodes before that. ghost game is fine, but it's not a character driven season because of its heavy reliance on the monster of the week structure. the characters were always the draw of digimon, and each season has its own method of going about developing its characters. ghost game,,, doesn't do that! so it's just kind of there, and it once again ended without a grand finale and no one really cared much that it was over

so in conclusion, digimon tri was meant to be the revival of the digimon anime. in practice though, it had a very troubled production and didn't give a damn at all about the suorce material it was meant to follow, and it fell flatter than any other digimon season in the process. tri soured a lot of people's opinions on digimon, which is ironic since tri was supposed to bring back the audience that was lost all the way back when zero two aired in 2000. the digimon anime has not recovered since then, and i think outright ignoring tri in favor of new projects is the best way to go

now for how this ties in with ace attorney dual destinies and spirit of justice! i feel like you can figure out where the parallels are just by reading through everything i've already said, but i'm going into it anyway. ace attorney's popularity started to fall off after the original trilogy ended, and after a few experimental entries (aa4 and the aai games), it was decided that they needed something to bring the old audience back. that wound up being bringing phoenix back into the courtroom for dual destinies. however, dual destinies tries to act as an entry point, so while it's not the same as deliberately ignoring everything that came before it, it has the same effect. dual destinies does not let itself reference anything that happened before it released, and that means it's relying on nostalgia without actually digging into what implications the story will have on the greater narrative. the no-spoiler rule ends up very similar to the tri director's refusal to watch the original digimon adventure and zero two. on top of that, dual destinies tries to tackle darker, more mature themes, completely forgetting the maturity of the storytelling that came before it. frustratingly enough, both dual destinies and tri have nuggets of gold in them, but they're squandered by bad plot points and also reusal of old plots. tri's entire premise is actually just the basis of the first movie for zero two. it's just hurricane landing again but stretched out for closer to ten hours instead of just one. similarly, dual destinies' finale follows a very similar premise to the end of the first game, but it reenacts it without understanding what made the original great. it *could* have been great though, and that is ultimately what frustrates me so much about both of them. they're so close to being amazing, but they just fall short

the difference between ace attorney and digimon though is that digimon did not double down. after tri didn't work, they yanked the wheel in the opposite direction and made kizuna, a movie that *is* narratively cohesive with adventure and zero two. i'm not a huge fan of kizuna but i do acknowledge that it is very well written. ace attorney, on the other hand, doubled the fuck down and made spirit of justice in the same vein as dual destinies. in doing so, they wrote themselves into a corner they now can't get out of. pandering to nostalgia fell short in the end, and it wasn't enough to truly bring ace attorney to a wider audience as they had hoped. apollo is out of the plot, and he was character assassinated before he was pushed out. athena has been sidelined because of nostalgia around phoenix specifically. spirit of justice is the epitome of the bad decisions made in dual destinies, and they're blowing up in capcom's faces now. there's no easy way to write a seventh ace attorney game now without retconning something, but since they doubled down in spirit of justice--a game that is much worse than dual destinies both in terms of bloat (which is also a tri problem lol) and writing--they can't just quietly escape it the way digimon did with kizuna and the beginning. ace attorney hasn't come out with a new mainline game in eight years. if you ask me, it needs to cut its losses and either a) go the appmon route of making something entirely different since dgs did that and was an amazing game just like appmon was an amazing anime or b) figure out what to retcon and what to keep because going down the same path of spirit of justice very clearly is not working. they realized it too late though, and now, they're in trouble for it

#digimon adventure #digimon #digimon adventure zero two #digimon zero two #digimon tri #digimon adventure tri #ace attorney #ace attorney dual destinies #ace attorney spirit of justice #dual destinies #spirit of justice #when i find the director of tri i will have to fight him in a denny's parking lot #same for the people who wrote dual destinies #screaming into my pillow as we speak

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digimon-retro · 1 year ago

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Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers (1998 - Sega Saturn - Bandai)

#digimon #sega saturn #90s retro

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digi-lov · 1 year ago

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Bandai Card Game Next Plan Presentation

Summary and pictures under cut

It starts off with some info we mostly know

EX-06 Infernal Ascension

Point.01 - the set features the Three Great Angels and the Seven Great Demon Lords. The cards that hadn't been revealed prior, were posted shortly after the stream as well.

Point.02 - Ogudomon will be debut as a SECret rare in this set.

Point.03 - RagnaLordmon and Mastemon sneak peak! They will have Blast Jogress/DNA Evolution in this set!

BT-17 Secret Crisis

The Set will release in Japan on March 29th.

Point.01 - Character and Digimon from the Movies will appear!

Point.02 - The first alternative Win Condition for the Digimon Card Game! TLDR: (If 4 [Clock of the End]s are placed in your battle area, you win the game.)

Point.03 - Secret rare is the Greymon from the first movie!

Point.04 - Box Topper Pack

LM-03 Limited Card Set 2024

This set will release March 2nd in Japan. It'll contain 6 new Ace Digimon and Option cards of each color!

Digimon Liberator

Reveal of the Digimon Liberator Promotion Pack Ver.1! The Characters are Shoto Kazama and Pteromon, and Arisa Kinosaki and Shoemon! Pteromon, Galemon, Shoemon and ShoeShoemon have also been added to the Digimon Reference Book.

Event cards

Alternative Arts for Lighdramon, Fladramon and Magnamon for the Evolution Cup

Tamer Battle Participation Pack (Japanese)

Alternative Arts for the new Regulation Battle

#digimon #digimon tcg #digimon card game #digisafe #digica #デジカ #digimon tcg news

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eriisaam · 20 days ago

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Meet Jase "Sparrow" Yoshino: The Futuristic Summoner

World of origin: World of Digimon (World of Steel adjacent to the Digital World)

Supports: Ephrel, Chrom, Robin (male), Lyon

Before her, there was another summoner. Before they were a summoner, they were a digimon tamer first. In their life prior to being isekai'd into Zenith and becoming a summoner, they had an account with which it was attached to ownership of a designated space in the vast servers of the Digital World, with which to hand-rear and train up digimon of all sorts, so they can grow, evolve, and be capable enough to set out on their own, should the tamer choose to let them chart their own course to what the rest of the server had to offer them. Alternatively, digimon may opt instead to remain around the farm with which they grew most of their strength from, returning the favor through the service in their powers, the protection from their strength, or for some, establishing a bond as a proper partner to the tamer outright.

But with that summoner lay a whole other story, one that came prematurely to a violent and grief-charged end, and a story to unfold far and well later into Sparrow's own tenure as a summoner of her own, but from the start, she was only given the faint and scattered pieces of a messy and guilt-ridden whole to catch up to.

When that summoner died, their estate as a digimon tamer remained abandoned and unattended in their absence, tied to an account under the handle name of 'Sparrow', but with little else whom the digimon of that estate could do, other than wait and wonder of where their tamer went.

Through a glitch in the cached data, a turn of the wheel of fate, or simply pure dumb luck, that estate found a new owner, and a new tamer, who chose to resume where the previous tamer left off, as opposed to delete everything and start anew, as they would've originally been entitled to.

Prior to becoming a summoner, or even a tamer, Jase was a middle daughter among three. Always too young to stand out or be trusted with anything like her older and clearly-more-capable sister in Tess, and in the same breath too old to be immature or set a bad example to her younger sister in Elaine. No matter which direction, she failed to live up to expectations from the start, and so held little regret or thought to stray away from her family at the first opportunity, though charged on ahead with proverbially clipped wings and no support whatsoever. Her attempts to carve her own path were as middling as her life up to that point: Enough to get by, but slips and falls short of a breakthrough she could practically feel slip away as she slides back on her way down. All from a person too meek, too unassuming, too boring, and too easily overshadowed in the ongoings of a busy and demanding world.

The point where she felt otherwise for the first time was with a program she initially took as just a simple mobile game, and whom the AI assistant attached to it had immediately set her up to dip knee deep into a new hobby: digimon taming. Perhaps a bit too immediate, as it became readily apparent that the AI assistant, Hina, had offered her, not a blank slate and digi-farm of her own, but that of the quiet and dormant remains of what was left behind, to the previous handle of 'Sparrow'.

Initially, she felt guilty taking over for what was clearly someone else's hard work and save file of sorts. She reasoned she could use it as a springboard to get used to learning the basics, and perhaps later on she can make a proper attempt of her own afterwards in this 'game'. But, the digimon present clearly cared a lot about their tamer - not just their previous one, but their new one they recognized in Jase's care after - and in a game of establishing bonds, and being treated with monsters willing to open up and return it with their own bonds in kind, it was hard not to get easily attached to what was already here, enough so that she eased into, and eventually adopted the moniker of 'Sparrow' outright, like a widespread nickname of sorts.

She cared for the digimon to the best of her ability, even through the ups and downs, even through the triumphs and tragedies, and even in the face of a rogue pair of dragonic digimon whose very basis of their species threatened the stability of the server whom the house of Sparrow remained on, until the combined force of both Sparrow and Hina overcame the threat of a total server wipe, but regrettably at the cost of Hina herself, a cost Sparrow only realized the full weight of only well after Hina committed to her choice to see her plan through, and only admitted post-humorously in an email she postmarked ahead of time, well after she knew she would die.

Hina's death had marked a turning point that snowballed Sparrow's life in directions far more rippling than either of them would anticipate. Prior to being 'Hina' as she was, she was the remnant of data left over from a previously-deceased digimon: Of all beings, one of the three partners of the fallen summoner who originally owned the estate, and the only one of the three to have been killed.

The second death of this digimon - however far-removed she may have been from one as 'Hina' then - became a signal to the remaining two partners that became a beacon of sorts toward finding Sparrow. Through that beacon, they found the estate left behind suddenly bustling with life once more, helped under a new tamer, and co-managed alongside Sparrow's own true partner, a renamon named Lerena, who quickly found audience with an angewomon and ladydevimon, Angelique and Devinia (or simply Angie and Devi respectively).

And through the previous two partners of the technical previous 'Sparrow', they inadvertently also led the primary cause of what killed their previous tamer and summoner directly to Sparrow with them, and only realized such too late.

The previous summoner, Ephrel, was a road paved in death, reincarnation, and a very messy tale that started with them being a summoner, continued with them being a tactician in Ylisse, and ended in a death of the body and a second death of the soul. In between that lay a long body count of regret and despair, as the World of Awakening with which Ephrel was derailed at was infested with a threat it shouldn't have, were ill-prepared for, and ultimately collapsed under the weight of: The ancient enemy of the ancestors of the original digimon, the kenzoku.

They were creatures whom the digimon - back when they were originally a race of youkai known as the kemonogami, had fought countless wars against through various points in history that became the latest 'spark' between what awoken these ancient horrors this time, versus the digimon of that era having to come together once more to match up against them.

Somehow, through context neither Ephrel, nor Sparrow, nor even Chrom would learn the full extent of until well into Book V, the kenzoku had returned, were funneled into an iteration of the World of Awakening, and not only led to a long and brutal end that killed Chrom's world, but nearly still tried to kill Chrom himself even after, chasing him through the end of his world, his escape into the digital world, and now immediately realized of the estate Ephrel left behind as 'Sparrow I' and set sights on their successor next.

Before realizing they led the kenzoku straight at her, they attacked swiftly and fiercely, and nearly killed Sparrow on the spot. The only reason they didn't instantly kill her - as close as they came - was to use her to exploit Chrom's humanity and empathy. When they couldn't flush out Chrom directly, nor entirely stomp info out of Angie, Devi, or even Lerena likewise, they instead lured him out with a nearly-dead girl - one who eerily held a fairly close resemblance to the tactician he loved and held so dear prior to their death - and baited him out to try to finish him off.

They succeeded in luring Chrom out of the Digital World he was cast in by Freyja, and lured him further into Sparrow's actual ruined home in her World of Steel, through a corridor of blood and shattered belongings and clear evidence of the fight Sparrow tried to put up, feeble as she was.

What they didn't anticipate, however, was not just Chrom's tenacity, but how he post-humorously inherited the title of summoner from his late spouse, and in the brutal battle to try to fight for Sparrow's life - a fight she couldn't retain her consciousness long enough to remember - Chrom barely fought for their lives alongside his late partner's digimon, through grew desperate and grief-stricken at the realization he might have to watch another person - one who so painfully reminded him of his spouse - die in his arms despite his efforts so soon after the sacrifice of his original spouse.

His grief, and the events to follow had led him and Sparrow to be pulled into Zenith - the same Zenith that Ephrel originally served as summoner prior to their first death. With how Sparrow came so close to nearly actually dying, Breidablik, in a surprise show of panic, also immediately summoned another summoner and another iteration of Breidablik in anticipating her own replacement: Xiliang. Despite everything, Sparrow was immediately rescued upon not just the chaos that ensued of the way Breidablik behaved so erratically following the death of one summoner, the almost-death of another, and the sudden pulling of a third and fourth (the one after Xiliang being his sister, Suming), but the realization this Zenith weirdly attached itself to a different Zenith, and with it, a different set of summoners who immediately jumped at the task to save Sparrow's life.

What nearly killed her became a turning point that pioneered a lot of her eventual service to Askr as summoner, as unusual a connection as she had to not just Ephrel, but Xiliang and Suming likewise. As nervous and skittish as she was, when she wasn't at the literal brink of death, she was surprisingly eager and full of moxie. A pure go-getter who jumped at the chance of free magic healthcare an opportunity to learn healing magic that soon became the grassroots to her eventual approach to magic in general. Suddenly, the digimon she originally grew attached to, even as NPCs, were not just pixelated characters, but tangible creatures who actually could directly approach and react to her, chief among them her renamon whom heavily took her role seriously upon filling the void of a 'big sister' in the harsh absence of Sparrow's actual sisters. She might not be built like a tank like Erin, or have much in the way of intimidation like her supports or friends both in general, but what started as a long and self-reflective journey of hers of trying to fill in the void Ephrel left behind had suddenly steered in a new direction of finding herself instead, especially once Ephrel came back and dissuaded the idea of Sparrow being simply their replacement.

At last, she found direction and purpose with her life, as chaotic as the path she eventually took went, following her absolute swan-dive into the world of kitsune magic under Lerena's guidance.

#Summoner OC Sparrow #Summoner OC #FEH OC #Fire Emblem Heroes #FEH #World of a Golden Fate #Suddenly lore #Erii draws things

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marshallpupfan · 5 months ago

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Did you used to have any other favorite shows before Paw Patrol and before Marshall became your number 1 favorite animated character, did you used to have any other favorite characters from any other TV show or movie?

I can certainly name a few favorite TV shows of mine from over the years. Some of these are pretty old nowadays, but I believe they can still be found on streaming services and whatnot.

One that comes to mind right away is "Looney Tunes". The originals, not the newer stuff like "The Looney Tunes Show" or the modern "Looney Tunes Cartoons". These were made back in the 30's, 40's and 50's, and though they released in theaters first, it might as well be considered a TV show nowadays.

In any case, I've been a huge fan of these shorts for as long as I can remember. In fact, I still watch them quite often to this day! Most of them are classics, with a wide variety of wonderful characters, memorable plots, delightful cartoon slapstick and violence, among other things. I don't think I'll ever outgrow them... heck, even my own parents still watch them (we often watch them together, actually).

Here's another I used to watch a ton a long time ago. It's an anime from 2001 called "Digimon Tamers". I practically fell in love with this one as a kid, and I remembered even trying to record every single episode to make sure I'd always have it. One reason behind this is... well, someone I'll talk about later on in this post. Beyond that, I just found the overall story really interesting, especially when compared to the previous two ("Adventure" and "Adventure 02"). It had memorable characters, too. It was just really good all around!

I'll admit, I'm not much for superhero stuff, but Justice League, and its sequel, Justice League: Unlimited, were both so entertaining. I haven't seen the show in numerous years, yet I still think about most of its episodes from time to time. They were just so memorable, thanks to smart and mature writing, numerous moments that still surprise me to this very day, etc. However, I'm not sure I can recommend it to too many of my followers here, since some of you might not like how serious it can get. Here's a good example, if anyone's curious to see what I'm talking about. If you're not bothered by this kind of stuff and/or can look past it, the whole thing's a great watch!

One last one for now, and it's finally something that's not too old! While I haven't seen every season of Regular Show, I thought the first two seasons were simply brilliant. Anyone who's seen this one no doubt remembers "send it to the moon", "summertime lovin', lovin in the summertime", "my mom", among so many other memorable lines and such. I enjoyed it so much, it's one of the few cartoons I tracked down on Blu-Ray (the first two seasons, anyway). It's crazy in all the best ways. Hm, hm, hm!

Now, as for favorite characters...

I'll admit, I've had so many over the years. In fact, at one point, I considered it somewhat of a hobby to keep track of them all and even list them on some of my social media sites (that was some time ago, on accounts unrelated to this one, and said lists no longer exist now). I won't go into all of them, but I can list quite a few!

RJ the raccoon, from Dreamworks' "Over the Hedge". He's just a fun, smooth-talking character who's quite entertaining to watch. He was really high up my list for the longest time, and while that's not so true anymore, I'm still quite the fan of him (and the movie, itself).

Impmon, from the aforementioned "Digimon Tamers". Anyone who's into Digimon certainly knows about him, and how he easily became the show's most complex character. I don't want to spoil everything, since his journey is legit great, but Impmon starts out as someone who's not so friendly, but he slowly warms up to the good guys little-by-little... until something happens that leaves him completely and utterly humiliated. With his ego smashed and desperate for power, he makes a deal with one of the villains, who grants him exactly what he wants, under the condition he goes after the heroes. Despite doing some terrible stuff, he's spared, and he ends up realizing all the horrible mistakes he's made and then tries to do his best to make up for all the harm he's caused. To be honest, my description here really doesn't do him justice, so it's really something you need to check out yourself. Most fans will happily admit it's easily a big highlight of the whole Digimon franchise.

He's arguably one of the best Digimon characters, period. His journey is memorable, and I really found myself rooting for the character and hoping he'd turn out okay in the end. Honestly, he still remains one of my biggest favorites to this day.

Bolt, from Disney's "Bolt". This isn't one of their better movies, but I still think Bolt, himself is pretty darn great... and cute, too. Much like Impmon, I just really liked his journey, from a dog who believed the TV show he starred in was real, to coming to terms with just who and what he really is. Again, I don't wish to spoil it for those who haven't seen it, but it's pretty good... and quite touching, if you ask me. Special shout out to the part when Bolt just takes in life by letting the rain drop on his face for the first time... it's easily a favorite moment of mine, and cemented just how much I came to love the character.

If you haven't seen Bolt, I certainly recommend it! And Bolt, himself... he's a pretty cool pup. A good boy, for sure.

Panchito Pistoles, a Disney character who first appeared in the 1944 animated movie "The Three Caballeros". No doubt some of you might recognize him more from the 2018 "Legend of the Three Caballeros".

There's actually not a whole lot I can say about him, in terms of any sort of character development and whatnot. Truth is, along with his excellent design, I just flat out love this wacky character. He's always so full of energy, and as such, he's just so crazy entertaining. I won't say he's one of the best Disney characters or anything, but he's someone that always gives me a big smile when he shows up.

Hokey Wolf, a character from some really old Hanna-Barbera cartoons. (He's the one on the right, btw.)

I'll admit, most folks probably haven't heard of this character. You won't see him much nowadays, and I think he's only been in the background of a few Jellystone! episodes. Despite that, he's, in my opinion, a rather memorable character, at least in the older cartoons that introduced him. Much like RJ, he's another smooth talker, which in hindsight, seems to be a trait that I like. It just makes characters like him a lot of fun to watch, especially if they can pull off whatever they'd planned. Beyond that, I also really like his design. Admittedly, I took an interest in wolves because of him, and I even thought about getting into making my own animations due to Hokey, too. The character became a bit special to me, I suppose you could say.

Going back to Looney Tunes, many of its characters became favorites of mine, too. The one on the left, Charlie Dog, is the star of some of my favorite shorts, including the one in which he goes on about how great of a dog he is because he's [apparently] numerous breeds in one (50% pointer, 50% boxer, 50% sitter... Irish sitter, 50% watch dog, 50% spits, 50% Doberman Pincher, but he's "mostly" all Labrador Retriever). He's always looking for a master, and though he can be a little too pushy, his attempts at trying to look appealing as "man's best friend" never cease to amuse me.

And then there's Bugs Bunny, who is probably the very first character I ever became a huge fan of. I just love this wascally wabbit, due to his humor, personality, characteristics, design, charm... everything! His cartoons never fail to get a good laugh out of me. Although the stuff he appears in nowadays isn't as good as those classic shorts from way back then, I still say he's easily one of the greatest cartoon characters to ever exist, period. Dude's a legend, peroid.

And I better stop here, before this post gets any longer. lol

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seventeenlovesthree · 4 months ago

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I know you wrote, you have a ton of projects till the end of the year, but! I saw Ruki/Jeri in your poll and would you care share your two cents about them girls? Only if you have time. I loved them since Ruki was teaching Jeri to play the digimon card game 🥺 I think they are my fave f/f ship in digimon

First things first: You can ALWAYS drop messages in my ask box, I'm always happy and up to discuss and share my own meta about ships and characters!

While my personal favourite f/f ship in Digimon overall will always be Sora/Mimi, I can actually draw some parallels between their dynamics, particularly when it comes to the similarities between Sora and Ruki - I'll try to keep this as short as possible, but the main aspect here is: Both Sora and Ruki have incredible soft spots for Mimi and Juri respectively and thus break through the initial trope(s) you associate with them. You would not expect the more introverted tomboy (who start off actively rejecting typical femininity) to care so much, be so protective of and overall get along so well with the supposed girly-girl at first glance, would you? While Sora is having more of a big sister vibe going on towards the other/younger characters, it's less likely for someone like Ruki, who used to push everyone away and wasn't even seen interacting with girls prior to meeting Juri.

You would expect her to look down on "card game newbies" the same way she used to ridicule Takato and Jenrya for being "too soft" - luckily for Juri, Ruki had already started contemplating her approaches and view points and, probably for the first time ever, seemed to feel some kind of pride in being able to teach someone. It's interesting how she just... Immediately feels drawn to Juri, how softly she talks to and smiles at her and has all the patience in the world for her. Sometimes I feel like some scenes/moments didn't make it into the final product, because Ruki's softness increases a lot faster during the midpoint of the series (and it's really a shame because the more the cast grows, the less you see individual interactions between certain characters). Either way, looking at how she treats Juri, it's no surprise that, aside from mimicking Takato's card slash pose, Juri also copies Ruki's initial card holding pose. Juri is admiring Ruki greatly and through the course of the series, whenever possible, she does cling to her - whereas Ruki is there to protect and comfort her, but without EVER belittling her. She knows Juri isn't weak, but worries for her for very understandable reasons after the loss of Leomon.

Tamers overall has a very interesting framing theme when it comes to Ruki, her reltionship to her family (mostly influenced by female figures) and to Renamon - as mentioned, she is initially rejecting feminity due to a difficult relationship with her mother. Not only does she not want to be "like her" (a model obsessed with beauty and not having time for family anyway), but she's also obviously rebelling, lashing out due a sense of having to prove herself and displaying strength. We know she longs for the attention of her father and can assume that there is underlying trauma of feeling rejected as a daughter that causes her to bottle up. She appears incredibly detached and/or lashes out when others show her affection, which is why she is initially still tough towards all the boys around her. But she improves almost all her relationships upon accepting Renamon more and more as an equal partner and friend, culminating in their Matrix evolution to Sakuyamon, which definitely represents the beginning of Ruki being able to embrace her own sense of femininity. One might argue that there are also potentially romantic undertones in how her behaviour changes towards Takato and Ryo (which, as we know, is a typical trope in media to portray boyish girls becoming more feminine). But I'd really like to add that the first human character that brought out her gentle side was Juri. And thus, my verdict is - Ruki wouldn't even have gotten that far if it hadn't been for Juri contributing to her soft side coming to the surface. (Renamon still has the biggest impact here and despite being proof of Digimon having no gender, Renamon is still associated with the female gender and thus being another female influence.)

There is... A lot of wlw subtext here in my opinion (the RenaRuki subtext in particular is INSANE, if you think about it), but unfortunately, Digimon has never dared to cross that line officially. I do see the appeal in people shipping Ruki with the aforementioned Ryo and Takato (though I personally feel like the former is a little forced, disruptive of the group dynamics and also a bit too stereotypical - the latter is somewhat difficult when you see Juri as semi-official love interest for Takato, it makes the whole thing a little messy). But in my opinion, it would have been nice to at least show the girls being important to each other. Because they absolutely are, even if my memory on the final Tamers episodes is a bit rusty.

#my two cents #meta #ruki makino #juri katou #rika nonaka #jeri kato #personal

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