#s: digimon tamers

[incorrectr27quotes]

Jaeger: What are you, Sawada Tsunayoshi, the center of the universe? What, you think the sun won’t rise if you’re not there to greet it or something?

Tsuna: What are you talking about?

Jaeger: Just look behind you, Tsunayoshi.

Tsuna: Huh?

Jaeger: You don’t have to do everything yourself. They’re all here to help you. Let them.

[agnesepuccinelli]

Digidestined commission for emprisa on Twitter! Kaamon was created but Inkefall

Honestly, I LOVE to draw people as young digidestined 😭❤️ it’s so… nostalgic!

I still got 2 slots open for this type of commission if anyone is interested 💪✨

[digimonloving]

<.<...I wont spam the ask box...I wont do it...I wont... *lunges at high speed* NYAAAAA!

Based on me playing Elden Ring, a lot, (send help) i have an image of a tamer playing said game (or any of the Souls games) with his FemRhodoknightmon watching him, encouraging, and advising "Git Gud" at various times.

To what lengths do you believe said Royal Knight would go to reward her 'Little Warrior' for passing a difficult obstacle?

(Possibly nsft, doesnt have to be. Please dont judge the pet naming and praise kink...)

RhodoKnightmon rewarding her "little warrior" for passing a difficult obstacle.

As you said, she loves using pet names. She goes beyond common pet names like "sweetie", "honey" and "baby". RhodoKnightmon has pet names like "my little daredevil", "my honey milk darling", and even to lengths of pet names from different languages like "mi corazón de melon" which translates to "cantaloupe heart".

RhodoKnightmon would prepare gifts too, gift giving is a love language, so of course she's going to want to get her "little warrior" something special. No roses, unless it's a rose pendent so her "little warrior" can wear it and remember her.

She's very rewarding besides gifts, she may plan special dates, but she won't even let out a peep to her "little warrior", she secretly plans everything so they won't even have an idea of what's going on.

[toucansafari]

I feel like watching Digimon again

[twilightangelsworks]

Here is one fanart I did of my favorite season of Digimon.  I know this is a weird mash up, but the moment I heard Anna’s song “The Next Right Thing” I thought how well it fit with Jeri’s arc from Tamers, so I decided to draw her in a dress resembling Anna’s. Jeri kind of reminds me of Anna in a few ways, mostly how they are sweet and kind of oddballs. I did add Calumon to this because I thought it looked better with him.

[izzyizumi]

ME: Everyone shut up "EVO" from Digimon Tamers is playing!!!

[hikari-m]

Happy Birthday, Katsuya Jounouchi!! {Jan. 25th} (And the anniversary of my Site's 1st layout & "major update"!!)

(C) Liliy; Gifted to Me (10+ Yrs Ago) for my Digimon {02} OCs Site Featured OC: Hikaru Shinrai, of COFTFF-Verse {Chosen of Faith: The Fan Fic}

{DO NOT RE-P O S T} {DO NOT C O P Y} {DO NOT REPURPOSE FOR @. I. UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES} (NOT FOR RE-USAGE)

[digi-lov]

— A Getting Into Digimon Master Post

▙▚ TOYS - ANIME - GAMES - COMICS & MANGA - NOVELS - CARDS ▞▟

I've been getting asked a couple times how to get into Digimon, so I figured I collect some posts and info in a master post!

Digimon is a multi media franchise, so there really is no one way to get into Digimon. But I hope this post can help people getting an idea what to look for.

Digimon Card Sleeve Artwork by Tonamikanji

Shout ot to wikimon.net for a ton of the information, and to Digimon Basic - an amazing resource for Digimon material!

▙▚ DIGIMON WEB

As I mentioned, Digimon is a multi media franchise, and there is some content of just general Digimon lore on Digimon Web. There some fun facts to read up upon! There's also the official Digimon Reference Book / Encyclopedia online.

• Digimon Encyclopedia • Appmon Encyclopedia • Agumon Expert Research Profiles • Digimon Journal

▙▚ TOYS

So Digimon, or Digital Monsters, originally started as a virtual pet toy. I made a Post about this origin and relation to the Tamagotchi frachise before. ▞▟ Check it out here >>

Besides that, Digimon released many many "Digivice" toys tying into the animes, but also figurines and much more. I don't have nearly enough expertise to cover them in more details, but there is a LOT! You can check out the LCD Toy history on the official website, and even that doesn't cover all of it!

▙▚ ANIME

The first and second season of the anime, and the surrounding movies, share a continuity, but aside from that all seasons are self contained and you can watch whichever you want.

Notably, Adventure recently got newly released blu rays with japanese audio and english subtitles! ▞▟ You can get them at the Crunchyroll shop >>

I know some people like the english dub, but personally, I honestly don't like it at all... I do really like the german dub, but I really recommend watching the Japanese version. It's my favorite and is considered canon.

Adventure: Digimon Adventure (Movie) (1999) •Digimon Adventure (Season 1) (1999-2000) Digimon Adventure: Our War Game (Movie) (2000) •Digimon Adventure 02 (Season 2) (2000-2001) Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Touchdown!! Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals (Movie) (2000) (Digimon the Movie is a super cut of all previous movies done by the dub team) Digimon Adventure 02: Diaboromon Strikes Back (Movie) (2001) •Digimon Adventure tri. (6 Movies or 24 Episodes) (2015-2018) Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (Movie) (2020) Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning (Movie) (2023) [Digimon Adventure: (Reboot) (2020)] Tamers: • Digimon Tamers (Season 3) (2001-2002) Digimon Tamers: The Adventures’ Battle (Movie) (2001) Digimon Tamers: The Runaway Digimon Express (Movie) (2002) Frontier: • Digimon Frontier (Season 4) (2002-2003) Digimon Frontier: Revival of the Ancient Digimon (Movie) (2002) Savers/Data Squad: • Digimon Savers / Data Squad (Season 5) (2006-2007) Digimon Savers The Movie: Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!! (Movie) (2006) Xros Wars/Fusion: • Digimon Xros Wars / Fusion (2010-2012) Appmon: • Digimon Universe Appli Monsters (2016-2017) Ghost Game: • Digimon Ghost Game (2021-2023)

▙▚ GAMES

Like the anime, Digimon games are almost all completely self contained. Essentially the only exception is a couple WonderSwan games centered around Ryo Akiyama. They're also almost all widely different! No Digimon game is truly like another! In the list below I put well known games in bold, and more obscure games, or the ones never released in the West in small. I also left out all "dead" mobile games.

· Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers (1998) (Sega Saturn) [JP only] • Digimon World (1999) (PS1) · Digital Monster Ver. WonderSwan (1999) (WonderSwan) [JP only] · Digimon World: Digital Card Battle (1999) (PS1) [JP only] · Digimon Adventure: Anode Tamer & Cathode Tamer (1999/2000) (WonderSwan) (EN release "Veedramon Version") · Digimon Adventure 02: Digital Partner (2000) (WonderSwan) [JP only] · Pocket Digimon World (2000) (PS1) [JP only] > Pocket Digimon World: Wind Battle Disc (2000) (PS1) [JP only] > Pocket Digimon World: Cool & Nature Battle Disc (2001) (PS1) [JP only] • Digimon World 2 (2000) (PS1) · Digimon Adventure 02: Tag Tamers (2000) (WonderSwan) [JP only] · Digimon Adventure 02: D1 Tamers (2000) (WonderSwan Color) [JP only] ·Digimon World: Digital Card Arena (2000) (PS1) ·Digimon Tamers: Pocket Culumon (2001) (PS1) [JP only] ·Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley (2001) (WonderSwan Color) [JP only] ·Digimon Park (2001) (PS1) [JP only] • Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit (2001) (WonderSwan Color / GBA) > Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit Ver. 1.5 (2002) (WonderSwan Color) [JP only] > Digimon Frontier: Battle Spirit / Battle Spirit 2 (2002) (WonderSwan Color / GBA) ·Digimon Typing (2001) (PC) [JP only] • Digimon Tamers: Battle Evolution / Rumble Arena (2001) (PS1) ·Digimon Tamers: Brave Tamer (2001) (WonderSwan Color) [JP only] • Digimon World 3 / 2003 (2002) (PS1) ·Digital Monsters: D-Project (2002) (WonderSwan Color) [JP only] ·Digimon Racing (2004) (GBA) • Digimon Battle Chronicle / Rumble Arena 2 (2004) (PS2 / GCN) • Digimon World X / World 4 (2005) (PS2 / GCN) • Digimon Story / Digimon World DS (2006) (DS) ·Digimon Savers: Another Mission / Digimon World Data Squad (2006) (PS2) • Digimon Story: Sunburst & Moonlight / Digimon World Dawn & Dusk (2007) (DS) ·Digimon Championship / Digimon World Championship (2008) (DS) ·Digimon Masters (2009) (PC) [Korea only] · Digimon Story: Lost Evolution (2010) (DS) [JP only; EN Fan Translation exists] · Digimon Story: Super Xros Wars Blue & Red (2011) (DS) [JP only] • Digimon World Re:Digitize (2012) (PSP) > Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode (2013) (3DS) [JP only; EN Fan translation exists] · Digimon Adventure (2013) (PSP) [JP only; EN Fan translation exists] • Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (2015) (PSV, PS4, Switch, PC) • Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker’s Memory (2015) (PSV, PS4, Switch, PC) • Digimon World -next 0rder- (2016) (PSV, PS4, Switch, PC) · Digimon Universe Appli Monsters (2016) (3DS) [JP only] · Digimon New Century (2021) (Smart Phone) [CH only] • Digimon Survive (2022) (PS4, Switch, PC, XBO)

There's also a couple Fan Games I've been enjoying, that I want to shout out here:

• Digital Partner by Aludeku • Digital Tamers 2 by dragonrod342 • Digital Monster NET DRIVER by kuhamaven / Alice Studios

▙▚ COMICS & MANGA

Digimon has several comic or manga adaptations, some longer but many short promotional works for new releases.

Although there's way more older Manga, I will start with a list of modern Comics/Manga, as we have received a variety recently!

The big one right now is Digimon Liberator! I've been loving it personally. It's a full color web comic, so it has not normal page layout and instead is just scrolling. When it first released I made a post with my Spoiler Free Opinion on the Prologue and Chapter one! ▞▟ Check it out here >> Read Digimon Liberator on the Official Website, GlobalComix or Webtoon!

But Liberator is actually not the only comic currently running!! Thanks to the Digimon Comic project we have FIVE more ongoing series to check out on the official Digimon Web site!

• Digimon Rikollection by Okutsuwa Waga • Digimon Paradox by Minato Ayumu • Digimon Knuckles by Soda Ichigo • Story of the Royal Knights by Yabuno Tenya • Digimon Seekers ~Witch of the Crossroads~ by Kariki Hajime

If you read any of the comics above, show your support by answering the survey on the website!

• C'mon Digimon: The capering monster BUN (1997) (Author: Izawa Hiroshi | Illus: Yabuno Tenya | Publ: Shueisha - Akamaru Jump) • Digimon Adventure V-Tamer (1998-2003) (Author: Izawa Hiroshi | Illus: Yabuno Tenya | Publ: Shueisha - V-Jump) • Digimon Chronicle (2003) (Author: Shisheni Okorarana | Illus: Moriyama Soh | Publ: Bandai) • Digimon Next (2005-2008) (Author: Okano Takeshi | Publ: Shueisha - V-Jump) • Digimon Xros Wars (2010-2012) (Author: Nakashima Yuu | Publ: Shueisha - V-Jump) • Digimon World Re:Digitize (2012) (Author: Fujino Kouhei | Publ: Shueisha - V-Jump) • Digimon World Re:Digitize Encode (2013) (Author: Fujino Kouhei | Publ: Shueisha - V-Jump) • Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth (2015) (Author: Fukuda Ikumi | Publ: Shueisha - V-Jump) • Digimon Universe Appli Monsters (2016-2017) (Author: Akamine Naoki | Publ: Shueisha - V-Jump) • Digimon Universe Appli Monsters: Appmon Academy!! (2016-2017) (Author: Hirose Katsuki | Publ: Shueisha - Saikyo Jump) • Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth Hacker's Memory (2017) (Author: Akamine Naoki | Publ: Shueisha - V-Jump) • Digimon Chronicle X (2018-2020) (Author: Moriyama Soh | Publ: Shueisha - V-Jump / Digimon Web) • Digimon Dreamers (2021-2024) (Author: Yabuno Tenya | Publ: Shueisha - Saikyo Jump / Digimon Web)

▙▚ NOVELS

There two big web Novels of note for the Digimon franchise. Firs one is Digimon Seekers, which ran from 2023-2024 and consistes of 4 Chapters plus an Epilogue. You can read it on the official Website, but many fans noted the english translation being not great at certain points, so some dedicated fans edited the translation to fix the issues.

The second is Digimon Liberator, which is not simply a novel version of the web comic, but instead tells the story from the perspective of a different protagonist! From what I can tell, the translation for this one is better, although they sometimes mess up the card effects, so make sure to read the actual cards, which are included as pictures.

• Digimon Seekers: Official - Fan Edited Translation • Digimon Liberator: Official Website

▙▚ CARDS

Finally, what this blog is all about really, the Card Game. There have been many Digimon Card Games over the years, but I'm really only familiar with the current one. If you want to try learning it, there is a tutorial app in the Play Store, and a Rules video on the official YouTube channel that covers the essentials. There are also Fan made simulators to play online, with dedicated fan bases that you will surely find people to play with or show you the ropes!

If you just like the look of some of the cards, I encourage you to check the pricing on cards you got your eyes on. If the card isn't insanely diffcult to get and important for meta decks, you have fairly good chances to get some gorgeous cards for reasonable prices! I also collect Pokémon Cards, and let me tell you, the production quality of the Digimon Cards is leagues above.

[incorrectr27quotes]

Lal: We need a plan.

Skull: Going in and beating him up isn’t plan enough?

Colonnello: Lackey, she’s right. I mean, she’s always been right before, what’s different about now?

Lal: Why, thank you.

Skull: Nello and Lal, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S—

[bisthefairy]

THE DIGIMON TAMERS FORD KA

THE DIGIMON 02 FORD KA

[emeraldthelynx]

Do you see my vision? Not just chosen children, but chosen Navis too!

I don't have too much of a plot yet, but, in typical Digimon fashion, a group of kids (Lan, Maylu, Dex, Yai and Chaud) get pulled into the Digital World against their will to save it. The difference this time is that they already have digital companions who get some major reformatting when entering the Digital World! The PETs get turned into Digi-PETs, but still have the ability to upload Battle Chips to give the Navis-turned-mons special attacks, kinda like the cards in Tamers. I haven't designed Digi-fakes before, but I do know I want the Navi-mons to get unique new evolutions despite their rookie forms being pretty normal.

I do have some reason when choosing the Digimon forms, (despite my Ghost Game bias...)

Megaman is a Gammamon because it has multiple evolution branches, including a dark form, much like Megman. Very simple explanation.

Roll is a Cutemon because it is a bunny, and is pink, and is cute. End of story. (I didn't want to use Lopmon because it wouldn't make sense without Terriermon.)

Gutsman is a Sunarizamon because I liked how bulky and ground-based it is. It also wasn't a partner Digimon, to the best of my knowledge, and I was trying for a bit of variety.

Glide is an Agoramon because I think it would be funny to have instead of a fluffy bunny knight, to have a fluffy bunny butler. Angoramon can also fly, and is big enough to carry people, which I think Yai would use to her advantage.

Protoman is a Gaomon because Saver's Gaomon won me over with his 'sir yes, sir!/yes, master!'s. (I had to doodle my point which is why ProtoGaomon gets a whole page to himself.)

If you want to talk to me about this idea, please do! Use the ask button or if you really want to, DM me. I really don't mind.

[digitaldreams0801]

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

[tastycitrus]

honestly, i was under the impression that everyone from light fang and night claw got turned into erasers, potentially including the protagonists. at least to me it seemed like the tamers disappearing was a somewhat recent event; there's still a lot of tamers around in the second half, with at least one of them being a guard tamer who was formerly part of the union.

hard to say what really happened to koh and sayo though because there's no mention of them in lost evolution. even in the legendary tamer match where they could've showed up as a reference to the same match happening in sunburst/moonlight, it's glare and julia who show up instead. but koh and sayo do appear in super xros wars as the silver and gold tamer match opponents, so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

i'm suddenly filled with a desire for digimon especially the games so i decided to make a shitpost about something i've noticed

[alpaca-clouds]

So. I will usually do something writing wise for Valentines Day. I have always done that, ever since I started writing fanfics. Now I do however wonder... I have two fics prepared already for Valentine. But I do want to do two or three more. Because Valentine's Day is usually the best way to do some fluffy shit.

Which brings me to the question.

[digimon-retro]

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

[eriisaam]

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.