#their motivation is held back by everything around them being doofy as heck

[grammars-doodles]

Thoughts on the anime and/or manga (if you've read the manga) versions of Gemini Spark?

Ahhh the other medias. Very conflicted feelings about those.

I... really wish I could like anime Gemini Spark. The fights with them and Mega Man are great to watch. They're like cartoon villains causing problems on purpose for most of the show. And I think I'd like them a decent amount... if they were different characters and not Gemini Spark. I don't know how else to word it, but that ain't Pat there. That's Gemini and Gemini 2 and they're the same. And I get their appeal if the anime was someone's first exposure, but... after playing the game? They stripped any character traits Pat may have had just to make him Gemini's puppet for the whole show. It is genuinely hard to think of character traits that anime Pat has. He doesn't even like flowers. Tragedy. Rey not being there at all doesn't help. I... don't know why they decided to take such a different route with them in the anime compared to the game, but I can't say I really appreciated it.

Is it bad to say that if I had to write either anime or manga Gemini Spark, I'd pick manga? Since anime Pat aforementioned doesn't have much going for him it's not really a high bar to clear but... still. The manga's tone is... a mess, in my opinion. It's full of low-brow humor at every turn, but then they also took Gemini Spark's whole backstory and motivation surprisingly seriously. Which does not fit everything else at all but... it at least makes them compelling. They retained Pat's backstory from the game! That's a plus! And I think both of them being driven to fight to prove the worth of their existence since they've only ever been seen as garbage is... weirdly sweet considering everything else happening in those books. And Crown Thunder being their mentor! I liked that!

Gemini Black's expressions are wack though, let's just. Let's just get that out of the way. He's freaky. And also the part where they fuse into their "perfect form"?? That was. A thing. I really don't know how I feel about that to be honest. It's kinda cool but also very silly. those guys just digivolved for real