2021-10-24, 19:37
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Join Date: May 2004
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Digimon Ghost Game. Episode 3: Scribbles
Another well executed episode.
Dracumon's a definite sociopath altering peoples' bodies for its morbid entertainment and twisted pleasure. It was a very bad idea that it was left off the hook so easily due that Hiro & company bought into its charade. A bad decision that, nonetheless, will bite back at the kids either for a later episode or later story arc. Now for a shiny change in the mood, the cream of the episode to me were the first 10 minutes spent on Ruris' grievances, as she felt powerless and helpless to stop her body from fainting without knowing the cause. The sense of phobia and impending doom added a nice layer of suspense thriller that let me put inside Ruris' emotions. And, it helped too knowing that she was worrying on something watching her playing the piano, which at the episode's climax turned out to be an unmaterialized Angoramon watching her. His sense of helplessness at not being able to take care properly of Ruri before nicely correlated with Ruri's anxiety over her body's condition, and it felt organic when Angoramon once materialized declared his full intentions towards protecting Ruri. Quote:
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2021-10-24, 20:44
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Another solid episode this week. Certainly Ruri added a nice personality to the mix. All the more so since her situation had a decent level of tension to it. It was looking pretty bad for her and the situation was one that allowed the excuse of getting her a digivice. While I presume the third guy will just 'borrow' one from the MC...Anyways I think the dynamic between her and Angoramon may be fun. He seems like a good and responsible guy. And nothing wrong with having a mixture of personalities with Gammamon being more childish. And we'll see what kind of personality the third partner will bring to this. The resolution worked for letting both Ruri and Angoramon step up. Thankfully the attack was having a slow and practically zombified guy approaching her. So there was enough time to actually materialize Angoramon there
 .Does feel as well like they are building up to trouble. Out of the three threats only one doesn't seem likely to come back and bite them later. The other two definitely seem like threats that will strike again when they get the opportunity. They could be building up to appreciating that they might need to actually finish off some opponents so they don't just come back to attack them later. Perfectly fine though for them to start off taking it easy since that kind of switch isn't easily flipped. Just figuring things out as they go along. Quote:
And frankly it's on the story to put together fights in a way that allow for sensible conclusions. Not that it is BS if a fight is won in either case anyways. Even in the first digimon series there was a champion that won their fight against an ultimate in a way that didn't undermine the evolution to champion in the first place. All that matters is the circumstances and a reasonable win condition. So it certainly can be done. The result remains that they utterly took the legs out from under BezelGammamon in his opening fight. It's debatable if BezelGammamon was needed at all. If Mummymon happened to listen to the logical argument earlier (since the argument didn't really change) then a fight was barely needed.
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2021-10-30, 23:54
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Join Date: Sep 2008
Age: 38
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Was that Kappei Yamaguchi as Pumpkinmon?
Not much to say about the episode. Ruli is a nice addition to the team. Enjoying her personality. Angoramon gave an interesting backstory for the Digital World that makes this series almost sound like a complete franchise reboot rather than a "next in the line" sort of thing. Getting a little tired of not a single enemy/antagonist being defeated, though. It was nice early on since it was a change of pace, but now we're 4/4 on either scaring them off, letting them go, or talking them through a misunderstanding. Looks like we're getting Jellymon next week, and then probably at least one more "normal" episode to acclimate the new duo to the team. Hopefully after that we can start getting some movement on the plot. |
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2021-10-31, 05:27
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Black Steel Knight
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Huh, so now they have their own version of Mirror World like in Kamen Rider Ryuki. Nice way to avoid collateral damage.
In a way, it's nice that this show promotes more diplomacy instead of outright killing sentient enemies, especially knowing that most of the enemies have the logical thinking of a 5 year-olds. So yeah, talk-no-jutsu kinda necessary at this point. It'd also make great training for the protag Digimons before they are truly ready to kill.
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2021-11-04, 20:54
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Ruli definitely adds some nice versatility to the group and a bit more personality
. It's looking good. And they either found an entrance to the digital world or just a convenient pocket dimension for fights  .Fight was a bit more satisfying this time too. Since it actually felt necessary. Even if they were beating up on an ultimate level opponent...Still turned out pretty well all things considered. Now they can go and pick up the third guy and see where things go from here. If nothing else they are doing a nice job maintaining the horror element to the show.
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2021-11-07, 07:54
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Join Date: Jul 2011
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Ooh Majiramon! One of the Devas! Long time no see! Now I feel nostalgic of the Digimon Tamers era
 And yeah, it's basically another talk-no-jutsu ending, but this time Kiyo & Jellymon are the ones at fault. It's a good thing that they didn't get magnanimously obliterated by the 108 arrows of light. Like, did you see the SIZE of that attack? It's like a Spirit Bomb that was targeted at a mere boy! Holy shit!  Also, Jellymon calls Kiyoshiro "darling" at the end. Do we have a human-digimon shipping already?
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2021-11-07, 08:02
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Jellymon's going to be a fun addition. I also enjoy that everyone's interacting with each others' Digimon and not just their own.
However... how strong must Jellymon be in order to poltergeist things? We saw with Draculmon that Digimon shouldn't be able to do that. Looks like next week is Sirenmon? |
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2021-11-07, 22:19
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Jellymon was definitely interesting. Honestly the only thing differentiating her from a villain of the week though was that no one actually fought her
. She was harassing this poor guy and created a gigantic incident that nearly got them all killed. If not for the episode steering her back towards respectability it could have gotten ugly.Not that she doesn't have quite the personality to her. Will definitely add to the cast while probably causing a fair number of issues along the way. A lot of it will rest on her partner to make sure she behaves herself. Understandably Kiyoshi gets freaked out by a lot of what he ends up getting dragged into. But he's the type that will be all of that until he finally steps up when it matters. So long as he remains a 'darling' that Jellymon can respect then things should be good. And I can understand the guy wanting to experience regular school life after spending much of his life racing upwards through the educational system.
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2021-11-14, 23:42
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Definitely seems like Digimon evolution levels aren’t going to matter much here. Which I guess makes sense with most fights being about figuring out some kind of understanding or somewhat peaceful resolution.
Hiro even has a cursed voice that has nothing to do with digimon . But that did let them settle things. Not sure if Sirenmon really understood things but at least she’s left for now. I still feel like the digimon are getting off lightly in this show for inflicted psychological and physical trauma. But for now that’s the way the show wants to handle it.Solid episode overall and they are keeping a sense of tension going at times.
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2021-11-15, 03:40
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It's nice to see Sirenmon's anime debut ever since her creation in, what? 2013? She looks pretty cute.
And Hiro basically told her to "gid gud" with her singing before she kills people with it (by giving her an example of his own terrible singing), and she agrees . That's just hilarious.
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2021-11-15, 10:44
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Monterrey, México
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Digimon Ghost Game. Episode 4: The Doll's Manor
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Another solid winner of an episode. And, yes, for the time being the writers are interrupting the flow of formulaic Digimon battles in order to switch for a peaceful resolution with the troublemaker Digimon once the kids & their partner Digimon literally beat sense into them. All right, so the fifth episode is introducing Jelly-mon, can't wait for it. |
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2021-11-16, 20:46
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I somewhat expect more of a push to come from the digital world. Hiro's father is doing something over there and digimon do keep coming over towards the real world. There has to be a transition eventually beyond these spooky cases. Although it might not happen soon. Part of me thinks they are holding back digivolutions for the other partners for the time being because the focus isn't on fights right now anyways.
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