#02 ryo

[izzyizumi]

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"It matched wits with the {Chosen Child} {Koushiro[u] Izumi} on several occasions"...

When your Fav gets mentioned randomly or not! in a new Journal official entry in relation to specifically Mugendramon, because Adv Eps 48~49 totally weren't all about this encounter.

"The demand for Mugendramon resulted in subsequent roles"... (That Too.)

(No but seriously this is a cool name-drop, glad to see Koushiro['s wits] got {canonically} recognized {again}!)

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[digi-lov]

Agumon P-079, Labramon P-080, Falcomon P-081, Kunemon P-082, Floramon P-083, Lopmon P-084, Dracmon P-085, and Syakomon P-086 from the Official Tournament Pack Vol. 13 [E] / Digimon Survive Promo Pack [J]

[kbondoxxxxav]

digimon ship requests i did on twt

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[animated-character-of-the-day]

Today’s character of the day is: Ryo Akiyama from Digimon series

[pink-yuri]

♡ That Girl Is Too Much ♡

[vobomon]

If Digimon 02 is ever rebooted and given a new "story" in the form of a remake (y'know similar to Digimon 2020 was a remake of season 1) then I have some wishes that'd I love to see happen.

And yes, this is a list that revolves around Osamu Ichijouji and all that sweet, untapped potential in his character.

Make Osamu into a Chosen Child/Digidestined. Not going to lie but he deserved a chance at having a Digimon. There are plenty of siblings (both older and younger) within the Adventure canon that have Digimon partners. I think people justified Osamu not having a Digimon partner nor being chosen because he never "saw the fight against Diaboromon" but lets be completely honest with each other. Osamu was always on the computer... so how would Ken have seen the fight using the computer? Y'know the computer that Osamu owns and would have surely been there to witness the same thing alongside his brother.

Give Osamu and Ryo Akiyama some interactions. What am I saying? They might as well try to include Ryo's whole story (from the wonderswan games) into the actual plot because it makes no sense why he hasn't gotten his chance in the spotlight. And although I never watched Digimon 2020, I was told that Millenniummon does show up as a villain. So that's the perfect way to set up Ryo for showing up in a Digimon 02 reboot... right?

Explain how the Dark Spore affected Ken. Personally I think it messed up his memories of Osamu which is why they seemed so negative from Ken's standpoint... but I'd love some confirmation on whether Ken just remembered his brother through a negative lens... or if there was some sort of emotional issues going on between the two of them.

Expand on Osamu's character. He has so much potential and honestly, would be a perfect example of "Gifted Child Syndrome," right? I want to see the pressure of being the "genius child" get to him and he experiences burnout... among other emotional problems that mirror the experiences that Ken goes through.

That's all that things that I can think (at the moment) for this list. But that may change later. Sorry for all the Osamu stuff, by the way. I just really like his character-- okay thank you, I'll see myself out.

[curedigiqueen]

Why I think Ryo is the Ken of Survive.

Obviously, all the Survive kids are meant to reflect one of the 8 original Adventure kids. However, the characters aren't completely one to one, as each of the characters are in fact, unique characters in their own right. (Most evident I think is in the fact I'd assign basically every character except for Miyuki a different crest from their adventure counterpart). But they do echo the basic archetype of the role each adventure character played in the series. For the most part this is self explanatory, some more than others.

Takuma is Taichi Minoru is Koshiro (Less obvious but that's a separate point) Aoi is Sora Shuuji is Joe Saki is Mimi Kaito is Yamato Miu is Takeru Miyuki is Hikari

However, Survive has 10 important human/digimon partnerships.

The sole adult of the group, the professor, even bares some resemblance to a rather important "old man" of adventure, Gennai. An old man who knows a lot of their situation, was involved in the "inciting incident" looks after the kids to a certain extent, but is rather unreliable and has amnesia regarding some very important things he should know. Of course original Gennai isn't even really human, and therefore doesn't have a digimon partner, (Jijimon also takes on some Gennai traits imo) but Akiharu I would still say parallels Gennai.

However, Ryo doesn't match any of the original adventure cast. But I think it is fair to say he resembles Ken. Ryo has a worm digimon. Ryo has a family member whose death deeply affected him. Ryo is grumpy and aggressive, while hiding a secretly gentler and hurting side. Ryo is self-destructive, at the cost of his partner.

Ryo can't be Adventure Ken really, because Adventure Ken doesn't really exist. But Ken isn't exactly an 02 kid in the way Daisuke, Iori and Miyako are. A reoccurring theme in 02 is the difference in outlook between the Adventure kids, the Adventure and 02 kids, and the 02 exclusive kids. And so Ken is in no way one of the original Adventure kids, but there is something to be said of the fact that his (executive meddling hellscape) backstory reflects experiences of Takeru, Hikari, more than it does the other 02 original kids. He even has an associated crest. In many ways, Ken is a retroactive Adventure character, without actually being an Adventure character. Ken in the context of digimon Adventure 02 is very much so an example if a character like Takeru had been driven to the darkness, who then had to be rehabilitated by a set of characters with an outside perspective. Really that is what all of 02s Jogresses is really, the new kids helping the more experienced kids deal with their unprocessed issues. Miyako helps Hikari look out for herself, Iori helps Takeru stop lashing out in anger from keeping his emotions hidden, and Daisuke helps Ken see value in his own continued existence.

Which is why I think Ryo is a homage to Ken. It's not the "Adventure Ken" that theoretically exists, the little boy wondering around the digital world with Wonderswan Ryo or whatever did or did not happen in that unreliable backstory, but 02 Ken, the Ken after the trauma, who needs SOMEONE to connect with him to help save him. He's the sole character who is taken from 02 era rather than the first Adventure era. And 02's themes are in this character. Ryo dies in part due to hopelessness and depression. He is unsavable the first playthrough. Unsavable in the initial adventure context. The original context where the focus is on survival and connection with your own digimon. Wormmon couldn't Save Ken alone. just as Kunemon couldn't. Both Wormmon and Kunemon die in desperate attempts to try and save their partners (really from themselves). But Ryo is saved from death when you can manage to become friends with him. When you connect with him, not unlike how Daisuke managed to save Ken. And from there, Ryo manages to save other people (Shuuji) from falling into that same despair, not unlike how Ken tried to reach out to the dark spore kids. It's noteworthy that of the 3 initial endings, the moral route is the closest to the truthful route, but aside from Ryo and Shuuji has one key difference. It ends like the original Adventure did, the kids and their partners separating, while the truthful route has the kids and their partners living together, invoking the 02 ending. While the Harmony and Wrathful routes do also bear a resemblance to 02's ending, just relatively less optimistically, Harmony and Wrathful routes involve the failings of personal connections. The failure to understand each other. Ultimately the truthful route resolves peacefully, even the big bad reconciling with his sister, no longer feeling the need to lash out at others. Ryo is the factor that takes this adventure and adds a bit of 02 to it, 02 in this context being the importance of connection. 02 being what makes the happy ending.

It's not a 1 to 1, after all, all of the characters are different from their adventure counterpart, and take pieces from one another. For example, its Minoru that has the parental divorce backstory, and Miyuki is a protective older sister to the professor, not a younger sister to Takuma, and the Professor is the most curious about the digital world's nature, and is the one with the digimon partner Gabumon. Saki is the one hesitating the most about going home at all rather than being the one to bring it up the most. I'd say Ryo also has elements of Joe in his fear of his partner and for being an unreliable older kid, and Shuuji has elements of Ken in his cruelty of Lopmon, and insistence on authority and desire to measure up against an older brother with whom he has a flawed relationship. Really none of these kids match up one to one with the adventure kids, and that's great, but I think it is fair to say that as far as analogies go, Ryo does draw from Ken.

02 is an extension of Adventure, and despite their differences in plot, theme and character arcs, no discussion of Adventure will ever be truly complete without discussing certain elements of 02 in relation to that, particularly 02s epilogue and what it means thematically. Ryo is a reflection of Ken, and how his story and needs were a reflection of the themes of 02, and how those themes were built off of the themes of Adventure. How Ken needed something that was not as prevalent in Adventure. Naturally, I think the "truthful" story of survive, would have to be a route that includes elements of 02 no matter how faithful it is to other Adventure themes otherwise.

[kyouka-supremacy]

Just had a dream Higuchi's va got to sing one of the anime ending songs 🥺🥺🥺🥺

[thisgirliscatastrophic]

One of my favorite headcanons remains that Ryo and Daisuke are cousins. Also, like Ryo just doesn't remember Daisuke. Ryo's also like a year or two older than him.

Just the chaotic potential. Like during a crossover and Daisuke seems to loathe Ryo, and everyone assumes it's cause he's jealous. Meanwhile, Daisuke is just side eyeing his cousin, who had the audacity to dimension hop, leaving his extended family behind.

[digitalgate02]

So i designed an older Ryo because i like him.

Since this is one of the fragments of a person who once was called Akiyama Ryo (more about this soon, i promise you, but for now have this "prologue" here.), this Ryo returned to the Advverse a year after 02 events, had lived in a small city and lost contact with Ken alas. But he got a "digimon partner" after all these years.

He and Ken might one day meet again.

[digi-lov]

Today releases the EX-03 Draconic Roar Set! And it contains this nice Agumon card!

Agumon EX3-027 by Takase from EX-03 Theme Booster Draconic Roar

This is a reference to the Ryo WonderSwan Games Anode/Cathode Tamer. In this game Ryo is teaming up with Taichi's Agumon. It's referencing the scene when Agumon shows up on Ryo's computer. You can see Ryo's desk just like in the games, and the chair has his bag hanging over it too.

While being not very known in the West, due to the WonderSwan, and by extension its games, never having been released outside of Asia, this would be a very recognizable reference for (older) Japanese fans, as the games were very popular.

Might be worth noting that Agumon doesn't actually jump out of the computer in the games.

[sluggybasson107]

Halloween requests: Osamu (because I’m predictable) and another posthumous character of your choice.

[Image Description: A digital drawing of Osamu Ichijouji and Ryo Akiyama dressed up as JewelBeemon and Justimon. Ryo, on the left, has his left arm in a fist against his chest as he looks upwards as if he's talking to Osamu. Osamu, on the right, looks a little upwards towards Ryo. End Image Description.]

I kind of attempted making Ryo and Osamu looking like they're dressing up as Ultimate level Digimon, which was a little hard after I realized that Ryo's normal outfit already looks like Justimon, so sorry about that! I do like how the outfits came out, though! Thank you for the suggestion!

[koushirouizumi]

mE SINGING JUN'ICHI KANEMARU "DIGITAL SURVIVOR": SurVIVE THE World!1!!1 Can "THE THINGS" I must prOTECT FEEL THE "rEALITY"???? GET THrOUGH THE World!!! IN *THIS* World, the "ANSWER" is ONLY IN *MY* HANDS AND *NOWHERE ELSE* Survive The World - I'm SEARCHING FOR IT.

[threadmonster]

I could make a whole presentation on why Digimon Tri is just a big retcon official fanfiction. Shout out to whoever put in the egg timer joke tho.