#daisuke nishijima

[cursed-beni]

ふぉふぉ(huohuo) : honkai star rail

じぇいど(jade) : homestuck

からく(karaku) : kimetsu no yaiba

よぉーよ(yaoyao) : genshin impact

いんそむにあ(insomnia) : dien bien phu

とうこねん(toukonen) : bakui(sakana uo sakana)

[mangacapsaicin]

daisuke nishijima’s ouson sensou || 西島大介の『凹村戦争』

[garyfischy]

i don't know how to feel about daisuke nishijima. wish more of his works got translated to english

[hakonohanayome]

BAKEMONOGATARI - Tsubasa Cat, Part 1 end card illustrated by Daisuke Nishijima

[pestopastaenjoyer]

part three of this

[tranzangledlozengeggbutt]

[rurulaura]

I finally started to post my story about Meiko and the 02 kids, as if it happened at the same time as Digimon adventure:

I hope you’ll give it a read.

[seventeenlovesthree]

Thinking about how you explained Taichi's trauma from making Hikari's illness worsen from 01, and then he possibly because claustrophobic because locked in the pod , along with traumatized by blood from Nishijima's death, then Hikari claims she will never forgive him, after going berserk at the possibility of his death, and I also see comics of 02 kids getting angry for being forgotten, is it possible as all this piles up, Taichi decided to let all that injury fester, let 02 kids hate him, leaving home and starts living alone, and walks the executor path further? after all, Omegamon's mode in japanese isn't merciful, but kaishakunin, a samurai that executes a friend who have commited shame.

... As I always tend to state: The amount of Taichi Yagami suffer p*rn in the OG timeline is BAFFLING. Even if he is the main character, I am still waiting for my catharsis when it comes to the resolution of his arc(s).

I saw that comic about the 02 kids (or rather Daisuke) being mad at him too and that is definitely an interesting premise to work with if we ignore the fact that Tri overall was just a blatant plot hole in this regard, I'd still personally prefer to see it go down more like this: Even though nobody would blame him directly (especially not Daisuke, because, well, it's Daisuke!), Taichi would still blame himself. Period. That's why I agree that him pulling back, isolating himself, could very well be the result of that.

However: Hikari saying she "won't forgive" him - in context of LITERALLY EVERYTHING they have already gone through together - felt rather... Like it was taken too literally by the fandom and in general. They've already been there multiple times before, they were that close to having to kill Agumon in 02 and if anybody should be empathetic towards each other's feelings in this regard, it SHOULD be Taichi and Hikari. Hikari knows. And she won't hold a grudge because she knows, always has known, always will know.

#LetTaichiYagamiGetTherapy2k24

[digitalgate02]

Scrapped Himekawa Maki's parts in the dropped Hinode project.

So you know... I've said it before, with Kizuna showing the 02 group going well and being happy, I decided to drop this entire project because I was satisfied with what they had done there.

Though, I liked some parts of it and especially Himekawa Maki's "redemption" arc parts. Well, she wasn't totally "redeemed" -- Think about Ex-Aid's Dan Kuroto in this case. The idea was that she could help Daisuke and co. to solve this strange mystery connected to the parallel world from Lady of the Castle counterparts -- with them discovering that their world also had a counterpart for Pandora (the main villain of that series) and that those new villains were after said person.

Maki would just help with technical and analysis stuff -- but hey, why can't they just ask Koushiro? Well, this was ▽ compliant and the biggest traumatic experience from 2005 made Daisuke feel a little... out of himself. So he believed he was the culprit for all of the mess caused by the ▽ villains and forced himself to isolate from the others -- he would only keep contact with Ken, Miyako and Iori for some reason. No, he wasn't... angry with the other eight, but more with himself.

Anyway, here's the Maki's parts! I'll put the context for better understanding.

Ch 6 - Energetic Waves, Fauermon

It hadn’t been her end. She was pretty alive, but far away from her duties. Her partner, and by that meant her human partner, had been missing and possibly considered dead. Insanity had kept Himekawa Maki out of her job. “You… You’re not dead right?” She was glancing at a photo, her hands shaking but holding tight the portrait. “Tell me… You’re NOT dead…” She couldn’t believe in what they said to her. Not three years ago, not now. Maki was feeling an emptiness in her heart, the people she loved had left and she was alive. The Chosen Children had found her lost, after the events. Daisuke had yelled at her and had accused to tricking them. She had felt guilty… But learning that her partner had died… No, she hadn’t believed in those kids. All she had done caused that mess. It had been her fault. Once she had returned to the human world, her boss had forced her to retire. Maki hadn’t complained, and had left. Without Bakumon she had no power. BUT without Nishijima Daigo she felt incomplete. Now she was looking at that old photo of them, taken by the sweetest girl in the Chosen Children group, Kitabayashi Hitomi. “Call me.” Her eyes were fixated on the boy’s smile. “CALL ME…!!” If the price she had to pay for having Bakumon back meant Daigo’s death… … She shouldn’t have made a deal with Yggdrasil. “Himechan…!” - a voice called her, a feminine voice. The person opening the door was… “Daigo??” No, it was Hitomi. Visiting her from her day off. A woman -- with neck length black red hair and moon shaped glasses, wearing a black suit similar to the one Maki used to wear -- entered the room and frowned. “No, it’s just me.” Maki turned her head back to the photo.

Context: This was Maki's debut in the story, as well for Hitomi, who is the girl pictured in pt4 flashbacks. The one with Orochimon/Xuawumon as partner. You might remember her from this post here. Hitomi is a headcanon name for this girl.

Ch 7 - You never saw it coming

Ken was returning home when he received a message. Curiously, the Chosen of Kindness stopped nearby a store and checked his phone to see who sent him a text. He widened his eyes in shock about the sender. He didn’t expect THAT name to appear in a while, not when all of his troubles had started with her. But their exchange… What do you want? - Ichijouji I’ve been contacted by your friend, asking for my services - Himekawa I thought you had fun enough with us - Ichijouji My crimes had been paid with his death. I do not beg your pardon - Himekawa Which friend are you talking about? - Ichijouji Motomiya Daisuke, why do you ask? - Himekawa He would be the least person in this world to make a deal with you again - Ichijouji She got on Ken’s nerves. From all he had gathered about her, he couldn’t accept her help at all. Like, why would Daisuke contact her? My phone got a message from him, unless it’s a scammer - Himekawa Why did you contact me, then? - Ichijouji I need your digivice once again, to re-analyze it - Himekawa “What?!” - Ken almost broke his phone thanks to all the anger he felt - “Why would Daisuke want HER help??! Is he sane?! She was the one who tricked us in the first place!” You stole it from me to analyze it once, don’t you have the data with you? - Ichijouji The data is stored in the Bureau, and I was forced to be retired for a while - Himekawa … “Retired”? - Ichijouji You don’t need further details of my life, I’m asking for your cooperation this time - Himekawa How can I be sure you’re not going to fool us again? - Ichijouji I give you my word I won’t do anything against you or your friends - Himekawa Can he believe her?

Context: This is a follow up to the previous scene where Daisuke, Miyako, Hikari and Takeru discuss how to discover more about the digimon trying to murder Daisuke and how they can "freeze" the place during those attacks, blocking the digivice signal. Daisuke says "I can't believe I'm doing this, but we need her help this time." Note that he could've asked Koushiro, but he's still trying to not bother any of the older six and is still recovering from his own paranoiac episode. He will get better later, I promise!! But Ken is not very happy with that idea...

Not totally Maki-related, but here's the follow up of this scene with Hitomi:

A teacher had been observing Iori talking with a couple of kids and then left to talk on the phone. She, Kitabayashi Hitomi, was interested in whatever he was talking with… So she approached with caution to at least hear what he was saying. “I know, I need to pick Upamon and I can do it for you. No? Are you saying Daisuke-san contacted that woman?! Why didn’t he ask Ken-san for that information? Ah… I forgot about it… Ken-san suffered a memory loss once the Dark Seed stopped working.” He sighed, but proceeded: “No, I have nothing against her but… Is he sure we can trust her after all the things she has done to us? Is it even okay, because I do not want to remind him that she’s the one who sent us to the battlefield and probably encapsulated us once we were unconscious.” “The Chosen Children are trying to contact Himechan?” - Hitomi thought, but she decided to not call her boss. To be honest, she wanted to know more details… Perhaps asking Himechan by herself? “I see… He has some plan in mind” - Iori blinked in surprise - “I’m going to pick Upamon now, if you have more news please contact me immediately. See you there.” And he left the school. Not realizing Hitomi was around. “What would the children want with Himechan? Should I ask them?” - she wondered - “Maybe I should ask Himechan? I will keep my eyes on Hida-kun.”

In which you learn she's also an undercover teacher, but at Odaiba Jr. High School (aka Middle School) instead, as a Science teacher.

Ch 8 - Deals

If Daisuke said so, we can trust her… Not. That was what Ken thought, he was against that idea of asking Himekawa for help. But he had to, his memories about the Kaiser’s tricks and gimmicks never had returned. And knowing the Data Bureau wouldn’t let touch the analysis she did in the prior three years gave him no choices. The young kids met her after school, in her residence. There, the kids saw a few photos of Daigo, and some peculiar ones with them as children with a group formed by five kids and… five digimons?! But when… “Himekawa-san was one of the original Chosen Child” - Miyako explained to Takeru and Hikari - “That’s how she gained Daisuke’s trust.” “Why didn’t she tell us before?” - Hikari was in shock - “Does it mean Nishijima-san was one too?” “Yeah, he too” - Daisuke answered her - “I guess we know by the photos who were their digimon partners.” Most of them had Bakumon, some of them had the other digimon and their partners: A Muchomon with a chubby boy, a Guilmon for a sporty boy and a Kamemon for a girl with glasses. Daigo’s partner was a Bearmon and they were present in the group’s photo. Iori realized the girl with glasses looked like a teacher from Odaiba Junior High. Daisuke, Miyako, Hikari and Takeru too, since they had seen her when they attended the school three years ago. “Kitabayashi-sensei was a Chosen Child too?” - they said in unison. “Ah, you’re here” - Maki received them, and they glanced at her - “Oh…” - she realized they were looking at the photos - “I apologize for not telling you kids before, it was confidential information.” “Confidential?” - they repeated. “In the time we all were recruited, we were forced to not contact the new Chosen Children. Actually, the Data Bureau was only created after the incidents of August 1999 and we became the bridge connecting the human world and the Digital World. In other words, all our work was to represent the Bureau in front of Gennai-san and the Digital World’s deities. I also was the vessel for Homeostasis in the past, which means I got a higher position for being able to bring her to the human world for beforehand reunions.” “You were a vessel like Hikari-chan?!” - Takeru gasped. “I didn’t like it, because Homeostasis had betrayed me as a child. But that’s not storytelling time, Motomiya-kun said you kids needed my help.” “Ah yes, we were almost forgetting it!” - Daisuke then glanced at Ken - “Ken, please?” Ken wasn’t okay with that idea. “I don’t understand what you want to search on my digivice, Daisuke” - he answered - “Actually we’re trying to search for some way to discover what’s blocking our power when we’re… Dragged in a distorted reality.” “Hm…” - she was thoughtful. “That’s why we need to check your digivice, Ken!” - Daisuke insisted - “Because you had this power once… Because your digivice is the Digivice of Darkness, right?” “Yes, I agree” - the other nodded - “But it sounds like it’s my fault you’re unable to evolve your partners and I… I do not like to feel that I’m the issue.” “It’s not you, we know that! We want to know about the source of the dark powers. They must have something similar from your digivice…!” “I see…” - he hesitated, then he glared at Maki - “I will let you do your analysis, but I demand to keep an eye on you. Takeru-kun and Daisuke will stay at the door, Miyako-san and I will be with you. Hikari-san and Iori-kun will stay at the front door.” “Even if I wanted to do something harmful, I could’ve done once you all were here” - Maki replied calmly - “But if it would make you comfortable, then feel free to lock the front door and the windows so I can’t escape from them.” “She’s sassy like Ken-kun” - Miyako whispered to the others.

Context: You can clearly notice this is old because I used my own assumptions for the partners of the kids, that before ReArise game (suspiciously) released the playable Holy Beasts evoline in game, which also used the same digimon depicted in pt4. I had this funny idea of the leader of them all being not Daigo, but Qinglongmon's tamer -- So I made him be a Guilmon here.

Also this is the part I miss the most -- Because the funny clash of sass masters Ken and Maki lol. And yeah, this would be the part Maki just spills the beans about her, Daigo and Hitomi's connections with the digimon.

Ch 9 - Fire 'n' Ice

“I have the results, Please contact Motomiya-kun as soon as possible.” Why was she calling Ken? Why was she talking to him and telling him to give the news if she could do that by herself? Ken had no patience with her anymore, but he had to cooperate and be polite. She was older than him, more older than Osamu. But oh he hated her. Hated her voice and her mind. “I will, but could you tell me what you found in my digivice?” “Well, that’s supposed to be discussed with your group in the next meeting. I’m sure you would wait until then.” “I’m very curious about the results” - he was pretty irritated with her, but didn’t let it be noticed in his voice. He kept speaking calmly - “If you could give me some information by phone, I’d be thankful.” “I found an interesting mechanism in your device. Unique, different from the digivice of your friend Inoue. It’s able to generate Dark energy and Light energy, it seems it’s related to the World of Darkness, or as you kids call it, Dark Ocean.” “That we know already, it was how we sealed Daemon six years ago. I opened the gate to the Dark Ocean and sent him there.” “I found that plan stupid when I learned about the events.” “What did you expect us to have done?! Let him catch me?!” “You could’ve gathered your friends’ digimon and finished him. If you had Omegamon’s All Delete on your side--” “We couldn’t! Their digimon was out of energy to help us! We had no choice, so please avoid criticizing our decisions and give me details.” “Your digivice has some kind of shard, like a sand pebble, from the Dark Ocean. It’s not literal, there’s data from that world installed in your D-3.” “A program?” “Yes, what did you expect? It’s a program. If you could bring me some samples of this distorted reality, I could discover more about its functions.” “Um… I will tell Daisuke and the others about it, I’m sorry but I have to go.” “Anytime.”

Context: Still part of the sub-plot she was involved, by analyzing stuff and telling the children. Ken and her had this not-so-friendly relationship as well, because of the events of ▽ lol. Anyway, this was the last thing I wrote before dropping the entire story.

You can read a few redux version drabbles of the main part of the story (the ones related to Wallace, Dai-Lightnimon, the Digimental Weapons, and the evil guys of this dropped plot) on my AO3.

Hope you enjoyed it ( •̀ ω •́ )✧

[centrally-unplanned]

Reading this good article w/ author Ken Maejima, literary critic who wrote the book "What is Sekaikei?", and really liked this quote:

When something is named as "strange," there are two possibilities. Either the work being named is strange, or the person naming it is strange. In fact, if you read a work that is named "Sekaikei," you will find that it is a rather straightforward coming-of-age story or love story. So, what is the reason why these works were seen as strange by the otaku? If we don't think about that, we won't understand Sekaikei. And in order to answer this question, I thought it was necessary to take the perspective of the paradigm shift brought about by the mega-hit "Neon Genesis Evangelion" (1995-96). Eva not only had a major impact on the works that followed, but also changed the way otaku themselves view works. In my opinion, this shift led to a movement in which certain works were labeled as "Sekaikei".

Essentially that the "era" of sekaikei should be understood as something that was happening at the consumer level as opposed to the production level; stories have always heightened emotional drama via externalized stakes, but Eva created a pursuit by 'literary' type otaku to build a new genre to cohere to their new identity. Of course its a mutual feedback loop, by the time you get to say Saikano it is a show deliberately being made to cater to an audience looking for sekaikei. But who is pulling and who is dragging has implications for what the genre means, what it reflects, and why it came about. I hadn't put this thought into words but I suspected it as a better frame. And "Either the work being named is strange, or the person naming it is strange", what a killer line!

Also the cover of the book is cute as hell:

....wait a second....

Is that...Daisuke Nishijima? The guy who wrote Dien Bien Phu, the *Vietnam War battle manga* I literally just started reading this week?

It is!!! Amazing, what a chad. And yes, if you are like "hey Ash his art style is a little Hajime Ueda-esque is that a coincidence" no, I found him on my Hajime dive and that is what triggered me to give the manga a try. Baader Meinhoff haunts me once again.

[orifumioshi]

I'll be at the hospital this weekend for my grandma so, I won't be here to witness the Digifes news which means, I gotta share my wishes of what I want to get from it before it happens ;3 (and maybe, movie wishes that can be "spoilers")

"Bokura no Digital World" 2023 version with Lastevo + 02beginning cast and why not a new arrangement?

Wallace new cast announcement (secret guest?) and Tada Aoi-san there for Terriermon and Lopmon uwu

New arrangements for "Break Up!" and "Beat Hit", maybe even Target. "Brave Heart" has many versions by now so no, sorry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New evo insert song with the style of "Sono Saki e" so I can cry with my snots making a mess over my keyboard xD

An equally emotionally devastating ending of AiM.

Grown ups international Chosen from the 02 Christmas episodes (kinda confirmed by now tho but, hope we get ALL the kids that appeared) new cast.

Ultimate evo for Shakkoumon to be Slashangemon and for Silphymon to be Valkyrimon ;3 (if jogress can still be used even without Tailmon's holy ring).

If we don't get jogress, oh well... I suppose that "completing" V-mon, Hawkmon, Armadimon and Wormmon evo lines is not bad either (also me an idiot: ULFORCE FOR V PLEASE!).

Movie length reveal.

The movie either to have a global theatrical (dub) release or stream at Crunchy or alike, please... I BEG YOU (⁠ ⁠≧⁠Д⁠≦⁠)

Someone getting new evos? Not a fan of Agumon's "Bond of" evo but a deep part of me thinks it would be interesting for someone else to have this kind of evo.

More Armor evos (⁠ ⁠；⁠∀⁠；⁠)

Special Digica Booster deck 02beginning themed with the 02 group + international Chosen.

A wink to Hime-chan and Nishijima-kun being dead :D *puts on clown wig*.

Someone visits Menoa at jail/Menoa is released ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The movie ending with everyone eating Daisuke's ramen uwu

New weekly anime series? More dubs for international folks and not just for US?

Digimon Survive 2 titled "Digimon Survive 22" (2022 xD) as a tribute to Adv02 *puts on clown wig*.

I guess that's all... For now (ง ื▿ ื)ว

Let's see if I have the gift of prophecy or if I'm a delusional idiot uwu.

[cursed-beni]

tim

[mangacapsaicin]

daisuke nishijima’s điện biên phủ || 西島大介の『ディエンビエンフー』

[bokura-no-digital-world]

Takari Week 2022 - Day 1: Focus & Reflection

Days: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] Title: Confessions Characters: Takeru Takaishi, Hikari Yagami, Patamon, Tailmon, Sora Takenouchi and Yamato Ishida. Summary: Takeru and Hikari have some moments of reflection regarding how they feel about each other. Notes: For Takari week, I decided to do something different. All stories will be told in first person, from both Takeru's and Hikari's POVs in the same story. It will be separated to make it easier, though. And also, the last two scenes in this one-shot are a continuation, but I separated it because it changes from Takeru's POV to Hikari's. The smell of sand mixed with water filled my nostrils as soon as I stepped into the sidewalk that bordered the beach. It still seemed surreal that one year had already gone by since the Digimon have been rebooted. Unlike four years ago, now they were able to stay on Earth as much as they wanted to without having their energy drained.

All of us Chosen Children agreed to take a small trip to the beach for our seventh anniversary and also rejoice on the fact nothing bad happened to Daisuke and the others. But I still felt a pain on my heart because of Mr. Nishijima's death. I was beyond glad he saved my brother, but still sad he sacrificed himself for that. I looked at Taichi and felt thankful he was doing gradually better at dealing with that traumatic experience, especially when seeing he was one of the first ones to jump into this idea of taking a break.

However, I was feeling something else other than just happiness and gratitude. Looking back now, I couldn't believe how clueless I had been, but I had been looking at Takeru differently ever since we went to Ken's house looking for him last year. I had finally come to acknowledge I sort of pushed Takeru to Meiko by making him seem like he was one of these boys who had a new girl each week. Though I had to admit it was exactly that whenever he had a place to go. But honestly, deep down I was expecting him to ask me out though I wouldn't admit it out loud. Ever.

And yet, I found my cheeks burning and becoming red when he looked at my direction and grinned. "He's charming, isn't he?" Sora teased while she sat down beside me. "What?" I turned around, completely forgetting I was blushing. "You still feel something for him, don't you?" "No. I mean, he's charming like you said and all, but…" "Why don't you act on your feelings and tell him how you feel?" "And ruin our friendship over it? I don't think so." "I did it with Yamato and look where we are now." "That's true, but it has always been reciprocated, hasn't it?" "Well, yeah… but it was still a shot in the dark." "He wouldn't say no to you because he felt the same. Takeru doesn't." "You don't really believe that, do you? It's clear as a crystal that he has feelings for you." "Then we must be seeing completely different things, because it's not clear for me at all." "Are you really sure about that? Or you need to believe it?" "What do you mean?" "Maybe your resistance for it is clouding your judgment and not letting you see things the way they are." "Is it that obvious?" "Even Jou noticed it. And that's saying a lot, since we all know Jou doesn't pick up on these things that fast." "I don't know… I guess I'm afraid of the future. Can you imagine how it would be if we stopped being friends because it didn't work?" "I won't lie and say it's not a possibility, but the positive outcome can also happen." "Is that what you were thinking when you confessed to Yamato?" "It was. I think we both thought the same. We just agreed to take a chance and it worked." Sora placed her hand on my shoulder before jumping from where we sitting. "Think about it. Are you coming?" "I'll be right there." Keep reading it on FFN or AO3

[pestopastaenjoyer]

everytime i re-watch the digimon movie like once a yr on YouTube i remember why i like the adventure/02 crew so much

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