#digimon frontier is still so good and excellent

[shihalyfie]

Hi. I'm someone who has been planning to rewatch Digimon Frontiers. I remember watching it as a kid, but hoping to rewatch it as an adult to see how it still holds up. Before that though, I've been wondering about how that series has treated Izumi in light of a lot of the fandom's complaints about her. I've only watched the American English dub, but I am wondering about why she was written as she was and how it differs from the Japanese version. I also saw your meta on the writers for her episodes, honestly surprised that her episodes were written by female writers. I can use your perspective on why she was written that way since you seem more knowledgeable about the franchise as a whole.

I'm also curious how much romance has actually been a thing in the Digimon franchise, or if it is mainly just a small subplot that's usually kept in the back.

I appreciate any information you can give.

Hello! Thank you for dropping by!

Regarding Frontier and Izumi, to be honest, I don't really think there are too many substantial differences between the American English dub and original Japanese version to the point I could make any in-depth analysis. (There are changes, but it's in a very vague blanket realm of "the insults and bantering are a little harsher", and it's definitely not Adventure or 02 level.) The Japanese version has the infamous "Sexy Dynamite" frame, so one might argue that it was even worse about it, but small details aside, I think the good points and the complaints you could make are pretty much the same.

As for why the writing around Izumi is so glaring compared to prior (and perhaps most other) Digimon series, I honestly can't say. As far as female creator presence in the main staff room goes, as you mentioned, Izumi's key episodes were by female writers, and Seki was still producer. And on top of that, while Tomita fully admitted that he had a hard time writing girls, I honestly can't believe that's the (sole?) cause of it when I look at his other portfolio works, including some fan-favorite episodes of Sailor Moon and, in general, some magical girl series with excellent female characters.

Perhaps it's the fact that it's the first Digimon anime series to not have any involvement from Yoshimura Genki (who was responsible for most of the writing around Ruki in Tamers and is currently known as a hardcore feminist), or perhaps Bandai panicking about the franchise's poor sales made them lock down harder on "we need to Please the Boys" (something that does sometimes end up in being neglectful of female characters), or perhaps the fact that Izumi was the only girl in the core group made them more inclined to treat her like the Designated Girl Character™ of the series...but this is all speculation, and your guess is as good as mine, especially since we have so little information on Frontier's production compared to others.

As for the question on romance, it's pretty much always been a subplot at best, most likely because the majority of major human characters in the franchise are elementary to middle school age and are thus way too young to be considering "serious" romance or relationships (middle school being probably the youngest you can push the limit as treating a relationship as "serious" instead of just being a puppy crush). Moreover, Adventure and 02 seemed to take the stance of "romance is a part of one's life, but not the most important thing in one's life" (something that seems to have frustrated a lot of fans regarding the series not caring enough about shipping), so even stuff related to Yamato and Sora is carefully squared off to the side like it's not anyone's business. As much as I like to make ship-related jokes, if asked in a serious context, I personally never believed that most of anyone's behavior towards anyone in Adventure or 02 had legitimate romantic sentiment behind it, mostly because they were too young for it; even Daisuke's crush on Hikari comes off to me as him being clingy because she's cute and not really taking the time to think about what the next steps would entail.

Other than Yamato and Sora, putting one-sided humorous crushes aside, the closest to explicit depictions of (human) romance that actually seem plot-relevant would probably be Takato and Juri in Tamers, which even then is not really that explicit (although the people involved in its creation love to talk about it like it's a sort of damsel-in-distress plot), and Kiriha and Nene in the Xros Wars manga, which also is prominent and related to the plot but also not that big of an element in it. Sometimes it seems like it's milking the concept of romance more than it's usually done in practice (an episode of Savers is styled like it's Yoshino having a love story with a childhood friend, but if you actually watch the episode it's at most just her having mixed feelings about a childhood friend falling from grace). So it's honestly been a series that's hands-off with romance for the most part, with most of the shipping and romance-related content being on the part of the fans.

By the way, the official reason there's no explicit depiction of Yamato and Sora in Kizuna (despite them being a known endgame canon couple) is that it would have been overly conspicuous and obstructive in a movie that only had 90 minutes to tell its story. (I know there are a lot of people who think the real reason is "because it was controversial and they don't want to get people mad," but personally, I feel that if they were worrying about controversy, they wouldn't have given Kizuna such a controversial premise in the first place!) So I imagine that's the main reason we've gotten so little romance; it's exactly because it's such a crowd-pleaser and overly conspicuous element that they want to avoid it, because Digimon is frankly a complex franchise with a lot of expectations and mechanics that it needs to worry more about, and it's hard to cram a prominent romance plot in there in a way that would be tonally appropriate.

[leori-the-unlearned]

i admit it. italian tangle appeals to me solely because of her

[mrjoelgarcia9]

Let’s Talk #Digimon: The Movie

What do you get when three loosely related short films are edited together into a feature-length film?

For a review of Digimon: The Movie, feel free to keep reading. There will be spoilers.

While multiple Digimon films have come out since the late 90s, only the first three would make it outside of Japan until Digimon Adventure Tri nearly two decades later.

UPDATE (12/8): Four Digimon shorts were actually dubbed and released a few years after Disney bought the rights from FOX. The shorts were from the second, third (Tamers), and fourth (Frontier) seasons and aired throughout 2005 on ABC Family’s Jetix block. A short from the fifth season, Savers/Data Force, was also dubbed but by a different company and only distributed in Asia. However, between this film and Tri, none of these films were made available in a physical format.

This “film” consists of three shorts. They are reminiscent of Toei’s Dragon Ball Z films, with run times ranging from 35 to 60 minutes. 

On a related note, Fox promoted the film’s indirect connection to both this and Sailor Moon on the home video releases. The only things they have in common are being produced by Toei Animation and some directors.

The franchises’ multiple films were distributed differently in English-speaking countries during the late 90s and early 2000s. The Dragon Ball Z and Sailor Moon films first aired on TV in an edited format and then released uncensored on home video. The three Digimon shorts were exclusively edited, censored, and combined into a single theatrical film.

To quickly get out of the way, the cold open has nothing to do with the film. It is an original short from the animated series Angela Anaconda, which at the time ran on FOX Family (now Freeform), the then-sister channel to the FOX network which aired Digimon. It only serves to pad out the run time alongside the corny “Digi-Rap” opening sequence. The short itself would later air as the TV episode “Good Seats” with the Digimon references removed.

The rest of the film is divided into three segments. The overall narrative centers around events involving the characters from the anime’s first two seasons who interact in some form or another with a new character made for the film.

Each segment is given a title card to glue the film together. The titles in parentheses are the short films’ original Japanese titles.

Four Years Ago (Digimon Adventure): As the title indicates, it is set four years before the anime’s first episode and focuses on Tai and Kari’s first meeting with Koromon. In Japan, this short originally premiered the day before the anime’s debut.

Eight Years Later (Children’s War Game): Taking place sometime after the first season, a virus called Diaboromon has unleashed chaos on the internet and global communications. It is up to Tai, Matt, Izzy, and the Digimon to stop him before he starts World War III. This short’s premise was also used in the 2009 film Summer Wars (more on that below).

Present Day (Hurricane Touchdown/Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals): Set during the second season, T.K. and Kari are in New York City when they find another Digidestined named Willis with his own Digimon named Terriermon. He was fighting Kokomon, who was also affected by the same infection as Diaboromon. The latter summons Willis to Colorado, with the two (and the rest of the second season team) joining him to help save Kokomon. This segment was originally released as a two-part short.

This “film”, in its heavily edited format, is a barely comprehensible mess. It is glaringly obvious how many alterations were made to these shorts so they could be presented as a theatrical feature. There are direct-to-video compilations of TV episodes with better editing than this “film”.

Not counting the Angela Anaconda short and rap, the film runs at only 76 minutes. The combined run time of the original shorts, in comparison, is 130 minutes. The respective shorts run at 20, 45, and 65 minutes. The editing is obvious, especially by Kari’s narration serving to glue the segments together. It retroactively integrates Willis, a character only in the third short, by Kari introducing him in the first and Izzy briefly mentioning him in the second. 

The editing is especially obvious with the third short. Several elements were cut out for it to align with the first two segments, such as an entire story thread of the first Digidestined team disappearing and the actual reason for T.K. and Kari visiting New York City being to visit Mimi.

The film features pop songs which feel very out of place even for the dub. The show heavily recycled music from other Saban-produced series such as Power Rangers, so having the film play songs by Barenaked Ladies, Fatboy Slim, and Smash Mouth is both jarring and shoehorned. Interestingly, the latter band’s song “All Star” was featured in this film less than a year before Shrek.

It would be unfair to compare the “film” with the shorts. Any dub-induced plot holes could be explained by seeing the uncut versions, but they have never been released outside of Japan.

Despite the edits, the dub’s voice cast does a great job. Lara Jill Miller (The Loud House) is the only voice actor to prominently appear in all three segments, playing Kari as a toddler, child, and teenager, as well as being the film’s narrator.

The original shorts were directed by two directors: Mamoru Hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) worked on the first two, while Shigeyasu Yamauchi (Dragon Ball Z) worked on the third. The former’s realistic animation style is noticeable, while the latter’s style is just a far more fluid version of the anime. Despite the conflicting styles, all three segments look great and show Toei produced the films with the same high quality animation used in the many Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon films.

At this point, it should be noted Hosoda later wrote and directed the 2009 film Summer Wars, which is often accused of being a ripoff of the second short. 

Both have the word War in the title, a computer virus unleashing chaos to global communications, said virus firing a missile towards the protagonists, and a climax where the hero is supercharged by everyone online giving them energy.

They differ by their protagonists and digital worlds. Also, without giving away spoilers, Summer Wars shows more of the virus’ real world consequences whereas the Digimon short played it for laughs.

The film is worth watching, especially to compare and contrast with the short.

Going back to this “film”, continuity is mostly not an issue. The first two segments clearly take place before and after the first season. The third segment, on the other hand, is not canon.

Ken is nowhere to be seen, likely placing the short sometime early in the second season when he was still the Digimon Emperor. 

Because the aforementioned New York City setup was cut out, the characters are just in America with no rhyme or reason for how they were able to fly from Japan or even get to Colorado. Additionally, it is set far too early to be part of the “Digimon World Tour” story arc. 

Digimon: The Movie would have been better had it just aired on FOX Kids, either as individual episodes or a TV special. It barely qualifies as a "film” by the vain attempt to combine the three standalone shorts with shoehorned narration, numerous edits, an out of place soundtrack, and both a great voice cast and excellent animation. If this film was someone’s introduction to Digimon, they would immediately become confused and lost by the inconsistent shifts in tone, main characters, and situations. 

With all of that in mind, this film is worth watching only for fans of the dub.

While the North American rights to the Digimon anime now appear to be back with Toei, the “film” is currently owned by Disney following their acquisition of 20th Century Fox.

Digimon: The Movie has been out of print since its original VHS and DVD releases. Currently, it is not available to own, rent, or stream in any format. However, the soundtrack is available to buy on digital music platforms and partially stream on Spotify.

As for Summer Wars, it is available to own on Blu-Ray, DVD, and Digital.

Until next time, thank you for reading!

[citrus-cactus]

The Cactus Recs Fanfics, June ‘18

Will this be a reocurring feature? Darned if I know. But heeey, here’s a post about the fanfic I’ve been reading recently (and… not so recently?). This is a good reference for me too because I still need to finish/drop reviews on some of these :o

@florencetheflowerfairy has written a ton of stories that are either clever, delightful, heartwrenching, or some combination of all the above. “Sunflowers Along the Road” is an excellent series of vignettes about the Eternal Favorite and the Also-Eternal Favorite (that’s Taichi and Koushiro for those who are keeping track at home). She also did some great stuff for Digimon Femslash Week and if I HAD to pick my favorite… well, actually I don’t think I can pick a favorite. They’re all great for their own reasons, so here are links to them all!

“A Girl Like That” (WHAM! POW! Right in the feels) “All the World’s a Stage” (so adorable!!) “Jinkies!” (LOLLLLL) “Battle for Meiko’s Heart!!!” (HOW DID SHE KNOW THIS WAS EVERYTHING I EVER WANTED IN A FANFIC????) “Almost” (BAM THERE GO THOSE FEELS AGAIN BRB SOBBING)

I’ve also been making my way through some of @aiko-isari’s multi-chapter digimon fics! She is exploring some really cool concepts for characters that don’t always get a lot of love, like a Frontier AU starring Tomoki’s brother Yutaka (“a comet’s tail’), a character study on Himekawa (“your mouth to god’s ears”), and a Meiko/Hikari roleswap/what-if set during the Myotismon arc (“a queen’s plague”). She excels at writing scenes with an “in the moment” urgency that I find quite captivating.

Speaking of Frontier, SilvorMoon’s “The Spirits Within” is one of my all-time favorite Frontier fics. I remember reading it in grad school when I was, er… probably supposed to be doing something else ^^; But if there ever was going to be a Frontier sequel (hah!) I would still want it to be an adaptation of this fic. It is, sadly, unfinished-- but hey, fanfic is just as much about the journey as the destination!

Higuchimon has been on my Digi-author radar for a LONG time, so I was really happy to see she had written a fic for Appmon! “Captured and Confused” is a multi-POV story filling in some of the details about Yuujin’s capture during the Ultimate 4 arc, exploring some interesting angles while remaining true to canon. She also has a pre-Tri fic about TK and his hat from 02, which you KNOW gets my seal of approval!

More Appmon fics! Note these are pretty much all SPOILERS for the end of Appmon, so act accordingly: “blurred eyes” by reminiscence (Yuujin POV), “The Dying of the Light” by Walpurgisyiff (Haru talks to Yuujin’s mother, post-series but pre-epilogue. GUYS I LOVE FICS AND META ABOUT YUUJIN’S MOTHER YOU HAVE NO IDEA), and “Realization” by WalkTheTyrannosaur (an adorable-sounding setup for an Appmon sequel!)

And finally er… we’re all adults right? Put the kids to bed and lean in real close.

I haven’t been reading much M-rated stuff lately. But Kirishtu’s “My Light, Your Light” is a very nice five-years-later Haru x Yuujin fic, if you’re into that sort of thing!

So, that’s what I’ve been reading! Now tell me, what have YOU been reading? Let’s spread some fanfic love!

[tottwritesfanfic]

So, I was tagged by @gilrael for the following:

List all the things you’re currently working on in as much or little detail as you’d like, then tag some friends to see what they’re working on.

This can be writing, art, vids, gifsets!

HOO BOY.

Listen, my first reaction was pretty much “I can’t list all the things I’m currently working on. It’s...no one wants to read that whole list. It’s too long. There’s too much.”

I have been called out good and proper, but you know what? This is what the read more button was made for. These won’t be in any particular order, because I really don’t have an “order” in which I work on things? Also, some of these projects are so far on the back-burner that I really can’t say I’m actively working on them, but I never know when inspiration will strike next and divert me from what I should be doing. Essentially, if it makes the list, I think of it in my head as “imma finish this.” 

Buckle up peeps, because we May Be Some Time.

My Epic YA Fantasy Series Featuring Pretty Much Zero Romance. I neglect this series way too much for something I consider my firstborn, but this is my Passion, okay. My very username is derived from the initials of the series title. I’ve been writing and rewriting it for almost two thirds of my life now, and one day when I have something to show for that labour of love, I will be screaming about it from the rooftops. Mark my words. Also I counted this as one but there’s like...at least five novels, and also shitloads of maps and worldbuilding notes, and songs, and I have a boxfile of old pictures drawn by myself or my sister, and progress on three or four conlangs... It’s hard to really convey just how much of this shit there actually is, if I’m honest.

Hope’s Fire My first ever proper fanfic, and also sorely neglected of late. I love this story so much though, and once I push past the block I have for the current chapter I can’t wait to progress with it, because there are fuuuun times ahead.

A Standalone Novel (sucky working title is “The Aspect’s Choice”) Another YA novel, which...actually has a complete draft? Like, start to finish with no skipped scenes or anything like that. There’s magic and shit, and also no romance for the lead, it’s like this is a theme in my works or something (there’s a background romance this time tho, for those of you who like shipping).

A Fantasy Trilogy about paradoxes and multidimensional travel. I’m mentioning this one now even though I’m kinda...not working on it that much, because I’ve borrowed heavily from it for some fanfic projects. The first novel is a fantasy spy thriller, the second is a sort of...ensemble piece about a major disaster at a futuristic interdimensional traffic control place a lot like an airport/train station, and the third one is a journey through space and time on a sorta magic train which explains how the fuck the first two books are actually connected.

A World of Trouble (The Spy AU) Haikyuu fic! I started this for the HQ Brofest last year and it’s really taken off. The plot for this story was shamelessly nicked from the first book in the above trilogy, albeit with some fairly substantial divergences. 

Until We Move On My...actually, daaamn, this was my first HQ fic. I entered this fandom in a fairly definite fashion, with Suga already dead and Oikawa following shortly after - I swear it’ll have a happy ending for them both eventually tho.

Metanoia, Renascent, and Equanimity (the Trinacriform series) I debated listing these separately, to be honest. There’s no denying that Metanoia and Equanimity are higher up on my list of things to work on than Renascent is right now, but all three are still important to me and all three are going to be finished someday. Ultimately they’re here as one because holy shit this list is going to be long enough already.  Rest assured I do actually think of them as three separate entities in my head! 

The Triffid AU (just gonna list these because there are Several and holy shit I’m still so far from the end): Dangers Unseen - First in the series, Karasuno accidentally sleep through the apocalypse. Interview Transcripts - Set a few months after DU; tells all the side-stories I have to skip in DU for pacing reasons. Seijoh arc (current working title of “In Search of Silver” which will almost certainly change) - I haven’t posted any of this yet but it’s hecking angsty. A Bit Like Home - Sequel to Dangers Unseen, set a year or so after. Also hasn’t been posted anywhere yet. At the moment it’s mostly bokuaka stuff but the idea is for it to be a collection of sorta halfway standalone stories.  I have more ideas for this AU than just these, but I haven’t started writing them yet and I’m not GOING to until this list gets shorter.

An Error of Cat-Astrophic Proportions I’m not gonna lie, this basically started out as a stupid halfway-joking crack fic and it got out of control. 

Partner Fic to “The Carpenter’s Gift” I started writing this and got a couple of thousand words in and then basically started over. I’ll get there. Probably not before the following though:

KiyoYachi Soul Animal AU fic Set in the same universe as “The Carpenter’s Gift”, sorta...around the same time?

Another Original Fantasy Trilogy I love my fantasy, okay? The three novels in this series are all technically started, although only two of them have any substance: The Legend and the Lake is a novel about a Great Hero, and how he...actually isn’t as much of a hero as he’s going to be remembered as.  Spells and Fire is about a real fucking hero and her apprentices, and how she absolutely will not be given full credit for all she does (because she’s a bit of an arse) The Lake Guardian’s Child will be a story about a minor goddess who meets a mortal that immediately falls in love with her, and their journey to cure him of that love because he’s actually sorta engaged already.

Not Within This Restless Heart A HQ!! poly soulmate au which will probably piss off a lot of people by teh end, because no one who’s read it seems to have caught on about how complex the poly relationship is actually gonna be.

Digimon Frontier Fic - working title “Loss and Gain” I can’t really explain this one properly. It’s Angst, that’s all.

Best Laid Plans A secret santa fic I need to finish! I have part of the second and final chapter written, but life intervened and I lost my flow. Hoping to get back to it some time in the next week.

Bokuto Koutarou’s Excellent, Totally Foolproof Plan To Save Christmas As above, really (except it’s the final of 3 chapters, and it’s also the sort-of sequel to “An Error of Cat-Astrophic Proportions” ). I want to finish this up soon, so hopefully life will stop being annoying!

Lifetime Achievement Ennotana fic in which Ennoshita is a film director up for a highly prestigious award he’s dreamed of for his whole life...but he has amnesia and it currently means nothing to him.

Travellers AU - Yachi story For the HQ Brofest! Details are hush-hush for now but it’s the same universe as my time travel practical joke fics. Expect similarly ridiculous stuff.

Things We Misplaced Someone accidentally challenged me to write angsty smut which wasn’t hatesex. Smut is not my thing but I’m really stubborn okay, so I’m writing it.

BNHA Bang Fic Details are under wraps for now, but it’s gonna be fun.

A Zine Fic. It’s early days, okay?

Swansong It angst. Also not being posted to this account, for Reasons.

The Digital Fallout AU A ridiculously wide-scope Digimon AU featuring crossover appearances from like, almost all the series. It’s very much on the back burner for now but I still like thinking about it. Someday. Currently comprises of two kinda short fics: “Adventure’s End” and “The Home Frontier” but I’ve planned a LOT further.

Connection Problems This was going to be for the HQBB in 2017 but I got a massive block and had to put it on hold. I’m hoping to revisit it and finish it up by...maybe Halloween.

The Book An original novel I’ve intermittently been working on for a few years now. Essentially the titular book may or may not be sentient, but it is definitely malicious.

First Draft The..um...sequel to my standalone novel, and both my fantasy trilogies. In my defence it started out as a joke and spiralled out of control and now I want to write it for real but I literally have seven novels to finish first. 

...so yeah. That’s more or less all my active (on some level) writing projects. Hopefully I didn’t forget anything! There are a few more which I have ideas for, but I haven’t started them yet and I’m not going to until this shitstorm is a little less overwhelming. I also have costumes for my kids that I’m about to make, but...I’m not going into other creative ventures here because I will literally never finish. Oh, and there’s tagging, too... Huge apologies for dragging you to the end of this hot mess, but I’m calling on @draculasstrawhat and @ahiddenpath along with any other mutuals who didn’t already get tagged (I know I took long enough to do this that a lot of people already did!) No obligations of course, but I love seeing what people are up to!

[simonaott904-blog]

20 Resources That'll Make You Better at digimon world dawn

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Digimon Globe for the PS1 is a great game if you enjoy Tamagotchi style gameplay. You need to raise and train them carefully in fact it is better to follow a information so that you can train the correct stats to make sure your Digimon digivolves into the particular monster you want. Once you have them digivolved you possess a certain amount of gametime before they will die and then you have to retrain the hatched Digimon. The main storyline revolves around you exploring to find a specific Digimon and recruit it back again to the village.

The English dub cast is fantastic and they are the reason I blind bought this anime without seeing it on legal streaming in Japanese. In the movie, Digimon Adventure which was a prelude to the Digimon series, no one knew the way the gateway between the Digital World and real life was activated. All they saw was just a moment when Digimon could travel from one to the other. Pokémon fans will immediately recognise the gameplay method of Best Fiends and can enjoy what it has to offer. When you begin out, you'll have the option between three different starter creatures (audio familiar?), and from there, you will http://www.bbc.co.uk/search?q=digimon start your journey to be the best.

Digimon Globe: Data Squad exists predominately as a tie-in for the recent Digimon: Data Squad anime series, so it shouldn't be too astonishing that the overall game spends short amount of time on character introductions and cuts straight to the flimsy plot. There's a great evil in the digital globe that's causing Digimon to do something all crazy, threatening to break through to the real world, and it's really up to the spiky-haired, androgynous Data Squad to investigate. Making things personal, younger sister of one of the associates of the info Squad, along with a bunch of additional young girls, has gone missing, plus they believe there's a connection. Characters will occasionally pop-up to shout some awkward dialogue, but once all the parts are set, the rest of the game is mostly simply a long, tiresome dungeon crawl.

It's hard to just go through the game at start state and realize the scope of what it was doing, the way that it had been forcing the industry to rethink several long-held assumptions about grouping and leveling. Certainly it wasn't noticeable to the devs at Blizzard, who (if memory serves) implemented the solo-friendly leveling framework because they wished to allow players in to the raiding endgame quicker and more efficiently. It had been only later that they realized just how much people recommended a more accessible framework and what that actually meant for the game's development.

I've only performed the first Digimon Globe, so I have no idea how it prices alongside the others. But I could say it's lots of fun. You teach up your Digimon, travel the island discovering new Digimon to provide to the town which grows the more people join. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary Content material in this edit is normally translated from the existing Russian Wikipedia article at :ru:Digimon Adventure; see its history for attribution.

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I by no means claim this is a blacks versus whites issue. Multiculturalism could be applauded by blacks, since they get black background month, etc etc etc. Nonetheless it was created, promulgated, trained, and defended by whites who are ashamed of their own competition; ashamed by their very own country; and who would like everything America has stood for to become turned upside down-deconstructed. If you feel "popular 'old college' samurai anime," you imagine Rurouni Kenshin. The anime adaptation was manufactured in 1996, and was directed by Furuhashi Kazuhiro. Originally a manga (Japanese comic) series, Rurouni Kenshin follows the tale of Himura Kenshin, a wandering samurai through the Meiji period who utilized to be a skilled assassin working for the Bakumatsu government.

Digimon Globe Championship on the Nintendo DS is sort of like an upgraded type of the original Digimon games that were virtual-pets. You feed and care for your Digimon, and help them digivolve into more powerful forms. Championship is also very, very, VERY dull. There is very little gameplay in this game; your Digimon pals do all your work for you. All you have to to do is be sure that they are taken care of, which isn't exciting whatsoever. Championship looks wonderful for a game on the DS, and it does provide good nostalgia for individuals who grew up with the original Digimon virtual pet playthings. Notwithstanding that, Championship is certainly virtually Digimon for babies.

Stingmon is one of the more recognizable Digimon to anyone who was raised viewing the anime. Stingmon 1st showed up in the anime in Digimon Adventure 2 where he served as an antagonist for the 1st part of the time of year. Although Stingmon seems to be a Digimon with a cool head that's ready to battle at any time, his rookie type Wormmon is certainly a wimp and may never state what's on its mind. One of the major factors that produce Stingmon so cool is the drastic transformation in personality after digivolving. Stingmon's character is a key factor down the road when Stingmon becomes an excellent man and pairs up with his former rival Veemon creating an ideal balance between the two. Stingmon may not become the coolest Digimon on appearance alone, but he is certainly one of the coolest in the Digimon Universe all together.

What does inspire though, may be the video game that accompanies the cartoon. You play it in real life pretty much exactly as you see it performed by the individuals on the TV. Minus the huge battling monsters. The game includes magnetic transforming Bakugan monsters that start out as spheres, but when they encounter the magnetic Gate cards they unfold to reveal the creature inside. If you want to discover ways to play Bakugan, you can try the official website. There are all types of trick shots and in depth strategies you can devise when playing this video game. It's so popular Toys R Us provides been hosting tournaments around the US.

The anime is based on a Capcom video game group of the same name, and takes place during the digimon world 4 agumon digivolutions Sengoku, or the Warring States Period, in Japan. Two young warlords from rivaling regions form an alliance to bring down Oda Nobunaga, the Devil King. A Chinese manhua was written and drawn by Yuen Wong Yu (余 遠鍠 Yu Yuen-wong), who based its storyline on the television series. This adaptation addresses Digimon Experience in five volumes, Digimon Adventure 02 in two, Digimon Tamers in four, and Digimon Frontier in three. The original stories are seriously abridged, though on rare occasions events play out differently compared to the anime.

In Japan, nine Digimon anime movies have been released. Seven of these are related to their anime series. Of the nine all but two have been released worldwide. Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode and X-Evolution are the two that have not really been released internationally. Minato Sahashi is an intelligent son, but because of his inability to deal with pressure he's unemployed and failed university exams twice. One day he meets a girl named Musubi, who actually falls from the sky. Minato learns that she is a Sekirei who chose him as her Ashikabi: a human which allows a Sekirei to bring out her full powers and participate in life-threatening battles.

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I was tagged by @grayson-graysoff

The rules are to answer the questions in a new post and tag 10 people you’d like to know better. 

1: Nickname? “Badgers” is my nickname, my real name is Cheyenne

2. Star sign? Leo

3. Height? 5′11″

4. Time right now? 8:10 pm

5. Favorite music artists? UHH. I’m not even sure. It changes a lot, but I will always love One Direction. Fight my ass. 

6. Song stuck in your head? "Down Once More” from the Phantom of the Opera OST (and also the Digimon Frontiers theme song???) 

7. Last movie watched? I LITERALLY JUST GOT BACK FROM SEEING HIDDEN FIGURES TAHT MOVIE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL AND POWERFUL I LOVE TARAJI SO MUCH IM STILL CRYING I FEEL SO SMALL BUT SO BIG I AM SO AMAZED BY BLACK EXCELLENCE AND BY MAN’S NEED TO DISCOVER AND PROGRESS IM GOD DAMN PSYCHED

8. Last TV show watched? I’m watching Amazing World of Gumball rn

9. What are you wearing right now? just a pair of shorts and a prayer

10. When did you create your blog? like 2009?

11. What kind of stuff do you post? IT used to be a heck ton of smut but now 13 year olds follow me, so I mostly post voltron stuff (wholesome and good)

12. Do you have any other blogs? I have 9 other blogs

13. Do you get asks regularly? Yeah, pretty regularly. Not as often as I did before I went on semi-hiatus, but still a good number

14. How did you choose your URL? I like to sexualize Lance McNyah

15. Gender? Male

16. Hogwarts house? I’m a Hufflepuff

17. Pokemon team? Instinct! 

18. Favorite color? Yellow (:

19. Average hours of sleep? it’s either four or fourty seven there is no in between 

20. Lucky numbers? 11 and 34

21. Favorite characters? DAMN let’s limit it to top ten? Scott McCall, Lance McNyah, Jim Kirk, Peter Parker, Simon Lewis, Ron Weasley, Hinata Shouyou, Hunk Garrett, Anya Jenkins, Rory Williams

22. How many blankets do you sleep with? just one (1)

23. Dream job? Being dead. Professionally. 

tagging: @lionbots @oceanpaladin @femmish @yellowpaladamn @phospenumbra @aredhotmoon and like all of my mutuals. idk. i was trying to tag and i got distracted and lazy and now i don’t want to. ilu all

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Since you are probably the most impressive person I have ever met about Digimon stuff I am going to tell you one of the wildest things about Digimon that very little people know since it is information that is only about Digimon on Latinoamérica.

So, latine dubs are messy messes, they often get japanese scripts but have to adapt with how the english dubs change shit for marketing purposes, and with this comes one of the messiest example of it all, Digimon Savers.

Digimon Savers' dub had a hell production, with the director saying that they sometimes had to work without scripts or having to mismatch japanese and english to make it work somehow or even scripts of languages they did not know like portuguese. So, then it comes the big thing, back around the 2000's of course that fandubbing was a thing, not only that but also fandubs as in original translations were a thing so, what does this have to do? Easy, the lyrics of Gou-ing! Going! My Soul!, Hirari and One Star being stolen from a popular fandubber known as dualkeyx.

Like, this shit to this day is so bonkers it is unreal. They straight up took the lyrics of a fandubber and put it on the official release of the anime, the god damned official translation of an anime has the lyrics of a fandub... which are very good actually, not gonna lie, the opening slaps but still... wild crap.

Besides that, there is also the fact that to this day it is totally unknown who is the singer behind the translated Frontier opening and ending...

Wish you an excellent day.

First of all, thank you so much for such a compliment!

I love hearing stories about different Digimon dubs! This really does sound wild, though. I'm generally sympathetic towards the things localization entities have to do, and especially back in that era, but stealing things uncredited is definitely pretty low.

Thank you for sharing!