#episode: Drawing Digimon Based Only on Their Original Sprites

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6/20/2023:

6 episodes since Drawfee last referenced Cats (2019)

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Digimon tamers retrospective- Episode 32

It turns out that the shibumi Hypnos has been trailing is actually a mokumon. This does raise the question on how a fresh level digimon is able to bio-emerge…until you consider that shibumi has the blue card

Hell, I think it’s safe to say mokumon is shibumi’s partner

Yamaki spared waste no time getting the tamers parents on board. Good thing to, since most of them didn’t get to say goodbye or even know where they’re children for the past few months

Another thing is should mention concerning the franchise; digimon are both fantasy creatures and self aware ai. In other words, they’re humans dreams and imagination manifesting in the global computer network. Dolphin even states that the original digimon were based off the dreams and stories of the monster makers children

This is also why it’s always children who become partnered with digimon: their childish nature makes them more open to digimons fantastical nature

Yamaki must be opperating juggernaut (for a third time today) in order to communicate with takato

Takato basically lies to the parents in order to tell them everything hunkey dorey(he also probably told them about ryo, which is why his parents show up in episode 41)

As ryo explained, Humans in the. digital world aren’t subject to the worlds logic, which means they don’t need to eat, drink, or breath, unless they think they do(digimon are still affected though. Maybe Henry used a card that allowed him to breath underwater)

Aw, the divermon is just trying to protect his Otamon kids

So the tube leads to a hub of sorts that transports users to various points on the mini-verse. Henry, terriormon, and takato just happen to be transported to shibumi’s library(or maybe they were guided there by digi gnomes)

Here he is, shibumi aka Gorou Mizuno aka konaka’s self insert

Info dump time

Apparently shibumi was supposed to have been revealed to be dead at the end of episode 23, but that scene was cut for time. Konaka said “fuck it time to make him an actual character” we see later that shibumi was in a coma astral projecting himself into the digital world via his life support machine

He seems very tired, like he dosent have much time left in this world. Not because he’s dying, but quite the opposite, he’s starting to wake up

I think shibumi’s dream speech is supposed to be deep, but I don’t even he knows what’s going

Shibumi:”talked about dreams and evolution”

Takato and Henry: “grandpa’s off his meds again”

“It just seemed logical to call them digi-gnomes, al least to me.” Yes, it’s logical to call sprite like fish creature…gnomes

So, as it seems the blue card was created by shibumi and the digi gnomes to allow for data to communicate with the real world. The d-arcs are versions of the blue card converted into the form of hand held devices

Tamers also cleverly subverts the chosen children angle. Yes, takato, rika and Henry were all chosen by the digi gnomes… but as part of some grand destiny(shibumi didn’t even expect for the kids to become tamers) just as a way to communicate with the real world

I do think azulongmon may have had a hand in it, but I’ll get into that later

Shibumi also explains that the catalyst was an algorithm meant to allow digimon digivolve easier, and cause them to become more sentient(it’s implied that digimon could digivolve without the catalyst, but it would require massive amount of data, hence the kill or be kill attitude. Think gaining EXP to modify their own code)

We’ve see here how guilmon was created; the digi-gnomes used data packets and info from takato’s drawing to bring him to life

If heard from some that takato’s angst over weirder guilmon is just data is forced drama. Personal though, I think his reaction to all this is the result of the illusion being shattered, so to speak. Not only does he know how guilmon was created, he learns that his partner exist only because digi-gnomes wanted to communicate with real world, and he just happened to wanted it a lot. Like they gave him a toy

Furthermore more, takato starting to realize that data can be erased, replicated, altered etc. so that leaves him with the question: if guilmons data, how easy would it be to completely change him?

As we see soon enough, not hard at all…

In less existential news, I think there was a error in the script. The sovereigns domain is stated to be the highest layer, when in actuality, it’s the lowest

Oh yeah, the sovereign digimon is actually one of the four sacred digimon from adventure. In this continuity, they appear to be digimon that have evolved to the point of reaching godhood, and have dedicated themselves to protecting their home

“Digimon and humans will never be able to separated themselves from humans” the last episode:

“It seems they’re afraid the won’t survive unless they find away to defeat whatever is coming for them” and people say the true enemy wasn’t built up