#frontier coded

[child-of-the-undead]

I read that post(?) about D collecting trinkets from everywhere in the Frontier and I've been thinking about it ever since.

The idea of D finding shiny things™ in his trips and keeping them on is endearing.

I also like the idea of him buying trinkets and souvenirs from towns destined to disappear. But not from the tourist-y stores and shops, but from old artisans fighting to keep their culture.

Being immortal is also being a keeper of forgotten memories. As immortality rolls on, dead towns live through you.

[twipsai]

BE WHO YOU'RE MEANT TO BE; EVEN IF IT KILLS YOU!

[ghostlychaosfoil]

having.. sonknux thoughts

i live off this image btw

[molinaskies]

Where do you personally feel Sonic started developing feelings for Amy? I like to think deep down he's had a crush since SA1 but would always brush it aside and be in constant denial to himself about it, before fully realizing "wait I really do love this girl!?" sometime around Unleashed to IDW

P.S. - Ever since reading ILYCWM, I can't stop associating "I Miss You" with these two

since the moment he laid eyes on her in Sonic CD

Lol while this ^ is an interesting take on the ship that I do like to think about sometimes, I’m not sure it’s the easiest to justify! I don’t adamantly disbelieve it though.

That said, I think you’re just about right on the money! Sonic needed to see Amy as an equal (and vice versa, honestly) before any real romantic connection between them could flourish, and that’s what happens in SA1. Amy sets out to be her own hero not only to impress Sonic, but to prove to herself that she can do it (and that she is just as special as he is). Conversely, Sonic needed Amy’s persistence to simmer down into something tangible before he could even engage with it. When Sonic sees more of Amy doing her own thing and even standing up to him, he can actually take her in and like what he sees.

There are some questionable situations between SA1 and Unleashed, for sure (thank you so much, SegaAmerica /s), but more often than not, I think we see a lot of situations where Sonic likes teasing her and having her around. It’s not until Unleashed where they get to interact on more neutral grounds and Sonic brings himself to consider her more seriously.

@multiisketch had an awesome take recently on one of my posts about them (talking about the sonamy idw cover for the 5th anniversary). To paraphrase and simplify, “Sonic rejected his feelings for Amy for so long because the whole idea of her intimidated him so much until she mellowed out.”

(And I’m sorry to leave you with that little brain worm lol! “I Love You - Come With Me” is a Sonamy fanfic I wrote. It’s in my pinned post!)

[mic-check-stims]

Sage board for anon

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[therestofmyfandoms]

yes lets go its that time: shangri-la posting again

okay so: this episode we got a very nice timeline breakdown, with sunraku having the game competition thing happening the next few days, with likely the last day of the week being the only day the gang has to come together to beat ctharnidd. fun!!

also because i have yet to comment on it: rust my beloved i love her so much. gets presented with a deactivated robot and it's the best thing she's ever seen. i really hope that she gets a reward similar to wolf gang did for beating wethermon. if my girl doesn't get her own robots there will be hell to pay

[polling-sonic-fans]

Does Sonic Frontiers remind you of Code Lyoko?

Thanks anon! Polls for the Sonic fandom on just about anything. Share polls you like to get more data. Asks and submissions always open.

[skxawngonearth]

I literally can't anymore with some of you

What in the actual FUCK is wrong with those people?

Sexualizing literal kids/teens to such extends is sick.

If you think that this kind of content is ok/you make such content, please stay as far away from me as possible/block me.

Skxawng out

[alpaca-clouds]

Digimon and the Chinese Market

Back when I was doing my economics degree, I learned how to read investment reports and I did the next logical thing for someone with autism and a hyperfixation on Digimon: I started to read Bandai Japan's yearly reports starting with 1997, when Digimon first launched. Now, due to my issues with investment Japanese and the fact that online translators were not that good, this also meant that I had to annoy two dear friends about those reports again and again. While I quickly learned how to read the actual tables of returns, gains and so on, they did have those columns on how their franchises were doing. And I quickly learned that they usually just put the "overseas market" for their stuff off as: "Oh yeah, we released this and that in the US, this in Europe, and this to Asian markets." And that was pretty much it. Because Bandai - like many companies - basically is partitioned into subsidaries with different investment reports. So, basically we have Bandai America, Bandai Europe, Bandai Asia, and Bandai Japan. While these days the Japanese reports go a bit more into oversea sales, that did not start until the late 2010s.

So, for the most part I never really thought about Digimon outside of my own country - Germany - the US (due to the biggest fansites being US run) and Japan. I kinda knew that the series was pretty big in Brazil, apparently, but that was it. Well, and I knew that from time to time Bandai Asia, and specifically China would get merchandise that the rest of the world would not get. Most notably some Digivices and V-Pets that were kinda cool looking but never got released outside of Asia. And there was D-Cyber of course. Which was cool, and thankfully got a translation. But that was it.

Well, until around 2015 I watched a documentary that someone had uploaded to Youtube. Tbh, I do not know how that documentary was called, but it had a couple episodes and was probably from around 2010 (maybe 2009, maybe 2011, but around 2010). It was basically about Chinese culture around learning and school and how children in different parts of China grew up. I was mainly watching as research for story I was writing back then. But then I noticed something: Digimon.

Yeah, in this absolutely not Digimon-related documentary, I saw... Well, a lot more Digimon merchandise, than I would have expected. One of the kids in Rural China was wearing a T-Shirt with Agumon. One of the other kids was in a soccer kid club, that had a Digimon mascot. And one of the city kids clearly had some Digimon merchandise in his room. Now, mind you, the documentary never mentioned the franchise by name in any way, but as an autistic person obsessed with Digimon, I was sitting there like: "Wait... Is Digimon kinda big in China?!"

Well, a couple years and three chinese-exclusive mobile Games later - one of them apparently featuring a whole ass story... Yeah, actually apparently Digimon is actually pretty popular in China o.ô

I think this is almost funny in a way, given that usually in the west we just do not think a whole lot about the chinese market in any way or form. Sure, these days, when it comes to movies, we will at times mention that indeed, a lot of companies are marketing their movies towards the chinese market. Or you will hear how the chinese game market is big. But that is it.

But in terms of Digimon, it seems that indeed China has a really strong market with a lot of people willing to invest in not only into Digimon merchandise, but also games and manga. I think most of us by now know, that there was a ton of exclusive Chinese manga.

While D-Cyber eventually also released outside of China (as did the Manhua adaptations of the first four seasons), neither Legendary Skies (a sequel of sorts to Frontier) or Battle released or even got so much as a scanlation. Same seems to go for the manga adaptions of Savers, Xros Wars and the Adventure remake. (At least according to Wikimon.)

All in all, I feel this is a rather interesting aspect of the fandom, that rarely is discussed.

Obviously the lack of discussion also has majorly to do with how little information on some of those Chinese things. We have a fairly good overview of the plot of New Century, and as mentioned got D-Cyber translated. But all we have from Legendary Skies is some single pages and a plot overview.

Now another Phone Game has released a couple of days ago - Digimon Source Code. Another one I will asume is going to have its own little story.

And... Yeah, I don't know. I am fascinated by this almost invisible part of the fandom.

[ran-orimoto]

JUNZUMI CATS JUNZUMI CATS JUNZUMI CATSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS I LIVE FOR YOUR CATS X JUNZUMI

I personally live for Junpei’s VA greeting Izumi’s VA with a “MEOOOOOOOOOOW” on Twitter once. It altered my braincells in irreversible ways because they are two dorks just like their characters. To a 2025 of Junzumi and their pets. This year I need to learn how to draw dogs ( and better cats). I want to draw Liú being the luckiest dog having Junzumi as owners.

Please, Junzumi, adopt me.

[ How I imagine Anon thinks about them as cats whenever they write these asks. IS THIS YOU, ANON? ]

[venusonvellum]

Oscar's face here though?? 😭

[child-of-the-undead]

As smitten as I am with the handsome hunter D, I can't say I find him unsettling, to say the least. He's a beautiful horror beyond human comprehension.

It's just something about the unearthly of his beauty, the unfathomable nature of his power.

He's like an angel, muttering "Do not be afraid", while he flourish his sword.

His ever growing potential, the way he's just above everything in his world... Closer to his creator, to us, than to his own world.

That's the true horror of Vampire hunter D

[greliz]

It's time for the definitive end of year gaming awards YOU'RE WELCOME

[un-pearable]

i’m mulling it over but i keep being tempted to make a Zelda Unleashed joke bc everything aside from the forced transformation is just like. textually there

[piscesdragon8]

Who would win in a catfight: Odd Della Robbia (Code Lyoko), Koichi Kimura (Digimon Frontier), or Adrien Agreste (Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir)?

[ur-fav-is-autistic]

Could you please do Teylan from Avatar Frontiers of Pandora is autistic? Ty ^-^

Teylan from Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is Autistic!