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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.

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Watch me be pathetic and beg you again to read my comic bc I still have zero feedback on it :D

Ok here goes:

It’s only the prologue and 3 episodes so far with 2 pages on average each so it’s a quick read without any text:)

[billionneuronscurious]

Collected Flowers of Moh/ Mahua. 

Madhuca longifolia.

March 2022

Chandrapur, Maharashtra.

Several parts of Moh/ Mahua are useful to the creatures in the jungle and to man. People claim ownership over trees, and the flowers from the trees that they own are to be collected solely by them. The flowers that fall off from the trees on the ground during night, dawn and early morning, are collected in a typical basket by people. These flowers can be eaten raw. But after drying the flowers, many food items can be prepared from them. Mahua Liquor, which is famous in some parts of India is prepared from the Moh/ Mahua flowers. These trees are an important food source for the jungle folks.

- Dhairyasheel Dayal

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My little girl has turned her first year✨

To create it I was inspired by a typical doll from Mexico and it is simply beautiful

Happy Birthday Muhua❤️

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Highlights from Tiān Guān Cì Fú/Heaven Official’s Blessing (天官赐福) - Chapter 93

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manhua Qi Rong vs Donghua Qi Rong

[billionneuronscurious]

Colours of Leaves of Moh/ Mahua. Madhuca longifolia.

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chat with or without glasses

[haru-naechi]

Second Rant: The Villainess/Mob/Side Character/ Random Girl Who Wakes up in a Novel She Read

Whoopie! Reincarnated to a novel/game, an interesting concept really. Seeing how there is already a pre-determined story to follow, I do wonder how they'll go about this.

*Several reads later*

Oh boy. They can't really think of anything else can't they?

Okay so, one thing I really really like genuinely hate about these stories is how the mc always acts so dumb. Like, girl, come on, I think for the past few years you've been in this world you ought to think that things develop.. idk NaTurAlly? Why do you keep saying that "things are changing" like no shit things are changing, you've changed and that's practically gonna cause a ripple effect on everything.

Oh, oh, and I hate it when ml is like obv showing feeeeelingsss but mc is just: (⁠.⁠ ⁠❛⁠ ⁠ᴗ⁠ ⁠❛⁠.⁠). "No OmG tHaTs NoT PosSIblE, cu'Z he'S supPosEd to FalL foR ThE OrigINaL FL!"

Fuck it even when the ml admits his feelings the girl is just like "no".

It's frustrating to me because authors tend to develop these ladies as quick thinkers and determined, always trying to find ways to avoid death flags set to them. But then they do those aforementioned things and it kinda makes you think how shallow they are. It's like they don't see the relationships they build as real ones and are all just superficial for specific reasons.

I understand the concern when you feel like you're trying to fight against fate but most of these stories don't even actually have that. Things do change and usually nothing terrible happens, but mc acts like there will be even though the author clearly only puts "horrible" things as plot advancers and nothing too serious.

Also, for those mc that woke up in their new body with a shit reputation paired with what everyone knows has a shit personality, why is everyone just okay with her changing all of the sudden — like its just plain stupid. If I knew someone who is evil suddenly becomes good overnight, I would not only be sceptical but also assume that she's possessed (seeing how magic always exists in these worlds i don't that's too far from the realm of possibility right?). This one honestly is what bugs me the most.

Suspicion is removed cu'z mc does something heroic or wonderful (blegh), but that kinda undermines the suffering other people have gone through with the original character. Some authors have even shown fully blown flashbacks where the original character is violent, verbally abusive and typical in every possible way. And these people just, flips a damn switch and say "Oh! She's changed!" Which boggles my mind every time I read something like that.

Which puts me to my next complaint. There is no real villain or even when there is they aren't really appealing. The problems set by the "original" story already gets destroyed like a couple chapters in, so what next? There are quite a lot of stories that just turn the OG Female Lead into whatever the villainess is supposed to be like: delusional, fake, etc. Which to me is, fine, but if you're gonna turn someone else in that world into a villain for the sake of having a bad guy, then why not put the stakes higher? Or at least give them more of a reason than just them feeling entitled to have the boyz. They don't have any substance to them and are bland af. Its a story vying for a downfall you already know will come.

Overall these ladies think too much and too little at the same time. Istg their dialogue can be summarized into "That didn't happen" "This didn't happen in the original.." "Is there a bug in the game..?" or "Why are things not going as the orignal!?"

It burns my brain trying to see through their eyes and understand their logic, until you realize they don't have common sense at all. They are geniuses only when they need to be, but is dumb af everywhere else.

Also, as much as I love puffy, frilly dresses I'm tired of mc changing the og characters seemingly sexiness into this cutesy vibe doesn't sit well with me. They're obviously trying to put this as more of a visual dichotomy between the original character and the current mc, but its not much of a statement. (But honestly this just may be me because I want more sexy mc you know?)

Trust me when I say this post barely covers half of what I truly feel about these stories and this is just the general gist of it. Also couldn't be bothered to add specific titles like the last rant.