Analyzing Adventure

You know the way Toei was willing to give Vamdemon a facelift in Ghost Game and even touched up Piemon's design, I would have prayed they'd give Jokermon a little facelift too but nope. He's as hideous as he was in his Hunters Debut.

He's voiced by Iwata Mitsuo (not the same guy who voiced him in Hunters), that's GG's Clockmon. Okay sure

Who gave Jokermon a driver's licence though. Why are they delivering bloody dolls and then running over shady business men. This setup is weird lmao

So when did the green eyed mystery girl get there, without Tomoro even noticing her.

Girl where the hell are you just going, taking Gekkoumon with you. Girl that's kidnapping!!

Miharu. As in "keeping an eye on something"? What a silly name (/j, I'm sure her name has a more meaningful spelling in Japanese)

OH THIS JOKERMON IS STRAIGHT UP COMMITTING MURDERS?? NOT EVEN HOSPITALIZING PEOPLE, STRAIGHT UP MURDERS?? Y'all know I'm not fond of the evil murder clown trope so I am kinda sad, but hey GG gave me a Good Sport Piemon so I can take this L

Oh this victim just barely survived the murder attempt, how lucky?

Oh, so is the Jokermon gonna show up at the hospital to try to finish the job? Okay okay

Dude if you're gonna go out of your way to try delivering ominous threats moments before killing the guy, just. Skip a step and put somekinda explosive in the drone package. You could be committing murders so much more effectively!!

OH THAT WAS AN EXPLOSIVE LMAO you got me there BeatBreak. I'm sorry I keep on underestimating you o7

What is your deal man, why are you like this lmao

Oh I just realized they colored his shoulder poofs wrong, oops

HE'S SO FUCKING UGLY HOLY SHIT

LIKE IT'S DOWNRIGHT IMPRESSIVE HOW UGLY HE IS LMAO

God, the animation budget is not on my side this episode, lmao

Oooo we got the first canon appearance of Gaia Magicar :Oc Oooo

Okay but seriously how does Jokermon just fly. Channeling Adventure Piemon floating around are you.

At least Jokermon's partner is having the time of her life being a little menace

Oh, wait, with the weird face paint. Are. Are they trying to channel like DC Joker & Harley with these two. Is that what's happening. Oh I hate that

Okay.

Okay, running the truck off the road and crashing it into the side of the building to get the CEO Guy. You get style points for that. That's cool.

Okay we got to The Real Action Scene and it's well animated, okay here we go. HERE WE GO!!

I'm winning chat, I'm getting well animated action with Jokermon!! He's ugly as shit but it's nicely animated!! I'M WINNING CHAT!!

There... There was a "GIFT" heart inside the Sapotama, after Jokermon got poofed... Were he and the partner being kinda brainwashed into the Murder Clown BS..? Huh..?

Ah, so the CEO Guy was sending Digimon into concentration camps to be killed. And Jokermon and the Human were part of... something..? Trying to stop it..? Huh...

The plot is thickening, I'm very interested to see where this story arc is going

Honestly though, good enough episode. Could have been mildly better if they had turned the Crazy Murder Clown trope down maybe just a smidge, and even better if they had given Jokermon a facelift. But that's just me lmao

In the end, I am kinda happy to have seen my obscure fave Digimon star in the show again, especially considdering Jokermon was a Hunters Contest Digimon, not one I ever actually expected to see again

Also, it's funny... Piemon is often one of the first Ultimate level Digimon (though usually not The First) the main characters have to somehow overcome (this happened in V-Tamer, Adventure, Survive and Ghost Game). Obviously we've seen a ton of Perfect level Digimon in Beat Break already, but this was the episode where Tomoro was able to unlock Perfect evolution for Gekkoumon more reliably, and so Jokermon was the first Perfect-level they had to learn to fight one-on-one, so like. Jokermon kinda kept that funny, unintentional role Piemon has had in parts of the franchise here. I dunno that's funny to me

Yeah, alright episode! Excited to see where the plot will be going from here!

I went to watch the next episode preview and

To be clear I think The Certain Digimon only appears in episode 28 if I catch up now I'll be ready to experience this Rare Mon Sighting on Sunday, so lesgo

Episode 25, Half-baked Hero

Ah, Octmon and Starmon, doing a sentai show for the kids on a cruise ship... How lovely

So did Chiropmon at all pick up on Starmon being an actual Digimon ooor

OH THEY'RE FAMOUS CLEANERS and the two already knew, oooohh okay yeah. I was worried they were somehow going to be like utterly oblivious for half the episode, which would have been quite annoying

And we got Petermon again-- just vaguely funny to me since we had a Petermon episode in Ghost Game, but hey there's no harm

Yup, a perfectly passable lil filler episode. There's a new ending but I'll watch it later, so onwards we go to

Episode 26, The Taste of Guilt

Oh fuck it's Commandramon's partner

Awe, a lovely reunion

OH YEAH Elizamon got their anime debut! :D Yay! And oh fuck, does Haruomi kinda have two partner Digimon now. Oh are we gonna have some gutwrenching drama about people getting new partners and "moving on". Oh boy this is gonna be a fun episode isn't it

"Darling"

Actually if this ends up being a purely comedy episode, I will be happy with that, because holy shit lmao

Oh yeah 'tis a silly episode. Are they meme'ing on The Pink Sauce with Elizamon's pink curry. Oh my god

Oh no what is Haruomi having a flashback to. What is that reminding him-- wait. Do not fucking tell me. Was it Haruomi who did the hit on Elizamon's original partner. Is that the fucking twist

Oh my god it was, that is what happened, fucking hell

NO FUN ALLOWED HERE ON BEATBREAK, YOU'RE JUST HERE TO GET WRECKED

Yup, another perfectly fine episode

Episode 27, Wandering Love

MUMMYMON! AND THEY'RE A FORTUNRE TELLER THIS TIME! LMAO THAT'S AMAZING LET'S GOOOO

I'm going to piss my pants from laughing that's so funny

GEKKOUMON SAID "AHH" LMAOOO

Oh no Mummymon is taking over all of them

Oh yeah this is my favorite episode these three by a long shot, oh my god

18 COUGAR FELT FIGURES NOOOOOO LMAO

OH NO COUGARMON GOT CREEPED OUT BY KYO WANTING TO SNUGGLE LMAOOO I wonder if that's how my cat feels kdjhfkjhdfg

Awe, cute, Ghostmon got a little cameo :D

Oh NO Mummymon got ditched by their partner ;A; Oh that's so fucking sad, noooo

Poor baby they're just a little guy! ;A; I'll be your new loving partner it's okay Mummymon

I do kinda. Like Mummymon had been consuming enough ePulse to make it this far, so them just... Crumbling and devolving due to being so emotionally overwhealmed kinda feels like a cop-out, I would've preferred it if they let them stay a Mummymon. But I guess it's easier to write the character out of the story by turning them into a baby, oh well

Yup, this was good, fun episode, loved it

Okay, the new ending with the new mystery character who seems to be the Star of this story arc :oc

Yup, a cute ending, nothing much to say about it

Anyway, next episode preview. The reason I was summoned here to begin with

JOKERMON IS REAL AND HE'S UGLY AS EVER

Unrelated to anything but everybody remember to vote for BB in the Crunchyroll Anime Awards (it was nominated for best Original Anime)

Episode 17, Antipathy!

Acting like a petrified cat lmao

OH that's Saito Ayaka reprising her role as Burgamon (voiced Burga in Psi)! I was so disappointed to see Burgamon until I heard her voice OH LETS GO

RIP in peace Shakomon you're getting turned into a seafood burger

Oh no. Oh no it's fucking Burpmon. The actual worst Digimon. Yeah I hate this

Aaaand Shakomon got vore'd, great

Of course Burpmon is burping oh lord

AND VOMITING

Yeah I did not particularly enjoy this episode. Like BB has opinions and thoughts it wants to share (like Makoto coming from a place of privilege not understanding the pain those worse off go through), but I wish the series could do more in these episodes than just Announce it's message at the Epic Climax of the episode and leave it there. It's like each episode is a huge buildup for a guy to stand up on a podium to share and opinion and then walk away, and it just... It falls flat for me

Episode 18, The Price of Freedom

YYYYYEAAAHHH it's Commandramon! :D Oh I've wanted to see this guy in the series for so long, hell yeah! Also the way they've decided to animate his skin texture is so interesting (definitely easier/more convenient than trying to do like actual camo texture that's shaped to his body, but also adds to the idea Commandramon is trying to blend into surroundings by not being so static)

OH COMMANDRAMON CAN LITERALLY GO INVISIBLE, OH THAT'S SO COOL (and kinda fucking OP for a CHILD???)

Oh. Oh jesus. Yeah, yeah, that's.

Ohhh nooo the little child soldier has PTSD from killing people. Oh no.

Oh he's gonna try to sacrifice himself to save Commandr--- wait. Wait.

...

I think I need to go lay down

...OH GOD DAMN THEY GOT ME LMAO, it was a fake out. Gotta give it to BB though, they've handled dark enough subjects that I actually believed they'd be willing to have a guy willingly murder his partner just to get rid of him. I'm actually slightly disappointed it was a fake out but also glad (also yeah it wouldn't have matched at all the guy's personality/the way he told Commandramon to "go live with these guys"), lmao, poor Commandramon tho

Poor baby :(

Okay yeah, the end of the episode ended up being very somber. Yeah. It was a good fucking episode, good job team

Episode 19, Black Market Auction

Oh yay it's Commondomo-- IT'S THE MASK LADY!! THE MASK LADY!! >8U The one thats making my Clown Alarm go off! A false alarm too I'm sure, you absolute tease you

LMAO IT'S THAT GUY AGAIN

Guess they needed to use this for the Silliness Factor to counter balance the fact that. Yeah, it's human trafficing, they straight up said it. God damn.

Lot of young women here being trafficed... Sweet jesus...

Thing is, surely if Mask Lady did have a Piemon as her partner herself she would not need to have the Tactics guys as security. And like, we'd know she have a Digimon herself because That's A Fucking Nuke. SO IT HAS TO BE A FALSE ALARM

Oooo there's a Lunamon and a Cutemon and even a Tsukaimon! :D

BOMBERNANIMON TO THE RESCUE?! YYEEAAH

RIP Tinkermon, you did not get a moment to shine the way you deserved </3

HEY RAITO HANDS OFF MONODRAMON YOU TWAT

I mean... yeah, of course you'd think getting beaten as a punishment would be appropriate when it's what you've been going through too. God damn

Hey. Hey. What the fuck is Klay the Human Trafficer doing at the bar. Hey. What the fuck

OKAY EPISODE, NEXT ONE

Episode 20, Proof of Genius

Alright alright, Mask Lady has been fridged aka we know for sure she doesn't have a Piemon for a partner because god knows that would not have come to pass if she had a nuke walking around like that (also is her mask just welded onto her face or something why didn't he cops unmask her??)

owo? What's Gokuwmon got planned here? owo? What's this?

A just. He was there to be bait. And Tomoro fell for it. Whoops lmao

Oh we're doing a tournam--- GREYMON!! GREYMOOOOON!!!

AH--- oh Greymon got nuked fast. Damn. RIP

So now we have people getting trafficed for dark web snuff/violence streams where they get murdered after losing. Amazing.

I get that Raito has the gifted child trauma but I really need him to stop drinking the manosphere sigma male juice, he's going to start beating his face with a hammer in a few years at this rate

Yeah I had nothing else to say about this episode, I'm not particularly fond of Raito as a character but I enjoyed the action etc etc

Episode 21, The One Beside You

"Even if I take the easy route I'm sure Stella won't forgive me"

Oh sweet jesus I need to go lay down for a moment

I do not like one bit that this suicidal child is being like "Finally! At long last!" when given orders by a physically abusive grown ass adult

GRANIT!!

I'm yelling at John Toei right now

GO REINA!! GO MY GIRL!!! YEAH STOP LUDOMON!!! YEAAAHH

I don't know how to feel about Naked Ludomon. I am just going to move on.

I'm so sorry but TiaLudomon looks so goofy lmao

Ludomon stays naked?? Their armor didn't regen after devolving back?? HUH???

Yeah good episode, also lovely that Klay is getting what's coming to him

Episode 22, Defiance

Don't actually have anything to say about this episode, it was okay

Episode 23, The Power to Take

Aaand we're off to a great start with Naito getting fridged too. You reap what you sow eh

What in tarnation was that flashback

OH WE GETTING LORE ABOUT THE DISASTER

OH TOMORO'S DAD WAS A RESEARCHER THERE???

Oh the Digimon that appeared on the island Jogressed/Xrossed into MotherFuckerUnlimitedmon

And now we see the first Ultimate of the series, drum roll please...

Pyramidimon! :O Ooooh

"Unstable because they forced the evolution" and this is how Tomoro is going to be able to beat this guy in the next episode, right right (I sure wish Crunchyroll had not spoiled that with the episode thumbnail huh)

The rest of the episode really had me going like

I am not immune to them using the opening theme for the climax, that shit always goes so fucking hard it was great

And I actually was like "wait is Kyo actually gonna do it? Wait then why the fuck does Tomoro unlock Perfect in the next episode" aaaand Kyo gets This Treatment

Okay so now we know why Tomoro unlocks Perfect next episode

Yup, great episode! The like, set-up portion felt maybe a bit clunky but it was a good episode!

Episode 24, Overlapping Beats

OH YOU KNOW IT'S REAL WHEN THEY SKIP THE OPENING

Yeah I got nothing, it was a good episode.

Kyo and Cougarmon both get to live another day and avoid the fate of the Leomon too

I do feel like BeatBreak was kind of able to "prove itself" to me during this arc and I'm definitely curious to see where the Gift Arc will go

Guess we shall see!

Ep 10, A True Friend!

Haruko's mom having bruises on her face as she's about to leave... Oof... And then Shademon forced her to stay..? ;A;

Awwwww Shademon's curled up on Haruko's lap like a weird cat, that's so sweet... Don't push them away Haruko, they just want to be loved

Blond hair, red dress, and that mask... Ma'am why are you clown-coded like that

Toei don't toy with my feelings please.

Welp, Haruko's dad slapped Makoto, yeeah that's the confirmation I needed about what was happening with the mom. I can only pray she managed to get away

Ohhhhh my god this son of a bitch was planning on ditching his own daughter just to get himself a better life. What a Piece of Shit holy fuck. Irredeemable, kill him right now

YES SHADEMON KILL KILL MURDER KILL STAB STAB oh you just mentally traumatized him instead of actually TP'ing him outside to let him fall to his death. Well it's still something, GOOD SHADEMON!! GOOD BABY

Oh my god Haruko became a magical girl LET'S GOOOOO THIS IS SO RAD

Kinda wish NightChiropmon had a Better Name but yeah sure, this is fine. And yeah, alas, my conspiracy theory that they could end up dark evolving into a Vamdemon is like 98% dead in the water now, if only because whatever story I feel like Makoto and Chiropmon will go through, it's just not going to go in a direction that would facilitate the evolution. Oh well, the idea was fun though!

YYEESS GET HIM KYO BEAT HIS ASS!! GET 'IM!!!

Aww, the mom got out of the relationship, now Haruko has a place to return to, she won't be like. An orphan. Thank god

I dunno I feel like Haruko accepting Shademon as an extension of herself kinda... Felt kinda flat, but. It's fine, whatever, the episode was fine

Episode 11, A Black Emotion!

Tomoro's parents were ARRESTED?? HELLO??

At least the mystery of Where The Fuck Tomoro's Parents Went has been solved

The whiplash from us going from sincere (if clunky) conflict between Tomoro and Gekkoumon to Divorcee #2...

RAREMON! :D Yay

Ngl I kinda missed having a nice team evoution scene. Like I love and respect BB deciding to have snappu evolution sequences, god knows these things tend to end up being really long-winded and if we're stuck watching 4-8 of them in a row, yeah, it gets old after a while. So short, snappy, and not even used every episode? It is nice and refreshing! But also yeah, getting that nice (first?) group evo 11 episodes in? Also nice! It's been earned!

(I desperately need an evolution song though) (PLEASE)

God Raremon is scary though

Oh I was so getting ready to see Gekkoumon evolve one way or another (or just go berserk otherwise) that I actually forgot the episode prologue thing with Apollomon lmao

ANYWAY OH THIS GUY KNOWS KYO?

(Ah that's still a Flaremon, not an Apollomon yet)

HE WAS IN THE FIVE STARS??? FORREAL??

Odd that CR didn't translate Flaremon's attack name. The lack of translation did make me go double check and "Crimson Beast King Wave" is indeed a reference to Leomon's ol' "Beast King Fist". The more you know

I press "play" and I now get to see the animation of the attack match Jyuuouken lmao

GEKKOUMON DEVOLVED INTO AN ORB LMAO

Yup, the episode was fine! Next one!

Ep 12, A New Family!

Kekomon... Is that name different enough or do we add that to the list of Digimon With Names So Similar You Have To Be Careful Not To Confuse Them

I love how the animators handled Kekomon and making them A Baby. I'm dying they're so cute

MarinBullmon... I actually really like this design, it's so neat. Also they're paaank

OOOOOOH DO WE GET AN EVOLUTION SONG FINALLY? DO WE GET AN EVOLUTION THEME??? LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

Armalizamon!! IS PEEEENK!!! WE GOT A PINK PROTAG!!! YYYYYYEAAAAHHH

Ooooh so blue boy is Gokuwmon's partner? 👀

Yup, that was fun, that was cute

Ep 13, Five Star Meeting!

So first we intro the Five Stars and I get to struggle to remember their names (YAY), and then A LORE DUMP? Let's go boys

Oh good lord

"Why are you [threatening to blow up this mall]"

"That's because..."

Painfully accurate to real life. Beat Break is brutal

Oh my god this week's Mirror World is a fucking Bomberman game lmao

Tactics Team Seven... Been seeing promo art of them all over Twitter (only on there to follow the official Digimon accounts for news at this point) and I was curious to hear what the fuck these guys' deal was. Do we get A Rival Team mayhaps? 👀

Oooooh they're working under Klay from the stars, ooooh

NEW ENDING! Cuuuuute pixel art/game style awww. Ngl my favorite parts were the stock animation bit with the heavy pixel filters applied to them

Anyway yeah, fun episode!

Ep 14, Tactics!

Honestly I don't even have any commentary for this episode, I've been just Enjoying it

Jesus this is brutal though

Well. Souda is a little shit. A dickbag. Child abuse is not the answer.

What can I say, I respect that BB is not pulling its punches (literally) and is making us face The Horrors (while having the kindness to not force to watch it entirely). I respect that, I respect this show.

Yup, good episode, not much to say there

Ep 15, Little Courage!

Oooh, this episode is gonna answer an interesting question for us, eh? Can you get a new partner if your previous one was deleted? And what does that mean for you and your new partner? Hooo this is fun

...Well it wasn't that interesting in the end, OH WELL

Ep 16, Where I Belong!

...

I can not put into words the respect I have for the writer for going here. For being so full of anger about the state of our world, and wanting to express that through this children's anime specifically. That is something most people would be too afraid to do, lest they be political or something and something kids shouldn't have to see.

I have nothing but respect for Beat Break for having things to say, no, scream and shout at the viewers, because things aren't right. Good job Toei, you did good. Yamaguchi, you did good.

Also oh god. Look I was already delighted to see Ludomon as we haven't really seen this (newer) Digimon in any of the anime yet, so to see them in kind of a rival role was fun. Oh no. It's not fun anymore. This is just tragic. My soul is breaking.

For the sake of reference; I've been so shocked by this that I've been sitting here in horror for the past 30 minutes. Like how am I supposed to finish this episode, man. I guess pretty easily since I'm not in a warzone, huh.

REINA IS AN ORPHAN? OH GOD

Oh, I hadn't realized CR uses they/them for Gekkoumon. We love a non-binary creechure

As much as I love the goody two-shoe protags like Taiki, Haru and Hiro, it is actually nice to have a protag like Tomoro who is emotional and rash, like a normal, cranky teenager, it's a nice change of pace

Aaand our AR Field has a new name, 'tis Mirror World this time! It is kinda funny to see how many new names this franchise is willing to come up with for what is essentially the same thing

You know, I do really like that Tomoro wants to go for The Nuclear Option and just fucking kill Fangmon. Like I don't agree with that, but I like seeing such an extreme, negative take from the main fucking character. Also ooooo Tomoro's Nasty Vibes are affecting Gekkoumon! Oooooo! It may not go particularly far this episode but it might happen again later, oooo

Episode 4!

Ah yes, I'm seeing it now. Tomoro's name may begin with a "to" instead of "ta", and he may be wearing glasses instead of goggles, but he is indeed a gogglehead, and Reina is the Yamato to Tomoro's Taichi (I don't mean that super literally by the way, I think Tomoro and Reina fit the archetypes Very Very Loosely in a deconstructed way, at least right now). I see the vision now.

Oooooh big fluffy

Episode 5!

I knew there was a Pandamon coming up, I lowkey hoped they'd be voiced by Koushirou's OG VA since they voiced a Pandamon in Frontier, but alas, no luck. But considdering The Vibe they're going for with this Pandamon, this was a good choise. I already love this damn bear and I just met them lmao

Maybe I'm just too used to not paying too much attention to the subtitles so I just didn't fully realize it until now, but? Beat Break seems to ONLY use they/them for Digimon? Based, love it

Oh shit who-- welp Kenkimon just got deleted, RIP, thank god you had no personality

Ohh so the Astamon I had seen posts about is the bad guy's partner, okay. Like I had seem some promo screenshots but didn't bother to read the context, and because I couldn't remember if Astamon was Adult or Perfect, I had kinda assumed they'd be Chiropmon's Adult evo (which could've been great for my "Chirop will evolve into Vamdemon" propaganda) but nah lmao

Episode 6!

Kind of a bog standard episode, don't have much to say here, 'twas fine, the Pandamon duology was arrite. Though I actually do really appreciate having like a story that lasted TWO episodes instead of a one-and-done standard MotW episode, that's already more interesting for me and far more enjoyable to watch.

Episode 7!

Oh lovely we start with a tiny PSA about not microwaving eggs lest they eggsplode on you (a very real danger, go watch Ann Readon on YouTube if you haven't already)

OHHH WE GOT LORE!! WE KNOW WHO THE (presumed to be) VILLIANS IN THE OPENING ARE!! WE GOT AN ELITE FOUR (but it's five) >8O

The Digimon silhouettes are hard to make out, one of them could be a Bloom Lordmon OR a Lilamon, but that one on the bottom left is totally the Gokuwmon the crew is searching for, huh (since Gokuw is a Perfect then the other Digimon are probably also Perfects, guess that's a point for Lilamon then)

Y'know what. Savers Writer, this week's MotW is a BlackGaogamon, yeah that Elite Silhouette is a Lilamon

Cute episode!

Episode 8!

This could've been an episode of Ghost Game lmao

Yeah, standard episode, nothing special, no notes, it was fine

Episode 9!

owo What's this? Is Makoto a little Young Master who left his rich boy life behind? OWO

"A true utopia humanity built after that horrible disaster" HELLO?? WHAT'S THIS???

God after Ghost Game (and Psi) getting all this lore this early into this series is just SO NICE, LIKE OOOO WHAT'S THIS, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN

Have I mentioned that I love Gekkoumon? Because I love Gekkoumon

Ah, yes, the return of the Digimon Poop Joke. Oh, how I have missed you, my beloved potty humor. The franchise just ain't the same without it.

Ah, did we just get the first use of the term "partner" in this series? :o

The implication that whatever parents Makoto had threw him away and abandoned him because of Chiropmon is. Yeah rich people be like that.

Pro:

Chiropmon is already a Virus Digimon with a bat-theme

Chiropmon's color palette matches Vamdemon; the main color is a dark, muted blue with magenta as a contrast color (red for Vamdemon though his mask is that same magenta), a bit of gold and of course black. Thus it would be quite easy to create a brand new, custom and visually cohesive evolution line for Vamdemon that starts with Chiropmon

The shot of Chiropmon and Makoto in the opening, having fun in the shadows of an otherwise brightly lit church, can be read as having dark undertones. This could be foreshadowing something bad happening to Makoto down the line, and that could easily bring about a dark evolution of some kind, meaning we could end up with a SkullGreymon Moment

BB is about Digimon consuming human energy, which they can indeed do by biting them. Vamdemon is a vampire.

The tiny non-battleheavy Chiropmon evolving into a blood thirsty vampire could be interesting

Vamdemon already kind of got a modernized mild-redesign in Ghost Game that Toei could easily reuse

Against:

Would Toei/Bandai want to bring back such an old Digimon in such a major role as one of the protagonists? Toei have been pretty clear about mainly/only using new Digimon with custom evolution lines for the main characters in new DigiAni since Zero Two, it would be strange and unusual for one of the brand spankin' new partner Digimon to evolve into one of the oldest Digimon in the franchise

From the evolutions we have already seen (Pristimon -> Wolvermon and Cougarmon -> Murasamemon), BB's evolutions may not be as strict and visually cohesive as some previous seasons have been. So although there is potential and an opportunity for a visually cohesive evolution line here (all we'd need is somekinda in-between form between Chirop and Vamdemon), visual cohesion does not add much to the theory

I don't think I mentioned this during episode 1 reaction, but I am very delighted that the opening essentially confirms to us that BB is going to have somekind of a villian organization/group that Glowing Dawn are going up against. As much as I enjoyed Hunters and Ghost Game (and even Psi though to a much lesser degree), my biggest gripe with all those seasons was how none of them had a clear antagonist/villian to go up against. Like maybe it is just because I grew up with the 90's Sailor Moon, PokéAni Season 1 and Adventure, but having the main cast interact with The Main Villian and/or a high ranking henchman each episode kind of builds up tension and a relationship with the characters. A villian that only lurks in the shadows and shows its ugly mug at the very end while the cast is too busy fighting random monsters of the week for the whole run of the series just... it's not that thrilling, y'know? So yeah, Beat Break's opening showing us that we do infact have not just one villian, but also henchmen is kind of a relief, we haven't really had that since Appmon (and while it's been a while, I do vaguely remember wishing Appmon had its villians be a bit more involved too). Of course BB can still completely fumble their villians but! We must remain hopeful!

Alright, so Hitomi from episode 1 didn't get the mysterious Cold Heart as a result of Tomoro accidentally messing with her Sapotama, it was just that the scent of Tomoro's ePulse attracted the Hyemon to her and he ate her ePulse. So Tomoro doesn't have an eerie power that hurts others, that's nice to know

OH OH IS THAT THE FUCKING, WHAT'S HIS FACE, JOURNEY TO THE WEST DIGIMON. Yes I had to go look it up because I could not remember his name, IT'S GOKUWMON ISN'T IT

OHHHH the crew doesn't know who he is!! :O So we wouldn't get the info/name dropped anyway huh? Heehee good thing I checked then

I am curious to find out what happened to Tomoro's parents, like did the kids get abandoned by the parents, did the parents get isekai'd, are they with the villian organization, are they just dead??

I do kinda love how Tomoro's reaction to getting lowkey invited into the Glowing Dawn was a big ol' "fuck you"; like the kid's overwhealmed by everything, so being hesistant makes sense. I feel like your average kids show shounen protag would be very enthusiastic and jump at the opportunity to save their family at any cost, so Tomoro getting ANGRY just feels kinda refreshing? I like that, and I kinda love how he does not get along with Gekkoumon either lmao

The noise I just made laughing at the... Mushroom Gang introducing themselves. Oh my god. Holy shit. Yeah that's stupid and funny

Of course, despite not really getting along, Tomoro is still kindhearted enough that he'll save Gekkoumon. That's good kid <3

Chipromon is so cute though. A lil bat guy <3 Wolvermon asking them who's gonna get blazed next... Oh yeah I love their personality <3 (Also, forgot to mention this earlier but Cougarmon is such a furry fuck I love him)

Ah, and now we have figured out a way to force Tomoro into joining Glowing Dawn despite him not wanting to. Ngl I kinda prefer that over Tomoro being So Good Hearted And Brave that he volunteers to join so he can save his brother, like it's a small thing but I think it adds personality and it's just a little different that makes thing feel a smidge fresh.

Nice episode! Very standard, but it's the begining of a show like this so it's fine. I do actually love how the MOTW combat scene was actually super short, the episode focusing on the plot and character development more. Of course the episode did also start with combat so that kinda compensates, but still, BB being at least a little bit willing to not strictly follow the MOTW episode formula rules is nice.

Awakening from my eternal slumber to react to the first episode of Beat Break. As expected, spoilers under the cut