The Talking Bager

One odd thing I've noticed with external pieces of media but they seem to continue Daisuke's crush on Hikari despite most of them taking place after 02 when Daisuke doesn't seem to have a crush on her anyone. Just an interesting thing that is kinda annoying to me.

Other than that, Daisuke is mostly the same we see him in other media in this CD drama. He's energetic but caring, seems a little daft but really has strong emotions and dreams he'll do anything to achieve. He's the one to suggest they all spend the summer together, showing that he likes it when all of his friends together and wants to work to them all being together even as he grows.

He goes to get Iori from school with Takeru, commenting on how Iori is still so polite and yelling it excitement when Ken and Wormmon show up but also calling him obsessive when it comes to Ken's treatment of hot springs.

He says he just wants to try ramen in any place they decide to go and makes comments about the ramen he could get there. The others never mention wanting to try ramen outside of just the food of that place, so they mostly ignore Daisuke. Not that Daisuke tries to get attention on himself till the end, but he mostly just comments on other things and chats with the others.

Once at the end, he shows how much he does take the others words to heart. Despite the fact Ken and Iori do not remember these conversations, it's their words that make Daisuke realize that if he likes ramen than he should pursue it and that it will take work to achieve his dream. He uses things given to him by Hikari and Miyako to go more places and learn how too travel the world to try ramen so he can make the best.

In the end, they all agree to go where Daisuke wants too, with the promise he makes them ramen when he has his own shop. Daisuke agrees, and I think this shows how much they all do value Daisuke. They had all been a little selfish as Iori points out, but than they agree to do what Daisuke wanted as an apology and it was his idea to all get together.

Daisuke totally keeps his promise, but of course, they all go to New York. Which the others are shocked about, but it's no surprise Daisuke wants to go to America.

V-mon is mostly just in the background, kinda just wanting to eat food of where ever they go which mirrors Daisuke's want to just try ramen from around the world. They do want to go to the ocean, however, but is emmbarresed when Daisuke says he can go swimming with Hikari. V-mon does tell the others Daisuke's plan to spend a summer trip together, which shows Daisuke has probably been thinking about it long enough to tell V-mon.

Miyako comes in late so there isn't much of her, but she is still the passionate person we know.

She gets very passionate along with Hikari about convincing the others to go to Spain as their summer trip. She ignores Hawkmon because of how passionate she is and goes off on a a speech with Hikari about how great Spain is.

She's standing firm in her decision to go, forgetting that not everyone can drink alcohol but wanting to share Spain with the others. This shows that Miyako has missed the others, and probably just want to share the place that has been her home for a while with them.

She gives Daisuke a ticket to help with travel or something of sorts and that helps him understand what he needs to do, even if Miyako doesn't understand why it's important.

Again, kinda in the background, but keeps the same passionate personally she has and caring one as well.

As she drops in out of nowhere from Spain because she wants to spend her summer with the others, to the shock of the others as she's been busy but nothing will keep her from her friends. This does however remind the others that with the Digital Gates they can go anywhere without paying money or waiting, which greatly opens the places they could go as they can go outside of Japan.

This causes more trouble, but Miyako does not care because she wants to go to Spain! She also reminds them all that they will need to exchange their currency if they go out of Japan, something she has probably dealt with as she has been to a lot of countries.

Hawkmon is still a voice of reason to Miyako, trying to calm her down, but also sometimes riles her up as they help convince the others to go do Spain. They are one of the Digimon that are more in the background, but is still very set on going to Spain with Miyako. They also points how how important this gathering is, so they must go, showing both they and Miyako care deeply about still spending time with the others even as they live in Spain.

Iori is still a polite and mostly soft spoken boy.

He doesn't have an particular place he wants to go for the trip, but he thinks about how to clear his schedule so he can have free time to spend with anyone. This shows he does want to go on the trip with the others, even if he doesn't have a place he wants to go.

He's able to tell that when Daisuke and Takeru appear to pick him up from school together it's important, but he still kinda teases Daisuke by calling him stingy when it comes to money which Daisuke just shoots back.

Iori also angers Armadimon by almost calling Naoyga's food rip-offs and is kinda teasing at times, either intentolly or not which isjust funny to me. Takeru is rubbing off on him.

Iori also knows a lot about Japanese gepography and helps find places that have activtys for everyone to do to try and find a middle ground. When everyone agrees to go to Spain after Hikari and Miyako's speech, he mentions how everyone caved quickly and sounds a little disappointed.

He does remind everyone that if they can open gates, they can go to Spain and Australia and any place in Japan in minutes so they can visit a lot of places.

Iori was also the one to make Daisuke realize that he has to understand ramen and just eating ramen at shops over Japan won't teach him what he needs. Iori doesn't remember this, and honestly, it sounds like Daisuke might have imagined Iori saying this but who knows. In the end, he's the one that realizes they all ignored Daisuke and how selfish it was to decide places and not ask him what he wanted even if he said he just wanted to eat ramen, so he apologizes.

It shows that Iori is still anaytically and tends to focus on facts, but he still cares about his friends and does not like being rude to them. This is also shown in how he's shown always trying to find a middle ground to make everyone happy.

Armadimon however, is obsessed with the idea of going to Nagoya, which is funny because that is the type of dilect that Armadimon speaks.

Armadimon praises this place despite the fact they've probably never been, going as far to get angry as the others point out that the food of Nagoya are kinda just copycats and aren't that original and almost Armor Evolving into Digmon to fight Tailmon over it. Ken and Daisuke noticed the atomsphere changing and try to stop them from fighting, but it's Takeru who manages that in the end.

Armadimon wants to see the castles, and the way they are so obsessed with going to one place contrasts Iori as he's fine going anywhere. In the end, Armadimon doesn't seem upset about going to New York instead, but sometimes tells me they will be begging Iori to take them to Nagoya one day.

Considering Iori hints that he's thought about Nagoya before, Armadimon has probably mentioned it for a while now so they'll have to go eventually.

Ken has defiantly grown in his ability to express himself around the 02 kids, but is still a very kind person.

He shows up around the middle of the audio drama and suggest they go see hot springs. Ken starts to rave about hot springs, and he knows a lot about them and it sounds like he honestly wants to make love to them. Takeru points out that Ken has, "surprisingly refined interests", but its so phrased to make it sound like Takeru is not insulting him. Daisuke teases Ken about it as well, but Ken also laughs at Daisuke when he repeats something he said, so it's all good between partners.

Ken knows about hot springs in a place Iori suggest they go and its so funny to think that it might be canon that Ken really likes hot springs. Ken is kind enough to look stuff up for Wormmon and is also open to the others ideas of where they go.

Though he is shocked to hear hotels in other parts of the world do not come with toothbrushes for their guests. Ken is also the one who tells Daisuke that if he wants to run a ramen shop he needs to a plan to turn his dream into reality, but Ken doesn't seem to remember this.

Once they all agree to go where ever Daisuke wants, Ken makes him promise that he will make them all ramen he will make. It's simple, but it's sweet, and that's Ken in this. He takes others into consideration and is able to compromise, but he is also still a bit shy overall.

Wormmon is just adorable in this. When they arrive with Ken, it kinda looks like Takeru only greets Wormmon and not Ken and I find that funny.

Wormmon also tries to defend Ken when the other Digimon are confused about his ranting about hot springs and the other Chosen point it out just to confess they also don't understand anything Ken said which is cute cause it shows how much Wormmon wants to protect Ken but is still just a Digimon that doesn't fully understand humans at the end of the day.

Wormmon also seems very excite to see Hawkmon, which it's cute how this CD drama does show the relationships between the Digimon as well as the Chosen Children. Wormmon also wants to go sking in Austrila because going to the south in the summer is boring. When asked how they would even put on skis, Wormmon doesn't reply. Wormmon points out how everyone likes ramen, to which all agree, and honestly thats probably the truest thing to be said in this audio drama.

Takeru is kinda in the background of this CD drama, but he's pretty good.

He helps them all get a room at the karaoke bar, pointing out how much food they've ordered after joking about how the staff must think they must be gluttons as they all snuck their Digimon in so they didn't have to pay for them. Takeru teases Daisuke by saying their all stingy, but he drops it.

He also doesn't really have a place he wants to go. He gets confused when Patamon says they want to collect firewood in the mountains, but points out how they all want to go swimming with each other even if it's not explicitly stated he ever learned how to swim.

Takeru remembers that Ken has soccer training camp and was surprised that Iori's schedule is flexible, while teasing the fact the older kids only ever hang out with them when it's coinvent for them. He points out how hard it is for them to go overseas just for Miyako to appear to and remind them of the Digital Gates, which excites Takeru as they can go anywhere. Iori also finishes his sentence, which is just cute to me.

He also seems confused that Miyako would make the long trip to Japan just to see them, so it seems to completely forgot about the Digital gates. He does ask if they will need their passports tho, which Miyako says is just for inns. Takeru does however know hotels and inns in other places don't have toothbrushes, which might suggest he thinks about traveling or has maybe gone to France to see his grandparents.

When Tailmon and Armadimon almost evolve he stops them and reminds them that they will destroy the karaoke bar if they evolve inside of it. He suggest they try diving, which is funny to me because from as far as we know Takeru can't even swim.

Takeru knows just thinking about something won't make it come true in reference to Daisuke achieving his dream. Also, it's him that suggest they all let Daisuke pick where to go, to which the others agree. Takeru in this is perfect, even if he is in the background. He teases his friends, but cares about them and knows quite a bit about travel.

Patamon seems to mostly care about food. Even if they want to gather firewood in the mountains for some reason, they're open to other places without much preference. Yet, once they learn they can go anywhere with the gates they want to go the northern islands.

They also want to sing, and I do hope they all uses the fact their at a karaoke bar to actually sing as they mostly use the microphone to project their speeches, but Takeru says they can and I need to see that. Patamon also does not seem annoyed that Takeru stuffed themselves in his backpack, maybe their just used to it at this point but Takeru does apologize.

Patamon wonders about missing Japanese food and agrees with Takeru when he says you can't wait for your dreams to happen and with Wormmon when they say everyone likes ramen. Patamon seems to still be a childish Digimon, but a very lovable Digimon as well.

Hikari, while also in the background, is pretty good.

It's implied that when Hikari first comes she smakes Iori to stop him from suggesting they go someplace, do with that what you will.

Also known of them, not even Takeru, knew she nor Tailmon was there because they were too busy talking to hear her. To which Daisuke asks if they are ninja and Tailmon says no but honestly I tottally see Hikari appearing out of nowhere and scaring others so I say they are ninja.

Hikari also wants to go to Spain because it's where Miyako is, and that is cute because it means she misses her Jogress Partner. Hikari really wants to play in Spain, and has a speech with Miyako, Hawkmon, and Tailmon to convice the others.

She also doesn't try to stop Tailmon from fighting Armadimon, and neither does Iori, and I thought that funny. I mean, they Armor Evolve, which the Chosen Children have to say, "Digimental Up", to trigger it so if anything they are okay with the fight. Just my headcanon tho.

Hikari does mentioned that not a lot of people know Spain has casinos, which is so funny to me. Hikari just wants to gamble. If anything, Hikari is more stubborn than Miyako about going to Spain, probably because Miyako raved about it to her and now Hikari wants to see it for herself.

Also, a guide book she gives Daisuke which helped him realize he wants to travel the world to try ramen was junk she was trying to get rid off. Daisuke is shocked when Hikari says seeing him chase his dreams is cool, but I think Hikari likes watching all of them chase their own dreams.

In the end, she does agree to go to New York, but the way she was so stubborn shows she's more okay sharing her thoughts and emotions with each other. Her and Miyako are also the team you do now want to mess with, why do you think the others folded so easily after all?

Tailmon is also just as stubborn as Hikari. Wanting to fight Armadimon and willing to take the fight outside to finish it when Takeru says they can't evolve in doors. Tailmon calls the other premature in their hastily decision making, which I find funny because they are an adult level Digimon and the other Digimon are child level while the 02 Chosen are only late teens to early twenties.

They are also the one to say known of the others noticed them and seemed angry at Daisuke calling them and Hikari ninjas. Tailmon does have a spesific region of Spain they want to go to, but will probably be happy with any place in Spain and I'm sure Hikari and Miyako are open to anywhere in Spain.

So overall, this audio drama does a pretty good job continuing the characters we've seen. Some characters are more focused on then others just because of the fact they appear earlier and are more important to the story, but everyone is good.

This CD drama also doesn't take itself too seriously, which is why everyone seems so happy and this is probably a more natural dynamic between these characters compared to what we normally see when there's an attacking Digimon or the worlds are in danger.