I'm the boss~

If I were to paraphrase this arc now that it ended, it’s basically Miharu throwing a tantrum over Chifuyu’s death and decided to play chunnibyou edgelord to get her revenge. I get that she’s a teenager, but it just makes the pay off a bit silly overall. She caused a lot of deaths and harm towards the people and only now she realized it after Tomoro put some sense into her about how her actions isn’t what her sister wanted. I do think they did a good job incorporating how Miharu is a shadow archetype of Tomoro in a way that he could’ve been like her if he didn’t have Glowing Dawn, but it did feel like the revelation came a bit too late.

The whole final fight with Mephismon was also lackluster in that it did look like they were going to evolve into its Mega form, but it didn’t. Man, what a cop out. It would’ve been so cool if they had to go against Gulfmon and since the power levels in this universe mostly relies on e-pulse power, it would’ve been cool to see the kids get a legitimate win against a Mega, even if it’s not stable like Pyramidimon.

I think the best parts of the fight are the smaller details like Lilamon poisoning Mephismon and how Tomoro’s e-pulse caused a reaction in both Mephismon and Chairman Wong. His e-pulse has been stated to be unusual, so, hopefully, it’ll be explained later on since Wong is acquainted with Dr. Tenma. While Rose and her goons aren’t as important in this arc, I do commend Rose’s intelligence on how she was able to find GIFT’s base; not having a Reina vs Rose rematch was also wasted opportunity.

I think the one thing I’m most curious about is what happened to Kishiwada. He wasn’t there when Miharu decided to turn herself into the ministry. Heck, he doesn’t even show up at the end. Just who is he? What was his connection to Miharu? He’s truly a man of mystery, for sure. Maybe it’ll be explained in the next mini-arc which will revolve around Kyo’s past. The former Water star also has been revealed, so maybe he’ll have some connections with him as both the Kishi in Kishiwada and the Shio in the newly revealed Souji Kuroshio’s names mean tide. Maybe Kishiwada is a Digimon? Who knows? I’m honestly more excited about the mini-arc than I am about how this arc ended up overall. Let me know your thoughts on this episode and the arc as a whole.

Line art

The characters are actually drawn at a pretty low resolution. Hence the jaggies. The lines are ALMOST uniform thickness, enough that I'm going to just do that, and they're pretty thin. The thin lines are important because. If you compare them to Digimon data squad (which sometimes has very thick lines) it's very obvious.

The actual size of the pen does depend on how far the subject is from the camera, so I'll probably find collate reference images.

Pen settings below. Mili pen with smart shape works super well. I've gone with the first anti-aliasing option, not for the jaggi one. I don't imagine they ever expected anyone to see any jaggies when viewed on a CRT television, so don't think it should be considered part of the art style.

This guide isn't concerned with the actual drawing part, but obviously references to the show should be used as examples. Don't draw too many lines.

Reference images exist for all the classic seasons, and shows like 2020 and beat break use almost the exact same line style, and often the new shows reuse old style references.

I'm out of images so I guess part 2 will be shading and colours.