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021: Pixar’s Finding Dorumon

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Leomon dies, Dorumon is the eight digidestined, and everything is needlessly complicated and obtuse— it’s X-Evolution time!

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T5.0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rhq_iowAgM

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It’s time for our in-depth discussion of Tri Chapter 5, “Coexistence”! We dive into this movie’s highs and lows and how they reflect our evolving feelings towards Tri as a whole, plus we dig into the central themes of sacrifice and being chosen and read a bunch of listener reactions to the film.

Let us know what you thought about the movie and your most memorable quotes in the comments!

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408: “Blood, Sweat, and Frontiers”

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After several months and being stuck in a forest, the final Trailmon is leaving the station. It’s time for our special season-wide Frontier retrospective review! We dive into season 4 podcast stats, announce the winners of the Frontier Fantasy Draft, and discuss the results of the Frontier Listener Favorites Polls as we gab about our favorite kids, ships, allies, enemies, Lucemon forms, Trailmon, arcs, and episodes. We also pick the best dialogue from the season in the Omega Dialogue Draft, update our Digimon season rankings, and introduce The Newlysib Game!

If you have a minute, we’d really appreciate filling out our listener survey so we can improve the podcast for next season. Thanks!

020: “Tri Our Patience, Part 5”

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Jeff and Ashley take a brief look at the new PVs for Tri Chapter 5.

What aspects of Chapter 5 are you most excited about? What are you hoping for? What are you dreading? How are you dealing with waiting for the next 1.5 months? Let us know in the comments!

Links

Tri Chapter 5 PV2 video [x]

Tri Chapter 5 PV2 WtW thread & translation [x]

Tri Chapter 5 PV1 video [x]

Tri Chapter 5 PV1 WtW thread & translation [x]

Crunchyroll’s PV1 subbed [x]

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019: “Beat the Heat”

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Happy August 1st! To get ourselves in the Odaiba Day spirit, we have a special episode featuring summer FoxKids commercials and advice on traveling to Japan. We hope you enjoy!

Sections

0:00:00 Intro

0:02:57 Summer FoxKids Ads

0:31:39 Digi Feud

0:44:29 Japan Travel Advice

2:01:37 Plugs

2:06:57 Outro

406: “The Digiworld Ends with You”

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Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Takouj—Wait, did we say “space”? Sorry, we meant the Shibuya train station basement, that’s the real final frontier.

It’s time to reunite with some baby friends, kill the moon, defeat an endless parade of Lucemon transformations, and — like every tourist does in Shibuya — to get inspiration from hallucinations of their imaginary friends after collapsing in the train station basement.

In this episode, we look at how well Frontier’s final arc closes the season, examine the Western vs. Eastern imperial imagery of Lucemon and the Legendary Warriors, and lament poorly constructed distinctions between darkness and evilness. And stay tuned after the credits for talk about Buffy, My Hero Academia, and reactions to Jeff’s tasteless Koichi Falldown Mode joke.

402: “Beauty and the Beasts”

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It’s time for our second stop on the Frontier tracks with the beast spirits arc! The kids get their beast spirits, meet Seraphimon and the rest of the evil Legendary Warriors, defeat Gigasmon, and get caught in several not-so-wacky hijinks.

In this episode, we dig our heelies into the concept of beast spirits, bemoan Frontier’s overt gender issues, and look into etymology and name changes.

401.5: “Smells Like Pre-Teen Feedback

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Jeff and Ashley tackle lots of feedback about the first 9 episodes of Frontier, see what Digimon listeners would want to evolve into, and discuss the humor in the Frontier dub.

Plugs

(Jeff) Your Name [in US theaters in April!) [x]

(Ashley) Match Game [x]

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311: “When Is A Shmuck Just A Shmuck”

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The kids are back in Tokyo, which means it’s time for Rika’s new shirt, Beelzemon’s new wings, a goth lolita deus ex machina, and the inevitable, soul-crushing return of Ryo.

Jeff does a deep dive on the idea of home and how Digimon depicts returning home, Ashley dissects fault and fate, and we take a closer look at the D-Reaper and possible cosmic horror influences.

310: “Absolute Destiny Apocalypse”

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It’s time for the last hurrah of the digital world before we’re fully surrounded by CHAOS. Henry and Rika learn to biomerge, Calumon gives up his plot device status, and Rika almost misses their scheduled flight becasue she’s the only one who shows compassion.

We dive into the D-Reaper’s introduction, Jeff rants about Zhuqaiomon’s racism, and we lament the lack of character development and surplus of Ryo.

Sections

0:00:00 Intro

0:03:36 General Impressions

0:23:25 Racist Digi-Gods

0:33:55 D-Reaper Intro

0:47:20 Biomerge Character Development

1:02:12 FoxKids Ads

1:11:09 Unanswered Questions

1:20:02 Stray Bits

1:29:46 RDD

1:36:31 Arc Wrap-UP

1:42:41 Plugs

1:48:33 Outro

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A Japanese kid is moving to Hawaii with his mother and loves Pokemon. 

He stays up with his mother practicing his English so he can communicate with the new environment around him, it seems he isn’t completely fluent. 

The next day he introduces himself in his, still budding, English and the other children don’t seem very responsive to his efforts or taken off-guard somewhat?

Out of the blue one child starts clapping for him to show some kindness and the whole class joins in on celebrating his introduction.

He wants to join the other kids at lunch but seems to feel awkward about it?

He spots the kid who showed him kindness at the Pokemon Sun and Moon release. He plays the games for a while in his mom’s car and he later spots the same kids from school vibing together.

In the end he feels encouraged about going up to approach them and introduces himself.

They pick out starters together and become friends, they play the games in different languages. 

010: “Digimon Trizer Roll”

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We’re back on the Tri Train for one last stop in Chapter 2 speculation country!

What aspects of Chapter 2 are you most excited about? What are you hoping for? Let us know in our comments!

Sections

0:00:00: Intro

0:03:41: PV Walkthrough

0:21:46: Closing Thoughts

0:25:49: Outro

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304: “Enter the Matrix”

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We’re back to Tamers after a long diversion into Tri country!

We jump into the beginning of the Devas arc as Takato learns to believe in the heart of the blue cards, Rika sits through a boring play, and the school goes on a camping trip to receive a sermon from a Southern televangelist Deva-possessed owl.

We discuss dub overdramatization, the series’ relationship with adults, digivolution growing pains and growing up, and the self-fulfilling prophecy of declaring Digimon dangerous because they fight back after being declared dangerous.

Episodes

14: “Grow Mon Grow” 「Tamer Stands! MegaloGrowmon Super Evolution」aka “The Wonderful Thing About Tiggers”

15: “Snakes, Trains, and Digimon” 「The Order to Capture the Digimon! The Sinister Foreboding」aka “Snakes on a Train”

16: “Back to Nature, Back to Battle” 「Protect the Light of the Town! Dangerous Camp of the Digimon」aka “Sinduramon’s Electro-Shocker”

Sections

0:00:00: Intro

0:02:30: General

0:24:40: Silly Adults

0:38:16: Growing Pains

0:52:28: Pew Pew Pew

1:04:10: Unanswered Questions

1:09:11: RDD

1:18:03: Terminal Judgment

1:21:34: Plugs

1:30:36: Outro

Check out the detailed notes with links for all the things we reference, plus images for all the characters and scenes we talk about: http://podigious.com/304/.

NOTE: We’re trying a new audio file format with this episode, so if you have any trouble listening let us know. And if you’ve had trouble listening before, let us know if this episode works better.

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the early episodes of Adventure were full of “this Digimon can evolve in this episode but not in this one for no literal reason other than the fact the plot calls for it” and later there was “a bunch of kids just conveniently forgot the giant monster attack from four years ago” and “here’s a plot mechanic you can use, and the reason we didn’t mention its existence before is because it would have made it very hard to write the plot with it” and “it would be great if this girl had useful psychic powers that we are going to go into almost no detail about” and finally “here’s this final enemy that tenuously connects all the prior villains together with no actual logic and comes with a plot point that makes no sense and is never mentioned again”

02’s problem was that even though it had logical explanations for everything it had so many plot points by the end that it had to come up with quick on-the-fly resolutions like “oh yeah, the question of how Daisuke would trust Ken? Random Digimental, problem solved. That ocean that’s taking a mental toll on Hikari? Not a problem anymore. BlackWarGreymon? Kick him out of the picture for some episodes and bring him back when we remember he exists. Demon’s purpose? Doesn’t matter, we defeated him anyway, right? Why are all the mechanics different from Adventure? We can just keep using the word ‘distortion’, right?”