#beat break

And a completely unrelated one. This guy fascinates me.

Meanwhile, baby digimons at the Glowing Dawn's daycare:

Finished Gekkomon!!! 🦎🦎

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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.