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So the other day I finished rewatching Appmon, and something that kind of stuck out to me was how Gatchmon became Haru's buddy because him being the search Appmon would help Haru's own journey in searching for a role in life. It made me wonder, can you also apply this logic to the other App Drivers and their buddies?

Astra and Musimon made sense, Musimon's upbeat nature gave Astra the push he needed to explore groovy things outside his family business. But the others? Rei and Yuujin are kind of vague, mostly they needed Hackmon and Offmon because they needed the power to help Hajime and Haru respectively. Eri, especially, gave me the vibes that she never really needed Dokamon anyways, given how strong her drive and willpower is lol. I'm especially curious about Yuujin and how much that was influenced by meddling from Leviathan or something. What do you think?

I think it's less about complementing their Buddies and more about being like-minded or being a reflection of their interests, so since Haru is a curious type who wants to understand more, Gatchmon aligns with that idea. So for Eri and Dokamon, they're just very head-on and straightforward, and Rei and Hackmon are more willing to do the dirty work others aren't, whereas Offmon reflected Yuujin's self-consciousness and fear of hurting others (which the latter did his best to cover up by acting confident).

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So I saw the recent anime anniversary PV that the Digimon Partners Youtube channel put out and was honestly surprised when they breezed past everything after Frontier lol. I know that Toei/Bandai has a bias for the first four series in terms of celebrations and merch (even then that’s debatable for Frontier); but are there any examples of them doing modern merch for the newer series like Savers or Xros Wars (barring the TCG ofc)?

Well, the anniversary in question came with this nice key visual that they're now making merch out of as part of a gachapon lineup with every TV series:

And even putting the 25th anniversary stuff aside, they have. If you go to the Digimon section of the Toei shop and scroll down, you can narrow it down by series. Everything listed in the sections for Savers and after is from 2020 or later. Of course, a lot of this is recent -- it's a byproduct of them getting much better at making efforts to acknowledge non-Adventure ever since there was an overhaul of IP-related direction back in 2020 (it hasn't been super publicized since it's mainly stuff to do with IP management in the background, but it's been a thing).

The problem is, it is a known fact that anything after Frontier does not sell (and even Frontier is on thin ice). The otedama (mini-plushes) for Savers, Xros Wars, and Appmon were the result of a poll held on Digimon Partners for what kind of later-series merch people wanted to see, because they really cannot be certain that they're actually going to be able to make enough to not turn out a loss on these. So in the end, I'll take this over the neverending "Adventure and tri. are the only things that exist" we had during the late 2010s.

They're not snubbing the later series because they don't care, it's just that we're still at the point where most average people don't even know what a Shoutmon is! (Well, except TCG players.) When that aforementioned gachapon was announced, one of the people in my group chat sadly pointed out that since every series shown in it has an equal chance of being pulled, more than 50% of people who play the gacha are going to get something after Frontier and say "I have no idea what this is, I wasted my money on a bad pull." So unless something can be done about the current state of things where you have to forcibly insert later-series stuff into random merch draws to get people to buy them, I can't really expect too much.

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