#shademon

HOTARUKO AND SHAKOMON AAAAAA I'M SO HAPPY THEY APPEAR HERE. And they also have a prominent moment so maybe it means they'll appear more. Hotaruko looks so cute and happy here 🥹💖

Reina and Pristimon! 😭💖💖💖🥹 Reina loves cute plushies she's like me <3 but Pristimon is the best and the cutest!

Rose's servants... so I guess they're both girls? :O Since this ending only shows female characters. Also, Alraumon and Pomumon aaaaaaaaa!!!! <3

Rose and Lilamon looking cute... but I'm not fooled I'm sure she's terrible and commited crimes - look at her eyes.

SOMEONE PLEASE USE THIS FOR THE "Making breakfast for my beautiful wife" meme. Kaito is the wife

AAAAAAAA 😭😭😭😭😭 HARUKO AND SHADEMON THEY DIDN'T FORGET HER AAAA

Already seen people be mean to this poor girl, I feel like it was made very clear that she’s being influenced by her shitty dad to act the way she is?

We see in Makoto’s flashback that they were at the very least friendly to each other, with Makoto calling out to her. Haruko also recognizes him and seems to care for him, wanting him to come back to the egg like she does and initially refusing to get Chiropmon because it belongs to Makoto

I mean, imagine being her, with whatever the flashback implies (she’s being leaded off school by someone who is probably her mother? And she has a sad expression with tears in her eyes), her scummy dad gets them kicked out of the egg leading to them presumably homeless or in a bad part of town with no mention of her mom and her dad is unable to get a good job. She gets a digimon, a shadowy creature and as we know normal people have no clue what digimon are or even the fact that they exist, it’s pretty easy to infer that it’s her dad that figures out that they can use Shademon’s ability to manipulate people and entices her with the fact that they can get into the egg this way.

She’s a young girl from a good neighborhood that society clambers to get to, treating it as a “utopia” and then gets kicked out of there with only her dad to lean on. That’s a lot to go through! It makes sense that she’s a bit bratty!

Also, imagine being told that digimon are reflections of the ones who made them, and imagine yours is a shadow that takes over people. I understand why she wouldn’t want to accept it. Especially with the way that Shademon just sits there and takes orders, letting Haruko call it a tool and slap it without complaint

She’s a product of her environment and this society. So far we’ve been told that getting into the Shangri-La Egg is what everyone strives for, and we see the lengths people will go to with the Mimicmon kid, who while he may not want to actually hurt anyone, he’s too blinded by the idea of a utopia to actually do anything other than sweep it under the rug. But now we’re being told that even the people inside the egg are striving to reach impossibly higher heights, driving Haruko’s dad to commit fraud

And that’s just what he is, isn’t he? A fraud. It’s Haruko who has the power, Shademon is her digimon. Shademon really does reflect Haruko, as she’s just a tool for her dad like Shademon is to her

Here's a concept design of how I imagine a DigiXros between Amano Yuu and Shademon.

Hope you like it 🫶🫶🫶

I decided to pick Xros Wars Yuu instead of Hunters, because I feel like it would fit better the narrative and character in general.

Mainly what I am so fixated on is the concept of digimon being an extension of oneself. Makoto & Chiropmon are a really wonderful example of this in ep10.

This has a (pretty spelled out. but it’s really good anyways) double-meaning! “I love Chiropmon as they are!” -> “I love myself as I am!” AND THIS. IS SO GOOD. Makoto full on accepts that he’s weak, that he’s flawed, and Chiropmon is the same, and he loves Chiropmon, so by extension he loves himself. Obsessed with how they are showing different dynamics in regards to self-acceptance and self-love.

Shademon & Haruko are another really interesting example of this, namely due to her father’s hatred of her. Which, whether she knew it or not (likely she was aware and didn’t want to accept it, children are more keen than you think), this had some sort of impact on her and how she viewed Shademon. She was mimicking the way her father treated her with Shademon. They were a tool to her, just like she was to her father. Being forced to face this leads her to snapping (rightfully so) and this further leads her in the direction of self-acceptance.

Her switching from being physically violent with Shademon, to embracing them, and claiming she isn’t alone anymore is so wonderful. It’s both a show of the relationships between human & digimon and a show of self-acceptance. A show of her learning to love herself for who she is. (They kinda make a heart in that second screenshot…cute.)

Editing this: I also think this can be related to Ken in 02. Haruko calls herself “twisted” and “ugly” and is forced to come to terms with all of herself, every bit of herself. Ken is the same way, he is forced to accept everything ugly, everything twisted, bare it, and move forward. This is 100% a theme that has been in digimon before and I am so glad to see it again in Beatbreak. I think Ken and Haruko would be friends.

We’re finally at the double digits in terms of episode count now! By the way, the official Twitter account announced that there will be a new ending song that will be revealed in the anime starting January 4, 2026, meaning that the first quarter of the story is approaching! A lot has happened in this episode and I can’t wait to talk about it!