Digimon Beatbreak Episode 22 Review- Hunters Become The Hunted
It’s been a long, excruciating wait, but Beatbreak is finally back and on Granit’s birthday! It does seem like the end of the second arc is starting, which also means that Beatbreak will finish its first half soon! That’s kind of crazy… Last week, Klay has become a bounty. However, in this episode, it extends to Tactics as well. This means that Granit, Hotaruko, Raito and Naito all have a bounty on their heads now. It’s a little ironic how the bounty hunters become the hunted bounty now. Though, I do wish that the bounty thing was a bit more elaborated on since it seems like only Honoka bothered showing up. Also, how did she know that the Tactics members were gathered there?
Even though Tactics being the hunted is the prime focus, it mostly focuses on Hotaruko who’s still a part of the group…until the end of the episode that is. How Hotaruko came to work for Tactics is revealed. I do remember that some people thought that Hotaruko skipping grades, graduating college and becoming a researcher was a lie she made to deceive her family, but it doesn’t seem like it. Her backstory does imply all of it did happen. Shakkomon was born when her Sapotama glitched after she told it to shut up after it warned her about her lack of sleep. However, the pressure of her birth caused a destruction in the laboratory where she was working at, leaving her in debt. Because of the Klay Foundation covering up the laboratory debts, she joined Tactics because of her debt to Klay. I have seen some criticism about how Hotaruko’s backstory isn’t tragic, and I don’t feel like it needs to be. Her whole story is just that she’s a normal person who just got dealt with unfortunate cards. Not everyone needs a backstory like Granit’s. What satisfied me the most was how Hotaruko slapped Naito Will Smith-style. He deserved that and I’m glad that Hotaruko was the one to do it!
Still, her backstory does shed light on her behavior towards Makoto back in Episode 17. She was poor. No one wanted to be her friend. She had a hard time relying on others as a result. Her inability to depend on others also stemmed from her time as a researcher with her colleagues hoping she’d get some rest and her Sapotama saying the same thing. It all makes sense… I always did say that despite her working for villains, she’s not a bad person, with her having the most compassionate heart of the three. I’m glad that it rewarded her in the end with a defection, a desire to make friends in Granit and Raito and forging a stronger bond with Makoto—though, it did fly by a bit too fast…
Because the episode focused mostly on Hotaruko defecting, the Kyo vs Naito battle is definitely not as much of a priority because we all know how it’s going to end. This time, Murasamemon finally deals the final blow, causing Gigasmon to revert back to its baby form and Naito somehow escapes with the help of Klay. I just hope there are no more children for Naito to punch—he should really stop that. It was pretty cowardly of him to escape without his Digimon. By the way, if you’re wondering why Naito is so loyal towards Klay, last week, the production staff had a small stream on Twitter where they talked about some side content. Naito’s loyalty towards Klay was brought up in that Naito is indebted to him after he saved him when Klay was once a mercenary and not a businessman.
I do feel like Honoka only showed up to give the viewers a taste of what she’ll be like when she’s implemented into the story later on. She seems to be a new face in the Five Stars as she meets Kyo for the first time, despite knowing his name due to her crush on Kaito. This means that there is a former Water Star that Kyo knows of. She’s also quite strong as she’s able to fend off against NightChiropmon and Tylomon with ease. However, the fact that she retreated because she found her bounty cringe was quite unexpected. I do wonder if it was just to throw viewers off?
Anyways, Honoka is voiced by Rie Kugimiya who has been in Digimon before as Ikuto Noguchi (Keenan Crier) in Digimon Savers, Digitamamon in Ghost Game and Ukkomon in Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning. Her partner MarineChimairamon is voiced by Takako Honda who voiced Ajataramon in Ghost Game. Since this Digimon show has staff that had been in Savers, I wonder if the casting was done on purpose…
I do wonder what happened with Raito and what will become of the defected Tactics members… I do wonder if Haruomi will return after all of this. I feel like Raito’s redemption could be helping out the people he hurt before, but that could be just a stretch… Anyways, it does seem like next week is the final showdown with Klay and it’s getting me hyped up because the preview does make it seem like Murasamemon is going to evolve into Mega! Though, Megumi Han, the voice actress of Gekkomon, did leave an ominous message that Glowing Dawn will meet a terrible fate next week. Thanks to that, I’m going to be restless for an entire week… Let em know your thoughts on this episode!
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My evolution lines for the Digimon of TACTICS team 7 (and Naito)
Ludomon/Ldmon’s line is self explanatory, it’s the one it’s had for years. Likewise, Monodramon’s is the one that’s established so far with a “???” to emphasize that I’d like him to get an all new Ultimate/Mega.
Shakomon’s uses Jellymon and Sangomon’s shared Baby forms because I think they just work for mollusks. The rest of the line keeps the emphasis on Ancient creatures, and also because I’d really like to see a story where Anomalocarimon gets to be a cool and bad ass Digimon instead of a joke for a change. That, and…well, I really want a Perfect that’s anything other than Sharkmon, due to the common fandom misconception that Tylomon is a shark (it’s not, it’s a Mosasaur). Plesiomon completes the line as a final prehistoric creature, and also makes every evolution above Child-level a completely different kind of animal lmao.
Punimon and Gigasmon were already decided for me, and so Tsunomon was a no brainer for the second Baby form. Goblimon has at least one rock-based attack so he works for the Child/Rookie form, and from there Grottemon makes a good transition to Gigasmon. I chose Blastmon as an Ultimate/Mega because it remains a Mineral type like Gigasmon, and keeps the brutish theme of the rest of the evolution line.
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