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Digimon Tamers 34 - Where is Terriermon? Shaochung Goes to the Digital World / Rabbit Transit

Previously on Digimon Tamers: Takato and Jianliang went to school but the teacher was tripping balls and it was hard to tell what he was talking about. But at the end of class, he offered to get them even higher than he is so it wasn't a complete loss.

firebirdmaximus

Actually 3 Devas serving each serving one of the 4 Sovereigns was the official lore at the time of this episodes airing and was actually supposed to be the case in Tamers itself, as all 4 of the Digimon Sovereigns were originally intended to be the final boss of the series that the main characters would have to defeat.

Unfortunately the plans for the series ended up changing, due to executive meddling making them send the cast to the Digital World 3 episodes earlier than originally planned without all of the Devas defeated, meaning they still had to deal with them plus exploring the Tamers version of the Digital World, combined with the fact that they spent a lot of time just building up to one Sovereign (Zhuqiaomon), meant they did have as many episodes left to properly explore the other three Sovereigns. So in the end they simplified things by just having all 12 Devas work for Zhuqiaomon, and whilst they did introduce the other Sovereigns they ended up not having as much screen time as and consequently weren't the final boss, with a new threat introduced that even they were afraid of (although another factor in this decision is that Chiaki J. Konaka wanted something different for the final enemy and not just another Digimon that the characters could beat up).

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Okay does this dub line sound a bit Captain Obvious/Redundant to anyone or is it just me this.

This child has the belief a child... as opposed to all the other children who have beliefs of octogenarians, I guess.

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I also wasn't surprised when this happened. As I'd figured the Rabbit Deva was gonna be Suzie's Digimon partner long before it actually happened, back during the Deva Arc. Specifically it was, due to having watched Jackie Chan Adventures before this series, and thus figured out the Chinese Zodiac theming amongst the Devas several episodes before the character's in-universe did, and since I knew that one of the Devas was gonna be a rabbit, and I think the dub theme (at least in the UK) showed Suzie with a Digivice, and that Suzie's brother was partnered with a rabbit Digimon - a rabbit Digimon who in Digimon: The Movie had a sibling, it didn't exactly take a rocket scientist to figure out where this was all going.

Also minor tangent but for some reason the English Digimon wiki is convinced that Suzie's Lopmon and Henry's Terriermon are twin siblings in both versions of the show despite nothing indicating that to be the case.

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I don't know about in-universe, but out-of-universe I'm fairly certain the parallels are probably a coincidence as Suzie becoming a Tamers was actually a throw-it-in moment.

You've noticed that the OP for Tamer's seem to show off multiple shadowed Tamers and Digimon that don't appear, that because the guy who designed it did it without the showrunners' direct involvement but had some of Chiaki J. Konaka's notes for the series and thus had to hazard a guess at how the series was supposed to go and so included a lot more Tamers than Konaka had planned, although the OP's designer did handwave it by saying that this could be scene set after the end of the series (even though as you'll see the OP will not remotely match up with how the series ends). And whilst Konaka was surprised at the amount of children included in the OP, he took particular notice of the fact that Suzie had been included in the opening and thus decided to actually make her a Tamer in the actual series.

Likewise Antylamon was also not originally intended to be a partner Digimon, because according to an interview with Konaka had the Tamers travelled to the Digital World in episode 27 as initially planned rather 24, then Antylamon would have been introduced in one of the episodes before 27 as a one shot Monster of the Week that's destroyed in one episode like most of the Devas.

Funnily enough Suzie also parallels Kari in a meta way, as Kari's prominence in Digimon Adventure was also a throw-it-in moment.

According to interviews with the staff that worked on Adventure, although an 8th DigiDestined was always in the cards and had been foreshadowed as early as the Devimon arc, it being Kari was something that had not been planned. In fact having not seen the first Digimon Adventure movie with a few exceptions (including showrunner Hiroyuki Kakudou and producer Hiromi Seki) a lot of the staff didn't know that Tai was supposed to have a sibling until Kari's first in series appearance in episode 21. And even after episode 21 it still hadn't been decided to make Kari the 8th DigiDestined, with the Digivice being left in her and Tai's apartment being meant to reassure fans the show wouldn't forget about her existence and she will be appearing again. It wasn't until work began on the Myotismon arc that Kakudou suddenly announced that Kari was going to be the 8th Child that the characters were looking for and that he'd personally been considering it for quite a while, much to the rest of the staff's surprise.

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And for some other trivia.

This is the 7th dub script written by Adele Lim, who will also be writing the next episode.

Lopmon/Antylamon in the dub is voiced by Michelle Ruff, who voiced Luna in the redub of Sailor Moon and from 2010 has been Cream the Rabbit in the Sonic the Hedgehog games.

#digimon #digimon tamers

katiemonz

happy belated birthday blue rat

tails will put your ass on blast dont even doubt

#sonic the hedgehog

shannonsketches

I refuse to believe that Goku kept that secret for THREE years!!! There is no way that man kept his mouth shut. I headcanon that he likes to do a little gossiping with his wife, so as soon as he went home, he told Chichi, and Chichi was like, "Him? A father?” And Goku just nods and says, "Right?!"

I also like to think that if Chichi has some juicy gossip, she'll tell Goku, and he'll listen; same with Bulma and Vegeta, tbh. 😂😂

I have heard similar hcs and enjoy them!

I personally hc that he forgot pretty shortly after because he was more excited for another round with impending doom — plus he was off training with Gohan and Piccolo for most of (if not all of) that time, and Piccolo already knew and probably smacked him if he tried to make it any of Gohan’s business fjdjsj Work Wife says Watch your mouth.

I love the idea that Chichi will share hot goss in the Country Way, like it’s Neighborly News, but I also love me some Toriyamaverse Goku and comedy so I personally imagine it’s frustrating because his responses are earnest. She’s trying to subtlety dish and he’s like, ‘Neat!’ or ‘Huh I wonder why!’ vs Vegeta and Bulma who are both metropolitan girls, so gossip is their first language.

Could be how Chichi and Bulma ended up getting close later in the series, haha. Videl’s too nice and 18 doesn’t care, but Bulma’s the perfect amount of bored and nosey for a housewife to talk shit with fjdjjs Honestly Chichi might enjoy dishing with Vegeta too, seeing as he throws shade the way Gambit throws playing cards.

Edit: Actually I’ma meet you halfway where is the forbidden filler episode of Goku talking about Bulma getting pregnant and Gohan asks how and it’s just Piccolo and Gohan and Goku in the desert and they’re all just out there Speculating on how birth works.

#dragon ball #piccolo knows how birth works #bulma has to hork up trunks as an egg #don't know why it's taking so long though #usually it's like a five minute process #she must be sick or something #they should do something nice for her #get her a gift basket or something #encourage her to get that egg up and out of her sooner

tobiasdrake

Digimon Tamers 34 - Where is Terriermon? Shaochung Goes to the Digital World / Rabbit Transit

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Shaochung's pink is the same shade of pink as Lopmon, blatant color coding since the very beggining (as we have known our 6 Tamers and Kenta since episode 1 after all). Big difference with Hikari in that Hikari was sickly and had an eerie mysticism going on, while Shaochung is, well, Shaochung.

Deva Andiramon also wears a neckerchief like the other Devas; the redesign makes it look more in line with the rest of the group, AND makes the original, Virus Andiramon look like a rogue element, a corrupt version of what it should be. And, after all, that Andiramon turned into the fallen version of Cherubimon, while this one is meant to go into the regular version of Cherubimon. Still, doesn't portray the corruption as well as Wendigomon does, brr. Both Andiramon carry themselves in a stoic and still way, Anyway, get used to the black tiles with red light area, we are here for a three parter now, as we begin the trauma stretch of the series that will last until the end.

#digimon #digimon tamers

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Were NFTs just the natural extension of IP laws?

I don't mean this in a way that's complimentary of NFTs, but rather in a way that's condemnatory towards IP law. I mean. We all know how ridiculous NFTs were, right? But think about it.

I mean. Yeah. "I paid ten billion dollars for the legal rights to this ugly ape JPG" was stupid in a way that was plain on its face for anyone who wasn't drinking the Kool-Aid to see.

But. Like.

Consider Iron Man.

Iron Man is a fake person that Stan Lee made up one day, following the ancient human tradition of sitting around a campfire sharing fictions with one another. He does not exist, he has no tangible impact on the world, he is an entirely imaginatory figure living in an entirely imaginatory world.

And yet, if you were to try and sell a comic book featuring Iron Man, you would have to pay the Disney Corporation millions of dollars for the right to tell a story about an imaginary billionaire in a metal suit. Otherwise, you would be committing a crime.

It is actually a crime to sit around the campfire and tell stories about this imaginary billionaire if you don't pay large sums of money to the company that controls the made-up idea of him. He does not exist and is valuated in the millions, possibly even billions of dollars.

A professional Iron Man writer and a fanfiction writer telling Iron Man stories are both just people sitting around a campfire going, "Okay, so imagine this guy...."

And yet one storyteller is afforded much more dignity than the other, is legitimized more than the other. Why? Because a billionaire who controls an invisible financial stake in an imaginatory man put a rubber stamp on the first writer's forehead that says "Financially-approved!"

Isn't this all just a little ridiculous? That an imaginary billionaire can have a real-world net worth more than most people's entire families combined, and people can be charged with actual crimes for telling stories around the campfire without a piece of paper that says they are "Legally Authorized to Imagine a Billionaire"?

dalenthas

I understand this take, I vibe with this take, but I must disagree with some specifics. First of all, Disney isn't going to send lawyers after you for telling stories around a campfire. Copyright law allows for fair use, and non-commercial purposes fall under that. You only need to look as far as AO3 to see hundreds (thousands?) of Unofficial Iron Man tales. Parody is also fair use, which is why, for example, Robot Chicken can have a sketch where Iron Man confronts a version of The Mandarin that's even more of a racist caricature than the one in the comics.

What IP laws do cover are the specific renditions. You can't produce and sell copies of old Iron Man comics, or DVD copies of the 2008 movie, without getting in legal trouble. And that's a much muddier argument. There's also Trademark law, which is why you can't make an original movie starring a character named Iron Man. Trademark law also stops someone from filing bottles with colored water and calling it Coca-Cola. It's meant to protect both businesses from copycats and customers from frauds.

Now, all that being said, copyright law lasts entirely too long. It should last, like 10 years tops.

dalenthas

I have more to say specifically on the first sentence. Looking at NFTs as an extension of IP law is, I think, misleading at best. If anything they were an attempt to ape IP law, and update it for the digital age in a way that our governments are disinclined to do. Technology has been outpacing IP protections for decades now, and Congress's attempts at remedying the problem have been ham-fisted and ineffective. One could examine NFTs in that light, but I think it's at best a distraction. NFTs are above all else, a financial instrument.

Stocks, bonds, futures, crypto, and NFTs are all bits of data that society claims have value because someone is willing to buy it. They, of course, have no inherent worth, but because you can convince someone that it's meaningful it becomes so. Stocks, in particular, are a made up thing that lets capitalists think that because they traded money for a piece of paper, they now have a right to control the people who work for the corporation they bought stock in. A corporation, of course, is another made up thing that organizes capital for the benefit of the shareholders. NFTs aren't IP law reductio ad absurdum, they're stocks. You're just holding stock in Bored Ape #236 instead of Comcast.

#politics #economics

Digimon Tamers 34 - Where is Terriermon? Shaochung Goes to the Digital World / Rabbit Transit

#digimon #digimon tamers #revisiting digimon #digimon tamers blind watch in two languages

tobiasdrake

It's so weird that teeth can't regenerate. Have you ever thought about how weird that is? You grow a set of teeth as a baby and then those fall out and you grow a new set and then that's it. That's your last set. You are cut off from teeth.

Hey, biology? What the fuck? How come we can't grow a third set if anything happens to the second set? Why so stingy with our teeth?

If my hair and my fingernails can continue growing forever then I think I should be allowed to grow new teeth. Grow them on my fingers! I don't care! Just give me the option, nature!

tobiasdrake

Hey so it turns out that humans have a third set of teeth ready to grow in their mouths but it never grows because after the second set grows in, a protein forms that tells the body "Teeth are done! No more teeth now," and stops all tooth growth forever.

Scientists in Japan are working on a way to get around this protein and allow humans to grow the third set of teeth as needed.

#i kinda meant for this to be a shitpost but instead i learned something

Hey, biology? What the fuck? How come we can't grow a third set if anything happens to the second set? Why so stingy with our teeth?

If my hair and my fingernails can continue growing forever then I think I should be allowed to grow new teeth. Grow them on my fingers! I don't care! Just give me the option, nature!

tobiasdrake

Were NFTs just the natural extension of IP laws?

I don't mean this in a way that's complimentary of NFTs, but rather in a way that's condemnatory towards IP law. I mean. We all know how ridiculous NFTs were, right? But think about it.

I mean. Yeah. "I paid ten billion dollars for the legal rights to this ugly ape JPG" was stupid in a way that was plain on its face for anyone who wasn't drinking the Kool-Aid to see.

But. Like.

Consider Iron Man.

A professional Iron Man writer and a fanfiction writer telling Iron Man stories are both just people sitting around a campfire going, "Okay, so imagine this guy...."

aparticularbandit

I don't necessarily agree with some of the copyright laws, etc. or that corporations can maintain something like this in perpetuity.

However, there's a difference between telling a story around a campfire and what Stan Lee (and other comic book creators/artists/writers/etc.) do. Stories around a campfire don't necessitate someone's livelihood. If I created a story, if I wrote and published said story, then telling that story would be part of my livelihood - part of how I make money, part of how I survive. In the analogy, that's less telling a story around a campfire and more staking out territory (which is also not a great analogy, but a closer one).

This is my territory. I hunt here for food. If someone else hunts here for food, then I won't be able to feed my family. Etc.

Yes, comic writers and fanfic writers might be doing the same thing. But comic writers are being paid to support their families. Fanfic writers are not.

Also - fanfic writers (and I say this as someone who writes and reads fanfic, or has done so in the past) have no quality control. Anybody can write and post fanfic because they love something - and that's a good thing! But people publishing something is a whole world of difference - usually they're putting a lot of money into their story (editors, agents, sensitivity readers, promotion, etc.) that fanfic writers don't - and, again, they expect to make money off of it.

I don't like Disney as a corporation - or other corporations - buying up IP and trying to extend copyright. We should be allowed to tell stories around a campfire without it being an issue, and past a certain point, people should be allowed to mix and remix and retell stories - past the point of livelihood. (Which is why copyright laws used to be so many years or the death of the creator, before Disney meddled.)

But yeah. If I have created a character and am using that character as my livelihood, then yes, I should be able to decide whether someone else can also use that character for their livelihood or not.

jcogginsa

This is what the public domain is supposed to be for. To give individual creators time to make a livelihood off their ideas, before they pass on into the realm wheree everyone gets to play with them.

Unfortunately, corporate interests have grossly extended the time from inception to entering the public domain, so the rollout of new entries is dreadfully slow.

tobiasdrake

This feels related to the overarching problem with the financialization of everything; the transformation of various aspects of our lives into financial tokens to be bought and sold, such as the (much more serious) problem of housing as a form of currency and storage of wealth instead of a shelter for people to live in.

To continue using my example, the idea that Iron Man should be the property of his creator does feel right and I agree with that.

The idea that Iron Man should be a corporation's financial asset with a multi-million dollar valuation to be bought, sold, and traded on? That a portion of the global economy is pegged to the value of Iron Man? That feels really weird. That's the part that's like... what the fuck are we doing as a society?

#politics #economics

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Were NFTs just the natural extension of IP laws?

I don't mean this in a way that's complimentary of NFTs, but rather in a way that's condemnatory towards IP law. I mean. We all know how ridiculous NFTs were, right? But think about it.

I mean. Yeah. "I paid ten billion dollars for the legal rights to this ugly ape JPG" was stupid in a way that was plain on its face for anyone who wasn't drinking the Kool-Aid to see.

But. Like.

Consider Iron Man.

A professional Iron Man writer and a fanfiction writer telling Iron Man stories are both just people sitting around a campfire going, "Okay, so imagine this guy...."

aparticularbandit

I don't necessarily agree with some of the copyright laws, etc. or that corporations can maintain something like this in perpetuity.

This is my territory. I hunt here for food. If someone else hunts here for food, then I won't be able to feed my family. Etc.

Yes, comic writers and fanfic writers might be doing the same thing. But comic writers are being paid to support their families. Fanfic writers are not.

#politics #economics

kcggggg

I collaborated with the Human Artistry Project to make this strip alongside other web cartoonists to make the point that “Stealing isn’t Innovation” when it comes to A.I. usage. It seems to be doing numbers on instagram and elsewhere, so you may also read it here, tumblr.

May the discourse that ensues be long and unhelpful.

Were NFTs just the natural extension of IP laws?

I don't mean this in a way that's complimentary of NFTs, but rather in a way that's condemnatory towards IP law. I mean. We all know how ridiculous NFTs were, right? But think about it.

I mean. Yeah. "I paid ten billion dollars for the legal rights to this ugly ape JPG" was stupid in a way that was plain on its face for anyone who wasn't drinking the Kool-Aid to see.

But. Like.

Consider Iron Man.

A professional Iron Man writer and a fanfiction writer telling Iron Man stories are both just people sitting around a campfire going, "Okay, so imagine this guy...."

#economics #politics

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2185 - Conditions of the Blackmail

Day 56. We have our recording and we broke Kyoshika's heart. So. That's fun.

Still waiting for Revenge Moko to swing down from the rafters as soon as we go inside.

#the hundred line #drake plays hundred line

The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2184 - Ramen 1/2

Day 56. We have a plan, and it's not as bad as it could be but it still might get us murdered again.

#the hundred line #drake plays hundred line

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The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy 2183 - Compliant Idiot

Day 56. Our super secret stealthy meeting with Kako that everyone knows about begins!