The blogging of a weirdo with goggles

And this one’s from SMT but it physically hurts me all the same

But if there’s one thing that bothered me about the FeMC’s 3D model, it’s how her back was always weirdly arched to make her boobs stick out.

But who's this new guy

His outfit isn't too bad. The goggles are a little bit boring, but overall his outfit is okay...

But can we talk about the EYES

And this one’s from SMT but it physically hurts me all the same

but I kind of feel like it doesn’t love us back.

The reason for this is that, well, I can’t really support it if it doesn’t want me to!

The old V-pets are expensive (although I have to buy one eventually for spite reasons. I am that guy), I don’t own a PS4 for their newest games, the 3DS games are Japan exclusive, and I couldn’t even download Digimon links because it took up too much space. Over a gigabyte. That’s crazy! The last English Nintendo Digimon game was worlds dawn and dusk, which are difficult to find, and any other merch is either inch-tall figurines, or hyper-expensive LCD electronics.

To put it into perspective, for the V-pet ver. 20th, you’re looking at £60. For a ver. 1, you’re looking at £30-£50. For a Digivice ver. 15th, you’re paying out the ass, at like £150. For a Digivice 1999, which are really rare, it’s between £70-£100. I’ve seen Taichi’s goggles on eBay, an item I would snap up in an instant if I had the chance. £120.

Their most expensive item recently was the limited edition Beelzebumon leather jacket at… wait for it…

£3000. Bandai thought it would be a good idea to market a jacket at £3000.

On the flip side, the least expensive electronic is the D-terminal from the year 2000, at about £10-£20, but it’s pretty much useless without any digivices or V-pets to connect to it, so that would first go back to picking up an expensive V-pet.

And just to ice the cake, this isn’t even their fault, but the Japanese price for a Digital Monster ver. 20th: £25. Twenty-five fucking quid. They’re taunting us. I swear.

The easiest way to show this is legally watching on crunchyroll, purchasing the few plushes and toys and shirts available, buying the shout factory DVDs//Seasons 1-4 box set, and support the video games and official phone app games that have come out. Its not that they don’t love us, its more of us for a while we stopped caring. (”But I never stopped caring about Digimon!” you might say! And I’d agree with you! But the fact is ratings dropped, toy sales dropped, and there was a whole big “meh” tossed back at them) 

Never before in this franchise after Tamers have I seen so much merchandise, figures, games (with western localizations of Cybersleuth, which until not very long ago we thought to be impossible, let’s not forget that), devices, etc!!

This year we had basically two Digimon animations running at the same time. That never happened before. Both young and old generations of digimon have reasons to be happy - just keep asking for CR to air Appmon the same way we did with Xros Wars. (I remember when Crunchyroll didn’t even exist like today and we could only dream of a streaming website that wasn’t YouTube illegal reuploads in the first place)

I have Digimon Linkz installed in English in my mobile and it’s the absolute best thing ever - it’s like a mini pocket Digimon World lol while the other cardgame was fine this one is just so much better.

Remember when they first released the first adventure keychains, and mugs, way before the GEM figures? Of just Taichi and Yamato? That kind of random stuff was a silly wet dream some of us longed from for over a decade. Today there is so much variety of those we can be picky about it; looking back it makes me snort how pitiful the state of the fandom was. Now we even have Tamers figures.

In other words, until recently not even Japan had much stuff, let alone us overseas.

Not saying I don’t understand where the frustration to get merch comes from but… It used to be a lot worse until not very long ago, heck, we were literally picking up straws from the ground and throwing a party at every little thing they released in Japan no matter how small. A Belzemon jacket would never have existed in the first place years ago, let alone for a high price.

For the first time in the history of this franchise Toei and Bandai is also trying to release things for the overseas audience. I have answered to at the very least two inquires in the official Bandai website asking what proxy buyers I resort to to get japanese stuff. And recently WtW announced partnerships between those proxy buyers and Toei’s shop, it blew me away.

I really feel like we have never been at a better place before. Just keep supporting the franchise as always and at this rate we will be doing fine.

Yeah I'm from the UK

We didn't get that

Digimon tri aired in literally every English-speaking country that isn't the UK. We're still watching that shit illegally. I guess that's half the battle, really: America has the bandaionline website where they can get stuff that Bandai themselves have price-inflated by almost double, Asia has, well, Bandai Asia... but the UK isn't even confirmed for the new Tamagotchi remakes, let alone anything remotely touching Digimon that isn't playstation games. Anybody who hadn't found the semi-rare tri discs in HMV could think that it didn't even exist.

Definitely Yay

Digijuly, part I

(Part II)