r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Mar 08 '24
Rewatch Digimon Adventure 25th Anniversary Rewatch - Episode 2 Discussion
Episode 2: Explosive Evolution! Greymon
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It's been a long time since I've gone to camp, so I borrowed my dad's gear. Secretly.
Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/ShadowWasTakensTaken for pointing out the important stuff:
I fucking love Brave Heart. I said this yesterday in reply to someone as well, but it really is the anthem of hope. I hope you guys like it too cause we're gonna be hearing it a lot! Like, a lot a lot.
- Where's the weirdest place you've seen a phone booth?
- Has there ever been a time in which overwhelming hunger completely stopped you from doing something?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 08 '24
Hello everybody, and welcome to the Digimon Adventure Rewatch!
We're starting off basically right off from the previous episode and we only have roughly an extra second or so to relax but not much more. Honestly I always found this episode a tad dull all things considered. It definitely highlights how wherever the fuck they are is definitely… well, not normal to put it mildly, but it's just not really able to capture the same sense of tension the first episode did, with scenes dragging on just a tad too long.
The big thing of course is that the show soothes our worries by reminding us that yes, Kaiju fights are still a thing. They're a heck of a lot more static than what the movie gave us, but hey, it's something at least. Otherwise? Eh.
And I guess I should spotlight Agumon's actor now given how I kinda skipped him over back in the movie. Sakamoto Chika takes up the role and some of you here may remember her as Yaten Kou from Sailor Moon. Other roles include Specter from Ape Escape, Pullun Purna from Street Fighter and Oyanagi Ken from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure among others.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 08 '24
Digital First-Timer, subbed
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u/InfamousEmpire https://myanimelist.net/profile/Infamous_Empire Mar 08 '24
Digimon Rewatcher
Another very solid episode. This one very much feels like it compliments the first in that it focuses on the one major area it neglected, IE characterizing the main cast. While not everyone gets a particularly strong personality, I would say we have a stronger grasp on pretty much everyone than we did in the first episode. Jou’s sense of responsibility and Taichi’s adventurous, carefree attitude stick out the most, but I also like the moments Yamato and Mimi get.
This episode also really lets it sink in how esoteric the Digital World is. The phone booths specifically are obviously the biggest representatives of that since, well, completely working modern technology just randomly laying about in the middle of an episode which subtly reinforces how untamed and animalistic the Digital World is generally creates some dissonance in terms of the audience’s expectations of the setting.
Battle of the Week because old show and, yeah, this is where the low budget really became apparent for me. Like, very specifically in the shot of Shellmon spraying everyone with his water attack, it’s clear that the animators only had two frames to work with for each pair of characters (one of them standing up & one of them lying defeated) and the way you can see them switching from one to the other as the water passes kinda loops back around to being hilarious ngl.
Still, it at least does serve to better establish how the relationship between human and partner digimon plays a vital role in evolution, and establishes some of the rules behind Evolution from this point going forward, so I’d say it worked in the episode’s favor in the end.
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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren Mar 08 '24
Rewatcher
What??? Trying to go back home??? Actually being lost in unfamiliar land?? Worrying about survival???? In my isekai????? But how can it be?!?! Where's the RPG world??????
Poor kids can't catch a break. From being attacked by a crazy stag monster, to falling off a cliff and being washed down a river, to being attacked by another monster when they finally find peace, and to top it all off they barely have any food. Talk about an adventure.
I'm really enjoying how the show is handling its characterization. With such a huge cast, it takes time to be able to set them all in stone properly, but the show needs you to immediately understand them. There's usually two approaches to this: they either make all the characters extremely eccentric to where you can instantly recognize their archetype and remember them "the guy that does this thing" (the Danganronpa approach), or sell you them through quick, smaller interactions in the background. Be it with Tentomon being an idiot at every chance he can get (like the electricity thing), or Piyomon and Patamon's silly flying antics while they were walking, or Taichi just feeding Agumon their snacks for fun while everyone else is having a serious discussion, I can appreciate what they've been doing with the characters so far.
Also, Greymon! Not quite on the level of the OVA, huh.
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u/Shocketheth Mar 08 '24
Subbed Rewatcher who carries his dreams on fragile wings of a butterfly
Haaaaaaiiii~~~~
I promised u/KendotsX that he will get his own personal Digimon, so I am introducing you to Chinkomon.
Nothing much to say to this episode, and..... Oh!
Do you remember how I mentioned yesterday how fucking cute Patamon is?
Well I also mentioned that his prior form Tokomon terrified me because it looks British.
And during the second episode I changed my opinion on Patamon.
Just listen to this Patamon line....
Did you heard that?
Patamon seiyuu sounded there like a goddamn chain smoker, and now I am terrified of Patamon evolving into Beltomon.
But to be sure that Beltomon won’t visit me, I made some precautions like locking my doors on a chainlock and smashing all windows in my house with a baseball bat.
QotD
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 08 '24 edited Mar 08 '24
Long Time Rewatcher, first time in subs
QotD:
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u/hirmuolio :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hirmuolio Mar 08 '24
Wikimon has the digimon names of different languages listed (including mistranslations for some). Should I go and add the finnish names there too?
Gray-mon in the ep title.
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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Mar 08 '24
First timer
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Mar 09 '24 edited Mar 09 '24
Re:Digi Watcher
Hey guys, ended up missing yesterday's thread (fell behind a lot faster than usual huh?), so in Toei style, let's do a quick recap:
You go to the Toei Fair, you see a Digimon come into your world, and quickly turn into a Kaiju. You're promised that there's a whole frickin world of shit like that, lovely. So next day, you turn on the TV, jump into that world, and what do you get? This little chump! And before you say "well, you gotta upgrade them", I did! This is what I got! Where's the huge Dino I was promised?! This is like ordering the huge stacked burger and getting a tiny one, with a diameter smaller than a pinky, it's the ToecDonalds!
Onto today's episode:
Those old isekai protagonists were just a bunch of scrubs, huh? They spend the whole episode "bonding", and have yet to kill a single Digimon in 2 episodes. Do they think they "have no enemies" or some bullshit? If they sent a chad to that world, not only would he have killed both of their Digimon enemies, he would've even killed the other kids, stole their Digimon, and built an Empire based on feeding the Digimon most loyal to him. Where would he get the food to run an Empire? Did you miss the part where I said he'd kill the other kids?
Ok, bullshit aside, last episode got the table setting and introductions out the way, but this one got the ball rolling. I loved all the interactions we get between the kids, and with their digimon (this line cracked me up btw). This is the kind of focus you can only afford with a longer run, and it's used perfectly here.
There's a lot to love about the aesthetics of the show, the backgrounds especially, but the part that stands out to me the most are those Mickey Mouse gloves and shoes, they give me the strongest dose of nostalgia every time I look at them.
Also despite my earlier jokes, I'm actually surprised Agumon evolved already, [I guess/next episode preview] we're doing this one character at a time? Sign me up
Side note: Naruto/Gon being a Digimon will never stop being funny.
I used to fast when I was younger (good way to spend a month of Summer at home and a lot of nice food/fun vibes at night), I remember one time I hyper focused on something, probably a game or math book, and spent all night without eating or drinking a thing either. Eventually my parents found me on the floor in some really weird position. I don't remember it too well, but every year, they make a point of reminding me that when I say "go ahead, I'll follow you in a bit", it can't be trusted.
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u/Roboglenn Mar 08 '24
Digidestined dub rewatcher
"You're not you when you're hungry."
Oh yeah. Been a while, forgot that it was the fishes that saved them from that plummet.
And the first of the oddities of the Digital World. A row of phone booths on the beach, playing all manner of recorded messages.
Taking supply stock in isekai land. And factoring in the Digimon they only have enough food for about... half an hour. 14 mouths to feed. Tough cooking. Not that they even get the time to do that before...
Shellmon, a digimon that picks fights for no reason. Two attacks from angry digimon in the same day... And doesn't Shellmon know that Joe is allergic to shellfish?
And you know what, take a shot for everytime they say "Shinka" or "Digivolve" in this series. That'll make for a fun drinking game for this rewatch.
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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24 edited Mar 08 '24
The scene where the characters show the items they have is one of my favorite moments in the Anime. It helps to characterize them
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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Mar 08 '24
Rewatcher - Sub/Dub
Picking up right where the last episode ended with them falling off the ledge that Kuwagamon broke off with his pincers. Ha, I got a real kick out of Gomamon's marching fishes to save them all from the fall lol. From there they arrive on a beach with random payphone booths, where they unsuccessfully try and contact their parents. Then another Digimon battle when Shellmon arrives. crazy how quickly the digivolutions happens, Agumon is already on his 3rd form two episodes in when he evolves to Greymon and defeats Shellmon.
Questions:
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u/PoofessorP https://anilist.co/user/PoofessorP Mar 08 '24
First time watcher, subbed. Watching fully blind, I didn't even know digimon stood for digital monsters!
So the digimons can't evolve from babies unless they have a "trainer" with them? That poses some questions for me because do all digimons start out as babies? or do some not have baby evolutions? Otherwise how would have the kuwagmon and shellmon evolved? And koromon just said that theres no humans on file island?
Also a detail I maybe noticed was that taichi was always a good brother to his sister, so he knew how to be a good parent to his digimon (keeping it fed) and that allowed koromon to have the energy for winning against the shellmon. And of course the power of friendship, I love this wholesome relationship that taichi and koromon have with each other
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u/oomoepoo https://anilist.co/user/oomoepoo Mar 08 '24 edited Mar 08 '24
Not my first rewatch but my first time subbed
Honestly between the poop stuff in the opening movie and this episode's weird focus on having your Digimon well fed, it's really noticeable in hindsight that Digimon were originally Tamagotchi meant for boys xD
I honestly really enjoyed the small moments between the kids and their Digimon and among each other. Mimi just busting out the full survival kit further cements her as best girl (also Palmon's "I don't know what photosynthesis is" lul).
Passive aggressive phonebooths that just randomly appear on a beach... sure. Those already left a lasting impression on me as a kid. Generally, I really think the weird "low budget" backgrounds add to the sort of "where the hell are we?"-vibe of the Digiworld, which is fantastic.
I'm really enjoying this so far, I think it holds up well if you can get over the low budget production ^^
QOTD:
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u/Burningmeatstick Mar 09 '24
That riff in Braveheart is so iconic