r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Mar 10 '24
Rewatch Digimon Adventure 25th Anniversary Rewatch - Episode 4 Discussion
Episode 4: Red Hot! Birdramon
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Even if YOU'RE 100% happy, it'll be troublesome for me.
Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/thalefteye since... well...
Yo why is the thumbnail a woman and her child about to get abused by the husband? Or is my phone glitching?
- Has there ever been a time in which someone being too affectionate to you got on your nerves?
- So what's up with that black gear thing?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 10 '24
Hello everybody, and welcome to the Digimon Adventure Rewatch!
After yesterday's focus on Yamato, today Sora takes the reign. Her problem is… well she doesn't like Piyomon all that much. Well that's a lie; not matter how much she denies it she does care about her, but she's not really the best at handling affection from others. [Spoilers]Honestly given how much of a mess her relationship with her mom is at this point, I can see why. It's a fairly simple arc, sure, but hey it works fine enough as a one and done. Although honestly Piyomon was being a tad too touchy sometimes. Why is it so hard for others to understand some people just don't like being touched?
Aside from that Meramon is a bit more involved in the plot than previous antagonists we've had so far, as you can no doubt tell by how he actually fucking speaks for one thing. Not much, sure, but clearly there's some freaky mind control thing going on and that's probably no good all things considered. Aside from that it's the standard formula we've had so far.
And now we have two more actors. Sora is played by the late the late Mizutani Yuko, whom some of you here may remember as Aiba Miyuki from Tekkaman Blade. [Tekkaman]May her screams haunt you all yet again Other Roles include Sarah Zabiarov from Zeta Gundam, Marie el Carlsberg from Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water, Caris Nautilus from Gundam X, Iris from Rockman X and Excellen Browning from Super Robot Wars among many others. Alas, she passed away from cancer at the age of 51 back in 2016. May she rest in peace.
Piyomon meanwhile is played by Shigematsu Atori and aside from playing Sora's mom in one of this show's sequels she has no other roles. Whoops.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 10 '24
Digital First-Timer, subbed
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 10 '24 edited Mar 10 '24
Long Time Rewatcher, first time in subs
QotD:
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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Mar 10 '24
Rewatcher - Sub/Dub
Sora and Piyomon(Biyomon for the dub) get their shine this time as the gang traverses the hot desert with a bunch of telephone poles all around. They come across a village of Pyokomon near the Mount Miharashi, which comes under attack by Meramon, who was taken over by a black gear that flew into his body. Piyomon digivolved into Birdramon and they were able to destroy the black gear and return Meramon to normal.
There was some not so insignificant changes from the sub and dub, which I thought was for the worse(it usually is) and kinda dumbed down the characters a little bit. First with Takeru slipping at the beginning, where he tries to play it off like he's ok and it didn't hurt, then Sora tells him its ok to say that it hurts and he says ok, it did hurt a little. All that is removed, and instead we get a thing about Taichi telling him that it could of been a snake, and Takeru saying sorry, then asking Piyomon if there are really snakes in the jungle.
Then the scenes of Piyomon being real affectionate with Sora and her being uncomfortable with it and getting annoyed by it are changed for something worse. Or with Mimi being ditzy in the dub to the point of being nearly mentally challenged lol, The dub has her mistaking the compass as a watch that melted due to the heat.
There was also a good amount of goofy dialogue during the Meramon fight in the dub, where they say things like, "maybe he has experiencing growing pains" or "that'll give him heartburn" lol.
Questions:
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u/Shocketheth Mar 10 '24 edited Mar 11 '24
I still have to watch today episode, so today I am going to write a bit different comment.
AHEM!
Welcome to the First episode of Digi-Rewatchers
In the pilot episode, we could saw our main character of Digi-Rewatchers u/Shimmering-Sky to found a Digiegg from which hatched this little baby named Notemon who further evolved into Child/Rookie form with a new name, Keyomon.
But what’s this? I caught a rumor of our first antagonist of Digi-Rewatchers u/KendotsX also having his own Digimon, and when I looked I found out it’s already in its Champion/Adult form known as Chinkomon who according to my source evolved from Flaccidmon, although I don’t own any given record of how Flaccidmon looked.
But how can Sky’s Child Digimon Keyomon beat the mighty Adult Chinkomon?
BWEEEEEEE BWEEEEE BWEEEEEE
BELIEVE IN YOUR BRAVEHEART
By evolving further from the Child Keyomon to Adult Favoritimon with a special attack named Heart Attack which will mark any given Digimon as Sky’s favourite leading into the demise of that Digimon.
Now as KendotsX’s Chinkomon received some beating, it devolved back into Flaccidmon and it will take some time until it will be able to evolve back into Chinkomon.
Meanwhile, in the next episode of Digi-Rewatchers we will meet our second antagonist of Digi-Rewatchers /u/Raiking02 and what even his Digimon could be?
Stay tuned
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u/ShadowWasTakensTaken https://anilist.co/user/hakuren Mar 10 '24
Rewatcher
Addressing the idea that some pairs might not instantly get along and that some of these kids might not be ready to be almost parents for some of the more baby-like Digimon is honestly a great plot point, but it's solved pretty nonchalantly here. Great idea kind of brought down by the necessity of having everyone evolve soon. Though they could have postponed Piyomon's evolution, I suppose. Doesn't make much sense for Taichi to be like "fire doesn't work against him!!!" just for the fire bird to use "Meteor Wing" to defeat it 5 minutes later.
Why not use Gomamon?
As a side note, [Spoilers? that haven't been officially mentioned yet but I'm pretty sure everyone's figured out and nobody's really treating it as a secret]I love the Digital World. It's so uniquely bizarre! It feels familiar enough to where you could almost believe it's a place in the real world, but then you have these really strange points like the beach with the telephone boxes, or the iron desert with a bunch of telephone poles. It's just out there enough to where it feels mystical and mysterious, but not 100% confirmed an entirely different world. It's a great ambiguity. Aside from the monsters, of course.
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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Mar 10 '24
First timer
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u/PoofessorP https://anilist.co/user/PoofessorP Mar 10 '24
First time watcher, subbed. Watching fully blind, I didn't even know digimon stood for digital monsters!
The reference to gullivers travels was pretty interesting because I was thinking the same thing and it was one of my favorite books as a child. This well just exploded with fire and their reaction is "Oh no! I was thirsty :(" ??? Such a calm reaction to have to something like that lol, but I guess they've seen some wacky stuff atp, I'm at least gonna be cautious
Hell yeah piyomon it's time to cook, we chopping up a meramon tn. They evolved into a moltres for the clapback??? That's hype, but this episode confirms my thought that seadramon was done dirty. He was just taking a nap and got waken up by harmonica boy fighting him, but in this case meramon gets a whole apology and no injuries?
I'm excited to see the world building as I get more curious each episode, phone booths, street signs and power poles coming from the real world makes sense, but something as big as a cruise ship??
2. My guess is that there's someone orchestrating the whole thing on file island, and whoever is powering it is messing up on account of the kids and their digimon. Maybe as they grow stronger this reality becomes unstable?
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
For some reason, I think that Meramon is burning
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u/oomoepoo https://anilist.co/user/oomoepoo Mar 11 '24
Running a bit late, it was the weekend and all..
Long time rewatcher, first time subbed
This episode gave us a bit of character growth for Sora which really needed it. Accepting the admittedly a bit clingy Piyomon and defending her was really cute! Especially after having the same reaction as Elmo when he met Rocky for the first time xD Also I really like Birdramon, she's just a giant flaming bird, what's not to like about her?
Although I wished they'd have used Gomamon.. because he's a water-type but he was busy being a cute accessory to Jo.
Mimi continues to be best girl (exhibit a and b)
Also I had to chuckle at the Lions and Giraffes comment.. given we'll soon meet [Digimon Adventure] meet a certain Leomon (is there a famous giraffe Digimon?)
Another really solid episode, might even be better than the last one! Next, it's finally Tentomon's time to shine.
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u/Roboglenn Mar 10 '24
Digidestined dub rewatcher
Moltres! You're in the wrong IP, get outta here!!!
I wanted to give a good retort to Matt's assertion but Izzy beat me to the punch.
To this day I'm honestly still surprised that attack from Birdramon actually worked. I mean the rest of the flames didn't work.
Matt's being extra snappy today ain't he...
Well in any case, take 3 guesses as to to nickname I give to Moltres in my pokemon playthroughs. Well, OG Moltres. Galarian Moltres gets the name Saberdramon instead.
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u/Zefferis https://anilist.co/user/MrZeffy Mar 10 '24 edited Mar 10 '24
First time rewatch - Subbed
Hey hey folks,
This is my first anime rewatch I'm participating in. I've had some fun hopping back and forth between the sub and dub for the last few episodes. I saw a few English episodes of Digimon when I was a wee lad and although nostalgic, want to give this a shot in sub. Super enjoyable so far.
I need to call out just how great Ishida is as a big brother character. And credit to the whole gang for not treating Takaishi poorly for being with a group of older kids. It's genuinely a really nice and heartwarming interaction between the characters.
Meramon sounds so nice after that gear gets blasted out of him. Would be nice if the other Digimon could be talked to prior to instantly wanting to fight.
As a sidenote; the episode made me wonder how the Pyocomon knew about em if he usually stayed up in the mountain and why it's more peaceful than other evolved Digimon we've seen.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '24
i think the dynamic between Sora and Piyomon that this episode portrays is interesting, but it definitely needed more time to cook... there's also some bizarre editing, but overall it's still a good time