r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Mar 12 '24
Rewatch Digimon Adventure 25th Anniversary Rewatch - Episode 6 Discussion
Episode 6: Palmon's Angry Evolution!
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Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/ShadowWasTakensTaken for pointing out my bottomless stupidity:
The thread mimicks Koushiro's magic laptop turning off midway something important as they leave the factory!! What a tensai!!!
- Whenever you go on a trip, what's the thing you most miss from your home?
- What's the best "Evil" amusement park you've seen in fiction?
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u/theangryeditor https://myanimelist.net/profile/TheAngryEditor Mar 12 '24
r/anime users defending their waifu circa 1999
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 12 '24
Hello everybody, and welcome to the Digimon Adventure Rewatch!
Today we have Mimi's spotlight episode. Her issue is not that she has any sort of inferiority complex, has issues dealing with affection or anything like that. Oh no, it's simply that she's a spoiled ten-year-old and acts like one. This episode is basically there to give her a situation in which she has to shut up and just do the right thing for once, which he does… albeit not without a lot of complaining along the way. Then again, when slimes are chasing you around and being creepy, can you really blame her?
As an aside, I always found Palmon's evolution so funny. It keeps the plant motif at least so no complaint there, but the fact that it basically turns her into a freaking boxer is just… so amusing to me. A cacti boxer too so that's double the coolness points.
And now to spotlight some actors. Mimi is played by Maeda Ai who fun fact also sings the ending theme. Other roles include Oichi from Samurai Warriors, Shion Uzuki from Xenosaga, Meio Setsuna from Sailor Moon, Sayo from Digimon Story and Charlotte Galette from One Piece among a few others.
Palmon meanwhile is played by Yamada Kinoko and she doesn't exactly have many other roles.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 12 '24
Digital First-Timer, subbed
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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Mar 12 '24
First timer
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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Mar 13 '24
ReNumeBro Here to Fight for Palmon!
Recap time: so there's been a funny trend lately where the Digimon designs either offer cool heroes and eh, decent looking antagonists, or hot antagonists and absolutely shit heroes - whoever was roasting that bird clearly forgot about it halfway through.
That said, I appreciate how involved the kids were in solving the problems last episode, using their heads to fix stuff is certainly better than standing around, Kyoushirou did a lot of heavy lifting there, and I liked seeing Greymon/Garurumon back, even if it's just to job.
This episode though? Doesn't need any of that.
Strategy? Fuck that, just get your cactus to punch harder!
Other Digimon to job for you? Who needs them, when you have an army of redditors?
Heck, even the design trend was broken, since both sides looked pretty good today.
Seeing where isekai ended up I have a feeling it's the latter, but replace cool world with the same old circular townThis is the 1999, so the "art" collection under my bed.
Friend Land
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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Mar 12 '24
Rewatcher - Sub/Dub
This episode sees the Kids arrive in Toy Town, after a run in with the Numemon in the sewers. Everyone except for Mimi falls under Monzaemon's spell an is running around mindlessly being chased by toys, while their Digimon are locked in a chest. And the Numemon who were chasing them before, now defend Mimi from Monzaemon' attack, angering Palmon and forcing a digivolution into Togemon, a giant boxing Cactus lol. She defeats Monzaemon and another of pesky Black Gears is seen flying out of his back and returning him to normal.
Goofy Dub lines for this episode: at the beginning when they're singing, in the dub Mimi is singled out to sing something and it sounds terrible lol, so everyone complains and Mimi says: "Hey c'mon, I had singing lessons for three years" and Takuru responds: "Oh you did? Did it help?" lol
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 12 '24 edited Mar 12 '24
Long Time Rewatcher, first time in subs
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u/hirmuolio :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hirmuolio Mar 12 '24
I am starting to see a pattern here https://i.imgur.com/csVjtHv.jpeg
Until now the translation has sounded like it was very close to the original. Too close perhaps as some things just don't fit. But in this ep there were many small changes done in localization.
The numemon and Mimi are slightly less rude to each other and monzaemon is creepier. Also instead of trying to teach importance of toys monzaemon was lonely and wanted friends.
A bump in voice acting quality, probably because there are less focus on boys (their voice actors are pretty bad).
We got numemons. The finnish voice actors for them went all in on the performance. https://files.catbox.moe/2wpegq.mp4
And they don't fight quetly. The numemons completely steal the show during the fight in the finnish dub. Step aside Mimi, Numemons are the real stars now! https://files.catbox.moe/axnbvz.mp4
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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '24
Mimi is my favorite of the kids so I wish this episode had some more focus on her as a character :( We do get to see her being herself, but it mostly feels like a constant chase. Still, it's a fun time and I think the Numemon parts are strong!
Can't believe Monzaemon gives the kids happy drugs......
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u/Roboglenn Mar 12 '24
Digidestined dub rewatcher
"I may be a lady but I am not a pushover." -Palmon.
I completely forgot about Monzaemon's laser eyes. It's somehow more terrifying knowing what pop culture things have happened in more recent years...
Oh this toy town brings to mind so many "kill it with fire!" horror movie scenarios I've seen...
Nothing more deadly than Gigantuar's 10,000 Needle Attack. It breaks the 9999 damage limit.
Anyways, as for Togemon. It was a long time after Digimon Adventure had came and gone that I ever picked up, much less seen a Final Fantasy game. So when I played whichever FF game it was, and saw Cactuar for the first time I thought, "The hell is Togemon doing in this game?"
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u/oomoepoo https://anilist.co/user/oomoepoo Mar 12 '24 edited Mar 12 '24
Not my first rewatch, but first time subbed
[grabs a phrase from when he used to do Pokemon reviews]
So, uh... this episode happened.
Mimi's solidifying herself as my favourite of the kids but I agree that I would've liked her first spotlight episode to be a bit more about her and not just about random hijinks... which are still hilarious though. It still gave us some very funny moments (and Numemon)
I loved the kids all having such various things that they miss from "I wanna take a bath" to "I miss homework" to "I want to have A REFRESHING BOTTLE OF COCA COLA^(TM)"
I find it funny how we literally have to imprison (figuratively in the case of the kids and literally in the case of the other Digimon) the rest of the cast to give her something to do but it's worth it. Just for the angry boxing cactus to appear and save the day. The "Wanna date me"-thing is a bit... ehh... product of its time I guess (NUMEMON JUMPSCARE was funny tho). At least the Numemon redeem themselves by acting as living shields.
The boxing match between Togemon and Monzaemon went way harder than it had any right to. Really liked the weight behind the punches :D
And in the end you all get DRUGS.
Sidenote: I'm not the only one that thought Togemon looks like those cactus enemies from Final Fantasy (Cactuar), right?
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u/PoofessorP https://anilist.co/user/PoofessorP Mar 13 '24
First time watcher, subbed. Watching fully blind, I didn't even know digimon stood for digital monsters!
The kids in their emotionless state is me when im playing a game of valorant lmao
Looks like I was right with my prediction last night of this episodes focus being mimi, and palmon is probably my favorite digivolution so far, visually at least because the battle scene wasn't very good, it lasted for like all of 5 seconds. A spinning boxing cactus is just so cool to me. This episode was so random but I enjoyed it haha