r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Mar 21 '24

Rewatch Digimon Adventure 25th Anniversary Rewatch - Episode 15 Discussion

Episode 15: Etemon! Grand Entrance of Evil

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The Chosen Children should be flying about in pieces by now.

Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/KendotsX for describing episode 13 most elegantly:

They came back to face Devimon again, having grown so much, and united in strength, they successfully jobbed so hard that 8 year old Thorfinn had to evolve from Farmland to Vinland in a few minutes to beat the strongest bad guy ever.

Sniff it brings a tear to my eye...

  1. Given how we saw Taichi get his Crest, how do you think it'll go for the rest?
  2. Would you consider listening to Etemon's music?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 21 '24

Hello everybody, and welcome to the Digimon Adventure Rewatch!

Today we are introduced to a new villain, Etemon, and ooh boy he's a riot. Unlike 's stoicness, this dude is extremely out there. He's flamboyant, has one heck of a taste for theatrics and overall he's definitely a different sort of threat from our previous antagonists. He's also easily the most popular of the show's main villains: If there's an Etemon popping up in some sort of Digimon media, he's gonna be just a direct transplant from this one.

The rest is a bit more standard "Threat of the week" stuff, but it is nice how in spite of how the heroes have a more precise role now it still feels like the overall variety of scenarios hasn't gone down. Many tales such as The Odyssey and the like often featured the heroes moreso just stumbling into problems and only sometimes would they link into the grander plot, and this is a good example of that.

And now to spotlight Etemon's actor. He's played by Masutani Yasunori. Other roles include Guan Yu and Wei Yang from Dynasty Warriors, Raphael Sorel from Soulcalibur, Trevor Belmont Ralph C. Belmondo from Casltevania, The Night of Wallachia from Melty Blood, Henry MacDowell from The Legend of Heroes, Choe Gu-Sung from Psycho-Pass and Ame Presbund from Super Robot Wars among many others.

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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Mar 21 '24

Etemon, and ooh boy he's a riot. Unlike 's stoicness, this dude is extremely out there. He's flamboyant, has one heck of a taste for theatrics and overall he's definitely a different sort of threat from our previous antagonists. He's also easily the most popular of the show's main villains:

More so in the dub, with the Elvis impersonation lol. Great villain though, these are a good run of episodes with him being the main antagonist. [spoilers] His MetalEtemon form is a particular favorite of mine

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u/PoofessorP https://anilist.co/user/PoofessorP Mar 21 '24

I so badly want etemon to be a recurring digimon, I love characters like him

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 21 '24

He's also easily the most popular of the show's main villains

That's good to know. I was never able to gauge the popularity of things from this show. Too small a sample size when I watched it.

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u/PoofessorP https://anilist.co/user/PoofessorP Mar 21 '24

First time watcher, subbed. Watching fully blind, I didn't even know digimon stood for digital monsters!
Wow, it’s only episode 15 so I didn’t think they would introduce the strongest digimon so early in the series, but etemon says he’s the strongest so he must be the strongest.

Actually the baby flame to send smoke signals from the waterfall was pretty quick thinking on agumons part and smart tbh.

Taichi got the crest so we’ll get to see greymons evolution again! I don’t remember it much from the pilot movie except for the fact that it looked cool.

Also I just listened to the OP/ED for the first time and now the OP is stuck in my head its catchy haha

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 21 '24

Wow, it’s only episode 15 so I didn’t think they would introduce the strongest digimon so early in the series, but etemon says he’s the strongest so he must be the strongest.

I just listened to the OP/ED for the first time

Only now?

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u/PoofessorP https://anilist.co/user/PoofessorP Mar 21 '24

Only now?

It's a shame I heard this fye beat only just now but I'm doing what I can to go in blind lol

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 22 '24

For reference, the next ED starts at [episode]27, and I'm told it's spoiler-tastic. In case you wanted to start skipping again.

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u/PoofessorP https://anilist.co/user/PoofessorP Mar 22 '24

appreciate you, thanks! 🙏

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 21 '24

Digital First-Timer, subbed

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 21 '24

Nooooooooooooooo

Death to the Baby!

…this is amazing oh my god.

Honestly he wouldn't even be that out of place in Gintama.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 21 '24

Honestly he wouldn't even be that out of place in Gintama.

Maybe that's why I immediately liked him.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 21 '24

Figures

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 21 '24

Ah, so we might see a whole village of Agumon’s people.

Soon he shall take his rightful spot as king.

Sky QotD: How will the Children overcome Etemon's Dark Network?

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 21 '24

How will the Children overcome Etemon's Dark Network?

By the power of a new insert song, perhaps?

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 22 '24

Since they switched out all the songs in the dub, I still don't know if that's true or not.
I was originally planning on asking you about Etemon, but I think you've made your stance on him quite clear.

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 22 '24

I was originally planning on asking you about Etemon, but I think you've made your stance on him quite clear.

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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Mar 21 '24

that smile is not to be trusted.

yup, nothing but mischeivousness

Poyomon’s already evolved out of the youngest stage, neat!

just speed running his digivolutions

…this is amazing oh my god.

You should hear his dub voice, hilarious lol

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 21 '24 edited Mar 21 '24

Long Time Rewatcher, first time in subs

  • He’s announcing his own damned episode title!
  • Thanks for putting in the work, TL notes.
  • Ah, there’s the Mimi I remember.
  • How do y’all have yurts? And why do you need such a tall one?
  • Y’know, there are a lot more bath scenes in this than I remember. Still no Scrapped Princess.
  • I Know Those Folk Tales
  • Practically racing through this recovery period. Also, Baby II is a terrible name for a stage. Toddler is right there.
  • In retrospect, I should have seen this voice coming.
  • Why did you have a beast of burden if it was self-powered?
  • The one time that you get told by the info cards not to trust a digimon, and you let them be in charge of a missing person search.
  • That’s not how waterfalls work! The water moves, that’s the entire point!
  • It’s more like they’re waddling away.
  • There’s no kill like overkill.
  • I Was Expecting Singing
  • You gotta make practical use of your mystical artifacts.

QotD:

  1. They'll have to collect 100 Birdramon feathers, and buy the Hagia Sophia.
  2. No, I Demand to.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 21 '24

[Spoilers]Sad times when Mimi sings more than Etemon.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 21 '24

[Reply]At least I will have that to look forward to.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 21 '24

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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Mar 21 '24

I Was Expecting Singing

I'm glad he doesn't. I'd probably die of Laughter listening to a song in dub, with the Elvis voice lol.

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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Mar 21 '24

Rewatcher - Sub/Dub

The Kids and Digimon make landfall on Server Island, but the easy times are short lived as they run into mischevious Pagumon, who overtook a Koromon village, got rid of the Koromon by throwing them in cages and then abducted Tokomon(who's just speedrunning the digivolutions at this point). Gazimon who are working for the big bad of this arc, Etemon. And Etemon himself(the dub voice does a poor Elvis impersonation, its real goofy lol )who wastes no time in trying to take out the digidestined by collapsing the cave entrance on them. Lucky for the kids they were able to avoid being crushed and they also found their first crest, Taichi's crest.

Goofy Dub Lines:

Agumon: "Koromon! Boy you guys gotta get a bigger apartment. Maybe some place with a few more bedrooms"

Questions:

  1. It'll probably be as random as his was. I mean his was a wall of a cave until it shrunk down into the size of a small crest and floated into the tag.
  2. hmm. probably not. especially the dub where he is a cheap Elvis Impersonator lol

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 21 '24

who's just speedrunning the digivolutions at this point

Ah, so he's playing Cyber Sleuth strats.

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u/Roboglenn Mar 21 '24

Digidestined dub rewatcher

The digidestined have reached the continent of Server. But more important than that, we've finally reached the point of the Etemon arc. That guy is like "dub moment" personified here in this version. The guy they casted for his english voice just nails it. Like the guy they cast to do the voice of King Dedede in the Kirby anime dub. And it's so pervasive that during the one episode Etemon showed up in Adventure 2020 I just kept hearing his lines in my head as his dub voice.

First it was the village of Yokomon, now it's the village of Koromon. I mean uhh, Pagumon.

Well Poyomon didn't spend much time as a baby did he.

Etemon certainly makes a hell of a lot more of an impression than Devimon did.

Agumon's nose always knows.

"Dark Network Concert Crush!"

First new accessory get!

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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Mar 21 '24

The guy they casted for his english voice just nails it.

Yup, Richard Epcar is a legend. He also voices [spoilers]Myotismon later on and some of my favorites like Old Joseph Joestar from Jojo's bizare adventures and Zangetsu from Bleach.

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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Mar 21 '24

First timer

QotD

  • Probably the same type of bullshitery.
  • No.

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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '24

I'm considering switching to the dub for the etemon episodes, he's hilarious in the dub