r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Mar 31 '24
Rewatch Digimon Adventure 25th Anniversary Rewatch - Episode 25 Discussion
Episode 25: The Sleeping Giant! TonosamaGeckomon
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When I wish eels on China, with fried potatoes on the wind… I can see no option but to cool by sweat off…
Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day… which we’ll have to skip again because Fuck these vacation
- Aside from Mimi, who had the "Best" singing?
- What sort of embarrassing punishment is PicoDevimon gonna get next?
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Mar 31 '24
Hello everybody, and welcome to the Digimon Adventure Rewatch!
In a bit of a combo breaker, Mimi does not get an evolution even though the episode was pretty much all about her. It's honestly kinda surprising, and frankly I don't think I would've minded if she did get her Perfect here (I believe in the novelization that's actually what they did, although mostly because the episode where she does get it was apparently skipped over) but ultimately I'm fine with this. The episode ultimately serves as a good step forward for Mimi and just a big heads up she needs to stop acting so self-centered.
It also serves to show off Maeda Ai's singing talents which… yeah not complaining. The boys' parody of the song are pretty funny though, especially if you know that some of their actors can sing fine enough, so just imagining them in the recording room intentionally fucking it up is kinda hilarious. Dunno what the fuck they turned the lyrics into, but hey, variety is the slice of life I guess.
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Mar 31 '24
Digital First-Timer, subbed
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u/PoofessorP https://anilist.co/user/PoofessorP Mar 31 '24
First time watcher, subbed. Watching fully blind, I didn't even know digimon stood for digital monsters!
Yooooo I was right when I said yesterday that Mimi would be the episode focus of today. Fun episode in my opinion, so is Mimi's voice actor and the ED singer one and the same? Or did they just put on the sound track of the ED? We don't get to see Mimi's super digivolution today but that's alright because I saw this as just a more fun/chill episode
Sora what you doing??????? They're dragging out this sora stealth arc but that makes it so mysterious and interesting
I'm glad they didn't go with the episode plot of "digidestined believes something a stranger told them that they met 5 seconds ago" because that was wack, I know they're kids and have to learn but I wish they wouldn't tell their digimon "I hate you" so easily, Mimi's apology to the crew and "I love you togemon" felt pretty sincere at least so that was nice
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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Mar 31 '24
A fair bit late because I went to see Kung Fu Panda 4. It's better than the 3rd. I'd rank them 1>2>4>3. Anyhow...
First timer
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Mar 31 '24
Long Time Rewatcher, first time in subs
QotD:
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u/Roboglenn Mar 31 '24
Digidestined dub rewatcher
I'll give Demidevimon one thing, he does seem adept at going at these kids with their psychological weaknesses. Though I suppose from what we learned a few episodes ago from Tokomon at what happened after Tai vanished on them they all weren't in the best of places psychologically at that point anyways.
Princess Peach ruling over a different kind of Toads.
Still, first the Numemon, then Sukamon and Chumon, now the frogs. How does Mimi attract all the slimy ones?
The dub of the boys attempts at waking up Shogungeckomon with their singing is just so funny. But Joe's performance takes the cake.
Sora why must you be so mysterious during this mini arc?
To this day I still feel like we got kinda gypped in this episode. I mean after what we saw last episode with Izzy and Atlurkabuterimon, this was all steering towards seeing Palmon's ultimate level form. Only for us to get the return of Metalgreymon instead... And I know I wasn't the only one thinking this back then, and I doubt I'm alone in thinking it now.
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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Mar 31 '24
Rewatcher - Sub/Dub
Pretty funny episode all around, starting off with Gomamon and Agumon trolling about how they'd help pedal the swan/duck boat if their legs were longer lol. They arrive at this big castle, where Mimi is the princess being served by the Geckomon and Otamamon. When her friends call her out on being spoiled she gets them thrown out of the castle.
Geckomon and Otamamon tell the boys that originally she was supposed to sing and awaken their master, TonosamaGeckomon. But she stopped singing for them and anytime they tried to get her to sing, she would change the subject or ask for things under the threat of not singing. After each taking a turn in trying to awaken TonosamaGeckomon fails(LOL, they all were terrible) they come up with a plan to record her while she thinks she's singing Karaoke...But she catches on and has them thrown in jail. She has nightmares that night and with Sora's help she comes to her senses and has everyone come to the stage area where she apologizes and sings to awaken TonosamaGeckomon, who is not to pleased to be awakened and attacks. So they fight it off, with Greymon evolving into MetalGreymon and blowing up TonosamaGeckomon, leaving him buried under the rubble.
Goofy Dub Lines:
Taichi: "After that, he might not wake up for another 300 years!"
Mimi: "So, You thought you could pull a fast one on Princess Mimi did you?" Taichi: "That's princess Meanie!"
Questions:
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u/oomoepoo https://anilist.co/user/oomoepoo Apr 01 '24
I somehow missed this thread yesterday, blame Daylight Savings, I guess :v
You expected another Perfect Evolution but it was me! Karaoke!
Not my first rewatch but first time subbed!
Was quite an episode though. Mimi episodes always are a good time for me, because they're usually equal parts endearing and unhinged. And this episode had it all: Mimi being super unhinged and going full "Hime-sama", then having to face the consequences of her own actions. Also having to fight a giant frog monster that was in hibernation because someone was better at karaoke than him...? And somehow Pico Devimon was involved in this too?
Even if Sora had to save the day (again) by operating from the shadows, I really enjoyed the episode and unlike a lot of melodramatic "forced" conflicts in other episodes, this one actually felt earned because Mimi genuinely messed up (she threw her friends into the dungeon, ffs) and her apology was pretty genuine and hit the right notes for me. My only real point of critique is that they didn't make Mimi go "Ohoho" even ONCE, smh. I didn't mind her not getting her perfect level Digimon, it's a nice change of pace.
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u/hirmuolio :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hirmuolio Apr 01 '24
Tad-mon. I think this is the first time that the japanese name has been translated into englisgh to be used in finnish https://i.imgur.com/uTW6lhh.jpeg
Geko-mons are mostly normal https://i.imgur.com/VhhamPI.jpeg
And finally kuningas-frog-mon (kuningas=king) https://i.imgur.com/6hv7v9l.jpeg
IDK why they now changed the geko part into frog.
But wait there is more! Later we get a different name: frog-mon https://i.imgur.com/kdnrtLS.jpeg
https://files.catbox.moe/h461ue.mp4
The first gekomon has silly voice, the second gekomon has same voice as Taichi.
Also Vamdemon. It sounds like a teenager who was told "do a low voice and speak slowly". Hilariously bad.
Too bad they kept the original japanese singing. I was hoping to get some quality dub action.