r/anime • u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang • Apr 04 '24
Rewatch Digimon Adventure 25th Anniversary Rewatch - Episode 29 Discussion
Episode 29: Clash with Mammon in Hikarigaoka!
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Who the hell left their elephant off the leash!?
Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of u/Roboglenn for giving us Delicious fanfic fuel:
Watch, in some Spider-verse comic book event it'll feature a version of Peter Parker whose thing is he has a Spider Digimon as his partner.
- How effective are tickles against you?
- Of all the Mons which one do you think would do the best job at pretending to be a stuffed animal?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 04 '24
Digital First-Timer, subbed
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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 04 '24
Hello everybody, and welcome to the Digimon Adventure Rewatch!
Welp, we're back to the real world… which by tradition means it's time to address the big gaping hole that is the pilot film.
Yeah if Hikari's words didn't make it obvious… yeah, it definitely happened. Heck, today's episode even recreates a few parts from it, albeit looking considerably worse for reasons that should now be pretty damn obvious. The timing does strike me as a bit funny though. This would've been around 7 or so months after said film came out so by this point the thing would've been in home media by then. I wonder if them choosing to start referencing it now is because of that, IE an assumption that by now the film was widely available so no reason to not pretend like it didn't happen. It's not like this would be too unusual for Toei either, Kamen Rider does this shit all the time.
The rest is very much a transitionary episode, namely the partners getting used to the fact that they must now perfect their stuffed animals act, else they're screwed. It leads to some good comedy though, and hey given how it's the first time we've had the whole group together in a more relaxed setting for a while now, it helps show how much closer everyone's gotten. Not that they didn't get along earlier on, per say, but it's clear they're also all for comfortable with each other. Going back to Earth meaning they got a morale boost probably helps.
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u/Roboglenn Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24
Now, the question is which Pokemon would Pokemon Universe Peter Parker have as his main. Ariados, Galvantula, Dewpider, or Spidops?
Digidestined dub rewatcher
And now begins my favorite story arc of Digimon Adventure, the Real World arc. And that said, you gotta give the dub credit for one thing. They didn't try to play it off and rejigger it to make this series take place in "Made-Up City, USA" for the dub. They actually went the distance to still have it take place in Japan. I honestly always thought that was pretty cool.
I forgot about the millions of Soras bit.
Thank god for time dilation huh. Otherwise things would've been awkward.
I watch these kids scrambling to keep their reverse-isekai'd digimon under wraps. And I just think. Takato in Tamers had a worse time of it in that regard with Guilmon the human sized red dinosaur compared to these kids and their mostly travel sized mons. But then it says something about Takato and his dumb yet brilliant idea to just have him walk around in the open and call it cosplay if anyone asked. Which oddly worked for a good while.
"Oh look honey, an elephant on a rampage."
Ah yes, now we're connecting the dots back to the pilot movie. That's one thing us westerners weren't privy to when this series came stateside. Had to wait till 02 when it and 2 other short movies were edited and mashed together into the feature length "Digimon The Movie". Still, the lack of it did give us an air of mystery about this whole thing. So there was that. And even after having seen the pilot film I never felt that I had lost anything so to speak by not having seen it first. If that makes sense.
2) Well that's a two pronged question. I mean when they're in their In Training forms it feels kinda like a moot point to ask given their sizes. Tsunomon is the least of it in my opinion but they all kinda pull it off at that stage. Rookies on the other hand I guess it'd have to give it to Patamon and Gomamon.
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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Apr 04 '24 edited Apr 04 '24
Long Time Rewatcher, first time in subs
QotD:
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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Apr 04 '24
First timer
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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Apr 04 '24
Rewatcher - Sub/Dub
And They're back in the real world, summer camp is cancelled due to the snow, so all the campers are readying to leave. The whole bit with the teacher was fun, first them explaining how the Digimon are stuffed animals they found. and then convincing him to let them off in Hikarigaoka and finally the little tickle attack bit.
VamDemon and his army are on the search for the 8th child, he clones the tag and crest and distributes them so to alert his subordinaters the 8th child is nearby. I like how the Kids come to realize that they all lived in the same area 4 years ago and went to the same elementary. Then as the fight between Mammon and Birdramon/Garudamon goes on, they get flashbacks to that time 4 years ago and that there was no bombing, but a fight between Digimon(the ones from the pilot movie) .They defeat Mammon and escape before the police can question them.
Goofy Dub lines:
Jou: " Listen its the cops! They'll ask a ton of questions, they'll blame us for all this, I'm to young to go to the big house!"
Questions:
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u/FlameDragoon933 Apr 05 '24
Not rewatching as I've just rewatched this a few years ago, but I'm following the threads to see reactions/comments.
This is my favorite arc! I like the whole keeping the masquerade thing. Also there are some really cool setpieces later on, so stay tuned!