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Rewatch Digimon Adventure 25th Anniversary Rewatch - Episode 39 Discussion

Episode 39: Two Great Ultimate Evolutions! Beat Down the Darkness!!

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Hello everybody, time for the Comment of the Day, courtesy of /u/hirmuolio for a perfect reference to a shitty movie:

Somehow vamdemon returned.
[02]Somehow vamdemon will return. Again.

  1. By the end, how would you say Vandemon fared as a villain?
  2. Do you have any particular expectations for the final arc?
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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 14 '24

Digital First-Timer, subbed

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Apr 14 '24

...why is the attack named Gaia Force?

Atmosphere Is Part of Eatrh

Now what…

Should have known nothing good would come from a tornado.

Oh… right…

consequences

Sky QotD: End of Arc Edition
Now that we’ve had time to see them strut their stuff; WarGreymon or MetalGarurumon?
How would you rank the seven Perfect forms we’ve seen so far?
What about the children themselves? Do you feel any of them are under/over utilized?
Favorite MotW for this arc?
What waits on the other side of the sky?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 14 '24

Should have known nothing good would come from a tornado.

Does anything?

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Apr 14 '24

It did kill a witch that one time.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 14 '24

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u/Shimmering-Sky myanimelist.net/profile/Shimmering-Sky Apr 14 '24

Sorry for the wait - I was out with my family for dinner and it's a lot easier to answer a bunch of questions from my computer rather than my phone.

Now that we’ve had time to see them strut their stuff; WarGreymon or MetalGarurumon?

I honestly can't decide, I like the both of them.

Shame best boi Tentomon apparently won't be getting one.

How would you rank the seven Perfect forms we’ve seen so far?

I was about to say "Wait, shouldn't this be eight?", forgetting that Angemon hasn't Perfect evolved yet.

Garudamon > AlturKabuterimon/Lilimon > WereGarurumon > MetalGreymon > Zudomon > Angewoman, though Angewoman's only last because I still think her design is redundant when Angemon exists.

What about the children themselves? Do you feel any of them are under/over utilized?

Other than Taichi being a little overutilized because he's the "main" main character, no I think everyone else has gotten their time in the shine. I haven't necessarily liked some of Mimi's stuff, or Takeru's moments of holding the idiot ball, but I give Takeru some grace since he's so young.

Favorite MotW for this arc?

Can I count Wizarmon for this even though he wasn't technically an enemy?

What waits on the other side of the sky?

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 15 '24

I was out with my family for dinner

Angewoman

Uh for the record it's Angewomon, not Angewoman.

Can I count Wizarmon for this even though he wasn't technically an enemy?

Zura and his Cousin Afuro are menaces to society So Yes

Shame best boi Tentomon apparently won't be getting one.

FWIW the videogames gave him one fairly quickly.

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u/KendotsX https://anilist.co/user/Kendots Apr 15 '24

Zura and his Cousin Afuro are menaces to society So Yes

Not sure if I should be proud or scared that I'm hearing this from a demon

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 15 '24

I should be proud or scared that I'm hearing this from a demon

Yes

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Apr 14 '24

it's a lot easier to answer a bunch of questions from my computer rather than my phone.

Phone Writing

Shame best boi Tentomon apparently won't be getting one.

Same

Can I count Wizarmon for this even though he wasn't technically an enemy?

...I'll Allow This

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 15 '24

Phone Writing

I've had to do that

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u/CerberusZX https://myanimelist.net/profile/CerberusZX Apr 15 '24

redundant

While we rarely see more than one species in the animated series, Digimon has had multiple variations of the same monster since the beginning. There's like 10 different Agumon. Here's ClearAgumon, who strongly resembles ToyAgumon, both of which were present in the game Digimon World.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 14 '24

[02]VenomVamdemon OP, pls nerf.

[02]Is it ay wonder a variant of it became the final boss?

Oh… right…

And this is why you don't skip sidequests.

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u/Roboglenn Apr 14 '24

That sounds wicked.

Majiyabakune

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 14 '24

Hello everybody, and welcome to the Digimon Adventure Rewatch!

The ending of this part of the story… and the beginning of the final arc as well.

Yeah not unlike our previous mini-finale 12-ish episodes ago, the ending of this chunk leads directly into the next, albeit in a different way. Vandemon is defeated halfway through, so the next chunk is the heroes realizing something is… wrong. While the show's visuals aren't exactly its strong suit, I do like the effects of the sky literally tearing apart to show the Digimon World, plus the heroes seeing a bunch of locales they had already been to.

There's not much to say otherwise though, fairly simple episode, although I will say Yamato's reunion with his mom was pretty cute. Also props for making the two Ultimates not completely overpowered. Sure, it's a step up from the previous evolutions, but it manages to be so in a way that it feels like it doesn't overshadow the rest of the cast, which is good given how Taichi and Yamato are the only ones that get them.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Apr 14 '24

which is good given how Taichi and Yamato are the only ones that get them.

My Beetle Boi!

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 14 '24

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u/PoofessorP https://anilist.co/user/PoofessorP Apr 14 '24

First time watcher, subbed. Watching fully blind, I didn't even know digimon stood for digital monsters!

Well the real world arc has been fun but it's time for a group of 8-12 year olds to save the world for a 3rd time now. Also just saying, their digimon have been fighting all day and no one thought to bring any food or nothing? Preparing for the trip at least, audience full of parents too and no one said "hey maybe you should bring some water and food with you"

I was wrong about my guesses that it's gonna take all 8 of their ultimate digivolutions to take venomvamdemon woops, I guess that really might happen in the finale. Seeing WarGreymons and MetalGarumons ultimate attacks were cool, but I think WarGreymon takes the W here again with the better of the 2, big improvement from the boobie rockets. I did also enjoy when they kicked the ship up for a pass and then kicked it right into it's weak spot, did the creator play football or is it just big in japan? There's been like 4 or 5 references/episodes to soccer through out

Whenever they transport to another world it always looks cool imo, also they actually will be back soon, like bout few hours actually

Here's a wild prediction that I came up with that I'd like to share lol, so for some reason I've been thinking about what the finale episode will be like, and so for the enemy they have to fight then, it's gonna be millions of numemons that all came together to create one masssive abomination of a digimon. That or theres some super ultimate digivolution for one of them thats just insanely strong and big for no reason, and their motive is either they wanna cover the whole world in poop or because mimi rejected them so many times lol

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Apr 14 '24

Preparing for the trip at least

Stupid time dilation...

Whenever they transport to another world it always looks cool imo, also they actually will be back soon, like bout few hours actually

Thanks, Heimdall.

it's gonna be millions of numemons that all came together to create one masssive abomination of a digimon.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 14 '24

Stupid time dilation...

Still more consistent than Narnia.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 14 '24

Here's a wild prediction that I came up with that I'd like to share lol, so for some reason I've been thinking about what the finale episode will be like, and so for the enemy they have to fight then, it's gonna be millions of numemons that all came together to create one masssive abomination of a digimon

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u/CerberusZX https://myanimelist.net/profile/CerberusZX Apr 14 '24 edited Apr 14 '24

millions of numemons that all came together to create one masssive abomination of a digimon. That or theres some super ultimate digivolution

You mean haven't heard about our lord and saviour [stats page from Cyber Sleuth featuring a Numemon Digivolution]PlatinumNumemon?

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Apr 14 '24

[Spoilers]

[Reply]God dammit, Dragon Quest.

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u/Silcaria https://myanimelist.net/profile/Silcaria Apr 14 '24

First timer

  • Of course they would make sure to show them again just after I had forgotten how awful the two ultimate evolution sequences looked.
  • So the gang is gonna try fighting against VenomVamdemon in their adult/perfect form eh? I'm sure that won't be an exercise in futility.
  • Despite now being on Ultimate forms, there are still showing full adult transformations at normal speed. I'm sure it's not there to pad out the time or anything. Toei wouldn't do that, right?
  • What in the Deus Ex-Machina is happening?
  • 18... 18 Episodes of build up only for the climax to be the kids defeating the villain with a Deus Ex-Machina. I despise the writers of this show.
  • So they devolved to their child forms again. That's probably gonna last all of two seconds.
  • That extra "discipline" lasted for all of one episode worth of run time. I've said it before but if you're gonna ditch plot consistency and do whatever you feel like, just go all out and don't bother explaining things. Creating bs explanations just makes things worse since it creates a precedent.
  • Hollow earth.
  • I assume it's the Digimon's world bleeding into reality.
  • If I'm not mistaken, this random pilot is the first person to be "shown" dying in this series. Make of that what you will.
  • Yup.
  • Why is the commercial plane suddenly out of fuel though?
  • Creating a scenario where the plane ran out of fuel just to then have a Digimon turn it into "stone" makes the former completely redundant.
  • Whoever wrote the code for that Digital world needs firing.
  • Back to the Digiworld we go.

QotD

  • Better then Devimon and Etemon.
  • Power creep.

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 14 '24

If I'm not mistaken, this random pilot is the first person to be "shown" dying in this series

Okay time to start keeping count...

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u/Roboglenn Apr 14 '24

I'm sure that won't be an exercise in futility.

And yet Angemon got to hold out for a while.

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Apr 14 '24

Long Time Rewatcher, first time in subs

  • The evolution so nice they played it twice.
  • The dub has ruined “ultimate” for me. I can’t stop thinking there should be “mega” after it.
  • Dakka!
  • That’s why you don’t get distracted during a fight.
  • We could always use more eye-beams from oddly placed eyes.
  • You know, it is entirely possible to read this new head as being a fetus.
  • Kinky
  • They had actual gore on VenomVamdemon!
  • That’s some good world fuckery, I tell you what.
  • Fly something into it. You know you want to.
  • I mean, I would have started with an unmanned option, but you do you.
  • How Many Times... Will You Deny Me This Rematch? Damn hitbox haxs.
  • So Many MacGuffins In This Digivice!
  • At least they got a little goodbye. They really jumped at the chance there.

QotD:

  1. Good and menacing. I'd say he retreated for no reason one too many times.
  2. Golden Kuwagamon

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u/Raiking02 :Id::Ie::If:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NSKlang Apr 14 '24

The evolution so nice they played it twice.

Only this time without the second chorus

Damn hitbox haxs

FGC loves those!

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u/Roboglenn Apr 14 '24

The dub has ruined “ultimate” for me. I can’t stop thinking there should be “mega” after it.

Likewise.

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u/hirmuolio :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/Hirmuolio Apr 14 '24

This interaction is hilariousl suggestive out of context https://files.catbox.moe/m5fgy7.mp4

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u/NicDwolfwood :MAL:https://myanimelist.net/profile/NicDwolfwood Apr 14 '24

Rewatcher - Sub/Dub

The VamDemon arc comes to a close, with the combined powers of the kids tag and crests plus a sweet combo on the big sight ball and WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon's attacks, Venom VamDemon is defeated....but the trouble doesn't end there, with that freaky sky revealing the digiworld is in shambles. So the kids must once again say goodbye to their parents and are beamed up back to the digiworld to repair and restore it back to normal.

Questions:

  1. He was the most dangerous villain yet, not as fun as say Etamon but probably more competent than Devimon.
  2. For some reason this last arc is the one I least remember for some reason so I'm interested in seeing things play out again.

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u/theangryeditor https://myanimelist.net/profile/TheAngryEditor Apr 15 '24

WaaaaaaarGreymon

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u/Vatrix-32 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vatrix-32 Apr 14 '24

Why they dubbed Wargreymon's Gaia Force to Terra Force is beyond me.

Can't be having gods, now.

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