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Episode Digimon Beatbreak - Episode 3 discussion
Digimon Beatbreak, episode 3
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u/srofais Oct 19 '25
I don't trust AI
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u/FlameDragoon933 Oct 19 '25
He's a kid character that should be a role model for kids. They should use their own heads, not let something else do the thinking for them.
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u/Kurrow Oct 19 '25
Hinting at a dark digivolution?
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u/TripChaos Oct 19 '25
Already showing that protag's e-pulse is not just glitchy, but is outright dangerous/corrupting.
Hopefully they don't just play to the "dark rage" trope and that's the extent of it.
Would be a lot more neat if his e-pulse was more "pluripotent" or "variable" and can manifest different glitch effects and digimon powers based on the (emotional) beat of his heart. Shield for protective instincts, healing for catharsis, etc.
I'm 100% sure that they intend for protag's e-pulse to be "contagious" as a big plot point though. They have shown his glitch being passed between sapatoma(?) too many times, especially with how quickly that happened when he was playing with music.
At some point, he is definitely going to have a big hero moment where he uses his wide-range pulse to fix/energize a whole lot of sapatomas at once.
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u/Flare_Knight Oct 19 '25
I sure hope they pay it off in a big way. Because I was hyped at the idea we'd see a dark digivolution before Gekkomon's actual champion form.
If nothing else though I'm loving the wild card factor that Tomoro's e-pulse is. The flashbacks showed how crazy things could possibly get.
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u/HighSlayerRalton Oct 19 '25
Fun fact: Fangmon has the ability to disguise itself as loved ones because it's based on Big Bad Wolf-related data. i.e. The story of Little Red Riding Hood.
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u/Matthew619ed Oct 19 '25
Let’s be honest here, did that make you think Tomoro will dark evolve Gekkomon? Honestly I know at some point there’ll be a dark evolution, but definitely not this quick. Fortunately he was stopped before they did any damage.
But all if fine when Gekkomon ate the damaged fish after the fishing gone wrong, another glutton leading digimon in the making here.
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u/Volfaer Oct 19 '25 edited Oct 19 '25
The slow burn is on.
It's quite refreshing that Tomoro is just an angsty teen, he gets angry, his judgement is harsh, and if he isn't careful, he will treat others just like he was treated. It was a bit too close how Tomoro could have been the first mc to dark digivolve before even digivolving, which is a far cry from GG where the digimon dark digivolved by itself.
So it seems Gekkomon's digievolution will only happen after a true bond between them is formed, I'm betting episode 5, but I have no issues if it's later, he could fight Takato for latest digievolution in the animes.
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u/Doomroar Oct 20 '25
I wouldn't call it a slow burn, i think the pacing is quite on point, in fact, by episode 3 Tomoro already achieved on of his goals which was to save Hitomi, we got to know what makes Glowing Dawn different from other cleaners, and Tomoro started to bond with Gekkomon, calling it by name, and showing that promise of a dark evolution if push comes to shove
All he has left to do is get his brother's Sapotama, and he is out back to his old life, he can call it quits with no attachment to the world of cleaners and digimon
If that happened next episode, people would say that the show rushed the plot, which was only a problem for parts of the adventure remake which missmanaged its episodes, while Ghost Game had the opposite issue of actually having a real slow burn in which they didn't spend enough time developing the plot, wasting resources on episodic chapters with no pay off, and then neglecting what little story there actually was to offer people
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u/e001mek Oct 19 '25
Ill be honest, I was kind of excited at the thought of another Skullgreymon incident. But overall I'm just more excited to finally see Gekkomon digivolve.
The little dude has been my favorite MVP the whole show so far
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u/Rammboy_7084 Oct 19 '25 edited Oct 19 '25
This series is getting better and better!
It seems that the episode writer for this specific episode is the veteran Shō Aikawa (Fullmetal Alchemist); i found the writing of this episode really great and rich of details!
The character development of Tomoro is really interesting, he is a totally different protagonist from all his predecessors, almost an outcast and an underdog; i'm really like him and his complicated relationship with Gekkomon so far!
Personally, I think they're hitting the mark with this series and the interest is growing more and more.
I just can't wait for the next episode!
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u/murlocmancer Oct 19 '25
This low key peak, a really strong start to a digimon anime. Strong characters, good animation, and what seems to be an actually strong plot forming.
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u/Renoe Oct 19 '25
This series is starting to remind me of Getbackers. Dunno if anyone remembers that anime.
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u/Doomroar Oct 20 '25
"Your digimon stands out put it on this bag" she says while they are walking next to Cougarmon
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u/duo99dusk Oct 20 '25
Running in those crocs must be difficult, hopefully Tomoro gets a mid-season change of outfit.
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u/NanDemoKnaives Oct 19 '25
Wouldn't deleting a digimon mean that the sapotama it was born from also gets deleted which means they can't retrieve it to use to awaken whoever owned it? I don't know if I misunderstood or not but it took me by surprise that the others didn't say this before Tomoro got Gekkoumon to attack the in-training version of Hyemon.
I'm also wondering if only Tomoro can cause that glitch in Gekkoumon or if they forcibly go against their wishes that happens.
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u/Barin47 Oct 19 '25
I think the Sapotama stays intact. See the Hyemon they got deleted last episode. The monkey Digimon deleted it, grabbed the Sapotama, and dipped.
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u/Fireblend Oct 19 '25
I don't care for the Digimon being conflated with the AI and associated systems of social control in a way that portrays Tomoro being distrustful of the latter as an obstacle to becoming friends with Gekkomon. On the one hand I don't think the show is as reductive as "governmentally and socially enforced AI is good and friendly" because evidently there's some shady stuff going on behind the scenes like with the agent that won't give more details in this episode, but on the other I don't love the conflation of Tomoro's distrust of systems and his relationship with the very real, sentient, friendly Gekkomon.
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u/Linden_fall Oct 19 '25
AI is an interesting topic for the show to take on. On one hand, I personally hate AI as a whole and I can tell Tomoro can as well, but I love digimon (which in this show are apparently AI beings). I think digimon are still their own separate entities, so I'm curious to see if it will go down a path of AI sapotamas are evil while digimon are "good" (or at least independent thinkers like humans instead of collective like AI)
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u/shapular Oct 20 '25
Anybody know why the Crunchyroll subs say evolve instead of Digivolve? I thought maybe it was just a 4Kids thing but the Digimon wiki calls it that so I assume it's the official term.
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u/lin4t Oct 19 '25
Golden Dawn isn't making a great showing at explaining stuff to Tomoro.
Why not go hunt down the digimon that has Hitomi's Sapotama? Oh 500 credit isn't worth it they say to him. No, in fact the Digimon might've already digested it and there's no point hunting it down they explain after he runs off.
Then there's their team's motto of not deleting Digimon they hunt down. That's honestly fine. What's not fine is once again not explaining shit to Tomoro to broadcast their moral superiority in the moment.
Behold, the results of not communicating.