The Rise & Fall Of Digimon Ghost Game | Full Series Review & Retrospective

0:00 I don't know if there's a Digimon season in existence that I have more mixed feelings on than Digimon ghost game the ninth Digimon anime series and the first to follow the 2020 reboot of Digimon Adventure ghost game ran from the fall of 2021 to the spring of 2023 providing a creepy light horror spin on the world of Digimon emphasizing the monster element of digital Monsters unlike past Digimon series the show was not particularly focused on an ongoing story instead opting for one-off and sometimes repetitive story Concepts other times really unique story Concepts but frustratingly it had great Concepts that could have made for an incredible overarching story and it would not stop hinting at what I believed was going to be an amazing overarching story so did it deliver did it land on its feet and live up to the long Legacy of great Digimon anime if you watched my channel week to week when the show was airing you have an idea of what I think but

0:46 this video is a super cut of my 67 episode reviews I loved cutting this together because you the viewer get to watch as my thoughts on the show rise Then Fall then rise back up and fall again in real time in a single video rather than waiting week to week the episode reviews here are cut down from roughly 8 minutes each to 1 to 3 minutes and really focus on the main takeaways of each episode so if you want my entire 7-hour review series the original videos all still exist and I'll link to that playlist but if you want a Supercut Digimon ghost game series review to learn about the show for the first time or if you want a nostalgic trip down ghost game Memory Lane this is the video for you I'm going to have new videos on the channel in a couple weeks I'm just away and unable to edit a brand new video from scratch so thank you for your patience intro out of the way here's my complete review of the ninth Digimon anime series Digimon ghost game one week

1:31 after the finale of the 2020 Digimon Adventure reboot there's a brand new original Digimon series that just premiered there hasn't been a back-to-back series handoff like this in almost 20 years since tamer's to Frontier so it feels like the future of Digimon is bright but it's also dark based on the first episode of Digimon ghost game which appears to be delivering us a horror themed take on the premise of digital Monsters appearing in our world so let's begin at the beginning Digimon ghost game is set in the semi- distant future in Japan we nowhere in the future because Hero's phone shows 7g service and AR style Holograms play a vital role in urban living there's a hologram stop sign a holographic yellow caution tape later in the episode The prevalence of hologram Tech is probably why when the rumors First Start Spreading about ghost sightings the kids around town they kind

2:17 of brush it off as some lame hologram advertisement campaign that missed the Mark we the viewer quickly learn it is no game though when in the first four minutes of the pilot we see this young teenage girl have the age sucked out of her shriveling up with the creepiest looking take on clockmon you've ever seen we cut to our new Central protagonist the no goggles wearing hero h i r o there's this extended flashback to Hero tiptoeing around his family house stepping into his dad's laboratory slw workstation and finding almost a crater where his dad's desk is supposed to be in the crater is the vital bracelet that toi and Bandai have been promoting in real life for about a year the cynical take is obviously that yes this is the product placement part to sell a fitness watch did you viice to viewers but there's also a part of me that loves when the real product fits

3:03 into the world of the show kid me loved Power Rangers morphers and it was because the heroes in the show had them too same with digivices obviously hero goes back to his room where he hears shifting around he remembers the bracelet and pulls out a box containing three bracelets clearly his two other ghost game Partners will be getting these in the near future when hero pops a certain chip into the bracelet we hear his father's voice as the Siri style operating system for the vital bracelet but perhaps the weirdest part of this scene and coolest is what looks like a black Gatto man/ tailon wearing a sleeveless hoodie it points to a corner of Hero's room before completely disappearing this is a great little mystery setup moment I need to know what that scene was all about next gaman appears and this little guy already feels like the perfect main partner Digimon the voice is excellent so adorable even though this will be a

3:49 horror inspired series they're giving us a super sweet little buddy virtual grass appears in Hero's dorm room as does a recorded hologram message from his dad explaining that what he's seeing is the digital World quote well it's like a cyberspace I don't know too much about it but it's cool huh starting today gaman is your little brother which we need to talk about how precious funny and refreshing this is that the dynamic is not that they're Partners or co-ops or friends it's that gaman sees himself as Hero's little brother it's incredible we then get kon's third appearance this episode but this time Hero has gamon who lunges at clockmon the two fly out the window and hero chases after in the middle of the night gamon gets thrown around a little bit and for a mysterious minute we see this dark Aura forming around him it's a great tease for a future Evolution for sure we get the great Digimon back and forth that you

4:36 expect from a pilot where hero says I don't understand what's going on but you're my brother right gaman gets a lot of power from that acceptance and uses a new technique called Break claw that deals enough damage to clockmon that it actually deag the two kids in the hospital they they get their youth restored interestingly clockmon gets away at the end of the episode I didn't really expect that he's not defeated entirely at the end of it all Hero collapses from exhaustion by gamon's side and gaman says take good care of me while hero asks dad what in the world just started I am feeling really good about this pilot they weren't afraid to get creepy with the nightmare clockmon stole those characters youth I'm very excited to hit reset on Digimon and fully experience a brand new take on the franchise it's the very next day after the gamon versus clockmon battle on that

5:21 same night elsewhere in town a man has missed his train and is abducted by mummymon we soon learn that this isn't his first victim and has been collecting and wrapping dozens of humans in the morning hero confirms last night wasn't a dream and then asks gamon what he can tell him about his dad's location about Digimon in general than the digital world and of course gamon doesn't give us anything juicy here that we get the amazing realization that people in the human world who aren't partnered with Digimon can still see some Digimon or at least they can see gamon who is sort of in this non-translucent 100% opacity form there's a brilliant setup here where some classmates and later a store clerk asked KIRO what that cute thing in his backpack is is and he claims gamon is an AI hologram it's perfect I love this the folks he talks to about gamon just say wow they're made so well these

6:07 days referring to AI Tech I love that moving forward we won't have to be hiding gamon per se that can be fun in Digimon stories but we've had it in Tamers and in other series like Adventure so I like this new Uncharted Territory where simultaneously humans don't know what Digimon are but they also don't care that hero is carrying this little dinosaur in his backpack We Tour the museum a bit gaman points at a dinosaur and asks what Digimon it is if last week was the ideal first episode for a new Digimon Series this is the ideal second episode I honestly can't imagine having this gone any better and we're not even done yet we have a round one fight with miman versus gaman in the museum after a short but fast and fluid fight gamon is pinned to the wall hero is wrapped up and abducted taken underground it's pretty claustrophobic and the series isn't pulling any punches with the horror Vibes with characters in

6:53 The Underground all wrapped up and saying things like I don't want to die it turns out mummy legitimately thinks he's helping the humans who are exhausted at the end of their rope he basically spawned near the museum so he's just seeing clips of mummification in the human world and thinks this is the peak of modern medicine and science he's working with bad information essentially and it's kind of a surprising and cool concept I like this here the Digivice V vital bracelet starts reacting and we get gamon's Evolution the first evolution of the new series betel gaman is both cute and cool looking huge props to the monster designers of this season I'm loving the new Digimon we've seen in the opening so far and seeing ble gaman in the show it did not disappoint oh by the way the track that they use absolutely rules but very smartly this fight isn't about

7:39 whoever can punch hardest Bal gamont really just stuns mommy man frees hero and then it's up to Hero to end the conflict by appealing to Mummy man's sensibilities as a doctor or as a digimon interested in medicine and science he tells mummy man that mummification is a science this that is thousands of years old and not really recognized today as a legitimate practice he even tells mommy M that there are some hospitals around that he should go learn from if he's interested mummymon frees the humans he kidnapped and seems to calm down a lot this is now two villains clockmon and mummymon that are still out in the world after their episodes I was surprised by this and I liked it a lot one is still seemingly evil you know clockmon while mumon has kind of turned a new Leaf it seems at the very end of the episode hero and gaman are heading home stopping for food when they see that girl Rudy being

8:25 followed by a transparent angoram man surprisingly the first 10 or so minutes of this episode are completely free of hio and gamon in favor of giving us the time and space to focus on our new Digimon Tamer nudi suono and the digital hex that has been placed on her seeing how the last Digimon season Digimon Adventure 2020 needed taichi and aaman to seemingly be everpresent I think it shows a lot of confidence and vision that ghost game felt it could move the spotlight away to focus on other things besides gamon and I applaud them for that this really is Rudy's episode through and through plus absence makes the harro fonder and when gamont does show up again after a long wait it makes it that much more satisfying back to the episode review we began with Rudy and her girl squad of rumor Hunters I'm

9:11 still not super sure about what they are they're learning about this phenomenon where graffiti style scribbles are appearing in people's photographs the marks are always on the subject's body and in the real world those body parts are having disastrous side effects 48 hours later like a broken leg or hair growth unlike the last two weeks the show does not tell us who the villain is right away so we get this fun guessing game for longtime Digimon fans trying to figure out who these Powers remind us of a photo of nudy has scribbles on her hand and she horrifyingly realizes that her hands are fading from existence it's extra scary because she is a brilliant piano player as we come to learn and has at least one super fan but more on that later she does the math in terms of when the photo was originally taken and realizes she has until the day after tomorrow at 2: p.m. before something

9:56 horrible happens presumably her or her hands fading away entirely I like that she isn't necessarily afraid of ghosts but like anyone in this scenario would be she's afraid of fading away and I think that's a perfectly reasonable reaction to what's happening to her keep in mind we are 9 and 1/2 minutes into this episode without a single Digimon sighting or mention and that is not a complaint that is High Praise of the storytelling aspirations and atmosphere of this show again no hedo or gamon in the first half of this episode which I feel like is respecting nudi as a character and respecting us as an audience to say hey we know we can trust you to be able to let us tell you a cool story without the cute baby dinosaur on screen all the time but speaking of that cute baby dinosaur his partner and older brother hio sends a DM to dudy saying that in the event that she's having strange things happen to her he may be

10:42 able to help he of course knew to reach out in light of that final shot in episode 2 where he saw a digimon flying above her they meet the next day only 2 hours before Rudy's deadline with the hex and just as hero expected there's this giant Digimon Ang Goran hovering behind her that she's not aware of gets to meet gamon and learns there is apparently a creature like him behind her just not visible to her right now anoran speaks up though only hio and gamon can hear and explains that the culprit is a digimon named dracon that uses eyes on both hands to play pranks on digital photos of humans knowing that Dramon is interested in materializing hio runs back to campus grabs the spare vital bracelet that he has and tries to give it to dudy to let her materialize Ang Goron but it's also kind of bait to make Dramon appear since it wants nothing more than to materialize the

11:29 Trap works and he appears she puts on the vital bracelet Digivice and angoram man becomes a fully materialized Digimon in the real world I like that we don't get the evolution to its next form just yet because he's only just been introduced anoran beats Dramon who lifts the curse on nudy and the others gives up its eyeballs which are what caused the curses and fleas but right at the end of the episode we discover that dramont has backup eyes and didn't really have the change of heart it claimed to have I was pretty relieved to see this because I did think it was a little too fast and too easy that Dramon changed its evil ways after a single short beating the fact he's still out there is kind of horrifying considering we saw how intense its powers can be pre materializing I mean it almost erased Duty and now it's probably extra interested in materializing I continue to be impressed with ghost game if it

12:15 wasn't obvious already with the fifth episode of Digimon ghost game we have officially been introduced to all three of the main Digimon partners of this season gaman angoram man and now koshiro's partner Jellyman this was feeling like world-ending threat that should occur way later than episode 5 we come to learn precisely why koshiro is being haunted and bullied by Jellyman and it's a pretty amazing reason it's not that he's like a gifted Ghost Whisperer or a chosen child or anything she basically just thinks he's a huge nerd big weeb and one of the most easily scared human she's ever encountered so his reactions just make it really fun for her she outs him as being this incredibly smart kid who was studying in America and had his Masters all that boy Genius stuff but he actually decided to move back to Japan not for family or anything but because he watches a ton of high school anime

13:01 and wants to live out his anime inspired fantasy of being this cool dorm leader and Senpai all throughout the episode we've been seeing a Point of Sales Systems and other monetary systems like Banks acting up very our war game style of course and at this point in the episode this massive Holy Dragon Digimon appears the envoy of the god of wealth maaman maman's duty is to wealth to properly preserve the flow of money anyone who stops or disrupts that will not be forgiven a powerful light will gather in the sky and 108 arrows of light will rain down on that person's body and that person is unfortunately going to be koshiro gellon asks him why he won't just bail and run away a few times he says things like he can't do that because he's the dorm leader Jellyman is a little inspired by kosir refusing to retreat and the two of them start hacking together while the others fight on the front lines not sure how this Digimon learned to type much less

13:47 code but I do not care this is great visually and story-wise gamon and the others can't hold off Mamon and when he approaches Kiros Shiro and Jellyman get some serious Whiplash they're seemingly knocked out or losing Consciousness when Jellyman says you don't have the time to pass out you're the dorm leader koshiro is reminded of his responsibility to his dorm he has this very cool guy standoff refusing to back down declaring he is the dorm leader very very Joe Senpai from Digimon Adventure 2020 and the art is looking great here he's able to reach a new level of connection with jyon which activates BB Thunder a cannon based attack that's able to FastTrack the destruction of those digital talismans it returns things to normal which appeases majeran things return to the way they are and the episode wraps with the gang catching their breath in a park and we have what to the best of our knowledge is going to be the core Trio of Digimon and human partners for this

14:32 season Digimon referencing Alfred Hitchcock is a string of words I never in a million years thought I would be saying but here we are with episode 7 but the birds homage wasn't the only takeaway this week we also saw winter outfits for all of the new main characters including two of the Digimon saw a brand new Champion Evolution make its animation debut and we kind of got an adult Digimon Tamer a human adult who was working in collaboration with Digimon as the villainous Duo of the week the reason I'm putting so much emphasis on this human partnered with an antagonist Digimon is because I think ghost game is up to something in episode 3 Dramon was desperate to materializes and to do so through a human partner I love a good dark digit destined storyline and I'm still thinking Dramon is going to return with a human to help power him up now could it be possible

15:17 that Daigo partners with Dramon in the future maybe Daigo thinks doing so will help him find yatagan again or maybe Dramon tricko into the partnership by pretending to be yatagan while invisible to to Daigo I'm not sure but I'll be keeping my eyes peeled gamon wants to fly and needs to fly if he's going to survive so an evolution into cow gamon is triggered but after cow gets his wings the enemy Digimon runs away this is slightly different than the clockmon Escape where that seemed like when he fled it was because he was losing I kind of got the feeling yat garaman was winning until it bailed just when we were starting to think that the new Digimon horror anime kind of needed to pick up the pace plot-wise we got episode 8 which absolutely went all gas no breaks with the street racing episode that gave us the anime debut of sistermon Cel

16:04 culminated in this huge moment with the return of the mysterious black gotaman from the pilot episode and in the teaser for episode 9 at the end it showed the first evidence of villains who got away in this show returning sistermon C is a champion obsessed with speed and will do anything to be the fastest and strongest sistermon is involved in the rumored nightly procession and is clearly our lead into discovering what's going on we are on the highway now but the cart Racers aren't the the only ones on the road the nightly procession appears they politely ask hero how humans got caught up in the race metal fantaman shows up and is chasing the pack actually attacking other Digimon on the road and sealing them in its sight everyone on the team is running low on gas and it looks like the end when the Black gamon taalon from episode 1 reappears out of nowhere and opens a portal of some kind

16:50 presumably into the digital world angoram man screams everyone get out of the way and our team pivots to dodge the Gateway but the other racing Digimon they all fly straight into the portal that the black gamon opened up within a thermos or kind of like a rice cooker love that they reminded us of this Digimon and now it seems they are way more powerful than any of us predicted when seeing black atamon in episode 1 episode 9 of Digimon ghost game gave us the most information thus far on the rules of this universe you know how Digimon and their various forms work how they traveled from the digital world into the human world what happens to humans attempting to go to the digital world and much more we also saw the return of the first enemy from episode one clockmon the team decides to visit a library one that Jellyman is familiar with as she studies human culture around

17:35 town apparently it's haunted book pages will flip when there is no Breeze and other weird phenomenon happen like digital screens having the text all messed up turns out to be two Digimon Bakuman and Pokemon with Pokemon probably being best known from Digimon Frontier in this show he is a professor and the kids ask him being a professor you must know a lot about the digital world right he does he has a lot of information for not just the team but for us unlike when Digimon exist as data Digimon are able to materialize when those different types of feelings come pouring out of the heart Digimon materialize when they are not like data but more like humans however there are also bad Digimon who can use their Glee from hurting people to try to speed up their materialization like Dramon so apparently if I understood correctly through enough Mischief causing and hauntings some holographic Digimon in

18:21 the Hologram ghost stage can materialize even without the need of a human partner hio asks what the reason Digimon come to our world world is but Pokemon doesn't really know just saying there seems to be a greater force at work kind of teasing a larger enemy of some kind all Pokemon knows is that a gate suddenly appeared one day in the digital world and he ended up here in the library and then the final lore drop of this episode is that apparently humans passing through the gate into the digital world may burn up through entry when their bodies digitize we know hoo's dad seems to have successfully bypassed this and is currently in the digital world but we're left with the impression that if our team attempted right now to go through a portal into the digital world their real world bodies would burn up it's the gaman versus clockman rematch it reflects kon's Chrono breaker back at him and after losing control kon's own

19:09 time is only moving forward it's spinning out of control kakon looks genuinely distressed and hio asks what will happen to him in this world bkon isn't actually sure and then clockmon begs for help to save his lifeo is determined to save him and so gamon evolves and they all get to work in a scene that is kind of simulating CPR and I found it weirdly moving and humanizing for all parties involved they literally saved this digimon's life and it's a digimon who has been nothing but cruel to them being saved by cprr definitely not how I thought the clockmon rematch was going to go down and I applaud them for this take on the fight on the confrontation after being saved clockmon says I guess I can't really attack people anymore after meeting people like you Pokemon offers to give invisibility training to clockmon since he can't you know very well go walking around in the

19:54 human world in this current materialized State cuz he's super horrifying the others like delyon and angoram man say that they actually want the training too so they can control their state without having to rely on the vital bracelet dig devices I suppose lastly bamon complements gamon's evolution in Bal gaman and says quote that Evolution could have been the result of you and hitto's feelings combined the 10th episode opens with a kid playing a 2d fighting game in basically PlayStation VR when his Avatar gets decimated by King kakan and we get the classic 2000's and 2010s horror Trope of you know real world consequences to losing in the video game a new rumor begins spreading about a beautiful lady appearing in the game and players who encounter her disappearing in real life again I love Digimon wrestling with modern tech this is 2021 so yeah why wouldn't Digimon

20:41 tackle VR and the fighting game Community it's everything we always wanted to see the only plan the boys can come up with is bringing koshiro out of retirement to play one last game of Fighters Kingdom and work his way up to the mysterious beautiful woman King kakon appears and then Jellyman hacks her way into the game so she's actually playing and play place of koshiro's fighting Avatar and then she says something very sweet which is we were strong because we had each other and we get another cool boy Kos Shiro moment just like in episode 5 when he stepped up to the plate only this time they're able to activate jellyman's Evolution into Tesla Jellyman who I absolutely adore all indications are pointing to this being the best Digimon season since 2001's Digimon Tamers honestly obviously anything could change but there's so much going on in these 10 episodes to be hopeful about and at the core of all of

21:26 this you know all these Mysteries and all these plot we have three super strong human protagonists and of course along with those three new Heroes there are three incredible Digimon partners with fantastic classic designs and really promising Evolution designs now in most iterations of this series the Digimon truly is an accessory to the human effectively their pet and very rarely having a depth of Personality besides being funny or cute are both but in the case of anoran in this week's episode we got a great look at a digimon who wants to be partnered with a human but who also has other friends and another life and then we see our human character kind of wrestling with the idea that her Digimon isn't just her 24-hour companion and coming to terms with that episode 12 of Digimon ghost game Saw things really start to escalate with gaman getting a third evolution form but also a widespread infestation

22:13 of hologram ghosts attacking the general public so what does that mean is the Cyber attack the start of humans in ghost game realizing that hologram ghosts aren't just AR advertisements or rumors but actual Digital Monsters or is it just another monster of the week episode this one is effectively a chain mail SL Chain Letter episode with zasan spreading via emails that ask you to send this email along to 20 other people or be cursed for 3 days we learned through bokon that we could limit the damage if we gather all the zason in one place and that one place is the digital AR field then we get gamon's third alt Evolution Wen gamon he's a tank in every sense a Triceratops tank with the Firepower to blast through a bunch of these clones but as soon as my excitement levels were elevating things simmer down as we meet the originals

22:58 zason who explains that he got lonely when he arrived in the human world and started cloning himself and let things get out of control then this elder zasan takes all of the Clones and just kind of walks away I have been a fan and a defender of most of the resolutions that involve talking down the enemy in Digimon ghost game but I think this one landed with an absolute thud for me the whole point of the talking resolution is that so the fights aren't predictable punch harder battles every week but if the point is to avoid predictability you aren't really succeeding when every single week we know it's going to end with a talk and the realization it was a misunderstanding this one in particular just really didn't work for me due to the high stakes with potentially the entire world hours away from a hologram ghost infestation and just to resolve it with oops my clones got carried away

23:44 I'll tell them to stop I seriously thought we were transitioning into that post introduction section of this new show where it would stop being week to week adventures and Champion evolutions and we' begin getting this new era where thanks to zason appearing in the real world like you know the chain mail incident people would suddenly be aware that these Digimon weren't just hologram advertisements but no it's ultimately just another monster of the week episode can you guys believe gulus gamon the dark dig evolution of the new main Digimon gamon we had seen the art for this guy previously and I just thought he would be either silent but deadly or like Berserker mode kind of a raging Digimon I did not expect this intelligent vengeful sadistic monster that we got in Digimon ghost game it's been established that Digimon are appearing in the human world but they don't even know how or why they got here

24:30 the ones that are here are largely minding their own business that's true with some major exceptions including a digimon this week who's hunting and brutally hunting other Digimon for mysterious reasons C aldamon is one-shotting other Digimon with knives to the head that make them burst into pixels and disappear forever Digimon is obviously no stranger to dealing with characters dying I mean we all remember what happened to Leomon but it's the first time a ghost game has confronted the concept head-on and they clearly aren't holding back with how brutal this week's episode was we still can't see or confront seal who eventually gets a clear shot directly at gamon's forehead several characters rush to dive in front of the knife and protect gaman including his human partner hedo but the first character to make it is bokuman this is a brutal character death stabbed in the back literally and he goes down hard gaman is absolutely broken and confused

25:15 it's like explaining the concept of passing away to a toddler he can't even really comprehend something or someone being permanently gone and the anger plus confusion stacked with sadness it all piles on to activate this dark dig Evolution that we knew was was coming since episode 1 goulis gaman like I mentioned this dark dig Evolution it's not a Berserker mode kind of thing like he's cognizant smart sadistic and thirsty for Revenge goues quickly overwhelms calron and demands to know who called the hit but according to calron it was nobody the whole thing it's just a numbers game it wanted to get its number higher so 998 999 1,000 and it wasn't going to stop either by that logic it would just keep going which is probably worse than having a person calling the hit this is purely cruel goues pun es him by jabbing its tail into the enemy's brain at this

26:01 point gulus gaman tries to abandon the squad he says see you later hero sarcastically and then tries to break out of the AR Dimension into the human world the team tries to stop him because we can't let this monster free in the human world Tesla Jellyman and angoram man briefly battle him but they're both knocked back down it's no use at all he's on a completely separate level gulus lays it all out saying quote it feels good crushing people I'll show you that we only have two options eat or be eaten and then he flies towards Tesla Jellyman for a finishing blow but hero jumps in the way at first even this doesn't seem to impact gulus but suddenly it has these flashbacks to Pokemon being impaled earlier in the episode and collapses to the ground then de evolves to gamon who doesn't remember anything after bkon being stabbed it's a devastating dark and depressing episode and definitely the jolt of plot that the show has been needing but it's not as

26:47 mysterious as the black auman that is standing over our heroes watching silently I have no idea what this implies but please let it mean black war gymon is coming to ghost game gamon is definitely off after the events of the last episode and so I'm glad that we're not just pretending that didn't happen here in episode 14 we were at a Beachside Resort gaman is definitely quieter but doesn't truly understand why he's off his game though as we learn doesn't really know what happened last week he tries a new delicacy and says I'll take this to Bon to try then asks where is Pokemon well hero says he left for a long journey it's a really tragic scene and kind of gut-wrenching to know that we're moving forward without letting gaman know exactly went down I just hope it doesn't come back to haunt us if the truth ever gets out elsewhere in the resort a ghost is tossing guests

27:33 a ball and asking them to play this week is black tailmon U's fourth appearance and the most forward-facing one yet it literally knocks on the hotel door and delivers three new dim cards one which contains a new message from Hero's dad but it didn't really say too much was it just a 3D album to brag to his son or was it something more kir asks if that cat you know Blacktail mon U is the thing connecting hio to his dad through the digital world but nobody really knows for sure the new dims weirdly don't play a huge role in the finale of this episode which did surprise me but back to this scene anoran comments on how much we still don't know about the digital world and then hedo theorizes that perhaps we'll learn more the next time we see gulus gamon and the others particularly KIRO start to freak out just at the mention of the name they're treating saying gulus like saying

28:19 Voldemort it's the name that can't be spoken within the group Kon is the so-called Spirit haunting the hotel and I was overjoyed that this is the character they went with this week Kon is an ABS absolute favorite of mine and it seems he's just looking for the old grandmother who used to keep him company who one day disappeared from the hotel much like gaman Kon doesn't really get what happened to Granny the same way gamon didn't get where Bon went Kon is blown away by the Light Show battle gamon and Jellyman are able to put on and it's very cute seeing everyone in such high Spirits especially after the dark dark events of episode 13 Kon manages to materialize and that's without a human or a vital bracelet present but it's kind of based on the prospect the idea of seeing granny again so in some ways it's like granny is his human partner and it turns out she actually is alive a nice little fake out

29:04 that I'm happy with and he goes on a journey to go find her so you know this was not the epic part two followup to the intensity of episode 13 but it was calming and pure in a way that I think was necessary with the 15th episode of Digimon ghost game marking the arrival of angoram man's Champion Evolution Simba Ang Goran we now have all three protagonists this season with champion level Digimon it's it's funny to think that by episode 15 of Digimon Adventure 2020 we were already halfway through the ultimate level episodes but ghost game had to account for gamon's multi-directional Evolutions him having three forms and a dark form but yes we now have crossed the getting the champion section of the new show and the episode that gave us our final Champion was a pretty great one it was of course centered on Rudy and Ang Goran but what

29:50 I liked most about it was that we got to spend more meaningful time with Rudy's Crew ma and aoi if you recall these three girls technically were introduced us to us in episode one of ghost game before even hio and koshiro we always knew R's crew had their own thing going on before she became a Digimon Tamer and it was cool seeing their Dynamic this week before the big Showdown and evolution we get a glimpse of what exactly is going on and it's that Digimon who haven't materialized so they're in that kind of hollow transparent form they are scaring the pants off of humans and the joy they get from horrifying humans is actually helping FastTrack their materialization making them no longer see-through and sort of real for lack of a better term we're starting to see evidence that what many Digimon are after is materialization and that they can manipulate humans to get it and I'm really curious how much of this is real

30:36 serious foreshadowing for like the future like a major plot versus how much of this was just him spouting villain of the week monologuing for the fight we get a beautiful snow setting thanks to Rudy's new diim card resulting in a new AR field she makes this decision where her friends might have to see that she's partnered with a digimon and she's really worried that they're going to be terrified of anoran and potentially of her nevertheless she goes forward with the AR field since it's for their safety and in it we quickly see angoram man achieve a new Evolution we get Simba angoram man it makes short work of some of the Lackey but when it's time for fison it's not just a one hit you're done situation we get a Dragon Ball Z beam struggle and we were losing that beam struggle until Bal gaman and Tesla gellon showed up to help push back it was a nice bookend kind of moment for

31:22 the end of the arc you know the getting our Champions Arc seeing all three kids have their champion level Digimon fighting Side by side I'm starting to get alarmed about how many malicious Digimon are still out there there could be a serious Sinister Sick Style formation of baddies coming very soon with how many are still out there and how many of them are eager to manifest and materialize when the dust settles Rudy sees her friends again she's expecting them to think she's like a monster but we learned they didn't really see what happened other than that they understand she distracted the monster so that they could get away later to themselves M and ow we say looks like Ry has some Secrets but let's not ask her anything until she's ready to talk to us these are just some of the greatest friends out there Rudy really knows how to pick them I've got to be honest I wasn't really feeling the 17th episode of Digimon ghost game until the final few minutes where we witnessed

32:07 something extremely interesting a Canon partner swap where rouy who is officially partnered with anoran and Jellyman who is officially partnered with koshiro those two teamed up with Ry issuing commands to Tesla jellymoni right I mean there aren't many instances of this happening that I can think of and it would certainly seem to suggest that it's now open season for the other kids doing these partner swaps or partner trades in future episodes Hawkman one of the main Partners from Digimon Adventure 02 is back for a sort of guest appearance in the 18th episode of the newest season we actually get two twin Hawkman in this episode partnered with a brand new child and a new Evolution path for Hawkman that probably wasn't who most of us were expecting two hawkman's willingness and drive to save their human partner actually activates an evolution into oron overall though

32:53 another episode with a surprising amount of World building but still not doing much to directly Advance the plot of Digimon ghost game to recap we learned that kids even younger than hedo and the Gang are partnering with Digimon out in the real world which could be huge but could also amount to nothing it all depends on what the writers want to do we also learned that even without a vital bracelet Digimon who are partnered with humans cannot just materialize like monmon did but they can even dig evolve as in Hawkman turning into oron the big question now is other than the sort of AR field functionality what exactly is the purpose of the vital bracelets then if they aren't the real key to helping gamon Jellyman and angoram man dig evolve episode 19 was not just one of the creepiest episodes in the 23 years of Digimon anime entries but it was absolutely stuffed with lore implications and things for fans to chew

33:40 on as we piece together the mysteries of this new horror themed season one week later it's looking like the Digivice bracelet has a new meaning and use being the key to bridging space and time kind of cool again we'll see where they go with this if anywhere at all after we unite dig evolve and intimidate Piximon it says something extremely important it claims that it's grown tired of our heroes and it's going to travel back in time to ensure they never existed Piximon says he'll start with gamon then travels into the past through a portal a few seconds later reappears more beat up than ever gasping for breath and asks what exactly are you I'm dying to know what gamon was in the past was it gulus gamon that Piximon found in gamon's past something else we've been asking for a while if gamon is truly a newborn Digimon or some kind of creature who

34:26 existed for a while before for meeting hio but it doesn't stop there he then tries to go into the future to understand what exactly gaman is and when he comes back half a second later Piximon is absolutely singing the Praises of gamon saying you were amazing and Piximon just wants to be gamon's best friend so the obvious question is what did Piximon see in the future so takeaways from episode 19 time travel now as a possibility as we've learned that the bond between Digimon and their human can transcend time and space straight up opening portals to send one to the other we have a violent past for gamon and finally we know that gamon's future is bright whatever it was it made Piximon want to be by gamon's side ghost game episode 20 made serious efforts to advance the plot of the new series by

35:11 featuring two digimo hunting the mysterious black tailmon who seems to be vital to the plot of this new season keto tries to insist that he doesn't know where black tailmon is and conveniently black tailmon shows up to open a portal into the digital world for them definitely convenient and kind of odd it almost makes hio seem like a liar even though he wasn't but this brings me to an element of the episode I was a little disappointed in when I heard the premise that two Digimon were coming to hio because they were hunting black tailmon I had hoped we'd learn more about black tailmon potentially even black auman but it turns out they only want to find black tailmon because they know it's someone who can send them home they don't know each other they aren't part of a secret organization of dark Digimon right at the end hio remembers what bkon said about our team potentially being the bridge between the human and the digital world H's last words of the episode are that we really need for someone to be a bridge it seems

35:57 like black tailmon is fulfilling that bridge role for the Digimon but there may need to be a human to take on that role someone who understands both Digimon and humans kind of like what Tai wanted to be in the Digimon 02 epilog honestly based on the way other Digimon like hawman and clockmon and now the two enemies from this week come to hio for help it seems like the show is building up to hio taking on this role as the bridge between Digimon and humans episode 21 brought back a villain from 02 that I have been hoping to see I'm talking of course about aru kennyon I think one of the all-time great villains from the Earth early 2000s run of Digimon shows both in design and Screen presence she is fully reimagined here in episode 21 of the new series not only that aru Kenyon had an amazing showing in this episode super imposing and in fact one of the only enemies to completely and utterly beat our

36:42 protagonists at the end totally winning until we got the surprise appearance of a dark Digimon well two dark Digimon actually she uses her webs to catch and Link humans and Likens it to a neural network something I thought was quite cool and she also claims that the best way to understand a subject is to devour its brains arimon is most fascinated in gamon for his ability to swap between Evolutions in a way that she hadn't quite seen before and so he's first on her agenda the team is utterly helpless to stop this as her jaw opens up and she inches towards gamon but at the last possible second gamon activates that dark dig Evolution from episode 13 goes into the goulis gamon form for a second time and essentially destroys arukenimon one punch man style notably gulus is far more calm and collected this time still massively intimidating but it does not

37:28 feel like we are in the same immediate danger and it does not feel like gulus wants to harm our team like he did the first time in episode 13 he says something really interesting when hero inches towards him gulus says stay back it's not time yet see you and then reverts into gamon as if that wasn't enough in a bit of a repeat of the black auman reveal where that Digimon was watching over the first gulus gaman appearance we pan up to see black garamon as in a dark version of terrierman's champion form garamon this is something I cannot really Pro but the way the black aaman and the black garaman are just watching over gulus gaman from the Shadows it screams secret organization to me I don't know after a monthong Hiatus Digimon ghost game returned with episode 22 and brought with it an iconic skull gymon appearance sort of having skull gymon as the

38:14 Digimon standin for Freddy Krueger with humans being trapped in a dream world where this nightmare of a digimon haunted them and would cause real bodily harm to their real world bodies this week was another great example of Digimon ghost game taking ideas from classic horror and thriller films and asking what that would look like in the Digimon Universe it was also an episode where hoo and gamon took a back seat allowing us to focus on the other two pairs of characters koshiro and Jellyman plus really and anguran and it really reminded us that as much as we love gamon this isn't the gamon show it feels like I just watched the Digimon ghost game movie or something when you look at episode 23's intense scenario high stakes rewarding side character cameos and growth for all of its characters on top of the amazing visuals ghost game took the premise of the main partner Digimon becoming infected SLP possessed

38:59 and although it didn't turn this into a multi-episode Arc it delivered an incredibly satisfying story with the beginning middle and end all in 22 minutes that pushed the characters of ghost game to their very limit the first Digimon partner the main partner to go is gellon who we see crawling around the ceiling of koshiro's dorm like a little Nightmare Demon spawn aaman and anoran are next to be converted after receiving some sort of signal some red powdery looking thing they call it scales that are coming out of electronics and we come to realize that the blood red moon of the episode isn't just for Aesthetics the red scale data has been floating towards the moon and essentially when the Moon Turns full red the scales will rain down and infect every Digimon in the human world someone or something is using satellite dishes to amplify the red scale signal and reach more Digimon KIRO steps up in that boy Genius role

39:46 and is tasked with destroying an inactive but still floating in space satellite that the mystery villain may be planning to use in order to spread the redscale signal across the whole world huge Dragon Ball Z moment here and it destroys to satellite just like we wanted there's a girl who looks teenage maybe slightly older than our team working in front of a series of Monitor and what appears to be a room in a house and it's her that has morphon captured in her computer the girl says quote what is this intelligent life form is it an AI or maybe either way it's a big Discovery nobody will call me an amateur researcher now the whole thing about what is this intelligent life form it gave me some big Ken Ichi Joi Vibes with her seeming to not understand the seriousness of the situation I mean she does she does understand it's a huge Discovery and an intelligent life form of some kind but she doesn't seem to be valuing the life of the little creature

40:31 she's got captured on her computer I don't know what I was expecting from the villain of this week but it certainly wasn't morphon and then it definitely wasn't Mormon's human captor clockmon bursts into the room and steals the monitor that contained morphon and Bales uh it's kind of the end of the scene of this character for now I really like how this reveal played out I'm just hoping and praying that this mysterious girl comes back like please don't let this be a oneandone character please let her return in some meaningful capacity maybe she's the that Dramon works with or she's the one to bring all the villainous Digimon who don't want to be reformed together or something Digimon ghost game episode 24 showed us exactly what happens when a digimon becomes obsessed with a human and tries to force a partnership without the human knowing or agreeing to enter the partnership aiton becomes the Digimon partner that uto a new character did not know he had

41:18 and did not ask for so this episode dives into the premise what would happen if you had an obsessive Anonymous Guardian Angel but this episode it doesn't end with uto and his Digimon St ER you know shaking hands and becoming the newest members of the ghost game gang in the last few minutes the episode gets super weird though realizing he's lost and his plans to turn uto into Digimon aren't going to work out the way he hoped aiton decides he will become like uto a human and parts of his armor start stripping away he resembles kind of like this gooey human losing more of his Digimon features and turning into kind of a human made out of dirt and leaves but when uto tries to embrace and console him because aitar man is now like sobbing real tears during this Devolution by the way aiton bursts into this cloud of pixels and that is really where his story ends he tried to stop

42:04 being a digimon in order to become more like uto and I guess that is what caused him to almost self-destruct maybe self- delete is the more accurate word the episode then ends with yo back to work surely mourning aiton in some capacity or at least still thinking about what happened and the kids decide they'll keep an eye on uto from afar just to be safe just showing the unhealthy relationship mentality where aiton thinks being close with someone means that you have to be the exact same first trying to make uto into himself and then when that didn't work trying to make himself into uto it's sad and dark for Digimon and a cool new type of story for Digimon say what you will about the monster of the week formula of ghost game I know I definitely want the plot to kick into high gear this is a franchise that is over 20 years old and almost every week they're coming up with new variations on the Digimon story

42:50 format that we've been enjoying for two decades best episode of Digimon ghost game no not for me but one of the more thought-provoking ones ghost game absolutely brought the Heat and the horror in its 25th episode the obvious answer is the ghost game debut of vom Deon who most English language fans who grew up on Digimon would know as myotismon but then beyond that the episode had two other massive moments for the series Dramon returned after being missing in action since episode 3 and appears to have been completely destroyed after all the hype of what his return could mean for the series and before we could even process that gamon dig evolved into Koo vison the premise of this episode is that a trend high-end Mega company known for desserts perfumes luxury accessories and more is inviting social media influencers specifically women influencers to a product sampling

43:35 session at the company's head office when these women arrive they're being attacked by vampires but they don't just suck their blood and move on in this world when the vampires bite they control their victims so it's almost like a hybrid between vampires and zombies really being the only girl member of the team and also the team member with a massive social media platform she's invited to one of the product sampling sessions when she arrives for the sampling things go south pretty soon because she recognizes the voice of one of the servers it's Dramon from episode 3 this almost had me thinking that there was some fake out and the handsome man wasn't myoton in Disguise but actually was a human and that Dramon would somehow dig evolve into myotismon in this week's episode with the human help but to my surprise Draiman was actually offed quite suddenly he wanted revenge on Ry which wasn't part of the plan myotismon wanted

44:21 her alive considering she's special and that she can partner with a digimon he swarmed Dramon with all these bats until draon kind of popped and if that is the end of Dramon which it seems like it is that will have been quite odd since draman's farewell words to the audience in episode 3 were all about how he could find a human to help him materialize and help him grow stronger but now draman's gone so I guess that's not a thing we learn a bit more about what myison wants namely that he has been increasing vampire numbers to become the ruler of all humans believing vampires to be superior he thinks that humans who can partner with Digimon would be great soldiers to have on his side basic basically and so he wants to test Ry and her friends who he realizes are probably camped outside waiting in case something goes wrong before gulus can take control hio says he wants to face this challenge

45:07 headon together and it's the commitment that is apparently what Alters the transformation gon's going through from going dark and turning into gulus caman to Turning very light into the very glorious Kano vison he takes on myoton and wins though it's not Mega clear if myoton is fully destroyed very interesting setup there but I don't feel like theorizing in light of how Tron went out after all of our theorizing about what was coming for that character I had very little issue with this episode other than seeing Dramon seemingly destroyed after being teed up for something greater and I don't think that was just us in our imaginations or me fan theorizing out of control the show constantly cut to Dramon in almost every episode when the narrator was explaining the rules of hologram ghosts and Digimon and whatnot so that was a weird one 26 introduced us to Ang

45:52 goran's closest Ally in the Life prior to meeting Ry if Ry is anoran partner during his time in the human world then Digi Taman was the closest thing angoram man had to a partner back in the digital world this episode is really about The Clash of angor man's old and new ways of life with really meeting digitamamon and aoran having to decide where his Allegiance lies the first thing that feels off about this reunion is the fact that apparently digitamamon has been in the human world for a solid 6 months without reaching out he wants to meet ruy hio and koshiro and arranges a Meetup at this abandoned mansion that he stays in really is invited upstairs to see a doll collection I suppose and starts to notice all of this sand or dust throughout the house digitamamon goes up with Ry and while isolated tries to eat her while the action on display is strong it's really the dialogue here that makes the back half of this episode

46:38 Stand Out dig Taman truly sees no problem with consuming humans especially drawing the comparison between humans eating animals really looking at the food chain and kind of implying Digimon should be higher up in the food chain consuming humans for sustenance and he claims there's nothing wrong with that it's no surprise that anoran is against this considering his partner and friends are humans and he does what he needs to do in order to stop digitamamon while fading away digitamamon delivers a haunting analysis telling Ang Goran that he's the one who's changed digitamamon asks Ang Goran if he is a digimon or is he a human I love leaving the episode on this note we have seen the show talk over and over about the bridge between the human and digital worlds being necessary and we've seen characters like myotismon last week talking about his superiority over the human race anoran is not the one to deliver that little outro poem instead really steps in

47:25 saying one or two lines about how the house still stands to this day as if nothing had ever happened here I love the idea that the in Universe on Goron was too devastated by the events of this episode by the Betrayal and the loss of his old best friend that he was like no sorry guys I can't do the poem this week really can you cover me I got to go ghost game episode 27 brought back black gamon the series Amazon delivery driver who seems to carry packages and Digimon back and forth between the human and digital worlds black tmon was the first big mystery of the series and has been absent for a number of weeks so it was a great reminder to have this character appear and not only appear but also act as a bridge between hedo and his father by delivering a special letter black gotaman shows up with a Sligh kind of like Santa Claus and just kind of takes splashmon away back to the digital world before Black tailmon Goes though hio

48:11 asks if he can do a favor if he can give a letter to his dad here's the full exchange quote hold on could you give this to my dad the letter says to hoko aawa Ry what is that hio I wrote a letter just in case black tailmon takes it and abruptly leaves unfortunately we don't get to read what the letter said and we didn't even see H writing it earlier in the episode so while I'm glad this scene exists in the episode there wasn't much here and it was kind of odd how black ton was in and out it's one thing to sit here and say I want the story to really get moving and while I do want that I'm also pretty forgiving when the episodic stuff is unique and thought-provoking like last week with digitamamon turning on us or the really dark one a few weeks ago with aitar man wanting to be in like a relationship with a human basically but this episode gave me nothing meaningful to really chew on nothing to feel clever about or

48:56 to applaud the writers for another disappointing element of this week is that last week's episode left anoran in a very dark place after he was forced to fight and eventually destroy one of his oldest friends after being betrayed he was so devastated by that episode that really had to deliver the outro poem at the end of the week andoran was basically back to normal here and that's a shame we kind of want to see the emotion carry over from week to week it kind of feels like the writers on this episode themselves knew how inconsequential this episode was and then threw in that black tailmon thing just at the end to kind of appease people like me so so that we can now say well technically something happened in this one episode 28 shows us an evolution failing for the first time in the series but what does that mean what are the consequences were hero and gamon trying to hit Mega just there it all had to do with overpowering the Viet bracelet pouring too much energy into

49:41 the battle like pumping up a ball or a tire too much to the point that it pops that's kind of what happened when hio and gaman tried to give Keno vison even more power but pushed a little too hard we start with Kota Noma one of the boys doorm mates being locked in his room for 2 days straight when we go to check in on him we realize his face has been stolen and replaced by a creepy mask shuran doesn't just like absorb their power when he takes their face here he literally wears the face so it's like this hulking Digimon body with a teenage human's face pretty unsettling before the face stealer can steal more faces though hero traps him in the AR field so that he can't touch any humans any humans except for hero that is so now hoo is the number one target basically being the only human in the AR field cow evolves to Kano vison and it seems like all is going well but hero needs to pour energy into a vital bracelet to boost Kano and something happens where the

50:26 blue backdrop of the VB turns red and then kano's Evolution shatters like glass and he comes back out as cow gumon now I'll be honest with you I thought something worse was going to happen when the backdrop went red but this was still interesting Digimon ghost game episode 29 delivered on what we were all hoping to see based on last week's 29 teaser I'm happy to report that tedison jellyman's ultimate debuted in this very solid koshiro based episode I think it would have been a noteworthy entry into ghost game even without the evolution in my opinion because of the fact that koshiro had to really step up and not allow himself to be the Cowardly pitiful member of the group this week after encountering and coming to protect a lost little girl yichan this mission to return her to her mother forced him to be the adult since the devilish jellymoni kosir to be more than a crybaby this week kind of ruled he's

51:12 used to having hio Ori around who can play the role of the Brave one so that he can allow himself to be scared and vocal about it here he's partnered with a little child so he kind of has to be the brave one it is kosir's willingness to endure the poison that allows Tesla Jellyman to evolve into ultimate here as for tedison I really love the design here tedison is somehow like a mix between Jellyman angon and lilon she has the cute charm and kind of flower petal skirt of lilon but is presented with a certain Divinity that feels like angam man and how she is this heavenly being she supplies an antidote to koshiro and to everyone else in the area bystanders even snap photos of her and refer to her as a goddess it's interesting and I hope the photos of tedison result in more

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