WtW Podcast Episode #262- Get the Gekko (Digimon Alysion, Time Stranger, Beatbreak, & More)

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9:06 Everyone, we'll be starting in just a minute or two. Dev, why don't you say a few words so we can make sure they can hear you? >> It is 10 fucktillion degrees. OB OBS did an update earlier and it changed like the entire interface and I had to spend time putting everything back the way it was because you know what my you know what my favorite thing >> when it does that >> you know what my favorite thing in a program is when it updates when it decides >> move everything. >> No when it decides oh everything should be less dense in a program designed to manage things. Leave it alone. >> I I'm very tired of programs doing less density when it comes to interface

9:53 stuff. Okay, they can hear both of us. Ready, DV? >> Good enough. >> Welcome to the With the Will podcast. We're here to entertain, inform while talking about Digimon. I'm Mark. I run with Will and produce Digimon on Blu-ray. I'm DevQ and I have a cat stabbing me. >> Did you do anything to deserve it? >> Um, >> or is it the cat just showing you who's boss? >> She's showing me her love and affection. >> 10 minutes from now, randomly, you're just going to be going, "Ow, fuck." And then we're all going to remember that statement. >> Yep. Her love and affection is painful.

10:39 >> How have the last few weeks been, Dove? [ __ ] >> I'm I am also tired and older. >> But it's busy. >> Yeah, hot. Uh let's go ahead and start off with Liberator. It's weird because technically Mariah has been introducing the novel stuff. My I did not remember her being quite so >> that [ __ ] >> more Yuki >> to a point. >> And also her using Haniman as a prop at times was good. Like lifting Haniman up. >> Look, Haniman's just like the perfect

11:25 fidget toy. >> Yeah, I I'm surprised we didn't get a visual of her like moving Haniman's arms up and down. That feels like something that'd be funny. Uh, and then it flips to the battle with Close with Aris and Violet and Schumann really just look like they've had enough. >> They just don't blame them. >> Yeah. >> And then so Arisa gets her big heroic speeches of nice and then when once you see Kuyaman in the background, she makes this face like, "Oh no." But then the problem is she didn't know it was her sister and she's never seen Kaguyan before. So she just knew. It's >> like, "Wait, I thought you were in like another [ __ ] country. You've been

12:11 here this entire time and you haven't contacted me as the fuck." >> She actually specified she had been back for two years. >> Yeah. I I had to reread that for a moment like, "Oh, she's been back for like two months." Wait, no. >> Yeah. >> Years. >> Yeah. So here we're basically about a year after Liberator started. So she's been back a year pating the store and also Mariah does not have cards minus a couple which she gives a re she doesn't have cards >> in a card game. >> And am I wrong or did she not have a D storage or was she just specifically asking for hers to put the cards in cuz it >> um it doesn't look like she had one. Yeah, I'm trying to remember if like she

12:57 mentioned it in the novel stuff or not. >> Oh, yeah. I I don't remember that. But >> yeah, neither do I. I was trying to just go hm I don't remember. I It's a very good setup chapter. Nothing actually happens, but it's a good setup chapter. And also, for some reason, they have to be like, "Hey, look, if you look carefully at close, you could see Imperial German again." It's like they've they're already doing this again. I I like that they had I like they had to clarify what was going on with clothes because um >> uh I apparently misconred what was going on last week. I thought like >> did did they specify or did they just say a possibility? I may have misunderstood. >> I thought they were saying what they

13:43 thought was happening. the >> I thought they said all the uh I thought the narration said that all the NPCs were trying to challenge her, but she was just ignoring them. >> No, but I mean like what actually is making clothes that way? >> Uh they thought that it might be unchanged. >> But that's what I mean. They haven't actually told us. They're telling us what the characters think if I'm remembering right, and I may not be. Am I wrong? or in the setup stuff, are they doing like a lot of hawking where I'm I may just be missing things, but it feels like they're like doing a lot of this might be happening and also the main character's missing. >> Yes.

14:31 >> Okay. I'm just making sure it's one of those things where I'm not sure if I have the right read on it or if I'm misreading it. And then it's funny because we talked about last week uh the Gollum's back with battle coverage against Gyon. >> It's nice to see it's nice to see it again. I like it. My only issue is is a lot of the battle coverage now is with decks that can't actually exist. So like it's kind of strange where it's like this card did not ex like this was not part of the person's deck. It's a card that magically appeared or evolved from another card or someone is o overtly cheating. So having battle cover

15:17 I think the last battle coverage with a like real deck was like six maybe. So it's just a bit odd to me. Like, by the way, you can't actually do this. >> Yep. And then anniversary time. 15th anniversary of Crosswars. It feels like this >> Yeah, it feels like this one has hit a lot of people more than a lot of other anniversaries because it's like there's like, wait, what? No, Crossroads can't be 15 years old. >> Wow. I've been doing that one RP for 14 [ __ ] years. Holy [ __ ] And then Hurricane Touchdown is 25 years. And that one's finally on Blu-ray. Yay.

16:03 And the 90th anniversary of when Digimon Savers 3D first went to San Rio Pearland. >> That still feels weird >> that it's been that long or that it was there in the first place. >> Both. And then it is also the 24th anniversary of the Adventurers Battle, the first Digimon Tamers movie >> times. >> That one also feels like it isn't that old, but it is. Look, I that one definitely feels that old because one of my friends did a fan dub of it and I was in it and I had to

16:48 do a lot of [ __ ] And then we'll talk we'll talk about the social media art a bit later. And we have beat break news, which is weird because it's basically like out of nowhere. Like they announced that it felt like out of nowhere just so that they could announce stuff before Jump Victory Carnival. Uh so uh Tomorrow is played by Mia Areno and Gekkuman's Magumi Han. So, Arena has done a few small Digimon roles, but he's known for, let's see, Sarin Kingdom Hearts. Um, he was in Fafner, Mob Psycho, Gundam Double. He's in a lot of stuff. He was Haku and Spirited Away.

17:35 Um, and Mumi Han we know quite well. >> I have never heard of this person before. Yeah, for people who don't know, uh, she's been Takaru since the PSP game and in 2020. She's Noia and Cyber Sleuth. She was IU and Hunters. She was the the I think the lead witchmon in Ghost game in that episode among many others. >> She's one of those like you look at her uh Anime News Network uh page, you're like, "Oh, damn." Well, the funny part is is uh her connection with Digimon actually predates her being in the cast. A lot of the earliest photos we we have of like events where like they had stuff

18:20 at events was photos from her when she was a kid. >> Oh, that's adorable >> cuz I believe her mom was an actress and she dragged her to every Digimon thing there was. And even like when Cockadoo's posting photos, he'll say like there's a better angle in a photo that Magumi Han posted a year or two ago and it's from a photo from like 1999 when she's like seven or eight or something. >> That's hilarious. >> Yeah. Uh so they both give some comments. It felt Did it feel weird doing like these silhouette teasers like two days before they announced all this? Yeah, I I would assume they were going

19:05 to drag it out longer if they were making >> Well, especially since in her case it wasn't from the back and every like some people were making guesses of very well-known famous voice action like that looks no that does not look like that person. That's just the only name you know. It is not I forgot her name from Konoua. >> I was half camp new one. Everyone kept multiple people kept trying to say um >> ah [ __ ] What's Explosion Girl's name? >> I worked on that show and I don't remember it. >> I can't remember people's names, let alone my own relatives. >> Uh trying to find the actress's name. Okay. The character was uh Meguman. It

19:51 was uh Ry Ry Takahashi. People kept trying to say it looked like her. Like from what little I could see, that looks nothing like Ry Takahashi in the face at all. >> I was waiting for someone to uh badly photoshop Sergeant Frog in there. >> The funny part is the more they show us of Gecko, the more that joke gets better. Especially when they showed us the sheet for the Jump Victory Carnival mascot thing and the art from it's like, "God, it is Sergeant Frog. And then the mascot it's like >> Yeah. Well, yeah, we'll show some photos of the mascot later. And there are some good photos of it. >> Also, I love that um every appearance of

20:38 Gecko for this as like at his first event had him with Auman or Vimmon. >> Adorable. >> Yeah. The only one who had any alone photo spots was Auman. I mean fair because >> Yeah. No. Yeah. It's all come on. Uh then Anime Expo, they had a ribbon rally. >> They had >> really liked it. >> Yeah, the ribbon idea is fun, especially having although I gather the booths were not that close in some cases. And they also gave away a beat break and Allison Allison fan. That's >> that would have been like that looks cute.

21:23 >> That is always a popular giveaway because you can print stacks of them. I have one from Sanka roll from when I was at the premier at anime expo like six or seven years ago. >> Also practical because damn. >> Yeah, >> the heat. And then for Elison, we got a music video for the intro, which showed off a new Renomon evolution, which I have to say, I feel like it's not like the most creative choice to just go. It is a white Cubimon. >> It's a landolimmon. >> Yeah, that's literally the one that everyone was saying, too. >> Also, it's I need to see better art of it because it just it looks really blobby. Well, that is like that CGI specific CGI

22:10 style. I'll wait till we see like better art because even like the little card preview stuff, it it's so tiny because I gather they let people take pictures the first day, then they stopped them and people were still trying to get photos, which is why there's other stuff that we're not mentioning because if you ever want to see why companies stopped doing previews like that. Uh, then we got the theme song Firebird Girls by Anna Alouette. I know this is a VTuber. I had not heard of them before this. >> Nice, but I've forgotten it already. >> There's an English and Japanese version of the theme song. Uh, and then for Time Stranger. So, first up, they're like, "Yeah, Bandai is doing their summer showcase and we're going to have a deep dive gameplay for

22:56 Time Stranger." And there were two opinions of what the deep dive was going to be. One was they're going to show us new stuff or B it's going to be an overview of stuff we've seen with maybe a slight bit or two and it was basically the overview thing. >> Okay. >> Nothing bad, just we've got a lot of news lately and the stuff there was smaller little >> It's like here's some gameplay >> overview. Yeah, Bandai had a lot of stuff to show. They showed off evil Pac-Man >> which I have a pre-order for because it has new actual Pac-Man in it. Uh, and then let's >> now I have the urge to play The Adventures of Pac-Man again. >> That was Pac-Man 2. I think. And then uh from

23:43 the Ean barcode searches, a Switch 2 version has a barcode for Time Stranger. Now, that's happened a lot with things that never come out, but it does definitely suggest that Bandai's at least planning. >> Yes. But also, the barcode data also had a Peggy rating attached to it, which was Peggy 12, >> which is roughly PG-13 or teen rated. So, yeah, not a guarantee. >> Yeah, >> I mean, frankly, we've seen the graphics, we've seen the console and PC limitations. I don't see any reason this wouldn't get a Switch 2 port, which is what we've said even before we completely understood the Switch 2 is

24:29 >> Yeah. >> It's like this looks like Switch 2 graphics. This should work fine. >> Yeah. Uh and then we got a little clip preview for Junomon. Uh Omega Shamon. They did Coron and Lunamon the same day, which was a nice little pairing. >> They're so [ __ ] cute. I love them. and Jasmine who's pointy. >> Yep. He's suffering from spiky [ __ ] disease. >> Spiky. And then some Terry assistant updates. First, he did a collaboration with Kaga Nazuna, another VTuber I've never heard of. >> Me either. >> So, that video was them doing various trivia games like who would they want to have as partners and so forth.

25:16 Then it they played Time Stranger together on her channel, which I skimmed over it and I looked at what other people said. It's just the demo we've seen. It doesn't look like there was much unique there minus if you want like every bit of footage you can. And then Terry assistant, see that's not correct in the chat. I know plenty of them. I've just never heard of these ones. Um then Termon Assistant did previews of the new pendulums where the main focus was on new Digimon. They showed off Wankon, Manakimon, and Gossimon. >> I feel like the winner here >> Woman has no thoughts going in there. >> I like the samurai vibes of Gossimon.

26:06 >> I like the puppy where it's just like no thoughts, head empty. >> Empty. Not a single functioning brain cell. >> And then I don't remember who brought it up. Hellboy kitty. >> Like like I I know it's the cat I know it's the cat statue that's also charms lot. I just love that. Like the first thing I saw anyone say somewhere on social media was it's Hellboy if he was a kitty. >> I am fine with this. >> Yeah. And then we got plenty more pendulum previews. Uh, Manmon Memo came back for the first time in over a year. They showed off they show they did an intro for Sou Warriors. Then they did an

26:52 intro for Toe Braves. Then they showed off most of the new Digimon both with art, sprite, and clarifying name and mini profiles. It's funny is most of the art I like, one stands out weirdly art-wise though. Do you know which one? >> Shelman. >> Hakamon. If you look at the art, it almost looks cell-shaded. Like it almost looks it almost looks kind of like a cell-shaded JRPG character. sort of it it's just a bit odd looking at it

27:40 because it looks a bit off to me for some reason. Not bad, just different. >> Like doesn't match in with the rest of them. >> Yeah, it looks like it's it's almost looks like a screenshot like you'd expect to see from a Pokemon game or something. >> Maybe it's maybe it's the pose. Something about just seems off. But yeah, a lot of new ones. The Daruma mod, getting the art of it and getting it like with the full dragon like regalia. >> I feel like I feel like we didn't expect that based on the sprite we saw a while ago. >> Cuz it looks like because it's like, oh, it has goofy little legs and a goofy tail. It's like oh no, these are like actual like dragon arms and a tail. This

28:25 is funky. >> Yeah. I I thought it was just going to be like digamon but with like just stick some axelottle [ __ ] ears on it. >> Yeah, that's what I was expecting. And says like oh it's a whole dragon thing and US pre-orders are open for both these for anyone who wants to order. I feel does it feel weird that they didn't do pre-orders for the cases in the US? >> Honestly, not really. Because >> you think they just wouldn't sell >> I don't think they would sell really well because like at least in Japan they

29:12 were marketed with the original stuff. Like when that was over here, I never [ __ ] saw those things. It's only the actual >> to be fair to be to be fair, we never had the original pendulums. >> Yeah, we didn't have, but they had those little uh case kind of things with the uh digital monster, I think, as well. >> I honestly don't remember it. And then another single for uh the album arrive before it shows up in a couple weeks. That is certain. So, let let So, let's look at this nice beach art, shall we? He's standing on the beach and there's a bicycle behind him for some reason. And

29:57 behind that is a surfboard. And also, he's holding a bottle of water. >> Is he going to go surfing? He's not wearing anything. >> No. See, that's Yeah, that's the thing I forgot is he's he's >> I mean, we're we're nitpicking it for our music. It's fine. Cover is very much a co a music album cover. It is nice art, though. I just It's just easy to pick on it >> cuz we're [ __ ] >> No, because it's fun. And then Tory Weekend Splash did weekends two and three. Man, I'm really like I've peaked in a few times. The video quality on these sucks. Like I

30:43 can't actually be like polite about it. It's just not good. >> You would know. >> Well, I took some screenshots and it posted them in a few places. So, I'll put them here also just so everyone can see what I'm talking about. >> Why would you torture them like that? >> So, Digimon is the old streaming masters. Uh, Pretty Cure and Deremy have not been deinlaced at all. And Bobo, I don't know what's going on with It's like they It's like a field of videos just missing >> [ __ ] wretches. >> Uh, and Bobo is one that I know they're

31:29 good masters because I worked on that on the US Blu-ray. So, I know there's good copies of Bobo. Yeah. I don't know what's going on with the video with these. I would assume they're being put together by someone who does not do video work because dein interlacing is not that hard if you have masters or if you have tapes. It's like pretty easy. I I don't know what's going on with the the lack of the interlacing is especially killing pretty If they could fix if they could fix like here's the thing, Digimon looks basically how it always has up until the Blu-rays. I can't really complain there because they they know what those masters are. They know they're good for

32:15 streaming. So, whatever. But the other three, I don't know what's actually going on with in the case of Pretty Cure and Deremy, it's not that hard to just do basic deacing that would make it good enough. So, I really don't know what's going on with that at all. Shame. Uh, then Adventure 2020 is no longer on Hulu. It's still streaming. It's still easy to find. Like Hoopla still has it. And Digimon stuff comes and goes from Hulu so often. It could be back now for all I know. >> Give it a week or two. >> In fact, if I click its page right now, does the page go anywhere? Nope. It is still an error page. So, it is still down. >> Okay. >> Uh, it but yeah, so 2020 will be back. It still places

33:01 I like the Digimon one on the summer stream is whatever it is. Same for Bobo. Pretty cury. Those as far as I know have not like existed anywhere for a very long time. Those ones are a shame for people who like those shows cuz like I think >> there's any like good quality that even exists at this point. >> Well, no. That's the thing. Like Toy clearly has copies. They just aren't deinterlaced, which is not I can I look, I can theorize. I don't know what's going on. I assume someone just grabbed copies and whatever. Uh and then Digimon Partners, uh most known as the one the site that when it opened, people were like, "Well, with the will's going to have to shut down now. It won't be able to compete with

33:47 this." Uh they posted a website re about the website refresh. Most sections of the site are going to close. The site will still be there. Products will continue to be sold at the online toy stores. They move that years ago. >> Uh the point system on the site is ending which was kind of like do this and that and you can earn you know digital widgets. Um, it sounds like everything is closing except doing partner projects, which up to ignoring right now, the last one was a year or so ago, I think. >> Yeah. >> And the partner branding has been removed from basically everything like uh the partner Twitter went back to being an anime Twitter, which is what it

34:32 was before. The YouTube is just generic Digimon branding now. So, the one thing they're doing is the new project for the Digimon Expo, which is the Digi Gallery, which they explain, you know, the what you can draw or take photos of. I like when they do these and they've did it with the novel and manga contest also. They are very clear about like submission formats. I like that they take the confusion away from that. like this one. They give you a print out. They say like what it has to fit. Yeah. So, submissions are open until the end of the month and they open actually

35:19 they may be they may be opening like right now. So, if you have anything you want to take a photo of or draw, read the rules and enter and we'll see what you can do. >> Eight. Sip some water before cards. >> Why? >> Okay, we get a we get an the Amy parallel card is less excited because we've seen this this like I think some of the first art we saw for this set with her hand forward. Um >> Oh yeah. >> Yeah. The special parallel card I love. And it I love that they're making sure to preview all of these because they the art previews do not really show off how these look.

36:05 You need the texture of the card to show them. And then uh parallel art of Kiyoko. And uh that's certainly some coffee she has, isn't it? I like how the steam ends with the little skull on it. I'm just looking at like the texture of it just like coagulated to the side of the cup. >> And then we get Alphammon parallel card with a nice little energy silhouette outline of Kiyoko. >> Looks really cool. >> Yeah, this one actually looks very good. This is one that it needs like the nicest finish possible. It feels like that would work really well. Uh then Ry Ray, this is her. Is this

36:51 when she's introduced in Cyber Sooth? I don't remember. Me either or I >> I think this isn't this like a hospital scene like right when she's introduced. >> I like I don't fully remember for some reason. >> It's like why is she doing that expression in a hospital? Is it because she put you there? >> I think it's to get people spending money on the card. >> She's about to commit medical malpractice. Uh then Yuko reaching out to uh Iba like frozen that name for a second. And then she gets a nice little double E card without a Digimon on it, which I actually really The look of that one isn't All of these look great when

37:38 you see the foil version in person. >> Yeah, the actual like the plain artwork looks kind of like ass, but when you see the >> N see see I see I give more credit. It's not that looks like ass. It's designed specifically for the card. Like even when you look at the card, like you can see different parts are made different textures and reflective materials. I think I it's neat when they do that and I would like them to do it more. And then Suetto. God, they really [ __ ] detailed his face. >> That man has no eyebrows. Uh, then Seo gets a parallel card. Very much an anime plus style thing.

38:28 I like her other colors her other cards better, but this is still a really cool one. >> I'm trying to remember what her original card looked like. Uh then Yugo, I don't have much to say about Yugo because it's functionally just like alternate art of Yuko basically. Although I do like the effect on the uh the photo holo foil one works really well. >> Yeah, it looks almost like kind of like scales sort of. Yeah, that's one especially where the texture helps and actually gives it like a different

39:13 physical look entirely. >> God, that >> a lot of depth. >> That really does look crazy. That is one where where even more so than the others where the arc just does not represent what they were doing that well. Like that's one where they clearly knew the card was going to be textured and everything. Uh, Dianamon gets a really good one with Scio. Yeah, this one I just like. And then and then Kiyoko gets >> I'm reminded of that meme where uh it's just like, damn, I think we're going to have to kill this guy. >> And then Kiyoko gets a special parallel card. And this one's a gold foil one.

40:01 I will say this, I love how the texture on this one's almost like a digital distortion thing. Like if you look at the Alphabondon where it's almost like sideways digital >> almost like snow from an old TV. >> I also kind of feel like how the gold is almost looks like embossed on it. So >> uh then Arya gets a new parallel card which that just looks cool I think. Although the weird thing, if you look at the Digimon in the background, are they all drawn more realistic than they normally would be? Like look at the Rukaman on the left side. >> The [ __ ] face. >> Yeah, like they're all drawn like pseudo

40:47 realistic. It's weird. I like it. It's weird though. Uh then we get Nyabootman with a few other cats. And can we appreciate the like the Bodmon Yuki Bodmon cloud? >> Oh god, I didn't even notice that one until you pointed it out. >> It's fun. The Tailmon. The Tailmon looks great. And also Pete. >> I know it's just a generic Woman, but I say it's Pete. >> I want to pet the baby. >> Uh then UL Force Vimmon ace gets a parallel card. >> Absolutely badass. Someone said this is right after Yell Force Vermont gets his energy back in the game. I don't

41:33 remember, but I assume that's probably correct. And then Reena gets a parallel card of the moment when she kicks uh Barbara in the head. I just said it was from Cyber Suit. Someone said it's from Hacker's Memory, which they kind of treat him as the same thing. >> I mean, I'm wrong. I'm definitely wrong on that, but they kind of treated the same thing. Also, I love the like the um motion on Barb's head where it's like blurred out. >> Yes. And then we get a token card, which is a box top or the box top set only has five cards, but the six is a token cards for the syndrome familiars. And I think everyone's agreed that the best part of this card is the energy um syndrome on

42:20 the back doing the o the sama laugh just and it even has the hand pose and everything. Anyone who watches anime has seen that a thousand times. And then now what's funny is I still wrote clean, but someone pointed out to me today the cards on the site actually have sample on them, which is probably because people keep trying to print them and use them and then use them in digital stuff. So now they're just printing sample on everything. In fact, someone pointed out that the EX9 previews uh from a month ago are cards are clean from when I grabbed them and on the site

43:07 now they're sample. Like they've been changed from when I put them up to now, which it's not a shock people do stuff with the art so much. like let us play with the cards art >> and then card battle. Uh, bless them. They did it again. It's a Digimon card room episode where they do a match and the English one chops off all of it to only do like the three minute segment with Yuki going and here's some event stuff. >> It's still cursed. I miss like the full borderline framed as like a game variety show thing. I think that worked much better

43:53 for this. Literally just do that and subtitle them. It works much better than the VTuber. Like Terrammon Assistant is a good VTuber. I have not seen anything from the Yuki one because I pretty sure what it is is I believe she does the Japanese show and then they translate what she said and then she has to do it again while trying to act and do it in in English >> which isn't fantastic >> and also the model just isn't good. >> Yeah. Uh, and then for it's product time. So, re-release. We knew there was going to be a re-release of War Greymon. >> Yep. >> They're also doing another printing of

44:38 the various memorial necklaces. So, those are all available to pre-order in Japan. I'm trying to think if right now is this the oldest Digimon product being re-released like still in stock as of right now because this is from 2000. This is from Try in 2018 actually. That may be >> printed >> that that may be when this War Greymons from actually >> it's it's they've been a while. Uh and then we knew there was going to be a Cross Wars popup event at Book Off and they've announced it. It's officially being branded as Hunters. It's going to be a uh last time I looked

45:25 they listed 25 stores because it'll be a little mini popup corner. >> What was that? >> I need these. >> So, new art. Uh first is anime art with the characters in Yukatas. Then graph artwork with a sunflower theme. >> I [ __ ] love all of it. I need all of it. >> I feel like the funniest one is look at the graph art art of Kira. >> He's just kind of staring straight ahead. >> Yeah, it's >> I love how Gon looks confused at his

46:10 tail. >> Confused or happy? Possibly concerned. I like how I like how Tagaroo he looks like he's holding two of them. He's like, I got two. >> That's as many brain cells as he has. >> See, I'm looking at the art and it's like it's funny. Like you could take look at Psychon. It's like they redrew Gabon art and put the sunflowers on him. I love it. >> Look what's going on. >> This is so funny. Uh yeah, all the I

46:58 like all the art though. It's all looks good. Does it feel like um they should have given the two of them um Julu and Bistamon? >> Yes. Or at the very least like have give him the Pikmons. >> Yeah. something. They like are oddly off and also like are they the o Okay, they're not the only ones eating, so that's at least fine. I was going to say it's like weird. They're like standing off by themselves. Yeah. So, this shop is open July 25th through August 11th. Plenty of book off stories if you're going to be in Japan in that period, though. And then they announced a new Digimon

47:44 Adventure pop-up shop. San with new San Rio stuff. Okay. So, um it'll be different shops in August, September, and October plus online. Two types of art. We get anime style art where the kids and the Digimon are wearing clothing and accessories based on the San Rio character they're paired with. Then SD art where the Digimon is wearing an accessory based on the San Rio character. the San Rio character is wearing an outfit based on the kid >> and also the pairings are not the same that they've done for adventure when they've done the collaborations before.

48:30 >> No, they are not because I actually have that uh >> Yeah. Uh I know a lot >> I know a lot of people are very happy that Joe's with the frog instead of um what was that one water creature's name? I don't remember its name. Um the >> that has like the the weird goofy evil face. People seem very happy with him with Karropi. Fitting. Also, I would not expect Tai Chi with cinema roll, but [ __ ] it, it works. And Auguman is happy with those ears. >> He looks pretty cursed, actually. What? Someone said it was bad. Smaru. I

49:17 don't. Was it? >> Uh, I would go into the other room to check the blanket designs. >> Oh, I'm pull I'm pulling it up now to check. I've I've found the image. It was uh Hank Kyoden. That's one that I don't remember. >> The Kappa looking. >> Yeah, it's the Kappa looking one. No, if it was bad, it's Maria. I think that's one I'd probably remember. Yeah, I just remember it was like weird water creature. I That was a good guess based on me commenting on the evil mouth though. Yeah. So products here is we get a range of anime art. We get a range of the SD art and plus the if you buy this you get a postcard if or illustrations. I'm

50:04 looking at the products. Which do I think is the best? Plenty of can badges, acrylic keychain stands. God, >> acrylic stands. Those are that and the uh Digivvice uh acrylic key chains. >> You know what I'm going to say the best product is? It's a product they don't have, but I thought they did before I translated it a few days ago. Are you ready? >> Yeah. >> Look at the eggshaped case from the SD Art. And wouldn't that be a great cushion? >> It would. >> What is it instead? Is it a washcloth or something? >> No, it's a like it's like a accessory case. Like an egg-shaped case. >> Oh.

50:49 Oh, >> yeah. When I saw the images, I'm saying like, "Oh, neat. They're doing a cushion. That one's neat. I'm not going to get it, but it's neat." I translate it's like, "Oh, it's a accessory casing." Like, okay. And they also >> It would have been better. >> Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Uh, and then poll results. Not only does Shereiman win, Shereiman wins when someone was clearly trying to vote stuff. Yakimon and Shereiman still won. >> I mean, honestly, I figured that one would be in second place just because >> But but is definitely not one out of every four votes popular. >> Yeah. No, >> if it had been >> if it had been 15 or 16, I would have

51:34 said, "Okay, that's fine. >> I expected closer to like a solid 20." >> Really, everyone did fine except Kabukimon. Like even Noon, if I think right under 10% makes sense for Noon. >> Yeah, it's a it's a fun little design >> and not a shock that Ponchoan did well. Frog mod I think is higher than we expected though. >> I mean frogs are really popular. >> Yeah. I mean if you like amphibians you are like hardcore. >> And then new poll is which is your favorite of the new pendulum colors? >> It feels like people are arguing about

52:20 like actual arguing about these. There's only two options. I mean, >> I feel like I'm seeing more energy for Sou Warriors. >> We'll see. That's what it feels like the energy is for, though. You know what the hardest part about stuff like this is? In my memory, cuz six and seven are brand new. It's like hardcoded my memory though that the pendulums are 1.0, 1.5, 2.0. 0. So to have the like when they did the colors and they actually did the full numbers for 1 2 3 4 5 when I see here my brain

53:06 keeps going 6.0 7.0. >> Yep. >> Mine is doing that too. >> Yeah. And then we have the little weekend poperri stuff. So first up uh Time Stranger was at Anime Expo. many photos. People very nicely offered all their photos to us to repost at good quality. And even like when I'm like, "Oh, good. Be at the weekend post in a few hours." They're like, "If you wait a bit, I have more photos I'm going to be posting in just a few minutes." I was like, "Great." Um, >> we are very grateful. >> Yeah. So, Time Stranger had nice display there. I gather it was not it was at like Bandai's booth with the other game demos rather than like at the Allison

53:52 booth which they gave it a very nice booth in one of the um I believe that's the not the lobby of the convention center but like the entry um place is where I think it is >> entry hall. >> Yeah. Uh get that. We did not know that statue existed before this. >> It's such a cool [ __ ] statue. >> I know. But like we get the nice little zone there with the demos um explaining everything. You get the trailer wall which explains why we got the trailer like two days before this. And then right behind it, you can see the single most diabolical thing in it. Do you see where it says Kent

54:37 Hall? >> Yes. that is always hell hot. Everything's stuffed in. I heard it was less of a pain this year. Uh when E3 was there, that used to be where they would put like the random accessory makers like go somewhere else. >> Like we have chosen you to suffer. >> Yes. Uh then we get card game art. I like how it's Shodto trying to like keep up with everything he's missed and he's still not back yet is the funniest part. Uh then we showed it

55:23 >> then we showed it last week because it popped up right before the show, but we've gotten art for the Pocket Digimon World and Lost Evolution since they had big round number anniversaries. I still think it's cheating to have the one be the July art. And then for the anniversary of Crosswors, we got some really nice Crosswars art of an evolution scene. Although I've seen a number of people say this actually I think is the the cross three pose, but they've added um the sword. I haven't double checked that if it's accurate. I just like the art. God, that's what I want a modern transformable figure of. I have the old

56:10 one that they made when Crosswor first came out. >> Just like a couple of the kind like the vinyl kind of toys just kind of like >> No, no, no, no, no, no. I got the actual um like the proper toy toy ones where you would actually buy separate figures and they could combine to make them. >> Ah, okay. Like you would buy like an action figure of Shamon and it like in my mind it's like maybe an inch tall, inch and a half and then like you would buy Bistamon and it was a two like pseudo to scale Bistamon they could combine into cross two and then you would get to >> Japanese release or the English release. >> Japanese. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Or like the uh the sword would

56:55 come with Shamon for example. But yeah, I Yeah, those were nice. I really like those toys. And then we get reference book art. And it is uh Yehuman. Feels like it hurt a lot of people who were kind of hoping it would be a um Sulfimon evolution. I don't think that was likely, but like I can understand why from the silhouette people could see it. >> Yeah. Yeah, >> I get that. >> And then um Elias was on display at Super Tamer Battle in Japan. This is its first display at an event where they have the demo. They have the Japanese version of

57:42 the trailer playing. Uh Kakudo got items from the cassette crowdfunding project. >> He mentioned that, you know, it was released in March. The crowdfunding thing believed in January. Uh he mentioned he wasn't really involved with the crowdfunding. He had some say in the gifts and he got samples of them the other day. He I guess he had helped on the booklet so he thought they were sending him that. He didn't realize they were sending him everything. >> Like literally everything. >> Yeah. And then he points out that they sent him the reproduction art also, but so big that he has not carried it home. So he's sort of just left it at his office. >> That's funny. In fact, am I wrong? Or if

58:28 you look if looking at that photo, I think it's still in the box because I think that white thing around is like a shipping frame for it. >> I think >> that's like a little shipping thing around it, I believe. >> Yes. Yes, it is. >> Yeah. Well, like you said, he's kind of left it there because it's too large for him to take home so far. Um, he does corner things. >> It's actually funny. He points out cassette players are rare nowadays, but he likes that it's US is rechargeable >> cuz that was not like USB rechargeable was not a thing for cassette players. >> Oh, no. No. It's just like just crammed the whole bastard full of double A's.

59:14 >> I'm still like off and on tempted to order the identical one unbranded from AliExpress. I'm just not sure it's worth the effort at this. I feel like it was only gonna be worth the effort if I could order it and get it before the first episode when they announced it. I was so tempted. >> I was so tempted still. Uh and then from Jump Victory Carnival, our first look at the Gecko mascot. >> So >> cute. So, the weird thing does it this is the first mascot that we've gotten that does not feel like it fits the framing of the other mascots >> since they introduced this Augaban mascot in 11 years ago.

1:00:02 >> You get what I mean? Like it's not like the same body style and everything. I mean, >> yeah. No, the the other ones >> like every mask >> Yeah. every mascot we've gotten since a because there was Aguman, then they introduced Gabuman, uh then we got Dachmon, there was uh Vimon, Gamon, they did uh Gilman. Those all feel like they're designed to be the same. This one does not. >> Yeah, even in the chat like >> this one's a lot sort of. >> Yeah. And they're like Gecko looks smaller. I will say the like the feet, glove, boot things are weird. I assume those are just its feet, but like they're designed like boots.

1:00:51 Um, and then also Jump Victory Carnival, they had the nice booth. Uh, Mumi Han was taking photos and posting them before the event started. She also showed off getting one of the promotional bags. And they also had um I'm stranger there. They also had a uh a cordon off thing showing off all the stuff from the various collector's editions which is nice. Uh then movie three art. The movie 3 social art. So nice. Terry with the egg. >> [ __ ] solved. Uh then card game art which is uh

1:01:36 Owen having getting a brain freeze from Shaved Ice. >> I feel that. >> If if you look at show, does it look like he's still like nervous that he's not back in the comic yet? or that or he's annoyed that like, hey, we we have a job to do, but here you're eating [ __ ] shaved ice. >> Uh, and then Usagi Bochi did a bunch of practice sketches. Just big wave of characters is the best one. Yao. >> Yes. >> Yeah. >> Yao and uh, Eliza. >> And he had mentioned that he just wanted to do practice drawings with the that logo, which I don't think we've seen.

1:02:22 This is not the is this isn't the normal Liberator logo, is it? Have we seen this logo before? >> Now that you mention it, I have no [ __ ] idea. >> Yeah, in my brain out of my head. >> Yeah, in my brain I'm just looking at this. I'm like, have we seen this? And I've just missed it. It's like this I this doesn't seem to be the li because the liberator logo is rounder. And yeah. Yeah, it was the best. And then art for the new chapter. Usagi Bochi did um a resa I'm trying to think like the first the most recent one is from um what's that one anime the um the re they're reincarnated as the kids of the singer. >> Oh um Oshino. >> Yeah. Uh the the the murdered singer

1:03:09 does this in a promo image for that. But I've seen it before. I just don't remember what it's first from. That's the one I remembered from though. And then Tommo did art of the sisters. Does this feel less like the vibe? So, okay. So, this is really good for a pro image, but does the vibe not match the comic and instead feels like a sitcom? >> That's correct. >> Okay, good. I'm not imagining that. And then chat, time for questions. First one was sent in by Diego. He mentioned he really enjoyed the new Susan art since it feels like it was aimed directly at him. Um I assume he means the art of Susan from um the new digital world that promo image they did. So he wanted to know what is some recent

1:03:55 arc Digimon or otherwise that felt like it was aimed directly at you and me. You know what's a good one? that image of a Gecko from the cal from the photo um times where he really just does look like a goober's frog cuz like like if there's anything that matches like what I me like calling him Sergeant frog and [ __ ] it's definitely that image. Uh, it's not Digimon, but uh, pretty much every scene from um, Be Your Idol from K-pop Demon Hunters was uh, created to assassinate me

1:04:42 personally. >> I've seen some images of that. I've not seen much though, but I I generally get the vibe you mean. >> Yeah. Um, >> I'm trying to think like is there any non-Dimar art that has really spoken to me lately? Um, >> it's like villainous twinks. Hell yes. >> See, there's been some game promo art, but nothing more than that. Uh, Geckman. Then Stark said, "I'm sure you've answered this before, but if you got the chance to pick a Digimon partner, what would you go for? And what theme would you want to follow for the evolutions?" I get the question, but has that ever been something that's been like a choice in Digimon outside of Tcado?

1:05:30 It's sort of just what happens. I feel like generically mine would just be Aguman and through War Raymon. If I were to choose, I would Yeah, I would just be basic and pick that. >> I need something supremely fluffy. So, probably Dormon or Monodrammon is what I usually use. Yeah, that makes sense. Uh, Tiny Iron Fist said, "Do you think more characters from Beatreak will be revealed? There's only three months left till it airs." We have to remember at this point we didn't even know Ghost Game existed like at this point in the promo. >> Surprise, [ __ ] >> Yeah, like we didn't know Ghost game existed until like July 31st,

1:06:16 >> somewhere around there. >> And even then, we kind of thought I was like, "This looks kind of fake." Oh, there are multiple people who when I was trying to decide like if there were better versions, they're like, "This looks fake." I'm like, "No, it really I really don't think it is. It's just the coloring style doesn't match what people expect." And also, the idea that Tenya Yabuno was style would show up in a poster was very strange. But yeah, um I wouldn't worry about it at this point because we're re they just they announced it very early for what we like. Remember, Adventure 2020 started in it was April, right? It was like April 3rd or whatever. >> We did not know it existed until like January. So, we're still kind It was announced

1:07:01 early, so we're kind of early in that cycle. So, I would say give it another month, month and a half to see what pops up before you worry if we're getting a single character show. Any other thoughts? >> I want my slices. >> We all do. Uh, let's see. The next sent in was someone said, "What would you do for the podcast if Digimon beat Breakak ends up airing Monday night in the US?" Me and Dev would I assume just move the show if we decide, especially since I think we're probably agreed we're probably going to do weekly based on the show >> if it's Yeah. If it's If it's on a date, >> what day it's done? >> Yeah. If if the show is on if the show airs on a day that makes doing Monday

1:07:47 shows inconvenient, we would just move the show. I assume based on what it is, like if the show airs on Thursday or Friday, I could see us just doing it Monday anyways. If the show airs Monday night, we could move it to Thursday or whenever. Whenever ends up convenient for both of us. >> Yeah. As long as I'm not at work, I don't care. I mean, >> yeah. Uh, let's see. What Digimon would you would we like to see made from a um San Rio collab? I like that one person guessing Badits Maru. So now in my head it's like you should just have like a Pico Devimmon Badits Maru popping.

1:08:33 >> It went all of the cinema rolls. Are you are you say cinema roll Armagon? >> Unironically, I would [ __ ] love that. >> See, in my head, I'm trying to think who would work as Omega and then my brain just jumps to the time that the Gundam was fighting Hello Kitty cuz that was an actual anime short they made. >> Oh god, now I need to see that. I have not come across that. >> Oh, you'll see it. You'll just go, they actually made this look good. Is the funniest part. Uh,

1:09:20 see, in my head, all I can think now is Hello Kitty Gundam. >> Hello Kitty Transformers. >> Let's see if this pastes into the chat. I think it will. And I will also show it to you, Dev. Yeah, chat will enjoy that. [Laughter] Hopefully that worked for you, chat. I think it did. Yeah, that's a Hello Kitty blocking the shot. >> Not just block, just [ __ ] tanking it. Then someone said, "Not for a fancy special thing, but what type of places do you like going to just to go out and

1:10:06 get a meal with friends or family? I'd live very close to a very good Mexican place and a very good Chinese place. Those are my default because they are very, very good, very close and affordable." And it's one of those like people like, you know, there's a good one on the other side of town. Sounds like I'm sure there is but here and good. >> Uh for the most part it's just like mall food court because half of my family and friends can't decide on one specific thing. So it's just like split up the party and then reconvene later. >> Yeah. And then they also want to know and what about places that aren't around anymore?

1:10:52 the be a few miles away from here used to be the best Mongolian barbecue I ever had. >> And they closed like six months before I moved back. >> Oh, >> and I and I didn't know that until I had moved back because in my head I was like, "Oh man, going to be near that place and that'll be great." >> And then all your hopes and dreams are crushed. >> Yeah. Shame. In Baltimore, there was in one of the mall in the light street mall, there was a really good Japanese uh restaurant called Edeto Sushi. And pretty much every year me and my friends would go to Odokon and then like all have dinner there like really late

1:11:37 at night. It was just so [ __ ] good. >> And yeah, gone now. >> Doesn't exist anymore. >> Yeah, it's gone. >> Yeah, it happens to a lot of places. Shame. But yeah. Oh, was it all you can eat? >> Uh, no. It was like a like nice like sit down place, but they had like a huge menu. So, >> okay. Yeah, those that's always nice. >> That and it also had like balconies overlooking the harbor side, too. So, it was just really cool. >> Uh, then some then we got a question. I've seen people say this appears to be the biggest year for Digimon since Adventure was there. Do you think that's true? I think people forget like the stuff we got in like 2020 and 2023 around then. Like in 2020, movie,

1:12:27 TV show, we were waiting on a game, which was a few months after new ports and remasters of a game. The card game launched 2023 >> figures. So many [ __ ] figures. My god. >> 2023, Ghost game was ending. We were waiting on a movie. Uh, I think that's the year when it appeared Survive actually was Command did come out. I think it was 23, wasn't it? >> 22 or 23. >> Yeah. And then right after Survive came out, they announced the remaster of Next Order. Like there's been a lot of stuff in the past 10 years in general. Yeah. So, I will wait until stuff comes out to decide how big of a year it is, frankly,

1:13:13 because like you don't see anyone going, "Oh, when did Rearise come out? That was a big year." Because like people like Reise, but a lot of people just did not play it or put money into it. For all we know, Elias could be gone in a year or two. It wouldn't be that shocking. I would hope it lasts, but who knows? Uh, last chance for chat or chat to ask questions. Then, someone said, "Is Time Stranger your current most awaited game for the rest of the year? If not, what are you looking forward to? >> Absolutely [ __ ] not. >> I'm not even sure it's my top RPG for October. >> Like, I'm sorry. I I'm looking forward to Pokemon Legends EA. >> Uh, but like in a couple >> and Silk Song, >> like let's look at just a few games that are on my list. Just a few. Uh, in the next few days, new Robocop games come

1:13:59 out from the team that made that good one a couple years ago. Uh, the remake of the remake of Metal Gear Solid 3 is next month. >> Final Fantasy Tactics remaster is a couple days before Digimon. And then a couple weeks after Digimon is the Dragon Quest 1 and 2 remake. There's a lot there's a lot of stuff I'm looking forward to. Digimon could like here's the thing. I will wait to see how the game is. Like some of these are known quantities. like I can guess how Final Fantasy Tactics in Dragon Quest 1 and 2 are going to be. I will wait to see how everything plays in Digimon. It It's one I'm waiting for. I don't think it's near the top. I mean, it later this week, Donkey Kong's out. That

1:14:44 looks [ __ ] crazy. I mean, like, here's the thing. I don't think Evil Pac-Man's going to rank highly, but I'm still get looking forward to it. But nowhere near as much as Digimon, though. Yeah, sorry. It's Silk Song, then Pokemon, and then Digimon's like third until unless something else bumps it down further. >> Yeah. Yeah. Digimon ranks highly. It is not like the be all end all that I'm wait looking forward. Like here's the thing and Dev and Lost will confirm I really like the shooter series Truckton. It's the first one in 30 years in a few later this year. Um, and the demo. I had very low low expectations for the new one because why wouldn't I? Oh, we're going to bring it back. It's going to be 3D graphics now. And they put out a

1:15:30 demo. I was like, "Oh [ __ ] this is actually good." And chat laughing at calling Evil Pac-Man. Here's the thing. What is better to call it? Evil Pac-Man or Shadow Labyrinth? The better name is Evil Pac-Man. >> Yep. >> Yep. Let's see. Okay. And I believe that's it for questions in chat. Let's see. I don't think we missed any. Uh, that's about it. Dev, what article would you like people to read? >> Shereimmon because it [ __ ] won. >> Yeah. Plus, it's one of the better ones, honestly. As far as ARM revolutions go, >> it really is nifty.

1:16:15 >> Yeah. See, even chatter like if we were just say Shadow Labyrinth, they think we're talking about a generic indie rogike. And here's the thing, honestly, the actual Shadow Labyrinth game is not what I'm looking forward to from it. I'm looking forward to that they're having Pac-Man uh championship edition style thing challenges in it, which I've played too much of that game. Okay. Thank you, Owen, for showing up. I can be found at with the wills always. We will be back in probably exactly two weeks. I don't think I have anything going on Monday in two weeks and I don't We'll see. Catch everyone later. Thank you for showing up. Bye.

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