WtW Podcast Episode #263- Summer Potpourri (Digimon Beatbreak, Time Stranger, Liberator, & More)

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8:47 Heat. Hey, Heat. We'll be ready in just a minute or two. Dev, why don't you say a few words so we can make sure they can hear you? I am so exceptionally [ __ ] eepy. Did you say epie? Yes. I am so tired. I lost two letters. Okay. I wasn't sure if there was a street a server issue with the audio or

9:32 if you misspoke. No, I'm I'm to the level of tired where she's like, "Fuck it. I I don't I don't need letters." They can hear both of us. You ready to go, Dev? Welcome to the with the Will podcast where to entertain form a bit while talking about Digimon. I'm Marker Ren with the will and produce Digimon on Blu-ray. I am Dev Q and I'm the patron saint of seat deprivation. Yeah, I'm sleeping weird lately. I'm going to bed at the exact same time but waking up completely random in like a

10:18 fivehour slot. Same. I wonder if it is weather. I I don't know. Yeah, it's like Oh, good. So, I'm going to either have three or four hours of sleep or sleep too much. So, yeah. How have the past few weeks been, Dev? It's not picking up whatever groaning noise you're making. Uh, that was just the Oh, silence of despair. Okay, fair enough. I thought it was a groaning and somehow it was filtering it out.

11:03 So, first let's jump to Liberator uh novel chapter 15. It's nice to get It's nice to get Altea's perspective because to some degree anytime we get his perspective, it's like pseudo serious and then he will stay there and be trying to crack jokes. Like does he have any request? Feels like data. It feels like data from Star. Yes, that's very much what I thought. Like when it's asked, does he have any requests? He goes, can I get early parole? Uh, and also Espeon using an evolution move to try to sneak around. That's neat.

11:48 Useful than he's been in all of Ghost game. Yeah. And weirdly, Bet Suman trying to talk to Alte was weird, especially when they're like, and he was walking back and forth. It's like whatever wording they used, I kind of went, "Was he was he really?" the pacing I don't know. And then it was a nice little ch lots of exposition, but it was integrated in a way where it was pleasant. Makes you just want to go back and like reread things consecutively instead of just little bits every couple of weeks. Yeah. And then for the web comic, we

12:35 jump to part two of episode 16. I'd like it starting with Arisa being frustrated. It the standout part of Li like here's the thing. The story for Liberator is like very standard. The art and characterization makes it enjoyable. Character facial expressions are a [ __ ] delight. Also, when the chapter first starts like, wait, did I did I skip something and I had to go back? Wait, no. Oh, no. They just jump to like right in the middle of Yeah, Liberator's done that. Liberator's done that a few times where we've gone, "Ah, I've missed something." And then it's like, "Oh, no." And then the emblem, I will say this, when the emblem popped Shuman back, I honestly thought, "Wow, they're going to do the evolutions

13:20 immediately. That feels not dramatic enough." And then I was pleasantly surprised when they didn't. like the kid. And then before we get the pep talk from Schumann, Haniman gives Schumann. I don't know why. Maybe it's because like Haniman has such little facial definition. It giving a pep talk. I disliked almost like a therapist like yes go on. And then we get what does this ink blot look like? Then we get Nya Bootman. Honestly, the highlight I feel like they should be voiced by Antonio Banderas.

14:07 No, I feel like they desperately do not want it to just look like Pero. So, I feel like they've gone out of their way to make it not perrow. That's just puss and boots. Yeah, because because that's one of those weird things that people forget and they weren't always widely available in the US. And I say that having worked on a few of them is Pero was very popular to like to such a degree as that's why he's still Tollway's mascot. So it feels like they probably he was just the mascot just because one of the earliest projects like oh this is Oh no no no no he had multiple movies like he was like ongoing popular and then at some point they went oh we're

14:53 not going to run this into the ground we should stop and then they put up a giant [ __ ] statue of him at their museum. But yeah, people people love that statue. And then did you like Mariah being surprised when Arisa included her with like people she likes that are there? [Music] And then we get the sweet moment at the end with everyone and weirdly they have Mariah walking off cooly but Haniman is not with her. So it's like oh is she walking off? Did she forget Haniman? Is Haniman going to rush after her? Because like Haniman is still with the other Digimon. You can see them

15:40 standing there. Yeah. So, normally the card battle chapters don't suit me that well just because I'm not interested in the card game as a game. They had a lot of story and character stuff here though that I thought made it worked well, at least for me. And also visually, it was just actually pretty badass. Yeah. and then run through of anniversaries. So, first up, it's the 13th anniversary of Digimon World Reddigitize. I'm still waiting for my uh localization, you've asked. I mean, considering they had to re re-release Next Order like four or five times to get any sort of sales numbers,

16:25 it feels like that does not bode well. I mean, if they didn't region lock the 3DS, I would have been playing Decode. I I honestly feel like if we ever got a localization of it, it would be an emulated port of the 3DS version in some type of world collection. Be okay with that. I think a lot of people probably would be. Uh, and then 23rd anniversary of Digimon Frontier revival of the ancient Digimon, which seems to be one one of the more memorable parts of Frontier to people. And I think it's because it's very easy to track the story. It was self-contained. It wasn't Hurricane Touchdown. And then the 25th anniversary of Digimon

17:11 Grand Prix when it first ran at San Rio Pearland as a theme park ride. the most important anniversary. I think I think it works well as a little short all jokes aside about it. It was very silly. Oh, it's wacky races. So, yeah. More turds. Then the 25th anniversary of Digimon World 2. kindly known to most people as not one or three because every swamp because everyone's like swamp because swamp cuz everyone's like okay Digimon world that is where the ongoing world type series is based off and three is really where Digimon story is from. Two legally

17:59 exists. There was a a game. It was uh and then today is the third anniversary of Digimon Survive. Come down in Japan. It was a day earlier than most of the world. Third anniversary that Digimon survives one word. We waited a long time. It came out a couple months later like yay half million. And then we have not heard a single thing about it since. Survive feels like survive is older than it actually is. Well, that's because one, remember at this point we were expecting it six years ago and because of the delays, they very clearly were never able to schedule an actual like Digimon Survive booster pack. So, all we got

18:45 were some promo cards. Yeah, because what when cuz you know the game got delayed so much. When were they going to be able to stick in actual cards? They weren't going to trust it was going to come out. You don't want to spend all that money on cards to promote a game that's not there. Yeah. And then for something that will actually be promoted, we have Beatreak news. There will be an information stream on August 1st. And God bless them. It's at 8:01 a.m. on August 1st, which means it is Thursday at 400 pm for me. So I and I'm at work. So I do not need to do what I did last time, which was I believe I laid down in

19:30 bed at 10:00. I fell asleep at midnight and I had my alarm set for 3 3:15 or something for that stream that began at 4:00. And then writing everything up means I didn't I don't remember if I actually ever went back to sleep, but I was finished at like 6 or 7 am. You were just in a fugue state. Yeah. And we got a promo in advance of it that shows that in fact I think it was last week when people were asking us about it that we can see three more character pairs. One of which people keep trying to look and decide if he has a Digimon or not. And I've seen what I think is the most cope guess for the these. So Dev, you see the the thing with the silhouettes, right?

20:16 Yes. So we have giving me world ends with you vibes. No. No. Okay. So So we have tomorrow and we have Gecko. Then we have red border person. There's clearly some sort of Digimon sitting on his head. Yes. Then yellow person who I think is who is holding who's holding an Eevee and I think wearing a skirt. Is that would you say that's roughly correct? Uh it's either a pencil skirt or um shorts like tennis shorts. Yeah. Okay. Then we have gray guy who we can't tell what if any Digimon's with him. Would you like would you like to know what the cope that I've seen people? Is the Digimon? No. No. The cope's funnier than that.

21:01 Ready? So, look at him. Okay. Gray and he has slightly fluffy hair. Correct. It's mad, isn't it? And then look at his hand. If you look at his hand, there's something going on with his hand, right? The hand on the left side. A number of people to try to cope are saying it's Kio. That's sad. That's some cope. He'd be dressed a lot weirder. Yeah. But yeah, so I think I think it was literally last time where people went, "Do you think we're actually getting a show with one person?" We're like, "No, it's just very early. We

21:48 didn't even know anything. We didn't even know Ghost Game exists at that point." And in fact, the official announcement of Ghost Game, I it was either July 31st or August 1st. So, this actually lines up exactly with like when we found out Ghost Game stuff. So, yeah. And uh the vid the broadcast will have Mio and Mumi Han. So, how long it might be or I was not looking. No, we don't know. I It feels like it's not going to be long. Like I'll be honest, I loved waking up for that one thing. It was like, "Oh man, how long's it going to be?" I heard some 15 minutes. I saw Yeah, I saw some mention that it might be an hour. It's like, "At least it won't be super long." And it was like

22:33 15 minutes like, "Oh, fantastic. I will take 15 and done." Go back to sleeping. I don't think I did, but I will take 15 and done. So, yeah. So, beat break news will be coming and technically we have a bit more is we got ticketing info for Digimon Expo 25. So, they went over like what the big events each day will be, the times, and then shortly after they start doing ticketing via line. Congrats to anyone who manages to win the lotto get a spot. That is interesting. I will have to check that

23:19 later as I must have clicked something weird. Oh, that is odd. I could have sworn there were responses in this thread the last time I looked. I'm think of the other thread where there were no responses in the how to help on how to apply for tickets. People must be posting the other thread. I must have lost track of it. But yeah, and I actually went through I look through their guide. I'm like, "Oh, their guide stops at a certain point and it just does not go any further." So then I start going through the thing and taking snapshots to show people what everything was. And that took way too long, but I suffering you do for this fandom.

24:07 Uh, and then Time Stranger update. First up, Time Stranger was in the new issue of V Jump. They showed off the factory area. They showed off Volcanis mod and Ultimate Brachimmon. They read over some of the DLC again. I I love when I look at the VJ page to see the little screaming Terrier one. Like, you know, I'm like zooming in to check like an image and like, oh, I'll zoom into the ultimate image just to look. It's just Terry screaming right there. I love it. It's great. Uh then at San Diego Comic- Con last weekend as one of their booth giveaways, they had a Time Stranger mini badge pin set.

24:54 I never got confirmation what you had to do to get one. Basic, but neat. Yeah. Uh then they did I honestly don't pay much attention to uh Comic Con and unless there's announcements of toys that I am not allowed to have because they were exclusives. Would Would it help if they announced a horrible Transformers versus He-Man toy series? Oo yes. Uh check the Whip the World Discord and go to General 2. I posted pictures of the first two and I went, "Man, these look awful. These these are He-Man figures and they've just changed the armor to look like a few Transformers. Oh, that's kind of I'll post it in the uh

25:40 disappointing. They really don't look good. No, there's so much potential. I know. But literally just like, "Oh, it's Skeletor." And he has slightly Megatron armor. And then Man at Arms, his armor sort of looks like Bumblebee, but not really. It's yellow. I at least give him the Action Master backpack helicopter. I thought they were going to be like Transformers, but if they were He-Man characters. Well, some people are wonder. My understand is these toys are from Mattel. So some people are wondering if then Hasbro will have actual Transformers. Like the Mattel ones are He-Man toys and

26:28 then the Hasbro ones will be Transformer toys. But we will see. Um so Siren got her little preview clip. Volcanosmon got a image preview. I guess a lot of people thought he was a fish like the um the guy from um I can't remember the name and I worked on it. What's the name of the show? Well, he kind of like that diving street sharks. People thought that he had like the piranha head from the street sharks guy. kind of see where they might have gotten that. Well, especially when you remember

27:13 there's been a lot of small art of him and not like you can zoom in then factorial area. Does it feel like this would have been better just called factory area? Yeah, they have factorial now. And then Lilithmon, I was a little disappointed with that one. Yeah, the Lilith one felt kind of bland. Like is it just me or like did she kind of like come off as more like badass for the cyber sleuth? Maybe. It's hard to tell because we're getting such quick previews. Some sometimes an image is a bit more menacing than like a short clip of an

27:59 attack and Kokuan who falls over. That's how I feel right now. Uh, and then over to Terry Assistant Lab. So, the first one was a quiz about his favorite Digimon movie, our War Game. And they were asking some [ __ ] esoteric questions because they're like, "We can't ask you normal questions because you actually know the movie." It's like one of them was like questions about the design of uh the egg without like an image to look at. And if he does well enough, he gets meat. Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no. I didn't see this one. Did he earn his meat? Yes. Excellent. He He actually did. Uh, and then they

28:44 did a time changer one, which was a quiz. The quiz this time was him and the term assistant lab staff gueststimating what they think will happen in the game. That was funny. And because people did not realize that's what it was about, multiple people are like, "Staff says this is going to happen in the game." It's like, "No, no, no, no. That's not so a bunch of the stuff that they said in here and like while laughing people are like they're spoiling the game for everyone. Look, no, they're looking at a preview and coming up with their own crack AU. Yes. Uh and then for people in the UK, Digimon Adventure 2020 is airing in on Sky Kids. The actual TV schedule I'm not

29:30 sure of because I looked, but people in the UK who then checked said it's all on the Sky Kids on Demand, they're not sure of the schedule. Like we can see on the TV guide stuff, it aired at least once. Okay. So, it's like both in a streaming and also just like regular channel on TV. Yes. Although I think Sky Kids you only get if you subscribe to Skyel. it their TV service. I don't know if it's on others. I don't know how UK TV works. So, but yeah, it is on the streaming service there dubbed in English. There was apparently some confusion because the TV guide says subtitles at the bottom. I think that means captions, not

30:16 subtitled. So, yeah. So, it's all there. We got pendulum news. So, first up, they showed the various mode change, Digimon, and new features. Do you like how the one gets like three newer mode change? The other one's like, hey, it's Ravemon. Who doesn't like Ravemon? Like he's purple. Yeah. Then they're showing various stuff that's being added, you know, that the cutins. They're adding um because the cutins were from the uh Digimon color and also the Godzilla, but they're adding them here. They're also adding a features. You can see the names of the

31:03 Digimon. And they're confirming there are Digimon who you'll be able to battle who will not be playable like Yuman who everyone assumed was one of the silhouettes. This is an enemy. Yeah. Uh then also they showed off the case. I actually like the case and I like them pointing out that like at first they kind of wanted to do it with the original design then decided it'd be a real pain to ask people to remove it to recharge it. So So instead they redesigned it to be open at the bottom. Uh they have the they kind of redid the case the box packaging design. Yeah, that's a decent looking case and

31:48 it's not super expensive, but although I don't believe it's been available in the US store at all. V love us anymore. Vump also had a page dedicated to the new pendulums and most of that's just art. And then still Yeah. And then not quite pendulum news but a little bit. The US store for Premium Bandai got a big re. It was down for like a day or so and then it came back up and been completely redesigned and god bless them a site goes down comes back up and has less information density always annoys me. Like it it is a prettier site. I'm tired

32:34 of things losing information density. Give me all of the information. Yes, that that is exactly what I want. I want information. And then a few days later, I'm trying to purchase a [ __ ] thing. Yeah, I do. I need to know about it. And then a few days ago, Premium Bandai Australia New Zealand opened. So, there's more premium Bandai sites and should make it much easier. Although, last time when they opened, they only had the um the premium the pre premium heroin set volume two. So, hope hopefully they will have more.

33:23 And then earlier today, they announced a beta for Digimon Allison. uh had signup stuff will be open for a few days to make I like when it's not like okay we're going to pick 10,000 people which they said but it's not you better sign up immediately you have until the 3. I don't know if it'll be a lottery or if they will actually close after 10k people uh be supported on Android and iOS although I saw a few people with Android were getting upset about something in the specifications. Let's see here. Uh, probably because they've been able to optimize it for iOS better. You only need an iPhone with 4 gigs of RAM versus an Android phone with 8 gigs of RAM.

34:11 Ah, okay. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I see. Yeah. Uh, they also showed off a few screenshots. They gave various rules and the website was updated with more character art, including some sketches of Tenken and Liskman. I'm very glad we finally have some sort of art of them because 3D model is really confusing. Well, I was going to say it feels like a lot of people now they've seen art of Liskmon and can judge it better are act or not Liskmon, Tankon are actually being harsher. Yeah. Yeah, it's like ah it it is just kind of a blob. Wait, which one are you talking about? Uh I'm talking nine.

34:57 Oh no. Oh yeah. Okay. Yeah. A lot of it felt like when we got art of it, people would like it more and instead people like eh that kind of bland and like it's kind of just like like you said aloan but also the head is very guruesque. It also kind of looks like a boroy. Yeah, it feels like there isn't as much excitement now that we a lot a lot when we had the 3D model, a lot of people went, "Yeah, 3D models are great, but I'll wait to see what it actually looks like." And now we have art. It's like, eh, not so good. Like this is a uh downgrade from Kyoban in almost every way. Yeah, I would tend to agree. I will wait

35:43 to see final art though as these like especially when you look at Liskman this is not like finalized art. Lisman actually looks interesting visually. Lisman, you know what Lisman reminds me of looking at the image. It makes me feel like it will speak like Rizzo the rat. [Laughter] Like looking at it, it feels like it's Rizzo. It's the Digivon version of Rizzo. I can't unhear it now. And then card time. Okay, so we started get previews for EX10, which is an anime villain themed set. So, first up, Tactimon. That is

36:28 some nice art. I like it. Looks [ __ ] majestic. Weirdly majestic for Tac Demon, though. Uh, Bagram. It's pretty art. I don't have much to say about it, though. It's nice. I just don't have much thoughts on it. I like that. I like that Dark Knightmon's back to back with him. I didn't even notice him. Uh, then we get Darkness Bagmon over the city with the snatcher. Um, that is the end of Cross for sure. Uh, Balmon, this is some This is gorgeous.

37:13 This is a [ __ ] comic book cover. This is some Batman [ __ ] and I love it. Uh, Wizerman gets much the same style of art, which very pretty. Also, I love the texture. Yeah, it looks good. Uh, gets something a bit more basic. I like it. It does feel like it's kind of a downgrade from the Balmon and uh Wizerman though. It also feels like really good thing kept the same art style. Well, yeah. The other thing I was say was does this feel like an ITM image we've seen before? Like it's new art. Yeah. When you the most generic pose in existence. Yeah. And then uh Copipon

37:58 and there's a little save man in the corner. At first, I'm still pissed that it's spelled like that. At first, I thought it was the copyon from the 20 from the uh 25th anniversary until someone pointed out, "No, that's actually just Savemon." Uh Kaban, who is doing nothing and making his profile shot pose. Uh Moan Man gets some really nice art, I think. Oh, that head is really cute. Yeah, that's some good anime plus style artwork. Uh, Luca. So, Lucimon's weird in that does it really feel like it's from a manga?

38:43 It really does. Like I keep looking at like it's like a color like insert page from a manga. And then Lucon fall down mode like novel. Yeah, fall down mode feels more anime. Also, I'm so glad that over the years they've kind of adjusted fall down proportions so it's not like giant shoulders and tiny tiny head. It's a little more proportionate. That makes sense. And then uh Lucimon Satan mode. It am I wrong or does it feel like this is meant to be his profile art from a forward camera? Absolutely. I don't have much to say about because like it's good, but it's also like exactly what you would expect for him.

39:28 This is one that it feels like we might get parallel art for and it'd be cooler as is. This is pretty badass. Yeah. And then uh Greymon blue. What's weird is I want I spent like five minutes looking through art swearing like I swear I could see this image in my head that it already exists or similar art that is. I think it does, but just like not in less detail. I feel this is taking like the same pose from like an older card. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. Uh, and then metal Gmon virus. We get him stomping on his foes. For some reason, I felt like this was going to match the Greymon blue art

40:17 and it doesn't like before we got it. And then Skull Skull sat him on with some really great animeish artwork that I really like. Hey, cool and dramatic. Also, the funny little smirk. And then a promo poster where we get early art of a few, but the only one we haven't seen yet is the Vam Demon one, which is redraw of some real uh old pendulum art. They've been doing that quite a lot lately, and I really enjoy it. I can't decide if I would prefer them to redraw it as SD again, though. Like, they're drawing very serious versions of SD goofy art.

41:03 That's true. And then Booster 22 was featured in V Jump. They focused on Alphaban and Kiyoko. I still love that particular card art. Yeah. Then the uh Premium Heroin Set volume two was put up to pre-order at Premium Bandai US and Japan before later showing up in Australia and um New Zealand. Uh so we got a few different themes. We got um the human characters have a uh kimono celebration theme and the Digimon get a like a stained glass window theme. And can we all appreciate that? that um

41:48 that uh and Mitsu came back to draw Hina again. We're very happy that they did. Are they the only one that No drawing? No, Hina has been drawn by other characters in art. Um they've just come back to draw her a number of times. There is some art that is not, especially when she's shown up on other cards. Uh, you also get a storage box and card sleeves. Pre-orders still open for about two more weeks. We also got previews of everything from the artists. So, we already have clean previews of all those cards and the sleeve design.

42:37 Cool. for card battle. We got to see a um theme deck match for booster set 22. The themes were um not a match uh just like showing you how to build theme decks. So overall, Cyrus Luth, Eater, and Nokia, and Omega. Neat. Then we had a booster set 22 unboxing from Digimon Card Room. Anytime they bring back any of the card battle people, it is much more appealing than the Yuki VTuber. so much. Like honestly, anytime I bother to watch these, I I often skip over the V. Well, and well, and here's the funny part is 90% of the clips you and me send each other are VTubers doing stupid [ __ ] and like that amuses both of us. This

43:24 one just does not work. I honestly the model just looks terrib bad. I think I feel like I could deal with the bad model if the English script was not so bland and acted poorly. Also, am I wrong or do they always try to put the the um the Yuki model in the same poses because it can't actually do all that much? like they have very like sense like they have a full 3D model but they aren't doing anything with it. So one of those Yeah. rigging is very limited. Yeah. So like does it feel like a nicer 2D model would probably come across

44:10 better? Yes. And even I would prefer just like even like just like a like a PNG tuber where it's just like here's like five or six different also. And this is just my preference. Can they at least [ __ ] fix her teeth, please? Her teeth are still skin colored. They're not white. I hate how they're shaped. Yeah. Oh god, she looks like a par. She makes you think of a parrot fish. Yeah. Even the in chat are like, "Yeah, there's better VTuber models from people who don't do them well or from amateurs." And yeah, it the model lets down any

44:56 attempt model script. I've it works better when they have actual people there for this or at least fix the model, please. And then Anna Birth is getting two batches of products on August 1st. So, we get a small adventure batch and that adventure O2 new key art batch that they teased a while back. These pretty good. Yeah, these will also be at the partner shop on August 8th. The adventure batch I don't really care for because it's all kind of like goofy not animeesque stuff. While adventures O2 is all neat. I would like that Matt more if it was in full color.

45:42 Yeah, the the monochrome I don't dislike it. I just don't like it much. It looks like it just it looks like it was accidentally left out too long in the sun and got bleached. That's what it is. That's And it That's the thing. It actually looks exactly how you would imagine that art to bleach. Um yeah, because the reds and yellows go first. Yeah. Then, uh the products in August, both batches of products will be at over half a dozen, um Kitty Land stores, which we've been getting Digimon stuff in Kitty Land since trying Oh, someone in chat asked, are they using AI to

46:28 voice her? No. If you check the Japanese version, it I think it's the same person. I think what they do is they translate what she says in the Japanese episode and write an English script for her and then it's her doing her best to read it in English and then they reanimate everything I think is what's happening when we're talking about just ends up very awkward. Yeah. Like you hear the Japanese like you can tell it like sounds personable and interesting. the model's still terrible, but like the the person doing the voice comes across much better. Um, and there'll also be a third temporary Annabirth Shop at the Nagoya Parkco August 8th through 31st. There'll

47:14 be various merchandise. The only Digimon stuff they've shown for sure will be the adventure ghost game summer stuff. Uh, and then V Jump finished off with they shut off the San Rio stuff. They did a little beat break teaser. They shut off the O2 stuff we're talking about. And also teasers for Digimon Expo. Nothing super wild, but good teasers. Y sites I'm on, people are very excited about the Hello Kitty uh crossover. The stuff here looks very nice. And it's been a few The last time we got one was God, was it Adventures

48:00 20th anniversary about I want to say we got one to start off the 20th anniversary and then one around the end of the 20th. Yeah. Uh then and then uh at Wonder Festival 2025 summer at the Plex booth, they had a full color prototype of defa Muggan uh MFS3 mode. Their little the I love the 2.5 head designs for something like this. Looks like he was a small dog that was chasing parked cars. The way I put it is is doesn't it really look like a Chihuahua that would be trying to sell you food

48:48 in advertisements? Like some small annoying dog with a massive uh underbite in a Looney Tunes cartoon. Exactly. Yeah. The the toy looks great. Um these have been kind of expensive. I doubt I would get it, but I this is the one that's tempted me the most having seen it. I think my fave of the ones so far is like a mix between like the metal gr like a tie between the metal Gmon and the skull Gmon. I like them. I like that this one it has a more consistent design at least for me cuz and like that is part of the idea of the metal Gmon one is it's not supposed to be consistent. It's half Godzilla, half Metal Gmon. But I kind of like

49:33 textures and like the skull Gmon. What I like it's at times the skull Gmon design is hard to tell. It's not just like a stylized skull Gmon. This one has the giant bottom teeth though, which is fun. What I actually like though is if you look carefully like at the top of the head, it feels a lot more Mecha Godzilla the more you look at it. Yeah. Yeah. So that works for me. So, I expect orders for this to probably go up soonish and be decimated. Uh, and then poll time. So, first up, the pendulum poll. Uh, 68.5% for tow braves, 31.5 for Sai warriors. Most people on social media were saying they were going to vote for SU Warriors. So, you can see how well that worked out.

50:22 Yeah. Not a huge like I'm so the other the other designs just [ __ ] slap. I not shocked that this is the one that won though. Or someone put it isn't really shocked the Japanese themed Vet won. I feel like I'd be I'm excited for seven. I would be more excited if I didn't expect the um the three silhouettes to just be the Renomon ones that it seems like we don't like or that just feels bland. I I like the designs more of the uh Yeah. And then then the poll results for favorite armor evolution from the digimental/digi egg

51:09 of knowledge. And the winner is Digmon. Lucky. Not really any shocks here. I think I think the one shock is I think I thought Searchmon would do better, but being last and getting 8.8% actually is not that bad. a pretty decent spread and yeah, honestly they're all pretty good designs like visually and everything. Yeah, I have no issue with any of the results here. Digmon dominating does make sense though. Yeah, it's like that's the one that's in the series. And then new poll time. It is favorite for the Digime/D sincerity reliability. Uh congrats uh

51:56 Yeah. Okay. And I feel like uh Tylon's going to be like a second. Tylon feels like second. I feel like last is going to be Orchamon. Yeah, Orchamon and Archello is probably mixed in with there. I could see Depthmon doing better than we expect. Vmon one. It's a neat design, but also like it doesn't really show up and stuff. Has it shown up in anything? Oh, one sec. Let me check here. Uh, if it if it does, it had to have been just like background filler. Yeah, it's like Oh, it's a background in

52:42 uh it was in the the first Tamers movie. I don't remember depthmon being in there at all. Do you? We'll have to go back and watch because it's been a hell of a long time. And yeah, I do. I know there's a lot of aquatic Digimon just like in a couple of season. Yeah, probably a crowd scene. Yeah, that would make sense. Uh then time for the poperri stuff to start. So, first up, uh Tory Museum showed off some of the summer goods. I always like when the museum gets new stuff and they're just showing it them off. I want to be there to purchase them.

53:28 Then the English Digimon card game Twitter has 50K followers. So they put This is art we've seen before, but I still like seeing it. They've made this a playmat before. I think so. Also, then Kenji Wadabe announced he will be at Legends Expo again uh this year. It's in Philadelphia September 27th and 28th. I expect a lot of people to try to get to that. [ __ ] live here. I didn't even know about this. Uh, and then Anna Magic has announced a few different Digimon things because the the convention in Germany is August 1st through 3rd. So, first up, a Digimon panel on Saturday. We'll have uh Takata, who's the producer of Beatreak, and Har, who's the producer of Time Stranger.

54:13 After the panel will be a showing of our war game with German subtitles and the beat break producer will have signing session Saturday and Sunday at the TOI booth. Fun if you're in Germany. A few more pictures of Jump Victory Carnival since that was a couple weeks ago. Uh, Mcumi had also posted pictures of her with the mascots. We have are so [ __ ] admirable. We have literally 26 years of of her at photos of her at Digimon events. She is a true archavist. And then she put up art she drew of

54:59 Gecko. Notice it was hard and she might delete it later. No, don't do it. It's adorable. Not beating those Sergeant Frog allegations though. Not at all. Uh, and then, uh, card game show artwork of Close, Violet, and Arisa. The weird thing. So, if you look at Arisa, am I Does it feel like she has a Charlie Brown head? I take that as yes. I can definitely see that. And then reference book update of Nyabootman. Now this really does feel like Antonio Banderas Puss and Boots the reference

55:46 book art. Absolutely. Uh then we have an image of the uh one of the book off showed off their Crossworse corner showing all the products on display. Crosswars is not Crossroads does not feel 15 years old. No, it doesn't. What the hell? Uh, then Masashi Herata posted some images of the traveling through Korea version of the Digimon Adventure 25th anniversary exhibition. I'm not sure if he was there or it was someone else taking photos for him. Also, did we get that SD costume wall at the Japanese version? I don't think so. No, definitely not.

56:31 Okay, that's what I thought. That's what I thought. Um, and then uh T trading card games uh Koala Lampon has announced Kenji Wadab for their convention uh October 31st to November 2nd. So, if you're going to be around Koala Lumpur, uh they've said uh meeting rates with him, live sketch and autograph sessions, and also some sort of art and merchandise. I don't know if they mean generically or art and merchandise featuring him. We just buy him. Don't know. So, that's one of those things we'll may find out closer. Then, uh Aim Miyazaki uh was I guess at Santa 25 in Brazil. Uh he mentioned that due to flight delays and other issues, his his trip

57:16 was 48 hours long to Brazil. Oh, yeah. So, you mentioned, you know, sound check. It's been nine years since the last Sada. He'll do his best. When he said his do do he'll do his best, my brain didn't jump to like generic positivity, but rather jet lag from a 48 hour flight. I get that entirely. Yeah, that sounds horrifying. Uh then the Elison demo was at uh Anacom Endgame Hong Kong. They they've had demos on a lot of places. It's been neat to see. Yeah. And then just to point out the Digimon World 2 anniversary art again.

58:01 It's funny. I really like this. Yeah. I love I love anytime we see the Digi Beetle. That is the only thing anyone remembers from World Two. It's the only thing worth remembering. Uh then card game art of uh Yuki and Winter dealing with the summer heat. Yuki thriving. Yuki does not look happy. Winner is like he's not even there. And then Liberator then liberator art. Usagi Bochi did a really neat image of nyaboot man and really [ __ ] and Tommo drew a recent close.

58:49 I think this is a like here's the thing. I get why they drew close without a mouth in the comic. Like they wanted it to be like oh it's not quite her. This looks more menacing. Yeah. It's like the the silhouettes a little like more flared out and changed. Not just, okay, we have red eyes and no mouth and I must scream. Then for everyone in chat, it's time for questions. First one said, someone said, what do you think happens to Digimon Liberator when beat break airs? It just keeps [ __ ] going. See, I keep trying to decide if it keeps going or not because does it not feel like everything in season 2 has been like a runup to a climax sort of? Hard to say. Hey, the thing is like it's

59:35 they're still running the card game and it's still promoting and bringing people into the card game. So, yeah, but having an anime and then having new characters from the anime will promote it even more. True. Yeah. I don't know. It I feel like I would feel less likely to say end if season 2 did not feel like an ongoing climax to such a degree that the main character's barely been in it. Uh, we'll see. See, the Stark asks, "What is the rookie you think would make a fun, interesting partner for the main protagonist they haven't done yet?"

1:00:21 Oh. Oh, I got a good one. This is a terrible one. Are you ready? Aan Aguman Hakas. just have an Auguman who instead of battling just walks around like commenting on things. Only attack is like smack people in the face with one of those pointers. Yes. Uh then someone said, "I was wondering what games you play to relax and if you ever play any rage games. Games to relax." Um often we'll just do a few often we'll just do a few minutes of Tony Hawk. That worked well. Now I can actually play games again to relax. So, uh,

1:01:08 I know you like um, Hollow Knight. Yes, but I'm not necessarily playing that one to relax. That's true. I'm playing that one to just go into an extreme state of hyperfocus. Yeah. And play any rage games? Uh, I do sometimes. Not quite to relax, but I will. Um most recent one I had been playing which was a bit ago was um God I always forget the actual title of it. One second I have to check the actual name because a lot of them have like honey names. Get to Work, where you play as a guy on rollerblades on his feet and hands, and you're

1:01:54 basically Tony Hawking around warehouses and business places to get up and avoiding falling. That sounds utterly [ __ ] ridiculous. I will have to look that up later. It's I like it more than a lot of the rage games because it doesn't A lot of Rage games it feels like, you know, kind of giving you wonky controls and going, "Ah, it's Rage." This one like the controls all feel like they work. It just is a pain in the ass hard harder as it goes on. But yeah, I think that one's been fun. here. Uh someone said when we're talking about SDR, do we mean stand something else? SDR we're talking about super deformed.

1:02:41 That's where tiny body big head. So like um the figure of the um Mugan Jaman combined with Kiru, that's where it the proportions are basically as tall as the character is. It should be like 2 and 1/2 heads tall. So, a big head and the body is 1.5 heads tall. Uh, someone said a good example. Uh, SD Gundam. Yeah, that's a really good one. And then someone asked, "You guys have talked about what if Beatreak was a shorter show since many anime say are."

1:03:26 And they wanted to know if it was shorter, do we imagine they'd have another show to jump into right when it ends? I would say if they did a short show, no. They would not jump directly into one because it feels like part of the point I also feel like for Digimon, it's going to be a longer series anyway because it's selling [ __ ] Yeah, I expect it would be longer anyways. Uh, let's see. Next question. Okay. What Digimon from Liberator do you want to see appear in beat break? Abutmon. You know what I want to see? I want to see I want to see Synrimon do that mo do the move where like the whole army thing and doing the ojo sama laugh

1:04:13 like in the cart where we just see the silhouette. That would be amazing animated where we just see the silhouette of her. The sky going I can't do especially since my voice is starting to go. There you go. Yeah, that's what I would want. Uh, okay. Someone had two questions. These are unrelated questions, so we'll do one first. How do you decide to display your collectibles? Many of mine are in boxes and just sitting around while I figure out how to display them. Mine has to do with like how much space do I have and how fragile is the thing?

1:04:58 Yeah, I'm used to I'm used to not having space. So, a lot of stuff's still there even though I do. But, um I'm having shelves put in in a by a stairway. So, I plan to unbox all my little Star Trek ships and put them on shelves. So, that will be soonish. Yeah. And second, the person wants to know, "Do we prefer salsa or guacamole?" Salsa. Um, I [ __ ] hate them both. How are any of us supposed to trust you ever again? Te have digestive issues. Ah, okay. That okay. That that's different from not liking them. That is

1:05:43 you absolutely should not eat them. That is very different. Some things smell awesome, but I will die and I will regret everything for several days while dying. Yeah. Dev Dev, it's very different from I don't like this and don't want it and I can't eat it, so my opinion has to be negative because otherwise it would be depressing. Some things I don't like and they would kill me. So, you know, it might fall into that, too. Yeah. Uh, let's see. Okay. Someone said, "On a scale of 1 to 10, how much does it disappoint you to the PC version of Time Stranger does not get promo cards?" I mean, the the one physical PC version does. I mean, the digital versions don't have

1:06:30 the promo cards because they don't come with anything. The uh collector's edition for PC does come with all the cards because it is a physical one. Yeah. And their response is, "But that's $200." Yeah, but like there aren't really p many PC games on shelves anymore. That's not really anything Bandai has done. that just does not the only market for PC games nowadays physically outside of a few odd off things are the collector's editions. Yeah, cuz a lot of computers now don't come with disc drives. Well, a good example is I was looking at um the physical versions of the new Scott Pilgrim game they're making. So, normal versions Switch PS5, Xbox.

1:07:18 Deluxe version, Switch, PS5, Xbox, the Ultimate Fancy Box, Switch, PS5, Xbox, and PC because that is the market for PC games now is just on the super fancy version. Yeah. And it's like I'm looking I'm like, I want the game and I'm definitely getting it for PC and I wanted the fancy box of the first one, but do I want the fancy box of this one? It's like uh $175. I don't think so. Like here, I'll put it for you. Like, how much of the stuff in here gives you joy? Oh, yeah. I'm I'm putting the picture for you and for chat. Okay. What here actually interests me? Okay. I do not care about the Game Gear

1:08:05 style box. Um game with reversible cover. That's fine. The posters I actually like. There's two posters. Uh, deluxe box with reversible cover art. E, whatever. Art book, strategy guide, that's nice. Uh, Titan comics, nice collectible coin. Eh, the the figure diarama is sort of neat. And the soundtrack, I really like too. Yeah, but like but like is this worth remembering that uh this type of special edition comes out so late that if you want to play the game early, you'll actually have to still buy the game anyways because this will show up so this will

1:08:51 show up very late. So like $175 on top of buying the game again. Unless you plan to like torture yourself and not play the game for Well, that's okay. That's the funny thing. Stark's like Stark says first of all, it's limited run games, so don't expect to get any of it. I've gotten everything from limited run. There's been no problem. Anything I've ordered from them, I actually have gotten and there's been no issue. There's been delays like I had the um the box classic uh salmon max which I think was a year and a half or two years delayed but I do have it. I ordered from the limited run games got cancelled. But you order uh I forget it. It was a while back but

1:09:37 one was like guilty. Okay. Yeah. Everything I've ordered from them I've actually got. I don't order from them all that much, but yeah, I knew Scott Pilgrim beat him up. I'm tempted. The first one was very good. This one's completely different team, but it looks good. Uh, last chance for chat um to throw in questions. The last question that sent ahead time, someone said, "What brands would you want to see Digimon have a collaboration with?" Feel like this came up like very recently. I There was something about collaborations. I decided, yeah, good question. Might as well, especially since the Godzilla figure had shown up. Certainly not He-Man after seeing those figures. Oh god,

1:10:25 I know it would never happen, but honestly, the world ends with you. I feel like Kingdom Hearts would be more likely. Does that count as the world ends with you? Kind of cuz they sort of cross over in story. That is true. I'm trying to think like I'm trying to think like what would be like my real answer. What be? See, now my brain keeps jumping to like what comic brands keep having crossovers? Stuff like Ninja Turtles and Godzilla are just having crossovers with

1:11:11 [ __ ] everything. Oh god, My Little Pony, Star Trek. It feels like the op the real answer would be something like an Ultra Man. Like like what else is owned by or like does a lot of stuff with Bandai in general? Well, lots of companies do cuz like a lot of people like oh no Sony bought 2.5% of Bandai. Bandai is owned by Sony changed forever. It's like cuz that happened like a week ago and people started to freak out. brand, but like I know I know but it came up

1:11:58 because people freaking out about this like you didn't know Nintendo owns like almost 2% of Bandai, right? And it's like what would they cross over? Because Bandai does crossovers with so many companies because they have business dealings with so many. You know what? I have the answer. What code? You know what the funny part is? If they were to do one like that, the one that would fit the best is Grace Novammon designwise. Yeah. Best [ __ ] nightmare frame. Yeah. I'm just trying to think like God, it's weird because like it's Okay, so give give C2 a Tailmon, give

1:12:45 Looch Black Tailmon, and give uh Suzaku Kurugi a Mikimmon. It'll be perfect. You know what the problem is? Is my brain keeps thinking of stuff like Godzilla or Monster Hunter, but then like when I stop and think, it's like, wait, they've done Hello Kitty three times. They've done Meiku. They've done Fast Food Laria. That's less a like crossover collaboration, more like a store. I'm just trying to think. Also, they they made food Digimon for it. Was it actually Laria in the the show? I think so.

1:13:31 Oh, I thought it was a generic burger place in the show and then like they played with it. Huh. Um I'm just trying to think like I know Laria had like entire series of cards. Oh, I got it. Dev, I got it. Ready? Oh no. Yuyu Hakasho. I would watch that. I would purchase the [ __ ] out of that. Yeah, I think that is it for questions this time. Dev, what wikimar article would you like people to read? Eddie Bergamon. Oh, fantastic. The YouTube panel says our audio bit rate is zero. Considering people are listening to us and responding, I assume they can actually

1:14:18 hear us. that or they're just hallucinating what they want to hear. That is true. So, we will I can be found with the will as always. We will be back in about two weeks and we will have that beat break news. So, we will catch you guys all next time. Thank you everyone for showing up. Bye.