Welcome, this blog is full on delusional and crossover art/stuff between the Digimon TV series protags. Ah, and stuff from that peculiar XW AU setting i didn't shut up about on my artblog last year LOL.
Expect chaos and shitposts here. Also some canon divergence because some series i didn't rewatch for a long long time ago.
There's only love and unhinged energy here.
Daisuke might be present in most of those because yeah, i love this kiddo a lot.
I won't tolerate any series/game/manga hate in this space. If you don't like any of them, please unfollow/block me instead.
Askblog → @tomorrows2top
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Call me Ni (she/they), btw. Please be over 18+ to follow this blog, since some stuff might be not recommended for minors (mostly language, i don't draw/write NFSW/smut stuff). And don't steal or edit my stuff please! If you don't agree with my headcanons or ideas please politely block or mute this account 💦 I accept fact checking/corrections, but as long they're done in a non-passive-aggressive or non-mockery sense. And yeah, my English my not be perfect as well (and i can only read kanji and so little stuff in Japanese, having to double check stuff with friends with better skills than mine orz)
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↓ Some important things to be said regarding asks are below the cut ↓
I won't write/draw AUs or Stories/Fanfictions, OCs or even headcanons/theories from other people. Even the old ones i've collaborated with i prefer to not touch them again (because, i lost contact with people and also lost all the posts/details of them )
Please avoid sending me many of "what do you think of [X]" questions because sometimes those kiiiinda make me get no idea what to answer, or perhaps i've been answered/posted something related to it before. Even so, if you would like to send one of those, first check if i hadn't answered it or something similar to it first!
At this moment, this blog is me being delusional about the AU thingy on the pinned post. Most of those posts might be about them.
My memory is foggy about certain series, so if i end up misremembering something... Yeah, please contact me asap.
I know i've said this on countless accounts but, I have little to zero knowledge of the American dub, so my portrayal/answers/headcanons/etc are all based on the original Japanese version and sometimes stuff borrowed from the BRPT dub (which is mostly the same as the original JP for most of the series -- except Fusion). So please, don't assume that I had watched the US dub or that I am American.
My stance on the digimon (monsters) are that there's more than one of each species within the multiverse. So, Daisuke's V-mon/Magnamon, OG & Reboot Taichis' Agumon/Omegamon and Takato's Guilmon/Dukemon are not related to the Royal Knights.
I will follow all canon material if possible when working with canon versions of the characters, BUT only what i can work with. If something gets in conflict with the main TV series (Adv99-02-Tamers-Frontier-Savers-XW-Appmon-Adv2020-GG) i will reject the contradictions and use only the stuff not affected or influenced by it. Basically playing with the idea the events we know in certain media are played differently in-universe, adopted from Pixiv Dictionary. Explained better by Shiha in this post here.
I don't like passive-aggressiveness. If you have something to correct in my posts, please do it politely.
Usual common etiquette -- No hatred towards people's religions, sexual/romantic orientation, gender (or lack of), PoC, ethnicities, etc. I won't hesitate to block if needed.
Do not edit my art or repost it. If you wanna use it as an icon/sidebar, ask first. And no, you cannot use my art on A/I & N/F/T for ANYTHING. If you do that, I will block you immediately.
If you like, ship them in the age of the AU setting, please don't ship the adults with the minors. I beg you to not tag me in anything suggestive about 20yo!Daisuke/Tagiru. Please.
(however i do accept any adult Daisuke/Takato and adult Takuya/Daisuke SFW content.)
Say, will you make another fanfic with Legend Heroes inside of it ?
I mean it, your fanfic is good and I never find better fanfic than yours !!
Thank you...!!
Unfortunately i'm still trying to get this blog back, especially after rewatching XW + Hunters arc with friends last year, and realizing Tagiru's portrayal was exactly like how i perceived his canon counterpart -- the fandom echo chamber back the day it was airing made me believe my portrayal was different, but it was only my subconscious leaking the canon portrayal i've spotted while watching it (and then going to SNS would get people dunking on the episode or being really mean about the series)
i need to draw Tomoro into this blog too! or... draw anyone else but Tagiru and Daisuke (and Takuya)
current digi-events in the franchise has made me consider working with crossover stuff again tho, but who knows.
as for the fanfic posts (i presume it's about the little fragments tag?), hm... i dunno what to write next for it... i considered working on fanfic now that i have a whole document finished! and details to be added! so... idk yet!
(but pretty pretty please don't mass like/reblog my stuff, it crashes my browser; i appreciate that you liked it, just pls like/reblog things moderately...!! thank you 😭)
so hey, since there's no official release for the 13+ novel, and also no fan-translation of it that is fully translated and not a summary from a forum (or wikimon page, which was where i read things instead), i will not writing/drawing 13+ content.
at this point i'm considering it as it was stated -- unofficial. therefore Beyond MV and 13+ will be considered different materials.
for more deets, check this timeline here. yes, it is my own personal timeline and the basis of my own stuff.
i will stick to my headcanons of Jun having Pulsemon as partner because it had it since Pulsemon was announced, had some idea in mind & the mon's evochain reminded me 02 digimon (especially Armor-mons) and because i have some issues with giving her a Kodokugumon.
i can find reasons to make it work properly, but unfortunately that's a territory i'd like to not walk in.
and as for Rui's backstory... mild feelings. does it work with 02TB sort of? well, it does -- if you watched the movie, you will pretty much know what i am talking about. HOWEVER this whole backstory being super duper escalated really fast and badly makes the ENTIRE MOVIE POINTLESS and unfortunately i have to disagree with sensei and stick with the Kizuna-02TB timeline as main timeline for my own stuff. AND BEFORE YOU ASSUME THINGS OUT OF IT: no, i don't hate it. i just think it was too much and the outcome of it seems to be interesting, but unfortunately i cannot fully vibe with it, sorry.
does i hate 13+ based of the stuff i read summarized on wikimon?
well, no.
actually i find it interesting and thankful it treats everything else as their own timeline branch and the characters have vague memories of those events, but some of the things there felt a little too much for my tastes; but again, i only read a SUMMARY and i'm avoiding it asap because fandom is being mean to everyone once again and discouraging me to even fetch for a TL'd version (my JP skills are too bad to read it by myself)
and since this is not officially released, i'm considering my own takes on Beyond MV instead, and i will only use 13+ for 13+ content. not for Beyond.
((So it seems like the protags of Beatbreak all have a couple of signature lines they say during their respective evolution sequences (even if the multi-character sequences seem to cut out their second lines). I'm curious about what you think Dai might say in such a sequence with Vee?))
Hmm, judging by the way it was formatted (the use of parenthesis, which many roleplayers tend to use as ooc comments and not ic comments), this is directed at me and not Daisuke.
If this was intended for Daisuke, please let me know and i'd make a post or even self-reblog this with his own answer.
Ok? well, let's do it.
This question piqued my curiosity because... 02 started all of those catchphrases before an evolution scene, mostly. Adv'99 didn't have anything like that... but my memory is foggy so all i can think they had generic phrases like "let's go, [partner]-mon" and this also very much present in 02 as well.
But 02 came with "Digimental Up!" (or your local dub's variation) for the first arc, which could count as "catchphrase before evolving" imo. EXCEPT, this is not exclusive to Daisuke at all! Even in MenAS drama CD we have Ken and the older six playing with the concept, so there's voice clips for them. And with the D-3 Color Evolution toy, we finally has Wallace using it as well. (i wish in the future we could hear the Adult VAs and also even Rui saying this iconic catchphrase...)
I think this kind of sequence scenes never had an exact variation until Appmon, which when the Applidriver kids get the DUO model, when they applirealise their partners with it, you have some different phrases for Eri, Astra and Rei (Haru uses the same as Yuujin's) and this is only back with BeatBreak now -- Ghost Game and Adv2020 reboot does not have anything different at all!
If Daisuke had one... well, he does have one! or two, to be honest! But again, they're the generic and non-exclusive ones. I don't think he would like using something else to flavor his battles when he's too simpleminded and when he tries to be something he truly isn't...
... people find it too cringe and say "it's weird when you do that" or assume he's making fun of their own quirks and verbal tics.
So one assuming Daisuke starts adding some flamboyant flair into his battle scenes, like posing and very unique phrases regarding his role, traits etc... EVERYONE WOULD JUST FIND HE'S TRYING TOO HARD AND ALSO BE UTTERLY WEIRDED OUT BY HIM.
Why? Because the Daisuke they know doesn't care much about it, and if he's trying to sound cooler... he's trying too hard and not because he is running in circles all again.
As Ken said in MenAS: So if you can keep thinking that much, it’s fine, so like…once you start thinking more than that, please, I’m begging you, stop.
Which means, I don't think he would have one unique and exclusive pre-evolution catchphrase. It does not fit his character to be like this.
"Oh and the ramen--" The ramen thing unfortunately drives people insane, even if i think it's not that flanderized as people imply. But if we only refer to Daisuke by it, then it would be a glaring dead giveaway that someone would not understand Daisuke's character if they come up with a ramen-themed pre-evolution catchphrase for him (in the same vein as Astra's "groovy", as example)
I'm sorry, this answer may sound disappointing to you 💦
1- do not ask me to c0mmissi0n you to turn my fanfic into comics. i can draw things by myself
2- i will delete every comment like this, i don't care if you're looking for work, don't suddenly comment on others' art to promote yourself unless it's a post for that purpose.
don't follow me/like my stuff/comment on my stuff if your only purpose is to offer me your services. if i want to c0mmissi0n someone to draw something for me, I WILL ASK THEM PRIVATELY INSTEAD.
(Original title: "Minami Takayama, Marina Inoue, an All-Star Cast, Together for the First Time in 15 Years! Digimon Expo ‘25 Digimon Xros Wa
(Original title: “Minami Takayama, Marina Inoue, an All-Star Cast, Together for the First Time in 15 Years! Digimon Expo ‘25 Digimon Xros Wars Stage Official Report”)
A translation of the press release provided by Toei Animation’s Digimon Project regarding the Digimon Xros Wars stage greeting and talk show held at Digimon Expo 2025, held at the Prism Hall at Tokyo Dome City on September 20, 2025. The press release was released two days later (September 22) and featured selected excerpts of the talk show with the following Digimon Xros Wars voice actors:
Minami Takayama (Taiki Kudou)
Chika Sakamoto (Shoutmon)
Marina Inoue (Tagiru Akashi)
Kumiko Watanabe (Gumdramon)
Ryouko Shiraishi (Akari Hinomoto, Mervamon)
Takeshi Kusao (Kiriha Aonuma, MetalGreymon, the Clock Shop Old Man, Ballistamon)
Tagiru deserved love and i'm glad i got to see him againnnn 😭
whispers, Tagiru was the reason i watched Smile Precure because i was starting to enjoy Inoue Marina's roles... And I really loved Nao/Cure March so you know...
my HC birthday for Tagiru is in March... because of Cure March indeed.
Tagiru is a more well-behaved kid than he's given credit for (and other misconceptions about him and Hunters)
With Xros Wars finally getting some officially endorsed anniversary love (you don't see that happen every day, you know!), I also happen to have rewatched Xros Wars quite recently! I had previously written a meta talking about the differences between Daisuke and Tagiru, but while I wouldn't disagree with anything I wrote back then per se, there are some things I wish I'd phrased better or emphasized more. I owe it to Tagiru to make it up to him, so I wrote this up quickly.
To put it simply and bluntly, partially as a byproduct of people misunderstanding his home series and people misunderstanding him directly, Tagiru tends to be taken the wrong way by a lot of people in the fandom, so let's set the record straight!
First, let's talk about Hunters
Like I said, a big reason Tagiru ends up misunderstood quite often is that...well, I won't mince words, but Xros Wars came out at a time when the Western fandom had some very specific ideas about "what a Digimon series should be", and to compound things even further, the target demographic for the older Digimon series was in pretty much peak edgelord phase (late teens/twenties) of wanting everything to be Dark and Edgy.
In fact, this treatment of Xros Wars and Hunters is very specific to the Western fandom and only to that particular time period; Hunters is reasonably well-liked and Xros Wars as a whole very well-liked among Japanese fans, and nowadays, I hear a lot of cases of even Western fans watching Xros Wars and Hunters in recent years for the first time and being utterly baffled as to why anyone would treat the series as poorly as much of the Western fandom does. There was a serious echo chamber and toxic aura problem going on that seems to have altered people's perception of reality to the point of historical revisionism regarding what was and wasn't in the series.
Hunters got especially maligned on the grounds that it was supposedly a bunch of meaningless trash that didn't go anywhere, but having rewatched it recently, I find that a lot of it is little more than unrealistic expectations where people were expecting something completely different from what it actually was. I suspect this to be one major reason Japanese reception to the series wasn't nearly as negative, because the Japanese fanbase had much stronger consciousness of two major factors:
The Tohoku earthquake and tsunami had a massive impact on Japanese media and especially kids' media at the time, and there was a collective bid among them to make things that would lift kids' spirits after the disaster (Smile PreCure, Kamen Rider Fourze, and Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger were also made under this philosophy). Combined with the fact that Japanese audiences tend to be more insistent that kids' shows should brighten kids' days, if you were to insinuate that a show was too lighthearted during this period, you'd easily be seen as a cruel and insensitive sadist to suggest that a kids' series isn't "dark" enough.
It is well-known among Japanese fans that Hunters was greenlighted at the last minute (the Death Generals staff was already into production of the finale when they found out Hunters was going to exist), and it's widely understood that it was also a series made to hold down its timeslot until Saint Seiya Omega was ready. In other words, Hunters was a series made after the staff was told to make something that would literally waste time. Once you stop having unrealistically high expectations of the series to do something revolutionary with its content, it's actually doing much more for its audience than it needed to, and frankly, I have seen series that spent 50+ episodes doing far less interesting things than Hunters did within its two cours.
You are supposed to watch Hunters under the understanding that you're meant to have fun, and from what it sounds like, the staff was also trying to have as much fun as they could within that time. (Honestly, I'm currently convinced that the crossover episode was made for the returning Digimon staff to indulge and satisfy themselves more than it was to pander to the fans.) That's all it is, and the story becomes much more enjoyable and insightful when you watch it this way.
I'm not kidding when I say that a lot of people who currently dislike Hunters would probably become a lot more attached to it just by rewatching it now. It's only two cours, so it's not even that long! One thing I noted during my last rewatch is that the kids are all of the archetype that the modern Internet would affectionately call "gremlins" and enjoy for being all over the place and often of questionable morals. Perhaps one could even say that the series was too ahead of its time.
Tagiru is actually pretty well-behaved
So let's talk about Tagiru. Common perception is that he's rude to the point of disregarding what others say and often puts down others, but is that really true? Certainly, it's true that he's at least a little poorly behaved in terms of often stepping out of line and disregarding what Taiki and others tell him to do, but:
Even when he disregards others, it's not nearly as much as people often think. Having rewatched the series lately, I find that the majority of his cases of directly violating someone's suggestion without at least taking it into account is simply just because he was too impulsive and went ahead before even he had thought it through. Otherwise, he'll still defer to others most of the time (even if he has to complain loudly about it). And you don't see people giving Taichi grief for doing the same thing, do you?
He's diligent about his honorifics and still largely treats strangers and elders with respect as per Japanese propriety rules. He's not as deferential as Daisuke, but he also doesn't massively step out of line either.
If you take his words at direct verbal face value, he's being rude to people, but if you actually look closer, he's just kind of brash and loudmouthed and doesn't actually mean it that seriously. You don't see people giving Takuya nearly as much grief for this one either, do you? Rather, once you get into Tagiru's head, you'll see that him treating Taiki and Yuu as "rivals" of a sort is his way of acknowledging them as people worth having a rivalry with; he sees the entire world as a competition, but he respects his competition too. And Tagiru does have a concept of kindness and decency; he loves to mess with Yuu because Yuu is someone he knows well (and, frankly, even if he's not as direct with what he says, Yuu is actually the one responsible for provoking him most of the time), but with strangers and other people he doesn't want to step on the toes of, he takes care to not be insensitive and apologizes well.
Multiple episodes (starting from as early as episode 2) allude to the idea that the real reason Tagiru can often be a problem for others is that he has too much energy that he hadn't been given a good enough outlet for, something alluded to by the fact that Shoutmon also immediately let up on Gumdramon when he found that the latter had gotten himself a partner (episode 2). Just like how the Digital World's "wild child' stopped causing chaos for everyone around him now that he had something to dedicate himself to, Tagiru becomes much easier for Taiki and Yuu to work with once he starts putting all of that excess energy into the Hunt. And that ties into...
Being "selfish" can be a good thing
I mentioned earlier that I wrote a meta about Daisuke and Tagiru but currently wish that I'd phrased some things differently, and the biggest reason is that I emphasized a lot that Tagiru was self-interested compared to more altruistic characters like Daisuke. But when I said that, I also meant this in the sense that having personal goals and "selfish" interests is not a fundamentally bad thing, and Hunters is actually quite a lot about the juggling of personal interests and doing good for others.
Tagiru is impulsive, brash, and often disregards what Taiki and others would prefer that he do in order to pursue his own goals, but he's also not self-centered to the extent he doesn't care about other people. Yes, he's participating in the Hunt because he personally enjoys the thrill of it. But it's not like he's paying zero consideration to the fact that it helps people, and in fact, if you actually pay attention to Tagiru's behavior throughout the series, Tagiru enjoys the Hunt partially because it's a way of helping people in meaningful ways. It's because of this that he's able to meaningfully distinguish between Hideaki's personal goals and Ganemon's greed (episode 8), because Tagiru himself would also hate it if he got lumped in with people who took from others purely for self-gain!
It's easy to get distracted by the fact that the Hunt technically involves combat, but Tagiru also just thinks Digimon are pretty cool in general (see episode 21, when he immediately drops the idea of Hunting the amusement park Digimon when they seemingly aren't doing anything wrong). It's actually quite common for people to have things they enjoy doing that also happen to help others! It's just that we usually call those "hobbies" or "career aspirations".
The Hunt is a competition that's structured in a battle royale, dog-eat-dog sort of format, and in a case like that, having personal ambition is very important. It's tempting to expect every shounen hero to fit a model of constantly saying one-sidedly selfless things like "I just love seeing everyone smile!", but the realistic truth is that there are also cases where you're not going to survive very long if you don't think about yourself, too. This is where Tagiru excels: he's brimming with motivation (to the point that episode 11 demonstrates how dangerous that motivation would be if it were anyone different), and he's up against Digimon who are manipulating kids based on their own personal desires without any selflessness at all.
He may not be like Daisuke in terms of cooperating with others as a given team player, but not everything in this world is about team cooperation, and there's a reason Daisuke and Tagiru are the respective protagonists of their own respective series tailored to those strengths.
And that's also why saving the world from Quartzmon required someone who enjoyed the Hunt itself rather than just wanting to save everyone for altruistic reasons. If you're on the verge of getting obliterated from existence and need to find something to cling onto, having something you personally enjoy and find fulfillment in helps a lot.
Up until Hunters' finale, participation in the Hunt was optional. There was no need to save the world, and a lot of Tagiru's cases could have easily been solved by any other Hunter. But Tagiru didn't need to have "the world is going to end right this second if you don't do something!" to motivate him, and that's why he's able to focus on Hunting Quartzmon even while dealing with a situation where everyone he knows might be gone forever if he fails: sure, he wasn't one of the "chosen heroes" for this job, and it's stressful as hell, but since he can have the mindset of "wow, saving the world requires doing something that I happen to be really good at? Too bad for you!"
So what is a "superstar"?
Since it's one of the first things presented about his character, "Tagiru wants to be a superstar and surpass Taiki" is the part that most people easily remember about him, and that means that Tagiru's primary fandom reputation comes from his arrogance. And it is true that he has a certain degree of arrogance and pride, moreso than a lot of other Digimon protagonists. But once you actually look at the series as a whole...
...it turns out that Tagiru being a bit arrogant is also the main reason he's able to be normal about his personal aspirations compared to almost everyone else in the series.
Episode 9 introduces the concept of "excessive idolization and putting others on a pedestal to the point they just become nothing but tools to you" and puts in a warning that idolizing Taiki is very likely to go in the same direction. Even Yuu, who's not necessarily doing it to an entirely unhealthy level, is still overly conscious of Taiki's role in the Digital World war a year prior and initially resents Tagiru for lightly using the Xros Heart name and imitating Taiki without understanding the war. It's understandable that Yuu would feel insulted by this, but you also have to look at things from Tagiru's perspective: Tagiru only ever knew Taiki as "the cool middle school senior whom I should use as a goal to surpass", and it's not really his fault for not knowing there was an entire war going on there.
But that's also the key word there: surpass. It's a word that's often taken as a sign of arrogance, but the point here is that Tagiru only treats Taiki like an admirable reference point rather than judging his entire self-worth based on whether he's like Taiki or not. He seems to be as close to treating Taiki as an equal as he can get within the limits of Japanese seniority. And after a whole series of people getting caught up in Digimon incidents because a Digimon started feeding off their feelings of "not being good enough"...
...we get to the eventual reveal in the final episode that Ryouma was, essentially, the same as another monster-of-the-week victim: someone who made his entire life about "wanting to be like someone else" and easily fell prey to a Digimon's manipulation because he was so obsessed with that goal that he lost sight of anything else.
The truth is, even with humility being a virtue, being confident in yourself is important too, because it means you won't project your insecurities on others. Even back in the first two parts of Xros Wars, Taiki's disregard for himself was also the cause of a lot of problems. And ultimately, that's the take-home: Tagiru is self-aware about what he is and isn't, and that's why he's able to pursue his own dreams in a healthy manner rather than railing on himself.
Tagiru's vaguely-defined goal of "being a superstar" is essentially "doing something that I feel is fulfilling and worthy", and he repeatedly demonstrates that he knows full well that he's only going to become a superstar when he decides he's done enough. For Tagiru, it seems that as long as he himself acknowledges that he did something cool (and his friends also acknowledge that it was cool), he'll see that as sufficient to have achieved his goal. So when it comes to saving the world, Tagiru decides that this is satisfying enough for him to pat himself on the back and go "that was really cool, wasn't it?"
In conclusion
I'm aware there are a lot of people who were expecting a more traditional shounen hero progression of "a protagonist who's not cut out for heroism grows and becomes a noble hero by the end of the series". Certainly, if Hunters had been a longer series and were given more resources in planning to be anything beyond a stall series, it's true that we probably would have gotten to see this aspect of Tagiru gone into thoroughly with the attention that it should have been given. But with what we were given already, there's already a lot you can get out of it, and in fact, I personally find that Hunters still covers a niche of the boundary between personal aspirations and finding fulfillment in it, even when it's about mundane problems that anyone else could have solved.
Tagiru wants to pursue his own personal goals, but he balances it well with doing good things for others and finding fulfillment in it. He's prideful enough to aspire to do bigger and better things, but he's also self-aware enough to not be constantly insecure about whether he's doing enough already. He's rough around the edges, but he gets it in a way that even adults often don't (again: it's arguably a series that was ahead of its time), and while it's not necessarily a perfect way to live nor the only way for one to live, I'd say it's pretty admirable.
Friendly reminder: if you HATE the 02 epilogue, 02 in general, Kizuna & 02TB, please do not use my AUs and projects to dunk on them, do not even share my stuff i do not want people using my art, made with love and appreciation for those things, as weapon against canon/official material. If you do that, i will BLOCK you asap. Thank you ✌
gosh i love Digimon Xros Wars SO MUCH (all 3 parts of it)
now i got like... all my fave digi series and characters back... even if for a brief moment... i love them all, 02, Frontier and Xros Wars... i want to cry... Digimon keeps me alive 💙
A translated transcript of the Digimon Xros Wars stage reading read off by a handful of the main cast’s voice actors at Digimon Expo 2025, a
A translated transcript of the Digimon Xros Wars stage reading read off by a handful of the main cast’s voice actors at Digimon Expo 2025, at the Prism Hall in Tokyo Dome City on September 20, 2025.
