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[mandiips]

Mandiips | He/Him | Adult

I have two main blogs! this one here is Digimon-focused. All my other interests are kinda lumped into here: @mandiiips

I'm tryna to post in both more often.. let's see if I actually do..

Side blogs: @mannydiips @raiinby

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[speedsketch]

Went digging through older art, found this amongst other things I never posted. circa 2022. oof.

[mandiips]

idk how to talk to ppl so im just send an ask and say i love seeing ur digimon posting and ESPECIALLY the digimon frontier enthusiasm… my favorite most beloved digimon season. the blorbo of digimon seasons. i need to talk to people about it more who actually know it instead of hearing me infodump ;w;

also REINA AND RAITO FAN !!!!! those guys are so good. too super good awesome… i would be enthused to hear your fav bits about them…

YES WOWOWOWOWOW THANK YOU HI YES ABSOLUTELY the world needs more Frontier discussion in it! Preferably from people who actually watched and like the show, that'd be!! really great!! I am always down to talk about Frontier if you wanna talk about Frontier HI waving my hands I would LOVE to talk about Frontier actually.

(I'm also really sick right now and somehow I read Raito and thought "oh! Tomoro!" And was prepared to info dump about how much I love Tomoro and I just think that's the funniest, most canon adhering thing ever)

I loved Reina from the get-go, but I think the moment that really sold me was her throwing herself into battle at the confrontation with Naito in the underground fighting ring. That moment was indescribable. That entire Arc was indescribable. And yeah that moment might have sold me, but it's also such a small percentage of why I love her because Reina is so much more than just her moments of action.

What stands out to me is the small bits of dialogue she has. Her worrying over money, her nearly breaking down over not having the situation under control when she's flung into that snowy wasteland with Granit, her dumbass thinking that silver would harm a vampire (and same I dont know anything about vampire lore, but the thought that she probably miss-remembered an info dump from Makoto is really sweet), her relationship with her little brothers IN GENERAL

I love her. That scene where she bullies Tomoro in the pool lives in my head rent free.

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Raito is a bit trickier to pinpoint as to why I love his character so much because most of his huge moments also involve Tomoro. Which isn't a bad thing, it just makes discussing him specifically really difficult. There's also just, so much nuance and depth behind who he is, what he's become, who he wants to be now.. All centered beautifully around his relationship to Tomoro and their shared adoration of each other, that pinning down even one thing that I like about him is pretty difficult. Actually that's a lie- I love that he's an asshole. I hope he doesn't stop being an asshole LMFAO

I could write an entire essay on the nuance of his growth in relation to shonen tropes and I think that's mainly why I like him so much. His complexity is captivating. I hope this week's episode does him justice. My chud son.

My favorite moments are definitely him "subtlety" trying to get a rise out of Tomoro whenever they confront each other and him wincing at what he thinks is Haruomi betraying Commandramon. There was a lot of cool foreshadowing done here to show that Raito should be examined at more than just face value.

Then there's Tomoro near-immediately clocking Raito for all that he's worth and acknowledging him in a way that's so anti-climatic... it's climactic. That was hilarious and I'm glad the writers didn't try to drag out their rivalry after it served its purpose. It's genuinely so well handled.

And that full circle moment where Raito rescues Tomoro from his emotions-that was insane. There's like twelve thesis statements in that alone. Like an hour long video essay right there. I'm gonna cut myself off from talking about Raito before I go down a rabbit hole.

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I'd also be so happy to hear your thoughts on Reina or Raito or Beatbreak or Frontier I think that'd be really really cool.. thank you for the ask I love gushing about Digimon..

[mandiips]

EWWWWWWWWWEEWWGWHWGEEWWWWWW LITTLE FUCKIN THANG EWWWWWWW

[nonexistentjellyfish]

me and a friend of mine who I will simply call soap had a conversation on what alcoholic beverage the spirits would drink. Enjoy this bullshit.

so we’ve agreed on:

Agunimon- soap said a piña colada. An alternative option being one of those drinks you can set on fire.

lobomon- water.

Kumamon- hard vodka. On the rocks.

Kazemon- I personally think she’d like a sugary sweet drink. Or alternatively a champagne.

beetlemon- whiskey. Me and soap agreed on whiskey for him.

Grumblemon- A Mudslide. Since, y’know. Mud? Warrior of earth? Idfk man. Soap didn’t have ideas either.

Ranamon- I feel like she’d enjoy a good Bloody Mary. Soap agreed with me.

Arbormon- something mixed with soda. I feel like he’d enjoy a soda. (Honestly I had no ideas, neither did soap).

mercurymon- fucker would like red wine.

duskmon- he doesn’t drink. He quenches his thirst with fear /jkhedrinkswater

lowëmon- water.

that’s it 😀🫪😔

[nonexistentjellyfish]

*throws this at you and scitters away*

[flamemons]

[ilovedigimonfrontier]

It's been a while since I posted anything since I lost my other account, but here's a redraw to get started on this account! :D

[whimsythepuntable]

The real April Fool is me. I'm horribly behind on this show, yet I'm risking it all to post this.

[snail-friend]

made a new emoji from the new Beatbreak lmao

[statixwhy]

[mandiips]

I'm CRYING

[mandiips]

the fucking lavender headband Raito I KNOW what you are

[mandiips]

I'm CRYING

[nimadjart]

Get'im girl

[raidark]

Takuya x Kouichi is my rare ship of Frontier. I don't even remember if they actually interact post-Duskmon, but still. I like the concept in my mind.

[mandiips]

THE YU-GI-OH-IFICATION OF DIGIMON NEEDS TO BE FUCKING STUDIED

[abyssalmusician]

i'm curious what this means (never watched nor played yu-gi-oh, but i do have a little knowledge about digimon)

[mandiips]

HSGSGHSGSSH I GOT YOU, it's mostly an inside joke because those are my two main interests!!

But they have a lot in common!! Mostly the TCG's (trading card games) and how they work. The card aspect has been a thing since Tamers (season 3) but recently it's starting to really pick up again from what I've seen! It's really cool! There's this whole new comic I need to catch up on and finish called Liberator that is literally just a cross between Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh and I'm super insane woah I'm flying away.....

Beatbreak also just did a thing that was so Yugioh coded and it was insane and I'm not gonna show a picture on my blog because spoilers but I literally shouted out loud when I saw it- there was this big ass pyramid Digimon guy and you literally just have to look at a single Yu-Gi-Oh poster from the first series to know why I'm insane over that VDGDBDBSN IT'S HUGE!!! for me specifically

Also just the way the franchises are set up- Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh both have their own mini-fandoms because they start fresh with a new series every few years. I'm sure there's more I'm forgetting but yah!!!

Yu-Gi-Oh-ification of Digimon and the Digimon-ification of Yu-Gi-Oh needs to be studied I'm banging my fist on the table dramatically.

[snail-friend]

Fig. 1: A world of thought energy that directly reflects the real world and will destroy both worlds if its taken out. THAT'S JUST THE DIGITAL WORLD IN MOST CONTINUITIES.

fig 2. Dogatchmon cards demonstrating the similarity to the Link feature notable from one of the YGO series

fig. 3 Suspiciously similar vibes on occasion

Fig 4. Card game example how using strong cards without proper setup is VERY weak. they need the inherited buffs similar to what happens if you use no XYZ Overlay Units result

no image to represent it but also. honorary fig. 5 would be the MENTAL ILLNESS representation and the horrors the characters get put through. and the often incredibly well written processing of upsetting things like grief, divorce, betrayal, etc. it's super important to show these things well and both series handle em pretty good... Rainbow Yami to act as placeholder for the Horrors instead of upsetting stuff

.....coming at this mostly from the YGO side with that being my current hyperfixation. BUT there are SO MANY similarities!!

[mandiips]

boy-yuri do NOT seperate them

[mandiips]

No it's called boy-yuri, I didn't stutter.