Thought it was pretty funny to make a post about Kouichi playing minesweeper
Minesweeper had me in a chokehold so I thought it would be fun to make this
(The minesweeper screenshot from Kouji’s DMs with Kouichi was actually from a real minesweeper game I played. 60x60 grid, 500 bombs. Took me two attempts 'cause I was playing like I had no self-preservation.)
hi guoyss its been 2 years since I took in-charge of this account and I haven't been hyperfixating on digimon ever since but here is the stair boy i tried drawing yesterday
wow hi omg i forgot to like use tumblr its been 2 years, no idea why, i still remember his name, its Kouicheese... I'd ask myself from 2 years ago why as well 😞
i make jokes we all make jokes about the Frontier gang, about them being feral kids that slept on dirt and barely ate for the first couple of weeks on their adventure, about how they barely had a break a minute to relax before they had to fight for their lives against enemies that were actively hunting for them near constantly and how most of the time their first reaction to a threat is to run head long towards it at max speed and volume.
but that’s really fucked up, right?
The other digidestined didn’t have it easy, but at least they got breaks. Long stretches where they didn’t know where the enemy was and the enemy didn’t know where they were. some digidestined got to go back home and sleep in their own beds and see their family. they had help, they weren’t the ones on the front lines breaking bones and getting burned and zapped and smashed against trees.
few of the main heroes in this series had perfect homes, but literally every person in the Frontier group has issues at home. their homes are dull or broken or cold or distant. Zoe doesn’t have any friends JP isolates himself with humor Takuya is longing for something meaningful Tommy is slowly starting to realize what growing up will take away from him and Koji’s brother broke his damn neck falling down stairs.
None of them have perfect lives back home, all of them have some sort of estrangement waiting for them back home, but when they get a glimpse of it they so desperately want to go back.
The world around them is beautiful and wonderous and dangerous and brutal and cruel and DYING. They hold in their hands the only things that could possibly save it and they keep failing, over and over to make progress and every time they think they’re pushing back an enemy a more powerful one shows up to kick them back down.
There is sadness back home and danger right here and no way out, so the only reaction these kids, these six grade kids, can think of is to push back with all their might. Sometimes that’s enough, most of the time it isn’t. But all they can do is push back harder and hope.
And that sounds exhausting.
I dunno man the Frontier kids make me sad, ya know?
I DONT THINK PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THE POTENTIAL GUTWRENCHING TRAGEDY THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DIGIMON FRONTIER.
BECAUSE SCENARIOS IF KOUICHI JUST DIED, IF THEY JUST KILLED HIM OFF. PEOPLE. YOU DONT RELISE WHAT WOULD CHANGE AND MAKE IT SO MUCH WORSE IN ORDER FOR HIM TO DIE.
They’ve found a new home were they finally belong and start getting along with each other, only to be smacked right in the face with cruelty and reality.
The frontier kids WERENT chosen thats the thing. thats the damn thing. Theoretically, maybe other kids could’ve done it, had to deal with it, they wish other kids had to deal with it. But they’re also subconsciously possessive of the role ‘being chosen’ because of how attached they’ve gotten to everything, so they think IT HAD TO BE them because other kids wouldn’t have been able to do it BUT THEY STILL WONDER WHAT IF-
No, they were basically told that they weren’t special. They were just the bunch of sad, lonely kids desperate and dumb enough to listen to that text. Essentially LIED TO and USED as weapons WITHOUT EVEN KNOWING IT. They didn’t know what they were getting into ESPECIALLY KOUICHI. He was just following his brother and trying to mend his side of this BROKEN FAMILY right after his grandmother died and is instead dragged into this digimon feud that he did. not. ask for.
Then kouichi and kouji find each other and they see hope to mend this broken famliy back home, together, BUT THEN KOUCHI IS JUST RIPPED AWAY FROM KOUJI. And they don’t have any control over it. Nothing, no control because thats the harsh side of life. Sometimes you have no control. Only sometimes that this happens, but fate still decied to stab you right in the face this time this moment RIGHT NOW AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME, is what makes it so tragic.
How when they got home, they see mass panic. Everything’s down all internet, power, nothing works and everyone is running out of the station. Straight right turn down the stairs, what do they see? Someone who could’ve been their friend- could’ve been their brother- dead on the floor, blood cold, no ambulance in sight because the adults around them are too busy trying to save themselves.
They saved an entire world and each other just like they thought they would, but what they didn’t know they’d loose in the process was just- kept from them 'in order to protect them’ , but it only worsened the blow and the trust between this rag-tag family of misfits and life. Life is so unfair.
I’d have to draw out an entire comic to get my point across. If the writers had JUST LOVED what they were working on it could have been so impactful. So impactful. I think they just wanted to get it over with considering all the hate it got and how poorly it was doing, and that’s just another entire sad thing.
how the ending scene of the entire series could have been post digital world-rebuilding, with flowers blowing in the breeze because its spring of the next year and it pans to DFR type rookie Geopardmon doing the steryotypical looking into the wind things (and its kouichi reborn and still alive but with no memories and then it cuts off and oh my god why)
Hiya, everyone!! I was able to get a ticket to watch the online streaming of DigiFes 2022! The evening event had the whole Frontier Cast reading a new audio drama together, which takes place about 2 years after the series ends. Here are the details of what happens in the drama (whatever I understood, anyway! Please excuse any translation errors; my Japanese is still a work in progress):
Tagging @citrus-cactus, and anyone else who’d like to read this! I’ll write about the talk event in a separate post later on!
After becoming a middle schooler, Takuya gets an email telling him to come to that elevator area in Shibuya at 17:45…but when he goes, that mysterious elevator isn’t there
Izumi and Tomoki appear, and Takuya assumes they sent the mail to prank him, but it turns out they also got the same email
Junpei and Kouji also show up, with the latter seemingly enjoying teasing Takuya once or twice
Izumi’s kouhai gave her a stomach band (haramaki) as an elementary school graduation present (Junpei sounds jealous)
Tomoki is now the same age as “Takuya-oniichan” when they had the original adventure
Junpei and Kouji didn’t send the email either, so Takuya assumes it’s Kouichi, and states he may have come into contact with some dark and corrupt file or organisation and they may have to fight said organisation (Izumi thinks he may just be planning a surprise party or something)
But nobody believes him, not even Tomoki LMAO
Kouji spills some TEA: apparently Kouichi went out for tea…WITH A GIRL
Btw, the twins canonically attend the same middle school
So the girl wanted to confess to Kouichi, BUT SHE CONFESSED TO KOUJI BY ACCIDENT
He told Kouichi about it, but he apparently made a promise on his behalf to meet with her later
Kouichi suddenly appears and is like “Kouji, what the HELL did you do????”
Apparently Kouichi wanted to turn the girl down, but couldn’t, and somehow ended up meeting the girl’s PARENTS (comparing it to an arranged marriage meeting or something like that), because Kouji seemed to have made some pretty grand promises to the girl about “our future” (I didn’t fully catch what they said in this bit, sorry!)
The twins collectively share one (1) braincell, and apparently the twin with permanent custody is NOT Kouji
But they seem to have gotten used to being brothers - they get into a MASSIVE argument about the miscommunication involving the confession
“KOUICHIIIIII!!!” “KOUJIIIIIII!!”
Tomoki: “Twins…they’re really something, aren’t they?” (He used the word 大変 which refers to then situation being unfortunate)
Back to the mysterious email, the gang wonders who sent it, as the culprit could only be someone who knows about their adventure. Tomoki speculates about it being Katsuharu or one of the others from his group, but they don’t have the gang’s emails
Junpei comes to the conclusion that one of the gang is therefore lying: hence, the reveal of “Detective Junpei Shibayama”
Izumi: “when the heck did you become a detective”
“Detective Junpei Shibayama’s Case Files: Season 3, will now begin!”
Kouji: “Season 3?” Kouichi: “When was this series even confirmed?”
Junpei labels everyone as a suspect, and accuses the twins of being the culprits behind the email, because they could have alibis for each other, and there is a history of the twins impersonating each other, and therefore they used the girl’s confession to their advantage (and presumably sent the email from her phone? Idk, I couldn’t keep up with the technical details of Junpei’s “evidence”)
Junpei accuses the twins of currently impersonating each other, and they’re the culprits
Kouji: “Nope, you’re wrong” Kouichi: “Our faces are the same, but our voices are very different - shouldn’t you know that much?”
Everyone else starts getting into Detective Mode from then on, starting with Takuya, who suspects Izumi due to something about the haramaki from earlier (didn’t catch the explanation)
But absolutely nobody even takes his accusation seriously
The twins: 😑😑
Next is Tomoki’s investigation- his suspect is Junpei, because the culprit needs electricity to manipulate radio waves and send the email, and the only one who could do that is Blitzmon, Junpei’s spirit
Junpei: “My spirit isn’t that of electricity, it’s thunder” Tomoki: “Oh yeah” Junpei: “Don’t ‘oh yeah’ me!”
Izumi gives it a shot: her suspect is Tomoki
Tomoki, very straightforwardly: “Nope” Izumi: *goes on anyway*
Izumi: “The reason is that Tomoki is shy and embarrassed!” Tomoki: “I have never been embarrassed”
Izumi: “ The mail is anonymous, meaning the sender didn’t want to be known. Why would that be? Well, Tomoki wanted to see us and missed us all so bad, but he was too shy to say so. So he sent this email to have us gather together!”
A couple of them are convinced, with Kouichi saying that this is the closest thing to the truth so far
Everyone starts arguing about it, but Kouji jumps right in and accuses Takuya of being the culprit (unsurprisingly)
But since Takuya only recently got a cellphone of his own, he states that he has no idea how to send an email like that
Junpei: *attempts to bribe the culprit into revealing themselves using chocolate* (some detective you are)
Takuya: *yells at the culprit to reveal themselves, because it’s getting late and everyone’s tired*
No culprit is revealed, and Takuya is MISERABLE
Izumi: “But…I had fun. Seeing everyone’s faces after so long, having conversations with everyone…I feel good.”
Everyone agrees, and decides to go out and eat soba
They go to the restaurant, and everyone’s phones notify them of another email - and then the phones start glowing like they did when they turned into Digivices last time
Takuya: *laughs* “So that’s what it is…the culprits are you guys, right? Agnimon…”
Everyone’s respective spirits send them a message, checking in on them after so long (In order: Agnimon, Wolfmon, Fairymon, Chakmon, Blitzmon, Löwemon)
