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Digimon Beatbreak Episode 19 Review - Illegal Business

Excuse my language, but WTF, Digimon? Human trafficking AND on-screen physical violence on a teenager in one episode? This is supposed to be the equivalent of a Saturday morning cartoon in Japan—heck, the anime that airs after this one is PRECURE! PRECURE IS MOSTLY FAMILY-FRIENDLY AND FOR KIDS! WAY TO TRAUMATIZE KIDS ONE MORNING AND THEN TRY TO SHOW OFF HAPPY SILLY PRECURE SHENANIGANS AS A MEANS TO ALLEVIATE MENTAL WOUNDS!

In spite of the dark themes, this episode answers a lot of questions you might not even realize! First off, the lady with the mask is the same one from Episodes 9-10. I thought she’d be the Sapotama creator given her voice actress is the same as the devices, but it seems that she’s just a trafficker who finally got caught in the end. Second, BomberNanimon and his Owner from Episode 13 make a return. Since they were taken away by Tactics at the end of the episode, it does show that Tactics takes bounties from unaffiliated Cleaners. This means that all of the people that were in the auction were Cleaners without a team, most likely, and captured by Tactics. If Haruomi and Commandramon had been captured, they would’ve been in the same situation as these poor people. Though, it does make you wonder what happens if they only capture the Owner and not the Digimon? That hasn’t been answered yet and I dread when it comes because it’s definitely not going to be pretty…

One of the things I liked about this episode is that Tomoro isn’t the one to make his Digimon go through Dark Evolution, but it’s Raito instead! I honestly think the trope where the MC goes through dark evolution wouldn’t work on Tomoro who is progressing through his character development. It was refreshing to see Raito do it instead and pay for the consequences. The fact that there wasn’t an actual evolution sequence and it was shown in real time indicates that this isn’t Rhamphomon’s true evolution or when Raito finally gains control of his e-pulse is when the actual evolution sequence will happen.

While Tomoro was being reckless in wanting to free all the trafficked people and Digimon, I like that his heart is in the right place. He felt especially bad for Yume, who is definitely the youngest of the trafficked people. The fact that Tomoro is slowly developing a soft spot for young children makes my heart warm because he’s being the big brother to others when he was the younger brother to his own big brother. Heck, he’s two years younger than Raito and he’s the one stopping the so-called genius from harming Monodramon.

Raito’s actions really makes him despicable, yet it also makes me curious on what his backstory is like. He’s clearly Tomoro’s shadow archetype in that he’s the one who has the most emphasis of Team 7 and he’s having a hard time controlling his emotions like Tomoro. The only difference is that Raito doesn’t have glitchy e-pulse. The fact that his backstory still hasn’t been revealed yet does prove my point. I wonder what will Raito’s path will be like…

I also like how everyone can see how sleazy and shady Klay is right from the get-go. Reina thinks he’s a slime ball and Maki certainly agrees. The fact that he’s only a big cleaner from behind the scenes does show that Cleaners are essentially a secret, underground job at the end of the day. The only person who seems to respect Klay is Naito. Heck, Naito is shown to be extremely psychotic at the end with him tying Raito to a chair and beating him up WITH HOTARUKO AND GRANIT RIGHT IN THE CORNER! THEY’RE HEARING AND WATCHING THIS UNFOLD WHILE THEY EAT! I need these two to experience the craziest karma.

Also, this week’s episode has an interesting cast member. Both Yume and her partner Tinkermon are voiced by Hakui Koyori, who is a V-tuber. I don’t really follow a lot of V-tubers, despite the fact that I also v-tube, so I don’t really know who she is, but it’s so cool that they’re casting all sorts of people whether it be big named voice actors to V-tubers. In all honesty, I think Hakui does a great job with making both characters sound different. I feel bad for Tinkermon who got deleted permanently…

Klay is voiced by Satoshi Mikami who makes his Digimon debut. Some of Mikami’s roles include Fennel from Delicious Party Precure, and Gallagher from Honkai Star Rail. He does a great job making Klay sound shady and sleazy—it’s definitely a perfect villain voice. Speaking of which, it doesn’t seem like the Ministry is aware that Klay is also the ringleader of the trafficking. It does make me wonder what will happen when he gets caught…

Beatbreak is certainly on the podium for the darkest Digimon anime by far. It does make me wonder what else they’re concocting. Next week’s episode has Tomoro and Gekkomon be taken to an illegal battle colosseum after an encounter with Gokuwumon… Would that be the equivalent of illegal dogfighting? Let me know your thoughts on this episode!

(Edit: Precure airs before Digimon in a different channel. I'm sorry about the misinformation)

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BomberNanimon with the save there!

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Liberator Drivers (Part 1/11)

Digital monster: net driver by @AliceStudios22 Free in itch.io

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New episode of Beatbreak reminded me of this gem, and I was laughing for the wrong reason the whole time.

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BomberNanimon used Free Throw Bomb!

~ Digimon Beatbreak Ep. 13

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That time censorship made a new Digimon (and why it should happen again)

Digimon's English releases have honestly gotten away with a lot that many other dubs wouldn't be allowed to. Compare Yu-Gi-Oh's dub inventing the shadow realm to avoid having characters die to Digimon Adventure's dub having a prominent side character die in part of a story arc where the number of the beast is a main plot point and getting away with it completely uncensored. But censorship does still happen to Digimon and one time it created a new Digimon species.

Meet the Sistermons.

Consisting of Sistermon Blanc and Sistermon Noir, these nun-like Digimon with weapons have shown up in a few things, but it was their appearance in the video game Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth (specifically the Hacker's Memory expansion) that triggered censorship. Someone on the localization team decided that a nun wielding guns was not something they wanted in the game. Apparently it was to avoid upsetting religious groups. But Sistermon Noir is part of the plot and you can't just cut her from the game. So the localization team pallet swapped her from a realistic black and white nun outfit to a white and cyan one, edited a few other details, and renamed her Sistermon Ciel. Apparently someone at Bandai really liked this idea because they decided to make Sistermon Ciel an official Digimon, giving her a redesign to not look like a pallet swap.

Sistermon Ciel has been adopted as an official Digimon. She got a reference book entry, has shown up in the card game, got official art of her with the other two Sistermons, and appeared in an episode of the anime Digimon Ghost Game. It doesn't get more official than that.

Here's where I think this should happen again. Back when the anime Digimon Savers was getting dubbed into English as Digimon Data Squad, the localization team ran into a problem. One episode featured BomberNanimon, a bomb with a face and limbs, as the monster of the week. Disney was handling the localization at the time and told the dub team that they absolutely could not have a giant living bomb destroying a fairground on the show. However the team couldn't just cut this episode because it's important to one of the main character's arcs. So, in a bit of rebellion and a tongue-in-cheek reference to the show Bobobo-Bo-Bobobo, which had recently finished airing, the team decided to edit BomberNanimon into a giant orange named Citramon. And Toei (who is in charge of Digimon in anime) signed off on this change. They even came up with the name Citramon after vetoing the proposed Tangerinemon.

What I'm saying here is that it would be absolutely hilarious if Bandai announces a big reveal and it turns out that the reveal is that Citramon is getting official art, a reference book entry, and will be showing up in the card game or next virtual pet. Please make it happen, Bandai.

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