#citramon

[citrus-cactus]

Savers Celebration Week, Day 2 (Prompt: Digimon)

If you know me, you'll know that I HAD to show some love for my very special dub-only awful boy today 🧡 If Citramon has ten fans, I'm one of them. If Citramon has one fan, that's me. If the world is against Citramon, I am against the world, etc. CITRAMON!!!!! 🍊💣🍊

I will continue to wait patiently for Bandai to make him an official Digimon. I will wait as LONG as it TAKES!!!

[takatos-digimon-blog]

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

[aceattorney9000]

Don Patch is best Digimon.

[bethanythebogwitch]

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.

[changeling-droneco]

They should make the dub citramon its own digimon, I fucking love him so much, the concept of a giant digimon that’s an orange and just throwing oranges at shit for no real reason beyond orange juice is hysterical

[digitalworldproblems]

When you show up at a social event everyone expected you to miss.

[nocontextdigi]

[dailydosedigimon]

Citramon