#darbec

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thank!! I had a great (if minorly overwhelming) day, and it was really nice seeing these messages even if I was too busy being Social In Real Life to answer them at the time! You’re all lovely, thank you so much 💖

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I’m still in stitches over WacDaniel’s! Such a silly joke but I love it! The picture is absolutely perfect!

I wish that I could take full credit for that bit, but sadly I can not.

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How often does Stinger practice singing? Does he have his own recording studio on the Orion? OH! DOES HE HAVE BACKUP SINGERS?!?! THESE ARE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS HERE THAT NEED ANSWERS! (Unless you’re busy saving the universe... that probably takes priority...)

stinger refuses, sorry

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Can we see some of the kyurangers (or any character at all really) wrapped up in blankets like mod?

contract, complete ✨

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Any chance we can see evil Naga in your art style? Or if this blog is only for the pure and innocent, regular Naga dressed up as evil Naga?

pfffff i ain’t putting myself through drawing actually-evil naga, no way unless i was being paid to i guess

… But a little doodle of regular-naga dressed up, on the other hand…yeah i know the scarf is only for Ophiuchus Metal but shut up i love the scarf

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What are the plans for when you’ve finally caught up with the entire franchise? Will you continue the blog? Start on a new franchise? Take one off requests? Honestly I’d accept anything at this point, and I’m sure many of your other followers would too!

When I started this blog, I had no expectation of getting any kind of following, so any thoughts on what I might do with this blog after I was finished liveblogging hadn’t even occurred to me. But with great audience comes great responsibility, I suppose!

I imagine that the first thing I’ll do is finish up all those essay ideas I’ll have kicking around and chose to sideline for the sake of getting back to liveblogging. After that, there’s a few things I would consider: I could turn this into a critical analysis blog, writing longer, better, more comprehensive analysis essays covering a wider variety of topics, maybe even dabble in making video essays, seeing as I already have the recording equipment and an editor. The idea of doing liveblog requests is also appealing, but I’d have to lay some ground rules before being willing to commit to that. 

Of course, I still have over 200 episodes’ worth of content to get through before I have to worry about that, so for now, I’m willing to delegate this problem to Future-Jos. One thing I will say for sure, is that The End won’t be the end. I will absolutely continue doing SOMEthing with this. :)

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So what are your thoughts on the protagonist digimon designs in this season?

I think at one point I said something to the effect of “The evolutions in Frontier are the least interesting part of Frontier”, and I think part of that sentiment was that, at the time, I literally could not remember most of the designs offhand.

So far, I think the conceit of having them all be human-type Digimon unfairly constrains them into having a very samey-feeling about them, and that feeling is very....Power Rangers (or perhaps I should say Super Sentai). And Chakmon ends up sticking out like a sore thumb by being a teddy bear in the midst of all these Humans With Themed Armor And Masks around him. The other effect of that is that when one looks at all 10 of the Legendary Warriors in the intro, Duskmon sticks out like crazy among the 5 corrupted heroes and you know, long before he even shows up in the series proper, that there’s Something Different about him. 

....I’m sorry. I’m trying, folks, I really am.

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If you could sum up the tamers' (and I guess impmon's since I'm interested) arcs in one word or brief phrase, what would you say? I feel like all the characters in this season go through an absolutely huge change compared to previous seasons.

I’m sitting here wondering if I’m actually smart enough to provide this question with a satisfactory answer. I’ll do my best:

Takato: Crossing the generational gap from child to parent

Ruki: The nature of strength, and the responsibilities that come with being the strongest

Jianliang: Morality, and what it means to pursue one’s own truth and to allow others to do the sameImpmon: Forgiveness

You wanted brief, right? :v