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"I WON'T LET YOU FIGHT ALONE."

xxx ↘︎DIGIMON ADVENTURE WEEK DAY 4

xxx + HAPPY 24TH ANNIVERSARY TO OUR WAR GAME!

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Day 4: Despair/Favorite Villain

Myotismon, hands down.

This arc was terrifying and had me on my seat as a child. I still remember how my heart ached when Kari turned herself in to Myotismon to stop others from suffering. She'd risk her own life just for peace. Of course, while the act was touching, it was obviously foolish. Despite that, it didn't take away from her character as she and Angewomon would find the power to overcome him.

Honestly, I think what got me was the sheer amount of abuse Tailmon took from Myotismon over the years. How she was basically brainwashed into being a servant, being something that she wasn't. Unfortunately, this is something I could deeply relate to in my childhood. Myotismon's evil reached me, and I felt Tailmon's deep despair, and I'm glad that she found a safe haven where she was meant to be and is herself.

As an aside, I do mean Myotismon/Vamdemon. VenomMyotismon/VenomVamdemon is a wholly different horror that gave me nightmares as a child. The psychological and emotional horror that was Myotismon was the true evil.

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Day 1: Destiny/Favourite Digidestined

This is a repost of an old piece, but it fit perfectly with the first Digimon Adventure Week prompt. Look, I love all of the digidestined a lot, but Izzy has been my fave since I first watch the show when I was 9, <3

I want to do some new stuff for at least a couple of the other prompts, but it will probably be later on the month.

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No. 58 - Puppetmon Also Adventure Week Day 4 - Favorite Villain ---- Note to self... sometimes actually going outside and touching grass helps recharge batteries.

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@digimonadventureweek Day 6, March 6th - Favourite episode: #31 - "Raremon! Surprise Attack on Tokyo Bay"

I have once made a list of my "Top 16 favourite Digimon Adventure episodes" and no matter what I do, I always come back to this one. Not only is this one of the episodes my dad had recorded for me when I was a kid because I couldn't watch it when it first aired on TV, but it also basically contains everything that I love about Digimon Adventure as a whole. It also justifies a lot of my biases and headcanons in the process, but that's just a side note.

This is the closest we've ever gotten to a "slice of life" anime that includes the original cast, as it contains several of its typical elements while focusing on and mirroring primarily Taichi's and Koushirou's experiences on their first evening back home in the real world. I could have taken approximately 100 screenshots of it, because the storytelling and pacing are just so marvelous to me:

Even though it definitely IS a slice-of-life-ish episode, it doesn't lose the main plot at all, but intertwines it perfectly into the story: The kids are looking for the eighth child and Taichi, rightfully, suspects Hikari, since she had been with him during the Hikarigaoka incident. Thus he and Koromon ask her if she owns a Digivice already, which she denies. The viewer can tell that she does own one, it was just stolen and played with by their housecat Meeko/Miko - and she is the reason we're gonna get an action-packed chase scene later down the line of the episode...

Then there's the secondary plot - I refuse to call it B plot, because it is so in the forefront of everything that happens. As mentioned, it's all about Taichi and Koushirou reuniting with their families and trying their best to hide their Digimon from them. They're both having rather warm, heartfelt and happy moments that feel light-hearted (and even a bit comedic) on surface level. The difference here is that Koushirou's personal backstory is also given more space to bloom; while both Taichi's mother, Yuuko, and Koushirou's mother, Kae, sense that something about their sons is off, the latter seems to be ridden by melancholy and guilt about it. Koushirou has been acting nothing but polite and grateful towards her, but she feels like this is not how he should be like, that he is hiding something - which, as her husband, Masami, puts it, "is nothing we can blame him for, since we're hiding something from him as well".

It's the first time the viewer actually hears that Koushirou was adopted - we have seen him having flashbacks and getting somewhat distraught and sad about something, but we didn't know what it was about. One can tell that he means it when he tells his mother that he's grateful - we see it when he keeps smiling happily to Tentomon about everything -, but there is that barrier. He IS hiding something from them - and we know it's not just Tentomon, even if that is perfectly mirrored with Taichi hiding Koromon as well -, but Kae cannot grasp what it is. And he is burdening himself with it, everything: Caring for and hiding his partner, sneaking out of his room to deal with a rampaging Digimon in the middle of the night while (potentially) chasing the eighth child around town - on his own, because the others are already fast asleep -, having a one-on-one fight with an evil Digimon and almost getting impaled, while also trying to reassure his parents that everything is alright. A lot to bear for a 10-year-old, huh...

And why was he prompted to act in the first place? Not only because he was notified of Raremon being a threat, but also because the Yagami cat went on a stroll with the eighth child's Digivice and lost it several times over.

This episode simply has it all: It has a sense of happiness and peacefulness, it has comedic elements, it has a suspenseful fight and chase scene; the main plot and character development are perfectly intertwined and even though there is so much going on, it doesn't feel rushed, bloated or like anything shouldn't be there. The characters are pretty unreliable narrators while the viewer can see everything that happens - nothing gets resolved in this episode, it consists of a repeated "Almost!", but that is fine, because it contextualizes everything that will happen from now on.

It also tells us so much about the Yagami and Izumi family dynamics, including the fact that the mothers are very familiar with the fact that their sons are close friends who call each other at very odd times...

The adoption topic is rather heavy, not downplayed and presented in a light that makes you hope that all of this will eventually resolve.

It's just very dear to my heart and I would absolutely love a whole anime that deals with all of the kids and their backstories similarly, giving them all temporary main-character status.

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AHHHH I DIDNT REALIZE TODAY WAS THE 25TH ANIVERSARY OF DIGIMON ADVENTURE!!! HERE ARE SOME CUTE PICTURES !!!

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When DemiDevimon takes your "green chili sauce"

Day 5-Favorite Supporting Digimon

This one requires no explanation. We all know exactly what scene with this character absolutely broke us as kids.