#digifes

[grammarknighty]

This Digifes 2022 promotion poster is quite the plunny fuel for fanfic writers. Makes it look like the Frontier kids hang out with now-adult 02 kids

[seventeenlovesthree]

My limited Japanese skills aside, there may be a drama reading at DigiFes 2023. And since I'm desperate for any kind of news, I'm inclined to believe that the "partner swap" here (and V-mon holding a mirror) might be part of the drama's story.

So this would be...

- Daisuke + V-mon still (stays the same)

- Miyako + Wormmon (ooooh)

- Hikari + Hawkmon (could be Jogress related)

- Takeru + new mon (GIVE TAKERU SOME PLOT!!!)

- Rui + Armadimon (?)

- Ken + Tailmon (this could actually be very interesting!)

- Iori + Patamon (could be Jogress related)

[earlgreymon]

no shit

takeru got a new hat

[ominous-meme]

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)

THE END

[tamapalace]

Digimon Digifes To Be Held July 30th, 2022!

Mark your calendars! The Digimon Partners Twitter account just posted a tweet that the annual Digites will be held this year! Digifes 2022 will be on Saturday, July 30th, 2022! No further information is provided, but they do tease that details will be announced in the future, so get excited!

Last year Digifes was held on August 1st, 2021 at the Yokosuka Arts Theater in Japan to commemorative the 20th anniversary of Digimon Tamers.

The festival typically has some guests, different sessions, live performances, and more! If you’re a Digimon fan, you’ll definitely want to be there. As more details become available, we’ll keep you posted!

[firstagent]

On the Digimon Tamers Drama Fiasco

Last night I watched the Tamers drama reading from Sunday’s DigiFes. You may have heard of it! It’s the one the internet is loudly criticizing (and a few trolls naturally defending), and where even the fansub group added a disclaimer at the beginning warning of its promotion of “far-right politics and conspiracy theories.” The good news here is that if you’re going off of just the screenshots, you’re not getting the full picture of the content. The bad news is that the full picture of the content is actually much worse.

So here’s what you probably heard: that the whole thing’s a heavy-handed rant against cancel culture and political correctness. That’s what the most-distributed screenshots are showing, and that’s what the most influencial accounts who are talking about it are sharing. It’s not wrong- the enemy entity identifies itself as “Political Correctness” and uses “Cancel Culture” as a weapon. They say it in English! There’s no ambiguity about that!

But you can see the trouble with rallying around those, right? Yeah, rallying against someone criticizing “Cancel Culture” gets accused of it themselves. And talking about cancel culture, even criticism of it, shouldn’t be out of bounds: it’s a tricky subject with potential for exploration. I touch on it in my own stuff even! But simply turning cancel culture and political correctness into a vague evil entity reeks of lazy parody, like some skit from a right-wing Youtuber thinking he’s funny.

The real issue with the drama lies in the set-up to all that. Namely Yamaki bursting in, interrupting the usual reunion fluff with a long rant that Youtuber would be proud of. It touches on all the usual nonsense: big tech is censoring everybody! Regular media uses fake news to cover up reality! Fact checkers eliminate dissenting opinion! Add that to some of the content from Konaka’s blog and it spells someone who fell a little hard into some really damaging nonsense. This stuff isn’t about cancel culture. This stuff is untrue, harmful, and has no place in Digimon coming out of anyone but a villain. None of the kids argue, save for Jian being an intentionally weak strawman. That’s the stuff that should be screenshotted.

So what are we supposed to do with that? The easiest thing to do is make a note of Konaka’s current mindset and otherwise forget about it. It’s disappointing to hear for sure, even moreso if you actually watched it. I don’t recommend that by the way: there are a couple nice bits cleaning up some things from the series and both audios, but they aren’t worth it. This is thankfully designed to be ephemeral, meant for a one-time reading with no official release. Even Konaka said this isn’t meant to be taken as canon. And it doesn’t change what Tamers is. It’s still full of love, values reality and the collective, and even Konaka’s trademark spots of conspiratorial nonsense aren’t malignant. This isn’t a case like Harry Potter where now that we recognize the author’s true colors, we’ve become more cognizant of the damage hiding in her pages. We can still love Tamers, we have no need to carry this baggage, and we’ll get past this.

[international-digidestined]

do i need this? no, i have the vital bracelet ver. special.

did i pre-order this solely bc it’s blue and it’s now called “Digivice-V”? YES I DID.

[demonoflight]

Digimon Ghost Game was just announced on DigiFes 2021

I don’t know about anyone else but I’m excited