Welcome to the Digimon Tamer-Gamer Girls Bracket! Here we'll pit all our favorite Digimon video game girls against each other, and see which comes out the true champion!
Above I have gathered every single female tamer in a Digimon game that I know of (if you know of any that aren't listed, please drop a line!), and together, we will host a series of polls to determine who is the favorite among them!
This bracket does not feature characters with no art, crossover characters, or characters who originated in anime but later appeared in games.
Polls will begin this Wednesday at 6:00 PM EST to give a few days for people to submit any unlisted female characters! You are also welcome to submit propaganda to be posted alongside a character!! Polls will last a week each. Due to the number of entries, polls will be post in sets of ~11 each for the first round, and ~8 each for the second round, after which they will be posted all at once.
You can find the full list of matches - and the dates when they'll be posted - under the cut. Good luck to all our girls!
EDIT: Matches were re-made after additions of the New Century cast, Appmon 3DS cast, and several miscellaneous others!
SET 1 (Wednesday October 22nd):
Soul Chaser Player (Soul Chaser) vs Encounters Player (Encounters)
Inori Misono (Time Stranger) vs Tres (Lost Evolution)
Kanata Hondo (Alysion) vs Erika Mishima (Hacker's Memory)
Asuka (Lost Evolution) vs Miss Shya (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Alice Yazawa (New Century) vs Cecilia (World 2)
Makiko Date (Cyber Sleuth) vs Shiki (Next Order)
Himari Oofuchi (Next Order) vs Kizuna (Lost Evolution)
New Century Player (New Century) vs Kenpa (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Ototate Shina (World 2) vs Kayo (Appli Monster 3DS)
Mon (ReArise) vs Sayo (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Sarah (Story) vs ReArise Player (ReArise)
Ellie (Story) vs Luche (Next Order)
SET 2 (Friday October 24th):
Akiho Rindou (Re: Digitize) vs Nokia Shiramine (Cyber Sleuth)
Komachi (Sunburst/Moonlight) vs Yuuko Kamishiro (Cyber Sleuth)
Rina Shinomiya (Re: Digitize) vs SueAnn (Story)
Miyuki Minase (Survive) vs Barone (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Yukari (Appli Monsters 3DS) vs Julia (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Ai Kanzaki (New Century) vs Lyla (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Ayumi (World 2) vs Kakumi (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Michi Shinjo (ReArise) vs Fei Wong Tomoe Ignacio (Cyber Sleuth)
Kanan Yuki (Time Stranger) vs Itsuki (Appli Monsters 3DS)
Mio (Appli Monsters 3DS) vs Mirei Mikagura (Re: Digitize)
Mission Chief Khalil (World 2) vs Youko Aragaki (New Century)
SET 3 (Sunday October 26th):
Story Player (Story) vs Estina Violet (World 2)
Chihiro Tsukimori (ReArise) vs Ami Aiba (Cyber Sleuth)
Vivi (World 2) vs Yui (Lost Evolution)
Futre (Alysion) vs Lin Lin Shao (World 2)
Miu Shinonome (Survive) vs Valner Dragnogh (Alysion)
Sanae Tokumori (New Century) vs Aoi Shibuya (Survive)
Esmeralda (World 2) vs Dorothy (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Suzie (Sunburst/Moonlight) vs Miss Achilles (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Mayu Kohinata (ReArise) vs Hina Kurihara (Links)
Nozomi Tamada (ReArise) vs Mary Ann (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Minori (World 3) vs Tomomi (Story)
Saki Kimishima (Survive) vs Sara Shinkai (ReArise)
SET 4 (Saturday November 1st):
Encounters Player (Encounters) vs Erika Mishima (Hacker's Memory)
Asuka (Lost Evolution) vs Cecilia (World 2)
Makiko Date (Cyber Sleuth) vs Himari Oofuchi (Next Order)
Kenpa (Sunburst/Moonlight) vs Kayo (Appli Monsters 3DS)
Sayo (Sunburst/Moonlight) vs ReArise Player (ReArise)
Luche (Next Order) vs Nokia Shiramine (Cyber Sleuth)
Yuuko Kamishiro (Cyber Sleuth) vs Rina Shinomiya (Re: Digitize)
Miyuki Minase (Survive) vs Julia (Sunburst/Moonlight)
SET 5 (Monday November 3rd):
Ai Kanzaki (New Century) vs Ayumi (World 2)
Fei Wong Tomoe Ignacio (Cyber Sleuth) vs Kanan Yuki (Time Stranger)
Mirei Mikagura (Re: Digitize) vs Youko Aragaki (New Century)
Estina Violet (World 2) vs Ami Aiba (Cyber Sleuth)
Yui (Lost Evolution) vs Futre (Alysion)
Miu Shinonome (Survive) vs Aoi Shibuya (Survive)
Dorothy (Sunburst/Moonlight) vs Suzie (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Mayu Kohinata (ReArise) vs Nozomi Tamada (ReArise)
Minori (World 3) vs Saki Kimishima (Survive)
SET 6 (Tuesday November 11th):
Inori Misono (Time Stranger) vs Erika Mishima (Hacker's Memory)
Cecilia (World 2) vs Makiko Date (Cyber Sleuth)
Kayo (Appli Monsters 3DS) vs Sayo (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Nokia Shiramine (Cyber Sleuth) vs Yuuko Kamishiro (Cyber Sleuth)
Miyuki Minase (Survive) vs Ai Kanzaki (New Century)
Kanan Yuki (Time Stranger) vs Mirei Mikagura (Re: Digitize)
Ami Aiba (Cyber Sleuth) vs Futre (Alysion)
Aoi Shibuya (Survive) vs Dorothy (Sunburst/Moonlight)
Mayu Kohinata (ReArise) vs Saki Kimishima (Survive)
Released 2010. Never localized, but has been fan translated. I don't share a lot of opinions with the people that ran the fan translation. In fact hate many of them.
I'm going to play this game anyway and blog about it while I do.
- One Piece Legend of Rainbow Island
- HunterxHunter Those who inherit will
- Digimon Story Lost Evolution
- Digimon Story Super Xros Wars Blue/Red
- HunterxHunter Each Ones Determination
- One Piece Set Sail Pirate Crew!
Okay, so it's been a day since I actually played this so this might only mostly be accurate, but here's the story so far and what I think of it.
My thoughts are in blue
Okay so you're at a festival with your friends and you see a shooting star land in the woods. You all go out to investigate and find an orange dinosaur next to a spaceship. Three weirdos pop out of the spaceship and make you fight your new orange dinosaur against their poop monster who has depression. They go to leave and abduct you by accident, leaving you stranded in the Digital world.
The weirdos names are Uno, Dos, and Tres here they are:
The character designers did not like Uno or Dos as much as they did Tres.
Okay so I went into the game with a positive mindset. I'm pretty excited to finally be playing this game because it's a fan translation project for a game series I really love that I've been following since I was in middle school.
That's why I feel bad that most of what I have to say early on is so negative.
The opening is okay. Plenty of Digimon starts with an underdog being thrown into an unfamiliar location (usually the Digital World) with no support network. However, all of my favorite entries in the series break from this trend, and this is not an exception so far.
Alright, so we fell out of the ship on accident, but the smaller children aren't with us so we need to find out where the ship went and rescue them. Eventually I stumble on a digitown and the Digimon there promise to help fix up a ship so we can go and get the kids. They send me out to find some parts from the crashed ship nearby and I fight Uno Dos and Tres again near their crashed Digiship.
They reveal that they are beings known as 'Selectors' who select Digimon that will be moved to the next world in a process that they are calling defragmenting. Back at Digitown we see in action what happens to Digimon who aren't selected. They are delt with by the Erasers. Selectors select. Erasers erase.
In a cutscene we watch as the Erasers erase a sukamon, numemon, and geremon, but leave unharmed a gatomon, terriermon, and renamon. When we get there we fight the erasers to get them to go away, and find that they've trashed the place including the Digivolution Tree.
The Digivolution Tree defines what Digimon can digivolve into what Digimon. It's kind of meta. The erasers have destroyed about half the tree, and when a digimon is no longer in the tree, and all living members have been erased that digimon is effectively extinct.
Okay, so it's becoming clear why the game is called what it is by this point. Digimon evolutions are lost, I have to restore them. Stop Yggdrasil or King Drasil, or by some small miracle a different bad guy in this series from deleting the Digimon they don't like. It feels a lot like a twist on the plot of Digital Monster: X Evolution so I am betting on Yggdrasil being behind this, but I haven't seen a royal knight yet so there's hope!
And hey about that 'digimon they dont' like' bit, because that does seem to be what's going on, right? I highlighted the digimon erased/selected in green earlier. The ones being deleted are three ugly poop digimon from the beginning of the franchise. The ones being preserved are all fluffy cute ones.
Geremon, Sukamon, Numemon (erase on sight)
Terriermon, Renamon, Gatomon (keep they too precious uwu)
So like that would be really cool, right? I'm reaching a bit, but if the plot of this game is a meta thing about how the main villian (executies) wants to fix the digital world (digimon franchise) by removing the lame/stinky/ugly Digimon then that's really cool actually, and I really hope that's the direction this is going!
But like. If that's your message. Why did you start me with Agumon?
So, I got through the early part of the game yesterday and I'm liking most of it. These are my first impressions
I've been sick of the Digimon Franchise's main star players being recycled over and over as the main digimon in every game for a long time. So, when the game started me with an Agumon, then immediately gave me a Gabumon as my second Digimon, I was a little let down.
The battle system is pretty much the same, but your digimon know less moves, which is sad, but they made resistances and weaknesses matter more, which is a plus.
One thing I did not see coming, but really really loved was that they ripped the fossil cleaning mechanics from Fossil Fighters. In this game you get bugged plates from defeating Digimon and you have to clean them as one of the ways of unlocking new Digimon to use.
I've completed Fossil Fighters twice including all the parts on every Dino, which is 800 fossil cleanings at least. I also did repeat parts and gems and everything else for fun. I'm not exaggerating when I say that even though I see this mentioned as a negative several times this might be the part I love the most so far.
