#frontierfest

[digimonfrontierfest2022]

FrontierFest: A Digimon Frontier 20th Anniversary Celebration

Hosted by @citrus-cactus​ and @rockthistowninsideout​

Hey there Frontier fans! In honour of the 20th anniversary of Digimon Frontier’s first episode airing in Japan, we wanted to do something special for a series many of us love by giving everyone a chance to celebrate, reminisce, and connect with one another via a series of daily prompts. Please use the tag #FrontierFest so we can find/reblog your posts, and keep in mind this is intended to be a Frontier-positive event. The event will begin on April 7 in whatever time zone you live in, and of course you can fill the prompts in any way you wish and skip any you don’t want to do. Thanks, and have fun celebrating 20 years of Frontier!

DAYS + PROMPT LIST:

APRIL 7: Your first memory of Frontier.

APRIL 8: What do you like best about the series? Alternately, how does it continue to inspire you?

APRIL 9: What are your hopes for the “official” Digimon Frontier 20th anniversary?

APRIL 10: Favorite Main Character (Human)

APRIL 11: Favorite Main Character (Digimon/Digimon form)

APRIL 12: Favorite Villain

APRIL 13: Favorite Minor Character (Human) [sibling, parent, other kid in the Digital World, etc.]

APRIL 14: Favorite Minor Character (Digimon) [a digimon only appearing in ~1 episode, a Trailmon, etc.]

APRIL 15: Favorite Digital World location

APRIL 16: Favorite Spirit Evolution (Human, Beast, Hybrid, etc.) [can be one that didn’t appear in the show, i.e. Strabimon]

APRIL 17: Favorite Ancient Evolution

APRIL 18: Which one of the 10 Legendary Spirit elements would you want to be partnered with, and why?

APRIL 19: Favorite episode/moment

APRIL 20: Favorite supplemental media [audio drama, movie, character song, trading card art, etc.]

APRIL 21: Favorite detail from the Blu-Ray Drama CD (“A Train Named Hope”)

APRIL 22: Favorite relationship in the series

APRIL 23: Any (romantic) ships?

APRIL 24: What aspect of the series would you like to have been more developed?

APRIL 25: Any headcanons or AUs you’d like to share?

APRIL 26: Frontier fanartist/author recommendations? [you can recommend yourself!]

APRIL 27: Free Day [talk about something we didn’t cover!]

[demonoflight]

FrontierFest - Day 9

(Full prompt list here)

Favorite Digital World location

You know, this is actually a very hard question?! Frontier’s Digital World is so colorful, vibrant full of amazing places positively brimming with life. I mean, there’s the Fortuneteller Village,

And Akiba Market,

And Toy Town,

And the Three Archangels’ castles,

And the Village of Beginnings,

AND SO MANY MORE!!! Look at all these places, it’s all so pretty! I HAVEN’T EVEN TALKED ABOUT THE THREE MOONS YET!! THERE’S THREE MOONS, YO!!!

It’s just. Such a beautiful world. And I bet we didn’t even explore half of it. Frontier’s Digital World just rocks. Gosh.

[earlgreymon]

@digimonfrontierfest2022 april 11 favorite main character (digimon/digimon form)

look, i'm a simple-minded person. as soon i see a girl-type digimon, i'm gonna get hyped.

i barely have the childhood memory of frontier, but the first time i caught fairymon (or flyermon, as i misheard back then), i got starstruck the way i first saw angewomon. she was so pretty that i thought, "wow i want to be like her."

[evide]

Frontier Fest Day 1: Your First Memory Of Frontier

[citrus-cactus]

FrontierFest, Day 10

Favorite Spirit Evolution (Human, Beast, Hybrid, etc.)

Who's a good boy?

WHO'S A GOOD BOY?

It's you!!

You're a good boy <3

[kouichikimura]

I can start celebrating now. It’s the 7th in Japan.

HAPPY 20TH TO DIGIMON FRONTIER.

It means a lot to me, Kouichi even more.

[digitalgate02]

New Digi-game!!

Feel free to repost it on other social media. I already credited the pics used in it, just in case.

No need for credit. Just enjoy ✨

[speedsketch]

Frontier Fest Day 5

APRIL 11: Favorite Main Character (Digimon/Digimon form)

Hmm… 

I wonder…

who…

…could it be?

Surprise. It’s Flamon. I love this little dude so much, and alluded to as much in my first post.

If not for the little guy, I wouldn’t be here today, adding to the cacophony of Frontier Fans who suddenly came out of the wood-work. Seriously, Where have y’all been hiding?

Anyhow, Flamon despite being a one-off character stuck with me over the years. I like how he’s not any one “thing” but an amalgamation of creatures. His eyes are large and expressive in extreme contrast to the other Flame Digimon- they’re all masked which limits their ability to emote. 

Quick tangent, eyes in animation are one of the easiest ways to get an emotion across. You can tell a lot from the way the eyes look without any other feature in play. A great example of this in action is Let Me Explain Studios (https://youtu.be/eo62AEDwTKY) on Youtube. She articulates the concept so much better than I can.

Back to Frontier. I adore Flamon visually and narratively. Visually, he’s the easiest goddamn Digimon design in the whole show to draw (Spirit wise). Seriously, WHAT the HELL was someone thinking when they ok'd these complex, hyper detailed characters for ANIMATION!? Animation is one, not cheap to start with. Two, TIME CONSUMING as all get out. And Three, on a tight deadline (usually). But I digress. 

Narratively, Flamon serves as one of Takuya’s best character moments. While the show doesn’t make an effort to show us his past or his struggles, it does give us a great insight on Takuya’s inner turmoil in the here and now. 

He’s at his absolute lowest point and is ready to throw in the towel. DarkTrailmon sending him back to the human world in what I assume to be a dream really hammers home how lost Takuya is. His drive is gone, spirit broken and he’s ready to run away, and try to erase his mistakes, all while being hunted by an apparition  of Duskmon.

Only when Takuya learns that no matter what mistakes he’s made, he’s grown as a person and made friends he can never leave behind. You get to see a huge range from the character all through the lens of this little rookie Digimon.

Second is probs tied between Vritramon -I can finally draw him and I enjoy doing so, and Aldamon, whose face is a goddamn nightmare, same goes for Agnimon. And don’t get me started on Lobomon’s forehead eyeballs.