MetalSeadramon EX10-012, Puppetmon EX10-020, Machinedramon EX10-035, Piedmon EX10-057, and Apocalymon EX10-061 Alt Arts by tyuga from EX-10 Extra Booster Sinister Order
Digimon High School AU inspired by the Pendulum art book! Took a while, but I'm proud to finally finish this. [:
Of course, I can't just have the designs by themselves! I drew a couple scenarios to build the world:
I might come up with more designs and comics in the future. In fact, it would be fun to show their life outside school, too. As for Ankylomon, he somehow made that uniform work. XD
I was just going to do Piemon, but then these two had a cool shot together and MetalSeadramon got left out because his moment already passed.
There we go. Problem resolved. He'll get his time later.
I enjoy this shot of everyone running past Gomamon and quickly evolving. It works well to get all them back up.
lol. Gomamon looks so unsure and disappointed. Also Jou grabbing onto literal blades of grass like that will help him better than the ground.
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That's certainly twisted (ok, go ahead, shoot me lol), but cool worldbuilding design.
I love that it implies that Angemon is the strongest Adult digimon there by not being knocked down. But more likely, the reason they did it was he needed to be knocked out of commission when everyone goes Perfect or it will be even more obvious that he hasn't yet.
You two are doing great though, it's not your fault. The last thing to die is hope, yea, yea, and that means I have to be incredibly patient.
Hikari, I love your enthusiasm and heart. There's no way this was working out for either of you though.
He has no control of what he's doing. Don't worry about it 🙂.
I hate to say it, but those are very endearing drawings.
How about you don't? You all have made your introductions well enough.
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Mimi is at the start of a very long, disheartening few days.
I guess he did pull a Piccolo and took one for the kids.
I rewatched Digimon Adventure after nearly 20 years (wow, that hits hard) and coming back to it, I was surprised to discover the story continued beyond 02. I had no idea about Our War Game, Tri, or 02 The Beginning. I watched Kizuna a couple of years ago and I barely remembered 02, which, just like in my childhood, I ended up abandoning halfway through. And yes, I know 02 has important elements for understanding the rest of the movies and OVAs but it never resonated with me, and that's a whole other topic.
While Digimon Adventure is a widely known and deeply analyzed show, where each viewer brings their own interpretation, I'd like to share my personal overall perspective. Watching the series in its original japanese with subtitles for the first time significantly enriched my experience, revealing nuances I'd missed before.
The story begins with a narration that immediately sets a tone of global imbalance:
"Strange things happened in the world that summer. In Southeast Asia, it stopped raining and rice paddies dried up. In the Middle East, rain caused floods. In the United States, the coldest summer was recorded. And seven children at a summer camp didn't know that this would be the beginning of their adventure in an unknown world."
This opening foreshadows that the digital world and the human world are interconnected. The climate anomalies mirror the chaos in the digital world, suggesting that what is broken in one world affects the other.
The story then introduces us to seven children who, during that same summer camp, are transported to the digital world after the sudden arrival of the digivices like a meteor shower. Through their adventures, they discover they've been chosen to save that world from darkness with the help of their digimon partners, the digital monsters. But Digimon Adventure is much more than a series of battles. Its essence lies in personal growth. Through challenges and adversities, the children overcome their insecurities, strengthen their bonds, and develop their attributes. This evolution is reflected in the growth of their digimon, creating a parallel between their internal development and the growing power of their digimon companions.
Each child has their own journey:
Taichi, impulsive and brave, learns to be more reflective before acting and to care for the wellbeing of his team, understanding that genuine courage and leadership are demonstrated by facing danger with awareness.
Yamato, reserved and protective, discovers the importance of friendship and trusting others.
Sora learns that love is not only given but also received.
Koushiro, with his curiosity becomes key to understanding the digital world.
Mimi, who initially seems capricious, demonstrates her big heart.
Joe, always worried about responsibility, learns to trust himself.
And Takeru, the youngest, grew to become a symbol of hope, finding his inner strength.
Later, an eighth chosen child is added: Hikari, Taichi's younger sister, who couldn't travel with them at first due to illness. Her digimon, Tailmon, had a different destiny from the others. Separated from the rest, she was dragged into Vamdemon's darkness, forgetting her purpose until she finally finds Hikari and remembers the light she always had inside.
But Digimon Adventure isn't just the story of these eight children with valuable attributes that resonated among them. There are several worlds and a huge story beyond them: ancient prophecies, chosen children who came before, digimon who guide, fight, and protect. Characters like Gennai, Leomon, Ogremon, Centarumon, Piccolomon, Andromon, Elecmon, Whamon, and many more enrich the story, giving it more depth.
Also, digimon carry inherent attributes. Their potential is shaped not only by their data structure but also by the emotions, values, and environment surrounding them. One of the most interesting aspects is that digivolutions aren't fixed or linear. They often emerge from emotional triggers, moments of clarity, or strong bonds with their partners.
To understand this complexity, digimon are categorized in these ways:
1. Attribute: These act like behavioral alignments or data structures.
Vaccine: protective or heroic
Data: neutral or balanced
Virus: wild or destructive.
They can affect interactions and matchups in lore, like vaccine being strong against virus, but they don't define morality, a virus type can be as noble as any other, depending on its heart and context.
This isn't a category but some digimon do have a sort of elemental theme. For example, focusing on the chosen digimon:
Tentomon and his evolutions often use electricity
Piyomon and her evolutions often use fire
Gomamon and his evolutions often use water.
These elements reflect more of a design choice or thematic identity than a fixed system. All of this reinforces that evolution in Adventure is driven less by combat rules or elemental progression and more by the environment, emotional resonance and the bonds between partners.
The digivice is crucial, acting as a stabilizing bridge that amplifies the connection between a digimon and their partner. It safely channels emotional energy, enabling stable evolutions. Basically, the digivice is a conduit that converts courage, love, hope, and other powerful values into the digital energy a digimon needs to digivolve safely and in sync with its partner's heart.
The digivices and crests facilitate the connection between the chosen children and their digimon. Each digimon is an unconditional companion, almost like an extension of their partner's soul, while the children act as catalysts, allowing their digimon to reach their full potential.
An interest aspect is that digivolutions aren't permanent. Digimon can evolve and then return to a previous stage, which makes them feel more alive and emotionally complex. This cycle of evolution and deevolution reflects the fluidity of personal growth.
The crests represent the qualities that each one must recognize and cultivate. That's what I understood in episode 45, when the entity that spoke to the children through Hikari reminded them that those virtues had always been within them. However, their challenge wasn't just possessing them, but understanding and applying them. The crests and their circuits served as guides in that process, but even when they were destroyed by Apocalymon, each attribute remained engraved in the children's hearts, demonstrating that their growth was genuine and that those qualities were already part of them.
Each character's journey is defined by their core attribute: Taichi learns about true Courage, Yamato discovers Friendship, Sora understands Love, Koushiro is guided by Knowledge, Mimi embodies Purity, Joe struggles with Reliability, and Hikari and Takeru bring Light and Hope when everything seems lost.
However, focusing on the adventure of the chosen children was, for me, a great choice. Their digimon are not only endearing, they are also their most loyal companions, those who push them to overcome their limits (special mention to Gabumon, who helped Yamato find his way when darkness threatened to consume him).
One of the pillars of the story is the relationship between Taichi and Yamato. Their personalities constantly clash but behind their differences there's respect, admiration and resonance. Taichi admires Yamato's determination and strength, while Yamato values Taichi's courage and leadership. Their conflicts reflect the weight of their roles and how, despite everything, their bond is unbreakable.
The children's journey began on File Island, where Devimon corrupted the island and we witnessed how sometimes the smallest can become the strongest, like Angemon, who emerged from Patamon and sacrificed himself to protect the chosen children.
After that, they went to the Server Continent, where they met Etemon. He was defeated by Agumon's Perfect evolution into MetalGreymon in an intense battle which created a distortion in space, sending Etemon away and pulling Taichi and Koromon into the real world.
In the real world, Taichi and Koromon quickly realized that digimon were starting to appear and cause problems, though humans couldn't see them. This showed them that a serious crisis was unfolding in the digital world, and they needed to return to stop it.
When Taichi and Agumon finally got back, he found out that only half a day had passed in the real world, but almost a month went by in the digital world. While he was gone, a minion of Vamdemon, PicoDevimon, caused trouble among the scattered chosen children, who had separated after Taichi's sudden disappearance. Taichi and Agumon then worked to reunite them. As they came back together, every chosen child began to achieve their Perfect evolutions and prepared for defeating Vamdemon.
Their fight with Vamdemon was huge. He even managed to cross into the real world, wanting to defeat the 8th chosen child, Hikari. The children saved her, but their struggle wasn't over.
Gennai shared an old prophecy:
"The sky will be darkened by the wings of many bats. The fallen people will invoke the name of the undead digimon king and when the clock strikes the hour of the beast, the undead king will reveal himself in his true form as the beast. Then angels will shoot arrows of hope and light at the loved ones of those they've been sent to protect, and a miracle will happen."
This led them to VenomVamdemon, who appeared in the real world. Koushiro figured out the prophecy: Taichi and Yamato needed to be hit by arrows of light and hope from Angewomon and Angemon to unlock the Mega evolutions of WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon. With the power of all the children's crests and their Mega digimon, they defeated VenomVamdemon.
However, a greater distortion spread across both worlds, and the digital world became even more chaotic. This was due to the vast time difference between the two worlds, while the children were in the real world, the true enemy had been causing chaos back in the digital world, and its effects were now spilling over into their own world. Realizing the danger, the children had to go back.
There, they faced the Dark Masters: Metalseadramon ruling the waters, Pinocchimon the forests, Mugendramon the cities, and their leader, Piemon. They beat each one, but it was a hard fight, and they lost good allies along the way.
When they finally defeated the Dark Masters, the real enemy showed up: Apocalymon. This being, born from the resentment, sadness, and hatred of digimon who couldn't evolve, survive, or revive, was the reason for the huge spatial distortion that messed with time in the digital world and caused the climate changes in the real world. With their strong attributes, their digimon, and their digivices, the chosen children finally defeated Apocalymon, bringing peace back to the digital world and starting a new era.
This victory, though, meant they had to say a sudden sad goodbye to their digimon partners and the world they worked so hard to save.
By revisiting this story I was struck by how meaningful it still is. It was a reminder that our values aren't fixed, we have to actively live by them and hold onto them to evolve.
And finally, something that should never be forgotten: "Brave Heart" is an anthem.
Like I’m specifically the Puppetmon from the first season. I remember Metalseadramon and Apocalypsemon. Me wanting “friends” was my whole reason for joining them. Why Apocalypsemon just took me as a little Tanemon and forcefully digivolved me into a Puppetmon.
But I also remember being reborn in the daycare area and finding a tamer for me??? I only remember she was a toy maker and I hardly went into a rookie, champion or ultimate form. Which I don’t remember at all rn.
How did I get a happy ending that doesn’t make any sense!!!! I was EVIL I WANNA BE EVIL WHY IS THIS WOMAN MY TAMER HOW DID SHE FIND ME WHO IS SHE WHAT ARE MY OTHER DIGIVOLUTIONS WHAT SHOULD I DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
