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[shihalyfie]

Can I ask you a question? Is it ever explained why Ken got a Tag? Was he really supposed to be part of the original group? Thank you.

I don't think he was ever meant to be one of the Adventure kids, especially since (canon is a bit unclear about this, but) Ken's "inciting incident" that made him a Chosen was in 2000. But when you really think about it, there's no rule saying that only the original Adventure kids should have a Tag. I personally get the impression that Homeostasis, the Agents, the Holy Beasts, and other forces behind reaching out to Chosen Children had different methodologies and motives...and none of them were swapping notes.

[shihalyfie]

Bagramon is a very different character in the anime and the manga. I'd like to know your opinion about it, and especially what do you think about his character and arc in the Xros Wars manga :)

To be honest, I don't really treat them as the same character to begin with just because their characterizations and plotlines are so different that it feels like comparing apples and oranges -- detailed comparisons are easy when there's at least some level of parallelism, but the Xros Wars manga really has a very loose relationship with the anime, so I think my mental categorization segments them off completely, with only the occasional factor transferred over of things like "it'd be nice if we could have all three Amano siblings somehow" or something.

As far as manga!Bagramon goes, I think he's interesting! I do think it's unfortunate that Nakashima clearly had a lot of things he wanted to do and so little time and allowance to do it (he himself complained about this in the author's notes), so I definitely get the feeling he wanted to stretch out the story and give it more breathing room, but I really do like having villains who have a "misguided sense of justice" instead of the usual. While it's true that Digimon has had ones that kind of tread that line like Yggdrasil, they're still ones that are such cold-hearted, selfish jerks that you still can't really have much sympathy for them anyway, but I think the manga did do a good job driving home that its version of Bagramon did legitimately think that he was saving everyone from despair.

[shihalyfie]

Is it true that originally Savers was going to deal with the 7GDLs (because of the the first chapters dealing with Digimon and human sins) but that plot arc was aborted because they cancelled the series or something else?

From what I understand (source from someone more knowledgeable on this than me), I don't know of any hard evidence that the anime was ever intended to be too much about that to begin with, but the human sins thing being mentioned at the beginning was a wink and a nod to the fact the real-life franchise (Battle Terminal, etc.) was going really hard on the Demon Lords outside the anime. In fact, Digimon World Data Squad (Digimon Savers Another Mission) is all about the Demon Lords, so it's more likely that the anime referring to them was as a sort of promotional tie-in for that game, or if it were originally intended for the anime but shelved later, it's probably more to do with the fact it was diverted for the game than to do with the series not doing financially well enough to merit a follow-up anime. Savers wasn't cancelled; it was a full-length year-long series that was made with that timeframe in mind, so if they removed or changed any plotlines it's unlikely it had to do with episode count.

[serotoninandespresso]

Hiiii I hope you're having an amazing day! Have a great week!

Hi pookie!!

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[raidark]

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