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For me, personally, I loathed Wormmon's dub voice. Someday I might, but I did sorta wish we would've gotten a sequel. I wasn't big on the main character, but I actually found his sister and Ikuto interesting characters. Yeah. That was an interesting part of the series. It was nice how realization set in and how he lost his courage but realized he had to get over it to save his friend. I just hate killing things I guess. I mean, we built on their land, you know? They belong outside, so let's shoo them back out...but if I see a spider, nope nope nope nope! I have a terrible fear of them. I can't even kill one. One time about three years ago, I took a trip to Tokyo from my place in Yamagata for a week. I cleaned up and stuff before I left, which included no dishes in the sink and stuff. After my week, I returned home, headed to the kitchen, a spider was in my sink. I freaked out. I was petrified. It took me a long time to deal with it. I even called my mother! That's how much of a wimp I am. What I did was put my vacuum hose into the sink, turned it on for like 20 minutes and didn't go near it, but kept an eye on it. After that, I vacuumed my floor and even soap powder to make sure it wouldn't crawl back out. Total freak out. ^^; Well, if it helps any, takoyaki is more dough than octopus, imo. I don't think I could ever be a vegetarian. I like the taste of meat too much. lol That aside, I'm also diabetic. A high protein and veggie diet works best for me since carbs like bread, rice, and pasta causes my blood sugar to shoot up unless it balances out with the other foods, like if I have a Japanese school lunch. Doing that myself is....tedious, so it's just easy to eat veggies and some kind of protein, whether it's fish, chicken, beef, etc. Usually I stick to fish or chicken, though. For example, for this week, my dinners consisted of a salad and fish. Today, however, since it's Friday, I'm treating myself to....chili. lol I know, not really that interesting. I guess we'd have to keep everything separate and to that particular series' universe. That was pretty funny, Daisuke thinking the two had a date and then the look of confusion he had when they invited him along. I now wonder if they'll reference that in Tri. Maybe the next film will take place during the summer or something or close to August 1 and they bring up the Wizarmon stuff. Oh yeah, you're right. They are fallen angel types. Hm, I'm liking the sound of there being a Digi-heaven and a Digi-hell. They have Digi-gods, so why not, right? Hey, I just realized something... The theater that I go to that actually air the Digimon films - it has a limited release here - is in Shibuya. I only go to that one because there's a bus that stops right in front of the theater, so it's pretty convenient. So Gotsumon and Pumpmon's spirits are watching the Digimon movies, rooting on Gabumon and Patamon. You know, all this talk about alt evos here has actually given me the urge to go back to that Digimon fic I mentioned that took place two years after Adventure 02's ending and rewriting that. I just redid the first chapter. In this way, I could see something like that working. It's plausible. That wouldn't surprise me. It was probably just easier to do that. Also, maybe there was a chance of one of Juri's friends actually becoming a Tamer and the idea was dropped to have Shaochung/Shuichon become one instead as her silhouette was never in the first version of the intro, from what I recall. Well, US style we fail if we don't do our work or fail everything. For my school district, anything under 70% was considered a fail. If we failed like one of the important subjects like English, we'd have to retake it the next year or in summer school since that's something you have to take every year. It wasn't like some other subjects where if you didn't pass it, you had an extra year to try again....but then again, all schools are different and varies by state/city/county, etc. I mentioned how in my county, for high-school seniors, one time to some coworkers how if we had good attendance and good grades (and average of 85% or higher in said class) you can get exempt from taking that particular class' final exam. For me, I was exempt from all of my classes, except my math class (I had like an 84.9%) and US Government (I just really really sucked in this class ^^) Anyway, the others I was sharing this with didn't have that in their schools. We also had SATs in high school of course, but taking that was optional, but recommended. This pairing did actually surprise me. We knew that Miyako had a crush on Ken, but of course given their ages, we never could see anything from his side. I heard that they wanted a second pairing and chose those two because their seiyu were good friends. That's something else I liked about Adventure/Adventure 02 or maybe I should say the Digimon series as a whole. The characters don't all come from traditional Japanese homes. I'll use Takeru as an example. A while back, on the myanimelist forums, I went on about how I could understand why Takeru's fantasy at the end of 02 was to have his folks back together. One person argued that he thought it was stupid because Takeru was older and should've been used to it and gotten over that. I pointed out how untraditional Takeru's life was compared to the others around him. 02 Takeru was a latchkey kid. In the episode where Hikari was stranded in the Digital World, Daisuke even asked if it was okay for him to head back. Everyone else was doing things to get away with staying out later than usual, like how Yamato had to tell Daisuke's folks that he was going to be late and stuff. Takeru mentioned that his mother was going to be out late and that they didn't have to worry or think up something for him. Also, later on in the series, it's pretty much implied that Takeru hangs out at Daisuke's place a lot. Natsuko met up with Daisuke's father, who was returning Takeru's notebook to her and she was thanking him for always having Takeru over. Daisuke is part of a nuclear family, as is Miyako, Ken, and Hikari. I could see the desire to have a normal family burying itself in the back of his mind. Even then, I don't think Takeru's desire was necessarily to have his parents back together entirely, but to have a normal family setting in general since, in a way, he's never really had it. Nope and I don't mind it, personally...despite my love of the pairing. For where I grew up, public schools didn't have entrance exams or anything like that, but yeah, the private schools did.

New members so decided to bump this.

Same for me.

So very true. In anime/manga, for example, junior and senior high students seem to have way more free time than their real-life counterparts.

"Saturday Japanime" was the block's name, but it aired late on Saturday nights.

Back in the mid-90s, Cartoon Network called it Japanimation and Japanime.

Here in Japan it would be classified as "anime".

Surprisingly, even though I liked Savers ok, I don't recall much about it...but yeah. I truly felt that the Adventure kids were in danger so much and so often that they didn't really have time to think about the moral side to their killing other Digimon because of the situation they were forced into. It's like someone being stranded on an island filled with people who want to kill them for whatever the reason or on an island filled with animals that could possibly kill them. The person would do what they must in order to survive it. The 02 kids never had to worry about that since it was easy for them to escape back to their safe homes. Probably a combination. They didn't really kill it and Ken did pretty much announce that he'd created it. It was an empty shell. Still, even up to that point, the 02 kids still hadn't been responsible for any actual deaths or did any actual killing. So yeah, makes sense why they were hesitant and partially freaked over it since they had the time to actually think about it since they could just easily run away and go back home. Yeah. I'm a chicken when it comes to killing things. I can't even swat a fly without feeling bad. I just try to shoo it out the window. Wow, I don't remember it either. That would be interesting. A Digi-heaven and Digi-hell. lol As for poor Gotsumon and Pumpmon...yeah, they were killed in Shibuya someplace. No place for their data to go, unlike Vamdemon who ended up possessing Oikawa or whatever. I want Dinobeemon so badly! I had a theory, though.... XV-mon + Stingmon > Paildramon Stingmon + XV-mon > Dinobeemon The path with jogress evolutions depends on which has the stronger or more dominant data. I pretty much felt that the paths chosen for the jogress partners was to represent the newer Chosen Child (Daisuke, Miyako, Iori) as opposed to the veterans (Ken, Hikari, Takeru). For the evo sequences XV-mon, Ankylomon, and Aquilamon were first...so that's why I feel that's why we got Paildramon, for example, as opposed to Dinobeemon. Interesting. Still would be nice to see some of these alt paths. Yeah, that's also a possibility. She could've realized something and why Meikomon was a threat. It makes sense....but for now, I just want her to be evil. lol But Renamon was already established as being a good guy. I could see it being a fake out if it was the other way around. To quote Miyako, "Bingo!" Even if she was in year 6, the other two would be in year 1 of junior high school at that time. It could've just been a mistake, or the two girls just look similar to Mimi's two friends from Adventure (like all of the Yamachas and Bulmas walking around in the Dragon Ball universe). Going by the novel, Mimi's two friends knew Koushirou and laughed at him for having his laptop (Mimi didn't) when first arriving at the campgrounds. They were all in the same class according to that. Students don't fail in Japanese schools. You move up regardless of how crappy a student you are for elementary and junior high. High school may be a bit different and to be honest, I'm still not fully sure regarding high schools here, even though I have worked in one before. But that's Japan in general. PDA isn't really a thing here...'cept for maybe hand-holding and usually with young couples, not older couples. What I meant though, was that since in the show's canon, it was established that they were already a couple and becoming close (like the scene in one of the eps where Yamato had his arm around Sora's shoulder, which would seem straight up weird unless it was your significant other if you're opposite gender) there was no need to explicitly say it again, I guess. You know, for my headcanon, I view Yamato as the type that would take relationships very seriously and not become like his father or in a divorce situation. Maybe it helps that both were already friends prior to their dating. They'd known each other for a few years prior to getting together. Yeah, pretty much this. They looked like a family for that shot. I was just joking and saying if people can say something as silly and convoluted as Takeru coming to the gathering to meet up with his wife, "Hikari" then I can jokingly say that Koushirou and Mimi are actually married with two kids. :-P Yeah. They do look family like. I know it didn't happen, but it's still fun to joke about. Yep, and Yamato hooked up with Taichi. So that's what some probably would want to say. Edit: Okay, just found out more about Japanese high schools. I just asked my friend. So...yeah, it's difficult to fail in Japan at school. The most challenging thing is getting into high school since you have to take entrance exams. For the most part, you only fail if you don't show up or miss too much time. Even if you go everyday and are a cruddy student, you can still manage to graduate. The only exceptions are probably the type of schools Jou goes to. Private schools of that nature where grades do matter.

To my knowledge, I think it (movie 1) was supposed to have been within the universe of the series. It was highlighting Mewtwo and everyone's memories were wiped. Actually, that wasn't it. The Adventure group was in a killed or be killed situation. They were in survival mode. The 02 kids could go home practically anytime and restrategize. Also, up to a point, the 02 set of kids never had to kill anything. In the beginning, they were destroying the towers, rings, and spirals. The other Digimon they dealt with were control spire Digimon, so they weren't real to begin with. I could understand why they had reservations doing so because they'd never been responsible for a death before. With the Adventure kids, there was so much going on, they didn't have time to think about it from a moral perspective...except probably Mimi. Iori having qualms with killing didn't surprise me at all. He generally saw things in black and white and didn't venture to the grey area much, hence his coldness towards Ken and the junk with Oikawa. Killing = wrong period from his perspective/Once bad = always bad. Iori's father was killed by "bad guys", despite his nobly protecting a government official, so I can understand why he was the most stubborn. Killing would put him on the same level as the criminal who murdered his father. I don't think the rebirth thing played into it...committing the act itself seemed to be what they had a problem with. Anywho, the only thing that bothered me was Takeru and Hikari. They could've given the kids a bit of reassurance or explain what they experienced during their first adventure. I thought all can be reborn as long as the data had a place to return to, hence why those like Gotsumon, Pumpmon, and Wizarmon weren't reborn for Adventure. Yup, she still attends the concerts as she seems to actually be a fan of the music. There's a path where Armadimon can evolve to MegaSeadramon and to whatever after that. lol. There are so many alt paths. I would still love to see Dinobeemon someday. I'm sure we will all be able to cope. :-). Movie 3 still doesn't seem to be canon since it was a promo movie originally. PLEASE TRI!! Demon!! Ironically for my terribly written fic, he was the villain I used. He escaped the Dark World. "Himekawa shinka...Villainmon!" :-P I think Adventure ended up going over by two episodes, which was why 02 was only 50 eps. I can't remember, but I think Apocalymon was responsible for the Dark Masters' creations. I found Demon interesting because he seemed to act on his own, which was why I was bummed that he didn't return and when finding out about Tri started to cross my fingers for him to be used again. Maybe. :-P Yeah, he was already known. They could've mentioned him if he was indeed married to her...but I will say this silliness...Koushirou and Mimi with their kids loomed very family like. :-P I'm surprised I remembered that. lol

It's like I said before, it's katakanized English. That's what's taught here and due to lack of exposure to native English speakers, you get words like "bossu" since that's as close as you can get to our pronunciation for "boss". My last name ends in "de". McBride. In Japanese, that last sound would be pronounced "dou".

@senshikoi : In a way, I kinda doubt movie 3 stuff would be referenced at all. It was a standalone film made to promote the golden Digimental stuff, which was later used in the show itself (this movie came out before those events took place in the show originally). I mean, if the current movie didn't even reference the fact that this was the second time Palmon had evolved to Rosemon, which was witnessed by Jou, Koushirou, Sora, and Yamato at that time, then I doubt they would bother with the movie 3 stuff. Also, maybe people made more of a deal over Vikemon because it was finally something more official outside of the Digimon Adventure RPG PSP game. Years ago Gomamon's Ultimate was debated on a lot as it was easy to figure out the other Adventure (01) kids' partners' Ultimate forms, but his was a tricky one. At the time, people seemed to debate over his Ultimate being either MarineAngemon or Plesiomon (sp?). Palmon's confirmed mega back then was still Rosemon, even though she had never made any real appearance in the dramas or any other part of the franchise. Years ago, I wrote a fic that took place two years after 02 ended (so in 2004). For it, I wanted to include another Ultimate/Mega for a couple of the other kids and didn't want to use Takeru or Hikari and of course no Yamato or Taichi, so I settled on HerculesKabuterimon and Rosemon. I also used an alternate evo for Hawkmon and Miyako had the Digimental of Knowledge for him, and also had alt evos for Daisuke/V-mon, Ken/Wormmon, Iori/Armadimon...but never mind all that. Some commenters asked why I didn't use Gomamon's mega and I pretty much said, it was because it was debated on too much on what his official mega form was, so I didn't want to bother with it to upset readers. Anywho, I didn't think about the order much until you pointed it out. Jou was the first to find his crest (after Taichi), then Mimi, if I recall right, then Yamato and Koushirou found their crests at the same time, then Takeru, Sora, and Hikari. It also would be interesting if they do bring up the Dark Digital World stuff again, given the e-mail Koushirou received. I'm all for it.

What'd they say?

@senshikoi We don't know who any of the kids married outside of Ken/Miyako and Yamato/Sora. It's just speculation. It's just like those who claimed that Takeru really did marry Hikari and that the only reason they weren't shown together was because he was on his way there to meet up with them.

Look cool to me. Like that Peter one.

But we aren't talking about dubs. We're talking about the original Japanese versions having the characters randomly speak in another language for whatever the reason. It's like how in the original Japanese version of Sonic X, how Sonic sometimes used random English phrases and curse words. Or in Abenobashi Mahou Shoutengai when the main character's father would sometimes randomly use French. Not sure about the dub...

To quote myself.... Adding on, they do it to try and make it sound cool, and there are some phrases that people may randomly use.

She smirks when Leomon is killed, that's why I was suspicious of her. It's when they were doing closeups of everyone's reactions. Everyone was shocked or whatever, but she was smirking.

I think you're confusing it. I think the original poster was referring to the Japanese version of these shows where one of the characters start to speak or say something in English.

Hmm, haven't thought of this show in years. Anyway, for Digimon Frontier, I only saw it in Japanese, and I didn't care for it too much, mainly because it turned into the Takuya and Kouji show. It was annoying for me, since the other characters were majorly shafted. IMO, Kouichi should've gotten way more story on his character, especially given his background. I really liked his character. IMO, to make the story really "twisted", My other gripe with Digimon Frontier, was the fact that they were trying to get too many evolutions into the series, and giving them all (most) to Kouji and Takuya. I did like the spirit evolutions though. Oh and my favorite characters were Tomoki and Kouichi.

Here are my thoughts. I saw it twice. Once in the theater and once online. The breaking up of the second movie into multiple episodes was done WAY better than the first. I also enjoyed this version of Seven. I actually like it more than the original. I still don't care for Butter-Fly and still hate the Tri version of I wish. Now, onto my thoughts...which still left me scratching my head... Ok, dislikes... Theories...

I hope I like this version. I still don't care for the tri version of Butterfly and straight up hate the tri version of I wish. Interesting cover art. Surprised Jou is there.

Thanks for this. I should try this.

I downloaded Pokemon Green last weekend along with Yellow. I decided to use Bulbasaur as my starter.

@Queenie : I'm sorry for posting so late. I've been super distracted lately. Job issues and having to find one again before my visa expires...again. That aside, my Japanese still isn't that good because I got trapped in the "English bubble". If has gotten better and I understand a bit more but I still have trouble speaking and expressing my thoughts in Japanese. I also have trouble with listening...but I also have that problem in my native tongue (English) too...so yeah. I recommend checking out japanguide.com. You can put up an ad to find an online pal to speak with to practice Japanese. It's like a language exchange. You could set up a time to talk through something like Skype. There's another thing you can use but I can't recall it right off. I'll have to look for it.

@Optic : That's a good idea. I'm going to try that. This was also suggested to me here.