Every Digimon Series In A Nutshell

[@DragoSonicMile]

Airier - "Digimon doesn't do horror. Ha ha ha!" Well... Digimon Survive is the psychological horror video game. No, it doesn't hit right away. It takes its bloody time. Oh, it takes its darn bloody time.

[@calebgoodman3028]

Good horror is supposed to take its time to be fair. Also it’s pretty terrifying just on the basis that you could be murdered at any time if you’re not careful.

[@loganshaw4527]

Unless it is a horror for feels and no murder possiblity but makes you feel like it could to keep your nerves on edge the whole game like a horror incremental game.

[@inkchariot6147]

Nobody warned me that Ryo would absolutely flip and off himself.

[@reikolupus136]

- Flashbacks of the Wrathful Route - My dear, dear friend... I'm sorry, but I had to do it...

[@Blood_M4ster]

Even when the digimon franchise doesn't dip into straight up horror there's still some nightmare fuel here and there like in Cybersleuth, to cite a few example: the EDEN syndrome, the Eaters that looks like they're from a Megami Tensei/Persona game, The Living doll side quest and the occult club side quest where you almost get hit by a truck!

[@chrimsonphantom]

I think this is what kind of sets Digimon apart from almost everything else. You can do basically anything you want in terms of story. Go to the digital world where the world itself can be designed around what the story needs, be in the human world where Digimon are invading. Be campy, be serious, go horror, and do whatever you need the Digimon to do. Humans can have Digimon friends, humans can become Digimon, Digimon can no longer evolve and must fuse to get stronger. It's probably the most flexible series in existence.

[@inkchariot6147]

Digimon is like Sonic, in terms of story freedom. You can take the series anywhere.

[@drilltotheheavens1695]

Allow me to explain Appmon. Appmon are separate entities from Digimon as they are the embodiment of app types. For example the mc’s partner is a search engine appmon and will look up enemy weaknesses or how to fight more effectively. The whole reason they want to find the dark web is to stop the sapient security AI named Leviathan from trying to conquer the world. This also involves saving the “rivals” brother. Also they gave us Hackmon. Not to be confused with Huckmon. This Hackmon can actually hack things.

[@deepdive1809]

I'm very happy with the reaction the intro got. 😆 This may be where we disagree, but I don't think just because a show's episodic doesn't mean what happens in the episode doesn't matter. The reason I cited The Simpsons (dropped off around the teens, can't speak to it's current quality) and Adventure Time, is that they both do well to explore characters, subjects, or even abstract artistic ideas. One through comedy and satire, and the other through weird but accessible experimentalism. It's a strength that they have the freedom to do those things without being tied down heavily to long story arcs. I was also trying to hammer home that it's not always just execution, but the way expectations can colour execution. It's funny you mention Doctor Who; since early versions were gonna use it as a sample case for structure spectrum, and the weird way it's almost an anthology/serial hybrid, and the logistics of having arcing elements when you literally land in a different time and place every story. But it was gettting a bit too long. Honestly if I had more time I would have liked to tighten this one up a little bit. As mentioned the beat poetry is from So I Married an Axe Murderer, the intro was an homage to 'Hi Stranger' by Kristen Lepore, and the 'crack' segment was lifted from Harmontown, a variety improv comedy podcast with Rick & Morty co-creator Dan Harmon. Regarding MADAM, I think that was just a fun jab and the way things can be over-catagorized and labelled in accademia. I think; who knows at this point? I'm curious what you thought it was elluding to. Thanks again for another reaction!

[@XTheGamerZeroX]

23:34 Actually, Digimon genders its always choice base, it doesnt matter the apperance of the Digimon they can be any gender they wish to be because their bodies are just data. The thing about Digimon parents is that 2 Digimon can combine fragments of their data to create an egg and that would be their kid. Individual Digimon can also create new eggs from their own data to have kids without needing a partner.

[@erugurara8235]

I beleive digimon where born from the evenrioment, the pogrm world creating them to have something to test or soemthing alogn those lines, like they are born as plants, semingly out of nowhere, i feel tis from the first anime and the digimon world series.

[@circeackerman2390]

AIRIER! AIRIER! AIRIER! GUESS WHAT! Overly sarcastic productions just dropped a new journey to the west video.

[@FubukiTheIcyKing]

Digimon can be scaring (Hi Lopmon Incident), but I like how different the series can be. And whatever digimon you like can be your buddy.

[@ligtningdog6399]

19:45 The simplest way to Applimon/Appmon is that, unlike normal Digimon (that are largely created from random internet data), Appmon are created/based on phone and computer apps, like search engines, google map, paint programs, twitter, etc. They also all have a link-cable as a physical trait, as connecting to another Appmon is how they digivolve.

[@9Godslayer]

Frontiers might not have been the best, but the concept and story were still fun so I would suggest giving it a chance.

[@TheArcSet]

Yep, it felt less like Digimon is some ways, but was fairly competent at leaning on the sentai/old-era-isekai formula. And 'Hyper-Spirit-Evolution' was a bop.

[@9Godslayer]

@ It was a shame they never visited the “kid becomes a digimon” angle again. Before someone gets pedantic, no, Biomerge Digivolution was something else. The closest comparison would arguably be Armor.

[@Blood_M4ster]

33:48 : Ah Bastemon, aka in the international version Persiamon in Digimon world 3/2003 or beastmon afterward, Felicia from Darkstalkers' belly dancing cousin. Despite the alluring design, her episode in the show is no less terrifying than rest of ghost games and involves turning cats into bakeneko, hypnotizing and forcing humans to mimic cats (with lethal consequences) all the while being a tough opponent ... until a bunch of silver-vines (a plant similar to catnip) weaken her enough to finally be subdued. Also in a "weird that it happened twice" fashion there's 2 episodes with a busty catgirl (Meicrackmon vicious mode is a furry but still) as the antagonist and they happened only 5 episodes of from each other (episode 50 and 55 to be precise).

[@Nopenguin4875]

I'm loving these digimon reactions.

[@TheArcSet]

Farscape was good. I didn't manged to see a lot when it aired, but there are a lot of YT essays about how unnecessarily hard it went as The ALT space show. Really set itself apart from any of it's peers.

[@gliocasneko]

LOL, that open mic poetry session of Mike Myers from the movie "So I Married an Axe Murderer", was the unknown reference.

[@calebgoodman3028]

19:45 I need to clarify something. App Monsters does have digimon like creatures but they make it clear that Appmon are a separate subspecies.

[@Solqueen86]

Fun fact since digimon world 3 Renamon's alt line was devimon/Myotismon

[@Ilikecatsismychannelname]

Why would I argue with you about the Eighth Child arc being the best of Adventures 01? I'd be right there in the trenches with you fighting the naysayers. Because it totally is the best arc. And as for Adventures 02...eh, I always got the feeling the writing team didn't know what direction they were supposed to take the show after Ken stopped being evil, so they just threw everything at the wall and hoped something would stick. The end result hurt the series as a whole. I watched it all the way through because after Adventure 01 I was hooked hard enough that not even the train wreck of 02 could shake me loose. And then I was too old to be hooked by the new cast of Tamers since there was no continuity from 01 going into Tamers to keep me around long enough for the story to take over. Tamers could have done that. It really could have, but...I was dealing with high school and a new addiction to the Final Fantasy franchise taking over my free time. Only got into Frontier as an adult because the Digimon nostalgia bug bit hard enough to drive me back into reading Digimon fanfic, found a crossover between 01/02 and Frontier, got curious, and it turned out to be interesting. I haven't watched anything new from Digimon since. Mostly because my younger brother was giving me his impressions of the Tri movies as he watched them and they didn't sound promising. Telling a new story with old characters is fine so long as you respect the story they came from and build on it. The writers and directors failed to do this. And, after Tri, I had little faith in what they were trying to do with the Adventures reboot so I never watched it. I keep hoping Crunchyroll will eventually have all the old series up on their site so I can binge legally. Dammit, Toei, let me binge my classic anime legally...

[@Painocus]

I'd recommend to go back and watch Tamers. I watched Adventure and 02 when they were comming out, but Tamers never made it to TV in my country so I didn't get to it until a decade or so later. I'd still place it as my favourite Digimon series by a large margin.

[@viktormadzov5286]

24:02 Yeah, thats a bit of a head sceatcher, since we have a few exapless of digimon families (parents and kids) even showing tribes of digimon of the same line living together, yet nothing to sugest "reproduction" is at all possible 😅 I personally belive that digimon only ever reincarnate, with no "breading" involved to create the egg. Digimon parents insted adopt adopt baby level digimon of the same line as them, takeing care of them and creating bonds rather then being born with them😊

[@Douglas628]

There are games where breeding is a thing. Pretty much each installment has its own rules for random stuff like this.

[@viktormadzov5286]

@Douglas628 Thats fair. Im mostly talking about the anime side of things, since Im less familiar with the game side of things. I am cureous now though. Can you possibly give specific examples of games that have this. Not just nurseries or " breading areas" but less ambiguas examples where you have to pair up 2 digimon to produce the egg ( like pokemon/monster rancher). I know Cyber sluth, Digimon World or Digimon World, Digimon World next order or Digimon Survive dont have this, and in the anime we have examples of "nursery" areas where digimon eggs form from scatared data and are taken care of my guardian digimon.

[@thejestor9378]

@@viktormadzov5286Xros wars did have that one implied, as it was a literal case of a mom and dad gone missing..

[@viktormadzov5286]

@@thejestor9378 Yeah but that's what I was talking about before🤔. We have families (especially in frontier), but are we sure they, you know, "did the thing" to make the the egg. After all, a familial bond is no less real or powerful just because its not biological. Again, all the lore about digimon lifecycles (that I have seen) all come back to some form of reincarnation, with the digimon that hatches either making it on there own, looked after by guardian, or forming tribes, friendships or families with other digimon. Please don't misunderstand, Im not insisting your wrong. You could be absolutely right, but I want to see definitive proof of that to be curtain, and not just speculation😅

[@Douglas628]

All the Digimon Story games before Cyber Sleuth have a breeding system called "Matching". It worked by connecting with another player. You could choose a Digimon in their DigiFarm, then one of your own and the two would produce an egg. Which mon is born from the egg depends on various things like Level, Stats, Species, Personality or a specific combination of two Digimon. Alternatively, in some other games you hear from other Digimon talking about family members like siblings or nephews, etc. In Re:Digitize/Decode, in particular, you have to wait for Birdramon's eggs to hatch to be able to recruit her. In some older games, like Tag Tamers, you can fuse two Digimon to produce an egg and the mons that used in the fusion are considered as "parents". Anime seasons also all have their own rules for this stuff due to every series that's not sequel taking place in a separate universe. Most famous example is Cutemon having parents in Xros Wars, which is a season that also has quite a few official digimon couples. Adventure was also written with the idea that the Digimon were the mythological beings that appeared in our world over the course of the years, so you can assume they might be able to reproduce normally too by taking a look at the many legends where the creatures have families. You even see a few Digimon that have a crush on humans from time to time in various pieces of media.

[@ShadowoftheMask]

Speaking of dark games, Fear & Hunger somehow managed to get popularity on youtube despite being NSFW horror rpg :D

[@JDReC100]

thank you maker of the mod that puts pinecones in the right places.

[@Ashurman666]

@@JDReC100 I prefer Frapollo's censor mod, it's much more immersive

[@CassiusStelar]

Funger

[@TheArcSet]

I think he's reacted to an essay on it. Though he might like to watch WormGirl's "cannon timeline".

[@MidnightLucario1]

Despite this series being called episodic, don't mistake it as a series that does nothing and move on as if nothing happened, or just have happy funny stories that accomplish nothing. Ghost Game is a horror series to it's core as we see the dangers and benefits can bring onto the human world as this series does have a body count. And the underlying mystery, although only answered in the fine latter of the series. Does pop up every now and again to keep you asking questions.

[@theonewho...1298]

@@MidnightLucario1 yep human and digimon body counts. Several digimon in the show would count as serial killers. Like the Sealsdramon or the arukenimon. Plus the horror of the mushroom episode.

[@Chara_Dreemurr1]

Yep. Plus there's Clockmon... stealin peoples LIFE!

[@איליגוטמן-צפון]

8:15 wait... you haven't watched avatar?! BOY! are you missing so much.

[@noahweathers4408]

If you’re not aware, OSP just dropped their latest Journey to the West video. We both know you’ll enjoy that immensely.

[@MrFelblood]

You've never played Shadow of the Colossus? That would be a crying shame... if it wasn't such a great OPPOURTUNITY, to make a first time reaction video!

[@vao519]

He said for the next Forty episodes, not forty eight.

[@Unclaimed_Username]

Ghost Game is great when it forgets that it has to have a plot eventually. Like 60 episodes of horror-themed digimon goodness before it does a backflip and faceplants at the end. That said, don't let this video dissuade you from checking it out. Like I said on that video, the episodic nature is actually one of its better strengths and I feel like Ghost Game suffered *BECAUSE* it seemed at least somewhat obligated to make an attempt at an overarching story. Like the editors were looming over their shoulders going "well this his pretty nice horror, but when do they get to [standard digimon plot structure]?".

[@Unclaimed_Username]

31:15 Yeah. Digimon Ghost Game is really good when it's doing horror, which I wish more people would focus on instead of simpering because "we didn't get a digimon plot". Like...my guy you got ~60 episodes of horror. Just...enjoy it for what it is, instead of being one of those guys complaining about what it isn't.

[@inkchariot6147]

In the proper Digimon lore, Digimon have no gender. If you see a female looking Digimon, it's just a skin, like in a game. Digimon are made of three parts: The Digicore The Skeleton And the Texture The Digicore is basically the soul, it's everything that makes up the Digimon. If the core is damaged, the Digimon dies. If the core is completely destroyed, the Digimon is straight up DELETED. The skeleton is the wireframe that makes up the body shape of the Digimon. The texture is how the Digimon looks, they don't have real fur or scales. If you were to see a Digimon in real life, it would look like a 3D video game character model.

[@drilltotheheavens1695]

Also the jazz bit was seemingly a reference to Josey and The Pussycats(?) and The Jetsons. “Get me off this crazy thing” is a line from either the credits or the opening.

[@chrimsonphantom]

The thing with tamers is that I wished that we could've gotten the gang when they're older and the writer wanted to tell a more serious story like with tri. Because it works better and the guy even if things were messed up at the end they did hit some serious themes. Frontiers: I wish we could've gotten another 10 episodes so that the rest of the group could find and unlock their Digimon mega evolution. I also do like they could get stronger once they were able to grow as people.

[@Justic_]

The funny thing is: Tamers does technically have a sequel... but it only exists in the form of a drama-CD, and it's only like the setup for the story. And at least some of the kids appear as older in that. And... then, when asked to make a script for a live-reading for a recent anniversary, the original author went full anti-woke conspiracy-theorist, skipped past the unfinished plotline of the drama-CD and had the kids fight an enemy called "Political Correctness", completely disregarding all the themes and messages of Tamers up to that point. For Frontier, I stand by my idea where, just adding to the fight against Velgrmon would've been enough to kinda "fix"... at least some issues, like, just have it also unlock its Double Spirit just as it's about to be defeated, and have the other 3 kids intervene by also unlocking them, allowing them to save the day. Giving the other 4 kids Hyper Spirit evolutions probably would've been more complicated, and kinda weird with only 2 Royal Knights, so I feel just getting them up to Double Spirits and having the kids face opponents OTHER than just the Royal Knights with them would've been enough. Frontier has other problems, like Zoey only really winning against Ranamon, but... those'd require a more far-reaching rewrite, not just some added episodes.

[@chrimsonphantom]

@@Justic_ They redid the first season, I don't see why they couldn't re-do frontier. Also I did not Know about the drama-cd just that after Digimon Tri the producer said he had Ideas for Tamers.

[@Justic_]

@@chrimsonphantom honestly, I wouldn't even consider the Adventure-reboot a "rewrite" like what we'd be talking about for Frontier, that was just a completely new show using the cast and 1 or 2 general story-beats from the original (it didn't even have a Leomon that died, like, WHAT?!). If they gave Frontier the same treatment it'd just be something completely different as well, I could even see them scrap Bokomon and Neemon as permanent companions... while still not giving the kids actual partners that they'd biomerge into their Spirit-forms with, something many fans have suggested over the years, just to stay accurate to the "original lines". And... if it's the tri-producer that said that, personally I'd rather him stay away from any Digimon-sequel in the future at all...

[@chrimsonphantom]

@@Justic_ No I meant the producer from Tamers said after Digimon Tri Came out, he mentioned how he had Ideas for a sequel for Tamers set when the group were adults. For frontiers I would still like the idea that when they develop as a person they will unlock stronger forms. Give each of them their own character arks, and when that ark Is complete they're able to go into their final form. I wouldn't mind with Bokomon and Neemon being able to Digivolve as the series progressed. Giving them their own motivations and arks to go through.

[@theonewho...1298]

I found Ghost Game enjoyable until the last half. In the beginning I was waiting for the bigger plot to kick in as you do. But after a while. I said hey maybe there isn't a bigger plot just slice of life horror and I can deal with that. Cause I liked the characters and the episodes where fun and terrifying Than the plot came in only a few episodes before the finale giving me mood whiplash. I recommend ghost game, but not for the plot but the episodic stuff which you have said your not a fan of..sorry

[@insanemakaioshin]

New episodes of Pope Fight and Journey to the West are out!

[@CGomm-le7gv]

32:09 to be far i think that from the very last episode so it a recap of everything as a joke, honestly think you may enjoy it had claudia black who you know from sg1 as a mane character along with ben brownder that when i saw them in Sg1 though was a crossover, i kind of miss the episode were he had joined and replaced michael shanks

[@Denku]

8:00 the show is Twin Peaks

[@Drakonyx_hyperios74]

I wonder if you also will watch/reach the whole digimon xros-wars/fusion series The fusion kinda confusing ngl

[@loganshaw4527]

O thought the run time was a little low for talking about every digimon series.

[@Karou812]

Modern Audiences basically just translates to "We made it worse on purpose"

[@ShadowoftheMask]

Hey Billiam did good videos on Lost and its more complicated than that xD

[@matthewcopley7679]

Here is a series of videos for you to react to Dungeon soup barbarian!

[@Five_filling_feasts]

Someday in the far, far future, would you react to some bionicle lore?

[@ShadowoftheMask]

i mean lot of early digimon are inspired by american horror movies xD Its why they are very edgy early on, so horror digimon is honestly not that out there. like both 02 and tamers had super creepy episodes

[@dylanking9619]

do you ever plan to do monkey wrench 3 or 4?

[@nelleneulmer5385]

I want to tell you Airier that OSP’s latest episode of Journey to the West is out.

[@CGomm-le7gv]

Yo again dude again putting those suggestion hauntlich and chainsaw man musical

[@Overlord3445]

In the videos of templin institute thinks to react to the series of star wars reimagined? Like Part One | The First Order Reimagined | Star Wars?

[@ML1399TheyStoleMyName]

Digimon Ghost Game wanted to have its cake and eat it too. They claimed they just wanted to make a strictly episodic villain of the week type story, but then also kept going out of their way to set up mysteries and on-going plot threads. It got to a point where I stopped watching because I realized that the writers were actively making the conscious decision to not actually tell a story. The last 2 episodes are a mess, trying to answer all the questions that the previous 50 had set up, and many of the answers are nonsensical or unsatisfying. Sometimes both. I've heard people try to defend the finale for being such a mess on the grounds that it had to wrap up so many plot threads in a single episode, but that ignores the previous 50 episodes where they absolutely could have. Digimon Ghost Game is unsatisfying because the writers consistently chose to make it unsatisfying

[@IchigoG]

Hey, so are you gonna still gonna watch monkey wrench episode three because episode four came out a few weeks ago?

[@wanttogetfood]

Besides Appmon (cuz there were no digimon) Ghost Game was the first digimon series I stopped watching half-way through and later watched last 6-7 episodes

[@pyrotornado108]

aspect ratio is throwing me off

[@loganshaw4527]

Is it weird i like that games better then the digimon anime. Dang they were so down bad for the female characters how is this not meant for older audiences anime. The video games were great and DW was a very difficult pet simulator.