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0:00 hey guys mustach Tom here here to do another retrospective review this time I'm going to be tackling Digimon Appley last time I covered Digimon cross Wars and I had discussed particularly in the latter half or the latter season of cross Wars that uh its unsuccess or its lowering decline of success has been sort of the meme that Digimon has been dying of course that has yet to be westernized in the next three the next two uh shows this being this included Digimon Appley and the next title Digimon ghost game have not been obviously brought to the West either in
0:47 terms of getting a dub with that being said I think that the decline of Digimon only was heightened by this approach to Digimon APPL now I do have my own theories as to why that is the case but again those are only theories but as a part of a retrospective review I think it's best to try to figure that out so I do think that a part of the decline at least when it came to this particular season is the framing of the meta of it being an application uh of course every season of Digimon has had a meta to it whether
1:33 that be Fusion or the Tamers are the Digimon or something along those lines or in Digimon season 3 where it was the card game that was very much The Meta of that season but it was still hooked in a very good season with very great characters but the application via it being a through a phone definitely leaves a little bit more to be desired than most of the other metas in terms of how digivolution Works in terms of how digim one operate in the world of Digimon
2:19 uh and I do think that there is a sort of cross between that and the the sort of video game you know Mantra of like oh if you know if you play uh you know games on a phone then you're not a true gamer that sort of mentality seems to seep into I think this as well where uh the app mentality just doesn't hold as much water as uh previous iterations including again uh Tamers turning into Digimon or whether it be Fusion or the card game but despite all of that I found myself
3:05 rewatching all of Digimon apply all 52 episodes to do this retrospective review and this is going to be one of those longer videos cuz I'm going to talk about every single episode and yes I'm actually going to mention that there is going to be a spoiler alert somewhere along the ways as uh I actually do think once you take out the meta that this show in this particular season isn't as bad as I think people are had made it out to be uh of course that still comes down to meta preferences but I digress again that's at least my theory
3:51 as to why it was uh decreased in its viewership but I found in rewatching this season that while it there was a little bit of a slow startup that as it progressed like it took itself a little bit more seriously and then very seriously by the end I would dare say like it felt as it approached its ending that it felt very much in line with the rest of Digimon that it felt like it was really truly find found its place despite its meta and despite the disadvantage that that would clearly bring
4:36 but there is another interesting aspect in terms of our characters that are introduced here and three of them which you can see on this poster that being our main character hadu Eddie and Astra and I found myself in rewatching this going hold on this seems awfully familiar and that just you know in rewatching it but I was like hold on this actually reminds me a lot of Zach Bell and the very reason it did is because despite the differences in main character that being hadu versus Zach Bell's main character I found myself going well wait a minute who is uh I and I forget the main character's name
5:24 uh KIRO I think it's something like that anyway uh Zach you know trying to bring him over and having him find new friends is that along the path of finding those new friends he happens to prend eventually an idol and then later on or around the same time or earlier I forget the order of which he actually gets to first but he then eventually befriends a uh musician or a pop you know like a more song writer I guess versus a pop star which could also do music as well here is very much a very similar output but our main character hadu is
6:11 much more generic in terms of his demeanor but we'll go more into what I mean by that as we progress anyway the intro tells us by 2045 so still a long ways from now that's about a approximately 20 or so years from now that AI will have taken over uh the world in terms of how we operate so we begin with again meeting our main character hadu who finds a Tamer uh who finds the app as I mentioned the device
6:56 rather uh in a this like when he's like guided toward a can now this is referred to as the destiny and very much in line with how Digimon has been dealing with Destiny all throughout its moniker of you know it is twice Destiny now I I always find the word destiny a little bit used in a weird bizarre way some in certain instances in this being one of them but what can you do at any rate uh we didn't meet his fellow friend Eugen and this is the one of the reasons
7:42 for my subtitle that you will see 100% gay coded and I'm not kidding as these two develop as characters with one another I am convinced that this is gay coded 100% the dialogue that these two share definitely leans in that direction and you might say well I mean there is I suppose a a fight to say that no they're just friends no no no but I don't know I think that there is enough convincing evidence here that would suggest otherwise but we'll get to that down the road as we progress on each episode but as of currently h believes
8:30 himself and perhaps this is another meta take but it's his dialogue that he believes that he's a side character in life very non you know important very sideline and again when his app device appears it asks him do you want to be a protagonist a main protagonist and you know they sort of use other meta context as well for Digimon as well the goggles being the primary one that uh has been sort of been ined in Digimon lore forever now I guess ever since season one so you know using a little
9:16 bit of that meta to get across like yeah he's designed to be the protagonist yada in terms of his design so yes that is where he once gets it he gets his Digimon gimon the little white Digimon you see on the right side of the poster with the search uh icon on his helmet there so as you can probably surmise he is a search app Digimon and he begins to do a search about who this hadu person is and just begins to run down a bunch of things and
10:01 immediately confirms in fact and I know what someone's going to say and wait a minute to but let me just get this out of the way that he has a crush on one of the other individuals ion the one the blonde on the lower the upper right side of the poster and you're going like wait a minute that's a girl you said this is 100% gay coded well I'm here to Enlighten those and say I think that this implies that our our main character is bisexual quite frankly I mean the way he eventually starts talking about Eugen again we will need to get to it but again that does not sound like a just a friendship or that that's where that would
10:47 end at any rate so we see that the bad guys are starting to spread some certain rumors on the apps and an app and how it would work is that there'd be an app based Digimon that would have be infected by something which we will get to and then that they will go run a muck in the world of technology through at what they call in this version an AR field now I don't think that there's any point where they tell us what AR means so we'll just call it a field like a digital field instead for the sake of brevity so of course with the help of
11:34 giman who pumps up hadu to you know make his move into setfield and you know become that Pro main protagonist that he has yet to believe himself to be uh he finally answers yes officially to that question which makes his pairing complete that is what has been severely lacking you see uh so with that hadu helps uh his Digimon find the weakness in this message chip that has become uh all virused up and we get the friend Eugen at the tail end of the first
12:20 episode coming back to Intrigue us to engage us back into the episodes to look forward to ahead with an evil look or evil red look in his eyes and it's like ooh what could that be so did you mind going back to the Cliffhanger status on the first episode which is very fundamental in terms of trying to engage your audience which I think could very well much work if you're just looking at you know basic like you know what can grow attention to a story and it's like oh a little hook a little extra hook at the end there so with that we can move on to the next 52 EP or 51 episodes so we can move on to episode 2 but I would hope
13:07 that that first episode demonstrates that it's you know it's moving we have our basic premise where uh Digimon will be infected by an app or something or rather uh the Digimon Tamers or Tamer right now individually will move in to deal with it with Hackman or gachaan rather and deal with the scenario and that will be the general premise leading up to things moving along speaking of let's move on straight ahead to episode two so we follow upper left character Watson and his uh crew as uh he begins to be let around
13:57 the town sort of Lost as a it's a more navigation based thing that is happening with him and all the while gcha man is looking for some food he finds his food obsession with these little treats and with you know he whenever he's uh stored away he's like in this little chip that you can see floating around and it's it's to it's sort of VIs visualiz to us the audience that other people don't typically see the little chip versions of the Digimon it's when they're physically realized as or app realized as the show will describe is when they
14:45 take a physical form a real form as it were so they head into the bookstore where ion works and again we had Watson return to tell us his woes as a recipient of being lost but I hasn't unfortunately returned either it would apparently turn out that she's also lost or rather somewhere else and of course the virus acting out and of course they spots their next rival in naimon so he's the one going around hopping around spreading the GPS to go and be all wonky on
15:31 everyone so again we have our sort of our repeatable hook as it were you know Digimon gets infected they go into the field battle it up keeping things really simplistic and repetitive but engaging enough to be like okay so what's the what's the difference what what what type of hack what how's this affecting people in terms of AI are the little bits and pieces you can sort shift around as it were uh but they defeat naimon and he turns good he turned into one of his chips and is given to hadu and with
16:18 that this is the first time uh where you know he's able to have two Digimon out at once and so we get more little like hm what's that about we got a little cameraman who's a evil little self is sort of investigating and of course we have our first Fusion bringing back fusion from previous Seasons all the way back running to season 2 however once again and implying back
17:03 to my uh title suggestion the fusion in this is uh very peculiar and dare I say very suggestive as it were so the two Digimon that operate in the fusion break out from their backs you see it uh like these two back prongs these USB connectors and they're like flying in uh from one space and the other one flies in from the opposite end also flinging their USB toward and their USBS literally connect and I can't help but note how
17:53 much that just reminds me of like um you know the blue Avatar like Tel I mean we'll just say it because we know what that was meant to be a sex scene let's not even beat around the bus about what that is right so you have one of the most you know USB connecting sequences like that never used to happen in Fusion before but now it is happening and I will point out that the two first characters that it happened to the two Digimon are both male presenting now I know what someone's going to say well made a minute Digimon
18:38 don't even have sex their data they don't have gender their D their data well I hate to be the beer of bad news or rather just telling the facts as I've been presented to them by Jima on the show itself but that is simply untrue as it would turn out that there are males and females within the Digimon Universe in fact there are mothers and fathers in the Digimon universe that was already established in crossw Wars officially where Kon was going about wanting to find his parents all throughout the show that was like his primary directive in that show other than healing people so it's been
19:27 established in previous Seasons now on to the regards of the gender because that is a different thing from sex I know that some people still don't know the difference apparently till this day I I can't see why but you know when it was dubbed over renamon's line was that Digimon don't have a gender so they're gender nonconforming they're not in the binary between masculinity and femininity which would make sense Digimon can appropriate a number of looks and even be a variety of
20:12 animal and God like type creatures they can appear as many different things but male and female since you know all the way back until season 1 you have angon and liter andja woman that is literally her name I don't see how you can say that Digimon don't have a sex when you have a male version of a character and then a female version of that character I don't see how you can fight it as early even as season 1 it doesn't make any sense it's right there in the name Wan like what else am I supposed to say other than yeah it looks like a woman
21:00 like I don't know like I I don't know how else to fight that other than to point out the obvious thing in the name so yeah when they fuse in this dare I say naughty way or implicit or like rather bizarre way I I don't know they are able to become a stronger Digimon that being do giman cuz cameraman had revealed himself that's why they were aiming to do this and that is our end point for episode two where episode three just picks up right where we left off and following
21:46 Doan versus cameraman and of course we have the a typical fashion of the two fusions arguing over you know who did the most work when they win in this battle so there are two little love birds or rather you know two separate entities that have a rivalry you know I'm sure you could play it off as that but I I don't know anyway they get a new again different system a different Digimon being hacked or whatever this time it's role playmon having affecting RPGs in games that are
22:33 online obviously and heck they even make even more bizarre meta like references dare I say to Minecraft there's literally a creature that looks like a Minecraft creature and they use a guide to win and this causes the rpgm to be upset you know and this is sort of a interesting sort of uh inclination to the world of gaming as it pertains to how you know how we operate today versus how we would used to operate in games of old uh you know the games of old where you would have to figure out how to do everything or there would be other
23:20 people who had found out what to do typed it up in said guide and then you know people would have you know if they were getting lost they would be able to use these guides that other people have provided to be like hey this is how you actually go through this rather complex system whereas today there are a lot more systems within each game to be like hey this is where you need to go you know you have your markers that you're able to place there's so much more tools available some of H of which have been a little o overbearing dare I say you know the the yellow paint is the the prime primary example of uh uh catching people's attention and being like Oh come on we you know yellow paint for a
24:05 ladder was that really necessary things of that nature that really uh overplay with the idea of you know what you're able to interact with in a game so it was interesting to get a commentary on that even if it was in a baseline way and uh Additionally the game itself or the entity that it is represented is very upset of the overall negative comments that has been uh being presented and once uh hadu sees this or hears this he provides a positive review he personally found it very
24:51 advantageous uh going through the Little Adventures you can see that throughout the episode as he's smiling and interacting with the game as this rpgm has been presenting them through the this little area uh however once they defeat him or once he calms down and is defeated in that way uh it is revealed that this particular code role playm is a seven code Digimon and this is our uh sort of long overarching sort of like meta or rather a sort of our I wouldn't say cheat necessarily but
25:38 our desire to have a sort of item fetch Quest as it were to implement in the show to keep uh people interested in being like okay so this is our new task in finding these six other codes among these six other apps and showing how hard it would be to get these however by the end of this episode we finally meet uh our next set of characters CU once again we're slowly and surely uh revealing character by character we've meet Ray and his little I describe him on my notes as a little cat-like looking Digimon but it's
26:25 hackmon uh as I Mis pron or misguide did that uh Digimon earlier in my review but I'm too lazy to go back and record this cuz it's going to be a long ass video anyway that brings us to episode 4 so this is where Halloween arrives and gimon is exploring the world of Halloween he's out and about in the H little Halloween costume and he's like scanning about like how sweets are used and all of that stuff so hadu uh engaged in reading and very much show and giman wanting to
27:10 explore he's like oh I want to investigate further so hadu says you know go out and investigate for yourself he's being a little bit dismissive here but hadu does eventually when he concludes his book then he begins to feel a little bad for doing so but do see that these cameras are certainly keeping tabs on gachaan and his moves as well as hadu and his moves respectively uh but in preparations they're still dealing with a uh cameraman who has now recorded Fage of uh Gan being like Oh I give up
27:56 and hadu coming call out a bluff that of that being fake or AI generated and is able to see through this play so of course eventually when hadu is In Harm's Way remember that giman is still away he makes he manages to make his way back in Saving hadu around this time and which brings us to our field in which uh cameraman now fuses with another Digimon so now our enemies are fusing to become these greater foes and of course our Ally has to do
28:43 that uh and in context of hadu finding a weakness he does a search engine uh Advanced one since his evolved state allows for that and using the camera's blind spots like a Metal Gear reference to make his way up the hiding underneath all the cameras as he makes his way to take on uh caramon and finally turn him into a chip once and for all however once again as per usual we get a new character reveal of this invisible silhouette of a digimon that is yet to be revealed and I'll leave it at that because we know we'll later learn who this is
29:29 anyway moving on respectively to episode five so uh hadu is sort of messing with the the his little device and he almost gets it wet and giman is like oh be careful oh geez you only have one of these care you know careful with your toy sort of again alluding to The Meta I guess a little bit here but this is where finally in episode 5 we're being introduced to our new characters that being Eddie the idol the TV Idol uh again in retrospect to uh Zach Bell this was mumi
30:15 essentially but anyway uh so this is uh the first or you know they want to meet up with them when they see the Digivice on the the idol commercial that they're watching so they go to try to meet her face to face of course with her being a famous celebrity and all to help them face their threat that we have been sort of slowly gaining Intel on which I guess I'll just reveal now is called Leviathan he manages to make his way up excuse me up by dressing up in a furry costume
31:02 he's literally in a dog costume and they make their way to Ary directly using this disguise uh they he takes off the costume and reveals that he has giman so respectfully she also shows that she has heard little Digimon the one on the the right side of her the blue Digimon with the white prong trying triangle like prongs above his uh nose Doon so Doon is a fighting uh based Digimon a fighting and a fight I guess he'd be like a in a fighting game app equivalent and of course as I mentioned
31:49 we have our typical enemy who's using who's getting affected by leviathan's infection so that now I can r that that's what that's all been about and they enter the field now Eddie is the one who is driving uh the you know the battles forward for this episode and of course having hadu and giman as backup and we learn a little bit more about her saying how she's been with her Digimon for 6 months now uh and her question that she was asked is do you want to see other people smile uh in the wake of you know
32:36 idolization it's All About That Celebrity sort of uh attitude or rather in her case again wanting to make people smile through entertainment through uh appearing and being that uh icon of a figure in the little literal sense and of course to end us off we see see Ray has been scoping them out continuously uh as we end up this episode so six continues onward episode 6 where we watch uh Eddie's show she's trying to learn how to cook she's not that great at it now so she goes to find a feeding app so she gets
33:22 her Pedro ped primon is the Digimon app here who is like this cook reviewer app and this is where you know they interact with him the fusion blah blah blah but they also establish that the piece that they're going to start meeting up is the library where I Works uh and I and Watson regularly are there she works there with her father and Watson is just generally around there most of the time as well but this location the library is going to become detrimental to our crew
34:07 as we started picking them up along the way here from now moving forward so she takes on her Mentor in this food app learns how to critique in a way that in when it comes to food you know it's not simplistically just about how the food tastes though of course that is a part of it that'd be like the oneone part of it it's like the environment that the food is housed in that's a that would be a part of your review that you know establishment is also equally as important to a food critic you know you wouldn't want to eat food in a place that looks dingy right um so there there's that and to
34:56 make to sell the idea of food you know create this sensation other than just saying that it tastes good like that just it tells us so very little to enrich the the very essence of what you're writing in terms of review so I think that that is a fascinating way of looking at review in terms of even outside of cooking just reviewing in general uh creating this dialogue that uh you know illustrates uh the power of something outside of just you know this is this this is this this is this uh and illustrating why something can be very
35:42 effective in ways that enhance the review outside of the sort of Baseline of like this happens and this happens and this happen which is a recap for all intents and purposes and I'm not here to discourage Recaps and in fact fact I would encourage newer reviewers to start with that approach in fact I think that that's a very healthy way to start reviews is to you know re retain the information you saw from the show and just recap everything that happened even if it's a very basic one now again especially if you're just starting out you know if you're a new YouTuber that's the advice even I would give to a reviewer specific specifically is you
36:29 know that's a great starting point and then work your way and you know teaching uh then how to find your own voice how to create your own spin on uh something uh you know whether that you know some from time to time I tell anecdotal stories about stuff that relates to the thing I'm talking about that's something I choose to do because I feel like that brings my unque voice to the reviews that I do from time to time and of course along the way she gets a second code so they are just picking up these codes relatively quickly there's only uh I think there was six of them if I if I said that
37:16 earlier or seven I think it was six anyway seven episode seven that being is where we meet our next character our next human and Digimon partner this being probably what hits even closer to Arie than uh uh indirectly addresses us this uh character that we KN now see is an app tuber so literally a one toone YouTuber SL twitch streamer essentially is what this character is literally um and his uh YouTube name or app name is tiger
38:02 ashtra or just ashtra for short so for Simplicity sake I will refer to this character as ashtra as that is the name he typically goes by in the name in the show most commonly anyway uh so he is a app user a YouTube user essentially equivalently and he during one of his videos has the yellow Digi Vice she had the blue one our main character has the red one color coding and all that uh so uh his uh you know his when being approached his real
38:48 name is Asuka but again he demands to be called Astra so I will respect that Gaz I'm cool and based no anyway so uh they in howu of course doing much like he did with uh Eddie and trying to meet up with this app YouTuber and the Digimon he has is mimon chart for music so I think music mimon a guy too a male Digimon I could be wrong here uh it's a little harder to tell with his voice voice if mimon a male again I could be wrong on that one
39:34 but I'm going based solely on how they talk with the Digimon typically and I I'm pretty sure in the sub they use he in reference to mimon I'm fairly certain that was the case throughout so I'll just stick with what I was seeing on the sub anyway so uh as I mentioned a music playing app uh but it as it would turn out the the little twist on this character is that uh his father lives a very traditional Japanese lifestyle uh he seems to be very much like said in this old era
40:21 of like respecting tradition and so on and so forth but his father father interestingly enough despite that uh wanting his son to be an heir or not doesn't seem to really like he doesn't seem to push his son in that direction all that much and in fact uh when his son insists upon having 30 minutes to you know do his bit on uh being a YouTuber his father actually allows it so that's that was a little refreshing like oh okay so the father's like you know he's trying to straddle the line between like what he wants versus what the son clearly wants to do with his life it's like okay I can I could see that they're trying to make the father an interesting character a little Balancing Act
41:09 there and of course having our uh our rival of the episode being a a Time based one and them entering the field uh and again we are dealing with uh ashtra through flashbacks uh him being told by other people not his father necessarily that they thought that I believe the these were other family members that they believed that he needed to be that successor uh in the very same vein that his father was uh of course a Joan app uh when he's
41:54 talking about his flashback uh he's given the device to again a a joone and asked him if he would follow his heart oh that's his question and it creates the catchphrase that he uses demonstrably in almost virtually EP every episode from uh versus every episode which is you know sort of like a play on Shakespeare you know to be or not to be sort of playing on that Trope uh so it's you know should we or shouldn't we you know just modernizing the language essentially
42:40 uh in our you know in our dialect so that's essentially his uh catchphrase all throughout she has her own catchphrase as being an idol I should have mentioned this as well that being for her Addy Chan her her catch phase is I'll give you an explosive punch uh this is very much her character you see uh as it is demonstrated she's actually very kind but she you know her Digimon is still very much punch based as well so finding those little dynamics that fit very much between Digimon and Tamer
43:28 uh is still very much in tone here so obviously miman is the one who inspires him uh using a beat to you know to the beat of his heart as he's suggesting to move forward rather than stay behind and pick up that viice and answer yes to the question which again is also simultaneously the birth of his catchphrase simultaneously that he uses in every single video that he makes so I I think that that's a little neat like extra little bit of like character like it's not just a catchphrase it's a catchphrase that you know is enveloped by a little bit of lore and a little bit
44:14 of character building as well I I I actually really enjoy the writing here uh outside of you know dumb playing like oh it's an app whatever you know again my serous why this particular season didn't do well but again I find the rating again a a lot a little bit more confident that I think a lot of people more should give credit to for this season and as it moves forward as I mentioned it gets a lot more in line with typical Digimon but it already has this very you know very consistent uh way of handling each episode it's very methodical in in that way uh anyway episode
45:02 8 so we're following up with Astra so new character gets their episode and then a follow-up episode and I think that's a pretty good way of balancing out having newer characters show up versus just having them all together at the beginning uh I think that's a good way of having our characters be able to develop who they are outside of like you know just all of them interacting I think that's a a a good compromise I'll say so anyways we follow up with ashtra in episode 8 in his newest video where she's doing a don't eat food for x amount of time for whatever and his classmates already know
45:47 that he's this YouTuber and they're they love his bit they love his catchphrase they're all fans of his which is cool uh I wish I was a YouTuber during my high school so I could have had that no you know that uh that echoing uh you know support in that in that time frame unfortunately I joined the YouTube system a little bit on the late end way you know during college which so unfortunately I did not get such a chance to do so and I also additionally joined the YouTube system a lot later than I think you know in such a state where unfortunately you know YouTube's system is just so big so massive there are so
46:35 many content creators now uh the newer content creators that are that I find from so rarely just because of how the algorithm pushes bigger content creators first it's so unfortunate that you know that is the way uh the system works with is the only thing I'm a little bit upset about his character for being like this already successful YouTuber I think it I think it would have added that extra bit of dynamic if both uh cuz for AR she's not the Top Model he's the he's like one of the bigger YouTubers already I think that that Dynamic of having both be a little bit struggling in their
47:20 respective Fields would have been uh having a commonality between them because they do seem to have stuff going on between these two characters as we progress along the way anyway and speaking of he wants ashra to meet Arie in fact so that we can have our Trio but again when they do meet they immediately uh have these two varying different egos against each other uh almost in this rival ristic sort of way and dare I suggest this may be one of the beginnings of a straight couple P
48:08 perhaps in the show um the only one that seems to persist or develop in that way that suggests like later down the line could imply that they could get together at some later point in their time cuz even by the end of the entire show there doesn't seem to have an implication that they hooked up or anything like that which you know given these characters ages I didn't you know suspect that any of them would be like Oh I'm in love with you or anything like that but I mean it does happen in certain shows but that's you know very I think it's a bit more rare I I think and usually what happen at the end of the show right avatar the Last air bender
48:54 immediately comes to mind of like oh will they won't they and then they kiss at the end uh qara and right uh like that's the one I immediately jump to being like Oh yeah young couple blah blah blah etc etc but anyway getting back to this uh so obviously asra's uh stuff is getting messed with recordon is the one doing it uh is the one prompting him to do these more you know uh sort of alluding to doing these things that would make him even bigger cuz he's not the biggest he's just in the top Echelon of YouTubers in this
49:40 regard uh he is told ways that he can again make his content even better by the what essentially you know it's called recorder mind but I mean I could just replace that with the leral algorithm you know if I I think algorithm on would have been a much tighter pick in this response and how they're interacting with each other and like he's you know this algorithm on is telling you how to get more successful it's part of the algorithm it's right there right the system is showing you how to operate so you fall in line blah blah right I think that would be much more compelling as in terms of like Digimon
50:26 apparatus that they're going against and of course mimon is not liking where this is going as Asha feels that need to be that number one spot uh as a YouTuber as I'm sure any YouTuber just wants recognition even the biggest YouTubers and I hate the you know I hate whenever big YouTubers say oh it's not for the money [ __ ] off every single YouTuber who has ever said that [ __ ] you like seriously [ __ ] off if you are going to stay there and have a PayPal no no you don't get the you don't get you don't have the audacity or you don't deserve the respect of saying that
51:14 when it's just false like [ __ ] off just tell the truth just say yeah I'm doing it for money it's a job it's a [ __ ] job I'm tired and sick of this attitude of like you yeah I'm in it for the I'm just in it for f come on be real be real with your audience like like yeah I get that there is an idea of fun in there but I hate the idea that that's like the main thing that keeps you around it's like come on be real with your audience be real with them tell them you want money it's a job I'm I'm sad that that's the of Affairs that still plagues YouTube to this day and I
52:00 do wish that this episode began to address those issues right here but again it's very base level so I didn't suspect that they would go that far but again it's really discouraging to at least in the weird world see that YouTubers even to this day 2024 still behave as if everything they're doing for content is for the fun of it and that really doesn't make sense in terms of like some of the V video output that I see like you're doing it for the fun of it while also calling out another YouTuber I'm going to press X to do on that one yeah fun okay mhm sure you keep
52:49 telling yourself that again with your PayPal and your monetization and your buttloads of cash that you're getting keep saying that it's just for fun keep lying to your audiences or whatever like I'm going to be real like yeah I don't make a lot of money I only have one PayPal supporter one literally one but I know if I had more I'd be like yeah I I gladly invite more like I want more money it's a job I want money what am I like what am I supposed to say like yeah I have fun talking about Digimon it's one of my favorite franch ches that just happens to coincide with the you know the fact that I'm still trying to make money at the end of the day really ultimately like that's the bigger line
53:37 anyway obviously they defeat the evil Digimon Asha you know uh as I mentioned he's almost pushed into making those videos and then they go on to defeat him he he becomes cleaned uh they do the fusion blah blah blah and it turns out that the bigger YouTuber ended up being like a fake anyway it was all app it was it was AI generated which by the way that right there oh my God talk about addressing an issue by subtly doing it in a quick really interesting way because I can't
54:23 tell you how many more YouTube videos I have found in the past few years that have been AI voiced and AI generated and it's so frustrating to see nobody talking about this it's like or very little people talking about it I've seen certain people address it and it's like yeah address it more like go like please like you know AI being this thing that is very threatening to other content creators it's like hello what you know the C o of YouTuber seem to be very adamant about this being a good thing I'm like but it's taking a spot of a real YouTuber I'm sorry but what's the good in that what's the good in having fewer real YouTubers in our space when
55:10 our you know when our space was once over flooded it now seems like it's being more and more flooded by AI rather than actual content actual real people like what are we doing when people's you know livelihoods they're jobs are at risk now like what what is happening like I'm surprised that nobody like very few people are talking about it still and to have that very very you know quick thing of the the the the Creator the YouTuber we saw be you know faked aied I think alludes to this concept allows the US the audience to engage in a deeper conversation which which is why I really
55:57 like this show in terms of like yeah they're starting to address slightly heavier topics as early as this I I'm glad that they are you know AI in general keeping in mind in when this came out which was I would probably venture to guess as it wasn't too long ago I mean Digimon ghost game of of course coming up respectfully afterwards in very current year but like I would still say like this was like in the era when which you know I would guess that AI must have been like like this very hot button like uh and only seen as a good thing rather than like but the thing about this show which is
56:44 again which is what makes it really good is that it's like no going like no no no AI is not necessarily all good but it's not necessarily all bad it's showing both sides obviously anyway moving on to episode 9 so now we have our full Trio uh and our full Digimon lineup is finally at display display and all of them want to figure out which of among them are the top Digimon app and they all create a custom app field where the uh the all the Digimon are out they're all competing in these various
57:32 competitions uh of course we have giman and his rival uh mimon and his not sibling which uh they make that joke about like three or four times or even five times in the show which is a I I guess another meta joke about how Digimon you know the recolors uh were typically even prior to this a thing uh but now they're just outright saying like they're just addressing the meta this like yeah these two Digimon happen to look identical but they're they're personally not siblings sure anyway so yeah anyway they're having their little competition like a speed competition is
58:18 the one uh that starts us off and we have you know the them using their unique abilities to try try to gain the the lead and uh the food app one is like saking for this behind and then he like does something to like cause him to curl up in a ball and then blast forward which catches all of the other apps in their you know in a ball and the only thing that happens is that once they cross due to technicality when the camera you know pinpointed who was and the tail end of the ball which just happened to be musicm I'll just say musicm because it's a little bit easier to say than mimon it's a little weird to
59:05 say I imagine if this ever was W westernized that they would just translate the name to musicon for Simplicity sake uh I would imagine but who knows right anyway so he technically wins on technicality and of course this leads to our two main apps uh giman and naiman being you know having the Rivalry but having them very little win and you know you have other moments where other Digimon Take the Lead like dokon wins this other competition and so on and so forth excuse me and of course we have the beginning of Hackman looking into toward
59:52 their competition and the humans are beginning to become curious as to why they're just going about this but they explain that this isn't just about just competing to be the best but to train so it's a double uh to face against Leviathan so now that that Revelation has come to pass the humans are like oh okay so now we're on board because AR is like on board of this prior to that you know being revealed and we get a little bit more about how levive in is spreading said L virus all throughout and how that has been working all throughout uh
1:00:37 so uh Haru begins to again address what I had been discussing earlier defer uh deferring to the idea that their AI Pals which are their AI app Digimon are good and that Leviathan this threat that they are opposed to is of of course the bad one and this virus that is spreading is bad and creating this concept that that again that there can be good uses for AI but there can also simult simultaneously be bad uses for AI but again I do think that this was among the earlier shows to deal with AI cuz they never get into a few subject matters here in regards to
1:01:23 like what AI can do that can be damaging to workers as I just mentioned in the world of YouTube that alone is not quite addressed here although alluded to very briefly again with the AI YouTuber Vanishing Into Thin Air right so they they allude to things of of that nature but never really dive into it deeper than that I would argue um but as I mentioned hmon joins the fry he's able to upstage most of the apps if not all of them breaking all of their fusions once they are able to do so so showing the power scaling
1:02:10 difference between Hackman and the others uh is Quite a feat there so again we have Reay being the one who's uh you know the one controlling this with his black Digi Vice and them getting away with from that situation so anyway 10 episode 10 begins with hadu having a simple meal and gacha also having a simple meal and exploring other meal options such as a burger but again the thread of AI
1:02:56 and uh L or Leviathan I just noted in my notes as L for short has how to worried so he learns that the seven codes are all going to have this meeting apparently so he informs his Squad about that meeting taking place and what that meeting would indeed entail and Eddie is able to establish what they would talk about outside of just you know their mission apparently so they go to the field and this was a ideal way for Ray and Hackman to get their additional chips the two of the seven chips that I have been talking
1:03:45 about so Hackman is using that to gain them in malman is the one who's like working with him to urge the others into the trap uh and giman has the other two in his helmet so he's all so this episode's a little bit of a goof in terms of like repres presentation uh like how he's trying to heat up the pool to get Hackman or giman to take it off and the helmet uh and just to get the codes and all failing up until that point and of course Hackman eventually just shows up with Ray and again all three
1:04:32 try to face him off again but then he evolves Hackman to reron and again once again wrecks all three and takes the two remaining chips and just walks off that's how episode 10 ends as we move into episode 11 as I mentioned this is going to be a long review I'm an hour in and I have you know we have a lot more to go so the trio is trying to now make a plan to get their chips back among the two that they lost in the one that he additionally has uh but Ray can seemingly not be uh not uh tracked via gan's you know
1:05:18 services and being able to search on people uh so they decided to check in on the digital sea an area uh that is like I guess a meeting spot for various mons and potential humans I guess where they meet cookman where he's trying to gain the scoop about if they have seen a human in the digital field area that matches Ray's description which he does uh so so we have again more areas where we're learning about we're growing our world of like the digital world like
1:06:05 review Island and all these locations that are within housing all of these apps in the first place so I have camon an app review a gossip app review specifically is the only one to stick around where all these review mons are uh skittering and they're still again trying to get more Intel about Ray about where he could potentially be right now uh but unfortunately due to them taking so much time they're found by a opposing Digimon zakuson a digimon with a fanlike weapon and uses these tile Lake traps uh
1:06:53 to mess with them so again they're just being manipulated via these traps that this Digimon is able to contract and Ray is the one who actually moves in and goes in for the attack back taking down susukan at least temporarily speaking and asking for an individual that being hajim in which we eventually learn that this is Ray's little brother so now we have a little bit of an indent into just saying oh right is seemingly seeming like a villain in this but no as it would turn out that's not quite the case here and that alludes us to EP or moves us on
1:07:38 rather to episode 12 so they have a fight to get you know versus all the chips and you know hadu is much more invested in learning about hajim in this whole situation in which we learn about reay's backstory how he mentions how his father has left them uh and that their mother had passed away uh and as such it being only just them uh du I believe due to their age difference they were going to be separated I think this is a thing that can happen uh depending on um
1:08:26 I think that has to do with uh the age bracket in terms of like adoption like I think um I mean I'm not too familiar with Japan's thing on that so I can't say for sure I just know that there was a point at least in Japanese history where Japan was actually overpopulated and then they had created a um a one child per household rule essentially and then if a second child was born in that household that they would have to be moved out of that state or out of the country of Japan I believe was the you no this was before uh Co
1:09:16 obviously uh but that is a differently um I'm sure that has very little to do with like the actual like uh again dealing with like being left alone essentially uh but so the brother uh Ray the older brother hacked his way into giving them the two of them more time and a place to stay that's together uh but he's given a ridd over the Internet about Leviathan so uh he figures it out relatively easily being a hacker um and hajim decides to
1:10:05 uh go with him as well uh Haim points toward the door uh towards this like sliding spinning door uh and walks through it before as uh Ray sort of standing there kind of wondering like what's going on uh and hajim in between the you know when the door slides and he uh can no longer be seen once Ray makes his way through to the opposite side he no longer sees his brother his younger brother who he learns has been erased or rather removed or teleported or something or rather so this is where we learn that Ray joins
1:10:52 a hacker group now I had a suspicion as early as this and that this had a very correlated thing with Digimon in terms of the video games and that being in regards to digimon's cyber sluth hackers memory and I might want to look I didn't get to look this up yet if Ray is a character that is featured in that game but I imagine he actually might be considering how in later Seasons they literally go to the one of the locations that's featured in the game so he might be a character in that game uh uh in terms of like uh one of the
1:11:38 other ones anyway so surprise surprise they get a return of sukus saman um and again hadu of course wanting to save Ray you know always continuing to fight uh in this more protagonistic way uh you know proving that his ideal of being the side character is has been erased already and Ray is actually quite shocked that uh he has chosen to do this as well as the others coming back to fight as well along his side uh despite his earlier attempts to fight them off for the chips so Ray
1:12:24 decides to give them the chips back in fact after this confrontation um but he even gives them the additional chips so now they have three chips as it would turns out among the ones that they need which brings us to episode 13 a Christmas episode cuz they were willing to show that a little bit of time is passing on which is something I think is a little bit more interesting um in terms of like Digimon and previous Seasons would ideally have it so that they go to the digital world even as early as season 1 and obviously
1:13:10 they have this whole idea that Digimon time and real world time do not operate the same this is very apparent and how or again early Digimon uh was behaved and that they accomplished a whole hell of a lot in the digital world and then when they came back it it was as if almost no time had passed in their world the human world so I actually like the idea that there's a little bit of downtime where the humans are just chilling and time is actually moving us forward and the jimon are actually seeing the world change in these ways so the AI is learning of these different things they're learning about what Christmas is for
1:13:55 example and of course they're over they're all at the library hu's like oh I and she's talking about how again she works there and whatnot CU she's talking to the other two who are now there um so AR is being messed with she's like being told like how to operate to become a better so this is sort of off playing what uh just happened to now she's going around like dressing like a reindeer so again these dressing up in costumes is uh played off again here uh and it turns out that the responsible one this time around is calender man able to shift the time and
1:14:44 he the when the AI takes over it's like okay we're just going to skip uh Christmas um so the idea of you know Tamers save Christmas essentially is this episode so I is praying and this is the time this is where things get a little bit more interesting even in this episode cuz you know you have your typical you know and it's been done in various other shows where ex character either Saves Christmas or helps destroy Santa when Santa is evil I guess which is the comedy route to take um anyway um giman reveals himself as a physical presence cuz he's been realized already
1:15:32 uh to I uh who had been praying for an answer so giman just outright tells her the truth about what she he is and what uh hadu has been doing in return so now she's in on it despite not being a digital Tamer and she actually never becomes one which is actually something I respect cuz it differentiates itself uh outside of Jerry obviously um you know and I do like I I do love that story by the way of you know this character that was so obsessed with being you know wanting to be a part of that Adventure wanting to be a bigger part of something but
1:16:20 realizing just how big that something is in terms of Digimon you know when she's like begging for leaman and stuff like that and realizing just again when it came down down to it uh you know leamon still had to be a protector a fighter in this very vicious World in which he wasn't going to be shown Mercy by baman in this instance and then having that whole interaction between baman and the main character at that point which is again another interesting engaging reaction so I like that they they're taking a different approach to that by saying no no she's just going to be knowing of you know she's going to be in the in group as well as in terms of
1:17:05 just knowing that these other uh characters have Digimon and that's about the end of that uh and she's willing to now let them all use the library as a official base so this is where this is established as well so this isn't just a Christmas episode so hadu tries to check calender man and being like hey can you go to this date and he's like yeah can you bring Christmas back ah and he almost does and he's like oh you almost got meat cuz he's still infected so he's able to use that to his advantage and take advantage so and so forth so they have their new they have their new
1:17:51 base and we see Eugen at the end tail end of this episode once again with those red eyes uh flickering so it's like what is what that going what was it all about so 14 naturally follows up it's now new year a year has passed so of course they're dealing with New Year's resolutions and you know you have your typical well at least with these characters you have uh Asha wanting to of course be it you know do his job as a YouTuber essentially Addie wanting to do um her idoling being the top Idol and then Haru being the protagonist keeping
1:18:38 it back to that wanting to stop lth then so they all decide to assign hadu together so they deal with a puzzle which is a reskin resin and they do the meta joke again of puzzle looking like I believe it was um messon they both look like these circular these three circular Digimon things um so hadu uh you know does his bit uh but it's the others trying to come in and you know the puzzle mod
1:19:26 rearranging these puzzles to try to mess with them uh Damon like trying to punch the you know there's a bit of a gaff as it were on the dealing with puzzles by brute forcing them essentially um and having the others try to deal with the puzzles as well and them finally being able to overcome puzzle and of course still have Ray watching from the distance and we have a Coachman is revealed as an adversary to them the human Tamers so we then follow up with episode
1:20:14 15 where Ary joins a Fortune app uh but ashra also happens to use the app but they're still odds with one another so he's like I might use the app sure but I don't believe in following Fortune 28 you know the idea of if you're told a fortune you should do your best to do things to move you closer to it rather than Astra who's doing his best to avoid and while still kind of following the gist of it so two different ideas about you know fortunes and of course course them wanting to use the main character wanting to use what they can get on fortunes on
1:21:03 beaing Leviathan and unfortunately even that is under complete mystery and due to C you know certain AI blockage of that information as it were so of course with a uh a appearance by the invisible Digimon we saw some time ago may numon I believe her name is uh having her come out and uh be this uh adversary we have Ray joining with Ray in his own way of course sort of being the solo entity for quite a bit here early on uh and ashtra and Ary going after uh
1:21:52 the fortune teller that has been uh taken over by the L virus while the other two deal with mimon so we have a two two group split up here so Asha as I alluded to earlier alluding uh using his ability to uh not you know get hung up on Fortune is able to use that to his Advantage here to help him save Eddie at in fact who ends up almost falling off of this Ruth type section uh and they're able to eventually uh fuse up once again and uh
1:22:40 deal with teron who ends up being another code so now they have four code uh Crown things among the ones that they need so that brings us to episode 16 where advancing our plot our main plot forward a little bit more hadu gets a a voice over his Digivice that says calls upon his name and it is his grandfather who is calling upon him uh and gotaman cannot find any info about his grandfather so they decide to go there and a phys IAL
1:23:26 location uh and thus we learn about what he was going on about how he was studying Ai and how you know he would go to these universities and learn about uh AI from others and so on and so forth uh they date this AI by the way all the way back to 1956 that is a long ass time ago so that tells us you know AI has you know even as simplistic as I'm pretty sure had must have been back then um you know whether that's just as again as simple as sending a message technically that is a sense of AI in a way if you think
1:24:12 about it I I guess that is technically true right to all the way where we are now in 2024 where now we have ai again in this more threatening presence and again in uh being able to talk as uh people even if they're deceased or uh you know appear and take over you know people's lifelines in terms of Art in terms of content Creation in terms of these creative outputs in terms of writing um again more of these creative uh roles are at the risk which is why I'm so
1:24:58 intrigued by why they decided to pick a YouTuber a creative and a you know a pop Idol which I guess has a certain connotation to uh a similar type of like you know you're still seeking that uh Fame in that in a similar sort of way so yeah but they learn what they're trying to build up to which is a digimon by the name of Danton uh and they are able to or are trying to learn how to unlock the ultimate level uh of course you have rookie Champion Mega ultimate so
1:25:47 obviously uh they're trying to follow in that respect of how the the line works here to a degree anyway we can move on to episode 17 because of course I'm going to mention of course Ray's watching on from the distance yet again yada yada yada so Addie comes up with a song being an idol uh and AI is helping her set up uh her you know her schedule here and she meets one of her and and she does something you know she does the going the One Step Beyond of the celebrity she goes out and gives
1:26:33 like one of her top fans like this album this entire album for free essentially like a gift um you know so and she's trying to become again as I mentioned the top Idol she's like in the middle of place if I remember this correctly however the uh app that is uh in charge or the one that has been taken over by Leviathan the virus uh puts her at the number one place she's now everywhere so this Digimon when they uh interact with him is able to make copies of himself and the others are struggling
1:27:19 with it Doon using his a AO punch style to just over well back um to make all the copies eventually vanish and now they through that get another code which brings us to five out of the seven codes that they now have and she sings her song for her audience which brings us to episode 18 so we begin this episode following up on Watson playing some treasured game uh and then he like loses his information and Eugen also appears and
1:28:04 joins the search for this treasure that seems to be alluding to so the others are inclined to join ashra and Eddie and hadu being the last among them to join this little hunt as it were and and as it turns out it was a trap from the bad guy Squad and they had them on this uh railroad where rashan uh is messing with the railroad and now they have to fight this uh app that you know if they don't stop it it will make the train obviously monreal
1:28:50 into a collision but they're various virus Manon among the actual like train so uh as they are defeating them mus music Pon uh copies a monreal lead to uh get uh the trail the the Digimon you know the actual like one that's traveling because they have the train digim on itself uh stop so we learned more
1:29:37 about uh more so about how eugin and how you know hadu would interact with one another uh how they are friends when they are really young and uh you know having others uh CU eugin hasn't been interacting with Eddie or asra he's kind of been thrown into that mix so the others are sort of intrigued how these two very different people that being eugin and him hadu are even friends in the uh first place so he's like okay I'll you know go over that a little bit uh but the episode does end there so
1:30:23 it's sort of alluding to something more so that brings us to episode 19 which brings us to uh vain times day I believe this one is uh though I I I'm guessing the tradition must be different in Japan in terms of this I think if I remember this correctly there are two different holidays in terms of like cording for people like and there's one where girls give gifts to boys and then there's the other one where boys give gifts to girls like there's two different ones apparently I think that's how they work it in Japan I guess I I I guess that's sort of a cool idea instead of just having the
1:31:09 one holiday but we only still have the one Valentine's Day or as some people have come to have called it uh you know solo day or whatever when you're alone or whatever anyway so uh Eugene is the only one using uh as we learn this uh they all have phones uh Watson is using this waffle like that's like their Apple equivalent uh so he's using waffle 11 instead of Apple whatever it is so obviously trying to play off of the food type
1:31:54 uh Eugen uh conveniently and it alludes to something a little bit more nefarious with this character at this point it's like okay he's the only one using the lefi the L uh phone type which obviously L has as we've been sort of I've been alluding to is obviously short for Leviathan we've been seeing the symbols popping up of the L throughout the show thus far I have yet to mention that but I think this would be a good time to do so in
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