After half a season wandering around a park in Shinjuku, the kids finally enter the Digital World! What's this new Digital World like? Card games on motorcycles?? Why is Ryo the worst???
Asher digs into everyone's shared desired to level up, Jeff raves about the Digital World, Ashley channels Rika's rage at overconfident mansplainers, and we all agree that Ryo is our favorite character of all time ever.
Chapters
- 0:00:00: Intro
- 0:02:54: General Impressions
- 0:11:10: Leveling Up Bonds
- 0:26:14: FoxKids Ad Break 1
- 0:27:39: Digital World
- 0:45:38: FoxKids Ad Break 2
- 0:47:10: Overconfidence
- 1:03:25: FoxKids Ad Break 3
- 1:04:53: Unanswered Questions
- 1:11:46: Calumon Song Break
- 1:13:27: Stray Bits
- 1:26:36: Ridiculous Dialogue Draft
- 1:31:58: Closing Segments
- 1:35:08: Recommendation Articulation
- 1:41:04: Outro
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Things Mentioned
- The Vision of Escaflowne [en.wikipedia.org]
- System Restore review of ep 25 [digimon.firstagent.net]
- Confidence gap article [theatlantic.com]
- Dub differences blog [digimon-jp-and-en.tumblr.com]
- High School Musical [en.wikipedia.org]
- Wonderswan game plot summaries [syldra.net]
- Lost in Translationmon Wonderswan episode [soundcloud.com]
- Bombchus [zelda.wikia.com]
- Komainu [en.wikipedia.org]
- 「Otoko Shibuki」 [youtube.com] (Hirokazu & Kenta's bath song in Japanese version)
- 「Otoko Shibuki」lyrics [animelyrics.com]
- Henohenohemoji [en.wikipedia.org]
- Digimon Linkz [wikimon.net]
- Studio Trigger [en.wikipedia.org]
- Hiroyuki Sawano [en.wikipedia.org]
- Attack on Titan [en.wikipedia.org]
- Aldnoah.Zero [en.wikipedia.org]
- The Hunger Games [en.wikipedia.org]
- Maid Sama! [en.wikipedia.org]
Imagery Mentioned
Ships Mentioned
Characters Mentioned
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Recommendation Articulation
- Jeff: Kingdom Hearts: Unchained χ
- Sofman Bros: Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble (Asher: SIUL4I90 / Andrew: TB52524W)
- Ashley: Kill la Kill
Special Thanks
Our Calumon artwork is by the awesome Mary Cagle. If you want to check out more of her work—which, come on, you really should—she creates the webcomics Let’s Speak English, Kiwi Blitz, and Sleepless Domain. She’s also cubewatermelon on Tumblr and Twitter, where she posts lots of other cool drawings and fanart pieces.
The podcast is made possible with support from our awesome Patremon. If you want to support the show and get some cool rewards (like stickers, buttons, and early episodes), check out our Patreon campaign.
Our intro, outro, and transition music is the opening music of the Japanese version of Tamers, “The Biggest Dreamer” by Wada Kouji, which you can purchase and download from iTunes Japan or Amazon.co.jp.
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| • | Ep. 25: | Brave New Digital World | |
| • | Ep. 26: | Kazu and Kenta's Excellent Adventure | |
| • | Ep. 27: | Motorcycle Madness | |
| • | Ep. 28: | Blame it on Ryo | |
| • | Ep. 29: | Goliath |
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