I will never forget when Taiki, Tagiru and Yuu fucking illegally crossed boarders via DigiQuartz just to visit Nene in Hong Kong
TAIKI WHAT WERE YOU THINKING AJEJOAJ
Listen, I will forever accept Takuya as the shortest of the group(Tomoki doesn’t count as he’s younger than the rest) as canon and no one can stop me. The fucker is literally shorter than Izumi and while yes I know it’s most likely because of animation errors and not knowing the scaling of the characters but I always have the fucking image of Takuya being shorter than Izumi and Kouji stuck in my head
I just wanna talk about the friendship dynamic of the 02 gang in both dub and sub
When I first watched it in the dub I found it odd how their friendship was not really much of a friendship, it felt odd how they exaggerated their personalities and even trash Daisuke for no reason, to be honest their friendship didn’t even feel like a friendship. In all honesty I felt like the only one who actually liked Daisuke for who he was in the dub was Ken :/
But the sub, it felt like an actual friendship, especially with the small banter here and there but not over the top like the dub and they actually got along nicely with one another. The “love triangle” between Daisuke, Takeru and Hikari felt more ambiguous and it wasn’t both Takeru and Hikari being jerks about Daisuke’s feelings like how the dub made them, it felt refreshing to see after having the disappointment of watching the 02 dub.
Strength: we are alien fuckers first human second
Silence: we really aren’t
Strength: stfu Silence you legit cannot talk, you literally are the alien.
While Tri may not have been a huge favorite of mine, I still found some things I liked about it
One of the things being the “villain”, I really liked Meicoomon and I found it interesting that they used a dark evolution as a villain
The scene with Patamon and Takeru really just ripped my heart in half, it really stung when I watched it
And if the emotional scene between Patamon and Takeru wasn’t enough, the scene were Taichi and Daigo got separated from the others literally stomped on my already hurt heart, I literally just recovered from the scene with Patamon and Takeru and then they had to make Daigo sacrifice himself and even hinted that he died.
Okay so, I rewatched Frontier again, and this rewatch made me realize how fucked up these kids situations were.
Something that I noticed in this rewatch was how much they managed to still act like kids despite the shit happening around them, in every other season I can understand since it was just the normal “oh save the world!” thing, but in Frontier they literally witness the world around them that they start to consider as their second home literally get absorbed and destroyed. How are they still possibly okay!?
I hate it when the happy ending for characters with trauma is that they get into a relationship with someone, getting into a relationship doesn’t just suddenly erase the traumatic memories and experiences.
Trauma isn’t something that just goes away because someone now loves and cares about you, sure it may hurt less but it’s still there at the back of your mind, so it’s very upsetting when a character is suddenly okay now that they’re in a relationship. ☹️
Also, I don’t like when people make it seem like the other person understands their suffering, because no they don’t. They can sympathize sure, but they cannot understand the pain and horrors they went through. This is why a ship from a current fandom I’m in is a NOTP of mine, it’s because of the fact that this dynamic is literally the whole thing with that pairing.
I went to a Asian grocery store yesterday and I saw two white girls freaking out over pocky "Omg look they have pocky!!" Omg Asian store has Asian snacks 😱
me, seeing how much hate Shuuji got and having little intel about the game: hm, maybe when I watch playthroughs and do some research i'll probably hate him too.. idk yet though..
me, who now knows and absolutely loves him bc I'm an analyzer and likes topics about abuse cycles: I WAS WRONG