*Coughs*

I'm starting to think Toei using that trope for ken. I mean ken going back being Kaiser I still find it hard to believe so o think ken acting like he used to be to get close to main threat and the Davis working behind the scene know full well that veemon might die bit they need to go through with it to get main big bad trust just to keep close to him.

Judging from how he acted, my guess is that someone else is pulling the strings. I could be wrong, but meh.

Also, Mei's digivice glows black and red? Just when I thought she wasn't enough of a lame OC :lol

So here's the poster for Kokuhaku, though uber blurry, along with some info.

So, we already knew it was Takeru's turn next, but I really expected Hikari to be the other kid since, you know, duh. But...Izumi, I guess. HeracleKabuterimon tho. Pretty cool. Patamon's still Patamon there but he's probably still just Seraphimon so whatevs.

I can't make out what the red one is.

Also, whaaaaaaat. Kokuhaku is going to be mellower than Ketsui? Ketsui??? The movie that spent half its runtime in typical SoL stuff? More...mellow? After that cliffhanger and everything????....????????

We don’t even know if it is Ken, like as in Ken deciding to be the Emperor again. It could be a fake puppet used by the one who defeated the 02 guys.

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It was okay. Not blown away by it. I accidently skipped Episode 7 and didn’t feel like I was missing anything which pretty much sums up what I hate most about this: 80% of it is completely unnecessary. I mean it’s cute and fun, I like Mei-Mei, but I don’t want to watch “Everyday Live with Digimon”. Because as funny and entertaining as it was, it also did nothing to answer our questions about what’s going on or who’s behind all this. I felt like I was watching filler episodes.

The last episode was the best, Vikemon and Rosemon are great. Aside from Rosemon’s boob-jiggling. The cringe is over 9000. But they made their best effort to always portray Rosemon as a flower-whore in the past so no surprise they’re sticking with it.

While I liked Mimi and Jo getting development, it only really worked with Mimi. Because Mimi had a setup (Togemon shooting the helicopter down) worked with it and had to face herself. With Jo it’s kinda like he’s always complaining and in the end he just decides not to anymore. Meh.

The fight with Vikemon and Rosmeon against Imperialdramon(‘s illusion? Evil clone?) was cool, I liked their evolutions sequences, however I feel like the PSP Digimon game did it better by emulating the classic Warp Shinka sequence. Yes they didn’t Warp evolve, they’ve gone from Ultimate to Mega, but still. I feel like for a show that drives on nostalgia it doesn’t really work with nostalgia. Which is good because you don’t want to do all the same stuff again, but eh. Still feel like that was a missed opportunity.

Story-wise it was horrible, as I said. It does absolutely nothing to develop the plot; we have to go with a magnifying glass over it to barely find anything useful. So Meicoomon is evil, or at least created evil or has a virus inside itself, we kinda expected that. Which means Alphamon was not evil, as I assumed form the first few episodes he wants to save the Digital World from the infection which most likely originates within Meicoomon. It only attacked the Digidestined after they attacked him, and he was after the infected Kuwagamon, so I doubt he’s infected.

We still get to see nothing from the 02 guys, and I don’t think it’s Ken (the real Ken) being the Digimon Emperor, it’s probably a puppet or an illusion. However, the moment when Hikari saw Ken and asked “Why him again?” was pretty strong, it was lowkey but if you think back to what happened in 02 and how Ken fought with himself and had to be accepted within the group it was a good little scene IMO.

So we end on a shitty cliffhanger as Meicoomon goes apeshit and kills Leomon. God damn guys, always Leomon. But hey, this is the universe where very Digimon gets reborn anyways (If Ogremon isn’t smashing eggs that is) so it’s not a big deal.

Overall it was very entertaining, but more like watching filler. And it raised more questions than it answered, sadly.

Meicoomon's Ultimate form I'd say.

Yeah, WTF :lol

However I hope they start going into the story more, because if we get another bunch of episodes that do nothing and then aren't even a bit more serious it would suck a lot.

Good thing that we get more Mega's though, I expected they go for showing all of the Digidestined Mega forms one after another.

Oh yeah, I see it now. The tail pattern and the mane...and it's orange...since the past two posters had only Digimon we'd seen before I hadn't even considered it was a new one. Probably the Perfect/Ultimate stage, yeah...

Mellower?
Fucking awesome. These movies are already a chore for me to sit through, now the next one is going to move at a slower pace?
Jeez, since it's focusing on Koshiro, it better have A LOT of Mimi, because I'm not kidding when I say that Mimi is the primary reason why I'm not bored to tears :lol

Also, kudos, Tri. You made my least favorite Adventure character into easily the best Tri character :lol

At least it was only once, but wow, they actually dared, the nerve on them.

Well, he/she is perfectly bland.

Guess we can expect a lot of hijinks with ladieskiller Takeru trying to help Izumi with his love problems. And the return of his clothing program.
In all honesty the pairing makes sense given how they've been played so far.

I hope mellower is in reference to Joe himself or that the character challenges will be less dramatic in nature. Because I can't survive a road trip or another random filler episode.

Twice, actually.
And it's just more of an eye rolling moment. Which makes it all the better than one of them is part of her stock footage evolution sequence.

I think less drama is for the worse. Despite how hypocritical it sounds from me, them trying to be lighthearted is how we ended up with 15 minutes dicking around in a spa or having Mimi and Mei having a dilemma of dressing like cheerleaders. The Digimon scenes bring levity to the more tense human scenes, but by having Takeru and Koushiro basically having a guy's day out to help Koushiro stop dressing like Billy, I don't feel like there will be much gravitas to see HerculesKabuterimon/HeracleKabuterimon.

But who knows, maybe Koushiro has some inner turmoil that we just haven't gotten to address yet (Mimi's problems only arose after being confronted over her personality, after all).

I'm not embracing the idea of less drama, just making guesses from that bit of news, between mellow meaning "slightly less dramatic conflict" or "literally 3 episodes dedicated to making a stage play" I'd take the former.
It's just a random guess anyways.