[barnstenchfartface]

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

I absolutely hate Cherubimon's design.

But...it's so cute.


har har har

[GreenPsychoRanger]

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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

But...it's so cute.


har har har

I don't think that's the same Cherubimon Gosei meant.

[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by GreenPsychoRanger

Why?

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Originally Posted by Klonoahedgehog

Which design specifically? I always found his evil design intimidating.

Because it sticks out like a sore thumb when side by side with the other two Celestial Digimon/Three Archangels.

Follow me here:
Ophanimon's shoulders match the "wheel spinning inside wheel" thing of the Ophanim.
Seraphimon, though not on fire and having 4 extra wings (base Angemon's closer in this department since the seraphim have 6 wings), looks like a badass guardian of God's throne who constantly chants Sanctus.

Cherubimon... Is a puffy-ass harlequin bunny with no allusions in the slightest to this.


I mean, even a human face would be an improvement over the dopey one it has so it looks less out of place beside Ophanimon and Seraphimon.

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Originally Posted by barnstenchfartface

But...it's so cute.


har har har

[GreenPsychoRanger]

I think the reason they went with the bunny jester look was simply to continue with the preexisting bunny line of evolution. And it is a kids show....predominantly. So they kept it at the simple animal-like form to keep it from creeping the kids out too much and to keep with the said evolutionary like I previously stated. Unlike some other Digimon out there. And also, from my old studies, Cherubim where originally just supposed animal looking in general. Not exactly cute or horrifying, but somewhere in between. *shrugs* But that came from a time long, long, ago when I was a kid.

[bigjny]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

What would "Back to basics" constitute, anyway?

My definition for back-to-basics was more along the lines of "going back to traditional evolutionary chains" for Digimon (Champions, Ultimates, Megas, etc.).

I actually do agree with you more in terms of that a new Digimon series should strive for a more original storyline than the previous series, but we definitely need to return to regular evolutions either way

People advocating that we should have partners with up to 3 Digimons max......I don't agree with you at all. This ain't Pokemon people, they are "partners" not "trainers".........you only need to "partner up" with 1.

[GreenPsychoRanger]

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Originally Posted by bigjny

My definition for back-to-basics was more along the lines of "going back to traditional evolutionary chains" for Digimon (Champions, Ultimates, Megas, etc.).

I actually do agree with you more in terms of that a new Digimon series should strive for a more original storyline than the previous series, but we definitely need to return to regular evolutions either way

People advocating that we should have partners with up to 3 Digimons max......I don't agree with you at all. This ain't Pokemon people, they are "partners" not "trainers".........you only need to "partner up" with 1.

YES!!! All of my YES!!!

[AgileSiamang7]

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

Because it sticks out like a sore thumb when side by side with the other two Celestial Digimon/Three Archangels.

Follow me here:
Ophanimon's shoulders match the "wheel spinning inside wheel" thing of the Ophanim.
Seraphimon, though not on fire and having 4 extra wings (base Angemon's closer in this department since the seraphim have 6 wings), looks like a badass guardian of God's throne who constantly chants Sanctus.

Cherubimon... Is a puffy-ass harlequin bunny with no allusions in the slightest to this.


I mean, even a human face would be an improvement over the dopey one it has so it looks less out of place beside Ophanimon and Seraphimon.

...wasn't that the point?

[GoseiWonder]

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Originally Posted by GreenPsychoRanger

I think the reason they went with the bunny jester look was simply to continue with the preexisting bunny line of evolution. And it is a kids show....predominantly. So they kept it at the simple animal-like form to keep it from creeping the kids out too much and to keep with the said evolutionary like I previously stated. Unlike some other Digimon out there. And also, from my old studies, Cherubim where originally just supposed animal looking in general. Not exactly cute or horrifying, but somewhere in between. *shrugs* But that came from a time long, long, ago when I was a kid.

Not even that, but it just looks bizarre considering how Angemon, MegaAngemon and Angewoman were already quite familiar and Seraphimon debuted alongside Cherubimon.
Heck, most of the issue is just that it looks out of place next to two other Digimon that... Bandai/Toei/Digimon people intended to act as a trio based on Angels.
And yeah a bunny evolves into it but back to those other two Digi-angels, Do Tailmon and Patamon look AT ALL like they'd evolve into what they do?
And I'm not even going at this theologically (if I did I'd complain about Ophanimon not being a gyroscope covered in eyes), it just irks me that Cherubimon looks so poofy. Similar to how a Matrix prefers Magna/Holydramon for not being a cute monster girl evolution because the cute monster girl who's irk him.


Also that particular Cherub pic I chose just because it contrasted nicely with "poofy harlequin bunny."

[GreenPsychoRanger]

But Cherubimon known as the "Beast Angel Digimon"? IF that's the case then he should look different than the others. As for the other twos evolutionary line....I can't defend them.

[AgileSiamang7]

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Originally Posted by bigjny

My definition for back-to-basics was more along the lines of "going back to traditional evolutionary chains" for Digimon (Champions, Ultimates, Megas, etc.).

I actually do agree with you more in terms of that a new Digimon series should strive for a more original storyline than the previous series, but we definitely need to return to regular evolutions either way

People advocating that we should have partners with up to 3 Digimons max......I don't agree with you at all. This ain't Pokemon people, they are "partners" not "trainers".........you only need to "partner up" with 1.

And I'd agree with you on the last point, if it wasn't for the fact that the games for Digimon are perfectly fine with giving you typically a max of 3 partners (in battle, anyway) at a time. This isn't some random mad thing I'm asking, just for them to implement something they've already done in the anime.

I just thought it would be interesting to see them make that longstanding part of Digimon somehow work in a show. Pokemon is about ditching your Pokemon for the next best thing. Digimon can still have a close partner relationship, just not limited to a 1-on-1.

I'm all for the original evolution levels, since they give you a working idea on how fucked the protagonists are going into a fight, so on that I agree. But when they aren't called Chosen Children/Digidestined, the characters are called Tamers, so it isn't ripping off Pokemon to have the characters depicted as running a small trio.