1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,000 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work at MJMunoz.com. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:14,000 Welcome to Digimon Chronicles. I am starting to read and talk about Digimon Dreamers. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:20,000 So, which is the manga that came out around the time his ghost came. Hold on real quick. 4 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:27,000 And it features Pulsemon as the main Digimon in the story, Pulsemon of the Vita Bracelet, and I don't know what else. 5 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:36,000 But anyway, it stars, or the main character is Ritsu Kudo. It's like 9-10 pages long, the whole thing. 6 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:43,000 It's got a nice color cover, and the rest of it is black and white, like manga B. 7 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:50,000 And the localization was done by Media Bang. And the name Media Bang sounded really familiar to me. 8 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:56,000 I wasn't sure who it was at first, but I went ahead and looked it up, and I found a little something-something about the company Media Bang. 9 00:00:56,000 --> 00:01:00,000 And they have an art app. Let me read this real quick. 10 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:07,000 Media Bang Inc. is a communication internet company based in Tokyo, Japan. 11 00:01:07,000 --> 00:01:15,000 It is the creator of the art app Media Bang Paint, and runs an online platform called Art Street for sharing and doing manga and illustrations. 12 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,000 The company aims to bridge the gap between writers, artists, and their audience through art. 13 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Media Bang has received funding from Obunsha Ventures and has a corporate round-round. 14 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:30,000 I don't know what that means. Round-round. 15 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:38,000 Anyway, yeah, so I was familiar with them because I downloaded the app at one point, and yeah, they've got a website. 16 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:43,000 But anyway, I noticed that because it says right on the cover, you know, localized or translated. What does it say? 17 00:01:43,000 --> 00:01:49,000 Localization by Media Bang Inc. So I found this interesting because... 18 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:57,000 Oh, that's cute. The title of this chapter one or Pulse One is A Digimon Can Dream, which I think that's... 19 00:01:57,000 --> 00:02:08,000 I was going to say that's a little Philip K. Dick, you know, do Android stream of electric sheep, and it's a little more, you know, talking about how Pulse One's dream is to become this really powerful Digimon. 20 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,000 And anyway, it's really because it just kind of throws you in there and there's no action. 21 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:16,000 It's very, I guess you could call it slice of life for now. 22 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:22,000 Ritsu just he's on his way to school and he gets summoned to the digital world by Pulsemon. 23 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:27,000 And they have a little conversation and he decides that he'll help Pulsemon to Digivolve. 24 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:34,000 And apparently Pulsemon, you know, I didn't see specifically if he's wearing the Vita bracelet or not. 25 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:38,000 Vita Vita, whatever. Vita Vita Vegemon, right? 26 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:47,000 Anyway, yeah, they're not really showing. Oh, they've got a Ghost Game kid in the background, the main guy from Ghost Game right behind Ritsu on the first page, first panel. 27 00:02:47,000 --> 00:02:50,000 But hold on, let me see again. Yeah, it looks like he is wearing... 28 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:54,000 He's got a black strap on his left wrist, but they don't really zoom in on it. 29 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:01,000 Oh, he does point to it and he's like, Oh, I was about to erase you, you know, from my game because you're not Digivolving for me or you're not evolving. 30 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:09,000 So it's weird. The localization of this is done with like the English dub in mind, like the 90s, you know, Saban English dub. 31 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:16,000 So they call the levels, you know, Rookie Champion Ultimate Mega. They call it Digivolution. 32 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:25,000 So in that way, the localization is very comfortable for me because I, you know, what is it? Child, Adult, Perfect Ultimate. 33 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:35,000 I think that's Rookie Champion Ultimate Mega, which ultimate makes sense in the last stage because ultimate literally means last, but whatever. 34 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:42,000 So, yeah, it's interesting because, you know, it's well, anyway, it's just interesting how they chose to localize it. 35 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:48,000 I favor that. I wonder how other people are liking that because definitely Seekers isn't using any of those things. 36 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:55,000 And it could be it could be localized in the same way with the the dub names for certain things and it's not. 37 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,000 And I just I kind of find that to be curious. But again, it's comfortable for me and I like it. 38 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:08,000 The art in here, it's it's very clean. It's cute and fun. And it's a lot less serious. 39 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:15,000 It actually reminds me a little bit. And I don't know, man, the name of the artist is on the cover on the first page. 40 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:19,000 I didn't look up to see what else he's done or or what else. 41 00:04:19,000 --> 00:04:27,000 What else the yeah, I don't know what else this artist has done, but the artist is Tenya Yabuno. 42 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:32,000 So I'll have to look him up later and see, you know, what kind of art he or she does. 43 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:38,000 I don't know. But it reminded me a little bit of Shaman King. 44 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,000 So I never really watched Shaman King as a kid. 45 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:46,000 And I've always kind of been interested in it, but it's weird. It looks really weird. 46 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,000 It looks really unique, which is good. 47 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,000 But, you know, because of the strangeness of it, I never really got into it. 48 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:56,000 It goes into you. You know, like, you know what? I'm going to pass. I got you. 49 00:04:56,000 --> 00:05:02,000 I don't need anything else right now in my life. And then, you know, that's when things got really sad. 50 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:06,000 We don't talk about that anyway. So I've been reading. 51 00:05:06,000 --> 00:05:11,000 I've read Shaman King recently, the first chapter or so, and I like it. 52 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:17,000 It's really weird. And the art style is really weird, too. 53 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:21,000 And some of the cartoony, it's very cartoony in some ways. 54 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:31,000 And some of the vibe from Shaman King with its cartooniness reminds me of some of the cartooniness in this manga. 55 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:37,000 Now, I think typically manga gets more of those zany, cartoony moments than an anime does. 56 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 At least that's been my experience, sort of. 57 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:44,000 Fruits Basket was like a one for one. I read that manga, I don't know, years and years ago. 58 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:47,000 I don't know how many talk about it. Probably not the whole thing. 59 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:51,000 And like, Kari Kanno, no, they get silly in that, too. 60 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:56,000 But anyway, I'm just saying there's a difference. 61 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,000 There are definitely stylistic differences between anime and manga, 62 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:06,000 one of them being that some anime and manga, and I would say more so, more manga than anime, 63 00:06:06,000 --> 00:06:11,000 get to be more cartoony for fun, take the characters off model, do silly things with them. 64 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:14,000 And they do that with Ritsu a little bit in this. 65 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:21,000 Like at the end, at one point, Pulse One's telling him, hey, do this, do that, whatever. 66 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:25,000 And if I run out of energy, give me an energy pill suppository. 67 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,000 And he's like, you freak! And his face gets all huge. 68 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000 And he's got sharp teeth and stuff. And he's yelling at him like, 69 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:35,000 Pulse One, you're crazy, and I don't want to do this, basically. 70 00:06:35,000 --> 00:06:38,000 But later on at the very end, he gets summoned. 71 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 And a gag is that he gets summoned while he's in the bath. 72 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 They're like, yeah, you're naked, what's up? And he says, I was in the bath. 73 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:50,000 And he's got the big head. And it's just very cartoony and very cute and fun. 74 00:06:50,000 --> 00:06:53,000 So yeah, this is a very Japanese, very manga thing. 75 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:59,000 But it's funny because it's got that little twist of dubbisms being used for its localization, 76 00:06:59,000 --> 00:07:03,000 which I find very interesting. So yeah, I like this so far. 77 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:06,000 I like that we're getting a small chunk of it right now. 78 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:08,000 And I think they're going to release... 79 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:12,000 Like the new releases of this are on hiatus for now. 80 00:07:12,000 --> 00:07:18,000 And what I mean is the main manga, which I think is 20 chapters in, 20 weeks in, I suppose, 81 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,000 which I guess is probably around 200 pages. 82 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,000 Those are going to be paused for now while it's just releasing on the website. 83 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:28,000 And then from now on, it'll release on the website until it's over. 84 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 So I definitely want to keep up with it. 85 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 It's cool. It's fun. It's a different flavor. 86 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:35,000 I do it a little more than Seekers, maybe. 87 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:37,000 It's a little more straightforward. 88 00:07:37,000 --> 00:07:40,000 And I definitely like that because I'm a simple man. 89 00:07:40,000 --> 00:07:43,000 Anyway, that's all I have to say on it for now. 90 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:47,000 Come back next time for more Digimon Seekers and for Digimon Dreamers. 91 00:07:47,000 --> 00:07:51,000 And let me know what you thought about this first chunk of Dreamers. 92 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:53,000 And yeah, just let me know what your thoughts are on it. 93 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,000 Thanks. Until next time, folks, take care. 94 00:07:55,000 --> 00:08:21,000 This is MJ signing out.