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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm an analyzer. You can find all my work

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at MJMUNOZ.COM Welcome to Digimon Chronicles. This is Digimon Chronicles episode 22 and

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I'm on chapter 2 of the Digimon Dreamers...Dreamers? No, Digimon Dreamers manga. So I looked this

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up and the mangaka, whose name I can't see right now because I foolishly cropped a small

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image and I'm kind of locked in this screen now, Yabano? Something Yabano. Worked on

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the...a bunch of Pokemon manga and some other Digimon manga as well and possibly Digimon

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card designs, which makes a lot of sense. And I think it's more recent Digimon card

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design. So that's pretty cool. So definitely not the mangaka behind...what am I thinking

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of? Shaman King. Sorry. And I just read something funny...or not funny but interesting about

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the Shaman King manga card. But I don't want to talk about it now because this is due to

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ruining attention and I don't want to, you know, rip salt in anybody's wounds. So anyway,

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this issue was fun. This chapter was fun. I like the small digestible chapter. It is

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about...you know, I didn't count the pages, but again I'm going to say about 9 or 10 pages.

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And I'm thinking about...well, I'm just going to talk about it itself and then I'm going

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to talk about kind of writing technique after that. So it was a lot of fun. I like the gag

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of Pulsemon bringing...oh, Kodo is his name, not Kudo apparently. I can't remember the

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kid's name. Anyway, bringing Kodo to the digital world, summoning him there and having him

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helping him train in the gag with Kodo enjoying the Digimon with him while he's drinking tea

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or coffee or whatever that was. It was funny and Pulsemon was like, hey, I didn't bring

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you here. This isn't a cat cafe. You're here to train me so I can digital evolve and become

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stronger. Right? So simple focus. He's very direct in what he wants and Kodo, we didn't

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get much characterization from him, but apparently he's an indoorsy, lazy type and he doesn't

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really want to go outside and he wants to do it remotely. He's like, here, borrow my

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phone and I'll use my laptop and you can show me and I can give you advice. You know, this

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is not a remote job is Pulsemon's response. So it's funny and there's a cute, fun dynamic

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between the two of them and I don't know, it makes for good comedy. It's almost like

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it's just a series of gags. The whole thing is a gag manga, but it's really entertaining

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so I like it. I don't know if that's supposed to be some sort of comment on Japanese kids

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and their desire to play video games or computer games rather than actually be outside or anything

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like that, but it's still fun and funny and then like Pulsemon tying him to himself at

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the volcano for training is really funny and Vegemon comes along and well, okay, first

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of all, they're not only using the dub terms, but they are enshrining and canonizing them

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because they have a pyramid showing mega at the top and actually the pyramid is cool because

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it shows that mega is at the top as the most powerful because you know, if you think about

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it conceptually, the least amount of Digimon would get to the mega size or mega level.

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So it'd be rare. So there'd be fewer of them, but they're also at the peak at the top of

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the pyramid, which makes a lot of sense of the bases. I guess in training is what they

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show the show in training rookie champion ultimate than mega, which is five levels,

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right? And in training is the broadest at the base and that's kind of cool visually

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just it makes sense that that's how it's broken down or that's how it's represented. And there's

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even a little arrow showing that Pulsemon is at the rookie level. So that's cool. Anyway,

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so talking about Vegemon, who is a champion, which I didn't realize Vegemon was a champion.

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He just never struck me as a champion, but I guess he is, which I guess makes sense based

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on the threat that he was in zero two. And anyway, apparently he doesn't smell. He's

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got a good smell, which draws other Digimon in, according to this, the little info box,

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which is hilarious because they're hilarious, frustrating and bizarre because in the dub

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and I guess I don't know, can we lay this at the feet of Jeff Nimoy or is it somebody

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else? Vegemon apparently stinks. And yeah, I mean, for American kids, veggies, you know,

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are gross supposedly. And I get why he would go with that. But it's just kind of funny

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that it's totally the opposite of what it is in the Japanese. And I like that they literally

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do get lured in because during this training, all of a sudden the sweet smell draws them

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in because of, you know, hunger associated with training and whatnot. So that was kind

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of cool. Something I neglected to mention last time, I think, as a, I like Frontier

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a lot. Digimon Frontier a lot, but it's weird to see Pokemon, that's right, Pokemon and

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Neamon. Neamon was a stupid one, right? Pokemon and Patamon teamed up again because in a chunk

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of Frontier, they're together as a pair. And I don't quite know why. Like, I think Patamon

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makes a pretty good mascot for, you know, Zero One or for adventure and Zero One. I

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think he makes a pretty good mascot for adventure and Pokemon, I don't think he makes a very

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good mascot. I don't think he's a very cute character or at least like his design isn't

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cute. Like his personality was fun in Frontier and I like it okay here, but it's just seeing

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the two of them together makes me think of Frontier. And I don't know if they want to

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be evoking Frontier or not because I don't know how well received it was in Japan or

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anything like that. But anyway, here, I think it was kind of a flop. And I watched it, I

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don't know, a couple of years ago, the whole thing through and I just thought, eh, not

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so great. Especially the end game. Like the beginning of it is really good. Up to the

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middle of it is like really powerful. But like when they meet those other kids in the

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Digimon, anyway, I'm getting distracted. I'll talk about that on, I'll talk about that later.

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So in Digimon Chronicles in the future, in 2026, I'll be talking about Frontier maybe.

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We'll see. Anyway, but yeah, so I like this. It's entertaining. It's enjoyable. There's

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really nothing to complain about, you know, other than it's not like a serious Digimon

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story. But you know, there's a, what is it? Is it called Digimon Savers? Is that what

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it's called? No, Digimon Next. I really like that one. I read through that whole thing

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years ago and who knows? Maybe it's something I can do here in Digimon Chronicles. But yeah,

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I mean, for what this is, it's a lot of fun and I'm enjoying it. The characters look good

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and it's funny. It's entertaining. And for just a little bit every week, you know, I had

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a good time reading it and I'm having a good time talking about it now. So anyway, I don't

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want to go on too long. So I'm going to go ahead and stop myself. Let me know what you

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thought of this chapter of the manga. What you think about the, I guess the vibe of it

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overall with it being this more comedic manga, it's more comedic Digimon story and yeah,

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just all your overall thoughts on it and anything you hated, I'd love to know. And anything

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you loved, I'd like to hear about as well. So until next time, folks, take care. This

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is MJ signing out. I hope you enjoyed that. Go to MJMunoz.com to leave any questions,

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