1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,040 Welcome to Digimon Analyzer. This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm a Digimon 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:09,780 Analyzer. Joining me as I talk about the relaunch of Odiaba Day, 25 years of Digimon 3 00:00:09,780 --> 00:00:19,100 and my kids, and Liberator. Also the hope, not the plan, but the hope, and my books 4 00:00:19,100 --> 00:00:28,540 and the connection with Digimon. So here we go. Why am I doing this? So just 5 00:00:28,540 --> 00:00:33,720 to clarify, this is a relaunch. I started Digimon Chronicle last year, or two 6 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:38,760 years ago probably, whenever it was that Digimon Seekers was coming out. It was, 7 00:00:38,760 --> 00:00:45,880 it was, it is an internet release, it's an e-book type thing, it's an online, it's a 8 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,680 web novel. There we go. It's a Digimon web novel that was made for the 25th 9 00:00:48,680 --> 00:00:52,360 anniversary and I started reading it and I really hoped and I really thought that 10 00:00:52,360 --> 00:00:55,760 I was gonna push myself to be consistent and read through the whole thing and I 11 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:59,000 didn't like it so I didn't read it and I feel badly that I didn't read it and I 12 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:04,720 kind of shamefully hid from all Digimon people for a while and now I'm back 13 00:01:04,720 --> 00:01:08,400 because people were saying good things about Liberator so I checked it out. I 14 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,600 read it probably like the first issue like a month ago, actually first two, 15 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:15,400 about a month ago and I really liked them and I thought okay I'm trying to 16 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:20,200 do Ultraman stuff, I'm trying to do my books that I'm writing, I need to focus 17 00:01:20,200 --> 00:01:23,720 on those so I can't get distracted and it's been all this time, you know, I got 18 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,560 work I got, home I got, writing, I got all these different things I need to do, I can't just get 19 00:01:27,560 --> 00:01:30,960 distracted and talk about Digimon at the same time. So I decided not to and I thought I'll put 20 00:01:30,960 --> 00:01:37,240 Liberator on the shelf and I'll do it later. However, over the past week or two 21 00:01:37,880 --> 00:01:41,800 the official channels for Digimon, I think on YouTube mostly they're doing 22 00:01:41,800 --> 00:01:45,080 like posts, they have like a countdown going and we're just a couple 23 00:01:45,080 --> 00:01:50,480 days away from Otagbite, from August 1st, 2024 and I had all these ambitions and I 24 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:52,800 thought oh I'm gonna do all this stuff and I thought you know I'm actually not 25 00:01:52,800 --> 00:01:54,960 gonna be able to do all that stuff, I'm gonna have to figure out something else to do 26 00:01:54,960 --> 00:02:05,920 for Digimon and I thought about it and I thought about it and I was up in the night with a kid and I re-read 27 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:12,720 Digimon Liberator the first episode, episode zero and I thought this is pretty good, I think I want to talk about this. 28 00:02:12,720 --> 00:02:22,680 So what I plan to do, what the hope is to do, is to talk about Liberator as the main focus for the relaunch of my Digimon podcast, 29 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:32,920 Digimon Analyzer. So on Otagbite, I plan on releasing this, if there's news that goes on Otagbite, I'll release little shorts, 30 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:38,120 I'll either release shorts or I'll release quick like five minutes or so videos talking about whatever they're talking about. 31 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:52,440 I recently listened to Otagbite, so Otagbite is pretty cool, it's in show, it's 32 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:58,280 referenced, it's when the kids are at camp on August 1st and everything happens, they go into the digital world, at least from the original series. 33 00:02:58,280 --> 00:03:04,880 2020, I'm a little vague on what date it is that things are happening there, because like things happen, the Tokyo Digital Crisis happens 34 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:11,280 and then later they go to camp, like a few days later, is that August 1st when they go, I don't know, I don't quite remember the continuity of it all. 35 00:03:11,280 --> 00:03:19,560 But anyway, I decided I'm gonna take another run at it and keep talking about Digimon, I'll start it on Otagbite, so I'll release this episode then, 36 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:27,320 this episode zero of Digimon Analyzer, I'll talk about any news that comes out that day, I'll do my best to record a quick post about it and then get that out. 37 00:03:27,320 --> 00:03:39,920 And then also I'll release my first episode reviewing, well I have a few things planned for that day, and one of them is gonna be a Liberator review, so I'll start with that. 38 00:03:39,920 --> 00:03:48,880 And I think I'll do, or my plan is to do whatever chapter, you know, number one is a half chapter, number two is a half chapter, I'll do those together so that it makes sense as a whole story. 39 00:03:48,880 --> 00:03:56,160 I don't want to stop in the middle of a story with someone jumping off a cliff and then, oh what's gonna happen to them, I don't know, and then a few days later or whatever it's released. 40 00:03:56,160 --> 00:04:03,280 I don't even know the release schedule for it because I haven't been following it but I did download Webtoon just for this so I have that now and I can go through it as I need to. 41 00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:11,840 So anyway, that's interesting, but anyway yeah, so that's my plan, my hope is to go through consistently and stick with it this time. 42 00:04:11,840 --> 00:04:28,240 I mean Liberator looks good, the chapter zero that I read of Liberator has me way more interested than the first chapter of, which by the way the first chapter was like, you know, like sixth regular chapter's length long of the Webnovel. 43 00:04:28,240 --> 00:04:39,040 Which is like, I don't know if Webnovels do that or not, I'm planning on publishing something on Royal Road and I've checked out a few people's books over there and their chapters are like normal length. 44 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:53,440 Like they're like a thousand words, fifteen hundred words, five thousand at the most, but these Digimon Seekers Webnovel chapters were super long and it was like, you know, one dash one, one dash two, one dash three, like you know twenty, and that's a chapter. 45 00:04:53,440 --> 00:05:03,520 That's just crazy, it's crazy. Anyway, so, anyway yeah, so you know Diaboday's coming up, it's been twenty-five years, so that means I've been watching Digimon for about twenty-five years. 46 00:05:03,520 --> 00:05:09,120 I've probably never gone a year without watching any Digimon, even if it was just me starting adventure over again. 47 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:18,320 Because I've watched adventure several times, I've started it several times, and I've always kind of wanted to do something with it. 48 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:25,920 And that's what Digimon Chronicles was supposed to be about, but like I said that fell through. 49 00:05:25,920 --> 00:05:35,920 So anyway, it's interesting, yesterday, yeah it was yesterday, my kids asked me, actually two of my dogs actually came down and said, hey dad, can we watch Digimon? 50 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:46,320 I was like, sure, I guess. And I put on an episode for them of 2020 and they liked it, everybody liked it, so that was interesting. 51 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:56,720 It was one of the early episodes, I heard 2020 gets weird, but I haven't seen it yet and I'm going to judge it for myself, I'm not going to let other people set my opinion of it, and that's my plan there. 52 00:05:56,720 --> 00:06:01,520 So that's interesting, it's interesting that it's something I can pass on to my kids. 53 00:06:01,520 --> 00:06:13,120 I told them last year about how I was all excited, was it November or October, somewhere around my birthday, that I was going to go watch a Digimon movie in the theater. 54 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:17,520 And I had to go by myself because it was too late and they couldn't go and they were kind of bummed. 55 00:06:17,520 --> 00:06:23,520 But I'm glad I didn't take them, it was 0 to the beginning and that was not a good movie, it was very sad that that was part of the 25th anniversary of Digimon. 56 00:06:23,520 --> 00:06:29,520 And it's just a shame because it's not a good movie, I didn't like it at all. 57 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:37,520 Anyway, so like I said, I did like Liberator, the first chapter, chapter 0. 58 00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:45,520 I thought it was good, it's interesting, I'll save more of my thoughts for it when I actually talk about Liberator in that episode, so I won't go on about it here. 59 00:06:45,520 --> 00:06:51,520 But yeah, so you can expect the episodes to be short, I'm trying to keep stuff at 10 minutes or under. 60 00:06:51,520 --> 00:07:03,520 Recently, talking about Ultraman, I've gone like 16 minutes in my story over everything or Fortress Fiction podcast where I'm talking about books, classic books that I'm reading through. 61 00:07:03,520 --> 00:07:11,520 Middle grade fiction like Anne of Green Gables for example or Rony of the Robber's Otter, let me try to pick a boy one. 62 00:07:11,520 --> 00:07:21,520 Tom Sawyer, boy books that I've read so far? I know, I'm going to read The Chronicles of Verdane, the first one anyway, that's a boy book, nice boy book. 63 00:07:21,520 --> 00:07:25,520 Anyway, I'm reading through that stuff, those are kind of like, they're whatever length they end up being. 64 00:07:25,520 --> 00:07:37,520 A couple of them have been like just a few minutes and one went like 20 or 30, but these Digimon ones, I can't put that much time into each episode so I'm going to do as little as I possibly can. 65 00:07:37,520 --> 00:07:44,520 I'm going to give you, hopefully no fluff, and I'm going to give you the good stuff and I'll do that in 10 minutes or less, that's my goal. 66 00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:53,520 So anyway, I will talk about this for a couple minutes and then I will let you go because I will be right around the 10 minute mark. 67 00:07:53,520 --> 00:08:05,520 I'm writing books. The books that I'm writing are middle grade books, which is why I'm reading middle grade books and talking about them, reviewing them, analyzing them, because I'm a middle grade analyzer as well as a Digimon analyzer. 68 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:19,520 And the reason I'm bringing them up here is because it's relevant, because I am writing a book series, one right now, and I have a second series, that's a sister series to it, that the series is very much inspired by tokusatsu. 69 00:08:19,520 --> 00:08:31,520 And I count Digimon as a tokusatsu offsuit for reasons I will get into in a later episode. Look at that, I'm plugging, this is episode 0 of Digimon Analyzer, I'm plugging episode 1 in episode 0, so I'll talk about that later. 70 00:08:31,520 --> 00:08:41,520 But anyway, one book series just focuses on the Growbugs, who are my characters in these stories, in the Growbug books. 71 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:57,520 It focuses on them being raised and growing up, they're magical bugs who battle monsters, and they're being raised in a fort where they are trained, and they change from little wiggly worms into bigger bugs and then bigger bugs who have different powers, and they use those powers to battle these monsters. 72 00:08:57,520 --> 00:09:12,520 I know this sounds unfamiliar, but this is all happening in the Growbug world, which is our world, it's just our world, but it's hidden, they're hidden in nature, they're in underground tunnels, they're in trees, they're in abandoned buildings, they're in the walls, they're wherever they need to be. 73 00:09:12,520 --> 00:09:28,520 I'm going to write those books first. But, in all the crazy planning and developing I've been doing this over the last two years or so, I also came up with another side of other Growbug stories, but where there's a boy and a Growbug who are partnered with each other and who fight these evil creatures. 74 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:43,520 So that sounds a lot more like Digimon. The Growbug lives with a boy in his house, and they have their adventures, and there's an arcade, and the boy gets Eastkite into a video game with his sister, so there's another Digimon connection there. 75 00:09:43,520 --> 00:10:00,520 So it's relevant, and as I get these books out, I will be sharing them with you, as long as I'm covering Digimon and you're around, I'll be sharing them with you, and hopefully you're interested and you'll check them out. And I'm going to be posting about them, updates on my website, you can find a link to in the show notes, it's mjmunoz.com. 76 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:15,520 And yeah, I think that's interesting. I very much want to capture the spirit of Digimon, because it's so beautiful. I started watching 2020 like two months ago, probably, and I watched the first five or six episodes, and I liked it a lot. 77 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:40,520 I really liked the theme song, I liked the theme song and the end song, the English tabs of them, they're beautiful songs, and I looked them up, and they're basically just translated from Japanese, and I called one of my kids and I said, read these lyrics, and I had them listen to the song and I said, what right does this show about this dumb anime, this dumb Japanese cartoon that's meant to sell Digimon video games, Digimon merchandise, whatever. 78 00:10:40,520 --> 00:11:03,520 What right does this toy commercial have to have these beautiful songs with such beautiful and inspirational lyrics? And I just think there's something magical to the marketing of a lot of Japanese media, but specifically Digimon, the stuff built into the shows themselves is so beautiful and so good and so noble for the most part, except for Skimpy Angel, Skimpy Lady, that's trash. 79 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:15,520 But there's so much good stuff in the stories and the characters and their struggles and everything, they're just so beautiful and inspiring, and that's why I'm still talking about this 20 years later. I'm not talking about the Pokemon anime, I'm not talking about Metabots, I'm not talking about whatever. 80 00:11:15,520 --> 00:11:35,520 Covering San Diego, but I am talking about this because there's so many beautiful and good, and I want to talk more about that. So until next time, take care, be well. 81 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:48,520 This has been a Story Over Everything production.