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Join me as I talk about episode 5 of Digimon Liberator, which is called Real.
This was a five-part episode, and the last episode released about a week ago.
So, the last part of it released about a week ago.
So anyway, I want to go ahead and talk about it. I've got a great thing here.
I think at the end I'm going to do something, and then I'm going to include it in a short as well.
Off my phone so that I can do however it does.
Anyway, it's going to be funny, but I like this episode a lot.
Not a lot of action, a lot of exposition, sort of, and a lot of insects in the world, but it was exciting to me.
So, probably the thing I like most about this is we get a little more lore, and a little more world building,
and a little more understanding and insight into exactly what's going on with these Digimon, these Wobbijimon.
The fact that Lekuna is this digital world and Pyramon is this world,
but also the fact that there are these tamed Digimon or whatever in cards, and we get to understand how that works.
So, I really don't want to explain how it works to you, because I just want to give you an item that's so interesting,
which is another story here.
And I like the tension that was there for a recent show and how we didn't get to see a lot of it,
and we didn't get to see them really stressing out about it.
In the interim, while they were logged off for the maintenance, the server maintenance or whatever,
but we did get to see when they reacted, when they were told that you guys need to come in right now to the DM.
That felt really retention there.
It was kind of fun to see that they were playing the little DinoDoc version of the game,
and they were playing the card game in the real world when they were logged out for a whole week.
And then when they actually got in, they went and talked to the little boy, like they were nervous,
and he was kind of pulling it up and giving him a hard time, and like,
he was just in the middle, so much so he was just having fun with them.
And then Yael comes in, and she's kind of a hoot.
Let me see if I can...
She's Chinese or Japanese Chinese, because her name is Yael.
She...
I don't know if it's going to be funny. I legitimately think that's her name, Yael.
By the way, it still looks like Jerry. I knew it wasn't going to be Jerry, but it looks like Jerry.
I thought, oh, no, we're getting deeper.
So anyway, her name is Yael...
Oh, Jin, or what's it called? I think it could be Jin or Pin.
I don't know. The rules for the way Chinese say it is really crazy,
because why wouldn't you just use the letter that it sounds like?
It's another letter, and then somebody has to know what that is.
So I'm going to say Yael Kwan.
Yael Kwan is what I'm going to say her name is.
She's a developer. By the way, it's hilarious to me that she's this size little lady.
I don't know if it's supposed to be because she's Chinese,
I don't know if it's just because she's supposed to be a hermit lady.
I don't think she's supposed to be, because she looks like she's supposed to be a woman, if you know what I mean.
So anyway, she's kind of like an adult character, or early 20s, if I'm a developer.
I'm not going to look at it over here, but anyway, she was a lot of fun,
and I like her positive attitude, and I like how Coldboy is kind of behind muddy,
and he uses all these fancy words, and he's trying to calm them down or whatever,
but he's not very effective at it.
So he's either not very good at people, or he's just messing with these guys, and we don't really know.
So anyway, that was interesting.
I like her, and I like that she's very good on Earth, and that she's trying to understand what's going on,
and then we get the senior revelation.
Okay, so there are real Digimon.
There are real Digimon, most of the real Digimon, and we kind of do that intuitively,
and now we're getting proof that there are real Digimon.
I love all the little nods that we're getting to classes Digimon from in Grand Theft Auto 2,
because we're seeing them right off the bat, which is a lot of fun.
Like, it's anywhere they can connect it in, like, oh, here's another one, here's another one, here's another one.
Like, you can see them, they're showing stuff.
They're showing different elements that are not different elements.
They're showing a new Digimon, which is pretty a lot of fun, or pretty like a different one,
which is a bit of a rotation.
So we have a one, then we saw a gemon, et cetera, et cetera.
You know what the real potamon was like, too.
I don't think I've ever called them potamon except for right here.
I don't know, I just did that.
But anyway, so that was cool and interesting.
They're getting this revelation, and we're getting this revelation as an audience that, okay, Digimon are real,
and they exist in the individual world, but the gemon is like grafted onto, basically.
And so, Digimon is like a human-created or human-procreated device, I would say,
or a bridge between the digital world and the real world.
And the digital world was supposedly birthed out of humans connecting the internet together,
which is kind of like the premise from Digimon Adventure.
So I find that to be interesting, and they're invited to be debuggers, part of this debug team,
which totally makes sense now why there's the debug novel,
and that apparently these people are called the debuggers, or they're on the debug team.
And so these two who are dealing with real Digimon are able to join that team on a contingency.
Of course, this is a Shounen Battlemonger type thing, where in order to prove that he's good enough,
Shoto has to battle Yao, which is going to be a lot of fun.
I kind of can't wait to see what kind of Digimon she has.
I really like the straight Digivolution lines from...
Well, my favorite is Tamers, for multiple reasons.
Jerry, Leomon, so much good stuff there.
Anyway, my favorite Digimon, anything, is Tamers.
It just does something for me. It's beautiful, and I love it.
And I want to add to that, I love their straight Digivolution lines.
You've got little Gilmon, Graumon, or Graumon, and then the big guy at the end there, Gallantmon.
And he's kind of a departure.
Megidramon's kind of more in line with Graumon.
And Megidramon's like this... or not Megidramon.
He is more in line, and then Gallantmon's like this twist.
But it's also because of the bio-merge, probably.
So each of them, when they bio-merge, once of the four really, gets this, I guess, uniquely human twist,
but it's also adding in the personality of...
Not really, because Rika's... she's not like Sekuyomon.
I don't know, whatever.
But it's a unique twist to their Digivolution line.
But basically, they're rookie to ultimate.
Rookie champion ultimate. I go by that, because I'm a dub guy.
That's a very straight line. It's very solid. I love that.
I'm wondering if Yao... this is totally relevant.
I'm wondering if Yao, because she was talking about the subspecies of Digimon,
and what kind they are, and how they regenerate.
She seems to be interested in why Digimon would be like a dinosaur,
or like a lizard with fur that turns into a wolf.
That kind of thing with Gabumon, right?
She's interested in understanding the taxonomy, and the subspecies, and the roots of it.
So I almost wonder... because I know Digimon don't need to have a straight-through evolution line.
You could be Mamumon, and then Metalmamumon, and then whatever the other one is.
Or you could be Mamumon, and then turn into a Machinidramon, or a Andromon, or something like that.
I think that kind of progression works.
So I wonder if she'll have a really eclectic type of deck,
where she has a Digimon that's sort of like this, and then turns into this, this, this,
and they're all very different from each other.
And if she'll... I mean, I would think she'll have a very different play style,
so that we get the variety.
And I'm super curious to see what that is.
I'm definitely engaged by that, and I'm excited about this setup
that they're going to have to battle it out to see if he's worthy.
Because Mr. Owen Dreadnaught, which I cannot believe that's that guy's name,
has said that he is not good enough,
Shoto is not good enough to be part of the debug team,
and it will cause the rest of the debug team,
of which I guess he's the fifth or sixth member, to be put in danger.
So this definitely makes me want to read the debug novel so badly.
I'm super interested in finding out about these one, two, three, four human characters,
and like a robot, I guess, plus Owen.
So there's six of them total that were involved in debug.
And then we get this little shadowy glimpse of four Digimon.
Eliza Ipmon, Owen's special Digimon partner, I guess, is there.
Eliza Ipmon, Fan Bimon, and I don't know who this guy with like sticks
sticking out of his head is.
But those are four wild Digimon that are going to be,
I would assume, featured in the debug novel.
And like I almost wonder if like this is showing a character
that hasn't been revealed in debug yet.
So it's even kind of a surprise for the people reading debug
who got attracted to Liberator.
And it's really cool, really interesting that they're doing this back and forth flow.
And the concept, the idea is this corporation that discovered the digital world basically
and then wanted to come into a way to interact with it
and then started the Digimon franchise in the real world
in order to make that happen is super interesting
because it's like they're funding Digimon in order to,
they're funding Digimon fiction projects in order to generate money,
capital, I would assume, to invest into, and the card game as well.
They're funding that as well in order to invest into investigating the digital world
and helping to preserve the Digimon.
Like they need cash money in order to do, interact with the Digimon
because there's server costs and everything like that.
And they're doing it for some purpose altruistic or malevolent?
I don't know. We'll have to see.
But that's a super interesting concept and I like that.
It kind of reminds me a little bit of Seekers,
but I didn't get enough into Seekers because I quit early-ish.
So I don't really know what was going on there.
But I do know humans were using Digimon in different ways,
and I'm curious how this is going to approach you
because I thought it was just going to be the card game.
I'm like, oh, how will that work? I don't know.
They'll get Isekai. That was my assumption.
But it sounds like the Digimon might get Isekai
and come into the real world potentially,
and that's definitely a possibility now that we know they're real
and they exist, and Lacuna is grafted onto or attached to
or is the digital world. So that's really interesting.
So I'm really excited about what's going on, what's going forward,
and it makes me more invested in the rest of it,
and it makes me want to check out the other stuff they have going on.
So that's pretty much all I have to say.
Okay, so I'm curious to hear your thoughts on this so far.
How much are you liking Liberator? Did you read Seekers?
If you did, where is Liberator versus Seekers for you,
and what's the key difference between them
that makes one better than the other?
So if you like Seekers a lot better than Liberator, tell me why.
If you like Liberator a lot better than Seekers, I'd love to know why,
because I'm really curious to see what people are thinking
who have read both or read both. I'll just put it that way.
That's pretty much it.
So this is going to be published on the YouTube channel
of Henshin Inspection along with my Japanese tokusatsu-type stuff
talking about Ultraman, talking about Kamen Rider.
I checked out the latest Kamen Rider Kamen Rider GOV episode 1.
Recently, I'm currently following Ultraman Arc,
and I'm sticking with that for sure, because it has the official,
you know, Tsuburaya-endorsed release, whereas the GOV is not so much.
So if I want to talk about Kamen Rider, I might only talk about the official stuff,
but we'll see. If I get a huge response on GOV and I enjoy it,
I think I'll keep covering that, but we'll see what happens with that.
There's the Digimon. There's four or five Digimon manga projects.
One is a spin-off of Seekers, and then four are new projects entirely on their own.
And in between when I have a lull, I will be either jumping to those Digimon things,
so like next week there will be a Digimon Analyzer,
as long as there's breath in my body and everything works out well.
And it will be on one of those manga issues, or it'll be starting Seekers.
I think because the manga isn't going to come out again until like November,
which isn't that far away now, really,
I will probably spend the month or so that it takes to get out the next episode of Seekers,
covering those—or Liberator, getting out those other manga stories.
I'll read those and I'll talk about them,
and then eventually I'll be getting into the debug novel,
and we'll see how it goes.
I'll probably go back and forth between them as time allows,
and as there's availability of the content for me to read and review and whatnot.
Anyway, that's what I have going for now.
Please like, share, and comment on this. I want to help grow this channel.
I want it to be huge. I want it to be massive.
I really love stories and talking about stories, and I think stories are very important,
and I particularly enjoy a lot of stuff that we see in Digimon.
It's something I've revisited a lot,
and it's something I'm kind of always interested in engaging with again and again,
not because of Dora the Haremon,
but because of things like Shoto proving his mettle
and these curious ideas and stories that are going on in the background.
I really love the character interactions and the quests and the adventures and whatever that they go on.
Some things don't delight me as much as other things,
but I'm here for this cool story. It's a fun story,
and I'm really curious to see where this goes,
and it's a very fun imaginative thing to talk about.
I have another channel where I'm talking about books specifically.
I'm currently working through Peter Pan, which is a fantastic book.
I'm about halfway through it, and at the end of it I'll talk about the book as a whole,
and I encourage you to check that out over at Fortress Fiction.
You can find everything at my website, mjwinners.com,
where I am reviewing stuff and I'm also writing stuff and posting about stuff that I'm writing as well.
I'm currently working on a short story that I hope to get published in a book,
and if I do I'll tell you all about it and you can check it out.
And then besides that I have a novel, a middle grade novel that I'm working on that has magical bugs battling monsters.
It's very Digimon-like in some ways, except in this one it's like seeing Digimon in the digital world
learning how to battle and how to...
It's not like an academy type thing, but it's showing their life and really there's like two main characters
who you get to see an arc for in that book, and if people like that I have a whole series planned for that.
And I also have a sister series of that where it's more of a kid who has one of these magical bugs
that he works with to stop monsters, and they actually get Isakai into a video game
and they're for a story together, which is pretty fun.
So you can see there's Digimon-like things in the stuff that I'm writing,
and I also have like cool character interactions that I want to explore and talk about.
So you can check out my progress on that over at my website.
I'll be releasing updates and I'll release them here as well in the little mention at the end.
So without further ado, I'm going to go ahead and get out of here.
Be well, take care, be brave, and keep growing.
Setsu Kaiba and Owen Drednaught have the same energy here, don't they?
Of course you will be paid. Do we have a deal?
We have a deal. Not so fast!
You? They are just amateurs!
What? Choto? Yes?
It's Owen Drednaught in the flesh!
There's no need to let these two drag you down.
They're not the Elizamon. There's no point in getting involved with them.