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This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm a Digimon Analyzer. You can find more

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of my work or all my work at MJMunoz.com which is my author website. I'm

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talking about Digimon Recollect... I'm talking about Digimon Recollection

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Chapter 1 which is part of the Digimon comic Volume 1. Volume 2 is coming out in

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about a month and a half in November I think is when it comes out. So anyway,

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I read this, I liked it, I got emotional, it was cool, it was fun. I'm definitely

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there for it and I'm going to tell you about it and then at the end I'm actually

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gonna show you some of my Digimon artwork because not only... well I say

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this then and I'll... well anyway. That's it, that's your tease, okay? That's your tease.

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So anyway, this was a lot of fun. I don't really know what the story's about. It

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made me think while I was reading it that somebody recently said that the

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Digimon franchise seems to be telling you to stop being a Digimon fan

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with its recent stuff. I think they were talking about last Evolution Kizuna

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and Zero to the Beginning and just real quick before we talk about Recollection

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because I do want to talk about that. Zero to the Beginning, I don't understand

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why it was made, I don't understand how it was made, I don't understand how it was

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proved. I did not like it at all. I asked people there if they liked it as I was

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leaving the theater and I got a bunch of... like I asked some people specifically and

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they said no this was not good and I just I heard from the crowd people kind

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of groaning after it was over like oh that was it huh? So it's kind of a

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strange thing to do. It kind of sets up like a reboot universe maybe? I don't

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know as if like all of Adventure and Zero to happened because of Lui and his

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weird evil devil Cthulhu. I'm sorry if I spoiled it for you. So like I'm really

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confused about that. Last Evolution Kizuna, while I didn't like them talking

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about Tai having you know PLRN in his room because that's kind of gross. Anyway

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like for a family friendly thing you know whatever Digimon is not as family

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friendly as it could be as it should be and that's why I'm making my own Digimon

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it's gonna be called MJmon. That's actually mostly not true but

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yeah like anyway whatever it is what it is and I'm an adult so I can watch these

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things but it makes me uncomfortable. I don't like them and it's funny they

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mentioned in recollection that you're... so this isn't made for kids and I

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typically try to keep everything as family friendly as possible but I'm just

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gonna go ahead and say something that I feel isn't family friendly that's a quote

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from the manga which is that Mayu... what's the girl's name? Oh Riko yeah

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Riko's brother Mayu says yeah you know you Digimon they'll turn into like a

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you know a pile of poop or a sexy babe and like yeah there's a lot of sexy babes

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in Digimon and there shouldn't be like in my opinion but of course you know

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the market's winning out on that and just it's unnecessary but anyway um now

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you know where I stand you know I'm a bit of a prude but it'll be interesting

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to see as I show you my different Digimon who I've drawn over the years I

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drew most of them I designed most of them like 15 20 years ago and then I

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just tweaked the designs and redrew them as I got better or you know wanted to

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take more time to redesign them anyway so we'll talk about that later and my

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hypocrisy for drawing babes if I have any babes in there I don't know we'll

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have to see we'll see what you think so you know would you buy a PVC figure of

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some of my Digimon characters that I drew I want to know but yeah it's kind

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of kind of a weird thing but getting back to the frame here last evolution

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Kizuna talks about the children like losing their connection with the Digimon

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it's never really I guess it's when they grow up and when they grow up a certain

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amount they lose a connection with the Digimon which I think is interesting it

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kind of it kind of creates trouble with the way the story works if you want to

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hold the the 02 ending is canon and they all have the Digimon or whatever you

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know the older kids to they saw the Digimon like that shouldn't work but I

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don't know then again maybe it should I mean the way did you want to work is so

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strange like are they a manifestation of the heart and soul of the child are they

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a guardian angel are they you know and why would you need why would you lose

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the need for a guardian angel you disconnected from it when you grow up I

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guess that's okay in my grow bug series I have it so that the hobnots which are

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the villains in that they mostly prey on children but because whatever children

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have more potent emotions or they're tastier or whatever they don't actually

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killing them for the most part and the grow bugs specifically combat the hobnots

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by protecting children so they don't like hang out around kids but when they

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find out there's a hobnots attacking a kid they can sense it and they'll send

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one of the champions to go one of the girl by champions to go and defeat the

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hobnots and save the child so you know do they only appear to children I don't

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know I wrote a short story a Western actually where a hobnots is attacking

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this town or whatever and there's a girl bug there and it goes and meets a

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deputy and partners up with him literally and they end up fighting off

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these these monsters together and like I have no thinking that the grow bugs

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gonna go away because the guys an adult like they they work together they they

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can do it so it all works so why am I saying that because recollection has

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this concept where my use brother is like a game developer I don't know if

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he worked on Digimon games or if he was just a Digimon fan and was heartbroken

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by the shutdown on August 1st of a day of this Digimon game that AI or not AI

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this like virtual reality game that lets you summon your Digimon into the real

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world you know as holograms or whatever and that closed down a year ago in the

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story so it closed down August 1st 2023 and this story takes place August 1st

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2024 so like he's mourning over the loss of that and I can't tell like he's like

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kind of done with his Digimon fandom he's upset that his dreams were were

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broken and shattered because the app got shut down and I know again was he

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working on the app was it his dream to work for Digimon to make Digimon

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whatever I don't know they haven't given us that context yet but he loves Digimon

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obviously or he used to he's you know closed himself off to it but it's

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reawakening in him and by the end we have it's interesting it's called

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recollection and it's about Rico's collection breaking out and becoming

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real somehow and then her brother Mayu has the ability to capture or like 20

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touches the Digimon to make them turn back into their toy forms except for the

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Agumon that he touched which I don't know why that was the case but I'm sure

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it's something we can find out about later but I don't know what they're

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trying to say with this story are they saying it's good to be a crazy collector

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and have like a hoarders treasure trove like he like Mayu calls it or is it

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better to be like like Rico and just like be full crazy about it and be happy

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with that I don't really know it's it's kind of an interesting conundrum and I

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don't know why Digimon has like a problem with the identity of I don't

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know why Digimon has that problem with that identity and accepting that that's

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who they are that's what it is so yeah I'm really confused by that I don't get

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why there's this tension in like the media that's being produced of course

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this is being this was produced by a fan which I want to tell you about and not

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produced by and not produced by Bandai Toei themselves but let me actually

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read about that because I found through I think the Digimon Wiki hold on I

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don't know if with the will and the Digimon Wiki are united with each other

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or not but I looked it up and I found links to both so the with the will has

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information but I'm actually just gonna read straight from the Digimon Wiki and

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then I'm gonna talk about the story as a whole I've talked about a little bit

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saying I just I don't quite understand what's going on here and then we can we

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can go from there okay so here we go Digimon Recollection Episode 1 so it

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was released August 10th I guess or 9th and 10th I'm confused about that of 2024

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August 2024 is released for sure on digimon.net and the writer and artist is

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Uwagu Okutsuwa so on August 1st 2024 this is the synopsis of the story I don't

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want the synopsis of the story featured characters there's too many name here

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let me see there's some digivolutions that happen in here somehow and yeah did

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it okay I'm gonna read this one thing that is it a dub change the track here

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and the Japanese version where Riko sees Karamon materializing Digimon she asks

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what? Naniman? and Mayu replies it is not Naniman in the English version Riko

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instead says mormon and Mayu replies you mean Metamormon? I see okay that joke

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kind of makes sense is there an actual Naniman is it the muscle guy with the

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glasses yeah it is it's the muscle guy it's this guy right anyway that's funny

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so yeah um I don't really know what to make this story I liked it and it was

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emotional especially the end that end where her brother is saying he doesn't

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want to abandon another dream is really fantastic it's really like beautiful

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and emotional and I don't know what's going on it's obviously very chaotic all

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this stuff is happening and I don't know where it's gonna go from here but like

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I'm into it I'm into it I like seeing these Digimon fans being thrown into a

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Digimon adventure and having to digi deal with it it's a lot of fun and like

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I don't know there's something like the nostalgia I'm talking about his

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childhood being destroyed how even if it's a dream he wants to fight for it

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he's not gonna just stand utterly by and let it happen does that mean like he let

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the Digimon app like he was working for them and he didn't advocate for hard

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enough or he messed something up and caused it to be canceled or destroyed I

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don't know or shut down I should say I'm not really sure but like I don't know

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it's fun she's she's optimistic and peppy and he's kind of a doomer and real

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glower or clower real glum about things and we get this you know interesting

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brother-sister contrast and it doesn't feel like you know Matt and TK it doesn't

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feel like Ty and Kari it doesn't feel really like any sibling dynamic I've

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seen so far and I don't know I like it I like it a lot I don't quite know I don't

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know if I just like it because it's nostalgic or if I like it because it's

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nostalgic and it's taking place in the real world but you know like Tamers but

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has Digimon coming to life but in this like really weird manic way and it's

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like directly referencing the show like there's a lot of things in here that are

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just like reference not just that there are references to the show direct

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references to the show and I really like that and it makes me feel cozy and it

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makes me feel warm and wonderful but also like there's an obvious setup for

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a story here which is that Rico's gonna go around collecting the Digimon with

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her bug net somehow and then Mai is gonna turn them back into toys and

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they're gonna restore order but then we've got this you know different rogue

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Agumon that's with them it's he's like the savers Agumon and he even brings over

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the Digivice IC which apparently that's what that thing is called he brings that

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over to to my you and he's gonna wield it and help stop I guess this giant

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Parrotmon which is an ultimate I didn't know that and Greymon that are fighting

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and like I really don't know where it's gonna go from here I really don't know

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where it's gonna go from here but I'm hooked because like there's like all

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this nostalgia bait and then there's like the character dynamics between the

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brother and sister and then there's like the very simple like okay she can do X

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he can do Y and then they do X and Y together in order to solve this crisis

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of this problem but there's a complication with all these Digimon or

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with these you know two giant Digimon attacking and how are they gonna

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overcome that so that's pretty interesting that's a pretty interesting

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premise and I'm excited to see where it goes from here like I'm not

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uninterested at all I don't know what's going on but I'm very intrigued by

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what's there and I think this is gonna be a lot of fun I think it's gonna be a

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lot of fun I always say I'm an artist as well and I don't typically show off any

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of my artwork but since I'm talking about Digimon recollection I decided it

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would be a good idea to get out my Digimon artwork and talk about somebody

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I don't know who I'm gonna talk about today

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let me see I'll spend I won't spend more than like two or three minutes on this

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because that's I'm sure not what you're here for you hear me talk about the

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other stuff so I'll keep it short so I guess I'll just start from the back so I

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actually wrote myself a Digimon story like a self-insert thing with a

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bunch of family members and myself all being Digi-destined when we were kids and this is

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my brother's he's kind of a cool guy so I decided to give him kind of a cool

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Digimon he's definitely more in the classic hero cut than me like he's more

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of a tie than a Matt I'm definitely closer to Matt so I gave him this pudgy

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little cute dragon guy you know Algamon's got a little chub on him so I

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figured it's fine and then he did devolves into this guy who is very cool

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definitely influenced by XV-mon if you can't tell and then we've got this

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fellow over here who's an agent dragon my brother was more into martial arts he

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did you know martial arts actually he's like a MMA kind of guy right now which

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is super cool which is kind of prussian but anyway so I gave him this cool

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dragon with these awesome curled horns and like a dragon knight

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I mean like a Kamen Rider Dragon Knight no not quite but anyway this is before

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that show came out and anyway there's his armor and I thought it would be so

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cool because the way Digimon grow and evolve when they're a more you know

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structured straight line like this like a hero line I would say because they have

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different things that appear so you can see this helmet detail or this helmet

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actually physically goes boom right there and it makes a little codpiece and

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like weird armor for him and then these are his wings from here when he was in

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this form and you know that size changes or whatever but it's fine and these are

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these this feels very Chinese to me and that's what I was trying to do give him

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a cool martial arts Chinese dragon dude with these daggers this may or may not

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have been influenced by the swordsman from Ruruni Kenshin who has the two

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shorter blades as well because my brother really liked that guy so I he's

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pretty cool so anyway oh yeah I'm a Digimon analyzer and I'm a Digimon

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artist and here's some of my art and I don't remember this guy's name at all

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that's okay because he looks pretty freaking cool he's supposed to be black

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and blue black and blue dragon dude

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you're part of the conversation until next time be well this is MJ signing out

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this has been a story over everything production