This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm a Digimon Analyzer. You can find more
of my work or all my work at MJMunoz.com which is my author website. I'm
talking about Digimon Recollect... I'm talking about Digimon Recollection
Chapter 1 which is part of the Digimon comic Volume 1. Volume 2 is coming out in
about a month and a half in November I think is when it comes out. So anyway,
I read this, I liked it, I got emotional, it was cool, it was fun. I'm definitely
there for it and I'm going to tell you about it and then at the end I'm actually
gonna show you some of my Digimon artwork because not only... well I say
this then and I'll... well anyway. That's it, that's your tease, okay? That's your tease.
So anyway, this was a lot of fun. I don't really know what the story's about. It
made me think while I was reading it that somebody recently said that the
Digimon franchise seems to be telling you to stop being a Digimon fan
with its recent stuff. I think they were talking about last Evolution Kizuna
and Zero to the Beginning and just real quick before we talk about Recollection
because I do want to talk about that. Zero to the Beginning, I don't understand
why it was made, I don't understand how it was made, I don't understand how it was
proved. I did not like it at all. I asked people there if they liked it as I was
leaving the theater and I got a bunch of... like I asked some people specifically and
they said no this was not good and I just I heard from the crowd people kind
of groaning after it was over like oh that was it huh? So it's kind of a
strange thing to do. It kind of sets up like a reboot universe maybe? I don't
know as if like all of Adventure and Zero to happened because of Lui and his
weird evil devil Cthulhu. I'm sorry if I spoiled it for you. So like I'm really
confused about that. Last Evolution Kizuna, while I didn't like them talking
about Tai having you know PLRN in his room because that's kind of gross. Anyway
like for a family friendly thing you know whatever Digimon is not as family
friendly as it could be as it should be and that's why I'm making my own Digimon
it's gonna be called MJmon. That's actually mostly not true but
yeah like anyway whatever it is what it is and I'm an adult so I can watch these
things but it makes me uncomfortable. I don't like them and it's funny they
mentioned in recollection that you're... so this isn't made for kids and I
typically try to keep everything as family friendly as possible but I'm just
gonna go ahead and say something that I feel isn't family friendly that's a quote
from the manga which is that Mayu... what's the girl's name? Oh Riko yeah
Riko's brother Mayu says yeah you know you Digimon they'll turn into like a
you know a pile of poop or a sexy babe and like yeah there's a lot of sexy babes
in Digimon and there shouldn't be like in my opinion but of course you know
the market's winning out on that and just it's unnecessary but anyway um now
you know where I stand you know I'm a bit of a prude but it'll be interesting
to see as I show you my different Digimon who I've drawn over the years I
drew most of them I designed most of them like 15 20 years ago and then I
just tweaked the designs and redrew them as I got better or you know wanted to
take more time to redesign them anyway so we'll talk about that later and my
hypocrisy for drawing babes if I have any babes in there I don't know we'll
have to see we'll see what you think so you know would you buy a PVC figure of
some of my Digimon characters that I drew I want to know but yeah it's kind
of kind of a weird thing but getting back to the frame here last evolution
Kizuna talks about the children like losing their connection with the Digimon
it's never really I guess it's when they grow up and when they grow up a certain
amount they lose a connection with the Digimon which I think is interesting it
kind of it kind of creates trouble with the way the story works if you want to
hold the the 02 ending is canon and they all have the Digimon or whatever you
know the older kids to they saw the Digimon like that shouldn't work but I
don't know then again maybe it should I mean the way did you want to work is so
strange like are they a manifestation of the heart and soul of the child are they
a guardian angel are they you know and why would you need why would you lose
the need for a guardian angel you disconnected from it when you grow up I
guess that's okay in my grow bug series I have it so that the hobnots which are
the villains in that they mostly prey on children but because whatever children
have more potent emotions or they're tastier or whatever they don't actually
killing them for the most part and the grow bugs specifically combat the hobnots
by protecting children so they don't like hang out around kids but when they
find out there's a hobnots attacking a kid they can sense it and they'll send
one of the champions to go one of the girl by champions to go and defeat the
hobnots and save the child so you know do they only appear to children I don't
know I wrote a short story a Western actually where a hobnots is attacking
this town or whatever and there's a girl bug there and it goes and meets a
deputy and partners up with him literally and they end up fighting off
these these monsters together and like I have no thinking that the grow bugs
gonna go away because the guys an adult like they they work together they they
can do it so it all works so why am I saying that because recollection has
this concept where my use brother is like a game developer I don't know if
he worked on Digimon games or if he was just a Digimon fan and was heartbroken
by the shutdown on August 1st of a day of this Digimon game that AI or not AI
this like virtual reality game that lets you summon your Digimon into the real
world you know as holograms or whatever and that closed down a year ago in the
story so it closed down August 1st 2023 and this story takes place August 1st
2024 so like he's mourning over the loss of that and I can't tell like he's like
kind of done with his Digimon fandom he's upset that his dreams were were
broken and shattered because the app got shut down and I know again was he
working on the app was it his dream to work for Digimon to make Digimon
whatever I don't know they haven't given us that context yet but he loves Digimon
obviously or he used to he's you know closed himself off to it but it's
reawakening in him and by the end we have it's interesting it's called
recollection and it's about Rico's collection breaking out and becoming
real somehow and then her brother Mayu has the ability to capture or like 20
touches the Digimon to make them turn back into their toy forms except for the
Agumon that he touched which I don't know why that was the case but I'm sure
it's something we can find out about later but I don't know what they're
trying to say with this story are they saying it's good to be a crazy collector
and have like a hoarders treasure trove like he like Mayu calls it or is it
better to be like like Rico and just like be full crazy about it and be happy
with that I don't really know it's it's kind of an interesting conundrum and I
don't know why Digimon has like a problem with the identity of I don't
know why Digimon has that problem with that identity and accepting that that's
who they are that's what it is so yeah I'm really confused by that I don't get
why there's this tension in like the media that's being produced of course
this is being this was produced by a fan which I want to tell you about and not
produced by and not produced by Bandai Toei themselves but let me actually
read about that because I found through I think the Digimon Wiki hold on I
don't know if with the will and the Digimon Wiki are united with each other
or not but I looked it up and I found links to both so the with the will has
information but I'm actually just gonna read straight from the Digimon Wiki and
then I'm gonna talk about the story as a whole I've talked about a little bit
saying I just I don't quite understand what's going on here and then we can we
can go from there okay so here we go Digimon Recollection Episode 1 so it
was released August 10th I guess or 9th and 10th I'm confused about that of 2024
August 2024 is released for sure on digimon.net and the writer and artist is
Uwagu Okutsuwa so on August 1st 2024 this is the synopsis of the story I don't
want the synopsis of the story featured characters there's too many name here
let me see there's some digivolutions that happen in here somehow and yeah did
it okay I'm gonna read this one thing that is it a dub change the track here
and the Japanese version where Riko sees Karamon materializing Digimon she asks
what? Naniman? and Mayu replies it is not Naniman in the English version Riko
instead says mormon and Mayu replies you mean Metamormon? I see okay that joke
kind of makes sense is there an actual Naniman is it the muscle guy with the
glasses yeah it is it's the muscle guy it's this guy right anyway that's funny
so yeah um I don't really know what to make this story I liked it and it was
emotional especially the end that end where her brother is saying he doesn't
want to abandon another dream is really fantastic it's really like beautiful
and emotional and I don't know what's going on it's obviously very chaotic all
this stuff is happening and I don't know where it's gonna go from here but like
I'm into it I'm into it I like seeing these Digimon fans being thrown into a
Digimon adventure and having to digi deal with it it's a lot of fun and like
I don't know there's something like the nostalgia I'm talking about his
childhood being destroyed how even if it's a dream he wants to fight for it
he's not gonna just stand utterly by and let it happen does that mean like he let
the Digimon app like he was working for them and he didn't advocate for hard
enough or he messed something up and caused it to be canceled or destroyed I
don't know or shut down I should say I'm not really sure but like I don't know
it's fun she's she's optimistic and peppy and he's kind of a doomer and real
glower or clower real glum about things and we get this you know interesting
brother-sister contrast and it doesn't feel like you know Matt and TK it doesn't
feel like Ty and Kari it doesn't feel really like any sibling dynamic I've
seen so far and I don't know I like it I like it a lot I don't quite know I don't
know if I just like it because it's nostalgic or if I like it because it's
nostalgic and it's taking place in the real world but you know like Tamers but
has Digimon coming to life but in this like really weird manic way and it's
like directly referencing the show like there's a lot of things in here that are
just like reference not just that there are references to the show direct
references to the show and I really like that and it makes me feel cozy and it
makes me feel warm and wonderful but also like there's an obvious setup for
a story here which is that Rico's gonna go around collecting the Digimon with
her bug net somehow and then Mai is gonna turn them back into toys and
they're gonna restore order but then we've got this you know different rogue
Agumon that's with them it's he's like the savers Agumon and he even brings over
the Digivice IC which apparently that's what that thing is called he brings that
over to to my you and he's gonna wield it and help stop I guess this giant
Parrotmon which is an ultimate I didn't know that and Greymon that are fighting
and like I really don't know where it's gonna go from here I really don't know
where it's gonna go from here but I'm hooked because like there's like all
this nostalgia bait and then there's like the character dynamics between the
brother and sister and then there's like the very simple like okay she can do X
he can do Y and then they do X and Y together in order to solve this crisis
of this problem but there's a complication with all these Digimon or
with these you know two giant Digimon attacking and how are they gonna
overcome that so that's pretty interesting that's a pretty interesting
premise and I'm excited to see where it goes from here like I'm not
uninterested at all I don't know what's going on but I'm very intrigued by
what's there and I think this is gonna be a lot of fun I think it's gonna be a
lot of fun I always say I'm an artist as well and I don't typically show off any
of my artwork but since I'm talking about Digimon recollection I decided it
would be a good idea to get out my Digimon artwork and talk about somebody
I don't know who I'm gonna talk about today
let me see I'll spend I won't spend more than like two or three minutes on this
because that's I'm sure not what you're here for you hear me talk about the
other stuff so I'll keep it short so I guess I'll just start from the back so I
actually wrote myself a Digimon story like a self-insert thing with a
bunch of family members and myself all being Digi-destined when we were kids and this is
my brother's he's kind of a cool guy so I decided to give him kind of a cool
Digimon he's definitely more in the classic hero cut than me like he's more
of a tie than a Matt I'm definitely closer to Matt so I gave him this pudgy
little cute dragon guy you know Algamon's got a little chub on him so I
figured it's fine and then he did devolves into this guy who is very cool
definitely influenced by XV-mon if you can't tell and then we've got this
fellow over here who's an agent dragon my brother was more into martial arts he
did you know martial arts actually he's like a MMA kind of guy right now which
is super cool which is kind of prussian but anyway so I gave him this cool
dragon with these awesome curled horns and like a dragon knight
I mean like a Kamen Rider Dragon Knight no not quite but anyway this is before
that show came out and anyway there's his armor and I thought it would be so
cool because the way Digimon grow and evolve when they're a more you know
structured straight line like this like a hero line I would say because they have
different things that appear so you can see this helmet detail or this helmet
actually physically goes boom right there and it makes a little codpiece and
like weird armor for him and then these are his wings from here when he was in
this form and you know that size changes or whatever but it's fine and these are
these this feels very Chinese to me and that's what I was trying to do give him
a cool martial arts Chinese dragon dude with these daggers this may or may not
have been influenced by the swordsman from Ruruni Kenshin who has the two
shorter blades as well because my brother really liked that guy so I he's
pretty cool so anyway oh yeah I'm a Digimon analyzer and I'm a Digimon
artist and here's some of my art and I don't remember this guy's name at all
that's okay because he looks pretty freaking cool he's supposed to be black
and blue black and blue dragon dude
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