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Digimon Paradox Chapter 1 is interesting. I like it for the most part. If you know me,
you can probably guess that I think Eve's outfit is absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary.
But whatever it takes to sell this stuff, right? It makes me uncomfortable and I think
it's strange.
As far as the story is concerned, I really do like the story of this sweet guy, Raiji
Shinonome.
I'm just going to call him Raiji. Raiji is a very sweet guy, he's very nice. It's cool
that he has this haunted past where there was this dog that was taken to the pound and
killed because he wasn't there to protect it, to defend it from these neighborhood bullies
or whatever these bad kids were or kids who made a big bad mistake.
And that's really interesting. It really humanizes him. It shows him to be kind of this good
noble, heroic kind of person. He seemed a little bit like a thug, especially with him
beating people up from the beginning. I don't know what these people were doing to these
cats and it sure seems like they were hurting these cats and I guess they hurt Yama, whatever
Elecmon's previous evolution is and whatever he calls them. He calls them Yama. And obviously
that's bad and that's sad and that's not good at all.
But he stands up for the poor animal and it takes it into his care and he takes it home
with him and his sister and her friends are drinking in his room to look at the cherry
blossoms which is kind of odd. But I don't know, the sister drinking kind of reminds
me a little bit of, so I get different vibes from this and there's nothing bad about the
potential homages or the way that this works and other ideas from other shows and the way
it kind of feels like it's reflecting something else.
But well, first of all, before I go into all that, I'm just going to say I really like
this. I thought it was a lot of fun. I thought it was very good, very well done, super interesting
story. Being told here, there's this whole past, present, future Digimon or digital weapons
from 300 years in the future and they're dangerous and this girl is a time traveler and she changes
time in multiple ways in this and then there's this somehow, like I don't know what she came
out of it, she came out of his computer while he was waiting and then there's this David
Jermon that comes through the computer as well and there's just like a whole lot of mystery
being set up and a whole lot of different interesting elements are being set up for the story to
delve into and to show to us in the future and or I guess for the manga to show to us
in the future and I'm really liking what's going on here.
I was hoping to myself that the one condition that Ragey would have for Eve staying with
him is that she would put on a real shirt but whatever. Anyway, getting back to the story
and not focusing on her presentation. It's a very eye catching outfit though, I will
say that. So kudos to you, person who wrote this which actually will let me find out who
that was.
Okay, so I just found out about this. So apparently on With the Will they posted that there were
interviews that were done, two sets of interviews it looks like that were done about this whole
Digimon comic thing so they've got them here. I'm going to go ahead and just read it in
a little bit but I'm interested. So yeah, anyway, I really like the potential of this
story, the idea of Digimon coming from the future and being these digital weapons is
really cool and the fact that Digimon was able to go into his phone that I'm knowing
was pretty fun and it was cool that she was able to somehow sense it with advanced technology
from the future. It seems magical and get it to come out of its hiding place on the phone.
It was neat and then that Koagumon, I think she had to touch the armband thingy on her
self which is her device in order to get Koagumon to come forth but that was really cool and
the color shots in there were cool and Ragey's got a really cool strong like I don't know
like punk aesthetic to him. Well, not as a snake so much but Mori's attitude and his
actions. His aesthetic he looks like Aruto Heedon from Cumberade of Zero One which is
very funny but this is written by a fan, it's very possible they're also a fan of Zero
One and they said you know I'm going to throw a little Aruto thing in here but anyway that's
kind of interesting. Yeah, so I liked it and I'm looking forward to the next one. I showed
you, put the shirt on, I'm sure she won't and I'm going to go ahead and read the interview
here. It's machine translation with a little bit of a touch up I guess. So thanks, let's
see who posted this. Mark FBR. I'm not familiar enough with the will, I don't follow things
as much as I could and I can't access the information. Alright, so anyway, thanks Mark
for this with the will and I might post a note to this or a link to this in the show
notes which you can find on my website, mbm1s.com. So here we go. Here we go, so, oh that's actually
pretty long but I'm still going to read it. So this is not a direct interview, it's giving
the answer. So when they were chosen, this is, sorry, Ayumu Minato is the author of the
Manga of Digimon Paradox. So anyway, Mr. Kitty's coming for attention. When they were chosen
to be published for Digimon Comic, they were very happy as digital monster children code
which got them chosen for the Manga Awards was their debut so this is actually their
first ongoing work. They felt the joy of becoming a Manga artist so that must have been from
the previous contest that was run I guess. When they won, they were working for a company
and drawing manga in their spare time. They weren't satisfied with the finished work at
the time and had half given up but were still hopeful. They checked their Mabalax every
day just in case they would hear something before an official announcement. They got
a phone call from a number they didn't know, heard the word VJumps and their heart leapt
on their chest or out of their chest. They were at work but couldn't help but jump up.
The idea behind children code, oh, oh, I must be reading the wrong one. Why is this called
children code when this says the second part includes Minato, Ayumu Minato, or Paradox?
Huh, hold on. No, that's right. Maybe they messed up or maybe either I'm missing a reference
or they messed something up so here we go. The idea behind children code was wanting
to submit a Digimon's work. They thought they would show or they thought would show
the appeal of Digimon to many people. They love the anime but they also love just the
existence of Digimon. It's not cool, it's not just cool or cute but they can have this
mysterious almost eerie and can even be frightening like monsters, all these aspects they wanted
to convey to readers. They fell in love via the anime which they say of course. They saw
the first episode of Digimon Adventure in kindergarten and thought this is interesting.
Have fun. Right after that they moved and they forgot about it later on. They were watching
TV and saw episode 21 Koromon, the Great Collapse in Tokyo. They thought it was interesting
so they asked their parents and looked it up so they could watch the first episode when
watching that. Again they realized that this is an anime from back then and they were hooked
to see how the story would develop. Initially they planned to be a novelist and when they
submitted a work to a publisher they had her asked if they could draw. They tried on the
spot and were given the advice, you'll get better if you practice. Why don't you try
practicing? They didn't really like drawing at the time so they didn't practice for long.
They were an officer, an office worker and vaguely thought I want to work writing a story
someday which led them to the Manga Awards as mentioned earlier. Digimon influences their
creative work a lot especially Digimon Adventure and Our War Game by director Mamora Hussoto
which you definitely saw references to Our War Game in this that I forgot to mention when
they went into the digital world basically which was super cool going through the computer
screen and everything. They think it's evidence in the Manga Award comic and they pay a lot
of homage to that. One of their favorite comments that made them happy was a comment that said
while reading it Bolero started to play in my head. I don't know what that means. They
believe the main readers of Digimon comic would be fans but they also want Digimon
to continue to be more popular so they tried to make a story that would be interesting
to even people who knew nothing about Digimon. The editor said in a good way it doesn't really
it doesn't rely on Digimon but is a story made by humans. The work from the Manga Award
was centered more on Digimon but they tried to make it more narrative this time. The Digimon
play an active role of course and they think the development will have it be more of a
Digimon style in three and four. Digimon like Koagumon to be German, Wanyamon that's what
it was and others appear but they want Digimon to be more monster like there's a big Omega
Mon or Omni Mon fan but at that time they were a bit disappointed that they looked more
like a human or a hero type as they think part of the appeal I think is in the monster
so they wanted to use that. Since Koagumon appeared in Digimon Adventure Episode 1 which
I did notice that was like a reference to the original episode the impression is an
enemy or bad Digimon they wanted to dispel it by giving a different role and he does
kind of like advise the girl Eve to do stuff and he's not all bad. The setting of the Manga
Award children code was the Digimon I wanted to play with that they felt the Digimon fans
must have been thinking of for years and it was born from that paradox was born from the
idea that Digimon are monsters but from a different angle they are treated here not
just as monsters but as weapons. The story is also meant to overturn the idea of being
scary because they are alive so they thought about how to depict it in the present which
is how they came up with the idea of from the future mixing it with a boy meets girl
story where the boy doesn't know their weapons and the girl does know as they meet and interact
with each other their understanding of Digimon changes so that's pretty interesting I'm
glad I read that and I hope you're glad I read it too I'm actually going to go ahead
and show you another one of the Digimon that I've created I think I want to go with the
girl this time for sure and you can judge me for being a hypocrite or not.
So I criticize Eve for being a little bit racy and I've got these two Digimon female
Digimon characters who I could talk about who both of them are a little racy and I will
actually go with this one over here because it's not only a little bit racy and therefore
it exposes a little bit of my hypocrisy but it also has another element which is that
it's a little bit derivative of something else just like I think that Arduhiden from
Combinator 01 is a design inspiration for Ragey although I think it's like Jujutsu Kaisen
kind of isn't that what that one's called I think the main guy kind of looks like that
too which could be that now I'm not accusing the mangaka of being like you know creatively
bankrupt I'm just saying it's interesting because it sure looks like a reference.
So anyway getting back to this one what is this one inspired by you might say well well
first of all like look at this she looks like she's naked and I played with it she's covered
in fur so it's kind of like she's wearing like a cat suit or whatever which I thought
well you know she's technically covered like look you can but like she's also kind of naked
you can see her toes I'm pretty sure that's chocolate from years ago on there by the way
mmm tasty anyway it's like you can see her toes and she's got like claws not fingernails
but yeah like she's basically naked but I have her you know covered up appropriately
and I will talk about her a little bit more but basically I went with this idea oh and
the you know the derivative thing this is definitely a common writer design which is
interesting that you know this person that I both like to do on and it looks like we
both like common writer if that in fact is a common writer design so I decided to make
a little worm because I love warm on I love that worm on turns into sting on and I don't
know if this was actually is this a sting on homage or was I already aware that sting
one was connected to a common writer because he looks kind of like common writer black
rx and like the way that he and Kenichi Joji are a detective and you know monster dude
in the end of zero two is very much like Kuga and Ichijo which each joe to Joji there's
a connection there anyway so the Digimon zero two people were fans of Kuga but Kuga was
also on the air that year in 2000 so I mean and it's an amazing show so says everybody
the first episode were fantastic and everybody says the show gets better and better from
them so anyway it makes sense it's popular but anyway so she's a little worm larva type
thing inspired by worm on turns into this cool moth lady and then she turns into this
fairy lady and then she turns into a little pixie and this is kind of like Marie Angemonde
how he's so tiny when he's a mega but yeah so I mean this is definitely a worm on inspired
design this is a sting one inspired design but she's kind of like a magician's assistant
like kind of you know cute and she's got little like coattail type of thing but then she's
got like kind of a wings going there too I did really like to cover the butt when I'm
doing drawings because I try to be a little a little chased a little modest here but you
know still show off the thighs I guess so and again this is just drawing from years
ago and it's just kind of reflecting what my philosophy was back then I don't know why
these zipper things so they may have zippers like this and zero two maybe on the shoes
the kids at zippers like that and she's got zippers going up her middle as well I push
ahead another angle on her I know I've drawn I know I've drawn her from the front as well
but you're not going to see that now but yeah there she is she's feminine she's got the
hair poking out on the back which is like a thing that Stingman has but it's also well
it's the thing that Stingman has is the thing that metal gray one has but more importantly
the Stingman combinator connection the original combinator one and two have their hair sticking
out of the back of their masks light or their helmets like that which is super cool and I
gave her you know feminine you know furry moth type deal here and she's got furry antennae
because I like moths and then she's kind of like a moth or butterfly but she's more
than that because she's this fairy with all these wings and Digimon's got like magic
creatures like wizard mon who have like the shown sun shut mouths I'm not sure why her
eyes are closed and I carried her you know eye pattern here from here to here almost
like she shed the shell and now she's like this more powerful version of herself covered
in fur because she's you know kind of a butterfly's body which is all black and I think it's
furry anyway so I was trying to do and I thought I would give her this very feminine form is
very weak looking form and make her very delicate and then I'd give her these really killer
chain weapons with these spikes on them so my ideal for her fighting around fighting
if she flies around and she swings these things and you know smacks the enemy and stuff with
them and stabs them and things like that which is pretty metal and then speaking of metal
she turns into this metal ball of I don't know chrome digisoid or whatever with these
weird patterns on her and like that's you know her eye right there resuming and on and then
those are like sharp teeth so she can open her mouth and chomp stuff I guess and then
these wings have like kind of a kind of a digital pattern on it kind of a pattern so
say vocally I don't know if I was like saw Harry Potter and like stole the idea of the
golden snitch and kind of infuse it into this for her it's very possible that's why I did
but anyway that's my you know kind of racy digimon lady and you can call me a big fat
hypocrite for criticizing Eve's character design but you know she's at least covered
even if it's a little skimpy but anyway there we are.
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