1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,880 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, I'm a Digimon Analyzer. Find all my work at 2 00:00:04,880 --> 00:00:10,160 MJMunoz.com Get ready for a next level discussion of those monster friends for the boys and 3 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:11,160 girls. 4 00:00:11,160 --> 00:00:20,600 Digimon Paradox Chapter 1 is interesting. I like it for the most part. If you know me, 5 00:00:20,600 --> 00:00:25,280 you can probably guess that I think Eve's outfit is absolutely ridiculous and unnecessary. 6 00:00:25,280 --> 00:00:31,960 But whatever it takes to sell this stuff, right? It makes me uncomfortable and I think 7 00:00:31,960 --> 00:00:32,960 it's strange. 8 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:37,320 As far as the story is concerned, I really do like the story of this sweet guy, Raiji 9 00:00:37,320 --> 00:00:38,320 Shinonome. 10 00:00:38,320 --> 00:00:46,480 I'm just going to call him Raiji. Raiji is a very sweet guy, he's very nice. It's cool 11 00:00:46,480 --> 00:00:51,880 that he has this haunted past where there was this dog that was taken to the pound and 12 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:58,200 killed because he wasn't there to protect it, to defend it from these neighborhood bullies 13 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:02,800 or whatever these bad kids were or kids who made a big bad mistake. 14 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:08,200 And that's really interesting. It really humanizes him. It shows him to be kind of this good 15 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,920 noble, heroic kind of person. He seemed a little bit like a thug, especially with him 16 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:14,640 beating people up from the beginning. I don't know what these people were doing to these 17 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:23,280 cats and it sure seems like they were hurting these cats and I guess they hurt Yama, whatever 18 00:01:23,280 --> 00:01:28,920 Elecmon's previous evolution is and whatever he calls them. He calls them Yama. And obviously 19 00:01:28,920 --> 00:01:31,440 that's bad and that's sad and that's not good at all. 20 00:01:31,440 --> 00:01:38,960 But he stands up for the poor animal and it takes it into his care and he takes it home 21 00:01:38,960 --> 00:01:42,960 with him and his sister and her friends are drinking in his room to look at the cherry 22 00:01:42,960 --> 00:01:47,320 blossoms which is kind of odd. But I don't know, the sister drinking kind of reminds 23 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:52,600 me a little bit of, so I get different vibes from this and there's nothing bad about the 24 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:58,400 potential homages or the way that this works and other ideas from other shows and the way 25 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:02,760 it kind of feels like it's reflecting something else. 26 00:02:02,760 --> 00:02:05,480 But well, first of all, before I go into all that, I'm just going to say I really like 27 00:02:05,480 --> 00:02:10,200 this. I thought it was a lot of fun. I thought it was very good, very well done, super interesting 28 00:02:10,200 --> 00:02:19,000 story. Being told here, there's this whole past, present, future Digimon or digital weapons 29 00:02:19,000 --> 00:02:23,840 from 300 years in the future and they're dangerous and this girl is a time traveler and she changes 30 00:02:23,840 --> 00:02:29,560 time in multiple ways in this and then there's this somehow, like I don't know what she came 31 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:34,320 out of it, she came out of his computer while he was waiting and then there's this David 32 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:39,000 Jermon that comes through the computer as well and there's just like a whole lot of mystery 33 00:02:39,000 --> 00:02:43,840 being set up and a whole lot of different interesting elements are being set up for the story to 34 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:51,080 delve into and to show to us in the future and or I guess for the manga to show to us 35 00:02:51,080 --> 00:02:57,720 in the future and I'm really liking what's going on here. 36 00:02:57,720 --> 00:03:04,520 I was hoping to myself that the one condition that Ragey would have for Eve staying with 37 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:10,200 him is that she would put on a real shirt but whatever. Anyway, getting back to the story 38 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:16,080 and not focusing on her presentation. It's a very eye catching outfit though, I will 39 00:03:16,080 --> 00:03:21,280 say that. So kudos to you, person who wrote this which actually will let me find out who 40 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:22,280 that was. 41 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:28,120 Okay, so I just found out about this. So apparently on With the Will they posted that there were 42 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:33,600 interviews that were done, two sets of interviews it looks like that were done about this whole 43 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:41,520 Digimon comic thing so they've got them here. I'm going to go ahead and just read it in 44 00:03:41,520 --> 00:03:53,400 a little bit but I'm interested. So yeah, anyway, I really like the potential of this 45 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,040 story, the idea of Digimon coming from the future and being these digital weapons is 46 00:03:57,040 --> 00:04:04,160 really cool and the fact that Digimon was able to go into his phone that I'm knowing 47 00:04:04,160 --> 00:04:09,840 was pretty fun and it was cool that she was able to somehow sense it with advanced technology 48 00:04:09,840 --> 00:04:14,480 from the future. It seems magical and get it to come out of its hiding place on the phone. 49 00:04:14,480 --> 00:04:18,160 It was neat and then that Koagumon, I think she had to touch the armband thingy on her 50 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:23,720 self which is her device in order to get Koagumon to come forth but that was really cool and 51 00:04:23,720 --> 00:04:28,920 the color shots in there were cool and Ragey's got a really cool strong like I don't know 52 00:04:28,920 --> 00:04:33,600 like punk aesthetic to him. Well, not as a snake so much but Mori's attitude and his 53 00:04:33,600 --> 00:04:39,040 actions. His aesthetic he looks like Aruto Heedon from Cumberade of Zero One which is 54 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:43,520 very funny but this is written by a fan, it's very possible they're also a fan of Zero 55 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:48,880 One and they said you know I'm going to throw a little Aruto thing in here but anyway that's 56 00:04:48,880 --> 00:04:52,960 kind of interesting. Yeah, so I liked it and I'm looking forward to the next one. I showed 57 00:04:52,960 --> 00:04:58,160 you, put the shirt on, I'm sure she won't and I'm going to go ahead and read the interview 58 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:04,120 here. It's machine translation with a little bit of a touch up I guess. So thanks, let's 59 00:05:04,120 --> 00:05:14,840 see who posted this. Mark FBR. I'm not familiar enough with the will, I don't follow things 60 00:05:14,840 --> 00:05:22,400 as much as I could and I can't access the information. Alright, so anyway, thanks Mark 61 00:05:22,400 --> 00:05:27,840 for this with the will and I might post a note to this or a link to this in the show 62 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:34,800 notes which you can find on my website, mbm1s.com. So here we go. Here we go, so, oh that's actually 63 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:42,120 pretty long but I'm still going to read it. So this is not a direct interview, it's giving 64 00:05:42,120 --> 00:05:52,800 the answer. So when they were chosen, this is, sorry, Ayumu Minato is the author of the 65 00:05:52,800 --> 00:05:59,520 Manga of Digimon Paradox. So anyway, Mr. Kitty's coming for attention. When they were chosen 66 00:05:59,520 --> 00:06:05,720 to be published for Digimon Comic, they were very happy as digital monster children code 67 00:06:05,720 --> 00:06:09,960 which got them chosen for the Manga Awards was their debut so this is actually their 68 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:14,880 first ongoing work. They felt the joy of becoming a Manga artist so that must have been from 69 00:06:14,880 --> 00:06:18,080 the previous contest that was run I guess. When they won, they were working for a company 70 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:24,120 and drawing manga in their spare time. They weren't satisfied with the finished work at 71 00:06:24,120 --> 00:06:28,520 the time and had half given up but were still hopeful. They checked their Mabalax every 72 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:31,760 day just in case they would hear something before an official announcement. They got 73 00:06:31,760 --> 00:06:38,120 a phone call from a number they didn't know, heard the word VJumps and their heart leapt 74 00:06:38,120 --> 00:06:43,560 on their chest or out of their chest. They were at work but couldn't help but jump up. 75 00:06:43,560 --> 00:06:50,600 The idea behind children code, oh, oh, I must be reading the wrong one. Why is this called 76 00:06:50,600 --> 00:06:59,840 children code when this says the second part includes Minato, Ayumu Minato, or Paradox? 77 00:06:59,840 --> 00:07:09,800 Huh, hold on. No, that's right. Maybe they messed up or maybe either I'm missing a reference 78 00:07:09,800 --> 00:07:18,920 or they messed something up so here we go. The idea behind children code was wanting 79 00:07:18,920 --> 00:07:24,320 to submit a Digimon's work. They thought they would show or they thought would show 80 00:07:24,320 --> 00:07:28,440 the appeal of Digimon to many people. They love the anime but they also love just the 81 00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,560 existence of Digimon. It's not cool, it's not just cool or cute but they can have this 82 00:07:32,560 --> 00:07:38,760 mysterious almost eerie and can even be frightening like monsters, all these aspects they wanted 83 00:07:38,760 --> 00:07:45,040 to convey to readers. They fell in love via the anime which they say of course. They saw 84 00:07:45,040 --> 00:07:48,560 the first episode of Digimon Adventure in kindergarten and thought this is interesting. 85 00:07:48,560 --> 00:07:53,040 Have fun. Right after that they moved and they forgot about it later on. They were watching 86 00:07:53,040 --> 00:07:57,120 TV and saw episode 21 Koromon, the Great Collapse in Tokyo. They thought it was interesting 87 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:00,120 so they asked their parents and looked it up so they could watch the first episode when 88 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:05,880 watching that. Again they realized that this is an anime from back then and they were hooked 89 00:08:05,880 --> 00:08:09,800 to see how the story would develop. Initially they planned to be a novelist and when they 90 00:08:09,800 --> 00:08:14,200 submitted a work to a publisher they had her asked if they could draw. They tried on the 91 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,800 spot and were given the advice, you'll get better if you practice. Why don't you try 92 00:08:17,800 --> 00:08:21,840 practicing? They didn't really like drawing at the time so they didn't practice for long. 93 00:08:21,840 --> 00:08:27,640 They were an officer, an office worker and vaguely thought I want to work writing a story 94 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:33,120 someday which led them to the Manga Awards as mentioned earlier. Digimon influences their 95 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:37,720 creative work a lot especially Digimon Adventure and Our War Game by director Mamora Hussoto 96 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:41,520 which you definitely saw references to Our War Game in this that I forgot to mention when 97 00:08:41,520 --> 00:08:45,160 they went into the digital world basically which was super cool going through the computer 98 00:08:45,160 --> 00:08:51,800 screen and everything. They think it's evidence in the Manga Award comic and they pay a lot 99 00:08:51,800 --> 00:08:56,440 of homage to that. One of their favorite comments that made them happy was a comment that said 100 00:08:56,440 --> 00:09:01,720 while reading it Bolero started to play in my head. I don't know what that means. They 101 00:09:01,720 --> 00:09:05,160 believe the main readers of Digimon comic would be fans but they also want Digimon 102 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:08,600 to continue to be more popular so they tried to make a story that would be interesting 103 00:09:08,600 --> 00:09:12,880 to even people who knew nothing about Digimon. The editor said in a good way it doesn't really 104 00:09:12,880 --> 00:09:19,280 it doesn't rely on Digimon but is a story made by humans. The work from the Manga Award 105 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:24,360 was centered more on Digimon but they tried to make it more narrative this time. The Digimon 106 00:09:24,360 --> 00:09:29,720 play an active role of course and they think the development will have it be more of a 107 00:09:29,720 --> 00:09:35,320 Digimon style in three and four. Digimon like Koagumon to be German, Wanyamon that's what 108 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:41,460 it was and others appear but they want Digimon to be more monster like there's a big Omega 109 00:09:41,460 --> 00:09:46,840 Mon or Omni Mon fan but at that time they were a bit disappointed that they looked more 110 00:09:46,840 --> 00:09:55,000 like a human or a hero type as they think part of the appeal I think is in the monster 111 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:58,240 so they wanted to use that. Since Koagumon appeared in Digimon Adventure Episode 1 which 112 00:09:58,240 --> 00:10:03,360 I did notice that was like a reference to the original episode the impression is an 113 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:06,840 enemy or bad Digimon they wanted to dispel it by giving a different role and he does 114 00:10:06,840 --> 00:10:12,800 kind of like advise the girl Eve to do stuff and he's not all bad. The setting of the Manga 115 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:19,240 Award children code was the Digimon I wanted to play with that they felt the Digimon fans 116 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:23,760 must have been thinking of for years and it was born from that paradox was born from the 117 00:10:23,760 --> 00:10:29,600 idea that Digimon are monsters but from a different angle they are treated here not 118 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,800 just as monsters but as weapons. The story is also meant to overturn the idea of being 119 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:40,600 scary because they are alive so they thought about how to depict it in the present which 120 00:10:40,600 --> 00:10:44,920 is how they came up with the idea of from the future mixing it with a boy meets girl 121 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:50,480 story where the boy doesn't know their weapons and the girl does know as they meet and interact 122 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:54,960 with each other their understanding of Digimon changes so that's pretty interesting I'm 123 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,800 glad I read that and I hope you're glad I read it too I'm actually going to go ahead 124 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:03,400 and show you another one of the Digimon that I've created I think I want to go with the 125 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:10,000 girl this time for sure and you can judge me for being a hypocrite or not. 126 00:11:10,000 --> 00:11:13,840 So I criticize Eve for being a little bit racy and I've got these two Digimon female 127 00:11:13,840 --> 00:11:19,000 Digimon characters who I could talk about who both of them are a little racy and I will 128 00:11:19,000 --> 00:11:24,160 actually go with this one over here because it's not only a little bit racy and therefore 129 00:11:24,160 --> 00:11:27,800 it exposes a little bit of my hypocrisy but it also has another element which is that 130 00:11:27,800 --> 00:11:33,340 it's a little bit derivative of something else just like I think that Arduhiden from 131 00:11:33,340 --> 00:11:42,840 Combinator 01 is a design inspiration for Ragey although I think it's like Jujutsu Kaisen 132 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:46,840 kind of isn't that what that one's called I think the main guy kind of looks like that 133 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:52,800 too which could be that now I'm not accusing the mangaka of being like you know creatively 134 00:11:52,800 --> 00:11:56,880 bankrupt I'm just saying it's interesting because it sure looks like a reference. 135 00:11:56,880 --> 00:12:02,480 So anyway getting back to this one what is this one inspired by you might say well well 136 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:07,200 first of all like look at this she looks like she's naked and I played with it she's covered 137 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:10,720 in fur so it's kind of like she's wearing like a cat suit or whatever which I thought 138 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:14,320 well you know she's technically covered like look you can but like she's also kind of naked 139 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,640 you can see her toes I'm pretty sure that's chocolate from years ago on there by the way 140 00:12:17,640 --> 00:12:23,200 mmm tasty anyway it's like you can see her toes and she's got like claws not fingernails 141 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:27,560 but yeah like she's basically naked but I have her you know covered up appropriately 142 00:12:27,560 --> 00:12:32,440 and I will talk about her a little bit more but basically I went with this idea oh and 143 00:12:32,440 --> 00:12:36,960 the you know the derivative thing this is definitely a common writer design which is 144 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,480 interesting that you know this person that I both like to do on and it looks like we 145 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:45,240 both like common writer if that in fact is a common writer design so I decided to make 146 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,280 a little worm because I love warm on I love that worm on turns into sting on and I don't 147 00:12:49,280 --> 00:12:53,120 know if this was actually is this a sting on homage or was I already aware that sting 148 00:12:53,120 --> 00:12:57,280 one was connected to a common writer because he looks kind of like common writer black 149 00:12:57,280 --> 00:13:03,440 rx and like the way that he and Kenichi Joji are a detective and you know monster dude 150 00:13:03,440 --> 00:13:11,120 in the end of zero two is very much like Kuga and Ichijo which each joe to Joji there's 151 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:17,080 a connection there anyway so the Digimon zero two people were fans of Kuga but Kuga was 152 00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:23,480 also on the air that year in 2000 so I mean and it's an amazing show so says everybody 153 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:27,880 the first episode were fantastic and everybody says the show gets better and better from 154 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:33,840 them so anyway it makes sense it's popular but anyway so she's a little worm larva type 155 00:13:33,840 --> 00:13:38,680 thing inspired by worm on turns into this cool moth lady and then she turns into this 156 00:13:38,680 --> 00:13:42,480 fairy lady and then she turns into a little pixie and this is kind of like Marie Angemonde 157 00:13:42,480 --> 00:13:47,320 how he's so tiny when he's a mega but yeah so I mean this is definitely a worm on inspired 158 00:13:47,320 --> 00:13:52,640 design this is a sting one inspired design but she's kind of like a magician's assistant 159 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:58,280 like kind of you know cute and she's got little like coattail type of thing but then she's 160 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:04,400 got like kind of a wings going there too I did really like to cover the butt when I'm 161 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:08,840 doing drawings because I try to be a little a little chased a little modest here but you 162 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:13,160 know still show off the thighs I guess so and again this is just drawing from years 163 00:14:13,160 --> 00:14:17,640 ago and it's just kind of reflecting what my philosophy was back then I don't know why 164 00:14:17,640 --> 00:14:21,520 these zipper things so they may have zippers like this and zero two maybe on the shoes 165 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:26,040 the kids at zippers like that and she's got zippers going up her middle as well I push 166 00:14:26,040 --> 00:14:29,440 ahead another angle on her I know I've drawn I know I've drawn her from the front as well 167 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:33,280 but you're not going to see that now but yeah there she is she's feminine she's got the 168 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:36,800 hair poking out on the back which is like a thing that Stingman has but it's also well 169 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,240 it's the thing that Stingman has is the thing that metal gray one has but more importantly 170 00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:45,480 the Stingman combinator connection the original combinator one and two have their hair sticking 171 00:14:45,480 --> 00:14:48,360 out of the back of their masks light or their helmets like that which is super cool and I 172 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:54,880 gave her you know feminine you know furry moth type deal here and she's got furry antennae 173 00:14:54,880 --> 00:14:59,040 because I like moths and then she's kind of like a moth or butterfly but she's more 174 00:14:59,040 --> 00:15:04,440 than that because she's this fairy with all these wings and Digimon's got like magic 175 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:08,840 creatures like wizard mon who have like the shown sun shut mouths I'm not sure why her 176 00:15:08,840 --> 00:15:14,760 eyes are closed and I carried her you know eye pattern here from here to here almost 177 00:15:14,760 --> 00:15:19,360 like she shed the shell and now she's like this more powerful version of herself covered 178 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:24,880 in fur because she's you know kind of a butterfly's body which is all black and I think it's 179 00:15:24,880 --> 00:15:28,960 furry anyway so I was trying to do and I thought I would give her this very feminine form is 180 00:15:28,960 --> 00:15:32,880 very weak looking form and make her very delicate and then I'd give her these really killer 181 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:37,480 chain weapons with these spikes on them so my ideal for her fighting around fighting 182 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:41,280 if she flies around and she swings these things and you know smacks the enemy and stuff with 183 00:15:41,280 --> 00:15:45,120 them and stabs them and things like that which is pretty metal and then speaking of metal 184 00:15:45,120 --> 00:15:52,400 she turns into this metal ball of I don't know chrome digisoid or whatever with these 185 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:56,560 weird patterns on her and like that's you know her eye right there resuming and on and then 186 00:15:56,560 --> 00:15:59,840 those are like sharp teeth so she can open her mouth and chomp stuff I guess and then 187 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:04,080 these wings have like kind of a kind of a digital pattern on it kind of a pattern so 188 00:16:04,080 --> 00:16:08,360 say vocally I don't know if I was like saw Harry Potter and like stole the idea of the 189 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:12,680 golden snitch and kind of infuse it into this for her it's very possible that's why I did 190 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:19,560 but anyway that's my you know kind of racy digimon lady and you can call me a big fat 191 00:16:19,560 --> 00:16:25,400 hypocrite for criticizing Eve's character design but you know she's at least covered 192 00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:30,200 even if it's a little skimpy but anyway there we are. 193 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:34,960 I hope you enjoyed that please remember to like share and subscribe I invite you to comment 194 00:16:34,960 --> 00:16:38,000 ask questions and share your thoughts with me it's always more fun when you're part of 195 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:45,080 the conversation until next time shatter despair apart and show me your brave heart visit MJMUNOZ.COM 196 00:16:45,080 --> 00:17:13,080 for more of my work and help me build up the fortress fiction.