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Digimon Liberator episode 7 was a lot of fun.
I wasn't overwhelmed by something, but it was funny that the violet inboots being part of the debug team thing was such a reveal for Shoto and...
Arisa. I forgot her name for a minute. Anyway, so it's funny that it was such a reveal for them, and it made for a good comedic moment.
And it kind of explains some things that she was doing and saying earlier.
And I don't have a problem with that, it's just kind of funny how big of a reveal it was for them.
But again, in the universe, in the story, from their perspective, I can kind of see it.
Although I went back and I scanned her battle with Arisa, and she didn't use any strange or any wild Digimon.
Although the Ghostmon is super suspicious, I guess it's just a new Digimon made for this.
Just like Muchomon is new, and so is that little digger, gopher construction guy that Arisa has.
So whatever. They introduced some regular new Digimon, and then also they have the new wild Digimon as well.
So, and I mean honestly, those... I don't play the card game or anything like that, so those very well could be normal parts of the game.
Normal Digimon that have been around for a while and aren't actually new to Digimon as a whole. Whereas I'm pretty sure that Mekinomon, Teromon, and Shimon are genuinely new to Digimon.
They were created for Liberator as part of the deal. So anyway, that was kind of funny.
And then getting a little bit more, just a vague hint more of Owen and Shoto's backstory is interesting.
I just... I don't know. It's interesting, but it's also kind of funny.
Because we basically know nothing, and the manga, the comic, the webtoon, whatever, is doing a fantastic job of telling us nothing at all and having it be a big deal.
Which, I mean, honestly, I like that. I think that's good. I think it's good, and I keep saying this so I don't want to carry on about it too much, I think it's good that they're giving us this story stuff and they're doing this very slow release of the actual story, the actual plot,
while doing this constant engagement through the action and through the battles and things like that. And I'm 100% certain that coming up with battle scenarios is not easy, and doing that by playing with the game mechanics is not easy.
However, at the same time, we get introduced to something in this episode at the end of it, which is this three-on-three battle that's going to be starting, which won't come out for another couple days. The first of the, I guess, episode eight, the first of episode eight won't come out for another couple days.
But, you know, like, what I'm saying is they can lean on the mechanics of the game to kind of shore up things and say, okay, so we're going to do a three-on-three battle now.
Well, what's going to happen now? I don't know. We've got this deck, this deck, this deck. So let's figure out how those interact. We've got Owen's deck, Shoto's deck, and now Close's deck to consider the girl with the gray hair who he saw in Mysterious.
You know, like that. I can't believe, no, I'm not going to do that. Anyway, so she was flying by when he first encountered the wild, I guess, the first enraged or out of control NPC. So anyway, so they have to consider those decks and just match them together with three other decks that will be exciting to watch play out.
And, you know, it takes some skill and it takes effort. And I'm not saying it's an easy thing to do. It's definitely not something I would want to have thrown at me right now. But I kind of think there's like a team working on this.
So there might be people who want to speculate too much. I want to do want to talk about something, two other elements that I think are interesting for the story itself.
One is that we hear that aside from the Liberator product or game that they have with these pods that people go into, there's also some sort of like consumer grade product that they're making.
So I think they're trying to make like a D-Link. I think that's what they call it. They're trying to make a D-Link that can go out to the masses. Maybe it'll be like a watch or it'll be, you know, a thing that goes to your phone.
Who knows what it'll be? Maybe it'll just be a little D-Link box to attach your clothes or something like that. That very well could be what it is.
Because the D-Link feels very much like just like a huge phone. So.
And it doesn't make sense that it's so big in Liberator, but maybe that's getting us ready for it coming out of the, of Lacuna, out of the game and going into the real world. Who knows?
But it definitely sounds like that. And so we have clothes, we have Unchained, and we have Coolboy who almost definitely feel like they're supposed to be siblings.
Unchained calls, Chlo's little sister. They all have gray hair, you know, basically gray hair.
And they all have really weird names.
Chlo's is not a normal name, I don't know if you know that or not. Coolboy is definitely not a normal name.
And Unchained is not a normal name. And I don't know, there just seems to be something interesting about the three of them.
They both have, or they all three have a mysterious air about them.
And it very well could be that they're related to each other, either because they're actual people or because they're some sort of, um, not actual people.
Some sort of like, you know, AI or, you know, robot people or digital world people or something.
But they don't seem normal. And that's not an insult, it's just the truth.
So where does that leave us? I don't really know. We have a little bit of this insight into Owen and, uh, Owen and who.
We have a little bit of this insight into Owen and, uh, Shoto's relationship where supposedly Shoto made some promise to him when they were kids.
And Owen remembers it and Shoto doesn't. And that's supposed to be very dramatic, I guess.
And I don't know if that's going to be some actual, like, deep, you know, cool, interesting mystery that we're going to get and explore as the story goes on or not.
Or if it's just going to be something hanging. And I wonder, you know, is Owen, Owen seems like the kind of guy who won't tell Shoto what it is and he'll make Shoto figure it out.
Which is a little girly, but you know, whatever.
Anyway, yeah, I don't know. We'll see where that goes. But like, we've got, you know, kind of a cool set of mysteries going here, which is the mystery of what's going on with this weird set of siblings, possibly.
What's going on with this consumer product and, like, still, and like what's going on with, you know, Owen and Shoto.
And in between that, we're going to get lots of cool card battles. So like, you know, I'm here for it. I'm here for it.
It was cool. I read it to, I read a little bit of Chapter 7 or Episode 7 to my boys last night.
And one was less interested, but he's a lot younger. And the other had no idea what was going on, but he was very interested.
I read him some manga and he doesn't like the black and white art. He loves the beginning splash page, splash page from deal where there's the color.
So this one, he really seemed like it. And I said, you like the all the colors, right? And he said, yeah.
So definitely, you know, he's somewhat familiar with Digimon and, you know, he enjoyed checking this out, you know, just being dropped in.
But anyway, it's a nice starting point. Episode 7 begins with a beginning. There's a beginning, middle and sort of to Episode 7, even though it's a cliffhanger leading us to another battle.
Yeah, it's engaging. It looks good. Crocotrymon was a lot of fun. It was cool seeing his dynamic like, and he comes from Muchimana.
I'm still a little confused. Like, is Muchimana is an independent NPC or is he like a real living Digimon?
I can't quite tell because like Terumon and Shumon are definitely real living Digimon.
I can't remember the weird pink girl dragon thing that Owen has, but like those are definitely real alive Digimon.
But all the other ones in the cards, are they living? Are they simulations? Are they just AI? Are they some sort of game thing?
Or what's the I don't quite understand. I don't know if it's because I'm I haven't been paying attention closely enough or because they've been vague about it or what.
But it's just something I don't quite get. But it's OK. We'll figure it all out later. It's still enjoyable.
And I'm liking it. So not a big deal.
I'd like to know what you thought about this episode and what you think about these three things I brought up. The siblings, the consumer product, the Owen Shoto thing.
And also where do you think this story might be going in the future? Because I can't I cannot tell at all.
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