1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,000 This is MJ. I'm an author, I'm an artist, and I'm an analyzer. Find all my work at MJMunoz.com. 2 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:14,000 This is Digimon Seekers, and I'm continuing with my audiobook recording of Digimon Seekers. 3 00:00:14,000 --> 00:00:23,000 This is Digimon Chronicles. This is Digimon Chronicles, where I'm reading Digimon Seekers, making basically an audiobook for it. 4 00:00:23,000 --> 00:00:26,000 This is a fan project for free. Of course, I'm not charging anybody for it. 5 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Today I'm going to be using the translation by K-kun or on K-kun. I'm not quite sure how to say that day, but K. 6 00:00:33,000 --> 00:00:37,000 I think it's just what matters there, because that's what I've heard. 7 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:45,000 So, anyway, I'll be reading that translation. It was interesting when I pasted in the notes originally, or the script, rather, from the website. 8 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:52,000 Originally I had about a 1700 word count, and when I pasted in K-kun's there was about a 1900. 9 00:00:52,000 --> 00:01:00,000 Now I don't know what will be added, and I'm not going to do a head-to-head comparison, but I'm thinking that this should be a lot more readable, 10 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:06,000 because in the past when I've read his translations they've been more readable. So let's go ahead and get to this. 11 00:01:06,000 --> 00:01:12,000 I anticipate it'll be about a 10-minute read. We shall see as we go through this together. 12 00:01:12,000 --> 00:01:18,000 And I want to let you know my previous Seekers episodes are, you know, my previous episodes where I'm covering Seekers, 13 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:23,000 they have been mostly the stock translations that come straight off the website, off of Digimon Web, 14 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:31,000 but I'm going to do an ongoing podcast audio-only file that you can go back and look up and update. 15 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:38,000 That'll have the most current of the whole collection with the translations by K-kun, 16 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:42,000 because I think it's just going to be a much better reading experience overall, so you can check that out. 17 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:49,000 And I think I'll leave a link to that in the show notes so people can go back to that anytime they need to. 18 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:54,000 All right, so this is continuing Chapter 1 of Digimon Seekers Wolf of the Ninth Avenue, 19 00:01:54,000 --> 00:02:01,000 Eiji Wolf of the Ninth Avenue, and this is Chapter 1, Part 13. 20 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:11,000 The cloaked SOC Digimon gazed at Lugomon and Eiji Nagasumi from atop the building roof in Wall Slum as the duo headed to their mapping job. 21 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:13,000 I wasn't told that they'd be mind-linked. 22 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,000 The cloaked Digimon spoke up suddenly to somebody who wasn't there. 23 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:23,000 I had been told of it. Also, didn't expect him to suddenly show up with his limits unlocked. 24 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:26,000 The reply came through voice chat. 25 00:02:26,000 --> 00:02:29,000 Never mind the new kid, the cloaked Digimon said. 26 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:33,000 I wonder if that dog, Lugomon, noticed that I was mind-linked too. 27 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:40,000 Well, I can't be sure. The voice of the person on the other end belonged to the SOC interviewer. 28 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:48,000 You asked the Demon Wolf of the Castle of Nine Wolves to map Ninth Avenue, the cloaked Digimon said with some concern for a test. 29 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:50,000 Isn't that way too easy? 30 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:52,000 You're right, the interviewer said. 31 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:57,000 This sort of test wouldn't be semi-A level for the likes of them. 32 00:02:57,000 --> 00:03:01,000 I'll be making a few adjustments. The interviewer was up to something. 33 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:06,000 Once Lugomon reached ground level, he headed further underground. 34 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 It's a shortcut, he assured Eiji. 35 00:03:09,000 --> 00:03:11,000 They reached an underground station platform. 36 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Chug, chug, chug, chug. 37 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:19,000 In front of a bewildered Eiji, a wall-slum train came to a standstill. 38 00:03:19,000 --> 00:03:27,000 Eiji stared out in a daze at the rapidly changing scenery outside the train as he held onto a hanging strap. 39 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:30,000 The slum loop line subway. 40 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:33,000 The interior of the train was very familiar. 41 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:38,000 In fact, it looked similar to the Tokyo Metro system that he normally used. 42 00:03:38,000 --> 00:03:44,000 The only difference was that the passengers on the train were not humans, but Digimon. 43 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:48,000 The subway map had characters on it that Eiji had never seen before. 44 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:53,000 He wasn't able to read any of the advertisements within the train or at the station. 45 00:03:53,000 --> 00:03:55,000 What is this? Digimon language? 46 00:03:55,000 --> 00:03:59,000 It's forbidden to cause trouble in the subway, Lugomon said matter-of-factly. 47 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Forbidden? So no fighting? 48 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:05,000 In a public place, so mind your manners. 49 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:09,000 Sorry, it's a public place, so mind your manners. 50 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:16,000 Seeing this Lugomon laid down, taking up three whole seats to himself, the Digimon around them looked annoyed. 51 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:18,000 But apparently it wasn't an upreach of manners. 52 00:04:18,000 --> 00:04:23,000 What the heck were considered good manners to Digimon? Eiji had no idea. 53 00:04:23,000 --> 00:04:27,000 The subway train passed through a stop every two to three minutes. 54 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:34,000 Eiji was fidgety and restless, partly because he couldn't read the characters on the map, which he found out was called DigiCode. 55 00:04:34,000 --> 00:04:40,000 I've been thinking about the mind link, he said to Lugomon as a way to distract himself. 56 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:45,000 Is me being in your DigiCore similar to like a human writing a Digimon? 57 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:50,000 Am I the Chuchumon earlier who was writing the Domimon? 58 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:53,000 Don't compare me to that piece of poop. 59 00:04:53,000 --> 00:04:57,000 It's not like that then? Hmm, not even close. 60 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,000 Where do you think your real body is right now? 61 00:04:59,000 --> 00:05:01,000 Um, what? 62 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:05,000 Eiji's consciousness was currently within Lugomon's DigiCore. 63 00:05:05,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Since his physical body wasn't there, it must be back at home, leaning against the wall of his loft. 64 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:18,000 That's right, your body fell asleep like that. Your consciousness doesn't return back to your body unless you break the mind link. 65 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Huh. Well, that's fine. Whatever. That's fine. 66 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:25,000 By the way, Lugomon, what is it? 67 00:05:25,000 --> 00:05:36,000 Since I'm able to touch you now, can I touch your toe beans? Since Lugomon was lying on the seat on his side, his paw pads were visible. 68 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:38,000 They looked plump and squishy. 69 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:43,000 No. Why do I have to allow what you want? Lugomon said grumpily, showing his teeth. 70 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:49,000 No, huh? The dog I used to have wouldn't let me touch his toe beans either. 71 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:53,000 I'll kick you out of my DigiCore if you keep talking rubbish like that. 72 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:58,000 Also, from what I'm hearing in your stories about that dog of yours, hmm? 73 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:02,000 He probably didn't think of you as his master. He looked down on you for sure. 74 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:04,000 What? 75 00:06:04,000 --> 00:06:09,000 A surge of passengers got off and got on at the next station. 76 00:06:09,000 --> 00:06:13,000 Digimon who boarded the train reacted in surprise when they saw Eiji. 77 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:17,000 Hey, Lugomon, I feel like all the Digimon are staring at me. 78 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:19,000 Well, it's rare to see a human here. 79 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:27,000 Oh, so this is like if a Digimon was hollowized in writing on a train in the real world. 80 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:30,000 No wonder he was attracting all this attention. 81 00:06:30,000 --> 00:06:37,000 Since it didn't appear likely that he would be harmed, Eiji took the opportunity to take a closer look at his surroundings. 82 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:42,000 The Digimon in the passenger compartment seemed to mostly consist of one single type. 83 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Almost all of the Digimon here have corrupted data, Eiji observed. They look injured. 84 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:53,000 Most of all, some of the inhabitants of Digimon that were originally used by humans, Lugomon said matter-of-factly. 85 00:06:53,000 --> 00:06:56,000 What? 86 00:06:56,000 --> 00:07:03,000 Now that he mentioned it, Eiji could see the majority of the crowd were cyborg types or machine types, which were favored by codecrackers. 87 00:07:03,000 --> 00:07:08,000 They're all Digimon that were used by humans and discarded for some reason or another, Lugomon said. 88 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:16,000 They screwed up on the job or were entrusted with security of some company servers and got destroyed from an attack or something. 89 00:07:16,000 --> 00:07:19,000 Discarded Digimon? Eiji was astonished. 90 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:24,000 It was true that codecrackers used and abandoned Digimon regularly. 91 00:07:24,000 --> 00:07:35,000 Although it was not generally known to the public, governments, military, megatech companies, and other important servers and data centers were already using Digimon in their security. 92 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,000 Digimon got used up there on the daily. 93 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:42,000 No matter how carefully tools are treated, they eventually break. 94 00:07:42,000 --> 00:07:46,000 They fail. They fail. That's how Eiji had felt about it before now. 95 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:52,000 Normally those Digimon die a dog's death and revert back into Digi eggs, Lugomon said. 96 00:07:52,000 --> 00:08:00,000 But as they survived by slurping up the scrap data that drifted along the outer security wall, they built up houses, villages, and towns. 97 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:03,000 As long as they can hide... 98 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:04,000 Sorry. 99 00:08:04,000 --> 00:08:09,000 As long as they can find their way to this place, Digimon who were abandoned by humans can survive. 100 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:16,000 The stray Digimon that gathered together here are what become this sit... 101 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:21,000 The stray Digimon that gathered together here are what became this city, this slum. 102 00:08:21,000 --> 00:08:23,000 A slum known as Wall Slum. 103 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:30,000 I thought humans were pretty tough, but Digimon are strong too, Eiji said, impressed by the very life force of the Digimon. 104 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:35,000 This trash heap of a slum is the last paradise for stray Digimon. 105 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:39,000 Some of them may have gotten fed up with humans and drifted away on their own. 106 00:08:39,000 --> 00:08:43,000 Others may have wandered here due to some kind of trouble in the digital world beyond the wall. 107 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:49,000 Nowadays it's not unusual to find Digimon who were born and raised in this slum. 108 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:52,000 Roar! 109 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:56,000 The subway shout out above... 110 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:00,000 The subway shout out above ground. 111 00:09:00,000 --> 00:09:03,000 The sound of wheels treading along rails thundered. 112 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:10,000 The red polluted surface of the river beneath the truss bridge was spread out into the distance. 113 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:18,000 Eiji learned from Lugomon that the slum was full of Digimon like Chumon who were proliferative everywhere. 114 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:26,000 The mutant Damimon and other Digimon who had adapted and evolved to live happily in an environment polluted with garbage data. 115 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,000 Do the Digimon here not get along with each other? 116 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 Chumon and Chuchumon had been fighting over food. 117 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:38,000 The rule of not fighting allowed on the subway... 118 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:44,000 The rule of no fighting allowed on the subway meant when you flipped it that there was plenty of fighting allowed everywhere else. 119 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:50,000 Basically, basically everyone is poor here and that's the reason for it all, Lugomon said. 120 00:09:50,000 --> 00:09:55,000 Those in the slum can't consistently feed themselves so fighting is a daily occurrence. 121 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:59,000 There are Turf Wars and Digimon in each neighborhood who act as its boss. 122 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:06,000 Only in this subway and in the center of the slum, Avenue Zero, is there an unspoken non-combatant agreement. 123 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:09,000 The center of the slum? 124 00:10:09,000 --> 00:10:14,000 That must be the blank area on the map that the cloaked Digimon had shown them earlier. 125 00:10:14,000 --> 00:10:16,000 Eiji looked out the window. 126 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:23,000 Upstream of the river was a mountain peak at the center of Wall Slum made hazy by static. 127 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:27,000 I can't see it very well. What kind of place is it? 128 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:32,000 It has the gate that leads to the inside of the security wall, the wall gate, Lugomon responded. 129 00:10:32,000 --> 00:10:37,000 Inside the security wall? You mean the deep digital world? 130 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:46,000 This wall slum was, without any doubt, a part of the digital world, but the deep part of it was protected by the wall contained... 131 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:57,000 ...but the deep part of it that was protected by the wall contained the original shape of the digital world. 132 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,000 It would be an unknown digital world for you humans. 133 00:11:00,000 --> 00:11:05,000 The wall gate controls the flow of data into the digital world and prevents unauthorized entry. 134 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:08,000 The train crossed the river and slid back underground. 135 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:13,000 The subway cars went dark for a moment, then flickered, and the lights came back on. 136 00:11:13,000 --> 00:11:17,000 Eiji thought a little bit. 137 00:11:17,000 --> 00:11:22,000 This wall gate prevents codecrackers, us humans, from getting in. That's right. 138 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,000 It's not only humans. 139 00:11:25,000 --> 00:11:28,000 It's not only humans, Lugomon said. 140 00:11:28,000 --> 00:11:31,000 It also includes Digimon who have been used by codecrackers and hackers. 141 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:34,000 That's all of the Digimon in the wall slum. 142 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:37,000 Huh? All of the Digimon here? 143 00:11:37,000 --> 00:11:41,000 None of the Digimon on this subway were able to return to the digital world. 144 00:11:41,000 --> 00:11:47,000 This wall slum has perpetually been affected by real-world data via the network, Lugomon said. 145 00:11:47,000 --> 00:11:51,000 Once a Digimon is contaminated by real-world data, it can never return to the digital world. 146 00:11:51,000 --> 00:11:54,000 They lose the ability to pass through the gate. 147 00:11:54,000 --> 00:11:56,000 On whose authority? 148 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:03,000 The digital world system, which is all I can really say about that, to put it in human terms, are God, so to speak. 149 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:09,000 For the Digimon of wall slum, the inside of the wall is their long-lost home. 150 00:12:09,000 --> 00:12:12,000 Lugomon, do you know what's on the other side of the wall? 151 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:15,000 We're getting off here. Lugomon got up from his seat. 152 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:20,000 Eiji had no idea of what route they'd taken, but he heard the announcement say, 153 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,000 Next stop, 9th Avenue, 9th Avenue. 154 00:12:23,000 --> 00:12:26,000 Eiji's mind switched over into work mode. 155 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:31,000 First, he had to fulfill Ryusenji's request and pass the SOC entrance exam. 156 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:35,000 So we're mapping the 9th Avenue, Eiji said. 157 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:37,000 I wonder what kind of place it is. 158 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,000 Find out when we get there. 159 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,000 You sure seem to know a lot about wall slum, Lugomon. 160 00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:44,000 Have you lived here before? 161 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:50,000 Lugomon had been stored from the beginning as his child-level stage in the Digimon Linker. 162 00:12:50,000 --> 00:12:55,000 Eiji hadn't bothered to ask where Lugomon had been and what he'd done before that. 163 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:59,000 It had never occurred to him that Digimon could have a past. 164 00:12:59,000 --> 00:13:01,000 I don't remember. 165 00:13:01,000 --> 00:13:03,000 The sudden confession confused Eiji. 166 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:04,000 What? 167 00:13:04,000 --> 00:13:07,000 My memory is hazy from one point to another. 168 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:12,000 I know that I grew up here in wall slum, but I only remember when I was just a brat at child level. 169 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:16,000 Everything else after that is vague. 170 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:19,000 Lugomon said that he knew about the digital world and wall slum, 171 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,000 but he couldn't remember much about himself. 172 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,000 He had no idea who he was here. 173 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:28,000 Is it amnesia? Eiji asks. 174 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:31,000 Seems kind of half-assed, though. 175 00:13:31,000 --> 00:13:35,000 Whenever I try to remember, it's like there's a haze around my Digicore, 176 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,000 like fog settling down on my memories. 177 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:46,000 Come to think of it that Chuman and the others had something of interest, Eiji said. 178 00:13:46,000 --> 00:13:52,000 They seemed to know about you, spoke reverently to you, calling you the demon wolf and boss and whatnot. 179 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:59,000 After coming to wall slum with you and listening to them, I feel as if my memories are returning little by little, Lugomon said. 180 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:03,000 That's why I said we might find more out when we get there. 181 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:08,000 I get the feeling that there's something at 9th Avenue, something that's very important to me. 182 00:14:08,000 --> 00:14:12,000 And that is the end of that chapter. 183 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,000 I had a lot of stumbles and slips there, and I do apologize for that. 184 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:19,000 I, uh, I don't know. I slept well. I'm feeling pretty good. 185 00:14:19,000 --> 00:14:23,000 I don't know why I'm fumbling on the read, but I won't use this. 186 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:28,000 I won't edit those out in this episode, but I also won't use this raw recording. 187 00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:37,000 As my, um, as my, you know, solid K-Kun translated audio book track. 188 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,000 So I'm going to do, I guess I'll have to do separate recordings for those and make them sound real good. 189 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:45,000 Because, yeah, it's, that's not cool. 190 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:48,000 There were a lot of stumbles in there, and like I said, it's just, I don't know. 191 00:14:48,000 --> 00:14:53,000 I want to get this out sooner than later, so I'm going to let it slip with the imperfections and just let it go. 192 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:58,000 But I will blame part of the imperfections on the way that this thing is written. 193 00:14:58,000 --> 00:15:03,000 Just, and I'm not blaming Keg, because this is, uh, he's got source material to work with, 194 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:07,000 and in the source material they did not put the dialogue tags. 195 00:15:07,000 --> 00:15:13,000 Um, and I, I guess you're supposed to read it quietly yourself, which doesn't really make sense. 196 00:15:13,000 --> 00:15:21,000 Like as a, as a writer, one of the things that they say is that, specifically with scripts for movies and such, 197 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:26,000 movies, teleplay, whatever, you should say the dialogue out south, out south? 198 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:33,000 You should say the dialogue out loud to yourself so that you can hear how it sounds when people are actually saying this. 199 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:38,000 Famously, uh, I've heard, I think Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill both say in interviews, 200 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:44,000 maybe Van Erissenford, uh, separately, uh, that they would say of George Lucas's script for Star Wars, 201 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 you can read this stuff, but you can't say it. 202 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:54,000 I think partly because it sounds a little goofy when you say it, and also because it's just outlandish to say, 203 00:15:54,000 --> 00:15:59,000 uh, you know, whatever it was, like, uh, not Alderaan, there was another one. 204 00:15:59,000 --> 00:16:04,000 Hamill had this line memorized from the sides of the, uh, the audition where it was this crazy thing about, 205 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:08,000 oh, the security here won't be like this because of that or whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 206 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:10,000 He's like arguing with Han in the cockpit of the Falcon, right? 207 00:16:10,000 --> 00:16:16,000 And he was saying, uh, like, you know, he had it memorized, and he's like, you can say it, but it's not natural dialogue. 208 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:22,000 It just doesn't work, and, you know, that's not the dialogue that ended up in the movie, so, um, 209 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:28,000 all that dialogue was saved for the Anakin Padme romance in Entirely the Clowns. 210 00:16:28,000 --> 00:16:35,000 Uh, I kid. Anyway, uh, but yeah, so I get that depending on what medium you're in, 211 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:41,000 you can do things differently, and you can skip on dialogue tags in some places, 212 00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:44,000 and this is something I've talked about before, so I'll just keep it brief and just say, 213 00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:50,000 you can't do that all the time, and I'm really frustrated with how this is, uh, written, 214 00:16:50,000 --> 00:16:55,000 and I wonder what the Japanese readers are thinking of this and what their perception of it is, 215 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:02,000 and is it something that they're finding frustrating or something difficult to read aloud, or is the, I mean, 216 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:11,000 it's not like real, I feel so bad these things, it's not like real, um, like cyberpunk, uh, or cypherpunk even, 217 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:18,000 uh, people are gonna be reading this because it's, you know, dipping its toe in that genre or whatever, 218 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:23,000 uh, this is gonna be Digimon fans who are reading this, and either they're so, uh, I don't know, 219 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:27,000 bought and sold, bought and paid for, either they're so into Digimon that they're just gonna ignore 220 00:17:27,000 --> 00:17:36,000 all of the, uh, demerits or deficiencies in this, or they're gonna be truthful like I'm trying to be 221 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:40,000 and talk about when they don't like certain things in it, and hopefully that's what's happening, 222 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:49,000 but I haven't seen any insights into the Japanese discourse on Seekers. Um, I mean, you know, 223 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:55,000 it's funny too, it struck me a little bit like, oh, Lugaman's got semi-amnesia, but it's starting to clear up 224 00:17:55,000 --> 00:17:59,000 as he goes on this adventure, like, oh, this is, uh, this is very video game, this is very anime, 225 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:05,000 this is very, you know, standard for the, uh, the genre type of trope, and I'm not mad at that, 226 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:11,000 but it did just kind of strike me as funny, and like nothing before, uh, indicated that his memories were hazy, 227 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:19,000 to me at least, and I agree with, you know, what was stated in the book, that there is this sense that you get 228 00:18:19,000 --> 00:18:24,000 that he's experienced and that he's reverenced and, uh, all this stuff, and I thought, oh, that's cool 229 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:31,000 that we've got this guy, a jugado, who like, um, you know, has respect from people and has experience 230 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:37,000 and partly because of that, he doesn't have respect for Eiji, his, you know, tamer or cracker, 231 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:43,000 or whatever you want to call him, and like, that's a cool dynamic, uh, and then we find out that, you know, 232 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:49,000 he's missing his memories, but he still has enough confidence and, I don't know, self-assuredness, uh, 233 00:18:49,000 --> 00:18:54,000 to still feel that way about Eiji is kind of odd. I did, I almost laughed out loud in the middle of doing the 234 00:18:54,000 --> 00:19:00,000 reading of the recording when, uh, Lugaman said like, that pet dog you had, I know he didn't respect you. 235 00:19:00,000 --> 00:19:07,000 That was a hilarious moment, so, uh, I do like that, and I'm gonna assume this is K-kun's translation, 236 00:19:07,000 --> 00:19:14,000 but calling the, uh, the toe pads or whatever beans, you know, bean pads or whatever you called them, 237 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:18,000 like, I've definitely heard, you know, people in America refer to them as that on their cats or dogs or whatever, 238 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:24,000 and it's, you know, it's funny, um, and, uh, it was just kind of a, I don't know, it's funny, but it's also kind of lame, 239 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:30,000 I think, if you do that, um, which, you know, I've done it myself, so, I'm not immune to being lame, 240 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:37,000 but it's just, uh, uh, it kind of, it goes to state of mind for Eiji and shows kind of what a goofball he is, 241 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:42,000 and, well, he wants to be this codecracker and wants to be serious. He's still, you know, he's still a person, 242 00:19:42,000 --> 00:19:44,000 and that's kind of, kind of good. 243 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:49,000 Okay, so moving on to some other stuff. First of all, there's an ethical question that I want to bring up from before, 244 00:19:49,000 --> 00:19:55,000 and I hope the, I hope John Tate, I guess it'd be Bandai, not Toei, but whatever. 245 00:19:55,000 --> 00:19:57,000 Hopefully nobody comes after me for this. 246 00:19:57,000 --> 00:20:02,000 The other day, or, like, two or three readings ago, two or three chapters ago, 247 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,000 when Eiji got hololized and there was all this personal data from him, he's like, 248 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:07,000 hey, how do you have all this information from me? 249 00:20:07,000 --> 00:20:14,000 Uh, Lugamon, I believe, says, are you an idiot? Don't you recognize that the vital bracelet is pulling all that information from you 24-7? 250 00:20:14,000 --> 00:20:23,000 Eiji, I'll just put it this way, Eiji, who wears his vital bracelet, or his, you know, his dock, his Digimon dock, or whatever it's called, 251 00:20:23,000 --> 00:20:33,000 is willingly submitting himself to be scanned, tracked, and traced to some extent by whatever company is behind the Digimon dock, 252 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,000 which, I mean, Ryusenji made it, you know, it's kind of an open source platform thing. 253 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:42,000 I don't know if their data is encrypted or what, but, like, his data wasn't encrypted unless it's encrypted and it's, like, peer-to-peer, 254 00:20:42,000 --> 00:20:44,000 and Lugamon receives that data. 255 00:20:44,000 --> 00:20:51,000 But anyway, regardless, like, the device itself, the dock, has the ability to pull all this biometric data from you 256 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:55,000 and scan all this information data from you, and that's kind of creepy, and it made me think, 257 00:20:55,000 --> 00:20:59,000 oh, I wonder if, uh, I wonder if Bandai, I guess it's Bandai who makes it, right? 258 00:20:59,000 --> 00:21:03,000 I wonder if Bandai recognizes that and knows it, and, like, if they thought about that, 259 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:11,000 and if people who wear the vital bracelet think about that, and, like, I've considered getting, I don't know, 260 00:21:11,000 --> 00:21:14,000 one of those things, like, Armin or, uh, what's the other one? I can't remember what it's called. 261 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:21,000 It's the most popular one. Anyway, I've considered, and I thought, like, no, isn't that, like, gonna give somebody information on me, 262 00:21:21,000 --> 00:21:26,000 and that seems weird and uncomfortable, and, uh, there's a lot of, you know, you should protect your data, basically, is what I'm saying. 263 00:21:26,000 --> 00:21:34,000 And, uh, I haven't looked into it, and I'm not making any accusations, but when that was, uh, like, a, an element in the story, 264 00:21:34,000 --> 00:21:40,000 I thought, oh, wow, that's, that's super interesting, and I wonder if people are gonna talk about that or, um, think about that at all, 265 00:21:40,000 --> 00:21:43,000 and then I forgot to talk about it, so it didn't happen with me, so, uh, there you go. 266 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:46,000 If you hadn't thought about that, that's something to consider for the future. 267 00:21:46,000 --> 00:21:53,000 All right, uh, other thing, this Digimon are alive, which, I didn't say that this episode, or this chapter, which is good, 268 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:59,000 but, um, these Digimon are, like, somehow, like, okay, there's this, either this god of the digital world or this protocol 269 00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:07,000 that once a Digimon has left the digital world and gone out beyond that gate, uh, beyond the wall gate, or whatever I think it was called, 270 00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:14,000 um, they are not allowed to go in back into the deep, or to the actual digital world, or I guess the deep digital world. 271 00:22:14,000 --> 00:22:19,000 That is super fascinating, super interesting. I like that A.G. is thinking, I think it man because he says, 272 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:25,000 hey, why is that the case? Who determined that? You know, who, by whose authority, he said in Kay's translation here, 273 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,000 and I think that's a great question because what makes that legitimate? 274 00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:34,000 You're saying they don't do it or they are unable to do it, and it's clear they are unable to do it, 275 00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:38,000 or at least it sounds as if they are unable to do it. They are definitely not supposed to do it, 276 00:22:38,000 --> 00:22:44,000 and the trigger for making the distinction between Digimon is that if they've gone out, 277 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:49,000 I guess once you go out you can't come back in, is what it sounds like. It's a much simpler way to put it. 278 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:57,000 And there's either some protocol or some force in play that makes that so, and I find, again, I find that to be super interesting, 279 00:22:57,000 --> 00:23:04,000 and I don't know why that would be the case, but it is, and I wonder what's up with that. 280 00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:10,000 So that's kind of a fun thing to think about. That raises all sorts of questions. 281 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:17,000 Is there really a god of the digital world? Is there some sort of set of protocols that was put in place that are like, 282 00:23:17,000 --> 00:23:23,000 I don't know, I know enough about computers to be dangerous, basically, to myself, not so much to others, 283 00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:31,000 unless they trust me. But does that mean at the base level, at the kernel, in the source code or whatever, 284 00:23:31,000 --> 00:23:37,000 there's something that says that once Digimon have left and their data has become corrupted by stuff outside of the 285 00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:41,000 pure, pristine digital world, that it makes it so that they can no longer come back in? 286 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:51,000 And is that as simple as their data has changed and it no longer retains the proper hash function, so to speak, 287 00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:57,000 to enable them to get in? Like, they're rehashed, and because they have outside data mixed in with them, 288 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:04,000 or like, salted in with them to use like, security language, like, it doesn't work. The hash that they have isn't the same. 289 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:07,000 You can have a, if you stay in the digital world, I mean, but you would never have to re-authenticate. 290 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:12,000 So that's kind of a weird thing. Like, you can go out, but you can't come back in. 291 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,000 So does that mean that there's only somebody on the inside of the gate stopping anybody from coming in, 292 00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:24,000 or does that mean that there's, because why would there be permission to flow out, but not to flow back in? 293 00:24:24,000 --> 00:24:29,000 That kind of doesn't make sense to me. But again, I don't know necessarily enough about computer stuff, 294 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:35,000 and I don't know enough about the lore, but it does open up questions, and I find it to be very interesting, 295 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:43,000 very interesting idea to consider. So yeah, that was pretty neat. And those are my big lore points. 296 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:50,000 You know, I am going to continue to stick with the story just because, you know, you need something to do with life. 297 00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:57,000 And I want to see this story go somewhere. I want to be interesting, but like, I cannot believe that we're 13 parts into one chapter. 298 00:24:57,000 --> 00:25:01,000 That doesn't make any sense, and I won't belabor the point because I've already talked about that 299 00:25:01,000 --> 00:25:09,000 and how I hope to see change in the future. So that's it. I'm going to go ahead and get out of here. 300 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:13,000 And I thank you for your time and attention. This is MJ signing out.