Post — Aaron Ngo

Major Spoilers are included in this episode review. Please read with caution.

Episode 31—“A New Darkness, Millenniumon”—is an interesting episode that covers the aftermath of WarGreymon’s appearance in addition to filling in the context that was set-up from episode 5: “Holy Digimon”. A Lopmon revealed himself to be a reincarnated Holy Digimon, Cherubimon, and that his memories were awakened when WarGreymon made his epic appearance. Lopmon also revealed the disturbances in the Human World have been caused by remnants of Millenniumon, an evil Digimon the Army of Light had defeated many years ago in the Ancient War against the Army of Darkness.

The exposition was so nice honestly, especially since they picked up on the information we already knew from episode 5. The Chosen Digimon like WarGreymon were an Army of Light that defeated Millenniumon all those years ago, and they must reunite in order to defeat him again. The six warrior Digimon and two Holy Digimon are the partners of the DigiDestined. Lopmon didn’t explain why the 8 kids were chosen quite yet, but that might come later. I’m happy that the new story arc is expanding the main plot, lore, and the Digimon’s backgrounds. It’s the story bones of Digimon Frontier’s plot and lore minus the Human Digimon versus Beast Digimon aspect and different Digimon enemy.

The action sequences involved groups of Bakemon digivolving into MetalPhantommon, and then one went into Gokumon, a Mega Digimon. The battle scenes have been one of the few positives from the reboot, as the battle went like this:

Greymon versus MetalPhantommon
MetalGreymon versus MetalPhantommom into Gokumon
WarGreymon one-shotting Gokumon with Kamehameha Gaia Force Rasengan.

WarGreymon took down Gokumon, and became an overpowered Shonen Protagonist. The Reboot WarGreymon is much stronger compared to the original WarGreymon and huge! The WarGreymon versus Gokumon fight is also a direct reference to a video game, based on what I heard from social media. Despite being a Digimon fan, I haven’t actually played the video game during my childhood. Sorry for not knowing everything like Izzy. I’m only a Human DigiDestined.

Speaking of Izzy, he was present in the episode for the exposition dump. Izzy revealed all the satellites are converging into a meteor that will strike down Tokyo. The stakes for this aren’t really anything anymore to be honest. This is another recycled story trope that will keep happening, I suppose. I think I’ll take it seriously when Tokyo actually explodes or if someone dies.

I wish Sora had more screen time in this episode, but I liked how she was there with Tai for the exposition backstory. You know, similar to episode 5 “Holy Digimon”, when I last discussed anything related to the main story. The digivolution sequences are becoming clearer and smoother as well, but I hope Sora and the others get pretty Mega sequences too.

After Kari and Gatomon become a pair in episode 34 / 35 range based on episode titles, I think the series will repeat the Ultimate-centric episodes for the other kids except Mega. I do want to be wrong, but the repetition and clear story formulas are hard to ignore. Big Dad D. One Piece improved my ability to see through the fourth walls of other anime and manga. Thank you, Oda. I still don’t like you, sometimes.

Overall, I’m hyped for the next few episodes to see where Digimon Adventure Reboot goes next with the plot and characters. Also, I will be participating in a in-person Digimon TCG (Trading Card Game) local tournament on January 17th, 2021, the first in-person event of 2021 since like… I want to say early November 2020. The Digital World is starting to open its gates to us… very slowly.

Thanks for reading this episode review, everyone! I also created a new Twitter account, @ngo_dm_aa, that will mainly cover my Digimon TCG, Cardfight!! Vanguard, my Genshin Impact content, and these episode reviews too of course. Please follow if you’ve been liking the episode reviews so far. We’re also almost close to the halfway point of the series (31/66)!

What a year, y’all. See you all in the Digital World next week.

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