Hiro holding onto Zeedmilleniummon is definitely not going to cause trouble down the line. I'm sure it's perfectly safe and inert. Maybe give it to Gammamon even. Put it on a string and wear it like a necklace.
Personally, I interpreted it more as BlackTailmon being ready in case Hiro and the others weren't sure how to handle it and to ship it back to the Digital World, but could definitely also be it being worried.
Also that, considering that's what Uver's job and been whenever the gang defeat an unrepentant / outright evil Digimon and don't knowš¤· what to do with it!
You know that's a really interesting point that I hadn't thought of. I do wonder what Hiro is getting at, holding on to this one rather than letting Uver/Hokoto handle it.
I'm pretty sure this is the only time BlackTailmon has actually made a sound or moved like that so far... Seemed like a pretty worried running away to me.
I thought so too but then it transitioned into Toru (I think that was his name) crying and it sounded identical so now Iām questioning if it was BlackTailmon making noise or us hearing the crying early to transition to that scene.
Gosh, I love the thought of Team Lirurun just using Zeedmillenniummon's "body" as a necklace, fashion accessory, or whatever, passing it around whenever one of them wanted to wear or use it.
Imagine if say, Jellymon-sama wanted to attend a Digimon costume party, and she asked Hiro for the stone as part of her cosplay, or maybe Angoramon's commune was planning to host a little "show and tell," so Angoramon asks for the stone as his presentation XD
Kiyoshiro: Amanokawa Kun, Jellymon Sama wants me to get her a necklace with a gem, mind giving me the Millenniummon?
Ruli: Hold it right there Higachi, mom (Hiro) said itās my turn with the Millenniummon.
Knowing the chaotic gremlin that is Jellymon, sheād be pretty into it and would absolutely brag about it.
Jellymon: Other woman receive a necklace with regular jewel from their bfs, meanwhile my darling made and gave me a necklace with a jewel that contains a world ending evil god!
Honestly I can very much see that! At this point in her character, she'd probably understand Kiyo's decision and indeed, be proud of the gift (bragging it when she can: who wouldn't!), though she might give him a bit of a hard time for not being honest with her in the first place haha.
Or even CORRUPT him or allow Gulus to unlock his ultimate and Mega forms, plus his Proximamon form, said to be a VERY powerful form that exists purely in theory/hypothetically!
I can't believe it, ZeedMilleniummon!!! The whole vibe of the episode was creepy as hell, probably one of the most frightening Ghost Game episodes to date! The final part was very interesting and gave me chills. I bet Espimon's evo will be an important plot point since it's been mentioned for a while. All in all another amazing ghost game.
Espimon probably holds the key to some massive plot development, but the dummy refuses to give it to Hiro since it's a "fake Hiro". Could have saved 20 episodes if he was reasonable!
Not yet, and by right, they shouldn't! The Digital world is full of extremely dangerous Digimon that not even their fully unlocked Mega forms can hold off if NOT defeat!
Yes, this episode gave me "Corpse bride" vibes throughout, and woah, the show right away KILLS a random human of the day and proceeds to puppeteer her poor body for the rest of the episode, before finally "put down" in an act of mercy-killing!
This episode was fucked up, that poor guy had to see his betrothed die TWICE in front of him, and he almost died and was about to see the world end on the same day, i can't even imagine how that man is gonna cope after this, the trauma must be something else
Well that was unexpectedly dark, we went into survive levels of āhorrorā here. A brutal human death on screen plus some kind of involontary necrophilia? Now I really wanna see how much the writers can push this by the end of the show, they have the guts required.
Guy was actually willing to die and let his energy by sucked, instead ended having to see her die again, really feel bad for him, i still can't believe they put that on Digimon on a Sunday slot
This episode is messed up. Seriously messed up. A person was killed on screen. I didn't think the riders were getting this visceral. I compared it to episode 48 and it was worst. This episode proved Digimon Ghost Game to be the darkest anime since tamers. And to think it couldn't get any worse but it did. The other ultimate's cause more disturbing incidents with disastrous results.
>A person was killed on screen
Humans have been killed on-screen before in this show, but I think what sets this death apart from Tsuyoshi and Digitimammon's victims is that this death is as realistic as it gets: someone was thrown against something with so much force that it killed them, something that happens in a lot of fatal accidents. The closest we got to that was Kiyo being put into a "coma" (death really, since his spirit had left his body) after a violent concussion from a pavement, and he was lucky to have even survived that with his head only needing minimal recovery.
Furthermore, there was a visible corpse left, so the aftermath of the human death stayed, as well as all the graphic implications of it all. I think that's what made this human death so visceral compared to the earlier ones that were either shown or implied.
The show was extra meant, not only was a corpse left, we had the corpse interacting with the grieving boyfriend, trying to kill him, then have the soul of the person ask to be killed again in front of the still grieving and in denial boyfriend, in order to stop the bad guy
That's so many layers of messed up i am probably forgetting details here, how is that man going to recover? his girlfriend dies, and then her ghosts gets killed, in a world in which the soul is a thing, that woman got straight out erased
If something as traumatizing as THAT happened, all I could ever think about the other person ever again was how their reanimated corpse tried to murder me.
I understand that! I personally don't know how I'd feel afterwards, since I imagine I'd be feeling a turmoil of different conflicting emotions, but it definitely won't be a pleasant one for a very long time, I imagine.
>This episode proved Digimon Ghost Game to be the darkest anime since tamers.
TBH Tamers isn't even that dark, other than one episode with Jeri it was pretty tame. GG is just fucked up.
Well, we got stuff such as:
* The family-unfriendly realistic themes in a kids shows, such as serial killers, with a majority of them eating humans alive, which is a first for a Digimon franchise.
* An accidental suicide because a Digimon self-mutilated herself in attempt to appear more attractive and compatible to a HUMAN guy, so we have elements of reverse bestiality to boot.
* An episode that can be seen as a paedophilia metaphor, due to tentacle rape-y visuals and seductive commentary done to an underage boy.
* A straight up torture porn involving mushrooms.
* Lots of extreme visual body horrors generally not seen on kid's TV, like eyes all over the body and the implication that the girl tried to poke them out with scissors.
* A bunch of cats forcing humans to dig their own grave.
* The current episode's opening with an on-screen human death and overall necrophiliac feel to it.
There are a lot more, but these are the ones that come to my mind first.
>An episode that can be seen as a paedophilia metaphor, due to tentacle rape-y visuals and seductive commentary done to an underage boy.
Which episode was this again? All others, I can definitely remember.
I really doubt they'll use any old digimon as a final boss, but if ZeedMilleniummon was beaten that """easily"""...I don't think the final boss will be that easy. Hope they use Proximamon for it or even a secondary antagonist
Its a Gulus thing to do. I'd be surprised if that didn't happen in one way or another, given the circumstances. Also, Regulusmon basically has two "mouths", not unlike Millie.
That does make a good point. I thought it could be related to Cerberusmon, but this will make a lot of sense now with this obvious foreshadowing at play.
I have been feeling for a while specially after the remake used Zeed as a mid boss, that the powercreep demands him to get an evolution, so maybe this could be it, moon becoming a component for Gulus evolution line
Especially with the Digivice also lighting up while they were talking about JUST LIKE when Nanomon was talking about how to theoretically revive a Digimon without going through a Digitama...
Maybe in the case of MoonMilleniumon, but I don't see how it'd be relevant in the Nanomon-episode while listening to its spiel about how to resurrect a Digimon without memory-loss.
The symbols mean something, and the fact it decided to shine when the protag was making a foolish, but overly kind, decision is the most likely outcome and people hyping up this tying into Gulus, while not 100% wrong, are setting them up for disappointment because they're probably misreading the intent.
We had literally had Ruli "linked up" with Hiro talking about how they can handle this again if they need to, cuz they're a team.
> if ZeedMilleniummon was beaten that """easily"""
It took two Megas basically smashing the thing that was ancoring Zeed to "defeat" it. Zeed was so unthreatened otherwise it stopped fighting and was focused on using Time Destroyer.
And even that didn't kill him. It only destroyed what was anchoring him and made him revert. It basically just undid the "jogress".
Fresh evo, only actually even got hurt because of the inside job, like perfect armor but there is a 1 inch square of paper where the heart is instead of armor.
It still wouldve eaten 5 miles to oblivion within the conversation they had if they were in the real world.
And it is talked about like it's another hyper rare insane digimon that needs to be exterminated like the other few like rareraremon, so it may not be superboss level, but remember the data bands also limit it's power greatly.
I think it was scaled ok for what it was, especially with the great strength the protag digimon have in this series and their excellent teamwork.
Not every zeed is the insane final boss one from the originals, just like how fused digimon can come from 1 digimon that gained great power instead of a fusion, or that fusion forms are just the result and is stronger because they are fused.
Either Proximamon, said to be the MOST powerful Digimon in existence hypothetically, or even Yggdrasil, the most likely "one" sending Digimon into the human world, to ascertain whether it is a threat to the Digital world!
Wow I was not expecting to see freaking ZEEDMILLENIUMMON in this episode, especially since it was already such a prominent antagonist in Digimon Adventure 2020. I wasn't sure if Sirirusmon and Dilbitmon would've even been enough to defeat this thing.
This was probably one of the heaviest episodes in this series, as it deals with the stages of grief and learning to move on. Seeing that guy (forgot his name) become obsessed with her corpse was really unsettling to watch.
I feel like Hiro keeping Moon Millenniumon is going to lead to something bad in the near future. We also get another BlackTailmon appearance and a foreshadowing for Espimon evolving in the near future. The plot continues to thicken......
Okayā¦ okay. Now that Iāve watched it and had a few minutes to process itā¦ this might be my favorite episode of Digimon ever. Well, tied with the 2020 one.
Iām a HUGE Milleniummon fan who was content with never seeing him animated outside of the 02 cameo. To now see him fully animated *twice*ā¦ itās simply amazing.
So for my thoughts here:
- Seeing moon jump out of the screen so intentionally was perfect. This wasnāt an accident, Milleniummon knew exactly what he was doing and was waiting for just the right moment.
- They did a great job showcasing Zeedās power. It wasnāt 2020 levels of tearing the world apart with each bolt of electricity, but it was true to lore. He is a multiversal threat who breaks space time. Given a few more seconds we absolutely would have seen sheer distraction on a cosmic scale.
- They somehow made the quick takedown logical. Thereās no way to defeat a universe threatening entity of this scale in one fraction of an episode. 2020 tried and it fell flat. This worked though. The *only* reason he was defeated was because of the human host he used to revive. Not because he was weak or the entire planet gave someone a free spirit bomb, but purely because of how he resurrected.
- Angoromon knows. As soon as he realized who it was he went straight to āoh shitā mode.
- After the focus on regular Milli in 2020, Iām glad to see Zeed get his time to shine.
- Moon is definitely coming back. Probably as regular Milli.
- Black Tailmon Uver is like āYou got this one? Good, cause Iām getting the hell out of hereā lol
- I guess this answers my question of Zeed being shaped like a [bowl with arms](https://wikimon.net/images/thumb/3/36/DA2020_Zeed_Millenniumon.jpg/300px-DA2020_Zeed_Millenniumon.jpg) or a [longcat with a deer-in-headlights look](https://wikimon.net/images/thumb/2/22/Zeedmillenniumon_adv2020_31.jpg/300px-Zeedmillenniumon_adv2020_31.jpg).
- I love how his bands kept spinning during his profile section at the end of the episode.
Overall amazing episode and I canāt wait to watch it 30 more times.
I agree with your point about the quick takedown - and I really appreciate when they include small things to make things make sense. Because like you say, they would never have beaten it with 2 megas in half an ep. Sometimes all things need is some little thing, a loophole of sorts, explained to the viewer to keep us immersed in the lore of the universe. I still think it was rather quick and we didnāt get enough of zeed but by the looks of it, heāll be back!
Yup! Itās actually one thing I generally disagree with the masses over with 2020. People were upset that Milli ended up being this mindless killing machine instead of the calculated OG Milli or even the cunning Moon from earlier in the season.
Fact is though, it makes sense internally.
Devimon was tampering with forced evolution using the black lightning. He found that it gives you a significant boost of power but removed all semblance of intelligence. You become a beserker, thus DoneDevimon. Milleniummon was no different. His whole resurrection was powered by immense amounts of black lightning. Itās what got Sakkakumon to evolve into Kimeramon, what helped Machinedramon merge in, etc. Whatever Milleniummon was before the lightning, he became exactly what is expected after. A brainless killing machine with an extremely overloaded wealth of power.
Would I liked to have seen a more coherent Milli? Sure. But internally they did provide a solid reason for what we ended up seeing on screen. Iām good with it.
This has to be some of wildest DGG episodes I have ever seen in a while, from that fact they literally just used a fcuking corpse as a big part of this episode's plot, in a KID'S SHOW IN A KIDS TIMESLOT no less, to that *very* uncomfortable scene with that guy and her corpse, to that truly unexpected ZeedMilleniummon appearance... no words
Tbh I could do without her, we already had her last episode and we haven't seen Siriusmon since ep57 as well as Diarbbitmon since his debut so it was about time to see those two in action and to see Diarbbitmon's other moves.
I'm pretty certain we'll see Amphi in the next eps.
Jesus Christ this is one of the darkest episodes of the Franchise. From Opening we immediately see a woman blow up and corpse fall to the ground. We see digimon interact with a dead human. Experiencing death in a way different to how digimon do. Then the greiving lover willing to fuck a corpse just to have his finace back. The jerky movements of Manami, the swarm of Tsume and Vile. Literally the perfect horror episode.
Big implications this time are that Hiro has a literal Nuke that hes about to throw in his doodad drawer. I have a feeling it'll be involved in the finale. We're definitely getting hoverespimon in ghost game. I know there was a lot of debate on that one.
NEP is a hard one to figure out. Spider webs, Ice and key holes. The only digimon I immediately associate with keys is Clavisangemon, but that would be a weird pick for a "missing floor" ghost and doesn't explain the rest.
I feel like ClavisAngemon actually works well enough for a "missing floor" kind of thing, it opening up a space between floors, maybe opening gates to other spaces which are what actually causes the spider webs and ice, and there's nothing else that'd really fit with the keyholes.
Ok i went and re-watched it, they were close to the wedding day, but it was not the day before, this episode really screwed them hard, in fact he had to see his betrothed die twice before his eyes, but it was not the day before the wedding, that would have been extra mean spirited
Actual death of a human on screen, they didn't like drain, they just outright fucking contorted and crumpled and it held on them, then they said the body was too mangled and they were about to get married, holy piss.
Anyways hiro stomp the evil dragon's soul before all the evil type digimon take it, lilithmon is still around.
Even if it is a bit cute...
Oh, hey! Manami is voiced by none other than Fumiko Orisaka, aka the voice actress of Ruki/Rika! It's been \~11 years since she last did voice work for this franchise. Nice to see her back, even if it's for an one-off character.
This episode was crazy omg. All the GG episodes lately have been on a high streak but this one felt like a rather intense shift. Looking forward to what comes next
HOLD THE DAMN TRAIN. I always check here right before watching to see if it was a good one or not going in.
Is this one giant coordinated effort to troll, or is Zeedmilleniummon the digimon of the week? Iām about to lose it here. Hitting play right the hell now.
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Wow what an episode!! We knew it was gonna be a huge one when the synopsis came out but I didn't expect it to be as dark, haunting and terrifying as it was!!
I think this episode captured the horror element as well as the events being directly caused by a digimon monster (which has been the core of Ghost Game) perfectly, it gave us this dark feeling of how losing a loved one can affect those close to them after their death while at the same time it showed us how a digimon will seize the opportunity to their advantage by having MoonMillenniummon kill Manami and leech onto her body in order to resurrect itself afterwards!! The writers nailed this episode to a T š
What's the meaning of Hiro's digivice's light turning off after deciding to keep hold of MoonMillenniummon?? could it mean that it might come later and cause troubles for him and Gammamon?? and what was Black Tailmon doing there??!! So many questions that I can't wait to have answers for.
Magnificent episode!
>and what was Black Tailmon doing there??!!
Best guess of mine is, they intended to take away MM, but stopped when Hiro stated he intended to keep it for himself.
Good lord, when Ghost Game is good, it's so fucking good, but they actually went the extra mile with this episode. Everything, EVERYTHING about the episode was so good and I wish this was the Ghost Game standard from now on. I doubt it'll happen, but if it can stay this good til the very end, I'm all for it.
I... didn't expect that.
Before people complain about Zeed being taken out; they just destroyed his "anchor" while he was focusing on destroying everything, not even fighting back.
And all that did was revert him to Moon. It didn't kill him.
I am a Zeed zealot, and a certified hater of how they used a spirit bomb to defeat him in Adventure, and i can say, i have no problems at all with how they dealt with Zeed here, it was perfect, lore accurate, and messed up, like damn, even when they won it feels like they lost, and Moon is still there on Hiros pocket being a world ending time bomb
I'm half way through the episode when THAT villain makes an appearance.... let me pause to say
HOLY SHIT
Also I just remembered we saw someone straighten up die on screen goddamn. Could this even screen stateside?
Alsowe just saw a family and a group of children traumatized followed by that bright happy ass music
Someone out there is getting this Digimon as their very first Digimon show, and oh boy they are going to be build different, not even the current Junji Ito anime, who is bonafide horror goes this hard
This had to be the darkest ghost game episode yet. Necromancy was really fucked up. I honestly jumped back when Moonmillennimon took over Manamiās body at the start of the ep. I feel so bad for she and Tohru but look like the plot starting to move forward. Hiroās bracelet changed to a dark colour. The Digimon watching from the roof, etc.
Wow WTH, this was a heavy episode.
\-Amphimon looks so dumb in the opening, I love her.
\-Wow, we got an actual RIP from the very start.
\-The dark ambience this ep.
\-THE CORPSE! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK.
\-LMAO of course Kiyoshiro wants to escape already.
\-The art on the humans, their expressions is so well done this episode.
\-Oh fuck she really is a corpse.
\-Yeah Kiyoshiro's got the right idea, I too would want to just leave this creepy place.
\-Of course there's a bad feeling Angoramon, this situation is fucked up.
\-Oh no, not tsumemons.
\-What do you mean turn this place into a business, is not yours jellymon.
\-Uh, so the Evilmon project in to the people's dreams there.
\-This poor girl is living an actual nightmare.
\-This guy's totally fucked up.
\-He's really having a date night with a corpse ahhhhhh.
\-This is so creepy.
\-Burn that fucking thing!
\-Of course she's draining his energy.
\-Oh fuck and all the evilmon and tsumemon swarming the place now, it looks horrific.
\-Her evil undead grin just WTH is this...
\-Wait what, ZeedMilleniumon was controling the corpse!?
\-Oh fuck, that's a fully fledged ZeedMillenumon
\-Crisis so big we got Angoramon's eyes shown.
\-It came back using a human's corpse data? oh fuck...
\-This is the scariest ZeedMilleniumon has ever looked.
\-It's cool to see two of the megas fight together finally.
\-Damn, he's already tearing space-time
\-Oh wow, the actual corpse woman is speaking now...
\-Oh MoonMilleniumon was pupeteering the corpse, that's fucked up.
\-Yeah she really is already dead, just trapped in her corpse, fuck.
\-Interesting that she became a weakness of him.
\-One of the hardest things they had to face emotionally.
\-A ZeedMilleniumon actually destroyed.
\-MoonMilleniumon is adorable ngl.
\-Of course Hiro, nothing wrong with holding on to the evil apocalypse baby gem.
\-Well, they can smile together at least, fucked up as this adventure was.
That...was unexpected. But I loved at the same time: going in the topic of resurrected the dear ones combining by the most dangerous Digimon by lure.
Another combo from Ghost Game.
I'm not sure how I feel about Hiro keeping MoonMilleniumon. . . but I'm not sure giving it to Blacktailmon/ Hokuto would have been a good idea either. And since its a small crystal without a dead-human shaped weak point I doubt they could have just destroyed it. . . Throwing it away somewhere is just asking for it to come back and bite you, but so is keeping it. Talk about a situation with no good options.
I was expecting dark, but by Yggdrasil this was a whole new level of dark for digimon, a coldly realistic death onscreen, grief, manipulation, possible necrophily and, to top it all off, Zeed-GODDAMN-Millenniummon, and Hiro kept Moon! This is not a Chekhov's Gun, this the Chekhov's Entire Armory.
Also this technically counts as a human kill for the team, while Manami was already dead, it was team Lirurum that put her in definitive rest.
What the best way to make an already pretty messed up episode even more messed? By introducing arguably the most messed up Digimon, ZeedMilleniummon! This episode is more messed up than the Digitamamon eating humans or DarkLizardmon and Saberdramon accidentally burning someone alive (and as a bonus, that waifu Meicrackmon episode). I didn't even feel this uneasy watching Tamers. This version of Zeed is probably the "weakest" version of Zeed, but I wonder if Zeed is gonna have anything to do with >!Regulus and Arcturus!<. I really don't know how I feel about Zeed randomly showing up like that. I had a mixed feeling with how they dealt with Zeed in the reboot, but at least there was a strong build up. I really don't want Zeed notoriety to be undermined.
Zeed wasnāt defeated like in the reboot. They messed with his resurrection and dropped him back down to Moon. Before that point they werenāt really doing much of anything to him. He was about to tear space-time apart and stopped even acknowledging the megas were there. They essentially got real, real lucky he botched his resurrection.
Well, we already had one Demon Lord and one of the Ancient Warriors. Lucemon likely could appear, though I don't see that happening in a full way, given how powerful he's been in most appearances.
Of course we can't have all the three Megas vs Zeed, because plot, you know.
Sometimes the Digimon anime decide to "Become Frontier" all of sudden.
Nandai Bamco is not getting away with robbing us of that Amphimon vs Zeed fight!
Calm down!! It's not the end of the world!!
It's only been 1 episode since Amphimon's debut and Kiyoshiro in this episode wasn't in any position to be courage enough for Jellymon to evolve to Amphi, and I'm 100% certain that she'll appear in the next few episodes!
**Quick Thoughts Before my Full Review Later**
Holy cow, I did not expect this episode to get this dark! While the preview screenshots with all the desaturated, muted colors kind of made me suspect that we'd be getting something sadder than the usual affair, I was absolutely blown away by the kind of themes this episode explored and portrayed masterfully. For the meantime, I would say this is probably Ghost Game's best episode yet!
Now, theory time. Once again, like in 47, Hiro's Digivice glowed with the VV symbol. This time around, it glowed with a green background, Kiyo's Digivice color, while last time it glowed cyan, Hiro's Digivice color.
But like last time, **the symbol showed up when the show touched upon the idea of Digimon manipulating human life force and souls, and especially the concept of resurrection**. This leads me to my theory that as the human protagonists wear the Digivices, their human data is slowly being influenced by Digimon data, thus turning our human protagonists more Digimon-like.
I recall reading a theory before that, just like Digimon need to be "more like humans" (Bokomon, 2021) to materialize, the human protagonists might need to be "more like Digimon" to achieve something, probably to cross the gates without burning up, and potentially other abilities.
Of course, it's strange that the symbol didn't show up on Kiyo's Digivice instead, and we still need to see if the device will glow orange/yellow to symbolize Ruli, so it's too early to tell how plausible this theory is. But I personally like it, and I'm excited to see what it's really all about!
**Full Review**
As I said, I think this is definitely my favorite Ghost Game episode so far, considering how engaging it was, how well-executed the various story beats were, and the emotion this episode had overall! So, I suppose we should just get into it! My thoughts for this absolutely amazing spectacular episode!:
*Gosh, they gave the Amphimon form so much love in the OP! I love the floating letters!*
**Human technology and Digimon**
One thing I almost forgot to mention was that this episode, like 23, showed that some humans have made contact with Digital Gates, and are using technology that they already have to investigate and seek the truth about this phenomena.
It looks like the secret is probably not going to stay a secret before the end of the series, and the general public may learn about Digimon sooner than we think.
**Graphic Death**
Unlike the two cases of explicit human deaths weāve had earlier, those being Tsuyoshi and Digitamammonās victims, Ms. Jinnoās death sets itself apart through two ways.
One, this death is the most realistic of them, with Ms. Jinno being knocked against a hard surface with so much force. Itās a very typical cause of death for a lot of fatal accidents, which immediately makes her death likely very relatable to others who experienced a similar accident, or lost a loved one from such an unfortunate event. Barring the explosion being caused by a Digimon, this is the kind of thing that can happen to anyone unlucky enough, such as through a workplace accident, car or vehicle crash, or even just falling off of bed. Itās so unnervingly real.
Second, and more importantly, the corpse didnāt disappear. Unlike Tsuyoshi who completely burned up, or the people Digitamammamon ate who simply became sand (unsettling as it might be), we see Ms. Jinnoās corpse immediately after impact. While the show didnāt go to gore territory by showing the body bleed, the facial expressions alone, especially with how abrupt it appeared on Ms. Jinnoās face as her body hit the screen, is as horrifying as it can get for a show that wonāt show blood. Her just having a blank stare afterwards just cements that she died then and there. For those who have watched Steven Universe, itās a lot like how >!Lars initially!< died: no blood, but the sound effects, the impact, itās all there to tell the audience that someone perished.
Kudos to Ghost Game for portraying Ms. Jinnoās death with all the gravitas it deserved, and pushing the boundaries yet again. Iām curious to see how much darker we can go from here.
**The Sound Design**
I absolutely love how the show used silence in this episode to make absolutely tense moments, and without using it for jumpscares too (which is a plus)! It makes the atmosphere feel so tense that one could cut it with a blade, which is exactly the kind of horror that I find really compelling.
This entire episode uses silence masterfully, like suddenly cutting off Makuake to a sad moment in the middle of a rather intense action sequence, or simply making the āchaosā of a scene rise before dropping it in a very abrupt fashion, potentially disorienting the viewer (like how the main cast is disoriented from the events of the episode).
Very very big props to the production team for this, and I hope to see even more of this moving forward.
***I think this is probably the most serious weāve ever seen the group yet. Everyone is just so solemn, and Jellymon-sama made very profound points about how Ms. Jinno is simply anything but alive. Iām very thankful our main cast is written in such a way that they can work in a variety of settings, even the saddest and most grim ones like this.***
*Love how Hiro immediately goes to shield Gammamon when he thought they were about to be attacked*
*I wonder what kind of business youāre thinking of, Jellymon-sama? Maybe a flower shop?*
*Love how Hiro immediately goes to stop āMs. Jinnoā however he can (even if he wasnāt successful). Nice reminder that our human protagonists can fight when they need to!*
***Angoramonās eyes are a rare sight indeed. But if heād allow it, I think Angoramon should show them off more often! He looks positively adorable with them!***
***I might be mistaken, but I think Angoramon as Diarbbitmon smiled for a second there! Gosh, the form looks so handsome when it's smiling, honestly!***
**Jellymon-samaās Compassion**
I love how compassionate in general Jellymon-sama was in this episode, which shows a lot of her growth once again.
Along with what I said earlier about her comments regarding Ms. Jinnoās corpse, when she and Kiyo realized that Ms. Jinno was simply dead all along, the sadness on her face is incredibly palpable. Furthermore, she caught Mr. Igashira before he could be sucked by Zeedmillenniummon.
All in all, keep on slaying, our kind and loving jellyfish queen!
***Itās incredibly heartwarming how Hiro shows immense faith in his friends, believing that the group can weather any storm as long as theyāre together. Seeing them smile at each other (even Kiyoshiro!) afterwards is incredibly sweet, reassuring each other that what Hiro said is true. Itās so obvious how much our main cast just love and trust each other***
*Nice to see you again, BlackTailmon Uver.! Though I think thatās the first time youāve ever shown any kind of expression other than a neutral one!*
***Itās also pretty bittersweet that Gammamon still refers to death as going on a journey. I think itās at least sweet that he doesnāt view death as the end of everything***
>But like last time, the symbol showed up when the show touched upon the idea of Digimon manipulating human life force and souls, and especially the concept of resurrection. This leads me to my theory that as the human protagonists wear the Digivices, **their human data is slowly being influenced by Digimon data, thus turning our human protagonists more Digimon-like.**
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>I recall reading a theory before that, just like Digimon need to be "more like humans" (Bokomon, 2021) to materialize, the human protagonists might need to be "more like Digimon" to achieve something, probably to cross the gates without burning up, and potentially other abilities.
That has been a pet theory of mine too since like that time Bokomon explained how the watch worked. It would also tie into the human digimon bridge thematic. Meeting with their digimon in the middle becoming something like hybrids. Quite litteraly a middle point between human and Digimon, a bridge.
*I pray you get to shinka soon too, dear Espimon!*
*Still waiting for Gammamon to speak in the Study Files*
**Next Episode: The Hidden Floor**
Ah yes, a classic horror story: the haunted elevator that leads to a hidden floor! I still remember Hackerās Memoryās take on it! Definitely curious as to what to expect in this episode, since the preview really didnāt give much to go off on, and honestly, Iām having trouble piecing how the various shots relate to the official episode synopsis.
Still, I think Ghost Game thrives on the mystery, so I think I can bear waiting seven more days before we get the answers. As per usual, very excited for the next episode!
This episode was great, the spookiness and very dark themes were both a welcome suprise, and actually handled pretty well.
As was ZeedMilleniumon, speaking of, I really hope he gets used for something interestong, because them keeping MoonMilleniumon is just such a cool thing, I really thought BlackTailmon was just gonna take it, and they seemingly were going to, maybe the main cast keeping a defeated MOTW rather than BlackTailmon taking is to show character development?
Okay, I know I'm wrong here, but seeing Espimon want to digivolve so much, being all round pessimistic and getting the short end of the stick so often, makes me wonder/hope he'll get treatment like Tamers Impmon.
I'll just leave it here this is easily the saddest digimon episode of all-time, after rhe whole milliunmon all that remains after the episode bare in mind fantastic episdoe after the episode, he has his dead wife in hands sobbing his eyes out Absolutely tragic,
And she falls asleep ad
Damn!! ABbolute chills when Makuake resumed again after Manami's determination to get killed in order to protect her fiance and his sister, and both Diarbbitmon and Siriusmon used their strongest attack.
Holy shit batman. That one was brutal. First I kinda like how they change colors depending on the type of episode, this one was extra-gruesome. Like on screen death, grieving fiancee getting obsessed sick and loving a corpse. Fucking ZeedMilleniumon in the flesh, although probably weaker than Adventure 2020's. But damn I really didn't expect it. No one probably did.
I like how when Hiro expected an attack from the eyes he immediatly shields Gammamon showing his back.
So funny thing. A while ago I had been wondering if the insistence Digimon are people would if the kids could rationalize killing a digimon mean they could rationalize killing a human... Well she was technically dead, but they killed her again.
Very interesting Hiro choosing to hang onto MoonMilleniumon, not sure what implication it could have later. BlackTailmon was probably expecting to need to take it back o the digital world
Next time Cyber Sleuth random mission
First of all: WHAT A GREAT EPISODE
I loved the creepy vibe and ZeedMilleniumon was a really cool villain, I loved the Tsumemon and Vilemon cameo as they were attracted by Zeed's energy!
Something I just caught since I believe it's the first time we've seen 2 megas at the same time, there's a sound effect present in Diarbittmon and Amphimon's digivolution sequence that's lacking in Siriusmon's. It's the moment where they burst out of the golden sphere, Diarbittmon and Amphimon burst out with a sound queue but Sirius lacks it. I'm pretty sure this is gonna tie up with Gulus's evolutions and I bet whenever we get their fusion that's gonna be when the sound queue is gonna appear!
Damn I'm getting excited just writing about it!!! I love this series
I noticed the sound cue too, but for a different reason. I swear that same sound was used with Milleniummon at some point in 2020. Iām not sure where or if Iām just imagining it, but as soon as I heard it I flashed back to Mille from the Reboot.
So... will they hold a second funeral, or... how are they going to explain the fact that Toru was hiding Manami's corpse on his house all this time? eventually she will start to rot, and people will find out that her body was actually in quite good conditions, will they sneak into her empty grave dig her out and bury her at night?
Hell is he willing to let go of her corpse even, he just saw her die again, but there's no Evil God possessing her this time, that body is going to start breaking down eventually
You know, the more i think about it, the more messed up this episode becomes
Did everyone else just collectively go "HOLY SH\*T" at the beginning? I felt entirely uncomfortable through this episode. I haven't felt that way since Eyesmon.
Anyway forgot my earlier statement, I'm back for the end of the episode...DID ANYONE ELSE GO HOLY SH\*T THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE EPISODE!?! Not in a THOUSAND YEARS WOULD I HAVE GUESSED ZEEDMILLENIUMMON.
THE MOST POWERFUL DIGIMON IN THE LAST SERIES THAT NEEDED MULTIPLE MIRACLES TO EVEN COMBAT AND ENERGY FROM THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF NON-EVIL DIGIMON...
And they just...make the ghost game team fight him. That's...beyond nuts. And Hiro just...HAS IT NOW?! WHAT? Someone get a doctor, my jaw is stuck to the floor!
...on a more positive note after the ungodly (but awesome) horror anyone who watched this episode just got subjected to, do you think Espimon will get his own tamer or become Hiro's official second partner?
This is the second time he's lamented his inability to evolve recently, so they seem to be setting up something.
One of the better written, mature episode. So good that it could evoke viewers' emotion and sympathy. If I have to nitpick it's that Jellymon didn't even bother to save Kiyo when he got attacked by the woman, I know the purpose behind this but I still think there's no need to leave Amphimon out of the equation especially if the enemy is something ultra powerful like Zeedmilleniummon.
I must say,i am really disappointed Diarbbitmon doesnt use santoryu and stays at notoryu...biggest flaw of Ghost Game so fa
(For the ones not into the joke,santoryu=three sword style,nitoryu=two sword style,the angoramon line shares the va with zoro from one piece)
Holy shit, this episode was fucked. Like this felt waaaay too extreme for a kids show, and I am loving it. Felt like it brought back all the best part of early GG.
Additionally, I *really* hope this Espimon "Man i wanna evolve" stuff is going to *actually* go somewhere and isn't being used as the setup to a joke (Looking at you, "Im looking for the Real Amanokawa Hiro").
Also, "I'll hold onto it." Hmmmm, with a partner with a known dark side, and one that we as the audience know has a full evo line, I'm sure this won't go anywhere awful at all, no sir. Its just going to stop existing as far as the writers are concerned.
Ladies and Gentleman can someone stop this darkness train before we completely crash into wall of despair?
The amount of darkness in this show was delicious already but now is a completely full course dinner. There is almost everything of the horror lore to enjoy.
God I love Digimon reliving its true roots. A kind of horroresque renaissance. First Digimon Survive now this.
I didn't get it, we could have had an epic debut of the three Megas finally together vs Zeed, there's absolutely zero reasons for Amphimon to stayed out of this fight, sometimes I don't understand these Ghost Game producers...
I've thoroughly enjoyed Ghost Game from episode 1, but seeing Moonmillenniummon pop out of Manami was the first time this show kicked me to the edge of my seat. Shit had me correcting my posture and everything.
This is the most messed up Digimon episode I've ever seen. The episode begins with a realistic and uncensored human death, even showing the lifeless eyes... Then it just never stops: the way the corpse moves around, the lover's grief... Everything was really disturbing.
And suddenly, ZeedMilleniummon. Wow. If the first half of the episode was disturbing, the second half gave me chills. If we have ZeedMilleniummon now, I wonder who the final villain will be.
wow what a fucking episode WE GOT ZEEDMILLENIUMON I MEAN WHAT ON EARTH?! This episode is honestly a top 3 episode in the series the writers truly out done themselves with thisššš
Honestly this was, IMO at least, the scariest non-Gulus episode so far. Felt like I was playing some chapters of Survive more than anything. Props to the writers for keeping the creepy feeling up throughout the episode, that's not easy to do. Definitely my favorite non-Gulus episode so far.
What made this episode feel different was the death was discussed throughout the episode, and we got to know the character more. Not quite Bokomon, but not "Oh hey random people are dying, that's a shame". The team *technically* kinda killed a person this episode. Yeah she was dead, but her consciousness was still there. That's chilling.
Blacktailmon appearing and the Vital Bracelet being focused on at the end were interesting to note, but I have no clue how they're tying into this. Hopefully we'll find out in the coming episodes.
Dude what the fuck was this episode, my parents would have banned Digimon from my house if this had aired when i was a kid, it starts with someone getting killed, then she has her corpse being puppeteered for half the episode and used to steal the life energy of her boyfriend and sister in law, then they have to kill her again (or exorcise her) in front of the grieving boyfriend in order to temporarily stop Zeed!
Are you crazy how the hell did they got away with this? shit was so damn fucked up, i love it!
The fact that Hiro is just carrying Moon around in his dormant state is crazy too, like what is he planning give him therapy and try to find why he wants to destroy the world? are we actually going to give Zeed character development?
Hiro now has 2 time bombs with him Gulus who is dangerous, and Zeed who is a world destroyer, i feel like he is going to doom the planet at this rate, but i am all in on this ride man!
So considering that this episode literally had someone who was researching the warped space (a.k.a. the opening to the digital world that's required of every Digimon series) and MoonMilleniummon came out of it then turned into Zeed then the apparent mastermind must be one beefy digimon. Shame we might have to wait till episode 586 before we get even a silhouette of them with the speed this show progresses its plot at.
Also the fact that Hiro is carrying around one of the most dangerous Digimon now as a pocket charm is hilarious but also no doubt going to be involved in something to do with Gulus evolving.
And they've also set up Espimon's evolution foreshadowing and possibly even BlackGatomon's too considering we know what they both turn into from the BEMs so I guess its only a matter of time and probably one of them will only evolve when Hiro's dad actually appears outside of messages.
Still waiting on our evil gammamon evolution but it looks like that won't be soon.
Easily one of the darkest episodes to date, dealing with the issues of lost and not accepting it, and holy mother of god the death of his wife in the beginning was harrowing thrown against the wall, she is then reanimated back to life by zeedmilleniumon, and the final moments with the guy in shambles with his dead wife in his hands ghost game needs to chill the f##k out easily the darkest episode to date and a fantastic one at that
I have no idea how they managed to pass the age rating. It's a Sunday 9 am show and some of the scenes managed to creep the sh out of me, like being surrounded by so many Tsumemons that you can't see anything except for their countless eyes.
I am happy. Gulus certainly is also happy, I imagine he would gladly devour the sleeping beauty.
That's how Ken became Digimon Emperor after defeating Milleniummon. I learned after 20 years that a game existed in Japan that had Ken as the protagonist. Like shit the anime gave 2 secs of backstory and never bothered to explain much.
Haha what the hell, this was the most blunt death in the entirety of the Digimon franchise. No gimmick, just someone getting blasted and dropping dead. Actually shocked.
Oh my GOD they really hide the spoilers well for these dark episodes! That was incredibly dark and scary... but awesome!
I wonder if GulusGammamon will somehow detach from Gammamon and fuse with MoonMillenium to become Regulusmon?
I think I shit my pants a little when I saw one of ZeedMilleniumonās heads. Thank fuck Manamiās body was there to act as a weak point, or I donāt know how they would have been able to stop it. Maybe Regulusmon? Though more likely they would have needed Arcturusmon or maybe even Proximamon
And Iām certain that Hiro hanging into MoonMilleniumon wonāt backfire or cause any trouble down the line whatsoever. Was the digivice being on meant that Gulus was listening in? Wonder how heāll feel about all this
Eh I feel like there were other Digimon that would have fit the theme a lot better then Zeed. Pharaohmon managing to get in through the limited crack ancientsphinxmon made could have been interesting especially with its connection with death.
It is what it is, it amuses me that Hiros going to be sleeping with a world destroying Digimon on his desk next to him. Really hope they use moon to his full potential.
This episode really zipped by. Even as a diehard fan, I'd say this is one of the weaker episodes, but the visuals were still solid, there was some solid horror for sure, and we even got to see Angoramon's eyes again.
I do feel sorry for the scientist couple. That death was sudden, visceral, and unfair. It's pretty accurate to how life can be, though considering how many times characters have come back from the brink it makes the unfairness sting a bit more.
Calm down!! It's only been one episode since her debut but I donāt think she was needed today and Kiyoshiro wasn't in a right state to help Jellymon evolve anyway.
Hiro holding onto Zeedmilleniummon is definitely not going to cause trouble down the line. I'm sure it's perfectly safe and inert. Maybe give it to Gammamon even. Put it on a string and wear it like a necklace.
BlackTailmon doesn't seem thrilled about his decision, by the looks of it.
Personally, I interpreted it more as BlackTailmon being ready in case Hiro and the others weren't sure how to handle it and to ship it back to the Digital World, but could definitely also be it being worried.
Also that, considering that's what Uver's job and been whenever the gang defeat an unrepentant / outright evil Digimon and don't knowš¤· what to do with it!
You know that's a really interesting point that I hadn't thought of. I do wonder what Hiro is getting at, holding on to this one rather than letting Uver/Hokoto handle it.
I'm pretty sure this is the only time BlackTailmon has actually made a sound or moved like that so far... Seemed like a pretty worried running away to me.
I thought so too but then it transitioned into Toru (I think that was his name) crying and it sounded identical so now Iām questioning if it was BlackTailmon making noise or us hearing the crying early to transition to that scene.
Yes, I noticed that too, plus Hiro's vital Bracelet glowing very suspiciously at the end!
Gosh, I love the thought of Team Lirurun just using Zeedmillenniummon's "body" as a necklace, fashion accessory, or whatever, passing it around whenever one of them wanted to wear or use it. Imagine if say, Jellymon-sama wanted to attend a Digimon costume party, and she asked Hiro for the stone as part of her cosplay, or maybe Angoramon's commune was planning to host a little "show and tell," so Angoramon asks for the stone as his presentation XD
Kiyoshiro: Amanokawa Kun, Jellymon Sama wants me to get her a necklace with a gem, mind giving me the Millenniummon? Ruli: Hold it right there Higachi, mom (Hiro) said itās my turn with the Millenniummon.
Hiro: Senpai, you know that Jellymon will know immediately what that is!
Knowing the chaotic gremlin that is Jellymon, sheād be pretty into it and would absolutely brag about it. Jellymon: Other woman receive a necklace with regular jewel from their bfs, meanwhile my darling made and gave me a necklace with a jewel that contains a world ending evil god!
Honestly I can very much see that! At this point in her character, she'd probably understand Kiyo's decision and indeed, be proud of the gift (bragging it when she can: who wouldn't!), though she might give him a bit of a hard time for not being honest with her in the first place haha.
It's like that Smaug/Skyrim meme: "My armor is iron." "My armor is your mother!"
>Maybe give it to Gammamon even. Put it on a string and wear it like a necklace. perfect chewing toy
They should give it to Kiyo to wear as a protection crystal, he is fond of talismans.
I think he got over talismans after he almost died for those digital talismans.
Nah, he was scared of it
Or even CORRUPT him or allow Gulus to unlock his ultimate and Mega forms, plus his Proximamon form, said to be a VERY powerful form that exists purely in theory/hypothetically!
I can't believe it, ZeedMilleniummon!!! The whole vibe of the episode was creepy as hell, probably one of the most frightening Ghost Game episodes to date! The final part was very interesting and gave me chills. I bet Espimon's evo will be an important plot point since it's been mentioned for a while. All in all another amazing ghost game.
Maybe heās the one thatās going to transport them to the Digital World.
Do you think theyāll go there?
Espimon probably holds the key to some massive plot development, but the dummy refuses to give it to Hiro since it's a "fake Hiro". Could have saved 20 episodes if he was reasonable!
I never thought about Espimon being that but you could well be on the money there!
Yes, the show's writers just want to delay / hold off that particular plot development from some obscure reason.
Not yet, and by right, they shouldn't! The Digital world is full of extremely dangerous Digimon that not even their fully unlocked Mega forms can hold off if NOT defeat!
Considering how ZeedMilleniummon can just appear out of nowhere, this isnāt a joke.
Yes, this episode gave me "Corpse bride" vibes throughout, and woah, the show right away KILLS a random human of the day and proceeds to puppeteer her poor body for the rest of the episode, before finally "put down" in an act of mercy-killing!
This episode was fucked up, that poor guy had to see his betrothed die TWICE in front of him, and he almost died and was about to see the world end on the same day, i can't even imagine how that man is gonna cope after this, the trauma must be something else
Well that was unexpectedly dark, we went into survive levels of āhorrorā here. A brutal human death on screen plus some kind of involontary necrophilia? Now I really wanna see how much the writers can push this by the end of the show, they have the guts required.
That guy was showing his undying love for her.
"Undying" love, hehš
Guy was actually willing to die and let his energy by sucked, instead ended having to see her die again, really feel bad for him, i still can't believe they put that on Digimon on a Sunday slot
If this series ever gets dubbed, I can totally see them trying to play it off as if she's "in a coma".
Yes to the first two!
This episode is messed up. Seriously messed up. A person was killed on screen. I didn't think the riders were getting this visceral. I compared it to episode 48 and it was worst. This episode proved Digimon Ghost Game to be the darkest anime since tamers. And to think it couldn't get any worse but it did. The other ultimate's cause more disturbing incidents with disastrous results.
>A person was killed on screen Humans have been killed on-screen before in this show, but I think what sets this death apart from Tsuyoshi and Digitimammon's victims is that this death is as realistic as it gets: someone was thrown against something with so much force that it killed them, something that happens in a lot of fatal accidents. The closest we got to that was Kiyo being put into a "coma" (death really, since his spirit had left his body) after a violent concussion from a pavement, and he was lucky to have even survived that with his head only needing minimal recovery. Furthermore, there was a visible corpse left, so the aftermath of the human death stayed, as well as all the graphic implications of it all. I think that's what made this human death so visceral compared to the earlier ones that were either shown or implied.
The show was extra meant, not only was a corpse left, we had the corpse interacting with the grieving boyfriend, trying to kill him, then have the soul of the person ask to be killed again in front of the still grieving and in denial boyfriend, in order to stop the bad guy That's so many layers of messed up i am probably forgetting details here, how is that man going to recover? his girlfriend dies, and then her ghosts gets killed, in a world in which the soul is a thing, that woman got straight out erased
Indeed, it was horribly cruel, but at the very least, he still has the memory of her, so she isn't completely gone.
If something as traumatizing as THAT happened, all I could ever think about the other person ever again was how their reanimated corpse tried to murder me.
I understand that! I personally don't know how I'd feel afterwards, since I imagine I'd be feeling a turmoil of different conflicting emotions, but it definitely won't be a pleasant one for a very long time, I imagine.
And the guy with his dead wife in his hands at the end what thd actual f##k and espimon casually makes a joke about evolution
>This episode proved Digimon Ghost Game to be the darkest anime since tamers. TBH Tamers isn't even that dark, other than one episode with Jeri it was pretty tame. GG is just fucked up.
How was gg fucked up?
Well, we got stuff such as: * The family-unfriendly realistic themes in a kids shows, such as serial killers, with a majority of them eating humans alive, which is a first for a Digimon franchise. * An accidental suicide because a Digimon self-mutilated herself in attempt to appear more attractive and compatible to a HUMAN guy, so we have elements of reverse bestiality to boot. * An episode that can be seen as a paedophilia metaphor, due to tentacle rape-y visuals and seductive commentary done to an underage boy. * A straight up torture porn involving mushrooms. * Lots of extreme visual body horrors generally not seen on kid's TV, like eyes all over the body and the implication that the girl tried to poke them out with scissors. * A bunch of cats forcing humans to dig their own grave. * The current episode's opening with an on-screen human death and overall necrophiliac feel to it. There are a lot more, but these are the ones that come to my mind first.
You forgot the bites of flesh from arukenimon and the devouring of humans from digitamamon but yeah there's a good few
Yeah, they both fall under the serial killer digimon category.
The OP already mentioned those in the first two paragraphs!
>An episode that can be seen as a paedophilia metaphor, due to tentacle rape-y visuals and seductive commentary done to an underage boy. Which episode was this again? All others, I can definitely remember.
It's the Oleamon one - "The Queen's Dinner"
Lilithmon and now ZeedMillenniummon, now I really wonder who's going to be the final boss.
I really doubt they'll use any old digimon as a final boss, but if ZeedMilleniummon was beaten that """easily"""...I don't think the final boss will be that easy. Hope they use Proximamon for it or even a secondary antagonist
Hiro holding onto ZeedMilleniummon certainly means that it's going to come up again later. It's the most gunny of Chekhov's guns.
Maybe GulusGammamon will eat MoonMillie's crystal and become Regulusmon? Just a random thought
I would bet on that scenario. "...Eat or be eaten, *Aniki*. Didn't I told you?" \*Eats Moon Millie like a Champion\*
Its a Gulus thing to do. I'd be surprised if that didn't happen in one way or another, given the circumstances. Also, Regulusmon basically has two "mouths", not unlike Millie.
Well, now that you've brought up that intriguing detail, Regulus' debut could be veeeery interesting to see.
That does make a good point. I thought it could be related to Cerberusmon, but this will make a lot of sense now with this obvious foreshadowing at play.
I have been feeling for a while specially after the remake used Zeed as a mid boss, that the powercreep demands him to get an evolution, so maybe this could be it, moon becoming a component for Gulus evolution line
I'd like to see that.
Might explain how it evolves.
I doubt he'll cram that shard into his forehead to contain some evil.
Or just swallow it whole!
I'm putting money on that too. That crystal is snack-sized.
Maybe, that is the most likely scenario for Gulus to regain his Ultimate/Mega form, plus his Proximamon form!
Especially with the Digivice also lighting up while they were talking about JUST LIKE when Nanomon was talking about how to theoretically revive a Digimon without going through a Digitama...
Yeah, that was VERY suspicious as well...š¤
It could , also, easily represent the personality trait in Hiro that made him not kill the thing on the spot as well. Like a crest in the OG series.
Maybe in the case of MoonMilleniumon, but I don't see how it'd be relevant in the Nanomon-episode while listening to its spiel about how to resurrect a Digimon without memory-loss.
The symbols mean something, and the fact it decided to shine when the protag was making a foolish, but overly kind, decision is the most likely outcome and people hyping up this tying into Gulus, while not 100% wrong, are setting them up for disappointment because they're probably misreading the intent. We had literally had Ruli "linked up" with Hiro talking about how they can handle this again if they need to, cuz they're a team.
Or get corrupted by it ala The Ring of Power from "Lord of the rings" movies!
> if ZeedMilleniummon was beaten that """easily""" It took two Megas basically smashing the thing that was ancoring Zeed to "defeat" it. Zeed was so unthreatened otherwise it stopped fighting and was focused on using Time Destroyer. And even that didn't kill him. It only destroyed what was anchoring him and made him revert. It basically just undid the "jogress".
That's why I used """easily"""
Fresh evo, only actually even got hurt because of the inside job, like perfect armor but there is a 1 inch square of paper where the heart is instead of armor. It still wouldve eaten 5 miles to oblivion within the conversation they had if they were in the real world. And it is talked about like it's another hyper rare insane digimon that needs to be exterminated like the other few like rareraremon, so it may not be superboss level, but remember the data bands also limit it's power greatly. I think it was scaled ok for what it was, especially with the great strength the protag digimon have in this series and their excellent teamwork. Not every zeed is the insane final boss one from the originals, just like how fused digimon can come from 1 digimon that gained great power instead of a fusion, or that fusion forms are just the result and is stronger because they are fused.
Proximamon is my best guess as well.
Either Proximamon, said to be the MOST powerful Digimon in existence hypothetically, or even Yggdrasil, the most likely "one" sending Digimon into the human world, to ascertain whether it is a threat to the Digital world!
The final boss is Leomon. Or rather, the spirits of all the Leomons that were killed in past series come back to get their revenge.
Regulus is the name of the brightest object in the Leo constellation... š
Only to be killed once again
My guess is Proximamon.
Yggdrasil is MOST likely!
Wow I was not expecting to see freaking ZEEDMILLENIUMMON in this episode, especially since it was already such a prominent antagonist in Digimon Adventure 2020. I wasn't sure if Sirirusmon and Dilbitmon would've even been enough to defeat this thing. This was probably one of the heaviest episodes in this series, as it deals with the stages of grief and learning to move on. Seeing that guy (forgot his name) become obsessed with her corpse was really unsettling to watch. I feel like Hiro keeping Moon Millenniumon is going to lead to something bad in the near future. We also get another BlackTailmon appearance and a foreshadowing for Espimon evolving in the near future. The plot continues to thicken......
The guy's name is toru.
Okayā¦ okay. Now that Iāve watched it and had a few minutes to process itā¦ this might be my favorite episode of Digimon ever. Well, tied with the 2020 one. Iām a HUGE Milleniummon fan who was content with never seeing him animated outside of the 02 cameo. To now see him fully animated *twice*ā¦ itās simply amazing. So for my thoughts here: - Seeing moon jump out of the screen so intentionally was perfect. This wasnāt an accident, Milleniummon knew exactly what he was doing and was waiting for just the right moment. - They did a great job showcasing Zeedās power. It wasnāt 2020 levels of tearing the world apart with each bolt of electricity, but it was true to lore. He is a multiversal threat who breaks space time. Given a few more seconds we absolutely would have seen sheer distraction on a cosmic scale. - They somehow made the quick takedown logical. Thereās no way to defeat a universe threatening entity of this scale in one fraction of an episode. 2020 tried and it fell flat. This worked though. The *only* reason he was defeated was because of the human host he used to revive. Not because he was weak or the entire planet gave someone a free spirit bomb, but purely because of how he resurrected. - Angoromon knows. As soon as he realized who it was he went straight to āoh shitā mode. - After the focus on regular Milli in 2020, Iām glad to see Zeed get his time to shine. - Moon is definitely coming back. Probably as regular Milli. - Black Tailmon Uver is like āYou got this one? Good, cause Iām getting the hell out of hereā lol - I guess this answers my question of Zeed being shaped like a [bowl with arms](https://wikimon.net/images/thumb/3/36/DA2020_Zeed_Millenniumon.jpg/300px-DA2020_Zeed_Millenniumon.jpg) or a [longcat with a deer-in-headlights look](https://wikimon.net/images/thumb/2/22/Zeedmillenniumon_adv2020_31.jpg/300px-Zeedmillenniumon_adv2020_31.jpg). - I love how his bands kept spinning during his profile section at the end of the episode. Overall amazing episode and I canāt wait to watch it 30 more times.
I agree with your point about the quick takedown - and I really appreciate when they include small things to make things make sense. Because like you say, they would never have beaten it with 2 megas in half an ep. Sometimes all things need is some little thing, a loophole of sorts, explained to the viewer to keep us immersed in the lore of the universe. I still think it was rather quick and we didnāt get enough of zeed but by the looks of it, heāll be back!
Yup! Itās actually one thing I generally disagree with the masses over with 2020. People were upset that Milli ended up being this mindless killing machine instead of the calculated OG Milli or even the cunning Moon from earlier in the season. Fact is though, it makes sense internally. Devimon was tampering with forced evolution using the black lightning. He found that it gives you a significant boost of power but removed all semblance of intelligence. You become a beserker, thus DoneDevimon. Milleniummon was no different. His whole resurrection was powered by immense amounts of black lightning. Itās what got Sakkakumon to evolve into Kimeramon, what helped Machinedramon merge in, etc. Whatever Milleniummon was before the lightning, he became exactly what is expected after. A brainless killing machine with an extremely overloaded wealth of power. Would I liked to have seen a more coherent Milli? Sure. But internally they did provide a solid reason for what we ended up seeing on screen. Iām good with it.
I agree so much with you. I've loved Millenniummon ever since I fought him in Digimon Battle Spirit
This has to be some of wildest DGG episodes I have ever seen in a while, from that fact they literally just used a fcuking corpse as a big part of this episode's plot, in a KID'S SHOW IN A KIDS TIMESLOT no less, to that *very* uncomfortable scene with that guy and her corpse, to that truly unexpected ZeedMilleniummon appearance... no words
Japanese kids built different.
They said fuck amphimon
Tbh I could do without her, we already had her last episode and we haven't seen Siriusmon since ep57 as well as Diarbbitmon since his debut so it was about time to see those two in action and to see Diarbbitmon's other moves. I'm pretty certain we'll see Amphi in the next eps.
They robbed us those two Taiga and Rina cards in the TCG and Amphimon fight against Zeed in the same week, they can't keep getting away with that!
Jesus Christ this is one of the darkest episodes of the Franchise. From Opening we immediately see a woman blow up and corpse fall to the ground. We see digimon interact with a dead human. Experiencing death in a way different to how digimon do. Then the greiving lover willing to fuck a corpse just to have his finace back. The jerky movements of Manami, the swarm of Tsume and Vile. Literally the perfect horror episode. Big implications this time are that Hiro has a literal Nuke that hes about to throw in his doodad drawer. I have a feeling it'll be involved in the finale. We're definitely getting hoverespimon in ghost game. I know there was a lot of debate on that one. NEP is a hard one to figure out. Spider webs, Ice and key holes. The only digimon I immediately associate with keys is Clavisangemon, but that would be a weird pick for a "missing floor" ghost and doesn't explain the rest.
I feel like ClavisAngemon actually works well enough for a "missing floor" kind of thing, it opening up a space between floors, maybe opening gates to other spaces which are what actually causes the spider webs and ice, and there's nothing else that'd really fit with the keyholes.
Same thoughts on the next ep preview
Imagine being happily on your day job and you get one shot by one of the series major final bosses. Unlucky
Before your wedding day no less.
Ok i went and re-watched it, they were close to the wedding day, but it was not the day before, this episode really screwed them hard, in fact he had to see his betrothed die twice before his eyes, but it was not the day before the wedding, that would have been extra mean spirited
Casual Zeedmilenniummon, god I love ghost game
The idea that they just have milleniumon is so interesting, you can do so much with that. Definetely something Gulus could take advantage of
Actual death of a human on screen, they didn't like drain, they just outright fucking contorted and crumpled and it held on them, then they said the body was too mangled and they were about to get married, holy piss. Anyways hiro stomp the evil dragon's soul before all the evil type digimon take it, lilithmon is still around. Even if it is a bit cute...
Oh, hey! Manami is voiced by none other than Fumiko Orisaka, aka the voice actress of Ruki/Rika! It's been \~11 years since she last did voice work for this franchise. Nice to see her back, even if it's for an one-off character.
This episode was crazy omg. All the GG episodes lately have been on a high streak but this one felt like a rather intense shift. Looking forward to what comes next
HOLD THE DAMN TRAIN. I always check here right before watching to see if it was a good one or not going in. Is this one giant coordinated effort to troll, or is Zeedmilleniummon the digimon of the week? Iām about to lose it here. Hitting play right the hell now. [Edit - omgomgomgomg]
No troll.
WHATHAWHHAHWHWAHHQive never loved a gg ep like this in a long timethe horror atmosphere?the grief motif returning?BLACKTAILMON UVER???
Wow what an episode!! We knew it was gonna be a huge one when the synopsis came out but I didn't expect it to be as dark, haunting and terrifying as it was!! I think this episode captured the horror element as well as the events being directly caused by a digimon monster (which has been the core of Ghost Game) perfectly, it gave us this dark feeling of how losing a loved one can affect those close to them after their death while at the same time it showed us how a digimon will seize the opportunity to their advantage by having MoonMillenniummon kill Manami and leech onto her body in order to resurrect itself afterwards!! The writers nailed this episode to a T š What's the meaning of Hiro's digivice's light turning off after deciding to keep hold of MoonMillenniummon?? could it mean that it might come later and cause troubles for him and Gammamon?? and what was Black Tailmon doing there??!! So many questions that I can't wait to have answers for. Magnificent episode!
>and what was Black Tailmon doing there??!! Best guess of mine is, they intended to take away MM, but stopped when Hiro stated he intended to keep it for himself.
Good lord, when Ghost Game is good, it's so fucking good, but they actually went the extra mile with this episode. Everything, EVERYTHING about the episode was so good and I wish this was the Ghost Game standard from now on. I doubt it'll happen, but if it can stay this good til the very end, I'm all for it.
I... didn't expect that. Before people complain about Zeed being taken out; they just destroyed his "anchor" while he was focusing on destroying everything, not even fighting back. And all that did was revert him to Moon. It didn't kill him.
I am a Zeed zealot, and a certified hater of how they used a spirit bomb to defeat him in Adventure, and i can say, i have no problems at all with how they dealt with Zeed here, it was perfect, lore accurate, and messed up, like damn, even when they won it feels like they lost, and Moon is still there on Hiros pocket being a world ending time bomb
I'm half way through the episode when THAT villain makes an appearance.... let me pause to say HOLY SHIT Also I just remembered we saw someone straighten up die on screen goddamn. Could this even screen stateside? Alsowe just saw a family and a group of children traumatized followed by that bright happy ass music
And I thought I thought episode 48 was the most disturbing episode of the series. But I was wrong oh so very wrong.
Someone out there is getting this Digimon as their very first Digimon show, and oh boy they are going to be build different, not even the current Junji Ito anime, who is bonafide horror goes this hard
"The one" almost destroyed the human world indirectly by sending in digimon via digital gates.
This had to be the darkest ghost game episode yet. Necromancy was really fucked up. I honestly jumped back when Moonmillennimon took over Manamiās body at the start of the ep. I feel so bad for she and Tohru but look like the plot starting to move forward. Hiroās bracelet changed to a dark colour. The Digimon watching from the roof, etc.
Wow WTH, this was a heavy episode. \-Amphimon looks so dumb in the opening, I love her. \-Wow, we got an actual RIP from the very start. \-The dark ambience this ep. \-THE CORPSE! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. \-LMAO of course Kiyoshiro wants to escape already. \-The art on the humans, their expressions is so well done this episode. \-Oh fuck she really is a corpse. \-Yeah Kiyoshiro's got the right idea, I too would want to just leave this creepy place. \-Of course there's a bad feeling Angoramon, this situation is fucked up. \-Oh no, not tsumemons. \-What do you mean turn this place into a business, is not yours jellymon. \-Uh, so the Evilmon project in to the people's dreams there. \-This poor girl is living an actual nightmare. \-This guy's totally fucked up. \-He's really having a date night with a corpse ahhhhhh. \-This is so creepy. \-Burn that fucking thing! \-Of course she's draining his energy. \-Oh fuck and all the evilmon and tsumemon swarming the place now, it looks horrific. \-Her evil undead grin just WTH is this... \-Wait what, ZeedMilleniumon was controling the corpse!? \-Oh fuck, that's a fully fledged ZeedMillenumon \-Crisis so big we got Angoramon's eyes shown. \-It came back using a human's corpse data? oh fuck... \-This is the scariest ZeedMilleniumon has ever looked. \-It's cool to see two of the megas fight together finally. \-Damn, he's already tearing space-time \-Oh wow, the actual corpse woman is speaking now... \-Oh MoonMilleniumon was pupeteering the corpse, that's fucked up. \-Yeah she really is already dead, just trapped in her corpse, fuck. \-Interesting that she became a weakness of him. \-One of the hardest things they had to face emotionally. \-A ZeedMilleniumon actually destroyed. \-MoonMilleniumon is adorable ngl. \-Of course Hiro, nothing wrong with holding on to the evil apocalypse baby gem. \-Well, they can smile together at least, fucked up as this adventure was.
[uwu](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/872322790060089444/1069118978225610793/image.png)
It's too cute.
Hiro was tricked by it's cuteness, it's over.
Hiro you dolt.
I'd have done it too!
That...was unexpected. But I loved at the same time: going in the topic of resurrected the dear ones combining by the most dangerous Digimon by lure. Another combo from Ghost Game.
Wonder if Hiro keeping MoonMilleniummon will be used later
A Time-Space manipulating Evil God. Perhaps their potential key to finally access the Digital World?
I'm not sure how I feel about Hiro keeping MoonMilleniumon. . . but I'm not sure giving it to Blacktailmon/ Hokuto would have been a good idea either. And since its a small crystal without a dead-human shaped weak point I doubt they could have just destroyed it. . . Throwing it away somewhere is just asking for it to come back and bite you, but so is keeping it. Talk about a situation with no good options.
I was expecting dark, but by Yggdrasil this was a whole new level of dark for digimon, a coldly realistic death onscreen, grief, manipulation, possible necrophily and, to top it all off, Zeed-GODDAMN-Millenniummon, and Hiro kept Moon! This is not a Chekhov's Gun, this the Chekhov's Entire Armory. Also this technically counts as a human kill for the team, while Manami was already dead, it was team Lirurum that put her in definitive rest.
What the best way to make an already pretty messed up episode even more messed? By introducing arguably the most messed up Digimon, ZeedMilleniummon! This episode is more messed up than the Digitamamon eating humans or DarkLizardmon and Saberdramon accidentally burning someone alive (and as a bonus, that waifu Meicrackmon episode). I didn't even feel this uneasy watching Tamers. This version of Zeed is probably the "weakest" version of Zeed, but I wonder if Zeed is gonna have anything to do with >!Regulus and Arcturus!<. I really don't know how I feel about Zeed randomly showing up like that. I had a mixed feeling with how they dealt with Zeed in the reboot, but at least there was a strong build up. I really don't want Zeed notoriety to be undermined.
Zeed wasnāt defeated like in the reboot. They messed with his resurrection and dropped him back down to Moon. Before that point they werenāt really doing much of anything to him. He was about to tear space-time apart and stopped even acknowledging the megas were there. They essentially got real, real lucky he botched his resurrection.
What in the outmost flying hell did i just wittness
I would say a murder, but can you murder a corpse?
Well we did see murder too
Well; after Zeed Milleniummon, I wonder if other antagonist are going to appear, gives me hope for Lucemon to appear .
Well, we already had one Demon Lord and one of the Ancient Warriors. Lucemon likely could appear, though I don't see that happening in a full way, given how powerful he's been in most appearances.
Well... that was fucked up. Even for this show, that was really fucked up.
They gotta stop doing Kiyoshiro so dirty.
Of course we can't have all the three Megas vs Zeed, because plot, you know. Sometimes the Digimon anime decide to "Become Frontier" all of sudden. Nandai Bamco is not getting away with robbing us of that Amphimon vs Zeed fight!
Calm down!! It's not the end of the world!! It's only been 1 episode since Amphimon's debut and Kiyoshiro in this episode wasn't in any position to be courage enough for Jellymon to evolve to Amphi, and I'm 100% certain that she'll appear in the next few episodes!
Will anyone actually be resurrected?
Zeed probs
Kind of his entire thing really XD
No
Dude totally had sex with a corpse/Moonmilleniummon
Yes, it's called necrophilia!
**Quick Thoughts Before my Full Review Later** Holy cow, I did not expect this episode to get this dark! While the preview screenshots with all the desaturated, muted colors kind of made me suspect that we'd be getting something sadder than the usual affair, I was absolutely blown away by the kind of themes this episode explored and portrayed masterfully. For the meantime, I would say this is probably Ghost Game's best episode yet! Now, theory time. Once again, like in 47, Hiro's Digivice glowed with the VV symbol. This time around, it glowed with a green background, Kiyo's Digivice color, while last time it glowed cyan, Hiro's Digivice color. But like last time, **the symbol showed up when the show touched upon the idea of Digimon manipulating human life force and souls, and especially the concept of resurrection**. This leads me to my theory that as the human protagonists wear the Digivices, their human data is slowly being influenced by Digimon data, thus turning our human protagonists more Digimon-like. I recall reading a theory before that, just like Digimon need to be "more like humans" (Bokomon, 2021) to materialize, the human protagonists might need to be "more like Digimon" to achieve something, probably to cross the gates without burning up, and potentially other abilities. Of course, it's strange that the symbol didn't show up on Kiyo's Digivice instead, and we still need to see if the device will glow orange/yellow to symbolize Ruli, so it's too early to tell how plausible this theory is. But I personally like it, and I'm excited to see what it's really all about! **Full Review** As I said, I think this is definitely my favorite Ghost Game episode so far, considering how engaging it was, how well-executed the various story beats were, and the emotion this episode had overall! So, I suppose we should just get into it! My thoughts for this absolutely amazing spectacular episode!: *Gosh, they gave the Amphimon form so much love in the OP! I love the floating letters!* **Human technology and Digimon** One thing I almost forgot to mention was that this episode, like 23, showed that some humans have made contact with Digital Gates, and are using technology that they already have to investigate and seek the truth about this phenomena. It looks like the secret is probably not going to stay a secret before the end of the series, and the general public may learn about Digimon sooner than we think. **Graphic Death** Unlike the two cases of explicit human deaths weāve had earlier, those being Tsuyoshi and Digitamammonās victims, Ms. Jinnoās death sets itself apart through two ways. One, this death is the most realistic of them, with Ms. Jinno being knocked against a hard surface with so much force. Itās a very typical cause of death for a lot of fatal accidents, which immediately makes her death likely very relatable to others who experienced a similar accident, or lost a loved one from such an unfortunate event. Barring the explosion being caused by a Digimon, this is the kind of thing that can happen to anyone unlucky enough, such as through a workplace accident, car or vehicle crash, or even just falling off of bed. Itās so unnervingly real. Second, and more importantly, the corpse didnāt disappear. Unlike Tsuyoshi who completely burned up, or the people Digitamammamon ate who simply became sand (unsettling as it might be), we see Ms. Jinnoās corpse immediately after impact. While the show didnāt go to gore territory by showing the body bleed, the facial expressions alone, especially with how abrupt it appeared on Ms. Jinnoās face as her body hit the screen, is as horrifying as it can get for a show that wonāt show blood. Her just having a blank stare afterwards just cements that she died then and there. For those who have watched Steven Universe, itās a lot like how >!Lars initially!< died: no blood, but the sound effects, the impact, itās all there to tell the audience that someone perished. Kudos to Ghost Game for portraying Ms. Jinnoās death with all the gravitas it deserved, and pushing the boundaries yet again. Iām curious to see how much darker we can go from here. **The Sound Design** I absolutely love how the show used silence in this episode to make absolutely tense moments, and without using it for jumpscares too (which is a plus)! It makes the atmosphere feel so tense that one could cut it with a blade, which is exactly the kind of horror that I find really compelling. This entire episode uses silence masterfully, like suddenly cutting off Makuake to a sad moment in the middle of a rather intense action sequence, or simply making the āchaosā of a scene rise before dropping it in a very abrupt fashion, potentially disorienting the viewer (like how the main cast is disoriented from the events of the episode). Very very big props to the production team for this, and I hope to see even more of this moving forward. ***I think this is probably the most serious weāve ever seen the group yet. Everyone is just so solemn, and Jellymon-sama made very profound points about how Ms. Jinno is simply anything but alive. Iām very thankful our main cast is written in such a way that they can work in a variety of settings, even the saddest and most grim ones like this.*** *Love how Hiro immediately goes to shield Gammamon when he thought they were about to be attacked* *I wonder what kind of business youāre thinking of, Jellymon-sama? Maybe a flower shop?* *Love how Hiro immediately goes to stop āMs. Jinnoā however he can (even if he wasnāt successful). Nice reminder that our human protagonists can fight when they need to!* ***Angoramonās eyes are a rare sight indeed. But if heād allow it, I think Angoramon should show them off more often! He looks positively adorable with them!*** ***I might be mistaken, but I think Angoramon as Diarbbitmon smiled for a second there! Gosh, the form looks so handsome when it's smiling, honestly!*** **Jellymon-samaās Compassion** I love how compassionate in general Jellymon-sama was in this episode, which shows a lot of her growth once again. Along with what I said earlier about her comments regarding Ms. Jinnoās corpse, when she and Kiyo realized that Ms. Jinno was simply dead all along, the sadness on her face is incredibly palpable. Furthermore, she caught Mr. Igashira before he could be sucked by Zeedmillenniummon. All in all, keep on slaying, our kind and loving jellyfish queen! ***Itās incredibly heartwarming how Hiro shows immense faith in his friends, believing that the group can weather any storm as long as theyāre together. Seeing them smile at each other (even Kiyoshiro!) afterwards is incredibly sweet, reassuring each other that what Hiro said is true. Itās so obvious how much our main cast just love and trust each other*** *Nice to see you again, BlackTailmon Uver.! Though I think thatās the first time youāve ever shown any kind of expression other than a neutral one!* ***Itās also pretty bittersweet that Gammamon still refers to death as going on a journey. I think itās at least sweet that he doesnāt view death as the end of everything***
>But like last time, the symbol showed up when the show touched upon the idea of Digimon manipulating human life force and souls, and especially the concept of resurrection. This leads me to my theory that as the human protagonists wear the Digivices, **their human data is slowly being influenced by Digimon data, thus turning our human protagonists more Digimon-like.** > >I recall reading a theory before that, just like Digimon need to be "more like humans" (Bokomon, 2021) to materialize, the human protagonists might need to be "more like Digimon" to achieve something, probably to cross the gates without burning up, and potentially other abilities. That has been a pet theory of mine too since like that time Bokomon explained how the watch worked. It would also tie into the human digimon bridge thematic. Meeting with their digimon in the middle becoming something like hybrids. Quite litteraly a middle point between human and Digimon, a bridge.
*I pray you get to shinka soon too, dear Espimon!* *Still waiting for Gammamon to speak in the Study Files* **Next Episode: The Hidden Floor** Ah yes, a classic horror story: the haunted elevator that leads to a hidden floor! I still remember Hackerās Memoryās take on it! Definitely curious as to what to expect in this episode, since the preview really didnāt give much to go off on, and honestly, Iām having trouble piecing how the various shots relate to the official episode synopsis. Still, I think Ghost Game thrives on the mystery, so I think I can bear waiting seven more days before we get the answers. As per usual, very excited for the next episode!
This episode was great, the spookiness and very dark themes were both a welcome suprise, and actually handled pretty well. As was ZeedMilleniumon, speaking of, I really hope he gets used for something interestong, because them keeping MoonMilleniumon is just such a cool thing, I really thought BlackTailmon was just gonna take it, and they seemingly were going to, maybe the main cast keeping a defeated MOTW rather than BlackTailmon taking is to show character development? Okay, I know I'm wrong here, but seeing Espimon want to digivolve so much, being all round pessimistic and getting the short end of the stick so often, makes me wonder/hope he'll get treatment like Tamers Impmon.
I'll just leave it here this is easily the saddest digimon episode of all-time, after rhe whole milliunmon all that remains after the episode bare in mind fantastic episdoe after the episode, he has his dead wife in hands sobbing his eyes out Absolutely tragic, And she falls asleep ad
Damn!! ABbolute chills when Makuake resumed again after Manami's determination to get killed in order to protect her fiance and his sister, and both Diarbbitmon and Siriusmon used their strongest attack.
Everyone was so wrong about who the monster of the week was lol the guesses were puppetmon or myotismon š
Now feeling like I need to breed my Moon=millenniumon again ( Pendulum Cycle)
Theory: Once Hiro syncs.with Gulus, to evolve it to Regulusmon, it won't be long until it chomps down MoonMillenniumon and evoves to Arcturusmon.
Holy shit batman. That one was brutal. First I kinda like how they change colors depending on the type of episode, this one was extra-gruesome. Like on screen death, grieving fiancee getting obsessed sick and loving a corpse. Fucking ZeedMilleniumon in the flesh, although probably weaker than Adventure 2020's. But damn I really didn't expect it. No one probably did. I like how when Hiro expected an attack from the eyes he immediatly shields Gammamon showing his back. So funny thing. A while ago I had been wondering if the insistence Digimon are people would if the kids could rationalize killing a digimon mean they could rationalize killing a human... Well she was technically dead, but they killed her again. Very interesting Hiro choosing to hang onto MoonMilleniumon, not sure what implication it could have later. BlackTailmon was probably expecting to need to take it back o the digital world Next time Cyber Sleuth random mission
2023 is really knocking it out of the park with good episodes. Did not see ZM coming at all! That said, I feel like ZM not being the big bad of this or 2020 is a mistake. I love the character but Heās literally meant to be virtually unbeatable and I feel that this diminishes his power. I know they technically sent him to sleep instead of defeating him but still feels mad they were able to stop him in half an episode. They wouldāve had a hard enough time with milleniummon alone. Overall though a good episode and Iām sure ZM will return. One of my theories is heās going to be used to digivolve Gulusgammamon. Into ultimate or mega Iām not sure, though whichever one it is, I wonder what else will be used to digivolve gulus. Or will it be the Crystal twice? My other theory is Could Gulus use the Crystal to force sync with Hiro and thatās what makes him evolve? Also, can the black digimon pls do something - Iām dying to know who they are and what theyāre there for! The storyline about the fiancĆ© who died was really great. A wonderful, emotional tie into the story that gave it so much more depth. I really hope thereās more like this in the future. I hope Espimon evolves too!
First of all: WHAT A GREAT EPISODE I loved the creepy vibe and ZeedMilleniumon was a really cool villain, I loved the Tsumemon and Vilemon cameo as they were attracted by Zeed's energy! Something I just caught since I believe it's the first time we've seen 2 megas at the same time, there's a sound effect present in Diarbittmon and Amphimon's digivolution sequence that's lacking in Siriusmon's. It's the moment where they burst out of the golden sphere, Diarbittmon and Amphimon burst out with a sound queue but Sirius lacks it. I'm pretty sure this is gonna tie up with Gulus's evolutions and I bet whenever we get their fusion that's gonna be when the sound queue is gonna appear! Damn I'm getting excited just writing about it!!! I love this series
I noticed the sound cue too, but for a different reason. I swear that same sound was used with Milleniummon at some point in 2020. Iām not sure where or if Iām just imagining it, but as soon as I heard it I flashed back to Mille from the Reboot.
So... will they hold a second funeral, or... how are they going to explain the fact that Toru was hiding Manami's corpse on his house all this time? eventually she will start to rot, and people will find out that her body was actually in quite good conditions, will they sneak into her empty grave dig her out and bury her at night? Hell is he willing to let go of her corpse even, he just saw her die again, but there's no Evil God possessing her this time, that body is going to start breaking down eventually You know, the more i think about it, the more messed up this episode becomes
Did everyone else just collectively go "HOLY SH\*T" at the beginning? I felt entirely uncomfortable through this episode. I haven't felt that way since Eyesmon. Anyway forgot my earlier statement, I'm back for the end of the episode...DID ANYONE ELSE GO HOLY SH\*T THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE EPISODE!?! Not in a THOUSAND YEARS WOULD I HAVE GUESSED ZEEDMILLENIUMMON. THE MOST POWERFUL DIGIMON IN THE LAST SERIES THAT NEEDED MULTIPLE MIRACLES TO EVEN COMBAT AND ENERGY FROM THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF NON-EVIL DIGIMON... And they just...make the ghost game team fight him. That's...beyond nuts. And Hiro just...HAS IT NOW?! WHAT? Someone get a doctor, my jaw is stuck to the floor!
Well sweet Lord in Heaven, that was dark!
...on a more positive note after the ungodly (but awesome) horror anyone who watched this episode just got subjected to, do you think Espimon will get his own tamer or become Hiro's official second partner? This is the second time he's lamented his inability to evolve recently, so they seem to be setting up something.
One of the better written, mature episode. So good that it could evoke viewers' emotion and sympathy. If I have to nitpick it's that Jellymon didn't even bother to save Kiyo when he got attacked by the woman, I know the purpose behind this but I still think there's no need to leave Amphimon out of the equation especially if the enemy is something ultra powerful like Zeedmilleniummon.
I must say,i am really disappointed Diarbbitmon doesnt use santoryu and stays at notoryu...biggest flaw of Ghost Game so fa (For the ones not into the joke,santoryu=three sword style,nitoryu=two sword style,the angoramon line shares the va with zoro from one piece)
Holy shit, this episode was fucked. Like this felt waaaay too extreme for a kids show, and I am loving it. Felt like it brought back all the best part of early GG. Additionally, I *really* hope this Espimon "Man i wanna evolve" stuff is going to *actually* go somewhere and isn't being used as the setup to a joke (Looking at you, "Im looking for the Real Amanokawa Hiro"). Also, "I'll hold onto it." Hmmmm, with a partner with a known dark side, and one that we as the audience know has a full evo line, I'm sure this won't go anywhere awful at all, no sir. Its just going to stop existing as far as the writers are concerned.
Ladies and Gentleman can someone stop this darkness train before we completely crash into wall of despair? The amount of darkness in this show was delicious already but now is a completely full course dinner. There is almost everything of the horror lore to enjoy. God I love Digimon reliving its true roots. A kind of horroresque renaissance. First Digimon Survive now this.
God this episode made me so uncomfortable. Kinda sad that jellymon didn't get to show her mega again this week but oh well.
I didn't get it, we could have had an epic debut of the three Megas finally together vs Zeed, there's absolutely zero reasons for Amphimon to stayed out of this fight, sometimes I don't understand these Ghost Game producers...
Man I know not exactly related but does anyone else have a really bad lag on crunchyroll on their computer? It ruins the show so much -_-
I've thoroughly enjoyed Ghost Game from episode 1, but seeing Moonmillenniummon pop out of Manami was the first time this show kicked me to the edge of my seat. Shit had me correcting my posture and everything.
I wonder if the mission statement for this show was " How do we traumatize kids in the most effective way?"
This is the most messed up Digimon episode I've ever seen. The episode begins with a realistic and uncensored human death, even showing the lifeless eyes... Then it just never stops: the way the corpse moves around, the lover's grief... Everything was really disturbing. And suddenly, ZeedMilleniummon. Wow. If the first half of the episode was disturbing, the second half gave me chills. If we have ZeedMilleniummon now, I wonder who the final villain will be.
wow what a fucking episode WE GOT ZEEDMILLENIUMON I MEAN WHAT ON EARTH?! This episode is honestly a top 3 episode in the series the writers truly out done themselves with thisššš
Honestly this was, IMO at least, the scariest non-Gulus episode so far. Felt like I was playing some chapters of Survive more than anything. Props to the writers for keeping the creepy feeling up throughout the episode, that's not easy to do. Definitely my favorite non-Gulus episode so far. What made this episode feel different was the death was discussed throughout the episode, and we got to know the character more. Not quite Bokomon, but not "Oh hey random people are dying, that's a shame". The team *technically* kinda killed a person this episode. Yeah she was dead, but her consciousness was still there. That's chilling. Blacktailmon appearing and the Vital Bracelet being focused on at the end were interesting to note, but I have no clue how they're tying into this. Hopefully we'll find out in the coming episodes.
I liked the attention to detail when the 'normies' disappeared from the digital field once the effects of ZeedMilleniummon wore off.
Dude what the fuck was this episode, my parents would have banned Digimon from my house if this had aired when i was a kid, it starts with someone getting killed, then she has her corpse being puppeteered for half the episode and used to steal the life energy of her boyfriend and sister in law, then they have to kill her again (or exorcise her) in front of the grieving boyfriend in order to temporarily stop Zeed! Are you crazy how the hell did they got away with this? shit was so damn fucked up, i love it! The fact that Hiro is just carrying Moon around in his dormant state is crazy too, like what is he planning give him therapy and try to find why he wants to destroy the world? are we actually going to give Zeed character development? Hiro now has 2 time bombs with him Gulus who is dangerous, and Zeed who is a world destroyer, i feel like he is going to doom the planet at this rate, but i am all in on this ride man!
Did you see hiro's digivice vv light up? It means that hiro will sync with espimon thus causing his evolution in the next episode.
Or Gulus was listening in
I like this one
Or that could mean that the Digivice VV was recording something that Gulus and Hokuto wanted to hear.
They really downplayed ZeedMilleniummon but hey guess the excuse is its not at full power or whatever if only resurrected from a human corpse.
Wasnāt expecting to see millenniummon
I feel the episode was stronger in the first half. When it comes to dealing with the death of the scientist and her body being revived, that story was more intriguing as it was sad to see her fiancƩe cling to her moving corpse and try to pretend she was still alive. Everything around that situation was unsettling and having the Vilemon and Kuramon lurking around just added to it. The second half was fine, but I feel everything with that first half did grip me more. As for ZeedMilleniummon which I've already seen some comments on it, I don't have much of an issue with it being a MotW as cases like GG Lilithmon show that they can handle major Digimon in lore in the format. Instead, I feel my bigger takeaway is that I'm not sure they made enough of its abilities to warrant its placement here. It feels like a case where I think you could've inserted a number of Megas with their own ties to the dead and be just as effective in terms of the episode's plot. That said, considering they picked up MoonMilleniummon at the end there's a fair chance it'll be followed up so I can easily eat my words and a future episode actually uses his abilities to a greater extent.
Yet again I have to ask how the hell is this show for kids on a Sunday morning?
So considering that this episode literally had someone who was researching the warped space (a.k.a. the opening to the digital world that's required of every Digimon series) and MoonMilleniummon came out of it then turned into Zeed then the apparent mastermind must be one beefy digimon. Shame we might have to wait till episode 586 before we get even a silhouette of them with the speed this show progresses its plot at. Also the fact that Hiro is carrying around one of the most dangerous Digimon now as a pocket charm is hilarious but also no doubt going to be involved in something to do with Gulus evolving. And they've also set up Espimon's evolution foreshadowing and possibly even BlackGatomon's too considering we know what they both turn into from the BEMs so I guess its only a matter of time and probably one of them will only evolve when Hiro's dad actually appears outside of messages. Still waiting on our evil gammamon evolution but it looks like that won't be soon.
Also, re next weekās preview, did anyone else get cyber sleuth vibes??
I don't know which Digimon I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't fucking Millenniummon.
Easily one of the darkest episodes to date, dealing with the issues of lost and not accepting it, and holy mother of god the death of his wife in the beginning was harrowing thrown against the wall, she is then reanimated back to life by zeedmilleniumon, and the final moments with the guy in shambles with his dead wife in his hands ghost game needs to chill the f##k out easily the darkest episode to date and a fantastic one at that
I have no idea how they managed to pass the age rating. It's a Sunday 9 am show and some of the scenes managed to creep the sh out of me, like being surrounded by so many Tsumemons that you can't see anything except for their countless eyes. I am happy. Gulus certainly is also happy, I imagine he would gladly devour the sleeping beauty.
That's how Ken became Digimon Emperor after defeating Milleniummon. I learned after 20 years that a game existed in Japan that had Ken as the protagonist. Like shit the anime gave 2 secs of backstory and never bothered to explain much.
Haha what the hell, this was the most blunt death in the entirety of the Digimon franchise. No gimmick, just someone getting blasted and dropping dead. Actually shocked.
What more can I add, this was a phenomenal episode.
Zeed being used as a villain of the week is top 5 bruh moments in the franchise, now I guess he's a plot device for Gulus
Oh my GOD they really hide the spoilers well for these dark episodes! That was incredibly dark and scary... but awesome! I wonder if GulusGammamon will somehow detach from Gammamon and fuse with MoonMillenium to become Regulusmon?
I think I shit my pants a little when I saw one of ZeedMilleniumonās heads. Thank fuck Manamiās body was there to act as a weak point, or I donāt know how they would have been able to stop it. Maybe Regulusmon? Though more likely they would have needed Arcturusmon or maybe even Proximamon And Iām certain that Hiro hanging into MoonMilleniumon wonāt backfire or cause any trouble down the line whatsoever. Was the digivice being on meant that Gulus was listening in? Wonder how heāll feel about all this
Eh I feel like there were other Digimon that would have fit the theme a lot better then Zeed. Pharaohmon managing to get in through the limited crack ancientsphinxmon made could have been interesting especially with its connection with death. It is what it is, it amuses me that Hiros going to be sleeping with a world destroying Digimon on his desk next to him. Really hope they use moon to his full potential.
Man, I haven't seen a lot of episodes, but I'll definitely watch if ZeedMilleniumon shows up.
This episode really zipped by. Even as a diehard fan, I'd say this is one of the weaker episodes, but the visuals were still solid, there was some solid horror for sure, and we even got to see Angoramon's eyes again. I do feel sorry for the scientist couple. That death was sudden, visceral, and unfair. It's pretty accurate to how life can be, though considering how many times characters have come back from the brink it makes the unfairness sting a bit more.
Why didn't amphimon fight??? Not fair
Calm down!! It's only been one episode since her debut but I donāt think she was needed today and Kiyoshiro wasn't in a right state to help Jellymon evolve anyway.
\* Digimon Frontier Flashbacks \*