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So, what's been your favorite season so far to go through? Is there anything specific in Data Squad you're looking forward to? And are you looking forward to watching Fusion when it airs?

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 19:58:00 -0500

While Tamers is my favorite season, I’ve actually enjoyed taking such a hard look at Frontier. The season is often dismissed outright and while it is mostly mediocre, it’s been very interesting to look at not only what went wrong, but what the series could have been with some slight changes.

Data Squad will be a different experience since it was the first series I watched entirely in Japanese and this will be the first time I’m watching it dubbed. Season five is quite underrated and it will be interesting to see how it stacks up to the other seasons objectively. It’s entirely possible it will get a higher GPA than season one!

And since I missed the Japanese run of Xros Wars, I’m really stoked for Fusion. The timing is nice as it means I can cover the entire franchise through the English dub, something that was not certain when I started the project. It’ll be an interesting perspective as I’m plenty familiar with the series but the dub will be my first experience actually watching it.

Digimon Frontier #45: All Aboard The Tag Team Express

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:45:19 -0500

In this episode, desperate to turn around a four-game losing streak, the good guys attempt to stop the Royal Knights with… a catapult that fires snowballs.

Ask me anything about Digimon, the System Restore project or whatever’s on your mind! Answers starting tomorrow!

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50 Followers? Time For an Ask Box!

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:53:40 -0500

Last week we hit 50 followers here on the Tumblr side of Digimon: System Restore. In honor of that, we’re turning on the Ask box! Got a question about who I am, specific thoughts on Digimon, what compelled me to do a write-up of every single episode (and here in the Royal Knights arc I wonder the same thing)? This is your chance!

Fire Away!

Digimon: Week in Review

Sat, 15 Jun 2013 00:05:00 -0500

With Digimon back on television, here’s a look back at Digimon: System Restore’s reviews of the week’s episodes:

Adventure Episode 01: And so it begins…
In this episode, a bunch of In-Training level Digimon attempt to make a good first impression, in hopes of never being seen in that form again.

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Adventure Episode 02: The Birth of Greymon
In this episode, the group argues about the best course of action and discovers that while the kids are incredibly well-equipped for the environment, the Digimon are not.

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Adventure Episode 03: Garurumon
In this episode, Matt decides he’s been flying under the radar and gets all angry and emo. Since it’s Matt, he still looks cool in the process.

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Adventure Episode 04: Biyomon Gets Firepower
In this episode, some adorable Yokomon and the heart-warming friendship between Sora and Biyomon shield us from the dark, horrible universe we all are trapped in.

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Adventure Episode 05: Kabuterimon’s Electro Shocker
In this episode, Izzy says nuts to all that danger business and enters a cheat code to make Tentomon digivolve. We also finally learn some things about this joint.

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It gets better! Really!

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Digimon Frontier #44: Now You See It, Now You Don't

Thu, 13 Jun 2013 22:51:00 -0500

In this episode, Gotsumon joins the party, and despite his small size proves to be just as successful as our mighty heroes. In other words, they lose again.

Digimon: System Restore: revisiting Digimon season by season, episode by episode.

Season one on TV and Digimon Tamers released on DVD on back to back days! How sweet is that? Get...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:01:00 -0500

Season one on TV and Digimon Tamers released on DVD on back to back days! How sweet is that?

Get Tamers today!

Digimon Frontier #43: Bad To The Bones

Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:32:06 -0500

In this episode, the digidestined fool a bunch of local Digimon into believing that working together and showing courage will save their home. It doesn’t.

Digimon: System Restore: revisiting Digimon season by season, episode by episode.

Digimon Frontier #42: Glean Eggs And Scram

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:50:12 -0500

In this episode, Babies! Gonna kill so many Babies! FOUR HUNDRED BABIES!!

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It feels like a triumph and a miracle every time I manage to get 650 words of material out of a...

Thu, 06 Jun 2013 17:34:58 -0500

It feels like a triumph and a miracle every time I manage to get 650 words of material out of a Royal Knights episode.

Digimon Frontier #41: Jerks And The Beanstalk

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 22:06:00 -0500

In this episode, part one in a series where the goalposts are moved so far forward that the conditions for victory become “nobody dies.”

Digimon: System Restore: revisiting Digimon season by season, episode by episode.

mr-mahogany: i think where you learnt ‘All star’ from, as a child, shows a lot about you because it...

Thu, 30 May 2013 21:38:18 -0500

mr-mahogany:

i think where you learnt ‘All star’ from, as a child, shows a lot about you because it was one of two places

here:

or here:

Either way, it shows you missed a delightful thing called Mystery Men.

Now if it was Rat Race, I don’t know what to think…

Digimon Frontier #40: The Bully Pulpit

Thu, 30 May 2013 18:24:29 -0500

In this episode, the group runs into a second set of kids that are somehow even bigger assholes than they used to be.

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Digimon Frontier #39: The Man In The Moon Is You

Mon, 27 May 2013 21:59:21 -0500

In this episode, the gang is stranded on the moon and Takuya’s solution is casting magic missile at the darkness.

Digimon: System Restore: revisiting Digimon season by season, episode by episode.

Digimon Frontier #38: It Can't Be! Lucemon Reappears

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:44:38 -0500

In this episode, a mystic forecasts that the heroes are destined to fall to a new opponent and that Lucemon will be reborn. Dude, spoilers!

Digimon: System Restore: revisiting Digimon season by season, episode by episode.

martininamerica: tsunderisse: ifindthat-ist: tsunderisse: emm...

Thu, 23 May 2013 23:42:47 -0500

martininamerica:

tsunderisse:

ifindthat-ist:

tsunderisse:

emmathing:

IS THAT A DR WHO REFERENCE

no. a 41 year old man in japan does not watch your awful british children’s television. shut the fuck up

while it was pretty silly of them to think that was a doctor who reference, you are being mean and i suggest that you cease being mean

eat shit

The Doctor is clearly the only person in the universe to refer to things they like as being cool.

More importantly, how come the Japanese get eight characters for their favorite thing in Mother 2? I wanna cast PSI Unicycle!

Digimon Frontier #37: Cherubimania

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:06:32 -0500

In this episode, two momentous occasions as Cherubimon is finally defeated and Zoe finally apologizes for being boring.

Digimon: System Restore: revisiting Digimon season by season, episode by episode.

ozssketchbook: Di-Di-Digimon panel footage. A full recording of...

Mon, 20 May 2013 18:57:40 -0500

ozssketchbook:

Di-Di-Digimon panel footage.

A full recording of the panel from acen this year (2013). Aron (ramjam) is in blue. Ian or known as Doctor Monotone is in orange. Then there is me. ~~Oh the embarrassment~~

All videos from the panel here

Friday’s Digimon panel from ACen in its entirety. I chime it at 1:01 to explain the true problem with Frontier.

Digimon Frontier #36: Ice Ice Baby

Thu, 16 May 2013 21:01:06 -0500

In this episode, Takuya and Koji are incapacitated and the only prescription is more cowbell.

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Heading to Anime Central!

Thu, 16 May 2013 00:04:20 -0500

I’ll be at Anime Central in Chicago this weekend! I’ll be sure to attend both Digimon panels, plus will be camped out most of the weekend at the Geek.Kon table in the exhibit hall. Stop by if you want to find me!

New episode is all queued up for tomorrow, so no need to worry about that. And yes, there’s lotsa Walken jokes.

Digimon Frontier #35: Takuya and Koji's Evolution Revolution

Mon, 13 May 2013 22:35:32 -0500

In this episode, Ophanimon tries to prove that she wasn’t trying to betray Cherubimon, then ends up TOTALLY betraying Cherubimon.

Digimon: System Restore: revisiting Digimon season by season, episode by episode.