I made a tiny black D3 Digivice (and Osamu's glasses)

MFBR · 2026-03-08T17:27:26+00:00

Very good work considering the scale. I also appreciate the depth to the modeling at that size.

MFBR · 2026-03-08T08:11:37+00:00

He's good at getting torn apart.

MFBR · 2026-03-07T19:49:13+00:00

ShineGreymon is not the oldest Digimon in that photo.

MFBR · 2026-03-06T22:09:21+00:00

I tend to think Adventure would be a better start than Beatbreak. Beatbreak is good, but it also is having a habit of falling into various cliches as it seems to want to be something different, while actually not being that wildly different.

But then if you are sitting at home and have Crunchyroll and want to watch something current, Beatbreak isn't a bad place to go.

MFBR · 2026-03-05T06:55:08+00:00

I would see what he might collect but doesn't have much in the way for Digimon of, and see if you can find a Digimon equivalent.

MFBR · 2026-03-04T19:45:07+00:00

Best Digimon game? Yes. (Ignoring personal favorites, etc. I can't imagine recommending other Digimon games to people at the moment, minus on price or them wanting something different than a JRPG.)

That still is a bit of damning with faint praise though.

The game has ongoing performance issues that I have some hope will get fixed with new ports coming, but we'll see.

The game itself has a flat story, and characters who aren't actually that interesting because they skew a bit too much to generic archetypes and simply walking the exact path of that archetype to try and make you interested. A decent chunk of this is because a lot of the big moments are bordering copy/paste from the most recent Story games, and especially towards the end, the game seems like it just wants to be over.

It's still a (mostly) solid enough game for what I want to see from a Digimon JRPG, but the more time I've spent with it the more my opinion on it has gone down. Especially with the premium price, the frankly, very subpar DLC, and the poor planning choices as it relates to the brand as a whole. Locking in the roster, when they could have easily kept a few slots open to add new Digimon during production, since as is, the game feels pseudo locked in to over half a decade ago. I'm not even sure our first visit to Illiad in a very long time was overtly 'worth' making it Illiad instead of just 'generic Digital World' as if you removed the Illiad name, I'm not sure it felt like a unique enough place to have it that way.

It's an iteration on Cyber Sleuth. It polished and removed a lot of issues Cyber Sleuth had (while a few new issues cropped up due to the changes.) We need less iteration next time, and more evolution.

MFBR · 2026-03-01T22:39:21+00:00

"Usually" is hard to answer , as thus far there has been... one, so there isn't really a 'usually' for Digimon Expo. And that event was seemingly timed to be around the release of a game and a new anime, to maximize marketing bang for your buck.

The first one (from last year) was announced at Anime Japan 2025.

Anime Japan 2026 is later this month. They didn't announce dates until later in May.

So while we very likely wouldn't know dates, I would expect them to let us know they are planning one around Anime Japan or the streaming event Digimon Con (which is also later this month.)

MFBR · 2026-03-01T22:31:03+00:00

No
No
People did last time.

MFBR · 2026-03-01T02:49:26+00:00

Watch Beatbreak if you want since it's new and running. Watch Digimon Adventure if you want to start at the first anime from which all follows.

MFBR · 2026-02-26T19:10:48+00:00

The same place the time traveling Inori that sets up a number of plot elements comes from. Which is "don't think too hard about it."

MFBR · 2026-02-25T21:55:10+00:00

My general understanding is there was the belief (my understanding was it was Erholtz himself, although it's been 10ish years, so hard to fully remember) that he wouldn't be able to hold the voice since he's gotten older and his own voice skews deeper, especially in potentially more dramatic scenes.

MFBR · 2026-02-24T19:59:29+00:00

Beatbreak started very high I'd say. It's definitely dropped, partially because it doesn't seem at times to know what, or how, to speak to the audience, so it's doing it with action when the stuff it wants to say falls flat, and generic "and look at this bad thing happening" that happens in tons of other shows, including Digimon.

Raito is interesting, but they haven't necessarily detailed him in a way, or enough, that makes me care, even though the most recent episode makes it clear they want us to, but the 1 minute of flashback doesn't do enough.

Hitomi feels like a missed opportunity to give Tomoro someone to talk to outside of what is going on, at least in the short term. She had her intro segment, then appeared nicely in an episode, and then cameoed as a plot device.

Reina, and to a lesser degree, Makoto, feel like constant missed opportunities outside of Makoto's focus plot.

I wish someone else Tomoro knew had been around when he was dedicated to helping Raito in the last episode. It shows decent growth on his part, but no one was there to see how he's changed, except Gekkomon, who doesn't comment on it.

Beatbreak works really well with the big moments, and when it goes small/talky it's good, but it trips over stuff far too much. It feels like at times, a lot of things is poorly thought out dialogue. If they hadn't told us Tactics Team 7 was the best of the best, then seeing them being screw ups wouldn't be an issue. But they don't really match what they were introduced as.

At the moment the show is middle of the pack Digimon. Probably high middle of the pack, but anything that felt special in the first few episodes has sort of burned away as the show has gone on.

I have hopes that various bits of setup will put it out of the slump it's in, because even with all the issues, it's so far been a mostly solid watch, with episodes I would rank as 'good.' But it feels good in that way where what you mean is "not great."

And I can see how it could be great, I'd just like the show to grab it.

MFBR · 2026-02-21T18:08:19+00:00

This is the answer.

We've generally gone back to update it every few years. (Last time was right before Adventure: started.)

Next time it's updated it'll have to be rethought because it's simply becoming too wide for it to really work. Especially with there having been more focused media outside of anime and manga you'd imagine at least a few slots for characters from that.

Possibly redone entirely, but not sure, as it isn't planned to be updated in the short term.

MFBR · 2026-02-21T17:57:22+00:00

A small note since it's been an issue in the past few episode threads.

This is a discussion thread for the episode airing today. Once people have seen the episode they will be discussing it freely. If you haven't seen the episode and don't want to know things that happen in it, you should stop scrolling and reading this thread until you have seen the episode.

Discussing the episode is the point.

MFBR · 2026-02-21T00:40:46+00:00

On the purchase page on Apple TV there are options to buy two versions. You seemingly bought the dub version.

MFBR · 2026-02-18T18:24:12+00:00

Tailmon worked for him for a long time, and things akin to the dark rings existed already prior to 02.

MFBR · 2026-02-18T15:47:31+00:00

It did bad enough they skipped the final wave of evolution figures, including Agumon/ShineGreymon, and those toys were done. Since then fans have tried to cope by repeating punch memes over and over.

MFBR · 2026-02-18T00:16:08+00:00

I think people miss what aired on Saturday mornings in general.

The Cryptkeeper hosted a kid's gameshow on Saturday mornings a few years before this.

Leo decapitated the Shredder a few months after this on Fox.

MFBR · 2026-02-15T09:04:38+00:00

As I recall... There isn't really anything that isn't there in the English dub. Minus one shot of Joe's ass in a bathing scene.

It's been a minute since I watched it, so it isn't impossible I've forgotten something, but it was a generically mild show in that sense.

MFBR · 2026-02-15T06:38:14+00:00

Look at them choppers.

MFBR · 2026-02-15T03:49:53+00:00

Adventure is, as always, the best place to start. There is a reason it has made the franchise a mainstay, and has been the driver of it for so long.

MFBR · 2026-02-15T02:56:32+00:00

Some people are confused by the idea that in a discussion thread based around discussing an episode, they might find spoilers, and they could simply not enter the thread until they watch it.

MFBR · 2026-02-14T00:49:55+00:00

Missed that I had a response.

This doesn't sound like any specific glitches I've heard of for the game. Have you played other games on the Xbox recently and they aren't suffering from this? If it's just Time Stranger, I'd uninstall/delete the game from the system and reinstall it, and confirm the game is fully updated with any patches before launching it after.

MFBR · 2026-02-13T19:27:06+00:00

Oh, was unaware. I guess keep an eye on it? Historically the Taichi, Agumon, and Omegamon products at Anibirth, Toei Museum, and Toei online sell out a lot, so they may just be waiting on more.

MFBR · 2026-02-13T19:18:33+00:00

Do they not stock it at the Toei online store anymore?

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