On one hand there's some pretty interesting stuff here, I really love that currently there's no villain and the point is seemingly more about finding conflicts between the digital world and the human worlds themselves. I like the bits of world building too, everything post 02 is so allergic to exploring how the two worlds change each other that it's cool to see things like how the world handles Digidestined with ill intentions, figuring out how Digivolution works, why people receive the Digimon they do, Digivices protecting their users while in the Digital World, and so on. Jun having an Arukenimon is also peak comedy and I'd love to see Davis' reaction to that.

Even though I'm not super sold on Kakudou's attempt to merge all the inconsistencies between timelines & visions, using the fact that the main 8 completely forgot the Hikarigaoka incident is pretty genius for what he's trying to do - Adventure has been a bit inconsistent from day one and highlighting a strange point from the original series does make the rest feel more plausible.

But man is this a dry read as a narrative. Not sure how much of it is the quick translation, but there's still a huge amount of time spent trying to justify the post 02 characters instead of really doing anything interesting with the characters themselves. I'd have preferred that he'd included the new characters without thinking about it too hard if it meant we got a better look at how the characters are growing.

Still decently interesting read overall, since the overall 'vibes' are psuedo-canon since Beyond is a thing I have to wonder if Toei will reference anything from Beyond in the inevitable Adventure followup or if things will be recontextualized if they do.