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TopicTom resumes reading all the Bolo Household Manga Collection (spoilers)
Tom Bombadil
07/03/19 5:52:28 PM
#56:


Makes sense I suppose! :\

okay let's put this one to bed (sorta)

Digimon Vol. 5
Today's BGM: Umineko music for no particular reason

The cover of this one has a tearoff...bookmark?...advertising the upcoming Zero Two series. Would actually be pretty cool without the advertising text!

We have a little burial service for our departed friends, and Mimi is singled out as being sad, but we don't have much time for that- the narration says so itself! We're gonna be up against Puppetmon next. He has vaguely defined voodoo powers, and uses them to screw around with the kids and make them fight and do silly stuff before getting bored and teleporting TK to his base. Tensions escalate between Matt and Tai, and Matt hecks off to go be a brooding antihero coolkid for a while.

TK and Puppetmon are roughly the same maturity level. TK and Patamon wreck his voodoo setup, tell Puppetmon he has no friends, and leave him to question his life. Also he has a gun that was edited out of the dub! Matt is talking to Cherrymon, who tells him he needs to destroy Tai so that he can let go of his anger and hate that he apparently has. That's another scene that really could have used some more buildup and time to breathe but whatever the gang's back together again EXCEPT MATT IS ATTACKING TAI OH NO.

It's WarGreymon vs. MetalGarurumon! The MegaPowers explode! The dream fight! The battle of the DigiCentury! The kids are even trading hands! Kari glows as she is possessed by, uh, the world? I don't remember how this actually resolved in the show but I don't think this was it, although she does get occasional cool power things later. She shwoops us into a flashback- first we see that Greymon/Parrotmon fight (and the younger versions of the kids seeing it) and then the eight eggs set aside for us. Piedmon attacks (still in the flashback), but Young!Gennai holds him off and escapes with the eggs. However, Kari's is dropped, and that's why she didn't connect with Gatomon initially like she was supposed to.

Cool story, bro, but Matt's still leaving to go be edgy on his own for a bit. Mimi is also peeling off, tired of all the fighting and dying and stuff, and Joe goes with to keep an eye on her. Main team is down to five now, but we're gonna take on Puppetmon anyway. WarGreymon makes short work of him, but Puppetmon animates his house to attack! "Housemon" (opinions are split IIRC over whether that's a real digimon) gives the whole gang a rough time, but Matt shows up and blows Puppetmon away, and the house falls apart too. Anime Puppetmon had a whole quasi-redemptive arc where he started wanting friends and Cherrymon got in HIS head too, and then he just was too big of an immature jerk to pull off the face turn. Here he doesn't even have minions to bully though, so oh well.

Joe and Mimi find Ogremon injured in the woods. Also METALETEMON, who is out for revenge, but SABERLEOMON makes the save. Okay fine this was kinda outta nowhere in the anime too but it's just cool. Apparently Leomon gained the ability to Digivolve from repeated exposure to the Digivices (they are kinda like Sonic Screwdrivers in that they can just kinda do stuff). Despite an assist from Zudomon, it takes a kamikaze attack from SaberLeomon to wipe out MetalEtemon. Good thing Leomon will continue to reincarnate, like all Digimon who die in the Digiworld! I'm sure nothing bad will happen to him the third time he shows up. I guess the point is that the fighting will find Mimi whether she wants it or not.
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