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Magnadramon is still fighting Kimeramon even though it has gone rampant. Wormmon does...something? And it allows Magnadramon to beat Kimeramon. He finally got his name used and then he sacrifices himself two panels later, that's rough. (He's Ken's partner, which you wouldn't necessarily pick up without knowing) Tai shows up from somewhere to tell us about Ken's tragic past and susceptibility to angsty heel turns. Some lady (it's Arukenimon) is annoyed.

We're deployed again to repair some of the damage we've done with all the fighting. That has never been an issue before and I would be surprised if it has been since, but this way we get to split up. The lady (it's still Arukenimon) summons some more bad guys, and one of them beats up Raidramon until STINGMON makes the save and points out that we can just digivolve normally now. The creatively named ExVeemon beats Tortomon. Yolei and Aquilamon show up, having figured this out on their own offscreen. They decide to find Cody, but Stingmon (and Ken!) find him first, helping Armadillomon become Ankylomon. Ken apologizes to everybody but doesn't seem to be joining the team properly yet.

Izzy is worried about that Dark Whirlpool from before. Dark forces are vaguely congregating, and Davis' lines are getting even stupider and spreading to the beginning-of-chapter splash pages! We investigate the old base, but it's under the control of SOME LADY (Arukenimon) and she deploys Okuwamon to wreck everybody. Stingmon and Ken show up to help, and Davis slaps Ken for not being a team player. Stingmon and ExVeemon DNA Digivolve to Paildramon. Davis and Ken go for cool poses, but Ken's missing an eye. We beat Okuwamon and some explosions happen to indicate that we have accomplished whatever our goal was here.

Arukenimon (how did she actually get here?) reveals her true form to the kids except Kari doesn't make it into the shot. We send the girls to go get Ken for help. He's about to jump off a cliff because the Dark Ocean is calling him. Maybe it's another sudden depression metaphor? We pull him back ("Yeeg") but Yolei falls off instead but we save her with teamwork or something. Paildramon is a thing, and he has Arukenimon on the ropes when Mummymon saves the day and they run away.

We follow them to a place, and she introduces BLACKWARGREYMON, made from a hundred of those Control Spires from before. But we got rid of all of those? Yoeli and Kari decide they can probably DNA Digivolve through the power of vaguely teased shoujo-ai, and Silphymon runs off BlackWarGreymon...FOR NOW dun dun dun I didn't buy volume 2

My rating: 4/10
...Well they've gotten smarter about just outright skipping stuff they don't have time for, but I don't feel I know anything about these characters except "Davis is an idiot" and "Ken is Zuko from Avatar." And that's, y'know, two out of six kids (and their Digimon, and the current bad guys). This appears to cover about thirty episodes of anime, so geeze, we're going even faster now! I think this single volume passes the point where I stopped really watching this regularly, even. I think this one can be passed on.

Tamers is on deck! I WONDER HOW IT'LL GO
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