Let's start off with the intro... I think Koushiros Digimon introductions could offer some interesting information that didn't make it into the episode itself (not so much in the case of Agumon lol) but by now we are at like three and a half minutes of... things before the episode even starts. I guess I'm ambivalent about that.
Ogremon was really front and center of this episode, if someone just told me how much they did with him within like 15 minutes I would have had my doubts about how effective it could be but they managed to pull all of it off rather convincingly. I am not entirely sure if he's dead. He kind of blew up... but we didn't really see his data scatter or anything so that leaves things a little bit open.
Part of it was likely just how high energy the episode seemed from start to finish. After the initial conversation about the holy Digimon everything was just constantly in motion, never slowing down. And it seems that momentum will continue on into the next episode as well.
Greymon's fight against Ogremon was just as entertaining as the last. Perhaps there were just a few too many shots of him just standing there grabbing Ogremon's club but once they got moving it was Adventure
⦂'s spiced up animation and choreography at its best. Greymon continues to use his tail to his advantage, and there's even a point where he trips and grapples Ogremon to the ground, which was a nice way to change things up (Most fights have a tendency to end up on the ground at some point, and it's great to see them incorporating that).
They also brought up the Digimon's capability of producing a sort of DBZ type aura blast, something that occasionally happened before but was one of those things that was just kind of random and not really consistent. What is interesting here is that they showcase it with an Adult level Digimon when it's usually something reserved for Ultimates (VenomVamdemon was the first Digimon to use this ability as far as I remember). If it crops up this early it gives me hope that it could be developed into something less arbitrary, like an actual mechanic with a purpose and not just a thing that randomly happens.
The Coredramon assault worked well to show the conflict of interests between Devimon and Ogremon and presented a good opportunity for for Koushiro rejoining as well as keeping the other kids from interfering with the Ogremon's duel but it was handled a bit awkwardly at times. Like how everyone just forgets that the Coredramon are still around and ready to strike when they all gather up to greet Koushiro and how Ogremon and Greymon basically end up in the exact same spots as a few minutes before, just kind of "resetting" the state of their battle. To me that was the episode's sole weakness.
MetalTyranomon did make for an impressive introduction to the power of the perfect Level. The next episode might give us more insight in just how big the gap between Adults and Perfects will be portrayed in this season.
Yamato seems to be the only human character who seems to have experience with perfect level Digimon before judging by his reaction. This could be a reference to episode 2 but I'm honestly not sure considering from the perspective of the characters very little was established about Algomon and his evolutions and which one was which (It still begs the question if the Omegamon/Algomon battle in Episode 3 takes away a bit of the impact that they try to achieve when introducing a perfects as this super big deal now). Anyway if they already had encounters with Perfect level enemies, it might explain why they didn't bother attacking MetalTyranomon; They knew they'd just be smacked down.
Anyway, at some point it would be really be nice to see how long Yamato has been traveling around with Gabumon, how much of the world they already explored and also... for what reason?
I previously assumed that he was fighting Devimon's forces on his own but in this and the last episode he didn't seem any more informed about the forces of evil and their motive than anyone else. He knew about the fortress but nothing beyond that.
For the next episode it seems were are looking at a chase-like setup with the children trying to get to the location Ogremon indicated while trying to shake off MetalTyranomon.
Considering how the last time they had to escape from enemy forces ended up feeling very anticlimactic, now's the time to make up for that.
If it weren't for Mimi's commentary, I never would've guessed that Greymon and Ogremon were having fun fighting. They should've conveyed that better. It's just hard to tell what these two characters are thinking and feeling when one has a default evil smile on his face and the other is a dinosaur with... default angry dinosaur expression.
You could kind of see Greymon showing a bit of a smile when their clash was starting to produce those blue sparks (sparks of joy perhaps).
Greymon Vs Ogremon is good but still weird to see such tiny Greymon battling Ogremon.
Greymon isn't really smaller but Ogremon seems consistently bigger than he was in the original.
It seems that MetalTyrannomon is the same evolved form of D.Tyrannomon from earlier.
Does it? I was looking for hints to connect the two when MetalTyranomon appeared but I couldn't find any.
