"What is this Rule 34, and why do I have over a thousand entries on it!?"
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I'd say we've got ourselves a fairly clear picture of Kiyoshiro now. With the angle they're going for essentially boiling down to taking Joe, giving him Koushiro's hacking skills, and finally turning him into a closet weeb.
Jellymon (or Jerrymon as the auto-translator prefers) is something akin to an impish take on early Mimi with all her pampered brattishness played up. And Kiyoshiro very quickly established as both the source of her annoyance and amusement. Which is certainly a lot different from how first meetings usually go in this franchise.
Admittedly I've never been big on 'Dere' archetypes and their often abusive (because girls physically tormenting boys is funny) relationships, with only the very rarest of exceptions. It all comes down to how they're handled in the long run, and there is indication this will mellow out in time hopefully, so I'm prepared to give things the benefit of the doubt for now.
Ghost Game has so far done a solid job in giving us both human and Partner Digimon with their own distinct characteristics, something which very few entries have managed to balance successfully.
Saying that this episode as a whole doesn't quite click for me, even more so after a rewatch. And that reason is largely down to pacing.
Kiyoshiro's character arc here is simply too rushed. Spending the majority of the plot being Jellymon-Sama's panicky buttmonkey, to suddenly standing up and confidently taking responsibility for the problem at the last moment. The payoff just doesn't feel properly led up to.
It's a problem that could perhaps easily have been solved if they had spread things out across the span of two episodes instead. Majiramon as the primary antagonist certainly lends himself well to it. Bringing to mind Daijinryuu from Dairanger as this unstoppable force of nature (economy in this case), a massive step up from previous opponents.
Although I definitely prefer how he was presented here in comparison to Tamers, at the same time I was left a little underwhelmed, like we could have got significantly more then what we ended up with (Minor Quibble: He can clearly fly but decides instead to take a leisurely stroll towards the protagonists).
Likewise his three Chartered Accountants are themselves rather forgettable, seemingly thrown in just to serve as brief distractions for the rest of the group.
Overall it's perfectly serviceable and I don't consider anything about it offensively bad. It just doesn't quite live up to what it initially promises.
I definitely still prefer Ruri and Angoramon's introduction episode more, both of whom end up being superfluous here. Same goes for BetelGammamon's third outing.
Ghost Game currently seems to have the opposite problem 2020 had, where any action is being treated as more of an afterthought rather then the main selling point.
