Digimon Ghost Game: Episode 65- The Black Zone of Death

[Rohan]

So, does Hokuto have a Digivice? I assume the watch he's wearing is one, as it was able to realize Terriermon, but I don't think they ever explicitly say he has one. If it were a Digivice, wouldn't he just be able to open a portal to go and meet the others?

He does confirm it was a Digivice when he explains how he teleported to the Digital World the first time.

As for opening another portal, I suspect that's exactly what he plans to do once Kuzuhamon recovers enough strength. Expect some sort of "the cavalry has arrived" moment in the final episode methinks.

 

[Tarama]

Ahh so Gammamon's blue scarf actually was Hiro's dad's?! But then the official profile is still have it?? Oh well I am not going to ask why.

It's okay to ask why because we actually have the answers.

It's an exclusive history for Ghost Game, but the scarf is always there for other media.

Guilmon is created by Takato in Tamers, but he is not in other media.

Rebellimon's (Ogremon's) broken horn is from the battle against Greymon in Adventure:, but we can agree not all Ogremon species have to fight Greymon and has their horn broken in other media to have that look in their Perfect form (Rebellimon).

Meicoomon in tri. is the one born with shard of Apocalymon's data. That's why Kenji Watanabe said it was intentional to design the digimon with the helix tails. To resemble Apocalymon. Again, we can agree that not all Meicoomon in vast Digital World are born with the same data, but they still have the helix tails.

These are details I like about Digimon. A universe can have its own history and that's fine. So while all Gammamon species will have the blue scarf (including the one we see in the Live Action Digimon Project 2021), the Gammamon we know in Ghost Game got his from Hokuto storywise.

 

[e105zeta]

These are details I like about Digimon. A universe can have its own history and that's fine. So while all Gammamon species will have the blue scarf (including the one we see in the Live Action Digimon Project 2021), the Gammamon we know in Ghost Game got his from Hokuto storywise.

I like the idea that since Digimon are just copied files, some changes to species propagate amongst individuals after the alteration has been made. Example: All Cyclomon had an eye cut out by Leomon because the first one did and all Cyclomon from that point on are literal copies and pastes of the original's data from after that point in time.

It's not like Pokemon where the lore for Cubone still insists that every Cubone is wearing the head of their mother who was killed by Team Rocket even in continuities where Team Rocket doesn't exist. Geeze that still bothers me.

 

[Sparrow Hawk]

Yeah that's why I will not ask. Obviously Guilmon was born artificially from Takato's drawing then this season ended, there will be existing same species of Guilmon as wild digimons. Applies to all other digimon too.

I find it funny and somewhat personal. Because Gammamon was given blue scarf for the bond with the human yet that scarf can evolve along with Gammamon into GulusGammamon's edge scarf and can evolve farther, too. lol still I wonder why Canoweissmon and Siriusmon didn't have it while evolved. All Adult forms of Gammamon have it... Indeed how extremely mysterious

 

[Tarama]

I like the idea that since Digimon are just copied files, some changes to species propagate amongst individuals after the alteration has been made. Example: All Cyclomon had an eye cut out by Leomon because the first one did and all Cyclomon from that point on are literal copies and pastes of the original's data from after that point in time.

Actually I'd like to bring this topic but for now I think only the simplest explanation is needed as we need focused thread to discuss further about that.

I support the idea of meta approach of Digimon (as franchise)'s discoveries and reports (many we see in Reference Book) are based on the media they debut. But in the same time, I also support the idea of the opposite version of the alteration in some cases. Like the Patamon with pink haramaki in Frontier, Nyokimon that born with scarf in Adventure:, Mushmon variations in Xros Wars manga and so on. As we believe not all UlforceV-dramon will get scar on their faces just because Zeromaru got one in Xros Wars manga.

That's what I like about it. The "free but not free" concept.

Edit:
As for this kind of case (Guilmon in Tamers and Gammamon in Ghost Game, etc.) I like the idea that this is about the exclusive history each universe has.

Like, if in future we have a new Digimon story that tells us about
"a maniac like Analogman that loves hurting digimon resulting Piyomon having the ring in its leg as its way to heal the scar",
or
"an AncientWisemon once sealed a holy power in Piyomon but the ring power is hidden and will be a holy ring when it evolved to its Ultimate",
we get that not as the history on why Piyomon has the ring in general but as the history of Piyomon having the ring in that specific universe.
As simple and free as that.

Yeah that's why I will not ask. Obviously Guilmon was born artificially from Takato's drawing then this season ended, there will be existing same species of Guilmon as wild digimons. Applies to all other digimon too.

I find it funny and somewhat personal. Because Gammamon was given blue scarf for the bond with the human yet that scarf can evolve along with Gammamon into GulusGammamon's edge scarf and can evolve farther, too. lol still I wonder why Canoweissmon and Siriusmon didn't have it while evolved. All Adult forms of Gammamon have it... Indeed how extremely mysterious

Alright then.

 

[Eitaroutarouman]

The scarf evolving isn't any weirder than Beelzemon turning a toy gun into a laser.

 

[Unknown Neo]

Well this was interesting. Some good new animated Mon but there's still Payphones around this year? Whenever it is. Is Hiro's three friends going to be useful or be like that time in Bleach with Ichigo's friends. It went nowhere mostly by accident. A couple of those there but at least we have 2 weeks to figure out how they'll solve this ending. ...Sequel series like Xros Wars or maybe movie. I don't care which or none. I'll take it.

 

[digifan313]

Well this was interesting. Some good new animated Mon but there's still Payphones around this year? Whenever it is.

Honestly that there's payphone, the kids know how to use them and find another on yet another payphone in a different continent makes me laugh.
Ashamed to say I already got some younger relative that see landlines as something baffling

 

[Unknown Neo]

Landlines are a bit normal but payphones? That's something. Are they more advanced or something? It's an odd little thing.

 

[Brubarb]

My city still has 77 payphones. They had to use payphones because all computers, cellphones, smartphones etc... weren't usable. I actually found it more funny that Higashi was using a rotary phone.

 

[Unknown Neo]

Huh. Really? But I thought it was the house's phone. But it is really old. More then most.

 

[PCmon]

The animation quality of Ghost Game has been surprisingly consistent for such a long series, so its sad to see them drop the ball three episodes from the end. I assume they're saving the good stuff for the finale, but still, yeesh, the first half of this ep looked rough. The kids looked like Adventure characters.

I should be surprised that Hiro's dad's return seemed to struck virtually no emotional cords with Hiro, but considering they never bothered giving him a personality or feelings, I'm not. Seriously, your dad returns, and all you have to say is "I have questions" like you're talking to a teacher? No happy feelings at finally being reunited or resentment toward his abandonment or any behavior a normal human child would demonstrate? Of course, considering his dad's reaction to his son now becoming trapped in the digital world is "Oh well, let's go get some juice", it must be genetic. Aside from Kiyo, the human characterization for this series has been dreadful.

I was worried they weren't going to keep the horror elements going with the final few episodes, but they managed to do so with the creepy flowers. Props for how they handled that.

Seeing Sirusmon having a conversation with his "dark side" was neat to see. Another really cool potential element that I wish they would have done more with throughout the series as opposed to GulusGammamon just appearing once in a while.

It's a dreadful shame we're only going to see three episodes of the digital world before the series ends. I would have gladly taken a cut of 15-20 monster of the week horror tales for some more digital world stuff. Just another example of how much squandered potential Ghost Game has.

 

[Mon-Ohma]

Oddly not the most unusual thing to have been seen floating down the Thames.

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KoKabuterimon finally makes its onscreen debut in a less than flattering manner, as Ghost Game sets something of a new record for the amount of time it's taken for the protagonists to get to the Digital World.
And it turns out Team Lirurun could have gone there much-much earlier. The late Professor Bokomon has been telling us porkies.

Compared to Gammamon, Hiro and Hokuto's reunion is about as emotional as you were expecting it to be. For a long time now I've been wondering if this nonchalance had some actual backstory to it, or that there would be some dark unexpected revelation that Hiro wasn't simply just an average human child.
It appears that wasn't the case. Of course who knows what this show will pull at the very last minute, but with only two episodes left to go there's already a lot of unanswered stuff to cram in as it is. It's evident by this point that the Digimon are who we are supposed to connect with the most. A similar though more obvious problem 2020 had during its run.

Kuzuhamon (quite a few old and familiar faces popping up throughout this) provides some assistance in creating a brief opening to the Compiler Forest. Unsurprisingly it doesn't take long for something bad to happen to Kiyoshiro, and in turn everyone else.
Much like Dagomon, the encounter with Rafflesimon here feels more like something designed to fill in time (that we can't exactly spare), but does at least allow Gulus the opportunity to tempt Siriusmon with power, which is used to deadly effect. Apparently he's finally cut his losses with trying to get Hiro to sync with him after failing an entire series to do so.

It is perhaps unfortunate that the show does still give off an impression of being coaxed reluctantly towards a finale rather than shifting up gears. And with our seemingly penultimate boss set up for the start of the next episode with an extended waiting time in between, there's dauntingly high expectations which I'm not that entirely optimistic about them meeting.

 

[BlankShell]

Finally got around to watching this. It's fascinating how they're handling this rushed ending. It's not bad in its own way (refreshing to cover ground quickly after the languid pace otherwise) and there's a good balance of exposition and action. Some of the quick cuts remind me of the early episodes where they just smash cut to various things, which they (thankfully) toned down in future episodes. I like the plant theme too; first Rafflesimon, then BloomLordmon. Are we getting Hydramon next to round out the set?

Hokuto almost feels like he's prepping for his own spin-off lol.

 

[Ricardolindo]

A week ago on Saturday 11 March, after one week and six days, I watched the entire episode, though I am only writing the review today. I think this episode was great and dark. It was a great beginning to the end of Digimon Ghost Game. Rafflesimon was a great opponent. BloomLordmon's appearance at the end was great. After so long, I finally caught up with the episodes just in time for the last 2 episodes.