Devidramon

Nyaromon is an In-Training. Nyaromon, Salamon, Gatomon. The Baby form is YukimiBotamon. (Or at least, according to the most recent copy of Megchan?s that I can find, Y. Botamon is the only Baby that can digivolve into Nyaromon.)

I?m working on the Ryo-in-other-world thing, and the next part(s) will put him back in the normal universe. And I think Mina?s got something planned.

I tried to attach a pic and it wouldn't let me, saying that I'd already attached the same file elsewhere. The topic it referred me to was one whose latest post was on Feb. 9, as opposed to my registration date of Feb. 18, and quite a few months before Lowemon, the character whose pic I'm trying to attach, even existed. (In other words, no, I [i]didn't[/i] post it a long time ago and forget.) In the immortal words of Cheesemon, whazzupwidat?

I loved that movie. Agatha?s performance was great (anybody get the name of whoever played her?) And the way he hid in the ice to avoid the infrared... smart. And that woman and her creepy plants were cool.

This is very good. Though personally I always preferred the longer ones, but that?s just because I used to be in the choir and during practice, by the time we?d said the same thirteen words over and over and over and over and over again, slooooooowly, I wanted to shoot myself then and there. ?Kings and kingdoms, they shall all pass away, but there?s something about that name,? over and over sometimes for five or ten solid minutes. The lead singer (which ain?t me) got to say more, but it was like ?Jesus, Jesus, Jeeeeeeeeeesu-u-uhhhhhhhs, there?s just something about that name, master, savior, Jeeeeeeeeeesu-u-uhhhhhhhs, let all heaven and earth proclaim,? and onto the kings and kingdoms part. Veeery slooowly, of course. I literally want to scream every time I hear it, even to this very day. People think to be scarred for life, you have to have been locked in a freezer as a kid or something, but torture is torture and it will stick with you for years to come. I?d let Jackie Chan kick me in... a certain area... as hard as he could if it could ensure that I?d never hear that song again as long as I live. Sorry, tangent. Anyway, your song?s good, Deus. Don?t let it get in the hands of the choir director at my church, but it?s very good. Hurry up and get that midi uploaded so we can hear it.

I'll definitely watch. I loved the old cartoon, and Next Mutation wasn't [i]that[/i] bad. I loved the miniseries with the vampire chick. If April's not going to be a reporter, then maybe the street clothes are okay. Of course, if she's not a reporter, what's her role in the story going to be? I guess I'll just have to wait and see.

Yeah, it was a bit too easy. I mean, one swing of the Nexus Blade destroys the Predazord and kills Animus, just like that? Every bad guy to carry a sword has given the Zords of the year a slash like that. It was really anticlimactic for him to to swing the sword like a baseball bat, there's the usual sparks, a bright light... and then the Animal Crystals crack and Kite's lying on the ground. Also can't say much for the way Animus pretty much dropped in with no further ado. I'd have had him show up early in the ep to warn them that Master Org would be so powerful and to tell them about the Org Heart. (As Cole would've had no way of knowing what it was, actually.) I thought Toxica and Jindrax would be in it. In the preview for the finale, at the point where Master Org does the spin-thing and appears in the city, you can see Toxica and Jindrax looking up at him. In that scene in the actual episode, they aren't there. Having Zen-Aku around ought make the crossover episode they'll eventually do with Ninja Storm interesting. I wonder if we'll see Toxica and Jindrax then.

Barney and Teletubbies aren't cartoons.

I think every generation hates the music of both the generation before it and the generation after it. And I despise Elvis. I wish he was alive just so I could hunt him down and shove him into a septic tank.

Some shows do seem to be "How much inanity can we cram into half an hour?" The gags aren't even clever like Tom and Jerry. Spongebob, Cow and Chicken, that genre... I've tried watching them, but I can't make myself watch them through. There's just so little substance to them that it's just boring in short order.

Sorry for double-posting, but considering the time between it, I think you'll agree that it isn't spamming. Everything that happened in today's ep is not surprising. This time of year, the main villain always gets superpowered and Zords start blowing up. However, this time around it's sadder: This time, the zords are alive. So, while most zords are robots with a marginal sentience and more can always be built (how many zords did the Morphin team wreck?) this wasn't just the loss of battle vehicles, this was pure slaughter, and if it [i]didn't[/i] happen every year it would have been horrifying. (It wasn't like when the Dinozords went down in Green With Evil, back when it was something we thought couldn't happen. I was almost crying. {Keep in mind that that was in season one, this is season ten, I'm 19 now, so do the math and it's not [i]that[/i] pathetic.}) It was so sad, too, when Kite died. I loved the part where they were cheering on the Megazord, and the way it actually looked at them and back to Master Org. I actually wanted the zords to survive, rather than "oh, no, they lost their best weapon." Haven't had that since Lost Galaxy. (Man, I felt sorry for Stratoforce and Centaurus. Imagine being covered head to toe in Sting Wingers, all those weapons and yet helpless.) As always, the last episode is also an episode of firsts: The first time we've ever seen someone actually go from the ground to the Animarium. The new morphing sequence. First time we got most of their last names. We even get Merrick's. Not the best PR ending ever, though. There wasn't a trace of Adler in Master Org. I was expecting him to act more like himself. He was bigger, stronger, but he wasn't the guy that made The Master's Last Stand so spectacular. In fact, he was more reminiscent of the original Master Org from three thousand years ago. I guess the Org Heart is, well, the heart of all things Org. So, he gets some of the oringinal Master Org into him. It also explains his new look, made up of parts of other Orgs. He had several Mandilok lips and Retinax eyes, and one Toxica helmet arm and one Jindrax-helmeted arm. I didn't notice any of Nayzor on him, unless you count the nose on his chest (which I don't because it's part of the face on his chest, and we've seen faces on chests before, and they often had noses.) He also carries the Nexus Blade that Mandilok, Retinax, and Nayzor combined their weapons into a couple eps back. Of course, this being Wild Force, it's also an episode of "Haven't we seen this before?" For those who don't remember or haven't been watching from day one, way back in the first season, there was a monster called Hatchasaurus, whose heart was a computer called Cardiatron. Until they took it out, the pieces of Hatchasaurus would always find their way back to Cardiatron and reassemble. Hatchasaurus went kablooey three or four times. The second time around, one of Lord Zedd's reassembled Cardiatron and Hatchasaurus as a distraction. They didn't take out Cardiatron, so, we must assume that the Hatchasaurus still lives. Also, their courage bringing back the Zords: In the Digimon second season finale (Digimon's also produced by TOEI, I might add) a past villain called Myotismon used the Dark Spores to transform himself into MaloMyotismon and he was beaten when the Digi-Destined stopped fearing him and got the kids that had been used to incubate the Dark Spores to do the same. (Though it was a horrid ep because MaloMyotismon (not-so-affectionately nicknamed MarshMaloMyotismon on quite a few Digimon boards. I think it started with Digimon Lab.) started to dissolve as the kids talked about their hopes and dreams. "I wanna be a teacher!" [MarshMalo's arms disappear] "I wanna draw comic books!" [MarshMalo's wings disappear] and so forth. And he didn't put up that much of a fight when he was at full strength. I'm a big fan of Myotismon, so that ep actually makes me angry, even looking back on it more than a year later. A great villain like him should not be reduced to a pathetic MarshMalo who talks the talk but is too sorry to get off of his newly chrome-plated butt and fight.) Though I'm not sad to see Wild Force go, this is still a sad day for PR fans: Next season will be produced in Australia by Village Roadshow. (I think that's what they're called.) They're the folks behind The Matrix, so it should be awesomeness squared. But, I hate to see the entire old production company go. And all the voice actors we're used to. Remember the voice that said "Next time, on Power Rangers Wild Force!" and did the introduction for part two? That's Dave Mallow, and he did that every week in the earlier seasons. "The next time, on Power Rangers" preview at the end of the very first Power Rangers ep was done by him, and though later seasons didn't always have it, opting to have a character say "Next time on Power Rangers: Whatever" and just show scenes, whenever they did do an old-style narration, it was him, to this very day. He was also the announcer at the soccer game in Monitoring Earth, and the "...a sleep that may last forever." at the end. All narrations like that were him. But, I doubt he's willing to move to Australia just to say 'next time on Power Rangers.' So, we have heard the last of David J. Mallow in PR. Danny Wayne Stallcup (aka Danny Wayne, aka Danny Stallcup) played Jindrax. He was also always a Putty, Cog, Tenga, etc every season. He's the most recurring villain in PR history in a way: Every set of Rangers had to deal with him on a weekly basis in some form. But never again. The battle of the unmorphed Rangers against the Putrids is the last PR battle that will ever be choreographed by Koichi Sakamoto. This is the last episode Jonathan Tzachor will ever produce. No more Amit Beaumik, who, though he's not a day one name, he did write Forever Red and Reinforcements From the Future, two of the best PR crossover eps ever and I wanted to see more of what he can do. No more Scott Page-Pagter, no more Worth Keeter, no more Suzi Shimoyama, none of those people whose names I could count on seeing every week since I was nine years old. This is truly the end of an era. I'm optimistic for next season because Village Roadshow rocks, but still, it's very sad.

I suppose they could become Cyberdramon or Gigadramon. There'll be no confusion with the Cyberdramon or Gigadramon we know since Yoshi and Zilla have names of their own already.

LOL! This is good stuff. Got any more?

Actually, there is one: Lilithmon. Since we agreed, FMDs=bad, and you've already got two, why don't we stick with Lilithmon? Her attack is Phantom Pain. I'll post a pic later. She looks demoness-ish enough. Say, when all twelve Devas come together, will the Sinduramon the original one or the red one? EDIT: Heeere's Lilith! But the pic doesn't go from head to toe.

Red Gorilla (and therefore Ultimas) was in a Japanese movie called Fire Mountain Howls. I doubt it'll ever be PR-ized for the US. But, considering how Wild Force usually goes, I'm not too distraught about that. Let's get this season over with and bring on Ninja Storm.

Ah. I'm watching it right now, and I haven't heard one jokey line, one line that didn't fit. The stupid and corny dialogue, mockery of the actors... ain't there. I think it's more of a case of purist overreacting: it's either [i]exactly[/i] the same word for word or the dubbers must be drawn and quartered. I know in the Digimon fandom, when Takato's name was pronounced ta-kah-to (in Japan it's more like tokka-toe) people acted like the dubbers had shot the president. Every board I was on was covered up with such complaining and moaning that I couldn't believe it. The same goes for when Culumon was called Calumon. The purists were ready to go to war. If you use the name Kerpymon instead of the original name Cherubimon, the next two pages of the thread will be of purists flaming you. Come on, people, the dubbers shouldn't change things, but it's not the end of the world if they do. Now, there is exactly one groanable thing about this episode: The woman with the blue streak in her hair (is she hot or what?) is rambling and they're saying it's like no language on Earth, but she's just speaking Japanese. Of course, you've got to remember what age group it's targeted at. Does your average American 8- to 12-year-old know Japanese when he or she hears it? If not for having watched the Japanese version of Runaway Digimon Express (the only version there is right now because they won't get off their butts and dub it and the other movies. Of the seven movies, we've got two and a half.) And what the woman was saying was probably random words that didn't make sense to them in the Japanese version, because they didn't act like the understood and she's got to do hand signals with everyone but Daigo. So that was actually a pretty clever way to do it.

I wish it did. It'd be a lot better than what Pokemon usually has to offer. :smirk:

Who does the dub of Ultraman? Which company? I loved SHSSS, though it only had maybe four different sets (school hallway, school cafeteria, Sam's basement/room, Malcolm's computer alcove thingy.) It was fun, and Kilokhan was a great bad guy.

I don't know how the 'flu' part would go over, I guess it depends on her.

And, not so long ago in a dimension far, far away, Janyuu Wong, Rob ?Dolphin? McCoy, and Kenta Kitagawa drank from their respective cups of coffee. It was four in the morning the night after the encounter with the D-Hulks. The coffee stung their lips and throats as it went down, but the result was worth the irritation: The adults would be good for several hours, and small, skinny Kenta might not need to sleep for half a day. Data coffee was EbiBurgermon?s specialty, more powerful than any human-made coffee. He made it especially for the programmers, for whom sleep was a luxury to be indulged in only occasionally. It was Dolphin that made the discovery. ?The good news is, I?ve figured out how to make a Digital Zone that can get everyone who wants to go a ride to the digital world. And with the proper adjustments, that portal from Yamaki?s Juggernaut can serve as a track of sorts that any Digimon anywhere can use to get to the Zone. Bad news is, we?d have to have pretty much total control of Hypnos to do it. This won?t be a matter of ?throw the switch when the timer hits zero.?? ?It?d take some kind of miracle to get the control room free for even a few minutes,? Janyuu said. ?How do we do it?? ?We only need a few minutes if we perfect the routine beforehand. As for how... I think we?ve found that miracle. That little Pururumon we?d brought in earlier, the one that thinks he?s God?? ?Yes?? Dolphin said. ?What about him?? ?He may have a good reason for that ego. I?ve analyzed some of his data, and there?s something in him lying dormant. Something powerful beyond belief. I don?t know exactly what it does, but if he?s used to having it at its full power, he could very well be right about his estimation of himself. All we?ve got to do is figure out what it is, how to unlock it, and most of all, how to get him to use it the way we want him to.? ?I don?t think he?ll go for that last part,? a voice said from the door. ?From what I can tell, he?s not overly fond of humans.? Dolphin turned to see his ?son,? Adrian. He was paler than Alice, but his hair was solid black, easily as dark as Kenta?s. His eyes were the same blue as his ?sister?s.? He wore black slacks and a black shirt. His tie was slightly crooked, and Dolphin resisted the urge to straighten it for him. A slight flaw in the program had been that whenever he went from his Dobermon form to his Adrian form, his tie was always [i]just[/i] off-center. Being a perfectionist, it drove him crazy to not be able to fix it. And Adrian, being Adrian, didn?t really care. ?Adrian? Do you know what time it is?? ?Yeah. Alice sorta figured out how to reset our internal clocks so we don?t get sleepy on schedule. With the big exodus getting so close, we didn?t want to miss anything. Don?t worry, we?ll set it back soon.? Dolphin had created Alice/Youkomon and Adrian/Dobermon to be as humanlike as possible when in their human forms, including the need to sleep. It was somewhat annoying to them to have to spend so many hours of the day sleeping when their ?bodies? didn?t even require it. It seemed they?d figured out how to do something about it. ?Or what if I set it back now?? Dolphin said, rummaging through a stack of disks. ?I knew I should have put up a firewall so you couldn?t hack your own programming. Do you know what you two could do to yourselves?? ?Wait!? Adrian said. ?That Pururumon! He says... he says he used to be called Zhuqiaomon. Most of the other Digimon don?t want you to even say the name. He says he sensed the Devas here, and that he knows that other Ryo, and... and a lot of stuff that no eccentric Baby Digimon could know. He knew I was Dobermon, though I haven?t been Dobermon in weeks!? Janyuu thought for a moment. ?If he?s from the other dimension, that explains a lot. If he really is his world?s Zhuqiaomon, maybe he could shed some light on this parallel universe stuff. Maybe that could even give us an easier way to get the Digimon back to the Digital World.? ?And if he?s his world?s Zhuqiaomon,? Adrian said, ?then we?ve got to get him back. Who knows what?ll happen to his world if its guardians aren?t in place?? ?I feel sorry for that world if he?s one-fourth of its leadership,? Kenta said. ?Anyway, we?re working on it. If we can get access to some of his powers, it could go a long way to enabling us to make the exodus. Could you get Pururumon?? ?Sure, I?ll...? Adrian began. ??fall asleep in about ten minutes, and so will Alice,? Dolphin said. ?I?ve restored your original internal clock settings. [i]I?ll[/i] get Pururumon. And if you ever pull a stunt like that again...? ?You know what?? Adrian said. ?I?ll bet I?m the first kid whose dad told him not to try to alter his own programming.? ?You?re...? ?Don?t worry, we won?t do it again.? [i]At least, we won?t get caught doing it again.[/i] Adrian ran off to find his ?sister.? Dolphin shook his head as Adrian left. Then, before putting the disk away, he altered Alice?s and Adrian?s internal clock once more, changing their sleep time from six hours to three and a half. After all, what was the point of being a digital entity if you had to play by the same rules as normal humans? Dolphin forced down the urge to take another whack at the tie situation. [i]He?s supposed to be human; humans are imperfect. Besides, what would he say if he found I was trying to tweak him like working the bugs out of a program? Especially after what I just told him.[/i] He decided that he had made the last alteration to his children. ?You did a good job with him and Alice,? Janyuu said. ?They?re from the Digimon core program, you know,? Dolphin said. ?They?re as much real people as any human or Digimon in this complex. The design may be manmade, but everything that?s not just skin deep?s all their own.? Dolphin stood. ?I?m going to go find our extradimensional friends and our favorite personality-challenged bird.?

You can usually tell sentai footage from US footage because the filming quality's not as good and the Green Ranger's chestplate looks a lot more metallic. It's called Super Sentai, and, much as PR does now, it's always followed the one-season mini-universe format. MMPR S1= Zyuranger, MMPR S2=Dairanger (but they only used the zord battle footage, because the Dairangers were different people in different costumes, as it's always been. Almost all Ranger footage in S2 and S3 is from the US. Except for the White Ranger, whose costume is a Dairanger costume.) S3=Kakuranger, (same zord-battle-only rule with sentai footage, except for the Aquitians arc. The Aquitian costumes are the Kakuranger costumes and their fights are mostly sentai footage.) Zeo=Ohranger, Turbo=Carranger, Space=Megaranger, Lost Galaxy=Gingaman, Lightspeed=GoGoV (despite the lack of the word 'Ranger' in Gingaman and GoGoV, they are part of the Ranger line.) Time Force=Timeranger, Wild Force=Gaoranger (which sentai fans hate as much as most PR fans hate Wild Force. It's times like this that I miss PR doing its own storyline and Super Sentai's just a source of battle footage. It's long past time for the folks that brought us MMPR S3 and PRiS to take the wheel again. But we all know it will never happen.) And last but not least is Ninja Storm, aka Hurricanger. But in Japan, teen-morphs-into-spandex-wearing-martial-artist shows are a genre like any other, and no one is a ripoff of the other. Just like we don't say Law and Order is a ripoff of LA Law, Hill Street Blues, In The Heat Of The Night, et al, it's just another cop/courtroom show, or Friends isn't a ripoff of Seinfeld, it's just another sitcom. You know what Ultraman reminds me of? Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad (aka Gridman.) The costume's very similar, and it's got the one-gets-really-big,-others-get-attack-vehicles thing going. Both are by Tsubaraya, so I think Tsubaraya does Ultraman-type sentai and TOEI does Power Rangers-type sentai. Also, Tsubaraya's names are simpler than TOEI's. Tsubaraya gives us Ultraman, Gridman, etc. TOEI, however... it's Kamen Rider Black RX (aka Masked Rider to us) and Zyuranger's full name is Kyouryuu Sentai Zyuranger (Dinosaur Task Force [whatever-zyu-means] Rangers) and the Psycho Rangers from PRiS (or rather, Denji Sentai Megaranger (Electromagnetic Task Force Mega Rangers) to Japan) were called the Jaden Sentai Nejiranger (Evil Electric Task Force Twisted Rangers.) How much you wanna bet the people behind Ultraman and Gridman would have just called the Psycho Rangers "Twistedman?" (Pretty much all things villain-related in Megaranger had the word 'neji' in the name somewhere. Including the monsters, which were just "Neji" and whatever the monster's based on (kinda like Wild Force does with the word Org for the monsters, only at the beginning instead of end.) Nejiru (or something like that) means twisted.) As for bad dubbing in Ultraman, pretty much all dubs 'have some fun' with the dialogue. It's to be expected. The second season of Digimon was especially bad about it. Not one line got away without dumb jokes thrown into it. But that was all that kept the second season from being as boring as heck. Digimon's second season was so bad Pokemon looks like a masterpiece by comparison. Still, when Azulongmon, who's like a god to the Digimon, says things like "And so the Crest of Kindess was reformatted into the Digimental of Miracles. It was a tough job, so we hired a general contractor." virtually every other sentence, it can totally ruin the feel of a scene that's actually good and meant to be serious. But I don't think Ultraman's that bad about it. But, I haven't watched Ultraman that much.

I try to avoid spoilers. After having Digimon Tamers completely ruined for me by knowing exactly what would happen before it did, where you'll find future information about any show I watch, you won't find me. I know it'll be called Ninja Storm, the Japanese version's called Hurricanger, and the Blue Ranger's a girl. Beyond that, I don't know and don't want to know. Say, Shadow, the thing about the weird armor: That funky getup that Wes has, from the Battle Fire, and the sword that's almost as big as he is. That's pretty bad. Andros' Battlized form's pretty weird too. And, of coruse, there are the Mega Battles and when Carter's bike attaches to him. That's what's wrong with quite a few of them: They're so big and bulky that the Ranger wearing it shouldn't be able to stand up, much less fight.

"And of course, we can?t blame them ourselves, because that would just be ridiculous." That was the best part. So, so true. It's always the fault of TV, The System, rap music... surely [i]I'm[/i] not responsible for what I do.:eek: Great article.

Radical! You'd better keep going. Sorry I haven't replied until now, but the whole thing was a quite a bit to read in one sitting. I love the deeper, darker tone of this. And remember, the views counter said 46 last I looked, so people are reading.

I went to that site a while back, and it turns out Cole doesn't have the Animarium Armor. Also, only Merrick has a Savage Cycle. And, no Forever Red or TF/WF crossover, just one ranger apiece from five random past seasons against yet another org of the day: Rakushaasa, who steals the Rangers' courage (a plot we've seen three times in the US.) The general orgs have a face theme, as we know. Rakushaasa is the hair. I won't say he's the [i]most[/i] ridiculous thing I've seen in PR, but he comes close. Yeah, Dairanger (S2) did have different costumes from Zyuranger (S1) as well as different people, different storyline, different everything. They've had the new-season-is-new-universe thing from the outset in Japan. We only see one Dairanger costume in PR: The White Ranger. Also, Kakuranger (S3) used the Aquitian costumes all along. The Alien Rangers arc was a nod to Kakuranger, using sentai footage in normal-sized-monster battles for the first time in two years. One thing I wish they'd kept from Kakuranger: Instead of one evil cat/girl, there were five, the Hanarangers. Rito (whose ***. equivalent is more serious than the one we know) turns five cats into five evil ninja Ranger babes. Their costumes were pretty cool.