Reunited, for real.

super late (as per usual) but

happy belated halloween!! 🍭🎃🍬

thinking about Appmon’s finale again… tbh i always thought there’d be a small but vocal group of people who are extremely anti-tech in the wake of the (failed) Human Application Project?

Leviathan’s takeover was conceptually and existentially horrifying, and even if people don’t remember being controlled and trapped in Leviathan’s monochrome world, the lead up to the data-fication is out of a horror movie—i really think there are groups of people who’d go entirely off the grid and advocate for shunning AIs & technology due to the experience (and we just don’t see them appear on screen because it doesn’t fit Appmon’s theme of co-existence with technology).

which is to say… i think there’s a very high chance of Yuujin’s other friends and classmates, like Watson and co., thinking that Yuujin’s been kidnapped by his mom to go live in one of those anti-tech communes in the aftermath of Leviathan’s attack—he and his mom just disappeared immediately afterwards, no one can get in touch with him, but Haru and Ai seems very sure they’d see him again some day… from an outside perspective, Yuujin being whisked off to an anti-tech life is probably the most convincing explanation for his disappearance.

tbh, a part of me thinks Haru and Ai’s casual unwavering certainty of seeing Yuujin again freaks the other kids out a bit; they probably don’t think Yuujin is dead or anything—unless there are cases of people dying from the event, which i don’t think happened (Leviathan’s goal is to prevent death and fear of death)—but they do think Haru and Ai are coping really badly and maybe borderline delusional?

(on that note, i absolutely think Yuujin’s “mom” ran after the Project failed—it’s possible that she stayed to help rebuild or whatever, but given her involvement with L-Corp, she’d probably be in a lot of hot water. and if she stayed in the community, she’d have to come up with a reason for why her “son” isn’t around anymore… unless of course she goes public with Yuujin’s real identity, but there’s nothing that really suggests that the public knows about androids collecting human data in their midst in the epilogue? and a reveal like that would heighten anti-tech sentiment)

all of this is a very, very long-winded way to say i kinda love the idea of Watson running into a resurrected Yuujin years down the line when waiting for the subway or whatever, and trying to figure out the mystery of what happened to Yuujin back then. I don’t think he succeeds in getting the real story, but Watson is at heart a nosy busybody (affectionate).

((and then Yuujin derails the investigation by casually mentioning that he’s married/engaged to Haru now

watson: huh????? Wait that makes sense actually, now that i think about it… uhhh congrats??????))

“why didnt you redraw the background” they need to pay me real money to do that.

an appmon screenshot redraw in the year of our lord 2023? yes. Anything is possible

[original + comparison under the cut…]

mandated twice-yearly appmon art

+ the doodles from when i was trying to remember how to draw these people

haru birthday scribble before it's too late...

telephone imagery zero

(variants under readmore)

telephone imagery

these are new appmon drawings. gatchmon & doka from memory

let him cook.

I feel like I need to make a poll since I have the feature, so which appmon character do you like the best?

Gatchmon in pen! Doesn’t he look so fabulous in all these palettes? Oh, Haru and DoGatchmon are there too. Original sketches from 2020-2021.

gatchmon from april?!?!?!?

Another Gatchmon. This time I used some of the amazing manga art by Naoki Akamine as a reference. Feels like I'm slowly starting to figure out his design. He's deceptively hard to draw.