New Digimon Adventure 25th Anniversary Exhibition poster was released yesterday.

Basically the anniversary key visual but now updated with all the Adventure kids. (Mimi chan’s pose 🙏🏻✅)

Details unclear but it seems this exhibition will replace DigiFes this year.

And that's a wrap on Digimon Con 2024!

It lived up to it's past versions where it was used as a platform to discuss various information already teased beforehand, with some exciting news for Digimon TCG and other parts of the franchise that don't get to shine in DigiFes due to the latter being an animation focused event.

The hosts mentioned several times, that look forward to the summer event, which means that we can expect new stuff to come out of DigiFes 2024.

I also liked how they didn't avoid the question about a new Digimon Game and just gave a vague answer like it's under development, at least we know something is in the works lol.

Agumon Real Time Talk was the highlight for me, Sakamoto san earnestly tried to connect with all Digimon fans around the world and that was really fun to watch.

The 25th Anniversary Digivice was also a really cool announcement. It's not just a prop anymore but actually functional with a lot of fun additions, the voice acting, anime music and scenes are particularly additions that I liked. Taichi and Yamato versions were expected, but I like how Piyomon's VA immediately shouted about where is the Sora Version, she's keeping it real for the rest of us who do like the other kids too!

I wish they'd shared more details about the Manga platform and Novel competition, I feel like that part was sort of glazed over without much details but just a "hey this is happening", okay cool but what exactly will it entail? Considering that they use this event to share the information, this announcement felt more like a tweet which will be elaborated later on.

The Card Game segment was the most exciting I feel, though I'm not well versed in TCG at all. New Digimon being revealed + live reading chapter 00 of Digimon Liberator was pretty cool. They also shared that Liberator will have a web comic and a novel, each will feature different protagonists and stories, the hosts contemplated amongst themselves whether the two different protagonists would get a chance to meet each other...?

I also liked them showing off all the China exclusive products at the end, always good to end the show with more fomo for foreign fans lmao.

As an Adventure only fan, I guess I have to look forward to DigiFes and the 25th Anniversary Exhibition planned for summer for any real news, for now all the new merch and collabs will suffice.

Thank you for bearing with my random posts today! It was fun to wake up and scream Digimon with others after a very long time.

Mato Seihei no Slave (2024 anime, S1)

Funny how there were two BDSM-themed ecchi anime this season. Unfortunately for Mato Seihei its opposite number was MahoAko, and it's not an even fight.

The ideas here are fun and interesting and Mato Seihei does make good and some clever uses of its power sets, but it doesn't commit to its core bit as much as it feels like it should.

The ostensible core conceit is that in this world where only women get superpowers and portals to hell keep absorbing people and releasing demons, the female protagonist Kyouka (the white haired one up there) has a BDSM master-slave theme power that turns a willing partner into an Ultimate Digimon-looking demon, and she uses this for the first time on a person when she meets male protagonist Yuuki. Every time he transforms and fights, she has to 'reward' him by fulfilling some desire, which means kissing/stepping on/showing tits/etc.

In practice, Yuuki's relationship with Kyouka (or any other woman, who can give him different forms by serving as 'master' in turn which is rad) doesn't factor into the transformation or his power at all, and also he doesn't really do shit. He matters for the inter-squad exhibition match in the middle episodes, he gets a super form that beats up a trash mob he could kill already and explicitly doesn't face the big boss (someone else fights it), and doesn't meaningfully contribute to any other encounter. Kyouka obviously gets possessive of him as other women start getting horny for him, but again whether any given rider likes, loves or hates him doesn't mean anything for the transformation. Also, the show leans hard on the lights and coloured soft filters and quick shots for when tits are out or the fetish play starts, and no-one gets overly into it or seems to really truly enjoy it. Yuuki never nuts or anything, even 'off-screen'.

Yuuki is, also, the long-standing and extremely tiresome modern generic romance/harem protagonist, i.e. a generically nice whiny soft boy with short black hair and one core skill and no real interests/edges to him, who is still screaming and being surprised/confused at tits by episode 12 of 12. He doesn't even provide more than basic levels of emotional support for the others' character arcs and moments, which makes it jar when they all start falling for him, as it always does.

The comparisons to Mahou Shoujo ni Akogarete aren't kind. That show leans the fuck in to its sexual content and makes it matter for plot and characters as well as being eye candy, and as I said, its protagonist Utena is actually the highlight because she has an actual character of her own and is delightful to follow. Yuuki could be replaced with a roomba that has a retractible dildo on it.

Mato Seihei's plot did arouse some interest and I like the characters besides Yuuki (they're fine at worst and pretty great at best), but it's pretty disappointing in this first season. A second one has already been greenlit so I guess it did well, but it'll have to hit the ground running to keep me on. The manga might do the sexual content better due to laxer constraints and maybe it just needs a bit to find its feet, but woof, it had the worst possible matchup this season.

Digimon Adventure Exhibition reveals logo, launches official Twitter and website.

It will be held in Summer 2024 with more details to be announced soon.