#lov rambles

[digi-lov]

Digimon & Magical Witches

Bandai V-Pet Crossovers Part 2 (see Part 1 here)

With Tamagotchi's original launch in 1996, then Digital Monsters in 1997, Bandai and Wiz released Magical Witches in 1998!

While Tamagotchi were based on eggs, and Digital Monsters on cages, the Magical Witches v-pet is shaped like a book, cover and all!

Just like the original lines of Tamagotchi and Digimon, Kenji Watanabe was also the designer for the Magical Witches. Besides going through different stages, the Witches were also divided into four different clans each representing a different magical element. Which tribe of Witches you would raise depends on the version of the v-pet you have.

The clans and their respective magic are as follows:

Eneruge, who specialize in fire magic, Earthlin, who specialize in Earth magic, Baluluna, who specialize in wind magic, and Aquary, who specialize in water magic.

As your Witch grows, it can study other elements of magic! They cannot learn their opposite element until Gen 4 (and master it by Gen 5). So a Eneruge Witch has to learn Earthlin and/or Baluluna magic before they can learn Aquary magic.

[images from gotchi-garden]

Unfortunately this franchise never took off, and no further lines were created past the original line up. The toys are now quite the rare find and any online listings are super expensive.

But part of the franchise lives on within the Digimon franchise!

The Land of Witchelny is now portrayed as another dimension, so to speak, another layer to the Digital World we know. According to offcial DigimonWeb profiles, the land is ruled by elders of each clan and three sages that lead a council governing the clans.

Witchelny is split into four blocks for each cardinal direction, each occupied by a clan, and in the center lies Mount Brocken. On the top of Mount Brocken, the clans have established a joint magic school. Those who master magic (advanced programming language) at said magic school, move on to travel to the Digital World we know.

Here is a list of Digimon, who have been confirmed to have come from Witchelny: Wizardmon /X (master of fire and earth magic), FlareWizardmon (master of fire magic), Sorcerymon (master of light and ice magic), Witchmon (master of wind and water magic), Mistymon (master of various magics, of which fire is its forte), MedievalGallantmon (a legendary hero, who protected Witchelny in ancient times) and Wisemon (born in a magic-less region of Witchelny).

Furthermore, Hexeblaumon is a Digimon that came to Witchelny from the Digital World, and mastered ice magic there.

On the Option Card, Absolute Blast, which features HexeBlaumon, you can also see the symbol of Aquary!

Absolute Blast BT5-097 by Shin Sasaki from BT-05 Booster Battle of Omni

Comparing the original Magical Witches evolutionary charts to the what magic we know these Digimon to be proficient in, we can make some possible connections.

Wizardmon being a master of fire and earth magic, and Witchmon being a master of water and wind magic, these original Witches line up with their abilities.

[Wizardmon: Eneruge native master top, Earthlin native master bottom] [Witchmon: Aquary native master top, Baluluna native master bottom]

However with official artwork, such as the one below, portaying fire and water magic as their respective specialties, I believe the top sprites would be more likely.

With Mistymon being proficient in all magic, only the "Soul" type of Witch applies, which is the same in all clans.

I find this stuff super interesting! But wait... doesn't that one face look familiar...?

SATAN?!

If you are interested in Magical Witches, I recommend you check out gotchi-garden! They have a very detailed coverage on these. Also shoutout to @/MagicLad_Ty on twitter who first brought these to my attention!

#digimon #digimon tcg #digimon card game #digisafe #digica #デジカ #digimon references #Tamagotchi #Magical Witches #Wizardmon #Wizarmon #Witchmon #HexeBlaumon #lov rambles #digimon lore

[onepiece-lov]

I wish the One Piece card game wouldn't use so many anime renders/screenshots for their cards... I mean, look at this difference

Both of these are Leader Cards, so the same rarity.

Also when they use shots from the actual anime the landscape format of the screen doesn't work with the portrait format of the cards.

Left a "rare" from the first Booster Set, right a reprint of the same card included in a later Starter Deck.

This looks even worse when the character has no effect.

So, this is not a "normal art vs. alt art" argument. I get that the rarer cards are usually intended to look cooler/better.

And this predominantly affects the main characters. Maybe it's because they have more anime renders readily available, or because the animation teams are more practiced on them, so they're easy and quick to make. But it just feels like they cheap out on the MAIN cast, with artwork so unimportant it doesn't even have artist credit.

I mean, this is the Straw Hats Starter Deck, which the whole game launched with!

And even looking at the game as a whole, for example, these are all cards we got of Robin:

Not counting the Ms All Sunday cards, as they don't work nicely with neither in Straw Hat Crew themed decks, nor to display in a collection of the crew.

#One Piece #One Piece tcg #OP #OPTCG #One Piece Card Game #straw hat crew #lov rambles

[m1raka]

i’m going to vacuum seal them both and watch them explode

#rhythm heaven #rhythm tengoku #rhythm heaven ds #rhythm heaven gold #sketch #rockers #student rocker #jj rocker #deshi #i hate them both so much FDSVJNJOFDVWJWJONVFDDFVWOIJNVFWDNJJO #they should die NOW!!!!!!! #ROCKERS UHHDINJOREGIJONRVWE😭😭😭😢😢😢😢😢 #jjs hair is the end of me #i lov you rockers 🥰🥰 #throwing up right now criyng #i love them both very much☺️☺️☺️ #they still make me gay /ref #i remember back in december i make this whole ass backstory for both of them in my head and overtime i just kinda forgot about it #UWAHAHAAAHSHAB😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 #i need to draw them more but. i’m so bad at drawing boys ☹️☹️ i can only draw pretty WOMEN I LVOR WOMEN #i actually lv9r thr m both very much #count you r drays jj rockers hair #sorry for thr ramble in the captions i’m nomrslu about th rm #drawing two people at the same time is probably my limit i just can’t draw more than two Ugghh

[losnordiquitos]

did yuo know,,,,,april is autism acceptance month!!!!!!!! can we see sweden being autistic

yaaaay, um !!! i feel like big part of sve being autistic is him being nonverbal/having selective mutism so i tried to give him an aac device for the drawing... happy autism acceptance month gang...

#hws sweden #aph sweden #art log #for anyone who is more familia with this stuff feel free to comment #i'll like to if illustradedincorrectly or if there a better way to show off him using it... ! #i specifically used the ´talkpad wego' model for this ! #hope u like it ! i wanted to make it something a little more high effort... i was a little stumped in what to do at first for this request. #but i was excited to do it! i wanned to try my hands at it... hehe . i wasnt confident in how to illustrate sweden being autistic ... #first idea was to drawhim stimming ... but i felt like that was too idk... overdone? cant find a word for wat i wanna say... #Not a dig to ppl who draw charater stimming!! i think i just wanted to something that i haven't seen depicted as much #although it is harder to depict things like being nonverbal and that ... but anyways! im rambling too much!!! #to anyone who read all these ramble thank you & im sorry ... #HOPE U SEE THIS ANON... LOV 2 U...

[chrliekclly]

if you ever want to talk about your thoughts on joyce .. Peeks over the corner of your blog. i love talking and hearing ppls thoughts on joyce sooo much even if they're different from my own!! and your analysis and stuff is always so well thought out

i hope u dont mind if i answer this publicly to take advantage of th request nd get my ideas out ther (also tyvm im happy u like my insane takes on these idiots, iv ben thinking abt them for almost 10 years)

i said a lot here so gnna 'read more' it

iv ben building trans charlie n my head fr, like i said, nearly 10 years. i used to view him as cis bcuz i always try to take as much frm th source material as i can wen i craft my HCs nd i had v personal (stupid) hangups insofar as him explicitly referring to his junk multiple times nd bottom surgery simply not being on my radar as a naive littl trans idiot deep in th sauce tht transmen oftn fall into w phallo being viewed so so poorly

evn still i leaned towards transmasc charlie nd always lovd moments tht let me imagine, for a moment, it being true, like his discomfort w taking off his shirt [hundred dollar baby, charlie kelly: king of the rats, the gang exploits the mortgage crisis, young charlie and mac deleted scenes, etc etc etc], or bonnie yelling abt ppl stealing her "charlie-girl" [the waitress is getting married] which i lovd to see as her accidentally misgendering him while drunk off her ass.

having grown out of my phallo issues (nd if ur reading this and u still view phallo super poorly, please do some research and grow too), ive in recent years fully subscribed to transmasc/nb charlie, and view his timeline something like this:

baby -> elementary: charlie refers to himself as a boy, doesnt "come out," simply has no idea he's afab. bonnie lets him dress however he wants and refers to him as asked. when charlie gets confused about his genitals, bonnie says his dick will grow in later lol, makes charlie wear a dress in public restrooms and tells him its just a game

middle: puberty hits and charlie gets confused and scared. bonnie puts him on blockers w.o explaining them ("my mom used to vaccinate me like every month" [the gang gets quarantined]) charlie goes on content and oblivious. STP acquired because hes "a late bloomer" and his dicks still not growing in?? weird. confides this in mac once, but he doesn't understand.

high: charlie finally registers that he's trans after forgetting theres a health class 1 day and not being able to skip it. throws him for a loop a bit but he becomes actively invested in his goals. he gets to start T and wants to have surgeries. "what guy hasnt done some extensive research on his own genitalia?" [mac is a serial killer]

college (aged): able to surgically transition (ty medicare) and continues on with life as we kno him now

joyce, imo, fits neatly into these views.

as a transmasc nb who came out young nd prefers to be seen as just A Guy by strangers, i grew up v vehemently against anything girly that might get me misgendered, but th more i began to 'pass,' th more @ home n my body i felt, th more and more comfortable i am w femininity, th more i wdnt mind putting on a dress, as long as th general public wd see me as "a man in women's clothes." n my mind, i prescribe something not exactly th same but v similar to charlie.

i see charlie "i dont really identify" kelly as afab and nb. i see joyce as a "character" he originally created to distance himself from the dysphoria of putting on a dress as a young trans boy, but that became part of him as the hard lines he drew in the sand as a child became blurry with age and self acceptance. charlie's comfort with himself allows joyce to evolve into a more solid persona, one he enjoys embodying and allowing to become a permanent facet of who he is. he's ok with being referred to as either. they're both him.

so maybe joyce comes out a bit more outside of the bathroom now.

#ask #pariskim #charlie kelly #joyce kelly #ramblings #i hav lots of thoughts nd feelings nd smday ill draw out charlie's whole timeline th way iv ben meaning to #th same way charlie holds th gang togethr charlie holds my whole viewpoint of iasip togethr #i gave myself a headache writing this post i spent more time xplaining my years of tboy charlie thinking than joyce im sry lmao #but i do lov her

[karda]

some places on my island i forgot to post :P ❤️❤️

#i lov this island ..... #there's like a quarter of it that's completely empty and unfinished #and another part i wanna redo #but i still like it a loy #lot* #animal crossing new horizons #animal crossing #acnh #rambling #i may have posted one or two pf these spots ..... but shshhhhsh

[nyaskitten]

"erm your pets dont actually love you its just some sort of chemical response in their br-" SHUT THE FUCK UP DICKHOLE PETS LOVE US!!!!

#raine's rambles #i dont even have a pet but im pissed on behalf of pet owners #those adorable big doggies that cuddle with tjeir owner i lov them . dogs are so silly theyre so cute.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

🖤🖤🖤

#bitches i lov. and its just zoro #listen. hes so dumb and so cute. i wanna watch him bleed out #r my ear lobes pierced 3 times bc of zoro? no. its bc 3 is my fave number but also bc of zoro lol #one piece #roronoa zoro #this is only from the 1st 130 or so episodes. and im not posting the ones with sanji and chopper #bc they deserve their own posts 😭 #one piece ramblings #tw blood

[yugiohz]

night shift and such

#theyre equally annoying esp to each other but theyre also rlly lonely and bored so they bear with each other's rambles and weird habits #like good colleagues! #bnha #dabi #shigaraki tomura #himiko toga #lov #sketches #i love shigaraki like this #i miss his mop head and skinny frame and bad posture and sickly grey complexion and wobbly #speech bubbles #and his iron deficiency #kyaaaaa

[thiccsys]

if geno ever knew that he, in some ending of his timeline, could become error, he would actually go insane.

he’s already kinda crazy. i mean being in a void mostly by himself (aside from being stuck with the kid that KILLED HIM) drove him to be insane enough to fight in front of papyrus while everyone basically called him a coward.

if, by some way, maybe geno leaving to the omega timeline after his timeline being picked off by error himself, he knew that he and error are the same, he would obsess over never being like error.

and ok maybe im biased but he meets cross they kiss theyre in love blah blah but geno’s still insanely obsessed with the fact that he and error are the same. how did it happen? what happened? why? will he be like that? is it fate? can he stop it? why would he ever destroy entire universes like some ruthless monster (disregarding the fact that he manipulated and hurt sans to get what he wanted; TO DESTROY HIS OWN TIMELINE)? he isn’t a bad guy like that. he always has everyone’s best interest in heart even if his ideas get a little unhinged (wow. sounds a lot like error doesnt it).

while obsessing over stopping whatever his fate may be, he slips further into it. geno became error because he “played with his determination” and sent himself to the antivoid. its infamous for making error and errors like him (proferror, circuit, blueberror). in an attempt to save himself, geno dooms himself to the same fate of his destructive counterpart.

maybe, in a parallel multiverse, he gets his lazy ass up and dedicates studies to ERRORS. he regards them as some other species and dedicates everything he has to figuring out what they are and, most importantly, how he can prevent himself from becoming one.

cross is a little worried about him.

i love the whole error is geno thing. its the best fucking thing CQ has ever done and not a single day goes by where i dont eat that shit up like my life depends on it. thinking about making an au of this ;P

#error sans #geno sans #aftertale #antivoid #undertale #utmv #aus #undertale aus #i lov error #rant post #rambles #what if #please hear me out #cross sans #i need more geno and error being the same person content its driving me insane #i feel physical pain when thinking about this #im okay i just have issues #im so obsessed

[mixtercandy]

mightyena icon that i made a while ago, i thoight it was too cool to not post so here it is in the open!

#cand posts #cand arts #icons #pokemon #pokemon ruby #pokemom sapphire #mightyena #i lov mightyena so much u guys hav no idea #maybe one day ill ramble abt how much &why i lov em but i dont wana clog these tags too much #eyestrain

[digi-lov]

Let's have a look at the Twin Digimon, Terriermon and Lopmon!

Although only referred to by their baby names, Gummymon and Chocomon, both Terriermon and Lopmon had their debut in the Movie Digimon Adventure 02: Vol.1 Hurricane Touchdown!!/Vol.2 Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals.

[If you have only seen the English Digimon The Movie, I highly recommend watching the japanese original for each of the 3 movies cut together for it. This movie alone has about 50% of its content cut.]

Most of you will easily remember Terriermon, but Lopmon only shows up in its child form in this ending illustration done by the late Yasuo Ōtsuka.

Instead of Kenji Watanabe or other Bandai staff, Terriermon and Lopmon were designed by the movie's director, Yamauchi Shigeyasu himself, for the movie.

On the design sheet, we can see several points in which Terriermon and Lopmon were supposed to be distinct from each other in their body style. On this sheet, Terriermon is 1.7 heads tall, while Lopmon is 2 heads tall. Even if they would fall straight down, Lopmon's ears also appear to be shorter than Terriermon's. Lopmon's visible canine is a design element still used today, even though in terms of size and proportions, the twins are identical in modern media.

Due to its popularity from the Adventure 02 movie, Terriermon was chosen as partner for Jianliang Li/Henry Wong in the next anime season, Digimon Tamers, and by association, Lopmon was chosen as partner for Jian's sister Xiaochun/Suzie.

According to the Reference Book, Lopmon is the lonely crybaby type, while Terriermon is calm and robust. Both have the move Petit Twister, while Terriermon's signature move is Blazing Fire and Lopmon's is Blazing Ice. Furthermore, the Reference Book entries of their Baby I stages Zerimon and Cocomon state that they're the only Digimon that are born as twins, but the reason why is still unknown. They also aren't exclusively born as twins and can hatch alone from eggs individually as well.

On the Digimon Web Twitter, Terriermon and Lopmon appear on various occasions, including the celebration of ふたごの日 futago no hi Twins Day. (5th of February)

The Card Game also features them together on some of their cards! And there's even official card sleeves with the two.

Both of them appear to be very popular and are featured in many parts of the franchise, Lopmon in particular, being chosen as a partner Digimon for characters in a number of games.

#digimon #digimon card game #digimon tcg #digica #digisafe #デジカ #Terriermon #Lopmon #Takase #koki #Henry Wong #Suzie Wong #Jianliang Li #Xiaochun Li #Wallace #Willis #Hurricane Touchdown #lov rambles

[didderd]

I am really shy but aaa wanted to share these with u.. since you said u shipped it :P and just an excuse to draw them hanging out more :D

hehe ty for the doodles! i love them!! <333 made me wanna doodle something myself :3

hehe

don't let the boy fool you! he's not possessive in the slightest, he's just a little shit sometimes, and thought it'd be funny to mess with Fangs. gonna get himself killed smh.

#'s an empty threat lmao #n one that he will deny ever making #bc he ''WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING'' #kdjnb anyways. i lov wen a swap's got a secret chaotic/dark/etc side lmao. wen they'r not as innocent n responsible as they let on #wanna explore that kinda thing with tou :3 #but ye tou is poly lmao #he doesn't care at all if soma has a bf or smthn #(ofc he wouldn't actually pursue someone who has a partner who's not ok with it but. i still ship lmao) #but he might b a lil annoyed at soma being yanked away wen they were having friendly conversation hehe #anyways. i will stop rambling #soma is adorable #i lov #<333 #tou x soma #soma #tou sans #swap tourette's sans #tou fanart #undertale #undertale au #didderd fanart #didderd art #didderd asks #smokbeast #sry again that this took so long <3

[novantinuum]

nhfjsdfjnh- rewatching movie clips- and i'm not gonna lie-

steven, i LOVE you, but

"as much as i've looooved dismantling the empire and saving all your planets" is the absolute most FULL of it possible way you could've ever stated this concept

it's probably for the best he stepped the fuck away and didn't "take" the throne as white and the others wanted him to, i really don't think he needed the ego boost

#not tagging this bc i know there's people out there who will twist my words lol #but i find it Fascinating how full of himself steven can be sometimes #like Yeah no he Did In Fact save gemkind from themselves #but Damn m'guy you really gotta go and Say it like that? dangle it in front of everyone? lknbfhjddg #be humble- jeebus lol #jen rambles #anyways i am once again stating it- i love steven but steven is Flawed just as all of these characters are flawed #and his greatest vices are definitely feeling like he has to always be in control #and getting carried away with himself- both in his theatrics and in the way he interacts with others #and here he is TBH getting carried away with a small dose of hubris #juicy i lov me a protag with a dose of hubris

[lakemetaphor]

I just wanna talk about Tomura for a second. And yes, this is about the 419 leaks and how they've been bouncing around in my head for the past 24 hours. And I apologize in advance for how long this is probably going to be. 🫠

Something about it has been bothering me, and not from a writing stand point, I actually think it's written very well. But instead, it's that it's kind of left me with this weird, almost gross feeling every time I look at those panels. That visual of AFO reaching out to baby Tenko is disturbing in such a way that it's hard to really put it into words at first.

For not one second of his life, has Tomura known peace. Since his birth, All for One has literally had his hands on him. Tomura has just been told that his entire life was preplanned, down to his literal birth. And not once has anything he's done, said, felt, believed, or hoped for has been his own. Everything he's ever wanted has been the result of AFO meddling, even if he wasn't aware. And when he finally got his conviction, the thing that became his primary driving force as a villain, it had stemmed from his childhood.

His father abusing him, his quirk and the result of that awakening, and being ignored by people on the streets. Which, we don't have confirmation that AFO had anything to do with that last part, but the result still stands.

And I know a lot of people are iffy on the execution. That everything that happened to Tenko/Tomura was orchestrated by AFO so now his character means nothing and his journey was for nothing. And all I can think is, it takes a special kind of writer to weave a character in such a way that the audience is feeling that same dread, disappointment, and hopelessness that that character themselves is feeling at the reveal.

Just last chapter (418), we had Tenko/Tomura say flat out that he has to believe he chose to kill his family or none of it makes sense. He doesn't understand why he was born this way. He doesn't like the idea that it might not have been of his own control. He needs there to be a reason. And the reason he attributed to it his entire life, his way of coping with that fact, had been the lie AFO fed him that he was born for destruction. And that is what became his driving force.

Something that we, the audience, have been made aware of during Tomura's origin chapters. AFO tells him to embrace the power to destroy, as that is what his impulses tell him to do. He is the one who puts that idea into his head.

So, really, like Tomura, we were all gaslit by AFO into believing that Tomura wanted to destroy hero society and the world, just like he did his family.

And I can see why that can be a disappointment, or why it can feel like wasted time. Because AFO has just told us it was. Which is what I mean by us, the audience, being able to experience Tomura's emotions with him.

Which shows just how good of a character Tomura is. That this reveal can happen and we feel angry, and betrayed, and like everything we experienced was for nothing. We feel hopeless. How do you come back from this? Where does a character go from here? What is the solution?

And, I don't know, I'm not writing this story, but I have some thoughts about it.

The main one being that Tomura is still a person. He still lived a life. His life. Regardless of how and why he was born, where he lived, who raised him, he still existed. And maybe he was never meant to be alive. Maybe he could have grown up a normal child had his quirk not been messed with. But the fact remains that, he didn't. At the end of the day he still lived the life he did. Regardless of why it happened.

He can still feel the feelings associated with that upbringing. He can still speak on those experiences. Because they are his own. They happened through his eyes, to his body, in his mind. And, as much as AFO wants to take credit for their origins, it was still Tomura who had to live them. There is only so much of a person you can control. You can guide them in a direction, encourage them towards a specific goal, give them all the tools and pretend it was fate, but you cannot control how they react to it and what they take back from it as a result.

And I think it's possible that Tomura will realize that is the case. Most notably, it could (and I think should) come from his memories of the League. AFO didn't tell him to believe in Twice and Toga when they went to sabotage Overhaul. He didn't make him bond over video games with Spinner. He didn't plant the idea in his head to ask for sushi from the MLA because of a one off conversation with Compress.

Maybe AFO had some say in who joined the League when it was first forming. Maybe he was the one who told Tomura to make it in the first place (I'm pretty sure he was). But nothing he could say or do or touch could make Tomura connect with them the way he did. The friends he made and the bonds he formed and the person he became while he was with them, was still his own. And I think that would be a great way to resolve Tomura as a character.

Because, even if he wasn't technically a failure of hero society like the rest of them, even though all of the hatred he had for the world has been diminished into the fault of AFO, at the end of the day, it was Tomura who decided he wanted to be a hero to the villains.

#im not here to tell you how to feel about a story one way or another #just sharing my ramblings in case it resonates with someone #plus i needed this out of my head lol #all seriousness aside #when i see afo its on sight 😤 #bnha spoilers #bnha 419 #bnha manga spoilers #bnha manga leaks #tomura shigaraki #tenko shimura #all for one #lov #league of villains #bnha analysis #kinda

[nyaskitten]

I like how Dragons Rising is letting Nya be more silly and goofy at times but also still super serious and kickass at others... like her cheering about Arin's pies in e20, or her saying "good empress? looks like mediocre-at-best empress to me" or her line about wet road conditions in the second short...

#I want her hand in marriage #love that shes being silly and quippy too now more #i lov nya #my wife #ninjago #ninjago dragons rising #raine's rambles #ninjago spoilers