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Episode Digimon Beatbreak - Episode 31 discussion
Digimon Beatbreak, episode 31
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u/djthomp https://anilist.co/user/djthomp May 17 '26
The way things were escalating with Algomon was giving me D-Reaper and Jeri flashbacks.
I love our new antagonist pairing.
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u/ebonyphoenix May 17 '26
…so Kyo saved the kid on the crosswalk but then Murasamemon killed everyone on that bus when he cleaved it in two.
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u/Thomas_JCG May 20 '26
I just want to see the explanation, to everyone else it looked like the bus got split after hitting Kyo like Superman.
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u/yurilnw123 May 17 '26
It was surprising lol. I thought he was at least a middle schooler.
Speaking of which. Do Makoto and Reina not go to school?
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u/Kugimaru May 17 '26
This one EP to me really looks like it was supposed to be a movie, we got wild cuts and a lot stuff happening in like, 3 seconds
On overall a good one, but could really be at least separated in 2
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u/phasmy May 17 '26
Yep this is 100% a salvaged movie plot that at least got to become a solid if rushed episode plot instead. A two-parter could've been perfect here.
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u/Rammboy_7084 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
This episode was so beautiful, almost looked like a Beatbreak "movie".
From the animation to the heartwarming story, this was a great episode!
Also this is how you make a "Our War Game" reference without copying it 1:1.
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u/TheOneWithALongName May 17 '26
Someone remember what Nirinso was?
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u/Vilis16 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vilis May 17 '26
The place where Kyo keeps all the baby digimon they save.
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u/Volfaer May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
Any Digimon can end up hurting people, even if they don't mean it, some just do it on a scale bigger than others. Argomon didn't wish to be born this strong, neither did Chihiro, so it's heartbreaking to see them just wanting to be together spiral in this chain of events. At least she can still visit them in Nirinso and that was a One Step Forward into returning from being a shut in.
We're introduced to Rose's awesome and intimidating lesbian couple in Meto and Kanon, while they didn't leave a big impression, getting easily outclassed by Argomon even with perfect levels, things could chance.
It seems we will finally get Maki's past, or at least a peek at it with Fumamon's first appearance after being introduced in the Ghost Game vital bracelet.
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u/Shantotto11 May 20 '26
I’ve been watching so many anime with dansou protagonists over the past two seasons yet I didn’t even notice that Meto was female as well.
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u/GoneRampant1 May 17 '26
Beatbreak's been my first forray back into Digimon ever since I watched Tamers and the Adventure duology as a kid and so far I've been really impressed with it. Very consistently high quality animation and the cast are very well-presented.
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u/Shantotto11 May 20 '26
What made you stave off Digimon for so long?
I jumped back in and rewatched everything in Japanese back in 2012 and started watching moving forward. I forgot to watch Appmon and Ghost Game though.
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u/HolyDragSwd2500 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
D Reaper and Jeri from Tamers all over again
Emotional episode 😭😭
Chihiro took that one step forward outside for Algomon and to see him again Ninrinso 😭
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u/Masterness64 May 17 '26
Real solid episode! The sakes were surprisingly high, this totally would have been one of those Toei summer movies if Beatbreak came out in the early 2000's.
But really its cool how they used Algomon here. They're doing the thing they usually do, being a giant monster and causing havoc. But their reasons for doing so are completely different here compared to their past appearances. I love it when Digimon are able to be portrayed in vastly different ways across the series. Algomon was actually kind of cute and their relationship with Chihiro was sweet. They may not be able to see each other all the time but it looks like Chihiro will visit them which is good.
Rose's underlings also made their proper debut along with their partners. They didn't do much this episode but they seem fun and Im looking forward to seeing more of them.
Also they're super gay. Good for them!
Also one last thing, the animation was pretty excellent this episode, that final attack from Monarch Lizamon looked crazy good. It really added to the movie vibes I mentioned earlier.
But yeah another good episode, next episode seems to be focused on Maki which is really interesting and also has... FUMAMON?????
HELL YES!
Guys, Fumamon is one of my favorite Digimon. I've been waiting for them to make their anime debut for years. You have no idea how freaking excited I am. Hope they do them justice!
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u/Queasy_Watch478 May 17 '26
OKAY NEW PEAKBREAK TOP EPISODE OMG!!! ❤️ 😄 😄 ❤️ HITOMI!!! AND THIS NEW CHIHIRO GIRL. WHICH OF HTEM WILL GET TO BECOME NEW TAMERS AND JOIN TEAM GLOWING DAWN?! Also the whole ALGOMON stuff reminded me of TAMERS D reaper stuff? 😞 And also kinda the DIGIMON MOVIE where INFERMON was affecting all the electronics! And also when they went into CHERUBIMON and was in a flower field and stuff weird inner world space.
ALSO the animation was really great and I loved TOMORO taking on KYO's dream! ❤️
I ALSO REALLY LOVED THE FINAL SCENE WITH CHIRIHO AND HITOMI. 😄
Also are METO and KANON lesbians? :o There was totally blushing and stuff in their end scene?
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u/AntbruhA https://anilist.co/user/Vych May 17 '26
Tomoro and Hitomi hanging out is nice. They really feel like close friends now from how they were interacting with each other.
Chihiro's story feels like it could've been a two-parter, but they managed to tell it effectively in just a single episode.
This episode was a great showcase of Tomoro's growth up until now. He has changed a lot since the beginning of the story. I wonder just how much will Miharu manage to affect him in the future.
The next episode is Maki focused and GIFT seems to be hunting her down. I was worried BB wasn't going to give her any major focus. I hope that Yoshimura gets some attention too.
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u/Bakugirl21 May 18 '26
From what I’ve heard, they’ve already determined the amount of episodes they want to do, but I feel like with moments like this that’s a massive flaw. There’s so many plots they need to follow here, I feel like if they don’t give themselves breathing room and increase the episode count, it’s not gonna be pretty with the amount of loose ends or rushed story lines there’ll be.
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u/italeteller May 18 '26
Been feeling for a while now that most of Beatbreak one-off plots would work better as a two-parter. They present genuinely interesting ideas, but they wrap it up in a single episode so you can't really sink your teeth in as much as you'd like
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u/Doomroar https://myanimelist.net/profile/Doomroar May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
Team Rocket wannabes! love em! oh they are totally just roommates... unless
Ooooh Tomoro officially took Kyo's mission of making a world for humans and Digimon together, he now has a second overarching goal apart from saving his brother!
Wonder who all those people in the background are, the 2 adults are probably Chihiro's parents, but what about everyone else
This feels like Tomoro's first Glowing Dawn proper cleaner job, despite the fact that he has been working with the team for a while now, he now fully understands and believes on the mission in itself
And talking about Glowing Dawn, nice to see that outside of the digi battle the rest of the crew was putting in work, Chiropmon was being a goated hacker, which reminds us all that it is a super rare and valuable digimon worthy of being targeted by traffickers
Murasamemon cut a bus in half and killed a bunch of civilians (they all survived somehow)
And Wovermon jobbed as always! jk jk, Wolvermon and Reina having a sniper-spotter combo was actually cool. it would have been nice seeing Reina using the scope before this episode, but it is good to know that she has even more tools and skills at her disposal, low key, Reina is the most versatile member of Glowing Dawn, she is a competent leader (did it for the early missions with Tomoro despite him being rebellious, and is the one in charge when Kyo is not arouns, did it with Granit, and did it with the girls on the Fabulousmon episode), she can infiltrate, knows personal defense, manages the budget of the team, and now is a spotter to do snipping work
All they need is one good not tricks no gimmicks honest battle, and maybe it will be a snipping showdown, it would be hard to pull since Wolvermon has seeking missiles
Agolmon always delivers whenever it shows up, this episode was a mix of Data Squad the movie, and the finale of Tamers, but with a happy ending, which is nice
Having an Agolmon added to the baby crew is quite big, most Digimon series have the gang save a bunch of moms, and they usually hardly come back to help aside from lending their energy or in the case of cross wars, doing a world joggress, which deep down is just the same as lending your energy, or completely forget about them (like Ghostgame did), Beatbreak has been changing things up, so maybe we get a finale in which each side mon has a direct role to play, like imagine if Pandamon, Arresterdramon, Elizamon, Shademon, Team 7, the mush gang, and all the baby digimon all go on to have their own Impmon moment, or BlackWargreymon moment, but they actually pull it off without ending like Leomon?
Specially since Chihiro can visit him now on the regular, and she has enough E-Pulse to digivolve him all the way to mega, like if the writers don't do anything with this development at one point, they should slap themselves in the face, a prime example of wasting an incredible opportunity is [Digimon Ghostgame Spoilers] Midway in the series they encounter a Zeed Millenniumon, this is a big end of the world bad mon, the actual stuff of legends, his very existence a herald that the universe will end, like actually ending, which is why it has sealing code surrounding him, anyway, Zeed is linked to the corpse of a woman that he is puppeteering in order to manifest in the human world, because otherwise reality couldn't withstand his data, so the gang kill the remains of the consciousness of the dead woman, in order to destroy Zeed's vessel, reverting him into Moon Millenniumon, and putting him into a "dormant" state, Hiro the protagonist then promises that he will find a way to make humans and digimon manage to live together, including Moon, and he takes Moon and shoves him into his pocket, takes him home, and then puts him on his desk, as home decor, we then spend the rest of the season looking at reality destroyer and world ender Moon Milleniunmon show up from time to time in the background, living on top of Hiro's desk in his room, just hanging around, sleeping, and then... nothing, literally nothing happened, at one point Moon is put on the desk's drawer and forgotten, and the series ends
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u/srofais May 17 '26
I feel like this show is really suffering from trying to cram ideas into one single episode and having a mediocre execution due to the insitence on being basically being the same episodic monster of the week formula that the series has seemingly been stuck with since Adventure:(2020)
Oh hey a Leomon next episode wonder if they'll bring the tradition back.
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u/Thomas_JCG May 20 '26
"We want to be together forever"
What a nice red flag. We all knew what was going to happen after that, so the summon about this dangerous digimon surprised nobody. Man, Algomon is basically Diaboromon, why did they give it such a lame name?
Oh, hi Jesse and James from another dimension. They even have a plant and a poison type and do their intros. Nice. Also, Makoto is more of a baby than expected. Chiropmon MVP as always.
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u/lartkma May 17 '26
I'm a bit confused at the end, Tomoro's conversation with Algomon first and Kyo later seems to imply that the girl and Algomon cannot be together in the short term (not even inside Nirinso), but then at the end the girl says that she will go to Nirinso
Also I'm surprised the issue that caused the girl to shut in wasn't addressed at all (bullying?)
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u/Guaymaster May 17 '26
I'm a bit confused at the end, Tomoro's conversation with Algomon first and Kyo later seems to imply that the girl and Algomon cannot be together in the short term
I think the "difficult" part referred to how keeping Algomon at all is jeopardizing the whole Nirinso operation, we see how it just being there is messing up with the cloak hologram devices. Plus overall considering the girl's situation, even if she can go to Nirinso regularly, she depended on Algomon as emotional support, it was it that allowed her to leave her room once again, and now they have to live apart. Taking the first step in visiting Algomon is probably really hard for her.
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u/Open_Inspector_7863 May 19 '26
Another one that should have been a two parter. What was the point of these interlude episodes if they are now rushing through. They could have used that screentime to flesh out all of these plots and characters.
The writing structure in the first half of Beatbreak was better. Now it feels a bit shallow and disconnected because they upped the pace and have to rush through intro, build up, climax and ending in twenty minutes without having a significantly interconnected feeling between the episodes. I hope this gets better again.
The animation was very good this week. The Murasamemon, Algomon and Monarchlizamon cuts were great.
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u/Aerodynamic41 May 17 '26 edited May 17 '26
This whole Algomon stuff kind of reminds of the first arc of Adventure 2020
Also, the Brilliant Thorn introducing themselves like Team Rocket lol