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GAME: Digimon Survive

Plus, after being burned by Ghost Game's promise of being a new Tamers but devolving into a monster-of-the-week formula, Survive is pretty much everything I want and more.

FireChick wrote:

Plus, after being burned by Ghost Game's promise of being a new Tamers but devolving into a monster-of-the-week formula, Survive is pretty much everything I want and more.

You burned yourself because they told people from jump it was an episodic ghost stories show and that what the show always presented as. You literally saw three characters to start that took place in the human world and made your own assumptions.

You burned yourself because they told people from jump it was an episodic ghost stories show and that what the show always presented as.

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You burned yourself because they told people from jump it was an episodic ghost stories show and that what the show always presented as.

Wait, when and where did the creators say this? I don't remember encountering anything of the sort. Was there a Twitter post about this or something? Please show me if you're able.

The latest Digimon series Digimon Ghost Game will begin on October 3, 2021! This is a series of interest that brings in innovations to the series, such as mysterious phenomena and an episodic format, in a story where the protagonist, Hiro, is entrusted Gammamon by his father and becomes involved in various mysterious phenomena.

Q: Chioka-san, at what point did you come to be involved in the production for this series?

A: While they were still at the stage of the very first planning stages, the producer, Sakurada-san1, called out to me. It was right around that time when they were roughly thinking of the proposal to have it be “episodic” and “with a horror feel”. From there, we had more and more planning meetings, finalized the ideas that came out, and they had me put together and submit the tentative draft for this project.

Only good thing here is the story. We need an anime adaptation.

FireChick wrote:

Quote: You burned yourself because they told people from jump it was an episodic ghost stories show and that what the show always presented as. Wait, when and where did the creators say this? I don't remember encountering anything of the sort. Was there a Twitter post about this or something? Please show me if you're able.

Source A:
https://digi-lab.blog/digimon-ghost-game-animate-times-mutsumi-tamura-and-miyuki-sawashiro-interview/

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The latest Digimon series Digimon Ghost Game will begin on October 3, 2021! This is a series of interest that brings in innovations to the series, such as mysterious phenomena and an episodic format, in a story where the protagonist, Hiro, is entrusted Gammamon by his father and becomes involved in various mysterious phenomena.

Source B:
https://digi-lab.blog/november-2021-v-jump-interview-with-masatoshi-chioka/

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Q: Chioka-san, at what point did you come to be involved in the production for this series? A: While they were still at the stage of the very first planning stages, the producer, Sakurada-san1, called out to me. It was right around that time when they were roughly thinking of the proposal to have it be “episodic” and “with a horror feel”. From there, we had more and more planning meetings, finalized the ideas that came out, and they had me put together and submit the tentative draft for this project.

Again, not to say you cannot take issue with this approach, but it's best to understand it's intentions.

KPK10 wrote:

Only good thing here is the story. We need an anime adaptation.

I like this game's story but I would be deeply deeply annoyed if after ghost game we got an anime based off this or some kind of digimon: thing but for 02 or any of the other seasons (much as I grow confident that won't happen). especially consider what makes the story more interesting than it could have been are the multiple routes and endings you can get, so a straight forward adaptation would be inherently inferior, and frankly, even if we did get anime ovas of it or something, I'd much rather take those resources and apply them to literally anything else

I just want a darker Digimon anime like Tamers was.

KPK10 wrote:

I just want a darker Digimon anime like Tamers was.

Well congrats, Ghost Game is darker than Tamers, ya got what ya wanted. Sure there's no over arching story as its episodic, but it pulls it off well. And seriously, is way darker than Tamers was. Not that tamers doesn't have some very dark moments, but no humans died in Tamers, Ghost Game has humans dying and other horrifying things happening to them. In both Tamers and GG we see Digimon dying, heck, one literately died and came back as a zombie that just eats, sad episode right there And ofc, we see many other examples of dark stuff including the horror theme of each ep. Also, Tamers wasn't really dark till around or near the end of it, u have a LOT of fluff (including episodic format eps) for half of the show and yet people never ever mention this and only talk about how dark Tamers was. I get it, it was dark, left an impression on ya, darker than the other series including what came after till GG, but lets not kid ourselves that its only dark. Tamers was my fav Digimon anime for a long time, but i quite like GG, its fresh, feels new, love the approach to horror here and yeah I'd like it to have an over arching story besides the mystery of Hiro's Dad, Gammamon and the BlackTailmon that shows up from time to time but long as u don't expect it and pace urself, u'r in for a good time. I'd say Tamers and GG r my fav series atm, even if they're both very dif from each other.

Well congrats, Ghost Game is darker than Tamers, ya got what ya wanted. Sure there's no over arching story as its episodic, but it pulls it off well. And seriously, is way darker than Tamers was.

Personally as a long time Digimon fan and someone who's favorite season is Tamers and is also enjoying Ghost Game, I don't understand the fixation people have on Digimon being "dark.".

Part of the fixation is the belief that dark equals"mature". Some also want the shows or content they grew up with to "grow up" with them as well. This is a sentiment I can somewhat understand but it often ignores that (1) dark=/= mature, and (2) those shows, as they are, probably appeal to a wide age group already.