Digimon 2023 Oneshot Contest - Ch. 4 - DIGIMON VARIANTS

[MangaDex]

 

[Harumi96]

 

[Doomroar]

Jogress death evolution? holly shit that's cool!

This story would have been even cooler, if they didn't wanked it to the greymon line, and actually made it work with the numemon line finishing it with a death evolution into Rare Raremon

 

[FaZRama]

Playing and fighting with Digimon has always been my dream

 

[myemailnow10]

Never seen Skullgreymon this cool. Good job

 

[cryum]

Wait that was so goddamn cool what

 

[EchoGirl]

If they're 'data' surprised they could die versus corrupted/thru a virus lol but interesting concept

 

[NekiEcko]

This is so cool, for some reason I can reisolate with Digimon better than Pokémon sometimes.

 

[ErikTheRed]

And that's why you shouldn't be digiracist people

 

[paiz]

this chapter was better than the entirety of Digimon Adventure: 2020

 

[UL91]

Rip ToyAgumon...

Jogress Death Evolution was pretty cool tho.

 

[ShadowSilence]

This is actually the ugly truth of if Digimon existed in our realm

 

[KatoShuu]

This is actually the ugly truth of if Digimon existed in our realm

Tailmon digivolve to Holydramon instead of Angewomon

 

[vangstampede]

I think the rival should've stayed to the end to see the result of his actions so that he could be remorseful and realized the error of his ways. And from there, together with Daigo they could be changing the society's stigma of "wrong evolution" by also raising a variant and proving variants can also be as strong as the mainstreams.

tl;dr less Greymon line wanking, more rival redemption

 

[saifors]

Really like the approach to this, IIRC there was a character in V-Tamer like this with the whole outlook on competitive meta right? (been like a decade since I read it so I might be misremembering)

 

[vangstampede]

Really like the approach to this, IIRC there was a character in V-Tamer like this with the whole outlook on competitive meta right? (been like a decade since I read it so I might be misremembering)

Spoiler

Yeah, Neo Saiba, the main rival antagonist. That obession was what led him to creating Arkadimon, the main driving force of the manga's second half.

 

[AriaOfDysphoria]

Jogress death evolution? holly shit that's cool!

This story would have been even cooler, if they didn't wanked it to the greymon line, and actually made it work with the numemon line finishing it with a death evolution into Rare Raremon

That person is cooking! RareRaremon is an awsome design that definetly needs morescreentime and would have fit the composit-death theme, although that might have been to... dark maybe idk.

But I think it still works for Skullgreymon, since it is kinda the original unwanted evolution (as far as adventure goes) and some fans theorise that it is a composite digimon kinda like early scientists made unintentional chimeras out of fossilized bone.

OOOOOh, Chimeramon,would have been cool as well though it is strongly connected with Milleniumon, which is basically as strong as Digimon get.

 

[AriaOfDysphoria]

I think this one is in the middle for me. It's prety good with some little social commentary sprinkled and when did anyone see Skullgreymon in a protagonistic, non-evil role? But it kinda needs a bit more ooompf.

Redemed Antagonist as someone said?
Perchance.
Maybe not ending with the Protagonist training jet another Greymon-family, even if it is the cool Greymon Blue X-Antibody version(I think?) because it kinda undermines the whole Argument of not going for the popular, meta-relevant types?
Absolutly.
Does it kinda feel bitter that when it comes down the austrazised Digimon only serve the plot by basically beeing canonfodder so the Protagonist can learn to return to a system that marginalized them in the frst place without even pointing that he made the world better for other subspecies type digimon?
Fuck yeah.

But besides That the art is greate, and they made Skullgreymon a good guy.
Update: Turns out, the Greymon is not the Greymon Blue X-Antybody version but --I think-- the 2010 Version from Xros Wars. The original blue one i think, not the orange variant or the ash one.... i think. Is pretty heard to tell in black and white. What tipped me off was the headphones looking structure between it's horns as well as it's ridged head carapice