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So many thank yous and gratitude to you TheDigiKnow and many other channels that watched, covered, and reviewed this series. Sadly I am more of the frustrated mindset as I watched the final episode that I nearly turned off and close the player tab of the episode. It felt rushed, no real pay off, so many questions left unanswered, and I agree with some commenters I met. This series felt like a prologue to another series or something bigger... also what the heck does Quantumon expects from high schools? The absurd turns in this episode did do one thing to impress me. They kept to their status quo to their final breath. No I rather not have a season 2 with this series. This was WAY TOO MUCH open ending than the other series. Least with the previous ones, there was a clear reason or mission objective... Endbringer?? New final boss?? Lost interest.
Appreciate all the reviews and thoughts on the episodes if anything ghost game bonded the community In a mostly unanimous agreement this had to be the most wasted potential of any digimon show I've ever seen lol.
Can you believe that the Ghost Game finale showed up and just said “isnt it weird we never seen the digital world space?” and then just left the discord call.
@@lightfangx6961 sorry i dont return phone calls to mid. Jk’s aside, i forgot they go to the moon, but that’s hardly anything. We’ve seen the moon in the digital world. Gulus confirms other planets potentially other galaxies.
Ghost Game's ending is literally that one Simpsons scene that goes: Homer: Marge, I'm confused, is this a happy ending or a sad ending? Marge: It's an ending, that's enough. Overall, this show was the most enjoyable wasted potential for me.
If we get a sequel to this set 2000 years later. Where the endbringer makes it to earth and new generation of digimon fights that be kind of neat. But that probably won’t happen.
@Bearer of Bad news 13 that's what I was hoping or thinking like why even bring that up at the end if they are not going to do anything with it could of just left that out completely smh.
I love how Mummymon is now a full fledge Doctor walking with Human Doctors. I guess he earned it when he gave aid to humans when trying to deal with some of the digimon that harmed humans. I think it would be a nice touch to have Mummymon's passion become fully recognized. Now you might want to look forward to tackling Seekers when it drops next month.
i legit laughed for a solid 10 minutes when gulus said "I came from space" seeing how that's studio TRIGGER's trademark nonsense ending twist and i was half joking with a friend that this would happen
@@nikolab.4065 Confusing, how? Do you mean because of the digital world? I just assume that this means GG follows the same logic as most Digimon anime, where the Ditigal World has always existed and computers are just a gateway to it. And with that logic, it makes it easier to accept the possibility that there could essentially, be other planets in the Digital World's universe like there is in ours.
Why even tease Proximamon if they weren't going to finish this plot properly? I would've wanted another season, but happily settle for some of those filler episodes being scrapped in favor of a properly paced finale arc.
A movie would be nice. Excluding anything Adventure related they haven’t done a movie since Savers. If any Digimon anime needed a movie it’d be Ghost Game.
If anything, I'd say Blacktailmon collected digimon who's interactions were on the path to a collapse so she could analyze why and when they failed, more than those who successfully collected data.
I feel like they just gave us a bunch of misdirection and distractions at the very end so that no one could remember and question Quantumon for being a murderer We get a bunch of information all at once so that from the start we can't focus on everything that has happened, and just on what she wants to touch upon Then when she confesses to her actions under her framing, they had Hiro focus on Quantumon using Digimon as pawns, which was bad but at the end was one of her lesser evil, remember that she just confessed sending a serial killer in the form of Sealsdramon who ended on Bokomon dying, she send Archnemon who went and ate a whole building worth of human brains, she was behind everything bad that happened other than the GRB infection. And she got away with it, how? By shrugging off the accusations about her smaller misdeeds, with the help of Jellymon and Angoramon who went "na we don't mind being used as pawns by her", making it seem like it was not a big deal, and then before anyone can regain their footing and ask her about all the digimon and humans that got killed due to her actions, we have Gulus appear again and drop off a new plot with more urgency So of course if now everyone is worried and focused on an incoming world ending danger, no one is gonna be thinking about past misdeeds, those who are already dead become afterthoughts in front of the idea of those that may get killed And this missdirection worked so well, that so far even the audience is forgetting this
That's also the writers' attempt at not touching relevant topics, again, for what feels like the tenth time in this series. Even up to the very end, these people... It would've worked as a pretty clever misdirection, if only the show hadn't shown the same lack of care for its entire run lmao
There was so much promise in the first 13 or so episodes, and a very clear linear story. People like to say it was always episodic and that's true in that each episode is a new monster of the week, but there was a clear story happening for the first few months
@@thedigiknow I guess I was wrong about who I thought the Main villain of the series was going to be but it’s fun being wrong it makes it more interesting and fun
@@minicle426 Especially the weeks-long break because of Toei getting hacked; can't help but wonder how things would've gone had we gotten those couple weeks back to let this finale breathe some more...
The final fight between Regulus and Sirius was fun. And that's all the praise I can give this episode. Not that it was bad, but my God, 67 episodes of wasted potential. This whole series basically screams "we had no end goal in sight when we started." This could've been great, phenomenal, even. But all we got was a pretty pile of "that's it?"
@@DrawciaGleam02 After Last Kizuna, YAAAAAYYY!!!!! Hopefully the people complaining about the plot because *they do not get the episodic* thing will shut up now.
Despite no plot its flaws aren't as catastrophic as 02/Frontier and the show is generally better than abominations like Xros Wars/Hunters/Tri/Kizuna/Adventure 2020
when gulu/gammamon brought up the end-bringer I was SO SURE that was gonna be a tease for season two or something like that, just for it to be turned into a joke a second later...
Man, i still cannot believe that they had 67 episodes (more than your average digimon series) to solve the unanswered mysteries they set up and never do something interesting or meaningful with them. I remember read somewhere that the main writer (Masashi Sogo) recognized in his blog that it was a psychological torture to work for this series, and he even said he was afraid that the ending might not be enough satisfying. After all, now i get why he was afraid: the ending was absolutely disastrous.
Not going to lie, that shot of Siriusmon's mouth opening was weird as hell. I had to rewind it and watch it again just to understand what was happening.
The problem for me is: it felt like they summarized all of the conflicts, questions, and major plot points are in a five minute monologue from Quantumon. I thought they were going to confront her in battle or something then that didn’t happen. GulusGammamon talks about this endbringer and we don’t do anything with that. For this season, The storyline was OK overall. The issue with pacing. Too many monster of the week episodes with little/no enough plot development. So now we have to have everything all at once in a very small timeframe. Then y’all made the other two partner Digimon just stand there. Finale wound up being my least favorite episode🤷🏾♂️
I also thought "Oh, so she is going to be the final villain, maybe Proximamon will kill her and recreate the Digital World", but no, even in the season finale Ghost Game manages to disappoint me. Then I thought "oh, then it must be this Endbringer thing, right?" but no, he's 2ky away, no need to worry. Btw I legit think she isn't a Digimon. I think I heard her say her name is Quantum (in Japanese, Ku-a-n-tu-mu, which I believe people mistook for "Quantumon") as the rulers of the DW usually aren't Digimon themselves. Edit: I was wrong, Wikimon says her name is "Kuontamon", a Ultimate (Mega) Fairy Type. I still think she shouldn't be a Digimon, but then again, they gave us no explanation about her.
I feel like the 2000 year excuse was just the director saying ya we wanted to make a final battle but ran out of time, I seriously don't understand why there was so much filler if they started the finale 10 episodes early we could have had proximamon vs the end bringer
I feel like it could have been many things: 1) Toei wanted to cancel the show so they had to rush it : not the first time that it happens , Digimon Savers/Data squad suffered the same fate and the creators had to rush everything and cuts lots of episodes that were planned. 2) The hack to Toei animation influenced it : the hack that Toei animation suffered made Ghost Game advance slowly and they couldn't get enough chapters within the time frame , thus it was rushed 3) it was a combination of the two above , Savers/Data squad was going well yet Toei still canceled it
The director had 67 episodes to introduce The End/Unicron knockoff villain to be the big bad, but he was more invested in the running gag with espimon that nobody cared about.
@ForteEXE Funny that you mention that. I'm playing Digimon World 2, and I didn't think about it when I was younger, but the people in the game live along side digimon. I
Siriusmon's mouth open up is my favorite scene from this episode, i sure its because i like the evolution sequence of Arresterdramon Superior Mode where his mouth open up, still like that scene
The Ghost Game Finale gave me the same sensation that I got from Season Two of The Promised Neverland. *"Mediocre is being generous."* Which is actually a little impressive given how TPN did a nosedive into the ground in a span of 12 episodes while Ghost Game did it in 3-5. 😅 I didn't HATE it as much as TPN but it DEFINITELY feels like they scrapped stuff that should've been included. Another few episodes probably would've done it but what we got is just "meh."
Everytime I hear someone mention Season 2 of The Promised Neverland I black out. I'm not sure what happens while I'm gone, but when I wake up my room is trashed.
"Another few episodes" Bro what we really needed was to scrap some filler & replace it with actual storytelling. There's gotta be a dozen episodes worth removing in favor of finishing the dang story
this anime could easily have a 12 episode conclusion season, where they wrap everything up. i have no idea why or how they decided that "the endbringer will be here in 2k years" was considered a rational ending.
No Arcturusmon or Proximamon. No using of Millenniummon's crystal. All the unsatisfactory answers to the series main questions. The setup even as far into the series as ZeedMillenniummon's episode. I genuinely have the vibe they didn't expect the series to end when it did, that there was some kind of executive meddling behind the scenes or something. Hopefully with the open ending we can get a sequel or movie or something that fixes some things.
Here is my take. Hiro has in his pocket, a literally demongod that can warp time and space. In a way to get revenge, it takes over Hiro to release it self. With the information about the Endbringer, it warps time to make it come close. Gammamon and Gulus are not powerful enough to stop a newly revived ZeedMillenniummon who not only uses Hiro as a host but tamer as welll (throwback to Ryu). Because Gulus and Gamma are on the same picture, their next evolution to Siriusmon/Arcturusmon has an unusual effect. The Endbringer turns out to be a new digimon which Zeed will merge with using Hiro's digivice. Inner conflict will happen between Sirius and Arcturus but if they managed to work together, it triggers a dna evolution to bring in Proximamon. This evolution is too powerful as it's mere existence destroys and recreates data in rapid succession.
All of that is used to fight the Big Bad. When the Devourer is Gaiamon they need Zeedmilleniumon and other Digimon as well the Bridge to fight it. Also Lilithmon and Co probably get recruited for that too. Altough they probably do need to convince them either trough talking, fighting or something that can be gained. And thats the Story for the Movie or Second Season.
The Endbringer coming in 2,000 years is also a stupid plotline. Gulusgammamon is smart enough to know Hiro would be long dead by then (unless he intends to devour him).
@@abloogywoogywoo I hope if they do a movie or something, and Gulus is _way_ off with his timing. Honestly kinda gives me Pokemon Sword and Shield vibes with Rose freaking out about some energy crisis a millennium away. Now here comes DGG, there's a calamity 2000yrs away, it's almost here!!!
It honestly felt like that the Toei hack that happened around the midway point of the series may have impacted how the show was meant to progress. We still don't know what was taken really so it may have caused them to go in a different direction/adapt and this weird end game is what they were able to piece together. Could just be hopeful thinking.
The Ending of this series is proof they really didn't know how to end so they basically just dumped everything they were planning to do before they found out "oh? we don't have anymore time" also I agree with you this is a very unfulfilling ending and I guess everybody else
Well... It made sense digimon Ghost game have no story, the camera man arrived early and started recording a random group of friends, 200,000 years from now we're going to have an incredible, completely crazy serie, breaking franchise patterns involving even space, factions, a world-devouring being...
There needs to be a sequel movie that is a kind of Interquel more. I actually can see some set up for Proximamon and Arcturusmon in a movie. Basically, events that happen after the final battle, but before the epilogue. I am honestly also one of those who is just confused by everything. I know I'm going to be disappointed, but... I am just perplexed, and am dreading my friends' reactions to this. They are going to be WAY more critical than me.
It's because you like it that you should criticize its flaws. I love Frontier, but God, it has some problems. And I don't like Ghost Game because I want the franchise to do better than that, so I don't know if it's even worth making a movie whose only reason to exist would be to debut two missing evolutions in which Jellymon, Angoramon and their partners would probably be just side characters. It might be better for them to focus on new projects like Seekers, the new Story game, the 02 movie and so on. What I dont like is that there's no new weekly season on the horizon.
I honestly think nobody expected the horror themed Digimon to end with "And they become politicians" Also I did not expect that the most unsettling thing from the entire show would come from Seriusmon, with Ghules saying "Its devour or be devoured", and Seriusmon not even flinching, opens his jaw and absolutely silently proceeds to devour him Ps. It was nice that they literally updated the opening for the last episode, shows that some people that worked on this show really had a lot of love for it And about Ghoules being an alien and made it to the Digital world instead of the human one didn't bug me, because I used to be a fan of Megaman Star Force where the aliens were "wave" aka data beings like other things that lived on the internet, so I just assumed that Ghoules comes from a world that is made out of data, and thus he is a Digimon just not from this world
It's honestly a unforgivable crime how many episodes ghost game had to tell a story with, and they wasted the entire series. I can't even recommend it to someone who might be curious about digimon.
The biggest question this ending gave me was: Does the Digital World have space? Did Gulus come from the human world's space or the Digital Space? Because if he was an alien digimon that came from another digital world, then maybe the Endbringer is solely a digital entity and that's why Quantumon was so freaked out?
Aw man this ending was soo baad! I've tried to be positive throughout the series and when Megas arrived I was "yeah now we're getting to the good stuff for real". And then nope, never mind. I thought I'd be sad without my weekly Digimon show but maybe it's better for the next show that they really let it cook and be ready, not like GG was. So... next one will be better? Hopefully before the Endbringer is here.
Or the bad guys who got away found a way to accelerate it and form a bad guy team. Maybe even make it the demon lord's. Come to think of it, lucemon was in the shows opening but he never showed up..
Biggest reason I hope we get a Ghost Game movie or OVA. Like, I get the series was written by the time he & Proximamon were made & Gulus was never meant to go beyond Perfect. So I get their lack of appearance in the series proper. But I really want them to appear in GG canon regardless, I want Proximamon to be Ghost Game's Omnimon. If that means debuting in a sequel movie, fine by me.
If they did a season 2, it'd be pretty interesting if Gammamon split into GulusGammamon and whatever champion form he chose when digivolving. It'd be like Hiro had twin Digimon like Willis.
Well that fight surley did finally the Thing i always thougt was possible changing Forms in midbattle to use it more tactical. Especially the blast from Albion to shatter Regulusmon Shield. It was brilliant and i hope to see it more in Season 2
Ghost Game's issues can be summed up with bad pacing and planning. Potential plot lines were set up that never went any where, and other plot points were never brought up until they didn't matter anymore. Quantomon's influence should've been far more noticeable (Hiro finding his Dad's communications with her, the symbol on her chest appearing in more places than the vital bracelet) and have the digimon set up as being the big bad only to reveal that she was always good and Gullusmon is the villain (and has been manipulating things in the background with events like the destroyed computer pad being Gullus not Gamma). I really don't think they knew how they were going to truly end things beyond MC's digimon has been the big bad the entire time until they started writing those episodes. Ghost Game lost a lot of potential limiting itself to one and done episodes. There were a number of foes that should've taken two episodes to do their horror proper justice. End an episode with the monster of the week winning so that when Hiro and friends come back to win, it feels more earned. Let the horror of a digimon's antics sink in for a week before resolving it. And the whole resetting to status quo needed to be pitched. Beyond Kiyoshiro's struggles to conquer his fears, no one really advanced as a character. Pokemon is highly episodic in it's approach, yet when something changes, the show allows the change to stay. There's no reason they couldn't stress an aspect of Hiro's or Ruli's characters and use a change to that as the realization point for evolution. Don't just have Ruli say in the final few episodes she's looking for a hobby to enjoy, have her make comments about the hobbies she attempted in the show about how driving go-carts is best enjoyed sparingly that karaoke singing isn't for her, and then when SymbaAngoramon evolves it's in part that Ruli accepts who she is as a person, On the whole Ghost Game really could've competed as one of the best seasons of all time. There is a lot of good in the series. It easily has some of the best singular episodes of all digimon. It is just the problems are too glaring and could've easily been fixed with better direction and attention to plot details for the series as a whole. Had they approached the series like it was a digimon version of Doctor Who where seemingly separate episodes are linked to in a surprising fashion to the season ending, it could've been really special. Maybe that was their intent, but the main plot was poorly handled. I'd likely place the series as my fifth or sixth favorite right now. It might go down the more time I think about it, but it certainly won't go up as original Adventures, Adventures 02, Tamers and Appmon are all firmly placed above it for quality of story and plot.
Never had I imagined the casts becoming ambassadors of a new Digimon-Human country and having all those appointments with different countries. Heck, this whole episode feels as if this is something I would dream up in my sleep lol
It’s like the writers/show runners had a bunch of ideas for the show, scrapped them all to do an episodic format instead, then dumped them all here because they like their ideas so much. “Look how cool and creative we are!” Like… I like Gulus being from space. He’s way more alien than Gammamon’s other evolutions when you point it out. I would’ve loved a whole plot arc digging into that.
I actually laughed at points during the finale. Quote myself about halfway through the Quantumon scene, "this is fucking foul." This finale absolutely reeks of mismanagement and conflict behind the scenes. The writers wanted one thing, the showrunners wanted another, or something like that. Problem is, cramming everything you wanted to do right at the end just makes it worse. I would have rather had Quantumon cut, gotten *no answers at all,* and the finale be a big battle where Arcturus and Proximamon appear and then defeating Gulus just vanishes the GRB like every other MotW resolution. Because this is... just awful. They unironically tried to shove an entire series' worth of plot and revelations into the last 10 minutes of the show. 67 episodes. 67 *weeks* (+ hiatuses) of investment from the audience, and this is how we go out. This is the finale we all waited for.
I enjoyed Ghost Game overall but I can certainly say I understand why some folks didn't. I felt like the final episode would've been better as a movie or OVA. But overall it definitely built on a lot of the themes the show had and wrapped up pretty much all the questions I had... so I'm satisfied. Honestly it was better for the stories told along the way than the ending itself. I think at the very least it deserves a try from Digimon fans and is a fun take on the franchise. Looking forward to see how Seekers and future projects go.
I cannot comprehend having a 60+ episode series in which you sprinkle in a number of ongoing mysteries, and then making the conscious decision to not actually address any of them until the final three episodes. I liked Ghost Game initially and watched it for a while, but my issue with it was that it set itself up in such a manner that a serialized storyline would have been the most satisfying and then actively refused to move away from episodic storylines until it literally didn't have any time left
The ending is the most whiplash I ever felt I can actually feel the breakneck speed, appmon did it better with all the plotline completely explain and Leviathan was better explain than whatever Quantumon was. Appmon real world lessons was in 2045 A.I will surpass human intelligence and with all the A.I art stuff and chat gbt I can say that prophecy is getting closer while GG 2000 years later some space ball gonna eat us is so goofy. I didn't understand Quantumon the first time that I had to rewatch the exposition multiple times just to understand it while Leviathan, I actually understand what he's talking about and his goal of a utopia.
Yeah im having to watch this vid in bite sizes to avoid head ache whip-lash on making sense of Ghost game`s finale. But the way they have Quantumon debut in the last half of the episode as some ridiculous plot device explainer. That it feels like i was seeing the same kind of crap that Honkai impact 3rd pulled with Elysia and Ai-chan Lambda. Characters just just appear, basically be some almighty deus-ex-machina devices that act either as explanation devices or can1 do no wrongs and just straight up be literal poop dumps against whatever the story could of been, even if thar was barely a story to begin with. With in some of the cases it just straight up invalidates previous threats by hand waving them away as never existing at all despite many signs pointed to such presences. Ultimately they could of had a much more simplistic plot and it would of cooked WAY better. The final major funny is since Ghost games is suppose to be a `Kids Show` last i checked, having all these extra convoluted complication elements really kicks some balls on being a mess and would definitely be impossible to just `turn your brain off and binge it`. Edit Addition: Ok just got to the part about Gulus gets to temporarily use Gammamon`s body and they write it off he is an Alien that will devour everything? Guess i can include Yugioh Go Rush and its Second season`s plot shenigans by having space involved in a plot for no damn reason and also some great evil from space for no damn reason included in that element. Not to mention this feels like the same card would you pull with a Cliff-hanger type finale where the show never DOES do a finale but they purposely act like a dick and set up an actual finale. Granted, some shows may of done similar things over the past several years on some more stand-alone animes i have seen, but this feels like a more dick-ish version of a anime`s run that just ended this week also, Ars no Kyoujou. Namely them ending it with some other beeger evil shows up in the last few minutes that the cast now have to `take on. Compared to some other good stuff like Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and this one anime about Vampires and Mechas that kinda end off with something like interacting with extraterrestrial's, yeah the execution difference is just way to different on going for a closing note of said series(es).
@@BladeSerph Pretty Lovecraftian though. I mean, there was no true main villain the heroes would defeat and end all conflict with. Horrific things happened because Digimon are alien, Quantumon sent them there in an emergency evacuation and had the try to collect data on humans due to us being alien in return, and the planetary threat has zero reason to be concerned with the heroes because of it being on a *planetary scale,* including timescale. Of course, Gulus might have been lying.😆 p.s. Think you mean SEVENS because Go Rush had an alien for its protagonist.
It's so weird. They had a 3 episode finale to work with and just didn't really do anything at all in the first 2 episodes, so the finale was just a rushed mess.
in a card game artwork from Proximamon we can see the sun like thing from this episode in the background It was definitely planned for proximamon and the Endbringer to appear in anime but something must have gone terribly wrong
What went wrong is that they tried to make a barely plot-driven Digimon series when Digimon has only ever *worked* as an incredibly narratively driven story/series. These last few episodes were like "see, we had plot all along!" but they didn't-- all they had were teasers to keep people watching.
anyone else got a huge smile on their face when Gammamon had that smug smile on his face before he started explaining the rules to Gulus or was that just me?
The ending really let me down. Ghost Game had so much promise, but everything it set up just fell flat on its face on the first step. Hell, there's STILL unresolved stuff. I'm disappointed to see it was ultimately mediocre at best. But hey. At least we stayed till the end. And watching you review it was pretty fun.
I think they could use GGs ending here as a jump point for a new series, one that takes place in the same continuity but a 1000+ years later with completely new protagonists and their digimon; here, the story would be that the Endbringer's arrival draws near and our new protags and their digi-partners need to stop it in order to live up to the legacy left behind by the GG heroes
I absolutely agree with that! I'm wishing for a 2nd season to make everything make more sense, but even if that doesn't happen, I'm personally not overly disappointed in the series as a whole! I think that having to wait week after week to try and piece it all together, and coming up with your own theories of where the plot was heading was actually enjoyable in and of itself! It lets your imagination run wild with possibilities! That's the problem that everyone else is having, though: their interpretations went one direction, while the show ended up going in a different direction. It could have been more, but it also could have been less. But I enjoyed it for what it was!
Feels like set up for a movie finale " A giant meteor threatens the planet its up to Ghost game crew AND GULUS!? to save the human and digital world"! honestly despite flaws i really liked Ghost Game the digimon designs are great, loved charscters and was just fun
These are the vibes I got from the way it ended. A season wouldn't make sense unless it takes place with a story 2000 years into the future with the world that Hiro, Ruli, Higashi and their Digimon essentially created. Which is unlikely. A movie would absolutely make sense given circumstances.
Digimon Ghost Game's finale was a disappointment and we have no one to blame but the anime's producers who didn't deal with this anime the right way. The scenarists, animators and voice actors just did their job as best as they could, don't blame them. Paradoxe : Even though it was the scenarists' job to give this anime some sense ? -____- They probably had a longer climax in mind, yeah...
The entire time I felt like I was watching an hour version of the episode in 2x or 3x speed. I can only think that something happened behind the scenes that cut their time. I think there was definitely more to the conversation between gammamon and gulus to explain the whole space stuff and they had to cut out as much as they could to wrap it up in whatever way they could.
Considering the shows tendency to troll it's audience with carrot mysteries that inevitably wind up being nothing in the end (Fake Hiro cough), the series show ending on such a troll was hilarious to me
This finale was... a bit out of control for me. Like the battle was cool, but everything else became really crazy and messy. And to suddenly bring up "The Endbringer?" Just why? If they were going to do that, they should have created a final episode or two for it. It felt like they just wanted to create explanations in the last few minutes so we can be satiated. But honestly, I'm not satiated by this. This episode also totally felt like a penultimate versus a final episode. Maybe we'll get a new series that makes "The Endbringer" as the main villain. I dunno. I'm not a fan of the ending, honestly. Maybe it's just me.
The sad thing is when anyone can take the concepts introduced in every Ghost Game episode and with a computer write original episodes of their own going with an actual story on that regard. I have been doing that since your 50 episodes review of Ghost Game and while I have not been able to commit to a weekly schedule I would say I ended up going further than just one single episode that I have written out of spite for the writers of the series.
Man, if only they actually did something with their episodes rather than just monster of the week. I love the Vital Bracelet and I thought this series would be great lorewise, but eh. I hope Seekers does better.
Part of me wants to believe they will do long term storytelling with this big endbringer thing.... but somehow i doubt they will ever revisit this idea :P
I'm not gonna lie, I feel like the ending should have been done during the mid point of the series. Gulus really didn't feel like a final villain. Especially since they seem to hint a bigger threat. Everything else in the review basically hit the nail on the head.
This was PAINFULL to watch! Quantummons ONLY PURPOSE was to be an exposition device to close all lose ends and all of our questions and I HATED it! I can finally say it. Digimon 2020 was better than this by MILES even with the fast pacing. This show had some good moments but overall was bad. I dont think you are shocked but you were laughing about it how bad this ending was xD
Rushed... that,s the only word I have for it, its fine that it was more episodic focused but it felt like the writers realized they had to put an ending in there and ran out of time, sirius vs gulles looked amazing but that info dump after was just awefull
I feel like the biggest problem with the finale is that they took 2-3 episodes of the story and cramped them into a finale. So much was explained so quickly with little time to properly process. Overall, I just wanna say that I love Ghost Game and it is one of my top seasons, cause there are still stories I considered the best in the franchise. But initially, I even ranked it as my favorite but it, unfortunately, fell off that title cause, I can't deny its shortcomings, especially how the finale turn out. While I don't have solid evidence of that, GG feels like a show that over time got into a conflict of creative differences. Either they wanted to fully episodic show but they added an ongoing plot out of obligation OR they did wanted to make it more story-driven but they were mandated to primarily focus on episodic stuff. Or again, this might have been what they wanted but didn't pan out right. Again, I still like the show but it's really disappointing that it really did not stick the landing.
I definitely agree that this ending was pretty bad, but at the very least, I’m glad Naotoshi Shida got the final word for this last battle. Overall, Ghost Game’s episodic formally and breaking away from the normal Digimon formula ended up being this show’s downfall. But that being said, Gammamon has become my favorite main character Digimon and I cannot thank Miyuki Sawashiro enough for her incredible performance as the Gammamon line.
Animorph fans might get this when i say that this episode of Ghost Game has a lot of The Conclusion vibes: the way it ends with even more questions than it answered, the way it unites the allied factions in an official capacity but then heralds the coming of a greater, more all-devouring force/evil and then just cuts off the story there. The difference is that while the Animorphs series does truly end there, Digimon as a franchise does not - and the way i see it, there's only two outcomes; either a Ghost Game movie comes out at some point and expands on what they've done here, or they just cut it off here and move on with a next season / alternate universe as they've always done (now that i think about it, it's also very reminiscent of the Wrath ending of Digimon Survive). And while hard to fathom from an intra-show perspective, that, i think, is the overarching subtext and point of Digimon: It's many different universes, all telling one story.
. . . . . Look im a black sheep when it comes to digimon My favorites were frontiers and xros wars Loved them and still do i love all the series Minus data squad But this? This? Jesus almighty i didn't even watch this and i feel slideded This is just.... I don't even have words im in shocked. Im definitely not excited for what's next because after gg im not exactly happy for whats next and now that this is done the be is now counting down its days
Another Xros Wars/Fusion fan? I thought my kind were extinct... Anyway I completely agree. It's crazy how Ghost Game fumbled the bag with...almost everything. The only things that came out of this show that I'm thankful for are more cool digimon designs.The humans are stale plain crackers and the story is nonexistant. You hate to see it. It seems like other people like it which is fine. Glad people can enjoy something I see no value in.
This show did reveal a weird twist in the end that was unexpected. Humans and Digimon just jumping ship from Earth to another world that Quantumon made, it’s like “welp, we tried” in living the best of life on earth just to live a totally alien and strange and bizarre world that is neither the digital world or Earth. But I don’t think this series isn’t done being that it had ended on a cliffhanger seldom on a happy note after dozens of apocalyptic events happened almost every episode. Quantumon does seem to be side with Hiro and Gammamon on episode 67, but that could change entirely on the next season, even within the 1000 year timespan before the Earth is destroyed.
Did I enjoy watching lots of episodes of Ghost Game? Yes...... Does it have the weakest story of any digimon anime to date? Yes. Does it have any kind of satisfying pay off at all? No. This series had so much potential and it was complete squandered. GulusGammamon was arguably one of if not the most interesting villains in all of Digimon and the "pay off" to his appearances was to simply get absorbed back into Gammamon...... and them randomly reveal "Oh by the way I'm an alien"....... how incredibly fucking stupid....... this ending was trash. So much potential and really loved the dark tone of the show but in the end the only digimon anime I would rank lower than Ghost Game is Young Hunters. (I hate young hunters) The squandered potential of this show has left a really bad taste in my mouth. Also, Diribitmon and Amphimon literally never do anything and that was trash.
78 weeks and the show is over. I came across those who watched GG recently and they said they stopped watching it as it brought good concepts but didn’t go anywhere with it so they dropped the show. The finale addresses some but in a very fast pace. I can say I was somewhat satisfied (like the great animation and facial expressions) but I still had issues due to how the series literally wrote a contract to prioritize episodic aspects which made the writer not give enough leeway to the serialized aspects of the show. MoonMilleniummon is something many people will never get over, not to mention Matadormon, Lilithmon, Yuto, Digitamamon, etc. Also wanted to see Arcturusmon and Proximamon but whatever. I rate it a 5/10. I prefer Tamers, Savers and Appmon over this but it’s better than Adventure 2020.
Dont worry this Digimon who escaped are Powerhouses they get recruited in the Second Season to fight the Devourer who is probably Gaiamon. And they need all those Allies and Bridge between Digimon and Human to prepare for him and probably his Servants. Also Proximamon and Co are used against Gaiamon. I mean its a Planet but what can a Planet do against a Digimon that can use Matter to dissamble and put it in to something new?!
"but it’s better than Adventure 2020" OK literally what the fuck did Colon do so terribly that a series this botched still comes out on top? I just don't get why people hate that series so much.
@@the_echoYT Boring. Repetitive. Too focussed on a lead with the personality of a brick. Milked the never give up trope for freebie powerups to absurd levels.
I was one of those people. I stopped watching around 23-24 or so, every now and then watching youtube clips of Digivolving to Ultimate and Mega. In the long run, it doesn't look like I missed anything and the issues I had way back when that made me stop watching continued to the end.
I mean, I know I'm partially to blame for expecting Tamers level quality from a MotW series aimed towards TikTok kids, but they really did just fuck around for 4/5 of the episodes just to dump everything on the final remaining ones, Goddamn.
I wish that they foreshadowed the space thing earlier I don't like how everything is explained in a rushed way. But Gammamon being from space makes sense due to Bokomon and other digimon stating that they haven't seen a digimon that looked like him before and how all of his evolutions have ties to Space and star constellations .Even the realm that got created when Canoweisemon and Regulusmon were split was space-themed. I just don’t like how the show never mentions anything about it prior to the finale.
Gulus: DEVOUR or be DEVOURED Siriusmon: Bet. *proceeds to devour a horrified Gulus in a very horrifying way* But in all seriousness, this making me question how many other Digimon with shield faces can do that. Omegamon? Dukemon? Impredramon FIghting Mode?
Ever wondered if some of the Royal Knights have Skin under their Armor. Look at Rosemon she clearly has Skin but the Flower Parts act as Clothing. So who knows how the Royal Knights look under there.
The TRI Wargreymon reference art shows him with his mouth open and the TCG VictoryGreymon card also shows him with his mouth open. That is, this has always been something possible and the anime just don't show it to save work for the animators. 😂😂😂
Thanks for the videos, bud. This was fun and frustrating lol I didn't expect them to go the Trigger studio ending way... Space + nonsense + so much lost potential it gives you whiplash. Ghost game is not the only recent anime or story coming from there with these features. It might be confirmation bias but I wonder what's going on in this industry. SO much good visual, design, acting and music talent and then the story is like weellll... My theory is ghost game was written by AI and humans went with it and did the best they could with what they were given.
Yeah, no, this series was a failure. Lazy conclusion just to leave it open ended like that was just insulting to actual plot. I guessed "misunderstanding" but not on purpose. However, I did guess the transfer would be shrugged off, which was the last nail I'm just dumbfounded 😮💨😒
This series NEEDS a reboot. One that is Not episodic and clunkily written, but seriously planned out and carefully handled. I am very unhappy with this ending and their lackluster attempt at explaining anything.
Honestly, that whole plot point of the "villain" sending digimon to gather an undrrstanding of things such as emotions feels like it is ripped straight from Avesta of Black and White with its main character.
I like how Adventure 2020 ended on a solid note despite being a garbage fire while Ghost Game despite being far better written ends on the equivalent of the YGO GX season 2 satellite being blown up in terms of insanity.
how is ghost game 'far better written' ? firstly there's no plot so its much easier to write that adventure20 which is plot driven, secondly the plot that it does it have in the final eps is awful.
A decent (not bad) ending in my opinion, and full with connections and easter eggs. Besides the rushed and anticlimactic revelation, at least they tied up most of the loose ends. The part when Hiro helped Gammamon regain itself was heartwarming, the whole sequence has some Hosoda directing style vibe, especially the key to bring back Gammamon's conscious wasn't just "partners", but a unique and special bond as "brothers". And I believe what makes Gulus yields was because he acknowledge Gammamon's strength, determine, and bond with Hiro, and he want it as well; bit of similar with Angemon and Devimon's relationship in the reboot 2020, how they fighting over body at first, and finally working together to stop the "Great Catastrophe". The "space" talk could be the most bizarre revelation in the whole digimon universe, but bits of it serves as a homage from Ultraman, and we all knew it was Gammamon's design inspiration, so seems reasonable in some way. Yet I still got mixed feeling with Quantumon's role, she was like OG's Homeostasis who gain a digimon form, but not sure if she possesses the ability to help other Digimon to digivolve through Bracelet like Culumon. I agree with Hiro and others, no one has the right to treat digimon and human life as "game", bit like Homeostasis who wants peace in digital world by any means necessary. Biggest disappointment was no Arcturusmon or Proximamon (Seriously! then what was the reason to released their design on Vital Bracelet BE?) And BlackTailmon and Black Digimons' role explained in all this, no Hellos or actions for any of them, and just left like that (like come on!). Still, they opened a new opportunity and gateway between two (or three) worlds, glad to see humans and digimons coexist together at the end, and noticed Meicrackmon was still "stalking" Riku. This is something that OG's Taichi want to see, and now trio also became the "diplomats", imagine if they get to meet each other through corssover one day. We still got "infinite possibility", so who knows? Finally, I am going to miss you Ghost Game, until next time!
Hey waitaminute. At the end of the day, Bokomon didn't lie about Hiro & friends becoming the bridge of both worlds! And Piccolomon didn't lie about Gammamon being cool in the future. He swallowed Gulus and now Gamma became part of the pioneer people who became the bridge between real world & digital world! 😁 Also, turns out the "Ghost Game" actually refers to Quantumon's method who kept sending digimons (aka. hologram ghosts) to the real world and then cashing in on data. That actually makes sense 😌 Humans & digimons working together to create an Ark-like world to escape certain doom sounds really grand 😮. Much grander & more ambitious than the end of *02* actually. I would *love* to see a continuation maybe a century in the future where people & digimons are already living together in harmony within this Ark-world. We can have a better & more expansive version of Saver with *much* better animation. Imagine that! 🤤
Nuh i think the Devourer is still coming. I mean they called it All Devourer no matter what you do he will Devoure them. So that Bridge Thing is more to gather Allies and strong Digimon to fight him in the Future.
@@d.a.5161 Alot of attacks in monster taming based shows don`t end up being a direct translation. You sometimes even get some mons make a projection of an attack instead of having the actual bodypart to perform such. It would of made more sense if he punched with his gun arm or instead of having some weird symmetrical gun arm situation, one of them could of been a gauntlet that could of had a shield or just been used as a sort of make shift shield of sorts. Ultimately though, the show was done in a terrible fashion and this finale gives it away by just having a random b.s. no jutsu in a chain tandem to invalidate someone`s supposed death in the previous episode, protagonist randomly uses Sirius`s weapon instead of maybe picking it up in said space or just doing a punch instead and Sirius mon just straight up does a Kamen rider Zero Two and splits up the beeg bad from something, this being his evolution somehow and it just conveniently landing on Gulus instead of maybe a dark form of his Rookie form aka a black Gammamon. Then he just straight up and caves in and is the muffin-button that magically resolves the issues by producing `white deus ex machina juice` that can counter-act the black stuff, not because the two of them combined, but just cause Gulus can do that all along for no fking actual reason. They could of had this moment a good 20 or even 30 episodes earlier and spend those extra 20 to 30 episodes in the digital world, do a much better setup, have room to let the finale breathe, but nope, its just Indecisive `want to try and be episodic based` yet at the same time `its just a giant Fk-up of still being continuity based still.` If they aren`t even gonna bother to have Gulus`s mega form or Proximamon, they didn`t even need to have Gulus present at all and could of just been more like some older 1980~2000s based slice of life/comedy shows with the horror theme focus instead.
Man, people who criticize hands on Digimon are full of it. Wargreymon already has an actual hands behind those claws, but I never heard anyone complained about It. Where were You guys?
It was awful. The only redeeming thing was the two minute “all Gammas” fight. The last 10 minutes were just head spinning nonsense. The whole exposition part usually would have made up an entire episode. The “final boss is done in 10 minutes and then there’s a 10-minute epilogue” tactic is often used in 12-episode series that are almost guaranteed to not be continued and typically work as manga advertisements…but for a nearly 70-episode series?!?
They should’ve at least announced an OVA for next year or something. So much as a 40 minute special could explain that the “end” is coming faster, have Arcturusmon appear if Gulus takes over, and explain that Arcturus and Sirius are able to have their powers combine and have a final battle as Proximamon. I may have butchered names but yeah.
This series kept teasing us with no actual payoff. Heck, even in the last EP they still teased us with the Endbringer. I understood that the story choice was like this because they went with MotW style so the ending of each episode had to have minimal impact on the overall story (except the necessary ones like evolution or this final arc). They left many things open-ended so that they had rooms to wiggle around when they had new ideas, which, unfortunately, never came to fruition. Ghost Game was a mess, but a unique and highly appreciated one. It tried to be different, and though it failed to live up to its potential, we still had been graced by the cutest Digimon to ever walk this Earth. Though we won't have Gammamon's weekly baby energy anymore, I'll make sure to come back to this series once in a while for him.
Not gonna lie that ending went straight to looney town because by God it got incredibly silly Still one silver lining for me is that I guess GulusGammamon KIIINDA was a anti hero sooooorta, even if the reason for this (the endbringer) is the biggest asspull ever
For reasons that we don't know this was rushed ... it seems obvious that they wanted to do much more, planting seeds here and there, but they were forced to rush to the end. It was a weird season for digimon, but I enjoyed it for all the chances it took, even if this finale was lackluster
Kinda reminds me how in Xros Wars/Fusions Season 1, where it's episodic with occasional story progression, but the last 2 episodes are all story and a new form.
This season had fun moments, but didn't foreshadow or set up audience expectations properly. It seemed like the writers just wanted to do a creepy anthology show but were forced to include the bare minimum of story at the beginning and the end. It feels forced and lazy. Doesn't mean people can't enjoy it, but from a general storytelling perspective, they really should have taken more care to sprinkle things out and set up stuff so that it was not just a disjointed exposition vomit at the end of the show. Did not stick the landing.
Appmon honestly had a weak middle and start but very strong end. The last 6 episodes or so were pretty good, I don't think it's fair to compare to Appmon to Ghost Game since Appmon's writers put so much effort and passion into their sendoff to the fans. Ghost Game had none.
I feel like there are too many things that still need to happen like gulusgammamon is an alien from another planet? I'd like to see THAT backstory even more now and how Hiros dad found and changed him cuz it looked like we were gonna get some gammamon backstory finally,also I would have liked the gulus&gammamon fight to have happened WAY earlier so that when they did face the big bad or whatever we'd get a DNA evolution of the two or something I just feel it was alot of fillers that amounted to nothing an when we finally got plot that added to the story it was like 5 eps and then a series finale out of nowhere I at least hope they make a sequel to this in the future
It's always nice to see your Digimon reviews as you're very technical in many ways be it with the plot or animation! Though, I'll be leaving my unpopular opinion here.. I had fun watching the series! They came up with new ideas and I loved all of the moments the characters had.. Maybe it's because I don't really ask for much, but I think people would be happier if they made a second season, or if they took longer to complete the series.. I mean, I'd love that regardless. It was a fun journey and I'm glad I could share it with someone! Also.. Angoramon is always gonna be in my heart, I already miss my bb ;;
So overall this show was enjoyable, it had plenty of high points where you would get hyped and of course plenty of low points that would make you say “really?” But honestly I’m glad we’ve reached the end and wouldn’t be opposed to getting some kind of continuation just to explain this new endbringer threat and new country plot(mostly because I want to see proximamon).
While this finale was definitely ridiculous, I wasn't upset at all with it. Maybe I'm just a shallow person, but the thing I was most concerned with was my question of "Are Digimon going to have to separate from humans, or are they here to stay this time?" And this finale game me a satisfying answer to that question. As for where they are going to live with humans, the empty digital dimension that was brought up was actually something that we have already seen. In episode 62, the apartment building being used by Digimon was also in this "in-between" dimension.
@@JustinVillemure Congratulations on telling other people how they are supposed to interpret a work of fiction. To me, the most "meaningful" shows of Digimon all had one thing in common. The end of the shows turned everything back to the way things were before the show began. Everything returned to a nice, familiar status quo. As far as lasting consequences to the world go, the entire adventure may as well have never happened. You are correct that Ghost game isn't about "growing up" (whatever the hell that means to you), it's about the social consequences of two different cultures crashing into each other, and that it's a good thing to resolve issues that may arise from that.
@@JustinVillemure In Ghost Game, I agree that the main cast of characters don't change all that much, but that's not really what drew me to this show. The major changes weren't to the characters, but to the setting itself. After the final episode, there's a lot more work that needs to be done if digimon are going fully public. They are going to need legal status, identification, education courses on customs, lawyers, and a million other things for them to stabilize. To me, that's infinitely more interesting than just 'hit the bad guy really hard'. This series had its ups and downs, but I liked the finale, not because I was waiting for the characters in the show to grow up, but because I was waiting for the show *itself* to grow up.
Thank you joining me on this journey. It was sometimes wonderful, sometimes frustrating, but always interesting.
Here's what I have planned next AFTER Ghost Game: czcams.com/video/aZTbm4nzxRA/video.html
It’s unironically Mid.
So many thank yous and gratitude to you TheDigiKnow and many other channels that watched, covered, and reviewed this series. Sadly I am more of the frustrated mindset as I watched the final episode that I nearly turned off and close the player tab of the episode. It felt rushed, no real pay off, so many questions left unanswered, and I agree with some commenters I met.
This series felt like a prologue to another series or something bigger... also what the heck does Quantumon expects from high schools? The absurd turns in this episode did do one thing to impress me. They kept to their status quo to their final breath.
No I rather not have a season 2 with this series. This was WAY TOO MUCH open ending than the other series. Least with the previous ones, there was a clear reason or mission objective... Endbringer?? New final boss?? Lost interest.
Well it looks like you were right TheDigiKnow
Let me join you for a chat sometime. I use Discord but if there's some other way you wanna do it, let me know.
Appreciate all the reviews and thoughts on the episodes if anything ghost game bonded the community In a mostly unanimous agreement this had to be the most wasted potential of any digimon show I've ever seen lol.
Can you believe that the Ghost Game finale showed up and just said “isnt it weird we never seen the digital world space?” and then just left the discord call.
"Frontiers" just called. It has a few words for you. 😅
@@lightfangx6961 sorry i dont return phone calls to mid.
Jk’s aside, i forgot they go to the moon, but that’s hardly anything. We’ve seen the moon in the digital world. Gulus confirms other planets potentially other galaxies.
@@caswellweird ...yeah that's fair enough. XD
@Weird Caswell I mean the games and manga actually dive deep into that kind of things. In fact one of the on going manga is at Witchelny
@@javierrivera5834 oh thats really cool, maybe ill take the dive into the manga fan translations one day
Ghost Game's ending is literally that one Simpsons scene that goes:
Homer: Marge, I'm confused, is this a happy ending or a sad ending?
Marge: It's an ending, that's enough.
Overall, this show was the most enjoyable wasted potential for me.
Lol that is so accurate to how I feel couldn't say it better enjoyable waste lmao
If we get a sequel to this set 2000 years later. Where the endbringer makes it to earth and new generation of digimon fights that be kind of neat. But that probably won’t happen.
@Bearer of Bad news 13 that's what I was hoping or thinking like why even bring that up at the end if they are not going to do anything with it could of just left that out completely smh.
I conked out around episode 23 or 24, and I'm glad to see I didn't miss anything.
@GreekDudeYiannis yea just watch last 2 episodes for animation and fights lol thats what I did.
I love how Mummymon is now a full fledge Doctor walking with Human Doctors. I guess he earned it when he gave aid to humans when trying to deal with some of the digimon that harmed humans. I think it would be a nice touch to have Mummymon's passion become fully recognized. Now you might want to look forward to tackling Seekers when it drops next month.
Yeah, I loved that...I love this version of Mummymon
Agreed he was a aiming to do some good within what he considered a new world. I loved the episodes he was in.
That shouldnt have happened of screen. Darn these directors that believed in the monster of the week formula....
@@JayceCH. well digimon has always been a monster of the week even since the early days of the franchise.
It was a good moment, One of the better pay offs in the series. Take that double meaning for what you will...
We need to preserve this show to the best of our ability. Then the animators in 4023 can continue this series.
Thank you Digimon Ghost Game. Truly the anime ever, ahead of its time!
i legit laughed for a solid 10 minutes when gulus said "I came from space" seeing how that's studio TRIGGER's trademark nonsense ending twist and i was half joking with a friend that this would happen
I mean, Gammamon and his evolutions all had space themed names, so it's not that surprising.
@@stevenhiggins3055 not surprising, but confusing
@@nikolab.4065 Confusing, how? Do you mean because of the digital world? I just assume that this means GG follows the same logic as most Digimon anime, where the Ditigal World has always existed and computers are just a gateway to it. And with that logic, it makes it easier to accept the possibility that there could essentially, be other planets in the Digital World's universe like there is in ours.
"I am the space core"
This felt like a penultimate episode, I personally felt like we needed one more episode.
I mean we still have yet to see Arctusmon and Proximamon
Why even tease Proximamon if they weren't going to finish this plot properly?
I would've wanted another season, but happily settle for some of those filler episodes being scrapped in favor of a properly paced finale arc.
No way one more episode is enough to cover everything, one episode is not even enough to cover both of Gulus missing evos!
A movie would be nice. Excluding anything Adventure related they haven’t done a movie since Savers. If any Digimon anime needed a movie it’d be Ghost Game.
Or another season. :D
If anything, I'd say Blacktailmon collected digimon who's interactions were on the path to a collapse so she could analyze why and when they failed, more than those who successfully collected data.
That makes more sense ngl.
I feel like they just gave us a bunch of misdirection and distractions at the very end so that no one could remember and question Quantumon for being a murderer
We get a bunch of information all at once so that from the start we can't focus on everything that has happened, and just on what she wants to touch upon
Then when she confesses to her actions under her framing, they had Hiro focus on Quantumon using Digimon as pawns, which was bad but at the end was one of her lesser evil, remember that she just confessed sending a serial killer in the form of Sealsdramon who ended on Bokomon dying, she send Archnemon who went and ate a whole building worth of human brains, she was behind everything bad that happened other than the GRB infection.
And she got away with it, how?
By shrugging off the accusations about her smaller misdeeds, with the help of Jellymon and Angoramon who went "na we don't mind being used as pawns by her", making it seem like it was not a big deal, and then before anyone can regain their footing and ask her about all the digimon and humans that got killed due to her actions, we have Gulus appear again and drop off a new plot with more urgency
So of course if now everyone is worried and focused on an incoming world ending danger, no one is gonna be thinking about past misdeeds, those who are already dead become afterthoughts in front of the idea of those that may get killed
And this missdirection worked so well, that so far even the audience is forgetting this
That's also the writers' attempt at not touching relevant topics, again, for what feels like the tenth time in this series. Even up to the very end, these people...
It would've worked as a pretty clever misdirection, if only the show hadn't shown the same lack of care for its entire run lmao
I am happy that ghost game answered the only question I had: wether Siriusmon had hands under his gun-sword gauntlets or not😅
Yeah I always wondered about digimon with gun hands myself.
Imagine going back in time and telling someone who watched the first episode that this is the ending we got.
Waiting 67 weeks for this was painful.
There was so much promise in the first 13 or so episodes, and a very clear linear story. People like to say it was always episodic and that's true in that each episode is a new monster of the week, but there was a clear story happening for the first few months
@@thedigiknow I guess I was wrong about who I thought the Main villain of the series was going to be but it’s fun being wrong it makes it more interesting and fun
You didn't count all the breaks. :P
@@minicle426 Especially the weeks-long break because of Toei getting hacked; can't help but wonder how things would've gone had we gotten those couple weeks back to let this finale breathe some more...
@@minicle426 Now that you mention it, i think that makes the situation worse somehow.
The final fight between Regulus and Sirius was fun. And that's all the praise I can give this episode. Not that it was bad, but my God, 67 episodes of wasted potential. This whole series basically screams "we had no end goal in sight when we started." This could've been great, phenomenal, even. But all we got was a pretty pile of "that's it?"
@@mysticdigital5936 the strongest digimon ghost mid fan:
At least the kids weren't forced to part with the Digimon.
I think the franchise has been moving away from that kind of ending.
@@DrawciaGleam02
After Last Kizuna, YAAAAAYYY!!!!!
Hopefully the people complaining about the plot because *they do not get the episodic* thing will shut up now.
Agreed. My thoughts exactly.
Despite no plot its flaws aren't as catastrophic as 02/Frontier and the show is generally better than abominations like Xros Wars/Hunters/Tri/Kizuna/Adventure 2020
when gulu/gammamon brought up the end-bringer I was SO SURE that was gonna be a tease for season two or something like that, just for it to be turned into a joke a second later...
Digimon Space Game is gonna fix everything don't even wooooooorry about it
I did once guess that Reboot 2020's sequel was going to be named as "To a New World".
🤣🤣🤣 Digimon Space Jam
@@thedigiknow COME ON AND SLAM, AND WELCOME TO JAPAN
Digi gods help us please
Digimon Cosmic Fury
Man, i still cannot believe that they had 67 episodes (more than your average digimon series) to solve the unanswered mysteries they set up and never do something interesting or meaningful with them.
I remember read somewhere that the main writer (Masashi Sogo) recognized in his blog that it was a psychological torture to work for this series, and he even said he was afraid that the ending might not be enough satisfying.
After all, now i get why he was afraid: the ending was absolutely disastrous.
more time than almost any other digimon series to tell a story and took no advantage of that
i wish they dumped a lot of the one shot stories and focused on more important storylines
Not going to lie, that shot of Siriusmon's mouth opening was weird as hell. I had to rewind it and watch it again just to understand what was happening.
Same haha and all the gamma forms looking like Gotenks ghosts
I like to think his multiple evolution s are the digimons that gulusgammamon devoured in the past
@@thedigiknowThe best way to explain it would be to compare it to the “Evil Containment Wave” from DragonBall.
I got Evangelion vibes. Its giving EVA-01
@@thetrainerknownasx I’m pretty sure the character designer for evangallion also worked on the design for digimon, so I think it was intentional
The problem for me is: it felt like they summarized all of the conflicts, questions, and major plot points are in a five minute monologue from Quantumon. I thought they were going to confront her in battle or something then that didn’t happen. GulusGammamon talks about this endbringer and we don’t do anything with that.
For this season, The storyline was OK overall. The issue with pacing. Too many monster of the week episodes with little/no enough plot development. So now we have to have everything all at once in a very small timeframe. Then y’all made the other two partner Digimon just stand there. Finale wound up being my least favorite episode🤷🏾♂️
But part of the "summary" leaves more questions
I also thought "Oh, so she is going to be the final villain, maybe Proximamon will kill her and recreate the Digital World", but no, even in the season finale Ghost Game manages to disappoint me. Then I thought "oh, then it must be this Endbringer thing, right?" but no, he's 2ky away, no need to worry.
Btw I legit think she isn't a Digimon. I think I heard her say her name is Quantum (in Japanese, Ku-a-n-tu-mu, which I believe people mistook for "Quantumon") as the rulers of the DW usually aren't Digimon themselves.
Edit: I was wrong, Wikimon says her name is "Kuontamon", a Ultimate (Mega) Fairy Type. I still think she shouldn't be a Digimon, but then again, they gave us no explanation about her.
@@RangerRobin0404 wayyy more questions. Most of them being “wtf?”
@@giannixx Not sure how I feel about one entity, especially a digimon, having that kind of crazy power. Yggdrasil says hello 👋
I see the Ghost Game hatebase is still acting tough, as usual lol.
Gulus is basically the Symbiote and the silver surfer combined. Also the space might've been the Space of the Digital World.
I feel like the 2000 year excuse was just the director saying ya we wanted to make a final battle but ran out of time, I seriously don't understand why there was so much filler if they started the finale 10 episodes early we could have had proximamon vs the end bringer
I feel like it could have been many things:
1) Toei wanted to cancel the show so they had to rush it : not the first time that it happens , Digimon Savers/Data squad suffered the same fate and the creators had to rush everything and cuts lots of episodes that were planned.
2) The hack to Toei animation influenced it : the hack that Toei animation suffered made Ghost Game advance slowly and they couldn't get enough chapters within the time frame , thus it was rushed
3) it was a combination of the two above , Savers/Data squad was going well yet Toei still canceled it
End Bringer= Gaiamon =)
The director had 67 episodes to introduce The End/Unicron knockoff villain to be the big bad, but he was more invested in the running gag with espimon that nobody cared about.
@ForteEXE Funny that you mention that. I'm playing Digimon World 2, and I didn't think about it when I was younger, but the people in the game live along side digimon. I
@@Mysticgamer Gaiamon from Digimon World 3 :)
Siriusmon's mouth open up is my favorite scene from this episode, i sure its because i like the evolution sequence of Arresterdramon Superior Mode where his mouth open up, still like that scene
The Ghost Game Finale gave me the same sensation that I got from Season Two of The Promised Neverland.
*"Mediocre is being generous."*
Which is actually a little impressive given how TPN did a nosedive into the ground in a span of 12 episodes while Ghost Game did it in 3-5. 😅
I didn't HATE it as much as TPN but it DEFINITELY feels like they scrapped stuff that should've been included. Another few episodes probably would've done it but what we got is just "meh."
Everytime I hear someone mention Season 2 of The Promised Neverland I black out.
I'm not sure what happens while I'm gone, but when I wake up my room is trashed.
"Another few episodes"
Bro what we really needed was to scrap some filler & replace it with actual storytelling. There's gotta be a dozen episodes worth removing in favor of finishing the dang story
this anime could easily have a 12 episode conclusion season, where they wrap everything up. i have no idea why or how they decided that "the endbringer will be here in 2k years" was considered a rational ending.
No Arcturusmon or Proximamon. No using of Millenniummon's crystal. All the unsatisfactory answers to the series main questions. The setup even as far into the series as ZeedMillenniummon's episode. I genuinely have the vibe they didn't expect the series to end when it did, that there was some kind of executive meddling behind the scenes or something.
Hopefully with the open ending we can get a sequel or movie or something that fixes some things.
Here is my take. Hiro has in his pocket, a literally demongod that can warp time and space. In a way to get revenge, it takes over Hiro to release it self. With the information about the Endbringer, it warps time to make it come close. Gammamon and Gulus are not powerful enough to stop a newly revived ZeedMillenniummon who not only uses Hiro as a host but tamer as welll (throwback to Ryu). Because Gulus and Gamma are on the same picture, their next evolution to Siriusmon/Arcturusmon has an unusual effect. The Endbringer turns out to be a new digimon which Zeed will merge with using Hiro's digivice. Inner conflict will happen between Sirius and Arcturus but if they managed to work together, it triggers a dna evolution to bring in Proximamon. This evolution is too powerful as it's mere existence destroys and recreates data in rapid succession.
I think a movie would be best
All of that is used to fight the Big Bad. When the Devourer is Gaiamon they need Zeedmilleniumon and other Digimon as well the Bridge to fight it. Also Lilithmon and Co probably get recruited for that too. Altough they probably do need to convince them either trough talking, fighting or something that can be gained. And thats the Story for the Movie or Second Season.
The Endbringer coming in 2,000 years is also a stupid plotline. Gulusgammamon is smart enough to know Hiro would be long dead by then (unless he intends to devour him).
@@abloogywoogywoo I hope if they do a movie or something, and Gulus is _way_ off with his timing.
Honestly kinda gives me Pokemon Sword and Shield vibes with Rose freaking out about some energy crisis a millennium away. Now here comes DGG, there's a calamity 2000yrs away, it's almost here!!!
It honestly felt like that the Toei hack that happened around the midway point of the series may have impacted how the show was meant to progress. We still don't know what was taken really so it may have caused them to go in a different direction/adapt and this weird end game is what they were able to piece together. Could just be hopeful thinking.
The Ending of this series is proof they really didn't know how to end so they basically just dumped everything they were planning to do before they found out "oh? we don't have anymore time" also I agree with you this is a very unfulfilling ending and I guess everybody else
Well... It made sense digimon Ghost game have no story, the camera man arrived early and started recording a random group of friends, 200,000 years from now we're going to have an incredible, completely crazy serie, breaking franchise patterns involving even space, factions, a world-devouring being...
There needs to be a sequel movie that is a kind of Interquel more. I actually can see some set up for Proximamon and Arcturusmon in a movie. Basically, events that happen after the final battle, but before the epilogue.
I am honestly also one of those who is just confused by everything. I know I'm going to be disappointed, but... I am just perplexed, and am dreading my friends' reactions to this. They are going to be WAY more critical than me.
It's because you like it that you should criticize its flaws. I love Frontier, but God, it has some problems. And I don't like Ghost Game because I want the franchise to do better than that, so I don't know if it's even worth making a movie whose only reason to exist would be to debut two missing evolutions in which Jellymon, Angoramon and their partners would probably be just side characters. It might be better for them to focus on new projects like Seekers, the new Story game, the 02 movie and so on.
What I dont like is that there's no new weekly season on the horizon.
I can actually see events post the epilogue. They have developed the new dimension a bit, stuff happens, space invaders, et cetera.
Agree
I honestly think nobody expected the horror themed Digimon to end with "And they become politicians"
Also I did not expect that the most unsettling thing from the entire show would come from Seriusmon, with Ghules saying "Its devour or be devoured", and Seriusmon not even flinching, opens his jaw and absolutely silently proceeds to devour him
Ps. It was nice that they literally updated the opening for the last episode, shows that some people that worked on this show really had a lot of love for it
And about Ghoules being an alien and made it to the Digital world instead of the human one didn't bug me, because I used to be a fan of Megaman Star Force where the aliens were "wave" aka data beings like other things that lived on the internet, so I just assumed that Ghoules comes from a world that is made out of data, and thus he is a Digimon just not from this world
That sounds like how Tai became a human ambassador for the Digimon world in 90s adventure.....
Oddly one of the concepts for the unmade Adventure 03 involved an alien threat I believe. 🤔
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I like the idea of aliens having digimon partners!
Mulled over writing a few fanfics about such a concept.
@@DrawciaGleam02 it's a deliberate callback to 02's ending and epilogue as a whole!
Yeah, the alien part was where I LOST it!🤦
It's honestly a unforgivable crime how many episodes ghost game had to tell a story with, and they wasted the entire series. I can't even recommend it to someone who might be curious about digimon.
The biggest question this ending gave me was: Does the Digital World have space? Did Gulus come from the human world's space or the Digital Space? Because if he was an alien digimon that came from another digital world, then maybe the Endbringer is solely a digital entity and that's why Quantumon was so freaked out?
Aw man this ending was soo baad! I've tried to be positive throughout the series and when Megas arrived I was "yeah now we're getting to the good stuff for real". And then nope, never mind. I thought I'd be sad without my weekly Digimon show but maybe it's better for the next show that they really let it cook and be ready, not like GG was. So... next one will be better? Hopefully before the Endbringer is here.
I think we need a movie where Proximamon does battle this Endbringer and Gulus just got the time wrong.
Or the bad guys who got away found a way to accelerate it and form a bad guy team. Maybe even make it the demon lord's. Come to think of it, lucemon was in the shows opening but he never showed up..
I'd be down for that. We got Omnimon from a movie too, didn't we?
It’s a shame that we didn’t see Arcturusmon in the show
Or Proximamon
@@lukebeakum1316 Is that the Gulus and Siriusmon jogress?
@@mep1455 you mean the Siriusmon and Arcturusmon jogress. Arcturusmon is the mega form of Regulusmon
@@lukebeakum1316 Yeah basically. I have been trying to avoid them in case we saw them in the show.
Biggest reason I hope we get a Ghost Game movie or OVA.
Like, I get the series was written by the time he & Proximamon were made & Gulus was never meant to go beyond Perfect. So I get their lack of appearance in the series proper. But I really want them to appear in GG canon regardless, I want Proximamon to be Ghost Game's Omnimon. If that means debuting in a sequel movie, fine by me.
If they did a season 2, it'd be pretty interesting if Gammamon split into GulusGammamon and whatever champion form he chose when digivolving. It'd be like Hiro had twin Digimon like Willis.
Well that fight surley did finally the Thing i always thougt was possible changing Forms in midbattle to use it more tactical. Especially the blast from Albion to shatter Regulusmon Shield. It was brilliant and i hope to see it more in Season 2
Well he will get three digimon then (Remember Espimon is also hiro’s partner)
@@michaelbarrett8141 i dont think the change forms cuz there was a quick second to hide gammamon in the wind cloud or in the fire burst etc
@@raptorskilltor4554 Espimon REALLY feels like a third wheel and is even forgotten by the plot.
Does this really need or deserve a season 2 when it's already the longest digimon series and they spent most of it dicking around?
Thank you for your services. I could not, in my right mind, find the ability to continue this series on a weekly basis.
Ghost Game's issues can be summed up with bad pacing and planning. Potential plot lines were set up that never went any where, and other plot points were never brought up until they didn't matter anymore. Quantomon's influence should've been far more noticeable (Hiro finding his Dad's communications with her, the symbol on her chest appearing in more places than the vital bracelet) and have the digimon set up as being the big bad only to reveal that she was always good and Gullusmon is the villain (and has been manipulating things in the background with events like the destroyed computer pad being Gullus not Gamma). I really don't think they knew how they were going to truly end things beyond MC's digimon has been the big bad the entire time until they started writing those episodes.
Ghost Game lost a lot of potential limiting itself to one and done episodes. There were a number of foes that should've taken two episodes to do their horror proper justice. End an episode with the monster of the week winning so that when Hiro and friends come back to win, it feels more earned. Let the horror of a digimon's antics sink in for a week before resolving it.
And the whole resetting to status quo needed to be pitched. Beyond Kiyoshiro's struggles to conquer his fears, no one really advanced as a character. Pokemon is highly episodic in it's approach, yet when something changes, the show allows the change to stay. There's no reason they couldn't stress an aspect of Hiro's or Ruli's characters and use a change to that as the realization point for evolution. Don't just have Ruli say in the final few episodes she's looking for a hobby to enjoy, have her make comments about the hobbies she attempted in the show about how driving go-carts is best enjoyed sparingly that karaoke singing isn't for her, and then when SymbaAngoramon evolves it's in part that Ruli accepts who she is as a person,
On the whole Ghost Game really could've competed as one of the best seasons of all time. There is a lot of good in the series. It easily has some of the best singular episodes of all digimon. It is just the problems are too glaring and could've easily been fixed with better direction and attention to plot details for the series as a whole. Had they approached the series like it was a digimon version of Doctor Who where seemingly separate episodes are linked to in a surprising fashion to the season ending, it could've been really special. Maybe that was their intent, but the main plot was poorly handled. I'd likely place the series as my fifth or sixth favorite right now. It might go down the more time I think about it, but it certainly won't go up as original Adventures, Adventures 02, Tamers and Appmon are all firmly placed above it for quality of story and plot.
Well said.
Never had I imagined the casts becoming ambassadors of a new Digimon-Human country and having all those appointments with different countries. Heck, this whole episode feels as if this is something I would dream up in my sleep lol
It’s like the writers/show runners had a bunch of ideas for the show, scrapped them all to do an episodic format instead, then dumped them all here because they like their ideas so much. “Look how cool and creative we are!”
Like… I like Gulus being from space. He’s way more alien than Gammamon’s other evolutions when you point it out. I would’ve loved a whole plot arc digging into that.
I actually laughed at points during the finale. Quote myself about halfway through the Quantumon scene, "this is fucking foul."
This finale absolutely reeks of mismanagement and conflict behind the scenes. The writers wanted one thing, the showrunners wanted another, or something like that. Problem is, cramming everything you wanted to do right at the end just makes it worse. I would have rather had Quantumon cut, gotten *no answers at all,* and the finale be a big battle where Arcturus and Proximamon appear and then defeating Gulus just vanishes the GRB like every other MotW resolution. Because this is... just awful. They unironically tried to shove an entire series' worth of plot and revelations into the last 10 minutes of the show.
67 episodes. 67 *weeks* (+ hiatuses) of investment from the audience, and this is how we go out. This is the finale we all waited for.
Modern Toei in a nutshell.🤷♂️
I enjoyed Ghost Game overall but I can certainly say I understand why some folks didn't.
I felt like the final episode would've been better as a movie or OVA. But overall it definitely built on a lot of the themes the show had and wrapped up pretty much all the questions I had... so I'm satisfied.
Honestly it was better for the stories told along the way than the ending itself. I think at the very least it deserves a try from Digimon fans and is a fun take on the franchise.
Looking forward to see how Seekers and future projects go.
I cannot comprehend having a 60+ episode series in which you sprinkle in a number of ongoing mysteries, and then making the conscious decision to not actually address any of them until the final three episodes. I liked Ghost Game initially and watched it for a while, but my issue with it was that it set itself up in such a manner that a serialized storyline would have been the most satisfying and then actively refused to move away from episodic storylines until it literally didn't have any time left
The ending is the most whiplash I ever felt I can actually feel the breakneck speed, appmon did it better with all the plotline completely explain and Leviathan was better explain than whatever Quantumon was. Appmon real world lessons was in 2045 A.I will surpass human intelligence and with all the A.I art stuff and chat gbt I can say that prophecy is getting closer while GG 2000 years later some space ball gonna eat us is so goofy. I didn't understand Quantumon the first time that I had to rewatch the exposition multiple times just to understand it while Leviathan, I actually understand what he's talking about and his goal of a utopia.
Yeah im having to watch this vid in bite sizes to avoid head ache whip-lash on making sense of Ghost game`s finale. But the way they have Quantumon debut in the last half of the episode as some ridiculous plot device explainer. That it feels like i was seeing the same kind of crap that Honkai impact 3rd pulled with Elysia and Ai-chan Lambda.
Characters just just appear, basically be some almighty deus-ex-machina devices that act either as explanation devices or can1 do no wrongs and just straight up be literal poop dumps against whatever the story could of been, even if thar was barely a story to begin with.
With in some of the cases it just straight up invalidates previous threats by hand waving them away as never existing at all despite many signs pointed to such presences. Ultimately they could of had a much more simplistic plot and it would of cooked WAY better.
The final major funny is since Ghost games is suppose to be a `Kids Show` last i checked, having all these extra convoluted complication elements really kicks some balls on being a mess and would definitely be impossible to just `turn your brain off and binge it`.
Edit Addition: Ok just got to the part about Gulus gets to temporarily use Gammamon`s body and they write it off he is an Alien that will devour everything?
Guess i can include Yugioh Go Rush and its Second season`s plot shenigans by having space involved in a plot for no damn reason and also some great evil from space for no damn reason included in that element. Not to mention this feels like the same card would you pull with a Cliff-hanger type finale where the show never DOES do a finale but they purposely act like a dick and set up an actual finale.
Granted, some shows may of done similar things over the past several years on some more stand-alone animes i have seen, but this feels like a more dick-ish version of a anime`s run that just ended this week also, Ars no Kyoujou. Namely them ending it with some other beeger evil shows up in the last few minutes that the cast now have to `take on.
Compared to some other good stuff like Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann and this one anime about Vampires and Mechas that kinda end off with something like interacting with extraterrestrial's, yeah the execution difference is just way to different on going for a closing note of said series(es).
This did not make me happy. All this nonsense of the Endbringer and everything. Gulusgammamon was an epic villain that needed a decent closure.
@@BladeSerph
Pretty Lovecraftian though. I mean, there was no true main villain the heroes would defeat and end all conflict with. Horrific things happened because Digimon are alien, Quantumon sent them there in an emergency evacuation and had the try to collect data on humans due to us being alien in return, and the planetary threat has zero reason to be concerned with the heroes because of it being on a *planetary scale,* including timescale. Of course, Gulus might have been lying.😆
p.s.
Think you mean SEVENS because Go Rush had an alien for its protagonist.
Honestly the only thing I got from Quantumon was that she works super similar to Yggdrasil
@@lilboygthorns7373
Or Shakamon.
It's so weird. They had a 3 episode finale to work with and just didn't really do anything at all in the first 2 episodes, so the finale was just a rushed mess.
in a card game artwork from Proximamon we can see the sun like thing from this episode in the background
It was definitely planned for proximamon and the Endbringer to appear in anime but something must have gone terribly wrong
Unfortunately they don't have much time left for digimon GG. I hope they make season 2 or just movie for continuity sake.
What went wrong is that they tried to make a barely plot-driven Digimon series when Digimon has only ever *worked* as an incredibly narratively driven story/series. These last few episodes were like "see, we had plot all along!" but they didn't-- all they had were teasers to keep people watching.
@@MoonLitChild Honestly, the series would have been better if they didn't include the epic story teases
Covid and the server hack probably.
Or they kept it open and are doing a "Our War Game"-type sequel
anyone else got a huge smile on their face when Gammamon had that smug smile on his face before he started explaining the rules to Gulus or was that just me?
The ending really let me down. Ghost Game had so much promise, but everything it set up just fell flat on its face on the first step. Hell, there's STILL unresolved stuff.
I'm disappointed to see it was ultimately mediocre at best.
But hey. At least we stayed till the end. And watching you review it was pretty fun.
I think they could use GGs ending here as a jump point for a new series, one that takes place in the same continuity but a 1000+ years later with completely new protagonists and their digimon; here, the story would be that the Endbringer's arrival draws near and our new protags and their digi-partners need to stop it in order to live up to the legacy left behind by the GG heroes
Ya know what? I'm with it. This is goofy af and while I don't want endings like this all the time, I'm good with it every now and again.
I absolutely agree with that!
I'm wishing for a 2nd season to make everything make more sense, but even if that doesn't happen, I'm personally not overly disappointed in the series as a whole! I think that having to wait week after week to try and piece it all together, and coming up with your own theories of where the plot was heading was actually enjoyable in and of itself! It lets your imagination run wild with possibilities!
That's the problem that everyone else is having, though: their interpretations went one direction, while the show ended up going in a different direction. It could have been more, but it also could have been less. But I enjoyed it for what it was!
This show started off with soooooo much potential
Feels like set up for a movie finale
" A giant meteor threatens the planet its up to Ghost game crew AND GULUS!? to save the human and digital world"!
honestly despite flaws i really liked Ghost Game the digimon designs are great, loved charscters and was just fun
Hopefully this Meteor is a Digimon called Gaiamon. Would make it epic.
These are the vibes I got from the way it ended. A season wouldn't make sense unless it takes place with a story 2000 years into the future with the world that Hiro, Ruli, Higashi and their Digimon essentially created. Which is unlikely. A movie would absolutely make sense given circumstances.
Thanks for covering this series man. Excited to see what you'll do next!
Digimon Ghost Game's finale was a disappointment and we have no one to blame but the anime's producers who didn't deal with this anime the right way.
The scenarists, animators and voice actors just did their job as best as they could, don't blame them.
Paradoxe : Even though it was the scenarists' job to give this anime some sense ? -____-
They probably had a longer climax in mind, yeah...
Yep! Animation was excellent, designs were excellent, music was solid, vocal performances were good. This just underscores the importance of writing.
@@thedigiknow Too bad the producers asked for a series with a limited number of episodes instead of a Digimon story...
'Somethings coming!'
'When?'
'2000 years in the future'
*Everybody live happily ever after
The entire time I felt like I was watching an hour version of the episode in 2x or 3x speed. I can only think that something happened behind the scenes that cut their time. I think there was definitely more to the conversation between gammamon and gulus to explain the whole space stuff and they had to cut out as much as they could to wrap it up in whatever way they could.
Considering the shows tendency to troll it's audience with carrot mysteries that inevitably wind up being nothing in the end (Fake Hiro cough), the series show ending on such a troll was hilarious to me
Yeah it’s like they couldn’t help themselves
These last few episodes should have been expanded more. I can't believe its over. Now to wait for digimon seekers web novel & 02 movie
Should have
This finale was... a bit out of control for me. Like the battle was cool, but everything else became really crazy and messy. And to suddenly bring up "The Endbringer?" Just why? If they were going to do that, they should have created a final episode or two for it. It felt like they just wanted to create explanations in the last few minutes so we can be satiated. But honestly, I'm not satiated by this. This episode also totally felt like a penultimate versus a final episode. Maybe we'll get a new series that makes "The Endbringer" as the main villain. I dunno. I'm not a fan of the ending, honestly. Maybe it's just me.
The sad thing is when anyone can take the concepts introduced in every Ghost Game episode and with a computer write original episodes of their own going with an actual story on that regard. I have been doing that since your 50 episodes review of Ghost Game and while I have not been able to commit to a weekly schedule I would say I ended up going further than just one single episode that I have written out of spite for the writers of the series.
Man, if only they actually did something with their episodes rather than just monster of the week. I love the Vital Bracelet and I thought this series would be great lorewise, but eh. I hope Seekers does better.
Part of me wants to believe they will do long term storytelling with this big endbringer thing.... but somehow i doubt they will ever revisit this idea :P
I'm not gonna lie, I feel like the ending should have been done during the mid point of the series. Gulus really didn't feel like a final villain. Especially since they seem to hint a bigger threat. Everything else in the review basically hit the nail on the head.
This was PAINFULL to watch! Quantummons ONLY PURPOSE was to be an exposition device to close all lose ends and all of our questions and I HATED it!
I can finally say it. Digimon 2020 was better than this by MILES even with the fast pacing.
This show had some good moments but overall was bad. I dont think you are shocked but you were laughing about it how bad this ending was xD
Rushed... that,s the only word I have for it, its fine that it was more episodic focused but it felt like the writers realized they had to put an ending in there and ran out of time, sirius vs gulles looked amazing but that info dump after was just awefull
I feel like the biggest problem with the finale is that they took 2-3 episodes of the story and cramped them into a finale. So much was explained so quickly with little time to properly process.
Overall, I just wanna say that I love Ghost Game and it is one of my top seasons, cause there are still stories I considered the best in the franchise. But initially, I even ranked it as my favorite but it, unfortunately, fell off that title cause, I can't deny its shortcomings, especially how the finale turn out. While I don't have solid evidence of that, GG feels like a show that over time got into a conflict of creative differences. Either they wanted to fully episodic show but they added an ongoing plot out of obligation OR they did wanted to make it more story-driven but they were mandated to primarily focus on episodic stuff. Or again, this might have been what they wanted but didn't pan out right.
Again, I still like the show but it's really disappointing that it really did not stick the landing.
I definitely agree that this ending was pretty bad, but at the very least, I’m glad Naotoshi Shida got the final word for this last battle.
Overall, Ghost Game’s episodic formally and breaking away from the normal Digimon formula ended up being this show’s downfall. But that being said, Gammamon has become my favorite main character Digimon and I cannot thank Miyuki Sawashiro enough for her incredible performance as the Gammamon line.
Animorph fans might get this when i say that this episode of Ghost Game has a lot of The Conclusion vibes: the way it ends with even more questions than it answered, the way it unites the allied factions in an official capacity but then heralds the coming of a greater, more all-devouring force/evil and then just cuts off the story there. The difference is that while the Animorphs series does truly end there, Digimon as a franchise does not - and the way i see it, there's only two outcomes; either a Ghost Game movie comes out at some point and expands on what they've done here, or they just cut it off here and move on with a next season / alternate universe as they've always done (now that i think about it, it's also very reminiscent of the Wrath ending of Digimon Survive). And while hard to fathom from an intra-show perspective, that, i think, is the overarching subtext and point of Digimon: It's many different universes, all telling one story.
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Look im a black sheep when it comes to digimon
My favorites were frontiers and xros wars
Loved them and still do i love all the series
Minus data squad
But this? This? Jesus almighty i didn't even watch this and i feel slideded
This is just.... I don't even have words im in shocked. Im definitely not excited for what's next because after gg im not exactly happy for whats next and now that this is done the be is now counting down its days
Another Xros Wars/Fusion fan?
I thought my kind were extinct...
Anyway I completely agree. It's crazy how Ghost Game fumbled the bag with...almost everything.
The only things that came out of this show that I'm thankful for are more cool digimon designs.The humans are stale plain crackers and the story is nonexistant. You hate to see it.
It seems like other people like it which is fine. Glad people can enjoy something I see no value in.
This episode was wild as hell , it felt like it was at 1.5x speed for half of it's duration and I freaking love it.
You love that stupid plot points and nonsense? OKey xD
Maybe you should have tried lowering the speed? :P
Not sure why you love absurd trash but whatever.
This was truly the ending of all time.
This show did reveal a weird twist in the end that was unexpected.
Humans and Digimon just jumping ship from Earth to another world that Quantumon made, it’s like “welp, we tried” in living the best of life on earth just to live a totally alien and strange and bizarre world that is neither the digital world or Earth.
But I don’t think this series isn’t done being that it had ended on a cliffhanger seldom on a happy note after dozens of apocalyptic events happened almost every episode.
Quantumon does seem to be side with Hiro and Gammamon on episode 67, but that could change entirely on the next season, even within the 1000 year timespan before the Earth is destroyed.
Did I enjoy watching lots of episodes of Ghost Game? Yes...... Does it have the weakest story of any digimon anime to date? Yes. Does it have any kind of satisfying pay off at all? No. This series had so much potential and it was complete squandered. GulusGammamon was arguably one of if not the most interesting villains in all of Digimon and the "pay off" to his appearances was to simply get absorbed back into Gammamon...... and them randomly reveal "Oh by the way I'm an alien"....... how incredibly fucking stupid....... this ending was trash. So much potential and really loved the dark tone of the show but in the end the only digimon anime I would rank lower than Ghost Game is Young Hunters. (I hate young hunters) The squandered potential of this show has left a really bad taste in my mouth. Also, Diribitmon and Amphimon literally never do anything and that was trash.
78 weeks and the show is over. I came across those who watched GG recently and they said they stopped watching it as it brought good concepts but didn’t go anywhere with it so they dropped the show.
The finale addresses some but in a very fast pace. I can say I was somewhat satisfied (like the great animation and facial expressions) but I still had issues due to how the series literally wrote a contract to prioritize episodic aspects which made the writer not give enough leeway to the serialized aspects of the show.
MoonMilleniummon is something many people will never get over, not to mention Matadormon, Lilithmon, Yuto, Digitamamon, etc. Also wanted to see Arcturusmon and Proximamon but whatever. I rate it a 5/10. I prefer Tamers, Savers and Appmon over this but it’s better than Adventure 2020.
Dont worry this Digimon who escaped are Powerhouses they get recruited in the Second Season to fight the Devourer who is probably Gaiamon. And they need all those Allies and Bridge between Digimon and Human to prepare for him and probably his Servants. Also Proximamon and Co are used against Gaiamon. I mean its a Planet but what can a Planet do against a Digimon that can use Matter to dissamble and put it in to something new?!
"but it’s better than Adventure 2020"
OK literally what the fuck did Colon do so terribly that a series this botched still comes out on top?
I just don't get why people hate that series so much.
@@the_echoYT Boring. Repetitive. Too focussed on a lead with the personality of a brick. Milked the never give up trope for freebie powerups to absurd levels.
@@minicle426 OK but like... tell me how you didn't just describe Ghost Game
I was one of those people. I stopped watching around 23-24 or so, every now and then watching youtube clips of Digivolving to Ultimate and Mega. In the long run, it doesn't look like I missed anything and the issues I had way back when that made me stop watching continued to the end.
I mean, I know I'm partially to blame for expecting Tamers level quality from a MotW series aimed towards TikTok kids, but they really did just fuck around for 4/5 of the episodes just to dump everything on the final remaining ones, Goddamn.
I wish that they foreshadowed the space thing earlier I don't like how everything is explained in a rushed way. But Gammamon being from space makes sense due to Bokomon and other digimon stating that they haven't seen a digimon that looked like him before and how all of his evolutions have ties to Space and star constellations .Even the realm that got created when Canoweisemon and Regulusmon were split was space-themed. I just don’t like how the show never mentions anything about it prior to the finale.
To be honest gulusgammamon does remind me of symbiote from Spider-Man tho
Gulus: DEVOUR or be DEVOURED
Siriusmon: Bet. *proceeds to devour a horrified Gulus in a very horrifying way*
But in all seriousness, this making me question how many other Digimon with shield faces can do that. Omegamon? Dukemon? Impredramon FIghting Mode?
At least this explains whether or not they can eat food lol 😂. Then again, Arresterdramon does the same thing in Superior Mode.
It's now the horrifying truth that many masked digimon may be able to do this
Ever wondered if some of the Royal Knights have Skin under their Armor. Look at Rosemon she clearly has Skin but the Flower Parts act as Clothing. So who knows how the Royal Knights look under there.
The TRI Wargreymon reference art shows him with his mouth open and the TCG VictoryGreymon card also shows him with his mouth open. That is, this has always been something possible and the anime just don't show it to save work for the animators. 😂😂😂
Not even gonna lie, that part entirely freaked me out. I wasn't prepared for Siriusmon to literally devour Gulus. 🙃
Thanks for the videos, bud. This was fun and frustrating lol
I didn't expect them to go the Trigger studio ending way... Space + nonsense + so much lost potential it gives you whiplash.
Ghost game is not the only recent anime or story coming from there with these features. It might be confirmation bias but I wonder what's going on in this industry. SO much good visual, design, acting and music talent and then the story is like weellll...
My theory is ghost game was written by AI and humans went with it and did the best they could with what they were given.
Yeah, no, this series was a failure. Lazy conclusion just to leave it open ended like that was just insulting to actual plot. I guessed "misunderstanding" but not on purpose. However, I did guess the transfer would be shrugged off, which was the last nail
I'm just dumbfounded 😮💨😒
Hopefully the next anime will be better.
This series NEEDS a reboot. One that is Not episodic and clunkily written, but seriously planned out and carefully handled. I am very unhappy with this ending and their lackluster attempt at explaining anything.
Nah, it's fine as it is. I like it episodic.
A reboot for what , the main """plot""" is literally the worst aspect of Ghost Game.
Honestly, that whole plot point of the "villain" sending digimon to gather an undrrstanding of things such as emotions feels like it is ripped straight from Avesta of Black and White with its main character.
I like how Adventure 2020 ended on a solid note despite being a garbage fire while Ghost Game despite being far better written ends on the equivalent of the YGO GX season 2 satellite being blown up in terms of insanity.
how is ghost game 'far better written' ? firstly there's no plot so its much easier to write that adventure20 which is plot driven, secondly the plot that it does it have in the final eps is awful.
A decent (not bad) ending in my opinion, and full with connections and easter eggs. Besides the rushed and anticlimactic revelation, at least they tied up most of the loose ends. The part when Hiro helped Gammamon regain itself was heartwarming, the whole sequence has some Hosoda directing style vibe, especially the key to bring back Gammamon's conscious wasn't just "partners", but a unique and special bond as "brothers". And I believe what makes Gulus yields was because he acknowledge Gammamon's strength, determine, and bond with Hiro, and he want it as well; bit of similar with Angemon and Devimon's relationship in the reboot 2020, how they fighting over body at first, and finally working together to stop the "Great Catastrophe".
The "space" talk could be the most bizarre revelation in the whole digimon universe, but bits of it serves as a homage from Ultraman, and we all knew it was Gammamon's design inspiration, so seems reasonable in some way.
Yet I still got mixed feeling with Quantumon's role, she was like OG's Homeostasis who gain a digimon form, but not sure if she possesses the ability to help other Digimon to digivolve through Bracelet like Culumon. I agree with Hiro and others, no one has the right to treat digimon and human life as "game", bit like Homeostasis who wants peace in digital world by any means necessary.
Biggest disappointment was no Arcturusmon or Proximamon (Seriously! then what was the reason to released their design on Vital Bracelet BE?) And BlackTailmon and Black Digimons' role explained in all this, no Hellos or actions for any of them, and just left like that (like come on!).
Still, they opened a new opportunity and gateway between two (or three) worlds, glad to see humans and digimons coexist together at the end, and noticed Meicrackmon was still "stalking" Riku. This is something that OG's Taichi want to see, and now trio also became the "diplomats", imagine if they get to meet each other through corssover one day. We still got "infinite possibility", so who knows?
Finally, I am going to miss you Ghost Game, until next time!
Hey waitaminute. At the end of the day, Bokomon didn't lie about Hiro & friends becoming the bridge of both worlds! And Piccolomon didn't lie about Gammamon being cool in the future. He swallowed Gulus and now Gamma became part of the pioneer people who became the bridge between real world & digital world! 😁
Also, turns out the "Ghost Game" actually refers to Quantumon's method who kept sending digimons (aka. hologram ghosts) to the real world and then cashing in on data. That actually makes sense 😌
Humans & digimons working together to create an Ark-like world to escape certain doom sounds really grand 😮. Much grander & more ambitious than the end of *02* actually. I would *love* to see a continuation maybe a century in the future where people & digimons are already living together in harmony within this Ark-world. We can have a better & more expansive version of Saver with *much* better animation. Imagine that! 🤤
Nuh i think the Devourer is still coming. I mean they called it All Devourer no matter what you do he will Devoure them. So that Bridge Thing is more to gather Allies and strong Digimon to fight him in the Future.
Siriusmon with actual hands was cursed af. 💀
Dude, his attack is called "planet knuckle" . The Digimon reference book tells you that he still has a Trump card (Planet knuckle).
@@d.a.5161 Alot of attacks in monster taming based shows don`t end up being a direct translation. You sometimes even get some mons make a projection of an attack instead of having the actual bodypart to perform such.
It would of made more sense if he punched with his gun arm or instead of having some weird symmetrical gun arm situation, one of them could of been a gauntlet that could of had a shield or just been used as a sort of make shift shield of sorts.
Ultimately though, the show was done in a terrible fashion and this finale gives it away by just having a random b.s. no jutsu in a chain tandem to invalidate someone`s supposed death in the previous episode, protagonist randomly uses Sirius`s weapon instead of maybe picking it up in said space or just doing a punch instead and Sirius mon just straight up does a Kamen rider Zero Two and splits up the beeg bad from something, this being his evolution somehow and it just conveniently landing on Gulus instead of maybe a dark form of his Rookie form aka a black Gammamon.
Then he just straight up and caves in and is the muffin-button that magically resolves the issues by producing `white deus ex machina juice` that can counter-act the black stuff, not because the two of them combined, but just cause Gulus can do that all along for no fking actual reason.
They could of had this moment a good 20 or even 30 episodes earlier and spend those extra 20 to 30 episodes in the digital world, do a much better setup, have room to let the finale breathe, but nope, its just Indecisive `want to try and be episodic based` yet at the same time `its just a giant Fk-up of still being continuity based still.`
If they aren`t even gonna bother to have Gulus`s mega form or Proximamon, they didn`t even need to have Gulus present at all and could of just been more like some older 1980~2000s based slice of life/comedy shows with the horror theme focus instead.
Siriusmon lost the gunblades just to square up with regulusmon😂
Man, people who criticize hands on Digimon are full of it.
Wargreymon already has an actual hands behind those claws, but I never heard anyone complained about It.
Where were You guys?
@@ridwana4037 That because we didn't KNOW he had hands until My War Game.
It was awful. The only redeeming thing was the two minute “all Gammas” fight. The last 10 minutes were just head spinning nonsense. The whole exposition part usually would have made up an entire episode. The “final boss is done in 10 minutes and then there’s a 10-minute epilogue” tactic is often used in 12-episode series that are almost guaranteed to not be continued and typically work as manga advertisements…but for a nearly 70-episode series?!?
They should’ve at least announced an OVA for next year or something. So much as a 40 minute special could explain that the “end” is coming faster, have Arcturusmon appear if Gulus takes over, and explain that Arcturus and Sirius are able to have their powers combine and have a final battle as Proximamon. I may have butchered names but yeah.
This series kept teasing us with no actual payoff. Heck, even in the last EP they still teased us with the Endbringer. I understood that the story choice was like this because they went with MotW style so the ending of each episode had to have minimal impact on the overall story (except the necessary ones like evolution or this final arc). They left many things open-ended so that they had rooms to wiggle around when they had new ideas, which, unfortunately, never came to fruition.
Ghost Game was a mess, but a unique and highly appreciated one. It tried to be different, and though it failed to live up to its potential, we still had been graced by the cutest Digimon to ever walk this Earth. Though we won't have Gammamon's weekly baby energy anymore, I'll make sure to come back to this series once in a while for him.
Not gonna lie that ending went straight to looney town because by God it got incredibly silly
Still one silver lining for me is that I guess GulusGammamon KIIINDA was a anti hero sooooorta, even if the reason for this (the endbringer) is the biggest asspull ever
It was on my bingo card “Japan not hitting the ending”
Gulus' planet was devoured so it will get strong enough to devour the devourer. This gave me strong Unicron vs. Cybertron vibes for some reason.
For reasons that we don't know this was rushed ... it seems obvious that they wanted to do much more, planting seeds here and there, but they were forced to rush to the end.
It was a weird season for digimon, but I enjoyed it for all the chances it took, even if this finale was lackluster
Kinda reminds me how in Xros Wars/Fusions Season 1, where it's episodic with occasional story progression, but the last 2 episodes are all story and a new form.
Ghost Game legit reminds me of an M Night Shyamalan movie: Lots of build up; zero payoff.
This season had fun moments, but didn't foreshadow or set up audience expectations properly. It seemed like the writers just wanted to do a creepy anthology show but were forced to include the bare minimum of story at the beginning and the end. It feels forced and lazy. Doesn't mean people can't enjoy it, but from a general storytelling perspective, they really should have taken more care to sprinkle things out and set up stuff so that it was not just a disjointed exposition vomit at the end of the show. Did not stick the landing.
EXACTLY.
Gulus: "I came from space."
Me: "Well, duh. Your whole line is named after stars"
So basically they resolved everything by talking,,,,,,
in appli monsters haru had to let his best friend get killed I miss the old times
Appmon honestly had a weak middle and start but very strong end. The last 6 episodes or so were pretty good, I don't think it's fair to compare to Appmon to Ghost Game since Appmon's writers put so much effort and passion into their sendoff to the fans. Ghost Game had none.
@@dicknock3711 look i liked more appli monster because since the start it had a plot a final boss, rei mystery with his bro etc
Appli monsters isn't digimon though.
Wait... what happened to Piximon's time travel?
I was sure he would pop-up during the final battle.
I feel like there are too many things that still need to happen like gulusgammamon is an alien from another planet? I'd like to see THAT backstory even more now and how Hiros dad found and changed him cuz it looked like we were gonna get some gammamon backstory finally,also I would have liked the gulus&gammamon fight to have happened WAY earlier so that when they did face the big bad or whatever we'd get a DNA evolution of the two or something I just feel it was alot of fillers that amounted to nothing an when we finally got plot that added to the story it was like 5 eps and then a series finale out of nowhere I at least hope they make a sequel to this in the future
It's always nice to see your Digimon reviews as you're very technical in many ways be it with the plot or animation! Though, I'll be leaving my unpopular opinion here.. I had fun watching the series! They came up with new ideas and I loved all of the moments the characters had.. Maybe it's because I don't really ask for much, but I think people would be happier if they made a second season, or if they took longer to complete the series.. I mean, I'd love that regardless. It was a fun journey and I'm glad I could share it with someone! Also.. Angoramon is always gonna be in my heart, I already miss my bb ;;
the shittiest ending in any show I have ever seen. glad this waste of time came to an end and I hope they don't try to expand on it.
Remember when wargreymon fought diaboromon with fists?
Siriusmon: I do.
So overall this show was enjoyable, it had plenty of high points where you would get hyped and of course plenty of low points that would make you say “really?” But honestly I’m glad we’ve reached the end and wouldn’t be opposed to getting some kind of continuation just to explain this new endbringer threat and new country plot(mostly because I want to see proximamon).
While this finale was definitely ridiculous, I wasn't upset at all with it. Maybe I'm just a shallow person, but the thing I was most concerned with was my question of "Are Digimon going to have to separate from humans, or are they here to stay this time?" And this finale game me a satisfying answer to that question. As for where they are going to live with humans, the empty digital dimension that was brought up was actually something that we have already seen. In episode 62, the apartment building being used by Digimon was also in this "in-between" dimension.
@@JustinVillemure Congratulations on telling other people how they are supposed to interpret a work of fiction. To me, the most "meaningful" shows of Digimon all had one thing in common. The end of the shows turned everything back to the way things were before the show began. Everything returned to a nice, familiar status quo. As far as lasting consequences to the world go, the entire adventure may as well have never happened.
You are correct that Ghost game isn't about "growing up" (whatever the hell that means to you), it's about the social consequences of two different cultures crashing into each other, and that it's a good thing to resolve issues that may arise from that.
@@JustinVillemure In Ghost Game, I agree that the main cast of characters don't change all that much, but that's not really what drew me to this show. The major changes weren't to the characters, but to the setting itself. After the final episode, there's a lot more work that needs to be done if digimon are going fully public. They are going to need legal status, identification, education courses on customs, lawyers, and a million other things for them to stabilize. To me, that's infinitely more interesting than just 'hit the bad guy really hard'. This series had its ups and downs, but I liked the finale, not because I was waiting for the characters in the show to grow up, but because I was waiting for the show *itself* to grow up.