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Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 8h

After a little over a month of no-lifeing all of Digimon Adventure, 02, Episode 0, Our War Game, Hurricane Touchdown, Digimon The Movie, Revenge of Diaboromon, Tri, Last Evolution Kizuna, The Beginning, and BEYOND, it's time to finally say goodbye to Adv 😭 I'll miss it so much. BUT ONTO PEAK WE GO

Japanese poster for Digimon Tamers, featuring on the left side the Terriermon (bottom) ->Gargomon (middle) -> Rapidmon (top) line with Henry, in the middle Guilmon (bottom) -> Growlmon (middle) -> WarGrowlmon (top) with Takato and Culumon, and on the right Rika with Renamon (middle) -> Kyubimon (bottom) -> Taomon (top). Impmon is at the bottom.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 18/18

There was a lot less drama, perhaps due to so many people knowing each other, but that didn’t make a bad season. Challenges were mostly good, there was some great push and pull between Traitors and Faithfuls, a fun host, and worthy winners.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 17/18

Paul Henry was a fantastic host, leaps and bounds above Roger from Australia, tho personally I still found him to be lower on the rung than Claudia in UK. He played the eccentric, slightly scary, exorbitantly wealthy uncle BEAUTIFULLY.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 16/18

Speaking of endings, I’m happy with it. While neither Sam or Anna were perhaps the most intelligent faithfuls ever, they weren’t stupid and it was really nice seeing the two disabled people in the cast win together. I was glad to see the back of Julia.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 15/18

I don’t know how that even got past production or anything because that was absolute bullshit. If they had told me to cut my hair I would have walked out of the competition then and there, fuck all of you. What a disappointing way to end the season.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 14/18

Challenges were a lot of repeats of the UK ones, but there was one huge problem child – the final challenge. It was absolutely disgusting to expect Anna to permanently alter her body, for Sam to get a monk’s haircut, and Colin to eat Celeb Jungle food.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 13/18

I’m so disappointed she accepted to be a Traitor. I wanted so badly for her to stand up there and declare herself a Faithful after everything they had put her through. Other good faithfuls included Colin pre-recruitment, Vanda, Dylan, and Kings who was sheer chaos.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 12/18

Poor Robbie. She was very much the isolated one of the cast, being the most normal person there, but I did feel that some of the “celebrities” really pushed her out, and the way people like Julia would speak about her intelligence disgusted me.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 11/18

They end up being two of my favourite faithfuls in the entire franchise, while Brodie really set herself ablaze and guaranteed her own death (which exposes the biggest flaw and my least favourite part of the competition), I was gutted when Justine left.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 10/18

Justine was so vocal, but she never came out with accusations or calling people out, she sat at the table and openly told someone that people were questioning them and gave them a fair opportunity to defend themselves, listened, and kept things moving.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 9/18

Faithfuls were also a great group. Thank fuck for Brodie and Justine in the early game preventing unfair pile-ons. They were so shit hot on stopping people from herd mentality voting people out, and while Brodie gets killed early they set up an ethos that carried on.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 8/18

The main complaint with Traitors was it felt very, very boys secondary school. Loryn got kicked out immediately and Robbie was brought on very specifically to die straight afterwards, every other traitor was a man and they acted like schoolboys together.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 7/18

Brooke I hated as a Faithful, but I soon started to enjoy him as a Traitor. Colin was by far the best, the man radiated pure aura and was so quietly confident and assured in everything he did, he commanded the stage in a very different way to most other traitors.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 6/18

To talk traitors, I liked them overall. They weren’t the brightest bunch, but they weren’t thick either. Loryn bless her didn’t get a chance. Dan and Matt also went surprisingly quickly, but at least they had strategies even if they weren’t fully successful.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 5/18

I enjoyed the editing much more than Australia. AUS is so laughably over-edited and it’s cringe as fuck, but the NZ one takes a lot of note from the UK version. We get death interviews, better pacing, no stupid backstory sections, and fairer introductions to the cast.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 4/18

That’s the bizarre part for me, they offered the cast a chance to go run for a 10k prize, no strings attached, and they’d leave the competition, as soon as they arrived. That’s 1/7th of the total POSSIBLE prize pool. He ended up with 33% of each winner’s pot.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 3/18

That’s like PENNIES. And that gets SPLIT between whoever wins. The total prize at the end was 59,100, which means that the two winners ended up with 29,550 dollars each. For reference, one person showed up the first day and walked away with 10k.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

Traitors NZ S1 pt. 2/18

First of all, this season is laughably low budget. NOW, that’s not inherently the worst thing in the world in terms of editing, costumes, and sets, since it can definitely give a charming, chic energy, and that did happen! But NZD70K as the prize? Fuck off

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 9h

The Traitors New Zealand Season 1 (8.5/10) pt. 1/18

This was a strange season. I enjoyed it a lot! But it was weird. Primarily because it had a mix of Z-List celebrities who all knew each other outside of the game, and regular people who had no connections. But overall, it was a smart, fun season.

Promo for The Traitors New Zealand Season 1, showing some of the cast. From left to right, Mike, Julia, Vanda, a masked Traitor, Brodie, Colin, Kimberly, Host Paul Henry, Kings, another masked Traitor, Loryn, Justine, Matt, Sam, Christen, and Robbie.

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Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 11h

DigiAdv 02 The Beginning pt. 31/31

This was disappointment in a bottle. It looks nice, but honestly I don’t think it looked as good as Kizuna. The 02 cast are sidelined in their own movie. “Abusers have it hard” is the message. It fucks the lore royally. This panel of Wormmon was the best part.

Wormmon with the most deadpan -_- face literally imaginable because girls are flirting with Ken. That's his DAD you whores lmao

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 11h

DigiAdv 02 The Beginning pt. 30/31

The Digital and Physical worlds are still separate, they’re not connected like in the Epilogue, and with no Digidestined coming into existence beyond 2012, how do the new kids get Digimon. None of this makes sense and they still want the Epilogue to be canon??

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 11h

DigiAdv 02 The Beginning pt. 29/31

Nevermind the fact that in the Beyond short that Tai, Matt and Iori are all explicitly shown to have their Digivices/D3s. So how the fuck do they get them back. Why did they even need to be taken away??? We still don’t know how the Epilogue happens.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 11h

DigiAdv 02 The Beginning pt. 28/31

And then we have the ending and the Digivices all vanishing for the Digidestined. This is ridiculous, what was the need literally at all. Without Digivices, can the kids even Digivolve their Digimon? Can they even enter the digital world?

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 11h

DigiAdv 02 The Beginning pt. 27/31

Let’s not even GET INTO the time paradox that’s caused because Lui travels back in time and never makes the wish, so he somehow still loses his eye at some point but never gains Ukkomon’s, and no wish means no Digidestined, so no Tai/Daisuke.

Enemy of the State @yukiizura.bsky.social · 11h

DigiAdv 02 The Beginning pt. 26/31

WHAT higher being is Ukkomon connected to? Homeostasis? FUCK IF I KNOW. Why does Lui get to have the magical special Kyuubei-ass Digimon that can grant wishes? How did Lui even get Ukkomon’s egg if Digidestined wasn’t a thing prior to the wish?