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Recap / Digimon Ghost Game E50 "Payback"

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Riku Fukatsu, upon realizing how lonely he is with his few friends remaining making fun of him, was sighted upon by a Pucchiemon who wants to make him her companion. However, in return Pucchiemon requests a payback and counts how many times he didn't do so, rejecting Fukatsu's offers because she wants him to mimic her behavior. After spending enough time with him, Pucchiemon evolves into Meicrackmon Vicious Mode and begins to act in a more feral fashion, freaking Fukatsu out. This led to Fukatsu running away from Meicrackmon and the Digimon chasing him over several street blocks, and it's up to Hiro and Kiyoshiro to stop the Digimon's rampage.


  • Continuity Nod: As a desperate attempt to deny that he has no friends in Tokyo to his former friends who are departing to Osaka, Fukatsu mentions he "made millions of friends on the first day". He's likely alluding to the Andiramon incident in Episode 44 where he used the Andiramon and Jellymon's delivery site to distribute valuable goods to his fellow students only for Hiro to absolve the incident when he finds out the Andiramon are eating away the Hazakura Dorm building to craft them and had everyone turn on him because he told the Andiramon to "refund" all crafted goods.
  • Exact Words: Pucchiemon/Meicrackmon Vicious Mode uses and takes this to a detriment. She demands Fukatsu to return the favor and counts everytime he doesn't, but since she's using her own attacks as Pucchiemon and crushing soft drink cans with her bare hands as Meicrackmon, it's literally not possible for Fukatsu to fulfill the demands. To rub salt in the wound, she also never tells what Fukatsu has to do until it's too late.
  • Ignored Epiphany: Heroes make Meicrackmon understand that humans and Digimon aren't the same and can't return favors equally. Meicrackmon goes to Fukatsu to make up... and instead of apologizing, declares that she hates humans and leaves.
  • Literal-Minded: After Hiro and Kiyoshiro defeats her and tells her that humans cannot act like Digimon, she took everything they and their Digimon said by face value and thus was convinced that humans and Digimon cannot be together and breaks up with Fukatsu and runs.
  • Out of Focus: Ruli and Angoramon only appears briefly when the group discusses about Pucchiemon and Fukatsu, and is absent for most of the episode.
  • Poor Communication Kills: This episode was a train wreck of this trope:
    • Pucchiemon doesn't know Fukatsu isn't psychologically the same as herself. She starts demanding he reciprocate her love the same way a Digimon would - which is impossible for him. She also doesn't specify what she wants him to do as "payback". It led to Fukatsu being dumbfounded when she tells her that his good gestures don't count, and in turn counts up to five times before she as Meicrackmon loses patience and begins manhandling him.
    • When Hiro and Kiyoshiro force Meicrackmon Vicious Mode to accept humans and Digimon are not physiologically the same but can still be friends, she interprets this as a dealbreaker for their relationship. To Hiro's credit, he realized where everyone went off the rails, and wanted her to go together to make amends with Fukatsu, but the Digimon troublemaker was far too impulsive and already caught up to him who was now too frightened of her.
    • Meicrackmon realizes what she's done, but is also hurting too much to apologize for her behaviour and instead runs off crying. In the end, no one is happy.
  • Yandere: Pucchiemon is smitten badly for Riku, but he doesn't understand her feelings nor how to reciprocate them. Her love for him made her actually digivolve, but into Meicrackmon Vicious Mode, and not her more angelic counterpart. A subtle sign their relationship is becoming strained and gradually toxic.

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