On the 29th of September, Kotaro receives a mysterious newsletter called PubliNews and tries to delete it, to no avail. When he read the newspaper, it consists of nothing but boring reports about pranks, so he dissed the articles as "boring". He received the same newsletter telling him that he will trip on the ground and end up injured and wrapped in bandages on the following day, which came to fruition as a pair of hands tripped him and broke his back with a stack of easels. After similar attacks happened to Mika and Kiyoshiro on that day and the day after, the newsletter displays that a member of Kiyoshiro's favorite idol group, D-topi, will suddenly die.
- Calling Card: PubliNews doesn't actually display events about the future. It's actually Publimon announcing who he will injure or kill next.
- Chekhov's Gunman: Early on into the episode, Hiro pays a visit to Kiyoshiro's room, where Kiyoshiro, Ryudamon and Gammamon introduce D-topi to him. It's a seemingly off-hand slice-of-life scene taking place between the PubliNews-related attacks targeting Kotaro and Mika. Later on the Digimon behind the PubliNews incident, Publimon attempts to kill a member of D-topi because she dissed his articles and he wanted to generate shock value.
- High-Altitude Battle: The climax confrontation against Publimon to save Anna from being killed by him occurred high up in the sky.
- Immoral Journalist: Publimon is supposedly a journalist Digimon, but all he does is to make articles of pointless pranks. If anyone dares tell him that his articles are boring (which he somehow knows), he will instigate lethal incidents targeted at them without question. He's also not above blatantly announcing and attempting to kill celebrities to bolster public reaction.
- Karmic Death: Publimon's attempt to send Anna falling to her death ends with him falling to his own death after he inadvertently cuts his own parachute.
