Bogleech suggested the franchise's loss of its original gritty aesthetic started with Patamon's first evolution in Digimon Adventure. While the other Adult/Champion evolutions were monstrous creatures like a dinosaur, wolf, fire bird, walrus, beetle, and a cactus with punching gloves, an almost completely humanoid angel was the final solution to defeating the first-season Big Bad. But Angemon was largely unique among the cast until Angewomon showed up, his design was still subtly unique and creepy rather than just being an angel, he served as a Good Counterpart to the Devimon, and he was clearly a special event. Later shows, however, would go to the well of humanoid forms, knight armor, and Christian imagery again and again, while making new designs more toyetic. The result was the original monstrous aesthetic falling away, leaving the original generation looking out-of-place in an army of sparkledogs and angelic swordsmen.
While it has a source which helps, the example seems... inaccurate? Like, saying Digimon had a "gritty aesthetic" until Angemon showed up seems just objectively inaccurate. First of all... well, most of the time the Chosen Digimon were in their Rookie forms which were hardly "gritty" and and of their champion forms, it's not like Garurumon, Ikkakumon, or especially Togemon were anything resembling "gritty." And as far as angels go, it's not like Angemon was exactly cherubic, what with having random metal balls in his chest and I'm assuming being somewhat censored in the English version (at least I know for a fact his line is more censored than any of the other Chosen Digimon).
I could see this being reworked into an entry about how prevalent Bishōnen Line is in terms of the franchise and/or an entry about how common humanoid digimon have become, but I don't know if people honestly have an issue with that. I know Omegamon/Omnimon is tremendously popular at least, but if that's the case the entry entirely omits the "Sin" part of Franchise Original Sin and just established "this is theoretically when this happened."
Alternatively, I could see the entry being reworked into a They Changed It, So It Sucks about how people have been unhappy with the prevalence of humanoid Digimon except... again, I don't think that's really true.
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So I pulled from Franchise Original Sin to discuss:
While it has a source which helps, the example seems... inaccurate? Like, saying Digimon had a "gritty aesthetic" until Angemon showed up seems just objectively inaccurate. First of all... well, most of the time the Chosen Digimon were in their Rookie forms which were hardly "gritty" and and of their champion forms, it's not like Garurumon, Ikkakumon, or especially Togemon were anything resembling "gritty." And as far as angels go, it's not like Angemon was exactly cherubic, what with having random metal balls in his chest and I'm assuming being somewhat censored in the English version (at least I know for a fact his line is more censored than any of the other Chosen Digimon).
I could see this being reworked into an entry about how prevalent Bishōnen Line is in terms of the franchise and/or an entry about how common humanoid digimon have become, but I don't know if people honestly have an issue with that. I know Omegamon/Omnimon is tremendously popular at least, but if that's the case the entry entirely omits the "Sin" part of Franchise Original Sin and just established "this is theoretically when this happened."
Alternatively, I could see the entry being reworked into a They Changed It, So It Sucks about how people have been unhappy with the prevalence of humanoid Digimon except... again, I don't think that's really true.
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