06-22-2004, 05:23 AM
The last 2 posts were extremly interesting and level headed. I enjoyed them greatly. The idea of the digimon having free wills and not always doing what the human partner wanted is incredibly attractive to me._______In my first post I gave ideas on 5 possible digimon and a snapshot of radically different personalities and motivations, The first was the pacifist. He would believe no violence is justified. Violence only begets more violence. The pacifist would try to reason with everyone. His human partner would be so frustrated they might even split up. The kid might try to find another digimon to replace the pacifist and get into huge trouble in the process._______The second digimon would be the grim violent one, The jje. His partner wouldn't want to have these criminals executed by his dgimon partner. But how would he stop something that powerful? He would want to leave them tied up for the police. This pair would be the mirror image opposites of the pacifist and his partner. The only way the kid could halt the jje would be to give up hunting for criminals.__________The next was a female digimon with a girl parter, This digimon would be seeking approval. Maybe this female digimon could take on human form as a disguise. The 2 girls would spend more time window shopping than crime fighting. Maybe there would be an idol singer contest and these 2 girls would enter it. If they were in the finals, would they give up crime fighting for a shot at stardom. And what if an agent wanted to represent them. He finds out one girl is a powerful digimon when they save him from muggers. Will he keep the girls secret?____________Another was the babysitter. Also a female digimon. This one would be trying to keep her human partners out of trouble. For you would have the 2 youngest kids as her partners. A boy and girl who are next door neighbors and have grown up together. They would be more of a comedy relief team. A young pair of quicksdraw Mcgraws and a very large Babalouie. _________The last is a digimon that is a lot like bugs bunny. Smart as a whip. 4 steps mentally ahead of the criminals. He would enjoy making monkeys out of the criminals. A huge sense of humor, and a sucker for a dame in distress. This is how he teams up with his human partner, a little girl. She uses emotional blackmail on him initially. But this digimon can also take on human form as a disguise. He appears as a handsome young man. Girls go crazy over him in his human form. And his little girl partner becomes very jealous!__________In a lot of anime the action sequences take second place to character development and just having a lot of fun with the characters. Showing them eating, sleeping, going to school. At an amusement park, or swimming. Dealing with parents, siblings, teachers, wonderfully strange classmates. This is what I watch anime for. The side stories. The 14 Tenchi OVAs and first 7 El Hazard OVAs. This is what makes anime fantastic!_________Having 5 wildly different teams will allow you to do any kind of story you can dream up. This is a small sample of what can be done. Drama and comedy mixed well._________On ranting, I speak from experience. Observing what causes PC people's hair to stand on end. Both from watching fan subs at peoples houses ( Non anime fans would be invited by a friend ) and at conventions where people would drift into the anime video rooms. These people would loudly and clearly tell us how horrible these shows were. These programs they said with their hair standing on end were unsuitable for children even though they were aimed at 9 through 12 year olds in Japan.__________Also it is not just the commercial factor that causes producers here in the U S to not option a program. They have to calculate how much grief this program will cause them. PC is wide spead in the entertainment industry. Don't take my word for it. Ask Mel Gibson. One owner of an anime company who shall remain nameless told several of us, he would never touch Magic Circle Guru Guru because Nike and Kukuri were traveling alone and sleeping in the same tent every night._________Another was petrified by Sana and Hayama from Kodomo no Omocha. We have cornered these guys at conventions to try getting them to consider our favorite kid shows that are being ignored. The idea of 10 year old boys waging war in mechas, and 10 year old girls falling in love is too much for them to handle. Far too much grief. Way too much risk. They will stick with the teen shows only.