Digimon of the Week: Moosemon

Take one Hawk

Add one egg with hair

And that equals...

In other words welcome to Digimon of the Week and today we get to learn about alternate armor evolutions.  Now most people that grew up with Digimon remember the second season which had two gimmick evolutions armor and DNA. Armor digivolution was using Digieggs, or Digimentals if you feel sub over dub, based on the crests from the first season to create vaguely champion level Digimon when normal digivolution failed.

In the show proper the main five Digimon each got at least one. Veemon had Flamedramon, Raidramon, and Magnamon. Patamon had Pegasusmon. Gatomon had Nefertimon. Aramdillomon had Digmon and Submarimon. While Hawkmon had Halsemon. Yet outside the show the makers went wild creating and armored form for every egg to every Digimon and then some which today we talk about the one called Moosemon.

Moosemon is one of those armor digivolutions that really doesn't look anything like either the egg or the Digimon it was before. Hell some would say it looks closer to an elk than an a real moose even. Though thinking about its color scheme it almost looks like some strange cousin to Garurumon which is really weird. It also has the tendency some do in this franchise for random buckled belts around each of its legs that look fine and could be somewhat said to be based on the buckled belt on Hawkmon's head.

Moosemon from what I can tell is just based on moose. Not really any mythological moose and I'd have to check were it graduate college to say if it was a pop culture based moose but that probably not a matter to you.  So for this section might as well give a fun fact about moose.

Did you know that in the Americas more people are injured by a moose than any other wild animal. Though the injury isn't always has harsh as with other wild animals the numbers make one of the few things to injure more people be the hippopotamus.

This aggression doesn't seem to be shared by Moosemon as in its only TV apperances it was either just a beast Digimon mook in the Frontier film or  one of the collected Digimon by a character in Young Hunters. In fact in its major video game appearance, Digimon World Data Squad to be exact, it is a digivolution from Gaomon based on the HP stat. 

So over all Moosemon is just a somewhat generic armor digivolution based on a kinda silly looking animal. Though I personal like moose so this one gets a thumbs up in my book. Besides with armor digivolution almost anything besides Manbomon can be considered good.

Digimon of the Week: Ceresmon

Hello and welcome to what I'm hoping to make a segment here every Sunday Digimon of the Week. Having been a fan of the series for a long time and realizing there are more of these things than I could ever count, and hardly a damn thing gets localized anymore, I will spend these segments talking about at least one of them. Sometimes it will be long and in depth sometimes just a short little review of how they look.

Now it being 420 I original was thinking I would just be unoriginal and do the segment on Weedmon.

Still that did get me thinking on the general theme of plant based Digimon and as such today I'd like to talk about one of the Olympus XII Ceresmon.

Now to clarify the Olympus XII are a set of Digimon based on various Greek/Roman gods which have been slowly introduced throughout the series run time. This one is a giant living forest of a bird at Mega level that is said to house injured and weak Digimon in itself to allow them to regain their strength but will destroy the more wicked. Well in actuality it exists in two parts. One being the really cool forest bird thing and the other...

Being the Ceresmon Medium which really just falls under that now overused style of Digimon design the "Chick with nice boobies in costume" group. Which yeah I guess having a humanoid form matches the whole Greek pantheon thing but honestly this design in the torso gets a bit goofy. The headdress, leg guards, and gauntlets are all very nice but then you get to the middle and it seems like they forgot a chest guard or something and were rushed to release the design. I mean sure you could say it connects to the theme of a fertility goddess but then why have the big badass gauntlets and armored clawed feet in the first place? Just go a direction and stick with it is all I'm saying.

As for appearances in the franchise from what I can tell the only work this Digimon really appeared was Digimon Crusader which was a mobile game and one of the tens that never get translated and released. No in all seriousness this segment will probably have to frequently be taking obscure info on an untranslated game or some such when talking about newer Digimon it has gotten that bad.

Finally before getting to the final segment on the origin of the "Ceres" in Ceresmon one fun fact is that apparently the fruit grown on the forest bird is used to make drink by the Digimon version of Dionysus.

So early I mentioned this is one of a series of Digimon based on Greek/Roman gods. So the question is who is Ceres? Well Ceres is the Roman god of agriculture, fertility, and the love a mother bears for her children.

Her Greek base from what I can link is the goddess Demeter. That is a name you might recognize as being the mother of Persephone who was kidnapped by Hades to be the god of the underworlds bride.

So does that make this creature match up well to its mythological counterpart? For the most part yeah. The living forest matches the nature themes with the sheltering of injured Digimon being an interpretation of the love a mother bears for her child part.

So in review Ceresmon is a big island bird with a less interesting Medium based on a Roman rename of a Greek god of nature. If I were to give ratings I'd give it overall 4 harvests out of 5.

That's all for this weeks installment join me next week for something more modern.

Winter Widow

Ok so I really badly want to talk about Winter Soldier the whole film but there is so much big everything changes stuff continuity stuff in it, also college and work eating my time, I'm going to be fair and wait a while longer to do a whole post on that. Just for now I'll say I loved the hell out of the movie and don't regret seeing it. Still wanting to talk about something in relation to it to make myself less impatient to spoil I found a short subject I can talk about....

Now before you ask no this is in no way saying anything bad about Widow in the movie. I thought she did fine good performance got good action beats. More it just how just goofy this poster looks. I mean I know comic properties have a tendency for sexy pose time with their characters but this is so absurd it even kind of fails at that. I think it is the arms mostly. If they were down at her sides it might look normal strut but with the pose it is like she is doing jazz hands. I tried to walk like that myself and tripped in two seconds.

Though it could be worse..

At least her legs don't look like they are farther in the background than the rest of her body.