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.