Digimon Reviews, Episode 48: Olympos XII and Friends

Between the end of Xros Wars: Hunters in 2012 and the release of the anniversary movie-series Tri in 2015, there isn't a lot of new Digimon material... but the franchise was still kept alive with a bunch of video games (which mostly used old designs anyway), the profile website and a digital TCG... which introduced a lot of new Digimon. The problem? They all tend to be pretty underwhelming. It's also at around this point that the long-running "Olympos XII" and "Royal Knights" subgroups ended up having their members filled.

Personally, it is at around this point that so many of these really stop feeling like they are Digimon to me. In a vacuum, I'm not averse to humanoid designs or whatever, but these things just really end up feeling like they stray so much from what Digimon originally was that they ended up looking more like generic characters from a generic fantasy RPG. Just dudes in a suit? Just a straight-up Peter Pan? Loli nuns? 

At this time in the post-Hunters, pre-Tri era, the Digimon franchise mostly survived on video games and card games. There were some great video games released around this period, although they did not do much in giving us new designs. Instead, new designs were given via online collectible card mobile games -- Crusade, Collectors and I think Jintrix as well. These were notorious and I have referred to them several times in the review series for giving us some really fanservicey artwork for any female-looking Digimon, even hiring hentai artists to draw some really cheesecake poses. I am not averse to fanservice, but there is a line here. 

And up until Tri and a bunch of other V-pets and proper games started doing more varied Digimon, I just really felt this batch ended up being very unimpressive. In the past five years or so, some of them have been used by the franchise, particularly the 2025-released Time Stranger video game that starred Aegiomon and the Olympos XII as a main character... but still, a lot of my opinions and frustrations here still stand. 

Some Digimon -- the Bancho series, RustTyranomon, Aegisdramon, Gankoomon, Rafflesimon and a couple of others have been moved around to more appropriate articles and to not clog this one up too much. Check the index out to see where they have moved!

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Aegiomon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: God Man
• Attribute: Vaccine

The Adult-level Aegiomon here is a satyr boy. Who, again, doesn't particularly look like a Digimon and more like a generic satyr character from a minimal-effort anime. Aegiomon here is the depowered, amnesiac form of Jupitermon and apparently your main character in the Digimon Crusaders digital card game or some shit? He's got hypnotism powers associated with satyrs in Greco-Roman mythology, but otherwise there quite literally is nothing interseting about Aegiomon. He's just a generic anime kid with tattoos, horns and goat legs that look out of place. Like, even by the standards of anime characters, Aegiomon honestly looks pretty bland and boring.

 0/10.

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Aegiochusmon

How many of these are there? Too many. 

Anyway, Aegiomon evolves into Aegiochusmon, who is basically Aegiomon, but with adult proportions. Like an anime protagonist (but without any of the charm), Aegiochusmon has multiple forms, and... and none of them are particularly interesting, honestly. I skimmed through their profiles, because holy fuck they are really boring, but basically the five Aegiochusmon basically embody different parts of the Digimon kingdom, which is... neat, but then how come its evolution Jupitermon is just a generic suit of armour? Jeez, are these even still drawn in the Digimon aesthetic? Any of them?

• Alternate Names: Aegiochusmon Red
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: God Man
• Attribute: Vaccine

Anyway, regular Aegiochusmon apparently embodies 'dragon', which... yeah, I don't even know what part of him is meant to be a dragon, beyond some red parts. 

• Alternate Names: Aegiochusmon Blue
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: God Man
• Attribute: Vaccine

"Blue" is meant to be machines, and while the asymmetrically large arm is neat, it's... it's just still kinda ugly. 

• Alternate Names: Aegiochusmon Green
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: God Man
• Attribute: Vaccine

"Green" is plants, which is, again, another obvious and generic plant monster. 

• Alternate Names: Aegiochusmon Holy
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: God Man
• Attribute: Vaccine

"Holy" is just regular Aegiochusmon with some random glowing circles thrown in. 

• Alternate Names: Aegiochusmon Dark
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: God Man
• Attribute: Vaccine

"Dark" is... okay, Dark is kind of cool, with actual black-feathered wings and some mantis-scythe appendages, as well as stringy-hair covering Aegiochusmon's face... and if any of the other four forms show any sort of creativity like Dark Aegiochusmon, 

I might have something else to talk about. As it is, though, Aegiochusmon feels genuinely like someone's bad fanfiction self-insert character. 

 0/10.

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Jupitermon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Vaccine / Olympos XII

Ehhhhhh. We're in the proper Olympos XII now, with Aegiomon's final form, surprise surprise, being the God King of Olympus. Jupitermon here is based on Jupiter, the Roman god of lightning, thunder, the sky and the general boss of Olympus. And he's... he's a dude in golden armour, holding a pair of... dumb-bells? Okay, that's kinda bizarre, but the rest of his design is so bland and mundane. And because they really want to hype up this dude, Jupitermon has a "Wrath Mode" where he... becomes some sort of weird lightning being, holding together the plates of his armour, and has swapped out the gym equipment for a generic, exaggerated anime sword? 

• Alternate Names: Jupitermon: Wrath Mode
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Vaccine / Olympos XII

Honestly, I kind of want to give this dude a higher mark for the silliness of the lightning dumb-bells, but it's just such a bland design that I can barely say anything to take up a paragraph. It's... it's not even an interesting humanoid design, honestly. And it's not like being an anime knight man with a cape is anything original in Digimon. We've got better-looking ones! 

 1/10.

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Junomon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Virus / Olympos XII

Based on Juno, wife of Jupiter and based on the patron goddess of Rome, Junomon is... yeah, she somehow gets a design that's even more fanservicey than Venusmon, She's just a lady with a skin-showing costume, a flamboyant cape, and some weird gauntlets that end in needles or whatever. Not a particularly interesting or Digimon-y design to me, and even then, the same commentary is here -- we've already got a surplus of more interesting looking half-naked women. 

• Alternate Names: Junomon: Hysteric Mode
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Virus / Olympos XII

Like her husband, Junomon has a super mode, "Hysteric Mode", which is... a bit more interesting than Jupitermon's Wrath Mode. Apparently when Junomon is really, really angry she ends up transforming her arms into... two giant... needle-snake things? As one of the commenters below pointed out, it's in the shape of an uterus which was misattributed to hysteria back in the day. That is an interesting reference, I suppose. 

Again, these feel like generic enemies from the most generic Japanese RPG game, that's just got a bunch of details and spikes and zero charm. Did they really need the fanservice-goddess form, though? Can't Junomon just have Hysteric Mode as her default? No?

 1/10.

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Vulcanusmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Data / Olympos XII

Let's rip off the band-aid and talk about the Olympos XII members in one go. And the first one is... it's not a boring design, at least? Based on Vulcan, the Roman god of volcanoes and blacksmithing, Vulcanusmon is... he's kinda neat? He's got those Japanese-style sandals, eight arms that hold different weapons, the face of a generic anime dude with a bandaged face, and an astronaut-like helmet-dome thing. I don't particularly care for this design, if we're being honest, but at least it does look a fair bit like an Ultimate-level deity god-man Digimon compared to some of the more sorry excuses that the Olympos XII has had in the past. Apparently he made Berenjena, Beelzebumon's eggplant demon-cannon. The only TCG that lists a possible pre-evolution for Vulcanusmon lists Asuramon as his Perfect-level pre-evolution, which... makes as much sense as any, I guess? Vulcy here isn't my favourite design, not by a long shot, but it's at least a somewhat creative looking one.

 2/10.

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Plutomon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Virus / Olympos XII

This Olympos XII member is perhaps the only one that seems directly connected to a previously-existing line, which is the Perfect-level Cerberumon. Every other member of the Olympos XII (except for Marsmon, Apollomon and Dianamon, who all debuted with complete evolution lines) all seem to just be immigrants from a completely different game. I was pretty ready to dismiss Plutomon as being similar to its boring Olympos XII ilk, until I realize just how much of Cerberumon's design made it into Plutomon. He's got those dog-fang shoulder pads, and apparently he attacks by channeling the dark energies to form an approximation of a chomping dog fang. That's adorably awesome! Anyway, Plutomon's design is perhaps the least boring out of the humanoid Olympos XII by virtue of manifesting that fun giant dog-fang, but he's still kind of m'eh. They really could've done more. My biggest gripe, really, are that these don't even look like Digimon. Even the most action figure designs of Frontier's cast still at least look like Digimon in some way. A good amount of this page's Digimon just look like very generic character designs from a generic setting.

 4/10.

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Venusmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Vaccine / Olympos XII

Ah, here we go. Venusmon here is based on Roman goddess Venus, the goddess of love and lust, and... she's just a lady. Like, quite literally, she's just a lady in a fanservice dress and a ton of impractical hair accessories. That's enough to earn a huge eye-roll from me, but then you see that Venusmon seems to be expressly created just to be as fanservice-y as ever, what with that dress clearly not covering up any part of her back, and every single piece of artwork of her posed to display the most T&A. Anyway, even without the blatant fanservice element... this is still a pretty damn bad execution of a humanoid Digimon at all. Very lazy.

 0/10.

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Ceresmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Data / Olympos XII

And suddenly we go to a design that really should've been more of the Olympos XII. I'm not saying that they should all be animal gods, but Ceresmon's true form is a giant bird behemoth made entirely of a slab of forested mountain that has seemingly taken flight. Based on Ceres, Roman goddess of agriculture and fertility, it's such a fun, creative idea to have the embodiment of fertility be quite literally a sentient, moving forest, that, upon touch, creates even more forests. 

• Alternate Names: Ceresmon Medium
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Data / Olympos XII

Sure, Ceresmon's "true" form is still a sexy lady ("Ceresmon Medium"), but it's at least somewhat integrated with a more god-like design in the normal Ceresmon, as you can see the humanoid form enshrined on the bird Ceresmon's head. Even if I do roll my eyes at the blatant, unnecessary fanservice, it's at least part of a pretty interesting concept. Ceresmon, interestingly, evolves from either Blossomon or Jyureimon, which is pretty neat. If she is just the giant mountain forest bird, I'd give her a 7/10. The fact that she has a 'true' fanservice goddess form slapped onto her docks some marks. 

 4/10.

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Bacchusmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Virus / Olympos XII

And, yeah, I totally saved the two best Olympos dudes for last. Based on Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and revelry, Bacchusmon is not at all just a generic, minimal-effort fancy-fantasy-armour design. Instead, Bacchusmon is a giant pink snake-thing that ends in a giant spherical maw (that may be his chest, depending on whether that little pink blob on top is his head or just a pimple), and with two long arms that end in green gloves. And those arm-bands give the appearance of eyes, which is neat! Like, honsetly, why can't more of the Olympos XII be more like this? I don't want them all to be as bizarre as Bacchusmon, but practically the entire set are just people in cosplay, maybe with some metallic parts or extra arms. 

Bacchusmon still manages to look like a god of wine of sorts, while also looking like a Digimon. I do also love the fact that Bacchusmon really likes to party with weaker Digimon, that he's the foremost drinker of the Digital World (look at those tiny barrels in the artwork!) and apparently he's good buddies with Ceresmon because she supplies him with wine ingredients. A pretty cool dude! Best of all, Bacchusmon either evolves from Digitamamon or Piccolomon, two utterly bizarre choices to pick, but also two that sort of feel like they make sense to turn into this giant Pac-Man snake god of alcohol. He still kinda gets 3/5 because ultimately he could've been designed a lot better, but he's hilarious enough that I will definitely say that he is heads and shoulders more memorable than every single member of the Olympoos XII by a huge margin.

 6/10.

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GraceNovamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: Galaxy
• Attribute / Subgroup: Vaccine / Olympos XII

Released slightly later but technically relevant here, GraceNovamon is the fusion of the two Olympos XII mascots from Digimon Story Dawn and Dusk, Apollomon and Dianamon. I reasonably like those two designs, but GraceNovamon doesn't really have anything that's appealing other than being a huge jumbled mass of details. I have to zoom in to really understand what they're going for here. Like, jeez -- one of the most important aspects of character design is to make a recognizable silhouette. You can add as many random nonsensical details like flaming red manes and floating swords and claws from the shoulders and a galaxy cape or whatever, but the design will always feel "cluttered" and not majestic or whatever they are going for. It is somewhat interesting in the fact that the profile at least tries to say about how it has a galaxy within its body, but the design is so messy that it kind of gets lost in all of the clutter.

 2/10.

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Sirenmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: God Man
• Attribute: Data 

Releasde a bit later, Perfect-level Sirenmon is based on the mythological siren, and I do like how it merges the 'bird' and 'fish' parts of the different versions of the legend. It's a weird little bird thing with huge light-blue wings and little bird feet, wearing a bunch of musician apparel. Not my favourite design, and honestly it's a design that I'm completely indifferent about. It is admittedly refreshing to see something that's not a robot god or an angel, though. Sirenmon would later basically be attached to Ceresmon as her default 'Perfect' stage.

In a rather inspired move, the Ghost Game anime actually featured a maddened Sirenmon haunting karaoke systems and forcing people to listen to her songs, playing the villainous tropes associated with sirens straight in its first major anime appearance. 

  4/10.

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Titamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: God Man
• Attribute: Virus

"One-Man Army" Titamon here is apparently the 'bad guy' that faces off against the Olympos XII, and he's, unexpectedly, the Ultimate-level evolution of good old Ogremon! ANd I like Titamon a bit more just for that factor. And the fact that he's apparently holding a gigantic fuck-off blade made from the skull of a SkullGreymon. It is basically an adaptation of all the various Greco-Roman Titans, I suppose, because it goes around 'hunting the heads' of the Olympos XII. It also attacks by summoning a giant army of the undead, which is... neat, I guess? I do find it neat that apparently he's got a fucking eyeball on his crotch. Anyway, he's... he's still kind of bland, but at least we're deviating away from the 'generic anime humanoid' into 'generic anime humanoid monster'. Which... well, it's preferable than another random dude in a funny dress, I guess, and that sword is pretty cool. Like, I've been bashing the humanoids, but this one's a decent one.

 4/10.

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Tinkermon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Child
• Type: Fairy
• Attribute: Virus

Oh, look. It's the Peter Pan characters. At least it's not more loli nuns, but unlike the Greek gods, they don't even try to add in a monster-mode for Tinkermon here, based on Tinker Bell, who is super-skimpy to appeal to a certain demographic. 

Some people note that Tinkermon is a good fit for Fairymon (Kazemon)'s Child mode, but even Fairymon felt more like a 'Digimon' than this. 

 0/10.

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Petermon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Fairy
• Attribute: Data

And Petermon here is just Peter Pan."Hey, guys, have you ever read Peter Pan? It's like, an iconic story that we're ripping off!" Neither of these are interesting or creative and honestly barely even count as Digimon. Man, is the point of everything on this page to make me reconsider mocking Arresterdramon? Because I am now regretting mocking Arresterdramon, considering how much of a nosedive that the quality of Digimon design ended up taking after that. Like, how do these even count as Digimon? 

 0/10.

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CaptainHookmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Machine Man
• Attribute: Vaccine

CaptainHookmon is a Perfect-level, and while he's kind of meant to just tie in to Peter Pan and Tinkerbell up there, at least adds some thing more creative. That gigantic harpoon cannon on his left hand is neat, and the fact that instead of a peg-leg, his artificial leg is a fucking revolver is pretty boss. Finally, something that's not going to be 1/5! CaptainHookmon is still ultimately kind of "just a dude in cosplay", though, and far less interesting than the actual Hookmon we got years past -- a design that actually looks like a Digimon. So Captain here gets points for the gun-leg, but not much else. I would've given him like, 6 or 7 points easily if he's got Hookmon's original face, but right now he just looks like a rejected background character from One Piece instead of a Digimon. 

2/10.

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Ginkakumon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Oni
• Attribute: Virus

Based on two demon kings from Journey to the West, Ginkaku and Kinkaku, the Gold and Silver Horned Oni, have been a staple in Japanese media. And Ginkakumon here represents the Silver demon. It took a commenter below (thanks Chalicothere!) to point out what I missed about Ginkakumon -- he's essentially serving as a giant armoured robot suit for his sister Kinkakumon below. That makes his design make so much more sense! He's actually pretty cool as far as these giant robot-monsters go, even if he's still honestly 'not quite my thing'. And, of course, the gourd on his back is a reference to one of the weapons that hismythological inspiration wields. I certainly appreciate that he's not just some anime person with fancy RPG accessories, though, and the little addition of synergy with his sister piloting him like a mecha suit is kinda cool. He's a more fantasy-inspired version of Mekanorimon, which I actually do like.

 3/10.
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Kinkakumon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Oni
• Attribute: Virus

Aaaand Kinkakumon, the Gold Brother (Gold Sister, now, I guess) looks like a barbarian stripper. Like, yes, I know, barbarians don't wear a lot of clothes, but look at that pose and that ridiculous set of knockers. And the fact that, once again, Kinkakumon is just another "fantasy anime stripper" character. This lady feels more like a first draft of Mervamon before they actually realized she would look cooler with the snake-barbarian motif. She's pretty bland, just like almost every single design added from Collectors or Crusade, there just to titillate. Like, honestly, every second character introduced in these card-collecting game is like a stripper anime lady. At least he can ride in Ginkakumon? That makes Ginkakumon cooler in my book, though, while she's still just kinda whatever to me. 

 0/10.

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BeelStarmon

• Alternate Names: BelleStarmon, Beelstarmon (alternate spelling)
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: Demon Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Virus / Three Musketeers

BeelStarmon here is one of the most popualr ones from this batch of releases, and it is a Rule 63'd version of Beelzebumon. And in the transformation from a dude to a lady, BeelStarmon lost the clothing from between the lower half of her boobs and her pants. It's... it's a bit eye-rolling, although I must admit that out of the fanservice characters that were introduced around this time, BeelStarmon at least looks cool. It's really hard to go wrong with a leather-clad gun-toting demon markswoman, of course, and I do like the little bullets with BeelStarmon's helmets on them. 

Apparently her guns are called Rizoma de Loto, which means "Lotus Roots", which I think plays on the pun that those 'magnum' revolvers look like a sliced lotus root. Both the guns and the Digimon are described as 'little sisters' to Beelzebumon and his guns, Berenjena. The scarf can temporarily transform into wings, which is a similar thing with Beelzebumon whose normal form is also wingless. I can appreciate that consistency.

BeelStarmon isn't considered part of the Seven Great Demon Lords, but is part of the 'Three Musketeers' group, a trio of Ultimate-level gunslinger Digimon. BeelStarmon gets along well with other gunslinging Digimon... ironically, except for its own male counterpart because Beelzebumon is 'solitary'. I do find BeelStarmon kind of cool enough, as far as these things go.

 3/10, could be 4 on a good day.  

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MagnaKidmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: Dragon Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Virus / Three Musketeers

Our second member of the Three Musketeers is MagnaKidmon. Who is 'just' a cowboy outlaw based on Billy the Kid... until I take a closer look and realize that MagnaKidmon has the ridiclous property of having his ENTIRE FEET BE GIANT REVOLVERS. What the shit, that's hilarious. That alone makes MagnaKidmon a bit more interesting. There are a couple of fun little extra details that I didn't notice until I saw MagnaKidmon in the Liberator manga, like the fact that its arms are also tiny revolvers and the fingertips crack open to reveal little laser barrels. 

MagnaKidmon is a dragon man cowboy, so he's also got a dragon tail that juts down from the back of its neck, and ends in... a bayonet? Eh? MagnaKidmon is noted to be buddies with a whole army of Revolmon deputies, which MagnaKidmon notes is his 'posse'. MagnaKidmon does serve as a neat enough 'final form' for the Revolmon, although there's a much cooler gun Digimon on this page as well. It is also a wandering amnesiac who doesn't like company but secretly has a heart of gold. Because of course it is, can't be a new Digimon in 2012-2015 without borrowing one of the common backstory tropes...

Anyway, he's got big guns for feet. Respect for that. There's only so much I can find 'just a cowboy' interesting, but MagnaKidmon is somewhat ok. 

 3/10.

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AvengeKidmon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: Dragon Man
• Attribute / Subgroup: Virus / Three Musketeers

Despite being a 'repaint', AvengeKidmon actually has a backstory that makes me glad I read the profile! AvengeKidmon isn't just an alternate evolution or an 'evil form', but it's birthed out of the desires of a rival of MagnaKidmon. A Digimon that MagnaKidmon defeats with the 'Minus Mind Data' attack causes their digi-cores to overload, mutate, and transform into a form that is identical to the opponent that it must defeat. And AvengeKidmon is so so so angry at this... that it... self-sabotages itself in its anger, and even forgets the goal of defeating MagnaKidmon? That backstory was cool for a bit there.

I do like the idea that there is a Digimon that goes around corrupting others to become more like it, but that's usually something given to like, infectious plants, or viruses, or vampires, or demons or something. The idea that this is some distortion of Wild West movie tropes of vendetta and vengeance, that the foes that MagnaKidmon defeats but 'lets live' somehow evolves all the way to Ultimate into AvengeKidmons, that there is probably an entire army of Inigo Montoyas hunting down every MagnaKidmon out there... that's an interesting concept, but the profile doesn't really elaborate beyond that. 

Visually I like Avenge a lot less than Magna, with the all-black colours drowning out the details. The profile's a bit more interesting, though.

 3/10.

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Gundramon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: Machine
• Attribute / Subgroup: Virus / Three Musketeers

Speaking of Yu-Gi-Oh... Holy shit, it's Barrel Dragon from Yu-Gi-Oh! But with like, seventeen more revolvers and handguns all over him. Ultimate-level monster Gundramon isn't the first mechanical dinosaur/dragon dude we've seen in Digimon by a long shot, but just how insanely ridiculous this thing is, with guns as wings, guns as hands, guns as shoulder-weapons, guns as tails, Gundramon is such a stupidly over-the-top design that I actually do like it. 

The best thing, though, and why it's here... Gundramon is the third member of the Three Musketeers alongside Magnakidmon and BeelStarmon, and I find it absolutely hilarious that the two cowboy-themed humanoid Digimon's partner is this thing that makes a Yu-Gi-Oh monster look tame in comparison. Also, it's buddies with Mugendramon, and all of its attacks are German. 

 8/10.

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Sanzomon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Perfect
• Type: Monk
• Attribute: Vaccine

Tying in with the other Journey to the West characters introduced and mostly appearing in Xros Wars: Hunters, we've got the Buddhist monk Tang Sanzang (Sanzo in Japanese) who teaches and leads the monkey spirit Sun Wukong (represented by Gokuwmon), the pig spirit Zhu Bajie (ChoHakkaimon) and the river spirit Sha Wujing (Sagomon or Shawujinmon).

While Gokuwmon and Shawujinmon are relatively interesting 'monsterified' versions of their mythological counterparts and ChoHakkaimon at least tries to be creative, Sanzomon is just a Rule 63'd version of a mythological character that is still worshipped by some cultures and religions. Oh, and Sanzomon of course has to show cleavage. Despite being based on a religious monk. 

It's just... it's just bad. No. 

 0/10.

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Shakamon

• Alternate Names: N/A
• Stage: Ultimate
• Type: Tathagata
• Attribute / Subgroup: Vaccine / Tentei Hachibushu

Shakamon is based on Buddha, borrowing its name from the Japanese reading of one of the titles of the Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama. This one is at least more respectful from Sanzomon, depicting a figure sitting cross-legged sitting on top of a blazing orb, surrounded by smaller orbs and having a ring behind it. 

Shakamon is described by its bio to be the being closest to the 'Host Computer', and is associated with the Eastern Digital World (which would later be explored in future installments) and is a being that is both full of love but not above giving ordeals to the digital world to have them grow. Just like the deity it is based on and the famous story of Sun Wukong's confrontation with it, attempting to fight Shakamon will only have you find out that you're only dancing on its palm. 

I don't like the idea of just randomly taking mythological gods of religions that people are still actively worshipping right now and turning them into monsters. Shakamon, at least, does so with some modicum of respect, but I can't say I'm a fan of it. 

 2/10.
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Sistermon

• Alternate Names: Sistermon Blanc, Sistermon Blanc (Awake)
• Stage: Child
• Type: Puppet
• Attribute: Vaccine

Ugh. We've got loli nuns.

The Sistermon twins debuted in the Collectors mobile TCG and made me go "what the fuck" when I was going through a lot of the post-Xros-Wars designs.

I have mellowed out on some of the more eye-rolling designs in this part of Digimon's history, but the Sistermons still make me go "what the fuck."

• Alternate Names: Sistermon Noir / Sistermon Noir (Awake)
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Puppet
• Attribute: Data

They are designed back then to tie to the role of Gankoomon mentoring Hackmon to be a Royal Knight, which is just kind of bad all around. Did you need two of them? And did they really just need to be... people? Just regular people, with no real justification or explanation? And at least some of the more humanoid Digimon had some, ever so slight monstrous features here and there. The Sistermons are just people. Parade them next to other humans in the franchise, especially those with more outrageous designs in the video games, and the Sistermons don't feel like Digimon at all. There's no concept here beyond "girl but nun". Even the other 'fanservice' Digimon had something to work with. And at least Lilithmon and Venusmon being sexy had some mythological basis.

Nuns are the exact opposite, and having the Sistermons have a specific "super mode" eith their outfits explicitly exploding in the cleavage section is dumb.

I don't like to sling around fanservice as if it's always a bad thing, but when it feels like it's someone's fetish -- and the Collectors/Crusaders artwork were definitely bad -- it is really eye-rolling. 

• Alternate Names: Sistermon Ciel / Sistermon Ciel (Awake)
• Stage: Adult
• Type: Puppet
• Attribute: Data

Adding to this stupidity, when the Sistermons made a major appearance in a video game (Hacker's Memory?) apparently the sight of a nun with a gun offended the censors that Sistermon Noir is turned into Sistermon Ciel outside of Japan, who wields a katana. Until now, Noir is still persona-non-grata and edited out of all artwork outside of Japan.

Sistermon Ciel would make its debut in Ghost Game, having nothing to do with its bio and video game profiles as a complete and unhinged lunatic that has an obsession with... speed? And this isn't me being glib because I don't like the design, but Sistermon Ciel terrorizes highways and causes accidents with its forced races (homagic the classic yokai march, the hyakki yagyo) where a lot of poor, hapless other Digimon are forced into running because Sistermon Ciel made a deal with a MetalFantomon that would reap their souls if they don't participate. A lunatic! 

It's not the fetish thing, but the nun thing that got them. Sure. I just... i just find this monumentally stupid. I had slung the '0/10' a couple of times, but this time I mean it more than every other time I did it. If there was a single Digimon I would remove, it would be this one.

 0/10. Negative points.

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Jeez, this... this was pretty tiring to write, if we're being honest. I don't think there's any batch of Digimon I particularly dislike more than these. All of them are just so damn boring and uninspired, and even the Banchos are neat mostly just for the sheer ridiculousness of their concept. I didn't even feel this tired writing about the X-Antibody nonsense!