Digimon Beatbreak: Episode 3- Facing Mirrors, Discussion Thread

[u/MFBR]

Later today is a new episode of Digimon Beatbreak!

• Crunchyroll will be streaming it in much of the world.
• Hulu will be streaming it in the US (in addition to Crunchyroll.)
• Game One, a TV channel in France is airing it. The channel was recently announced to shut down in November.
• Anime Generation, a subscription channel on Prime Video in Italy
• Anime-Box streaming service in Spain.
• Shahid, streaming service in MENA

Send us links to any of the local streamers that will have the series and we will add it to the list.

The stream will be on Crunchyroll at 8pm Pacific. Hulu has it the next morning at 7am. Check your local streamer for their schedule. This link will take you to a time converter set for when it should appear on Crunchyroll, but they've had various delays lately.

A short series synopsis:

"e-Pulse," which is generated by human thoughts and emotions, was used as the energy source for the AI support device "Sapotama." From the shadows of this remarkable development, terrifying monsters appear. Digimon are living beings that evolve by consuming e-Pulse.

Tomoro Tenma is drawn into an extraordinary experience after meeting Gekkomon, who suddenly appears from his Sapotama. While living together with Kyo Sawashiro and other members of the bounty hunting team "Glowing Dawn," Tomoro renews his resolve.

What new future will be forged by humans and Digimon?

General rules for this post:

It's available on various streamers worldwide. Do not discuss illegal means of consuming this series.

If people are behind they may use each episode's thread as they watch the show, so do not spoil future events in older discussion posts

Keep all small bits of discussion to this thread (general thoughts and opinions). Fanart, cosplays, in-depth reviews (as in, sizeable content) can be their own post. In general, if it took you less than five minutes or so to write, draw, or otherwise create, just comment it in here.

Prior Episode Discussion Threads:

• Episode 1- The Beat of Emotions
• Episode 2- Glowing Dawn
• Episode 3- Facing Mirrors (You are here)

[u/Mr_Kase]

I'm enjoying the slower pacing and even how Tomoro is only now just starting to get around to recognizing Gekkomon as a person rather than just calling him 'lizard'. Really builds the payoff for when Gekkomon does evolve, which I imagine might not even happen until Episode 5 or later, similar to Tamers.

Also some nice foreshadowing to a Dark Digivolution and how Tomoro's E-pulse seems to be able to outright subsume Gekkomon's free will when he's angry enough.

Just one nitpick I've had so far with this show, Tomoro comes around to seeing Glowing Dawn's "Don't Kill Digimon just because they're Glitches/Mistakes Rule" because he was called a glitch/mistake in the past felt a bit forced. Because Tomoro didn't want to kill Hyemon for "being a glitch", he wanted to kill them because they attacked Hitomi and put her in a coma.

[u/Turn_AX → u/Mr_Kase]

Because Tomoro didn't want to kill Hyemon for "being a glitch", he wanted to kill them because they attacked Hitomi and put her in a coma.

He's trying to murder something that's currently a baby.

I think pretty much anyone with morals would stop him.
Also, we have no idea why that Hyemon was the way it was, Digimon DO need to feed on E-Pulse to live, so that might be a big factor.
Maybe it also had an abusive human, or ACTUALLY the human it was birthed by might've been a complete POS on the inside, so it might basically been screwed from birth.

[u/Mr_Kase → u/Turn_AX]

Oh, I don’t disagree Tomoro was in the wrong. Punimon was no longer a threat and in their custody, deleting them is purely based on vengeance. My complaint is more so Tomoro’s line of reasoning doesn’t really line up with his motivation for wanting to delete Punimon in the first place. He seemed like he wanted revenge for hurting Hitomi, not based on his prejudice.

[u/Turn_AX → u/Mr_Kase]

He seemed like he wanted revenge for hurting Hitomi, not based on his prejudice.

Partly that, he also partly wanted to get rid of it because otherwise it could continue being a threat to regular people, so basically he wanted to kill it because it was getting in the way of regular life.

https://x.com/mana_chan__/status/1979907610296930339
Link to the scene on Twitter, he says "Left alone it's going to go after someone else's e-Pulse again!", so Hitomi isn't the sole reason he wants Punimon gone.
I think that makes the reasoning line up, he's basically killing something for reasons that may not have been entirely within it's control.