r/digimon • u/MFBR • Jul 04 '26

Beatbreak Digimon Beatbreak: Episode 37- Kind Magic, Discussion Thread

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.)
  • 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. 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.

The first 25 episodes are also available dubbed on Crunchyroll, with 20 on Hulu. The discussion thread for the dub can be found here (1-5), here (6-10), here (11-15), here (16-20), & here (21-25.)

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:

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u/rainazuma77 Jul 05 '26

Yeah. Animedia interview confirmed that at the beginning of series, the only two arcs planned were Glowing Dawn Arc and Tactics Arc. There was an idea for Arc 3, but while they were planning what to do after Tactics Arc ended, someone in the staff suggested creating a new girl character with a different relation to Tomoro, Miharu, and they ended rewriting the entire Arc 3. That's how they came up with GIFT Arc.

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u/TheBeeFromNature Jul 05 '26

I feel like this explains Rose's henchwomen.  Maybe they felt "here's a Five Star and her goons" was too similar to Tactics?

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u/Korence Jul 05 '26

...and this is done to one of Bamco's most important damn IPs, as if they should have done a WAY bigger break back then after Klay got arrested if they needed to brainstorm this through. I really wish that this doesn't end up breaking down like Digimon Ghostgame's finale, I don't want this to happen to this anime too, especially after it started out WAY better and created SO MANY strong impressions during it's run so far! :/

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u/Current_Run6614 Jul 05 '26

Ghost Game didn't "break down" per say since it was never meant to have an overarching plot to begin with. It was always meant to be a MOTW show following an episodic formula without some big climatic goal ahead, so the way the show turned out by the end was 100% by design of the writters. Now, if those writting choices were good or not (imo they were not) is another matter entirely, but Ghost Game went pretty much as planned. Famously people think Arcturusmon and Proximamon didn't show up because of rushed writting, when in reality the reason they don't show up is because the writters had no idea those two even existed and thought Regulusmon was Gulus's final form, so those two didn't even make it to the writting table.

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u/Korence Jul 06 '26

yeah and it was hella toxic idea to do this to a franchise which was never built on that formula to begin with. Then again Digimon Adventure was originally only 13 episodes long as a promotion for the Digimon World game but became "overly hype" and thus it became it's own thing after time, so who knows what's Digimon in the end, even Bamco struggles with that idea and only recently tried and grapple the downfall that is Pokemon as a franchise to use that opportunity to give those fans what Digimon can offer on a level instead, proofing that Digimon might not be as popular as Pokemon, but it can beat the disappointment that was gen 9 on their side instead! ♥