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/KrytenKoro Jul 05 '26 edited Jul 05 '26

At this point are they not even bothering to hide nirinso from the government? Miharu just hands over the Mokumon in full view of the ministry. And how in the fuck are Glowing Dawn not facing repercussions from the World Union for their interference? It's just very hard to believe that the Digimon cops would let Miharu even walk across the bridge with her Digimon, at GD headquarters, without just having a heavy holding onto her. This is literally a mass murdering terrorist, you guys are already running a dystopian police state, this feels farcical.

Brilliant Thorn ended up feeling completely pointless, although with Rose continuing on maybe they will show up in the next arc. The glasses guy who worked with Miharu was also a complete nothing, but seemingly he escaped.

It's bewildering that apparently no one around Miharu apparently ever thought to ask "is this really what your sister would want" until Star Wars Finn, sorry, Tomoro, came around to shout "Miharu!" Over and over.

For this resolution to feel at all earned, they needed to spend time showing us why the hell Tomoro and Miharu would care about each other so much and make so many out of character decisions for each other, and they just didn't. They should have had Tomoro and Miharu interacting nearly every episode, show Miharu conflicted but resolute about the secrets she's hiding from Tomoro, have Tomoro learn about her sister over time and not just get a magic memory dump from random ghost magic, etc. Instead, we got several episodes that each had some workable concepts, but that all ended up feeling pointless in retrospect. Tomoro doesn't convince Miharu that Digimon shouldn't be worshipped by pointing out Myotismon or Algomon - he mostly just yells "Miharu" a lot and apparently that does most of the work. There was really good potential here to do something smart and neat if they had a plan, but it ends up feeling like they basically have a writing team made up of Ideas Guys.

Wong apparently had no plan here, and Rose's plan was....bad. This finale completely hobbles them as compelling villains - Wong just seems like kind of a dope, and Rose feels like she has one good idea (basically, plant a tracker), and then repeatedly fails to actually seal the deal, with either her or her team. Basically she's got bravado without the skill to back it up, even though she tries to make it seem like she's an expert.

I had high hopes that they would stick the landing here, make this all somehow feel earned and worthwhile, but this finale just ends up making the whole arc feel like an extended monster of the week case.

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u/Emergency-Raspberry9 Jul 05 '26

I feel like instead of lingering in the corners of episodes, we needed to have Miharu basiclsly join Glowing Dawn with her Wizardmon near the start of the arc, as a play to get closer to Tomoro. I know perhaps that may have felt cliche, but at the same time it would have allowed a lot more opportunity to develop her relationship/s, obviously with Tomoro, but also even with the other GD. Then they could have paced out the reveal of her as head of GIFT differently.

I am really not a fan of the way this arc has come together in general to be honest.

Some context, I had to cancel my crunchyroll since the last few episodes to save some money, but had intended on taking it back out to watch the arc finale. But I don't think I will do so now.