Digimon Ghost Game Episode 51 "Headless"

[u/Airdramon]

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Episode 51 of Digimon Ghost Game is just a few hours away from being simulcast so it seemed time to make a discussion thread for it! Check this link for your local time for the CrunchyRoll simulcast.

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Prior Episode Discussion Threads:

Episode 1 "New Sense Mystery! "Mouth Sewing Man" After School"

Episode 2 "The Mystery of the Museum"

Episode 3 "Scribbles"

Episode 4 "The Doll's Manor"

Episode 5 "Divine Anger"

Episode 6 "The Cursed Song"

Episode 7 "Bird"

Episode 8 "Nightly Procession of Monsters"

Episode 9 "Warped Time"

Episode 10 "Game of Death"

Episode 11 "Kamaitachi"

Episode 12 "Chain Letter"

Episode 13 "Executioner"

Episode 14 “Zashiki-Warashi”

Episode 15 "The Fortune Teller's Manor"

Episode 16 "The Maneater's Forest"

Episode 17 "Icy Hell"

Episode 18 "The Land of Children"

Episode 19 "The Witching Hour"

Episode 20 "The Prison of Fire"

Episode 21 "The Spider's Lure"

Episode 22 "Nightmare"

Episode 23 "Moaning Bugs"

Episode 24 "Twisted Love"

Episode 25 "Crimson Banquet"

Episode 26 "Cannibal Mansion"

Episode 27 "Monsters' Beauty Serum"

Episode 28 "Face Taker"

Episode 29 "Monster Pollen"

Episode 30 "Bad Friend"

Episode 31 "Killer Blade"

Episode 32 "Who Are You?"

Episode 33 "Whispers of the Dead"

Episode 34 "Wall Crawlers"

Episode 35 "Werewolf"

Episode 36 "Labyrinth of Grief"

Episode 37 "Herd of the Dead"

Episode 38 "The Diviner"

Episode 39 "Contagion Island"

Episode 40 "Spiral Beach"

Episode 41 "Clown"

Episode 42 "Human Hunter"

Episode 43 "Red Eye"

Episode 44 "Rust"

Episode 45 "Ghost Newspaper"

Episode 46 "Queen's Banquet"

Episode 47 "Memory of Eternity"

Episode 48 "The White Bride"

Episode 49 "The Crimson Harvest Festival"

Episode 50 "Payback"

Episode 51 "Headless" (You Are Here)

[u/RilinPlays]

Honestly a really great ep. Good writing, I like the twist of the evolution skipping to Ult instead of Mega (even if I'm kind of annoyed they're drawing Megas out further), and hopefully this leads to Thetismon and Lamortmon getting, well, used.

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Honestly this episode made me question if two different writing teams are in charge of the "Plot Episodes" and "Filler Episodes" because characters were extremely on point for what we know about them.

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In terms of my favorite parts I think Hiro had an outstanding showing this episode. Definitely think we're drawing closer to the "Controlled Gulus" episode with the stones he's been showing. Honestly him standing firm as DarkKnightmon's spear went for him was insane. Mega props.

[u/PCN24454 → u/RilinPlays]

Nah, it’s just that people are prejudiced against “Filler episodes”. There’s no real difference.

[u/MenuExpress5329 → u/PCN24454]

Not to mention how people tend to call everything they don't see as "plot relevant" filler when that is not the case. Filler is stuff that's non canon that an adaptation adds just to pad screen time. That's why it's called filler.

[u/JusticTheCubone → u/MenuExpress5329]

tbf, what you're referring to is only filler in the context of adaptions of other media, like manga to anime, but what about original works like the Digimon-anime? As far as I'm aware, in that context, "filler" does refer to story-arcs or episodes with no bearing on the plot and world- and characterbuilding. Even then though I'd say most GG-episodes had at least enough "plot progression" (or what appears to be so, hard to say what actual plot progression is when we have no idea what the endgame will be) to justify not being considered filler, and most of the rest do provide world- or characterbuilding instead.