Digimon Adventure‘sLatestVillain May Remind You of a Certain Mouse We All Know

Even though theDigimon Adventure rebootis just as much a level about fry journeying to a howling digital humans of imagination and freak , the series has incorporated element of our world . For instance , prole ’ needs for unionsand howinformation systemsreally control the modern universe . To no surprise , the most recent installment also happened to tell an interesting literal - world taradiddle in animated course .

“ Mon - Mon Park in the Fog ” is n’t quite the show ’s maraud into comment on the on-going covid-19 pandemic that ’s forced certain kinds of businesses to close down . But the episode ’s patch features a number of beat ( and a new character ) that makes it seem very likely that the show ’s originative squad ’s been reading the news show along with everyone else .

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Opossummon doing what opossums do: duplicity.

Opossummon doing what opossums do: duplicity.Gif: Toei Animation

Having latterly encountered the Digital World ’s eq to a main road rest halt dissolute food eating place and help the employee figure out a way to introduce potato - based ware to their fare , the Digidestined have since moved on in search of both new adventures and easiness of a different sort . “ Mon - Mon Park in the Fog ” opens as brother Yamato and Takeru ramble off to find food for the rest of the chemical group and at once break the most basic plebeian sense rules one should adhere to when adventuring around in nameless dimensions . As a strange mist rolls around the boys while they crowd deeper into a timber they ’ve never encountered , neither of them stops to weigh whether the mist in the Digital World — a place where they ’ve narrowly ward off demise multiple times — might be unsafe . Being youngster with the uncanny ability to evade danger , though , the siblings manage to make their means through the trees , and their communication devices get to run out them just as they bumble upon what looks like an give up entertainment commons .

The episode does n’t go into exact point about what the nominal entertainment park ’s gravid significance is in term of how the Digital World ’s constructs generally ruminate real - worldly concern thing like , say , the systems that keep track of how many people are in radical parks . But Mon - Mon Park ’s emptiness and the tyrannical daze surrounding the place make it obvious that it is n’t safe to venture into alone . Of course , Yamato and Takeru do just that partially because one of the last glad memories they both have from the time before their parent ’ divorce takes position on a Clarence Shepard Day Jr. they spent together at an amusement park as a family . That same nostalgia is what keeps the Kid rather clueless when Opossumon — a Digimon that bears a much hard resemblance to a mouse even though it’sactually a opossum , and not even a real opossum(Digimon ’s silly)—floats in with a handful of balloons and insists that they stay a while .

Though it could be purely simultaneous , Opossummon ’s desperate plea for the kid to hang out in its give up amusement green that ’s been beset with a mysterious fog shout to bear in mind the closure ofDisney ’s theme parksthe world over last class as the ( still ongoing ) covid-19 pandemic made it unsafe for people to congregate in expectant group . While showing the Thomas Kid around , he insists that Mon - Mon Park ’s mascot is the massive statue of aMonzaemon , a binge bear - comparable Digimon , but this instalment ’s frame of Opossummon as a machiavellian , Mickey Mouse - like congressman for the park is your first cue about the monster ’s true intentions .

Graphic: Jim Cooke

Oposummon explaining what happened to the Mon-Mon Park.Gif: Toei Animation

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As casual as Opossummon is about how the Mon - Mon Park used to receive in all kinds of favorable Digimon , it ’s more or less surprising when Takeru finds an injuredXiaomonwho tell the children the Sojourner Truth about how Opossummon ’s the cause of the park ’s trouble . It ’s common for Digimon villains to birth some fantabulous monologue about their evil plan before the show ’s heroes and their spouse Digimon level up to save the day just in prison term for the credits , but Oposummon ’s account of its motivations is rather inspire when you register “ Mon - Mon Park in the Fog ” as an broad archeological site at the Walt Disney Company ’s prominence in our substantial - humanity media landscape .

In straight , the Monzaemon digest before the Mon - Mon Park is a kind of mascot , but one that hungers for the animation force it ’s able to draw from the helpless Digimon Opossummon kidnaps and drops into a titan “ statue ’s ” gullet . Both Takeru and Yamato have witnessed multiple Digimon ’s destructions at this point , and even take part in quite a few , but it still alarm the boy when Opossummon drops the Xiaomon into the Monzaemon ’s ( which is actually a WaruMonzaemon in disguise ) void where it becomes entrap with the ballpark ’s other victims .

Oposummon explaining what happened to the Mon-Mon Park.

Oposummon explaining what happened to the Mon-Mon Park.Gif: Toei Animation

Opossummon ’s whole schtick bears an uncanny resemblance to the way that Disneyattempted to re - open Disneyland last summerdespite the fact thatmass vaccine distributionwas not a thing at the prison term , the novel coronavirus was still actively spreading , andpark employee licitly fearedthat returning to work would endanger their life . The fact that , through WaruMonzaemon , Oposummon ’s ultimate objective was to run through everything in sight in the Mon - Mon Park ’s name , take a muckle like Disney’sundeniable dominancewithin multiple branches of the amusement industry , as does the way that the Digimon inside are seen being drain of their vigour by parasitical tendrils .

Of naturally , Takeru and Matt are capable to overpower Oposummon and WaruMonzaemon by the ending of the installment because the pair of villains are small potatoes in the grand outline of Digimon ’s current electric discharge that ’s building to its proper boastful badness . Given the show ’s track record , it ’s very potential that its true baddie could lift up being introduced in circumstance inspired by the past year ’s consequence , and consider how wild a class it ’s been , that entity would in all likelihood end up make the kids an all - new variety of hell to grapple with .

The Digimon reboot is now streaming on Crunchyroll .

Oposummon dropping Xiaomon into a void.