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I fell off watching Digimon around the time the fifth season was coming out, so anything after Digimon Frontier I’m seriously unfamiliar with. But as a child the third season, Tamers, was my absolute favorite. I loved the darker tone in storytelling, and something about it just felt different from the likes of Adventure and Adventure 02. That’s why when I found out about the existence of Ghost Game I had to give it a shot.
Ghost Game really scratches the itch that Tamers left behind in my heart, but I think it may have the potential to do even greater things. Of course, I’m only a few episodes into it, only six are out at the time I’m writing this, but although each of the episodes give off a monster-of-the-week style vibe, they are actually contributing to the greater plot. The Digimon encountered aren’t just evil or manipulated by items like Black Gears or Dark Rings, they’re playing pranks on humans, some of which are truly evil, others just misunderstood. Mummymon actually felt like a real character in episode two, when his interpretation of healing humans is just him seeing an ancient tradition and running with it. Dracumon in episode three shows that not all Digimon in this story can be rehabilitated and sends us off thinking more shit is about to go down with him real quick.
The thing with Ghost Game is it’s basically throwing the Digimon into a setting where they are what is at the root of all of these urban legends and ghost stories finding their way around Japan. The protagonists aren’t thrust right into the digital world with no sense of where they are or what’s going on, instead it’s hitting them right at home – making their own world feel unsafe at times – exactly what Tamers did. I don’t really have much to say at this point, but I can say that I do expect to be making more content about this story as long as it keeps up the pace and that it keeps these good vibes, which let me say is such a cute catchphrase that Gammamon has.