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Is there anything someone put out into the world that really means a lot to you but hasn't stood the test of time? Like a product released that just didn't hit it off. I could think of numerous toys, games, collectibles, etc that either tried to be their own thing (whether fully or to bring something new to the table for their trend) or blatantly copied something. Or maybe it had a good run but their production eventually ended. It doesn't even have to be a franchise. Maybe there's a character, story, or world someone created and shared that you think is really cool. I'm just interested to hear praises for those types of things that still mean a lot to you.

One of the biggest for me is Monster Rancher. It is one of what I consider my trifecta for monster raising games (a genre I absolutely fell in love with back in the late 90s and earlyish 2000s). I still hold so much respect for the anime and a fair amount for the various merchandise (my Monster Rancher figures that came packaged with at least one mystery monster is among my all time favorite toys I would look out for). I absolutely love Monster Rancher 2 and will still go back and play it on my ps2 and is one of a handful of ps(2) games that I give that honor to (even if I don't play them so much as of late and for the last couple years or so). It is my favorite game because I feel it's the closest to the world I was first introduced to via the anime (a common thread the other two games in the trifecta, Pokémon and Digimon, also had; since getting into Yokai Watch the trifecta is bordering on becoming a quadfecta). I also respect Monster Rancher 1 as well as the Advanced games, but 1 is sorta a downgrade to me since I started with 2 (it still stays close to the version the anime portrays) and the Advanced games didn't have the wondrous details the ability to mix monsters gave (just different colorings) which I assume is because of being on a handheld game. 3 removed the main and sub (the main was the monsters basic form and the sub was the unique things it got added based on the monster who was the sub) formula and replaced the differences being based on locations. Some still could pass as an old main/sub but it wasn't the same thing, not to mention some monsters were redesigned. It worked for the jell species because it gave a reason for their lack of a humanoid upper body, but golems and plants were just changed without that. 4 brought back the main/sub formula but just like how Pokémon's gen 3 introduction cut us off from connecting to gen 1&2 and restricting us from using certain 'mons all together until the other gen 3 handheld and consoles games came out, a fair amount of monsters didn't come back. This wasn't completely new as MR2 was missing some monsters from MR1 (although the lands MR1 and 2 took place in were different so that was sort of a reasoning and I believe all missing monsters made some sort of cameo in MR2 anyway such as magics being rumored to be inside monols and galis as well as basically being a ??? sub for the new humanoid magic user, doodles appearing as graffiti on certain monols, and disks being a ??? sub for the new ammonite monster niton) and the Advanced games and 3 did as well (but that was, imo, the least problematic thing MR3 changed), but considering my fav monster at the time was mia it put me off really getting into my copy of MR4. Then there's EVO which I feel like most, if not all, MR fans didn't like as it changed raising and battling to being a part of a circus. I didn't really give that one a chance after knowing the basics of that game. Aside from spin-offs and an mmo (which I'm not entirely sure came out at all or just in Japan) there's still Monster Rancher DS. While writing this out so far I have become openminded in going back and playing 3 and 4 (I can use monsters I approve of as well as considering the different location forms ??? subs when it comes to 3), but DS I've written off. For a handheld MR game they did bring back the details the Advanced games lacked, but I don't think they stayed true to established ones from the past. They also had a monster generating system that I think I remember as being flawed. As I recall there was a way to manipulate it and after finding that out it made it seem less magical and fun.

Now I'm interested to hear about franchises and stuff that really made an impact on you.

Drawing at my speed something related to GO. Was originally gonna lump it in as an Inktober submission (I don't really partake in things like Inktober, Mermay, etc but this would have worked) but as the month is almost half over now and the later half will be busier for me, I don't see that happening. I mean I could just finish one character's sketch, ink it, and submit it, but I have a vision I want to complete. I just about ruined it with the placement of the character in the sketch (I didn't leave a whole lot of room for the place I wanted her to be, even if I decide against adding in myself in the GO trainer style) so I either have to make do or combo traditional with digital. Leaning more towards accomplishing a full scene than just stopping at one character, inking, and meeting a deadline for a month theme I don't really care about (at least in this instance).

Does digital line art count for Inktober? >.>

Just now (well within the last half hour) two new official x-antibody digimon were revealed based on the poll I mentioned in my previous journal for picking who the new official x-antibody digimon will be from all the ones offered. In second place was minervamon and in first place was lordknightmon (crusadermon in the dub). They even unveiled their designs already. Minervamon looks pretty much the same except that her sword is bigger, her white wings are bigger and golden and her braids end in chainchomp-like faces. Lordknightmon's armor got a bit more detailed, his shield now looks more like a rose (at least imo), and his armor's blades seem to have become wings.

I wish bancholeomon won because I really wanted to see him drawn in the style they used for leomon x, but am pleasantly surprised that these two won and not more popular digimon. I mean they outbeat terriermon, angemon, devimon, paildramon, skullgreymon, angewomon, etc. Kudos to them.

Found a poll from Digimon for who the next x-antibody digimon should be. I chose bancholeomon. Not just because he's my partner but because after seeing what leomon x looks like, I want to see that art style used for bancholeomon.

Poll's found here. You click the red button under the digimon (for some reason the button you click is over the digimon if you have the page translated) and then you click the red button again on the page it brought you to. You can vote once each day while it's going on.