THE FANATIC'S GUIDE TO

"Digital Beauty"

English Version Written by Adele Lim

Guest Starring: Vajramon, Tsugai, Coco

The recap for "Duel with the Deva" has the footage of Pajiramon and Vajramon deleting flipped, so they delete from left to right, rather than right to left.

As with "O Partner, Where Art Thou?" Rika's mother is called "Makino" for the second time. Nothing contradicts this yet, but we'll come to future episodes where things will.

One of the posters behind Rika is the same one of her mother that we saw in "The Icemon Cometh" (see screenshot).

When Rika's mother's agent, Tsugai, hums in curiosity, the whites of his eyes are not coloured.

As Rika has her little flash of horror, she remembers Tsugai saying "you make the other girls look like dirt!" What he actually said was "you make other girls look like dirt!" - no "the."

As her mother and Tsugai watch Rika run off, Tsugai is missing the whites of his eyes again. Curiously, both times he's missing them, his eyes not covered by his glasses - when his glasses are up over his eyes, the whites are coloured.

We see Henry's hand clicking a mouse, then the angle changes, and we see Henry from behind, with both his hands in front of a computer, not with one out to the side, as you might expect for using a mouse, and mouse-clicking noises can still be heard. Odd as it seems, you could rationalise that his mouse is directly in front of his keyboard (given that you can't see the mouse from this angle) - except when the angle changes to a side view, the mouse has now appeared, sitting off to Henry's right, where you might expect a mouse to be, with his hands nowhere near it.

Riley apparently turns down a date because she has to work, suggesting the following night - but as we'll see later in the season, she's already Yamaki's live-in lover. She's runnin' around behind his back, I tell's ya!

The CGI of blocks and rings from "Guilmon Comes Alive" is re-used once again as Vajramon runs through it.

As Growlmon charges at Vajramon, preparing to Dragon Slash him, he's missing the black tips on his claws.

I grow weary of pointing out that Kyubimon's fire doesn't move, and this episode is no different (I insist that it's supposed to move). However, several times in this episode, when she moves through the air she is trailing flecks of fire behind her from her tails and paws... see the screenshot for an example of this.

As Rika prepares to slash the Blue Card, she says, "Now it's our turn!" and Calumon follows it up with an "Mm-hmn!" Calumon is also striking a determined Rika-esque pose at this point, as his tri-force symbol starts to glow. It's hard to really be sure about this scene - when Rika says "our turn," does she mean her and Renamon, or her and Calumon? If it's the latter (which Calumon seems to think it is), then that would imply she knows he's going to be responsible for the upcoming Digivolution, when only Takato has begun to suspect Calumon's powers at this point (as per the previous episode). Even Calumon himself doesn't know he has these powers, so his determined stance is called into question - it makes it seem as if he knows he's about to play a part in the Digivolution, but, then, on the other hand, it could just be him being his usual silly self and imitating Rika.

Taomon pronounces her name "Tow-mon," ("tow" as in "towel") but then Henry pronounces it "Dow-mon" when he reads her analyser information. Henry's pronunciation is more correct, and will be adopted by Taomon and the other characters in future episodes, though "Tow-mon" does get used occasionally too.

Vajramon remarks that the Digimon Sovereign would not be pleased by Taomon's more-human appearance. That's fair enough, as we'll later see just how much he hates humans, but the thing is, some of the Devas have forms that are no less human than Taomon is (Makuramon, Indramon, Antylamon - but then, that would explain why Antylamon has a shitty job, and why Makuramon is all bitter and stuff...)

Taomon's battle with Vajramon is loop-tacular - all but one of the shots of her knocking his sword strikes aside are the same piece of footage, used over and over again (and that's without questioning how fabric sleeves can deflect those big-ass swords).