THE FANATIC'S GUIDE TO

"Grow Mon Grow"

English Version Written by Steve Blum

Guest Starring: Mihiramon

Okay, I realise that the crowd are all staring up into the sky, but seriously, I think at least one or two of them would notice the pair of little monsters that are chasing each other through the streets. Then again, though, idiocy and blindness seem to be common traits with the general public and the police force in the Tamers world.

None of the silhouettes that fly through the air and disappear into the Juggernaut vortex are recognisable Digimon, they're just generic monster outlines.

The footage of the Digimon disappearing into the vortex after Riley and Tally's scene is looped from beforehand.

When Guilmon's eyes "go crazy," as I affectionately term it - when they turn to slits, that is - they glow (see screenshot). They've never done that before.

Just before the Juggernaut vortex erupts with blue energy, the footage of Digimon disappearing into it is the same piece from before, looped for the second time.

Just before the first commercial break, when we see a wide view of the city... uhm... where are the Hypnos towers? I suppose they could just be out of shot, but also, where is the rip in the sky that has just appeared?

Mihiramon's dialogue makes it seem as though the Devas are solely out to conquer Earth. As we'll later see, that's not true. They do consider themselves vastly superior to humans, though, and think they should be their masters, but this wasn't their actual mission.

When Yamaki stands up just before he says, "I can't let you do this!" his palmtop device is gone, and doesn't reappear. Maybe he just dropped it...

When Renamon leaps over Takato and Guilmon, she's rendered in silhouette form. At normal speed this looks fine, but when you slow-mo it down, you see that her body is unusually long, and her tail is tapered and reptilian-like, not it's usual bushy self.

Takato throws Rika a Digivolution Modify Card, and it smoothly sails the several yards that separate them (check out the screenshot to see just how far this is). Have you ever tried throwing a playing card? It's damn near impossible to get it to go that far, never mind that straight! I've always wondered how Gambit could do it so easily...

It's not particularly clear, but Kyubimon's feet and tail tips once again appear to be unmoving. By the way, I realise that we're now 3-1 on the whole "fire not moving vs. fire moving" thing - but they ARE supposed to move, just look at the theme music to see them flickering away (there's also her Digivolution sequence, but they're also glowing like fire there, and they never do that otherwise, except when she's using Fox Tail Inferno). Also, when Kyubmion is distorting before she De-Digivolves, you can see a fleck of the fire on one of her rear feet existing indepedantly from the rest of her.

I'd question how Gargomon could run out of ammo when his guns are a part of his body. It's the same principal as someone's fingers just spontaneously ceasing to work.

For some reason, Takato's Digi-Modify sequence is cut short, and he doesn't say "Digivolution activate!" Also, immediately after Growlmon Digivolves, he has Hyper Wings, when we never saw Takato slash the card. Although when Takato says, "It's all up to Growlmon..." you can see a Hyper Wing card in his hand.

Terriermon doesn't just make a generic cartoon "bzz-bzz" whispering noise - listen close and you'll actually hear him say, "He always circles around before he attacks." Nice attention to detail, there.

It sure took Kazu and Kenta a long while to notice that rip in the sky and massive column of blue energy, huh?

Here's a thing - throughout this episode, Jeri is holding an envelope, just like the one I mentioned Henry was holding at the end of the previous episode. What are these, lunch bags?

When the Tamers look up at the helicopters as they shoot at Mihiramon, Terriermon's ear is down to Henry's knee. When the angle changes, beginning with Rika's line, "Even Growlmon crumpled," his ear is now only down to the middle of Henry's thigh. Then, after Growlmon's evolution, when Henry says, "Our little boy's grow up!" Terriermon's ear is now only down to his waist, definitely looking way too short. Check out the screenshots on your right for comparisons.

After Takato slashes the Blue Card, Calumon squeaks, "Crystal Matrix activate!" Well, that's just all kinds of messed up, because Calumon isn't supposed to know that he has the power of Digivolution yet. In the Japanese version, he simply screamed "Culuuuuu!" - while Calumon doesn't make that noise (or even a proper equivalent) in the dub, he really should've just done his little squeal, like he did back when his powers activated for Growlmon's Digivolution in "A Question of Trust."

The "take the tiger by the tail" pun is really just too, too perfect, isn't it? :) While it sounds like a good example of a dub line, it fits SO well into the context of the episode that it gives you pause to wonder...

Joel Gordon points out that Kazu and Kenta are able to identify WarGrowlmon by name, as if such a thing were common knowledge - but because Guilmon and his forms are a product of Takato's imagination, and not actually 'real' Digimon (as evidenced by the fact the D-Power could produce no information on Guilmon in "To Fight or Not to Fight"), then they shouldn't really know this. On the other hand, though, I imagine it's possible they could have heard WarGrowlmon call out his name during his Digivolution.