Digimon Tamers 46: The Refreshing Ultimate Soldier, Justimon Appears!

Ahahahaha. Haha. Ha. Oh good lord, when I played D-1 Tamers, I made this lame joke about Ryo becoming a Power Ranger. Little did I realize back then that I was pretty damn close: they turned him into a conglomeration of a Timeranger and a Kamen Rider. Dear self: stop making random jokes that end up being true. Bad enough that the jokes about Millenniumon being secretly in love with Ryo turned out to be canon. Anyway...

In the previous episode, Dukemon was pulled into the D-Reaper zone, where he met the ADR-01/J-Reaper. While his meeting with J-Reaper was going on, a strange new digimon appeared. This guy had the red scarf and transformation belt of an early Kamen Rider, and the entrance from Timeranger. Cue Justimon, the nod to Ryo's secret fanboydom (see: Anode Tamer and the implications that he was an avid gamer). And his attack? Justice Kick sounds a bit too much like Rider Kick.

Ruki, of course, isn't the least bit impressed. Jen doesn't say anything, and Hirokazu goes into fanboy mode. Figures. The peace doesn't last long and the ADR-06 "Horn Striker" comes by to knock Saint Galgomon over. Justimon attacks and decides to take on the ADR-06 himself, allowing Saint Galgomon and Sakuyamon to go retrieve Dukemon. Hirokazu looks a little too happy to be left behind with Justimon.

Within the quantum jell-o, the J-Reaper plays games with Takato's head. Takato realizes then that this is not the real Juri. Outside, Impmon follows as Kurumon tries to run towards wherever Juri is. He figures, hey, it's kinda his fault that Juri's depressed and missing, so he takes the task of rescuing Juri to heart. They meet up with a few ADR-04s and an attack triggers Impmon's evolution to Beelzebumon.

Elsewhere, Shaochung directs Antiramon's movements though the D-ark, and it is through this method that she spots Kurumon flying towards the Diet building. Together Kurumon and Beelzebumon find the invisible Kernel, and Beelzebumon's attacks render it visible. Beelzebumon manages to get the hole open just enough to allow Kurumon entrance. He wouldn't be left stranded for long, for soon enough the cables attack and drag him within the kernel and bind him. Sounds like something out of a bad doujinshi, doesn't it? Kurumon goes on to Juri at Beelzebumon's command, and nothing he can do to break Juri's SUPER ANGST MODE seems to help.

And in yet another part of town, Kenta and MarineAngemon follow Saint Galgomon and Sakuyamon. The latter two enter the goo and find the J-Reaper chasing Takato. It's not them that save Takato and Guilmon, or even some massive bad-ass looking digimon. It's MarineAngemon, whose Ocean Love attack has the ability to heal. This has a counter-effect to the D-Reapers deletion ability, and the J-Reaper flees.

As Saint Galgomon clears the way for their escape from the D-Reaper zone, Justimon is still trying to defeat the ADR-06 and is saved at one point by Guardromon (much to Hirokazu's delight). The others eventually come to help, and eventually it's with Antiramon's help that the ADR-06 is defeated.

When the day winds down and the sun sets, Hirokazu is still rambling to Kenta about his adventure with Ryo-san. The subject of this ramble just looks on with a rather baffled expression, and Jen's talk with him is interrupted by Shaochung, who runs up to tell them where Kurumon and Beelzebumon are. As a sort of welcome-to-the-fold type thing, Ryo gives Shaochung her first card: King Device. Mysteriously enough, it turns into the Queen Device card in a later episode.

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