Digimon Tamers

Digimon Tamers 47: Rescue Dukemon! Grani's Urgent Departure

Within the kernel, Kurumon only now notices that his buddy's tied up like a Japanese schoolgirl in a pit of tentacles. However, he ends up distracted by a suddenly responsive Juri. Except she's not really all that responsive and is instead still caught up in her angst. She flashes back to when she was younger and her mother died, when her father said that it was her mother's destiny to die and the doctors and nurses go on about the inability to escape destiny. At the end of the hallway, chibi-Juri runs into a nightmare version of herself and multiple shadow figures chanting "Unmei." Creepy.

Outside, the driver of a van carrying the Tamers wonders where Ryo ran off to. The kid just doesn't rest, and he's out playing Kamen Rider with the ADRs. Dork.

Back at the new base of the Wild Bunch/Hypnos group, a few members of the Wild Bunch are working on a new ship, Grani. (Random factoid: Grani is the steed that Brunhilde gave her husband Siegfried in Richard Wagner's Das Ring Der Nibelungen opera) Shibumi borrows Jen's D-ark to help Grani to realize and goes into the science of it. Takato finds Juri's parents nearby and tries to talk to them, which fails when Mr. Katou goes off on his own.

Meanwhile, Justimon gets in a little too deep and gets knocked off his feet by the ADR-07 "Paratice Head." Back at the base, Ruki notices her mother trying to talk to Juri's stepmother and takes a moment to reflect on her own behavior. To her, Juri had always seemed to happy and never serious, even though Juri's mother was dead. This is such a contrast from Ruki, whose only cause for her less than pleasant behavior was attributed to her own problems. Sure she had an absent father, whom she could visit at any time but didn't bother, but at least he was still alive.

Mr. Katou has his own plan to save Juri, which involves driving out to the mutant goo and trying to call out for her. He flashbacks to when he had to raise Juri himself, and then to when he was called to pick up Juri. Since she went off on her own without telling him, he believed she should be responsible and return on her own. Of course, this was a mistake. The Tamers find him along with ADR-07, a really bizarre pink monster with Juri's voice and a few dozen mouths chanting "Unmei." It sticks a cable out, which spits out the camera it abducted, and analyzes Juri's father. When it pulls back, Juri's father grabs onto it and is saved from becoming street pizza by Sakuyamon. Justimon comes by to free the trapped Dukemon, and all three of the humanoid digimon soon find themselves bound by creepy giant mouths. Isn't there a doujinshi about that? Mr. Katou distracts the ADR-07 by crashing the truck into its leg, but only succeeds in all the mouths going after him instead. Dukemon gets tangled up in them in the attempt to save Mr. Katou from certain death.

Justimon and Guardromon end up defeating ADR-07, but then ADR-08 "Optimizer" turns up. It's even bigger and uglier than 07. Perhaps in sympathy for Dukemon's plight, Grani's rendition is sped up to completion and Shibumi uses Jen's D-ark to slash a blue card and help Grani realize. However, it takes a bit of extra help from Dukemon to fully realize Grani, and Grani helps Dukemon fly where he couldn't leap. ADR-08 is defeated, and when the Tamers and their digimon devolve, Takato calls out to Juri and promises that he'll save her. The others nod their support.

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