The NovaCast: A Digimon Rewatch Experience
by The NovaCast: A Digimon Rewatch Experience
Join Digi-fans Sloane, Mina and Thom, as they go on a journey through each on-screen incarnation of the Digital World. Get set for episode-by-episode analysis with plenty of deep discussions and wild tangents along the way. Here we go!
Episodes
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Episode 24: Lovecraft Country
Digimon Adventure 02 Episodes 14 - 15. We take a deep dive into the most surreal episode of Digimon so far and discuss Chiaki J. Konaka's Dark Ocean, the arc that never was. Oh, and the old west, too. Buckle up, pour yourself a tall, frosty glass of welcome milk, and join the fun!
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Episode 119: Kung Pow Pipis
Digimon Savers the Movie: Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!. With card game unifications, promotional food, AMVs, and over a month of what we've been up to, there's a lot to talk about. Oh, and we have our final OVA and bit of Savers coverage, too. With slick choreography, our final punch...
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Episode 118: To The Future In The Sky: The Digimon Data Squad Retrospective
Join Sloane, Mina, and Thom for their final Digital Dive with the long awaited Data Savers Squad retrospective! It's been a long season, and they're raring to dig into every last detail! We do our best to remember the earliest arcs of this show and get hype over our favorite Marcus moments. We…
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Episode 117: Marcus vs King Drasil: Fate of Two Worlds
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 47 - 48. The NovaCast is finally back and with it, we've reached the final battle of Digimon Data Savers Squad! We scramble to recall this last arc the best we can to give this finale the best it deserves! Emotions run high between the NovaCast and DATS alike, as we...
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Episode 116: My 358/2 Dads
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 44 - 46. With the Royal Knights beaten (like three of them, but still, don't worry about it) and the Data Squad assembling in the Digital World, it's time to finally take the fight to King Drasil! But what's more fearsome than the God of the Digital World? Dub changes...
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Episode 115: It Was The Burst Of Times
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 42 - 43. Do you like burst mode? Well you're in luck, because everyone's bursting today! Character arcs come full circle and development is dropped in a strange duo of episodes that lead us ever closer to the finish! If you thought we didn't like the Royal Knights last...
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Episode 114: Call That Dubtext
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 39 - 41. We start our final arc of the show strong in these two episodes and come face to face with our digital god king: Marcus's dad. The Data Squad is on the back foot yet again, as we have the introduction of a fan favorite group, and have to be saved by our…
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Episode 113: Kino
Digimon Data Squad Episode 36 - 38. This is it, the moment you (and Mina) have been waiting for, and the moment that has come to blow Sloane and Thom away. The Goat Baby has been unleashed upon Japan, and it's up to the Data Squad to come together to stop Belphemon and Kurata once and for all!...
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Episode 112: Burstin' Makes Me Feel Bad
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 34 - 35. What's that Bancholeomon? We shouldn't use the Burst Mode? There will be horrible consequences if we do? Oh hey, cool, Marcus just activated the Burst Mode! Alongside that, we talk about Thomas's horrible betrayal, more sub/dub frustrations, incredible…
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Episode 111: The Weasel Prevails
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 31 - 33. We're heading back to the Human World, but not before we start diving into one of the strongest mini arcs we've experienced yet in this franchise! It's the Data Savers Squad versus the Knuckleheads in battle after battle after battle. Are we immune to Giant...
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Episode 110: Digisoul is the Powerhouse of the Cell
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 28 - 29. It's a new year but the same us! All the bits you know and love (and plenty that'll make you groan) as our heroes hit the big time! BanchoLeomon is back and he's here to teach us the importance of biology, or, something, as our heroes try and fix their broken...
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Episode 109: Vaxxed By Fortnite
The NovaCast has made its grand return to form with Digimon Data Savers Squad, and with it, we're bringing a whole bunch of bio slime to get our trip started! We get down to maxxing out our talks about goons with our new villains that have appeared, some new evolutions, and a whole lot of...
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NovaCast OVA 10: Card Slash!
Get out your damage calculators, gather your memory gauges, and get ready to shuffle for the definitive NovaCast episode on all things TCG! Between the first card game America saw all the way to the one that's played now and all of the most obscure ones in between, Mina has researched and…
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NovaCast OVA 9: Who is Tai's Mom?
Sloane has concocted her most devious scheme yet: a Digimon game show for Mina and Thom to try and stumble their way through! With 102 of the toughest questions and most cryptic riddles she could think up, it's up to Mina and Thom to try and make it to the end without hitting the negatives. So…
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NovaCast OVA 8.5: X2: Digimon United
It's the final part of our X-Antibody tier list, and if we thought the X-Antibody forms last time were wild, we haven't seen anything yet! This episode features some of the best and some of the stinkiest designs around, so if you've ever wondered how some of the most beloved designs in the...
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NovaCast OVA 8: The X Record
Sloane, Mina, and Thom decide to finally take on a most horrifying and daunting task: to rank all of the X-Antibody forms that are currently out. With a hefty tier list in hand and Wikimon at the ready, the Novacast brave some of the Designs of All Time in the first half of their X-Antibody form...
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NovaCast OVA 7: The Digi-Soul Still Burns!
After 3 long years, the Nova Cast revisits the Digimon fighting game of our dreams to add six more fighters to the melee. Tune in to hear our wildly unlikely choices, as well as some new stages to throw down in, and some brand new mechanics to boot! We also get stuck into the bonanza of Digimon...
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Episode 108: Ratman Genius
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 24 - 26. Flashbacks galore as we finally meet Spencer Damon (sorta) and Kurata reveals (again, this time for real) his master plan to decimate Digimon as a whole. We get to see cool new forms and the terrifying evolution of Gizmon as we do our best to avenge our…
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Episode 107: The One Where SaberLeomon Dies
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 22 - 23. Come on down to Marcus's house for the ultimate sleepover! We've got fried egg curry, great mom speeches, the third Leomon death, reverse Jenga, and the most Dragon Ball Z this franchise has ever been! But before we can settle in, we have to contend with the...
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Episode 106: Frigimom Sadventure
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 20 - 21. More mothers are brought to the fray, as we get some insight both to Keenan's biological mother and Keenan's true mother. There are tearful reunions and tearful goodbyes aplenty, but what's more tearful are the way that more goofs in the dub seem to keep…
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Episode 105: World's Largest Dad
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 18 - 19. Our clash with Merukimon comes to a head, and we finally find out just who the old man is, and more than that, all the details behind Keenan's past. What's stronger, Merukimon or three Ultimates? Even more pressing, what's stronger between a ten year old boy's...
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Episode 104: WEED BIG
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 16 - 17. As Yoshi gets dangerously close to getting Sora'd by the plot, we have to find a cure to prevent that from happening. In the process, we see an old, beloved friend and some old, not nearly as memorable enemies. All to say hello to some manly moments between...
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Episode 103: My Baby Named Jeeves
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 14 - 15. The NovaCast takes the Digital World, and with it, we encounter the most baffling non-change of the series. Emotions run high for all of our protagonists these episodes, especially as some foreshadowed character development is finally brought to light. We also...
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Episode 102: Big Bone-ment
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 12 - 13. The plot has kicked into high gear as we welcome the introduction of the definitely fastest Digimon ever, for sure and three DATS agents and a baby shenanigans, and once again... dub errors. Do we even need to say it at this point? The stakes are high, and the...
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Episode 101: Marcus and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 10 - 11. Coming off the highs of the illustrious episode 100, the NovaCast has reconvened to talk about more over the top hijinx Marcus has gotten himself into, continuous, strange localization changes that are starting to matter more and more, and some of our most...
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Episode 100: A Hundred Points of Light
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 8 - 9. We've done it! We've hit 100 episodes covering the illustrious Digimon franchise! Listen to us regale our recollect wonderful memories of our time talking endlessly for the internet! We also are absolutely overloaded with news in the wake of Digimon Con, and…
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Episode 99: The Episode of All Time
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 6 - 7. We're covering Data Squad's most famous episode and both we and Thomas have caught the fever that's sweeping the world! With our favorite duo of himbos splitting up, we need Thomas to be the big brother we never had and bring some fireworks into our life. We…
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Episode 98: #ReleaseThePoopCut
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 4 - 5. Once again the NovaCast has to grapple with the unsettling ethics of DATS as the Idiot Corner revs up big time. With strange sub to dub differences rearing their head again, we get the inside scoop from Mina, but that doesn't stop us from enjoying some goofy dub...
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Episode 97: I Think Yggdrasil Should Delete You
Digimon Data Squad Episodes 2 - 3. Things start to heat up with the introduction of the third member of the DATS Trinity: someone from the uh... Austrian royal family? Join the NovaCast crew as they hassle their favourite European cohost and discuss evil bugs, fiery foes, and Just Cause 2…
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Episode 96: We're Back! An Amogus Story
Digimon Data Squad Episode 1. The NovaCast is back, and we're Realizing we might actually be watching a fun show this season?!? We go into Mina's history with this particular season, go into the ethics of hiring DATS agents out of high school, and investigate a nasty case of Digimon entrapment.…
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Episode 95: Best of the Digi-Bestined
The first four seasons of our podcast have all led up to this. After the highest highs, the lowest lows, the mountains we struggled to climb and the arcs that were smooth sailing, the NovaCast is now making a Completely Objective tier list of the DigiDestined of the first four seasons! Battles…
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Episode 94: The Future That's Beyond the Trash Can: The Digimon Frontier Retrospective
Join Sloane, Mina, Thom, and new guest for the rotating retrospective chair Meg, as the four of them dive deep into the most tumultuous season of Digimon yet and lay their final feelings out for the world to hear! From chuckleheads to goons and eleventh hour Big Bads, we lay it all out so we can...
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Episode 93: The Nadir of Fiction
Digimon Frontier Episodes 49 - 50. We've done it! Through the mids and lows, the NovaCast has finally managed to come out on the other end of the tunnel that was Digimon Frontier. Our farewell episode is packed to the brim with confusion over flashbacks and reused animation, the most compact…
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Episode 92: Hungry Hungry Himbo
Digimon Frontier Episodes 46 - 48. Those rotten royals are finally gone once and for all, but now the crew has to contend with a malicious twink who can evolve into an evil himbo with the sickest wrestling moves of all time! The NovaCast’s long journey through the barren Frontier is nearly at its...
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Episode 91: An Insult to the Audience's Intelligence
Digimon Frontier Episodes 43 - 45. As the Royal Knights arc drives us to the very ends of the Digital World, we're doing everything we can to try and make it through these terrifying three-peats! Old friends return to try and stir any feelings we might be capable of, complete with contrived…
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Episode 90: Forcibly Tradwifed
Digimon Frontier Episodes 40 - 42. Our first threepeat of the arc starts, and with it comes a lot of suffering from having to watch so much Digimon Frontier. These episodes may not be that urgent, but we are in our quest to finish this show off once and for all! Dark chuckleheads, weirdly timed...
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Episode 89: The Royal Weeaboo
Digimon Frontier Episodes 38 - 39. With our last arc having arrived, we're immediately hit with jobbing heroes, needless exposition we've seen before, and villains who mop the floor with our chuckleheads in milliseconds - so basically everything we've seen before in slightly different flavors!…
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NovaCast OVA 6: Belle
Our long-awaited, much needed break between Digimon Frontier arcs brings us to the world of U and the end of Mamoru Hosoda's Internet of Things trilogy. The NovaCast crew goes through the whole movie, analyzing in-depth every little bit they can in between gushing about nearly every aspect. From...
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Episode 88: Walken on Thin Ice
Digimon Frontier Episodes 36 - 37. Wow, we're done with Frontier! It's all over, and it's time to go home--Oh, wait, we've just been informed that Frontier has found a new way to extend our suffering with an eleventh hour baddie who's DEAD-SET on preventing us from packing it up. But before all...
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Episode 87: Made With Unity
Digimon Frontier Episodes 34 - 35. With the NovaCast reunited, we dig deep into the newly released Digimon Survive, DigiFes, Digimon Adventure 02 The Beginning, and way too many exposition dumps in the show we're contractually obligated to talk about! Can some of the hypest Digimon forms and...
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NovaCast OVA 5: Netflix's DIGIMON
With our one member of cinema and culture abroad, the NovaCast has decided to share with everyone our newest mission: creating and casting the Very Real Netflix adaptation of Digimon! How will Sloane and Thom manage to make such a storied franchise translate well to the (figurative) silver…
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Episode 86: Harmony Korine's Hurricane Touchdown
Digimon Frontier Episodes 32 - 33. Contentious Digi-opinions abound as the gang covers what may be the best episodes of Frontier yet! The Chuckleheads finally receive their second worthwhile member as Koichi joins the team and regales us with a stirring backstory and top-tier attack names....
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Episode 85: Light Boys Can't Jump
Digimon Frontier 30 - 31. While chasing down Duskmon, the NovaCast crew finally comes across Frontier's biggest plot hole. All will be revealed in this epic episode: deep, dark secrets about the Other Koji, Cherubimon's evil and way-too-creepy plans, cool birds, and THE dub insert song of all…
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Episode 84: Deus Egg Machina
Digimon Frontier Episodes 27 - 29. This week we’re saying “so long” to Sakkakumon, and hello to the beginning of the end of Zoe, JP and Tommy’s usefulness as the first major arc comes to a close. We talk hybrid forms, the magnificence of Mercurymon, and... surprisingly competent episodes? With...
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Episode 83: They Only Love Me For My Linguini
Digimon Frontier Episodes 24 - 26. Flaccid attempts at character development? In Digimon Frontier? It's more likely than you think! This week on the NovaCast, the gang watches in frustrated awe as The Chuckleheads take on the most bizarre of the Goon Squad. Can our hosts fight the urge to rewrite...
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Episode 82: Breadsticks and Paint
Digimon Frontier Episodes 22 - 23. This week, the NovaCast crew continues to plumb the depths of Frontier; depths murkier than anything the Continent of Darkness could ever hope to offer. Sense is in short supply as the gang grapples with a baffling attempt at remaking one of Digimon’s most…
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Episode 81: Picked A Peck Of Pickled Pipismon
Digimon Frontier Episodes 20 - 21. The final member of the Goon Squad is up to bat, and the NovaCast gets their popcorn ready to see the chuckleheads get summarily thrashed yet again! Tongue twisters help hold back the pain of a beloved henchman, but can those help keep the pain of flubbed…
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Episode 80: Korikkakumon Has Become Catholic
Digimon Frontier Episodes 17 - 19. With the dreaded beach episode finally behind us, the NovaCast is back for a day at the races! Featuring some suspiciously-named grand prizes, incredible achievements in voice acting, Tommy's gamer bloodlust, and the tersest food classification discussions you…
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Episode 79: OnlyRans
Digimon Frontier Episodes 15 - 16. Our chuckleheaded Italian has finally obtained her Beast Spirit, but in the process released the frothing, critical beast in the NovaCast crew. Our brave trio of podcasters has reached their breaking point, so tune in to bare witness to all of the ranting,...
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Episode 78: RIP in Peace Bozo
Digimon Frontier Episodes 13 - 14. The Goon Squad has risen against our "heroic" chuckleheads, and the NovaCast crew has some decidedly mixed opinions on these nuts! Can the return of one of our favorite voice actors mitigate a bungled attempt at a tragic loss? Tune in for thoughts on the latest...
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Join Digi-fans Sloane, Mina and Thom, as they go on a journey through each on-screen incarnation of the Digital World. Get set for episode-by-episode analysis with plenty of deep discussions and wild tangents along the way. Here we go!
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