A few days back, I posted over in an EtcetEra thread about how a lot of love for the Digimon franchise I had has died over the years due to the ever increasing amount of fanservice and how sexualized every woman Digimon is portrayed and drawn (especially post hiring an hentai artist), where it's down to their designs, posing, constant jiggling of the breasts in the anime or the sheer amount of sexialized artwork for the cards.
(While no nudity, they are still VERY NSFW and suggestive):
https://wikimon.net/images/8/8e/Dch-7-150_front.png
https://wikimon.net/images/0/08/Rosemon_collectors_card.jpg
https://wikimon.net/images/9/9d/Dch-7-145_front.png
https://wikimon.net/images/5/57/Lotusmon_collectors_card2.jpg
https://wikimon.net/images/e/e0/Bellestarrmon_ex_collectors_card.jpg
https://wikimon.net/images/5/56/Angewomon_collectors_card.jpg
https://wikimon.net/images/7/7b/Lilithmon_collectors_card.jpg
Like I said there, it annoys me because the Palmon like is my personal fav Digimon line even Rosemon and I think Lilithmon is cool as well, but their never allowed to be cool with excessive jiggle physics or overt sexualzation or making Rosemon's boobs bigger. Like this is how she looked in the early 00s when Rosemon was first introduced for the Pendulum like of the Virtual Pets in official artwork compare to modern artwork of her:
And also what bothers me is just the sheer lack of imagination with it. The original intent with Digimon's designs was that they were invoke monster movies and western horror, fantasy and Sci-Fi (see the many early Digimon with Spawn demon like mouths, the bugs being inspired by Xenomorphs or the 5th Virtual pets have parodies of the Grelims and Critters being the two Child Level digimon while the Adults were all based on Godzilla monsters etc), yet like only about 5 coded women Digimon get to be monsterous (The Biyomon line, Arukenimon
, 2/3rds of the Palmon, Calmaramon and Magnadramon), most of the time it's sexy women in sexualized or revealing armour or clothes, Venusmon for is the worst when you compare her to the rest of the 11 Digimon based on the Roman Gods.
I just wish Digimon could give us more varied women Digimon, like Bride of Frankenstein (Boltmon exists why can't her?) for example or Saddako or an evil doll, one based on the countless of many women Yokai like Pokemon has to great effect, a Gorgon, a Hyena, a naked mole rat or something truly monstrous and original?
And I feel like such a hypocrite saying all this because I like Rosemon and Lillymon from the Palmon line and LadyDevimon, Ranamon (and evolved Calmaramon) and Lilithmon.
Sorry for the rant.