Plot: After discovering that they’re truly on an island with no escape, the kids meet Ogremon, a Digimon known as being a brute, and Leomon, who is supposedly to be a kindhearted and gentle leader Digimon teaming up to kill them. Devimon, the evil Digimon behind the Black Gears, discovers that the kids are too powerful together and concocts a plan to separate them. After escaping from Leomon and Ogremon, the kids discover a mansion in the woods and enjoy their sudden stroke of luck despite the fears of a trap because everyone, especially the Digimon, are completely exhausted. However, their fears were realized when it proves to be nothing but a trap of Devimon’s making.
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Title Screen: 
Title Change: The Messenger of Darkness, Devimon! is changed to Evil Shows His Face.
While Digimon has a lot of jokes and dialogue where there is none in the original, I’ll note this one because there’s a mistake made in the dubbing. At the very start of the episode, there’s no dialogue until they see Jo on the cliff. In the dub, Joe says this place would be a lot better with a bus system, and Matt agrees, but believes they’re at the end of the line.
The reason this is a mistake is because the only people in Matt’s group right now are Izzy, Mimi, TK and himself. Joe, Tai and Sora are at the cliff. So there’s no way for Joe to have been saying that to Matt while he was climbing up the cliff. That just seems so sloppy considering how obvious it is that Joe is not with the group right now. They could’ve made Matt or Mimi say the line about the bus and have Izzy or Matt respond.
Jo just yells “What do we do now?!’ while Joe complains that he never wanted to go to summer camp and instead wanted to go to summer school.
The narrator, as usual, does the Digimon index screens for Leomon and Ogremon. In the dub, since none of the kids are around, Leomon does Ogremon’s screen and vice versa.
Leomon: “The black gears are turning perfectly peaceful innocent Digimon into monsters!” Uhh….maybe you should’ve come up with a different term….Digimon…Digital MONSTERS. Just sayin’.
Attack Name Change: Ogremon’s fist attack is called Haouken (Fist of the Supreme King).
Attack Name Change: Leomon’s fist attack is called Juuouken (Fist of the Beast King). I never heard Ogremon’s translated attack name in the dub I don’t believe, but the dub commonly calls Leomon’s its translated attack name.
Also, in the original, the two actually call out their attacks when they first fight. In the dub, they just grunt.
Attack Name Change: Death Claw is changed to Touch of Evil.
This line was kinda cool. Devimon originally tells Leomon to accept his ‘baptism of evil’. In the dub, he just says he’ll now obey Devimon’s every command.
Also, I like Devimon’s original voice a lot better. His original voice is eerily calm and even while his dubbed voice is typically evil villain gravelly yelling.
Matt: “No question, man. You are the dude of doodles!”……What does that even mean?
Mimi originally asks why things had to turn out like this. In the dub, she said she just realizes that her gloves don’t match her dress….Yup, that’s Mimi for ya.
Likewise, Palmon only says “Mimi” after this line. In the dub, Palmon says, seriously mind you, “How sad.”
You know, I really like how the kids and Digimon still have trust in Digimon that they’ve known to be good, friendly and trustworthy in the past, but this has been nearly every episode. Unimon, Monzaemon, Meramon, Andromon; they should really take the sudden appearance of a supposedly friendly and kind Digimon as a red flag at this point.
Why is Matt specifically telling Joe to not slow down in the dub? He’s at the front of the group. If anything, he should be telling that to Tai considering he’s last and he just went back for a bit to try to get his dumb map.
Takeru asks if Ogremon is another supposedly kind Digimon, but Patamon and Gomamon state that he’s actually a bad guy either way. In the dub, this is replaced by jokes about Ogremon wanting to eat them.
Attack Name Change: Hone Konbou (Bone Club) is changed to Pummel Whack. However, Ogremon doesn’t say it here in the dub. Instead he just grunts again.
Attack Name Change: Shishi Omaru (or Shishiou-maru, depending on the source) (Lion King Sword…Simba? :0) Is changed to Beast Sword, even though, again, he doesn’t say it here in the dub he just grunts.
So is the rule just that if a Digimon evolves once, no matter the circumstance, they can easily perform it again later?
Devimon originally just says that dealing with six of them together is troublesome. In the dub, he says they’ve ‘learned the secret of teamwork’ which is an eyeroll worthy line if I’ve ever heard one. He says that dealing with them all together is more difficult that he realized then asks himself why Patamon hasn’t Digivolved.
Jo points out the rockslide that occurs while Joe calls it an avalanche. Joe, rocks for rockslide, snow for avalanche. Okay?
Mimi originally says she sick of this. In the dub, she says she needs a facial.
Guess Sora’s back to calling Biyomon, Biyo, which still sounds wrong to me.
Dub!Gabumon: “Do you think that avalanche knocked them both off the cliff?” It’s a rockslide. The original keeps getting it right, what’s wrong with you guys?
Jo originally cheers at the fact that Ogremon and Leomon probably died from falling off the cliff. In the dub, he just explains how flying monsters, even ones without wings can be possible in this world because anything seems like it’s possible.
I actually prefer the dub because, while I understand that they were attacked by him, Gabumon and Patamon both said that Leomon was supposed to be a very kindhearted and gentle leader type of Digimon. The fact that he attacked them and paired up with his mortal enemy are huge indications that he’s being controlled like the other nice Digimon have been with the Black Gears. Yet instead of mourning the death of a good Digimon, they cheer for it.
Tai: “It’s that avalanche.” ROCK—Oh forget it.
The explanation of how the rock-avalanche occurred is basically the same, but Koushiro originally surmises that the destruction of the path may have caused instability in the rocks above whereas dub Izzy just says stress fractures in rock eventually occur.
Jo originally hopes there are other humans in the mansion whereas Joe hopes for a hot tub but not one that is too hot.
Yamato’s originally the one trying to stop Jo from barging into the building. In the dub, Tai’s trying to stop both of them.
You can’t hear Jo and Yamato talking in the original as Taichi and Agumon are talking about whether or not the mansion was on the map over the shot. In the dub, their conversation is broken by Matt telling Joe to open the door, but Joe doesn’t want to go in without knocking.
I love Jo/Joe’s flawless logic. ‘But guys there can’t be any bad Digimon in a building that has paintings of angels! That’s, like, against the law or something!’
Tentomon says being able to eat delicious food like that must be a sin (Wait, they know what sin is but not angels?) In the dub, Mimi is speaking on this shot saying that they have awful table manners.
I love the song cue in the original after Jo starts eating.
The kids mostly just say they’ll eat as we zoom out of the mansion and fast forward to the night. In the dub, Mimi says something about lobster and a maitre d, and TK says something about eating pizza that has peanut butter and pickle toppings…..What is with these kids and gross food choices?
Yamato tells Taichi not to jump into the bathtub while Taichi says it’s been so long since they’ve had an actual bath. In the dub, Matt tells Tai not get his hair wet, and Tai says he thought some bird made a nest on his head.
Immediately after, Koushiro says it’s amazing that the place also had a bathtub (it’s a mansion…it’d be harder to believe it didn’t have a bathtub) and that he can feel the tension draining from him. Tentomon then offers electricity to Koushiro….for some reason, and he politely declines. In the dub, Izzy says warm water is great for removing soil and dead epidermis because Izzy can’t turn it off for a few minutes, and Tentomon says when he gets dirty, he just sheds his skin, but Izzy says that would be difficult for him.
Ah, we have a scene deletion!
In the original, Yamato says he can’t forgive guys who are so shy in an all-men’s bath. Taichi agrees so they jump out of the bath, while naked, and try to grab Jo’s towel from him. This scene is basically kept the same, but the shot of Yamato and Taichi and their bare asses as well as trying to get Jo’s towel from him are removed.
Since this is removed, the arguing over getting Jo’s towel is also removed from the shot of Gabumon outside of the bath. Instead, Tentomon asks where Gabumon is and Patamon says he’ll get in eventually but he’s too shy to take off his fur. I’d say that’s even more understandable in the original if Taichi and Yamato might possibly take his fur off by force. 0-o
Wow, another scene deletion!…Only reason I get excited over these is because dialogue edits are sometimes a pain…
Anyway, after the girls discover Gomamon in the girls’ bath, Palmon throws him over to the boys’ side where he lands on Jo’s head and we see a shot of them both on the ground with Jo also now naked. All of this is kept the same, but the shot of them on the ground and also Jo’s naked ass are removed.
Most of the dialogue when they find the beds is passable, but Mimi says that having all of the beds in one room makes it feel like summer camp. Jo then pipes up asking what she means because they were supposed to be at summer camp anyway, but then he trails off at the group’s sad faces because he reminded them of home. In the dub, Joe complains about all the crap they dealt with outside like hiking and starving, which I suppose reminds everyone that they’re far from home.
I guess I can forgive this one because it’s more blatant potty (literally) humor, but when Agumon’s on the toilet he talks about how he can’t poop despite the fact that he ate so much. Taichi wants to leave because he’s taking too long, so Agumon tries his hardest to go and just ends up farting a lot which causes Ogremon to flee the stall that he was hiding in due to the stench. In the dub, it’s kinda the same but they mostly talk about how Agumon was afraid to go to the bathroom by himself and any real mention of what he’s doing is reduced to ‘I don’t even want to talk about it.’ The reason Ogremon eventually flees the stall is I guess because Agumon’s insulting him instead of farting.
Leomon keeps repeating that he needs to kill the Chosen Children in the original. In the dub, he keeps repeating that he cannot disobey Devimon.
Taichi asks about the fact that there is supposedly way more to the Digital World beyond File Island. Devimon says it doesn’t matter because the spot in which they stand will be their graves. In the dub, Devimon says they’re the Digidestined sent to save the Digital World from his destruction, and Tai says they were just kids at summer camp sent there by random.
Huh, another scene deletion I guess for violence. Leomon pushes Agumon out of the way and slams Taichi by his neck up against the wall. In the dub, this shot is removed.
Agumon doesn’t explain that the evil from Leomon was purged by the Digivice in the original as it’s pretty damn obvious. Also, the dub proclaims that a Black Gear was driven from Leomon when no gear was present nor was it actually the cause of the mind control. It was Devimon’s own hand.
Next episode, the kids are now separated on different islands made up of the old File Island. Taichi and Yamato end up on frozen wastelands and have to battle ice-based Digimon to continue their journey and reunite with the others.
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