The NovaCast: A Digimon Rewatch Experience

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 with two dense episodes, we get down to business really going into examining a cast that has quickly grown...

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 also talk about the circumstances around the biggest, most in your face change we've seen in the franchise...

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 humor! The story takes some interesting turns and the character development heats up in this alarming...

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 scenery! Also: some of Mina's least favorite-fighting game terminology, incomprehensible buzzwords, the motive...

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. All this, plus our plan to send Sloane to LA to commit Digimon art crimes. News: 9:00 Episode 1: 3...

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 will be fought for the most beloved characters as we go on in-depth discussions over characters we haven'...

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 lay it to rest. But don't worry! We have one final Positivity Corner in store, so hop aboard your Trail...

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 ending in existence, and one final round of rewrites. We’re leaving the Digital World to our Italian speaki...

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 end, yet the gang somehow still find ls time to have unnecessary flashbacks, mess with babies, lament...

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 Aesops about friendship and courage that are absolutely meaningless. During these loathsome fights, we learn...

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 character development, and more pathetic beatdowns than we had before, the more this arc goes on the mor...

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! This time we've blasted off to the moon for needless filler and the return of some of our favorite mons t...

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 the Beauty and the Beast parallels, to the incredible songs and the heartwrenching story, if you wanted...

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 that, we have to focus on the wildest Digimon dub impersonation thus far, a wholly-underwhelming final b...

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 evolution sequences we've seen measure up to casting the minor chuckleheads into irrelevance, human 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 screen? Will they secure the bag having to play by Netflix's rules? Or will their demands for standards be th...

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. Meanwhile, the Big Bad FINALLY makes his move! All this plus some extremely cursed Netflix live-action Digimo...

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 time! Also on the docket: more news about the not-so-elusive Digimon Survive as it creeps closer and close...

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 passable attempts at characterization? Anything is possible when you're with egg! Episode 27: 11:48 Episo...

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 this tumultuous season from the ground up? Featuring classmates with close-up magic skills, evil older...

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 iconic episodes, and not even intrusive phantoms can steer the conversation away from Doctor Who or disgrace...

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 attempts at characterization at bay? Or will we take a page from this season's gogglehead and board a train o...

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 can imagine, these episodes are wacky in all the right ways.    Additionally: Big content warn...

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, rambling, and raving about the roughest episodes in Digimon thus far. They say the night is darkest just bef...

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 Beast Spirit to be unleashed, the crumbs of character development that have been sprinkled on the...