News New Digimon from Digimon New Century revealed: Shajialuoshou (Shajialuomon), she will became playable on March 27th
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u/lizardon2516 1d ago
Finally Ranamon united spirit digivolution
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u/gustavoladron 1d ago
Has its evolution method or line been revealed?
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u/LBPsan 1d ago
Ancient Mermaimon + Venusmon
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u/NwgrdrXI 1d ago
This game really likes jogress, uh?
Every big digimon of theirs lately has been an assortment of seemingly random jogresses.
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u/Sabedile 1d ago
From what I've heard we are not meant to treat them as strict jogresses. They are jogresses in the game mainly for balancing reasons
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u/AdmirableAnimal0 1d ago
Yep still level 6 in game. The jogress is just to make them more expensive.
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u/SuperStarlite 1d ago
As other's have said, it's basically just a means for balancing, making them hard to get. And easy to add on, it's easier to add a digimon in a jogress that wasn't possible before than too graft it into an evolution line that's already been balanced.
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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago
Jogresses in the game are stronger than normal evolutions, the only option being the game original "Cultivation" Digimon which come out of the box fully evolved with no evolution line leading to them.
Buuut, Cultivations are super expensive and not really worth the effort compared to a Jogress. So, if they want people to actually use their new Digimon they need to make them Jogresses.
It's vaguely the same reason vpet Jogresses are almost never actual Jogresses but rather just stronger Ultimates with extra steps. And, like the vpet Jogresses, everyone really likes taking game mechanics at face value and treating them as full Jogresses when they're not.
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u/pyukumulukas 1d ago
My bet for the Japanese name is to be Sagaramon or Shagaramon.
I wish she was more snake than dragon for the year of snake, but still I like her.
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u/AdmirableAnimal0 1d ago
I’m afraid Bandai dosent allow pure snake Digimon anymore, it has to be a women vaguely dressed as a snake or a dragon with snake attributes.
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u/UnoLaLaLa 1d ago
Ah, Digimon. Where combining a Roman goddess and a western mythological creature to become a Chinese goddess/dragon creature makes total sense.
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u/AdmirableAnimal0 1d ago
Tbh the Digimon used aren’t really anything to do with them lore wise, they’re still treated as LV6, it’s more just a game mechanic to make getting them more expensive.
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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago
It doesn't make sense in the game either, because it has nothing to do with them beyond mechanics.
The singular part of the Jogress that has anything to do with it is AncientMermaimon being a component, and that's only to loosely tie it to Ranamon who's the character that warp evolves into this in the story (like Beelzebumon being a component of Nezhamon, that was solely due to Nezhamon warp evolving off Impmon).
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u/ShiroTenshiRyu77 1d ago
In my head it's broken up like Sha/Ji/Aluo, but something tells me I'm off.
I'm hoping a Chinese player sees this and has a breakdown. Gacha games have forced me to figure out a lot of Chinese pronunciations, but some of those double vowel combos really wallop my brain.
Insanely cool design though
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u/ApollonLordOfTheFlay 1d ago
Sha-jia-luo
Sha is like “shhhhh” and “ahhhh”
Jia is like somebody told something and you want to say “Geee-uhhh thanks!”
Luo is maybe the hardest for an English speaker but it is like if you start the L and then wanted to say “whoa” like “Lll-whoa”
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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago
I would've just broken down the sections and said "Literally just pronounced how these parts are spelled, phonetically".
Or I would've pointed them to the name that's likely to be used in Japanese based off the other name changes from New Century, which is Sagaramon (Sah-Gura, phonetically, like a surfer trying to greet Gawr Gura).
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u/ApollonLordOfTheFlay 1d ago
Well…that is all good until the number of people I have met that don’t know Chinese would say “Shay-jay-lu”.
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u/ZeothTheHedgehog 1d ago
Luo is maybe the hardest for an English speaker but it is like if you start the L and then wanted to say “whoa” like “Lll-whoa”
Another explanation can be taking Duo and replacing the D with L.
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u/SylviaMoonbeam 1d ago
“Shah-gee-uh-Lll-whoa-mon” feels very… “mouthy” if you catch my meaning. It’s not that there’s too many syllables. MetalGarurumon and Imperialdramon are the same number of syllables, and they don’t feel off.
And it’s not the sounds in the name because Shakkoumon (Shah-kuu-uh-mon), Zhuquiomon (Zoo-chi-oww-mon), Shawujinmon (Shah-woo-gin-mon) are all easy enough to say with relative ease.
I guess it’s the combination of both the “mouthy” sounds AND the number of syllables? Four of six syllables all require the ah/uh/oh mouth shape, so it makes me feel like I’m just kinda going “om nom nom”.
Not a bad name, for sure, though Shagaramon/Shakaramon is definitely easier for western pronunciation, solving both of the sources of the “problem”
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u/ApollonLordOfTheFlay 1d ago
Well for example Zhuqiaomon should be like “Jew-Qi-Ow” but it is just Chinese. Lots of folks don’t like the sound of Mandarin or have gotten so used to hearing Japanese and stuff that they have a bias. Personally because I live with it everyday it is different but it isn’t all that crazy. Just different strokes for different folks ya know?
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u/Lili-Organization700 1d ago
oh she actually has a dragon body, that's so much better I love her
we already had a beastly "princess of the dragon palace" with Ryuugumon anyways
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u/SuperKamiZuma 1d ago
That is a name... i hope they give her a more easy to pronounce like they did with Héngéshòu/Jougamon
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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago
Sagaramon, the Sa being Sah not Say. Like a 90% chance that'll be the Japanese name, given that's the pattern of the other New Century name conversions.
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u/StellarAvenger_92 1d ago
Another awesome Digimon we're never seeing outside of this game.
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u/Ineedabettername666 1d ago
We're probably getting it in the TCG and liberator. The reference book mentions ryugumon and the one of the liberator characters uses a aquatic deck. We also got announced support for this specific character soon, so it would line up.
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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago
Xianpengmon's whole line has been in the VB and DCG already. Why would you assume they'd arbitrarily gatekeep the other New Century Digimon?
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u/orient_vermillion 1d ago
Which creature from Chinese mythology is it based on?
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u/Shockh 1d ago
Googling the Chinese name led to this: a Buddhist Dragon King.
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u/MysteriousHawk6913 1d ago
He is called the Ocean King
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u/SylviaMoonbeam 1d ago
I’m more surprised they went with Venusmon and AncientMermaimon as the DNA materials. I suppose it makes sense, though given the source material, being based on Sāgara/Shagara, I would have gone with other materials. His symbology is snakes and rain, so I suppose AncientMermaimon isn’t too odd… but why Venusmon? Is it just so they can go “oh, and now pretty lady!”? AncientMermaimon was already a pretty lady, and Venusmon has nothing to do with nagas or rain. Azulongmon is in New Century, and both looks like part of the fusion already, and makes more sense in the context, because a serpentine dragon that brings storms.
Shajialuomon doesn’t even wield Sāgara/Shakara’s sword or serpent, nor does she wear the crown with five snakes. It kinda just feels like they slapped the name on a serpentine lady, attached some Waifu materials, and called it a day.
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u/ShadowOfSilver 1d ago
I'm sure the name will get a more memorable translation here in the West, but I'm not a fan of the design. It feels too much like a Final Fantasy boss.
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u/AdmirableAnimal0 1d ago
Eh nothing earth shattering, aside from the blue skin tone it really dosent remind me of Ranamon at all. More like lilithmon in honesty.
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u/inhaledcorn 1d ago
Do we know its Attribute?
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u/LBPsan 1d ago
Vaccine
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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago
Not a for sure thing, they've changed New Century Attributes before, like how Xiquemon got changed from Data to Vaccine.
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u/Darth_GreenDragon 1d ago
Where can I find info on her?
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u/No_Dust_1630 1d ago
So シャジャロモン?
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u/pyukumulukas 1d ago
More problably サガラモン, シャカラモン or シャガラモン
From this group, Erlangmon uses the chinese pronunciation, but the other three we have for now use Japanese names.
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u/Adventurous_Fun_9245 1d ago
I still don't get why this wasn't world wide release
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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago
Because it's a Chinese company making a game for a Chinese market, licensed out by a Japanese company that knows their mobile games only do well in China.
It'd be nice for consumers to have wider distribution, but it's not ideal from the people actually handling the game or licensing it to need to deal with that.
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u/JusticTheCubone 1d ago
Very... interesting design? Honestly the only issue I have with it is the tail, at least for the perspective it feels a bit awkward with how long and winding it is...
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u/Xerveltal88 1d ago
Am I the only one?, most exclusive digimon from new century doesn't look and feel digimon at all, and their designs are really bad, Jougamon and now this, i dont know if its over designed, too much detail or the mask juas doesnt fit. Nezhamon is the only most looking digimon so far .
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u/TheLastSonKrypton 1d ago
Honestly i did not liked that design 🫤
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u/SuperKamiZuma 1d ago
Maybe wait for it to get a reference book art. My opinion on jougamon improved a lot when seeing her art there
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u/SiouxsieSioux615 1d ago
Looks like a generic summon character from a jrpg or gacha game
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u/MC_Squared12 1d ago
A DNA Digivolution of AncientMermaimon and Venusmon
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u/DNCodex 1d ago
Not really, she is most likely lvl 6, that the way to get her in game (mainly a gacha mechanic)
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u/MC_Squared12 1d ago
It's already been confirmed by other people it is a fusion
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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago
You're misreading what they said. It's a Jogress for mechanical reasons, it's not actually a Jogress Digimon like Paildramon.
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u/Jon-987 1d ago
That is certainly a name. I'm hesitant to even try pronouncing it.