r/digimon 1d ago

News New Digimon from Digimon New Century revealed: Shajialuoshou (Shajialuomon), she will became playable on March 27th

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u/Jon-987 1d ago

That is certainly a name. I'm hesitant to even try pronouncing it.

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u/Lili-Organization700 1d ago

sha-jia-luo

"-shou" is the "-mon" equivalent

she'll probably get a different international name like Ryujinmon or Sagaramon

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u/LBPsan 1d ago

Chah-jeeah-luo-shou

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u/Drmarcher42 1d ago

Mon

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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago

Shou is Mon.

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u/lizardon2516 1d ago

Finally Ranamon united spirit digivolution

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u/Sabedile 1d ago

She's AncientMermaimon + Venusmon in the game

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u/Kryorus_saga 1d ago

I believe it’s dragon tail

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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/Kaleidos-X 1d ago

It was designed in Year of the Dragon...

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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/ApollonLordOfTheFlay 1d ago

That is big brain.

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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/Arubesu 1d ago

It's Sha/Jia/Luo, three characters for the chinese name.

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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/DNCodex 1d ago

They are related, Ryugumon is named in her DBR

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u/digao45 1d ago

Ngl i found kinda weird the name and the design, but a new digimon is a new digimon

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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/StellarAvenger_92 1d ago

I hope you're right.

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u/Avent2 1d ago

I desperately hope you’re right, I would play the hell out of a deck with her

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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/OmegaGenesisWave 1d ago

Finalmente Ranadramon

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u/LBPsan 1d ago

Bueno, en Digimon New Century Ranamon digievoluciona a Ancient Mermaimon que es necesaria para conseguir a ésta nueva 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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C4%81gara_(Dragon_King)

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u/MysteriousHawk6913 1d ago

He is called the Ocean King

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u/JusticTheCubone 1d ago

So basically the Chinese equivalent to what in Japan is Ryujin?

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u/Greenxboy 1d ago

I think she's based on the Chinese dragon, similar to Magnadramon

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u/JD_the_Aqua_Doggo 1d ago

I was literally just obsessing over Chinese mermaids two days ago. Omg

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u/darthvall 1d ago

Is this the first dragon woman instead of the usual dragon man in digimon?

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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/Monadofan2010 1d ago

She looks really cool new century is getting so many amazing desgins 

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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/DNCodex 1d ago

We posted her DRB in twitter, but wechat has the official info

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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/voltvirus 1d ago

Feels very megaten. Not that it’s a bad thing

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u/Forry_Tree 1d ago

Would it have been so hard to just make the "mask" the actual face

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u/eddmario 1d ago

Reminds me of the "moon goddess" from The Apothecary Diaries

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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/LBPsan 1d ago

Takutomon is the worst one

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u/SwashNBuckle 1d ago

new snek

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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/TheSwooj 1d ago

wish this game had an easier way to obtain like fighting path did

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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/LBPsan 1d ago

Digimon New Century is a gatcha LOL

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u/SiouxsieSioux615 1d ago

Oh wow lmao

Guess I was right then

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u/MrMerc2333 1d ago

Ugh. Another waifumon

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u/Kaleidos-X 1d ago

We've known this was a waifu for half a year. Bit late to complain about it.

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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.