Digimon Academy

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Episode 1 Page 5

P13volution

on Sept. 10, 2009

Honestly, I'm a little nervous about today's update. It might be that I've combined both my marker shading with Photoshop for this one or that its the introduction of our second human protagonist… I honestly don't know. I know that I'm nervous, that's for sure.

Vespa Honryo is obviously based on Sayo, the rival from Digimon World Dawn and in turn the playable character from Digimon World Dusk. Whereas she and Koh could have a bland-off in terms of personality in the games, Vespa is a test-acing, Homework-loving genius kid that no one calls a nerd or she'll sock 'em one in my comic. A perfect foil to Kite's daydreaming, class-failing self, but of course no less important.

Now you may be thinking, "Kite" and "Vespa", these sound more like the contents of someone's garage than a cast list, but I assure you that these names are well-researched and befitting for their characters. Take "Vespa" for instance, it means "Evening Star" and its also the genus for hornets. This of course references her character being the dark side to Kite's sunny disposition and to the fact that you don't want to mess with her or you'll get stung. And then of course there's "Shinya" Hudson whose name means "truthful" which we discover is his name just as he lies about his ranking in his class… Hmm, maybe not quite as appropriate… Oh well, no one ever calls him that anyway, he's still "Hudson" in my book.

Anyway on a quasi-update related note, I may start having to work one more day a week. With that and the classes I'm taking, it may be difficult to keep up my Friday update schedule much longer. No fear though, I have every intention of keeping a weekly update going even it has to be on Wednesdays or Saturdays (Or any other day for that matter). Stay tuned I guess, since I don't know exactly when the next update will be, but next week sometime, definitely.