Today's digimon line is the last of the entirely new species introduced in the Pendulum-X virtual pets, and begins with this simple drop-shaped, floating slime that apparently likes to "attack" with its head horn, but the horn is too soft and gooey to do any damage. A cute concept, but not the most interesting baby design.

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This more snakelike baby apparently still floats in the air by paddling, like a salamander, and can attack by stretching itself "up to nine times its length" or firing an iron spike from its mouth. It's pretty neat looking, and nicely conceived to be fairly unique among baby II digimon.

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So the "main" digimon of this wave consist of a furry velociraptor, a hornet, and a dinosaur in samurai armor. An odd selection with a certain sense of randomness to it, but at least it's not boring. This design does feel like the armor is a physical part of the creature, which is nice, the black and purple plating has a pleasant look down the back of the reptilian body. Not much else I can say, though it doesn't feel very slightly redundant to have Agumon and this other yellow saurian in the same set.

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Nicely unexpected; not just some armored greymon knockoff, but a quadrupedal, sinuous lizard that, like its Baby II stage, can both float through the air and spit iron spears out of its throat.

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A more typical looking dragon than the more newt-like Ginryumon, but not quite like any dragon design we've already seen in digimon. It's basically a samurai general as a serpentine reptile, and I appreciate that they didn't try to make it wield a sword. Instead, its main attack is to transform into one gigantic sword, for just an instant, which is frankly much more badass.

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Sadly, the sword transformation thing isn't carried over to the predictably garish, fully metal-plated Ultimate stage, but at least it's not a humanoid this time, and actually follows logically from this digimon's progress through increasingly serpentine dragons.

You know, it's SO common for me to like the Perfect stage more than the Ultimate stage as a design, but I generally understand the logic of most Ultimate stages as bigger and mightier upgrades. I think I could have swallowed most Ultimate digimon a lot easier if they were actually meant to be very temporary power-up forms, just like every above child stage is treated for "partner" digimon in the anime.

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