@coffeentacos MMmmm Taste of despair.

@sachirin omg. I'm realizing it says DEMO now. I found this one a while back but thought it wasn't the right one cause it didn't have punctuation, only partially true.
Thanks, I'm not sure how many more decades I would have spent before realizing that's all it was.

@ami_angelwings Digimon stuff in general, but I had one of these card things and bought one again a few years ago. Also Power Rangers in Space, especially the numpad thingy. https://youtu.be/MkoMKYyR0Sg

@ami_angelwings I'm weird but not sad. More like longing.

I'm compelled to also mention I have similar thoughts in video for in my Ranking Of Kings series on YT. Some episodes are about the show itself and some are talking about different narrative elements the show makes us of to tell a story. Each episode is different and I've been delaying making the last few episodes for like a year despite them already written and recorded...
https://youtu.be/cqKMCSPXCuc?si=oWSTyNmgcWxWfZWe

I forgot to mention one of the biggest Shonen
One Piece.
One Piece is so different in many ways.
Luffys goal is to gather a crew, find the One Piece and become King of the Pirates.
Most interesting though is the purpose for why Luffy wants that goal so deeply and that reason is intentionally not given after all this time.
If you read all these, thanks.
I was just pondering and needed to put brain to text.

Anyway my point is the first episode is so important for telling the viewer what the shows goals are and what the tone is.
I find this easiest to observe in anime and shonen especially. Probably because they are long form media. If something is going to be so long it's probably an important element in order to inform the story's direction.