Rosemon

And again, you probably expect me to dislike this, but if we must do flower-themed human thingies here, I can't deny that Rosemon is an incredibly snazzy one. She has a more coherent color theory and motif than a lot of other humanlike Digimon, no extraneous metal or plastic-looking pieces glued onto her, and the lack of eyes goes a really long way. Covered or absent eyes are actually a trend throughout humanlike Digimon, and it makes them look easily twice as cool as they otherwise would have.

If only Lilymon didn't have eyes either, she'd probably have gotten a higher rating herself, just like certain pokemon.

Unfortunately, the topic of Rosemon also brings us to another, fairly divisive subject in Digimon fan circles, and you can probably guess it from just one gif:

Mimi's Palmon never actually evolves this far in the original series, but if she did, it would've probably been animated with a little more subtlety. By the time a Rosemon would appear on TV, almost every female Digimon had been turned into a non-stop fanservice delivery system, and I'm not shaming anybody for liking cartoon boobers here; I'm overall more boober-positive than negative myself, but I wasn't especially clamoring for boobers to flail all over hell and creation while I'm just trying to watch some Digimans, a franchise still ostensibly aimed at children with primarily children as main characters.

Again, not judging, I can admit this is a fairly sexy vegetable even if this kind of artwork sure looks greasy, but maaaaaaaaybe things were getting just a smidge excessive by the time they were hiring hentai illustrators for this stuff, which is seriously what they really did, and these two trading cards are even some of the tamer examples I felt I could get away with showing here.

Maybe it's not that big a deal, but it sure does feel like a desperate corporate attempt to make a floundering franchise appear edgier than its competitors.

ALL THAT ASIDE, I'd still like to reiterate that I think Rosemon is a genuinely slick and stylish design, even if it is rather harder than it should be to find any artwork or screenshots that treat her very seriously, and even if I do still wish we had more monstrous ultimate-level plant creatures. There's one, but it's very specifically tied to a completely different Digimon we're going to be checking out quite a bit later.

As a final point in Rosemon's favor, this sort of seductive flower person with a thorny whip is already a classic trope of monsters in countless Magical Girl and Sentai series already...so maybe this Digimon evolved this way because she's just as big a nerd as Gabumon.

Digivolves from

 * 1) Lilamon