Luxmon, oddly enough, is Digimon's first explicitly angel-themed child stage, more than a couple whole decades after the debut of its nefarious counterpart, Demidevimon.

Was it worth the wait? ...Not really, no. It's such an on-the-nose design, it kinda feels whipped up in a few minutes just to tick the expected boxes of its long neglected niche, and lacks the creativity of the aforementioned Demidevimon or frankly almost any other child stage. Just a smaller angel person? That's it? I'm not saying they had to blow me away with a multi-eyed wheel creature or something, Digimon angels have yet to really go that route anyway, but at least some sort of heavenly dove creature, right? It's even common in Victorian-era artwork to depict Cherubim as just heads with wings, so it might have had a valid excuse to look more like a Demidevimon counterpart anyway, and as "obvious" as that would be, it would still feel more like a proper Digimon partner than just a strange little blonde kid.

The new "archangel" evolution for Angemon is similarly underwhelming, to the point I thought we already had this. Don't we? An angemon with more wings and a different outfit? In fact, I do believe we have several of them. And why HASN'T Digimon jumped more on the "biblically accurate" angel trend?

I realize the idea was a little overblown by the internet and that most biblical angels are, indeed, just human looking guys, but "demons" aren't described in the christian bible anywhere at all, whereas the many-eyed "chariots" and "living creatures" are there, so there's actually more authentic precedent for freaky heaven monsters than there ever was for bat-winged goat-horned devils, and you'd think all that would be precisely up Digimon's lovably edgy alley.

Aren't archangels also supposed to have giant, flaming swords or something, too?