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Digimon Community Thread |OT| Dreamers for 20 years and counting
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Frontier is the reason me (and my friend and siblings) lapsed from the series.
The human-as-Digimon is fking dumb.
Adventure>Tamers>Tri>02>Frontier.
Really need to watch Savers.
For Frontier, getting past the human/Digimon as a concept can already be too much, but the terrible last portion kills the ability to recommend it.
Which is too bad, because if you chuck your Digimon expectations out the door, up until the Royal Knights is pretty strong.
Which is too bad, because if you chuck your Digimon expectations out the door, up until the Royal Knights is pretty strong.
Adventure > Tamers > Savers >> Xros Wars > Frontier > Tri >> 02 > Boy Hunters > that dumb X movie
Tri does have the best character designs.
Tri does have the best character designs.
Imo, Digimon is at its best when it constantly does new stuff. I find 02, Tri, and Young Hunters to be the weakest parts of the franchise.
On the other hand, Tamers, Savers, and Appmon are among the strongest and each took a risk in some way.
So I'd rather have a new anime. However, I won't complain if Adventure 4 ends up good and they give us a new Shakkoumon evolution.
On the other hand, Tamers, Savers, and Appmon are among the strongest and each took a risk in some way.
So I'd rather have a new anime. However, I won't complain if Adventure 4 ends up good and they give us a new Shakkoumon evolution.
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I'd rather have a new anime I guess BUT I love the Adventure characters so I wouldn't complain about a new Adventure. At worst, I'd rant about it after it's done and then rank it just above or just below Tri unless it's somehow really bad by my standards haha
Adventure>Tamers>Appmon>02>Frontier>Tri
…Still need to watch Savers. I never seem to have time & motivation to watch it. Word of mouth seems good for it tho.
Adventure 4 would be good if it would be, you know, good. Unlike Tri.
…Still need to watch Savers. I never seem to have time & motivation to watch it. Word of mouth seems good for it tho.
Adventure 4 would be good if it would be, you know, good. Unlike Tri.
Tamers>Adventure>Savers>Xros Wars>Frontier>Tri>02>Young Hunters
I should really get on Appmon, but finding a place to watch it subbed seems to be a bit tricky.
I should really get on Appmon, but finding a place to watch it subbed seems to be a bit tricky.
My ranking: Tamers>Savers>Appmon>Adventure>Xros Wars>Frontier>02>Young Hunters
I don't think there's ever been a good sequel in this series, so another Adventure project is just completely uninteresting to me. Especially with Kakudou's comments.
I don't think there's ever been a good sequel in this series, so another Adventure project is just completely uninteresting to me. Especially with Kakudou's comments.
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We signed up for it in the original spotlight thread. It's our turn on the schedule :)
ohhh so that's what it is huh, got it
can you or someone lemme know if the Tri story has been completed? If so I'll buy the whole series on Blu-ray to catch up. Only if it's completed though
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Yes but not all out in English BD yet. Part 5 is out at the end of July, part 6 will be available by the end of the year*
*UK dates, America may have them earlier
how many "movies" are there total? 6? so will there be a box set at the end of the year?
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i'm fine with that. so i'm guessing I will have to wait around ~thanksgiving for all 6 blu rays to be ready? i'm in the u.s btw
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See my above post. I gave UK dates based on what is on Amazon UK.
Amazon US has part 5 listed for the start of August, Part 6 isn't listed yet.
In order on Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Digimon-Adventure-Tri-Reunion-Blu-ray/dp/B06VSW8VLQ/
https://www.amazon.com/Digimon-Adventure-Tri-Determination-Blu-ray/dp/B0711CPGYL/
https://www.amazon.com/Digimon-Adventure-Tri-Confession-Blu-ray/dp/B075DXZSCH/
https://www.amazon.com/Digimon-Adventure-tri-Loss-Blu-ray/dp/B0794L61NC/
https://www.amazon.com/Digimon-Adventure-tri-Coexistence-Blu-ray/dp/B07D33GR54/
And the final one is called Future which isn't listed on Amazon US yet.
fuck yeah! thank you sir, i'll wait closer to thanksgiving to buy these, maybe then the prices will be even nicer.
don't spoil nothing for me but if Tk x Kari does not happen by the end, I will go ballistic
My ranking:
Adventure>Tamers>Savers>Frontier>02=Xross S1>Tri>Young Hunters
I've only watched 15 episodes of Appli before getting sidetracked so I didn't rank it. Alot of my ranking depends on nostalgia too, though I recently went back to watch some of 01 and it still holds up.
Adventure>Tamers>Savers>Frontier>02=Xross S1>Tri>Young Hunters
I've only watched 15 episodes of Appli before getting sidetracked so I didn't rank it. Alot of my ranking depends on nostalgia too, though I recently went back to watch some of 01 and it still holds up.
I don't blame you, Appmon starts out a little vanilla. It's not easy to stick around for it to find its stride. But then it gets better and better with every episode, and suddenly you have the best final in franchise history unfolding on screen. Shit was wild. Please give the show another try, you really won't regret it.
I'm definitely going to give it another shot soon. It just blended with S&M for me for awhile.
Tamers > Adventure > Savers > Frontier > Appli > 02 > Xros Wars > Boy Hunters
I like a lot of the stuff in Xros Wars, but I think it has the weakest story out of all the seasons whereas 02 has the dumbest story.
I like a lot of the stuff in Xros Wars, but I think it has the weakest story out of all the seasons whereas 02 has the dumbest story.
EVO and the sax version of Biggest Dreamer that plays in the Japanese version are amazing.
Where are you getting that idea from? All there has been is agumon in a tweet, I mean if we are going by that logic, it could just as well be savers 2.
Hiroyuki Kakudou (the director of Adventure and 02 who wasn't involved with tri) announced on twitter that he was going to be involved in the new project, but that he had resigned because his suggestions had been rejected and said that he had told the team working on it that what they were doing didn't have anything to do with the show he made.
So that pretty strongly implies that it's another Adventure anime and that it will be going even further away from the original series.
I guess, but it could just as easily be something else as well.
Haven't seen Xros Wars or Appmon but the rest for me in order:
Tamers - Fantastic show. Has no lows to the extent of any other season.
Savers - Only season (besides Tri) I watched subbed and not dubbed. I'm not much of a fan of the middle but the Royal Knight arc is maybe my favorite arc of any season.
Adventure - The dub hasn't aged super well but it's still pretty good.
Frontier - The first 2/3rds of Frontier would be above Adventure for me but the final arc is complete trash.
Tri - There's some good in Tri but so much of it is pretty bad.
02 - Don't watch it.
Tamers - Fantastic show. Has no lows to the extent of any other season.
Savers - Only season (besides Tri) I watched subbed and not dubbed. I'm not much of a fan of the middle but the Royal Knight arc is maybe my favorite arc of any season.
Adventure - The dub hasn't aged super well but it's still pretty good.
Frontier - The first 2/3rds of Frontier would be above Adventure for me but the final arc is complete trash.
Tri - There's some good in Tri but so much of it is pretty bad.
02 - Don't watch it.
For me it's: Adventure > Tamers >> Savers > 02 > Frontier >>>> Tri.
I love both Adventure and Tamers, but the emblems were IMO a genius storytelling device to use in a kid show in order to make character growth easy to understand.
Yeah, I remember it being kind of interesting. The characters showed proper growth in the earlier part of the series, but everything from the Royale Knights until the very end is as boring as it can be. You could summarize a lot of episodes with the following 4 sentences: The kids went somewhere. The Royal Knights went to that place. They fought. The kids lost. Repeat.
I need to watch Appmon, people here has praised it for a while and it sounds like an interesting reimagining of the original premise. I fully expect them to go to the "classic" Digital World in the middle of the series, but it can be interesting seeing it interact with these new and different species.
I agree with your post, overall. Frontier felt like a "well, people loved Tamers Megas, so lets give them 50 episodes of that" without realizing how important and special the partnership between the kids and their digimon is to the series. I've never had much of an interest in Xross Wars for the same reason, since I feel it dilutes that idea with the army concept, however, and I may be wrong with that one.
I don't have much to say about Frontier, but the biggest problem with Adventure 02 is that it doesn't know what it wants to be. At times, it wants to be something new and reduces the older Chosen Children as little more than glorified cameos. But a few episodes later, it decides that it wants to be a direct sequel to Adventure. Then the original CC eat the new ones for breakfast, because they're much better developed and charismatic characters than the new ones (but Ken), so the writters lose their shit and create an excuse out of nowhere to bring them back to the sidelines.
Despite of this, there is quite a bit of interesting stuff in 02, to give some examples:
I'd still take it rather than Tri, however. I'd say that at least half of 02 is above average, even if flawed; but I'd burn everything but the 3rd Tri OVA. What a waste of time.
I love both Adventure and Tamers, but the emblems were IMO a genius storytelling device to use in a kid show in order to make character growth easy to understand.
Yeah, I remember it being kind of interesting. The characters showed proper growth in the earlier part of the series, but everything from the Royale Knights until the very end is as boring as it can be. You could summarize a lot of episodes with the following 4 sentences: The kids went somewhere. The Royal Knights went to that place. They fought. The kids lost. Repeat.
I need to watch Appmon, people here has praised it for a while and it sounds like an interesting reimagining of the original premise. I fully expect them to go to the "classic" Digital World in the middle of the series, but it can be interesting seeing it interact with these new and different species.
I agree with your post, overall. Frontier felt like a "well, people loved Tamers Megas, so lets give them 50 episodes of that" without realizing how important and special the partnership between the kids and their digimon is to the series. I've never had much of an interest in Xross Wars for the same reason, since I feel it dilutes that idea with the army concept, however, and I may be wrong with that one.
I don't have much to say about Frontier, but the biggest problem with Adventure 02 is that it doesn't know what it wants to be. At times, it wants to be something new and reduces the older Chosen Children as little more than glorified cameos. But a few episodes later, it decides that it wants to be a direct sequel to Adventure. Then the original CC eat the new ones for breakfast, because they're much better developed and charismatic characters than the new ones (but Ken), so the writters lose their shit and create an excuse out of nowhere to bring them back to the sidelines.
Despite of this, there is quite a bit of interesting stuff in 02, to give some examples:
- BlackWarGreymon, to give the most praised example.
- The part where they traveled all over the world and shown how there were Chosen Children everywhere was genius in a "you may get a Hogwarts letter in your 11th birthday" way.
- The Daemon Corps could have been tied to the Dark Sea and the Dark Seeds and turn into a good end-game villain.
I'd still take it rather than Tri, however. I'd say that at least half of 02 is above average, even if flawed; but I'd burn everything but the 3rd Tri OVA. What a waste of time.
I wanted to like Tamers (I even gave it a second chance back on GAF) but it takes an *eternity* for the season to get going. It's so boring throughout the rest of the season once they get to the Digital World until they come back and things start happening and then things slow down to a crawl again.
Thinking back, I was a pretty edgy kid in the past, so Adventure and Tamer were my favorites.
Even as a kid, I hated whenever the characters were like "Don't kill the Digimons!", so Frontier was my least favorite of the 4 that I saw.
I do wish the human characters had more roles than just batteries and cheer-leading, that's one thing I prefer from Pokemon.
Even as a kid, I hated whenever the characters were like "Don't kill the Digimons!", so Frontier was my least favorite of the 4 that I saw.
I do wish the human characters had more roles than just batteries and cheer-leading, that's one thing I prefer from Pokemon.
Dub-only, I'm guessing? Wake me up when subbed sets hit NA... (so then I can finally replace everything on the HDD).
Terriermon and Henry deserved a better-paced season than what they got.
I think the 02 kids being able to travel to and from the Digital World is a big detriment to the show overall. Unlike the Adventure kids, who had to fight to survive even when not battling wild Digimon, the 02 kids simply hop into the Digital World for a couple of hours to take down a Dark Tower and head home to their families and warm beds. It really undercuts any tension that the show tries to build because they can simply retreat to the real world if needed, where danger can't follow.
If the show had established that they could enter the Digital World whenever they wanted, but would not be able to leave until the Dark Tower of the area was destroyed, it would have really helped the show feel like it had actual stakes and risks.
Y'know I never much cared for the moment where Tai gives his googles to Davis in 02, felt really unearned.
no, he said a plot decision they made didn't fit with one he made in 02.
Kakudou has a history of being notoriously difficult and not communicating with people about stuff he considered important.