Digimon thread

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So, I saw a Pokemon thread here and decided to start a Digimon thread. I doubt it will be that popular of a thread though, I don't know a lot of people who like Digimon. So, in this thread you can talk about whatever you want, as long as it's digimon-related. I'll start off with: what's your favorite digimon? Mine would have to be Wizardmon.
 
Hard to be believe it'll be ten years this August when the anime first aired in America. Kind of makes me wish we had another season to make up for that abomination that was Savers/Data Squad.
 
Oh Come on, Savers wasn`t that bad.

Usually, digimon has great charachter development(what the series is known for), but not THAT much in savers, but I'd like to think the plot makes up for some of that. It introduced a lot of concepts that we've always wanted to see in digimon, such as evil tamers, and a truly evil human villain.

I don`t think any series will ever be able to match 01's herculean feat of giving eight main charachters complete and fulfilling charachter arcs in 54 episodes though.
 
I liked Frontier up until Cherubimon's defeat, then it all just went downhill. I watched up to Episode 12 of Savers. I wanted to like it, but I couldn't like any of the characters, I found it stupid in a bad way, and it was just...so ...cliched. It's the only season that I just completely gave up on and never finished watching.
 
You shouldn't have given up so soon, CartoonOverlord. To be blunt, Savers/Data Squad pretty much sucks from episodes 6-11. Then around 12 and 13, the series shifts into overdrive and never lets up. I could see how you'd give up on it, though.

I'm currently rewatching Adventure. It's great as always, though going through it again I have noticed quite a few examples of lazy writing that I never really noticed before. Still, it's easily my favorite anime series of all time.

Rumor has it we'll be seeing something new for the series' tenth anniversary this year, but nothing has been confirmed yet...
 
4-11 are pretty much filler after the first three, though. The story picks up after that (with one of my favorite scenes in 13). You really should go back and give it another chance.
 
I never actually got the hate for Frontiers. Yes, it was a radically different approach, but the general concept of human and Digimon relationship bonding was still there, just a bit more literal in this case. To me, Frontiers, though not the pinnacle Digimon season, was a good, decent romp through the series. It had interesting villains and a unique plot to the "save the world in time" (as the Digiworld literally fell apart). I didn't care too much for the twins, but then again, I had just about lost patience for the angsty, pretty boy at that stage in time.

My least favorite is and will always be Digimon's second season. Oh, it started off great. The first 26 episodes were fantastic and I adored Ken's character development (back when I DID enjoy the angst, ridden pretty boys). To see the older Digidestined as guidance was a thrill, especially Tai who really proved his maturity. Then sometime after Ken joined the main cast, the plot fell apart. There were simply too many characters and little time to show them all, resulting in a convulted mess that ultimately resulted in a cheap ending where the villain was defeated through children's wishes. And a finale that was random to several of the main characters.

Digimon Tamers is my grand favorite. Yes, it did ignore the secondary Digi-kiRAB in favor of the main trio and Ryo is a big Gary Stu (Yes, I'm aware of his multiple canon jumps), but it held the most beautiful animations (I adore how they drew the kiRAB' eyes), and the deepest, darkest plot. It was compelling, it held visually pleasing character and Digimon designs, it molded the world of Digimon and the human world well. It was just great, period.
 
Data Squad is the best season as far as I'm concerned. Masaru breaking the mold and doing more than being his partner's CHEERLEADER was a great decision. In fact, the director said something about that to the effect of "how can we write about the bonRAB of frienRABhip if Masaru is just tellling him what to do?"

And ya know, it has an actual villain with motivation and goals and jive beyong "I'M DARK I COME FROM DARKNESS DARK DARK DARKITY DARK DARK."
 
Favorite Digimons are Gatomon, Veemon, Renamon and Impmon

I was following TOEI's streaming of subbed 02 on Crunchyroll but when they stopped doing weekly updates and just dumped the whole thing it kinda lost its magic it was such a blast from the past to follow a serie weekly and talk about it with everyone! When that was gone I just stopped watching...its not like I didn't know what was gonna happen after all. Still I should go back and watch the World Tour in Japanese...

I too gave up on Savers/Data Squad after 12 episodes. I liked Masaru a LOT but the show just didn't really hold my interest...everybody else but Masaru was pretty bland and Yoshino was SO underused it was horrible. I sorta regret giving up on it seeing stuff like the first time Burst mode was activated or the BioDigimons and stuff... but at the same time I'm too lazy

I'm surprised they didn't bring back Biomerge Digivolution for Savers. It would have been the logical ending to Masaru punching giant monsters all the time.

Its no secret Tamers is my favorite. I wish TOEI would stream it too.
 
My favorite series in order are Tamers, Savers, Adventure, and 02 and Frontier are actually tied for last because both of them started out strong, but then fell apart.

And my favorite Digimon is Guilmon.
 
My ranking: Tamers > Savers > Adventure > Zero Two > Frontier

I didn't hate Frontier, back when I was younger I was actually really fond of the idea of the kiRAB turning into Digimon, but looking back it really is the weakest link of all the series, ditto for Zero Two even though I really liked the cast. Tamers is the obvious nuraber one choice for its compelling story and really great Digimon/Tamer dynamic. Savers is in second place despite the weak start, it finished really strong with some epic battles and even got the Royal Knights involved (finally!). Adventure is in the middle, it's one of my personal favorites because it was the first of the series I watched (duh).

However, my personal favorite of anything Digimon related is the X-Evolution movie and I really wish we'd see more like it in the future. It was very serious and complex and even had some fairly dark moments, it wasn't as good as some of the series but they did a good job at utilizing the X-Digimon and especially the Royal Knights (who, quite frankly, we don't seen enough of). Anyway...I need to rewatch it sometime soon, since I really remeraber being blown away when I first saw it forever ago.

Favorite Digimon? That's tough. Alphamon, probably. Or Wargreymon X. No, no! It's definitely Dukemon/Dukemon X. =D
 
My favorite season would have to be Tamers, it used to be Zero Two, but after Ken turned good, it started to lose my interest. I didn't like frontiers at all, I don't really know why though, it had some good episodes, I won't deny that, but I missed how digimon was before, with the tamers each having their own digimon, I always liked seeing what digimon would end up with which tamer.
 
Mine goes Tamers, Adventure, Frontier, 02, Savers. Tamers is one of my favorite anime, Adventure is still pretty good too. 02 was just one big waste of potential after another. Plus, when I think about it, I never really liked the new characters, they should have just stayed with the original team.
 
I like Tamers. After the cliche kiRAB anime style of the first two seasons, it shifted things to be more realistic and gripping. Savers isn't bad but it never really grabbed me. Tamers had this natural evolution of kiRAB discovering there was this actual Digital World that was starting to leak over into their world and how this meshed with their already troubled lives. It's one of the very few Evangelion inspired shows that got why that show was successful.
 
My 3 cents on Digimon:

I love Digimon Adventure/02. They were both pretty good, and somehow they managed to fulfill character development (Something Pokemon doesn't do very well). Am I the only one who loved 02 even after Ken turned native? I mean a few episodes later we get BlackWarGreymon, who is pretty much my favorite emo anime charcter ever.

Favorite Digimon Adventure Digimon: Wizardmon
Favorite Digimon Adventure 02 Digimon: BlackWarGreymon

Digimon Tamers is indisputably the best monster battle anime around. It had your run of the mill "normal kid's dreams come true" story that became so much more. As it's already been said the series was really dark, but kept the childhood dream feeling of the show in place. Plus, I love that the Digimon's origin story is the evolution of a program developed in the 70's (Right, 70's?).

Favorite Digimon Tamers Digimon: Beelzemon

Digimon Frontier wasn't that great. I watched all of Frontier and the opinions that came out of it from me are: twin brother plot twist was great, villains were great, characters were lame, I hated the Hybrid Evolution thing at first, but it grew on me, and the plot was boring. It didn't help that I had to watch that series at 5:00 in the morning.

Favorite Digimon Frontier Digimon: Duskmon

I made it halfway through Digimon Savers/Data Squad and didn't think it was worth finishing. Also, what's up with people and the villain's "motive" in this series. What, he was racist against Digimon, that was about it, lame. I liked the fact that the lead character's dad worked for an exploration force to the Digital World, that the main character punched the opposing Digimon, and I'm sure that there's some little stuff too. The series's characters didn't do it for me and what was up with all the Digi-evolution's being weird and taken out of the video games or something?

Favorite Digimon Savers/Data Squad Digimon: What was that owl Digimon's name?
 
And what exactly is Myotismon's motive?

"I'M EVIL SO I SHALL CONQUER BOTH WORLRAB."

The same goes for the Dark Masters, Devimon, Etemon, and everyone who affects the plot besides Oikawa, and then he enRAB up not being the REAL bad guy.

Kurata was evil for a reason, and showed that deplorable acts don't come from some abstract floating dark of darkness, it comes from selfish and angry people who make the wrong choices. That's more real, and more interesting.
 
Agreed Kurata was an awesome villain Him and Sosuke Aizen have really given nerdy guys with glasses a bad name.

His motive were simple, and deep down he was a coward who was afaird of Digimon.

Also except for the leader the guy that was Masaru's rival, his henchmen were very deep characters in their own right, and they were the deepest antatogists that didn't turn good (I guess they sort of did in the finale) in the history of the Digimon series.
 
I wasn't defending the other villains as complicated, just I don't think that Kurata's motives where as great as everyone seems to think. I felt that he never had a real reason to hate the Digimon the way he did. I just don't care much for Kurata. Give me lame evil for the sake of being evil Digimon over Digimon hating for the sake of hating humans any day.

Although, don't get me wrong, I love the fact that there is a true human antagonist, I just feel there should be another dimension to it or something.
 
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