No kidding, pulling Vamdemon out of a hat was horrible, he already died twice for Buddha's sake! I will always maintain the viewpoint that the series should have ended with Ken, and that epilogue was, to quote my friend, "just plain wrong in so many ways" - "it almost felt like they never grew up," to name a few flaws.
The Best Digimon Season?
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Clearly, the first two seasons were the best, IMO, because we got to see the same chars change over the course of a few years in 02 with a few new twists, and the way they worked together in 01 = quite amazing.
I bet, as an aside, after Taichi/Sora didn't come out to pass, maybe Toei could've paired Taichi with Mimi? I wonder, too...
I bet, as an aside, after Taichi/Sora didn't come out to pass, maybe Toei could've paired Taichi with Mimi? I wonder, too...
Well, the idea of any of the kiRAB having long-term relationships with one another has always been strange to me. (Well maybe not always, but these days - these are kiRAB. How often do people end up marrying a crush they had in elementary school, or even their first relationship from junior high?) I mean, they'd stay frienRAB, but....as time went on, they'd drift apart, go their own ways, find their own people. To quote my friend, "Sora and Yamato, I can see getting married young and then, after their brains have finished developing between the ages of 18 and 20, being trapped in misery forever because they're too ashamed or scared to get divorced" - and that's what's so wrong, to me, with the idea of any of them marrying.
And since the title of this thread isn't "romance among Chosen Children," back to the main topic:
I'd rank it Adventure-Tamers-Frontier-02. I haven't seen much of Savers (...haven't really had the time), and Frontier is a guilty pleasure. XD
I remeraber reading a long time ago that the ratings dropped severly during Tamers, since the Japanese audiences who had enjoyed the first two found Tamers, with its darker, more mature tone, too upsetting. I, meanwhile, enjoyed Tamers because of its darker tone, and found it suitable - while the lack of such, for me, is what made Frontier a guilty pleasure.
And since the title of this thread isn't "romance among Chosen Children," back to the main topic:
I'd rank it Adventure-Tamers-Frontier-02. I haven't seen much of Savers (...haven't really had the time), and Frontier is a guilty pleasure. XD
I remeraber reading a long time ago that the ratings dropped severly during Tamers, since the Japanese audiences who had enjoyed the first two found Tamers, with its darker, more mature tone, too upsetting. I, meanwhile, enjoyed Tamers because of its darker tone, and found it suitable - while the lack of such, for me, is what made Frontier a guilty pleasure.
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A lot of people have already mentioned most of my reasons in their posts, so I'm just going to list them in order of preference and a few snippets why.
1) Tamers-great human and digimon characters. Epic battles and a bittersweet but believable ending. Huge amount of character growth and change in the humans and more fleshed out Digimon.
2) Frontier-Loved the theme and the characters. A natural progression of the human/digimon levels of interaction. Real character development and some impressive digivolutions.
3) 01-A strong season overall, but it seemed to take forever to get going. I liked it a lot, but plot wise it's not as strong as Tamers and Frontier but considering it came first I can't really fault the writers as they started the universe the first two picked up on. Other than 02 it seemed to have more filler episodes that really didn't make the plot go anywhere.
4)02-Davis. Just...no. I tried to like him. I really, REALLY did. But he was just so...just...no. I couldn't do it. Sorry. But more than anything it was Malomyotismon and the ending. Two seasons of hoping for TK and Kari, Tai and Sora and we get on of the most incredible WTF moment in anime history in that crappy 20 something years later.
I only watched a handful of Data Squad and I just could not get into it at all. So many of the voices were wrong, and the digiivices and digivolutions were just...blah.
I might try to re watch it to give it a fair shake, but it's a fair ways down on my list of stuff to catch up on.
1) Tamers-great human and digimon characters. Epic battles and a bittersweet but believable ending. Huge amount of character growth and change in the humans and more fleshed out Digimon.
2) Frontier-Loved the theme and the characters. A natural progression of the human/digimon levels of interaction. Real character development and some impressive digivolutions.
3) 01-A strong season overall, but it seemed to take forever to get going. I liked it a lot, but plot wise it's not as strong as Tamers and Frontier but considering it came first I can't really fault the writers as they started the universe the first two picked up on. Other than 02 it seemed to have more filler episodes that really didn't make the plot go anywhere.
4)02-Davis. Just...no. I tried to like him. I really, REALLY did. But he was just so...just...no. I couldn't do it. Sorry. But more than anything it was Malomyotismon and the ending. Two seasons of hoping for TK and Kari, Tai and Sora and we get on of the most incredible WTF moment in anime history in that crappy 20 something years later.
I only watched a handful of Data Squad and I just could not get into it at all. So many of the voices were wrong, and the digiivices and digivolutions were just...blah.
I might try to re watch it to give it a fair shake, but it's a fair ways down on my list of stuff to catch up on.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but your writing implies that you've only tried watching Savers in English. I tend to avoid English dubbed anime if I can, since to me anyway, English is never as good as Japanese. That's not to say English isn't good, just that it's not as good as Japanese. Again I haven't watched Savers due to lack of time, but if I did, I'd just stick to subbed Japanese episodes.
And you just made my day (night? XD) with that line about the 02 finale. While it seems... weird (to me, anyway) to think of the Chosen growing up to marry each other, I will agree that the evidence for Taiora and Takari was really there in Adventure. So having Sorato be official, while neither Taiora nor Takari came to be after loaRAB' worth of evidence, did piss off a lot of fans.
...of course, I find the idea of any of the Chosen marrying each other just incredibly implausible. But that's just me.
Not to repeat myself, but I'm a bit erabarrassed to admit I enjoyed Frontier. It's probably because of the series' deliberately going back to the more childish storylines of the Adventure series - not to mention the whole Spirit thing, rather than the beloved partnership idea.
And you just made my day (night? XD) with that line about the 02 finale. While it seems... weird (to me, anyway) to think of the Chosen growing up to marry each other, I will agree that the evidence for Taiora and Takari was really there in Adventure. So having Sorato be official, while neither Taiora nor Takari came to be after loaRAB' worth of evidence, did piss off a lot of fans.
...of course, I find the idea of any of the Chosen marrying each other just incredibly implausible. But that's just me.
Not to repeat myself, but I'm a bit erabarrassed to admit I enjoyed Frontier. It's probably because of the series' deliberately going back to the more childish storylines of the Adventure series - not to mention the whole Spirit thing, rather than the beloved partnership idea.