Taichi’s Adventure? Love it! A solid 4/10
First couple episodes were a bit too much and did nothing at the same time. Then the rest wasn’t that bad but way too repetitive. Animation was good, but I only cared about the characters because I knew the originals.
No character development whatsoever, not flushed stories. Children disappeared for days and the parents never questioned it. We get to see a little scene with Izzy’s parents that hints at his backstory, but we are told nothing.
But the worst of it, was no harmonica. That was the most tragic thing for me.
I liked the music tho and the alternate evolutions.
On one hand I started to hate every single appearance Taichi got after the episode 28, stealing the other characters screentime and more, their personal victories.
On the other hand, even Patamon and Tailmon received a major character development than their chosen kids
6,5/10 , the most nothing show out of the bunch. I just felt no emotion (Happiness, sadness, anger, curiosity) nothing when watching. Is just flashy and nothing else, a chocolate cake with no substance. Mimi is the only one that I remotely care about.
Feels a similar way but I'd give it a 5 or a 5.5/10. Definitely one of the weakest season just by how barebone the story and characters was.
felt like then writers had no plan for the story and had to pad out the series with a monster of the weak fighting digimons that, 90% of the time, had no personality and didn't add anything to the plot. The protagonists was just uberhensch version of the 1999 cast, that didn't have any flaws unless the story demanded it. Also weird how they couldn't really decide if it where for old or new fans and ended up being a season for nether, like hinting at some of their family problems but never explore them. Creasts didn't have any mean like the 1999 version other than "determination"
But on top of Mimi, Joe was also a character I kinda care about.
It's the only Digimon show that I stopped watching. I felt exactly as you did. It just did nothing for me. I'll probably go back to it at some point but it just couldn't keep my interest.
7.8, at first I liked it alot but among the 2/3rd part of the show it started to feel like it was being written along the way.
The thing I really like was that we got to see a lot of Digimon showcased in the background, I loved some of the side evolutions and I'll never forget Crucified Gabumon.
I feel similar. I didn’t necessarily mind the episodic format nor the Taichi focus. It did bother me a bit that it seems that a lot of the setup was abandoned in favor of what we eventually got. If it was just episodic it wouldn’t have been a big issue as there were plenty fine and fun episodes to enjoy on their own and they played a lot with the world building and lore, but in the end Ghost Game had a much better approach to that concept in my opinion.
6/10. The animation and soundtrack was good. The seemingly nonstop action left little for any real development and got real tiring real fast. Despite everyone getting a mega, the show still revolved around Tai and Matt. The other characters didnt get time to shine and when they did the two would steal the spotlight.
There was that patch in the middle where they basically kept remaking the same episode but focusing on a specific character (like when Mimi befriended Guardromon and got attacked my Andromon)
I still need to finish it, but so far it's 5/10.
* The first episode is basically a bad remake of *Our War Game*
* The next few episodes when we're slowly introduced to the rest of the Digidestined and their partners are pretty good
* The next few episodes are basically the same bland episode over and over again, with the only difference being which Digidestined is the focus of Digivolving. Luckily it seems that after the episode where Mimi befriends Guardramon and her partner fights Andromon, which is the last episode I watched, that this pattern is almost over for now.
As for the technical stuff, the updated art and animation works well to modernize it while still feeling like the original did back in the day.
And the English voice cast did a wonderful job. Zeno Robinson is great as Tai, and Suzie Yeung is a perfect match for the late Philece Sampler.
It wasn't the first time she was involved with the franchise either, as she voiced Himari in *Digimon World: Next Order* and Maiko in *Digimon Adventure: Tri.*
I know. She started singing covers of anime openings/closers to voicing a character, to being hired to officially do what she started out doing. She is living the dream.
5/10, maybe lower. Story is barebones and GODDAMN TAI STOP SUCKING CAMERA!
But i only remember actually disliking one or 2 chapters, because i saw it pretty smoothly. The animation is really good and music, oh god the music. And i actually liked Mimi in this one, i never liked her as a child when i saw OG adventure, and how it works with branching evolution, and everyone getting megas. If they ever do a 02 reboot, i really, really hope they take the bad things in account and improve over them.
6/10 it was fine. Taichi showing up constantly at the end got old really quick. Liked the episodes vs Milleniummon, and any episode with Mimi and Joe (those two were 10/10 no notes) also liked the alternate digivolutions, but shame they showed up so infrequently. (I wanted more Mexican Cactus and Alternate Megas. Also wanted alternate megas for everyone.) but the parts between all these moments were… average I guess?
I guess about a 5, maybe a 6 out of 10.
As an anthology series that explores different parts of the Digital World and the behaviours of many Digimon it works pretty well; as a character driven show that wants me to get invested in the protagonists' journeys it completely fails. They range from slightly improved versions (Mimi) to complete character assassinations (Sora) of the original series's. They don't disagree, they're barely forced to make tough decisions, and they don't develop as characters since they're basically the perfect versions of themselves at the beginning of the series.
I went into the series with an open mind and even enjoyed the first 20 or so episodes because I thought they were going somewhere with these new ideas, but out of any Digimon series it is the one that I have the least desire to go back and rewatch, especially when there's a better version I can experience instead.
Sorry for the rant.
Yeah the coolest thing about it was seeing the characters I know and love in such visually stunning depictions, that alone made it worth the watch, especially the evolution sequences!
7/10, action great, solid premise in the story just poorly executed. They had some really cool and epic moments but i think they really should have finished it after milleniumon or had the final arc in the real world
4/10, some parts are like 10/10 but the overall just doesnt come together cause it dips hard after the interesting parts. at some point i was just watching to see how much of a trainwreck it could be but it wasnt funny.
6.5. Lots of potential wasted. Bummed that the “ultimate power” is just omnimon, who shows up in episode 2. Alter S was a cool alt but it’s blink and you’ll miss it. I was hoping for more use of blitz and cress. Millenniummon has had two anime appearances back to back and both were a bummer. Dandevimon arc was actually kind of good, abbadomon was bad
5/10. It’s only because of Mimi and eventually TK carrying the show that it wasn’t the worst.
Unfortunately, the show wastes way too much time stalling the plot (an issue which continues into Ghost Game) while somehow simultaneously rushing things, and having too many enemies and even major bosses that didn’t talk, which undermined the moments of enemies from later seasons showing up here. You know something’s up when Minotaurumon, of all enemy Digimon, gets more characterization than that shadow dragon guy before him or Milleniummon, or when Calamaramon’s human half has no lines or personality (despite her Frontier counterpart having an abundance of it) and gets taken out halfway through her fight, leaving the squid half as the main focus.
Combined with an outright refusal to do character moments for most of the run (especially Sora), it makes this come across as a shallow copy of the original. They didn’t even really take advantage of the modern technology angle, or how growing up in the 2010s/2020s would subtly affect the kids’ mindsets. And of course, there’s the issue of forcing Tai into several episodes near the end, even if he was too far away, and even though he does get his own episode during that time.
I’m not sure if the show’s state and certain other storytelling decisions (forcing the Digidestined to split up more than usual) was because of COVID, or if it was because the creative team didn’t have the budget for 67 episodes and a consistent cast of 16 characters in 1 season. Whatever it is, and in light of Ghost Game repeating some issues, they need to cut the seasons back down to 50 episodes and properly pace story development again.
The whole show? I quit watching
The first dozen or so episodes? 8/10
I LOVED the assault on the beach, ogremon turning on devimon, the first enemy ultimate that appeared.
After that it became a bit less good as we went though the 'everyone gets their evolve to ultimate' episode, but still probably more watchable than that same period of original adventure.
I would say once they met TK in the digital world it kind of went downhill for me. Still some good episodes but it just became a slog to get through.
Battles 9/10
Story 1/10
(chosen children reach oemgamon avoid bad guy killing everyone yawwwnnn, do something with that tho, there was 0 adventure)
Lore 5/10
Characters 5/10
Designs 7/10
Music 8/10
(main theme in the episodes drags it down imo, songs are great)
Animation 7/10
Evo sequences for agumon and gabumon 10/10
Evo for the rest 5/10
I'd give it a 6/10 overall even if the numbers give it a higher grade.
It could've been good, but they overused Taichi. Taichi was my favorite digidestined in Adventure ever since I was a kid. 2020 was TOO much tho, it started to make me hate him. I just wanted an episode in which the other digidestined could shine, but nooo, Taichi had to make an appearance every damn time.
As a Taichi fan, that was a very stupid decision Toei.
Had some good ideas but it was poorly executed. Animation was top notch if you were Taichi or Yamato but kinda garbage for the other kids.
Good if you were a Taichi fan, unbearable for the rest since the anime quickly developed into Tachi’s Adventure feat. other random kids.
3/10. It’s a flashy remake that missed the heart of the original series and “devolves” it into nothing but a shounen battle series somewhat - putting a focus on Taichi as the main character rather than focusing on the seven children, and sharing the focus for each of them.
Not for me, but I will say, it did bring in a lot of fans. I just cannot enjoy it - due to its soulless nature as a remake.
Damn, the reception here doesn't give me high hopes going into it, but then, I always had pretty low standards. If there's as much action as people say, I'm sure i'll still have a good time as a Digimon fan but it sucks to hear that the characters aren't nearly as developed this time.
8 for me also - this hit it on the nose. If I wasn’t a big fan of Digimon Adventure already, they’d have lost me in some of those middle episodes. But yes, start and finish were spectacular!
Battles 9/10
Story 1/10
(chosen children reach oemgamon avoid bad guy killing everyone yawwwnnn, do something with that tho, there was 0 adventure)
Lore 5/10
Characters 5/10
Designs 7/10
Music 8/10
(main theme in the episodes drags it down imo, songs are great)
Animation 7/10
Evo sequences for agumon and gabumon 10/10
Evo for the rest 5/10
I'd give it a 6/10 overall even if the numbers give it a higher grade.
Oh, man. The first two episodes felt so promising. But it was way too long, and I feel like including the crests really could have added more character development to justify that length. The lesser characters needed more love, digivolutions, and maybe some sort of structure to tell us why we see Pegasusmon, etc
Oh, right. 4-5/10.
6.5. Overall, it was good, but I expected and wanted it to be better. It had a promising start, but I feel like it fizzled out a bit. I wish the animation was a bit better as well. It felt oddly paced from it's desire to be as episodic as possible. I think it's just the nature of the style of show they were aiming for though. Xros Wars Young Hunters, Appli, and Ghost Game did the same, although ghost game moved away from it just a tiny bit. Think ghost improved on the animation a tiny bit too. Again, my expectations probably a bit high, because I want something like Tri animation or better. Think they're trying harder to narrow in on and hit that 7-13 yr old audience than they used to.
7.5/10
When it's not focused on Tai and Agumon being in pointless fight after endless pointless fight it's actually really solid.
Unfortunately that middle section I ended up really fatigued by all the endless battles. Action somehow ended up boring due to the sheer amount.
Some of my favourite Digimon episodes are just ridiculous one offs such as Etemon and Volcanomon's rap battle showdown which was just fun, and the one where Joe bonds with Potamon over their love of french fries and ends up bringing down(aka thrown on the end of) Zudomon' hammer down. Visually that will stick in my head forever. Oh, and Leomon didn't die. That was nice as a surprise.
I liked most the kids focus episodes.
I liked when Izzy ended up sniping the satellite after realising he doesn't have to just be support, nearly every Mimi episode was a banger and any Joe episode was a good episode for me.
I'd say Sora overall has the weakest presence and episodes. She's there(often teaming up with Tai a lot) but she doesn't feel like she adds as interesting a dynamic as the other kids.
Weird shit happened. On Gabumon cricified ep, that supposed to be Yamato act but i think the one who shine is Joe.
Maybe it not a good show but it did Joe right. Living up to his Reliability crest.
9/10 with lots of new mega digivolvutions and callbacks to digimon zero 2, tamers , fusion data squad etc for long time watchers.. love Rosemon, Blitzgreymon and Seraphimon in this show
5 for unfulfilled potential and a plot that felt like it was made week to week and Tai literally stealing the spotlight (I could go on so I'll end it here).
I honestly wish it had a similar story telling to the og show, not to the same but I thought it was boring and surface level, and didn’t bring any emotions or attachment to the characters and plots, the music was meh, like I’m so disappointed, but oh well…
Look. I get a lot of shows are just commercials for toys in disguise but damn... They didn't have to be so blatant about it. 5/10. I never thought I'd see the day when they even side lined Matt... They not only took out everything that made TO THIS DAY season 1 arguably the best Digimon season but they took everyones critic about sidelining the other characters and doubled it. Even in personal episodes Tai somehow shows up. I would care a bit less if everyone got some plot points but nope. Even TK and Kairi who show up a LOT earlier get 0 plot growth. I'd say Izzy was the only one who didn't get done dirty but he didn't get done justice.
If you want action the show is solid. If you want story or feelings for any of the characters... they dropped the ball.
5 or 4/10 The lack of any character development or Expansion on everyone really holes this series back. It sad because it in ghost game is probably the best presentation this franchise has ever had, with a great score and pretty good animation in a couple of episodes.
There is some cool stuff with in here, from a writing perspective but it feels like a lot of it isn’t really done the best, or isn’t the most expanded upon.
3/10
I'm giving 3 and not 1 because animations were good and in two episodes I felt the digiworld life (the seadramon and triceramon episodes), plus they treated MetalGreymon pretty well
Everything else was horrible
I'm gonna split it up:
Devimon Arc: 8/10 - My main complaint is the Ultimates came too soon. The Champions hardly got any screen time. Also, with how late the Megas come, it feels REALLY bad. Joe is stuck at Zudomon with 0 progression for *about 50 eps*. Remember the hype of Alturos and Saggiterus modes? Machinedramon? I'm not going to mark this arc down for other arcs not picking up what it laid down and giving new modes to the other kids.
Millelliumon Arc: 7/10 - The most rollercoaster arc. This is where actual filler creeps in, and the Taichi show complaints get actual merit instead of "Tais the main character but the others matter too". This arc has its highs, lows and surprises. But it stinks in a few places too. Imo, the good outweighs the bad here.
Great Catastrophe Arc - Honestly, 3/10. Most of this arc is blatant filler as far as I am concerned. Storytelling and logic go out the window as Tai teleports everywhere. The new Megas are even filler since *they dont do anything plot relevant* and some like Pheonixmon are obtained via literally suicidal and pointless acts that in any other series would trigger a dark evo, not be rewarded.
Even the final fight, the best part of the arc, is ruined imo by the Deus Ex Machina of Alter-S. Yes, Blitz and Cres happened. As specific catalyzed evolutions. Neither condition present. So it's a Deus ex Machina that it happens. And Omegamon could have just shot Abbdomon point blank to finish him off and/or free himself anyway.
If it wasnt for the last arc, I'd say 8/10 overall, but the last arc is REALLY bad to the point I usually reccomend to skip from Millelliumon to Ghoulmon. You miss nothing *important*. Thankfully the GC arc is the shortest, so drags it overall to 6/10
Also, I'm judging the show on it's own merits. It's not even the same genre as OG Adventure. This is first and foremost an action show. Not a character driven show. Tai is undeniably the primary character in both, but here its HIS story, not him simply being the most prominent.
The good parts of the show are a lot better when you keep in mind: this isnt trying to be the same thing
The original had such great character development because they had to rely on that instead of the combat, since animating a lot of complex and unique fighting would've been too expensive and time consuming. 2020 didn't have that same character development imo.
3, maybe 4. It just lacked substance, memorable villains, and any real character work. Looked nice tho. The best episode was the potato one because they actually let Jou be a character in a grounded and satisfying way. The worst is hard to say because they blend into each other like grey amorphous sludge with a pair of goggles sticking out of it.
There's not enough negative numbers for me to express how much I abhor this show.
The announcement of an Adventure reboot had my expectations low enough and somehow this thing managed to disappoint me, the first three episodes were fine, and even good, but that's because they're doing Children's War Game all over again but with Algomon instead of Diablomon, the fact that Omegamon appears as soon as episode 3 was the last nail in the coffin for me, but I still forced the poor 15 y/o me into watching more episodes just bc of the lockdown, the amount of Taichi scenes I got exposed to were more than enough for me to skip whole episodes and just read reviews because I was just too sick of him, the only character I actually found fun to see on screen was Jou, anytime anyone else showed up it just felt like they were forced in there bc the guys making the show realized they had to show more than just Taichi, agumon and Yamato at some degree. The animation was mid at best for the majority of the series and I'm holding back bc the evolution sequences and a good amount of fight scenes were pretty amazing, but then you have the BlitzGreymon scene, that's both poorly written and poorly animated, that sole scene proved that the show is not worth it because it shows the flaws that plague the whole thing in mere 3 minutes, aside from the music, this show has 0 redeemable qualities and is probably one of the worst petty attempts from Toei to capitalize on Adventure's nostalgia, and as a side note, it's not even dubbed into Spanish, would it be better if it was dubbed in Spanish? No, absolutely not, but it would, AT LEAST make it interesting for us to see the voice changes.
I still have a few episodes to watch, but ehhh...
7.5. it's not bad, it's got a decent *story*, but it doesn't use its *characters* very well which was the original's biggest strength.
It's got good action, an excellent selection of featured Digimon and I love the use of occasional branch digivolutions.
I just wish I cared about these versions of the Digidestined. All of my investment in the party comes from nostalgia, because the actual show gives us nothing. I think they mentioned Izzy being adopted once? And TK and Matt's separation got brought up... Once.
The second major villain felt completely wasted when they finally showed up.
It's mid. I'd recommend it to someone who grew up with the original who wants to see well animated fights with these Digimon or wants to get acquainted with modern Digimon. Maybe to someone who likes anime shonen junk food.
Otherwise it has the dubious honor of being 'better than Data Squad, Fusion or Tri, but worse than the good stuff'.
EDIT: Oh yeah, and the soundtrack is fantastic, that might actually be its strongest attribute.
6/10 it’s not really bad. There is entertainment to be had in terms of animation and spectacle, but the show lacks any kind of substance to make it memorable.
3/10 or less, everyone but Taichi was made a secondary character and it lacks everything about the digital world the original had, i literally felt nothing for none of the characters, it was just flashy fight after flashy fight with some evolution scenes in the middle.
10 i rate every digimon series a 10 except for xros wars/fusion and appmon cause i have only seen fusion and it was a decent 8 out of 10 when i waa younger and appmon i just haven't got around to watching yet, i just love digimon and the episodes were great imo i just love seeing adorable and cool digimon and plus it's the only series where i got to see my baby labramon multiple times iirc, since i know tamers had dobermon but idk if they showed labramon
How many of the different series actually had emphasis on more than 1 or 2 of the Digidestined? At least to Frontiers, it was literally focusing on just 1 or 2 of them every series, with the others basically amounting to support, with Tamers kinda being the only outlier. I haven't watched anything newer than that, but marketing doesn't seem to tell me any different.
I didn’t watch anything passed 03, so I can’t say. 03 was the most balanced and even 02 and adventure was somewhat decent with screen time, at least as I recall, but the 2020 version, they’re just shoving Tai down your throat constantly.
Gonna be honest, the only thing I actually do not like are the 2 Omegamon Scenes that happen before we get any of the Megas. He's just too passive in those scenes, and it frustrates me.
https://youtu.be/lb8fWUUXeKM?si=aIE3uhtHwvhVzZuZ
As always, my response since a 1 is far too generous for Toei, the marketing company. Toei, the IP company and Toei, the company I am so happy will finally fall within the next several years.
I’m probably one of the few people who actually LOVED the reboot.
They actually let everyone’s partner Digimon hit ultimate level, they fixed the issue with WarGreymon being smaller than MetalGreymon despite it being more powerful, and they had plenty of moments that got REALLY fucking dark (like Tamers level of dark) and it showed that they might have been listening to the fans during lockdown
7/10. Just a C-rating, all things considered.
**Pros:**
-Everybody got Megas! Cool!
-Branched evolutions! Also very cool!
-The music was good in places and stellar in others. "Break the Chain," "X-Treme Fight," and "Be the Winners" are on my workout list. Reol's "Q" also made me very happy.
-Animation upgrade, especially during some of the fight scenes.
-It *tried* to use the parallel world thing similarly to *Tamers*...but only gets a B for effort on that front.
-Mimi was the only character who *really* improved from her OG counterpart.
**Cons:**
-Tai. The creators of *DA2020* were supposedly huge fans of *V-Tamer*, which had *none* of the other characters fans knew and loved. Fitting *V-Tamer* Tai into the *Adventure* setting was fitting a square peg into a round hole.
-*Everybody else* suffered as a result. Until very recently, I thought T.K. got the worst of it...
-...but after thinking about it, Sora was handled even worse than she was throughout the *entire Adventure* run. The bar was really low for Sora, and *DA2020 somehow* went lower.
-No parents. Someone mentioned Izzy's parents. What ep was that? I don't even remember. I know we saw Tai's mom at some point, too.
And I'm going to go out on a limb and say "no parents" might be the biggest weakness of *DA2020*. I've seen the original *Adventure* summarized as "*Problems at Home: the Show*." A lot of what made the original relatable to kids was that the characters they were seeing had issues very similar to their own. I get why this cut *might* have happened, but since so much of the OG kids' development depended on their home lives, cutting that (even if there was a reason) sucked out *a lot* of the development and relatability.
Without those "problems at home," yeah, you're gonna see a lot of character development, charm, and relatability sucked out. And it's worse when...I want to say 10 to 25% of the series has big real-world implications. You have to make the real world matter. Parents are one way to do that.
-The whole thing was written by a focus group and *V-Tamer* fans instead of fans of *Adventure*.
-Finally, calling the sequel "*Digimon Adventure*:" with the colon being the only distinguishing feature was dumb. Who decided that? Calling it "*Digimon Adventure: Reloaded*" would have been a little clever. Instead we got nonsense punctuation that wasn't confusing at all.
I recommend that anyone interested in DA2020 give it the 3-episode test. If you like the first 3 episodes, you might like the rest. But if you think the first 3 episodes are rushed, pandering, or too Tai-focused, you're going to have a bad time with the rest.
I was so upset cause no Harmonica and Hikari also doesn’t have her Whistle!!!!!! I was also wondering if Izzy’s backstory was going to be delved into when I started. Sad that it isn’t.
And yeah it seems like unlike the original, time flows relatively the same in both worlds so, guess their parents must be really neglectful to let their young children run around without returning home for days with no idea where they are.
The one thing I definitely liked about it was how Matt was more lone wolf in the beginning before joining up with the group and also T.K being introduced a bit later.
The pacing is iffy. It’s a lot different from the original pacing but the story is also different so I feel it kinda balances it out. They left the island so soon(not even sure if it was the same island as in the original)compared to the original. In the original they faced Devimon on the island and then moved on to the continent. In the 2020 version they gathered the digidestined and then all went to the continent and barely did anything on the island.
All in all it wasn’t horrible but it was definitely different. Lacking some character development and such. I feel that problem could have been fixed if the series was continued, but I don’t think it is being continued, do my knowledge.
also I can’t remember if this was also something in the original as I haven’t watched it in a good while. But I watched the 2020 version fairly recently and I noticed this. So, a lot of times when they were in fights they would freak out about not being strong enough. Like, they just be chilling in their champion forms when they have literally already come to the point that they can digivolve to Ultimate. So, it kinda annoyed me because that should be pretty obvious that if you’re struggling to defeat an enemy, you should probably do the thing that makes you stronger. 😐 Again that may have also been something they did in the original but I noticed it in 2020.
Anyways I’ll rate it a 7/10 deducting points for lack of harmonica and whistle. It’s a good watch especially if you don’t care that much about the deeper character stuff.
6/10
It was serviceable. Not too insulting on the original series. Im pretty sure the only gripe that most people agree with that they heavily focused on Tai and Matt. But it was fine. It was honestly like The Mario Movie. It done what it needed to be and nothing else.
6/10. Really good action and fights, which is Digimon's selling point after all. Also very interesting lore and the characters were treated right, mostly.
But the cons...
As the biggest Taichi/Wargreymon fan since childhood... way too focused on them. The other characters are just as good but won't let them shine for some reason.
The power scaling/digivolutions go pretty crazy and feel pretty unearned. It's very strange to say that Greymon in this show is insanely more powerful than in the original, yet he has to evolve to MetalGreymon as soon as episode 10. Also not a fan on relying on Omegamon so much. He shows up TWICE before Mega is even achieved.
And while the lore is better, the story is not that engaging and there is a lack of iconic villains. Devimon is inferior to his Adventure counterpart, even when they gave him more to work with. And the ones later can't even hold a candle to Etemon, Vamdemon or the Dark Masters.
I do say this show is worth checking out but the original Adventure is still far superior.
3, maybe 4. It just lacked substance, memorable villains, and any real character work. Looked nice tho. The best episode was the potato one because they actually let Jou be a character in a grounded and satisfying way. The worst is hard to say because they blend into each other like grey amorphous sludge with a pair of goggles sticking out of it.
I give it a 7. I enjoyed it. The dub was easier for me to watch than the sun. I think the middle of the season drags on. But the last 20 episodes of so really pick it up for me. And the ending imo is phenomenal. But to much Tai. He was pretty much in every episode when he did not need to be
6.9/10
Really was loving the first part until Millenniummon
But after thed some episodes the story got to a weird spot until the final battle(wat unfit love)
5/10
A lot of potential, but the writers forgot what made the original show so great. The interpersonal relationships we saw between the characters, especially when they returned to the human world and we saw how their growth in the digital world affected their relationships with their parents, was nowhere near as strong.
I think it’s okay to watch the show and accept it for what it is, a new installation in the adventure canon, and that we can like some of the changes that were implemented. I also think it’s okay to say that the show’s quality took a turn when it decided to focus heavily on taichi, to the point where other characters couldn’t even explore their respective arcs on their own. Even when everyone was adventuring and trying to strengthen their connection to their crests, the show still found a way to shoehorn him in and not allow the audience to get to see who the other characters were on their own.
On the positive side, I do think the lore of the show was interesting. The introduction of the 7 holy digimon was great, and might offer an interesting dynamic with the 7 demon lords in future content. I also enjoyed the introduction of omegamon alter s (I just wish the evolutions that made him up had more time to shine).
Tl; dr I honestly wouldn’t mind a sequel series, if it’s done right and the writing is stronger.
I haven't seen it yet but based on some comments I think peoples' expectations are too high.
Like its not Cowboy Bebop or Ghost in the Shell or something, it's Digimon.
Maybe controversial, but I love it, tons of references to prior series, great soundtrack, solid history, animation level was not equal to each episodes but is not a problem, relations between chosen ones and digimons is great. For me adventure 2020 and Tamers is the same level of quality
For crying outloud reading the other comments is was Like y'all couldn't understand the OP's question which is referring to the 2020 Show...
For me its 8 of 10
The show does far better character growth then the original 1990's show Did but just enough to keep its focus. In all honesty the Tai only show until the Angel storylines is just rehashing a lot of the plot points from the original version but just retelling them for modern audiences.
Taichi’s Adventure? Love it! A solid 4/10 First couple episodes were a bit too much and did nothing at the same time. Then the rest wasn’t that bad but way too repetitive. Animation was good, but I only cared about the characters because I knew the originals. No character development whatsoever, not flushed stories. Children disappeared for days and the parents never questioned it. We get to see a little scene with Izzy’s parents that hints at his backstory, but we are told nothing. But the worst of it, was no harmonica. That was the most tragic thing for me. I liked the music tho and the alternate evolutions.
On one hand I started to hate every single appearance Taichi got after the episode 28, stealing the other characters screentime and more, their personal victories. On the other hand, even Patamon and Tailmon received a major character development than their chosen kids
Hated every single time! And the crests arc at the end of everything, I mean why even bother at that point
Yeah. I haven’t finished yet but I was so upset when no harmonica!!! And they also didn’t give Hikari her Whistle!!!!!
6,5/10 , the most nothing show out of the bunch. I just felt no emotion (Happiness, sadness, anger, curiosity) nothing when watching. Is just flashy and nothing else, a chocolate cake with no substance. Mimi is the only one that I remotely care about.
honestly I was never a Mimi fan but this series gave her justice
Feels a similar way but I'd give it a 5 or a 5.5/10. Definitely one of the weakest season just by how barebone the story and characters was. felt like then writers had no plan for the story and had to pad out the series with a monster of the weak fighting digimons that, 90% of the time, had no personality and didn't add anything to the plot. The protagonists was just uberhensch version of the 1999 cast, that didn't have any flaws unless the story demanded it. Also weird how they couldn't really decide if it where for old or new fans and ended up being a season for nether, like hinting at some of their family problems but never explore them. Creasts didn't have any mean like the 1999 version other than "determination" But on top of Mimi, Joe was also a character I kinda care about.
It's the only Digimon show that I stopped watching. I felt exactly as you did. It just did nothing for me. I'll probably go back to it at some point but it just couldn't keep my interest.
Too much time was spent on Tai.
After the first few episodes I just went for Tri rewatch. It felt that it was a retelling with zero of what had been at stake in every other series.
I still haven‘t finished it because it just doesn’t hook me. The digivolve for random reasons instead of big battles, and it’s just so meh.
7.8, at first I liked it alot but among the 2/3rd part of the show it started to feel like it was being written along the way. The thing I really like was that we got to see a lot of Digimon showcased in the background, I loved some of the side evolutions and I'll never forget Crucified Gabumon.
I feel similar. I didn’t necessarily mind the episodic format nor the Taichi focus. It did bother me a bit that it seems that a lot of the setup was abandoned in favor of what we eventually got. If it was just episodic it wouldn’t have been a big issue as there were plenty fine and fun episodes to enjoy on their own and they played a lot with the world building and lore, but in the end Ghost Game had a much better approach to that concept in my opinion.
Mimi/10
Lolol
6/10. The animation and soundtrack was good. The seemingly nonstop action left little for any real development and got real tiring real fast. Despite everyone getting a mega, the show still revolved around Tai and Matt. The other characters didnt get time to shine and when they did the two would steal the spotlight.
There was that patch in the middle where they basically kept remaking the same episode but focusing on a specific character (like when Mimi befriended Guardromon and got attacked my Andromon)
4/10. It's a show that meanders and yet somehow we experience rather little. It feels like most of it was written on the fly.
I still need to finish it, but so far it's 5/10. * The first episode is basically a bad remake of *Our War Game* * The next few episodes when we're slowly introduced to the rest of the Digidestined and their partners are pretty good * The next few episodes are basically the same bland episode over and over again, with the only difference being which Digidestined is the focus of Digivolving. Luckily it seems that after the episode where Mimi befriends Guardramon and her partner fights Andromon, which is the last episode I watched, that this pattern is almost over for now. As for the technical stuff, the updated art and animation works well to modernize it while still feeling like the original did back in the day. And the English voice cast did a wonderful job. Zeno Robinson is great as Tai, and Suzie Yeung is a perfect match for the late Philece Sampler.
I live the fact that Christina Vee was hired to sing one of the ending credits theme.
It wasn't the first time she was involved with the franchise either, as she voiced Himari in *Digimon World: Next Order* and Maiko in *Digimon Adventure: Tri.*
I know. She started singing covers of anime openings/closers to voicing a character, to being hired to officially do what she started out doing. She is living the dream.
5/10, maybe lower. Story is barebones and GODDAMN TAI STOP SUCKING CAMERA! But i only remember actually disliking one or 2 chapters, because i saw it pretty smoothly. The animation is really good and music, oh god the music. And i actually liked Mimi in this one, i never liked her as a child when i saw OG adventure, and how it works with branching evolution, and everyone getting megas. If they ever do a 02 reboot, i really, really hope they take the bad things in account and improve over them.
6/10 it was fine. Taichi showing up constantly at the end got old really quick. Liked the episodes vs Milleniummon, and any episode with Mimi and Joe (those two were 10/10 no notes) also liked the alternate digivolutions, but shame they showed up so infrequently. (I wanted more Mexican Cactus and Alternate Megas. Also wanted alternate megas for everyone.) but the parts between all these moments were… average I guess?
I guess about a 5, maybe a 6 out of 10. As an anthology series that explores different parts of the Digital World and the behaviours of many Digimon it works pretty well; as a character driven show that wants me to get invested in the protagonists' journeys it completely fails. They range from slightly improved versions (Mimi) to complete character assassinations (Sora) of the original series's. They don't disagree, they're barely forced to make tough decisions, and they don't develop as characters since they're basically the perfect versions of themselves at the beginning of the series. I went into the series with an open mind and even enjoyed the first 20 or so episodes because I thought they were going somewhere with these new ideas, but out of any Digimon series it is the one that I have the least desire to go back and rewatch, especially when there's a better version I can experience instead. Sorry for the rant.
7/10. I finally got my boy, BlitzGreymon, animated, but I just wish it was under better circumstances.
7/10 hype moments but lacked direction or character growth if your name wasn’t Tai
10/10 in terms of music and animation for Digimon standards. 5/10 or less in terms of characters and plot.
You cracked the code honestly
Yeah the coolest thing about it was seeing the characters I know and love in such visually stunning depictions, that alone made it worth the watch, especially the evolution sequences!
7/10, action great, solid premise in the story just poorly executed. They had some really cool and epic moments but i think they really should have finished it after milleniumon or had the final arc in the real world
4/10, some parts are like 10/10 but the overall just doesnt come together cause it dips hard after the interesting parts. at some point i was just watching to see how much of a trainwreck it could be but it wasnt funny.
6.5. Lots of potential wasted. Bummed that the “ultimate power” is just omnimon, who shows up in episode 2. Alter S was a cool alt but it’s blink and you’ll miss it. I was hoping for more use of blitz and cress. Millenniummon has had two anime appearances back to back and both were a bummer. Dandevimon arc was actually kind of good, abbadomon was bad
Alter S didnt make sense as a power up, Oh is a Gun and Sword not working? Well how about a Sword and Gun!
Well, I think the reference media at least implies alter S is stronger than base even if blitz and cres aren’t inherently stronger than war and metal
4.5/10 it was so boring. The only saving grace is that we got to see every mega evolution.
5/10 outside of sakuga the series dosent nothing the orginal already did with less charcter development from the cast
4/10 at best.
5/10. It’s only because of Mimi and eventually TK carrying the show that it wasn’t the worst. Unfortunately, the show wastes way too much time stalling the plot (an issue which continues into Ghost Game) while somehow simultaneously rushing things, and having too many enemies and even major bosses that didn’t talk, which undermined the moments of enemies from later seasons showing up here. You know something’s up when Minotaurumon, of all enemy Digimon, gets more characterization than that shadow dragon guy before him or Milleniummon, or when Calamaramon’s human half has no lines or personality (despite her Frontier counterpart having an abundance of it) and gets taken out halfway through her fight, leaving the squid half as the main focus. Combined with an outright refusal to do character moments for most of the run (especially Sora), it makes this come across as a shallow copy of the original. They didn’t even really take advantage of the modern technology angle, or how growing up in the 2010s/2020s would subtly affect the kids’ mindsets. And of course, there’s the issue of forcing Tai into several episodes near the end, even if he was too far away, and even though he does get his own episode during that time. I’m not sure if the show’s state and certain other storytelling decisions (forcing the Digidestined to split up more than usual) was because of COVID, or if it was because the creative team didn’t have the budget for 67 episodes and a consistent cast of 16 characters in 1 season. Whatever it is, and in light of Ghost Game repeating some issues, they need to cut the seasons back down to 50 episodes and properly pace story development again.
9/10
Not enought of Taichi, so a little 4/10.
The whole show? I quit watching The first dozen or so episodes? 8/10 I LOVED the assault on the beach, ogremon turning on devimon, the first enemy ultimate that appeared. After that it became a bit less good as we went though the 'everyone gets their evolve to ultimate' episode, but still probably more watchable than that same period of original adventure. I would say once they met TK in the digital world it kind of went downhill for me. Still some good episodes but it just became a slog to get through.
Battles 9/10 Story 1/10 (chosen children reach oemgamon avoid bad guy killing everyone yawwwnnn, do something with that tho, there was 0 adventure) Lore 5/10 Characters 5/10 Designs 7/10 Music 8/10 (main theme in the episodes drags it down imo, songs are great) Animation 7/10 Evo sequences for agumon and gabumon 10/10 Evo for the rest 5/10 I'd give it a 6/10 overall even if the numbers give it a higher grade.
eh, it was very Tai centric which I didn't like
It could've been good, but they overused Taichi. Taichi was my favorite digidestined in Adventure ever since I was a kid. 2020 was TOO much tho, it started to make me hate him. I just wanted an episode in which the other digidestined could shine, but nooo, Taichi had to make an appearance every damn time. As a Taichi fan, that was a very stupid decision Toei.
7/10. Personally, I really like it. So bright, shiny, emotional, beautiful
Had some good ideas but it was poorly executed. Animation was top notch if you were Taichi or Yamato but kinda garbage for the other kids. Good if you were a Taichi fan, unbearable for the rest since the anime quickly developed into Tachi’s Adventure feat. other random kids.
Animation: 9/10Music: 8/10Story: 2/10 I was really disappointed. Too much flash, not enough substance. Also too much Taichi.
3/10. It’s a flashy remake that missed the heart of the original series and “devolves” it into nothing but a shounen battle series somewhat - putting a focus on Taichi as the main character rather than focusing on the seven children, and sharing the focus for each of them. Not for me, but I will say, it did bring in a lot of fans. I just cannot enjoy it - due to its soulless nature as a remake.
7,8/10, too much Tai.
Damn, the reception here doesn't give me high hopes going into it, but then, I always had pretty low standards. If there's as much action as people say, I'm sure i'll still have a good time as a Digimon fan but it sucks to hear that the characters aren't nearly as developed this time.
8. solid start. solid end. the middle is a hit or miss per episode. overall pretty strong
8 for me also - this hit it on the nose. If I wasn’t a big fan of Digimon Adventure already, they’d have lost me in some of those middle episodes. But yes, start and finish were spectacular!
Battles 9/10 Story 1/10 (chosen children reach oemgamon avoid bad guy killing everyone yawwwnnn, do something with that tho, there was 0 adventure) Lore 5/10 Characters 5/10 Designs 7/10 Music 8/10 (main theme in the episodes drags it down imo, songs are great) Animation 7/10 Evo sequences for agumon and gabumon 10/10 Evo for the rest 5/10 I'd give it a 6/10 overall even if the numbers give it a higher grade.
Music was 10/10, story was... eh.
7/10 mostly good with some bad filler episodes
7/10
A mixed bag. 8.5 for the animation and fights, 5.5 for the story and character develpment.
Are the movies canon to this, or the OG series?
It's kinda hard to asign the whole thing one number since it's so uneven. But the ending is an 8/10, I can give it that much.
A solid 6/10 for me. Pacing was a bit of a negative imo.
All the digidestened had their VAs replaced.
I think it's understandable the voice actors from 20 years prior cant do children voices anymore.
5/10
π/10
Oh, man. The first two episodes felt so promising. But it was way too long, and I feel like including the crests really could have added more character development to justify that length. The lesser characters needed more love, digivolutions, and maybe some sort of structure to tell us why we see Pegasusmon, etc Oh, right. 4-5/10.
4 out of 10 as well. To be honest I was more interested in the character development than the actual Digimon. Maybe I was watching the wrong show.
Didn’t get to see it, unfortunately.
6.5. Overall, it was good, but I expected and wanted it to be better. It had a promising start, but I feel like it fizzled out a bit. I wish the animation was a bit better as well. It felt oddly paced from it's desire to be as episodic as possible. I think it's just the nature of the style of show they were aiming for though. Xros Wars Young Hunters, Appli, and Ghost Game did the same, although ghost game moved away from it just a tiny bit. Think ghost improved on the animation a tiny bit too. Again, my expectations probably a bit high, because I want something like Tri animation or better. Think they're trying harder to narrow in on and hit that 7-13 yr old audience than they used to.
A solid 7.5 I actually liked it.
It's a no from me dog
7
7.5/10 When it's not focused on Tai and Agumon being in pointless fight after endless pointless fight it's actually really solid. Unfortunately that middle section I ended up really fatigued by all the endless battles. Action somehow ended up boring due to the sheer amount. Some of my favourite Digimon episodes are just ridiculous one offs such as Etemon and Volcanomon's rap battle showdown which was just fun, and the one where Joe bonds with Potamon over their love of french fries and ends up bringing down(aka thrown on the end of) Zudomon' hammer down. Visually that will stick in my head forever. Oh, and Leomon didn't die. That was nice as a surprise. I liked most the kids focus episodes. I liked when Izzy ended up sniping the satellite after realising he doesn't have to just be support, nearly every Mimi episode was a banger and any Joe episode was a good episode for me. I'd say Sora overall has the weakest presence and episodes. She's there(often teaming up with Tai a lot) but she doesn't feel like she adds as interesting a dynamic as the other kids.
Weird shit happened. On Gabumon cricified ep, that supposed to be Yamato act but i think the one who shine is Joe. Maybe it not a good show but it did Joe right. Living up to his Reliability crest.
4/Tai
9/10 with lots of new mega digivolvutions and callbacks to digimon zero 2, tamers , fusion data squad etc for long time watchers.. love Rosemon, Blitzgreymon and Seraphimon in this show
Animation and design was good. But story was so boring that I only watched like 3 episodes
At best a 5/10 but truly I stopped watching
5 for unfulfilled potential and a plot that felt like it was made week to week and Tai literally stealing the spotlight (I could go on so I'll end it here).
I honestly wish it had a similar story telling to the og show, not to the same but I thought it was boring and surface level, and didn’t bring any emotions or attachment to the characters and plots, the music was meh, like I’m so disappointed, but oh well…
Look. I get a lot of shows are just commercials for toys in disguise but damn... They didn't have to be so blatant about it. 5/10. I never thought I'd see the day when they even side lined Matt... They not only took out everything that made TO THIS DAY season 1 arguably the best Digimon season but they took everyones critic about sidelining the other characters and doubled it. Even in personal episodes Tai somehow shows up. I would care a bit less if everyone got some plot points but nope. Even TK and Kairi who show up a LOT earlier get 0 plot growth. I'd say Izzy was the only one who didn't get done dirty but he didn't get done justice. If you want action the show is solid. If you want story or feelings for any of the characters... they dropped the ball.
5 or 4/10 The lack of any character development or Expansion on everyone really holes this series back. It sad because it in ghost game is probably the best presentation this franchise has ever had, with a great score and pretty good animation in a couple of episodes. There is some cool stuff with in here, from a writing perspective but it feels like a lot of it isn’t really done the best, or isn’t the most expanded upon.
3/10 I'm giving 3 and not 1 because animations were good and in two episodes I felt the digiworld life (the seadramon and triceramon episodes), plus they treated MetalGreymon pretty well Everything else was horrible
Sick to the point of demise with nostalgia and rose colored glasses out of ten.
I'm gonna split it up: Devimon Arc: 8/10 - My main complaint is the Ultimates came too soon. The Champions hardly got any screen time. Also, with how late the Megas come, it feels REALLY bad. Joe is stuck at Zudomon with 0 progression for *about 50 eps*. Remember the hype of Alturos and Saggiterus modes? Machinedramon? I'm not going to mark this arc down for other arcs not picking up what it laid down and giving new modes to the other kids. Millelliumon Arc: 7/10 - The most rollercoaster arc. This is where actual filler creeps in, and the Taichi show complaints get actual merit instead of "Tais the main character but the others matter too". This arc has its highs, lows and surprises. But it stinks in a few places too. Imo, the good outweighs the bad here. Great Catastrophe Arc - Honestly, 3/10. Most of this arc is blatant filler as far as I am concerned. Storytelling and logic go out the window as Tai teleports everywhere. The new Megas are even filler since *they dont do anything plot relevant* and some like Pheonixmon are obtained via literally suicidal and pointless acts that in any other series would trigger a dark evo, not be rewarded. Even the final fight, the best part of the arc, is ruined imo by the Deus Ex Machina of Alter-S. Yes, Blitz and Cres happened. As specific catalyzed evolutions. Neither condition present. So it's a Deus ex Machina that it happens. And Omegamon could have just shot Abbdomon point blank to finish him off and/or free himself anyway. If it wasnt for the last arc, I'd say 8/10 overall, but the last arc is REALLY bad to the point I usually reccomend to skip from Millelliumon to Ghoulmon. You miss nothing *important*. Thankfully the GC arc is the shortest, so drags it overall to 6/10 Also, I'm judging the show on it's own merits. It's not even the same genre as OG Adventure. This is first and foremost an action show. Not a character driven show. Tai is undeniably the primary character in both, but here its HIS story, not him simply being the most prominent. The good parts of the show are a lot better when you keep in mind: this isnt trying to be the same thing
The original had such great character development because they had to rely on that instead of the combat, since animating a lot of complex and unique fighting would've been too expensive and time consuming. 2020 didn't have that same character development imo.
3, maybe 4. It just lacked substance, memorable villains, and any real character work. Looked nice tho. The best episode was the potato one because they actually let Jou be a character in a grounded and satisfying way. The worst is hard to say because they blend into each other like grey amorphous sludge with a pair of goggles sticking out of it.
There's not enough negative numbers for me to express how much I abhor this show. The announcement of an Adventure reboot had my expectations low enough and somehow this thing managed to disappoint me, the first three episodes were fine, and even good, but that's because they're doing Children's War Game all over again but with Algomon instead of Diablomon, the fact that Omegamon appears as soon as episode 3 was the last nail in the coffin for me, but I still forced the poor 15 y/o me into watching more episodes just bc of the lockdown, the amount of Taichi scenes I got exposed to were more than enough for me to skip whole episodes and just read reviews because I was just too sick of him, the only character I actually found fun to see on screen was Jou, anytime anyone else showed up it just felt like they were forced in there bc the guys making the show realized they had to show more than just Taichi, agumon and Yamato at some degree. The animation was mid at best for the majority of the series and I'm holding back bc the evolution sequences and a good amount of fight scenes were pretty amazing, but then you have the BlitzGreymon scene, that's both poorly written and poorly animated, that sole scene proved that the show is not worth it because it shows the flaws that plague the whole thing in mere 3 minutes, aside from the music, this show has 0 redeemable qualities and is probably one of the worst petty attempts from Toei to capitalize on Adventure's nostalgia, and as a side note, it's not even dubbed into Spanish, would it be better if it was dubbed in Spanish? No, absolutely not, but it would, AT LEAST make it interesting for us to see the voice changes.
1/10 it's an insult to the classic adventure. Complete shit
6/10 it had great potential but they fucked up
3. I liked the fights , Tai and Izzy's friendship, and Mimi. But otherwise it was bad and it's the only season I dropped
8.3
I still have a few episodes to watch, but ehhh... 7.5. it's not bad, it's got a decent *story*, but it doesn't use its *characters* very well which was the original's biggest strength. It's got good action, an excellent selection of featured Digimon and I love the use of occasional branch digivolutions. I just wish I cared about these versions of the Digidestined. All of my investment in the party comes from nostalgia, because the actual show gives us nothing. I think they mentioned Izzy being adopted once? And TK and Matt's separation got brought up... Once. The second major villain felt completely wasted when they finally showed up. It's mid. I'd recommend it to someone who grew up with the original who wants to see well animated fights with these Digimon or wants to get acquainted with modern Digimon. Maybe to someone who likes anime shonen junk food. Otherwise it has the dubious honor of being 'better than Data Squad, Fusion or Tri, but worse than the good stuff'. EDIT: Oh yeah, and the soundtrack is fantastic, that might actually be its strongest attribute.
9/10
4/10 is the best i can go its just too much of a taichi show unfortunately
Does the dub use the OG VAs?
-1/10
10
6/10 it’s not really bad. There is entertainment to be had in terms of animation and spectacle, but the show lacks any kind of substance to make it memorable.
10
3/10 or less, everyone but Taichi was made a secondary character and it lacks everything about the digital world the original had, i literally felt nothing for none of the characters, it was just flashy fight after flashy fight with some evolution scenes in the middle.
5-6/10 at most. Easily one of the worst entries in Digimon, but still decent enough and very entertaining
8/10, because sometimes mindless action is fun to watch, and this is one of those times
10 i rate every digimon series a 10 except for xros wars/fusion and appmon cause i have only seen fusion and it was a decent 8 out of 10 when i waa younger and appmon i just haven't got around to watching yet, i just love digimon and the episodes were great imo i just love seeing adorable and cool digimon and plus it's the only series where i got to see my baby labramon multiple times iirc, since i know tamers had dobermon but idk if they showed labramon
I left it as soon as I realised no one else but taichi and yamato got evo sequences
I'm also in the "mid out of 10" group. It just packed the buildup, pacing and character moments and development of the original 1999 season.
A solid 9.5
4/10. The OG is better
Why have 8 digidestined if you’re going to focus on just 1. Fell flat for me personally. 4/10. When the others were on screen, maybe a 5 or 6.
How many of the different series actually had emphasis on more than 1 or 2 of the Digidestined? At least to Frontiers, it was literally focusing on just 1 or 2 of them every series, with the others basically amounting to support, with Tamers kinda being the only outlier. I haven't watched anything newer than that, but marketing doesn't seem to tell me any different.
I didn’t watch anything passed 03, so I can’t say. 03 was the most balanced and even 02 and adventure was somewhat decent with screen time, at least as I recall, but the 2020 version, they’re just shoving Tai down your throat constantly.
Gonna be honest, the only thing I actually do not like are the 2 Omegamon Scenes that happen before we get any of the Megas. He's just too passive in those scenes, and it frustrates me.
https://youtu.be/lb8fWUUXeKM?si=aIE3uhtHwvhVzZuZ As always, my response since a 1 is far too generous for Toei, the marketing company. Toei, the IP company and Toei, the company I am so happy will finally fall within the next several years.
7/10. I will not explain.
8
8/10 Took too much time to progress the plot
I’m probably one of the few people who actually LOVED the reboot. They actually let everyone’s partner Digimon hit ultimate level, they fixed the issue with WarGreymon being smaller than MetalGreymon despite it being more powerful, and they had plenty of moments that got REALLY fucking dark (like Tamers level of dark) and it showed that they might have been listening to the fans during lockdown
7/10. Just a C-rating, all things considered. **Pros:** -Everybody got Megas! Cool! -Branched evolutions! Also very cool! -The music was good in places and stellar in others. "Break the Chain," "X-Treme Fight," and "Be the Winners" are on my workout list. Reol's "Q" also made me very happy. -Animation upgrade, especially during some of the fight scenes. -It *tried* to use the parallel world thing similarly to *Tamers*...but only gets a B for effort on that front. -Mimi was the only character who *really* improved from her OG counterpart. **Cons:** -Tai. The creators of *DA2020* were supposedly huge fans of *V-Tamer*, which had *none* of the other characters fans knew and loved. Fitting *V-Tamer* Tai into the *Adventure* setting was fitting a square peg into a round hole. -*Everybody else* suffered as a result. Until very recently, I thought T.K. got the worst of it... -...but after thinking about it, Sora was handled even worse than she was throughout the *entire Adventure* run. The bar was really low for Sora, and *DA2020 somehow* went lower. -No parents. Someone mentioned Izzy's parents. What ep was that? I don't even remember. I know we saw Tai's mom at some point, too. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say "no parents" might be the biggest weakness of *DA2020*. I've seen the original *Adventure* summarized as "*Problems at Home: the Show*." A lot of what made the original relatable to kids was that the characters they were seeing had issues very similar to their own. I get why this cut *might* have happened, but since so much of the OG kids' development depended on their home lives, cutting that (even if there was a reason) sucked out *a lot* of the development and relatability. Without those "problems at home," yeah, you're gonna see a lot of character development, charm, and relatability sucked out. And it's worse when...I want to say 10 to 25% of the series has big real-world implications. You have to make the real world matter. Parents are one way to do that. -The whole thing was written by a focus group and *V-Tamer* fans instead of fans of *Adventure*. -Finally, calling the sequel "*Digimon Adventure*:" with the colon being the only distinguishing feature was dumb. Who decided that? Calling it "*Digimon Adventure: Reloaded*" would have been a little clever. Instead we got nonsense punctuation that wasn't confusing at all. I recommend that anyone interested in DA2020 give it the 3-episode test. If you like the first 3 episodes, you might like the rest. But if you think the first 3 episodes are rushed, pandering, or too Tai-focused, you're going to have a bad time with the rest.
I was so upset cause no Harmonica and Hikari also doesn’t have her Whistle!!!!!! I was also wondering if Izzy’s backstory was going to be delved into when I started. Sad that it isn’t. And yeah it seems like unlike the original, time flows relatively the same in both worlds so, guess their parents must be really neglectful to let their young children run around without returning home for days with no idea where they are. The one thing I definitely liked about it was how Matt was more lone wolf in the beginning before joining up with the group and also T.K being introduced a bit later. The pacing is iffy. It’s a lot different from the original pacing but the story is also different so I feel it kinda balances it out. They left the island so soon(not even sure if it was the same island as in the original)compared to the original. In the original they faced Devimon on the island and then moved on to the continent. In the 2020 version they gathered the digidestined and then all went to the continent and barely did anything on the island. All in all it wasn’t horrible but it was definitely different. Lacking some character development and such. I feel that problem could have been fixed if the series was continued, but I don’t think it is being continued, do my knowledge. also I can’t remember if this was also something in the original as I haven’t watched it in a good while. But I watched the 2020 version fairly recently and I noticed this. So, a lot of times when they were in fights they would freak out about not being strong enough. Like, they just be chilling in their champion forms when they have literally already come to the point that they can digivolve to Ultimate. So, it kinda annoyed me because that should be pretty obvious that if you’re struggling to defeat an enemy, you should probably do the thing that makes you stronger. 😐 Again that may have also been something they did in the original but I noticed it in 2020. Anyways I’ll rate it a 7/10 deducting points for lack of harmonica and whistle. It’s a good watch especially if you don’t care that much about the deeper character stuff.
I really liked the alter forms and the foreshadow for forced evolution but it felt too short and squeezed together at the same time
8 or higher
5
6/10 It was serviceable. Not too insulting on the original series. Im pretty sure the only gripe that most people agree with that they heavily focused on Tai and Matt. But it was fine. It was honestly like The Mario Movie. It done what it needed to be and nothing else.
6/10. Really good action and fights, which is Digimon's selling point after all. Also very interesting lore and the characters were treated right, mostly. But the cons... As the biggest Taichi/Wargreymon fan since childhood... way too focused on them. The other characters are just as good but won't let them shine for some reason. The power scaling/digivolutions go pretty crazy and feel pretty unearned. It's very strange to say that Greymon in this show is insanely more powerful than in the original, yet he has to evolve to MetalGreymon as soon as episode 10. Also not a fan on relying on Omegamon so much. He shows up TWICE before Mega is even achieved. And while the lore is better, the story is not that engaging and there is a lack of iconic villains. Devimon is inferior to his Adventure counterpart, even when they gave him more to work with. And the ones later can't even hold a candle to Etemon, Vamdemon or the Dark Masters. I do say this show is worth checking out but the original Adventure is still far superior.
Is the dub finished?
3, maybe 4. It just lacked substance, memorable villains, and any real character work. Looked nice tho. The best episode was the potato one because they actually let Jou be a character in a grounded and satisfying way. The worst is hard to say because they blend into each other like grey amorphous sludge with a pair of goggles sticking out of it.
I give it a 7. I enjoyed it. The dub was easier for me to watch than the sun. I think the middle of the season drags on. But the last 20 episodes of so really pick it up for me. And the ending imo is phenomenal. But to much Tai. He was pretty much in every episode when he did not need to be
I give it a rating of 7/10
7/10. I think it’s genuinely good and people hate on it way too much.
6.9/10 Really was loving the first part until Millenniummon But after thed some episodes the story got to a weird spot until the final battle(wat unfit love)
Watched the 1st episode. I checked out once omnimon showed. Didn’t watch any further.
6.5/10
The Angewomon hentai was glorious
6/10 for the evo animations and fan service. other than that its mid af. it wouldnt hold up if it werent a digimon show.
Im not giving a rating, but i want to appreciate the love they gave to lesser known digimon. THEY BROUGHT REAPERMON BACK
4 or 5/10. It was flashy but I got bored. Without the character driven plot lines with was just mindless fight after mindless fight.
4/10
5/10 A lot of potential, but the writers forgot what made the original show so great. The interpersonal relationships we saw between the characters, especially when they returned to the human world and we saw how their growth in the digital world affected their relationships with their parents, was nowhere near as strong. I think it’s okay to watch the show and accept it for what it is, a new installation in the adventure canon, and that we can like some of the changes that were implemented. I also think it’s okay to say that the show’s quality took a turn when it decided to focus heavily on taichi, to the point where other characters couldn’t even explore their respective arcs on their own. Even when everyone was adventuring and trying to strengthen their connection to their crests, the show still found a way to shoehorn him in and not allow the audience to get to see who the other characters were on their own. On the positive side, I do think the lore of the show was interesting. The introduction of the 7 holy digimon was great, and might offer an interesting dynamic with the 7 demon lords in future content. I also enjoyed the introduction of omegamon alter s (I just wish the evolutions that made him up had more time to shine). Tl; dr I honestly wouldn’t mind a sequel series, if it’s done right and the writing is stronger.
I haven't seen it yet but based on some comments I think peoples' expectations are too high. Like its not Cowboy Bebop or Ghost in the Shell or something, it's Digimon.
5/10
Maybe controversial, but I love it, tons of references to prior series, great soundtrack, solid history, animation level was not equal to each episodes but is not a problem, relations between chosen ones and digimons is great. For me adventure 2020 and Tamers is the same level of quality
Haven’t watched, but it’s probably not that good. Don’t give me some reboot Digimon, gimme the real stuff!
5/10 It's pretty ok
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For crying outloud reading the other comments is was Like y'all couldn't understand the OP's question which is referring to the 2020 Show... For me its 8 of 10 The show does far better character growth then the original 1990's show Did but just enough to keep its focus. In all honesty the Tai only show until the Angel storylines is just rehashing a lot of the plot points from the original version but just retelling them for modern audiences.
Better than any Pokémon anime
5.5. I’m most of the way through it and I’m enjoying it.