Digimon Adventure:

In the year 2020, technology is everywhere. Every digital device around the world is connected by a singular network where data travels. Unbeknownst to humans, this network has become home to life forms known as "Digimon."

Fifth-grader Taichi Yagami is preparing for summer camp when strange occurrences begin in Tokyo; certain electronic systems have started going haywire. When he discovers that his sister and mother are trapped on an unstoppable train, he rushes to the nearby station. Suddenly, Taichi is transported to another world where he meets a strange creature by the name of Agumon, who somehow already knows his name. Taichi also receives a strange device called a "Digivice," which allows him to communicate with the undigitized world.

Taichi discovers he is in the "Network," and virus-like Digimon are attacking the areas that maintain Tokyo’s electronic systems. It is up to Taichi and his new partner Agumon to stop these cyberattacks before the whole world is threatened by the actions of mischievous Digimon.

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Yagami, Taichi Main

Sanpei, Yuuko Japanese

Ishida, Yamato Main

Namikawa, Daisuke Japanese

Yagami, Hikari Main

Watada, Misaki Japanese

Takaishi, Takeru Main

Han, Megumi Japanese

Agumon Main

Sakamoto, Chika Japanese

Tachikawa, Mimi Main

Kouno, Marika Japanese

Tailmon Main

Sonozaki, Mie Japanese

Patamon Main

Matsumoto, Miwa Japanese

Gabumon Main

Yamaguchi, Mayumi Japanese

Izumi, Koushirou Supporting

Kobayashi, Yumiko Japanese

Sakurada, Hiroyuki Producer

Mitsuka, Masato Director

Kaizawa, Yukio Episode Director, Storyboard

Ootsuka, Takashi Episode Director, Storyboard

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Feb 27, 2024

Sai_Saishi

Recommended

Although I wouldn’t describe it as outstanding, this revisit to Digimon Adventure is a fun ride. It does have a lot of failings, but for this 90s kid, it offered some great callbacks to the original series and made just a few improvements. I wouldn’t discourage anyone from watching and enjoying it. This reboot does fail in a lot of areas as well, though, mostly in the areas of pacing and character development. The pacing was funky, offering random glimpses in each episode at what various character groups were doing or charging headlong into boss battles that weren’t really all that earned. I often found ... myself confused about how situations developed until I rewatched the whole thing in reverse order so I could see the connections between episodes from a different angle. I saw a reviewer who described this show as having extreme acts of random heroism in place of character building, and that feels accurate to me. There is character development, but it is weak. If you’re debating if you should watch this, I’d say give it a try but don’t expect the storytelling to be quite as good as you remember.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 28, 2023

Varski_The_Chief

Mixed Feelings

Okay let me get this straight. I have seen almost all of the digimon series there is to watch including all of the movies (only missing the Xross Wars and aplimon) and having played most of the games and read some original stories and scripts and even some mangas there is I think I am in pretty good position to write this review. So as I said I have a pretty good understanding of the franchise as a whole. I love digimon and thats why writing this review hurts in more than one way. But here we go anyway. After the good send off that ... Last Kizuna was for the original Adventure I had my own suspicions on this one when I heard they were making a reboot of the original series that I keep in high regard for being a good show overall and having huge nostalgia classes on my head. And for the most part this new series turned out to be even worse than what I had anticipated but hear me out. There are some real neat things in the show like references to the older games and some proper backstory of the digimons in general that have not been touched in the anime so far.
And it got me laughing a couple times just like the old show. But not all is well and now on to tell what is not so good in this reboot. Firstly writing is the biggest challenge this new series suffers. Episode pacing is all over the place and it seems like that the writers just went with the attitude of writing one episode at the time and therefore missing the whole overarching story as a complete package. So while the story has some cool elements that could have been really neat they for the most part are left really underdeveloped and stay just as cool ideas.
Characters feel very underdeveloped too in many ways compared to the original and seems like the focus was more to just write characters and not to make memorable characters. In the original series all of the children had their own problems and personalities and they were explored more deeply and they had to overcome those problems of theirs and mostly they get solved during the course of the series. Here that happens too but like fraction of it what the original has to offer. Children rarely anymore interact with other digimon (just by nuking or fighting them) which make the digital world feel very much like that all of the digimon or atleast a huge portion of them are there to fight for the dominance of this world and are otherwise just soulless killing machines. Evolutions happen just for the sake of plot for both sides for the children and for the bad guys. They just happen for the most part. They are not in most cases earned in any way to justify the evolution or some digimons appearing so soon in the series. In the old series there was always something preventing that evolution to happen. It felt earned when finally that evolution could be achieved.
And while I get that agumon is like the pikachu of the franchise it has too much involvement in the progression of the story and most of the fights. Agumon is everywhere and is involved in all too many fights that he does not have to be in. Original series gave a good amount of epic time to all of the digimons and chosen children and yes I know that Taichi and Yamato had more attention in the original too its way more obvious here. Even Yamato is most of the time in the shadow of Taichi and did I mention that he gets most of the screen time also. Taichi is in almost all of the episodes and even when he would not be needed and you start to think that hey this might be an episode without him he magickly happens to appear from thin air (which starts to get quite humorous in a way during the show as you start to guess where he appears next xD). I am huge fan of agumon and I like Taichi as a character in the original but even I started to feel very bored that they get to do most of the cool stuff that happens in the series.
But even with these problems that I mentioned there are some properly good episodes here and there and almost all of the cast get atleast one great episode where they get to shine. Its just sad that this series is 67 episodes long and if you are a fan of some of the other children other than Taichi and Yamato you might have to wait for a long time before the next time comes for that character to get the spotlight they all deserve. And they are always smaller than what Yamato and Taichi get to achieve. So while as a whole this series is a big mess of development favoritism and writing they have managed to capture some of the older series energy in some of the episodes for the very least.
Mimi and Jou are way better in this reboot than in the original and most of their episodes are more than great but then again characters like Sora and Koushiro have been ruined pretty harshly in my opinion. Like I mentioned earlier some of their defining personalities have been forgottten somewhere not to be found in this reboot. It does affect all of the cast but those are the characters that get the shortest stick in my opinion here. Most fight scenes in this series are one of the best animated over the whole franchise and some even having some properly good choreography in the fight but some of these are ruined by the favoritism and tipping of the power scaling massively. One of the strongest digimons the series has is introduced in the beginning of the series and one of the most powerful digimon that we knew before this show is beaten very easily in just couple minutes later in the series.
Villains have evolved in some areas and have taken some real setbacks in others. Some of them are familiar from the original like Devimon and his story is probably the best of them in the early run of the series and his story involved as a whole would have had so much more potential if written more deeply because there are some real neat ideas and lore involved here. And the end of his arc could have been the final episode of the whole series and this happens couple of times during the show. First half of the episode three could have been the last episode and so could have been the episode 50 and couple others. The show loses most of its momentum as almost all of these encounters have Mega digimons in them way before they are even introduced to the children (excluding that one that I mentioned earlier that gets introduced in the episode two) and most of them are dealt with ease. The sense of danger is rarely a factor here. Of course the children are going to win in the end but in the original the sense of danger and defeat was somewhat present. You start to expect that each fight is going to be won and that certain digimon to appear everytime situation gets too desperate and you hope they would give a good explanation for it in the end. Well they do give answer to that in the end but its very loose and not that original idea. Overall the villains are just there to be villains but they don't have a proper target or solid motives for their actions as in the original series they mostly seem to have a clear purpose. The real finale of the series has really cool fight scene but that kinda is the whole thing.
Almost all the show has to offer in many ways is very predictable story pieces and how the fights end in a bad way (excluding those great episodes I mentioned earlier). But for me the saving part and the best part of the series is the music Takayoshi Tanimoto and Toshihiko Sahashi have done and ou boy have they really out done themselves this time and I can properly say that these songs do fit the new anime way better than what they would have if they had used the old songs. I was always hyped to hear the songs starting play and the faster pacing and more hype atmosphere of this show really shows in the music and its neatly tied into small package that plays throughout the soundtrack and still be able to sound like they could be from the original series (some parts have been taken from the old soundtrack if listened carefully and brave heart can be heard in the new evolution songs). And speaking of the new evolution songs all three of them are great rivals for the the masterful and legendary work of Koji Wada (may he rest in piece). Unfortunately we could not have his work in this version too but what we now had is the best we could get and I can see myself listening to these for the years to come. All of the digivolution stages have song for them concluding in a whopping three songs that all kick ass and do fit for the show.
Now time to wrap this up somehow. In conclusion if you are huge digimon fan I suggest you to give this one a try just don't expect something outstanding but other than that its really hard to justify who this show was made for. New viewers have no idea about the game references or the first couple episode being like a nod to the good old boku no war game movie and many others. We old watchers and fans get those but the show is not what we liked in the original adventure about the characters and the story ? So its a like hybrid that tries to capture the hearts of us old fans with neat little tricks and old characters but still tries to make it something that some new fans would be able to call a classic and wait for the series to continue in the future and it really cannot succeed in any of these objectives. So now we have mediocre show that wasted so much potential and episodes to tell a story that is not very memorable with sometimes beautiful animations and very cool songs.
Overall I did not give this one a really high score as the negatives really outweight the positives here. But when I enjoyed it I really did enjoy it. I probably forgot to mention something here too but I don't want this to be any longer xD. See for yourself if you like it. Not a huge recommendation from me but a recommendation nonetheless as a digimon fan. Now let me go watch those couple really good episodes again and try to forget most of this series exists while listening to Break the Chain in the background.

Story 3/10
Art 6/10
Sound 6/10
Music 9/10
Enjoyment 7/10
Overall 6/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Aug 18, 2024

BlitzAceSamy

Not Recommended

The more I think about this series, its potential, and how it ultimately led to disappointment, the more I felt I just needed to write this review.

I grew up as a fan of the Digimon franchise, so I am not watching this with fresh eyes, as I expect most watchers here will be. If you too are a fan of the franchise wondering if you should spend your time watching this series, allow me to share with you the best parts of this anime, so you don't have to waste your time digging through the bad parts to get to the good parts.

1. The absolutely ... fantastic hand-drawn sakuga evolution sequences for Agumon and Gabumon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnQTE2C5_Kw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFNqyK5bgdM
(Too bad they ran out of budget and couldn't do the same for the other six of the cast members)

2. The absolute banger opening and 3 evolution themes (just like how 02 had four evolution themes for each of Armor, Adult, Perfect, and Ultimate levels, Adventure 2020 has three evolution themes for each of Adult, Perfect, and Ultimate levels as well):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59gNYs04roA (Opening)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdkJLe_LaqY (Adult evolution theme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgvm18SMZ9s (Perfect evolution theme)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSMm9o5lcUM (Ultimate evolution theme)

3. Kouno Marika making Kouno Marika noises, but really, you're better off watching Onii-chan wa Oshimai! or Hinako Note, or heck, even Isekai wa Smartphone to Tomo ni.

And these three points are literally the only good things I can say about this series that I've spent 67 episodes watching lmao. Seriously the final fight at the end of the series is literally a PowerPoint slideshow where they obviously ran out of animation budget smh

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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