Digimon Ghost Game

Sightings of mysterious creatures known as "Hologram Ghosts" have been a popular topic on social networks for the past few years. According to the rumors, several people have fallen victim to these specters. Those fortunate to survive their encounters with the paranormal beings claim that they resembled glitched holograms.

Hazakura Academy middle school student Hiro Amanokawa believes these sightings are merely an urban legend. However, as the incidents start to increase in frequency, he is reminded of the day his father suddenly vanished, with strange digital watches serving as the only relics of his disappearance. Much like the other sightings, what happened to Hiro's father cannot be explained by conventional logic.

One day, when a fellow student in the academy is attacked by a Hologram Ghost, Hiro and his friend Kiyoshirou Higashimitarai decide to look into the matter. Little does Hiro know that this investigation will be their first step toward discovering a dangerous world previously unknown to mankind.

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Gammamon Main

Sawashiro, Miyuki Japanese

Jellymon Main

Shimamura, Yuu Japanese

Higashimitarai, Kiyoshirou Main

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Amanokawa, Hiro Main

Tamura, Mutsumi Japanese

Tsukiyono, Ruri Main

Kobayashi, Yuu Japanese

Angoramon Main

Nakai, Kazuya Japanese

Impmon Supporting

Reimi Japanese

Terriermon Supporting

Tada, Aoi Japanese

Vamdemon Supporting

Morikawa, Toshiyuki Japanese

Piemon Supporting

Yamaji, Kazuhiro Japanese

Hashimoto, Shintarou Producer

Mitsuka, Masato Director

Chioka, Kimitoshi Director

Tanaka, Yuuta Episode Director, Storyboard, Production Assistant

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Feb 15, 2023

SuspiciousStain

Recommended

Preliminary (63/67 eps)

This show is mostly episodic. This means it is not driven by a big overhanging plot. Comparing it to Scooby-Doo would be accurate, e.g. it uses the same characters but each episode is different. That is the main critique people have with Ghost Game. This doesn't bug me at all, so I love Ghost Game. This show is not like any of the other Digimon series. It went for a horror vibe, but not in a scary way. What I mean is that humans die all the time in this show. It isn't a really innocent kids show like the other Digimon series. It is ... worth mentioning that the main character's Digimon is named Gammamon and he is freaking adorable. No joke, Gammamon makes this show worth watching without mentioning anything else. He is like an upgraded version of Guilmon's personality from Digimon Tamers.

It currently doesn't have an English dub, but if you are reading this in the future where an English dub (maybe) exists, I suggest you watch it in sub anyways. The voice actor for Gammamon is too good to miss. Also, hello from the past!

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Jul 14, 2024

sams_slasher

Mixed Feelings

This anime has great potential, and people actually expect a more mature and darker story. However, what we got is like a Scooby-Doo style anime. Sadly, if we skip a lot of episodes, only 20-30 episodes truly matter. You might wanna google which "filler" episodes to skip.
My rating for those 20-30 episodes is 6.7 out of 10.0 because the story is kinda good and some episodes like episode 13 bring the same vibe as the previous installments and make watchers realize "Yeah, I'm watching Digimon, not Pokémon"
As a whole, I might give it a rating of 5.4 out of 10.0 because it still has good ... animation, introduces a lot of new Digimon, and features good fights between the Digimon.
Without these aspects, maybe I would give it 4.2 out of 10.0. Yeah, it's too boring even for an episodic format anime.

The target audience for this anime is kind of confusing. It's not suitable (kinda boring) for veteran fans, but it's not compelling to children as well. It's like a mix of Pokémon and Scooby-Doo, and children will choose those two shows or other kid-friendly anime instead.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Mar 28, 2023

Zerockman

Not Recommended

Wow, what a trainwreck of an anime. This anime managed to disappoint me more than I thought it could, and it turned into the all time worst Digimon series. This show actually had a lot of potential, but most of it was wasted down the drain. Let's break it down.

Digimon Ghost Game starts off pretty well, introducing us to an interesting cast of main characters alongside their equally endearing partner digimon. For the first 10 or so episodes we get an episodic approach where we see the first digivolutions, i.e the Champion/Adult level digivolutions, for all 3 main digimon. We've seen other Digimon anime do ... this, like Tamers and Universe. But what those series did and this one should have as well was to move on from the episodic formula and start to develop the story, even if slowly. Instead, what we got were 64 or so episodes of continuous boring, repetitive "digimon of the week" type of thing. You probably checked the episode count for this anime - 67. That's right. The last 3 episodes of the anime are the ones where the plot actually ensues. For the first 64 episodes literally nothing happens. We get a few teases here and there but nothing more than that. This creates two big problems:

- The first one is that the vast majority of the anime is a boring episodic mess with close to no plot or character development or any meaningful moments other than the digivolutions.
- The second one is how rushed the finale was. I'm not going to get into spoilers for how the story ends, but just know it was one of the most rushed and anti-climatic endings I've seen in any anime. The most frustrating part of all this is that the pieces were all there for a good series/finale, because the last 3 episodes actually have some really interesting plot twists and developments. In the final episode alone we got tons of exposition explaining several of the things that happened throughout the show. The future was even set for a potential continuation or sequel because they introduced a major threat around 4 or 5 minutes away from the end of the final episode. But of course they didn't follow through with that. Instead we got a meaningless, cheap and nonsensical finale that not only felt super rushed but also doesn't even explain how they averted the major threat I mentioned just now.

Digimon Ghost Game does have some good moments, but that mostly amounts to the Digivolution scenes, the digivolved forms of the main 3 digimon which are mostly really well designed, and also to the 2 main insert songs, First Riders and Makuake, which are both pretty hype, especially Makuake. The animation is also generally pretty good. For both Toei and Digimon standards, I would say this is actually the best animated Digimon series, at least in terms of consistency. We never really got any slideshow battle which is a surprise for, like I said, Digimon standards. This makes it feel even worse that the imo worst Digimon show ever is the one that gets the best production treatment.

Like I said at the start, Digimon Ghost Game is a big wasted potential and it turned into a huge flop. It does have some good moments here and there, but the boring episodic nature and the rushed, nonsensical finale turn it into my least favourite Digimon series ever, and as a Digimon fan it really makes me feel bad.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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