Digimon Adventure

When a group of seven children go to summer camp, the last thing that they expect is snow falling in July. In the confusion that follows this phenomenon, they each receive an odd device that transports them to another world. As soon as they wake up in this new world, they encounter strange creatures who call themselves "Digimon." The Digimon tell them that they've landed in the "Digital World," far from home.

With only the Digimon and the "Digivices" as protection, the seven children set off to find their way home and learn the reason why they were brought here. Led by the impulsive Taichi Yagami and his hungry Digimon partner Agumon, this group will have to fight unknown evils as they discover more about this outlandish Digital World.

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Yagami, Taichi Main

Fujita, Toshiko Japanese

Ishida, Yamato Main

Kazama, Yuuto Japanese

Yagami, Hikari Main

Araki, Kae Japanese

Takaishi, Takeru Main

Konishi, Hiroko Japanese

Agumon Main

Sakamoto, Chika Japanese

Izumi, Koushirou Main

Tenjin, Umi Japanese

Tachikawa, Mimi Main

Maeda, Ai Japanese

Tailmon Main

Tokumitsu, Yuka Japanese

Takenouchi, Sora Main

Mizutani, Yuuko Japanese

Patamon Main

Matsumoto, Miwa Japanese

Seki, Hiromi Producer

Kimura, Kyoutarou Producer

Kakudou, Hiroyuki Director, Episode Director

Hosoda, Mamoru Episode Director, Storyboard

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Aug 17, 2024

LightNoragami1

Recommended

So, I first watched a very small amount (9 or 10) episodes as a kid in English dub, loved it. Then as a 20 year old adult, I watched the whole thing in Japanese... loved it. Digimon Adventure is an incredible achievement in low budget children's anime, because this is definitely a children's anime but unlike most kids tv, its actually very well written. The character development of Taichi and Mimi in particular, but all of the mains in general, is so very well done and actually quite compelling, one episode even deals with PTSD which is insane for a 90s kids anime, its so ... good. The setting of this bizarre world where they are the only 7 humans is just brilliant in adding jeopardy and mystery to the affair and it allows for conflict to feel like a natural by-product of the environmental factors rather than kids just arguing. The arcs do differ in quality, with the Devimon arc and the Dark Masters arc being my favourites but none are bad, although they do all follow a formula of "a bad boss wants to do evil". Episode 21 of this series might be one of the finest bits of kids TV I've ever seen. Also, death is a possibility here, which is what sets it above other kids TV for me. The fights aren't the most thrilling due to obvious budget restrictions but they can hit home when they need to. Character designs for the humans are pretty good and for the main digimons plus main villains they are all pretty good. I've been watching series 2 for over a year now and its awful in comparison to this, because it has neither the charm or the feeling of danger.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Oct 14, 2023

Resting_Bonfire

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Digimon Adventure

Either you loved Digimon, Pokemon, or both. For me, it was without a doubt Digimon and with this season my love for this Anime began. Each day before school, I watched the episodes and kept listening to the music over and over again. That was undoubtedly a beautiful childhood, unfortunately, childhood memories are always different.
That's why I sacrificed my childhood memories to watch that show again. This resulted in a very unpleasant disaster because as expected, it's far worse than you can imagine.
For kids it is still highly recommended, children are not interested in anything but an emotional story and that is exactly ... what Digimon is all about. Music, emotions, friendship, and fights for good. That's all you need to like it. At least if you are still very young.

But from the perspective of an older person, watching Digimon was a real challenge. Not only were the episodes deadly boring, the dialogue was disastrous, and the show was a monotonously chewed piece of gum from beginning to end. There was no variety or individuality. It always repeated the same pattern, until the finale.

I think Digimon would have been far better if it had put a higher focus on the characters and their relationships, rather than "battles". In the later episodes, almost 2-3 minutes per episode go by just for the digitations.... and the rest are just relatively mediocre fights as if they were from a puppet show. Whereas the character relationships get almost no attention.

Although I like Digimon more than Pokemon, Pokemon has achieved exactly the opposite result here.


[Conclusion 4]

It's really hard to rate an anime this old and made mainly for kids. I hope I didn't go too far out on a limb with this attempt. Anyway, Digimon is very suitable for a young audience and unfortunately nothing for adults. Unless you ignore the criticism and just want to float in nostalgia, then this is not a problem either.

[Enjoyment 5]

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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Jul 23, 2019

Kinshred

Not Recommended

Digimon Adventure is the first show from my childhood that I've given the time and effort to rewatch and has dissappointed me massively.
While a lot of this dissappointment might come from the fact that I watched the Latin American dub of the show (which is not how I usually watch other shows, and is really badly produced), I still can't imagine how anybody over the age of 15 could seriously enjoy this show as a whole, unlike other "childhood anime" like Dragon Ball, Yu-gi-Oh, or Pokemon. Let me explain:

Back when I was a kid, I remember liking Digimon. I watched the first 4 seasons ... after school everyday and then I grew out of it, but my memories of the show were pretty much nonexistent, unlike other shows I watched back then.

I remembered the little bat hamster becoming an angel and thinking it was ridiculous but also really cool. I remembered Tai and Matt(Yamato) being sort of the main guys because their Digimons had more evolutions. I remembered the cat Digimon. I remembered lots of little details like these, but when thinking about the big picture, my mind was blank.

This didn't happen with any other similar animes from my childhood, so when I saw 2019 was the 20 year anniversary of the franchise I thought "cool, a great excuse to watch it today". So I did, and so, I found why I didn't remember anything.

The story is completely forgettable unless you rewatch it countless times. It doesn't get any more complicated than "Bad Digimon wants to destroy the world, because they are evil, and we have to fight it, because we are good", then just repeat that like 4 times with increasing scales of power but no change in motivation for either side.

It is also 54 episodes but somehow manages to have an extremely rushed pacing, making every battle (which pretty much every episode has one) follow the same order of events: Bad Digimon appears, one or all of the good Digimon fight it and they either win in one attack or Digivolve through the Power of Crying or Shouting or Friendship or whatever you wanna call it, then attack once again and win. And when I mean once, I really do mean once.

Well, it is a show for children, right, I shouldn't expect anything more.
The thing is that would be fine if the art was any good.

Digimon Adventure is what I think when somebody mentions Toei in a bad way. While I'm not familiar with the quality of Toei shows of the time, Digimon has to be up there in the reuse of animations. Some are nice (Digievolutions) but most are just not that good and they all get old really fast. I really can't think of any episode in the whole show where there wasn't something lazy or ugly other than maybe the episode where Tai goes back to Japan for a day before going back to the Digimon World. To make the comparison everyone makes, Pokemon looks better than Digimon, not by much but still.

And because there has to be a battle every single episode, the characters never quite get realized in a satisfactory manner. Yes, Izzy(Koushirou) is adopted and has a complex about it, but it just ends in him telling his parents he knows and they cry for like 2 seconds. Yes, Joe feels uncertain about studying what his parents want him to but it never gets explored and he just "finds his own path". Yes, Matt(Yamato) feels he isn't that good of brother to TK(Takeru) but he just has a revelation and basically talks himself out of his insecurity for no reason.

This is, in my opinion, the biggest dissappointment of the series. A show for children can have things that appeal to adults without losing its "for kids" focus. Digimon Adventure isn't that, and hurts itself for trying to be that.

I could go on but you get the point.

Overall, don't watch this show, not worth it at all. There is nothing here for an adult, and I personally wouldn't want a kid of my own to see it, with or without me. There's better kid shows out there that just want to be dumb kid shows and sell toys, and there's better kid shows out there that have some appeal for adults too.
Soundtrack is great though.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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