The Digimon Thread

I rewatched Adventure not too long ago! And man despite the obvious lack in the visuals department, the themes still hold up so well. It's surprisingly mature but also the reason why I love it so much. Huge stand out to me is Soras arc: a girl who wants to avoid everything girly, gets the Love crest and surprise! Her arc doesn't deal with boys, but with her feelinga towards her mother whom she just can't agree with. It's such a complicated and well written arc, especially considering this is a kids show. It's absolutely great writing, and Sora is just my favorite character period. 

Adventure has such an honest, warm and loving writing, it's really hard to compare. It's a great show for children, and still great for adults. 

Also the adventure movies are still my favorites to this day and I regularly re-watch them. Mamoru Hisoda has always been great

We also rewatched Tamers, or at least tried to. But man, the beginning is so dry, we had to take a break after a while. But Tamers is still the show where I like the writing of the partners and their relationships the most. It's a real treat honestly. Gotta go back to it! 

Also re: games. God I hope the hackers memory on switch rumor is true. It's the only digimon game I haven't played. I want Betamon as my starter!! 

fenitos I LOVED SORA'S ARC SO MUCH something I enjoyed about Adventure as a whole was the lack of romance like I know the movies etc expand to this but compared to for example Frontier (which I finished just a few days back) the focus was clearly on friendship with each character and there wasn't really that awkward romantic tension between the kids at least in a visible way and I appreciate in a kids' show!! Not because it'd be wrong but because there is a high chance it will come out as awkward and unnecessary like it did in Frontier 

kokohearts Big mood I teared up several times while watching it despite 100% knowing what would happen next and what the outcome would be :')

Thanks to FB memories, apparently today marks the first day I finally sit through Digimon Adventures in Japanese dub, and I did that in 2013. Amazing. Fun fact, my first comment was "why does Yamato sounds masculine even in the Japanese dub when the Malay dub is really unfitting." (Yes the Malay dub gave Yamato a super feminine voice which is why I preferred the Indonesian dub miles better....lol....)

And to answer the "revisiting Digimon as I become older" question, I was basically 15 when I revisited Digimon properly without skipping any episodes and fully experience the original Japanese language (which isn't odd to me because again I'm grateful that the Malay/Indonesian dub is based off the JP source haha) but oh boy, it did shed me some light. It's really common to see shows within this genre to have powerful monsters and power of friendship!! and that isn't a bad thing at all but Digimon expanded more than those tropes and isn't afraid of going to the darker, realistic themes?? Maybe it could be the fact the kids anime genre is still new during that time so some contents or themes is less stricter back then but I do ???question at some point on how realistically painful the writing is; especially Digimon Tamers that emphasized on (Tamers spoiler)  Juri's parents divorcing issue and the loss of her dear friend, as if (Adventures spoilers) Yamato and Takeru's separation and Hikari's + Tailmon's mourning over Wizardmon wasn't enough. As others mentioned...it's sweet that Digimon aren't just mere monsters that exist for promotional reasons, they're like the only friends that these kids had despite little options and choices in life and this was when the concept of "isekai" or other world is for these children to escape to a different place that felt like a second home to them (which is a shame considering how isekai genres have turned now.) In short, I did think the story was really sad as I first watched it (but didn't give much thoughts into it), then the series got re-aired in 2009/2010 here and I decided to watch it in 2013...I realized why I loved Digimon for its story so much lol. Especially now that I've grew older and a lot, lots of stuff makes sense and just because they're kids, doesn't mean they can't face hardships. 

_{Also if it's not obvious enough Digimon is one of my inspiration in writing so there's that. Hi.}

Edit: Oh yeah I may keep mentioning Digimon here but obviously I've mostly basing off Adventures and some Tamers lol (though despite 02 is full of filler and comedic arc I can't forget Ken's backstory and that one episode near the ending where everyone had an "ideal dream" ft. their happier families and all :^) ). Maybe someday if I'm really that serious into the franchise I'll properly get into the rest of the anime continuity, haha.

P.S. Big agree on the Sora's arc part...I saw that during Tri people are arguing about how Sora didn't fit the Love crest (for shippy reasons) but the original series clearly said it was for her strong familial love?? Then again I adore that the crests arc mostly revolves around some of them doesn't seem the best for certain traits but the Digimons showed them otherwise :'D

P.P.S. Since I recently revived my dusty DS I've also started on Digimon Dawn. Hell yea. Wish I can actually play the Digimon Adventures PSP game though lol

Kogami wow I'm replying so late I'm sorry 

I ended up watching the last two arcs in Japanese too! The Finnish dub also followed the Japanese one pretty faithfully and I was actually really impressed by the fact they even tried to go for the same voice pitch as the original seiyuu? I feel like I might have even said this but it just blows my mind because I never expected the second dubbing group went such an extra mile for a children's show?

And same I have watched seasons 1-3 and actually since the last message I also went through Frontier! It wasn't imo exactly the best but it was entertaining enough and I loved lordknightmon + I thought it was interesting how Patamon was referred as son-daughter by Bokomon & the whole "Bokomon and Neemon are the local gay uncles" were surprisingly cool for a show so old? I don't know how intentional the gay coding was but it seems for a lot of people who actually watched the show as a kid they consider them to be their first "soft" introduction to same gender parents 

ethanol I remember them!! I never had any of my own because they were too expensive for my family's budged but I Really wanted the very specific gabumon one! They're actually releasing a 20th anniversary edition of those V-pets in English but since they seem to be US only I don't know much about them as an European who can't afford the shipping rip 

02 KIDS ARE CONFIRMED FOR THE KIZUNA MOVIE AAAAAA

I'm a bit hopeful for this movie to give Adventures a perfect ending but I wonder if watching Tri is required... Hopefully it's better at least 😔

(Also I just knew that the Cyber Sleuth games are coming to PC? Obviously I can't get PS4/Switch so I'm probably making a Steam acc just for buying that alone-)

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I'm honestly surprised I haven't posted in this thread yet hfghg I looooove Digimon so much, it's always been one of my fave franchises!

How did you get into the series? Mainly Digimon fusion that I found on Netflix when I was younger

- Your favourite memories about it? I remember sneaking down to steal my old tablet to watch it at like 3 am

- Favourite anime/games? I have watched snippets of the other series but mainly just Digimon fusion also I was a big fan of that one app they had on the store before it was taken down

- Favourite digimons? Mailbirdramon, Valdurmon,  phoenixmon

- Did the series influence your art/character creation/characters in any way? I love the idea of fusion and digital evolution and I want to put something similar in myself series

- Do you remember the early 00s when Digimon was a big mainstream thing? Any particular memories about that time if this applies to you? I got into it much later sadly 

 How did you get into the series? tv show

- Your favourite memories about it? idk

- Favourite anime/games? i think the first 3 seasons

- Favourite digimons? imperialdramon, metalseadramon

- Did the series influence your art/character creation/characters in any way? idk maybe

-  Do you remember the early 00s when Digimon was a big mainstream thing?  Any particular memories about that time if this applies to you? i remember

there were lots of cool action figures

i had a digivolving growlmon figure but i lent it to someone and they lost it :(

OH BOY I AM SO HAPPY TO FIND THIS THREAD

pardon me while i go off on several tangents in a row!!