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.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Edit

Background

No background information has been added to this title. Help improve our database by adding background information here.

Episode Videos

Edit

Related Anime

Alternative version:

Digimon Adventure

More characters

Characters & Voice Actors

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

More staff

Staff

Sakurada, Hiroyuki

Producer

Mitsuka, Masato

Director

Kaizawa, Yukio

Episode Director, Storyboard

Ootsuka, Takashi

Episode Director, Storyboard

Edit

Opening Theme

"Mikakunin Hikousen (未確認飛行船)" by Takayoshi Tanimoto

Edit

Ending Theme

	5: "Dreamers" by ATEEZ (eps (eps 55-??))
	1: "Kuyashisa wa Tane (悔しさは種)" by Chiai Fujikawa (eps 1-13)
	2: "Q?" by Reol (eps 14-26)
	3: "Mind game" by Maica_n (eps 27-38)
	4: "Overseas Highway (オーバーシーズ・ハイウェイ)" by Wolpis Cater (ウォルピスカーター) (eps 39-)

Reviews

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 ...

Open

Gift

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

Open

Gift

Oct 30, 2021

KitsuneLisek

Not Recommended

I am Digimon fan since original anime aired in my country in '90s. I watched almost every single TV show, including tri. I didn't yet watch Xros Wars and Applimon series, but I am up to date with Ghost Game. I had different opinions on different series. There were series I didn't like and those that I adore. Despite those, every one of them had both good and bad sides. There is no flawless series, neither there is series that is completely bad... Or is it?

As a big fan of Digimon, whose favorite series is original Adventure (it's both my favorite Digimon and ex aequo ... favorite anime with Slayers) I was really interested and curious about it. I was hyping, but I knew that I have to hold my horses until I actually see the show. So it happened - I watched the whole Adventure:. And it's really not something I would like to see. Both, because it profanes the amazing Digimon Adventure and because it's just bad. As I said, I had Digimon series that I didn't quite like, but I seen good sides that didn't made it that bad and I quite enjoyed them. But I can't enjoy cheap story with no character development and no plot whatsoever. But let's explain things a bit...

I didn't really expect it to be something extraordinary, but the show has many serious issues. Pace was totally destroyed, the strongest character just appeared in 3rd episode and there was really big threat to the whole Earth by that time. Imagine 67 episodes long show, where 3rd episode has already escalated to some titan fight level. This is what happened there. Meanwhile in original show, in third episode kids were lost in who knows where and they didn't know what to do. They desperately tried to contact their homes but they just didn't know what happened. In reboot... one character just had all the informations at hand. Literally - in smartphone. He could just "google" the answer, or rather chat with no-names about what's going on. Like... Internauts. Yes, he was informed by random people from Internet. It's not end of the problems. While original adventure set the plot around finding what they had to do and why they are here, here, in reboot they had all the answers on silver plate. The show failed to provide real threat and story whatsoever. Compare it to original, where kids had real life issues, that were linked to their special traits and the bond with their digimon partners were the key. And while I am saying the problems were real, it were real. It was about their own past, life, relationship with family and digimons, as well as them evolving, changing into better themselves. This didn't happen at all in reboot. Actually they just removed any personality issues completely. And while some of the character did have similar traits like not being to confident or being too selfish, it didn't provide the problem to their story progress. Plot in original Digimon Adventure really was orbiting around the kids. Everything they did was to understand why they have those traits assigned to them and how to find it. Not everyone was happy with their traits too. And the human-digimon bond was deeper with more relationship issues, that also originated with their traits and their real life problems. All was about the kids, the change, personalities. It just wasn't there for the reboot. Like they had some simple traits, but it didn't provide any story-related things. For example, relationship between them in original was not always perfect. Sometimes it was negative. Sometimes they mocked each other, sometimes they didn't trust them... but sometimes they were loyal to the end. Their bond wasn't just made in an instant. It was changing and finally they established big friendship and love. This was something I didn't see in the rebooted version of the show.

Plot in the Adventure: is just not there. They had learned about the threat and that they have to defeat it, because it's bad, but... that's it. They just fight with random monsters, defeat them, then at the end they fight big boss, struggle, but "miracle moment" happens and they defeat it. But there was nothing more than that. Okay, there were some moments that You can say were good. But basically story itself was... just poor. I missed the threat of main villains. They weren't just bad guys that do bad stuff with bad power. In original it was about what they did and how they did that, not how powerful or "evil" they were. In original show You could feel the threat. They were constantly attacked and threatened to death. Big bad guys weren't just there to appear at the end of the show. They were very active villains that were attacking kids directly or sometimes via minions. But all of it was their doing, not just random enemy attacking. While in the reboot... they got the prophecy about bad guy that appeared almost at the end. Before that there was another bad guy, that was a bit deeper in personality. And there was a third one that appeared at the very end, unannounced before. Their motives were just "I am evil, so I evil", meanwhile in original show they did all those things for different reasons. It's like comparing an evil guy that likes to see people suffer with a guy that just destroys everything, because he is a destroyer. Nothing else is needed. I really couldn't feel a threat from those villains in 2020 version, because they were just bigger, stronger variants of any other digimon. And if we are here... all the other enemies were just random digimons that appeared. They weren't directly minions or anything like that. They were just attacked by wild digimons.

So, we know there is no story, no threat and no character development. Is it that bad? Umm... no. It's 4/10 afterall, there are some elements that were better. Specifically visual style. I hate when reboot, remake or something changes original style, like I hate it with Shaman King for example, that also rebooted the old anime (or rather made new that is more faithful to manga). But Digimon Adventure: nailed it perfectly. The shows looks like the old anime, literally. If I didn't know better, I could have seen a random screenshot of the reboot and think it's from old anime. But also they improved things, like the effects and the evolution sequences. They also had really good ideas... just the poor plot made the execution of those ideas bad. It also had some good moments that were done properly. Although it's like one flower in the pile of crap. Also the other good things is that they give all of them highest evolution...... but it didn't really matter, as there was one guy that appeared every time, stealing the spotlight, so even if the character did cool stuff, him appearing "coincidentally" was annoying and ruined the moment. Plus those high evolution forms appeared once, so it wasn't really much. The other good thing was side evolution. I am not really a fan of side evos in Digimon, but they nailed it nicely... but that idea was too not really well executed. Two of the forms were used once, other forms were used instead of base forms, instead of making them change those forms while needed. For example, if they need form A, they use it, because form B is ineffective. It wasn't done like that.

Did I enjoy the show? A bit. But more I was annoyed by the fact that those things that were done so greatly in original, was completely screwed there. At the end few decent stuff couldn't cover everything they failed to do. And most of things, even those positive, had bad sides anyway... I really hoped for at least anime that I wouldn't like, but will be decent. Instead I got a failed product that were written poorly by someone, who didn't thought it through.

Overall I give it a 4. That much, because there was some good things there. Without them it would be solid 1.

PS Sorry for a bit of chaos, I just wanted to tell about few things, but the topic is so wide and it's hard to not spoil anything, especially comparing things with original series. Thanks for Your understanding.

Open

Gift

More stacks

Interest Stacks

Zoomer's anime.

by RobertBobert

35 Entries · 67 Restacks

Anime that were adapted twice

by Xaxos92

46 Entries · 22 Restacks

Maybe comprehensible japanese

by redvslinguas

7 Entries · 7 Restacks

More recommendations

Recommendations

View All

More news

Recent News

Spring 2020 Anime Postponements Due to COVID-19 Outbreak [Update 1/14]

[Update] Further coronavirus-related delays can be viewed here. Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the production and distribution of some upcoming and current...read more

Apr 8, 2020 12:07 PM by ImperfectBlue | Discuss (163 comments)

Spring 2020 Simulcast List [Update 4/28]

In this thread, you'll find a comprehensive list of anime acquired for simulcast release during the Spring 2020 season. Anime series licensed for home video rel...read more

Mar 25, 2020 8:58 PM by Snow | Discuss (68 comments)

More discussions

Recent Forum Discussion

Poll: Digimon Adventure: Episode 58 Discussion Stark700 - Jul 24, 2021	20 replies	by StormxNightmare »» Apr 18, 5:22 PM
Poll: Digimon Adventure: Episode 57 Discussion Stark700 - Jul 17, 2021	24 replies	by StormxNightmare »» Apr 18, 5:04 PM
Poll: Digimon Adventure: Episode 56 Discussion Stark700 - Jul 10, 2021	26 replies	by StormxNightmare »» Apr 18, 4:49 PM
Poll: Digimon Adventure: Episode 55 Discussion Stark700 - Jul 3, 2021	34 replies	by StormxNightmare »» Apr 18, 4:21 PM
Poll: Digimon Adventure: Episode 54 Discussion Stark700 - Jun 26, 2021	23 replies	by StormxNightmare »» Apr 18, 3:56 PM

Digimon Adventure:

Alternative Titles

Information

Statistics

Available At

Resources

Streaming Platforms

Synopsis

Background

Episode Videos

Visit MALxJapan
MALxJapan -More than just anime-

Related Anime

Characters & Voice Actors

Yagami, Taichi

Ishida, Yamato

Yagami, Hikari

Takaishi, Takeru

Agumon

Tachikawa, Mimi

Tailmon

Patamon

Gabumon

Izumi, Koushirou

Staff

Opening Theme

Ending Theme

Reviews

Interest Stacks

Recommendations

Recent News

Recent Forum Discussion

MoreTop Anime

MoreTop Airing Anime

MoreMost Popular Characters

Digimon Adventure:

Alternative Titles

Information

Statistics

Available At

Resources

Streaming Platforms

Synopsis

Background

Episode Videos

Visit MALxJapan MALxJapan -More than just anime-

Related Anime

Characters & Voice Actors

Staff

Opening Theme

Ending Theme

Reviews

Interest Stacks

Recommendations

Recent News

Recent Forum Discussion

MoreTop Anime

MoreTop Airing Anime

MoreMost Popular Characters

Visit MALxJapan
MALxJapan -More than just anime-