Digimon Adventure:

(incomplete review based on the first 13 episodes)

While I was expecting a remake of the original Digimon, Toei makes a reboot with a completely different story. I feel like this version of the original Digimon has been made with the intention of being a classic for this generation of kids/teenagers, just like the original one was, so the topics it touches are things common in this modern age (intercontinental nuclear missiles, smartphones, etc).

Story: 5
It tries to be more "mature" than the original Digimon using topics like weapons of massive destruction (nuclear bombs), I like that.
What I dislike about this is the way the story is developed, too rushed and mediocre. Matt and Taichi just met and they already know how to create Omegamon all of a sudden. When the kids find their Digimons, they don't even bother so much about what they are or why they are with them, they just accept them easily without further curiosity. Episode 9 and full evolved Digimons are already shown. Something that bothers me so much is the fact that Izumi can literally do anything he wants with his laptop, he even has contacts inside foreigner national security agencies, like bruh, even if he is a genius, he is an elementary school student, so unrealistic.

Animation, character design and scenarios: 5
The animation for the first episodes is bad. It's not fluent or smooth, the fights sometimes remind me of puppet shows where there's a scenario and behind there's a puppet being controlled by a person. The evolution sequences are good tho, all the money goes there.
I understand that the forced quarantine in Japan affected the creation of the anime, so I won't blame Toei for the first episodes. Episode 5 had decent animation tho, idk if the quality will stay the same from now.
The character designs are clearly meant to be similar to the first Digimon, maybe trying to get some nostalgic feelings.
Scenarios are ok for the public this anime wants to reach.

Characters: 4
Some of the characters are kinda unrealistic, sometimes even plain robots. Not much character development given to us from their introduction chapters, it feels mediocre.
I want to think that Taichi won't be the only relevant character throughout the story and the rest of the kids will have enough screentime.

1) Sora: I feel her plain sometimes, like a robot or a cliché School/Action/Comedy/Harem male main character. She's supposed to be an elementary school girl.
2) Taichi: He keeps the same personality he had in the original Digimon, so it's ok for me. He's the leader and the main character of this new Digimon Adventure.
3) Izumi: Nothing changed about him, he's the same genius kid. The fact that he has contacts with even nacional security agencies of other countries is kinda ridiculous tbh, more if we ad that he can actually hack nuclear missiles.
4) Matt : He acts like if he was some kind of "badass" main character, just like Tatsuya from Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, which I find unrealistic because he is an elementary school boy. His old personality was more realistic and less plain.
5) Mimi: She's not a crybaby anymore and I like that, but her original personality is way more realistic, after all she is a 10 years old girl.
6) Joe: I don't remember him being that careless at the beginning, he's in a brand new world and only thinks about studying, not even surviving in first place. At least he realized about it and decided to go with the other kids very fast.
7) Digimons in general: Talking about the irrelevant Digimons, some look like actual dinosaurs instead of monsters or fantastic creatures.
I miss the basic Digimons having different personalities, but i bet this will happen later, this is only the beginning after all.

Sound: 7
Background music is ok, opening an ending are cool. I wish it had the old opening, but the one it has is cool either. Personally, I never liked the old endings, so the new one gives extra points to the show because I like it.
Voice acting is nothing out of the world, but its not bad.

Enjoyment: 5
I'm not enjoying it enough, nothing compared with the old one and I'm not saying this because of the nostalgic feelings.
I'm still positive about the future of the show, I want to believe that it will get way better.

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In my opinion this reboot is as great as the 1999 season. Some points that I really appreciate are: The introduction of the characters along the episodes, this is good because they have their own episode to shine. The soundtrack is great, all the songs are really good, we can still listen the old ones, but these new are very good too. One thing that really bothers me is the fact that only Gabumon and Agumon have the digievolution sequence, I guess everyone wants to see the others. This season has the opportunity to be even better then the old one, because the Digimon`s lore has been uptaded over the years. We can`t forget that the target audience are the kids, so as we are adutls now there will be some others points, episodes or even characters that will bother us. But we can have a great enjoyment watching this; ^^

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I enjoy reboots and I believe that Digimon Adventure has potential to be something entertaining. However, currently (6 episodes in) it hasn't lived up to my expectations and that's because of the characters.

To start of with something positive; I enjoyed the story so far because it opens up a wider scale of importance compared to the original show. It creates an essential, longlasting goal that the protagonists need to accomplish while also delivering engaging lore about the digiworld. I love lore, especially the lore that's given to me in this show.

Nevertheless that's as far as the upsides go. So far we're not given any actual progression, especially when it comes to character-progression. Something I remember from the original show is that the characters all had flaws that they struggled with to overcome. But in this reboot they all feel...perfect. The characters show no personal obstacles nor any problems in general. I'll attempt to explain what I mean by giving a general description of two of the characters:

Taichi is an 11 year old martial arts master who demonstrates his prowess by battling digimon on his own. He can 1v1 digimon and they show him doing just that.

Izumi on the other hand, who's also 11 years old is a genuis (and that's putting it lightly). He manages to reprogram his normal laptop to compensate for the difference in the flow of time between the digiworld and the real world. Essentially, he can hack in to time itself with his laptop.

Leading to the conclusion that we've not been given any actual character progression. Rather, and I believe this describes the current 6 episodes more accurately, we've been given introductions. We've been given an introduction on some of the characters and, frankly, their far too unrealistic abilities. We've also been given an introduction on what they need to fulfill but we haven't been given any content that shows progression towards that goal because the show is too busy introducing overpowered characters.

And the fact that we've yet to have seen all the protagonists, leaves the impression that this progression-empty way of telling the story is going to continue in the upcoming episodes. Yet, I still believe that this reboot has potential and that's because of the lore that they've been introducing. I feel like the writer's have managed to make the lore more appealing compared to the original Digimon series and if they manage to emphasize on that more while simultaneously creating some form av struggle that keeps us hooked, we might yet get an entertaining story. But so far, it's mediocre experience at best.

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--- SHORT VERSION ---

Pros:

+ character designs
+ nice visuals

Cons:

- pacing of the story is trash
- character development no longer required for evolution
- the story itself is a "reimagining" and not a very good one (Omegamon appears before the Dark Masters do, that is *IF* the Dark Masters even exist in this reboot)
- the songs used during key moments consist of generic & uninspired J-rock shouting that funnily enough sound like something Etemon would sing

--- LONG VERSION ---

Let me first say that I'm a huge (classic) Digimon fan. I love the first four seasons and I look forward to rewatching them whenever I have time. This is a franchise I LITERALLY grew up with, so you'd think this would be a 10/10 review, right? Well... no. Far from it. This all new Digimon Adventure 2020 takes everything that made the original such a highly valued classic among the Digimon fandom and spits on it before throwing it all out of the window in an attempt to reboot/revitalize/reinvent the series for the next generation of (what I assume Toei intended to be) new Digimon fans. I'll never understand why the companies/people in charge of certain brands think that this is necessary. If anything, reboots almost invariably result in something inferior and mediocre, and this never-ending cancer inducing trend can sadly be observed across all sorts of different media from TV series, movies, to video games. I'm literally trying to challenge myself here as I'm writing this and think of one reboot that has actually managed to surpass the original work and guess what.... I can't think of any! The only medium people haven't started rebooting yet are books. Can you imagine a 'reboot' (for modern generations) of 'The Great Gatsby' or 'The Catcher in the Rye'? I know I can't possibly compare Digimon to classic works of literature with a straight face, but that's exactly why the sole idea of a reboot triggers an unpleasant taste in my mouth because my philosophy is: if the original work is great, future generations will connect with it sooner or later. Reboots are only necessary if the original is shitty to begin with, which Digimon Adventure NINETEEN-NINETY-NINE is not. This is like Sailor Moon all over again. Leave the classics alone and create new ORIGINAL material.

Next, a small history lesson for the uninitiated among us (feel free to skip this long ass paragraph if you're familiar with the last 20 years of Digimon's existence): The Digimon anime is no stranger to reboots... the fandom has experienced (and/or suffered through) several of them (in a way all the seasons after Adventure 02 are their own 'self-contained universes' so reboot may not be the right word to use, but hopefully you get the point). Only the first and second season are set in the same universe, while the third (Tamers) was a fresh new beginning that introduced not only brand new protagonists, but also a brand new concept & form of evolution and the Digital World (there is a certain character that has existed in both Adventure and Tamers timelines, Akiyama Ryo, but he's a huge exception). This first departure from the original storyline was received well & was most likely a blessing for the writers working on the Digimon anime as it provided them with the opportunity to experiment with fresh new ideas and plot. In spite of the favorable reception, 2002 saw the release of Digimon Frontier -- another "reboot" of sorts that, once again, like Tamers did before -- reinvented the concept and story behind the Digital World while completely abandoning the tamer X Digimon partner dynamic as the new protagonists actually evolved into Digimon themselves. This made the protagonists feel more involved and the battles a bit more personal. In spite of that, this new plot was received less favorably and it greatly polarized the fandom. You'll either find people who loved the idea of humans turning into Digimon, or those that hated it with passion. Those falling in the latter category also often tend to wish Toei had continued fleshing out and building upon the world introduced in Digimon Tamers as opposed to having a new Digital World again. After Frontier finished airing, it took three long years for the next season to arrive and when it finally did, Digimon underwent major overhaul for the THIRD time. However, while Digimon Savers (2006) distanced itself from its predecessors even further by (you guessed it) introducing brand new characters and Digital World, it also employed an entirely new art style quite different from the one used in the previous four seasons -- regardless, Digimon Savers also saw the return of many familiar elements: humans were partnered with Digimon once more and the way the story was paced was still quite Digimon-esque in nature. Savers is additionally often cited as being one of the most mature seasons (which, imo, is debatable -- although, yes, the fact that the three main protagonists are in their teens lends itself to a much darker tone than ever before, although that's not to say that the previous seasons lacked darker themes – e.g. Ken's character arc in Adventure 02 or Juri's and Impon's in Tamers). The reception to Savers was ultimately lukewarm, and little did Digimon fans know that Savers would be the last Digimon season for a while, as it took Toei record-breaking FOUR years to produce the next season -- Xros Wars (2010). Xros Wars and its many seasons were, in my honest opinion, a DISASTER (and I know this might sound controversial given how it tends to be praised for "making Digimon feel like Digimon again" and whatnot). Everything from the bland one dimensional protagonists with ZERO depth to them to the boring plot that drags on forever and never develops into anything noteworthy, a complete disregard for the power hierarchy among Digimon previously established in the card games & the TV series, mediocre OST, and sloppy looking art style and animation – to me, Digimon had hit ROCK BOTTOM.

The paragraph above was a setup for me stating the obvious: in an attempt to keep up with the times, and owing to multiple resets of the series instead of sticking to one continuity -- Toei have completely lost sight of what made Digimon so great and admired in the first place, and their recent attempts at resurrecting the television series seem to be one major disappointment after another. Just look at the abysmal travesty that was Adventure tri. masquerading itself as some sort of a sequel to the Adventure seasons while partially retconning certain events of 02, reducing the entire 02 cast to an afterthought, never touching upon Ryo or Millenniumon (as well as Millenniumon's relation to the dark seeds Demon was after and Dagomon's ocean) + the art style is so different and simplistic looking that it's almost like watching a different anime entirely. And the few good things about it -- namely, grown up versions of Taichi and the rest of the Adventure cast, as well as the intriguing subplot involving the original five chosen children and the aftermath of their battle with the Dark Masters-- were not enough to save it because the majority of screen time was wasted on a new character that nobody asked for and nobody wanted as opposed to developing the good stuff. Seriously, where have all the good writers gone....? Because they are no longer working on Digimon, that's for sure.

Believe it or not -- I was, never the less, quite excited at the thought of Digimon Adventure possibly having a new chance at extending its life span. Sadly, the more episodes that I have seen, the more I'm starting to think this series is just a soulless reimagining that preys on the nostalgic factor of the original audience. Digimon Adventure (2020) is, similarly to Adventure tri, a ginormous slap in the face to all Digimon fans who've been following the franchise since day one. The only thing I find to be an improvement over the trainwreck that was Adventure tri. is the art style and character designs which are faithful to the original this time around and look very nice. Besides that, it's all downhill from here. Part of the charm of the first four seasons of Digimon lies in the great score by Takanori Arisawa (also known for composing music for the original Sailor Moon). The music in Adventure (2020) is mostly unmemorable and not nearly as iconic as Arisawa's. The pacing of the story is all over the place and there's no real sense of progression and growth. I don't mind the fact that the storyline isn't exactly like the original, but if you're going to introduce new plot twists at least make sure they're actually BETTER than the original material. It used to be that the kids and their Digimon had to work hard to earn their evolutions and do some serious self-reflection, confront their fears, and resolve whatever struggles they had which provided a lot of great emotional moments (entire FEATURE FILMS were produced back in the day centering around some powerful evolution) and yet, few episodes in, and Taichi and Yamato are already warp evolving like it's nothing. Subsequently, evolution is no longer an "event" – a rare occurrence only the strongest can achieve – now it's just like downloading a new cool app. The Digital World has also been boredified. In the original series, the Digital World actually felt like this mysterious, campy, and fairy-tale-like place with some creepy horror-ish elements (e.g. the iconic telephone booths, the abandoned ruins or factories), you'd not only feel worried for the kids, but you'd react with the exact same sense of wonder and disbelief to the things in the Digital World as they do. One could also sense an underlying depth to it, it was this vast unexplored place alien to the main characters who only knew the little info they learned from the Digimon they encountered. All I kept asking myself while watching Adventure (2020) was where has all that great sense of mystery/wonder disappeared? This, once again, highlights how poor the writing is. This all new Digimon Adventure 2020 is rumored to have about 60 episodes. I'm really curious where they plan to go with this mess when they've already managed to pack mega evolutions and jogress into the first nine episodes. I guess we can """"look forward"""" to a time jump and have the reboot butcher the entire Zero Two season as well? Or they'll devote the second half of the season to one of the blandest and most atrocious characters to ever grace the Digimon anime -- Meiko and the overdesigned atrocity she has the audacity to call a Digimon, Meicoomon. Also, can't wait to find out all the things they'll retcon with this one for absolutely NO reason.

To sum it up, Digimon Adventure (2020) is a WASTED opportunity. Instead of recreating the already near-perfect original, this could've been a great addition to the original two seasons which could greatly benefit from a WELL-made third season that would extend the lore of the Adventure universe and (potentially) tie up some loose ends and plot holes (of which there is an abundance of for the writers to deal with). It could've also covered the material from the WonderSwan games and/or CD dramas. Instead, there's long been a secret agenda to RUIN the Digimon franchise through the systematic production of underwhelming sequels that all suffer from atrocious writing, awful designs, and a lack of good direction. Oh well, I get the impression Toei no longer cares and frankly neither do I after the crimes against humanity that were Xros Wars, Adventure tri. and now this abomination.

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I have so many issues with this reboot. Apart from the updated artstyle (though not the animation) I don't feel like it beats the original in any way or form. The pacing is all over the place, the characters and their growth (which was by far the most important aspect in the original for me) are lacking, the classic soundtracks got completely replaced with rather generic ones and the story is only meh even if we ignore the original.

I went in without any expectations and still got massively disappointed. Really, unless you can't stomach the older artstyle at all, I recommend just watching the original instead.

I can understand if people disagree and actually like it for one reason or another, but please ignore the reviews giving this show a straight 9 or 8. That kind of rating is insulting to many other great anime out there and is obviously just a protest review to "counter" the low rating reviews.

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Having just watched the original, I'm severely disappointed by this reboot. The lovable cast, has been reduced to mere expressionless shells, with no personality or motivations.
The sound and especially the animation are better than the original. There's a variety of pretty good tracks, and the evolution sequences are spectacular. Sadly, that sums up almost all the positives of this show.
The first ~12 episodes were ok, but after that, it divebombed into endless catastrophic events and ludicrous amount of fighting. Our protagonists also realised they are not kids, but robot soldiers that can only grunt, shout eachothers' names, and telepathicaly communicate stupid plans that somehow work. The worst offender is probably Koushiro who became expressionless hacker know-it-all problem solver and information dumper. Essentialy just a plot device.
The digimon also suffer from the above issues. Instead of digital monsters, they act more like digital war machines. They have no personality (with a few exceptions) and fight tirelessly. Exhaustion occurs only when the writers want it.
Despite all the fanservice and mega "epic" battles, this show, like our protagonists, lacks the soul that the original had.

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I don't normally write reviews of things, but after seeing this anime getting a score of 7 (For some reason) I felt like I needed to say something.

First off, I can say I was very excited when I heard they were making a reboot. I know a lot of people have bad experiences with reboots or remakes, but personally I have watched quite a few remakes which were amazing, sometimes better than the original. Some examples I can give are HunterXHunter, Fruits Basket, and Full Metal Alchemist.
I had lots of nostalgia with Digimon, so as soon as this new reboot came out, I watched the first episode without hesitation.

The first thing I can say is I like how the characters looked more their age, and the art was great. That's... The only thing good about it in my opinion.
I understand the changed story, and some aspects I could put up with if it was just some of the minor things. However they not only changed way too much with the characters and story, but it was MUCH too fast paced!

I was only able to watch 1 episode. Reason? Well, let's put it this way.
The original series, storyline aside, spend many episodes developing the characters, where they learned to grow, develop, overcame challenges with each other and you got to connect with all the characters and learn each of their stories. It took several episodes for them to gain the strength and determination to push past something, enemies were actually challenging, and you could feel the effort and bond the humans had with their digimon.
In the reboot, however, just in the first episode they defeat the enemy, and they are already able to digivolve without any effort. There's no sense of bond, character development; everything is just so rushed and it hardly makes you empathetic to their situation.

Out of curiosity, I checked into the series after a few episodes had aired, thinking well, it was only one episode, maybe I jumped the gun.
NOPE.
By episode 3, they're already able to do a fusion, a certain fusion that took them originally the entire series to achieve, lots of trials, bonds, learning about each other. It's like all this effort it took for them to achieve these forms was just tossed and left up to everyone's imagination. There's no connecting with the characters and learning about how they react in certain circumstances, how they react to those around them, it's just fight fight fight and forget character arcs and having people connect with the characters.

I'm sure looking at it from the perspective of someone who didn't watch the original series it's not as bad, I understand that. It seems like it's aimed for younger generations who haven't seen the original, and I can see a lot of younger people like seeing all these digimon and don't care about connecting with the characters. However, from the perspective of an older person, and someone who watched the original, I can say the original is far superior and would recommend watching that over this reboot any day, including to younger generations.

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I find this show absolutely mediocre and bland compared to the original or any other anime. That's my opinion. I just believe that quality of shows has gone down recently. I'm not even a big nostalgia fan either. I started watching anime in 2011 and watched digimon adventure 1, 2, and tamers in 2018. My bias comes from an artistic standpoint and I think quality has been pushed aside for quantity in the anime industry as of late. Obvious exceptions aside. But that's enough of my modern anime rant you've heard a thousand times on forums and youtube. It is relevant to this series however.

Story: Sure the first show was a relatively slow burn but there's a thing called pacing. No buildup or interesting developments about the real world and digital world connectivity. The plot suffers from the character writing and lack of visual detail, mostly in the background art, than the actual plot being bad. Which it is. Although the story is pretty boring by itself it just doesn't have any idea about pacing or compelling character interactions. It's just go go go so they can hit each story beat as fast as possible. There is no room for the characters to show their personality when it's just "AAH MISSLE ATTACK AAH TAI AAH MAT AAH" through the entire 24 minutes. Even when there is supposed personality moments they are for 1 second with no buildup.

Art: The animation can be decent to good at times. The backgrounds are bland in many episodes and the designs of the main characters aren't changed or visually any better than before. Honestly the human characters look terrible half the time with outdated designs or strange linework.

Sound: This is where I fall asleep. The awful story is exemplified by the extremely BORING "epic orchestral" soundtrack playing constantly. Does it fit the tone of the show at any given time at a baseline level? Yes. Is it at all interesting or standout? Not at all. With a plot focused on the digital and each of the main characters having distinct characteristics tied to the plot through their digievolution there should be some kind of leitmotif for each of them? At least something interesting at all. Although the plot hardly inspires any kind of uniqueness so I can hardly blame the show.

Characters: I say the characters are the real downfall of the show along with the plot because, well, they mostly are the plot at least for the original show. It was about them surviving and getting back home. Uncovering the mysteries of the digital world and stopping the threat to both worlds. This show is clearly supposed to be similar in nature especially to the latter part mostly but it just completely misses any of the character arcs and beats the show is supposed to have with 7(ish) main characters. I could go on but the characters aren't even really faithful to the original show's personalities so why not make them different characters or at least change their designs a little? No because this is clearly nostalgia bait at its worst. Why not just stop with tri and make a decent new series? Because they know they can't. It's sad they keep destroying a beloved series with new garbage shows. Thank god the games are still great because I've been completely done with Pokemon for a while and I need that fix. Anyway awful characters leads to bad plot when it is about the characters interacting with the new world and bad plot leads to uninspired sound design and boring visuals. Terrible direction and not enjoyable. 3/10

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Disclaimer: my viewpoint is not base on my childhood nostalgia for Digimon, but as someone who rewatched Digimon Adventure as an adult a few years back, as well as someone who finished most of the recent great series like Digimon Universe App Monster. So my viewpoint is base on the actual quality of story-telling and characterization for this Digimon reboot.

Unlike most people, I can actually easily get pass all of the "childish element" of Digimon series (which would bother a lot of teenagers/ adolescent audience and they'd rate it down because of that ) and go straight into the core theme, the storytelling, and the characterization of Digimon series. What it means is the childish element will not diminish my value and viewpoint toward a Digimon serie.

First off, the pacing of this reboot is way too fast for us to get any emotional investment out of the characters. Compare to the original which the children spend a lot of time going through different scenario of adventure, be it joy, be it sorrow, or even fight and get mad at each other, the bond between the new children seem very weak/ shallow/ forced. The only bond done right so far is the bond between Taichi and Koshirou, which they spent 3 full episodes developing friendship.

Secondly , which is my biggest gripe for the serie so far, the catalyst for the digimon partner to shinka is way too weak compare to the old serie, especially for the important iconic shinka of Complete form on the 2 main mcs for the lastest 2 episodes.
The complete form shinka is a representation of chosen children's mental development throughout the serie, so without enough emotional investment , the shinka itself feels soulless. In the past serie the children went through way more serie of event, as well as revealing more of their mental growth to achieve all those complete form shinka.

However, this reboot just feel like they're giving out shinka like candy, like every episode need to have 1 shinka so you don't get bored. However, all I get from this is a soulless shinka on top of cheap character development.

These whole issus all come back to super rushed pacing and plot , which failed to give characters enough screen time to highlight their development. Especially considering how Yamato's crest is about "friendship", they didn't give him enough screen time to justify his friendship shinka.

As someone who's a big fan of the buildup done by the original Digimon serie and Digimon Universe App monster, can't say I wasn't disappointed by this Digimon adventure reboot.

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When I heard that there would be a remake of the original Digimon Adventure series, I was apprehensive. Like many others who had stuck it through the Tri movies, Toei's lackluster attempts to create compelling characters and a coherent story had me wondering if they could even manage it. Unfortunately, going by the first three episode rule, they failed. Horribly. From here on out, spoilers.

Episode 1:

It opens on a note-for-note "re-imagining" of "Our War Game" (a movie which came second in their Digimon movie catalogue and acted as the second act for the American Dub's movie). Okay, that's fine. The issue is, they rush through establishing character dynamics before the second episode. Koshiro is the tech guy/info-dump guy. Taichi is the brave, headstrong guy. Also, it seems like they saw Project Mouthwash's Tri Abridged series, because they have Taichi utilize Digimon as an improvised weapon multiple times. Yikes.

Episode 2:

The fight animations are great in these first couple episodes. Unfortunately, having blown their load on establishing the status quo, there is no longer anything for the kids to do aside slog along towards the end of Our War Game. Yamato is the lone-wolf (another dynamic established). Toei decides to up the ante by giving us an unwinnable situation, and then throws Omegamon at the situation. Two episodes in, and we're already at the endgame evolution. Not looking good.

Episode 3:

We're going to summer camp and then... back home. In a move that only JJ Abrams would be proud of, our expectations for the story to mimic the original series is wholly subverted. Rather, the story forces the kids to head to the digital world when a blackout starts spreading in Tokyo.

Episode 4:

The opening shot is a recreation of when everyone arrives on the island in Jurassic Park. I shit you not. This is what peak anime performance has become.

Episode 5:

Piyomon learns to FLY LIKE AN EEEAAAGLE! Also, inconsistencies in size ratios and animation. Also, also, Taichi is apparently a fully-fledged carpenter. A student of the Tom Paris School of Savants, I see.

Episode 6:

If you made it this far, stop. Some shit about destiny. I guess Homeostasis is speaking, but we're never given any real indication who it might be. We get a "mysterious" Digimon at the end of the episode who gives orders to Ogremon. Except we know who it is, even if you haven't seen the original series. At the very least, he looks like he learned from what happened in the original series and decided to put some hours in at the gym. Dude looks swoll af.

The problems with the remake series aren't just at pacing, although that is one of the most egregious ones. No, the issue is that, even putting aside the issues with pacing, there is absolutely no redeeming factor. The digivolutions get an absolutely generic rock composition meant to hype the viewer, but it fails where Brave Heart worked. Brave Heart was an escalation of emotion coupled with the sensation of feeling like we were watching the power of courage push through adversity. This generic rock shit is just lots of yelling into microphone and some bad instrumentation.

Honestly, if you want your fill of a GOOD Digimon series, go back and watch Adventure and Tamers. Maybe watch Xros Wars, but don't because that's a mistake nobody should make twice. Either way, give this remake a skip.

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Watched 3 episodes, had to drop it.
Maybe because I watched the original, maybe because its actual shit.
Seriously, rushed as all hell, not giving a single damn about the original content, clearly written for a generation with the attention span of a fruit fly.
Very disappointing in execution, only thing passable are the sound effects and the animation, was very pleased to not see any 3D cheap CGI a la berserk, shame that it was for no reason, because its boring as all hell, rushed, no character development at all, fucking third episode fusion.. At first I was pissed that he found agumon in the first episode. Then Graymon, again, first episode.. At that point I was like: Hey, they cant fuck this up even more, right?
Fuck you, said the third episode throwing a fucking fusion at me.
Do not watch. 1/10

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I watched all Digimon from Adventure to Data Squad, watched Digimon adventure in Brazil when I was little kid and ten years later I re-watched with my younger brother. I saw all the movies, I cried with Last Evolution. But I was never so disgusted and disappointed than with this 2020 garbage, what the hell was that episode 25? Did the giant tortoise suddenly become a falling airplane? There is no sense? What a bad script, what a bad direction without depth, without timing, without emotion, badly animated.
The plot has no time to delve into anything, one problem ends and another begins immediately, all the plots poorly elaborated and patched up like a badly made puzzle. Solutions without logic and pathetic even for children. Horrible climax timing.
I'm really lucky to have grown up seeing the original version, I'm sorry for anyone who watches the 2020 version before the 1999 version. Sorry for the bad english, I'm really sad to translate ir properly.
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Assisti todos os Digimons desde o Adventure ao Data Squad, assisti Digimon adventure no Brasil quando eu era pequeno e dez anos depois reassisti com meu irmão mais novo. Vi todos os filmes, chorei com o Last Evolution. Mas nunca fiquei tão revoltado e despontado quanto com esse lixo de 2020, que porcaria foi aquela de episódio 25? A tartaruga gigante repentinamente virou um avião caindo? Qual o nexo? Que roteiro mal feito, que direção ruim sem profundidade sem timing, sem emoção, mal animada.
A trama não tem tempo pra aprofundar em nada, acaba um problema entra em outro, todas as tramas mal elaboradas e remendadas como um quebra-cabeças mal feito. Soluções sem lógica e patética até para o público infantil. Timing de climax horrível.
Eu realmente tenho muita sorte de ter crescido vendo a versão original, lamento por qualquer pessoa que assista a versão 2020 antes da versão de 1999.

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its hard to not compare the latest digimon 2020 with the original (digimon adventure). However, I tried my best to give my review from a new view point.

Firstly, the story. tbh the plot of digimon 2020 is not that good, its quite mediocre and even a bit weak, its like u can see the reason behind most of the fight, maybe this is due to the length of the anime, but it quite ruin the mood.

moreover, the character seems always full energy even after several fights they can just keep going without rest which makes me feel quite unrealistic. not only that, when they get hit by attack from other stronger enemy, the most damage done to them r just some bruise or the digimon devolve. which is also quite unrealistic. (in other digimon series when the mc's digimon get hurt badly they also risk get killed) however, in digimon 2020 the plot armor is thicc as hell.

the last downside of this series that i would like to mention is the relationship between the kids and the digimon. unlike the other series that the kids and digimon slowly form a bond between them, in digimon 2020 the digimons r just simp for the kids for no reason (not sure is simp is the right terms but it just be too friendly and too protective which feel kinda weird since they were just met)

lets talk about some good side of this series. the animation and music for the evolution is just top notch. its been a while that i get hype when digivolve, especially wargreymon evolution. it is so hype.

furthermore, i can sense the effort of the team that try to make this a nice reboot. they really tried their best of creating new plot and new direction.

However as i said the plot is still weak. So, its a 7/10.

Is it worth to watch? yes! but dont have too much expectation for it. just take it as a nice reboot and you will enjoy it.

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The series is past it’s 1st cour and it’s safe to assume the formula it’s going to follow, it’s going to be episodic adventure where enemies will appear and be defeated all in a single episode only serving the purpose of main cast getting stronger and developed, unless the enemy serves to the plot directly then it’s not necessary to be defeated in a single episode and they might revisit some of the screen-time in future. The studio is trying to not rush it so much and giving the spotlight to each dou in each episode, slowly and surely reaching the main goal.
The animation is pretty great if you ask me and Toei is doing a great job with it. The soundtracks really suit superpower and fantasy theme, the OP and ED are great as well, I really enjoy watching this show and I look forward to it each week although not as much as the old adaption but I guess it has to do with me being a grownup and not a child. I also like how the characters act the way they're supposed to, you can easily tell the actions and dialogues each character is going to pick and believe me, it's not a character flaw; it's a human flaw.

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-based on the first 9 episodes-

This reboot is exactly what digimon adventure needed. The original series was cheap and aged very poorly. Reused animations to pad episodes, extremely slow plot that had to rely on the same formula, and altogether a great show for children, but didn't offer much in the way of depth.

By contrast, this version is a lot better. They cut digivolution animations to fit more dialogue and plot into the episodes. They don't rely on the same animations for attacks, making battles a lot more interesting to watch. The characters seem to have been perfected, no longer changing personalities depending on the plot, but are instead likeable and relatable. All of this with a fresh coat of paint and a something for digimon fans to be hopeful for after the disappointment of other Adventure sequels.

The show isn't without its faults however. Two big ones stand out.
The music is good, but doesn't hold a candle to the original soundtracks. I understand why it needed to change, as the flagship song "butterfly" was sang by the late Wada Koujo, and putting his music to this new story may be in bad taste.
Also the first 3 episodes are a very poor retelling of "our war game", complete with an inexplicable omegamon digivolution. This is worrying, not because it spoils an end-game digivolution level, but because digivolution has always been linked to character growth. I worry that all other digivolution will feel lackluster and distract from the character growth that triggered it, but I am happy to be proven wrong in time. As for the retold story itself, as these characters are new, to both the viewer and eachother, it loses an awful lot of emotional attachment that the original drew on so well.
Its worth noting that those 3 episodes act almost as a separate story entirely and only serve to introduce 2 of the 8 main characters to digimon. In that respect it could be likened more to the digimon adventure "episode 0" story, except with plot points from "outlr war game". Either way, it's a messy introduction that could have been done better.
These issues aside, the show has many more positives than negatives, and if it's able to maintain this quality, I will be happy to rank it above all other digimon anime.

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I've watched all Digimon Adventure and other series (only Xros Wars and Applimon are in plans to do so). I love Adventure for what not many animes have. Good character development with characters, that has to overcome REAL problems. I say real, because many character developments in animes are actually flat.

Also, "flat" will be a key word here. Because there is a thing called flat character archetype. Generally there is a lie, that character believes in and has to find the truth. That character arcs work. But, flat character arc is when the character doesn't have the lie. It doesn't mean that the problems are non existent. For example Son Goku or Taichi are perfect examples of that. It's not bad char developing. It's just when the character knows what they want and need from the start. Like Son Goku, who know well, that he never gives up and don't have flaws that make him believe in something that is a lie. The same is Taichi. When other characters in original Adventure have doubts, fears and problems, he doesn't. He knows that the only way to do that is to go ahead.
But, the problem with character development here in Adventure: from 2020 year is... That characters doesn't have any flaws. And even if they do, they don't matter. Where is the Mimi, that was selfish and he has to discover pure heart? Where is all stressed Jyou, that was super into finding people in Digimon world? He is a bit stressed, right, but it doesn't matter much to his change. Where is Sora that doubted in the love or Yamato that have doubts in friendship? And that's what we call bad character development in contrary to just flat character arcs.

Second thing that is very annoying is the pace. As prolly all of You, who watched original Adventure know, most of evolution to perfect (ultimate in english) was far in the story. Actually, few of them were even made after they went back to real world. Like Lilimon, Zudomon and even HolyAngemon that got his evolution at the very end of the whole anime. And the first super evolution of Greymon was after many battles, where they were in disadvantage because of some annoying monkey.
Now, we not only got all perfect digimons in consecutive episodes, but we also had the fusion in one of the very first episodes. And there is no
real danger, that You feel. When the battles look like they will win anyway, tch. Especially with the adult vs perfect battle that was recently. Really. And where is the story here? We only know that they have to find the Holy digimon. So what? Where is the story within the episodes. Like pagumons that take over koromons' village. There is no real plot. They just go, battle, go, battle etc. Battles are only the gap between going straight. it's like inconvenient thing. Not a danger, not a threat. I don't like it.

But... it's not that Digimon Adventure: is absolutely bad. Maybe it's not the best anime in the world, but it has some cool music, evolutions, visuals etc. Sometimes episodes looks bad, but sometimes it looks really dope.

I give 7 overall. I hope it won't make me change the it to lower. It's already a bit high, but I give it a chance to make it up for the bad choices. Also I enjoyed many of the episodes anyway, mostly because visuals and music, because there is no much to it, but still, it's just 10 episodes. Maybe it's just the bad start. let's hope I'm right.

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I grew up to the original Adventure series and I was expecting a semi-trash reboot but this out better than I thought they are taking time in introducing each character and bring hype to each Digimon and chosen child

but I'm sad they didn't use Butterfly and Brave Heart just for the nostalgic feeling but is fine, is a reboot not a remake

But the evolutions are going too fast less than 10 eps in we already have Ultimate and a Mega, with not much strong story/ reason for the Digimon to get level so quickly and so early but I do glad there some upgrades to the evolution form

Is turning out great so far, story is great and I'm just glad they didn't throw all 7 children to the Digi-World all at once and mix it the real world adventure as well

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