Digimon Adventure:

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; ^^

Disclaimer: This review will predominately be making comparisons between this anime to its alternative counterpart (Digimon Adventure 1999). Furthermore, the comparison to the counterpart series will be based on memories when watching it - though it was around 2006. From this moment onwards I will refer to the counterpart series as the "1999 series".

Story: I will separate this into two parts. The first part is the difference between the 1999 and 2020 series in terms of the presentation of the story and the second part discusses the similarities/difference of the story structure between the two series.

A definite difference to its 1999 series where instead of ... characters being the focal point of the story it really focuses on the lore and plot of the story - or you can say it focuses more on the world-building than anything. This can be observed where the main characters you meet early on in the 2020 series have pretty much fully developed personalities and traits that any further focus on them will just highlight the same personality and traits they already had since our first introduction to them. Therefore, the remaining episodes focus on the story, world-building, and lore on the Digiworld and its inhabitants along with its connection to humanity. Of course, if we take into account that the anime was designed for a younger audience then the reasoning above may be attributed to this as well. Since it is much easier to follow the story with easy-to-understand characters rather than the other way round where the story gets paused because the characters have to go through a soul-searching montage. However, a larger component that probably makes this series different from its 1999 series was probably how much lore it has developed since then. It is easier to understand this by comparing it to Yu-gi-oh or similar children's shows where it starts getting better as the show gets longer (in the case for Yu-gi-oh the rules for dueling was only established when GX started and all of Yu-gi-oh was experimenting with new and more ways of playing the various card types they had, so GX started playing around archetypes e.g. Hero-type decks, Dragon-type decks. Afterward, the rest of the spin-off series started experimenting on newer and more interesting summoning methods along with newer monster archetypes). For Digimon it got a larger library of the various digital monsters as well as their evolutionary line along with the lore of the role for each digimon - this was reflected in the 6 part movies for digimon. Therefore, the 2020 series being a reboot for the 1999 series it makes sense that the developers would want to take full advantage of all the knowledge and lore they have expanded for the last 20 years and make use of it. As a result, we have more information for the Digiworld and its connection to the digidestined in exchange for the character development for all of the characters.

There are similarities and differences between the two series and these differences stem from (previously mentioned) the focus on the lore and world-building rather than the characters. The 1999 series uses exploration of the Digiworld as a medium to enable the characters to interact with each other and learn about themselves thus we can see a lot of character development. However, the 2020 series used exploration for the sake of exploring more about the Digiworld. This is not a bad idea and in fact, the 2020 series does a better job of making the Digiworld more interesting and fun with its mysteries as well. In addition, the characters with their established personalities and a common goal they can settle their differences much quicker in the early part of the series to achieve their common goal. However, both use a similar story structure; 1) exploring the Digiworld for information, 2) encountering friends and enemies to reach the initial evil, 3) defeating said initial evil, 4) understanding the bigger picture and bigger evil, 5) further exploration in the Digiworld for more information on the bigger evil, and 6) defeating said bigger evil. This works for the 1999 series since steps 4 and 5 heavily rely on the exploration for character development but the 2020 series use of steps 4 and 5 has a weaker impact compared to the 1999 version. The 2020 series does have a reason for understanding the bigger picture and the bigger evil along with the exploration but you can argue that at least 10 of those episodes can be placed in step 2 so (overall) it has a weaker impact on the story.

Art and Sound: Art is bold and colourful with a similar style to the 1999 series. The sound/music was good and it definitely felt a more modern version of the Digmon adventures. Of course, I prefer the 1999 series' music and soundtracks but I have to admit that the 2020 series does have its own unique style that does not pale to the older version. Although, I will say the ED theme songs for the 2020 version are very catchy and definitely capture the spirit of being a child.

Character: I believe this may be the key factor that might have split the Digimon fan base community a little bit. Like I have mentioned in the story section the 1999 series was good (for many viewers) because of the character development between all the characters. The main plot point was that each character was placed a specific personality trait that they have yet developed or already displayed but were not aware of it. This required each character to come to terms with this revelation and to understand this was (predominately) their core personality. In addition, this required the others to come to terms with the other's personality traits as well since they all had to work together. However, the 2020 series does not try to focus on this aspect since they made it clear near the beginning what each character's personality traits when seeing them for the first time and this gets highlighted more as the series goes on so it makes it more clear that this is their core personality. The major difference for this is that the starting point between each character is different in the 2020 series compared to the 1999 series. In the 1999 series, all of the characters were "isekaied" to the Digiworld at the same time so everyone had to individually cope not only with each other but with the new world they were in as well. This obviously leads to character interaction and development where their personalities become a large theme throughout the whole series. However, the 2020 series has each character isekaied to the Digiworld at different times where one of the characters stumbles the other who has already lived/stayed in the Digiworld without knowing how long they have stayed there. As a result, you can argue that each character has already done the initial hurdle of coping with the Digiworld so the only thing they need to do is to interact with the other characters - which only takes around 10 episodes or so. Thus, the series sometimes have the "episode of the week" feel to it since there is not much to focus on. Furthermore, the villains the characters go against are less impactful in the 2020 version compared to the 1999 version for the same reason that the theme between the two is different. The villain used in the 1999 series focuses on the characters' personality traits and (to a larger extent) all of humanity to symbolise its strength and defeat whereas the 2020 villain was more or less a concept that so happens to endanger humanity and just gets stronger. However, lore-wise the 2020 series makes sense (in my opinion) compared to the 1999 series where it was more impactful. In the end, I cannot say which one is better but I can see where the strengths and weaknesses lie in either of them.

Overall: The 2020 series definitely has a more modernised style to it with a more focus on lore and world-building than the character development. This makes the story more straightforward and easier to follow with little room to doubt that the characters will have a falling out. However, this does make it less interesting since the 1999 series provides a larger impact from the characters falling out and reconciling with each other providing a stronger bond between them. In my opinion, if you were to ask me which one to watch, I will say watch: the 1999 series for context on the characters and impact of each character's personality; alternatively watch the 2020 series first for a general understanding between the connection of the Digiworld and humanity along with a more up to date version of Digimon lore. Both have their ups and downs and I will say I enjoyed both of them with their own unique styles. Keep in mind that this is based on the assumption that the show was meant for a younger audience to watch so I am not going to be super critical on which one is better than the other.

-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.

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.

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

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 ... myself confused about how situations developed until I rewatched the whole thing in reverse order so I could see the connections between episodes from a different angle. I saw a reviewer who described this show as having extreme acts of random heroism in place of character building, and that feels accurate to me. There is character development, but it is weak. If you’re debating if you should watch this, I’d say give it a try but don’t expect the storytelling to be quite as good as you remember.

The new Digimon Adventure anime is amazing and the storytelling takes this series in a different direction while you can clearly see that the characters are based on the older versions of themselves this Digimon series is practically its own show rather than a reboot. So people can still go back and watch the old anime series if they prefer that one compared to this.

I loved everything from the Art & animation, storytelling, music & soundtracks, and the new version of the characters!

while bringing a hint of nostalgia this version of the Digimon Adventure series is completely fresh. This is without a doubt one ... of the better reboots for sure!

Taichi is way more heroic than his older counterpart and I absolutely love this new version of him although I'm still a big fan of the old one! The main cast members other than Taichi and Yamato have more moments they shine in the new version compared to the older anime.

Didn't expect this to be this good. One of my favorite anime this season. They really going full throttle for this one.

The graphic transition is so smooth, the soundtrack were really kicking (I mean, really, you guys should hear it), a lot of new evolution line/ slide evolution, the new storyline, the new enemy...

At first, it was like "Taichi and Agumon" centered adventure. They inserted those two like in every adventure/episode. but as the story goes on, each character have their own adventure, and many question about the "Chosen Children" were answered.

It maybe didn't be as good as the original, but this one ... really deserved to be called the "Reboot".

I enjoyed it, but not having Milleniumon as the final boss was a big disappointment for me. A few episodes before the end I was a bit angrier because I thought Deathmon would be the final boss, but Abbadmon and Negamon are quite nice by design and powers so I did not find it that bad, It has some pacing issues though, it seemed to me they did not know if they wanted to do a quieter progression or just battle after battle episodes with no time to rest so they just tried to do both, the battles are nice but the music is very ... bad, it does not even reach the level of the previous seasons, i don't like drama that much so i didn't really care about the Sora crest drama on the original so i'm not the right person to talk about character development

[This review will be updated as I catch up with the anime.]

Digimon Adventure 1999 was not good. A prototype for 02 but without any of the subtle character writing that makes 02 such a masterpiece, with a soundtrack consisting of such memorable tracks as "oops! all Bolero" and "oops! we made a slow rock ballad instead of battle music," and with such great characters as "what if Ken, but instead of a scathing commentary on parents who treat their kids like accolades to show off to their friends, she was instead the most boring person you've ever met" and "guy who cares about his family ... slightly too much, but has no other character traits." (Though do I somewhat forgive 99's Yamato for being boring, because his seiyuu was seriously hauling ass. The anime doesn't deserve such a great performance.) It also had a movie, Bokura no War Game, which had a few interesting ideas but was overall an animation showcase.

Digimon Adventure 2020 asks the sorely-needed question: What if the show was actually good this time?