Digimon Adventure (Digimon: Digital Monsters)

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Synonyms: Digimon Adventure 01

Japanese: デジモンアドベンチャー

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Type: TV

Episodes: 54

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Mar 7, 1999 to Mar 26, 2000

Premiered: Spring 1999

Broadcast: Sundays at 09:00 (JST)

Producers: Yomiko Advertising, Fuji TV

Licensors: Discotek Media, Saban Entertainment, Flatiron Film Company

Studios: Toei Animation

Source: Other

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Theme: Isekai

Demographic: Kids

Duration: 24 min. per ep.

Rating: PG - Children

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Score: 7.77¹ (scored by 242,170 users)

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Ranked: #942²

² based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.

Popularity: #506

Members: 374,745

Favorites: 4,956

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Spring 1999TVToei Animation

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Synopsis

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

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

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Background

Digimon Adventure was originally planned to be a short film, but it was expanded into a full-fledged series before production could begin.

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Related Anime

Adaptation:	Digimon Adventure
Spin-off:	Digimon Savers, Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier, Digimon X-Evolution, Digimon Xros Wars
Sequel:	Digimon Adventure: Bokura no War Game!
Prequel:	Digimon Adventure Movie
Side story:	Digimon Adventure 3D: Digimon Grand Prix!
Other:	Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters, Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna, Digimon Survive: Prologue Movie, Digimon Ghost Game
Alternative version:	Digimon Adventure:

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yagami, Taichi

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Fujita, Toshiko
Japanese

Ishida, Yamato

Main

Kazama, Yuuto
Japanese

Takaishi, Takeru

Main

Konishi, Hiroko
Japanese

Yagami, Hikari

Main

Araki, Kae
Japanese

Agumon

Main

Sakamoto, Chika
Japanese

Tachikawa, Mimi

Main

Maeda, Ai
Japanese

Izumi, Koushirou

Main

Tenjin, Umi
Japanese

Tailmon

Main

Tokumitsu, Yuka
Japanese

Takenouchi, Sora

Main

Mizutani, Yuuko
Japanese

Patamon

Main

Matsumoto, Miwa
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Seki, Hiromi

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Kimura, Kyotaro

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Kakudou, Hiroyuki

Director, Episode Director

Hosoda, Mamoru

Episode Director, Storyboard

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Opening Theme

"Butter-Fly" by Kouji Wada

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Ending Theme

	1: "I Wish" by AiM (eps 1-26)
	2: "Keep On" by AiM (eps 27-54)

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Mar 9, 2015

Lil-Bird

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Constantly accused of being a Pokémon rip-off, Digimon has struggled to find a big audience, particularly in the West—it doesn't help that its marketing never really took off out here. However, despite it never gaining a huge fanbase like its rival, Digimon continues to be a strong—if not struggling—franchise that still has a foothold in countries outside of Japan complete with its own loyal fanbase. So when most people think of Fox Kids or Saban Entertainment, they fondly think of either Power Rangers or Digimon (usually the first season), and not so much of the network itself. But for years, it meant risking an all-out ...

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May 20, 2013

Were_Vampire

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First of all I want to apologize before handed for any grammar mistake you might find in the review as English is not my native languaje.
Second, I have to say I'm utterly disappointed with the score Digimon Adventure has. 7 is not a bad score, but is way below of what I expected. This is a kid show, and as such it should be scored as how satisfaying it can be to kids, just as how shonnen should be scored as how they satisfy their teen audience, seinen their older audience, and so on. I feel like many are comparing and scoring anime without any ... filter, as if you could score this anime a 5 just because you compare it with Code Geass or Shingeki no Kyojin, which are 9 if not 10s. And that's unfair. Digimon Adventure is a stand out in what refers to kid shows and I'll explain why point by point.

Story wise: It is very well constructed, and smartly thought through; there are misteries that are unveiled as we move forward, and every revelation is handled with care and it is affected by how the characters feel about it. There are plenty shows that just try to be awesome by delievering mistery after mistery and revelation after revelation with no care of their characters whatsoever and fall flat in making any emotional resonance, but it's not this one. The story is tightly attached to its main 8 characters and their digimon, while giving us the sense of many plots developing under their nose, but strickly related to them. The first 10 episodes are introductory, a prologue if you may, and then we go fully into know what the world they are in is and how it affects ours. Sure, some people could say "why wait 10 episodes to get to real deal?" For starters, those 10 episodes are not bad at all, they are very entertaining and they give us a sense of adventure (hence the title) and exploration that this anime wants us to feel, and it passes with flying colors. The following 44 episodes follow 3 different story arcs, but all related to the same story plot, all of them linked together, with every single episode affecting the following ones, which mean there is no such thing as filler episode, and that's something we should applaude, as not many kid shows are willing to leave a filler comfort zone (I'm looking at you Pokemon).

Characters: Here is where this anime shines brightly. Character development is at its finest here. Each character has a distinctive personality, quirks and even tics that make them feel real, or at the very least smartly outlined. At first we get broadstrokes, but as we pass episode by episode there's an incredible development in each character; they are distinctive from each other and they never act out of characters, their actions are not made in order to move the plot forward, but rather to show us who these kids are, which is great, as many animes (and not just kid shows) tend to sacrifice character insight in order to get the plot moving; this one doesn't. They will always move accordingly to their personalities and we get to see all of them develop. While some others shows would mainly develop 3 or 4 of their main characters, all 8 get to grow in each episode by what happen to them, and even they realize how they grow (and even how they don't, how they might be stuck) and how much they have to move forward.
There's a cute concept here that is "values are power" and each character has a distinctive value, may it be courage, friendship, love, sincerity, love, and so on. They grow around these values, but they also get lost in sight of them, when they try to push them they fail as opposed when they let it flow naturally it always work. It's a wonderful lesson for kids, and it is something we all should add to our daily life, it would make this world better. But putting that aside and returning to the characters, there is not even one that's left undeveloped, all of them have satisfaying characters arcs.

Sound/Music: Digimon has a beautiful soundtrack. Wada Kouji was a talented musician (rest in peace) and scored some really great songs that made you dream. Digimon is a series that aims for kids to dream and to learn the power of values as well to portraying excellent character development and mature themes explained to them, and as such it needs the right score at the right time, and Wada Kouji just got it right, from Butterfly to Brave Heart, even using classic music as Ravel, the timing is just perfect and while there are surely better OST, this one is among the better ones.

Enjoyment: it is highly satisfaying! I'm 21 years old and as I re-watched Digimon after 12 years I enjoyed it as much as I did when I was 9, and that's because I could realize how well constructed it was. Besides, it made feel like a llittle kid again. The plots are smart, the character development is spot on, the music is gorgous, the art may lack a little now and then, but is never too bothersome, and the evolutions are damn right exciting and funny! And so I could keep praising it until I'm left out of words. But I think I made my point.

In conclusion: This is defenitely the best Digimon series, as it is the one that gets all plot, character, music and themes right, and delivers them in a highly satisfaying manner. As such, it deserves to be acclaimed, and a 7 is a low score for it.
Is this a realistic anime? No, not at all, but it's not meant to be anyway. It is an anime that is meant to make us dream. You can't compare it to, say for instance, Shingeky no Kyojin which explore fantasy elements as realistic as possible or Code Geass, which explores character insight in the midst of war and revolutions. No, of course no, those are targeted for an older audience. But Digimon Adventure is no less satisfaying, and that's because while it aims for children, one can always appreciate how smartly thought are the storylines and the characters development. It is a show that knows its potential and limitations, accepts them and just aim to be the best it can be, which result in being an awesomely made kid show.
All in all, we have to see Digimon Adventure for what it is and not for what we might want to be. And as on what it is, it is straight awesome.

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Jun 6, 2010

KC_Writes

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If you were to ask me what it was that possessed me with such a desire to re-watch the Digimon Adventure series I saw when I was younger, I couldn't tell you. Before now my memories of Digimon were not fond, the dubbing in the show was terrible, to the point were I hated the vast majority of the entire cast. I was a lot younger back then so I didn't understand that the occasional stupid things characters did/said were because the script was being hacked up. But beyond the negatives of the show there was a strange charm that reached me, and having re-watched ...

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