Forum Settings
Forums
New
What did you think of this episode?
DO NOT discuss the source material beyond this episode. If you want to discuss future events or theories, please use separate threads.
DO NOT ask where to watch/download this episode or give links to copyrighted, non-fair use material.
DO NOT troll/bait/harass/abuse other users for liking or disliking the series/characters.
DO read the Anime Discussion Rules and Site & Forum Guidelines.
Pages (2) « 1 [2]
Oct 1, 2017 10:52 PM

Offline
Sep 2013
78
5 movies from 6 but there's still no sign of the 02 kids
i thought i saw them in one of this series before laying on the ground looks "defeated" by someone dressing looks like the 02 "Digimon Emperor" if i remember correctly.
or was it not the 02 kids?

and the Taichi part thank goodness they make him vanish instead 100% dead so there's no "plot armor" there unlike "some other" series.
also the Yamato and the rest of them really don't care about the Nishijima guy because i don't see/hear anyone saying his name when watching this movie.

the only good parts IMO was agumon just doing what his best at everything (something's wrong with his head lmao) and also the horror story telling was a good one and make me curious about the next part of it
"... Now you're looking for the secret... but you won't find it, because of course you're not really looking. You don't really want to know. You want to be fooled."
Oct 2, 2017 2:37 AM

Offline
Mar 2015
388
Mei and Meicoomon are such boring characters, it's so hard to watch this.
Oct 2, 2017 4:37 AM

Offline
Apr 2014
23
Honestly I just hate how they shafted Hikari in this movie, it's not like I waited 15 years for my fave chara to finally get some justice. And all the teasing that will probably be left up to our own interpretation at the end of the Tri series.
Oct 3, 2017 3:36 AM

Offline
Mar 2015
388
That cliffhanger. Is Taichi dead? Is he alive? What could it be? I'm so intrigued!

So intrigued my ass. He's on the fucking poster for the sixth movie.
Oct 3, 2017 12:17 PM
Offline
Apr 2014
1276
Who the fuck wrote this garbage? Animation and battles are the least of your worries, this is just unwatchable honestly, I gave the first movie a pass because it was nostalgia fuel and just the start of it but everything that followed was garbage, they could've done something better after that Gennai cliffhanger but they didn't.
Such a massive waste of potential. Appmon is better.
Drake1000Oct 3, 2017 12:37 PM
Oct 4, 2017 12:31 AM

Offline
Oct 2008
536
Also, can anyone tell me why they shafted the brilliant concept of Warp Evolutions (even for WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon)? Any reason other than they wanted to animate every single evolution sequence in the new style for fan-pandering/budget-saving/time-wasting sake?

I (we) have been robbed of the satisfaction of that catharsis, the huge leap in power from Rookie (Child) to Mega (Ultimate) for the sake of artificially filling out the runtime. Even if they suddenly introduce Warp Evolutions next episode, IT'S TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. Because then the question of "WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT BEFORE?!" will be raised. URGH.

Sorry, but the PSP game got that right long before tri.
Oct 4, 2017 7:54 AM

Offline
Sep 2015
1192
Actar said:
Also, can anyone tell me why they shafted the brilliant concept of Warp Evolutions (even for WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon)? Any reason other than they wanted to animate every single evolution sequence in the new style for fan-pandering/budget-saving/time-wasting sake?

I (we) have been robbed of the satisfaction of that catharsis, the huge leap in power from Rookie (Child) to Mega (Ultimate) for the sake of artificially filling out the runtime. Even if they suddenly introduce Warp Evolutions next episode, IT'S TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. Because then the question of "WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT BEFORE?!" will be raised. URGH.

Sorry, but the PSP game got that right long before tri.


All evolution sequence on Tri are exactly the same when i said all i mean all of them, same camera direction same pose same background the only one different are Togemon to Lilymon.

Even Omegamon got recycled for 3 times (PV, movie 1 and this movie) only change on background.
Into the Internet!
Oct 4, 2017 1:01 PM

Offline
Apr 2013
1349
Actar said:
Also, can anyone tell me why they shafted the brilliant concept of Warp Evolutions (even for WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon)? Any reason other than they wanted to animate every single evolution sequence in the new style for fan-pandering/budget-saving/time-wasting sake?

I (we) have been robbed of the satisfaction of that catharsis, the huge leap in power from Rookie (Child) to Mega (Ultimate) for the sake of artificially filling out the runtime. Even if they suddenly introduce Warp Evolutions next episode, IT'S TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. Because then the question of "WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT BEFORE?!" will be raised. URGH.

Sorry, but the PSP game got that right long before tri.

Quoted for truth. Also, they shafted the DNA Digivolution/Jogressing sequences, like I really wish they could've showed how MetalGarurumon and WarGreymon's fusion looked in-universe for once.
Oct 4, 2017 2:07 PM

Offline
Oct 2016
218
Just come to brag that I was right when I stated Tailmon's Utlimate stage is Ophanimon, not Holydramon, because she has the only ring now. I hope in next film will see it in regular form, instead of Falldown mode.

Aside from this, the only thing good about this sequel is character design. The rest is cheap, very much so. The pacing is too slow. 1 anime film corresponds roughly to about 4 anime episode. They should release 1 film every month, not one every several months. The plot is not good enough for us to wait that long.
Oct 4, 2017 4:01 PM

Offline
Dec 2016
6107
Actar said:
Also, can anyone tell me why they shafted the brilliant concept of Warp Evolutions (even for WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon)? Any reason other than they wanted to animate every single evolution sequence in the new style for fan-pandering/budget-saving/time-wasting sake?

I (we) have been robbed of the satisfaction of that catharsis, the huge leap in power from Rookie (Child) to Mega (Ultimate) for the sake of artificially filling out the runtime. Even if they suddenly introduce Warp Evolutions next episode, IT'S TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. Because then the question of "WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT BEFORE?!" will be raised. URGH.

Sorry, but the PSP game got that right long before tri.


Mega level digievolutions have been so disappointing so far.

They've all come up so cheaply now, so effortlessly, with little-to-no convincing buildup or special triggering events (save for Ophanimon), like it always was in the original and which added the corresponding emotion and excitement to the critical moment, especially the Seraphimon case, where Patamon simply got there just because he thought it was a good idea doing so and nothing else, like if it was something so easy to achieve.

What's worse in the case of Seraphimon, and arguably HerculesKabuterimon, is that literally they finally came up....only to do almost nothing relevant or impactful. This is, at least 2 totally wasted, humiliated mega evolutions, a total letdown since these mega forms are supposed to be really powerful, really magnificent, and hence are supposed to be given their corresponding time to shine.

Besides, by opting to make the digimons reach their final stage by first going through each of the previous stages in a formal, complete way, as it has been seen so far, this feels somewhat exhausting, and also trivializes and reduces the respect of each one of the previous stages, making the intermediate digievolutions look now only like these tedious steps that must all be fully carried out to finally arrive to the desired digievolution at the beginning, which feels something totally disrespectful. Not to mention that to the viewer this digievolution format feels so tiring.

(Well, tbh, this was also present during the ultra evolution -where the adult evolution, once respected, became now a little underrated by the new one-, but... this was not a major problem because it was only one stage, and in general the adult evolution was first given its fair time to perform in battle before the ultra evolution came, but now that they are two the digievolutions being treated just as mere steps, the problem becomes more evident and annoying).

In the original, they solved this issue very well by precisely introducing the warp-evolution, where the rookie level digimon didn't have to exhaustingly and formally go through every single previous evolution stage in order to get to the final one, and just bypassed all of them instantly, thus eliminating the problem of the viewer having the feeling that the intermediate digievolutions are being looked-down along the way; because the digimon was never going through them in the first place (the evolutions are just shown, it's not that formally the digimon is evolving into them, at least that's the way I've always seen that evolution process).

Furthermore, in the end, the time spent to reach the mega-level, was ridiculously more than the one where the digimon is actually fighting at that stage, which is totally nonsense.
Oct 4, 2017 4:35 PM

Offline
Dec 2016
6107
LockSpeedster said:

Aside from this, the only thing good about this sequel is character design. The rest is cheap, very much so.


Character designs are fine, but to me they just don't look like Digimon at all, they are kind of unfit for the traditional franchise drawing-style.

I don't know why couldn't they keep the original character designs of the original series. The fact that the target audience are all adults now doesn't mean the looks of the characters have to be more adult whatsoever.

If in 02 they showed how characters would look at their teen and adult years with the old original style, and looked good, I don't know why they felt there had to be a change in the first place.
Oct 4, 2017 6:40 PM

Offline
Sep 2015
1192
LockSpeedster said:
Just come to brag that I was right when I stated Tailmon's Utlimate stage is Ophanimon, not Holydramon, because she has the only ring now. I hope in next film will see it in regular form, instead of Falldown mode.

Aside from this, the only thing good about this sequel is character design. The rest is cheap, very much so. The pacing is too slow. 1 anime film corresponds roughly to about 4 anime episode. They should release 1 film every month, not one every several months. The plot is not good enough for us to wait that long.


Why people really hate Holydramon because its more "accurate"? just want Ophanimon beside Seraphimon just for Takeru x Hikari ship? its still Tailmon official ultimate form.

Mimi design the only good thing about Tri

WarGreymon's redesign are something should never happen on first place same bad as Digital World BLAME human for enslave Digimon plot.

Into the Internet!
Oct 4, 2017 7:04 PM
Offline
Apr 2016
19
ZBlastHistory said:
Why people really hate Holydramon because its more "accurate"? just want Ophanimon beside Seraphimon just for Takeru x Hikari ship? its still Tailmon official ultimate form.[/spoiler]


Personally, I don't care what Tailmon's "official" Ultimate/Mega form is, but there ARE actual reasons to dislike the Holydramon concept even if you aren't invested in the Takeru x Hikari ship.

It's pretty evident that Takeru's and Hikari's respective digimons/crests are somewhat of a pair and are related (02 kept pointing this out over and over again). So it's reasonable to expect that their digimon follow through similar evolution paths, especially at the very end, for symbolic reasons or whatever. Another reason is that aesthetically, some people can't wrap their heads around the evolution path of blob > dog > cat > woman > gigantic pink snake. Yes, dragons are mythological creatures, but it's also a reptile. Digimon evolution generally go from less developed animals/plants to more complex, so Holydramon as the final form of what was a mammalian digimon, especially an evolutionary path that included a humanoid phase, seems out of place.
Oct 4, 2017 7:22 PM

Offline
Dec 2016
6107
ZBlastHistory said:


Why people really hate Holydramon because its more "accurate"? just want Ophanimon beside Seraphimon just for Takeru x Hikari ship? its still Tailmon official ultimate form.


Holydramon would be great as an ultimate form if Taimon's ultra form wasn't a humanoid but still a beast. It looks really weird and disturbing to see a gorgeous, elegant angel transforming into a flying, scary pink dog.
Oct 4, 2017 11:37 PM

Offline
Dec 2014
12524
ok the story continue with a rebound.... Meicoomon is the main focus

things went more and more wrong in the end...Taichiiiiiiiii
ibraheem234Oct 5, 2017 12:49 AM
Oct 5, 2017 5:37 AM

Offline
Jul 2016
1474
What's the point to creating these "OVA" in the first place if they didn't even bother to explain the plots and staffs properly? We already have a 5 episodes and we STILL have no idea what the hell is Alphamon fighting for and the 02 cast like Daisuke still haven't appear in the movie yet. While it's better than the previous movie, the movie isn't much better though, like why the fuck did Alphamon fight against Jeezmon and protecting Meicoomon in this movie when he is going to attacking the real world in the episode 1? The last part was literally giving me a huge WTF moment like........ WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT HUGE ZOMBIE NAKED WOMEN-LIKE DIGIMON WITH BLACK WINGS APPEARED IN THAT MOMENT????????

I'm pretty sure the last "OVA" will having us to eating a biggest SHIT by throwing a lot of non sense garbage and WTF moments and a very bad story ending to this show.
Oct 7, 2017 8:02 PM
Offline
Jul 2018
562356
Tai..Taichi? D= I know, they won't kill the protagonist / goggle-boy, but that was still intense. Before that happened, Yamato's scream of despair, also felt sorry for Meiko inbetween, and then...Hikari's reaction. Oh my. D= I'm glad, I'm not the only one who got the NGE-vibes from that? XD That thing is disgusting...I love it!
@MahiaErebeaNegi Hikari's despair and grief, I think? She has the crest of Light and all of that. If you corrupt that, that seems to be the result. "My despair is a huge naked zombie-woman with black wings!" XD

Tho there were so many freeze frames. That felt so lazy. I mean, the animation was great and dynamic, when Taichi tried to run away. They were just lazy in other scenes.
And the story seems to be a huge clusterfuck and I don't believe they have a proper ending. Let alone the 02 kids. I just don't care for this plothole or whatever this might be, because I don't care about the 02 kids (except Ken ;_;) and I know, the characters should. But eeh, I don't care, if THEY care? ^^"
Oct 10, 2017 6:20 AM
Offline
Aug 2011
569
This one was easily the worst of the tri movies, you can skip 75% of the movie and lose nothing of value.

Plus plot holes that still are not being addressed, what happened to the 02 kids? Are we gonna railroad them into the last movie? What is Jedi up to? I mean yeah this is about the 01 kids but the lack iof them giving a shit about them is infuriating. As much as people want to pretend 02 later half never happened they were still friends.

3/10, I'd tell people to fast forward over all of the kids being emo constantly and focus on just the last part of the movie. Which also didn't explain what the hell was going on with Kari.
Oct 10, 2017 7:30 AM

Offline
Mar 2012
1673
So the Dark Ocean has made it's appereance, I think i might have enough clues as to who it the main antagonist is. The clues are in the sudle details of a few hints in regards to the events of 02.

Think back for a second, Back in 02 aside from Myotismon who was behind the events was their another group the one led by Deamon who we never actually got a resolve as to what his group was aiming for only that they needed ken and the dark seeds within him.

With Ken and the rest of 02 cast gone, The Dark ocean making a reappearance and this evil gennei keeps using ken form as well as alphamon being under their control i would bet they are the real antagonists after all. that or Dracomon that was also involved when the dark ocean first introduced by neighter of which ever got resolved.
Oct 11, 2017 9:35 AM
Bunnies 🍓

Offline
Jan 2013
15986
It was an alright movie. The 4th episode of this movie saved it from being a let down imo. Seeing Meiko blaming herself constantly was pretty annoying. Like here she has real friends who care for her and she's still saying it's her fault. Kind of hoped Hikari would slap Meiko and make her realize that she has friends. It was nice to see Tai stepping up and showing his leadership side.

Agumon was so hilarious during the scary stories stuff, like omg he kept eating throughout the stories even after the lights turned on lol
Feel bad for Agumon/Koromon towards the end, and I felt like they did give Agumon a bit more screen time than usual imo.

Oct 16, 2017 11:09 PM

Offline
Oct 2016
218
ZBlastHistory said:

Why people really hate Holydramon because its more "accurate"? just want Ophanimon beside Seraphimon just for Takeru x Hikari ship? its still Tailmon official ultimate form.
[/spoiler]


I don't hate Holydramon, but it's just a temporary form much like SkullGreymon, only that it's not Dark. Just alternative. I also don't ship those two, because I'd like Takeru to play on the other team haha
Oct 18, 2017 5:55 AM

Offline
Jul 2008
11128
TAICHI!!!!


He'll be back and also we need to get the most important answer....WHERE IS THE 02 GANG!?!
Oct 26, 2017 12:20 AM

Offline
Nov 2009
68
[quote=neon-kun message=52547830]
Actar said:
Also, can anyone tell me why they shafted the brilliant concept of Warp Evolutions (even for WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon)? Any reason other than they wanted to animate every single evolution sequence in the new style for fan-pandering/budget-saving/time-wasting sake?

...

In the original, they solved this issue very well by precisely introducing the warp-evolution, where the rookie level digimon didn't have to exhaustingly and formally go through every single previous evolution stage in order to get to the final one, and just bypassed all of them instantly, thus eliminating the problem of the viewer having the feeling that the intermediate digievolutions are being looked-down along the way; because the digimon was never going through them in the first place (the evolutions are just shown, it's not that formally the digimon is evolving into them, at least that's the way I've always seen that evolution process).

Furthermore, in the end, the time spent to reach the mega-level, was ridiculously more than the one where the digimon is actually fighting at that stage, which is totally nonsense.


Pretty sure it's for budget saving / time wasting like you said. Toei Animation also makes One Piece and One Piece was animated better 10-15 years ago than it is recently. Doesn't make any sense considering how technology has progressed, the only explanation is they lower the budget if they know they will make sales anyway.

Ironically, even though they want to milk fans for nostalgia, I think they could've done more with the nostalgia factor. Why not just reuse the original evolution sequences? Would be a trip on memory lane.

Same with the story. I don't understand why they give so much screen-time to Meiko when they could put the spotlight on the original cast and fans would eat that up in an instant.

Nov 1, 2017 12:05 PM

Offline
Oct 2008
536
neon-kun said:
Actar said:
Also, can anyone tell me why they shafted the brilliant concept of Warp Evolutions (even for WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon)? Any reason other than they wanted to animate every single evolution sequence in the new style for fan-pandering/budget-saving/time-wasting sake?

I (we) have been robbed of the satisfaction of that catharsis, the huge leap in power from Rookie (Child) to Mega (Ultimate) for the sake of artificially filling out the runtime. Even if they suddenly introduce Warp Evolutions next episode, IT'S TOO LITTLE TOO LATE. Because then the question of "WHY DIDN'T THEY DO IT BEFORE?!" will be raised. URGH.

Sorry, but the PSP game got that right long before tri.


Mega level digievolutions have been so disappointing so far.

They've all come up so cheaply now, so effortlessly, with little-to-no convincing buildup or special triggering events (save for Ophanimon), like it always was in the original and which added the corresponding emotion and excitement to the critical moment, especially the Seraphimon case, where Patamon simply got there just because he thought it was a good idea doing so and nothing else, like if it was something so easy to achieve.

What's worse in the case of Seraphimon, and arguably HerculesKabuterimon, is that literally they finally came up....only to do almost nothing relevant or impactful. This is, at least 2 totally wasted, humiliated mega evolutions, a total letdown since these mega forms are supposed to be really powerful, really magnificent, and hence are supposed to be given their corresponding time to shine.

Besides, by opting to make the digimons reach their final stage by first going through each of the previous stages in a formal, complete way, as it has been seen so far, this feels somewhat exhausting, and also trivializes and reduces the respect of each one of the previous stages, making the intermediate digievolutions look now only like these tedious steps that must all be fully carried out to finally arrive to the desired digievolution at the beginning, which feels something totally disrespectful. Not to mention that to the viewer this digievolution format feels so tiring.

(Well, tbh, this was also present during the ultra evolution -where the adult evolution, once respected, became now a little underrated by the new one-, but... this was not a major problem because it was only one stage, and in general the adult evolution was first given its fair time to perform in battle before the ultra evolution came, but now that they are two the digievolutions being treated just as mere steps, the problem becomes more evident and annoying).

In the original, they solved this issue very well by precisely introducing the warp-evolution, where the rookie level digimon didn't have to exhaustingly and formally go through every single previous evolution stage in order to get to the final one, and just bypassed all of them instantly, thus eliminating the problem of the viewer having the feeling that the intermediate digievolutions are being looked-down along the way; because the digimon was never going through them in the first place (the evolutions are just shown, it's not that formally the digimon is evolving into them, at least that's the way I've always seen that evolution process).

Furthermore, in the end, the time spent to reach the mega-level, was ridiculously more than the one where the digimon is actually fighting at that stage, which is totally nonsense.


YES. YES. YES! I know people hate the "I told you so" thing, but... I did flag this issue and raised pretty much the same points right from the very beginning after I saw Movie 2. I made a video about it and it got downvoted to heck because people couldn't remove their nostalgia goggles for a second to listen to what I had to say. Instead of addressing and engaging with any of my points (all of which were logically argued and substantiated) all I got was a torrent of personal insults.

Stay classy Digimon fans. Stay classy.
Nov 1, 2017 1:26 PM

Offline
Sep 2015
1192
Actar said:
and it got downvoted to heck because people couldn't remove their nostalgia goggles for a second to listen to what I had to say. Instead of addressing and engaging with any of my points (all of which were logically argued and substantiated) all I got was a torrent of personal insults.

Stay classy Digimon fans. Stay classy.


Thats was kinda your fault to jump on a field filled with bomb way too early xD

And people start to "hate" Tri until 5th movie because duo Mei get more spot light more than their fav ship character in action or only care to relief their nostalgia.
Into the Internet!
Nov 6, 2017 5:56 AM

Offline
Jan 2014
2662
I don't really know what happened, it's like watching them running in circle this entire time. a waste worth of 2 hours.

it's like, they did nothing while things getting worsened, and friendship cliche all over again.
Dec 24, 2017 5:32 AM

Offline
Jan 2013
2331
another boring addition to the world of digimons. past episode two i stopped caring in all honesty. only watching it to get it over and done with. could summarize this entire movie in one sentence, that being the world is ending accompanied by infodumping, oh well.
Jan 21, 2018 11:04 PM

Offline
Oct 2017
1190
This series has been a huge disappointment...and people whined about Adventure 02. It was superior to this shit and handled the original cast better.
Feb 18, 2018 6:30 AM
Offline
Mar 2015
108
I'm late to the party. Just recently have I finished Adventure02 and Tamers. I did like some of the first movies...but why did they have to introduce Meiko. I want to know more about the original characters. She just annoys me.
ElsmandearkaFeb 18, 2018 6:38 AM
Feb 19, 2018 5:31 AM

Offline
Jul 2016
1474
Elsmandearka said:
I'm late to the party. Just recently have I finished Adventure02 and Tamers. I did like some of the first movies...but why did they have to introduce Meiko. I want to know more about the original characters. She just annoys me.

What's make it more annoying is she haven't development much character in the whole Tri movies other than she keep crying and keep blaming herself for no reason even thought Taichi and the others keep telling her it's not her faults, which make me wonder why is she even here in the first place? Hope the last "OVA" will did Meiko's character (And also 02 casts) justice but I'm fear the worse.
Feb 20, 2018 1:31 PM
Offline
Mar 2015
108
MahiaErebeaNegi said:
Elsmandearka said:
I'm late to the party. Just recently have I finished Adventure02 and Tamers. I did like some of the first movies...but why did they have to introduce Meiko. I want to know more about the original characters. She just annoys me.

What's make it more annoying is she haven't development much character in the whole Tri movies other than she keep crying and keep blaming herself for no reason even thought Taichi and the others keep telling her it's not her faults, which make me wonder why is she even here in the first place? Hope the last "OVA" will did Meiko's character (And also 02 casts) justice but I'm fear the worse.


It’s a shame thst Tri is a wasted opportunity. It had potential in the beginning but the more they focused on Meiko the more the destroyed any interest one could have in how it will end.
Mar 4, 2018 2:21 PM

Offline
Jul 2013
142
ZBlastHistory said:
Ahahaha another waste of life movie.

- Nothing much really happen here just Taichi TRIed to get some flag on Mei because Taichi on Tri are bastard who still TRIed to touch someone elses girlfriend... oh wait they never become couple because 02 is taboo
- Taichi x Yamato supported by Gabumon
- And sick Genai still cosplay as Kaiser for whatever reason
- Maki get screw and now she will gone on Dark Ocean
- Public already name them "Digimon" somehow? last time i heard about them they still called them as monster.
- And nope they don't TRIed to get rid the corrupted Digimon they just leave them alone unlike A FKING IMPERIALDRAMON.
- Omegamon you fking weak! how can you just devolve just from a few rock oh wait its for drama.
- Incest love Dark evolution! Opanimon FM! oh wait lets fuse Ophanimon FM with Meiwhatevermon now who care Opanimon was the cover for this movie.

I think i already cover everything? and oh yeah Taichi dead

- AND Seraphimon still useless as ever.


I loved the Taito references, like the only good thing in the whole movie xD
May 10, 2018 2:08 PM
🥊 CHAMPION 🥊

Offline
Apr 2016
24312
I imagine that Taichi didn´t die, only he fall just!!!
The fusion between the two dark mega-evolves Digimon was amazing and spooky!!!
Well, all thi will resolve in the last film, but if i am honest, i don´t know the youngs will do it!!!! :/
Oct 22, 2018 11:38 AM

Offline
Jul 2013
909
yeah this series is just becoming more and more of a joke. the person nailed it on the first page explaining that this whole plot is kind of convoluted due to it centering on a completely new character. all of the original digidestined are just onlookers so the story doesn't even feel that pressing.
May 16, 2019 10:49 AM
Offline
Jan 2017
627
I'm a bit on the fence about liking this movie. I like the common theme of banning together, believing in your friends, and overcoming challenges.
but I feel the villian is manipulating the digi-destinins emotions too easily.
I mean i know they're teens in highschool which makes them super emotional and all but I just don't buy that they went so quickly from yeahhh lets save mekumon to emo mode almost instantly.

also why did himekawa get a freakin gun from?
Jul 22, 2019 9:10 AM

Offline
Aug 2016
1144
JustMonaka said:
For a second, I thought I was watching Evangelion.


Maybe we all were.
Signature removed. Please follow the signature rules, as defined in the Site & Forum Guidelines.
Mar 27, 2020 1:46 PM

Offline
Dec 2008
444
Didn't enjoy this as much as the previous movies, even considering I had some issues with them as well. So much focus on Meiko. It wouldn't bother me as much if they hadn't given the middle finger to the 02 kids, but now I'm thinking a modified version of her story with one of the 02 kids would have worked and been better, or even with one of the original eight with the 02 kids still left out. Also, the constant ship pushing of TaiMei was annoying. I feel nothing for these two as a pair and them trying to push it in this movie didn't help. At least we still have some Taito subtext lol.

Oh no, Taichi's dead! Wait, no he's not, we already know he lives on from the 02 end. It might have had more emotional impact if it wasn't for that obvious thing.
Apr 21, 2020 10:01 PM

Offline
May 2008
877
But it did get worse.

I didn't think the quality would drop with each movie, but slap my ass and call me Sally because that's exactly what happened. And it's the most boring movie too. If I started listing everything wrong with it, I'll be rehashing the entire movie... If you can't even get the fundamentals of the universe you're trying to write in, you have failed as a writer. Take the digimon stuff out and this could easily be a slice of life anime about high school kids with nothing much lost.

Not to mention the sheer arrogance of the writer to think I care about their shitty Mary Sue OC and her equally shitty Mary Sue OC digimon.

I can't imagine how more terrible the last one will be.

bryansao said:
I loved the Taito references, like the only good thing in the whole movie xD


Even better is that, timeline-wise, Yamato and Sora are supposed to be dating, ahahaha.
Oct 15, 2020 2:45 AM

Offline
Dec 2012
5037
Fall 1999.
Dat blood.
Himekawa.
The distortion. Digimon are flying in.
Taichi saves Meiko.
Dem Nanomon.
That reporter is cute.
Hackmon.
Libra holds a shard of Apocalymon's data in it?
Dat fall.
Dat fall again.
The Digital World detests them?


What an episode. What in the 90's Gainax anime did I just witness? Hikari turns into Ya(ga)mi. Dat Yuugou shokan. Dem vagina bones. Dat oppai. Dem thighs. Dat ass. The only thing that was missing (darkness) was the pussy cat. WarGreymon's shinka scene is my favorite. His redesign is fire! After the Digimon degenerated, they showed Takeru holding Tokomon, but Tokomon looked like Koromon. How ironic... back in Adventure after Whamon died and Mimi was making graves, Yamato was the one who wanted them to stop for a moment to process while Taichi wanted to move forward (which Yamato agreed was right but... lol), now here he is doing what Taichi did back then. Oh, and Nishijima was wearing the goggles in the flashback. So he was the leader back then? Dat Ayumi and AiM ED song. So good.
If you see that my post is exactly 1 month old (or more) from when it was posted... Don't waste your time, especially when you want to reply with something petty & insignificant. Assume that I've moved on (because I have).
Jan 15, 2021 4:03 PM

Offline
Jan 2021
148
They're not even trying to hide that these movies are basically just some nostalgia cashgrabs. The fact that there have been 5 movies already and yet the plot advances so very little in each installment. These mfs are just dragging these movies as much as they can at this point.

User irkaylub in the first page really summed up the main problem of these movies - creating a whole new character for the plot to develop. Meicoomon is literally just a plot device and Meiko is an even more insufferable character. She has literally spent the last five movies doubting herself and apologizing to everyone with little to no development. Unlike the rest of the cast, we don't have any preexisting memories with her. We're made to care about this entirely new character by centering the whole plot on her and her Digimon while forcefully trying to attach the rest of the cast to her. The show is plagued with pacing problems due to this intense focus on Meiko who nobody really gives a fuck about. This is hardly a story about the original cast. They're just some accessory at this point. Meiko hogs all the screentime while adding literally nothing zero nada. I don't even care about the plot that much anymore honestly because there's barely anything happening anyway. There's too much focus on shitty drama and less about what actually made Digimon interesting.

This whole forced dynamic between Meiko and Taichi. They're just rushing to make Taichi collect some Meiko flags at this point so they can somehow justify whatever ending they're planning. I'm telling you it's not working.

And I really hate these shitty explanations about the villains' motives. Humanity is useless bla bla bla... we get it. Yggdrasil hates humans yeah yeah. How many times are they gonna recycle this plot.

This blatant exclusion of the 02 cast is really pissing me off. I don't even care about them at all honestly but the cast SHOULD. They were worried at first that the enemy was Ken and when it was revealed that Gennai was just cosplaying as him, they just forget about the whole thing. Where the fuck are the 02 kids even.

Taichi dead? Yeah right lol and does nobody even care about Daigo (ToT)

Himekawa in the Dark Ocean? I didn't expect her character to be this predictable. What a waste and here I thought she was an interesting addition being one of the original Digidestined and all. Really such a waste of potential.

Ophanimon being the cover of the movie and yet she only appeared for a few seconds. What a fucking joke.

Five movies in and the animation hasn't shown any improvements at all coupled with the terrible art direction and designs and we got ourselves a massive disaster in our hands.

We've really taken a dive since the third movie huh. I'm not even expecting anything at all for the finale. This was terrible. Just terrible.

By the way, we haven't seen Joe's mystery girlfriend at all lmao.
Mar 20, 2021 4:16 PM

Offline
Jul 2013
2089
By far the most boring part yet. Basically Meicoomon is the root cause of all problems, but they can't bring themselves kill it because muh friendship. I like the idea, but the execution is godawful. Over half the movie was the characters sitting around spouting endless exposition/emotional pep talk while the camera tried its damndest to find a new angle to shoot from.

All these talk about the adult saying “DiGiMoN bAd”. Guys, remember when this exact same thing happened in 02? Remember the kids all around the world who helped dealing with that? Where are they now? Why weren’t this drama erupted during 02 days? Why are we still ignoring the 02 kids?

The consequence of the reboot is basically gone at this point. Everyone and everything is back to how they used to be. Agumon even commented how he liked Meicoomon. That's cool, if not for a small, small, tiny problem in the fact that Agumon literally never had a single interaction with Meicoomon post-reboot.

The screenplay in Taichi's "death" scene is actually abysmal. Meiko just ran into the fight zone seemingly to calm Meicoomon, except this is right after she asked everyone to kill her partner, so wtf girl make up your damn mind. Jesmon unleashed his laser attack which missed entirely because Omegamon pushed Meicoomon out of the way, but it somehow managed to knock Meicoomon out? Jesmon and Alphamon then disappeared from the scene without any explanation. Omegamon went to save Yamato, which is fine and all if not for the fact that he just crouched there like an idiot despite his ability to fly (and the act of crouching somehow protected Yamato from the ground being collapsed?). Nothing here makes any sense whatsoever and the fact that it leads right into the highlight of the whole movie just added more salt to the injuries.

Also, I've noticed more still frame in this movie than in the previous 4.

Everything after the reboot has been a downward spiral (not that it was great to begin with).
Jul 12, 2021 10:39 PM

Offline
Jan 2017
2905
I get that the relationship between a Digimon and their partners are important are such, but Meicoomon has started to become WAY annoying with her clinging issues to Meiko and has no redeeming qualities to make the viewer sympathize her. This 2 new characters to Tri are what makes this sufferable to watch lmao

and Himekawa is now in the Dark Ocean? convenient way for the writers to dispose of her I guess
Aug 3, 2021 8:11 AM

Offline
Jun 2014
27
FlareKnight said:

All you are doing is inserting your own views on what common sense is and then being pissed that they didn't do what you wanted. When creating a sequel or new story. Something new is bound to happen. Whether it is a new villain, new supporting characters, new main characters, etc. They could have come up with something that didn't include a new character, but there isn't any issue with adding a new character either.

Just silly....

Wanted to come back to this after a lot of hindsight to say that you're right, adding new elements to a sequel isn't' the issue. Having Meiko in this series is fine in theory. The major issue is that these films were entirely built around her, her conflict and her development to the detriment of every other character's growth and screen time. The fact that she never showed back up for Last Evolution really clears up just how disconnected her story was in relation to the Adventure Cast. Our complaints aren't the new elements, that would be "silly," its that the whole product, all 6 films, exist to wear the "Digimon Adventure" skin and then fails to focus on the core of that cast. That story doesn't function without Meiko. Last Evolution understood the Adventure cast and did them better in 1/6th the time and had fantastic new elements as well.
May 9, 2022 4:28 PM

Offline
Jul 2013
1848
The best part for me was when they were telling scary stories, honestly...

There are so many unanswered questions. I doubt that the 6th movie is going to adress all of them, so I better set the bar low.
Jul 30, 2022 12:35 PM

Offline
Feb 2015
1398
Why a feather behind meicoomon. The group decided to tell horror stories during crisis, haha, instead of planning something, knowing how worried some of them were. Well, this movies are not being that exciting, I think the digidestined story was all right how it ended.
Aug 28, 2023 10:34 AM

Offline
Nov 2012
5864
things definitely heating up and gripping me, so since the ken was a fake out, looks like we won't see any 02 cast? defo just gives a strange vibe when at this point they would all be close friends and fellow digidestined. They could've defo included them as background/support without taking away from the 01 as the main cast. Or at least mentioned why they're not around lol.

looking forward to the next/last one anyway, and the specials & movie that semi kind of follow it
I have a third testicle that gives me psychic powers
Nov 14, 2024 3:14 AM

Offline
May 2011
43
Much of the beginning was a bit boring, although the moments at school were good. I just found it repetitive how many times people needed to support Meiko and even then, she broke down afterwards.
The final part was impressive, not because of the extreme battles, but because of the final moments, where Digimon met Evangelion. Impossible not to relate.
With only 1 film left, I want to see how they will resolve all this imbroglio presented so far.
Pages (2) « 1 [2]

More topics from this board

» Koushiro said "Yamato-sama"

MidoFortune - Dec 23, 2018

1 by Nickienator »»
Nov 2, 2019 1:16 PM

» Gennai

Rosemon - Jul 28, 2017

4 by argentino_kek »»
Dec 1, 2017 7:52 AM

» Digimon Adventure tri. 6th Anime Film Reveals Title, Early Summer 2018 Debut

Salamander2170 - Sep 30, 2017

7 by Actar »»
Nov 1, 2017 12:19 PM

» Digimon Adventure tri. 5: Kyousei Latest CM

anime_mantabh - Sep 23, 2017

0 by anime_mantabh »»
Sep 23, 2017 9:53 AM

» Digimon Adventure tri. Symbiosis first 5 minutes (SPOILERS)

KingArti - Aug 31, 2017

7 by lov_lymj »»
Sep 13, 2017 3:01 AM
It’s time to ditch the text file.
Keep track of your anime easily by creating your own list.
Sign Up Login