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| My memory is hazy with the old Digimon, since I watched it as a kid and all, so I don't really know that story, but can someone tell me if they gonna do what HxH did and do the same stories with extra arcs, or its the same ol Digimon, other than that it was a pretty good episode, I felt like they kinda rushed into the, "Oh this is what Digimon are, now fight with them..." but that's just my opinion BUT IT WAS REALLY GOOD THE OP AND THE ED ARE BANGERS YO. |
| I'll be honest I'm not too impressed with this reboot but I'll see if this will get any better |
| Haha, that was cool! :D I felt over 15 years younger again. But its not only nostalgia. I liked well balanced usage of classic art and animation techniques with modern ones. In other words, everything looked very nice, fresh and didn't lack that classic feeling. :) However it's hard to judge animation as a whole, really. It was pretty mediocre generally, because while it was good looking in action sequences, there were some dynamic sceneries that shouldn't be static, like people in the crowd who were not moving even a bit, making them look like statues. It was not something revolutionary in terms of animation and art, of course. It's still too early to say whether this reboot is gonna be better than classic Digimon, but I'm positive about it, because after seeing the first episode there is a chance it might be better as anime. Besides... I'm older now. What intrigued me about "Digimon" years ago, now might just not work. Even now I feel as if I liked more the original series, even if I saw only this one episode. Maybe it's nostalgia, or maybe my taste changed over the years, but most likely it's both. Nevertheless I will check out further episodes of reboot. My memory about what happened in the original series is not good. I remember only how the main characters and their digimons looked like; what was the name of most of their digimons; and who was the main bad guy. ;p So yeah, I can be surprised by this reboot even if I've already completed watching original series years ago. |
AdnashApr 6, 2020 6:53 PM
| from saving a train from colliding at the last possible second....into saving the world right after (in the first 2 episodes), let's goooooooooo :v tbh not sure what to think of this, it's been forever since i watched digimon and i barely remember anything so...surprise me please |
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| I wasn't sure how I was going to receive this reboot, I know I wouldn't totally trash it as I rarely do that since I always jump on the anime or seasons like a blank page, but I didn't expect it was going to be on par with the original. The pacing is way different for sure, but the feel is there, it kinda weirded me out the fact that Izumi had a tablet, I liked the charm the laptop from the original had. For those who are thinking that Taichi was too quick to accept things like the digimon or the fact that Agumon was going to work with him to defeat the viruses, I'd like to remind you that his mom and Hikari were in danger, and before getting to that cyberspace he was rushing to help them who knows how, he can save them by fighting those things along with a chili dinosaur? Good enough, no more questions, I think is on character given the urgency of the situation. For now it was pretty good, wasn't really thinking on watching this for the moment but now I will, and now that I know Gegege no Kitarou ended I might finally be able to catch up on what I missed. @Yuri-Crusader What's the anime from your banner? Also, is that signature an actual statement or just a bit satirical? |
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| Wait.. so they won't get isekai'd this time? damn lol. It'll just be them teleporting in and out in some techy shiz thing gig beating the virus digimon? oh well... I was honestly expecting them to get isekai'd again, adventure seems more fun that way but I'll take what I can. That OP song was so... generic af, like what you normally get in a kiddie show like the train transformation anime we had back then. I'm really glad they didn't try to change the art design and stayed with their 90's, they shoulda done the same with DBS when it came back, not putting those glossy ass shading and making it feel retro with some modern effects like this one did, TOEI did well especially with the evolution animation! they owning this! NGL hearing Goku do the narration and voicing Agumon caught me off guard lol, went from "kamehame ha" to "baby flame" real quick. That being said Nozawa is still amazing! |
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| It was OK. Character design was cool, this is what we wanted and not that dolls with the same faces that we got in .tri. Story was OK, I know they wanted to do something different, but they didn't make it xD It is similar to Our War Game, so it's not new. And the digiworld? Same, it is from Our War Game and it's boring as hell, c'mon Toei! We want something like the original and not simple backgrounds... The OP was OK, but we wanted Butterfly. And show the fcking evolution and play Brave Heart, for god's sake, Toei! YOU HAD ONE JOB. I doubt they are going to change the OP or ED, but I hope so, because they are all around Tai and Matt and not the other kids. The only "surprising" thing was that it seems Kari is going to be with them in the beginning, and not 20 episodes in like the original. Finally, it was cute to see the tamagotchi at the beginning of the episode. |
| I enjoyed the first episode since it was a trip down memory lane. I like the fact that its more action packed and they are taking their time introducing the Digi Destins. This is also my first time watching Digimon with Japanese voice actors, so this is a fresh experience for me. |
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| This episode was great, and that was freaking Diaboromon on the ending. |
| I didn't expect anything but wow. I loved that first episode. So much nostalgia and back to my childhood... To the haters out there, if you get disappointed you did that to yourself. Give the show some space and time. |
-Stray said: NGL hearing Goku do the narration and voicing Agumon caught me off guard lol, went from "kamehame ha" to "baby flame" real quick. That being said Nozawa is still amazing! Nope, Agumon is still voiced by Chika Sakamoto in the reboot. All Nozawa did is just the narration. I still wonder how the hell did people confused at Nozawa and Sakamoto's voice when they sounded absolutely nothing alike. |
MahiaErebeaNegiApr 7, 2020 4:31 AM
| Rushed would be an understatement. Start with an expository dump then Izumi has complete control of the situation and we get Greymon in just the first episode. Nothing but nostalgia bait with no charm of its own, the digital world couldn't be more generic either. "I saw Greymon and i clapped" |
| Didn't expect the remake to go as far in being a remake, I mean, I thought we would see a straight retelling of the original plot, but the remake happens during 2020 and they brought up tablets and web, so... Proved to be more ambitious than I first thought but it seems that next episode will be the kids going over to the digital world, which is something I m really excited about to see. Not gonna put my expectations very high, which is hard to, they did a really good job with the first episode. Can they keep the animation to this level, if so, awesome! shayed__ said: Hmm not sure how to feel about this. Boruto's VA for Taichi and the old grandma Goku VA for Agumon.. kinda putting me off not gonna lie why couldn't they keep Agumon's VA from the TRI movies.. ED is cool I watch all the original stuff in my native language, so for me, it is the first time watching the Japanese version, it doesn't bother me at all. |
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| Oh, boy. Wtf did I just watch? What exactly is this? Certainly, not Digimon Adventure. They can put the original characters all they want but they just assaulted many people's childhood, trying to ruin it. This looks like a super rushed version for cookie cutters. People today are such in a rush for everything, even people in my generation (I'm 26) with no clue what they're actually really doing, with the yolo nonsense. This is perfect for them, the immature people. An old saying in my area asserts "The hurried (female) cat gave birth to blind kittens". English-speaking people have a similar saying: "Haste makes waste", which is the essence of today. People rush and instead of producing masterpieces and doing things properly, they make poor imitations or incomplete/malformed stuff, as nothing of value can be create/accomplished in a rush. This is the essence of the first episode. Haste makes waste. I'll try the next four episode. If nothing improves, I'll drop it and spare you the good, unsolicited advice (and commentary). Rating this episode -500 out of 5. Yes, we go in the negative zone. P.S. The new opening can't hold a candle to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV2TfYSgXT4 not by a long shot. The rest of the OST goes into average. Digivolution theme instead sucks completely. |
TrueDragonPrinceApr 8, 2020 11:36 AM
| The original had the kids trapped in an island full of monsters, trying to survive while each having their own stories and internal struggles. The reboot is just kids fighting monsters to save the world from whatever trouble they're causing on the "net world", like Rockman EXE. Why didn't they just introduce a new cast? Everyone's obviously gonna compare this to the classic Adventures and it has no chance of winning with this setting! |
| I've always been more into the games than the show, which I haven't seen since I was a kid, so my nostalgia for this will likely be different from everybody else's. I liked it a lot. I really like how it's a new story featuring the old characters, which allows us to tap into nostalgia while still viewing it as separate from the original. I also like that the Digital World is more...digital, similar to how it is in Cyber Sleuth. Not that I dislike the older style of it being more like an actual world, but this is a nice change. My only complaints are that it seemed a bit rushed and that the art was sometimes not that great. I'm still really excited to see what comes next. |
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| Well, it was a rush ep, they could do longer ep like tate no yuusha, and no Butterfly op but some generic meh song that just heresy. 6/10 hopefully the rest will be better. |
BopRocket said: TrueDragonPrince said: Oh, boy. Wtf did I just watch? What exactly is this? Certainly, not Digimon Adventure. They can put the original characters all they want but they just assaulted many people's childhood, trying to ruin it. This looks like a super rushed version for cookie cutters. People today are such in a rush for everything, even people in my generation (26) with no clue what they're actually really doing, with the yolo nonsense. This is perfect for them, the immature people. Like an old saying in my area asserts "The hurried (female) cat gave birth to blind kittens". English-speaking people have a similar saying: "Haste makes waste", which is the essence of today. People rush and instead of producing masterpiece and doing things properly, they make poor imitations or incomplete/malformed stuff, as nothing of value can be create/accomplished in a rush. This is the essence of the first episode. Haste makes waste. I'll try the next four episode. If nothing improves, I'll drop it and spare you the good, unsolicited advice (and commentary). Rating this episode -500 out of 5. Yes, we go in the negative zone. P.S. The new opening can't hold a candle to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV2TfYSgXT4 not by a long shot. The rest of the OST goes into average. Digivolution theme instead sucks completely. I know everyone are entitled to their opinions but boy please take off your nostalgic glasses off lmao. This didn't "ruined" anyone childhood probably a small minority like you but twitter was blowing off when this episode aired bringing in new/old fans #1 in multiple countries do. This just probably isn't for you ,sure first episode was fast paced but production wise was great. "Trying to ruin it". Read well. A mere Quasimodo-like reboot isn't going to ruin anything. At worst, we'll just ignore it. It's on par in quality with Digimon ReArise, with the difference that ReArise has a plot of about average (5/10) level and good mechanics, while losing points because of the gacha nonsense and the overpriced rubies. This is almost worse thatn ReArise. |
| I was really skeptical about this reboot, but the first episode cleared all my doubts. Toei fixed all the problems I had about the original. There is less coincidence and more reason for things to be happening. On top of that, it looks really nice! |
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| OH SHIT IT'S THE RETURN OF THE MACK! 10/10 FUCK POKEMON |
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| Interesting It's pretty much a "modernized" Digimon Adventure. (where ppls already know all about the Digital Networks, since Internet has been out for quite a while already with Smartphones) Tho, that Laptop could use another upgrade, LOL... but I guess they wanted to keep the Main characters and their clothing/ accessories the same from original. TBH, I missed Digimon... especially the first 3 seasons. The rest of seasons without the main character were all kinda blah. ___ ___ ___ BTW, ppls complaining about the reboot and all the changes. It's not all that different from other series that has done this before... If you want, we can go back to the old Pokemon comparison, Pokemon Origins can also be said to be some sort of Reboot, since while the MC is different all locations and other characters remains the same. Only difference is Origins is shorts and time jumps based on the games. Or the current airing Pokemon... with it's literal rebooted title... Pocket Monsters like the original. Ash/ Satoshi apparently has some sort of Amnesia, since he goes on adventures with the new kid while sort of forgetting some of his past adventures. Which pretty much makes Ash/ Satoshi starting out fresh from the start a bit for his new adventure. ___ ___ ___ Digimon is just following what DBZ and Pokemon has done and trying to restart up Digimon fandom. Which used to be as large as Pokemon until season 4 when it's popularity started to drop and Pokemon started to rise to multi-million franchise. Digimon and Pokemon started up at around the same time, both were based on literally "Pocket Monsters" from Tamagotchi (Pocket Friends, Digital Pets) ___ ___ ___ |
amlgApr 10, 2020 9:58 PM
| Nothing Written Here But Us Anime Bunnies *boing boing boing* |
| Oh man the nostalgia though. I noticed the story was different than the old one but it's fine. This is promising and I have high hopes for this. Also, the tag is for kids but I'm expecting many grown ups watching this lolol |
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| Hmm looks like this reboot didn't start very well in terms of viewership in Japan. I was recently checking the Animation TV Ranking for last week in ANN and the first episode couldn't make the top 10, with a household rating below 3.0. The original Adventure averaged around 11% in 1999-2000 by comparison, and had 43/54 of its episodes in the top 10. Also the Kitaro series it replaced for the same time slot was always in the top 10. Is this what Toei was hoping for? What were the expectations? |
| The episode was so bad! |
| Watching digimon adv without butterfly feels kinda wrong tbh |
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| So the team isn't together right away and we get Greymon right of the bat. Same characters, similar path, completely different story. I'm in for the ride.... however I am definitely missing digivolution animation. |
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| Its like digimon with evangelion vibes |
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| tablet form is cooler than laptop fite me |
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| Reminded me of the good ol days of waking up 6am to watch the Digimon marathons on KTV, good times. Haven't watched any digimon really since tamers but when i heard of this i had to give it a try. It was surprisingly really good, really liked how they were fusing events in the real world with the digital one, voices feel weird to me cause i've only ever watched digimon in english but i'll get used to it. Soundtrack was excellent as well. |
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| Goku Black is the new narrator. Goku Black is. The. New. Narrator. I'm shook; of all things I could expect or predict.... Well played, Toei. Well played. This entire episode is... one of the best dang first episode in the entire franchise. Of course I'm comparing to OG Adventure... but no summer camp? Taichi is kinda becoming a Network Saver rather than a random kid thrown in a new world? Huh. Koushiro and Taichi's Crests are appearing more obviously now (Adventure's was obvious only on a rewatch and very subtle) which is interesting to say the least. And Koushiro's voice sounds like his original seiyuus? Hmm. Taichi's is going take some getting used to; a bit husky. The new evolution is cool, fluid and the fighting. THAT'S what I'm talking about. An excellent combo between saying the attack name when it matters (to introduce it) and then not needing to say it over and over. Someone on the Digimon subreddit said it seemed like the digimon have more personality and I can see it, a little here; Agumon was proactive with and without Taichi and seemed ready to fight without being told. And Taichi was handled very well; he DOES STUFF. He helps Agumon in the fight! What is this?? I do wonder how they're going to handle the kids when the bigger and stronger digimon. Koushiro's PC tablet has "wisemon" on it and woah, holy shit. (Chosen was spelled as 'Choosen' though, lol) Do have to admit his coming into his Crest is a tiny bit abrupt. He only gets one beat of the Crest before he gets his digivice - I know his interest in knowing what's going on beforehand is the buildup, but looks odd when Taichi got, like, 3. AND NO (hideous) CGI! YES!! OP song isn't too bad nor is the ED (OP is 99% Taichi and ED is 99% Yamato? I'm not saying it, but you know I'm totally thinking it.) Cons: The new designs... eh. The color schemes are odd. The music is kinda generic? Of course I'm expecting a vocal song like Brave Heart or something but nothing? I don't like, an odd miss. (Also, it and the designs gave me Detective Conan vibes.) The digivices are the big ones. They look too much like a D-Arc from Tamers but without the personality color. Why did they make them look like that? The old design was fine, just modify it a little - sure it's 90s looking but still. I suppose the change is meant to hit home how this is a reboot, not a remake. Toei, you had my interest. Now, you have my attention. |
Antoniorand said: For example, old Taichi's VA is a very old lady that has retired from voice acting You must be confused Fujita with someone else, she has already passed away back in late 2018. Also, Fujita is only like in her late 60s when she passed away so it's not really that old. |
MahiaErebeaNegiJun 27, 2020 3:45 AM
| Not sure how much I like different stakes and start of this "remake" but HOLY F, that animation, it was like watching good old school quality action animation. Will it stay this way? It was like watching Neon Genesis Evangelion in Digimon theme. |
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