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Mar 23, 2014
Many ppl rated this anime very low. I decided to watch this anime how this can be rated so low. After completed watching the anime, for me, i can't say that it's very bad. Why was it? Let's go into it..
Story: 7/10
The story is about Oozora Reiji, a lazy schoolboy, who is being invited by his chidhood friend Maiko Yukino to join Dragon Drive because Reiji is good at nothing. Reiji became attracted by the virtual game called Dragon Drive where you scan dragon cards and then battling each other. Despite having a little dragon with no power, but actually it's special. Things got more
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complex in the story when Reiji and his other friends was trapped in other side of earth "Rikyuu", and then the real truth of Dragon Drive was told. There may be interesting plot twist about the show, despite not a heavy level plot twist. What's unique in this story is there's some moments where we can see the worse anticlimax where the villain wins and the protagonist lose as if there's no hope anymore. It got escalated after it, but the nearly end of episodes are kinda disappointing for me. I was expecting a good anticlimax, but it went bad and meh. Despite that, it's unique and not that bad.
Characters: 7/10
Most of them are okay, but I see some characters are good and unique.
Oozora Reiji is maybe your typical generic shounen main character. However some things are completely different comparing to other generic shounen main character. He's an agile one and have a good sense. He's not the one that "You want to battle? I won't lose that easily" when in a worse situation. Saying words like "I have no reason to fight you" are usually rare for shounen main character to say, but Reiji could think of that. He's definitely not just depending on his dragon, even he COULD help his dragon with his own power when his dragon is in curse or nearing death, not just saying "Are you okay? wake up please!" without any struggle to help. Reiji is the type of person who inclined to do action more than talking, that's what I really like about him. We also can see his flaws through episodes, his character development progress isn't that flawless, we can see some degradation of him.
Maiko Yukino is likely a minor in this series. Her character development isn't that well but she did some good job in the series. Her characterization is kinda shallow after all.
Hagiwara Daisuke is also likely a minor in this series, he's the annoying type in this show if I can say. I was first hating him, but through episodes, he did some good job and character development went quite good for him.
Rockaku is an interesting character if I can say. He had a burden of seeing his best friend sacrificed himself for Rockaku to keep living. His characterization are good, not much development for him in the end, but he did well job in the series, especially when facing his best friend's brother.
Megumi is likely just a plot device character, not much about her actually.
Sumishiba Ichiro looks like a jerk in the first, with his arrogant behavior. But going through episodes, he become a somewhat adorable character for me. His story told us why he's like that, it's all reasonable and even though he's a minor one, he's not the type of annoying one.
Other minor characters are rather useless or annoying if I can say. We have a bitchy woman, a cold serious looking guy only seeking for fighting, and so on. Some have good characterization, but not much.
The villain in this series are rather cliche, world dominating motivation with not making sense much. The other one is just seeing world as a gaming world. Killing anyone in sight, seeking for a more power, just that. It's a degradation of the character section of this series for me.
This series would be better not to including a lot amount of characters, 38 episodes aren't enough to go inside all the characters.
Music: 7/10
It's not that good and not that bad anyway. Some soundtrack are catchy, though. Opening and ending songs are okay-ish.
Art: 8/10
Being a 2002 anime, they did very well 3D CG, better than any digimon series before 2001. The design of human characters are so so, but the dragons are cool and awesome enough.
Enjoyment: 7/10
I was thinking that this series was promising. Indeed it's yes, but not that much. The ending was TOO anticlimactic, the last fighting is rather boring than before.
Overall: 7/10
It's a so so anime after all. It's not good but definitely not bad. Even though that, it's exactly way better than your everyday typical harem ecchi anime, even if it's harem ecchi action one with 12-13 episodes with multi-season of the same story. This series definitely need more love. It's not as bad as other ppl say. I hope this review helps, thanks for reading.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 23, 2014
I watched digimon adventure 02 when I was still a kid, I did enjoy it very much. After I grow up, and rewatching it, I can't believe that it had a bunch of flaws in it. Let's go into it...
Story: 5/10
Being connected with 1st adventure series, the story involves about digimon kaiser, who make rampage on digital world, torturing digimon becoming his servants. New chosen children had to stop him for what he did. The story of kaiser become connected with the next villain and more. My problem is, the story had a LOT of annoying plotholes, especially on the dark ocean episodes. It's cliche,
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didn't make sense at all. It tended to be darker but it failed, more like a useless filler. It was nice to see the connection between the old villain with the next one until the last villain, making it become clear about the controversies.
However, the ending of the episode is just not what it should be. I was disappointed for the ending. But overall, the story is okay-ish, degraded from the straightforward adventure 1.
Characters: 8/10
Despite of huge plotholes, the characters are more or less good, except the main character. It had fair enjoyable moments between characters, sometimes are annoying. And it had a few good teen drama.
Daisuke was just an annoying generic typical shounen main character. He's the most annoying of all, he tends to be more anime-ish character. Even though so, he did a few best job especially in before last episode. Maybe that's what I can only appreciate him for.
Takeru was a crybaby on adventure 1, but he get developed well in adv 2, becoming much level-headed and not being crybaby anymore. Despite being nice, there's a time when we can see his anger because of something traumatic of him. It had a burden of not being able to overcome the trauma. But eventually he could do it well.
Ken, the former kaiser, was unexpectedly first a villain which later become the protagonist, but apparently, he's not that evil and tyrant. His back story were very sad and making it sympathetic. Deeper psychological problem goes to him. After being freed from being kaiser, he only thought that he's not forgivable, and just being depressed. Fortunately, he eventually can overcome that feeling and become developed really well.
Iori is a kid with more level-headed person. He had a trauma of being left by his late father because of accident in his job as an officer. Somehow, he's still being childish and couldn't control his emotion well. He did developed well eventually, despite not much changes of him. Things got more complex with Iori when he found the truth of his father's relation.
The rest of characters are good just the way they are. However character like Miyako seemed annoying, despite she had done some best job in a few moments. I have no comment for Hikari, but she's just so so. Most of old chosen children had developed well too.
The villains are much better than cliche adventure's. They have their own reason of why they become the bad one. I really appreciate that the series can made the watcher being sympathetic for the villains. However, the last villain was a degradation, and not enjoyable.
Music: 9/10
As usual, digimon series are very well-known of their epic music. Opening was catchy enough, ending was nice as well. Soundtracks are good enough, but the thing that I really like was the insert songs. Break Up and Beat hit are epicness, fitted the evolution scenes really well. Bokura no Digital World was so good and memorable.
Art: 8/10
I have no comment for the general art, but they did really well with the 3D CG evolution scenes especially for imperialdramon.
Enjoyment: 8/10
I still enjoy it as if I was still a kid, but it went down quite a bit when I found the big flaw on the plot. But I enjoy the characters very well also the epic insert song.
Overall: 7/10
Despite the degradation of the plot of the story, it still did well. However, I can still think that a connected story or second season of same story of digimon isn't that needed. Thanks for reading my review.
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 23, 2014
Personally, I watch Ima Soko ni Iru Boku because something related to Legendz: Yomigaeru Ryuuou Densetsu (Tale of Dragon King) especially the main character, the same Matsutani Shuuzo, also same series director. I also heard that this anime is somehow dark and psychological. After completed watching it, I can't say it's dark and edgy, or deep psychological. Let's go into it..
Story: 6/10
The story is okay-ish I think, but it went too fast with only 13 episodes, and also the plot was straightforward, no plot twist even heavy one. The story is about Matsutani Shuuzo meeting a mysterious girl named Lala-Ru, then got trapped into another
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dimension of world. Seeing Lala-ru was a hostage in Hellywood, the artificial town that a king named Hamdo live, Shuu want to save her from king Hamdo's selfish treatment. King Hamdo want to reach his ambition by reinforcing his troops, with kids WERE in it. This is a story about saving Lala-ru and stopping King Hamdo's ambition, none other than that. Only it has some controversial things like forcing innocent kids to become soldiers, human's greed, and child killing.
Characters: 7/10
Matsutani Shuuzo is just a typical shounen character with kind of silly attitude, but less silly and humour-ish than Legendz's Matsutani Shuuzo. His only thought is only saving Lala-ru. Even though so, he's the only one who can't help seeing ppl being killed for just a silly reason. He's often being tortured or being shot. But it doesn't change his thoughts of that. Not much character development for him, he's still being the same in the end except some things. Only he did his best in the series. I appreciate him, though.
Lala-ru is rather a mysterious girl who is kidnapped by King Hamdo. There's no deeper characterization about her, despite her not being a human but a thousand year creature. She's rather shallow character, but her words are sometimes controversial. Thinking about human only say thank you but not from inside the heart, or human's greed. Controversial indeed.
Nabuca is a part of King Hamdo's soldier. He only think about doing his job as soldier. But, as Shuu comes, his characterization became more complex a bit. Not much character development, also umm, I won't give spoiler about it.
Sara is also King Hamdo's hostage like Shuu, but not becoming a soldier. She came from the same world from Shuu, only she's from America. She seemed not that important in the first, even she is being left for some episodes but eventually came back after some moments. Even though not deep characterization about her, but she's the one who got developed well in the end by overcoming what's occurred to her even if it's a tragic one.
Other supporting characters are okay I think, they did well job, even though there're much deaths in the anime. One side of characters that I didn't appreciate well are the villains. King Hamdo was just a silly annoying villain with cliche world domination motives, his look sometimes make you wanna punch him. Abelia is rather a shallow character. She just did what King Hamdo tell her what to do without any hesitation or any deeper characterization.
In the end, this anime lacks of characterization, even though they had some for some characters. But I know, being only 13 episodes can't do such thing well, so that's reasonable, hence 7 score points for the characters.
Music: 6/10
Music are not that memorable, most of the episodes are lack of soundtrack. Opening song is only instrumental, and the ending song is just.. well okay-ish.
Art: 6/10
Being a 1999 anime, it's just okay. That's all about the art.
Enjoyment: 7/10
Despite being only 13 episodes series, this series had given such some controversial things the watchers need to think. It's not dark at all, no deep psychological things except some. For the plot and the characters, I didn't enjoy really much
Overall: 7/10
The reason why I give it a score of 7 is just for appreciating the controversial problems in the series. I might only recommend it for they who likes controversial tragedy, especially child related tragedy. I hope my review helps, thanks
Reviewer’s Rating: 7
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Mar 4, 2014
"Good and Evil are not absolute. It depends on how someone see things. While the point of view shifts, everything else does as well."
-Chou Sensei
Yes, that's what I got from Digimon Tamers. Tamers isn't same like your previous digimon series, its settings are completely different and the content is also different. I can say that Digimon Tamers is the only Digimon series that cling to its original concept. I originally watch it for nostalgia when I was watching on TV when I was just 9 years old. But after I grew up, it really made me surprised of how kids show can become
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so controversial like this.
I heard from people that the story is darker and edgier, in reality it doesn't seem to be really dark, it had quite a lot of heartwarming and sweet moments, it didn't just being too serious. Tamers mainly deconstruct the genre of -mon series and make it believable.
Let's just go into it..
Story: 10/10
Why I give it a 10? Well, for me the pacing was completely perfect. After reading the light novel Digimon Tamers 1984 and also the Drama CD, it doesn't need to be rushed and it doesn't need to be so slow, hence it starts with a slower tone, introducing into its general problem with mostly are directed into the daily lives of the human characters, moments of how they do life with their digimon before the real truth is revealed. There's almost no annoying plotholes like its previous series and if there is, it doesn't that important. For the story itself, it was very interesting.
Scientists tried to make a new invention: a life inside a computer, they grow, evolve, and mainly they survive from each other. Because of something related from primitive computer inventions via quantum physics, the digital life itself gain physical form, involving some real computer histories references. The project was cancelled until Digimon series airs and kids try to love them, playing the card games. Unlike the previous series, kids KNOW Digimon, they have knowledge about it. Digimons start to gain its physical form in order to seek for human partner to help it evolve more to survive. Some of kids accidentally found blue card that makes them tamers of digimon, even a kid CREATES his digimon.
There was some very controversial things that involved both human and digimon such like: what makes human and digimon different, why human rejects other existences, what makes someone believe in their own gods, what make them think that something is good or evil, what evolving really means, etc. The digimon in the first are only seeking for preys and absorb their opponents' data in order to evolve into higher level. They then become aware of what's the real chaos they're going to face eventually. Reason why digimon is evolving and for what did they evolve, they all have reasonable meaning. There's no fighting to become the best or fighting to become a hero. They all just simply want to survive and live by fighting what threaten their lives.
Death is not something to face easily in Digimon Tamers unlike other series. Even there's been discussion about "What if digimon die? And where are they going?" Every concept was told clearly and pretty detail, not just things happened that way and blahblahblah and get going. Even evolving is not as simple as the other series. In other series, evolving is such like a trump card, and a way when the real battle has just begun with power ups for the protagonist, when their digimon evolve and win, they can just say "YEAAAYYY!!". In Digimon Tamers, evolving can cause your digimon won't be the one you know before. It can evolve into another digimon with different self, no matter if you've won the battle. Evolving means getting bigger, what if your digimon can't revert into its original form? What if people see you with your big digimon which people will assume it as a threatening object and then got arrested and eventually killed bcos it's a monster? The concept of digital world isn't that simple, not just an alternate worlds with being same like earth. It had very detail explanation such like digital world has 4 layers, every layers had its own differences. It's also told that there's a layer deep inside the digital world that no one had known.
Villains were much more interesting than previous series. They're not cliche like your typical shounen villains with world dominating motivation, being just evil, and so on. They had their own reasonable motives of what they do, what they think of human and digimon, there's even discussed about how they thought about something and why they thought like that, what do they actually just believe in. The last villain was surprisingly unique, it's not what you say evil swarm or such things like that. It was only do what it's made for, and when you understood of who it really was and why it was here, it became much complicated and made sense. I can say that there's no one who is completely evil just for their sake, they all have an reasonable point of what makes them do that and why so.
Characters: 9/10
Being more concerned on slice of life things, Tamers had made their characters become much more realistic than some other series also great characterizations. Most of them do just like what kids on their age in real life do, think, and feel. They have their own sufficient enjoyable moments, not just being too focused on the story without understanding more of the characters. What I really like is Digimon Tamers had sweet and bearable teen drama, especially when the Tamers were just being alone with their digimon, vent along each other.
Takato was the only child in the family, he had burden of his crybaby behavior. He's not your typical hotheaded, silly, stubborn, and annoying Main Character also he's not the one who usually said "let's go everyone!!". Takato was rather tenderhearted, doubtful, and sweet boy. He's just a big energetic digimon fan everyday child, always dreamed of getting a real digimon and eventually become real. You know how happy a 10 years old child was when he saw his unrealistic dreams become true? Things went more complicated when Takato felt when he found that his digimon was just merely a bunch of data. Not of something he can face easily. He also had burden when he must reveal the truth with him to his parents, how his parents feel especially his mom when their only child had to go somewhere they don't know. How such an only 10 years old kid in the family feel when he has to leave his home for not a short time? Takato's character development went really well. He could overcome his burden in himself through episodes, not just keep being crybaby everytime. There's also some moments when we could see his degradation, when he just did bad things but then he tried to overcome it. He's not a character without any flaws in his development progression.
Jian Liang was only a game addicted child and he had 3 siblings with him being the 3rd child. Unlike other seasons' 2nd main character, he isn't the one who you call 2nd main character or rival, he isn't the type of cool guy and coldhearted. Having more siblings made his life more complicated and also he had burden of "always blaming himself for such bad things" behavior and also he had problems of not to use violence due to his past of using tai-chi to hurt someone. Things got more serious when his little sister got involved with something she couldn't face bcos of her age, how Jian could face of such things. His development went well when he eventually understood what he was fighting for and when he deepen his relationship with his father and little sister.
Ruki was the only child in family. She was rather coldhearted, being lonely wolf, strong-girl type, stubborn, and kinda tsundere (but not your typical tsundere girl). She had burden mainly with her family especially her mother, bcos her mother was a model and rarely return to home, Ruki had no good relationship with her mother, also Ruki didn't like her mother's favorite and what her mother had Ruki to wear. And the fact that she was left by her father when was a littler, divorced with her mother, made her being a lonely wolf and coldhearted girl. Her development went really well when she finally understood what digimon really is after understanding her partner for making some mistakes and when she tried to improve her relationships with her family especially her mother.
Juri was firstly just a happy energetic girl who also is Takato's classmate. Things got more complex when her truth was finally revealed. She had a trauma of her late mother and the fact that she didn't have good relationship with her father and stepmother made her feel really depressed when seeing someone died, bcos death wasn't something the characters can face easily and real death prevails. Her character development went well on the 3rd arc of the series.
Impmon is maybe the only digimon who have a complex problem. It has a reasonable reasons of why it didn't trust human even it hated human. Things got more serious when Impmon felt into a glutton digimon, thinking only absorb data and getting stronger until he felt "oh god, what I have done?!" and felt into deep desperation. Its character development went really well when Impmon eventually met its tamers with Impmon's tamers being developed and ask forgiveness to Impmon.
Hirokazu and Kenta are also Takato's classmates who always play digimon cards with him. They were rather just merely entertainers of the series and they might not got much developments but they really did some best job in the series especially when the third arc.
Other supporting characters like JianLiang's little sister, Ai & Mako (Impmon's tamers), Ryou (though he's the only one who had bland characterization, but well, he's just supporting chara), the wild bunch and another adults especially the tamers' parents also did very well in the series, not just being dumped as if "adults are useless." This is not a digimon series where kids and their digimon are enough to fight and save the world. Heck, even they must use logical scientific theories in order to solve something that can only be done by the adults. They're not fighting just with power and courage, but also with some strategy and logic. Hence, those adult especially the wild bunch have a major role in this series.
Not just the wild bunch, the tamers' parents also had a big role in this series. Things like parental relationship with the children were also one of major things in this series. Without them, we can't even know well about the tamers' characterization deeper and their development with their family and other things.
The main characters digimon: Guilmon, Renamon, and Terriermon also had very well development, especially guilmon and renamon. Guilmon was firstly just behaving like a baby born digimon, but guilmon's character development went really well, it became a level-headed digimon and sympathetic one thanks to its deep relationship with Takato and what Takato had taught it. Renamon was firstly thought just about fighting other digimon, absorb data, and evolving. After its relationship went much better with Ruki and also knowing each other, Renamon became a digimon which isn't thinking only for fighting and absorbing data, but instead becoming a digimon which had level-headed mind and even having sibling relationship with Ruki.
Music/Sound: 9/10
I believe that digimon always had good opening, ending, and insert songs. Tamers is exactly not an exception, they did great music especially the OSTs, based the masterpiece Arisawa Takanori. I really like how they can synchronize the OSTs with the situation in there, they fitted perfectly, especially when they used sweet jazz music in some heartwarming dramatic moments. Happy, sad, heartwarming, shocking, traumatic, and other moments were fitted well with the other OSTs. Their character songs were also very good, I really like their collaboration character song of the 3 main characters "3 Primary Colors". Such a sweet heartwarming song especially when it was played on the right moments. Almost perfect.
Art: 8/10
The art wasn't that great anyway. It had a decent one for being a 2001 anime. The real world was quite decent also the character designs were good to great especially the digimon. What really surprise me is the digital world background. Dust packet everywhere, even there's something like a warp portal. It looks like when you're in a real digital world. Evolution scenes were good except the evolution into perfect level. I really like the evolution into adult level, it's just like a REAL evolution process. Other than that was just decent.
Enjoyment: 9/10
Digimon Tamers had really satisfied me very well, and even until now it's my best digimon season also one of best anime I've ever seen. When the ending came, I couldn't help but crying. After went to the Drama CD, it made me cried more and relieved. Best ending for me.
Overall: 9/10
Digimon Tamers had done it really well. I recommend it for any Digimon fans, only they must get rid of "they changed it, they sucks" thoughts. That's not right at all. I can also recommend this for non-digimon fans which is seeking about things like the existence of artificial-intelligence in real life or another thing.
I hope my review helps, thanks
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Dec 12, 2013
At first I wonder why this anime can get such a high score.. I mean, it's just same like before..
First, the Satoshit we know for over a decade continue his adventure through new region called Kalos, with his suddenly being lamed (again) pikachu with no maturation at all. He's just like before, didn't change at all, still being silly, and so on.
Second, now we got a new companion, and interestingly the girls is such Satoshit's... childhood friend? oh okay, but she has nothing interesting, so are the other characters.
Third, team rocket has come back as usual, being blasted off again and again. Nothing
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that is interesting.
The only good thing is the art. Well, since diamond and pearl they had used such a good art, though..
At last, all I can say is maybe the only one who can enjoy this kind of anime is no other than fanatic pokefan. The other may just get boring so fast, especially they who've seen pokemon's previous season.
I'm waiting for the movies instead of continuing the anime that most likely can be predictable and stalling its episodes longer and longer
Reviewer’s Rating: 2
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Oct 27, 2013
Legendz: Yomigaeru Ryuuou Densetsu is one of anime that I watched when I was around 13 or 15 on my local tv channel, I generally loved it, especially with its hilarious kids comedy like what you see on american cartoon like Looney Tunes, etc. Now I'm 18 and I had a nostalgia with it, so I decided to watch only to remember some aforementioned hilarious moment and also some awesome moments in it. After finish watching it (including CD drama), I found that, the cover of anime is COMPLETELY MISLEADING, with its awkward character design, I thought that it was only focus on its hilarious
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comedy, boy I WAS wrong. I had never expected it would be deconstructed like this. It's not a general kids show, no, it's not even appropriate enough for kids. Maybe kids' standards in Japan were different, though
Story: 9/10
I found the first half series being lighthearted with its hilarious gags also a lot of character moments in it. Let's see, the story is about Legendz, mythical creatures that people believe that they were real and really existed long time ago. Just like in real life, the legendz are mythologies. Only, in this, on the setting of time, the legendz are being reborn for some reason. The reborn of these legendz were first represented with the creation of Talispod, one of kids' toy developed by dark WiZ company in order to make children happy. It was later called Legendz battle by the kids, showing virtual legendz appearing from talispod and you began to do like sword fight with your friend. The problem was shown later that some of legendz appeared in human world for REAL. Here comes some of questions like: "Why legendz appeared for real? What's the reason of it? What's Legendz War and how come it happened?"
Yeah, the first half of the series didn't explain too much about the problem, but there're indeed some clue where it's going to be very serious some time later. We got a team rocket-wannabe who were commanded to steal Shu's talispod, because he had a real and special legendz with him, Shiron the Windragon, and maybe have a connection with the later story, yeah he did indeed. They are doing quite similarly like what pokemon's team rocket do every episode, only in this, they're not too annoying. Things became more complicated when there's something revealed about the existence about 2nd Windragon, which was clearly awkward. Also following the reborn of legendary earth, water, and fire elemental legendz.
Things got more complicated when there's explained about legendz war, where it happened when the nature of the earth has been diminished, being desolate because humans' doing against the nature of earth, their darkness in their heart and their negative emotions and legendz began to fight the personification of the aforementioned darkness, resulting destruction to human world and being reset. Now that's going to be happened again on Shu's era where humanity have been grown more complex with technologies and so on, also it's told that the technologies that human created had harmed the nature of earth badly. Later it was told why Shu and his friend were chosen to be saga and why they must face these things completely. Humans later have expected legendz to be dangerous creatures, threatening, resulting them expressed negative emotions that has brought back the deep darkness of the world and being reborn to destroy the existence of life on earth. How they will stop the disaster and how they can overcome the real darkness of the world, it depends on what they do in order to survive.
The stories were thought provoking enough for kids show, showing how deconstructed they are, also darker and edgier than most of kids show. From the existence of human being with its technologies that apparently bring destruction to the mother earth to the negative emotions of human that had brought back the true darkness of the world. It's simply intriguing and you need to think a bit to make it reasonable.
Characters: 9/10
The main character here, Shuzo Matsutani is kind of typical shounen who is silly, and kind of annoying but hilarious. But, well, it was a bit different of our typical shounen characterization, after all. Even though so, he had a lot of awesome and sad moments too, and interestingly he saved everyone from the worst situation with his silliness, that's just an unusual moment seriously.
His family problem wasn't that serious, his father and mother are simply just wanting their children happy at all cost, none that all. After the first half episode, there's an episode when Shu for the first time really felt despair. He didn't want to make his parents worry about him and he didn't want his parents especially his mother to be involved with legendz war. He got quite serious development in these moments.
Second main character is Dino Sparks, who is introduced on around first 5 episodes. I found his character being special, what I mean is he's a rich person but he isn't happy at all because his activities had to be scheduled so even he can't play outside like what most kids do on their age, also he had serious family problem, where his mother left home because of his dad's doing and mistakes. It simply made Dino hates his father because of that. Later it was shown on 1 full episode about Dino's father, Bruno Sparks character moments and his past. When he remembered the fondest moment with his wife, and his dream to make toys to make kids happy. We really get his character development after it, made him brave to talk to Dino and said "I'm sorry, Dino. I wasn't a good father for you. I realized that I've made mistakes that have made you sad all this time. I won't ever let it again to you my beloved child." Damn, that's really touching seriously. Also eventually in the second half episode, Dino's mom had back for long time but had her appearance changed from slim to big fat. Even though so, Dino didn't lose his love to his mother, also Bruno, her husband until last episodes. "Despite what you look like, you're my wife and I will always love you." That's what I got from Bruno Sparks, what a beautiful and touching moment.
Next is Mike McField. I really like the characterization of him. He's a nice guy who want to be nice to everyone, evoking them when they're in problem, and he love natures very much also he's addicted to hamburger. He's the first person that able to talk to Dino, the lonely rich guy and even can become friend with also sharing his favorite hamburger with him. He's the type of sympathetic person who can understand someone's feeling and also nature's feeling. That's why he's being chosen as Tsuchi no Saga (Earth Saga) because his deep love with nature. He got some serious problem with his feeling when he's transformed into a griffin and going berserk hurting each other. He felt despair after it happened, thinking that his friend would never forgive him of what he had do with them. He got quite good development after episodes, though, only not as strong as Dino. Also he had less moments with his family.
Next is Meg Sprinkle. She looked like an annoying girl at first, yeah. She made some of funny gags with her Meg Chop for many times, I really enjoy it. She seemed to be the least focused character, but not until her changed mind about her impression to legendz, especially when she finally met her partner legendz, Zuou. She didn't accept him at first, because she thought legendz were cruel, and had made her sad. But it went through time and eventually she can overcome those feelings. Still, she didn't have much time about her moments with her family.
Next is Halca Hepburn. She's the one that I can said, got the most character development than all and having deep characterization out of the other characters. She's the one who loves legendz very much, hoping legendz becoming real and apparently her dreams come true. At first she was so crazy about legendz, like a nerd. But thing got changed in her mind, her impression of legendz after seeing them becoming threatening to humanity especially for the kids, though she was misunderstood. We got to see her change from crazy to legendz, joining Ranshiin to destroy the existence of legendz in the world. Things got changed again when she finally met her dad, who was also loving legendz when he's still younger. There's also thing that explaining their past about reading books about legendz, explaining it like a dad telling a fairy tale. What become worse after that is her dad was the one behind these problems. From a legendz lover become the one that willing to destroy the existence of legendz forever. He has a reasonable motives, though, only it's kind of silly. This made Halca feel in despair anymore, thinking what she must do to save her beloved ppl. But after that, she became developed and she was the one that had stopped the disaster, along with Shiron and Ranshiin.
Last but not least, for the minor characters. This is where I found that Legendz CARE SO MUCH of its minor characters, even there's an exclusive episode which told us about the story of some of minor characters after it disappeared from the episodes. Even the team rocket-wannabee, they got so much development and the thought of "they're cruel people just like team rocket in pokemon" in our minds doesn't prevail anymore. They also had understandable motives why they did those mission to steal Shu's talispod, and eventually resigned from dark WiZ company and began to help Bruno Sparks to make children happy with their toys. I can conclude that they just want "kids to be happy." Even the parents here had their role of how they rescue their children, what they'll do to protect their beloved children. All people cooperate with each other to stop the disaster, even the main human villain himself. This was really intriguing in character section.
Sound: 8/10
I liked the song Kaze no Legendz, it's just wonderful. Also Mou Donimo Tomaranai was also unique ending. Most of their soundtrack were classic jazz, which really give us the american things in it. The last ending song was very sad, and it really match with the moment on last episode..
Art: 7/10
Despite being a 2004 anime, the art was reasonable, though. But the problem is, the design of characters were MISLEADING. People will seem it more likely a family comedy with many gags on it. I knew they're trying to make people surprised, I really appreciate their motives of making this anime.
Overall: 9/10
There's simply no one like Legendz out there, although I found the overall of the series being similar to Digimon Tamers, especially its plot, both are REALLY awesome. What I really enjoy especially in this series is that, even though on a very serious situation, they can make you laugh. What a mixed feelings, from the silly-but-fun comedy to breaking the 4th wall. Everytime when something's getting serious, they did put the gag on the right time, so while you're enjoying the gags, you didn't lose the feeling of enjoying its seriousness. I remember in some dialogue "We have to blahblahblah..." "Huh?? but it wasn't written in the script.." It made me really LOL, seriously, without losing the seriousness.
Despite its seriousness and hilarious things, this series actually had given me some life morals. We, human often don't know about what we did to the earth of our creation of many stuffs, even we often don't care about nature. This series actually want to tell us that "Things that destroy the humanity are the human itself." It was true after all, seeing what we had done to the mother earth in real life and how sad the earth was feeling when it's being hurt.
I was very sad that this kind of wonderful anime is quite underrated and even on quite low score, 7.4. People should give it a try for sure, don't just judge the cover from the art style and also its earlier episodes. You'll find it wonderful if you understand more of this series, seriously.
I hope this review helps, thanks..
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 26, 2013
Pokemon. Yeah, who doesn't know pokemon? The series where you catch pokemon, battling trainers, and beating gym leaders & champion to be the very best. Yeah, it's so popular. I liked it when I was child, on sunday morning TV show, I got addicted until I had to watch it every week. Now I'm 18 and I began to looked down on it
Story: 3/10
Satoshi (I call him Satoshit) is a typical shounen character who WANNA BE THE VERY BEST. Seriously, what's the reason of it anyway? Why do you want to be the best by doing cockfight and catching animals also make them fight each
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other for no apparent reason? You meet the girl, Kasumi and broke her bicycle. Making her follow you until you repair her bicycle. What the heck? I don't know for what reason the company follow Satoshit on his journey. This anime has no plot at all, almost every episode you only meet SO MANY random people who doesn't have anything with it, you only interfere in their problem, which made this anime stalling, and complete boring, TOO MANY FILLERS, TOO MANY ANNOYING MINOR CHARACTERS. There were some sad moments, honestly, and those were quite decent, though. After beating the 16 gym leader, Satoshit lose in the end and goes to another region. For what? I still don't know about it. Then there's annoying Team Rocket who usually blast off in alomost every episodes, struggling only to catch pikachu. Srlsly, isn't there any pikachu around? You can search them anyway, also pikachu wasn't that strong. The villain we got here is just team rocket who wanna conquer the world and pokemon for no apparent reason. Meh, cliche...
Characters: 2/10
Satoshit is just a clumsy 10 years old typical shounen who didn't grow up AT ALL, still being silly until last episode, even the next generations. He's also still 10 years old!! It's sillier than others. Also I found Kasumi just being an annoying girl with water pokemon, no apparent character development anw. Also the rock gym leader, Takeshi, is also annoying. Flirting girl everytime he meet, just meh. Anw, they had made quite good comedy, though.
Sound: 6/10
I watched the original Japanese version. Mezase Pokemon Master was quite decent, I have no problem at all, not good and not bad also. Sountrack were ok enough
Art: 6/10
Being in 1997, the art was ok. 'Nuff said...
Overall: 3/10
The anime was utterly shit, even though with quite good comedy. They wasted 276 episode just to watch the main character lose without any character development, and begin to the other region to do the same thing. Why ppl give this anime such a good score? Maybe they're just Pokemon fanatics, you better read the manga or watch the movies. Digimon anime & movies and pokemon movies are WAY better for me, no offense.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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Oct 25, 2013
Digimon Tamers 1984 is a one-shot light novel and as a prequel of the Digimon Tamers series. The events happened in 1984, 17 years before the Digimon Tamers series take place.
Story: 10/10
The story gives more details about how digimon was first created and how it was developed on the year when computer was still on low technology until the project was cancelled. Quantum physics, communication language, and all about computerization were involved in this project. It also told us how the design of digimon were created, the concepts, growth rate, digital world, and more. This novel really gives us the explanation of the whole
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concepts of digimon creation in Digimon Tamers.
Character: 9/10
The characterization in this novel was shown greatly, especially of how the main character, Daisy feels when she's being involved in the project, how she faces the problem when and after something unexpected happen, also how the characters here live on that era. Other characters like Tao, Shibumi, Curly, Babel, and many more weren't described fully maybe because the main target of the characterization here is Daisy. Also, this is just a one-shot light novel which only tells the detail of the story.
Overall: 9/10
This light novel really gave me more explanation of what happened in Digimon Tamers, the concept of digimon, how the Wild Bunch got involved in that project, and also computer science concepts in real life. This is really recommended for those who are anxious and maybe not that understand the back story in digimon tamers. For me, this novel clearly had made me love Digimon Tamers more and more..
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Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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Oct 23, 2013
Gekifu Bakegyamon, one of anime that I watched when I was 13. It made me nostalgia so I planned to rewatch again. I simply watch only to remember some awesome moments in it, however, after understanding the anime a little deeper, it made me somehow impressed..
Story: 9/10
The story wasn't that promising at the first, people may accuse it like a generic game match, which the MC goes along and eventually win the tournament and his wishes will be granted. It involves the existence of Ayakashi, one of Japanese's mythical creatures being sealed as Gekifu in order to be used in a game called "Bakegyamon". Maybe
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we will think: "What's the reason of Bakegyamon? Why they seal Ayakashi in order to make children happy playing game?"
After some explanation, I found that it's not just a generic game tournament using Ayakashi as tool in order to win and get your wish granted. It's more than it, and the backstory was quite sad and touching. Also the last episode, was also sad because they have to say farewell so they can't play together again..
Sound: 8/10
I really love the opening song, Mobius, sang by Janne da Arc.. the opening video also match with the song.. EPIC!! however, I don't really like the second opening.. even though, I love its 3rd and 4th ending song. Some of the sound effect seem similar to Digimon X Evolution's.
Characters: 8/10
The characters are interesting just they way they are. Maybe the Main Character here is just a typical shounen who always do before think, being hotheaded, and silly. However, he got a lot of character development, and he's the one who's sympathetic not only to his friends but also to the Ayakashi, and also his Koma, Fue. Other characters are also interesting, almost none of them are being dumped. Everyone has their touching backstory, even though some of them are quite silly (I'm looking at you, Mick). They all have their own understandable motives of joining the game, not just joining without any reasons. They all got developed and finally grown up, Bakegyamon had changed their way of life becoming better, and understand that human and ayakashi can play together and become friend..
Art: 7/10
Quite decent, it's reasonable for its year production's quality. They did well 3D CG, though..
Overall: 8/10
This kind of niche shounen anime needs more and more love, I was sad that this kind of wonderful anime only got score 6.7. Maybe the watchers didn't like long episodes also they got bored by the first quarter episodes. Don't just judge something by its cover and its earlier episodes..
I hope my review helps, thanks for reading
Reviewer’s Rating: 8
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Jun 23, 2013
Digimon movies are usually related to the series, however this movie is the exception. It has no relationship with the anime series but a remake of the manga Digimon Chronicle, only without involving human in the story, also comes in full 3D CG. Even the story has no interaction of human world. Usually a normal digimon fan will say "No human? That's boring man.."
But I don't think so, digimon is sometimes better without human, so we can only focus with the story and characterization of the digimon, also how they face such a thing..
The background story is about the digital world, where digimon lives
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in it is experiencing a serious chaos. Unlike other series, while the chaos of other digimon series (except Tamers) involves about darkness invasion or evil swarm, this series has no dark or evil related things. The chaos is about the overpopulation of digital world, which the host computer, Yggdrasil can't handle and thus it executes the X Program in order to make only some of chosen digimon will be survived in the end of execution, named Project Ark.
Maybe there will be many questions we want to know. We will perhaps ask: "What's the purpose of Project Ark?" "Why Yggdrasil dares to do such a thing? Doesn't it really care about the life of a lot of digimon out there? It's a host computer a.k.a. God of Digital World." We would expect in the first that: "Yggdrasil is so evil of doing such of things. It doesn't care about others' life.."
But who knows? We'll see it then...
Now we go to the story progress.. This movie tells a story about Dorumon, a digimon that owns X-Antibody naturally being hunted by Leomon who eventually died bcos he didn't dare to kill such an innocent Child level digimon, asking Dorumon to live for him later before he died. And then being rejected by 3 Mushmons saying that Dorumon is the one who will bring destruction just like another X-Antibody digimon because he had a red ruby on his forehead, explaining that Dorumon is the personification of the launching of the X Program. Meanwhile, Royal Knights, which are responsible for the execution of Project Ark, began to do that task. However, debate came between 2 of the Royal Knights, Dukemon and Omegamon. Dukemon, on the other hand, refuse to do the task because he seems that the Project Ark is something wrong. Even the Project Ark eventually came to the second level, to destroy everything including all digimon.
We might also ask: "Omegamon, one of Royal Knights want to kill a lot of digimon? That's crazy! Where is his proud of being guardian of digital world? What an evil motive.."
Is that so? I doubt it..
Now we go to the characterization progress and development.. Dorumon is the main protagonist of this movie. He's just an innocent Child digimon who always questioning about what's his purpose of being live. He often got into danger thanks to the execution of Project Ark. He can't bear his sadness seeing many digimon died for surviving, even some of them died for him. He later thought that his existence is just bringing chaos to other digimon, and also thinking that his existence is not needed in this world. Nevertheless, he later began matured as the story progresses. He's not the typical shounen MC who finished everything with only his own power and being the leader of the comrade, also he's not the only one that the story only focused in. The Royal Knights also had a lot of characterization as the story progresses. The knights aren't truly evil, no, they're not evil at all. They're just in dilemma, whether to obey their master or to struggle for the existence of everything, they must be facing the most difficult situation. They were later thinking about what they have done before and began to find the answer of Yggdrasil.
So, is Yggdrasil that evil? Does it really want to end the digimon life cycle? No, Yggdrasil was just in desperation. Why it really dare to do such a thing? Why was it desperate about it? The answer is really, really simple. Because Yggdrasil only wants to 'LIVE'.. So simple right? That's what I really like about this movie. They're facing a very difficult situation, but the reason of the difficult situation was really simple. That's why it became the theme of this movie. [ Subete no Inochi wa Ikiru Tame ni Aru ], meaning "Life exists for living." Even they said this sentence in the end of the movie.
The theme is really simple, but if you understand it deeper, you'll find how beautiful the sentence is. Even I think that the sentence actually wants to tell you some values of life.
Well, we usually see someone being desperate of such a thing and eventually ended up suicide. They didn't find their purpose of life so that they thought being dead was better. Dude, even in this movie, all digimon were struggling with all their might in order to live although for just a second.
We even usually see many people killed or enslaved something with life (animals) for no apparent reason and without mercy. They just want to do for their own sake without concerning others' life. That's why I think the writers concerned about those situations so they want to share their thoughts with this movie.
This is not an ordinary digimon movie, this is a movie that tells you the values of life.
I have no comment about the sound and graphic, it's just as awesome as they are.. Well, it's a 2005 film after all, so with that graphic and sound, it's more than great.
I hope this review will be useful for you all and I highly recommend it for loyal Digimon fans.
I'm a digimon fan indeed, but I won't always say that all digimon series are the best. No, I'm not a digifag.. I just found this digimon movie being different comparing to other series and it had something very special in it.
Reviewer’s Rating: 9
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