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Micro review:

This movie is a shift from fighting to character stories, do not expect fighting to be its main draw. If you hate character driven anime, you will find this disappointing. The story is all there (kinda) and the characters are just fine. This is digimon all grown up, not another kids adventure anime. So don't complain that it isn't all battles, because it's not meant to be.

Story: 6
Art:6
Music: 7
Character: 8
Enjoyment: 7

... Full review:

Ketsui is not classic Digimon at all, so don't expect lots of fights. It is a separate anime and is more character driven than before. In other words this movie is not a hour long fight, it's about the characters development in their lives after the first two seasons.

Story:
This is about developing two characters and showing how their lives have been altered since we last saw them at the end of adventure 2 (not the very end though). There is clearly development to the over arching story of the movies as a whole, but the vast majority of it is focused on character development and their dealing with living double lives as digidestined. It does feel a touch underdeveloped though, and left me feeling like I may not feel anything in the next movie. Nothing has happened really in the two movies as a whole so either we will get a lot of story next time or there really will not be one worth remembering.

Art:
It has moments where you are completely taken out by how terrible it is. Luckily I either did not notice many or there were not many. Either way it's not great but it is still not the worst I have seen. Again it all comes down to demembering that this is made almost 16 years after the original anime so it looks different. Its a new animation style and I don't mind.

Sound:
It has it. It is nothing special.

Character:
This is the entire point of this series of movies really. "What happened to the original digidestined". This movie helps to answer that. If you want to see Agumon battle tooth and nail against an enemy, too bad. This is about the characters living their lives dealing with digimon attacking the human world and the fallout that comes with it. Be it media misinterpreting the fights or rumors around school, this is about them dealing with having real responsibilities and not just being able to battle without thinking. Gone are the days of leaving summer camp and having their adventure; only to return seconds later. If they have to battle people can get hurt, they will have to drop everything to get there and the digimon are not waiting for them.

Enjoyment:
Watch this for what it is, realistic. They still need to go to school and live their lives. They can't just drop everything anymore to go on an adventure for weeks. Their actions have very real and immediate consequences and they are dealing with all this for the first time really. That is the point of the movies, not another cookie cutter adventure where another digivolution occurs to defeat the super ultimate evil. This is a grown up digimon story, so treat it like one and don't complain that it is.

Micro review:

The characters are shallow but the story is interesting.
Do not watch this anime if you don't like waiting for answers to plot points. Do not watch this if you only plan to watch a few at a time.
This anime requires a binge session to finish it as it can get tedious, but it is (kinda) worth it.

Story: 5
Art: 7
Sound: 7
Characters: 2
... Enjoyment: 5

I have now finished this anime and as such my review has changed, slightly.

I will leave my old review up as I still agree with it as i wrote it, 9 episodes in. Go to the bottom for full season review.

Up to episode 9:

[Such a waste of an intriguing plot idea and character (Mika)

The first season was not the best, I will admit. Yet I felt that the story had promise and Mika was way underdeveloped.

The second season is everything that is wrong with the first on steroids, all beefed up and loud. One dimensional characters that are just the tropes of typical animes. No character development or really plot progression.

All that happens could be summed up in a fraction of the time if there were not purely random and unexplained scenes mixed with boring drawn out flashbacks. The only thing that kept me watching was the story, and I found out that it is really not all that complex after reading a summery.

The characters are stuck in a time paradox. One where any actual character development is stuck and all that they can do is spout the same exact lines over and over.

Art and sound are good. Yet, as hard as you try to dress up a pile of trash to make it look fabulous, it's still garbage.

Only watch if you need anything to watch and have no better options to binge.

If the story is grabbing you then look it up online]


Full season:

On a whim I decided to finish this anime late one night, and I am glad I did. Kinda. It is still not the best anime by any shot but I can kinda see it going somewhere next season, so I hold out hope there.

The main issue with it is that it is trying to be the next big hit anime *cough (Attack On Titan) cough*, but FAILS hard. It has a great story, I knew this from the start; this was why I even continued to watch it and why I finished it. Too bad the characters and writers let the story down.

There are simply too many mysteries in the story and more keep coming the longer you watch. With no answers to solve the past questions you just end up lost in what is going on always. Characters motivations are there, but we have not got any idea what they are.

This is the shows biggest failing, the writers are writing in too many character traits without fleshing out the others added before. This leaves you with a confusing mess of a "family" of characters whose motivations are one dimensional and come off as just lame.

Read the manga if you have the itch for answers that I have after finishing. Maybe it is the better read, or at least it is more complete at this point.