When you have a special connecting with a series, then you feel overwhelmed and nostalgic- so it was when I rewatched the two Digimon Adventure Season, to know, where Digimon ended and to understand what will come next.
While I was rewatching it, I wasn't disappointed at all- the characters were lovely, the artwork was original, the plot stunning and the dialogues and morals perfect.
But Digimon lost all his charms within 6 movies. To even think about that, how all the years Digimon was a genre on his own, it got destroyed in 12 hours.
Plot:
basically we have our beloved characters plus a newbie which doesn't fit at all. The digimon of the newbie has so much power, that it can destroy both worlds- real world and digi world, and the evil "mastermind" behind this is yggdrasil.
Problems:
1) Characters are poorly, poorly writen.
2) no improvment in plot.
Despite of the poor writen character, which weren't charming at all, just a pain in da' a**, the plot would fit into 1 Episode. But of course you need some character development or some background stories to make it more enjoyable and not like a documentary, which just gives us the facts, but in all those 6 movies they just stand, doing nothing but eating food and complain or complain how they should not complain!
3) where are Daisuke and friends?
Do you know, what was really interesting form the beginning? The first movie shows us a red scene, where Daisuke and his friends were knocked out. Since then no one ever asked about them, like they don't exist at all!
Hikari and Takeru, those two idiots have been fighting alongside them, but they can't use their brains. Anyway, finally in movie 6 when I thought "yeah we found them" we couldn' even see their faces and they even did not show up for a fight.
4) Yggdrasil
Who is that? Why did the anime not talk about it on detail? "know your friends but know your enemies better". So I checked it up and Yggdrasil is a bodyless mind of the digiworld who wants war and not peace like homoestasis. Well, now that makes sense.
5) Artwork
Do I need to say anything about the Artwork? No. Because Artwork shouldn't be a main reason to hate an anime. It wasn't good, but with a good plot, I would have overlooked it for real. Never the less it wasn't good animated. There were scenes where it was cancer to my eyes. Just to save money, you see the characters standing for 2 minutes without moving or you see scenes which you saw before.
6) Again, the writing
there were so many scenes which lacked on good writing. The Hikari Taichi scenes for example. I did not cry but I would have with decent writing. Why did they not spend their money on better dialogues or better character development scenes? Interactions? They just could have saved their money by not creating not needed content! I had the thought of cutting all six movies to one 1h 30min movie and I think I could do that. It is, as if the author want us to feel sad about the characters but here I am shaking my head. One moment they cry and then the digimons wants food and then the enemy appear , they fight, they loose, they end up as baby digimons, they eat again - repeat this sh***.
The worst moment was the Hikari-in-her-mind-moment, where you can see her following a digimon which have died in the first season. It could have been better. It could have been more emotional.
7) Mei-chan
I really don't have anything against a new character, because there are more boys than girls and they need to marry each other, so we need one girl for Taichi. Even if they did not ended up together at the end, the author might have the crazy idea to make another 6 movies just so the romance can improve (god, please don't let that happen).
Mei is a pain. For my eyes, for my ears and for my brain. All she can do was crying, like Mimi wasn't enough yet. She even shares the same name as her digimon and they don't find that weird at all? I mean with good writing it would have been sweet, that the "bad" digimon has a connecting because of the name, like it would be "fate" that they met, but where did we get PROPER screentime for that?
- I did not enjoy this movie, and I did not enjoy the rest. The only thing which was good was the sound. To hold on to the old opening was a great strategic, even the soundracks were the same which was awesome.
So here you got it, Toei Animation, you got your one point, because of the sound, which was old content.
Overall:
shit.
Story: 3
Art: 1
Sound: 10
Character: 1
Enjoyment: 1
Overall: 1
