A MEGA DIGIMON DigiRETROSPECTIVE

0:01 digimon digital monsters created originally as a boys version of a tamagotchi pet digimon eventually received a video game adaptation on the ps1 and that same year they released an anime short film followed by a series titled digimon adventure it was everywhere after that often compared to pokemon cause they both ended mods so they're the same obviously unlike pokemon digimon has had a bumpy ride over the last 25 years now i'm not a super digimon fan like if the new digi joint got released i'm not lining up to get one until digimon survives release which i'm very excited for come watch me play it on twitch wink wink anyway with its release i decided to watch all of digimon i actually haven't seen a lot of digimon i stopped around frontier and have not checked back since hell most of these shows i haven't even

0:47 seen in full because before streaming in the internet you can only watch the episodes when they air and hope it's an episode you haven't seen before i also have not seen many of the movies and ovas no no reason really i just never found it necessary to watch them so a lot of this especially in the latter half will be brand new to me be aware i am incredibly biased i do not care about looking at things fairly i'm a casual fan i like what i like and i hate what i hate deal with it now you may not like that method and if you don't be sure to leave a comment telling me how much i suck and then while you're down there also leave a dislike that still helps the video somehow your hatred only makes me stronger also where applicable i will be watching the english dub version of the thing yes butterfly is the greatest song of all time there's censorship they change something blah blah blah i grew up with

1:32 the dubs that's what i'm watching if i do get information wrong leave a comment correcting me finally remember digimon is an anime owned by a japanese company i will obviously be using clips so you understand what i'm talking about but from my past videos i know those japanese companies don't like me doing that just letting you know now there will be long sections of me just looking this way reading from my script i don't know i'll maybe put something interesting on the screen for you i guess okay this intro is long enough and i got a lot of digimon to watch so let's start with the original digimon adventure tv series our story begins with strange weather patterns all over the world while this is happening seven kids are unaware of these events because they are spending time at summer camp these kids are thai

2:20 the gogglehead that started it all matt the cool owner sora the selfless tomboy izzy the computer carrying whiz kid joe the oldest and most anxiety tk matt's younger brother and the youngest overall and mimi the valley girl stereotype and the best character in all of digimon one day at camp a freak snowstorm arrives and the seven of them gets stuck in a cabin in the mountains after the storm strange meteors shoot near them that turn into strange devices later to be known as digivices and immediately after that a tsunami washes them all away and tai wakes up in the digital world after regrouping all the kids realize these strange creatures have attached themselves to each of them calling them partners and they introduce themselves as digimon you know then they are all attacked by a giant beetle digimon called kuwagamon

3:06 digimon tried to fight it and in the middle of their fight the digivices begin to glow and all the digimon did evolve into their rookie forms a more powerful version for those that don't know there are several stages of digimon each series might add some extra version and form for toys but the standard forms keep aware of for this video there's in training which are the forms of digimon start in rookie forms which are the standard forms you'll see most series partner digimon in then there's champion ultimate and finally mega digivolving is mostly a mechanic that will be used to show the development of the human partner as they grow the digimon will gain a new form it's a physical manifestation of the character's growth these digimon are agumon for tai gabumon for matt bioman for sora tentomon for

3:51 izzy gomomon for joe palmond for mimi and padamon for tk after beating kawagamon and falling off a cliff the kids decide to wander around and find help since they don't know where they are despite joe's pleas to stay put and wait for help now this is where i'm gonna take some liberties after the first couple episodes for every show digimon is essentially a monster of the week show so not every single episode is relevant no matter what's in it so if i skip over something that you might think be worth mentioning i don't care the episodes usually go a kid goes through some sort of ordeal like matt having to save tk from a seadramon or joe trying to be reliable and climb a dangerous mountain to get a layout of where they are through this ordeal their partner digimon achieves the next level of digi pollution

4:36 all except tk's padman hmm some stuff is revealed like matt being very overprotective of tk because he apparently heard his parents talk about some secret involving him some time ago and mimi being awesome after fighting all these evil digimon the kids start noticing a strange black gear that he's popping out of them whenever they're defeated after climbing the mountain i mentioned earlier the kids learn they are on an island and wonder if they can even get off the island they then find a mansion that they decide to stay in however it is actually a trap set by the evil devimon who not only separates the kids but also brainwashes a champion level digimon leomon and sends him after the kids along with his not brainwashed henchmen ogremon and these episodes where the kids are separated are great ty and matt meet up and fight this is a staple of the series

5:22 welcome to an understanding when ty sees how worried matt is for tk however the best parts are the other guys izzy and mimi wind up together and it is [Music] do what hilarious laptop can't do everything and joe and sora i didn't think these two would mesh but they play off each other so well okay don't panic i'm still in control and feeling strong okay i don't want to be somebody's appetizer i'm supposed to go to middle school oh and tk is babysitting or whatever eventually the group reunites and managed to release leomon from deviamon's control he then tells them they are digidestine kids destined to save the island now known as file island from a dark force izzy

6:09 believes that once they do this their job will be done and they will be able to go home the group fights deviamon and get destroyed but to save the day pademon finally digivolves into angelmon and uses the last of his energy to destroy devimon and he dies just kidding digimon don't actually die they get reborn as a digi egg see you'll be fine tk i'm sure that brief moment you thought your new friend died didn't traumatize you for life after the fight the kids realized they're not home when an old man named jenna contacts them by the way before this video i had no idea this guy's name was pronounced gennai i always thought it was jedi like the star wars jedi i'm saying these guys need to enunciate more gen eye tells them about the crests and tags by finding their crests they will get their digimon to digivolve to ultimate and

6:54 will need this power to defeat the true evil threatening the digital world each kid has a crest linked to a certain trait tai has the crest of courage matt has friendship sora love izzy knowledge joe reliability mimi's sincerity and tk has hope they leave file island and begin exploring other areas of the digital world to find their crests however a dark force is already after them adam adamon is one of the main reasons we watched up around here that's because edamame talks like elvis i am the king here they gotta learn the hard way what you already know they can't be messing with the royal one i expect my plans be followed i don't know why and i don't care he's entertaining just the fact that the singing and dancing elvis monkey is actually a

7:41 threat having power and contract the kids with his dark network it's i love villains like this you can laugh at them but they're still a threat makes it more interesting than just being evil like demon the next couple episodes have the kids going around the digital world and fighting the crests the interesting one is when tai gets his and tries to force aguaman to digivolve the kids have realized by now that digimon did evolve to protect them so tai throws himself into harm's way on purpose and after that agamon dark digivolves into an evil digimon skull grey mon they managed to return into normal but now both ty and agamon become scared to dig evolve again out of fear of agamon turning into skull grey mom they get over it after an episode eventually the only kid who doesn't have their crest is sora and they are contacted by datamon a digimon held

8:27 prisoner by edamon in a pyramid daedamon tells them if he frees them he will show them where sora's crest is during this the kids come to the conclusion that they are not in their physical bodies and that they are digital constructs but if anything were to happen to them in the digital world the same would happen to their bodies yes you die in the game you die for real ty doesn't hear that last part and starts acting with reckless abandon thinking nothing actually bad will happen but is given a wake-up call by the kids as he realizes how real the danger is after getting to datamon he betrays the kids and kidnaps sora so he can clone her so he can control bumon so he can get revenge on edamon it's a needlessly complicated plan to get sora back tai has to overcome his fears for now realizing the danger is real he has to have courage

9:13 he manages to save her but datumon fuses edema on him and all the dark network into that and tai having overcome his fears activates his crest and greymon evolves into metal grey mod sora also got her crest during this they defeat eneman but tai and metal greymon are shot through a portal and end up back in tokyo in the real world this is another reason digimon stood out here in the west most american english dubs get rid of all instances of japanese culture language and places names digimon though keeps some of that japanese culture it's written in ditching code well i said some and a d digivolved coramon go to tai's house where they meet his creepy sister kari what's even weirder though is that kari knows who koramon is tai also discovers that despite being gone for

9:59 days in the digital world it's still the same day he left for camp eventually tai does have to return to the digital world to save his friends realizing something is wrong when an ogre month somehow finds itself in the real world he leaves khari behind but he promises he will be back tai returns and finds tokemon tk's partner and he tells them despite tai being gone barely a day in the real world weeks have passed in the digital world and the group all went off on their own to find high in acumon the next episodes involved tai getting the band back together during this matt izzy and sora all unlocked the powers of their crest getting ultimate evolutions also a new character demi deviamon is seen messing with the kids working for miodesman the new threat to the digital world after regrouping gemini tells the kids there is an eighth digi destin and myotismon is planning to go to the real world to find them after infiltrating

10:45 his castle the kids are stopped by myotismon's other lackey gatomon and are unable to prevent him from going to the real world the kids do manage to follow after him and arrive in the real world heighten view terrace tokyo remember i said some after arriving all the kids realized they all saw a grey mod fight a digimon called parrotmon years ago in this town and they conclude that witnessing this event made them digidestine so naturally the eighth child must have also seen this too who could it be so now it's a race to see who can find the eighth child first the digidestine or myotismons minions gatomon and wizardmon a few things i want to mention for this part first i love how the digimon disguise themselves by just wearing hats and hoodies and it works digimon operates on ninja turtles logic also we learned that izzy heard his parents say from a while

11:30 ago that he's adopted and they never told him for some reason also that matt and tk's parents are divorced and they never see each other because matt lives with her dad and tk lives with their mom my oldest iotismon gives gautoman a copy of the eighth crest the crest of light saying it will shine when the eighth child is near gaza mod manages to find out it's kari big shock but finds herself unable to kill her for some reason after confining him wizard about it he thinks that this means gatomon is kari's partner digimon and after kari gets her digivice it turns out to be true as gautama remembers being separated from the other partner digimon and was found by miyotismon after trying to get kari's real crest from myotismon gatoman is captured and wizard mon gets his ass beat mayonos man surrounds the town in fog and releases a bunch of digimon to gather up all the people of heightened buterus so gatumon can identify the

12:17 eighth child so he can kill them now this part the myotis monarch is the best part in all of digimon adventure in my opinion specifically this part where he gathers up everyone at heightened view terrorists because now the kids families are a part of the story as each of them try to protect them like sora and her mother mimi trying to protect her parents which activates her crest izzy comes to terms with his parents about his adoption and of course everyone trying to protect thai's sister kari during all this joe awakens his crest as well and him and tk find wizardmon who has gotten kari's crest the kids managed to gather together but myotisman has already found khari wizard mod manages to get kari's crest to her but unfortunately is killed i'm not too sure on my digimon lore but since he died in the real world he doesn't get reborn as a digi egg i think r.i.p pro

13:03 his death though has kari's crest react and gatuman digivolves into angel woman a true angel helping us all through puberty angel woman defeats myotismon but the fox surrounding the town doesn't disappear and jedi contact is he telling them oh that wasn't the real threat and he tells him a prophecy that makes a little sense to me i'm not going to repeat it but my osmond comes back as venom mayu's man and begins destroying the city izzy after analyzing the prophecy concludes that the angel digimon have to shoot arrows of hope and light at ty and matt in order to unlock their full power tai and matt agree to do this as they have little options left and they trust each other and their siblings this works and the arrows unlock agamon and gabomon's mega forms wargreymon and metal guru rumon they defeat myotismon and peace is finally restored to nowhere

13:48 cause now the digital world and real world are colliding cause that wasn't the real threat they leave their families behind on a new adventure it's weird i'm not sure if we'll ever see them again but i'm not afraid it's like just knowing that they love us gives us the power that we need i love that line the myotis monarch is peak digimon adventure for me it builds off of things that are shown throughout the show giving closure to a lot of the kids on their personal issues that have been developed over the long period of time and also the big battle at the end feels very satisfying with ty and matt getting that last one big power up to save the day it's perfect but we still got 14 episodes left yeah not every single little detail was wrapped up with a bow but i feel it ended on a fine note with the stakes raised to the perfect level but we got 14 more episodes known as the

14:35 dark master saga while the kids were in the real world new villains called the dark masters have taken over the digital one metal cedrimon machine draman that's not confusing puppetmon and piedmont these guys are lame dark masters have [ __ ] with the digital world so much all of the areas have combined to become one place called spiral mountain also digimon no longer get reborn when they die they patch that out in 1.6 which does actually get kind of [ __ ] like at one point mimi starts making graves for all their friends that died and ty gives some speech like this is war there will be casualties like what the [ __ ] you're like 10 dude yeah the story from here on out is just the kids fighting each master over some episodes they're just not interesting to me

15:20 mostly because all the kids have gone through an arc already and there's not much you can do with them like matt gets tricked into fighting tai because matt's all sad because he thinks tk doesn't need him anymore and matt and ty argue and fight and i cannot buy this because like a couple hours ago these two trusted and believed in each other and their families so much that they were willing to risk and get shot by arrows based on some unintelligible prophecy i just don't buy it it feels forced because we gotta have that story beat of the characters getting separated and fighting over some disagreement i think this happened too late if this was before the myotis monarch i'd be more for it but it just doesn't feel right to me during that fight though kari is possessed by a mysterious being who explains the origins of why they were chosen as digidestine after seeing greymon fight parrotmon all the kids were scanned and the digimon and their

16:06 digivices were created for them the crests were created based on the strongest quality each child possessed so curry possesses light however piedmont showed up trying to prevent this from happening and jedi who was there runs away with the eggs and did devices losing gatumon's egg while escaping also apparently there were these uh digidestined before the kids we were following now who fought the dark masters the original digidestine as they're called i wasn't going to mention them at all but i had to come back and rewrite this because they're gonna matter toward the end of this video you'll see but yeah this arc really is just the kids going around fighting the dark masters so here's just like all the stuff i thought was interesting when it was happening let's see you got edamame here comes back for an episode that's pretty cool we have our first leomond death hell

16:52 yeah that's right kids this is a meme of the digimon community whenever leomon shows up in a series play at home with your friends and see how long it takes until he dies trust me it's fun uh what else carrie is basically digimon jesus tai has kid trauma angelmon digivolves mimi makes an army lady david mod is a thing that's cool eventually the kids beat all the dark masters except piedmont but then they do that but i'm not kidding with two episodes left it's revealed the dark masters are not the real threat the real threat for reals is a being existing beyond the wall of fire great name for that by the way apocalypse not as great a name he sends the kids to purgatory but the group escapes thanks to friendship and

17:39 they destroy him the power of friendship saving the day well we beat the bad guy but we only got five minutes left in the last episode so time for a hasty wrap up as the portal between the digital and human world closes the kids say a tearful goodbye to their digimon and the kids return to the real world knowing they'll see their friends again someday our adventure in the digital world might be over for now but that gate won't stay closed forever i have a feeling that this won't be the last time we see our pals the digimon i know i skipped a lot there but i just i really don't like the dark master soccer man after re-watching digimon adventure it is still one of my favorite anime and despite its problems i will watch this any day of the week the digimon theme is a classic by this point i always love the start of the theme the most i don't know how to describe it but

18:25 the digital techno noise with the digis being repeated sounds so strange like the theme itself is transporting you into the strange world one of the biggest contentions with early digimon is the dub more specifically the writing of it every time they get a chance they will throw in some joke or pun cause i guess they thought kids would get bored otherwise like whenever a character's mouth is off screen they just have the voice actors go nuts even during serious moments like that moment near the finale when they're in purgatory they make jokes although honestly i don't hate it i think it's a big part of digimon's charm i think the cheesiness and campiness is part of adventures identity it's not like they ruin every serious moment they know when to dial it down i can understand why people don't like it personally i love

19:11 it keeps things from getting too serious something i do think ruins the mood is during the fight scenes they play this song and yeah this thing it totally brings down the action scenes it doesn't fit at all it's completely weird and out of place but my histology goggles are on tight so i love it the rest of the music in typical dub fashion is just an instrumental rendition on remixes of theme song the animation is standard for a monster of the week show by that i mean tons of reused animation like when the digimon did evolve and when they do their signature attacks it's passable for the time i think this show handles filler well now let it be known here i think anime fans have some unnatural hatred toward filler episodes yeah it's annoying that you're watching something that doesn't contribute to the story but look man if you're a fan of

19:57 naruto and bleach like me you can't complain about filler i think filler is fine as long as it does two things either just plain entertaining like it's funny or action-packed or it's disguised properly you know like defense in the episode may not come back up again for the main plot but it gives some sense of progress and story building like adding more insight into a character or does some world building digimon adventure i think lands more on the latter not saying episodes aren't entertaining but i don't remember them for the laugh out loud jokes or amazing sakuga i remember them because they actually feel productive i think the first seven episodes are a good example each episode usually begins with the kids trying to survive by finding food or shelter the middle has some world building with how strange the digital world is or by introducing some digi character and it ends with whoever kid the show is focusing on at the time and going through some sort of change which allows digimon to reach champion level by

20:43 having the kids adventuring through a world they're unfamiliar with and letting the digimon be physical manifestations of their growth by gaining new levels it allows the show to have a nice pace it never feels like it's slowing down where i think digimon is the best though in every series is its characters there's a spectrum of likeability i think when it comes to digimon characters that can be measured from izzy to mimi the izzy's are the ones where their home and personal lives affect their character and growth finding out the two people in the world you trust the most would lie to him for so long he throws himself into computers because technology is facts and data data can't lie to you this unfortunately makes him socially inept and unable to tell or care about how other people feel like when him and mimi are trapped in that maze which makes moments like the end of that episode when he abandons his computers to save her feels satisfying to watch because you see him starting to

21:29 learn and help put his trust in other people the moment when he talks to his parents about how he has adopted that he doesn't really care about that as he loves them no matter what because to him there's parents shows how much he cared about the fact that lied to him was more important than the blood relation that's one of those moments that will just always live in my head it's top tier digimon in my opinion mimi is the opposite side of that spectrum you don't really get a lot of insight into her personal life but you don't need to you know everything about her she's a typical val girl who isn't really rich but is more well off than most people the best part about her though is how she is herself there's a reason she has the crest of sincerity she is unapologetically herself all the time sure she can be annoying constantly complaining and trying to always get her away like she's accustomed to there's an episode where a bunch of gekkomon treat

22:15 her like a princess and because she misses that life she wants to stay and keep that treatment forever but when it comes to her friends and family she's always there for them because she genuinely loves them all during the dark master arc you can tell the infighting and the many deaths of her friends is affecting her the most she breaks down when she sees liam on die right in front of her the point is she's not really deep or has some sad backstory that's relatable she's just a fun character that is shown to us throughout the series the other characters are obviously great as well just those two stuck out to me tai i think is a good leader i thankfully have him make mistakes and give him challenges to overcome to get us to understand why these kids would follow him and make him the leader because no matter how dark things got he pushes on and can make the right calls sometimes but he's also not perfect he [ __ ] up like everybody else but that's what

23:00 makes him likable matt is the type of character we will see in almost every digimon series the cool loner that's not me stereotyping he even calls himself cool his relationship with tk is what makes him stand out being overprotective of him comes from a place of feeling like he hasn't been there for him since their parents are separated and they don't live together another moment i love from the show is after the kids beat myotismon and tk has his family there and he's happy because this is the first time they've all been together in a long time but you can tell the rest of them are uncomfortable and feel very awkward because they're more aware of the situation like it's just such a good moment man i can just feel the awkwardness uh other than that and i'll just say about tk he's fine sora also not much we know she comes from a traditional japanese family and has issues with that like how she wants

23:46 to play soccer but her mother doesn't want her to because she thinks she'll get hurt this is something sora realizes in the episode bioman gets her ultimate form also kudos to digimon interpreting the crest of love with love of a mother and a child instead of the usual kind which honestly shocked me watching it i don't know though i remember her liking her more when i was a kid she's not bad i just feel she doesn't get a lot of time to shine joe is also one of those characters to me he's the oldest of the digi destin and early on feels like he has some sort of responsibility to lead them he learns to mellow out over time and trust in the others more with help of his chill-ass brother but again i just feel like he was kind of put to the wayside for like the development of other characters kari doesn't get much mainly because she comes in late besides being digi jesus she is shown to think of others over herself too much in

24:32 a flashback while it's for ty's development she goes out to play soccer with him even though she's sick and almost dies and when she gets home she apologizes for not being able to play with him properly but did you mind i'll have varying things to say depending on the season most the time i'm probably never even gonna bring them up that's because most of the time they're stereotypes more so than their partners but that's fine they're mostly used to symbolize the kids growth and give us giant monster fights so it's not a negative for them plus that would mean developing 16 main characters for this show and that's kind of unrealistic the only one that does get development is gatoman with her being forced to be myotismon's servant when she's actually a digidestined partner the death of wizard mod meant a lot to her as it's shown to us the two have known each other for a long time going to be honest the wizard of man death never felt burned to me yeah gothuma knew him for

25:18 some amount of time but to us as an audience shows up in episode 30 and dies in 37. i understand that it's more forgotten development but a permanent death to me should feel more earned like i should feel as sad and angry as the character but i don't because i don't know much about him outside of he really cares about gatomon i joked about it but leomon's death hit me more since we've known him for a longer period and his relationship to others in the digital world were shown to us it's not that i don't like wizardman or anything it's just his death more than others felt artificial since you find out his purpose is to die just so gautaman can become angelmon did you mind adventure despite having more flaws than i remember i still love it just fun to watch one thing i'm big about are characters i love how they are grounded by having real relatable problems mixed with fun kaiju fights sure it's ending i did not like but up until episode 44 i had a

26:04 good time of course a lot of kids at the time thought the same thing and digimon blew up in popularity so of course what happens when you have a hit tv show you make a movie this premiered in between the finale of adventure and the middle of the premiere of adventure 0-2 here's the thing there are no actual feature-length films based on the tv shows they're all basically ovas that range from seven minutes to over an hour long for some reason fox kids saban whoever decided to take the first three ovas and edit them around a bit and put them all into a feature-length film and that's the digimon movie it's just three ova's crammed together and it's not very good before the movie starts though you get a weird short that is a part of the official run time of the movie based on the show angela anaconda a lot of people

26:51 complain about this part when they talk about the digimon movie you know how it's tacked on or whatever but i just hit fast forward i don't really care also i'm not giving any context as to what this show is [Music] that though we were given the movie proper with a digi wrap the guy that wraps this is called mcp pod speaking of music the soundtrack is the most 2 thousands teenagers mixtape ever you got songs from barenaked ladies less than jake [ __ ] all-star by smash mouth is in this movie six months before shrek by the way digimon was ahead of its time so you might be wondering how do they make these three individual

27:37 shorts that have no connections seem cohesive as a film that's the thing they don't but damn it do they try this is mainly done with kari narrating since she does appear in all of them constantly as well she refers to willis a character we will not see until the last act but they have to keep mentioning him to make it feel like this was all planned the first part is digimon adventure that's the name of the original short not the show this is the ova that originally aired in japan premiering before the tv series but we saw it after in this movie in the states it shows toddler gogglehead and kari taking care of a digi egg that comes out of their computer the egg eventually digivolves eventually becoming raymond and fights parrotmon yes the event that made the characters into digidestine is told here

28:22 it's okay the animation is the best part omaru hosoda who directed this in the next ova digimono war game knows his [ __ ] he's focused on showing the animalistic nature of digimon when they fight and the light lines and muted colors give it serene yet off-putting atmosphere he also directed that episode in the show where tai goes back to the real world you can definitely tell it's him ah yeah though this ova is fine doesn't leave that much of an impression on me when in comparison to the rest of digimon but it's interesting to see where it all started after that though we get the best digimon not just the greatest film not the greatest animation just the greatest thing in all of digimon in my opinion the middle of the digimon movie or digimon or war game whatever you want to call it is quintessential digimon to me taking place after the adventure tv series when a strange digi egg hatches

29:09 and begins eating computer code and growing at a fast rate izzy notices it and goes to thai to help him contain it for various reasons they can't get in contact with the other digidestine except for matt and tk but they're in the countryside and have no access to the internet outside of a computer in a barber shop i didn't know that was a thing and the four kids have to stop the digimon called diaboromon from launching nukes all over the world the reason this is so good is it's just so fun the animation is amazing the jokiness and campiness of the dub writing works here the most since that's what the story is it's a bunch of kids on dial-up internet trying to prevent the nuclear apocalypse you gotta embrace the silliness of that not having all the digidestine is a good idea too since juggling eight characters in 40 minutes would be too much of course it's also the first time we see omnimod a fusion of metal guru roman

29:55 and wargreymon also the first time we see digimon fuse in general this will be relevant later seriously if you've not seen this go watch it it is the thing that i think of whenever someone says digimon or heck if you want an actual film that's based off of this premise go check out summer wars which is literally the digimon ova made by the same people but as a proper feature like film last part of the movie is the worst the first two shorts were left mostly unchanged in terms of length since both combined are about an hour the ova for the last part digimon hurricane touchdown transcendent evolution the golden digimentals no i'm not saying that twice it's 60 minutes and we have 30 minutes left in the movie so guess which one got the most edits yeah it's bad i don't have much else to

30:41 say and i don't really want to talk about it because it's not even like funny bad it's just bad also to explain it i would have to describe the next season of digimon since that's what it's based on i'm not going to do that right now the only thing of note is this ends the movie with the infamous shrek mouth by smash all-star yeah well the first two i can say watch either version with this one watch the original japanese it's superior [Laughter] [Music] get over it okay well i mean it doesn't have smash mouth in it so i guess it's just automatically inferior i guess that's the point of digimon you know it's just like it's got layers like a like digimon movie is a mixed bag you got an intro part that's okay a middle part

31:26 that is god-like and a shitty ending too many edits pacing issues and not being able to meld the ovas together make it a mess i really only recommend it if you are a fan of digimon and want to see everything about it if not just watch the original japanese versions uh except for our war game both versions are good in my opinion [Music] shortly after the first series ended the second series premiered appropriately titled digimon adventure zero two four years after the events of the original the older digidestined are now in middle school and kari and tk attend elementary school in the digital world a new threat has arrived calling himself the digimon emperor hearing the call from agumon tai goes to the digital world to find out what's happening there he finds a digi egg with a crest of courage on it but he

32:12 can't interact with it for some reason is he informed of the situation is about to go into the digital world with kari and tk at their school's computer room but their classmate davis aka diet gogglehead who has a crush on kari follows them suddenly three digivices shoot out of the computer one going to davis and the other two going to yoli and cody their classmates and tk's neighbors eventually davis is sent to the digital world with kari and tk while izzy is stuck in the real world trying to explain things to cody and yoli after finding tai davis is able to lift the digi egg and his partner digimon v-mod pops out of a hole underneath it davis is then able to use the digi egg to armor digivolve v-mon into flame german armor digivolving is one of the two new types of digivolving we will see in this season later on after ty and izzy tell all the other digidestine

32:57 what's going on stuff happens and izzy and sora go in with the new kids bear cody and yoli find digi eggs for them with their partner digimon yoli gets the crest of love and her partner hawkmon and cody gets knowledge and mod then in the next episode kari and tk find digi eggs and their digivices transform into one similar to davis cody and yoli these are called d3s they are what allow the kids to enter the digital worlds in the first place and armor did you evolve now for some reason the original diddy destin couldn't digivolve and it's revealed that this is because of dark spires the digimon emperor has put up obviously not sure exactly how they work but they basically interrupt the signal or something of the digivices to the digimon so they can digivolve under normal means which is why they have to use armor digivolving so the six original kids are useless yet they keep showing up and interacting

33:43 with the new ones it's cool to see them guide the new kids but nerfing them so much just makes them feel unneeded eventually the kids find out the digimon emperor's real identity is a kid named ken a super genius prodigy child before they can confront him though he runs away from home deciding to live forever in the digital world and rule over it why that matters is because this season for some reason time now operates the same between the digital world and the real world before the digimon emperor would only come out in the afternoon since ken would be at school and he would have to leave at night to go home now that he lives in the digital world he can be a dick any time of the day now you might be wondering how the heck does that work didn't last season clearly established that time moves slower in the digital world and this being the same universe shouldn't the same rules still apply the next couple episodes are the same as the ones before the kids go to the

34:28 digital world with an older kid they learn a lesson and rinse and repeat also kari goes into this mysterious place called the dark ocean that she seems to have some strange connection to and i [ __ ] you not this dark ocean is never going to be relevant also the ghost of wizard mod shows up okay eventually the kids decide to do something and stay in the digital world until they stop ken ken in the meantime is using a somehow alive devi mon yeah he's still alive somehow despite being disintegrated using him and other digimon's data to create kai miraman an abomination of digimon oh yeah i forgot to mention um ken has had this worm on with him the whole time who he has just been amusing the [ __ ] out of but wormon shows he

35:14 actually cares for ken and has a kind soul he just wants him to be happy since he's his partner digimon eventually woremon comes to davis and shows him the golden digi egg which he uses to digivolve v-mon into magnamon and they defeat kaimiramon but in order to do that worman sends the last of his energy to magdamon after the fight ken slowly realizes he kinda did slavery and genocide whoops then werman dies in his arms while this is happening a new crest the crest of kindness appears and is given to ken as he wanders off saying wormon is gone now just like his brother the episode after that though episode 23 in my opinion is one of the best episodes in all of digimon it shows us ken's past his brother receiving a digivice ken wants to use it too but his brother yells at him for going against what he said and ken

36:00 wishes he would just go away then he dies in a car accident whoops overcome with grief ken shuts himself off from everyone including his parents and eventually starts exchanging emails with a mysterious person who tells him of a digital world and to use his brother's digivice to get there when ken does he makes it to a place similar to the dark ocean car he went to and the digivice turns into a d3 and the digimon emperor was born back in the present ken is suffering from amnesia due to the recent events and somehow finds himself in the digital world specifically at primary village where digimon are reborn naturally a lot of digimon there he killed and they ate him and tell him to just go die in a hole somewhere this causes ken to cry and plead and beg someone to just give him another chance as he doesn't clearly understand what he's done and then he gets it as he

36:46 finds werman reborn as liefman and sees this as his chance to redeem himself but it's not over because ken returns to the real world and now experiencing all these things his memory starts coming back as he finally comes to term with all of the things that he's done up until this point if you haven't noticed i have been skipping a lot in the summary compared to the original adventure because nothing's really happening this episode though made me think zero two was turning around and was going to try some new stuff nope eventually ken after getting a pep talk from davis is convinced to join the digidestine and the two fuse ex beamon and stingmon warmon's evolution into pal german pale german uh they unlocked dna ditch evolving the other new digivolving method the kids face a new threat a woman who was turning dark spires into powerful digimon for

37:31 evil reasons i'm sure this woman turns out to be aru kennymon who works with her partner mummymon mommymon has the best digimon power gun to defeat the kids the two combine 100 dark spires to create black war greymon because if there's anything anime has taught me black is evil bwgm defeats the kids easily but doesn't finish them off cause he's an honorable warrior searching for a worthy opponent so he can find the meaning of why he exists in the first place no joke there is a whole episode where bwgm and agumon of all characters have a philosophical conversation about life it's more boring than you think then completely out of [ __ ] nowhere the goal now becomes destroying these objects called destiny stones no i didn't forget to bring these up

38:17 this is the first time these things have ever been mentioned ever all bw gm knows is when he destroys them all the worthy opponent he is searching for will arrive and the kids want to stop him because when he destroys all the destiny stones i don't know something bad will happen i guess during this part yoli and kari dna did evolve into sulfur mon and cody and tk get shakomon after the last destiny stone is destroyed azulongmon shows up a godlike digimon and exposes to the kids about dark spires and armored edge evolving i'm sure it was very interesting when i watched it he also says there is a bigger villain pulling the strings behind the scenes which we the audience already knew also davis spots a control spire in the real world oh then there's a christmas episode i'm just mentioning it because i like christmas episodes digimon needs more of

39:03 them eventually digimon and dark spire start appearing all over the world and the original and the new digi destin team up to stop them this begins a three-parter called digimon world tour a cool segment where all the digidestined split up to different parts of the world eating the other digi oh okay i swear this is the last time but i forgot to mention something again why are there are digidestined all over the world in an earlier episode the kids realized they must have become digidestine after witnessing several events that the og kids were involved in davis was one of the kids who was held captive by myotismon cody saw digimon coming to the real world during that time when the two worlds were colliding and yoli along with many of the other digideaths in around the world saw the fight with omnimod and diaboromon from our war game so that's why they're a ton of digidestine because the only criteria i guess is seeing a digimon anywhere the

39:49 world poor tart is great love the combinations of characters they do seeing sora and yoli try to communicate with the russian digidestined is hilarious [Music] this is hopeless why didn't the others have this problem since the kids were going around the world japan was defenseless and argue candymon has been going around kidnapping kids then a new enemy the evil daemon shows up and then they beat him in three episodes what was the point the real new villain is yukio oikawa who apparently put a dark spore in ken which made him evil and he takes that spore and puts it in all the kidnapped kids bwgm shows up again kind of forgot about

40:35 him and he's like [ __ ] you okawa you know kelly's like nah [ __ ] you [ __ ] and he kills him but bwgm uses the final life force or whatever to seal the gate between the real world and the digital world i guess he can do that oikawa unaware that the portal is closed still tries to go to the digital world using uh evil kid power but ends up in some weird purgatory zone with a digidestined following and of course it wouldn't be adventure if with two episodes left we revealed who the real real villain is the one who's manipulating everything since the beginning the one who started it all it's myotismon again all the digidestine around the world show up because of the power of their hearts or something and they all lend their energy to beat mallow my oldest mod power of friendship from around the

41:22 world my other one dies oykawa dies and that's it that's zero two 25 years later all the kids are grown up and have families and they get careers that make no sense tai becomes a diplomat between digimon and humans matt becomes an astronaut davis runs a ramen cart tk's a novelist marge becomes a robot and no one had any problems with this ending whatsoever now it's up to our children and to children everywhere to follow their dreams who knows where they'll end up but the only way to find out is to take that first step into adventure

42:08 digimon zero two is a hot mess apparently this is due to many of the production staff changing throughout the series while it was going on which is why things like the dark ocean are not expanded on or random villains like daemon show up for three episodes now let's see how the animations are the same along with the music except when the kids go to the digital world they play this 2000s ass theme song all the lyrics are just oh [Music] they also have a new battle song that's not hey digimon so i hate it the dub quality is the same too with constant jokes being spouted even during serious moments it's a little bit more toned down but i call that a detriment since i love the cheese of these dubs the story it's it ain't great the digimon emperor arc was passable it did meander around a bit too long i think

42:54 but the stuff with ken almost made up for it whenever candymon and mommymon become the villains i started tuning out more since these two suck they act like a comedy duo when they first show up they're kind of threatening but after episode 29 they act like a diet team rocket also mommymon has a foot fetish i'm just giving you a compliment i love your feet even your pointy toes enough with the feet blackward greymon you think would be interesting with his wandering warrior seeking answers thing but he mostly just shows up fights destroy the destiny stone then he leaves speaking of the destiny stones they are stupid that's all i'm saying about the destiny stones last bit with oikawa came way too late they tried to cram so much backstory in the last like five episodes i didn't even mention why oikawa got manipulated

43:39 by mayu spawn how he was there when mionis man died or his relationship to cody's father because it ultimately doesn't matter the kids having the ability to go between the real and digital world made episodes feel less impactful the early episodes were just they destroy a bunch of dark spires over and over and over until randomly the plot decides to start again this made the filler seem very unnecessary yes some of them are entertaining but most of them just revolve around the kids learning a different version of a lesson they kind of already learned before another thing that bothered me was how the show kept bringing back stuff from the first series debbie moniz used to create chimeramon my other spawns the true villain the original digidest didn't hang around for far too long in my opinion the og digi destin should have just been there at the beginning to help guide the newbies than not have showed up until the world tour thing as much as i love digimon

44:26 i do not give a single [ __ ] about its world or mythology digimon universe as they call it isn't ripe for interesting stories in my opinion which i think is part of the reason why every series after this takes place in a completely different universe with new characters you're gonna see the same thing in every series too like every finale will involve the digital world and real world colliding because in this universe that's the ultimate threat so you can't do much more after that but what are they gonna try though this is one of the reasons why i brushed over a lot of zero two especially the last half because a lot of it is just exposition like i don't care how the dark spires work or how they were made it's not that interesting i don't watch digimon for the lore so i can correct them on some obscure continuity error i watch it because it gives me fun and interesting characters

45:11 that despite going on a strange adventure are grounded by real life problems speaking of characters we got two returning ones with kari and tk they don't get much in this season i already talked about her mysterious connection to the dark ocean being a letdown other than that she doesn't display her digi jesus powers from the last series they go with this angle of her hiding her emotions and she's bottling everything up but i think that's just an excuse for her being boring and emotionless most of the time also when i was a kid i confused her with kyrie from kingdom hearts because of the similar name and design that's probably the most interesting thing about both of those characters tk only has two emotions he is either really chill or angry his stuff comes from his trauma when he thought engemon died after fighting devimon no joke they show the scene of ancient man dying like

45:58 10 times it appears in one fifth of the entire show this trauma doesn't really develop him and only gets brought out in anger like a scene that comes out of nowhere when he confronts the digi emperor after seeing divimon and the two get into a fist fight like it's what the [ __ ] how did he get here other than that he's pretty blame i already talked about ken i do want to say that i don't think the fact he was turned evil by a spore or wins his character or anything during the greatest episode he didn't know that and he believed that at the time those actions were his own and by the time the dark sports stuff happened his character arc was basically done by that point don't get me wrong the spore is still stupid like just have him be evil come on but it comes in way too late to matter to me davis is an okay leader honestly i always thought kari should be the leader being tai's younger sister but no it's davis because he has the goggles and the

46:43 dragon like digimon look i don't make the rules it's like being the red ranger your fate is already decided speaking of power rangers this happened in the show interrupt the power rangers arbor day special for the special news bulletin i watched that episode like 3 am and when i heard that it really it really freaked me out davis is mostly motivated by his crush on car 8 which goes nowhere it's mostly used for comedy other than that he has hard-headed big mouth that acts before he thinks there are only three times when i thought he was a good leader the first was when the digimon emperor captured his friends and he says davis has to beg for their lives and davis without hesitation does so uh [Music] don't davish please master spare my friends that's excellent now beam on restrain him i command you never

47:31 it's okay do what he says do it for the others if it'll save our friends obey the emperor the other time is when he's the only one willing to give ken a second chance saying he must be good since he got a crest and he seems regretful and the last time is his pep talk to ken when they meet back up but besides those three very specific times he was pretty annoying cody is the youngest that's his thing and the others treat him different simply because he is young despite the fact he's really smart in episode 3 he suggests they try to find out who the digimon emperor is in the real world since they have a better chance to beat him there and they're like shut up cody you're a kid how do you suggest we do that if we find out his human identity maybe we can defeat him from this side where his powers aren't as strong well you're a little

48:16 young to be worrying about those things cody yeah just let us older kids come up with a plan like [ __ ] off that's a good plan we're showing he has a strict home life with an overprotective mother and a grandfather who practices kendo with him you can tell his upbringing really affects how he acts in the episode where he gets his second digi egg he is upset at the fact he has to lie to his grandpa and mom to help his friends because his grandfather has always instilled in him that lying is one of the worst things you can do especially to your family a speech from joe gets him over it but i can understand why it weighed so heavily on him i don't dislike cody but he didn't really leave an impression on me either i do think he's a good character though i kind of wish they explored his personal life a bit more to get me to like him but he's fine no complaints really yo lee is awesome she is my second favorite character in all of digimon behind mimi

49:01 she's a confident smartass who while keeping her friend's safety in mind usually looking out for herself but of course the best part about her is she's [ __ ] hilarious i told you i'm having a picnic with the computer club today so i offered to bring salad for everyone and who's paying for it yeah i need to talk to you about that [Music] talk to you later like mimi she doesn't really have a lot of deep stuff going on she seems to live a normal life but that's what i like about her you don't need to over complicate what's already perfect we try to give her something by having her personality contrast kari with kari bottling things up yoli always says what's on her mind and the two clash for one episode about it in that episode though it's not that interesting it's just the two come to a realization

49:46 after slapping each other and then they get their dna did you all form i don't care about all that because she was an oasis of laughs in the desert of meh digimon zero two is a mixed bag and unfortunately after it gets mixed you realize the wrong ingredients were thrown in and it tastes like [ __ ] the highs were great but there was far too few of them and the lows were really low and there are way too many of them there were two ova's released for digimon zero two one was that name i won't say again and we already looked at in the digimon movie the other is titled revenge of diaboromon uh it's fine much like the series it feels like a rehash of its predecessor being a sequel to our war game it sees diaboromon returning big shock and plans to go to the real world this time and yeah that's it that's the whole story it's not bad i like the plot fine and

50:32 all the characters work well off of each other i mean they managed to work in all 12 digidestine pretty well considering it's just under 30 minutes they all don't get some big scene or anything but i'm fairly sure everyone at least has a speaking role the animation is spectacular too a lot of long shots with the background being the focus while the characters are smaller and less detailed allowing them to move them around easier i can look at this shot all day man just look at that animation uh it's fine but if you didn't watch it you're not really missing anything despite zero two being bad during its run on fox kids it and power rangers were the highest viewed shows so of course they're gonna deal the third season digimon tamers but wait you can't continue the story of adventure it wrapped up quite nicely right well like power rangers every season now on of digimon will feature

51:18 different characters in a different world with their own stories so who did they get to write this new season for a wildly popular kids show the guy that wrote serial experiments lane if you don't know what that is and haven't seen tamers before boy are you in for a treat so this show is meant to take place in the real world in the tamers universe the digimon anime card games the video games are all just that the kids in this world have watched the adventures of the digidestined on tv they've played digimon world it's just a product here one of these kids is the og gogglehead ducato after dumpstering his friends in a game of cards his toy card reader mysteriously turns into a digivice in between this we meet his classmates kazu kenta and jerry who talks through a puppet sometimes then a couple of stuff happens in quick sequence there's a mysterious organization monitoring

52:05 digital activity across the world a little digimon named calamon somehow finds itself in the human world and decado has a weird dream about a girl fighting with digimon takado being a huge fan of digimon makes up his own gilmon and his digivice scans his drawing of it and a digi egg appears on it eventually the egg hatches and takato meets guillemot for the first time ah dude that's harsh will takado get toasted on gilmon's grill find out yeah i guess in a weird way to make this complete shift in seasons not be too jarring davis does the two be continued in previously on segments for this season in the adventure shows a different kid would take that role every episode say davis is a distracting would be an understatement anyways gilman being made up and worn five minutes ago means he doesn't act

52:51 like a typical digimon he talks in broken english and does not know anything other than wanting to be by takado's side and following his instincts while takado tries to figure out what to do with guilemond since he can't hide him at his house forever he meets henry another tamer and his partner terry armand later while takado is looking for a place to stash guilemon he is attacked by rika the girl he saw from his dream and her partner renomon rika is going around fighting any digimon she sees so renamon can absorb their data which she thinks will allow her to devolve yep when digimon die in this world they don't get reborn as digi eggs they basically get eaten by other digimon like gaining exp in a video game eventually henry shows up and questions rika's digimon should fight each other because that's what you do on the game philosophy since he thinks they must have some reason for being chosen to have partners and after finding a place to stash

53:37 guillemot rika and renoman attack gilmon again henry shows up again to stop them but when terriermont accidentally gets in between the fight henry's worry for his partner makes him digivolve into gargamon also while digivolving a strange light shines out of kaluman's head hmm a couple days later after a fight with a vile mog the three kids meet calamon and takato and henry become antagonistic towards rika's approach to digimon as she sees them as just data and this is all a game to her we soon find out rika is actually the queen of games being the best player of digimon card game she thinks she got random on because of her skill and believes this to be an extension of the game spider attacks enrique's concern for reno and gets her to digivolve into kiwimon and again calamon's head shines when this happens also during this episode we are introduced to iman a digimon that mainly seems to be wandering around trying to tell digimon with partners that they

54:22 don't actually care about them and they'll toss them aside someday but randomize guillemon don't really care about what he has to say as they trust in their partners eventually the three kids come together to save gilmod who becomes a victim of a test of the juggernaut program developed by the mysterious company now known as hypnos and i guess these three are friends now well we'll call them casual acquaintances later during a fight with a devi drummond guillemot evolves into growlmon unfortunately gilman being new to this digimon thing doesn't know how to d-ditch evolve but they solve it in the next episode eventually takado meets the mysterious man we have been seeing named yamaki who launches the completed juggernaut project to gather and delete all the digimon that came into the real world unfortunately this opens up a portal to the digital world and a giant tiger digimon mihiroman comes through and hypnos can't stop it whoops monkey

55:09 walks away from this realizing he

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