Digimon 02: Overlooked Sequel | Billiam

0:00 just a quick reminder before the video starts YouTube is still kind of being weird about notifying subscribers for when new videos are released so if you want to make sure you get every one of my videos please click the notification Bell down below or follow me on Instagram or Twitter thank you did you on the surface it's a Pokemon clone but once you dive deeper you discover it's actually a Tamagotchi clone but for boys Digimon style was influenced by cool things like Marvel comics but I think they took a little too much influence from Rob Liefeld look at this dinosaur with pecks the concept is simple enough you have digital pets digital monsters Digimon as you raise them you take care of them and they transform into bigger Digimon the anime adaptation Digimon

0:45 Adventure which really only existed to promote and sell a line of toys and video games took this simple concept and made a heartfelt story out of it seven kids on summer vacation are transported to a magical world the digital world while trying to survive in this new environment and get home they're each given a partner Digimon and a digivice which helps them to channel the bond between them and their Digimon the animation in this show sucks you probably start to notice it around the 78th time and attack animation is recycled in the same episode so characters are used as a crutch for the lack of exciting action as the kids grow up and develop their Digimon are able to reach stronger forms or digivolve eventually the kids take on the responsibility of digi destined to save

1:30 the digital world from evil it's flawed it's silly but it also grounds itself within its characters the original series holds a special place in my heart nostalgically but for some reason despite watching it on TV just as much I can't say the same for adventure oh to the sequel [Music] I think it's because there weren't as many home video releases so maybe not having access to it all the time resulted in less of a connection it's weird because as a kid I remember liking Oh to significantly more than the original but that's probably just because the main Digimon was blue and my favorite color was blue my critiquing

2:17 skills haven't grown up that much Adventure o2 has more animation than adventure it's not high quality animation but there's more of it just like how there's more characters they are high quality characters but there's more of them adventure Oh two takes place three years after the original show it's not Digimon Adventure 2 it's specifically o2 referencing 2002 the best year the year of blue if you're watching the English dub all the original kids are now in high school except for the younger ones TK and Karan for the most part the older kids are sidelined for the new team TK corioli Cody and Davis all of whom are introduced and reintroduced at a messy first two episodes there's a lot of exposition yet hardly any time is spent introducing the new kids to the world

3:04 0-2 aired only a week after the original series finished so the audience didn't have to be reintroduced to anything but hearing the new kids but out digital world jargon is odd because they haven't had anything explained to them yet the key narrative difference with the original is the fact that no one is trapped in the digital world the new team has given a new digivice called a d3 which can be used to open up gateways to the digital world from any computer so if the older kids have to catch a ride with the new ones usually one or two of the older kids will tag along so they're not completely absent just completely useless the D threes are an important plot point and tie-in to the show's primary villain the Digimon Emperor the first human villain in Digimon the emperor uses a dark Digivice

3:50 to take control of wild Digimon and block the original kids Digimon from transforming to higher power levels he amplifies this power throughout the digital world using dark cell phone towers called dark spires the new kids get around this through a new transformation by using power from digi eggs and the new digivices to equip their teaming with digi armor to armor digivolve into armored Digimon now that's branding on a sidenote did you mind adventure bread all of these cool transformer style toys where you take one Digimon and transform it into another Digimon Oh two had a similar line but instead it was just eggs which is lame the ability to go in and out of the digital world kind of eliminates the greater sense of adventure that a venture had there's no camping or scavenging for food they just go home to

4:35 their beds at the end of the episode there's less urgency and sometimes it's tedious they go out for a bit destroy a couple control spires maybe find a new digi egg rinse and repeat often it feels more like they're running errands rather than having this great adventure it's also hard to accept these new kids are automatically invested in what happens to the digital world they take on the objective to defeat the Emperor immediately an adventure their objective at first was self-serving they had to get home it was only later they took on the greater responsibility of protecting the digital world poor format aside when the show is on it's really strong we're soon introduced to Ken the real identity of the Digimon Emperor in episode 8 Davis plays a soccer game against Ken without knowing he's the Emperor I love

5:21 it dramatic irony but by the end of the episode Ken reveals his identity and runs away from home to live in the digital world getting rid of Ken's human world storyline makes this side of the story more of a weight onto the plot this could have been a great opportunity to build dramatic irony and differentiate the sequel from the original maybe Ken gets close to the team without them knowing he's the Emperor he could find out information about the kids lives and use it to his advantage but the only dramatic elements that come from the human world side of the story are the kids having to hide their Digimon from and find excuses to tell their parents when they've been spending time in the digital world at this point it's stale and a missed opportunity for something new still Ken is the most interesting villain from either of the series this is the first

6:08 human villain Digimon has had and it's also the first villain with death it's a lot more depth than a monkey doing an Elvis impersonation ohh-ho-ho I mean he kicks a puppy Ken's partner Digimon war mon tries to act as conscious and we get a sense that ken hasn't always been the puppy kicking type he's messing around with the darkness of the digital world which is something he really doesn't understand when he tries to make his own Digimon he ends up stealing data from devimon the first villain from the original series and a bit of a sore spot for TK TK is Digimon died in a battle with deaf Iman did you mana get reborn so don't worry about that so seeing Ken screw with devimon is the turning point it's one thing when four turtle jamie hyneman mom attacks the magic vampire but it's another feeling entirely when two kids are punching each other in the face when you can't think of anything to save you

6:54 always resort to fighting yes the scene where TK confronts Ken is so totally different from any other part of the show but that's why it works no other villain and digimon has ever doubted themselves their cartoon villains unable to question their moral alignment but Ken is human and able to change and when I say change I don't just mean the kitty cat turning into a scantily clad angel whose figure now costs $4,000 I mean character development Ken getting his ass kicked and losing his Digimon opens his eyes to all the dumb he's done we learned ken hasn't always kicked puppies but his turn the darkness began through his grieving after his older brother was hit by a car and died Digimon has always dealt with these heavier domestic family issues but having a character become a

7:40 villain and go through a Redemption arc as a result of their problems takes the concept to another level that's what a sequel should do ken is eventually brought into the team and becomes a corps member but all that development is throw out the window when they explain Ken just had an evil spore inside of him which made him evil because why have a complex character when magic before the video continues I just wanted to give a quick shout out to my new patrons on patreon who claimed the shout out reward tier so special thanks to both grimdark and Bobby Horan whose youtube link is in the description down below I'm also releasing a short review of the Digimon Adventure o to film the revenge of dia Boram on exclusive to patreon so

8:27 if you want to become a patron and support me there the link is in the description down below thank you to my existing patrons and on with the video Digimon Adventure o to spends its first 21 episodes dedicated to the Digimon Emperor Ark which eventually wraps up but not without distraction and there's a reason for that after adventure wrapped up two new creative directors were put in charge of the story replacing the original director who left to protest a sequel being made between their disagreements and studio meddling the show never found a clear direction after the Emperor storyline new storylines are introduced and dropped new antagonist come in and distract from developing plots and plot lines are introduced only to have a quick anti-climatic ending we eventually learned that someone has been

9:13 controlling Ken then we learned that person was controlled by somebody else before finally learning that myotismon the best known to villain from the first series was behind it all its inclusion feels tacked on and that's only because it was between it there are small moments where they attempt to recapture the emotional moments from the Emperor storyline and attempts to expand on the lore but it's ultimately lost amongst the rest of the mess the show ends with an epilogue which sees much of the cast pursuing out of character careers it left a bad taste in my mouth speaking of bad taste there are two major storylines which were dropped entirely the first was hinted at as early on as episode 13 we get a totally strange episode apart from the Emperor storyline where curry

9:59 is brought to this weird alternate dimension between both worlds called the dark ocean at the end of the episode we hear this sinister music as this dark giant silhouetted evil Cthulhu ass lookin Digimon rises out of the ocean this evil dark undersea master don't miss the upcoming Digimon digital monsters we have we never we never hear from it again Digimon wiki says it's dragoman wow this is so much cooler than what we ended up getting episode 13 also sees the return of the show's greatest villain the digi wrap the second drop storyline is Damon who shows up only a

10:46 few episodes before the series is over and is defeated a few episodes later filler within the final eight episodes Damon is defeated when it gets sent to the dark ocean two dropped plot lines resolve each other instead of myotismon Damon should have been the final villain and have been revealed to be devimon fully evolved Damon is in dev iman's evolutionary line and it would have bookend at the beginning of adventure with the end of o2 and had a nice little tie-in to the original series there are some nice nods to the original series which are nice and the plot of the Digimon film our war game is important to the new characters the new kids were chosen to be digidestined after witnessing the internet battle featured in our war game this also leads to

11:31 hundreds of digidestined around the world my favorite series of episode post Emperor and actually probably in the whole series is the Digimon World Tour this sees the old kids teaming up with the new kids and travelling across the world but I think maybe the reason I like this short saga so much is because it takes place over winter and all the characters are in cute winter clothes aesthetic we see new digidestined and get a chance to see the characters interact one-on-one and there are also some nice episodes which allow us to see how the original team has grown up over the years the quiet personal moments of Digimon are where the show shines however I like this arc because we got to spend time with the old cast and that's a problem the original show had this really simple plot so character was

12:16 always the focus but the convoluted nature of o2 makes it harder for the characters to develop because it's always changing direction TK is shown to have trauma but it never manifests itself in any thing but anger TK is the obvious choice for team leader but because Davis has goggles he's chosen despite being totally incompetent in a leadership position he's the least interesting character and a little khari like in the original series unfortunately never has time to grow the dragoman and dark ocean storylines seemed like it would be dedicated to her but her relationship to the dark ocean never manifests itself in anything other than her grabbing her head and screaming Yoli well I like Yoli she's fun but Cody

13:02 Cody is the worst let me rephrase that Cody is treated the worst he's the youngest member of the team his arc is him coming into his own and being seen as a valuable member in the original TK also had to prove himself as the youngest member but the difference is the reason why they had to do so TK's brother Matt was overprotective of him in adventure but everyone in a to the characters were supposed to like are just totally dismissive of Cody so his arc requires everyone else to be a jerk ken is the only character who's fleshed out and everyone else's development has to do with their relationship to him an adventure the kids were given crests representing a trait they best exemplified courage

13:47 friendship love etc which tied directly with their Digimon getting stronger the Digimon transforming was really symbolic of their own growth however in OH two most of the transformations are tied to the digi-egg so most transformations are earned through finding an object instead of character growth however to continue to make the old team completely useless it's revealed that they gave up their crests to protect the digital world in their absence this creates a few tiny massive plot holes but that's just a nitpicking so let's not really get into that I mean I don't mind when they make an exception to the rule the new kids get around this by dna'd is evolving which sees two of their Digimon combining into one

14:33 this should be tied into a big character moment but it actually helps create a big character moment when Ken and the team are still unsure about working together Ken and Davis's digimon come together to form I yield Ramon it's only then that they start to consider the possibility of Ken joining the team piled Ramon should have only been possible after they all forgave Ken it will have symbolized their coming together even later DNA digimon feel underwhelming and unearned it's just a result of the other kids deciding it's time to let their Digimon come together as for the new Digimon they serve the same purpose as they did in the original series they're either character complements or character contrasts for the human characters which works a lot better than having them be their own unique characters the new Digimon are armadillo mana of western armadillo Hawkman a hawk and v-mon whose

15:20 English voice sounds like Sid from Ice Age something about cocky human girl you make human boy Jack short a weird Digimon is known for its odd English dub and the dub is as dumb as ever the actors do a good job but moments in between drama and action have bad jokes stuffed inside them most of them miss but some actually had me laughing out loud is the story of the birds and the bees go later now's not the time what do you guys want to play how about strip tease unlike the original series dubbed dramatic moments are allowed to play out without added humor but the choice and sound effects will often be used to undermine the violence one thing Digimon has always been good about were references to Japan being kept in which is unusual for an English dub especially

16:06 for a children's show the show isn't afraid to call a doughnut a rice ball so I made you some rice balls for your trip these doughnuts are great I don't mind the dub so much this time around because the show is a lot more tedious this plot with a serious tone would just be boring there are a lot more pop punk songs featured in the dub all of which are on the Digimon movie soundtrack which would be the greatest film soundtrack in history if it were not for the digi rap and here's a little side note on the official DVD release of the English dub sometimes a TV rating stamp will appear in the corner I wouldn't be surprised if a clean version of the English dub just didn't exist there are blu-rays of the

16:52 Japanese dub available all of which have great quality but it's doubtful that there would ever be a new master of the English dub because Digimon has been relegated to a very niche thing the new characters just aren't nearly as strong as the original and they're still splitting screen time with the old cast who always steal my attention when they're on screen because that's who I care about I don't hate the new characters I enjoy watching them interact with the old cast and you know Ken but the show would have worked a lot better if more focus was put on to them or if they were just taken out entirely this show could have worked with the old cast while only introducing Ken as a new character this is a show based on characters and when the new characters don't add anything that's a problem Digimon Adventure has an ongoing sequel

17:37 film series called Digimon Adventure tri and within the first few minutes of the first film we learned the new characters introduced in Oh to have been defeated and are nowhere to be seen the older kids don't seem to miss them very much and much of the audience doesn't either if Digimon tri continues after its sixth movie run I'd like to see them return but it's not something I'm disappointed about did you find adventure o2 is such a mixed bag when it's on it's really strong but it's good moments are so far and few between once it gains momentum it quickly drops and interesting ideas are forgotten before they have time to develop even though it's cast as a whole isn't as strong as the original the more complex ideas are more interesting when the show is willing to explore them the cool thing about the Digimon anime series is despite the fact that this

18:23 really is just a glorified film and video game commercial the creative team behind it really cares and really tries Digimon Adventure OH - did it because people didn't care about it it failed because two creative directors fought for their own creative division and at the end of the day that's really cool so thank you for watching if you want to stay up to date and make sure you get every single video notification be sure to hit that notification bell and subscribe as well as follow me on Twitter and Instagram thank you for watching have a good day and I'll see you next week