I'm bored and figured we could have a Digimon thread. I got this idea from another board and thought I might bring some not so well known information both well known and not so well known in the process. For the sake the board, I won't include video games in this unless it's relevant with the anime.
So without further ado let's begin with the beginning. The very beginning.
The story of the Digital Monster has some of the most humblest of beginnings any franchise could have had. Tamagotchis were popular. Popular with girls. Bandai then decided to make the same for boys. The end.
Okay, there was a bit more to it than that, but the base concept of "Tamagotchi for boys" is essentially what kicked off the idea. The Digital Monster was born out of idea of the ever growing technological developments that were coming out of the mid-late 90s but the deeper outlook into that wouldn't come until much much later in the franchise. At it's core, the Digital Monster Virtual Pet, or V-Pet as it's known today was to feature cute monsters on a small screen, but eventually "evolved" to it's more harder and spikier look of it's monsters thanks to an influence of two factors, American design and one Kenji Watanabe,
Digimon as a franchise has no direct owner. There isn't a single man who came up with the idea or a coincidental meeting of two parties that usually comes with this kind of thing. It was a franchise truly and fully made by committe. However if there is one person to attribute to the creation of Digimon's "look" and modern iconography, it would be that of Kenji Watanabe, essentially the father of Digimon design. Watanabe was a big fan of American comic books and designed the idea of boys monster raising toy from something small and cute to something more big and cool. This led to the development of the first designed Digimon, no not Agumon, but Tyrannomon. (seen bottom right there on Watanabe's left)
Tyrannomon's general look and style essentially became the basis for what would become Digimon. Through his designs and the marketing of Bandai, Digimon was ready to be released to the world.
...
With the release of the Digital Monster V-Pet in June 1997, the serialization began of a promotional one-shot of a base concept of Digimon. This was the one-shot "C'mon Digimon: The capering monster BUN". This was actually the first introduction to Digimon in the public consciousness in a format other than toyetic. C'mon Digimon. It was first published in the '97 summer issue of Akamaru Jump along with other manga pilots at the time, one of them interestingly enough being the original one-shot of Naruto.
C'mon Digimon is VERY different from what would eventually come from the franchise. Even Digimon's origins showed a different face from what would come before and later much like the future animated entries. It was more typical to what would be considered a general "toyetic anime" today with a kid who gets a Digimon friend and fights against a bad guy who wants to defeat other Digimon.
Interestingly enough, despite being a one-shot, it has some of the emotional punching aspects that one would expect from a mainline series including a backstory for the main character, growing stronger from overcoming this and the general "bonding beats all" theme. It's an underrated story and any fan of Digimon should check it out just to see the humble beginnings of the story.
However, this would not be the last we saw of Digimon in manga and C'mon Digimon has far reaching aspects further in this franchise than you would expect
Please continue OP, I will be quietly lurking.
Following the release of one of the more final V-Pets as we knew them, serialization began on probably the most well-known Digimon manga, that being Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01. It ran in V-Jump for quite a long time. It began in November 21, 1998 and ran for a grand total of 58 chapters.
The main draw to the series that surprises many latecomers and even older fans that don't know is that the protagonist of V-Tamer is the character Taichi, that's right, Taichi, the protag of Adventure....
Or is he. Yes, an interesting aspect of V-Tamer is that it unknowingly continued the trend of Digimon to mess with it's own continuity and do things not so much the same as before. In this very early case, the character Taichi is an average boy who is into V-Pets. He cannot play in the official tournament but challenges the winner of the tourney, a boy named Neo Saiba, and their battle ends in a tie, an impossible occurance - something that is supposed to be impossible. Later, Taichi is summoned to the Digital World by a digimon called Lord HolyAngemon, and there he meets, in his V-Pet, Zeromaru the Veedramon. Lord HolyAngemon asks for Taichi to recover the five Tamer Tags and save the Digital World from the evil Digimon of the series Demon
Thanks dude
V-Tamer 01, created by Hiroshi Izawa has a lot of unique elements to it separate from what would come later. For starters, the Digimon have actual names given by their Tamers. Another is that while other Digimon enter the show, they enter over time and not all at once like what would eventually happen in later series. Most notably is how Taichi has a Vdramon instead of an Agumon and also Taichi's cape, something that fans have desired to return in some form in the future in the franchise. It also had a crossover between protagonists way before it happened in Xros Wars: The Boy Hunters who Lept Through Time as well. An interesting aspect about Taichi is that he was influenced by design and personality by the protagonist of C'mon Digimon, Kamon Kentarou
V-Tamer is very influential for what would become the Adventure universe of Digimon and influences the ideals not just held up by Adventure but the franchise in general. Of course, there is that it introduced the iconic goggles, but there is a lot of action, drama, high amounts of silliness and swerving villains. It's generally considered to be the best Digimon manga.
But beneath the manga is what would become the true face of what would be the Digimon franchise
silently lurking as well
keep going OP
>Two children receive a strange egg that hatches into their very first Digimon, leading to the night that would change their lives forever.
With the rising success of the V-Tamer 01 manga and the growth of Digimon from small V-Pet to full on video games (Digital Monster Ver. S was released for the Sega Saturn in September '98 and Digimon World 1 in January '99. Yes, Digimon World is older than Adventure), the time came for Bandai to consider a larger animated production.
Digimon Adventure, both the movie and the series, were in production for a while. Adventure got it's start in the desire by Bandai to have an anime to advertise the V-Pet but needed an idea behind it to grow the franchise. The manga, V-Tamer 01 was the base in which would become the Adventure movie and series. The now-known director, Mamoru Hosada was selected to direct this project due to his unique style as an artist for Toei. The writer for the film was Reiko Yoshida who is well known for writing many Digimon movies, as well as some known anime, a notable recent example being Girls und Panzer
>Reiko Yoshida who is well known for writing many Digimon movies, as well as some known anime, a notable recent example being Girls und Panzer
Guess that explains the fun
With a director at the helm and a writer, the stage was set to release Digimon Adventure: The Movie, a sort of pilot episode to what would become the TV series but is seen as a prequel today. It premiered Mar 6, 1999 at the Spring Anime Fair alongside Dr. Slump: Arale's Surprising Burn and, interestingly enough, the Toei "Season 0" Yu-Gi-Oh movie (Digimon sure seems to get some good luck with premieres).
The film was notably a major success, garnering attention in the brand than it already had and perfectly paving the way for the TV series which was actually set to premiere literally the next day! In truth, this was actually sort of a major gamble for Bandai to have the advertisement for the series essentially be part of a movie, but it worked very well.
The film follows a very different Taichi Yagami and his sister Hikari Yagami as they find a Digitama in coming out of their father's computer. The egg eventually hatches and becomes a Botamon, later Koromon and eventually a (much bigger than the one we would know) Agumon. Agumon begins running through the streets until a Parrotmon hatches from a giant egg in the sky. Agumon after some cover evolves into Greymon and with the help of Hikari's whistle beats back Parrotmon but vanishes in the process. Along with those two, it is seen that 6 other children were watching the event and this sealed their fates.
Digimon Adventure was short but got the job done. At the time and to this day, the most praised aspect of the film was it's unique style of high quality animation which would eventually put Mamoru Hosada on the map. The interest was there and audiences were ready. The time had finally come for the TV series to be rolled out.
Digimon Adventure premiered one day after the film on March 7, 1999. The story is known. 7 kids, Taichi (Tai), Yamato(Matt), Sora, Koushiro(Izzy), Mimi, Jou and Yamato's brother Takeru(TK) (along with Hikari, Kari, who was sick and couldn't come at the time but joined later) are having fun at summer camp. Meanwhile crazy weather events are happening all over the world but the kids don't care until it starts snowing. The 7 of them eventually encounter small devices which later come to be known as Digivices, are instantly swept away by a tidal wave and are carried to the Digital World. They all encounter a Digimon "partner" and the adventure to find a way home begins. With many twists and turns along the way.
The anime was directed by Hiroyuki Kakudō, the director of the first Yu-Gi-Oh anime and written by Satoru Nishizono. The artstyle for the kids was by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, notably the character designer of Dragon Ball, Z and GT which is only slightly apparent with close inspection. The series promoted the use of the "Digivice" V-Pet and became a notable success in the merchandise and TV ratings
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A few interesting factoids are that the idea of "evolving" was first initially used to supplant the Tamagotchis idea of "growing up" but following the movie, the idea of evolving became something more akin to becoming a giant monster in the vein of kaiju films. Hosada was a known fan of giant monster films which explains some of the choices made in the Adventure movie. This carried over into the anime series as the production wanted the fights to feel "important".
At the same time, this tied into the theme of the series of the human and monster being a team which became the basis for the notable character development the main cast go through over the series which has carried over to this day. Digimon became a very popular entry not just for younger viewers but notably appealed to older anime watchers as well due to it's depiction of serious issues and how children attempt to avoid or get past them
An interesting rumor that has never truly been confirmed, but would explain a lot of plot details, was that Adventure was initially scheduled to be 13 episodes but was extended to be twice that and then extended to past a full year due to success. Again, this has never been proven however it's a notable consideration
Digimon Adventure isn't the first to introduce the "goggle-head" but it did become the signiture item of the main characters in the series. Also introducing the lead fire Dgiimon, the "blue" rival, and the depiction of the evolutionary stages on the small screen.
Anyway, Adventure ran until March 26, 2000. With a merchandising machine this strong and an anime having notable popularity, the considerations for a sequel had been put in order but not before one more notable entry for Adventure.
>Tamagotchis were popular. Popular with girls
This is actually surprising for me. When tamagotchis were popular in my elementary, it seems like both genders like it equally.
Probably talking about in Japan specifically
Something I really forgot to mention was the extremely quick turnaround in dubbing for Digimon Adventure. Adventure premiered in Japan in March of 1999 and premiered in America just 5 months later in August. It's widely believed that Fox Kids wanted their own show to compete with 4Kids' rising Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh franchises and believed Digimon to be it. They worked very aggressively to have the rights and have a close release which continued through to Frontier
To date, Digimon Adventure is among the quickest a Toei anime series was dubbed in English. It's especially notable because of how notorious Toei would be in regards to having licenses be sent overseas
>V-Tamer started before Digimon Adventure
Wow, didn't know that! Thanks, user.
But wait, didn't Ryo (the one with Cyberdramon) makes an appearance? That's very early appearance, considering Tamer was what, 2001?
i remember how much i loved V-Tamer 01 the first time i saw it
Okay so, you have a merchandising line, a popular anime and a known name on two sides of the globe. What do you do next? Yeah of course, a movie
But Our War Game wasn't just any movie
Bokura no War Game is a very important entry for the Digimon franchise as it essentially kickstarted a lot of careers at once as well as became THE reason a sequel was considered viable (though they were already in production of it midway through Adventure). Once again, directed by Mamoru Hosada and written by Reiko Yoshida, this movie essentially put the two of them on the Japanese animation map for good and essentially proved that Digimon Adventure The Movie was not an accident.
Released in March 4, 2000, the story is actually set after the events of the series even though the series hadn't been finished at the time. A rogue Digimon rapidly begins consuming data and evolves into Diablomon eventually becoming so powerful he threatens to launch missles at any point in the world Metal Gear?! The film follows Taichi and Koushiro with Yamato and Takeru joining in later struggling to fight against the monster, trying to reach their friends and essentially saving the world
Ryo is originally from the Wonderswan games. His entry in V-Tamer and Tamers is considered fanservice and justified by dimensional shenanigans
>Ryo is originally from the Wonderswan games
I hope you'll be covering the games, or at least a quick history of Ryo once he had his 'proper' appearance in Tamers.
Ryo's appearance in V-Tamer was in 2002, after his debut in Tamers.
V-Tamer was a very long running series. It started before Adventure and ended after Frontier.
The film was inspired by the 1983 film WarGames ("A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" Love that movie). It features the kids fighting against a super electronic threat that threatens to blow up stuff and only the children have the means to stop it.
Our War Game is infamous for being haphazardly cut into "Digimon The Movie" the American release which consisted of Digimon Adventure, Our War Game and the very first 02 film. As they were three separate movies, trying to tie them into one plotline created a few plot holes and story writearounds that are infamous today.
Another infamous aspect is the dialogue of the film regarding certain characters' romantic aspirations on both sides of the seaboard. In an interview from years after the film, Hosada directed Our War Game with the belief that Taichi and Sora were to eventually become a couple in the sequel. Which created some notable discrepancies. On the flipside, certain lines of dialogue were changed in the traditional dubbing fashion but also to put certain things in the movie in a slightly more relationship'ed light seriously fuck you Nimoy
Our War Game also introduces Jogress for the first time, the official term for Digimon fusing into one. WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon, the final forms of Agumon and Gabumon Jogress into Omegamon, the event of which would go on to create many larger aspects to the lore and to future elements of the series which can still be felt today.
The movie was a great success and is still considered among the best of the movies. So with the movie finishing it's run, it was time for the next installment. An "interesting" story to say the least
And I suppose it should be mentioned, Hosada did direct Summer Wars. If you didn't know that already, you probably get why they feel so similar now
I think I'm gonna need to do a whole separate part on Ryo, fucking hell that guy
>It started before Adventure and ended after Frontier.
Oh, when he said 58 chapters, I assumed it was weekly.
>Our War Game also introduces Jogress for the first time
The concept maybe. When the writers officially introduces Jogress, they go out of their way to exclude Omegamon as one to make it more special.
>spoiler
What did Nimoy do? I avoided digimon shipping like a plague
Seems like he played up a lot of Taichi and Sora ship tease that wasn't really there in the Japanese version.
In short, Ryo was chosen by a multi-dimensional Digimon god to be his Tamer. So if you see him everywhere, don't be surprise
Nimoy loves shipping.
that sound mary sue as shit
so do the fans so I guess its okay? After all
growing up is part of the whole digimon thing
>Mimi/Joe
Too bad Tri sunk that one.
Digimon Adventure 02 is the direct sequel to Digimon Adventure. Premiering April 2, 2000, it began right after Adventure finished and took place 3 years after it's predecessor.
Three years after the events chronicled in Digimon Adventure, the Digital World is in trouble again. But this time, its source of trouble is not an evil Digimon but rather a human boy who wishes to take over the Digital World in some kind of game. Three new Chosen Children, along with veteran Chosen Takeru and Hikari, are called to save the Digital World from this threat using new forms of evolution, trying to live a normal life in the Real World at the same time. Eventually the story takes a far darker and more complicated turn as certain truths become known and things do not appear as they seem under the surface
02 was once again directed by Hiroyuki Kakudō but was not written by Nishizono. In fact, in a very interesting note regarding staffing, 02 unusually had two writers, Atsushi Maekawa and Genki Yoshimura as well as way more screenwriters than Adventure. The name of the game regarding merch was the D3 Digivice V-Pet as well as the D-Pad which resembled the Wonderswan gaming device
He was notable for adding much more dialogue to Adventure and 02 to put things in a more relationship context than in the original dialogue, infamously the "You've really grown up" scene in 02
>so do the fans so I guess its okay?
Not when you go out of your way and edit things for your ship.
>D3 Digivice V-Pet as well as the D-Pad which resembled the Wonderswan gaming device
Hah.
to explain Ryo, you would need to go into games right?
Wait, really? Oh man, I liked that.
Digimon Adventure 02 structurally is a very different series than Adventure. It is a more episodic series and feels more like a story of balancing fighting and daily life. Over time the story becomes very complicated with a multitude of subplots, much more than in Adventure. One of which is regarding the character of Ken Ichijouji who goes through a notable character arc over the course of the show.
02 is a very complicated series on both sides of the ocean. 02 started with comparable ratings with it's predecessor but 23% less of the broadcast episodes made the top 10, though the episodes that did make it had roughly the same viewership average. Notable holes in the top 10 include most of the end of the Digimon Kaiser arc (ep19-23) and most of the BlackWarGreymon arc, all of the World Tour arc and some of the generic battles (ep29-32,34-44,46-47). On the flipside, in the West it's very notorious for it's epilogue and final episode in general due to its content.
It's very widely believed that Toei were very aware that they would need to start with a new series so they wanted to create a sense of finality to the Adventure universe.
On another note, 02 was when the late Wada Kouji became officially considered as the fan term of "Digital Music King" as following the extremely well-recieved song "Butter-fly" and "Seven", he was brought on again to sing the opening song for 02 "Target ~Akai Shōgeki~".
Yes
02 was also followed with the sound novels Digimon Adventure 02: Armor Evolution to the Unknown, Digimon Adventure 02 Drama CD: The Door to Summer (pic related), and Digimon Adventure 02 Original Story: 2003 -Spring-. The Door to Summer is especially known for being particularly tragic for Daisuke and features Willis
02 came and went. The Adventure universe was no longer touched as part of the series until many years later. That said, there is one more entry to Digimon that should be brought up in regards to 02.
(Gonna take a quick break see you in about half an hour)
It's weird since they're laying on the Mimi/Koushirou ship tease, but the 02 finale sunk that, too.
>On the flipside, in the West it's very notorious for it's epilogue and final episode in general due to its content
What are the reactions to the epilogue in the East?
RIP natchan ;_;
02 finale is just sinking of all ships except for Ken/Yolei. Tri is just playing with shippers' hearts.
Basically 02 is shit
I wanna fuck renamon
Now that I think about it, didn't Ken/Yolei happen because their Japanese VAs get along really well?
Good thread, OP.
Why did you make post solely for the 02 CD dramas but never mention the Adventure ones or novel?
>What are the reactions to the epilogue in the East?
From what I remember, there isn't much of one. But I know what the general reaction to 02 is in the East, if that popularity poll with nobody picking 02 characters was anything to go by
Given that Tri killed them off in a montage at the start of the series then inserted a Yoko clone anyways makes me suspicious.
Fuck off digifaggots
Nowadays I swear they just kind of look like mecha creatures
go back to watching your faggot kid and his retarded sparkling rodent suffer from sudden amnesia every other month and fail at everything they do
They didn't care much. They didn't get vocally upset but they didn't get overjoyed either.
>Well this happened and is canon. Ok.
Defensive
DIGI
FAGGOT
Pokemon is better but still shit, kill yourself and hope you are reborn in the digital world you faaaaaaaaaaaaaag
>Nowadays I swear they just kind of look like mecha creatures
Completely intentional
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This is a D-Pad, which is the item resembling the Wonderswan.
Also OP is my hero. I've repurchased my favorite digivice from my childhood and it's arriving tomorrow, so I'm amped to read through this thread right now.
>Our War Game is infamous for being haphazardly cut into "Digimon The Movie" the American release which consisted of Digimon Adventure, Our War Game and the very first 02 film. As they were three separate movies, trying to tie them into one plotline created a few plot holes and story writearounds that are infamous today.
as a on american fan who never watched this movie but watched the three movies properly dubbed from japanese, can you elaborate about those plotholes?
i love those american plots gimmicks a là Robotech
I want a pokemon v. digimon crossover where Ash just throws a pokeball at a digimon and it doesn't know what the fuck is going on so it gets caught.
Then they have to team up with Ash throwing the ball and the tamer doing the evolutions to win.
>D-Pad
You mean D-Terminal.
Digimon is dead and buried because it was shit
>American design
Citation needed.
>dead and burried
>still creating new shows and merchandise
OK. In that regard, Pokemon is dead too.
What does this say?
>Tachikawa
>Keisuke
>Satoe
>Mimi
It is Mimi's family name plate.
>That RustTyranomon
So fucking cool, he needs to make more Digimon
But who is the yellow digimon above the Rusttyranomon's sheet?
If I recall this plate name also in Adventure TV.
Okay I'm back
I wanted to mention the two 02 movies as they are slightly of importantance. The first movie was Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Touchdown Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals. It followed the story of the 02 children vacationing in America meeting another child named Wallace (I called him Willis earlier, I'm so sorry) who is on the run from a Wendimon/Andiramon/Cherubimon as it evolves. Wallace has a strange connection to this Digimon as it is revealed it was once Chocomon and was twins with another of his Digimon. The children have to help Wallace escape and defeat Cherubimon. As a side plot the older Adventure children are caught in a dimensional prison and slowly are changed into children until they vanish, though the 02 kids don't know about this.
I totally forgot. There was some other stuff I meant to say about AiM and Ayumi Miyazaki that I forgot too. I'll do some extra at the end.
t. Pokefaggot
>I wanted to mention the two 02 movies as they are slightly of importantance
That's a laugh.
The movie notably introduces the Golden Digimentals which show up in the TV series as a tie-in to the eventual movie. Hurricane Touchdown is again infamous in the dub for being halfhazardly thrown in with the previous Adventure movies into one film in the American dub, notably the subplot with Wallace carries through all three films even though they didn't. A major issue with this comes from how the flashback of Wallace as a child has nothing to do with Diablomon but it appears as if he is taking over his Chocomon which would cause some confusion considering the second 02 movie, Revenge of Diabolomon which introduces Imperialdramon: Paladin Mode and Diabolomon's further Evolution, Armageddmon. Another strange change was the removal of the entire subplot with the Adventure kids, most likely cut for time constraints.
Another strange plothole from tying the movie together is that we see that Daisuke, Miyako and iori witnessed the Diaboromon event during Our War Game but didn't recognize Digimon both in the show or this movie with the dub indicating there was a virus, though given that 02 had an issue with the fact that nobody seemed to remember Digimon as a whole, this could just be an issue with 02's many problems in general
So 02 has come and went. It was an interesting ride but was an indication of the need for new blood in the franchise. And deep in the shadows of 02's writing staff, one man was coming forward to be the driving force of one of the most well known Digimon series
Wish granted
American comic books, see the thing about Watanabe
Different one.
An American Chosen Child named Wallace (JP)/Willis (ENG) ended up with two Digimon partners for some reason. In the Japanese version, he had no connection to Our War Game, but in the English version, he apparently tried to create more Digimon, and the one he tried to make turned into Kuramon, who became Diablomom. This somehow corrupted one of his actual Digimon, Kokomon.
I can't wait until OP touches on Frontier. I'm the only person in the entire world who really liked Frontier.
I remember coming from the movie theater absolutely pumped after our war game.
Good times.
Just post all this in a pastebin and link it
I remember how popular Kids in America was.
Stop being a buzzkill
I liked it okay.
Sell it to me anons. What can I compare it to?
>To date, Digimon Adventure is among the quickest a Toei anime series was dubbed in English
Wow, this is pretty interesting.
Sorry user? I am not sure what I did.
Power rangers
Lighting rescue?
Also that is not a very good sale.
Digimon without partners. Unfortunately cut short due to poor reception.
I personally loved that they integrated a lot of the lore surrounding the 10 Legendary Warriors into the show, moreso than any other digimon series.
Ahh thanks user!
Sorry is the best I can do, I thought it was terrible.
It even has the classic green ranger story where he is evil and then he is good
thanks a lot for the deliver OP
why american companies do shit like that? i never can come op with those kind of localization and OST replacement they usually do
keep doing Gods work OP, feels good having a comfy thread like this
Ill keep silently lurking, as I stated in my first reply
Many "Adventure" drama cds were actually released post 02.
Confusion, but still acceptance. They did ask why certain couples (which pissed off Kakudou) and careers were chosen.
Fun fact none of the canon ever polled it into the top ten couples of either season for the Nips.
So did 02 and Data Squad. It's a common trope in shonen superhero shows.
But here is done 1:1
Yep, just like 02. And Data Squad.
Nope.
>
The past animated series' anthropomorphized digimon had the effect of being loved by children and gaining much popularity. However, if this double-edged trend continues, the monster-like spirit of Digimon (who evolve in order to fight) will be lessened, and the catharsis gained from the battle will be harder to gain.
>In this third series, I would like to rethink what it is to be a digimon, and continue only the good traditions started in the previous series.
-Chiaki J. Konaka
The idea of the Digimon entries doing something different had been around since the beginning of the franchise but in the world of the TV anime, the idea of a singular continuity was solely thought to be to Adventure. There were two entries, two shows and one was a sequel to another.
Then everything changed when the Konaka attacked.
Before we begin the story of Tamers, it's very important that the writer, Konaka, be understood for his role in the production process because without him, Tamers would not be the way that it is. Chiaki J. Konaka is was a known writer in the anime industry before he worked on Tamers. His credits included the OVA of Birdy the Mighty, The Big O and most importantly, Serial Experiments Lain. Lain especially was a big driving force in his development of Digimon Tamers. Also, Texhnolyze.
Konaka's much more famously, or perhaps infamously known for writing episode 13 of Digimon Adventure 02 in which Hikari is called to the Dark Ocean by Dagomon and his minions. The episode is very dark for Digimon standards and quite creepy at that as well. Anybody who has watched that episode knows how odd it fits in with the rest of 02 especially since the Dark Ocean is only brought up again once later and not nearly it's effect.
So as you can see already, Tamers was already being made by a man who from inception was quite an odd, yet perfect, addition to have on this franchise at the time.
>Unfortunately cut short
It didn't get cut short it ran a full year
I thought Frontier was slated to have a few more episodes than the number that actually aired. Then again, this is something Jr. High me remembers, and I definitely trust you, Mr. OP, over Jr. High me.
I liked it too, I was surprised to find out it was apparently very disliked
post the site where you are stealing this already
Frontier was garbage compared to tamers that's why
Compared to everything