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United States1433 Posts
I haven't made a new blog post in awhile, but something from childhood's past has stung me right in the heart.
What a great tv show Digimon is, isn't it? Who could forget such cool characters like Ty, T.K., Mimi, Joe, and more characters. I surprisingly remember more of the digimons' names than the human characters themselves. Something sad happened along the way though.
I was quickly zipping through the original series on Youtube and then I hit a roadblock at episode 52. The series had ended, and with possibly one of the most saddest episodes in the series with a man who was stuck in eternity in some fantasy land which was an accumulation of toys, every hint of color mixed up, and other such nonsense all because of a failed attempt to get to the land the Digimon resided in. He tried to force the kids to stay and try to bring him to the land of the Digi, but good prevailed and he was left for eternity in his land of nothingness. His last words were something like "No, don't leave me here! Take me with you! Ahhhhh!" The episode continues to haunt me to this day wondering where his source of food came from keeping in mind he'd been stuck there since the series began....
Then I saw the direct sequel to the 1st series, except this wasn't one of those deals where they followed the main characters where they were more grown up. Instead they went to a new, younger group, and only 2 of the younger characters from the 1st series were in this new group. As you can expect, my soul was crushed.
Then the spin off shows succeeding the 2nd series just kept getting worse. The 3rd and 4th series had the same "venture throughout digiland, meet new monsters and bosses" deal, but completely scrapped the original cast with completely new characters. The sting was greater than ever this time, almost beyond disrepair to have me lead a normal life.
The franchise began multiple spin off shows each one more and more different. Take "Digimon Data Squad" for example where the story focuses primarily on 1 character who has a watch encasing his awesome agumon who can't even talk so there's no emotional connection to speak of. He goes out capturing those rogue Digimon with his watch thing which he mysteriously gets because of so and so and fits the typical "goofball discovers humongous power, gets responsibility in this new organization, faces lots of evil, and comedic humor ensues" archetype in anime.
I've since gotten over that, and with much difficulty have restored myself to my former self, no longer obsessed with small tiffs about the Digi world, and thinking realistically. I thought "Of course the creators needed a fresh new cast of characters, new ideas, and new reboots of the series!" If they had tried to carry on 10 seasons with just the cast from series 1 the whole thing would've collapsed into a million bricks.
If it did happen though, I'm thinking to myself the potential of seeing them go from middle school to adulthood in no time with their digimon growing ever so mature and becoming seasoned veterans. Except in the pilot episode one of the digimon of the heroes would be corrupted by a new state of the art virus causing it to go rogue wanting to kill Digimon by sight. Sadly, this forces the other Digimon heroes to put down this former friend, but now ravenous rogue digimon, but at the cost of the former digiwielders' sanity from the fact he had just lost one of his closest friends.
Just thought I'd share something that's been bothering me for a long time. As a youngster I had trouble trying to accept these facts, but there they were, and they could not be denied. I still have similar problems with Pokemon, especially with the ultimate Ask Ketchum, Misty, and Brock trio splitting up and only making cameo appearances from time to time.
On another note with shows that painfully had to be cancelled, I agree that some shows like MONK and The Office (US version) should have been cancelled since alot of the former gusto and ideas had started running out. I think for The Office the departure of Steve Carell may have hastened the cancellation of The Office. I'm not entirely sure, just a theory of mine. I still don't know if Fox is going to finally stop ordering new seasons of The Simpsons, but that's really up to the ratings.
Thanks for reading this "short" tangent on Digimon, and tv shows' lasting luster, which the Simpsons in my opinion has run out of mostly.
 
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honestly, digimon was always terrible.
if feel you tho. some of the new simpsons episodes are painfully stupid,
and the pokemon trio splitting up also broke my little heart as a child.
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You should realize that you were young when you first saw Digimon and at that time you see anime with different eyes. Now you have childhood memories which make you believe the original season was awesome while you see the sequels in a more realistic light.
Digimon has never been a very good anime. Maybe not the worst, but surely nothing special either. I liked it back then, but I certainly wouldn't watch it nowadays. Additionally, sequels rarely are good in the world of anime. If it wasn't part of the original story arc right from the start, chances are the sequel is forced because the first season was successful.
The whole concept of powerful friends helping out kids, especially boys, is as old as anime itself, anyways.
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Digimon to me was a stomping ground for Pokemon fans. It was a complete joke.
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I never got into Digimon. Pokemon was always superior for me. It had a better time slot (was on right when little kids got out of school in the afternoon) and so, though I thought Digimon was kind of cool, I only ever saw a few episodes of it compared to Pokemon, which I watched every day. Pokemon just had better marketing what with the anime, trading card game, and video games to work with. Why did they ever split up the original 3? Everyone loved them!
I don't even know if Digimon has cards to play with.
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Lol at all these guys. Newsflash: All animes are pretty bad. It's a kids show. Enjoy the nostalgia or don't watch it, but don't pretend like you're sophisticated for watching Pokemon or Naruto or some such shit.
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Your thing about a man stuck in a fantasy land sounds like the end to season 2, but you said it is for season 1. Can you link to a video to that? I thought the end of season 1 was about the dark masters.
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United States1654 Posts
I loved Digimon and Pokemon equally growing up, but I liked the Digimon characters better. I also liked (at the time) that Digimon seemed to have an awesome overall story whereas Pokemon mostly involved episodic encounters.
On July 15 2013 08:38 Jerubaal wrote:
Lol at all these guys. Newsflash: All animes are pretty bad. It's a kids show. Enjoy the nostalgia or don't watch it, but don't pretend like you're sophisticated for watching Pokemon or Naruto or some such shit.
I don't think anyone here is pretending they're sophisticated lol. And maybe you should actually watch some anime that aren't targeted at kids before generalizing that they're all bad.
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On July 15 2013 08:38 Jerubaal wrote:
Lol at all these guys. Newsflash: All animes are pretty bad. It's a kids show. Enjoy the nostalgia or don't watch it, but don't pretend like you're sophisticated for watching Pokemon or Naruto or some such shit.
Yes ma'am, mother from the last century. Every animation is made for kids and can't be for grown ups at all. Thanks for the lesson. Hollywood is where it's at.
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Wait, didn't like the third one? That's usually the favourite, or at least it's a debate between 1st and 3rd.
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dragonball Z all the way...
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On July 15 2013 08:38 Jerubaal wrote:
Lol at all these guys. Newsflash: All animes are pretty bad. It's a kids show. Enjoy the nostalgia or don't watch it, but don't pretend like you're sophisticated for watching Pokemon or Naruto or some such shit.
=.=, I fail to see how shingeki no kyojin(attack on titan) was made for kids...let alone numerous other animes like Basilisk or Black Butler.
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On July 15 2013 08:38 Jerubaal wrote:
Lol at all these guys. Newsflash: All animes are pretty bad. It's a kids show. Enjoy the nostalgia or don't watch it, but don't pretend like you're sophisticated for watching Pokemon or Naruto or some such shit.
Anime is a medium. There is good stuff and bad stuff just like in any other medium.
Saying "all animes are pretty bad" is like saying "all hollywood movies are magnificent".
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The first Digimon season is still awesome, even when you have grown up.
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Sounds like a typical case of nostalgia goggles.
Oh and Digimon > Pokemon.
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On July 15 2013 05:48 Paljas wrote:
honestly, digimon was always terrible.
if feel you tho. some of the new simpsons episodes are painfully stupid,
and the pokemon trio splitting up also broke my little heart as a child.
FML i only re watched this about 3 months ago, fuck me still got me  Such a end of childhood moment right there haha.
Pokemon being rinsed = silly, the movies aren't "that" bad though
The Simpsons = I watched like all 350 episodes, then after that they got god awful
Digimon, i totally agree, that as a child was awesome, rewatch season 1 like every year as i have it on my HDD, it is the best series, i tried to watch that "data squad" stuff and got bored terribly quickly.
On July 15 2013 09:01 aegisabcde wrote:
Your thing about a man stuck in a fantasy land sounds like the end to season 2, but you said it is for season 1. Can you link to a video to that? I thought the end of season 1 was about the dark masters.
Yeah this? Last episode for me was Piedmon dieing to MagnaAngemon after TK finally became responsible or something after everyone else was made into a puppet? Or key chain thing i forget xD
After that, it seemed to have just been a "goodbye" episode after or something? Kids get sent back or wake up somewhere and Digimon are gone?
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United States1433 Posts
On July 15 2013 09:01 aegisabcde wrote:
Your thing about a man stuck in a fantasy land sounds like the end to season 2, but you said it is for season 1. Can you link to a video to that? I thought the end of season 1 was about the dark masters.
Sorry about that mistake. It's been 3 years so everything I may have said in my blog post may not have been accurate.
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United States1433 Posts
On July 15 2013 12:36 FromShouri wrote:Show nested quote +On July 15 2013 08:38 Jerubaal wrote:
Lol at all these guys. Newsflash: All animes are pretty bad. It's a kids show. Enjoy the nostalgia or don't watch it, but don't pretend like you're sophisticated for watching Pokemon or Naruto or some such shit. =.=, I fail to see how shingeki no kyojin(attack on titan) was made for kids...let alone numerous other animes like Basilisk or Black Butler.
I am actually watching Attack on Titan right now and am absolutely in love with that anime. I can't wait for more episodes to come out.
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