Does digimon tamers hold up?

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It's on Hulu so I'm about to find out.

Calumon's voice is a little annoying. When he's just talking it's fine but the shouting, screaming, and noises are a bit much.

Graphics are a bit hit or miss. Some scenes look great, others look really odd. But that might be watching something made for 30" crt screens on a 65" HDTV.

I like that takato made an old school Mary sue for his digimon. "Even though he is a rookie he will have the strongest attack" really sells the over zealous fan vibe.

Rika and Renemon are great.

The government people are cool and mysterious.

I do appreciate that the kids look like kids. A lot of anime have middle schoolers looking more like teens than adults.

Henry and terriormon are good characters.

"He's all mine" dude even in the show you are a fan of digimon were partners not pets. Maybe dont jump to conclusions like that.

Aww baby Guilmon is adorable. At least until he explodes a rat.

Careful around the baby dragon thing.

Wait is that Davis narrating? Is a character from a TV show watching a TV show about a guy who watches his TV show?

Overall not bad. I do remember the series starting slow and getting better around the time the zodiac digimon start appearing. But it looks like that is about 13 episodes away.
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I remember rewatching Digimon series 1-3 & watching 4-5 for the first time (didn't air in the UK for some reason) about....12 years ago now, jesus christ. 3/tamers was great and my favourite, although series 2 was my favourite growing up.

Also series 4 ( Digimon Frontier ) was surprisingly good, although I thought series 5 (digimon data squad) was rather crap, but I forced myself to watch it to the end. Digimon Fusion was also good, and I've never gotten around to watching the movies which didn't have a western release.
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Episode 2. More baby Guilmon. You should probably tell your parents you brought a giant explosion breathing dinosaur inside their house and place of business that they may or may not be renting.

That said Guilmon is too adorable. Takatomon!
Dad wants a dog. Or sex. I thought it sounded more like he wanted to make another baby, but the mom just jumped straight into the no pets allowed argument.

God Renamon's voice actress is fantastic.

Calumon has to stop scaring all his new friends away. Although I do like how barbaric it makes the digital world sound in this world where in the forst series it seemed to be more civilized. They even found things like food carts and restaraunts iirc.

I dont remember them ever saying, but was there a reason they couldn't just digimodify like 50 different times every fight? Instead of just one or two?

Even angry Guilmon is adorable.

I vaguely remember downloading digimon was a bad thing, but it doesn't look cool.

Takatomon, he is a sentient baby dinosaur, you can't just leave him in a crappy box in a back alley all day. No wonder your mom says no pets. You are too irresponsible.

I in a box. God he's great. Stupid principal, he's too cute to be a monster.

No this isn't on Guilmon. You are a bad babysitter takatomon.

More Henry, I remember liking him growing up.

Terriormon tells it like it is.

Dude... you got a digitize and created a digimon put of notebook paper. I dont think someone else was supposed to partner with him.

I need a new box.

Renamon used suckerpunch!

OHJOY90 posted...
I remember rewatching Digimon series 1-3 & watching 4-5 for the first time (didn't air in the UK for some reason) about....12 years ago now, jesus christ. 3/tamers was great and my favourite, although series 2 was my favourite growing up.

Also series 4 ( Digimon Frontier ) was surprisingly good, although I thought series 5 (digimon data squad) was rather crap, but I forced myself to watch it to the end. Digimon Fusion was also good, and I've never gotten around to watching the movies which didn't have a western release.
I remember liking 1-3 and not liking that they were their own digimon for season 4. I've heard good things about the story, but the few times I tried to watch it, I just couldn't get past that gimmick.

Conversely I remember checking out the first few episodes of data squad and thinking it looked interesting, but at the time I didn't have a good way of keeping up with the episodes and dropped it. And while I do generally like the dubbed versions of digimon that one specifically I remember thinking was massively better as a sub. I dont remember the specific reason I thought that, I just remember hating the English version when I tried to watch it on Disney a few years later. I never saw fusion.

Anime
Digimon Adventure / Season 1
Digimon Adventure 02 / Season 2
Digimon Tamers / Season 3
Digimon Frontier / Season 4
Digimon Data Squad (Savers)
Digimon Fusion (Xros Wars)
Digimon Adventure tri.
Digimon Universe App Monsters
Digimon Adventure 20th Memorial Story
Digimon Adventure:
Digimon Ghost Game
Movies
Digimon Adventure
Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!
Digimon Adventure 3D: Digimon Grandprix!
Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Landing!!/Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals
Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon
Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers
Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon
Digimon Frontier: Island of Lost Digimon
Digital Monster X-Evolution
Digimon Savers 3D: The Digital World in Imminent Danger!
Digimon Savers the Movie: Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!
Digimon Adventure tri.
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning

According to this list, I haven't seen most of the movies, and tri has been on my watch list for a while, but I had never got around to watching it, so I am way behind on my digimon media. I haven't even heard of a few of these series. Although the ghost game one sounds interesting. It's listed as a horror genre series. I might have to look into that one.
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Eh one more episode before bed.

Uh Rika? Are you ok? They are sentient creatures, you could maybe ask them if they want to fight instead of just saying that's all they are good for.

The fight itself is pretty neat.

Henry to the rescue withTerriormon again telling it like it is. Henry actually knows what's up. I wonder if he and terriormon have movie nights or play video games together or something.

Momentai

God Guilmon is adorable.

Dude she like 12 and your like 16. Don't hit on her. It's creepy as fuck.

Rika is mean. Luckily renamon is so awesome.

The government guys are back.
I need to look up who voi es the teacher. She sounds so familiar.

Jerry is a bit of a weirdo, but she's OK. It seems the boys are still in the girls have cooties phase.

Yes hide the dinosaur in plain sight. You'd think someone would notice it's not a costume.

Let's disintegrate a few cars.

If your whole purpose is to fight Digimon why would you care that terriormon got in the way?

A Digimon with machine gun hands he can't control, thay should end well.

Let's end today with Rika getting a panic attack. I'm tired.
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I remember seeing a few episodes of the show back in the day, though I was never really watching it regularly.

The only thing I really remember from it is also something I can't really mention because it's a HUGE spoiler.
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slacker03150 posted...
I need to look up who voi es the teacher. She sounds so familiar.

She's the same VO who played Kari in Series 1 & 2, which is a reference to the fact that Kari said she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up.
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Lara is one of my favorite English VA's; was pleasantly surprised to hear her in Kingdom Hearts III.

I liked the first two shows, but only watched a few episodes of Tamers. I should get into that.
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OHJOY90 posted...
She's the same VO who played Kari in Series 1 & 2, which is a reference to the fact that Kari said she wanted to be a teacher when she grew up.
That might be it, but more recently she was libby in the ghost and molly mcgee. Great show. Amazing finale. It's cool that they got Kari and Davis back back. Apparently guilmon is blackwargreymon. One of the scientists is biyomon and yolei.

Oh well enough for now, on to the next episode.

I forgot about that. They somehow decided that to de-digivolve you have to perform a handstand for an unspecified amount of time. And it has to work because you can't take him home if it doesn't? That doesn't explain why standing on their heads should work.

Guilmon is adorable as always.

Damn it's dark now and he is still standing on his head? Did you just decide to let him do it for hours without trying something else or did you go back to it after other things didnt work? Isnt there a deevolution digimodify card?

Come on Henry momentai, he only almost shot a girl. This is America, that kind of thing happens. Oh wait, no this is japan.

Rika is an asshole.

The government people suck at their jobs, not entirely sure what job that is but they haven't stopped a single one from coming into the real world yet.

I wonder if Digimon in this world came from the games and shows being made or if the show and game were made after someone encountered the digital world, or is this just two parallel worlds close enough to influence each other?

Takato is at a disadvantage. Henry can carry guilmon, Renamon can stay close to rika unseen, but Guilmon has to stay in the park alone while Takato walks around without him and needs to find a way to get to him when he is needed. What would he do if the digimon was after him and not Henry?

Oh wow takato and guilmon returned fast. +1 for those 15 minutes cities.

magilla gorilla has a vendetta. Although if I was a giant champion Digimon beat up by a terriormon I'd be embarrassed as well.

Omg guilmon proud of landing in a handstand is too cute.

Henry the pacifist. So gorillamon is jealous Henry didn't pick him?

Henry seems to know a lot about Digimon without any real reasons to know what he does. What the game didn't close? It's not a computer glitch, there is a whole universe I'm seeing into via my computer. The Digimon he beats turn into sparkles and fly at him? He's absorbing their data! Between this and him finding out how to de digivolve I'm thinking Henry has some kind of connection to the digital world.

The digivolution scenes are pretty great though.

Yes Henry it's all your fault an animal with machine gun hands likes to shoot things, not his body having machine guns for hands. And even then gorillamon still needs to be beaten, him attacking a violent enemy doesn't means he's a bad guy.

Henry's dad coming in with the real wisdom and more knowledge about Digimon than any parent should have. I dont remember but I think he might be one of the government guys, but if that's the case I'm curious why he got his son into Digimon as a hobby. Seems dangerous.

All those video game characters were real? I've killed hundreds of people!

Do the dance terriormon! Do the dance! Aww no dance. And this is where they randomly decide not absorbing the data is somehow more moral because they might go back to the others idea with no proof that it does.

Hey are renamon and guilmon too big to be rookie Digimon? Like all the other rookie Digimon only come up to the digidestined's waist. Guilmon is as big as a 12 year old child and renamon is taller than someone of the adults.
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slacker03150 posted...
All those video game characters were real? I've killed hundreds of people!

https://youtu.be/huHV8aW37ZM?t=38
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We open the episode with a toothless original. Squiggly lines all over the field.

The school scenes are a massive step down from the rest of the show.

A cat walking in the ceiling is weird, but I'm not sure how scary it would be.

Calumon might be the worst character right now. Is it time for impmon to come start throwing fireballs at him yet?

Would guilmon eat a bunny? He should eat calumon. He's rabbit like.

Really big into power from the guy who gave a rookie Digimon the strongest attack.

Also can you really decide who his tamer should be, dont they kind of need a blue Digimon card?

Calumon, you are not cute and you are making guilmon less cute by making him be the responsible one.

OK I take that back. Guilmon still the best.

And a better artist than calumon very nice summoning circle he made.

Be friends with guilmon, you dont have to be a prick just because he thinks your short. You are short. Like terriormon short.

Rika is an ass, but she wasn't the one who started the fight, she just finished it.

So far the worst episode of the series.
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A Rika episode. Is it parents day or is it normal for moms to just sit in the back of Rika's class? Sounds like parents day.

Rika it's cool to have hobbies, but modeling pays bills and fighting Digimon does not.

Damn grandma looks good. Although eggplant and liver sounds like an awful casserole.

Poor guilmon can't win a single rock paper scissors game.

Was that an actual modify card or did she use a Digimon card to steal an attack?

Not sure why she is so obsessed with renamon digivolving.

OK guilmon is the cutest, but renamon is pretty cool too.

Impmon!!!

Not entirely sure why renamon is so attached.

Ah self esteem issues. Digimon are literally fighting over who gets to be her partner. I'm pretty sure there are ultimates in there and maybe even a mega? And yet somehow renamon was the one who came forward.

Yeah, the whole who becomes a tamer thing and how they get their partners is a little confusing so far. I guess it doesn't really need to be explained. Unlike in adventure they aren't chosen or prophesied. Or maybe they are?

More impmon! Impmon just wants Digimon to be free. Or he's jealous. I dont actually remember.

Maybe you shouldn't run into danger without renamon? You almost got shot last time you did that.

No digimodify cards? You are just going to sit there? Renamon is strong but the spider dude is a champion, you should use something.

Ya I think she's just using Digimon cards as modifiers to get their attacks.

Get the fuck out of here calumon.

Yay Rika has emotions!

Digivolution

Damn these sequences are cool

Yay fire.

Emotions and friendship beat all. Rika has a soft side after all. Does kyuubimon have to stand on her head to dedigivolve? Or does she know how?
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slacker03150 posted...
Emotions and friendship beat all.

aka 90% of all anime plots.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
aka 90% of all anime plots.
And real life too. How do you think civilizations were made? Out of friendship between people.
Eternatus posted...
How do you think civilizations were made? Out of friendship between people.

I would argue this isn't true at all. Civilizations were made as people who weren't friends and never would be started to try and figure out ways to keep from killing each other.

Most societies are built on a form of mutually beneficial reciprocal altruism, not friendship and love.

It's pragmatism, not idealism.
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ParanoidObsessive posted...
Civilizations were made as people who weren't friends and never would be started to try and figure out ways to keep from killing each other.
Sounds like they wanted to be friends but didn't know how to show that without feeling stupid about it.
Eternatus posted...
Sounds like they wanted to be friends but didn't know how to show that without feeling stupid about it.

Nah. More like "Okay dude, I know you want to steal my couch, and you know that I want to fuck your wife, and we both know that Stabby McKnife across the street just wants to stab people. But maybe we can all agree to not do those things so we can actually live in the same place without everybody killing everybody else by the end of the week. We don't actually have to like each other, or even talk to each other, but we should probably make up some rules about stealing and adultery and proper economic trade theory and stuff. And also, we should probably lock Stabby in a room somewhere, because that guy is never going to stop stabbing."
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