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DigitalRio
Digimon Adventure 02 is the second entry in the Digimon anime franchise, and is a direct sequel to 1999's Digimon Adventure. It has a lot to live up to, since Adventure was so mesmerizing, but it holds its own in many ways.
We're introduced to 3 new main characters and their own Digimon partners, who along with Takeru, Hikari, Patamon and Tailmon from the previous series becomes the new team, while the older characters sometimes help them out.
The story is straightforward in the beginning, but actually narratively a bit stronger than Adventure, because this is a sequel, and the prospect of a human (the Digimon Kaiser) terrorizing the Digital World is quite interesting. The Kaiser, whose real name is Ken, is one of the best written characters in the franchise, and therefore he is the def…
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A continuation that respects the legacy of the first season.
After the enormous success of Digimon Adventure, it was natural that a sequel would emerge. Instead of simply repeating the formula of the first season, Digimon Adventure 02 makes a decision that I consider quite right: introducing a new generation of DigiDestined, but without leaving aside the protagonists who previously won over the public.
The characters from the first adventure are still present, but now occupying a different role. They stop being the center of the story and act as a kind of mentors for the new protagonists, helping when necessary, but allowing the new team to build their own journey. This passing of the baton works very well and gives the feeling of true continuity, showing that the events of the previous…
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Out of all the seasons of Digimon I had watched, Digimon Adventure 02 was the one I remembered the least. The most recently I had watched it was back when it had briefly aired on NickToons years ago, and only now have I finished watching it in Japanese for the first time thanks to Discotek putting out new blu-rays for it. But from what I can recall, Digimon fans consider Digimon Adventure 02 to be quite divisive, and opinions on it are pretty split down the middle. Some think it's a great follow-up to the first season while others think it to be the worst series ever. I'm of the opinion that while I don't think it's the worst Digimon season ever (Those titles go to Young Hunters and Adventure 2020 IMHO), I definitely feel it's one of the weaker seasons by far, and for good reason. I attemp…
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Well, well, well, what do we have here? It's another anime from the Digimon franchise, and this time it's called Digimon Adventure 02. Now, I know what you're thinking, 'Another anime about kids with digital monsters? Haven't we seen this before?' But fear not, my dear viewers, for Digimon Adventure 02 has a few tricks up its sleeve.
Set three years after the events of the original Digimon Adventure, this anime follows a new group of children who team up with the original DigiDestined to save the digital and real worlds from destruction. Along the way, they encounter new Digimon partners, powerful enemies, and some familiar faces.
While Digimon Adventure 02 may not have the same nostalgia factor as its predec…
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Digimon Adventure 2002 or 02 is a sequel to Digimon Adventure 1999 and continues with a new generation of chosen children to protect the digital world from sudden disaster. The digital world is inhabited by digital monsters called Digimon. Unlike Pokemon, they have more than 3 stages: Infant (In Training), Baby (In Training II), Child (Rookie), Adult (Champion), Perfect (Ultimate) and Ultimate (Mega) with the first being the names of the Japanese dub and the latter in English.
This series introduces a new ways of evolution and one additional new stage that in this series can be considered somewhere between Child and Perfect called Armor. Basically it can't fit to the traditional Level system like the previous forms which can lead sometimes to weird things when it comes to power scaling Dig…
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When I was a kid, I didn't get the chance to watch the whole first season because I discovered it late, so you can say that this part is the first I watched and I liked it a lot. I remember getting excited,enthousiastic; jumping and screaming like them when their digimon devolpe . this show was one of my best
i enjoyed every episode in both the first and second season but there were a LOOOT of bad moments and points
Well the most fortunate characters to have a good development were ken and dark wargreymon the others were ignored , i kinda understand why cause i though :just 50 episodes??? i dont think it will be enough to give every character more time screen
In addition, the number of main characters is reduced
This frustrated me because I know the Digimon serie has the potentiel
But t…
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The original Digimon Adventure stands, in my somewhat biased and nostalgic opinion, as one of the best kids shows and kids anime of all time. Deep, well written, with a fun environment and great, developing cast of characters, not to mention awesome creature design, and a far more ambitious sense of scope than it really needed. So as a kid, when 02 was announced? I was hyped. We were getting a whole new season, and if Digimon had taught me anything, it was that when things move on to the next stage, it's just bigger and better, and usually has more spikes.
Well. 02 has spikes, I guess.
Simply put, 02 is a show that is badly overshadowed by its predecessor, and that stands both for in general, and for the characters in the show. It does what so many "sequel" anime do - adds new gimmicks,…
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A good step up from the first season of the show.
The storylines were more consistently interesting than the first season. The main plot was good, and very tight, with little deviations into slice-of-life or romance and few slower episodes, which means I was consistently interested from start-to-finish. It had a darker tone compared to the original Digimon Adventure, and while i'm not one to say "DARKER=BETTER" (I mean, I really like Cardcaptor Sakura) in this case it worked to the show's benefit as it provided a lot of interesting episodes, such as the (allegedly) H.P. Lovecraft-inspired Dark Ocean stuff, or Ken's backstory.
The dialogue was less cringe-worthy than the first season, as the over-reliance on bad puns (at least in the dub) was either reduced or I just got used to them (mig…
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Probably no other title better represents the common belief “sequels are never as good as the originals” in anime more than Digimon Adventure 02: with respect to the first one, the second installment of the Digimon series is unfortunately a steep decline. Suffering from one of the worst reputations in the franchise, it is infamous for removing many of the elements that made its predecessor a hit, for having an erratic second half as a result of creative differences in the writing team, for ruining one of the fan-favorite ships, for ruining the appeal and respect of one of the fan-favorite digimons, and for a questionable epilogue that left many fans with a bad taste in their mouths. Being the original series one of my all time favorite shows, this one is naturally among one of my personal…
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ENG: Digimon is an anime with great potential and deserved to have a second season. Well, not this specific. Comparing this sequence with the first anime is seen that the production team did not give a deserved attention, creating a lazy story! First of all, as a sequence, then all the events occurred in the first anime must be respected, correct? Well, some of them, but others do not, for example: part of Japan has seen the digidestined and the whole world has seen that digiworld exists, and no one cares to know about the digiworld and what can affect in the real world. Besides that, all the characters have a normal life after all the events of the first anime and no one in the world goes after them to seek clarification. Speaking of digidestined, the new ones are very basic, but they are…
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Let's start with the elephant in the room: What did they do to Mimi's hair. Seriously, first she looks like a christmas tree, then she looks like she fell asleep in a hair dryer. Sry, but that was a little to much for my taste. OK, now that that's out of the way, let's start the review:
To be honest, every time I watched it, I could never really decide on what to make of this season. Twice I thought I never even finished. The shifts in tone and story make it almost seem like two separate seasons. But let's start with the first half:
The Ken story arc was always one of my favourite story arcs. It shows how human some people can be even under the most inhumane circumstances and how manipulation and despair can drive people into near insanity. I really favour Ken in the first half, because…
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Been binge watching this and the first season for the past weeks now and I can't believe I thought the second season was up there with the first.
I like that this is a sequel to the first season because I like seeing the original seven...especially an older Tai. But that is mostly what stopped me from rating this lower.
I never knew this anime was so heavily edited...I have been reading the wika pages of this season and apparently there is an original version that I guess is just the subbed version. They made a lot of changes that I did not think was necessary.
But what really bugs me about the second season is that while the new kids seemed to quickly embrace and took to being in the digital world and fighting battles, they seemed really disconnected from each other before and after th…
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This review may contain some spoilers
story: Digimon adventure 02 is a squeal of the first season of digimon adventure
which take place 3 years after the incident in Odaiba. Where every one of them are in high school except for Takeru and Hikari which are in greade 5.This season actually has a 3 part stories. This season actually feature 2 new evolution. Armor evolve and jogress evolve
arc 1: The story feature 4 new characters. Daisuke Motomiya, Miyako Inoue, Iori Hida and ken ichijouji ( digimon kaiser) but they did a very good job of introducing the new character as well as keeping the old charterers in the first season. The story begin in the digital world where the digimon kaiser enslave the digimon and spread the dark tower everywhere in the digital world. Now is for our new heroes…
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The rating system on here is trying to tell me that by ranking something a 4, it means I think it's 'Bad' and that's not really the case, but I like 02 less than Adventure and, critically speaking, Adventure is only a 5, so... you do the math.
When it comes to the sound and the animation, 02 has pretty much the exact same flaws as its predecessor. Add to that that season two's characters weren't nearly as likable, and the story gets a bit sloppy after the halfway mark. That said, this is another crucial part of my childhood, and I did still really enjoy it.
Critically speaking, it doesn't hold up quite as well as the original, but it does still hold up.
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(This review contains some negative thinks, if you wouldn't want to know, then don't read this)
Truth to be honest, I've never watched 02 before last May 2013, but I knew all of the character since I've ever seen all of them once.
Dare if I say that I give 5 to characters? Yes, I did.
Gosh! The characters were so so soooo bad! I even can't understand how could this show turn to be like that! From a very good quality, to be a bad one. Although I still can't understand how could Daisuke turn to be the leader meanwhile Takeru and Hikari were having more experience than him, and I can see that Toei tried to make Daisuke 'shine' among the rest. I can't and will never understand their reason.
The most annoying thing is of course, jogress. Again, I can't understand how could Daisuke and Ken's jo…
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what can i say about digimon season 2.... um in the words of bill and ted, EXCELLENT! its one of the few time where the squeal was better than the original and let me tell you why. first you have a recurring cast of the old digidestined this allows the die hard fan to ease into the new group of kids. plus the experts can help out the rookies.
digimon season 2 did have its faults and i say it comes down to series length. digimon has this problem that they must go from rookie to mega in less than 40 episodes this rushes the story and also limits any appreciation for newly introduced forms. for instants my favorite digi-egg was the digi-egg of miracles but it olny got 2 episodes and a minor movie appearance.
but enough of the negative lets get into the positive! i love the new kari or hik…
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(This review is for the English dubbed version of the series)
Having watched the first series of digimon and loved it, I'm afraid to admit that this second series doesn't live up to expectations.
This series doesn't have the same depth of plot, storyline or character as the first series, so it feels unfinished or rushed. This is because the head executives meddled too much in the making of this series and hired two writers who had different ideas as what to do with the series. As they couldn't agree on anything, the result was quite a lot of filler episodes to reach that target of 50 episodes long. The first story arc, the digimon emperor, lasts for about half of the series, so it feels too stretched out and thin. Also, the ending of the series seems to be tagged on as a way to bring the…
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I watched digimon adventure 02 when I was still a kid, I did enjoy it very much. After I grow up, and rewatching it, I can't believe that it had a bunch of flaws in it. Let's go into it...
Story: 5/10
Being connected with 1st adventure series, the story involves about digimon kaiser, who make rampage on digital world, torturing digimon becoming his servants. New chosen children had to stop him for what he did. The story of kaiser become connected with the next villain and more. My problem is, the story had a LOT of annoying plotholes, especially on the dark ocean episodes. It's cliche, didn't make sense at all. It tended to be darker but it failed, more like a useless filler. It was nice to see the connection between the old villain with the next one until the last villain, making it beco…
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Compared to the first season, this second season of Digimon Adventures is a step down in quality quite heavily. With exception to Ken, the new characters lacked the depth and problems that the first season kids experienced. This is especially a problem with new kid Davis, who is portrayed as a hot-blooded act-before-thinking boy who doesn't get much fleshing out nor any problems that he must overcome thus making him feel quite shallow as a character compared to much of the main Digidestined. The sad part is that Davis is made the leader of this generation's Digidestined, for better or for worst. The older members of the first generation Digidestined are shafted to supporting roles whose their only roles in this series are to aid the current generation in explaining or advancing parts of th…
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I.m so damn glad i´ve continued to watch the digimon serie´s on t.v after season 1 ended. The only minor complaint for me of season 2 was that some of the kids of se1 has been replaced, though i had no idea what the story was about this time, except that digimons wil be used alright. It really had a more darker, less kidfriendly tone the further the plot revealed itself , slight psychological mindfucks, digimon enslavement, what the real purpose was of the digiworld ect ect. for the animation and the music it stayed and kept the things that se1 had thanks to its popularity and ofc the dancemusicOP-ED. a lot of things came as sort of a suprise to me like any other kids that watched it back then, and talk of the day. it was certainly one of the best enjoyable t.v shows i had seen in a while…
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