Audience reviews
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DigitalRio
Okay. I'm a massive Digimon fan, and that's why I have to say this: Young Hunters is the worst Digimon anime in existence.
It is the seventh season of the franchise, and a sequel to Digimon Xros Wars (yes, I see it as the seventh season, since it practically IS what it is). The story takes place some years after the end of the previous series.
First off, I rarely enjoy episodic anime because more often than not, it's just incredibly lazy writing. If it was just the first 10 ish episodes like it often is with Digimon, to get to know the characters, it would be fine. But it's a whole season of nothing. Hunters pretty much has no story except for the last few episodes, which were a hot mess by the way. It's frustrating considering the fact that Digimon's strong point often has been when the…
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I've been watching the Digimon series in order, and I would say this particular installment is probably my second favorite, right after Digimon 02. The animation is excellent, the action scenes are impressive, and I really love the world-building aspect of this series.
Unlike the previous seasons, this one heavily focuses on Digimon fusion, as digivolutions are quite rare and hard to achieve. It feels like playing an RPG/adventure game, which draws me in.
The intro song, especially the first one, is actually great and memorable. As for the characters, they are all well-written, particularly the main lead, Taiki. He is the best main character, along with the side characters and rival I’ve encountered in the Digimon series. Unlike in previous seasons, Taiki is quite mature, calm, and smart…
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This season of Digimon Xros Wars is something that should not exist. This is perhaps one of the worst sequels to any anime that I have ever seen. Not only was Digimon Xros Wars originally a slight bastardization of the original concept of Digimon that spanned from Digimon Adventure to Digimon Adventure 02 to Digimon Tamers to Digimon Frontier to Digimon Savers, this season of Digimon Xros Wars is a bastardization of the previous 2 seasons of Xros Wars.
Story: 4
The story is downright awful when it comes to its concept and its execution. Digimon are back in this alternate realm known as the DigiQuartz and are feeding off of negative human emotions. Now, a bunch of random children are being given Fusion Loaders in order to capture these Digimon. I’m sorry, but this does not seem like Digimon…
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There will be a spoiler mention later but I'll warn before we get to it. Also, this review can be read without prior knowledge of the Xros Wars (Fusion) series though it being the sequel to the 2nd season of Xros Wars, it will may have spoilers for the last season or two.
So, I'll be honest. I waited years to watch Seasons 1 & 2 of Xros Wars and right as i was about too, a Dub was announced for it, called Digimon Fusion. So, I watched it and it's 2nd season. The 1st season was not that good and got better around the half point, but I considered dropping it. Glad I didn't. The 2nd season was awesome and i waited years till recently hoping for a Dub but, the writing was on the wall, a dub was unlikely to happen especially given certain actors would need to be brought back. (In other words,…
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Just to be clear: Digimon fan since I was 7 years old. I'm 28 years old now and I've watched (and played) all of the Digimon media available to this point in the series. Also, since this is the last series of a trilogy, my criticism will refer to a lot of the things from the past 2 seasons.
One of my main issues with the Digimon series as a whole is the whole Goggles Kid thing is GOD. It's a concept that got old by the time Digimon 02 was released. This shows a huge amount of lack of creativity and fear of innovation. I mean, most Digimons were introduced in past seasons and those that are new either were created by children that watched the shows back when it was airing on japanese TV (I'm not joking) or they're old Digimon with new color schemes. Or... they're just regular stuff with e…
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The problem with this Digimon Xros Wras was that they keep with the story of the digimon of the week and then one arc in the last 4 episodes, leading no space for development for the characters (humans and digimons). Also, they destroy the concept of Chou Shinka, using one of the greatest evolutions to dealing with some low level digimons and not using much of Digi Xros (concept very well worked in the two other season). The only tthing that can save this season is the feeling of nostalgia in the final arc. In the overall, the anime is too MEH
OBS: sorry about any mistakes in the grammar, english isn't my mother language. Hope you enjoy
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My love of digimon is mostly for the story. Tamer's story was touching and intellectually interesting. The Young Hunters' story is mediocre at best. I watched the entire series in one day, and though I enjoyed it (it has digimon), it is mostly filler. Of the 25 episodes, about 7 matter to the overarching story. Thankfully the last 4 or so episodes are a digimon fan's wet dream, but that still left 21 episodes of meh.
Tl;dr
If you like digimon, watch it. If you're neutral to digimon, tread carefully. No matter what, don't marathon this. There is too much filler to enjoy it that way.
Read at the sourceKazard
This season of Digimon is so bad I am quite simply enraged.
The worst part was that the show doesn't betray it's true terrible nature until the final 3 episodes.
You can watch the first 22 episodes and find nothing too wrong with the season on a whole. It's not interesting and nothing happens, but it's not overtly painful, just boring and unimaginative.
This season continues the original Xros Wars tradition of Super Evolution and DigiXros, something I was never too big a fan of because it's different and I don't like things that are different...
I kid I kid. I may not be a fan of DigiXros and how it meshes with the established Digimon levels, but hey it's not my place to judge on that.
The new protagonist Tagiru takes the reigns from Taiki, in a move I suspect was meant to pay homage…
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What the fuck were they thinking when they made this?
I can't ask a more direct question than that.
Digimon Hunters is very easily the worst Digimon series, it's pretty much bile. It succeeds in nothing but destroying amazing potential, wasting a good cast of characters, tarnishing a franchise and having a catchy opening song. Never again will I ever be so excited for a series only to end up this disappointed. Let me walk you through this so you don't have to:
Digimon Hunters takes place a year after the ending of Xros Wars. Bugramon is dead, all the Digimon are back in their own world, and Taiki is back to being a baller. All of this changes when Taiki's stupid friend Tagiru gets handed a Digivice by a cryptic old man, and then bam, Tagiru now has ownership of the unruly Gumdramon and i…
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This series is pretty much like Digimon Adventure 02. It's a sequel with a time skip where the previous protagonists are older, and introduces newer and younger main characters. The story is pretty simple. It appears to be Pokemon-like "gotta catch 'em all," but of course with a bit of twist in the last couple episodes. The evolution system has been reworked with limitations, thus creates interesting combos when the characters are sharing their digimons so they can digi-cross effectively. A neat twist from the previous formula. It works, and it keeps the fan service going.
The main character, Tagiru, is akin to Daisuke from 02. Even his digimon, Gumdramon, is similar in appearance to V-mon. Well, now you realize where the writers got their idea. One of the problems with sequels having new…
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okay first review let's go
first and foremost, before watching digimon hunters, i had never seen a full digimon episode before, or at least that i can recall. my friend is an active member in the digimon fandom and suggested that i watch this, and it was the season that was airing at the time so i decided to give it a shot. recently, this season of digimon ended. to say the least, i wasn't very pleased, mainly because a very good idea for a plot had gone to waste. before you go on i'll give a mild spoiler warning -- i'm not sure if i'll actually include any but i'll try not to. additionally, it's late, and my memories are kind of vague, and i did not watch most filler, so i apologize for any missing or incorrect details.
STORY
the plot idea was pretty good. i liked it a lot, and as i sai…
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Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time (Digimon Xros Wars: Toki wo Kakeru Shounen Huntertachi) is continuation of second season of Digimon Xros Wars (shocker, right?) however it feels NOTHING like its predecessor. Basically, it follows second season of Xros Wars with some time skip, it introduces a few new characters and gives slight cameo to old ones (including other Digimon series). Is that just a last resort trick to bring more viewers to terrible series or just a cherry on top of amazing anime? That’s for everyone to decide on their own and, hopefully, this review will help you with it.
Story: 5/10
No story until about episode 22 but, instead, we get random Digimon of the week action. They are over average, thus the rating, but for anime series that always has bee…
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