It was okay.
Digimon Frontier
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Joshua Murphy
I remember watching this before going to school
Joshua Miller
I didn't like how they dropped the Digipartner aspect.
Grayson Turner
This was my favorite when I was younger because I found the digimon annoying, when I finally saw the sub of Adventure I realized that the dub was almost parody tier and completely changed my mind.
Jose Hill
I saw this conversation on twitter just a few hours ago... and was like "yeah, that pretty much sums up why I didn't watch frontier as a kid"
I don't know if they did it to make it "less like pokemon" but at the end of the day the digimon partner is a huge appeal of the franchise for me, and cutting that for more kid screentime made me see one episode and then never think about the franchise for years out of pure apathy.
Hunter Jenkins
Like hell it was. The only girl in the cast is such a non character, she only wins one (1) fight in the entire series. At least 1/3 of the series at the end is seeing all the characters lose over and over because the plot needs them to lose, so they can get the final boss revived. The only good thing out of the series are the OP and ED songs because Kouji Wada and co. knew how to sing Digimon theme songs even to a shitty show.
Grayson James
At the very least I still like Agnimon and Lucemon designs even after all these years.
Connor Carter
Eh, I'm not sure Pokemon factored into it a lot.
Having a partnermon was already kinda old hat by then, and they saw success with Tamer's Matrix Evolution. So the logical step forward was for them to build a season around the kids turning into the Digimon to fight, and if the kids are fighting then more characters to animate in the form of their partners are just kind of a waste.
Frontier's biggest issues aren't that, rather it's the poor characterization that the kids get despite not having partners to share screen time with, Izumi being useless, 3/5 of them becoming dead weight by the end, Izumi being useless, not exploring as much of the digital world and how it functions as it could, and Izumi being fucking useless.
But it did make a valid point in showing Darkness isn't evil.
Joshua Young
Absolute kino english op youtube.com
Asher Moore
It missed the point completely. It hypes up some ancient conflict and the power of the soul when the anime is an incredibly episodic thing mostly about going to see what's beyond the horizon on vague information at best.
Ryan Clark
This and Shaman King are the only times Americans actually made good original opening songs.
Luis Morales
>At least 1/3 of the series at the end is seeing all the characters lose over and over because the plot needs them to lose
Is that worse than them winning because every battle is too high-stakes to lose?
Ryan Perry
Elijah Reed
Not like the Frontier cast is good at fighting in the first place.
As constantly hungry humans that lack the natural fighting instinct of Digimon they get their asses kicked all the god damned time and only win through ganging up on a foe, smart use of terrain, or Ranamon being even more incompetent than Izumi.
Benjamin Turner
no it was kino
Charles Morris
What's the point of a digimon show if the kids don't have digimon of their own to bond with?
Owen Roberts
a lot of this is rewriting history. digimon fans "tapped out" after tamers because it got shifted to a network most people couldn't find and wasn't on fox kids like the other 3 seasons previously
Connor Thomas
Yes.
Adrian Thompson
it was okay, even with the lack of digimon partners. the only real problem the season had was benching 4/6ths of their main cast for the back half of the series
Gavin Thompson
Second half was pure shit.
Bentley Hill
It suffers from having shit fights at times, which is the same as all other Digimon series. Though the battles against the Royal Knights were greatly done with tons of punches and kicks and attacks being traded, if all the fights had looked that good then this would be the best Digimon season. The digital world and their journey through it was arguably better than Adventure's, it was full of life. I mean they fucking have a train race vs BlackWeregarurumon, it was lit.