Why I'm STILL disappointed with Digimon Adventure 2020

This is the second half of my review of Digimon Adventure 2020 covering episodes 31 to 67, along with an overall review to the season now that it's completed. If you wanted to watch the first half it's right here

I'm glad that I stuck with this show till the end because the second half of this show was much better than the first half. Most of the time I was finding myself asking myself why they didn't push episodes like this in the first half, then remembered that they needed to push as many evolutions as possible otherwise they might have to depend on substance over spectacle. I'm hopeful that they do something more experimental with 02, but at this point I'm not holding my breath.

Thanks for watching, if you enjoyed it come visit my stream and watch me complain about other things. Mario Party Super Stars comes out soon so we will most likely be going hard on that soon enough

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[digishade]

The major gripe I had with the series was the rushed evolutions because in every season except this reboot digimon evolution was tied to character development which made it feel earned but that hasn’t happened in digimon colon

[Matiasfv]

as someone who has been following this franchise for ages and really liked adventure but never asked for more (to be honest, I've always felt more nostalgic towards the 02 cast), I couldn't have been happier when this season ended, most of the time it was unsuferable, and the more enjoyable moments from of it were from the episodes that felt like straight up filler in the second half, my least favorite episodes after wargreymon's debut were the tree episodes mini arcs related to faga, milleniummon and negamon.

Btw I've been watching Digimon ghost ghost game, and all I can say is that I've been enjoying any of the first three episodes more than my favorite episode from adventure 2020, the volcamon vs etemon episode, which was really good, but I really needed something fresh, good character moments and decent writing.

[NightBladeSpearichu]

If I had to choose to rewatch this or Tri, I would choose Tri just because it was less than half the run length of the remake with 26 episode I think.

[peroreview]

they should make Blitzgreymon & Cresgarurumon as the main Mega for this reboot season and Wargreymon/ Metalgarurumon as a side MEga just for a tribute. Also they should make the rest of Holy Digimon join the battle either with Millineummon or Abbaddomon.

[yacineidir]

Just a guy passing by after looking for news on any digimon games. Bruh your reviews are gold 10/10 quality content! Don't get demotivated I genuinely believe once your channel get the traffic it deserves it would blow up

[sleekemu]

One way I could describe this show is like a cake that you like since childhood and that cake is decorated well with some crude decoration on some part. When you taste the cake it taste like bland, horrible and just unpleasant. The only good thing about the cake is the fruit that are on the cake. My problem with the season is there doesn't seem to be a goal in this season and that is just everyone is separated and just go here where the digivices tells you to go literally. All the characters are just bland and forgettable even Mimi. Mimi just feels the same at the end and there's no character development in her where I want to follow her journey. Joe is the only one that seems to have some character development. The millenniummon arc seems like filler, like if I just remove millenniummon and FAGA and just have the kids get ultimate and Kari's plot you wouldn't miss a thing.

Millenniummon doesn't even contribute anything for the characters or the story. LIke in the og Devimon contribute Patamon's evolution to angemon, Etemon contribute the evolution of MetalGreymon and Myotismon contribute the evolution of Angewomon. Millenniummon may have contribute the evolution of the Holy Dragon but they never show up again so it really doesn't mean anything to the plot when they don't show up again. This season is the worst for me. Worst than Tri because at least Tri was enjoyable in some moments and I just hate that this season doesn't give the other characters equality especially the evolution. Even Tri gives the evolution animation an equal animation.

[CrystalHeart]

Honestly, this season was just so boring to me. One of the things I've always liked about Digimon was its character writing, but it took too long to really get any. The cast was just so bland. Like, I get we have a good deal of that with older iterations of Adventure, but that's no excuse. Plus, the constant fights, getting separated, running here and there, etc., just tired me out.

(At least Ghost Game, slow plot aside, has been pretty great with its core cast and several Mons of the week. And while it is slow-going and episodic even 25eps in, the horror themes and entertaining characters keeps me reeled in.)

[mikaelporter]

literally the main problem a lot of seasons had was the fact that it focused too much on the 2 main characters, specially frontier, we had 0 attention to the other 4 members after kaiser and magna showed up, there was an episode in the beggining of that ark where the kids felt useless, then they faught with the main 2, felt usefull, and then became useless the rest of the season, until the last episode
with so many critiques that season had based solely on the lack of attention other kids had, its amazing how they still go do exactly what people complained about
worse part, even the main 2 kids, taichi and yamato, had bad and almost non existant development

[Jargonfox]

Gabumon being crucified I mean Gabumon getting himself crucified I mean Gabumon watching Elecmon get crucified I mean Gabumon being crucified bits killed me, holy shit.

Also very good video(s)! I agree with most things, I reeeally don't dig 2020 as a whole. With Koshiro kiiinda being a laptop-lore-exposition guy in this I wish he had maybe downloaded a map or some shit, would've helped to see where the characters are going, like damn okay they are getting close to Faga but uh? How far are they really? Hell. I also wish characters just talked more about stuff that happened, come on Koshiro, look up on your laptop what the different digimon stages are and what a second evolution means and come up with theories on what MetalGreymon's Mugendramon evolution was, damn. Everything is so damn surface level in this series.

[essariyadh]

tbh when i saw the first part in my recomm, I though this channel had like 10k+ sub then when the sec part poped up I checked the whole channel and BRUH!!! only 100 subs? shame man. but I'm calling it this channel gonna sky rocket in short time at least I hope so. go vid man keep up the good work.

[kanchomerocks]

Honestly... I would even say that you're being a bit too generous. The Tai episode where he has to take care of Botamon... To me it was nice on paper, but at the end of the day it lacks substance and purpose. Tai doesn't really change as a person. His behavior is exactly the same as it is throughout the rest of the show. Joe is a mixed bag for me, because he got the most character development out of all of them, but his whole shtick about being the leader was very annoying and he felt more driven by his own ego rather than a sense of obligation to take care of the others due to him being the oldest. Mimi is the only consistently good character, but her development is still basically non-existent.

No joke, I would rather watch Tri than this

[sdbzfan]

I kinda just ignored this season and ive watched every season of digimon and found something to like about each
But i think cyber sleuth might have ruined me for digimon with it being so good
That being said my biggest issue with this reboot has to do with stakes, to me digimon was never about world ending stakes regardless of them being the children of destiny and its the same issue i have with tri, other than Joe distancing himself from his friends as the one closest to growing into an adult a lot of tri lacked the character moments adventure had, i loved how simple everyones goal of going home was until the bonds they made with digimon made them feel like they personally had to save the world, mimi started out as my least favourite of the group and by the time 02 rolled around it was great watching her call out the new kids on being selfish and not recogonizing the danger being a digidestined it and the responcibility of helping others if you can, matt and tai's responcibilities as older brothers, izzy's parents, sora and her mom and how lack of comunication can affect a childs growth and wants, joe and the weight of expectations, how divorce affects families and small children with matt and tk, and of course growing up
All life lessons the and tramas the kids sorely lack in the remake which sucks because while life lessons shouldnt beat you over the head the digimon partners were there to help the kids as both a close friend and shoulders to cry on, the digimon lack parents but do understand empathy and want to help their partners it made them feel like real friends and not just two individuals destiny pushed together

[Masonicon]

As someone that goes into Digimon from original adventure series, even myself can hardly like adventure 2020, not only I can notices whatever Digimon have any same characters with adventure series, it's limit the species of superpowered beings to digimon themselves(at least in official canon)

[jeremidevone]

Charlie earned this video a like. Great job!

[thetokutickler]

Damn now I have to add fruit transformation to my ever growing list of fetishes. Thanks again Digimon XD

[minicle]

I honestly can't see how anyone would have given this otherwise forgettable mess the time of day if we didn't have the original series around to subconciously supply 99% of the substance and characterisation in order to remotely care. It blatently just coasts by purely on nostalgia and empty fanservice.

The amount of times they milk the 'never give up' trope in order to get freebie power-ups is frankly absurd. These kids just had everything handed to them on a platter.

Nothing compels me to ever want to sit through it ever again...

[Digi_Danny]

This is a great video man keep up the great work

[kazemizu]

The crest episodes were the better episodes, mostly cause Taichi was given a lot less attention

[jamalhartley]

The show felt so weird. Cuz it was like, "a new story with characters that are familiar yet different"

Since ya know a reboot changes things. But it felt like these characters are supposed to be new but are written as if "yeah you already know who this is so let's not waste time". After the first half I didn't even feel like watching the show. The brief highlights and fights but that's it.

[bacd-nnlg]

Pretty decent digimon anime for me. It had some good moments, some boring episodes, but it wasn't too bad.