Andy 117 wrote...
JamesonM wrote...
Andy 117 wrote...
As a kid, I recall not liking Digimon. At all. I might give it a download, though, and see if it doesn't grow on me now that I'm older and wiser.
Just FYI, to a lot of people, its much like the Pokemon series, lots of cornball =S
But if you stick with it, there are some deep messages, and lots of laughs and (much to my chagrin) lots of tears, so in my eyes, its very much worth watching ^_^
You lost me at "like the Pokemon series". That one I actually
did like as a kid, and returning to it 10 years later I find it's vapid and horribly boring and schlokish. Obviously many people hold it in high-esteem, but when a show is compared as being similar to Pokemon... well it's not exactly something to make me rush to see it.
That said, I can see what people see in the show. It seems a bit of fun. I just have trouble toning my brain down to the degree that I won't mind it. I think it'd grate on my nerves, unfortunately.
Back in the day it was comparable to Pokémon, because they were both released at similar times, both end in "mon", and both have humans, creatures and fights.
The concept is entirely different though and is nothing like Pokémon. The creatures have human intelligence and can speak the humans' native language (in our case, English), each human only has one partner, their creature can evolve and devolve either at will or if they're too weak, they have a shitload of methods of "digivolving", have many more evolving phases than Pokémon and are alot stronger (explosions and massive damage to buidings are guaranteed), and the "digital world" where they originate from, is a "digital" version of Earth. Although it's never really explained just where it is, but it's hinted that it's on the internet itself.
One film even saw a digimon as a "virus" threatening the internet we all know and love! But it's with computers which run on Windows 98.