My beloved series... Thanks for the reminder! And for the link back to the Blu-Ray box thread and the audio drama script. I read it for the first time.

While chaotic, it did convey much of the feeling that the original series gave me. I also deeply appreciate the fact that the creator was willing to make a sequel.

Not sure that having an even more powerful unlimited kind of enemy would be the right path to take, but then again it could only be the beginning of the sequel and not the focus of an entire anime series or film. I love the focus on how things change in the future, on a personal level, and on a technological level, lots of interesting stuff there.



I guess my main issue with the original series and the cd drama is that they tend to rely on basic concepts and mere technology as a basis and explanation for phenomena that clearly exceed the very parameters of the theories suggested. It's super clunky, and for a series with a pretty serious tone, it only feels that much worse as a result. I guess the low points for me would be the Devas that were consuming electrical devices to grow stronger and more stable, or how casually the technology of the D-Ark, the realization chamber and the cards was used. Or how they discovered that the entire existence of a digimon in the real world is made of a single protein (or something to a similar effect). I think that less of an emphasis on the scientific basis, and more light shed on the cosmogenic/mythological/magical aspect of things would be a must for any potential follow up.



Overall this remains my favorite digimon series in terms of tone, designs, art style, narrative structure, and the strong and expanded-upon relationships and dynamics among the characters. It took all the best bits that Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 had in my opinion and built upon them.



edit: I remember that, as a kid, I used to get chills every time an evolution sequence initiated. It looked and sounded so ominous and important. I'd like to see that again in a digimon series sometime: a level of substantial impact of the event of digivolution itself.

I also remember how bittersweet the ending was, I was in tears. And how adorable the scene in the playground was where Takato and Guilmon were talking about how they had grown and were reminiscing about the "Takatomon" moment. Amazing.

Finally, how cool was the setting of kids going out at night to fight monsters in the fog, eh? I maintain that a Digimon Tamers augmented reality PokemonGo-style smartphone game based on that concept would be epic.