History YMMV / DigimonTamers

** ''Tamers'' initiated the trend of recycling character traits and arcs from ''Adventure'' in new incarnations of the franchise, as while 'Anime/Digimon02'' had already introduced Chosen Children inheriting traits from the originals, those [[ExpyCoexistence coexisted with them]] in the first place and allowed the whole plot point to be directly addressed. By contrast, in ''Tamers'' these elements were remade as if by a blueprint, as Takato ended up receiving Tai's most characteristic ordeals while Henry and Rika crammed attributes from Yamato, Koushiro, Sora and Mimi between the two. Ironically, it can be argued this was still not as bad by this point -- it turned out ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' could be even ''more'' unsubtle at remixing ''Adventure'' than ''Tamers''.

** While ''Tamers'' is held in high regard in United States, opinions towards it in Spain (a country where the ''Digimon'' franchise used to be a juggernaut) tend to be very polarized. However, Takato is unambiguously counted as one of the ''least'' liked human characters in the franchise, with Spaniards putting him under any of his cast mates and even leads from more divisive seasons (like [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Davis]] or [[Characters/DigimonFrontier Takuya]]).

** Rika's fans like her for having a vastly different personality and design compared to other female leads in the ''Digimon'' franchise and appreciate her CharacterDevelopment into a DefrostingIceQueen, while her detractors dislike her for trying too hard to be the "tough girl" archetype and being an unreasonable jerkass to the other characters.
** Henry. While some praise his levelheadedness and intellectual approach to his problems, others feel his internal doubts are too near Wangst territory, which also makes him not different enough from Takato to be a good [[TheLancer Lancer]] to him.

** There are two kinds of Digimon fans--the fans that love this season the best for being DarkerAndEdgier and overall more mature than ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Zero Two]]'', with a focus on CharacterDevelopment and psychological realism over constant monster-of-the-week action, and fans that hated this series for taking too many elements and plot points from ''Adventure'', sometimes feeling like a retread, and for taking place in another universe, thus completely dropping the characters they have come to love over the course of two years.

* FauxSymbolism: Dukemon Crimson Mode has an attack named Quo Vadis[[note]]Latin: Where are you going?[[/note]]. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quo_vadis%3F The phrase]] refers to a Christian tradition depicting Peter and Christ meeting on the road; Peter asks "Quo Vadis" and Christ responds that He is going to Rome to be crucified again. Dukemon [=CM's=] attack basically vaporizes a city's worth of enemies at once. You find the connection!

* FranchiseOriginalSin: The RunningGag of [[spoiler:Leomon dying]] was spawned because the writers decided to repeat that event from ''Adventure.'' Konaka has since apologized on his Twitter for starting this trend and came out saying if he ever makes another story for Digimon, he'll make it up by having [[spoiler:Leomon survive to the end]].

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Whenever the series's faults are noted, a recurrent one is that ''Tamers'' recycles several plot points and character dynamics of ''Adventure'' and exploits them in much longer arcs (like the main character's Digimon going berserk, or the kidnapping of a female Chosen Children deprived from her partner, or the cast's [[RedOniBlueOni blue oni]] having family issues and a fox Digimon) despite being a reboot in a new continuity which otherwise tries to be a commentary on the original. This makes it especially noticeable, as at some points the plot is ruthless on going DarkerAndEdgier, while in others it feels like it is trying to adhere closely to ''Adventure'' when possible on the fear of becoming too unfamiliar.

* VindicatedByHistory: When it first aired, many Western fans of the ''Adventure'' series were disappointed and confused by the lack of relation between the stories, and much of the themes and subtext were lost on younger viewers. This is even the case in Japan, as viewership had dropped off considerably during the show's initial run. Over a decade later, thanks to both access to the Japanese version in the west and a higher demand for more cerebral, deconstructive series, ''Tamers'' has gained a large amount of popularity, and is easily the second most popular ''Digimon'' series on both sides of the Pacific (not so much of the Atlantic, but it's still one of the ever-popular "Big Four" seasons in the European side). To put it into perspective, ''Tamers''' 20th anniversary saw it getting ''two'' sets of promotional Dim Cards for the Vital Bracelet v-pet; that's quite the far cry from how the show's reception started.
* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: ''Tamers''[='=] art and animation is some of the best that the series has ever seen even two decades after it aired, and as per usual of Digimon the Mega digivolution sequences are nothing short of ''gorgeous''. Guilmon and Terriermon's feature polygons rippling off as they warp to Dukemon and [=SaintGalgomon=] respectively, and while Renamon's evolutions are all traditional animation as was the case with the previous partner Digimon who weren't part of the primary duos, Sakuyamon's sequence is bursting with fluid movement that matches the quality of the other two as lights rush around and strands of hair blow in the breeze.

* EpilepticTrees: There's a CastingGag with the teacher Miss Asaji being voiced by Lara Jill Miller, who also voiced Kari in the first two seasons and in the epilogue of ''02'' grew up to be a teacher herself. This combined with the fact that she does resemble a grown-up Kari led many young viewers to come up with theories about how she ''was'' secretly Kari, who somehow jumped from her dimension to this one.