Headscratchers / Digimon Frontier

• Was any explanation given for why Takuya was transformed into a Flamemon in episode 22 where he briefly returns to the Real World?
  • I'm pretty sure it was the spirits acting up in the human world, but don't quote me on that.
• Kind of a strange question, but how exactly do the Trailmon and Locomon exist in the same franchise, if not the same series/seasons/whatever? It's just a bit confusing that two Digimon (Locomon and GranLocomon) have adapted for standard gauge rails from Earth and several others have specialized in a single, possibly gyroscope-balanced one rail system?
  • Trailmon is a champion level, and Locomon is an ultimate. It is very likely that Trailmon digivolves into Locomon.
    • Locomon is based on an older steam locomotive.
  • Thing is, Trailmon uses one rail and Locomon uses two. A Trailmon and a Locomon could never use the same tracks.
• Why did everyone but Koji and Takuya simply spirit evolve against Icedevimon. He's eaten the data of all the Digimon Cherubimon collected and was so dangerous even the Celestial Digimon couldn't beat him, so why don't they at least Beast Spirit evolve?
  • He froze their D-Terminals.
    • The headscratcher wasn't "why aren't Koji and Takuya part of the fight" but "they just had serious trouble with Cherubimon that required unified spirit evolution to fight, yet this enemy is on the same kind of level and the other kids don't think they should use their most powerful forms straight away?". When the Royal Knights appear in the following episode again they only use the human spirits while Koji and Takuya do the smart thing and go straight for fusion evolution.
  • Probably because the writers considered the Human Spirits to be more iconic and prefer to have them in place more often than not. Even though two of the kids were basically useless outside of their Beast forms.
• Is it just me, or were the Beast spirits kind of underused? I mean they go through all these issues about finding the spirits, then learning how to control them and then...they just seem to prefer using the Human spirits. Aren't the Beasts supposed to be more powerful? Jager Lowemon only had like three appearences in the entire show. Burning Greymon suffered to lesser extent too (I'm sure someone is going to claim that Takuya was traumatised by his failure to control the spirit the first time, but that's kind of weak when you consider that he seemed just fine the few times he did use Burning Greymon).
  • I always felt that they lost some control while in Beast form. No, the weren't usually animalistic like Burning Greymon but they were prone to overkill and were gruffer. For pure combat, they were excellent but they seemed to lack in utility more than the Human forms. Also, in my head, the power level of their Human forms, the most used, were equal to the Beast forms, the most naturally strong, due to their experience.
  • It should be noted that while the Beast spirits are stronger in terms of raw power, the Human spirits still have the upper hand in terms of speed(or at least was stated so in a special chapter of Digimon V-Tamer 01)so any time they think they would need a little bit more of speed, Human spirits are prefferable.
    • I have to seriously question that, at least with a few of them. Burning Greymon and Velgemon can both fly whereas their Human forms cannot, which would mean that they are quite a bit slower. Also, KendoGarurumon (and, If i'm not mistaken, KaiserLeomon) has wheels on his feet and can go much faster than his human counterpart. And Zephyrmon is basically just a heavily upgraded Kazemon. MetalKabutermon is however still clearly slower than his human form. Ranamon, Grumblemon, Arbormon, and Kumamon could go either way, and Sakkakumon has a completely different schtick entirely
    • You could assume that the Human forms give them more options in combat since the body is much more familiar to them and capable of using martial arts moves. The Beast forms are more powerful, but much less precise and more difficult to use. By the latter portion of the series, the enemies were either weak enough for the Human forms to beat or so powerful that there wasn't any point in using less than the strongest forms they had (i.e. everyone except Takuya and Koji is already useless). That's not a good excuse, but it's all I've got.
• Not an issue with the show itself but as far as I know we have still not had this shown in UK. I just found Savers/Data Squad has been showing on a channel called Kix (which has shown some shows such as Medabots last year). Why hasn't Frontier ever been shown in UK?
  • I remember many many years ago, before Fox Kids became Jetix over here in the UK they were running ads that suggested that Frontier would come to the channel soon. Heck, I even remember some of the "Coming up next: Digimon!" buffers containing dubbed FOOTAGE of Frontier (specifically the time Izumi punches/slaps Takuya early on in the series). So my theory was that they were going to, had made all the plans and even made the trailers/buffers... but either lost the rights to broadcast it or something similar happened behind the scenes that was never explained (or explained with a static shot, a voiceover and on-screen text at some ungodly hour of the morning/night once).
  • Same Troper as above - here's an old With The Will forum thread that talks about Frontier seemingly coming to the Jetix channel in the UK, after some supposed teasing in 2001. To summarise, it seems that the teasers I remember seeing might have been showing around 2001 or 2007, so my memory of the channel still being Fox Kids might have been wrong but at least I've finally found some confirmation that I didn't just imagine the buffers.
• I find it weird how Koji never once had a negative opinion over his dad after realizing that he lied to him about his mom.
  • Kouji and Koichi's dad is really a douche when you think about it. First, when he divorces their mother, he leaves her raising Koichi all by herself, without offering any kind of financial support when her medical issues make it hard for her to work. The icing on the cake? He tells Koji that his mother is dead, as opposed to divorced and maybe would you like to visit her (and your long lost twin that I never told you about for some reason) on weekends?
  • Okay; I have a couple of points to make here. First we're never told that Ms. Kimura's medical issues were present when she married the twins' father. Since they broke contact after the divorce, he may have never known she was having financial or medical trouble. Second Koichi was told his father was dead and didn't know about his brother until his maternal grandmother decided to tell him when she was on her death bed. So...yeah; Mr. Minamoto made some bad choices but he's not the first Digimon parent to do things that turned out to be negative for his kid in the long run or to keep something a secret that shouldn't have been kept. He made some bad choices but that doesn't make him a bad person and it doesn't mean his son should hate him.
    • "Not a bad person?" I've only see the dub so if the Japanese version makes him more sympathetic than I'm missing something but seriously not telling your kid "YOUR MOTHER IS ALIVE ALONG WITH YOUR TWIN BROTHER" is very fucked up. Lying to Koji left him an emotional traumatized to the point he had trouble connecting with people; not just his mother but friends also. Also he denied Koji the opportunity to know his maternal grandmother. Takuya and Tommy's parents went out of their way to either spoil or nurture their children correctly; they made sure they were happy and good people. Spoiling Tommy might not have been a good choice because it made him a soft and co-dependant child but it's clear they still love him. And both Koji's parents are to blame for bad parenting; the choices they made traumatized both their sons, especially Koichi, who WAS LEFT SO EMOTIONALLY VALNURABLE he let darkness consume him! Koji's birth mother is weak but puts on a brave face. Dad? Koji's father tried to comfort his son about his biological mother and stepmother issues but Koji wouldn't hear it. His response: Can you at least be nice to her for my sake?" WTF, he could have pointed out how nice his new stepmother is or something but it sounds like he's more concerned for himself. Maybe he's not a bad person but he's in the run for "worst dad" of the Digimon franchise.
    • Let me just point out here that in Japan, it is highly uncommon for children to see the other parent after a divorce. Usually divorce means total separation with no contact, and the kids are split up. They don't get visitation. So if you look at it in that light, it makes more sense. It's still not the best way to handle it, but if the kids think their parent is dead, they won't bug you about them anymore. It's a little more sympathetic in this light, especially because if it was a nasty divorce, maybe they don't want to think about each other anymore and that's hard to do with a kid constantly asking about it. Also, this is the same reason that Yamato and Takeru were separated - they were actual brothers, not half-brothers as the dub wants you to think, and their parents divorced and Yamato went with the dad while Takeru went with the mom. It's different when you see A. the actual story as it was originally envisioned and B. the culture in which the story was created, which in anime is generally Japanese.
    • Yamato and Takeru still had some interaction, at least (and although the dub called them half-brothers once, that was a goof probably based on a mistranslation; they were clearly portrayed as full brothers with the same mother and father even in English).
  • In that light, yes it does make more sense, but as I said I've only seen the dub. And in the context of the dub he's a one-note plot device to explain the source of conflict and subplot between Koji and Koichi.
    • How the hell did Koji not know Koichi existed? It's not like they were split at birth, the divorce happened far more recently.
    • Where did you hear that it happened 'recently'? It is clear that their parents divorced when they were babies, at most a few years old. If they were that young they would have had few memories of each other and their parents, and it is made clear that they remember nothing (which is why the revelation hits so hard). There are plenty of cases of twins that were separated as young children who do not recall having a twin.
  • What bothers me about Kouji's father claiming that his ex-wife was dead is that it just seems like a plain bad idea. It may be easy to keep Kouji himself under the impression that his biological mother is dead, and it may seem easier to avoid all involvement with his ex-wife if it were a particularly rocky divorce (especially when he's remarried), but Kouji's father risks a lot by holding up the facade: all that has to happen is for someone (in this case, Kouichi's grandmother) to tell Kouichi that Kouji exists and it's not hard to believe Kouichi would try to find his brother, especially if he has a lot of information on his father's family. Kouji's father had no guarantee, in fact, that his ex-wife wouldn't someday try to instigate contact again or that Kouichi wouldn't somehow find them, and his decision to pretend his ex-wife is dead to Kouji just feels like taking a huge risk of eventually having to be involved with something from that side of the family anyway and running into an awkward situation in which he has to reveal to Kouji that he's been lying to him his entire life (and it's not like he can claim that his ex-wife isn't his ex-wife if Kouichi is present because it's hard to explain why Kouichi and Kouji have the same face). Kouji's father is very lucky that nobody revealed Kouji's existence to Kouichi earlier, that nobody from his ex-wife's family made an attempt to re-establish contact for whatever reason, and that the twins found out about what had been hidden from them when they were old enough to know how to handle their situations.
• The beast spirits of light, darkness, and wood look like beasts, as one would expect. The others, however, are anthropomorphic animals at best and humans with animal features at worst. The beast spirit of metal isn't even based on an animal. What gives?
  • Not an excuse, but if you look at the armor forms, they start off as the digimon in armor, but as they go on they get further and futher away from the concept till you can't even see Patamon in Baromon. The series is good at losing concepts unfortunately.
  • BurningGreymon looked like a dragon. Korikakumon is some yeti thing. Gigasmon is a moleman. Calmaramon is a giant squid. MetalKabuterimon was a beetle, although he looked more like a tank. Zephyrmon and Sakakkumon really dropped the ball, but they are exceptions.
  • BurningGreymon and Korikakumon were still anthropomorphic, though. If that's enough to be a beast spirit, then why is Kumamon a human spirit? Gigasmon looks more like some kind of ogre than any mole I've seen. Calmaramon's entire upper half is humanoid, being more of a mix than a full beast. MetalKabuterimon wasn't more beetle-like than Beetlemon, he was just more heavily armed.
  • Kumamon is more cutesy looking than Korrikakkumon.
    • Animals can be cutesy looking. It's not a human-specific thing.
  • For what it's worth, the true warriors (that is, the "Ancient" forms of the various spirits) had a much cleaner split between the two. Fire, Ice, Wood, Thunder, and Darkness are all much more animalistic, while Light, Wind, Steel, Water, and Earth are much closer to human. Most of them still have qualities of both animal and human, though.
    • Oddly enough, though, Fire and Ice's beast spirits are two of the anthropomorphic ones, and Light's is one of the actually beastly ones.
  • I've always thought that where they were 'classed' had something to do with where the Digimon joined back in the ancient Human/Beast war. Like, back then there were loads of each of the Human/Beast Spirit Digimon and those Digimon decided which army they'd join or were forced out of one group for looking "too Beast" or "too Human" or something. In modern Digital World times, the Kumamon, Lobomon, Zephyrmon etc. have become much rarer and outdated Digimon forms. I only say this because we know Apocalymon from the Adventure lore was formed of many 'outdated' Digimon, so it's feasible to suspect that some Digimon became outdated and obsolete in other Digimon continuities.
• In this series when they meet a group of the same type of digimon there's normally an elder (who looks older, generally with a moustache) and sometimes a younger one who's inexplicably smaller. Since when do digimon age like that? (evolution seems to be treated differently too though so maybe its not following the evolution is like aging rule)
  • Who knows, Frontier is a pretty odd series, levels having pretty much no meaning, Digimon having genders, Digimon having children and the confusing human vs beast conflict described above. Let's just assume they age normally in this continuity and evolution is completely arbitrary.(That would explain why all the kids thought one classmate evolving was weird)
• Our heroes can't beat Duskmon, the warrior of darkness. Why do none of them ever ponder that this might be because they keep trying to fight him at night? They have a whole twelve hours were he won't be in his element, why not use the wolf form to sniff him out during daylight hours or if they insist on fighting at nighttime, lure him into a forest and then set it ablaze with fire powers so he won't have any darkness to draw on?
  • Dusky's smarter than to come out during the day. He does go after them rather than vice versa pretty much every time.
    • Worse, they were on the Dark Continent, it's NEVER day time there, it's always dark and duskmon has been there the entire time he's been in the digital world. He's basically been sitting on a power up that stacks for months.
• The events leading up to Susanoomon's appearance. So apparently the key to defeating Lucemon is "Combining light and darkness"... which they've already been doing for the past 12 episodes. (Both sets of Spirits being required to form MagnaGarurumon.) Then they go and challenge Lucemon, and everyone except Kouichi are severely injured by his Dead or Alive attack, and Bokomon comments that if they get hit again, they'll die. Then Kouichi gets hit by the attack and supposedly dies despite the anime having previously shown Löwemon and KaiserLeomon to be by far the strongest of the Ten Warriors. Though before he disappears he gives his Spirits over to Kouji, which... for some reason almost kills him? He's been regularly handing his Spirits over to Kouji through the entire last arc! And then Takuya and Kouji combine to become Susanoomon. Okay, so... why was any of the stuff that led up to that evolution at all necessary?
  • Well, if you think about it, villains tend to use their most powerful attack to finish off the opponent, probably to make sure they don't come back alive. Why would Lucemon be any different? So he was using more power than usual for his last attack so as to completely obliterate them and make them suffer in agony, which was why Kouichi dies at the first hit, and also why he could do all that 'take my spirit' talk and stuff before being absorbed as data. As for Kouji, well, this is the first time he's handling another spirit which didn't choose him while in human form. It's very possible that his spirit was the control for the others during unity evolution. So he'd obviously have a extremely hard time controlling a spirit which wasn't chosen for him. Also, it's the opposite of his attribute, which is light. So they'd obviously be conflicting, and it might have been too hard for a human body/spirit/whatever to bear. And another thing: I'm pretty sure that they'd only started to act up after his death. So maybe all the time he was holding the spirits while in human form, Kouichi might have been holding back his spirits' power.
  • As for the key to defeating the big bad, they'd obviously need to combine all the spirits together. They had trouble beating his two extremely powerful minions with the unity evolution! So they didn't have enough power to defeat their boss at the time. Also, they needed to learn how to control the spirits or something. Practise makes perfect, after all, and they clearly needed it.
  • As for the combo of Takuya and Kouji, I think they needed a mental boost for it. It wasn't really personal for them till Kouichi's death, where he basically tells them to save the world as his dying wish. That would pretty much make them have righteous anger as well as grief, allowing them a personal reason for beating the crap outta him. Anyway, they were pretty emotional. This made them try harder than before to beat Lucemon, which was exactly what was needed for going to the next level. Obviously,it worked.
• Why are the Spirits of Light based on Garurumon if all the other Digimon in the Garurumon family are ice users?
  • Because the Garurumon family is based around wolves and Kouji's spirits were meant to emulate his image as a "lone wolf."
  • Probably to serve as a counterpart to his brother. In Adventure at least, only MetalGarurumon strictly used ice-based attacks, whereas Gabumon and the others used pure energy-based attacks, which is sort of what the Spirits of Light use as well. Biyomon's element is supposedly wind/air, but its evolutions use mostly fire attacks, so they don't necessarily have to match. And plus, Ice was already taken by the Ikakkumon-based Spirits, which made more sense for them.
  • The Ikakumon line is usually more about water than ice, so they could probably have just made it the Warrior of Water instead of creating the entirely new Ranamon duo and let the Garurumon-spirits keep ice. If they wanted to make it match the eight families of digimon instead, then the Garurumon line would most likely be given earth to represent the Nature Sprits. Either one makes more sense than what we got.
• About the scene in episode 17 where Kouji gives his jacket to Zoe because she was freezing:
  • Zoe was technically freezing because of her short-sleeved and bare-midriff outfit, then she worn Kouji's jacket, but she was still wearing it open still exposing her midriff but this time she was not freezing anymore. How is this possible?
    • Maybe it was her arms that were just cold and she felt warmer with the jacket on so her midriff didn't bother her.
  • Why didn't Zoe simply closed her own vest's zipper and end of the problem?
    • How do you know her vest even 'has' a zipper?
    • Her skirt has one as shown in ep. 15, so the vest may too.
• Okay, about the movie, Island of Lost Digimon. AncientGreymon and AncientGarurumon sealed away Ornismon, and after the two are awoken from, what? Centuries? Millenia? Of dormancy, they take the bird down in literally two-three attacks. So if they were that powerful, why even bother with sealing Ornismon in the first place?
• Why did Seraphimon and Ophanimon need to bother with hiding the spirits all over the digital world and then summoning humans to go on a scavenger hunt when he/she/they could have brought the spirits to life like Cherubimon did? And for that matter, why didn't Cherubimon do that with the spirit of darkness? He said that he couldn't find a suitable host for it to bond to, but Arbormon, Ranamon, Grumblemon and Mercurymon were all apparently animated by Cherubimon's power alone without hosts. Or else something would have been left behind when they lost their spirits, aside from an egg of themselves. A host doesn't seem to be necessary when you can apparently cheat it using archangel magic. The only real explanation I can think of is because plot.
  • Presumably, there's some benefit to binding the Spirits to human/Digimon hosts, as Duskmon is the only one truly obedient to him; the four others had their own plans and interests. Alternately: The Ophanimon and Seraphimon / Cherubimon war had been raging far longer than we got to see, with the inclusion of the Spirits being a recent development.
  • It could be that animating the spirits was something only Cherubimon could do which is why Seraphimon and Ophanimon didn't do it. Alternately, they COULD do it, however they were unable to, what with Seraphimon having fallen into a deep sleep from which he couldnt wake up and Ophanimon being held captive by Cherubimon. Ophanimon may had been worried about animating the spirits herself since doing so would require bringing them to her and risking Cherubimon capturing and corrupting them himself so it was safer to keep them hidden where he couldnt track them.
  • I was always under the impression that, given we see the remains of trying to bond the Dark Spirits to Digimon hosts, that the Spirits of Earth, Wood, Water and Metal actually were bonded to Digimon hosts - only it worked a little differently to when a Spirit was bound to a human host. The way I think it works is that Digimon would make easier hosts as they're technically the same creatures as the Spirits (i.e. they're all Digimon), but the host's data would be consumed and reformatted to be a part of the new 'Spirit Digimon' - which is why they left nothing behind upon their defeat. The Dark Spirits were corrupted far worse than the other four, which is presumably why Cherubimon had such trouble with finding a host for them. It likely that the failed hosts were turned by the darkness and corruption, not so much the Spirit's power. For humans though, while the bonding would be a lot more difficult because humans aren't Digimon, this fact would also mean that humans aren't consumed by the Spirit entirely and so can be separated from them without being lost entirely. And this could also answer why Ophanimon never animated the Spirits herself or tried to bind them to Digimon hosts - animating the Spirits isn't possible without a host and she wouldn't want to sacrifice other Digimon just to get her warriors on the table.
  • It’s entirely possible that there just weren’t any Digimon able to use the six spirits the cast have. Ophanimon had to desperately call on mass numbers of human children to find some that the spirits would accept as hosts. Cherubimon lucked out with four of his, but wasn’t able to do anything with the Darkness pair. He probably corrupted them so throughly to ensure that when he found a human comparable, he’d be able to create a warrior complexly loyal to him. Otherwise, I couldn’t think of any real reason not to twist the other four pairs he had in his command.
• The five rogue Legendary Warriors working for Cherubimon are at the equivalent of Champion level while in their human forms from what I understand. If so, then how is it that Mercurymon could be capable of reflecting back the attack of Seraphimon, a Mega-level Digimon, who should have easily been able to mop the floor of him and the other rogue Warriors when they attacked the castle at the Forest Terminal?
  • Because Seraphimon sucks all kinds of ass.
  • Or maybe it's because of bad writing?
  • Because Mercurymon specializes in Hoist by His Own Petard attacks. His gimmick revolves around reflecting attacks back at the attacker.
    • That explanation doesn't cover how Seraphimon is brittle enough to be knocked down by a single of his own attacks, one that failed to defeat any of them despite the two-level difference; as was stated above, he sucks all kinds of ass.
    • Don't forget though the Strike of the Seven Stars attack was clearly shown to divide itself up. Grumblemon, Ranamon and Arbormon take two or three stars each whilst Seraphimon gets hit with the full force at point blank range.
  • Seraphimon did just wake up from an extremely long period of suspended animation after receiving a near-fatal injury. He was so severely weakened that he barely seemed able to think straight, much less fight effectively. Mercurymon later showed that his data really is very powerful, but even then he still fell to a single fusion Warrior. I guess I’m saying that Seraphimon is a disappointment, but he had some justification this time.
• Did the Dukemon in Akiba Market have any idea what his fellow Royal Knights were doing? Did they kill him off-screen? Or is he not in that group at all in the Frontier universe?
  • The answer is that, no, that Gallantmon is not a member of the Royal Knights; he or she is almost certainly a run-of-the-mill mon who happened to evolve into that species. Every anime has its own examples of mons who resemble but aren't the group members. Gatomon and Guilmon aren't members of the Four Great Dragons, just as Patamon and Lopmon aren't the Celestials.
  • It could also be that Dukemon wasn't classified as part of the Royal Knights until Digimon X-Evolution. This series initiated the Royal Knights as a Special Group, but the movie that came after expanded on it.
• Why was it that after Takuya defeated Grumblemon, all he ended up taking away was the guy's Beast Spirit? Had Takuya also taken Grumblemon's Human Spirit while he was out of commission, he would have been defeated right then and there, and Tommy and Zoe's stolen Spirits would then be home free to return to them. Instead, Takuya goes for his friends' Spirits first before finishing off Grumblemon, but is only able to get Tommy's Spirit back, because Grumblemon is able to reestablish himself, and escape. It just ends up feeling like a retarded choice was made just to prolong the fight against Grumblemon for another episode.
  • For some reason, it seems like only the Human Spirit forms of the cast can use the D-Tector to scan an opponent. In Beast form, they have to physically grab any Spirit from an enemy, even if their "Beast" still has hands. Takuya got the Ice Spirit (his main goal) with one hand and the Earth Beast Spirit (the main reason Grumblemon was much of a threat) with the other. He didn't have time to get the remaining two Spirits before Grumblemon recovered enough to escape. The better question is "why didn't he turn back into Agunimon and just scan all the data there and then instead of showboating?"
• This is a minor gripe, but when they Spirit Evolve their clothes come off, right? If that's the case, why the heck does Koji's ponytail stay intact when he does it? Whatever's holding it up has got to be less sturdy than his clothes. Were the animators just too lazy to animate his hair coming undone?
• Why are most of the Digimon in this series so weak? I get that the writers wanted to display the 10 Warriors as a special, unique force, but we see that even Mega level Digimon act like scared civilians when facing foes that honestly could be beaten down by a particularly strong Champion.
• Why are the power levels of the 10 Warriors so inconsistent? Now, I understand that this is a different continuity where levels are basically meaningless, but the performance of the cast still varies wildly even with experience. Specially the Human spirits who can lose to a bunch of Rookies in one moment, then scare off a Royal Knight (granted, in numbers) that their higher forms could barely struggle with.
• If all of the 10 Warriors have a level where they combine both Spirits, as shown in the cards, why do only two of the cast get to use it? It's not like the remaining four couldn't stand getting a power-up to remain relevant. Especially Tokomi and Izumi who seem near incapable of winning at all without back-up. Don't Takuya and Koji get enough of the limelight when they use everyone else’s powers to reach their final levels without the forms that they only use two or three times?
• The whole "Human/Beast Digimon" divide is an strange line to draw. To start with, the distinction makes no sense given how radically Digimon morphology varies. I mean, where do you draw the line when anthropomorphic animal-people are some of the most common types around? Just looking at the main cast: a walking snow teddy bear is Human while a winged lingerie model with weird hands and feet is apparently a Beast. The distinction is completely arbitrary. We’re not even getting into things like machine and object Digimon or the numerous indistinct blobs that would not fit either category. Not that it would really matter given how radically a Digimon's forms shift through their digivolutions, meaning that most of them have shifted between both groups. Now, I could understand if the plan was to use these logic holes to show why the prejudice was nonsensical as an allegory to racism, but it just doesn't work here because series didn't build the setting to make it seem like an actual part of the culture since there really isn't any sort of Digital World culture outside of random villages. It wasn't even really used outside of the single movie. Why bother putting it in the series at all if it added so little and has so many logical holes that don't fit the franchise?
• Why didn't the DigiDestined try different tactics against the Royal Knights other than "Takuya and Koji do everything and get their asses kicked"? Like, why didn't they summon Mercurymon, have him evolve into Sukkakumon, and use him against the Royal Knights? Better yet, summon Mercurymon and the other three formerly evil warriors, have them use their beast spirits (with the DigiDestined beast spirit evolving too), and take on each of the Royal Knights five-to-one? It's really cliche when a certain faction is evil, they're hella powerful, but when that faction becomes good, they don't use any of the strength or resources they had when they were evil.
  • The Spirits need hosts, and those four stopped having them after they were defeated. Takuya and co. summoning them is simply impossible according to those rules.
  • As obnoxious as the favoritism got, Takuya and Koji did represent a culmination of half the powers of the warriors in their "Mega" forms. If they were losing, then trying to attack by splitting the powers up would almost certainly fail.
• Why are Koji and Kouichi's voices so different but they are 12 year old identical twins, shouldn't their voices sound similar. I may be alone but Kouichi voice just sounded to deep if they wanted to show the boys were different why not ask Koji’s voice actor to make his Koji voice slightly different for Kouichi, and well give the show some time to show that the boys are different.
  • Real life twins don't always sound identical.
  • They've also lived in different places their entire lives, which probably led to picking up different regional accents.