I've finally decided to give this season a chance last month after years of neglecting it. Initially, I hated it... but then it started to grow on me and I forced myself through. I gotta say, I'm pleasantly surprised with it.
It's very easy to hate this season when you watch the first few episodes. The tone is extremely light, even by Digimon standards. The dialogue is embarrasingly silly (Who the hell in real life talks like that? "I'm a totes side-character!"). Catchphrases are overused to the point of being painful to hear. The premise of smartphone apps being Digimon makes this show feel like even more like a ploy to sell toys than it has the right to be. And the CGI certainly doesn't do it any favors.
Initially, my opinion was that this series was a complete waste of time made only to sell toys to little babies. It's only after Episode 10 that the series actually starts fleshing out the plot, its characters and introducing darker elements. And if you can survive until Episode 16, then great, you'll definitely enjoy the rest of the series.
It had an abysmal start, but in the long run, I ended up enjoying watching it, the characters were all fleshed out and enjoyable (even if their catchphrases still annoyed the hell out of me), the plot was really interesting with some great twists, it really tries to break free from the usual Digimon formula and it shows. Haru definitely didn't feel like another Taichi, and Rei definitely didn't feel like another Yamato, nor did they have an absurd amount of focus that made me hate their guts like the 2020 reboot of Adventure is doing right now.
Is it the best season ever? Of course not. But it's definitely one of the better ones, and this is shocking considering the more "traditional" seasons like Zero Two, Frontier, Xros Wars, Tri and Adventure 2020 feel more like soulless cashgrabs to me than Appmon does. I actually found myself crying because of some episodes and especially because of the ending, something the seasons I mentioned above couldn't make me do.
Give it a try, it does feel tiring initially, but after a few episodes, it gradually becomes a whole lot better.
Better Than What It Seems
I've finally decided to give this season a chance last month after years of neglecting it. Initially, I hated it... but then it started to grow on me and I forced myself through. I gotta say, I'm pleasantly surprised with it.
It's very easy to hate this season when you watch the first few episodes. The tone is extremely light, even by Digimon standards. The dialogue is embarrasingly silly (Who the hell in real life talks like that? "I'm a totes side-character!"). Catchphrases are overused to the point of being painful to hear. The premise of smartphone apps being Digimon makes this show feel like even more like a ploy to sell toys than it has the right to be. And the CGI certainly doesn't do it any favors.
Initially, my opinion was that this series was a complete waste of time made only to sell toys to little babies. It's only after Episode 10 that the series actually starts fleshing out the plot, its characters and introducing darker elements. And if you can survive until Episode 16, then great, you'll definitely enjoy the rest of the series.
It had an abysmal start, but in the long run, I ended up enjoying watching it, the characters were all fleshed out and enjoyable (even if their catchphrases still annoyed the hell out of me), the plot was really interesting with some great twists, it really tries to break free from the usual Digimon formula and it shows. Haru definitely didn't feel like another Taichi, and Rei definitely didn't feel like another Yamato, nor did they have an absurd amount of focus that made me hate their guts like the 2020 reboot of Adventure is doing right now.
Is it the best season ever? Of course not. But it's definitely one of the better ones, and this is shocking considering the more "traditional" seasons like Zero Two, Frontier, Xros Wars, Tri and Adventure 2020 feel more like soulless cashgrabs to me than Appmon does. I actually found myself crying because of some episodes and especially because of the ending, something the seasons I mentioned above couldn't make me do.
Give it a try, it does feel tiring initially, but after a few episodes, it gradually becomes a whole lot better.