Digimon Tamers Anime Review

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I have a lot of weeks and even months to write an Anime review, so here i go. To begin with, a few months ago and due to nostalgia, i got in the trading card games, not to play the games or for investment purposes, though. I said the main drive was nostalgia and besides that i saw some freaking awesome full art cards.

So i started with Pokemon cards, then bought some One Piece cards, then Dragonball and now i am waiting for my first Digimon booster box. Also, i now have like 4-5 different Master's sets to complete :p! Btw the art is amazing, start collecting noooow!

So even though i have watched a lot of the Pokemon series, and everything related to Dragon Ball and One Piece i remember dropping Digimon since i was a kid. I have watched the first ones but I dropped it at Digimon Tamers. I decided a 1-2 weeks ago to start rewatching it especially now that i am waiting the booster box in order to know more about the lore of the cards I'll obtain. I won't do any Spoilers though!.

Plot

Digimon Tamers came out in Japan from April 2001 to March 2002 and has 51 episodes in total. This was the good era when we had no seasons and everything aired weekly.

Our protagonist is Takato Matsuki, who played the Digimon card game and always dreamed of having a Digimon on his own, to the point that he had already drawn it. Somehow, his card reader transforms into a D-Power Digivice and his creation Guilmon, comes to life. A strange digimon known as Calumon comes to the real world and has some strange powers that helps other digimon evolve.

This is basically the root of the adventure as some Digimon that live in the Digiworld are hunting it while the protagonist and his friends are trying to protect it.

Good & Bad

Now the good things are the nostalgia that hit me when i saw it. I was still remembering some of the characters, digimon and their evolution and in fact had a toy when i was younger from this series. Also, the animation from this era was great.

Something else i really liked and having being to Japan was the history ride of Japan in 20s. Such an amazing way to see how everything was like 25 years ago. Last but not least the voice actors of Guilmon is freaking MASAKO NOZAWA the voice of GOKUUUUUUU!

Finally, in terms of the good things, Digimon are quite darker and far from their era in terms of the plot in general and from the competitor, which is Pokemon. I think a reason why Digimon didn't have the same impact as Pokemon was that while it targeted kids, it is an anime that, in terms of plot and darkness it's towards older kids.

The only bad thing i have to say is that the fights or most of the fights to be accurate, are extremely lame. It's like one attack from the enemy, one attack from the protagonist and boom, the battle ended. Also, another pattern is the enemy digimon attacks, the protagonist attacks as well but does zero damage. The digievolution happens and with one hit the enemy digimon loses. In other words, most of the fights have close to zero suspense and interest whatsoever. Also, for far mostly every digimon has like 1 move.

Share your view on this if you have watched this anime or like the cards!!