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*Disclaimer* this is my first anime review so apologies if I miss out on any important things I should be paying attention to also there are going to be spoilers in this review and this is the first digimon show that I've sat through. If you think I can't give this show a fair rating because I haven't seen the alternative material this show is based off of feel free to stop reading now
This is a show that I remembered watching when I was 6 years old and thought it was awesome. I rewatched it quite recently to see if it was as good as I remember. Is it? No. Was it still good? For the most part yes.
The story is that our main character is Marcus Damen a high school boy who encounters Agumon a digimon on the run from the data squad. They befriend each other and the data squad notice their bond and hire them to work for them. The plot in the first 10 episodes or so is relatively weak with it acting like some sort of more action packed Pokémon episode. It starts to pick up a bit after it finishes this mark though. There's a scientist who used to work for Markus's father 'who is currently missing' that comes to DATs wanting to go on an expedition to the digital world to confront the head of the digimon, Merukimon. He brings an army with him and when they get there he kills Merukimon which DATs are shocked by and the plot for the majority of the rest of the show is to stop Kurota, the scientist.
One thing I don't really like in this show is the amount of side plots they have going on and keeps on getting side-tracked and is full of filler episodes that are really unnecessary.
The main characters are OK with one exception. Markus, Thomas and Keenan are all given a good background and back story, Markus and Keenan especially but Yoshi is the exception. She feels bland and she seems really unnecessary in most of the show's situations except to stop Markus and Thomas having arguments. I have the same problem with the digimon. Falkomon, Keenan's digimon is probably the best as he's given a really scarring back story. Agumon, Markus' digimon is OK but he isn't given much background but he is a good bit of comic relief. Gaolmon and Lalamon, Thomas' and Yoshi's digimon respectively, like Yoshi feel bland and aren't given much reason for me to like them. They say they have a strong relationship with their digimon partners. Markus and agumon and Keenan and Falcomon I can see have bonds but Thomas and Gaolmon and Yoshi and Lalamon I just see them giving orders to each other. Keenan and Markus talk with their digimon and play around with them and the others I see nothing.
I can't really say much about the animation except it's OK but the animation is really good during fight scenes. I can't really explain why it just is. The sound is also gr8 in the show. The dub is actually better than the sub in my opinion
Final verdict Digimon: Data squad is good enough for kids and is a good distraction for them but there is little to please other audiences.
Pros Action scenes are fantastically put together Good lore gr8 sound good dub Cons - Most characters are bland - Some have uninteresting back stories - Some talking scenes are boring
score 5/10
mellowo 2 January 2016
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