damm man, i knew there was a reason besides the removal of partner digimon that made this the weakest show. I actually watched this one but i have zero memories of it, no reason to care about it. good job bringing up what the actual problem was.
The kids morphing into Digimon wasn't a major issue for me. The simple fact is it didn't really grab or keep my attention very well, and I was expecting a further continuation of the storyline from the second season.
I really liked that the two big baddies of the series are both angel Digimon. It's a pretty big subversion of the usual angel vs demon thing the show has going on. I kinda think they maybe took inspiration from Guilmon being a virus Digimon but still a good guy.
@@victoriawhitcomb6475 one of them is literally lucifer my dude Sure he is an angel but most religions that has him play a role has him be a fallen angel if not a demon
They took things too a new levell. I dout Gamefreek could ever go beyond the league champion storyline and try anything difetent. Pokemon human fussion would be too weird I think but Gamefreek should have tried something different a long time ago.
I think it’s worth noting that towards the end of the series the Digidestined actually FAILED to stop the villain’s plot. The Royal Knights (on behalf of Lucemon) were gathering data by destroying the Digital World little by little, and despite the Digidestined’s best efforts to stop them, it wasn’t enough. In the end, you can actually see the Digital World reduced to nothing. While other Digimon series (and even other series in general)’s main focus is “How do we stop the bad guys from reaching their goal?”, this one is actually “We failed to stop the bad guys, so where do we go from here?” It taught us to keep going and pressing on even though all hope seems lost.
@@WackNoir they don't really mentioned, but I think it's safe to assume that the majority of the Digimon died. The main characters plus a few Digimon survived though, and all of the baby Digimon were gathered on the moon. It's still a pretty grim situation
@@WackNoirit was a mass extinction event/genocide to say the least. Only a small fraction of Digimon actually survived. If I’m remembering correctly, there wasn’t even a “oh we restored the code and now everyone is magically back alive.” It was more so “well, we saved some digieggs. They’ll repopulate the Digiworld.”
@@DigiTism I thought the digimon were just turned to code when defeated, and the code of all digimon/ the world was returned. The current digimon were turned to eggs after defeat, so they weren't gone forever, just reverted to their baby form
@@danielcurren2119That is what happened to every digimon besides Bokomon, Niimon, Patamon, Plotmon and Lopmon. But that is also what digimon consider to be death, because they lose their identity and most if not all of their memories in the process.
As a kid who'd watch Digimon Adventure and 02 reruns whenever possible, I sometimes daydreamed about that idea. Granted, it was about the kids still having partners and just fusing with them, but the outcome is sorta the same. Imagine my shock, years later, when I found out Digimon actually *did* such a thing! It's too bad the season doesn't stack up that well against the more popular ones.
The reason I liked it so much was that it felt like a continuation of what they did in season 3 with the kids fusing with their digimon. Frontier to me was really really good imo!
They were already pretty useful in Tamers since they could support their Digimon in battle with card effects and merge with them to reach their final stage.
I ADORED this season the opening song oh man it feels powerful! And the fact the kids are the ones fighting really makes them feel like this is THEIR world
same here. i didnt know until years later when i went to a convention and talked to fellow digimon fans. turns out many of them dropped off after season 3
Lol I think I watched the entire show just because of the theme. I watched the latinamerican version. Nice to know the english version is good too, unlike the digirap XD.
Frontier is an excellent season tbh. They had already dragged out the Digimon+Partner concept. It needed something new. The only criticism I have towards it was the fact that only the two main characters could fusion their beast+human spirit. It would’ve been great to see the others evolving to that stage as well. Also the plot twist with Koichi was amazing
in adventures also tai and matt had partners that could digivolve to the mega level and in both occasions id loved to see the other ones to reach peak strength
As a kid who didn't have cable,I didn't even discover the fourth season til my mom told me there were cartoons on one sunday morning.So I missed much of that series,which is why I'm here.
'the characters always had the option to go home.' you forgot about that one time takuya tried it, didn't you? that time he left to go home but he didn't really and was turned into this hybrid human digimon creature as punishment? yeah. that time. good times.
and even that only worked because the villains helped in order to get rid of him, i'm pretty sure a few of them also tried to just go back the way they came at the very start and it just didnt work.
But I do get where he's coming from. In S1 the digital world had a really threatening vibe to it and in S3 there was a very clear goal. Here there really isn't, there is a goal but it's really vague.
@@MrMarinus18 ... save the digital world, defeat the bad guy... it's the same as seasons 1-3. i thought it had just as many stakes with the world itself freakin disappearing when the bad guys managed to steal the codes
I personally thought the gimmick off them turning into digimon was a nice Change because now the Kids are more involved into the action, instead off the Kids Just standing on the sidelines.
I liked that too. They pretty much throw out the digimon and act as cheerleaders while the digimon do all the fighting. The digimon need the kids for digivolving but seam to do all the physical work. Know the kids do thear owne fighting and that is bad in what way?
@@KidSnivy69 What personal growth? The first two seasons of digimon have NO character development at all. They don't grow as people in the slightest. (Except maybe TK. He becomes less of a cry baby.) Tamers did a better job than the first two, but frontier puts them all to shame. It spends a lot of time ensuring that all the kids grow as people and there major character flaws a fixed.
@maxie fuqua HA HA HA! No they didn't! I can think of one episode where J.p and Zoey got development, Takuya had the two parter where he went back to the human world, Tommy gets a bit more lip serves but it is stock bullying issues. The only one with any real development are the twins (and even then most of it goes to Koji)
Yeah... That made it weird for me, for some reason. Maybe I'm just too used to them not doing anything. But then I liked the way they did the Action on Data Squad...
Reginald Bailey it wasn’t in the show. There was this rumour or something that people came up with about that one episode where tai goes back to the normal world about there being underlying tones of incest. I think there is a RUclips video about this idk I can’t remember
This is my Digimon guilty pleasure. I enjoy aspects of Frontier (turning in Digimon, the theme song, the kids English voice actors, Bokomon and Namon, the battle in the last episode, small easter eggs like where Gailantmon was voiced by Brain Beacock and Steve Blum, the design of the Human Legendary Warrior forms); but as a whole I can't say it has the nostalgia I get from Adventure, a badass like Ken and more depth to the villain like Adventure 02, or the complex story and characters of Tamers. I gladly own the first four seasons on DVD, but I can see why people have their problems with this season.
Haven’t even started watching the video and I wanna say this......this was one of my favorites seasons. How can you not like a season where you turn into a superhero digimon instead of standing on the sidelines?! Ok now back to Cruella and smoking this blunt I go!🤣
All of what you said here is true and those were some of the reasons I disliked Frontier at first. However, you missed the fact that there IS a motivation, but it's not exactly clear since the beginning and it's exactly that what the whole Ophanimon/get to that place is about. The kids always had the choice to return to their world and the fact that they didn't is exactly why they were chosen, they were driven by something bigger than themselves and, at the same time, something they were looking for inside themselves. The reason Frontier became my second favorite (nothing can beat Tamers) is because when I rewatched it about two years ago I noticed all this subtle character details I didn't notice as a kid. Sure, they have no clear motivation from the beginning more than "this seems interesting" but they have a lot more than the Adventure kids that were kinda forced into it. There's actually a whole arc that deals with their motivations and it's the one where they are inside Sephirotmon. What I like the most about Frontier is that it talks about defense mechanisms and how their backgrounds and circumstances have made them develop these defense mechanisms that kinda alienates them from their true, vulnerable selves: Zoe? A tomboyish girl who had to learn to appear feminine in order to fit and always felt alone because her relationships were superficial. JP: a fat, rejected kid who learned to be accomodating and silly to be liked because he didn't like himself. Takuya, who was too scared of taking responsibilities so he became reckless and doesn't take anything seriously. Tommy: a spoiled kid who always just had to cry to get whatever he wanted and was used to depending on other for everything. Kouji who, after his parents split and his father prohibited from seeing his mother, kinda closed himself to any new relationships and lastly, Kouichi, of whom we don't know much but whose motivation is the clearest: hating his father but wanting desperately to getting to know his brother. If you pay attention, whenever a character is the focus of an incident, it always has to do with their defense mechanisms. The idea behind their enemies and fights usually puts them face to face with those parts of themselves that they don't want to accept until the Sephirotmon arc where they finally realize that everything that they have gone through has shown them that without their defense mechanisms they are stronger. There's even a part where Takuya goes back to the real world in order to run away from the fear of the fight, from his lack of confidence in his abilities and thanks to Ophanimon he realizes that he has always had it in him to rise up to the challenge (just by accepting he already had) and he decides to go back to see his responsibilites through. There's a lot more that I like which is all about characters, like the part when Zoe, Tommy and JP complain that they don't have powerups and can only watch from the sidelines and JP tells them that even from the sidelines, they have a role to play.
I likes frontier and its concept but it needed a better plot for it's great villains. If Cheruibimon wasnt turned evil but manipulated instead it would have been great. The 2 royal knights great
Interesting. So, the kids turning into Digimon could have been like a representation of the kids changing and becoming stronger than those defense mechanisms.
i liked adventure abit more then frontier honestly cause they were forced into it, and the plot didnt push motivies it made those clear form the start it pushed the importence of family and friends even different kinda familys tai and kari: shows the loving sibling relationships, along with good parents matt and tk: show a seperated family, but still shows the brotherly connection and brings out a part of matt he tries to hide izzy: adoupted and ahving to deal with that alone cause his mind is sometimes abit much for him and his parents never gathering the courge to tell him i could go on the characters were interesting not cause of themselves but cause of there familys
Frontier is one of my favorite seasons. Did I have to wake up super early because it came on at 6 am and aired on a channel we barely got and would I have to spend 15 minutes adjusting the antenna so I could watch it? Yes, but it got me through a school year where I was bullied so badly and had so many issues academically and emotionally my parents transferred me to another school halfway through the year. I could relate to all the characters in one way or another and it still holds a special place in my heart almost 19 years later.
no idea about adventure, been 16 years since i watched it but tamers has a dark plot, which is great for such an anime for kids (yes, it was for kids at that time) and frontier has some actual plot other than "LETS FIGHT THE EVIL" they also had to restore world to its original
I feel like this season had real stakes involved. From what I remember, they were genuinely afraid to die and I don't think any other seasons explored that. They also had some real world struggles. I loved this season.
Towards the end there was this ticking clock for the end of the Digital World. The Royal Knights were absorbing all the data from the Digital World little by little, and the Digidestined had to stop them. In fact near the end the World had completely disappeared! As a child it was really harrowing because at one point the children actually failed to save the Digital World (even though it was completely restored in the end).
uh… tamers? Digimon straight up died in that. Constantly. The end of the series is literally a nod to evangelion with a monstrous it’s consuming all of our reality?
Ioved the season. It's actually my favorite. People hate on it too much. I mean the kids were pretty much tricked into going there in episode 1. Then by the time we get to episode 30 huge chunks of the digimon's world has been consumed and probably thousands of them died because of it. Due to the kids failures. I actually loved the episode where Takuya becomes a digimon and see's the world through their eyes. I also love how one of the boys, I think his name was T.J. I don't remember but he had The MetalKabuterimon Spirit. literally tried to claim Zoe's human spirit (Kazemon) And I always laugh at that moment because well it wouldve been funny.
@@cseijifja literally every monster defeated by Rika in the first few episodes she appears in was killed and absorbed by Renamon for their power, Leomon died brutally, and the D-Reaper caused massive destruction in the real world in an ending explicitly patterned after Evangelion. And this isn’t like, a sign of quality or a dig on Frontier or anything, it’s just like, a basic fact of that me and my friend literally kept score of how many characters died or were killed in Tamers and got to double digits before we got distracted and stopped watching and didn’t even make it to Metalgrowlmon.
I hate 02(and it's sequels) undeniably more than even this season for being the closest thing any other animesque medium got a similar treatment to current Pokemon anime
@@bengianturco7926 I used to dislike or hate any Digimon seasons past first 2 ones until I realizes lot of things that make Digimon more than just Pokemon clone only found on these digimon seasons
@@Masonicon I think the reason why I dislike Tamers is by having a card game it feels like Yugioh and the first 2 seasons of Digimon were the best also Fusion season was something different from what any season has done before
I liked the idea of Turing into digimon instead of just having a pet cause it’s good to see the kids having to work on their own rather than just relying on their pet for everything
well then you need to atch super sentai or power ranger or something dude. "not having pets" is a very legitimate criticism of this shit show, despite not being the most important one
Yes. It was actually a sort of mutual, uncomfortable attraction between Tai and Kairi. There was an interview with some of the Japanese cast and I think one of the big writers a while back, and from what they said, they all understood, and made certain choices to carefully construct and deliver the lines to properly carry that subtext, particularly for that episode where Tai was back. That episode *feels* weird and awkward and frustrating even visually, and it's like that on purpose. One of the most interesting features was the dynamic of Kairi and Agumon/Koromon, which they said was intended to carry the energy of a wife or girlfriend finding out about a mistress, but not wanting to make a scene. I imagine none of that was carried into the dub, of course.
More power to you. I hate this season, but that doesn't mean people can't like it. I just want them to make a distinction between Liking something and something being good. Because there is a diffrence.
Frontier was my second favorite, and in my opinion, the *ONLY* time the soundtrack of the English version was superior to it's original Japanese version. The tribal musical theme of the English version was actually more varied in this outing than the original.
I will say I really enjoyed Frontier, although Tamers was my favorite season. I actually just rewatched Tamers on Hulu and the emotional core of the story still hit me as an adult. I appreciate that Digimon tried to evolve its core concept beyond "Kids with monster partners go on an adventure". Frontiers at least tried to do something different and set itself apart from Pokémon, which a lot of properties were trying to mimic at that point in time.
Not gonna lie, the 4 digivillains with the "goofy voices" were some of my favorites. It's similar to Etemon with his Elvis impression. lol Although, it did feel like they reused scenes a little too much this season. Also, the opening is great as well.
You call it the "hated" season. But the comments say otherwise. Myself included, it is my favorite season. Sorry you were bored. Also, during my study abroad in Japan, I rode the same train line as Takuya in the beginning when he received the messages!
Llllhbbbhdhhhd lol media can definitely be objectively bad. Low animation quality, bad voice acting, incoherent story, bad sound mixing and tons of other reasons
Sleepy Gary Really? I’m no RUclips critic, yet there are people who actually criticize the show. They don’t hate it because it is different. They hate it because it sucks. Frontier is at it’s best during the Duskmon arc, and even then it went downhill during Cherubimon
frontier was actually my introduction to digimon. it was the episode patamon was born. it played on jetix and i finished it, then watched adventure, 02, and tamers and re-watched all the rest of frontier haha.
Before looking them up again and rewatching them again, whenever I thought back on Digimon, it was THIS SEASON that I would recall. The way the fused with the Digimon was *E P I C.*
@@supermanXL it was literally the most interesting part to many fans back then lol it could have been introduced better and the development later on was a bit rushed but definitely one of the best parts of the season
It's just a Matt rehash. The only twists are that dad is a huge dick saying "Sorry Kid, your mom is dead... *whispers in inaudible voice (to me)" And the mind control BS is to justify having an enemy then turned good because he wasn't really evil and character development is HARD. Not going to buy it. I would rather liked to see the little brother as the new "Digimon Emperor".
I feel like it came out of nowhere, and like everything else, there was little consequence - Koichi joins the group, and that's it. He never really takes the time to get to know his twin brother or ask him about his life.
Frontier made me cry on the later few episodes. It really had a good story imo. I recalled Takuya and Koji's eternal struggle against the royal knights, clashing with each other, again and again, but lost every single time. And the foreshadowing of Koichi actually already being dead and the eventual lead up to the last scene with "An Endless Tale" theme, was a truly touching and emotional moment.
I will say that I love EmperorGreymon. He’s one of my favorite Greyson evolutions and his design is completely underrated. It’d be cool to see him as a biomerged mega in the new anime with Tai
i do enjoy frontier (for the most part) it does have some enjoyable moments and digivolution animations are amazing. but it certainly is alot weaker compared to the previous 3 shows IMO, mainly because of the weaker characters that arent nearly as likable than previous ones .......of course im talking about """"sub""" or atleast the german dub that was 100% faithful to it...cuz this english dub...its clearly they werent taking the source material serious at all lol its always funny how back then i never batted an eye of how "fanservicy" kazemon looks back then. unlike now haha
This was the first show Disney worked on after they bought the rights from Saban. That probably affected the quality of the dub, or at least part of it.
To me it was actually one of the funniest parts, how Ranamon was a complete japanese idol girl that absolutely lost her shit whenever a scandalous woman with curves upstaged her. Given how much fanservice Digimon always had with this kind of stuff (Like Angewomon vs Ladydevimon, Rosemon, and the whole Sakuyamon thing), I actually thought it was refreshing they actually added comedy instead of just plain fanservice.
I was always in love with cherubimon and Mercurymon as serophimon. For me Tommy ruined the season for me only because he was tk with no redeemable qualities and would bitch and moan about everything (granted he was the youngest but this is season 4)
I'm so glad for all the people saying it's their favorite season. It's mine too! I care a lot more about the human characters than the Digimon. Digimon are just glorified pets
eh i kinda think you're wrong about the digimon being glorified pets isnt completely true. This is bc they have feelings and stuff but yeah. I liked frontier one of my most favorites and i think with them doing it the way they did was genius and added some spice to a formula they were using a little to much.
Soul Punker Digimon frontier was the first season I watched and it was great I basically watch all the episode in 2 or 3 days and it was great. Even today I still rewatch the episode and the theme song is in my head. Don’t get me wrong Digimon adventure was really great it just frontier will always be my favorite
When I see or hear comments like this all I can think of is that you just don’t get it. With frontier the themes of spiritual growth and reliance on discovering a solution were always present. Even some of the stand alone episodes like making burgers for petaldramon serve to show that the characters each have their own strengths. In the beginning of the show JP was more stand off ish. Which was refreshing because some shows try to use the heavier set characters as bullies but adding him to the main cast gave meaning to his redemption or realization arc. Something else they did well is that the cast still had some elements of being children. Such as the case of episode 2 where takuya and zoey have a little argument over whether or not being older makes someone a leader. Bringing in kojis brother cemented that he still needed to learn how to trust people and that he can let someone in and they won’t excessively lie to him. They served as opposites for each other in the sense that koji held the spirits of light and his brother held the spirits of darkness yet their personalities didn’t match their spirits. With the beast spirits it really threw Takuya for a loop when he finally found burninggreymon but couldn’t control it. Koji could control kendogarurumon relatively easy but Takuya just couldn’t. He was too hot headed and the spirit knew that and as a result he lost control. Another thing they did well were some of the beast spirits. They were offshoot species of digimon we already knew from the original adventure series. It was a nice reference that did a lot with the carrying design elements yet familiar feeling. And susanoomon was a nice reference to omnimon without feeling like a cut copy version of him. Frontier is more underrated than anything because while some characters had to learn the same lessons over and over again it emphasized the face they are kids and sometimes kids don’t learn what they need to the first time and other times it takes painful reminders for a lesson to take hold as something they really need to pay attention to
You put this into words so much better than I could. This series felt like it was focusing more on gradual growth of the characters instead of quick growth. And like you said, they're children and often times children (and even adults) have to learn certain lessons multiple times before it sticks, especially when that lesson involves deeply rooted insecurities and past trauma. I can understand why the writing of this show doesn't vibe well with everyone, but to just dismiss it as objectively bad writing I feel doesn't do it enough justice.
@@StonedHunter I mean people just need to be more reasonable. It’s not like fusion which basically killed the franchise. With weird designs, confusing plot, and beyond lazy names. The only breath of fresh air we got after fusion/Xross wars is appli universe appmon. But even then they’re only a subspecies offshoot of digimon
Fully agree. I think the sentiment that people expected Digimon to be better than Pokemon definitely holds true, at least in the west. Also I never noticed the real decline of Digimon until the series between Frontier and Fusion, with Fusion being the metaphorical nail in the coffin. I really feel like people have such high expectations of Digimon and it might have negatively effected the franchise leaving us without new content because nobody wants to release it over here and get hated on for not being perfect. :/
@@StonedHunter you might be talking about data squad but that was also well received here. Fusion was the really guillotine for the franchise. I don’t think people tried to hold it to the same tier as Pokémon but it was competing for dominance in the market. But if you want new content the best we have is a reboot of the classic adventures that starts out more or less the same as the original but quickly shifts to a new story in which all the main cast unlock their megas
Believe or not Digimon Frontier is the Real Dark Horse. There is a video somewhere on RUclips or was that dived deep into the characters. And something shocking. All characters showed signs of Depression. That’s right. They all have it. The leader has a depression caused by the fact that their father never makes it home. The two brothers have Abandonment depression ( its real.) basically the family is split for no clear reason. ( Matt from Digimon adventure 01 has it) I’ll let you find out the rest.
Thank you!! Holy fuck glad I'm not the only one who realized how sucked up these kids were. Everyone was suffering from depression and had real issues for kids at that age which I found relatable especially Kochi
Yeah ALOT of Digimon series, especially if you can find it uncut and properly fansubbed, is dark and depressing. Savers (aka uncut Data Squad) takes the cake though. It was intended for older viewers who grew up with the Adventure series 1 and 2, Tamers, and Frontier and as such it was incredibly adult themed not only with the typical anime fanservice, but also dark and depressing themes as well. The main character doesn't even care if he lives or dies and one of the female characters was a victim of sexual assalt so yeah Savers was as dark as hell. Characters in all Digimon series tend to be depressed or have a friend who is depressed.
I loved Frontier more did I did any other season of Digimon. I remember coming home every day from elementary school seeing how the show progressed and oh man, what a treat it was.
"So much emotion and development in the characters" You mean like Takuya giving Tommy words of wisdom with courage and vengeance not being compatible? Then Tommy returning the favor when Takuya went Berserk Beast Greymon? Or the time Zoey saw a reflection of herself in Tsunomon when she always segregate herself in the real world and know how immoral that is? Or what about Koichi being more trusting in individuals he doesn't know because he never liked interacting with strangers but always returns a debt he owes to them like say, saving his hide?
@@SiNKarnage for me,the characters in frontiers are very..'normal' They are normal kids having normal problems etc It's like, they're relatable Their struggle with family,adjusting with new environment,getting others' attention,having to open up to new people etc, it's all normal in our life And, that's for me what made frontiers special Of course,no adoption crisis/divorce etc from adventure but,every digimon media does not need to be like adventure,they are special in their own rights, Heck every digimon anime has its own set of morals Adventure/02-importance of having dream/hope Tamers-embrace reality Frontiers-how to live in society/with others Savers-you can change your fate Xros wars-teamwork is gold Appmon-danger of technology 2020-journey makes you who you are(because of the crests is the accumulation of their journey experience) Ghost game-still incomplete
I find it interesting that so many people hated Frontier but adored Tamers... I had the exact opposite experience. Frontier had a fully formed plot that took on a massive effort to show as much of how life in the digital world is like. The twist with Koichi felt intentional, with subtle elements leading up to it. Not to mention that him being controlled by Cherubimon was a DIRECT result of his incredibly complicated feelings regarding his family and the spiral of loneliness he felt as a result. It was only possible for him to be taken advantage of because of the vulnerable depression he was in and we see the journey he goes through alongside his twin to come to terms with that. You could even make some comparisons to Ken of 02 in how depression can destroy a person. We also get a protagonist in Takuya who is selfish, providing a long road to learning to be more responsible. (I mean, he literally abandons his quest because he gets SO scared he runs off with the only goal of saving his own skin. And has to realize he's abandoning everyone else too if he does this.) I completely disagree that the characters lack depth or real world applicable growth. With Tamers I felt like the first half promised a lot and was very strong, and then completely falls off into a miserable slog of disjointed character beats. Impmon and Jeri carried the series and once the D-Reaper came into play, Jeri's possessed random acts of shock value got old very very fast. I watched both of these as a child (and one who was all about darker story plots) and I could tell you even 20 years later more about the cast of Frontier than anyone from Tamers. The main cast of Tamers to me had very little memorable about them, whereas the digimon societies in Frontier always kept me interested. To me personally, while I do agree Frontier had plenty of issues with its filler dragging on a little too long(this definitely didn't do it any favors with getting viewers to look past the "no-partners" aspect of the show.), Tamers' endless pacing issues were much much harder to sit through and were likely a big part of why Tamers' ratings tanked by its finale. I do find your perspectives here interesting, despite feeling most of your points against Frontier could easily be said for Tamers as well, but i think we got very different things out of each which i can respect.
I've watched all your other Digimon reviews, and I agreed with them for the most part. I wholeheartedly and respectfully disagree with this one completely though. Most I will agree is that people turned their heads because the formula changed and what was left wasn't enough to keep them hooked, but I will disagree with literally everything else. First of all, there's an implication that the humans are digitized in the other seasons, and that the danger they are in is real... However only Digimon are ever in the front lines. Digimon literally act as shields to the Chosen, and there's this clear dissonance. Digimon are objects (that sometimes complement their "owners") to be used, and most of their "friendly" discourse doesn't really come through. They talk like they are friends, while they are mostly weapons. Digimon Frontier completely turns that around. Oh you are digital? You want stakes? Here, be full fledged characters that doesn't need complements. Go fight you wars, if you lose you die and it is your fault, there's no reviving as an egg, because you're human. And for the first time humans actually have agency to stand up and fight for the Digimon. Now, why would they do that? Well. Those very "not very good" filler episodes are full of small moments where the kids learn to care for this world and their inhabitants. Not only that, it is actually the least gimmicky and confusing evolutionary wise series. There's no thing to collect besides the Legendary Souls. Each kid gets 2 or 3 forms, and they all make some sense. There's no tags, mentals, cards. Your plant doesn't become a bird and your armadillo doesn't become a submarine. Your dead angel doesn't go back to an egg, and the rules are a lot clearer. And I don't really find the characters bland (except for maybe Tommy). Takuya goes through the Digimon leader gauntlet of being a moronic idiot that has to learn to be a leader, except that everyone, except for Tommy doesn't just take that right away. He really takes the torch of having to be courageous straight from Tai, while Davis felt too stupid and Takato was a cry-baby. JP probably has the biggest evolution as a character in the series. He is greatly entitled despite being a coward, but he greatly adapts into being a support character that knows how to protect people, or stand up for injustice. He even grows to the point where his crush on Zoey isn't really an issue any more. THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS. AN ANIME CHARACTER THAT GROWS OUT OF A CRUSH, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT. Koji and Koichi are a bit of a mixed bag, but a lot of the plot twists rely on them, and they work. It was cool finding out there was a twin brother, and it was cool to learn how different his condition was to the rest of the characters in the last arc. Zoey has a lot of faults that "the girl of this shonen" has, but as far as it goes, it's not that bad. She is not really worried about boys. She is called out for being vapid. She learns about responsability and friendship as much as anyone else. She feels like a good mid point between Sora and Mimi. Tommy is probably the least innovative character, but if I'm being honest, he is a lot less annoying than young TK and a lot more relevant than Cody. Yeah, he does have to learn the same lesson over and over, but I think he comes across as the most actually responsible little kid in Digimon up to this point. I think the villains are a bit lacking in terms of personality (Except for Mercurymon. HE IS RAD AF. Don't tell me you didn't like when he stole Seraphimon's powers), but they really are the first set of Digimon villains that are actualyl competent. In Adventure, the villains only ever succeed when the kids aren't around, with the exception of Myotismon. In 02, they have to take back from a villain that already won while there was no one around. In Tamers there's a lot of even give and take, but the villains never really do much apart from Leomon or the last arc. Frontier? NO BOY. YOU BEGINNERS BETTER LEARN FAST. SEE? THIS WORLD IS ACTUALLY DYING. WOOPS YOU WERE TRYING TO PROTECT THIS CITY? TOO BAD, IT IS GONE NOW. AND EVERY CITY WE TAKE MAKES THE LAST BOSS STRONGER. Every villain gets at least one win. The Royal Knights kick their butts into Oblivion and it is actually really engaging to see the kids turning the tables with some level of strategy and perseverance. Also, FIRE!!! is and absolute masterpiece of a theme song. The ending theme is also very beautiful and touching. With the Will and The Last Element are probably the best evolution themes the show ever had. I grew up watching all 4 original seasons, here in Brazil it was a lot better represented, and had a more fair run than in America. So while I may be nostalgic for all 4 seasons, Frontier remains my favorite.
I remember being really sad when I watched the last episode of Digimon Tamers(which was my favorite season) on TV. I was a dumb kid and thought that it would just magically continue the next week, but instead the first episode of Digimon Frontier aired that day. I hated it because it wasn't what my dumb kid brain expected, I wanted Tamers to continue, but I kept watching it anyway since there was nothing else on TV that interested me. Over the next few episodes I started really liking it and watched it all the way to the end.
Fun Fact: In the brazilian dub of Digimon Frontier, Takuya was dubbed by Fabio Lucindo, Ash Ketchum's voice actor. Both shows aired together at the time. He was the VA for Ash from episode 1 up until the end of XY Season 2.
De fato meu caro. Mas o problema principal é que ele ta forçando a voz p parecer de criança, pois no começo quando ele dublou era desconfortavel mas mesmo assim era ''passavel'' sabe? Agora é insuportavel
Nuh uh. *That title is a lie.* When this was on TV, everyone was talking about Digimon like it was 🔥 fire 🔥. Everyone in my neighborhood was silent halfway into season 2, but season 3 was lit. And it's now regarded as one of the best seasons. I liked every season. But even I had to admit, *season 4 (Frontier)* is what saved the franchise as far as everybody was concerned. *Even if you didn't like Digimon, you liked season 4.* That's how lit it was back in the day.
Frontier is the reason for the 3 year hiatus. Its views and toy sales were the lowest of any series at the time and its popularity in the u.s. was shit. Im pretty sure xros wars is worse in viewership but it had a hugely popular toy line in japan
Wow.....I had no idea how disliked this season was. It is actually my FAVORITE season of Digimon. Then again, that was probably cause it was the SECOND series of the show I ever saw when I was in Nigeria. The first being season 3 which I liked. Also, the plot and various character building sub plots were great! Also, IT HAD THE BEST THEME SONG EVVVAAAHHH!!!!
@@dontuse10 lol👍 I know what you mean. I have 2 siblings and we would all struggle to watch our favorite cartoons. But we mostly got along and watch things together like Hey Arnold!
lmfaoo i love how he titled the "the hated season" but after reading the comments it seems like hes the only one who really hated this season😂😂😭😭😂😭😭 I persoanlly loved this season, my second fav next to season 2 for personal reasons but the turning into the digimon was always a fantasy of mine so when they did it i was def surprised and excited for this season!! 🔥🔥🔥
It's one of my favorite seasons because of these reasons: 1. Introduced a new theme (Humans DVing into Digimon. It's like introducing a new mechanic in an RPG) 2. Elementals. This show highlights elemental powers which is rarely highlighted in Digimon series. 3. Introduced a lot of great Digimon such as the Double Hybrids, Zeta Hybrids, and the first 2 Royal Knights (Technically Omegamon, UlForce Veedramon, and Gallantmon appeared first, but Dynasmon and LordKnightmon were the ones that established the Royal Knight thing, and then it's carried further to Savers and the Digimon Lore). 4. Susanoomon. IMO it's the best 'final form' in any Digimon series than Omegamon / Imperialdramon / Gallantmon / ShineGreymon BM. 5. Lucemon FM
Gotta agree about susannomon, I really love the design of it and the concept with it being the fusion of all ten legendary warriors human and beast spirits. Im still trying to work on getting him in cyber sleuth. Lol.
I knew I recognized that character from somewhere. I recognized it from your profile picture. I don't know where I recognize you from though.... but I do some how.
Matthew Coyle I've been around a lot of places. It might not even be me, because I saw some other guy in a different video use the same google stock photo of Neemon that I used
This video is wild. The first four seasons of Digimon are all great for different reasons but Frontier was the most fun! Frontier is the catharsis of Digimon, after the darkness of Tamers. I'm still so annoyed that they left Frontier and went into Data Squad (which is the worst of the worst), especially when Frontier still had so much story to tell.
I hated this season. The kids turning into Digimon was a massive turnoff for me, and to this day, I still do, couldn't even make past the first 15 minutes of episode 1
This is actually the 1st time I heard people hate it. Everybody I talked to that saw it, or the people I recommended this to loved it. Most prefer the first 2 season over this one, and I think it's mostly because of nostalgia reasons, but some are like me and prefer this better. But out of all the people I talked to, I still haven't met someone who hate this season. This is the 1st time I am hearing people hate it. Who cares they don't have partner Digimon when they can turn into them. When I was a kid, I thought the was the coolest thing. I personally always thought it was better than the other seasons because they can actually defend themselves rather than hide behind their Digimon in a dangerous world. I still recommend people to watch it, and it's still my favorite
That's not what Digimon is. You want a show like this? Watch Power Rangers. Calling it good because "they fight themselves" is just liking a premise. That's the shallowest of reasons to like something, especially when the premise itself is just a ripoff of Sentai series to a T.
FNGLHR Pokemon, Yugioh, and beyblade were a thing at this time. You wanted a FOURTH show with the little pet monster show for babies garbage. Yeah, the other guy is the one with problem, lmao.
denz310 Honestly the whole dynamic in Digimon Adventure (and other seasons but now I just use this one season as example) was quite interesting. They had great power in form of there partners but they themselves where just human kids trying to survive in this dangerous world. Even a Rocky level Digimon can be a thread because if it gets somehow past there partners a poison arrow ore a little fire ball ore some claws are enough to put them six feet under. And they have to deal with problems like finding food and water. Simply wandering a great distance is not an easy task. Although I wonder why they don't use there flying partners fore fast travel more often. I know it eats up there partners energy reserve but I think long wandering through some desert is not much less exhausting. It is quite unic compared to other franchises where humans work together with monsters. Fore example in Bayonetta ore Persona 5 they have a more symbotic conection with there monsters that gave the humans themselves super powers. Bayonetta dont has to be afraid of a 3rd sphere Angel. Infact she is actully harder to kill than here demon summons. And she seems to have unlimited stamina and a transformation that helps with travel faster than a car. With Characters like here ore the Phantom Thieves you dont run into problems like in Digimon Adventure with these Normal human Kids. Well maybe not normal if look at this realistically but you know what I mean. I found this dynamic (I hope that is the right word) very interesting and cool. Mere humans drooped as Keyfigures in this dangerous adventure. The downsides is that they dont do much in combat besides enable the evolution. The thing is in Digimon Adventure the writing is focused on the Kids while Digimon partners are not all that interesting Characters. I like Gomamon but still. It is generally more satisfying to have a Character I like to do cool stuff in combat than a Character I found relatively uninteresting. I love Bayonetta as a Character so seeing here whipping the floor with those Angels is immensely satisfying and fun. But in Adventure all the interesting main Characters are the Kids that can not fight. Its not like they never do anything cool like when TK tricked Puppetmon, when Joe saved Tk from drowning and all the stuff Izzy pulls of but still. I gotta say Tamers is my favorite when it comes to human monster partnership. Through different means, the cards, that unexplained symbiotic link Takato has with Guilmon and the Biomerge evolution the Tamers actively help in combat the entire time in cool fashion. Tamer and Digimon feel more like partners. On top of that the Digimon are way better written so seeing them kick ass is so much cooler. Bayonetta has cooler teamwork with here Demons but not much of a relationship with them. The Demons are just cool monsters with no personality. While Tamers has its moments where the human partners where in danger like when Gargomon was threatening Rika with his gun the problems the Adventure kids had to deal with are not all that prominent but overall I found its the best example of human monster partnership of them all. Not just looking at Digimon but looking at all franchises I know. Ahh the power of compelling writing. Its marvelous. of course that is all subjectively. I love the human Characters and Digimon in Tamers so much but someone else who is not as blown away as I am, may not find it halve as good. When it comes to Frontier I honestly simply dont like the Characters. Its that simple. I dont have anything against Kids that can fight themselves.
@@FNGLHR Digimon fighting to save the digital world? Yes I called that Digimon, and yes that's one of the main reason I love the show. The first two season was awesome, but the digits destine for nothing but better character develop Sakuras that was also was a battery source. If the Digimon could digivolve by themselves , they would have been completely expendable.
I remember liking this as a kid, though I don't remember this group of Tamers being able to go home whenever they wanted. I'm thinking this because one of my favorite episodes was one where Takuya wants to go home and takes a train back, but it turns him into a human/digimon hyvbrid where he does his best to stay but ends up having to return in the end.
takuya didn't return to the real world, it's more of dream he is having where he has to come to terms with his new developed fear towards duskmon and the regret of ever leaving the real world. (it is shown at the start of episode 3, that when they try to leave the digiworld they just get teleported back. Also in episode 22 - which is where takuya has that dream - it is made very clear that he in fact did not return to the real world, because he's seeing himself before leaving on the day of his brother birthday. He tries to stop himself from leaving until realizing that he values his friendship with the rest of the group over the safety of his home.)
@@YuTopian It's not a dream, he actually does go back in time and was given the chance to prevent himself from going to the Digital World in the first place. Don't forget, at one point he's following Koji and sees Koichi before anyone knows Koichi even exists.
For me, Frontier was soo good, I remember RPGing as one of the Digimons while playing fights with neighbourhood friends. It was second best for me(favorite being Digimon Adventure 01,02 due to the added nostalgia).
Woa. Woa woa woa woa woa. I happened to love frontier. That was my absolutely favorite, hands down. The thought of being able to BECOME a digimon? Not even Pokémon could make me that excited.
I really liked Frontier as a kid. I was starting to play jprgs and Frontier feels like one. The lore about the warriors was great, and the villains felt really strong
The thing that always annoys me about frontier is how Takuya and Koji got like 4 different spirit evolutions while the other 4 only got human and beast spirit evolutions. Add in the fact that the fourth kind of spirit evolution included taking the spirits of the other 4 characters and combing them with Takuya and Koji meant that the others could no longer join in with the fighting, forcing them to find other things to do while those 2 did all the fighting. I will say that, while I didn't out right hate this season, it's not one of my favourites (mainly because other seasons had characters that stood out more to me). Love hearing your thoughts on digimon because I love this franchise and hate that we have to wait ages before something new comes from it (well from a tv aspect anyway).
Being somewhat fair to that idea, as far as my memory recalls, that's kind of a running theme with Digimon, where the goggles-wearing main protagonist and his '"rival"s Digimon have more forms than the others, at least regarding the first two seasons. After Frontier, I kinda fell out of watching Digimon so dunno if this kept going. Though I'd have to agree with the last bit. Even if the other Digimon couldn't get as strong as Goggles and Rival's, they could still do something. I do remember sighing at the fact that we yet again got two kids that were more "special" than the others in that regard when I saw it in Frontier.
"Xros Wars/Fusion" had Shoutmon (goggle-boy's partner) and Metalgreymon (rival) get super evolutions, while none of Nene's (the main girl) digimon get one, aside from all of them combining into Shoutmon X7 (Superior Mode). The leader in "Young Hunters" (or as I like to call it: "Time Wasters") also got his partner an extra evolution near the end of that 'season.' "Savers/Data Squad" and "Appmon" pretty much had all of the main partners get equal treatment in Mega/Mega-equivalant forms. Although, the last episode of "Savers" gave their version of Agumon some weird 'burst mode' with a longer tail and a bird aura. I don't know why that happened, it just did.
@@theflashfan3234 Don't get me wrong, Data Squad was good/ok (from what I remember). I think my only problem with it is the main character/leader (don't remember his name) having an Agumon for a partner. I didn't like how there was another Agumon cause to me there will always be one Agumon, Tai's Agumon. I don't know, that just bothered me. Lame I know but that's just me.
@@nejifan25 ok, i was with you on Frontier but you must not have gotten to far into Data Squad. It is by far and away the most exciting and quotable of all the Digimon seasons. It's up there with some of the most hype shounen anime ever made! It even got quoted and referenced by Gurren Lagann and Final Fantasy, it's that iconic at times. It does take a bit to get going though and, the first opening was shit, so i can understand.
I like the series though but one thing i disliked was that two chaaracters are so over powered from their peers.these two characters in each and every episode after 30 th episode are just kiching the asses of the villians.whereas the others just cheer for them.come on man ...!!
@@violetrose674 except the others still had their other evolutions. Frontier just took away any and all battle capability from the other kids and made them useless. Even in tge final episode they're not really needed for Susanoomon since the orher two were able to do it just before.
@@violetrose674 Even though Tai and Matt were the only ones to reach mega, the other Digimon and children still participated and got things done. They were able to keep up with them even though they were not as powerfull. In Frontier Zoey, Koichi, Tommy and JP are completly useless most of the time and it is way worse than in Adventure :/
I disagree adventure 2 only had some really stanadout moments but they were undermined by the constant change in direction dropped plot points and boring cast minus the emperor(ken?) He was easily the best written villian and had an amazing redemption arc until it was revealed that it was a magic spore all along. Frontier was far more interesting overall.
@@kingoflions827 Frontier had the lamest set of protags, half of whom the show itself seemed to just not care about 2/3 of the way in. Tommy was, if you squint, the best written since his arc of being independent sorta got fulfilled, though that was more the show forgetting that he's like 8 years old compared to the tween characters. Nothing about JP or Zoe gets fully explored, Kouichi exists more as a plot device, and even though Koujia and Takuya were the main focus they also didn't ever evolve as characters. 02 may have been a mess, but the new characters at least had consistent focus and development. Davis stops being such a thirsty little prick, Yolei matures though retains her optimism, and Cody learns nuance in his views of the world. All of the 02 kids got challenged in ways the Frontier kids did not.
This is actually a favorite season of mine, though I do have an unusual issue... - Flame, light, and dark are the only elements with aesthetically pleasing official fusions of the human and beast spirits - Thunder and Wind had the potential to have great ones because of the designs for the human and beast spirits - The spirits for the other elements seem honestly like they'd never work as spirit digivolving figures
@@theredguy4043 There's a fan-comic sequel that introduces a rookie form that makes the line make a little more sense--Digimon Frontier: Rebirth, I think? It's apparently on hiatus, but it's got huge potential--I hope the author returns to it.
I hated this show not because of the kids turning into Digimon but the fact that Takuya and Koji are the only ones that ever matter in the last half of the show. The other kids have to give their spirits to those two so they could reach the next level of evolution. So while they're out fighting the royal knights the others are doing jack. Hell even in the first half for some reason the writers have a hard on for Koji since he gets the best fights, actually has something to do with the villains considering his brother, even leaves the group a couple times to do some other mission or whatnot.
...isnt that always what happens in most digimon series? It's always others using their digimon to help the goggle leader's and angsty guy's digimons merge and become some super duper mega level.
THAT I can agree with! As much as I like this season, it was such a travesty seeing the other kids get shafted, especially since there ARE canon power ups for them that they for some reason, decided to ignore.
Yeah...as much as I actually do like Frontier, I can admit that is a very valid criticism. Even before the remaining kids started passing their Digimon spirits Takuya and Koji had already out paced them by being able to fuse their human and beast spirits. The rest of the kids only had two forms yet the leader and angsty one kept getting power up after power up.
Just cause here is my favorite Digimon seasons. 1: Frontier 2: Adventure 3: Tamers 4: Adventures 2 I don't know after that cause i don't think i watched the others fully.
I stopped after the fourth season, too. But not because I didn't like "Frontier". It's my favorite season out of the first four as well. School just got rougher and the fifth season somehow didn't do it for me in the beginning after I had seen the much better fourth season. However, I caught glimpse of later episodes which looked really epic, to be honest.
Y’all are forgetting that the SPIRITS are their PARTNERS 🤨 and this is a KIDS SHOW it throws away logic and everything, just enjoy where the story goes and the themes they introduce. These types of shows try to teach kids to just go with the flow and it succeeds at that through their characters.
I admire the premise, but the execution was sloppy and one of the arcs (the Royal Knights) was extremely drawn-out, and only served to amplify the feeling that the other four kids were useless in battle and to the plot. The characters weren't often delved into, and when they were it barely would last an episode or two before being quickly resolved without much long-term payoff. I still enjoy the show, but it's always through the lenses of nostalgia and an actually good English-dub theme song (and, yes, I watch the dub, so sue me).
Yes this the double Spirit and Hyper Spirit was inspired by Season 1. Its explicid stated, what they did what because of Adventures. And its not like they made it worst. Season 1 and 2 only give Ultimates / Megas too the Leader.
I think the biggest problem with Frontier is the over reliance on comedy, and unwillingness to take its ideas and storylines through further development. It is not a bad season, but it could have been a lot better if handled differently.
Also keep in mind English dubs lose so much of good story. Look at adventure 01. Saban destroyed any serious tone by adding cheesy, corny jokes puns and cutting scenes. Disney did the same thing during their run as owners. When I watched adventure in the original uncut subs, I was moved
like that one evil guy who once he turned good, he kinda just..disappeared, i think he went home to the human world he had the power to turn into a digimon but he just...didnt fight with these digi destined
"I guess my main problem with these characters is I don't really understand there dynamic." Clearly, you had friends growing up. As someone who didn't have friends, I can tell you that there dynamic is abundantly clear to me. It's not something I can really explain, but anyone that grew up alone, like I did, probably knows what I mean. And how on Earth you can bash the character development in frontier is completely beyond me. Have you seen the other seasons? Tai and his gang are all the exact same people at the end of the series as they were at the beginning. The same can be said for Davis and his bunch. The guys from tamers had better development than the first two seasons, but nothing compared the frontier. The frontier gang become COMPLETELY different people by the end of the series. There major character flaws get corrected. They grow. They mature. The fact that you missed this is evidence that you either weren't paying much attention, or were already predisposed towards hating this season, and thus didn't care.(much the same way weebs are always bashing SAO. It's not great, but it's not nearly as awful as they make it out to be.)
i both agree and disagree i agree that frontier had plenty of character development but i disagree when you say the other seasons didnt adventure and 02 were not about the characters but about there relationships, to there families and there friends, and by the end of the series yeah they do end up back where they started but thats cause each knew who they wanted to be, but the adventure was seeing them grow to where they wanted to be
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Billiam You got it wrong. Adventure 02 was the hated one.
Hey why don you do a review of Bakugan
You think people hated this season? Look at the comments my man. Surprisingly a lot of love from it. LOL
damm man, i knew there was a reason besides the removal of partner digimon that made this the weakest show. I actually watched this one but i have zero memories of it, no reason to care about it. good job bringing up what the actual problem was.
The kids morphing into Digimon wasn't a major issue for me. The simple fact is it didn't really grab or keep my attention very well, and I was expecting a further continuation of the storyline from the second season.
I like that hey separated the concepts of "darkness" and "evil."
Me too. I liked the fact that they showed that darkness is not evil. It's just a tool
I really liked that the two big baddies of the series are both angel Digimon. It's a pretty big subversion of the usual angel vs demon thing the show has going on. I kinda think they maybe took inspiration from Guilmon being a virus Digimon but still a good guy.
One of the best uses of the Dark is Not Bad trope in all media imo
@@victoriawhitcomb6475 one of them is literally lucifer my dude
Sure he is an angel but most religions that has him play a role has him be a fallen angel if not a demon
Yeah Dark is not necessary evil and Light can be Evil too,it's all depend on how people use these powers
I had no idea people hated this season until a few years ago. It was one of my favorites as a kid
I think people hate or like based on what their taste is before Internet hit them with other people opinion lol
RIGHT?!!!
Same like wtf? I thought frontier was awesome af
I hated it at the time.
It's edgy and the artstyle is borderline horror sometimes. I absolutely adored it.
I liked Digimon Frontier. I always thought the concept of the kids becoming Digimon was hella interesting and pretty damn refreshing.
They took things too a new levell. I dout Gamefreek could ever go beyond the league champion storyline and try anything difetent. Pokemon human fussion would be too weird I think but Gamefreek should have tried something different a long time ago.
@@TheOmegazerox close example to seeing that would be the pokemon reburst manga iirc.
Right! Like it was so cool to imagine what kind of digimon you would turn into.
Yes so different that’s what kept my interests it was different
@@TheOmegazerox It wouldn't work in the pokemon world
what they should've done a long time ago was regional variations and forth evolutions, not mega
I think it’s worth noting that towards the end of the series the Digidestined actually FAILED to stop the villain’s plot. The Royal Knights (on behalf of Lucemon) were gathering data by destroying the Digital World little by little, and despite the Digidestined’s best efforts to stop them, it wasn’t enough. In the end, you can actually see the Digital World reduced to nothing. While other Digimon series (and even other series in general)’s main focus is “How do we stop the bad guys from reaching their goal?”, this one is actually “We failed to stop the bad guys, so where do we go from here?” It taught us to keep going and pressing on even though all hope seems lost.
Wait so in the end, everyone just died???
@@WackNoir they don't really mentioned, but I think it's safe to assume that the majority of the Digimon died. The main characters plus a few Digimon survived though, and all of the baby Digimon were gathered on the moon. It's still a pretty grim situation
@@WackNoirit was a mass extinction event/genocide to say the least. Only a small fraction of Digimon actually survived. If I’m remembering correctly, there wasn’t even a “oh we restored the code and now everyone is magically back alive.” It was more so “well, we saved some digieggs. They’ll repopulate the Digiworld.”
@@DigiTism I thought the digimon were just turned to code when defeated, and the code of all digimon/ the world was returned. The current digimon were turned to eggs after defeat, so they weren't gone forever, just reverted to their baby form
@@danielcurren2119That is what happened to every digimon besides Bokomon, Niimon, Patamon, Plotmon and Lopmon. But that is also what digimon consider to be death, because they lose their identity and most if not all of their memories in the process.
Honestly the kids transforming was the coolest thing about the series.
The writers did this because I believe they got good reception from the biomerge idea.
As a kid who'd watch Digimon Adventure and 02 reruns whenever possible, I sometimes daydreamed about that idea. Granted, it was about the kids still having partners and just fusing with them, but the outcome is sorta the same. Imagine my shock, years later, when I found out Digimon actually *did* such a thing! It's too bad the season doesn't stack up that well against the more popular ones.
Me and my lil bro designed our own digiforms
The reason I liked it so much was that it felt like a continuation of what they did in season 3 with the kids fusing with their digimon. Frontier to me was really really good imo!
Yeah! As a kid I wanted to turn into a digimon too! :D
Loved Frontier as a kid BECAUSE there was no partner. Made the kid feel relevant and not useless
You realize Digimon can't do anything without those kids?
@@KidSnivy69 the giant fire breathing yellow dinasaur is already more competent than the kid. Always felt the kid useless in a digital godzilla fight.
They were already pretty useful in Tamers since they could support their Digimon in battle with card effects and merge with them to reach their final stage.
I feel iffy about the bio-merge thing in Tamer honestly..
Which is why I love Tamers, they kept the partners and made the humans more useful with the biomergeing.
So I'm glad that every single comment is like: 'well frontier was my favorite session'
Jacky Kramer YEEESSSSS!!!! There’s something so dope about the character fusing with their fighter ally, like in MegaMan NT Warrior
It was my favorite season tho, for real LOL I used to wake up at 5am on weekdays just so I could watch it before getting ready for school
Yeah wth I adored renamon and Guilmon but nothing ever beat the spirits. And the spirits getting upgrades. I disliked eggs.
Me.too it's a close second. To tamers. I loved frontier ❤️
Melvin Britton bro megaman nt Warrior was HARD!
I ADORED this season the opening song oh man it feels powerful! And the fact the kids are the ones fighting really makes them feel like this is THEIR world
The song was soooo good still remember it to this day
Best intro of all Digimon series
Billiam: The "Hated" Season
The comments: Well no, but actually no
I had no idea it was so hated, i loved it as a kid. Seasons 1 through 4 were my all time favorite
same here. i didnt know until years later when i went to a convention and talked to fellow digimon fans. turns out many of them dropped off after season 3
I only found out via internet, because it's only hated in the US, everyone I talked to here in Germany really liked it
@@WallahNein in Mexico as well and the rest of Latin America
Frontier had the best theme since OG theme 🤷🏾♂️. I know it word for word. Its honestly one of the best english openings for an anime.
Me too and I 100% agree
That it did.
DI - GI - MON!!!!
Better than one piece?
Lol I think I watched the entire show just because of the theme. I watched the latinamerican version. Nice to know the english version is good too, unlike the digirap XD.
Frontier is an excellent season tbh. They had already dragged out the Digimon+Partner concept. It needed something new. The only criticism I have towards it was the fact that only the two main characters could fusion their beast+human spirit. It would’ve been great to see the others evolving to that stage as well. Also the plot twist with Koichi was amazing
That's what I wanted for the rest. I wanted them to do fusion spirit evolution
I personally felt the Koichi thing was far to similar to what they did with Ken to think it was that great of a concept.
Well, apparently according to the powers that be, they CAN in THEORY, but it never happened.
in adventures also tai and matt had partners that could digivolve to the mega level and in both occasions id loved to see the other ones to reach peak strength
What??? A digimon show where the 2 “main/cool” characters get a special power that the others never get? That’s never happened before
Frontier is nostalgic af. Id watch it satuday mornings after chinese class.
Nostalgic doesn't means good.
You need japanish class if you want to understand anime.
@@cc1610 *slow clap*
Ahhhh good times, the child me never skipped a frontier episode
I liked frontier too!
As a kid who didn't have cable,I didn't even discover the fourth season til my mom told me there were cartoons on one sunday morning.So I missed much of that series,which is why I'm here.
Same here and this was the one the that truly inspired me as an artist. I only stopped watching because of the hiatus.
'the characters always had the option to go home.' you forgot about that one time takuya tried it, didn't you? that time he left to go home but he didn't really and was turned into this hybrid human digimon creature as punishment? yeah. that time. good times.
and even that only worked because the villains helped in order to get rid of him, i'm pretty sure a few of them also tried to just go back the way they came at the very start and it just didnt work.
The villians: Totally worth it
Yeah I already want to stop with this video lol
But I do get where he's coming from. In S1 the digital world had a really threatening vibe to it and in S3 there was a very clear goal. Here there really isn't, there is a goal but it's really vague.
@@MrMarinus18 ... save the digital world, defeat the bad guy... it's the same as seasons 1-3. i thought it had just as many stakes with the world itself freakin disappearing when the bad guys managed to steal the codes
I don't dream about having a digimon partner as much as about being able to turn into one like Frontier. I love the season.
I personally thought the gimmick off them turning into digimon was a nice Change because now the Kids are more involved into the action, instead off the Kids Just standing on the sidelines.
I liked that too. They pretty much throw out the digimon and act as cheerleaders while the digimon do all the fighting. The digimon need the kids for digivolving but seam to do all the physical work. Know the kids do thear owne fighting and that is bad in what way?
You realize the focus was on the kids personal growth and not the fighting?
@@KidSnivy69
What personal growth? The first two seasons of digimon have NO character development at all. They don't grow as people in the slightest. (Except maybe TK. He becomes less of a cry baby.)
Tamers did a better job than the first two, but frontier puts them all to shame. It spends a lot of time ensuring that all the kids grow as people and there major character flaws a fixed.
@maxie fuqua
HA HA HA! No they didn't! I can think of one episode where J.p and Zoey got development, Takuya had the two parter where he went back to the human world, Tommy gets a bit more lip serves but it is stock bullying issues. The only one with any real development are the twins (and even then most of it goes to Koji)
Yeah... That made it weird for me, for some reason. Maybe I'm just too used to them not doing anything. But then I liked the way they did the Action on Data Squad...
The vid's at 11k likes.......
Where's my cover lmao
Can we please up vote this comment... I want to hear that cover lol
we want your cover!
I want this cover
UltraEpicGamingHQ so where is the cover
Bombard his Twitter. We must have the cover!
"Being attracted to your si-"
*"Yes officer, that's the one."*
Good wasn't the only one who went ˝wait...what?˝
ClaweD Lynx lol! That is my exact reaction. XD
Jeffrey Moespot glad u caught that too cuz I did Lmaoo
wait that was in the show? i legit never caught that as a kid
Reginald Bailey it wasn’t in the show. There was this rumour or something that people came up with about that one episode where tai goes back to the normal world about there being underlying tones of incest. I think there is a RUclips video about this idk I can’t remember
Man I used to be so obsessed with this show as a kid, I dreamt I was in that world and could spirit evolve into agunimon 😅😂
That yellow thing was like the opposite of pooh bear. He was lean and wore red pants no shirt. Pooh is chubby and wears a red crop top with no pants.
Sebastian Gomez I don’t think it’s a crop top I think he is either just fat or the shirt is just 1 or 2 sizes to small for him
Dude was still high af tho
Neemon was a Digimon of very little brain too.
'Leader, little kid, angsty boy' You just described every franchise anime
There's also #BigBoy and Girl.
Not every anime has a leader, little kid, and a angsty boy
Drago Dragneel every franchise anime does. Besides Pokemon funnily enough
@@DurtyDan dont forget about fat comedic relief guy with issues/feelings
Friggin Boom Toys
Naruto has the... Uh...
Hunter X Hunter has... Oh...
Dragon Ball Z is... well...
Inuyasha...
Soul Eater...
Ble-...
... shit.
This is my Digimon guilty pleasure.
I enjoy aspects of Frontier (turning in Digimon, the theme song, the kids English voice actors, Bokomon and Namon, the battle in the last episode, small easter eggs like where Gailantmon was voiced by Brain Beacock and Steve Blum, the design of the Human Legendary Warrior forms); but as a whole I can't say it has the nostalgia I get from Adventure, a badass like Ken and more depth to the villain like Adventure 02, or the complex story and characters of Tamers.
I gladly own the first four seasons on DVD, but I can see why people have their problems with this season.
yeah the easter eggs were nuts in this season and i loved noticing each one
Haven’t even started watching the video and I wanna say this......this was one of my favorites seasons. How can you not like a season where you turn into a superhero digimon instead of standing on the sidelines?! Ok now back to Cruella and smoking this blunt I go!🤣
Hated? Digimon Frontier was my favorite season.
Megared82 Yes hated. By many. Including me. It was a god awful show and I changed the channel the second I heard that gay-ass opening theme.
Megared82 same
John Doe At least it had a theme and not a fucking jingle like the dub had up to then.
John Doe good thing 300 plus of us here disagree 😊.
@@JohnDoe-tp5jj gay for you cuz here in brazil its cool af.
All of what you said here is true and those were some of the reasons I disliked Frontier at first. However, you missed the fact that there IS a motivation, but it's not exactly clear since the beginning and it's exactly that what the whole Ophanimon/get to that place is about. The kids always had the choice to return to their world and the fact that they didn't is exactly why they were chosen, they were driven by something bigger than themselves and, at the same time, something they were looking for inside themselves.
The reason Frontier became my second favorite (nothing can beat Tamers) is because when I rewatched it about two years ago I noticed all this subtle character details I didn't notice as a kid. Sure, they have no clear motivation from the beginning more than "this seems interesting" but they have a lot more than the Adventure kids that were kinda forced into it. There's actually a whole arc that deals with their motivations and it's the one where they are inside Sephirotmon.
What I like the most about Frontier is that it talks about defense mechanisms and how their backgrounds and circumstances have made them develop these defense mechanisms that kinda alienates them from their true, vulnerable selves: Zoe? A tomboyish girl who had to learn to appear feminine in order to fit and always felt alone because her relationships were superficial. JP: a fat, rejected kid who learned to be accomodating and silly to be liked because he didn't like himself. Takuya, who was too scared of taking responsibilities so he became reckless and doesn't take anything seriously. Tommy: a spoiled kid who always just had to cry to get whatever he wanted and was used to depending on other for everything. Kouji who, after his parents split and his father prohibited from seeing his mother, kinda closed himself to any new relationships and lastly, Kouichi, of whom we don't know much but whose motivation is the clearest: hating his father but wanting desperately to getting to know his brother.
If you pay attention, whenever a character is the focus of an incident, it always has to do with their defense mechanisms. The idea behind their enemies and fights usually puts them face to face with those parts of themselves that they don't want to accept until the Sephirotmon arc where they finally realize that everything that they have gone through has shown them that without their defense mechanisms they are stronger.
There's even a part where Takuya goes back to the real world in order to run away from the fear of the fight, from his lack of confidence in his abilities and thanks to Ophanimon he realizes that he has always had it in him to rise up to the challenge (just by accepting he already had) and he decides to go back to see his responsibilites through.
There's a lot more that I like which is all about characters, like the part when Zoe, Tommy and JP complain that they don't have powerups and can only watch from the sidelines and JP tells them that even from the sidelines, they have a role to play.
I likes frontier and its concept but it needed a better plot for it's great villains. If Cheruibimon wasnt turned evil but manipulated instead it would have been great. The 2 royal knights great
Interesting. So, the kids turning into Digimon could have been like a representation of the kids changing and becoming stronger than those defense mechanisms.
I great analysis.
@@aaronmontgomery2055 isn't that technically the same thing
i liked adventure abit more then frontier honestly cause they were forced into it, and the plot didnt push motivies it made those clear form the start
it pushed the importence of family and friends
even different kinda familys
tai and kari: shows the loving sibling relationships, along with good parents
matt and tk: show a seperated family, but still shows the brotherly connection and brings out a part of matt he tries to hide
izzy: adoupted and ahving to deal with that alone cause his mind is sometimes abit much for him and his parents never gathering the courge to tell him
i could go on
the characters were interesting not cause of themselves but cause of there familys
OMG binge watching Digimon on RUclips was my childhood
Chipflake Same with me
Totally
i member the days of 10 long videos and having to watch it in 3 parts
I loved watching digimon
Nope. I watched Digimon on TV back in the day.
Frontier is one of my favorite seasons. Did I have to wake up super early because it came on at 6 am and aired on a channel we barely got and would I have to spend 15 minutes adjusting the antenna so I could watch it? Yes, but it got me through a school year where I was bullied so badly and had so many issues academically and emotionally my parents transferred me to another school halfway through the year. I could relate to all the characters in one way or another and it still holds a special place in my heart almost 19 years later.
Adventure, tamers AND Frontier are the best seasons...fight me.
None will compare any of those I am sure all of them are cool!
no idea about adventure, been 16 years since i watched it but tamers has a dark plot, which is great for such an anime for kids (yes, it was for kids at that time) and frontier has some actual plot other than "LETS FIGHT THE EVIL" they also had to restore world to its original
I agree. These 3 seasons are the best
Data Squad, Tamers, Hunters are the best in my opinion
wiitation Tamers was too creepy for kids.Some of the d-reaper's forms and voice really disturbed me back then.
I feel like this season had real stakes involved. From what I remember, they were genuinely afraid to die and I don't think any other seasons explored that. They also had some real world struggles. I loved this season.
Towards the end there was this ticking clock for the end of the Digital World. The Royal Knights were absorbing all the data from the Digital World little by little, and the Digidestined had to stop them. In fact near the end the World had completely disappeared! As a child it was really harrowing because at one point the children actually failed to save the Digital World (even though it was completely restored in the end).
uh… tamers? Digimon straight up died in that. Constantly. The end of the series is literally a nod to evangelion with a monstrous it’s consuming all of our reality?
Ioved the season. It's actually my favorite. People hate on it too much. I mean the kids were pretty much tricked into going there in episode 1. Then by the time we get to episode 30 huge chunks of the digimon's world has been consumed and probably thousands of them died because of it. Due to the kids failures. I actually loved the episode where Takuya becomes a digimon and see's the world through their eyes. I also love how one of the boys, I think his name was T.J. I don't remember but he had The MetalKabuterimon Spirit. literally tried to claim Zoe's human spirit (Kazemon) And I always laugh at that moment because well it wouldve been funny.
@@StarryOak76 at best tamers had the yui, on frontier the 6th guy borderline died.
@@cseijifja literally every monster defeated by Rika in the first few episodes she appears in was killed and absorbed by Renamon for their power, Leomon died brutally, and the D-Reaper caused massive destruction in the real world in an ending explicitly patterned after Evangelion.
And this isn’t like, a sign of quality or a dig on Frontier or anything, it’s just like, a basic fact of that me and my friend literally kept score of how many characters died or were killed in Tamers and got to double digits before we got distracted and stopped watching and didn’t even make it to Metalgrowlmon.
The “Hated” season. More like my “2nd favorite” season.
My favorite of all of them
I hate 02(and it's sequels) undeniably more than even this season for being the closest thing any other animesque medium got a similar treatment to current Pokemon anime
I just don’t know why I either dislike or hate Tamers something about that season rubbed me the wrong way
@@bengianturco7926 I used to dislike or hate any Digimon seasons past first 2 ones until I realizes lot of things that make Digimon more than just Pokemon clone only found on these digimon seasons
@@Masonicon I think the reason why I dislike Tamers is by having a card game it feels like Yugioh and the first 2 seasons of Digimon were the best also Fusion season was something different from what any season has done before
I liked the idea of Turing into digimon instead of just having a pet cause it’s good to see the kids having to work on their own rather than just relying on their pet for everything
well then you need to atch super sentai or power ranger or something dude. "not having pets" is a very legitimate criticism of this shit show, despite not being the most important one
Believe it or not, I always refer to this show as Power Rangers: Digimon Edition
well you either were original or just copied it from every person who hates this show because thats on almost every Frontier video
Ernesto Gastelum you know what they say: “great minds think alike”, so some people could’ve thought of the same thing 🤷♂️
C Whitney you are not alone on this one. I To saw this as a Digimon Power Rangers Hybrid. Which is why it was my least favorite Season.
This is a common thought. Frontier had so much power ranger concept. Especially that combining into susanoomon.
Guys be honest, aside from Tamers did the Digimon partners have any personalities?
6:22
Billiam: being attracted to your sis-
Me: wait what
Yes. It was actually a sort of mutual, uncomfortable attraction between Tai and Kairi.
There was an interview with some of the Japanese cast and I think one of the big writers a while back, and from what they said, they all understood, and made certain choices to carefully construct and deliver the lines to properly carry that subtext, particularly for that episode where Tai was back. That episode *feels* weird and awkward and frustrating even visually, and it's like that on purpose.
One of the most interesting features was the dynamic of Kairi and Agumon/Koromon, which they said was intended to carry the energy of a wife or girlfriend finding out about a mistress, but not wanting to make a scene.
I imagine none of that was carried into the dub, of course.
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 God I hope you're joking, ew. Ick. She was EIGHT YEARS OLD. Eugh.
Dude they had some heavy subtle insects going on
@@jfs983 u seem to forget tai wasn't an adult. What u should worry about is the incest lol...
@@aprinnyonbreak1290 yeah no, it had proven awhile ago that that interview was fake
no tai and kairi were not attracted to eachother
I loved Frontier, the entire transforming thing was amazing to me.
ALSO SUSANOOMON IS SO COOL LITERALLY.
Yep, ultimate boss hero Digimon and ultimate final fight: Susan vs. Lucy!
The eng dub song is still living rent free in my head to this day. The lyrics captured some of the themes of the show.
Unpopular opinion: Frontier is my favorite season of Digimon.
Same I hated Digimon Fusion or whatever it was called with that Shoutmon thing
More power to you. I hate this season, but that doesn't mean people can't like it. I just want them to make a distinction between Liking something and something being good. Because there is a diffrence.
This was the only season i liked
Frontier was my second favorite, and in my opinion, the *ONLY* time the soundtrack of the English version was superior to it's original Japanese version. The tribal musical theme of the English version was actually more varied in this outing than the original.
I feel like Frontier would have been a more enjoyable show without a connection to Digimon. Like if it was it's own thing.
Dude, Frontier was, and still is my favorite season. And if the comments and likes are anything to go by, I’m far from the only one that thinks that.
You and a lot of your fellows seem to just want Digimon to be Power Rangers, which is kind of dumb.
Mike Spearman I never said that I didn’t like the other seasons. People are allowed to have opinions, how about we don’t shit on others for them?
Umbuko DaJuko Same. I just finished rewatching Tamers since 2002 and about to rewatch Frontier next. It's been about 7 years
@@mikespearman1414 and you are seing digimon to be pokemon......
@@mikespearman1414 digimon aren’t Pokémon
I personally liked the idea of kids transforming into Digimon
People shouldn't hate it if they change things up. They arn't forced to watch it if they don't like it.
I loved it because it made me think i could turn into a digimon
John Constantine Exactly, it made the development and the plot bad, but at least it improved the fighting.
Ikr xd
John Constantine digimon fronteir is what introduced me to digimon and it’s one of the best shows of my child hood and life
I will say I really enjoyed Frontier, although Tamers was my favorite season. I actually just rewatched Tamers on Hulu and the emotional core of the story still hit me as an adult. I appreciate that Digimon tried to evolve its core concept beyond "Kids with monster partners go on an adventure". Frontiers at least tried to do something different and set itself apart from Pokémon, which a lot of properties were trying to mimic at that point in time.
And then at a point, Pokemon did this EXACT concept with their franchise.
@@razgrizraven Yeah and it was fucking amazing. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is fire 🔥 🔥 🔥
Not gonna lie, the 4 digivillains with the "goofy voices" were some of my favorites. It's similar to Etemon with his Elvis impression. lol
Although, it did feel like they reused scenes a little too much this season. Also, the opening is great as well.
You call it the "hated" season. But the comments say otherwise. Myself included, it is my favorite season. Sorry you were bored.
Also, during my study abroad in Japan, I rode the same train line as Takuya in the beginning when he received the messages!
It's objectively inferior to previous seasons. Did you even watch the video?
Mike Spearman Nothing is objective when it comes to media.
Llllhbbbhdhhhd lol media can definitely be objectively bad. Low animation quality, bad voice acting, incoherent story, bad sound mixing and tons of other reasons
I think the only people who hate it are RUclips critics and people who parrot RUclips critics
Sleepy Gary Really? I’m no RUclips critic, yet there are people who actually criticize the show. They don’t hate it because it is different. They hate it because it sucks.
Frontier is at it’s best during the Duskmon arc, and even then it went downhill during Cherubimon
Frontier is my favorite season dude.
Same
yahhhhh me too
Same here.
Same it’s my fav :) i live this season out of all honestly because they went in a different route instead of having them as tamers
Yeah
Frontier was actually my favorite the world, music, and the characters. To these day I still remember the opening theme song.
"Being attracted to your sis-" I spat out my drink.
Is it true though?
I heard "sib" but still...
I never got that from DA.
Apparently the writer or something confirmed this? It was weird. I don't get it either. But yeah, something like this happened.
@@captainmega6310 I think it was confirmed by the creator so yeah
Yup. Japan loves their incest.
frontier was actually my introduction to digimon. it was the episode patamon was born. it played on jetix and i finished it, then watched adventure, 02, and tamers and re-watched all the rest of frontier haha.
Jetix. I was so sad when they canceled it.
Wow really my first serious was the very first one
@@evewhoo and they cancelled it without even announcing it my 7 year old ass was heartbroken so bad
Digimon Frontier is my favourite. The idea of them turning into Digimon was amazing
I agree
No, the show is about the connection between the kid and the digimon. I found this series weird so I didn't really watch it. Maybe it's good though.
That happened in Tamers too, except they still had partners.
@@Chocolatepain I like the show and it is good
@@danielcarrilho5217 That's why works better on Tamers
Before looking them up again and rewatching them again, whenever I thought back on Digimon, it was THIS SEASON that I would recall. The way the fused with the Digimon was *E P I C.*
The brothers conflict was genuinely nice i think
it was weird story line that wasn't necessary
@@supermanXL it was literally the most interesting part to many fans back then lol it could have been introduced better and the development later on was a bit rushed but definitely one of the best parts of the season
Totally agree:) I thought all the characters were really interesting and had different and good personalities.
It's just a Matt rehash. The only twists are that dad is a huge dick saying
"Sorry Kid, your mom is dead...
*whispers in inaudible voice (to me)"
And the mind control BS is to justify having an enemy then turned good because he wasn't really evil and character development is HARD.
Not going to buy it. I would rather liked to see the little brother as the new "Digimon Emperor".
I feel like it came out of nowhere, and like everything else, there was little consequence - Koichi joins the group, and that's it. He never really takes the time to get to know his twin brother or ask him about his life.
Hated? I really liked Frontier :D
God it was so boring
@Rodrick Young Idk they were in the same place doing the same thing over and over for like 30 episodes. It was a bit of a drag
And?
Iroh General mmkay...
Frontier made me cry on the later few episodes. It really had a good story imo. I recalled Takuya and Koji's eternal struggle against the royal knights, clashing with each other, again and again, but lost every single time. And the foreshadowing of Koichi actually already being dead and the eventual lead up to the last scene with "An Endless Tale" theme, was a truly touching and emotional moment.
Well, Takuya wears google, so he must be the main character!!!
Atleast he doesn't have bright neon green hair or something.
HOW IN THE HOLY FUCK DO YOU WEAR A GODDAMN SEARCH ENGINE
DVendy Goggles.
I will say that I love EmperorGreymon. He’s one of my favorite Greyson evolutions and his design is completely underrated. It’d be cool to see him as a biomerged mega in the new anime with Tai
i do enjoy frontier (for the most part) it does have some enjoyable moments and digivolution animations are amazing.
but it certainly is alot weaker compared to the previous 3 shows IMO, mainly because of the weaker characters that arent nearly as likable than previous ones
.......of course im talking about """"sub""" or atleast the german dub that was 100% faithful to it...cuz this english dub...its clearly they werent taking the source material serious at all lol
its always funny how back then i never batted an eye of how "fanservicy" kazemon looks back then. unlike now haha
This was the first show Disney worked on after they bought the rights from Saban. That probably affected the quality of the dub, or at least part of it.
To me it was actually one of the funniest parts, how Ranamon was a complete japanese idol girl that absolutely lost her shit whenever a scandalous woman with curves upstaged her.
Given how much fanservice Digimon always had with this kind of stuff (Like Angewomon vs Ladydevimon, Rosemon, and the whole Sakuyamon thing), I actually thought it was refreshing they actually added comedy instead of just plain fanservice.
I was always in love with cherubimon and Mercurymon as serophimon. For me Tommy ruined the season for me only because he was tk with no redeemable qualities and would bitch and moan about everything (granted he was the youngest but this is season 4)
bocodamondo I love your work and I can't wait until episode 6 of Dragon Ball multiverse.
English dub sucks
I'm so glad for all the people saying it's their favorite season. It's mine too! I care a lot more about the human characters than the Digimon. Digimon are just glorified pets
eh i kinda think you're wrong about the digimon being glorified pets isnt completely true. This is bc they have feelings and stuff but yeah. I liked frontier one of my most favorites and i think with them doing it the way they did was genius and added some spice to a formula they were using a little to much.
Soul Punker Digimon frontier was the first season I watched and it was great I basically watch all the episode in 2 or 3 days and it was great. Even today I still rewatch the episode and the theme song is in my head. Don’t get me wrong Digimon adventure was really great it just frontier will always be my favorite
Its my 3rd favorite season behind Tamers and Adv 01
Congratulations on missing the point of normal Digimon
@@Soniman001 the norma digimon anime was about the human characters and how the digimon contrast their personalities and made them into better people
Imagine how much better Citizen Kane would be with partner Digimon
It would go from A to S tier
Rosemon
Takuya: "Oh fuck evil digimon, I'm in danger"
Tai: "Oh fuck evil digimon, you're in danger Agumon"
Yea. In every other season all the kids feel little more then Glorified Batterys XD
@@TheAnimeEncyclopedia Like the tamers helping with cards?
@@leonardofarias8843 Tamers and also Fusion helped cure the problem also
When I see or hear comments like this all I can think of is that you just don’t get it. With frontier the themes of spiritual growth and reliance on discovering a solution were always present. Even some of the stand alone episodes like making burgers for petaldramon serve to show that the characters each have their own strengths. In the beginning of the show JP was more stand off ish. Which was refreshing because some shows try to use the heavier set characters as bullies but adding him to the main cast gave meaning to his redemption or realization arc. Something else they did well is that the cast still had some elements of being children. Such as the case of episode 2 where takuya and zoey have a little argument over whether or not being older makes someone a leader. Bringing in kojis brother cemented that he still needed to learn how to trust people and that he can let someone in and they won’t excessively lie to him. They served as opposites for each other in the sense that koji held the spirits of light and his brother held the spirits of darkness yet their personalities didn’t match their spirits. With the beast spirits it really threw Takuya for a loop when he finally found burninggreymon but couldn’t control it. Koji could control kendogarurumon relatively easy but Takuya just couldn’t. He was too hot headed and the spirit knew that and as a result he lost control. Another thing they did well were some of the beast spirits. They were offshoot species of digimon we already knew from the original adventure series. It was a nice reference that did a lot with the carrying design elements yet familiar feeling. And susanoomon was a nice reference to omnimon without feeling like a cut copy version of him.
Frontier is more underrated than anything because while some characters had to learn the same lessons over and over again it emphasized the face they are kids and sometimes kids don’t learn what they need to the first time and other times it takes painful reminders for a lesson to take hold as something they really need to pay attention to
You put this into words so much better than I could. This series felt like it was focusing more on gradual growth of the characters instead of quick growth. And like you said, they're children and often times children (and even adults) have to learn certain lessons multiple times before it sticks, especially when that lesson involves deeply rooted insecurities and past trauma. I can understand why the writing of this show doesn't vibe well with everyone, but to just dismiss it as objectively bad writing I feel doesn't do it enough justice.
@@StonedHunter I mean people just need to be more reasonable. It’s not like fusion which basically killed the franchise. With weird designs, confusing plot, and beyond lazy names. The only breath of fresh air we got after fusion/Xross wars is appli universe appmon. But even then they’re only a subspecies offshoot of digimon
Fully agree. I think the sentiment that people expected Digimon to be better than Pokemon definitely holds true, at least in the west. Also I never noticed the real decline of Digimon until the series between Frontier and Fusion, with Fusion being the metaphorical nail in the coffin. I really feel like people have such high expectations of Digimon and it might have negatively effected the franchise leaving us without new content because nobody wants to release it over here and get hated on for not being perfect. :/
@@StonedHunter you might be talking about data squad but that was also well received here. Fusion was the really guillotine for the franchise. I don’t think people tried to hold it to the same tier as Pokémon but it was competing for dominance in the market.
But if you want new content the best we have is a reboot of the classic adventures that starts out more or less the same as the original but quickly shifts to a new story in which all the main cast unlock their megas
I honestly enjoyed fusion as well when I was younger; although I don’t remember much since it got taken off Netflix before I could finish the series.
Frontier is my favourite series just because of how different it was idea wise
Even more than the third series, yes I said it but it’s barely so
Same!
what the fuck
Same. Even tho tamers had better writing.
Same
Mindy Auron You had me... then you lost me.
Believe or not Digimon Frontier is the Real Dark Horse. There is a video somewhere on RUclips or was that dived deep into the characters. And something shocking. All characters showed signs of Depression. That’s right. They all have it. The leader has a depression caused by the fact that their father never makes it home. The two brothers have Abandonment depression ( its real.) basically the family is split for no clear reason. ( Matt from Digimon adventure 01 has it) I’ll let you find out the rest.
Thank you!! Holy fuck glad I'm not the only one who realized how sucked up these kids were. Everyone was suffering from depression and had real issues for kids at that age which I found relatable especially Kochi
video link/name please
Could you link the video somewhere? I'm really interested in that character analysis, because I actually like the show and the characters.
neat
seriously though show me a link I'm intrested
Yeah ALOT of Digimon series, especially if you can find it uncut and properly fansubbed, is dark and depressing. Savers (aka uncut Data Squad) takes the cake though. It was intended for older viewers who grew up with the Adventure series 1 and 2, Tamers, and Frontier and as such it was incredibly adult themed not only with the typical anime fanservice, but also dark and depressing themes as well. The main character doesn't even care if he lives or dies and one of the female characters was a victim of sexual assalt so yeah Savers was as dark as hell. Characters in all Digimon series tend to be depressed or have a friend who is depressed.
I loved Frontier more did I did any other season of Digimon. I remember coming home every day from elementary school seeing how the show progressed and oh man, what a treat it was.
You watch Yey?
This is the season that got me into the franchise as a kid, the concept of turning into a digimon is really cool and the kids at school loved it.
But Humans turning into digimon It like humans turned into Pokémon
@@yarc9 mystery dungeons franchise bby, it slaps.
@@gambitchains I never played the mystery dungeon games I'm more off fan competitive side off pokemon
@@gambitchains I like to play Pokémon competitively
"Being attracted to your sis-..."
The moment I broke down in laughter
This season is so underrated, such an amazing season. I think the only problem is not put so much emotions and development in the characters
"So much emotion and development in the characters"
You mean like Takuya giving Tommy words of wisdom with courage and vengeance not being compatible? Then Tommy returning the favor when Takuya went Berserk Beast Greymon?
Or the time Zoey saw a reflection of herself in Tsunomon when she always segregate herself in the real world and know how immoral that is?
Or what about Koichi being more trusting in individuals he doesn't know because he never liked interacting with strangers but always returns a debt he owes to them like say, saving his hide?
@@SiNKarnage that Zoey scene... So good.
@@SiNKarnage for me,the characters in frontiers are very..'normal'
They are normal kids having normal problems etc
It's like, they're relatable
Their struggle with family,adjusting with new environment,getting others' attention,having to open up to new people etc, it's all normal in our life
And, that's for me what made frontiers special
Of course,no adoption crisis/divorce etc from adventure but,every digimon media does not need to be like adventure,they are special in their own rights,
Heck every digimon anime has its own set of morals
Adventure/02-importance of having dream/hope
Tamers-embrace reality
Frontiers-how to live in society/with others
Savers-you can change your fate
Xros wars-teamwork is gold
Appmon-danger of technology
2020-journey makes you who you are(because of the crests is the accumulation of their journey experience)
Ghost game-still incomplete
I find it interesting that so many people hated Frontier but adored Tamers... I had the exact opposite experience. Frontier had a fully formed plot that took on a massive effort to show as much of how life in the digital world is like. The twist with Koichi felt intentional, with subtle elements leading up to it. Not to mention that him being controlled by Cherubimon was a DIRECT result of his incredibly complicated feelings regarding his family and the spiral of loneliness he felt as a result. It was only possible for him to be taken advantage of because of the vulnerable depression he was in and we see the journey he goes through alongside his twin to come to terms with that. You could even make some comparisons to Ken of 02 in how depression can destroy a person. We also get a protagonist in Takuya who is selfish, providing a long road to learning to be more responsible. (I mean, he literally abandons his quest because he gets SO scared he runs off with the only goal of saving his own skin. And has to realize he's abandoning everyone else too if he does this.) I completely disagree that the characters lack depth or real world applicable growth. With Tamers I felt like the first half promised a lot and was very strong, and then completely falls off into a miserable slog of disjointed character beats. Impmon and Jeri carried the series and once the D-Reaper came into play, Jeri's possessed random acts of shock value got old very very fast. I watched both of these as a child (and one who was all about darker story plots) and I could tell you even 20 years later more about the cast of Frontier than anyone from Tamers. The main cast of Tamers to me had very little memorable about them, whereas the digimon societies in Frontier always kept me interested. To me personally, while I do agree Frontier had plenty of issues with its filler dragging on a little too long(this definitely didn't do it any favors with getting viewers to look past the "no-partners" aspect of the show.), Tamers' endless pacing issues were much much harder to sit through and were likely a big part of why Tamers' ratings tanked by its finale. I do find your perspectives here interesting, despite feeling most of your points against Frontier could easily be said for Tamers as well, but i think we got very different things out of each which i can respect.
"If this video gets 10 thousand likes I'll do a cover of the Frontier song."
We're at about twice that now, gimme.
Played us like a fiddle
Honestly this was my favorite season of Digimon.
I've watched all your other Digimon reviews, and I agreed with them for the most part. I wholeheartedly and respectfully disagree with this one completely though.
Most I will agree is that people turned their heads because the formula changed and what was left wasn't enough to keep them hooked, but I will disagree with literally everything else.
First of all, there's an implication that the humans are digitized in the other seasons, and that the danger they are in is real... However only Digimon are ever in the front lines. Digimon literally act as shields to the Chosen, and there's this clear dissonance. Digimon are objects (that sometimes complement their "owners") to be used, and most of their "friendly" discourse doesn't really come through. They talk like they are friends, while they are mostly weapons.
Digimon Frontier completely turns that around. Oh you are digital? You want stakes? Here, be full fledged characters that doesn't need complements. Go fight you wars, if you lose you die and it is your fault, there's no reviving as an egg, because you're human. And for the first time humans actually have agency to stand up and fight for the Digimon. Now, why would they do that? Well. Those very "not very good" filler episodes are full of small moments where the kids learn to care for this world and their inhabitants.
Not only that, it is actually the least gimmicky and confusing evolutionary wise series. There's no thing to collect besides the Legendary Souls. Each kid gets 2 or 3 forms, and they all make some sense. There's no tags, mentals, cards. Your plant doesn't become a bird and your armadillo doesn't become a submarine. Your dead angel doesn't go back to an egg, and the rules are a lot clearer. And I don't really find the characters bland (except for maybe Tommy).
Takuya goes through the Digimon leader gauntlet of being a moronic idiot that has to learn to be a leader, except that everyone, except for Tommy doesn't just take that right away. He really takes the torch of having to be courageous straight from Tai, while Davis felt too stupid and Takato was a cry-baby.
JP probably has the biggest evolution as a character in the series. He is greatly entitled despite being a coward, but he greatly adapts into being a support character that knows how to protect people, or stand up for injustice. He even grows to the point where his crush on Zoey isn't really an issue any more. THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS. AN ANIME CHARACTER THAT GROWS OUT OF A CRUSH, WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT.
Koji and Koichi are a bit of a mixed bag, but a lot of the plot twists rely on them, and they work. It was cool finding out there was a twin brother, and it was cool to learn how different his condition was to the rest of the characters in the last arc.
Zoey has a lot of faults that "the girl of this shonen" has, but as far as it goes, it's not that bad. She is not really worried about boys. She is called out for being vapid. She learns about responsability and friendship as much as anyone else. She feels like a good mid point between Sora and Mimi.
Tommy is probably the least innovative character, but if I'm being honest, he is a lot less annoying than young TK and a lot more relevant than Cody. Yeah, he does have to learn the same lesson over and over, but I think he comes across as the most actually responsible little kid in Digimon up to this point.
I think the villains are a bit lacking in terms of personality (Except for Mercurymon. HE IS RAD AF. Don't tell me you didn't like when he stole Seraphimon's powers), but they really are the first set of Digimon villains that are actualyl competent. In Adventure, the villains only ever succeed when the kids aren't around, with the exception of Myotismon. In 02, they have to take back from a villain that already won while there was no one around. In Tamers there's a lot of even give and take, but the villains never really do much apart from Leomon or the last arc.
Frontier? NO BOY. YOU BEGINNERS BETTER LEARN FAST. SEE? THIS WORLD IS ACTUALLY DYING. WOOPS YOU WERE TRYING TO PROTECT THIS CITY? TOO BAD, IT IS GONE NOW. AND EVERY CITY WE TAKE MAKES THE LAST BOSS STRONGER. Every villain gets at least one win. The Royal Knights kick their butts into Oblivion and it is actually really engaging to see the kids turning the tables with some level of strategy and perseverance.
Also, FIRE!!! is and absolute masterpiece of a theme song. The ending theme is also very beautiful and touching. With the Will and The Last Element are probably the best evolution themes the show ever had. I grew up watching all 4 original seasons, here in Brazil it was a lot better represented, and had a more fair run than in America. So while I may be nostalgic for all 4 seasons, Frontier remains my favorite.
jpcsdutra I’m with u bud
I agree wholeheartedly with your post. Especially the bit about Mercurymon. That guy is a freaking BOSS!
U just described everything I loved abt this season
so because someone doesnt like frontier for whatever reason, thats a problem for you?
@@DarkSpyro707 No, not at all. I'm politely listing reasons why I disagree
I remember being really sad when I watched the last episode of Digimon Tamers(which was my favorite season) on TV. I was a dumb kid and thought that it would just magically continue the next week, but instead the first episode of Digimon Frontier aired that day. I hated it because it wasn't what my dumb kid brain expected, I wanted Tamers to continue, but I kept watching it anyway since there was nothing else on TV that interested me. Over the next few episodes I started really liking it and watched it all the way to the end.
Fun Fact: In the brazilian dub of Digimon Frontier, Takuya was dubbed by Fabio Lucindo, Ash Ketchum's voice actor. Both shows aired together at the time. He was the VA for Ash from episode 1 up until the end of XY Season 2.
Nada contra o Emmanuel mas não dá pra engolir o sun and moon por muitos motivos a voz infelizmente é uma delas
Concordo
De fato, não é que ele seja ruim, só que tira um pouco da conexão com o personagem
De fato meu caro. Mas o problema principal é que ele ta forçando a voz p parecer de criança, pois no começo quando ele dublou era desconfortavel mas mesmo assim era ''passavel'' sabe? Agora é insuportavel
Nuh uh. *That title is a lie.*
When this was on TV, everyone was talking about Digimon like it was 🔥 fire 🔥. Everyone in my neighborhood was silent halfway into season 2, but season 3 was lit. And it's now regarded as one of the best seasons.
I liked every season. But even I had to admit, *season 4 (Frontier)* is what saved the franchise as far as everybody was concerned.
*Even if you didn't like Digimon, you liked season 4.* That's how lit it was back in the day.
Fax same for me.
Agreed
Frontier is the reason for the 3 year hiatus. Its views and toy sales were the lowest of any series at the time and its popularity in the u.s. was shit. Im pretty sure xros wars is worse in viewership but it had a hugely popular toy line in japan
Funny, tamers was like that here, not frontier.
I don't like Digimon and I loved frontier. Lol
Wow.....I had no idea how disliked this season was. It is actually my FAVORITE season of Digimon. Then again, that was probably cause it was the SECOND series of the show I ever saw when I was in Nigeria. The first being season 3 which I liked. Also, the plot and various character building sub plots were great! Also, IT HAD THE BEST THEME SONG EVVVAAAHHH!!!!
I have great memories of living in nigeria and sneaking downstairs to watch TV with my brothers
@@dontuse10 lol👍 I know what you mean. I have 2 siblings and we would all struggle to watch our favorite cartoons. But we mostly got along and watch things together like Hey Arnold!
Yes their opening doing was so fun
I'll watch Digimon since the first season, and season 4 is still my favorite. My favorite goes like season 4, 1, 3, then 2. It's just a good show.
Andrew Lewis they aired Digimon in Nigeria? Only anime I recall ever seeing was Transformers energon and that's a stretch of an anime
lmfaoo i love how he titled the "the hated season" but after reading the comments it seems like hes the only one who really hated this season😂😂😭😭😂😭😭 I persoanlly loved this season, my second fav next to season 2 for personal reasons but the turning into the digimon was always a fantasy of mine so when they did it i was def surprised and excited for this season!! 🔥🔥🔥
It's one of my favorite seasons because of these reasons:
1. Introduced a new theme (Humans DVing into Digimon. It's like introducing a new mechanic in an RPG)
2. Elementals. This show highlights elemental powers which is rarely highlighted in Digimon series.
3. Introduced a lot of great Digimon such as the Double Hybrids, Zeta Hybrids, and the first 2 Royal Knights (Technically Omegamon, UlForce Veedramon, and Gallantmon appeared first, but Dynasmon and LordKnightmon were the ones that established the Royal Knight thing, and then it's carried further to Savers and the Digimon Lore).
4. Susanoomon. IMO it's the best 'final form' in any Digimon series than Omegamon / Imperialdramon / Gallantmon / ShineGreymon BM.
5. Lucemon FM
Gotta agree about susannomon, I really love the design of it and the concept with it being the fusion of all ten legendary warriors human and beast spirits. Im still trying to work on getting him in cyber sleuth. Lol.
Fun fact, susanoomon is the strongest digimon shown to date
Facts!! Susanoomon is fire 🔥💥
@@gundamfan7541 dumbass
@@ZarisVideo dumbass
I love Neemon
we all do
I knew I recognized that character from somewhere. I recognized it from your profile picture. I don't know where I recognize you from though.... but I do some how.
Matthew Coyle
I've been around a lot of places. It might not even be me, because I saw some other guy in a different video use the same google stock photo of Neemon that I used
@@NegativeNanase I might've seen both of you but I definitely remeber your alliterative name.
He wears the pants.
This video is wild. The first four seasons of Digimon are all great for different reasons but Frontier was the most fun! Frontier is the catharsis of Digimon, after the darkness of Tamers. I'm still so annoyed that they left Frontier and went into Data Squad (which is the worst of the worst), especially when Frontier still had so much story to tell.
when i saw Data Squad i just stopped watching any digimon series after that
You have no taste
HP248 oh no, i USED to think Data Squad was the worst. Then i saw Young Hunters and 90% of it was filler trash to promote a contest in Japan
They finished with the warrior of lights twin was dead the entire time since he fell down the stairs and broke his neck
@@cc21234 its subjective. Fusion, well i dont like the dub but Xros Wars was fine imo. the final arc was trash tho
No one hated this season! This was the best season.
Actually I hated it. How embarrassing! Lol
@@Jawonsito I despised it as a kid and it was my only unfinished season for like 20 years. But then I watched the sub and it was a lot better
I don’t remember this season but nothing beats DA02
I hated this season. The kids turning into Digimon was a massive turnoff for me, and to this day, I still do, couldn't even make past the first 15 minutes of episode 1
I hated it so much as a kid.
This is actually the 1st time I heard people hate it. Everybody I talked to that saw it, or the people I recommended this to loved it. Most prefer the first 2 season over this one, and I think it's mostly because of nostalgia reasons, but some are like me and prefer this better. But out of all the people I talked to, I still haven't met someone who hate this season. This is the 1st time I am hearing people hate it. Who cares they don't have partner Digimon when they can turn into them. When I was a kid, I thought the was the coolest thing. I personally always thought it was better than the other seasons because they can actually defend themselves rather than hide behind their Digimon in a dangerous world. I still recommend people to watch it, and it's still my favorite
That's not what Digimon is. You want a show like this? Watch Power Rangers. Calling it good because "they fight themselves" is just liking a premise. That's the shallowest of reasons to like something, especially when the premise itself is just a ripoff of Sentai series to a T.
FNGLHR Pokemon, Yugioh, and beyblade were a thing at this time. You wanted a FOURTH show with the little pet monster show for babies garbage. Yeah, the other guy is the one with problem, lmao.
denz310
Honestly the whole dynamic in Digimon Adventure (and other seasons but now I just use this one season as example) was quite interesting. They had great power in form of there partners but they themselves where just human kids trying to survive in this dangerous world. Even a Rocky level Digimon can be a thread because if it gets somehow past there partners a poison arrow ore a little fire ball ore some claws are enough to put them six feet under. And they have to deal with problems like finding food and water. Simply wandering a great distance is not an easy task. Although I wonder why they don't use there flying partners fore fast travel more often. I know it eats up there partners energy reserve but I think long wandering through some desert is not much less exhausting. It is quite unic compared to other franchises where humans work together with monsters. Fore example in Bayonetta ore Persona 5 they have a more symbotic conection with there monsters that gave the humans themselves super powers. Bayonetta dont has to be afraid of a 3rd sphere Angel. Infact she is actully harder to kill than here demon summons.
And she seems to have unlimited stamina and a transformation that helps with travel faster than a car.
With Characters like here ore the Phantom Thieves you dont run into problems like in Digimon Adventure with these Normal human Kids. Well maybe not normal if look at this realistically but you know what I mean.
I found this dynamic (I hope that is the right word) very interesting and cool. Mere humans drooped as Keyfigures in this dangerous adventure.
The downsides is that they dont do much in combat besides enable the evolution.
The thing is in Digimon Adventure the writing is focused on the Kids while Digimon partners are not all that interesting Characters. I like Gomamon but still. It is generally more satisfying to have a Character I like to do cool stuff in combat than a Character I found relatively uninteresting. I love Bayonetta as a Character so seeing here whipping the floor with those Angels is immensely satisfying and fun. But in Adventure all the interesting main Characters are the Kids that can not fight. Its not like they never do anything cool like when TK tricked Puppetmon, when Joe saved Tk from drowning and all the stuff Izzy pulls of but still.
I gotta say Tamers is my favorite when it comes to human monster partnership. Through different means, the cards, that unexplained symbiotic link Takato has with Guilmon and the Biomerge evolution the Tamers actively help in combat the entire time in cool fashion. Tamer and Digimon feel more like partners.
On top of that the Digimon are way better written so seeing them kick ass is so much cooler.
Bayonetta has cooler teamwork with here Demons but not much of a relationship with them. The Demons are just cool monsters with no personality.
While Tamers has its moments where the human partners where in danger like when Gargomon was threatening Rika with his gun the problems the Adventure kids had to deal with are not all that prominent but overall I found its the best example of human monster partnership of them all.
Not just looking at Digimon but looking at all franchises I know.
Ahh the power of compelling writing. Its marvelous. of course that is all subjectively. I love the human Characters and Digimon in Tamers so much but someone else who is not as blown away as I am, may not find it halve as good.
When it comes to Frontier I honestly simply dont like the Characters. Its that simple. I dont have anything against Kids that can fight themselves.
@@FNGLHR Digimon fighting to save the digital world? Yes I called that Digimon, and yes that's one of the main reason I love the show. The first two season was awesome, but the digits destine for nothing but better character develop Sakuras that was also was a battery source. If the Digimon could digivolve by themselves , they would have been completely expendable.
@@sofaris576 in Adventures, they are more develop characters, but overall I still prefer Frontiers.
Hated season? Pretty sure Savers/Data Squad is more hated
Try Xros Wars
Savers was...meh for me.
Not what I heard. Season 2 and Season 4 are generally lower, then 5 (although this was b4 Xros finished iirc).
Savers and 02 were probably the lowest and least fun to watch
I watched tamers without nostalgia glasses and frontier felt like shit after that. Although I didn't hate frontier, I just really disliked it
I remember liking this as a kid, though I don't remember this group of Tamers being able to go home whenever they wanted. I'm thinking this because one of my favorite episodes was one where Takuya wants to go home and takes a train back, but it turns him into a human/digimon hyvbrid where he does his best to stay but ends up having to return in the end.
Yes ^^ Also i had goose bumps, when Takuya controls the Weather.
@@Whityiy A mechanic they forgot about the very next episode.
Sad but true XD
takuya didn't return to the real world, it's more of dream he is having where he has to come to terms with his new developed fear towards duskmon and the regret of ever leaving the real world.
(it is shown at the start of episode 3, that when they try to leave the digiworld they just get teleported back. Also in episode 22 - which is where takuya has that dream - it is made very clear that he in fact did not return to the real world, because he's seeing himself before leaving on the day of his brother birthday. He tries to stop himself from leaving until realizing that he values his friendship with the rest of the group over the safety of his home.)
@@YuTopian It's not a dream, he actually does go back in time and was given the chance to prevent himself from going to the Digital World in the first place. Don't forget, at one point he's following Koji and sees Koichi before anyone knows Koichi even exists.
For me, Frontier was soo good, I remember RPGing as one of the Digimons while playing fights with neighbourhood friends. It was second best for me(favorite being Digimon Adventure 01,02 due to the added nostalgia).
He wears goggles... so he’s the MC
Lmfao perfect description. Almost the “find the anime MC” meme
Tai literally said the leaders wears the goggles in 02
@@dragonstouch1042 why if you don't wear a goggle your not a leader that stupid
It’s tradition. Even the games honor it
@@yarc9 guess Marcus ain't get the memo
@@zionzero7117 he ain't the leader then
Woa. Woa woa woa woa woa. I happened to love frontier. That was my absolutely favorite, hands down. The thought of being able to BECOME a digimon? Not even Pokémon could make me that excited.
Hedgie The Umbrehog yep true dat
Nah he's just a furry
I actually loved this season. Watched every episode before elementary school
I really liked Frontier as a kid. I was starting to play jprgs and Frontier feels like one. The lore about the warriors was great, and the villains felt really strong
The thing that always annoys me about frontier is how Takuya and Koji got like 4 different spirit evolutions while the other 4 only got human and beast spirit evolutions. Add in the fact that the fourth kind of spirit evolution included taking the spirits of the other 4 characters and combing them with Takuya and Koji meant that the others could no longer join in with the fighting, forcing them to find other things to do while those 2 did all the fighting. I will say that, while I didn't out right hate this season, it's not one of my favourites (mainly because other seasons had characters that stood out more to me). Love hearing your thoughts on digimon because I love this franchise and hate that we have to wait ages before something new comes from it (well from a tv aspect anyway).
Being somewhat fair to that idea, as far as my memory recalls, that's kind of a running theme with Digimon, where the goggles-wearing main protagonist and his '"rival"s Digimon have more forms than the others, at least regarding the first two seasons. After Frontier, I kinda fell out of watching Digimon so dunno if this kept going. Though I'd have to agree with the last bit. Even if the other Digimon couldn't get as strong as Goggles and Rival's, they could still do something. I do remember sighing at the fact that we yet again got two kids that were more "special" than the others in that regard when I saw it in Frontier.
I agree with you man. Like wtf,at least let them fuse the spirits!!!!!!
Takuya and koji are like the naruto and sasuke of digimon
"Xros Wars/Fusion" had Shoutmon (goggle-boy's partner) and Metalgreymon (rival) get super evolutions, while none of Nene's (the main girl) digimon get one, aside from all of them combining into Shoutmon X7 (Superior Mode). The leader in "Young Hunters" (or as I like to call it: "Time Wasters") also got his partner an extra evolution near the end of that 'season.'
"Savers/Data Squad" and "Appmon" pretty much had all of the main partners get equal treatment in Mega/Mega-equivalant forms. Although, the last episode of "Savers" gave their version of Agumon some weird 'burst mode' with a longer tail and a bird aura. I don't know why that happened, it just did.
@AngemonRulez but everyone got their thrid digi-evolution in almost every season
I loved Frontier! I didn't know there was hate for it. I could understand hating Data Squad cause that's when I stopped watching it.
Same. I really enjoyed it as a kid
I actually got back into Digimon with Data Squad.
I respect your opinion, though
@@theflashfan3234 Don't get me wrong, Data Squad was good/ok (from what I remember). I think my only problem with it is the main character/leader (don't remember his name) having an Agumon for a partner. I didn't like how there was another Agumon cause to me there will always be one Agumon, Tai's Agumon. I don't know, that just bothered me. Lame I know but that's just me.
@@nejifan25 ok, i was with you on Frontier but you must not have gotten to far into Data Squad.
It is by far and away the most exciting and quotable of all the Digimon seasons.
It's up there with some of the most hype shounen anime ever made! It even got quoted and referenced by Gurren Lagann and Final Fantasy, it's that iconic at times.
It does take a bit to get going though and, the first opening was shit, so i can understand.
High five!
I like the series though but one thing i disliked was that two chaaracters are so over powered from their peers.these two characters in each and every episode after 30 th episode are just kiching the asses of the villians.whereas the others just cheer for them.come on man ...!!
Weren't Tai and Matt- or at least their Digimon- overpowered too? If they went rogue, the others wouldn't be able to stop them
Goku/Vegeta, Naruto/Sasuke, Tai/Matt . . . Pretty common.
@@violetrose674 except the others still had their other evolutions. Frontier just took away any and all battle capability from the other kids and made them useless. Even in tge final episode they're not really needed for Susanoomon since the orher two were able to do it just before.
@@violetrose674 Even though Tai and Matt were the only ones to reach mega, the other Digimon and children still participated and got things done. They were able to keep up with them even though they were not as powerfull.
In Frontier Zoey, Koichi, Tommy and JP are completly useless most of the time and it is way worse than in Adventure :/
Yes that sucked but that was it for me
Honestly the brazilian version of the opening song is a big part of the reason why I absolutely love this series
1- Adventure (because of nostalgia)
2- Tamers
3- Frontier
4- Adventure 2
I disagree adventure 2 only had some really stanadout moments but they were undermined by the constant change in direction dropped plot points and boring cast minus the emperor(ken?) He was easily the best written villian and had an amazing redemption arc until it was revealed that it was a magic spore all along. Frontier was far more interesting overall.
@@kingoflions827 Frontier had the lamest set of protags, half of whom the show itself seemed to just not care about 2/3 of the way in. Tommy was, if you squint, the best written since his arc of being independent sorta got fulfilled, though that was more the show forgetting that he's like 8 years old compared to the tween characters. Nothing about JP or Zoe gets fully explored, Kouichi exists more as a plot device, and even though Koujia and Takuya were the main focus they also didn't ever evolve as characters.
02 may have been a mess, but the new characters at least had consistent focus and development. Davis stops being such a thirsty little prick, Yolei matures though retains her optimism, and Cody learns nuance in his views of the world. All of the 02 kids got challenged in ways the Frontier kids did not.
Nocturne22 I’ll have to agree.
"Being attracted to your si-"
UHMMM I need an *adult.*
I dont remember any of that thou
Your wha
@@dr.godfather8250 It is a real thing within the story lmao
@@huskiesghost I don't remember this in any of the seasons?!
I am an adult
This is actually a favorite season of mine, though I do have an unusual issue...
- Flame, light, and dark are the only elements with aesthetically pleasing official fusions of the human and beast spirits
- Thunder and Wind had the potential to have great ones because of the designs for the human and beast spirits
- The spirits for the other elements seem honestly like they'd never work as spirit digivolving figures
Oh, you mean you're not a fan of the popsicle wielding mechanical penguin?
Kumamon got the short end of the stick. Fucking bear to PENGUIN
@@theredguy4043 There's a fan-comic sequel that introduces a rookie form that makes the line make a little more sense--Digimon Frontier: Rebirth, I think? It's apparently on hiatus, but it's got huge potential--I hope the author returns to it.
"Takuya has goggles. So he's the main character." I spat my water out when he said this.
I love the opening
It is beyond fantastic
Same but in Arabic because I live in the Middle East
I hear you! Right up there with Batman Beyond and Men in Black animated theme songs.
Frontier straight up had the most EPIC intro of all-time!
*Ancient Spirit Evolution to G.O.A.T.MON!!!*
The opening sounds like the workout theme to a Rocky movie.
I hated this show not because of the kids turning into Digimon but the fact that Takuya and Koji are the only ones that ever matter in the last half of the show. The other kids have to give their spirits to those two so they could reach the next level of evolution. So while they're out fighting the royal knights the others are doing jack. Hell even in the first half for some reason the writers have a hard on for Koji since he gets the best fights, actually has something to do with the villains considering his brother, even leaves the group a couple times to do some other mission or whatnot.
...isnt that always what happens in most digimon series? It's always others using their digimon to help the goggle leader's and angsty guy's digimons merge and become some super duper mega level.
THAT I can agree with! As much as I like this season, it was such a travesty seeing the other kids get shafted, especially since there ARE canon power ups for them that they for some reason, decided to ignore.
Yeah...as much as I actually do like Frontier, I can admit that is a very valid criticism. Even before the remaining kids started passing their Digimon spirits Takuya and Koji had already out paced them by being able to fuse their human and beast spirits. The rest of the kids only had two forms yet the leader and angsty one kept getting power up after power up.
Irose not in Tamers and Savers
I agree with your criticism.
Just cause here is my favorite Digimon seasons.
1: Frontier
2: Adventure
3: Tamers
4: Adventures 2
I don't know after that cause i don't think i watched the others fully.
1 trixy trixter.
Out of what I watched
1.ADVENTURE
2.TAMERS
awful.02
Atrocious list
Frontier and then adventure for me too!
I stopped after the fourth season, too. But not because I didn't like "Frontier". It's my favorite season out of the first four as well. School just got rougher and the fifth season somehow didn't do it for me in the beginning after I had seen the much better fourth season. However, I caught glimpse of later episodes which looked really epic, to be honest.
Y’all are forgetting that the SPIRITS are their PARTNERS 🤨 and this is a KIDS SHOW it throws away logic and everything, just enjoy where the story goes and the themes they introduce. These types of shows try to teach kids to just go with the flow and it succeeds at that through their characters.
I admire the premise, but the execution was sloppy and one of the arcs (the Royal Knights) was extremely drawn-out, and only served to amplify the feeling that the other four kids were useless in battle and to the plot. The characters weren't often delved into, and when they were it barely would last an episode or two before being quickly resolved without much long-term payoff. I still enjoy the show, but it's always through the lenses of nostalgia and an actually good English-dub theme song (and, yes, I watch the dub, so sue me).
Yes this the double Spirit and Hyper Spirit was inspired by Season 1. Its explicid stated, what they did what because of Adventures. And its not like they made it worst. Season 1 and 2 only give Ultimates / Megas too the Leader.
Sunaki1000 Oh, they technically made it worst. Why? In Frontier, anyone who is not Takuya and Koji are useless.
I think the biggest problem with Frontier is the over reliance on comedy, and unwillingness to take its ideas and storylines through further development. It is not a bad season, but it could have been a lot better if handled differently.
I agree, frontier wasn't bad, but it had potential to go even further if handled differently.
Also keep in mind English dubs lose so much of good story. Look at adventure 01. Saban destroyed any serious tone by adding cheesy, corny jokes puns and cutting scenes. Disney did the same thing during their run as owners. When I watched adventure in the original uncut subs, I was moved
like that one evil guy who once he turned good, he kinda just..disappeared, i think he went home to the human world
he had the power to turn into a digimon but he just...didnt fight with these digi destined
"I guess my main problem with these characters is I don't really understand there dynamic."
Clearly, you had friends growing up.
As someone who didn't have friends, I can tell you that there dynamic is abundantly clear to me. It's not something I can really explain, but anyone that grew up alone, like I did, probably knows what I mean.
And how on Earth you can bash the character development in frontier is completely beyond me. Have you seen the other seasons? Tai and his gang are all the exact same people at the end of the series as they were at the beginning. The same can be said for Davis and his bunch.
The guys from tamers had better development than the first two seasons, but nothing compared the frontier.
The frontier gang become COMPLETELY different people by the end of the series. There major character flaws get corrected. They grow. They mature.
The fact that you missed this is evidence that you either weren't paying much attention, or were already predisposed towards hating this season, and thus didn't care.(much the same way weebs are always bashing SAO. It's not great, but it's not nearly as awful as they make it out to be.)
If you want to pretend this thing has character development that's fine but don't ignore the development of other series.
@Radspakr shut in
@Radspakr ok
i both agree and disagree
i agree that frontier had plenty of character development
but i disagree when you say the other seasons didnt
adventure and 02 were not about the characters but about there relationships, to there families and there friends, and by the end of the series yeah they do end up back where they started but thats cause each knew who they wanted to be, but the adventure was seeing them grow to where they wanted to be