Now that I think of it, the first Digimon series were indeed very good. It had more good moments than bad ones. Pinnochimon stands out as one of the best. By the gods, he killed without thinking twice and used real guns, I wonder how that got through American censorship. Also, the backgrounds in Digimon were beautiful. They took a risk, making it look so much like water painting. It probably cost them a lot, but the result was amazing. The backgrounds themselves are a reason to watch Digimon.
Also, the characters, especially the enemies, are not bad. You can come to like some of them - Pinnochimon in special, as I already mentioned, but other villains were rather good. I remember hoping that Hydramon would show more often, for example. The main kids were obviously commercial, with those big glasses and hats and gloves, though. No good, although it did give them some charisma and personality as well. Hard to imagine Mimi without her hat, even though she looks cute either way.
The Digimons themselves were nice. We had the ultra cute Poyomon, for instance, the controversial Tailmon, and the ultra cool Angemon and Angewomon, with their evil counterparts Devimon and Lady Devimon. There was Togemon the catcus that eventually became Lilymon; that was a bit odd at first, as every other 'mon tended to grow bigger with each digivolution, but she, who was the biggest, returned to human size on the next step.
Also, the original theme, Butterfly, was not bad at all, although the ending could have been better. But Brave Heart, the digivolution theme, is among the best BGM I have ever heard in any anime. And, funny, it went very nicely with the 3D CG for the transformations.
Finally, somehow I really liked the Brazilian dubbing for it. Leaving aside, of course, the opening theme, which albeit addictive was doubleplus bad.
Notice, first series. I could not stand Digimon 02, and the rest is true overkill.
Posted by Etienne at July 27, 2003 11:20 PM