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NEWS: Digimon Adventure Gets New TV Anime Reboot in April Featuring Taichi in 5th Grade (Updated)

Lots of people claimed to have stopped watching the anime at Tamers simply because they didn't like that Tai and co. weren't involved anymore. If they're tired of Adventure getting milked they have nobody but themselves to blame. They were the ones sending the message to Toei that only Adventure matters.

I remember when Tamers started to air, a lot of my friends back then didn't bother to watch because it was no longer about Tai and the others. And it wasn't until they attempted to watch the show [years] did they realize how "OMG Tamers is so good best Digimon season ever!!!" it was.

Man has the anime become creatively bankrupt.

Casual reminder that every season/series that was not related to Adventure only sold a fraction of what Adventure related series did the japanese Tamers BDs sold less that 02's did even. So it's not too surprising we got to this point... I mean, how many people do you see talking about Appmon or Xros anymore?

It can't actually be worse than Tri at least.

Maybe because I was a huge Power Rangers fan, but the changing of the cast didn't bug me as a kid. In fact I welcomed it because I didn't like the 02 taking attention away from the original kids. So this new cool cast change had me excited.

Digimon as a franchise has to be in one heck of a pickle for the producers to decide to reboot Adventure. It fascinates me that while other big Japanese kid franchises like Super Sentai, Kamen Rider, Precure, and even Yu-Gi-Oh manage to succeed with new seasons with new casts and premises, Digimon's attempts tend to be mixed at best for the little kids. Why is that the case?

I’m sick of all the attention Toei gives Adventure, it just like Game Freak with Gen 1 of Pokémon. I wish we could get a sequel to Tamers but I doubt that’s ever going to happen.

I love Adventure for its phenomenal cast and how big and epic it seemed to me when it first aired, but in hindsight I don't think it's that good (except for anything Hosoda touched). It has a lot of heart, but it's often clunky in execution and has a few too many holes in its story, the kind that make you doubt the writers had enough time to plan things out.

bleachj0j wrote:

Maybe because I was a huge Power Rangers fan, but the changing of the cast didn't bug me as a kid. In fact I welcomed it because I didn't like the 02 taking attention away from the original kids. So this new cool cast change had me excited.

I dunno about that. Power Rangers does the exact same thing with the Mighty Morphin cast. The comic is based on it, the live-action movie was based on it, the fighting game is (mostly) based on it, and the comic. Power Rangers desperately tried to hang onto the same cast as long as they could back in the day. It wasn't until the end of In Space when they finally put an end to that continuity and adopted the Japanese style of each series being it's own standalone thing. At least, if you ignore the series that bring Tommy And to be fair, I knew a lot of kids who stopped watching around that time. They liked Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, not the newer stuff. I remember when Bulk and Skull finally learn who the Power Rangers secret identities are at the end of In Space, but by then literally zero of the original or even initial replacement cast are left on the team, so it felt kind of pointless that it was all newer characters who they never had much interaction with so the payoff was a huge let down. Plus Bulk and Skull were barely even in In Space to begin with. After that Power Rangers' popularity took a sharp dive and the newer series have never really been popular. Even today they milk the original show as much as they can.

Nickelodeon at least should pick it up, because they already air Power Rangers.

I think a lot of people rather hoped for a new Dragon Ball instead.

Maybe because I was a huge Power Rangers fan, but the changing of the cast didn't bug me as a kid.

Now if only someone revived Monster Rancher