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Rex Sun ([personal profile] rex_sun) wrote2011-10-27 12:55 pm

Random Anime I, er, sorta like, don't hate [2]

Digimon.

...yes, dammit, Digimon.

Idk. In America (the English dub) it's really rather goofy. Of course it is always a kid's show, Japan or America, but after watching the Japanese version-- er, well, it's a little more serious than the American one. Just a little.

Yeah, okay, I like it. I was a Pokemon geek first, so for a while I detested Digimon on the principle that it and Pokemon were running at the same-ish time and both had similar monsters and I just couldn't abide that some folks thought Digimon was better, because Pokemon is OBVIOUSLY superior. (Okay, and I still think that to this day-- Pokemon trumps Digimon every day, always.)

The art is cartoony but unique, and really I don't mind it. It can be incredibly cute at times and at the very least it isn't bland. I like how they sometimes render the backgrounds as sort of splotches of color.

But mostly I like it because it's actually trippy as all fuck. Phone booths on the beach, telephone poles and cruise ships in the desert, a trolley with no tracks on the lake... The weird shit that happens with Koushiro/Izzy's computer. And while sometimes the characters are upbeat and goofy, there is (especially in the Japanese version) an undercurrent of more serious things (Koushiro is adopted, I think, and Yamato/Matt and Takeru/TK are brothers but their parents are divorced, and the ever-present weight on the children that they have no clue where they are, why they're there, how they got there, or how the fuck things work there).

I don't know. It's not particularly thought-provoking, but it's an easy-to-watch adventure with some cool stylings.

...+Taichi/Yamato (Tai/Matt) <3

...also I lol'd at the 3rd season English dub. I don't like the third season at all, but... It has Ougi's, Tohdoh's, and Viletta's English voices. lolololol it NEVER fails to amuse me to hear voice actor's different roles, especially since I am usually so terrible at voice-recognition.

[identity profile] megalomaniageek.livejournal.com 2011-10-27 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
When he was a kid my boyfriend was a fan of the TV show and actually liked it better than Pokemon, although I think when it came to games and cards he always chose Pokemon. I never got into it because when I was that age I was desperately trying to be an adult for some reason so I avoided a lot of things popular with kids my age (I'm just glad I finally broke down and read Harry Potter in my teens).
As for Tohdoh's VA being in it, I don't think there's an American dub Stephen Blum is not in. I am barely exaggerating. I mean, maybe not some of the Funimation dubs because he's based in LA, but he's in SO MUCH.
I thought I'd heard plenty of Villetta's VA, but while she's had plenty of roles it's mostly because she sounds a bit like Wendee Lee, who is very prolific.