Thoughts on Tri: The Decent Stuff

Thoughts on Tri

Part 1: The Decent Stuff

WARNING! SPOILERS!

Now that Digimon Tri has finally reached its bitter end, and the fact that I've seen all the episodes, I feel comfortable talking about my true colors about this crap that tries to pass off as a reboot of one of my childhood favorites.

For those who haven't seen this garbage yet, but yet want to without being given any potential spoilers, please reference to the top of either this post and click the link to the episode list and/or proceed to leave this blog immediately, as I will only have a short grace period before I will give spoilers without pity.

At the moment, the only spoilers I will not hesitate to give immediately is what little good that came from this, and that's being nice to what I have in store.  I'm mainly starting out with the decent material for a number of reasons.

1. I'm fully aware that you can't please everyone.  As someone who's worked in customer service for years, I know what it's like to never being able to please everyone because everyone has their own thoughts and opinions.  Everyone is allowed to speak how they feel, and I'm merely exercising my right to do so on a blog that I specifically designed to express my artwork and express how I feel about the artwork of others.
2. To prevent myself from getting too pissed at this anime, I'm willing to give the benefit of the doubt where it is due.  As a fan of Digimon Adventure, I was looking forward to Digimon Tri just like anyone else.  However, weither it be my own expectations or just the general result of what I allowed myself to wait for, I was generally disappointed, and I'd rather not shred this thing up too bad like I had hoped CinemaSins would do with the Bee Movie.
3. As I have made too evident, there's a lot wrong with Digimon Tri, and I'd rather start off on the right foot at least and I have plenty of energy running through me thanks to the energy drink I had to keep me through work.

 

📺 Animation 📺

Perhaps it was the first thing I was skeptical about when I first heard that Digimon Tri was coming out, but to be fair, I was only going by the poster when I made that decision.  It wasn't until I saw the first episode in action that I was actually pretty happy with the animation, as it made the poster look terrible in comparison.  Giving it more thought as the episodes went along, I realized it made sense that their eyes looked "weird" - I mean, they were legit teenagers now.  They were more like Chosen Teenagers than Chosen Children, so I grew more and more okay with the animation as a whole.  Perhaps with the actual year gap between Digimon Adventure 02 and Digimon Tri (not universe-wise) then it would make sense for there to be a big improvement.  Thanks for at least doing that right.

🗡️ Battle Sequences 🗡️

My goodness the fighting in this anime is a lot better than their universe predecessors!  Sure, the battle scenes start to suck with each passing episode and do eventually go back to being the same level as said predecessors but at least their noticeably better for a brief time!  Excuse me if I sound mean when I say this, but if they had put as much thought into the battle sequences as they did the drama in this anime, then it would have made Digimon Tri far more bearable to watch.

🎤 Music 🎤

Perhaps this is personal taste speaking, but I think the remake of the original song was a lot better.  Sure, they play the song half a million times (#exaggerating) but it just came off as being catchy, which is a breath of fresh air.  Most of the other songs followed suit in also being catchy but only a couple come back to mind as I write this.  The only one I don't care much for was the ending song for the last couple of episodes.

I'm sorry if you expected more than that but that's really all I can think of right now.  Sure, if Lord permits, I'll add more as I think of them but that's really it.

Now I'm going to go off and dive right back into this mess that's called and anime.

Until you see the link below to navigate to future posts, the grace period has begun. 
However, if you must have more of my tangents, I have a bunch of old thoughts that I wrote along with each release of the episodes, so most of them are out of date in accuracy.