Thoughts on Tri: The Little Things Wrong

Now it's time to dive back into this glorified rehash.

As usual, be prepared for spoilers:

If you haven't seen Digimon Tri by now, click this link,

otherwise, it's your own fault if you get disappointed that I talk about spoilers.

For the sake of my sanity, and so I don't have to go over this too terribly much, I'm going to dive into the smaller bad things first.  No need to make separate posts about these things if there isn't a lot to say about it, right?

In fact, why don't we just jump right into that - the general lack of plot in this anime.

Seriously! Not only is the plot terribly slow, but it has the audacity to use the first two minutes of episodes by repeating the last two minutes of the episode that came before it! 

Can Toe Animation please explain to me how anyone will be able to binge this crap if the plot is being replayed back again and again?  I'd like to hear what the directors have to say about this, as they didn't think about what people might think if they bother to watch this thing again, or decide to binge one day and think this might be a good watch.

Just for the record, this would not be one of those animes worth binging - in fact, if you want to relieve someone of the addiction of binge watching, I'd recommend you sit them down and make them watch Digimon Tri all the way through without stop - the repetition in this anime should break said addiction.

The only thing time wise that was just as annoying as the pace of this anime was the transformation sequences.  Yes, I did say that the animation was better, but did they have to waste as much as they did on evolution?

Look, I get it if you're introducing the next stage of evolution for the first time, it's for dramatic effect, but must you do this every time they evolve?  I'm not kidding! From what I can remember, and except until some of the sixth installment and that one time in Determination, they make the audience sit down and watch all of the Digimon evolve into each stage of evolution!

Imagine having to do this half a million times and a lot of drama and that's Digimon Tri for you.

Thankfully, I can say that they tried to soften the blow by throwing all of the sequences together into one scene.

I'm not sorry to say this, but despite how cool the transformations are, I got annoyed with the fact that it got in the way of the time that could have been spent fighting.

It's time to repeat what I said before in an earlier post I made on Tumblr:

THERE'S THIS THING CALLED WARP EVOLUTION, WHY DIDN'T YOU USE THAT!?!?

I don't care if you had to change the animation, alright?  Heck, you could've thrown all of the evolutions together in a "team evolution" sequence - just quit with putting more time into transformations than you needed to.  It might have been cute in Sailor Moon to do that, but not with Digimon.  Personally, I think the creators finally realized how annoying it was getting in the final installment, stopping midway in transformations and didn't bother to fix what was wrong because of deadlines and stuff.

Then there's the drama - my goodness, the drama!  I kid you not - there was more drama then there was Digimon actually going at each other to fix said problem!  To add insult to injury, it was as if Toe Animation was purely counting on everyone being so excited about Digimon Adventure coming back, that it gave the middle finger to the plot itsef and milked as much drama out of the characters as it could while doing it.

In addition to this, and it's probably my personally my own opinion, but Jesmon and Raguelmon? Really? I've already considered it odd enough to make one Christian reference to Jesus, but two!? Geez...

If there's any other minor things that I can think of beyond this, there might be an update or just a point for something else.

Until the next post.