Digimon Tamers

Title:Digimon Tamers
Digimon 03
Digimon Season 03
Overall:Buy
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Notables: KONAKA Chiaki
Original Concept - CLAMP
Taking place in a world where the previous two seasons were simply TV shows, Digimon Tamers is about ten-year-old Takato Matsuda and him and his friends' digital adventures.

(2001-02, 51 episodes, 24 min.)

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1:34min Series Opening - YouTube Video
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Rent 7 7 6 6 8 7 Ggultra2764 #
Tamers is probably the best season of Digimon I've seen. It offers some fresh new material by incorporating Digimon into a trading card game that later turns into a cyberpunk-ish feel with a government group assigned to prevent Digimon from entering the human world. Not to mention the fresh take on envolving Digimon, especially with humans becoming more of a part of the evolution. The mood of this season is the darkest and most serious of the bunch as well. Ruki was a fresh face for a human Digimon character with her fierce headstrong and independent personality, as well as her gloomy outlook on life. Plus, later developments in the plot introduce a villian different from the typical Digimon villians seen throughout the series.

But, Tamers does retain some of the same old elements from the previous two seasons: the plain character designs, some occasions of "I get beaten to the point of defeat yet gain the power from within to beat my foe" syndrome, and reused animation frames. Plus compared to Ruki, Takato and Jenrya didn't interest as me as much since they didn't seem as troubled with themselves compared to Ruki.

Otherwise, Tamers makes for a decent season of Digimon with the new elements brought in for the series. It's probably the best of all the seasons of Digimon I've seen.

Last updated Wednesday, August 20 2008. Created Wednesday, August 20 2008.
Buy 7 8 9 10 9 10 Scarred Dragonia #
Hmm... As Excel said, Digimon Tamers is DA BOMB! And I loved it so much, Takato looks so cute in some scenes :) I just said Takato is cute. Why only 7 for art? Well, in some scenes, they look a little awkward.
However, I think that the music was THE BEST in this one! I love Wada Kouji's voice, and AiM is still good. I would buy their CDs if I could find them.
I also don't think that Jeri should have gone all Ms. Depression (TM) so soon in the season, Leomon should have died a lot later so we could understand her a bit better. But that's just my opinion. Feel free to disagree.
I like the fact that one of the 3 main characters is half Chinese (YAY!) and I also liked the development between Rika and her mom.
Overall, this is the best Digimon season ever. Buy it. It's great, trust me, unless you're die-hard Digimon Adventure and can't stand a new thing coming. Otherwise, at least rent it.

Last updated Sunday, July 11 2004. Created Sunday, July 11 2004.
Buy 9 9 8 9 9 9 KHfreak #
This is better compared to the previous seasons. There are the three main characters who are really cool (one's half-Chinese. WOW!) and the battle sequences are great thanks to technology of course (you know, more, uh.. pizazz). Everything looks better than in the previous seasons. Some things that you can't leave in Digimon though are those goggles worn by the hero and of course Wada Kouji's voice in the opening theme. A mix of the old and mostly new, this anime is wonderful. Another thumbs up for Digimon.

Last updated Thursday, April 24 2003. Created Thursday, April 24 2003.
Buy 8 8 8 7 9 9 Excel #
I LOVE Digimon Tamers. It takes on a level of 'maturity' that Digimon Adventure never had. Chiaki Konaka does great as the writer!
The story is more interesting than the story for the previous two seasons, introduced now is love and death, though getting more into that would spoil the surprises.
The animation is fairly similar to the animation of Adventure. But the evolution/bio-mergin­g sequences have improved a lot. They look more... digital, I guess you could say.
The music is good, but doesn't stand out. The opening song is still sung by Wada Kouji. Other songs by AiM, nothing out of the ordinary.
Altogether, I think Tamers is the best out of all the Digimon series. ^^ It's really great!

Last updated Saturday, January 04 2003. Created Saturday, January 04 2003.

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