Frontier did Fatoshi years before Franxx did it.
Digimon
Charles Cook
Carson White
It's a fucking shame Frontier's Digital World was wasted on such a shit story.
Lincoln Jones
Part of the problem for me that Frontier faces specifically is that it doesn't seem to have the concept of "levels". Nowhere does it say Child, Adult, Perfect, or Ultimate. Agnimon defeats a Cerberumon (Perfect) easily in episode 1 and struggles along with the entire group against a single Golemon (Adult) in a later episode. Seraphimon (Ultimate) is defeated easily by four Human Spirits which should be on the level of Adults. Duskmon is treated as being on par with the Double Spirits.
Patamon hatches from the egg, not Poyomon or Tokomon. Plotmon and Lopmon hatch from the later eggs, though at least you see the silhouettes of YukimiBotamon and Chocomon. But the second stage babies are always grouped with the first stage. You also never see the Human Spirit "evolve up" into a Beast Spirit, even though Beast Spirits are for all intents and purposes the Perfect stage. It's always Slide Evolution. Even in the movie, Darcmon is technically an Adult stage and Hippogriffomon is a Perfect stage, but they use Slide Evolution.
Aldamon and Beowolfmon are treated as the best of both worlds because they combine both traits. Meanwhile Junpei will primarily use Blitzmon because it's easier to maneuver than Bolgmon, so even the Humans Spirits have their advantages. In terms of fighting though, KaiserGreymon and MagnaGarurumon prevent the other kids from joining, and they constantly lose.
Apart from the fighting, what issues did you have? I thought that the story, while fairly basic, managed to have strong characters.
Gabriel Gomez
The episode where Takuya goes to the real world and comes back with newfound confidence completely falls apart because they don't follow it up and completely botch the execution.
You'd think after finding newfound confidence, purpose and simply knowing that going through all of this is necessary, Takuya would change/grow as a character.
That really doesn't happen. Instead he goes back to the digital world, the writers pull out 'he is one with the elements now', which wasn't a thing before and isn't a thing afterwards to give him a strength boost, instead of letting his changed personality give him the tools or drive to acquire more power.
22 is a good episode by itself, and utterly ruined by the fact that the writers absolutely suck and didn't know what the fuck to do with Takuya
Chase Edwards
>I thought that the story, while fairly basic, managed to have strong characters.
That was my main issue. Frontier's cast are complete nothings to me.
Bear in mind this was nearly a decade ago so maybe I need to watch it again, but I didn't connect with Frontier's characters at all. It's bizarre because it's the only Digimon season (apart from Appmon which I dropped after 10 episodes) where I've had no opinion on the cast either positively or negatively. They were just there.
Bokomon and Neamon were fucking irritants and should have never been part of the group. If only the Spirits spoke from the D-Scanners throughout instead of only being in episode fucking 50, we wouldn't need those two retards.