193 | Digimon Adventure + Digimon: The Movie
Description
While many kids our age orbited around Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh in the late 90's/early 2000's, a small subset of children—our host Alex included—built their childhood personas around Digimon, starting with 1999's Digimon Adventure and the strange "film" released a year later to cap off the series. And as Alex introduces the show and draws his line in the sand, he braces himself for a nearly relentless onslaught of criticism from the rest of the gang, Iris and Marcus especially. Now let me make this clear: we love Alex on this podcast. He is a gem of a human being. But if this show's generally poor animation, subpar English dub voice acting, wild pacing, disappointing final villains, and utterly baffling collection of Digimon weren't enough, Alex caps this episode off with one of the Trivia Corners of all time. While Digimon Adventure has a few—a few—redeeming qualities, including some satisfying narrative and character moments, I think we on the Couch can all agree that this one is going the way of Aladdin 3. Content warning: the Digi-Rap, strong language.