Plot: Ash Ketchum has just reached the age where he is eligible to become a Pokemon trainer. On this first day of his journey, just about everything goes wrong: he's too late to get one of the standard starter Pokemon and left with a difficult Pikachu; that Pikachu gets attacked by Spearow; Ash steals a bike to rush it to the Pokemon center and the owner of said bike starts chasing him around, demanding that he return it or pay for it. Despite the rocky start, Ash and his Pikachu finally start getting along, and, joined by Misty (owner of the stolen bike) and ex-gym leader, Brock, he gets on the (long) road to becoming a Pokemon master! (C)
Characters: B-
Art & Animation: C+
Voice Acting: C
Music: B
Objectionable Content: Mild
Other: Individual stories are good and give lots of laughs. But the characters are relatively weak (in comparison to its "mon" anime competitors), and the overall plot never really goes anywhere. In newer seasons, the voice acting goes down the tubes, and fan-favorite characters are dropped. The series' makers just need to quit. (The things shameless product promotion can do... *sighs*)
Overall Score: C+
Plot: No. 6 is the ideal city, one of six city-states built on the ashes of a destroyed world. On his twelfth birthday, a boy named Shion meets an injured boy named Nezumi and treats his wounds. Nezumi disappears the next morning, and an alert goes out across the city for information about an escapee from the correctional facility -- who turns out to be Shion's new friend. When he refuses to give any information about Nezumi, Shion is stripped of his upper-class status and priveleges.
Four years later, a mysterious disease is sweeping through No. 6. When Shion tries to investigate the matter, he is charged with insubordination and put under arrest. On the way to the correctional facility, Nezumi rescues Shion and takes him outside the city. After Shion narrowly survives the disease himself, he is determined to develop a cure and get it to No. 6 -- but the friend who saved his life wants to see the city destroyed... (A)
Characters: A-
Art & Animation: A
Voice Acting: A
Music: C
Objectionable Content: Blood, suggestive themes, profanity
Other: Other than the music (which wasn't very good), my only complaint about this series is that it plays with shonen-ai/yaoi. That aspect was totally unnecessary to the story, which was amazing without it.
Overall Score: B
Plot: Marcus Damon is a brawler always hungry for a good fight. He meets a digimon named Agumon, and the two duke it out in a close-to-even fight. That's when the new partners are scouted into DATS, a government organization formed to protect Earth from wild Digimon who wander out of the Digital World... (B)
Characters: A
Art & Animation: A-
Voice Acting: A-
Music: B+
Objectionable Content: Mild
Other: This one's a bit different from its predecessors in that it trades out a lot of the fantasy feel (the destined aspect) for a closer-to-home tale. But like season 3 (Tamers), parts of it are a bit on the dark side for a "kids' show".
Overall Score: B+
Plot: Takato is infatuated with the Digimon card game and dreams of being a Digimon "tamer" himself. One day, he finds a blue card in his deck and gets his very own digimon -- a dream come true, right? But he has no idea of the responsibility that comes with having a digimon, and when he meets other tamers, he starts to realize just what it means... (B)
Characters: A
Art & Animation: B
Voice Acting: A-
Music: A-
Objectionable Content: Mild
Other: A much more serious take on the digimon and their world, again, with new characters taking the helm.
Overall Score: B+
Plot: When seven kids from a summer camp are whisked away to the Digital World, they are welcomed by their very own digital monster -- or Digimon -- partners. Together, the kids and their Digimon are destined to save the Digital World from the threat of the Dark Masters... (B-)
Characters: B+
Art & Animation: B
Voice Acting: B
Music: B
Objectionable Content: Mild
Other: A good, clean adventure series on an epic scale with friendship at its core.
The cast is, for the most part, replaced in season 2, which turned me off when I first saw it.
Overall Score: B
