Many of the outfit choices in the anime and even in some of the magazine scans are really questionable.
Questionable is putting it mildly lol. Takeru and Koshiro especially seem on a mission to dress more and more like a prat.
Digimon Tri 5-8
I wasn't too harsh on the first batch of these episodes, thinking "they're doing something different, let's see where it goes" but now fuck this. It takes a lot for me to hate something to this degree but ill go into it.
-Meiko feels like Mari from Eva rebuild. I look at her and think why is she even there? And why does she get so many scenes? She has next to no personality except she's the shy girl.(Although all the characters have been somewhat reduced). Surely the main selling point of this series should be the draw of seeing the old gang interact and play off each other, so why doesn't that happen. The two minutes of Joe and Mimi actually talking to one another about their problems was leagues better than anything with Meiko.
-Filler. There are so many pointless filler scenes. Who cares about the two undercover teacher/cops relationship? That dumb shit with Leomon "so kawai" c'mon. In fact you could have cut the entirety of episode 5 and nothing of value would have been lost. Mimi and Meiko shopping, more time wasted for nothing. School cafe, excuse for fanservice, more time wasted.
Plot-Is the overall plot so sparse that we need 40-50 minutes of the characters doing mundane school stuff. Like most of these scenes don't add any character development or foreshaow future plot points. They're just time wasters.
-Fanservice. Okay if it was just the bath scenes i wouldn't have minded. Ten or so minutes of a bit of male and female fanservice, fine. But no fuck the amount of ass shots of the girls and just Mimi's character in general can go f******.(I really really hate that Mimi's character seems to be trashy bimbo. She showed a bit more towards the end that was cool but still..).
-God help me if this stupid storyline between Taichi and Yamato keeps going. It wasn't even addressed or built on save for a 30 second scene that basically just confirmed "yep they're still fighting." Not only is it a rehash of the original Adventures but these guys have been best friends for what 5 years and yet they act like they're still 10 years old just because they disagree on something.
-Animation. Usually I don't rip on Toei because they are probably stretched thinner than most animation studios but boy does this show look bad at times. So many scenes that just aren't animated i.e the school cafe being the biggest offender.
-The villain reveal. Okay ill not rag that too much until they explain it but my giving out finger is ready.
So all in all I don't even know who this series is aimed at anymore. Old fans get bastardized versions of their favorite characters, but that doesn't matter because they don't even get enough screen time to care. And new fans must be utterly confused as to what the hells going on or bored out of their minds with how much filler bullshit they have to put up with.
Even if I wasn't a Digimon fan id still say this a bad show. OK rant over.
