I just remembered being at my grandparent's place when the VenomMyotismon 2 parter aired when I was a kid. My grandparents were glued to it by the end. They never got the appeal of Pokemon but they remembered that as a wild fucking ride, if on demand shows existed I'm sure they would have watched the whole thing.
It was super book of revelations the whole way through. All of the people who were gathered in the hospital passed out then awoke chanting for Myotismon then at 6:06 and six seconds he revives as a big ass devil. Izzy gets sent a prophecy by Gennai that once they figure it out is that Angemon and Angewomon need to shoot Matt and Tai respectively with arrows (they didn't really know if this would work or just kill their brothers when making this call mind you) anyway that let's Augumon and Gabumon digivovle to Mega and then Hey Digimon plays in the dub while they win cause tone. Then the digiworld appears upside-down in the sky and is now spiral mountain cause of the time difference between the two worlds meaning they've been gone for years and gotta go fix shit and now their parents were on board. It was also the first and maybe only time I've seen a kid adventure series where the parents actually are there, and take an active role cause they figure out this is serious shit.
You should watch the third season. IIRC it has similar stuff with the parents getting on board and the whole digital world interacting with the real world stuff.
Top tier is Adventure 02 stopping everything after the Digimon Emperor was beat and doing the darkest episode ever about Ken's home life. I can also recall that getting a 'what are you watching?' from my folks.
I LOVE season 3 and it fucked with me hard as an 11 year old. The same person who made it did Serial Experiment Lain, I actually found an old production website in Japanese that had a lot of offscreen worldbuilding in preproduction. I'm trying to track it down but not having a ton of luck yet. It goes into how they actually researched the fuck out of usenet and IT development to try to get things as close to real as possible as well as philosophical themes and a lot of weirdness, it reads like the notes for a silent hill game more than a kids show
I just remembered being at my grandparent's place when the VenomMyotismon 2 parter aired when I was a kid. My grandparents were glued to it by the end. They never got the appeal of Pokemon but they remembered that as a wild fucking ride, if on demand shows existed I'm sure they would have watched the whole thing.
I remember the ending being fucking weird and trippy but in a good way.
It was super book of revelations the whole way through. All of the people who were gathered in the hospital passed out then awoke chanting for Myotismon then at 6:06 and six seconds he revives as a big ass devil. Izzy gets sent a prophecy by Gennai that once they figure it out is that Angemon and Angewomon need to shoot Matt and Tai respectively with arrows (they didn't really know if this would work or just kill their brothers when making this call mind you) anyway that let's Augumon and Gabumon digivovle to Mega and then Hey Digimon plays in the dub while they win cause tone. Then the digiworld appears upside-down in the sky and is now spiral mountain cause of the time difference between the two worlds meaning they've been gone for years and gotta go fix shit and now their parents were on board. It was also the first and maybe only time I've seen a kid adventure series where the parents actually are there, and take an active role cause they figure out this is serious shit.
You should watch the third season. IIRC it has similar stuff with the parents getting on board and the whole digital world interacting with the real world stuff.
Top tier is Adventure 02 stopping everything after the Digimon Emperor was beat and doing the darkest episode ever about Ken's home life. I can also recall that getting a 'what are you watching?' from my folks.
I LOVE season 3 and it fucked with me hard as an 11 year old. The same person who made it did Serial Experiment Lain, I actually found an old production website in Japanese that had a lot of offscreen worldbuilding in preproduction. I'm trying to track it down but not having a ton of luck yet. It goes into how they actually researched the fuck out of usenet and IT development to try to get things as close to real as possible as well as philosophical themes and a lot of weirdness, it reads like the notes for a silent hill game more than a kids show
OH SHIT I FOUND IT! Page translation is iffy but you can get the points. It's a neat read.
http://www.konaka.com/alice6/tamers/index.html
The DReaper report shows just how far he went