>>1082006
The gap between the fourth and fifth series was definitely a big issue. The artstyle changed with the fifth series as well. But I'd say another major problem is that starting with the third series, they kept rebooting it every time.
>Digimon Adventure 02: Oh, you care about Taichi and Agumon? Well okay, at least they're around in Season 2, even if they aren't the main characters. Takeru and Hikari are still main characters, at least. And it's the same world. You're following up on events from before.
>Digimon Tamers: Full reboot. But at least they do a thing where Season 1 and 2 are an anime in this world. So okay, it's like Digimon in the real world. I can get on board with that. Also, it's just really well made.
>Digimon Frontier: Just another reboot. No explanation. No connections to the previous series. Some monster designs are re-used, but any toy company worth their salt should know that the kids watching the cartoons like the characters, not just the designs. That's why they couldn't just kill Optimus Prime, even if Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime were pretty much the same thing.
>And to really rub salt in the wound, in Season 4 the kids don't even have Digimon partners, they turn into Digimon. To a little kid, this feels like a big difference, even though actually I watched it again later and it's not actually a big difference. But the point remains that this is a new set of characters in a new world. They kept my attention and earned my care again with Digimon Tamers, but they weren't able to do it again with Digimon Frontier. Well, it helps that Digimon Tamers is just excellently written, much moreso than Frontier. Frontier is alright, but not that great.
>Digimon Savers: Four year gap before this season even came out. It's another full reboot. The artstyle is different. But oh, Agumon is the main Digimon again. Except it's not the same Agumon, so who gives a shit? Actually this series gets pretty good eventually, but the first bunch of episodes are pretty boring. But all of these series pick up once they get a couple of arcs in.
>Digimon Xros Wars: Clearly aimed at a much younger audience. Quite boring, yet has more episodes than any other series (unless you count Adventure and Adventure 02 as the same thing). The last couple of episodes are very cool, but I don't know if I'd say it's worth sitting through like 75 episodes before that. I think the only reason people care about this is because of those episodes crossing over the previous series, but otherwise everything is very unrelated. It's just another reboot.
With each reboot they lose fans, because there's nothing holding the old fans in place. But then again...
>Digimon Adventure Tri: Absolute garbage. Presumably done for nostalgia purposes, it has the characters and the world and it follows up on the plot, but it doesn't do anything that made the original series enjoyable. Look, this is a series about giant monsters fighting each other. But this entry in the series thought the whole appeal was waifus. Okay, yeah, Digimon Adventure has top-tier waifus, but this focused on a new waifu. And she wasn't even a loli. Digimon Adventure was also cool because of deep lore that was built up effectively over a very tightly structured series. Here we get very little of that. Instead of explaining a cool story, every character is just focused on telling the new girl how awesome she is all the time. Fucking garbage. At least after Tri they did one more Digimon Adventure movie, Last Evolution, and that was a bit better. But then they did...
>Digimon Adventure:: Reboot with the original cast. But it's not the original cast. They're based on them but they're new characters. So they're going for nostalgia, but anyone nostalgic for the original would just be reminded of how much better the original was. They hint for like 50 episodes about Millenniummon, the cool big bad of the video games, mentioned in the anime but never really delved into before, but then they don't do anything with him. He's the main villain and he doesn't do jack shit. He's less developed than Devimon or Etemon. He's less developed than Mugendramon was in the original series. They don't even mention that he sort of is Mugendramon, or that he sort of is Devimon. This was the time for peak multiverse autism, since that's what Millenniummon did in the games. But nope. Instead it's Digimon Adventure but for a younger audience, as if the original wasn't already for 8 year olds. And if it's for a younger audience, then why is it banking on nostalgia for a series that came out 20 years earlier? The younger audience won't care.
I watched the first few episodes of Appmon and got bored. Frontier and Savers weren't as good as Adventure or Adventure 02 or Tamers, but they were alright. But Xros Wars, Tri, and Adventure: all sucked. So when Appmon didn't hook me right away, I got bored and forgot to keep watching. And I know there's one called Ghost Game. I can't be bothered. If Appmon or Ghost Game are actually good, let me know, but I doubt it. I just want something that's like Adventure or Tamers again. I want deep lore and well developed characters and cool giant monster fights. This shouldn't be hard for anime to do. This is what anime was all about to me when I was a kid. But now anime is just waifus, and I don't care, because I know Mai from Digimon Adventure Tri isn't gonna show her pussy on screen. So just give me some cool stories and awesome monster fights, damnit.
>>1082277
If he's turned into a girl, then she's a girl now. Being a girl isn't in your mind, like SJWs say, it's in your vagina.