Digimon: Digital Monsters Season 1 [DVD]

For those of you not in the know Digimon Season 1 is a 54 episode TV series with each episode lasting around 20 minutes.The show focuses on 7 kids who are transported to the digital world where they meet Digimon and go on adventures together.The series is divided up between 8 discs with 6 or 7 episodes per disk. The only extra is the butterfly japanese opening and closing credits.At the time the show aired in the UK (2000) a lot of comparisons were made to Pokemon however to do so would be doing Digimon Season 1 a big disservice. Yes they both have creatures in that fight however unlike Pokemon there is a lot more at stake. Often the kids are at risk as the Digimon they fight are evil or have been turned evil by a black gear they need to fight the evil Digimon to save other characters or get out of difficult situations.Digimon have 5 stages of evolution that are In training, Rookie, Champion, Ultimate and Mega. The Digimon are in rookie form the majority of the time and digivolve to champion and later in the season ultimate forms as the enemies they encounter get stronger. This is one of the major differences from Pokemon as they can change back once they have digivolved.They have villians that span several episodes and watching the Digimon digivolve to take them on and fight is good fun.Also there is a lot more character development than in Pokemon as each of the characters are fleshed out over the course of the 54 episodes and the whole group learns a lot more about themselves and change from the first episode to the last.For a show that is aimed at kids it does not shy away from tackling bigger issues like adoption and divorce as well.I would highly recommend Digimon Season 1 to anyone who watched the series as a kid as it is still just as good now as it was then!Massive thank you to Toei and Magna UK for bringing season 1 & season 2 (going to be released mid November 2016) to the UK as I never thought it would happen!

I was at that sweet age when Digimon & Pokemon began airing- so this purchase was very much a nostalgic one.The quality of the casing is excellent, the artwork is great and the discs all came securely attached in the DVD holders- I have had issues in the past with damaged cases/holders (even from brand new purchases) however these came secured and unwrapped. The season is split into two cases, with all the Season 1 episodes. The quality of the episodes is great! There is occasionally a blurry outline that lasts seconds on some scenes- but only worth mentioning to be accurate in review. I prefer to watch DVDs with subtitles, which aren't available on this set- but it doesn't seminish it at all and the sound is clear, sometimes a little loud lolNostalgia feels and just good honest fun, "kids" shows aren't made like this anymore- moral and intelligent questions are raised and issues around self confidence, friendship and integrity are addressed without being cheesy or in your face about it. In short- I love these DVDs and recommend to all who grew up watching the series and/or have kids who can enjoy an awesome show with great characters and a surprisingly good plot for a cartoon show!

Never too late to enjoy this phenomenal series!Fifteen years after the original run of Digimon: Digital Monsters, the time has come when it was finally released on DVD, perhaps to coincide with the anniversary and six-part movie sequel. It was released in the U.S. already a few years back but Manga Entertainment have finally done the right thing for fans everywhere by expanding the release to us in the U.K. and beyond!The set contains fifty-four episodes over eight discs (two DVD cases with four DVD's per case) and has a total run of 1095 minutes, is in the English dub and is a Region 2-encoded collection.Season two is to be released in November 2016, and the First Anniversary movie in December 2016--be sure to pick them up, too!I cannot recommend this first iconic season highly enough. Even if you weren't around to enjoy this in the 90's, you definitely can now.

With the impending release of the English dub of Digimon Adveture Tri, I decidedly it was time to get a refresher of one of my favourite 90s anime (The others being Pokémon and CardCaptor Sakura).Needless to say the series holds up well and did not disappoint to pull at the nostalgia feels. After years of watching TV/VHS rips I was nice to see the animation quality in its full glory, and what was even better is the aspect ratio had been upscaled too fill the screen.The artwork on the box is a little simple but still very pleasing to the eye defiantly worth the £30 I payed after a few hours of debating, Season 2 will be next!

I have watched every season of Digimon and my favourite had to be the first, I have gotten so many great moments over this show and I will hopefully continue to do so once I have it on DVD. It is a much watch for people of all ages (including adults) which makes it a perfect anime to watch whenever!

i remember watching this on tv years and years ago, and i liked it much better than the pokemon series. its a proper Journey, the kids that enter the digital world are not the same as the ones that left it, they grow as People. ( i know crazy)

A couple of dodgy episodes with bad vhs quality footage, coupled with literally no extras (just the Japanese intro and outro) so I dropped it a star. A couple of DVD menus mess up and have the same thumbnail pictures as other discs too. But these are relatively small niggles.Other than that it's the perfect nostalgia trip and in my eyes still holds up surprisingly well. I binge watched all 54 episodes and I'm a 28 year old guy. I'll be buying season 2 when it's released as well as digimon tri.Just need Pokémon to release massive chunks of episodes on DVD in the U.K. now!