immeasureably better than it had any right to be, though getting Konaka to write it explains it. Serial Experiments Lain, but with Digimon

A smart and impressive deconstruction of the "Mons" anime subgenre, analyzing the practicalities and difficulties and ethics of child/monster relationships also while moving through its three major arcs with a brisk, exciting pace, growing from something so small and low-stakes that it is almost a domestic sitcom with pet monsters to an impressively cosmic and apocalyptic horror story within fifty episodes.

Yeah. It's great.

was lovin it but X1.5 by ep 6. i liked the new style and focus on fewer characters and more of the digimon-tamer relationship. cards were cool sometimes. gets worse then gets cool when they go to the digital world but then that gets its worst lol and by then was X2. typical ending too but was still nice friendship/despair etc stuff. end kinda abrupt but tunnel gave some closure