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beccastareyesDay 18 - Best Five-team: cast of Digimon Adventure 02
I'm assuming this refers to the sentai trope of having five people on your team. You also get it in a lot of other things, as TV Tropes notes. (Standard disclaimer for TV Tropes link goes here.) Basically, you have five people who usually fit a certain pattern -- the hero, the hero's foil, the smart one, the tough one, and the sweet one (usually a girl, sometimes the only girl).
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TV Tropes notes that both the humans and the 'mon fit this. Here, let me just paste in their entries:
Chosen Children
The Hero Daisuke Motomiya
The Lancer Takeru Takaishi
The Big Guy Iori Hida (sometimes The Smart Guy)
The Smart Guy Miyako Inoue (sometimes The Big Guy)
The Chick Hikari Yagami
The Mentor The previous Chosen
Sixth Ranger Ken Ichijouji (who doubles as the second Lancer)
Chosen Children's Digimon (Adventure 02)
The Hero V-mon
The Lancer Tailmon
The Big Guy Armadimon
The Smart Guy Hawkmon
The Chick Patamon
The Mentor The previous Chosen's Digimon
Sixth Ranger Wormmon
(Yeah, I don't use TV Tropes' names, quite. Also, 'sixth ranger' should be pretty easy to figure out -- the person who comes late to the party, sometimes though switching sides or just being a lone wolf who wasn't really working for anyone who finally joins up after baiting the audience for a while.)
Part of it is that I have a lot of affection for shows about pet monsters and the kids that help them. Also part of it is that the show had a reasonable balance about not being the Daisuke and Ken show*, just because as the hero and the lancer, they got the most powerful 'mon. Also, and this is one reason I need to finish Tamers and Savers, is that the show is about both worlds, while Frontier and most of Adventure 01 feature events solely in the Digital World. I like seeing how one deals with balancing 'saving the world' and a real life. (For that matter, Tamers and Savers made a lot bigger deal about going into the Digital World, unlike Adventure 02 where it was as easy as an after-school hangout.) I do wish the series had done more with the human villains, though.
The characters -- both the humans and the 'mons -- were interesting enough to keep my attention, despite being pretty easy to match to the trope. But, I am easy to please here. I like Daisuke as the guy who idolizes the previous season's Hero, and who could be a good leader, but is also worried about the fact he's a newcomer compared to Hiakri and Takeru. I like Takeru and Hikari as something other than 'the kids we need to protect' -- still kind of the sweet ones of the group, despite their experiences. I like Miyako as being assertive and the computer one, though I wish she could have done more than that, and I like Iori as a quiet moral center, slow to anger and slow to forgive. I like Ken's story arc, but wish that they hadn't taken the battle to the Digital World so quickly, to play more with the idea of 'how do we fight a human in the real world'? I like the way the 'mons play off of each of their human partners, and the way the relationship was handled.
* Digimon franchises have the tendency to basically forget they have an ensemble cast in favor of playing with the two leads. Tamers and Savers are exceptions, since they had three leads and all three got to do things, but I also haven't finished those (yet). Frontier was kind of egregious about this, where the second half of the show was Takuya and Kouji and maybe Kouji's brother who went from awesome mind-controlled villainous badass to below the two leads in power. It was to the point where I wondered why the other three didn't just give Takuya and Kouji their spirits and tell them to meet them at the train station. (I won't even get started with how you could predict whether Izumi, the party's token girl, would lose a fight based on the gender of the 'mon she was fighting.)
Previous Days
Day 1 - Very first anime: Speed Racer; Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2
Day 2 - Favorite TV series: Slayers
Day 3 -Your anime crush: Thoughts on anime adaptions
Day 4 - Favorite Film: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were): Mizuno Ami, Sailor Moon
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character: Louise, Familiar of Zero
Day 7 - Character you’d most like to slap: Miaka & Tamahome, Fushigi Yuugi
Day 8 - Most epic scene ever: Climax, Princess Mononoke
Day 9 - Saddest anime scene: Climax of final episode of Kino's Journey
Day 10 - Favorite slice of life anime: Here is Greenwood
Day 11 - Favorite mech series: Vision of Escaflowne
Day 12 - Best installment of a franchise you don’t like: Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-oh-ki
Day 13 - Worst installment of a franchise you do like: Slayers: Hourglass of Falces
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) anime wallpaper: Sylphiel
Day 15 - A reality check for a genre you like: Eureka SeveN
Day 16 - An anime classic that simply doesn’t work for you: Akira
Day 17 - Best Background Music: .hack//SIGN
I'm assuming this refers to the sentai trope of having five people on your team. You also get it in a lot of other things, as TV Tropes notes. (Standard disclaimer for TV Tropes link goes here.) Basically, you have five people who usually fit a certain pattern -- the hero, the hero's foil, the smart one, the tough one, and the sweet one (usually a girl, sometimes the only girl).
TV Tropes notes that both the humans and the 'mon fit this. Here, let me just paste in their entries:
Chosen Children
The Hero Daisuke Motomiya
The Lancer Takeru Takaishi
The Big Guy Iori Hida (sometimes The Smart Guy)
The Smart Guy Miyako Inoue (sometimes The Big Guy)
The Chick Hikari Yagami
The Mentor The previous Chosen
Sixth Ranger Ken Ichijouji (who doubles as the second Lancer)
Chosen Children's Digimon (Adventure 02)
The Hero V-mon
The Lancer Tailmon
The Big Guy Armadimon
The Smart Guy Hawkmon
The Chick Patamon
The Mentor The previous Chosen's Digimon
Sixth Ranger Wormmon
(Yeah, I don't use TV Tropes' names, quite. Also, 'sixth ranger' should be pretty easy to figure out -- the person who comes late to the party, sometimes though switching sides or just being a lone wolf who wasn't really working for anyone who finally joins up after baiting the audience for a while.)
Part of it is that I have a lot of affection for shows about pet monsters and the kids that help them. Also part of it is that the show had a reasonable balance about not being the Daisuke and Ken show*, just because as the hero and the lancer, they got the most powerful 'mon. Also, and this is one reason I need to finish Tamers and Savers, is that the show is about both worlds, while Frontier and most of Adventure 01 feature events solely in the Digital World. I like seeing how one deals with balancing 'saving the world' and a real life. (For that matter, Tamers and Savers made a lot bigger deal about going into the Digital World, unlike Adventure 02 where it was as easy as an after-school hangout.) I do wish the series had done more with the human villains, though.
The characters -- both the humans and the 'mons -- were interesting enough to keep my attention, despite being pretty easy to match to the trope. But, I am easy to please here. I like Daisuke as the guy who idolizes the previous season's Hero, and who could be a good leader, but is also worried about the fact he's a newcomer compared to Hiakri and Takeru. I like Takeru and Hikari as something other than 'the kids we need to protect' -- still kind of the sweet ones of the group, despite their experiences. I like Miyako as being assertive and the computer one, though I wish she could have done more than that, and I like Iori as a quiet moral center, slow to anger and slow to forgive. I like Ken's story arc, but wish that they hadn't taken the battle to the Digital World so quickly, to play more with the idea of 'how do we fight a human in the real world'? I like the way the 'mons play off of each of their human partners, and the way the relationship was handled.
* Digimon franchises have the tendency to basically forget they have an ensemble cast in favor of playing with the two leads. Tamers and Savers are exceptions, since they had three leads and all three got to do things, but I also haven't finished those (yet). Frontier was kind of egregious about this, where the second half of the show was Takuya and Kouji and maybe Kouji's brother who went from awesome mind-controlled villainous badass to below the two leads in power. It was to the point where I wondered why the other three didn't just give Takuya and Kouji their spirits and tell them to meet them at the train station. (I won't even get started with how you could predict whether Izumi, the party's token girl, would lose a fight based on the gender of the 'mon she was fighting.)
Previous Days
Day 1 - Very first anime: Speed Racer; Sailor Moon, Ranma 1/2
Day 2 - Favorite TV series: Slayers
Day 3 -
Day 4 - Favorite Film: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Winds
Day 5 - Anime character you feel you are most like (or wish you were): Mizuno Ami, Sailor Moon
Day 6 - Most annoying anime character: Louise, Familiar of Zero
Day 7 - Character you’d most like to slap: Miaka & Tamahome, Fushigi Yuugi
Day 8 - Most epic scene ever: Climax, Princess Mononoke
Day 9 - Saddest anime scene: Climax of final episode of Kino's Journey
Day 10 - Favorite slice of life anime: Here is Greenwood
Day 11 - Favorite mech series: Vision of Escaflowne
Day 12 - Best installment of a franchise you don’t like: Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-oh-ki
Day 13 - Worst installment of a franchise you do like: Slayers: Hourglass of Falces
Day 14 - Current (or most recent) anime wallpaper: Sylphiel
Day 15 - A reality check for a genre you like: Eureka SeveN
Day 16 - An anime classic that simply doesn’t work for you: Akira
Day 17 - Best Background Music: .hack//SIGN
