DISCLAIMER: In this review Ill mostly talk about the main cast and what i like/dont like about them instead of the plot because the last time I made a review on here it just kinda devolved into a plot summary but there will be story spoilers in this so if you havent watched Digimon Frontier I wouldnt recommend reading ahead. At a fundamental level Digimon Frontier is a story about getting over regret and learning from your mistakes so you can live for tomorrow but It doesnt really use that theme to its full potential and as a result just falls flat at the end To elaborate: Every character has their own regret they carry into the digital world Takuya regrets not being a better brother Koji regrets not being able to get along with his stepmom Izumi regrets not being able to forgive her classmate Junpei regrets not being able to make any real connections with his classmates Tomoki regrets never taking his brothers advice and standing up against his bullies and Koichi Regrets never reaching out to Koji despite having several chances to. they went 3/6. To elaborate on this Ill talk about the characters In this show I came out liking: Tomoki Koji and Koichi. Starting out withj Tomoki his entire thing was that he was a coward who never spoke up for himself and yeah while its basic they pulled it off damn near perfectly. First off giving Chackmon abilities that fit support was genius sure he still has to rely on others but this is digimon so that means friendship is contractually required to be a main theme. Either way Tomoki having to learn how to pull his own weight was great https://files.catbox.moe/31utc7.png And then when you get into Blizzarmon a digimon that just relies on sheer strength to win is once again genius. While yeah this can be interpreted as the rage of a kind man which isnt completely unfounded but I think thats lame. I like to interpret Blizzarmon as a representation of Tomokis resolve. In its debut episode Tomoki was working his ass off trying to get everyones digivices back and there would be several opprotunites where he would be fully justified in leaving the Toucamon to die since they WERE the reasons why hes in this situation to begin with but he helps them anyway despite it screwing him over immediately after. As I said its a basic message but it works great. Next we move on to Koji and as I write this im coming to the conclusion that his character development was hard carried by the existence of Koichi who ill talk about in a bit. https://files.catbox.moe/gy6hom.png It becomes very easy to see that his entire lone wolf gimmick is a facade and once he gets over his trust issues hes just a normal ass kid and because of that he was able to win over Koichi thats great Now if the characters actually FELT like friends this would be way better. If it wasnt for Koichi Kojis entire arc would just be nothing since the only thing that shows off his development Is being the main force that redeems Koichi. Take that way and he just kinda fades into nothingness. Im going to be blunt with Koichi Hes the best character in the show. https://files.catbox.moe/lubvgb.png even though Koichi did jack shit after his redemption arc he absolutely stole the show and I hate how much he got shafted because they ran out of money to give him new shit. Koichi starts out as an antagonist named Duskmon but later it was revealed that he was brainwashed. This was done great since the only way he was able to be manipulated by Cherubimon was by harvesting the part of him who resented his father for abandoning his mother while she practically worked herself to death and the part of him who resented Koji for living a happy life unaware of her struggles and on a base level thats great along with that his redemption coming from seeing past his rightful anger and makes the effort to reconnect with Koji in spite of his fathers actions ties in with the shows main theme of learning from your mistakes and living for a better tomorrow. I will admit that I am showing a lot of bias towards Koichi because his Image songhttps://youtu.be/PGLq8kwj27c?si=iU7VGPjpQrYjS5Hj kicks so much ass. It made his backstory hit 20 times harder. Go listen to it right now. Unfortunately as I mentioned earlier Koichi barely does anything after this since he and the rest of the digidestined need to give up their spirits so Tatsuya and Koji need all of their spirits to go into Kaisergreymon and Mangagarurumon which ill touch on those guys later Now moving onto the bad First off im going to talk about Izumi and Junpei in one section because they both suck https://files.catbox.moe/jhuyj7.png https://files.catbox.moe/pe9aeh.png Their entire things are that they were never able to make true friends due to their personal flaws that sounds like it has potential right? well unfortunately this only comes in HALFWAY THROUGH THE SHOW and to make it worse? There is NOTHING that could possibly suggest this before we see their flashbacks. Junpeis entire thing is that he had no real friends since people only wanted to talk to him because he had candy or rare trading cards hes pretty much the one kid you only talked to because he has an early birthday so he gets new games first Good premise right? Unfortunately the only thing that can possibly point to this is that he had an inferiority complex due to getting his spirit last but this basically means nothing since this NEVER GETS BROUGHT UP AGAIN. And with Izumi she never made any friends due to the culture shock she experienced once she moved to Japan and as a result she became shy and wasnt good at articulating her feelings to others Now once we translate this to how she acts in the show we see none of it. She is fully fluent in Japanese and she is extremely outgoing shes practically a second Mimi she even FLIRTS with Takuya sometimes its like they remembered oh yeah she IS half italian So they decided to just rip off Doremi and make her worse Momoko at the last minute shoutout Momoko 200https://files.catbox.moe/24dda4.gif Last up is Takuya. I have nothing to say about him. Why? because I think he is practically a walking piece of cardboard. https://files.catbox.moe/uikor0.png Like yeah hes brave and heroic but that also applies to literally every other Digimon protagonist. Ok sure he has an arc where he questions his decision about going to the digital world but he doesnt actually grow as a person. Right now im struggling to find more things to write about him because hes just a nothing character. https://files.catbox.moe/4ikkx1.png https://files.catbox.moe/wsl405.png These forms suck. Not only do they rob every other character of their agency by existing they also do absolutely nothing for the plot since after Tatsuya and Koji get it they spend the rest of the show jobbing to Lordknightmon and Dynasmon for over TEN EPISODES. This just exists so they can squeeze a couple bucks out of a slightly different Dscanner. Digimon frontier is a show with a lot of wasted potential. While I didnt HATE watching it I just wish that they did more with the characters. Izumi and Junpei just have so much wasted potential and it pains me because their digimon forms are amazing Also Neemon goated https://files.catbox.moe/67jq0a.png