Customer Reviews

Digimon - The Emperor's Last Stand (Vol. 7) [VHS]

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It was supposed to be for my son. But I have to confess that I became hooked to it. Digimon 02 is an excellent series, you will be so emotionally involved. As far as rating this video, I had to take away a quarter star for some transulation errors. I had seen it in original Japanese version first. To transulate it in English, they usually do pretty good jobs cutting out too cruel/violent scenes, add jokes here/there to lighten things up, and change contents slightly to better suit American audience. In The Crest of Kindness, before Wormmon sacrifices himself, he says "what happened to that sweet kid who had a dream to take over the digital world....." In Genesis of Evil, after Sam's death and receiving the e-mail, Ken comes to the dark sea in digital world and says "I'll never forget the first time I saw the digital world. It was enormous..."
But from my understanding watching the original Japanese version, those two lines are not quite right. First time Ken went to digital world was when Sam was still alive. Ken took the supposed Sam's digivice from his drawer and went to digital world. Ken had no intention of taking over the digital world
After Sam's death and receiving the mysterious e-mail, Ken went to the digital world again. It was his second trip when Ken arrived the dark sea, possesed by dark thoughs and became the evil Digital Emperor. Ken whom Wormmon loved is referring to kind and gentle Ken at his first visit, not after he became the Digital Emperor to take over the digital world. It makes more sense this way. The English text I mentioned above were confusing. You have to watch the vidoe and see what you think.
I also took off a quarter star for inconsistency of pictures of main characters. Maybe not too much in this video, but in the TV series, drawing (especially children's) changes slightly from episodes to episodes. In some episodes, children are just too disfigured to look like their age. Davis and Ken are supposed to be in 7th grade. (In Japanese version, they are 5th graders.) But, even so, the kids sometimes look too childlish with big heads and puny necks/shoulders.
Don't get me wrong though. This is still a great video. It contains pretty deep stuff - emotions, meaning and value of life, etc. Ken is my favorite character. I watched this tape many times just to see Ken.
To sum up, despite of its childlike appearence of pictures,
I will recommend it to a little older audience. My 1st grade son thinks digimons are cool and he likes to watch them digivolve. But I think he's gotta be a few years older to really appreciate the story, emotional plays between characters and underlain messages.

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This is probaly the best out of the whole season. When season 2 came on I coulden't wait to watch every episode. It's pretty much my favorite. Anyways watch it this espically if your a really big ken fan...

Now. I just wanna say even If the name sounds like "poke mon" Theres a huge difference between digimon and pokemon! I used to think that too when I heard about the show but then I realized that it was for more than the name and cute little animals.

Well, I just wanted to make that point... but anyways I really liked this and it's worth the money.

Like most people say I really like the ken sage. It's very dreep and emotional. If your like 7 maybe It's just cool but when you get a bit older watch it and youll see the real meaning of the whole thing.

I started watching Digimon about the middle of season one, if only because my son watched it and we only have one television in the house. I find it a lot more emotionally involved than Pokemon, with more emotional subtext. Seson two was EXCELLENT, and these episodes prove it. Watching Wormons sacrifice and Ken's transformation was a truly educational experience for my son. Like an earlier reviewer I would love to see all the episodes involved in "The Battle for Both Worlds", possibly the best mini-series I have ever seen, on video or DVD.

One of the most powerful arcs in all of Digimon and one of the many reasons I just love this show. Ken was such a cool villain. He managed to take any small defeat in stride and come back stronger, he was a guy you loved to hate. Then it all came crumbling down around him - but his digimon partner loyal to the end saved him, sacrificing himself to destroy the Digimon Emperer. I remember watching what happened in one of the episodes and I called up my best buddy and said, "I know you don't care, but they just killed 'the character'!"

Genesis of Evil, is just beautiful. If you're not misty when you see it the first time you'd best check your pulse. It's good that so much of it takes place in Ken's mind, so the dubbers can get him to say anything they want. It was treated very well. I saw the Japanese counterpart, and I actually like the dub better. In the dub, as young Ken approaches the Dark Ocean of evil, we hear echoes of the Digimon Emperer himself, veyr eerie, very cool. This is not in the original Japanese. This is a very powerful episode. I used it to get my buddy hooked on Digimon. ^_^ Ken being so cute helped too.

This video has 4 episodes on it which deal with the end of Ken, the Digimon Emperor. In "An Old Enemy Returns", "The Darkness Before Dawn", and "The Crest of Kindness", the digidestined must stop Ken from destroying the Digital world. "Genesis of Evil" gives the story of how Ken became the Digimon emperor. These are great episodes and "Genesis of Evil" is one of the best episodes and is a very emotional one.

I'm fifteen years old and have been "into" digimon for about six years now.

This has the best digimon tape avalible. I love the "Digimon Emporer" bit and I have to admit I got a bit emotional watching "Genisis of Evil". Parents, if you can look past the at times idiotic humor of the english dub please sit and watch it with your kids. My best friends mom did and she became rather hooked, watching it even when we weren't in the house.

If I had to pick a favorite episode it would be Genisis of Evil. Which, (as far as I'm conserned) The only digimon episode without much action. But that doesn't make it any less enjoyable. Its entire focus is on Ken (and abit on his parents dealing with having him dissapear after being gone for so long) and why he became the emporer in the first place. There is quite some depth into Ken's character making him one of Digimon's most complex (next to Kouichi and Kouji from Digimon Frontier)

However I shall warn you if you are just now buying the tape with no past knowldge of the anime, please watch some episodes on youtube or something as you will be completly lost. But if you have past knowldge of Digimon, sit back and enjoy.

Theses Episodes where so great. This is a awsome video. If you are a digimon fan you should by it.

The Ken saga is one of my favorite parts of all of digimon. The emotional struggles alone are enough to pull on your heart strings. This tape includes 4 episodes: An Old Enemy Returns, The Darkness Before Dawn, The Crest of Kindness, and (my personal favorite) Genesis of Evil. 80 minutes of must have digimon. (No commercials.;) )

People may say that being 13 and watching Digimon is 'stupid' and 'immature', I thought that as well before I had actually seen the show and lamly compared it to the over growing show, pokemon. But, of course I was wrong. It's a thick twist of a plot, Ken ABSOLUTLY AMAZING by the way; skitzophrenzic, and yet calm and cool at the same time. What's not to love of the blue haired 7th grader who's known as a genius? Eh, that's what I thought! Well if your thinking about getting this, I insist that you do! It's full of humoreous jokes, yet stays' to the strong plot of the digitestoned. >=D

Anybody who says Digimon Zero Two is anything but excellent deserves to be smacked. The schizophrenic character of Ken Ichijougi is the perfect representation of misplaced identity. These four episodes are possibly the most pivotal in that conflict, if not the entire series. Now if Fox/Buena Vista would only release 'The Battle For Both Worlds' everything would be swell. Or even better... how about the entire season on a collection of DVDs??? ;-)