Customer Reviews

Digimon Limited Edition Collectors Box Set: The Complete First Season

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4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

Digimon is one of my all time favourite shows, so to see this available, it felt too good to be true.
Well yes, and no.

I'm satisfied with my purchase, but despite what many of the reviewers are saying, THIS IS A BOOTLEG.
Before this boxset was available on amazon, I had downloaded torrents of Digimon, and my torrent uploads are clearer and better quality than this boxset. Like a reviewer said before me, everytime someone moves, the motion is blurred. And the menu set up is painfully lazy.

I'm not sure what all this talk about a Canadian import is either. Like, really? Are there people out there that are silly enough to believe that? I bet the people who believe that are also wiring money to princesses in third world countries as well. It's a sham, but a well made sham, that will most likely satisfy none the less.

But I have to say, this is the fanciest bootleg I've ever seen. It looks so real on the outside.
I say it's worth the money anyway. The quality may not be perfect, but atleast you'll have the entire collection on dvd.

I hope the real owners to the rights of Digimon release an official boxset someday. That would be a dream come true.

If anything, please, please, please believe me when I say this is a bootleg, before you consider paying for it.

When I first saw this, I bought it without hesitation. I was a huge fan of the digimon series and was waiting a long time for a full season release. All 54 episodes from the first season are present. The outside packaging is eye-appealing as well.

Now onto the bad. My first gripe is the menu screen. I have 2 options: Play movie (movie huh?) or scene selection. If you choose scene selection (which I can only assume is an episode selection), small circles playing short clips from the episode appear. Besides the small clip, you have no other way of knowing if it is the episode you want. They are not titled and are numbered 1-9 on each disc, leaving you only to reference the actual box set to figure out what episode you want to watch. Not very convenient and only a little bit of effort would have solved this.

My second problem is the video quality. Now, I do not know if this happened in translation, or was always there but I just did not notice due to the quality of cable TV, but any moment when there is actual movement on the screen (or when the frame changes), you get a slight fuzzy look at that part. For example, if a character moves his mouth, his mouth becomes fuzzy. Slowing down and freezing this frame by frame, it seems like it meshes the image of the current and previous frame in alternating bars. It really bothered me to know they messed this up. I endured, and got used to it after 9 or so episodes.

I love the series, and I saw that season 2 was recently released. As much as I want the content, I am hesitating to buy season 2 based off of the way season 1 was presented. Buyer beware.

I got my copy of this today, and yes, I agree with all the reviews, this seems bootlegged. The sound quality is good, but you have to turn your tv up to hear it. The text is all in jap with translations to the side. I saw a few reviews saying the titles looked photoshopped in but the ones I got look like they belong there.

I saw one review that said to get this from ToonJunkies. Mine was from there. Though the shipping adress on here says Denmark or something like that mine was shipped from TookJunki, Chino Hills,, California.

There are also posts of it playing, not playing, and skipping. So far, there has been no skipping or defects. I'm watching it on my 360, so it could just be that it's a better player or something, I don't know.

This is a good box set though. If you like Anime, you surely won't mind the Jap text. If you like Digimon, you surely won't wanna miss this. But, the price is a bit high, and I wouldn't waste the money on the express shipping.

-Edit-

Around the Etamon series, there are a few voice glitches I noticed. Tai talks, but Sora's voice comes out. And when it shows the kids waiting for Tai and Sora it shows T.K. talking but you hear Sora talking to Biyomon when Sora is still tied up and being coppied by Datamon.

Also, come on. There is no Aliance Entertainment Corporation.

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If it were real, there would WAY more stuff on that page, even if it had integrated into a different company or anything!

For those of you who say there has never been a release though, you LIE!!! Bandai actually did release a 9 disk set in Japan. Still, I'm up to disk 4 now and other than the audio glitch, I haven't had any problem.

-Will update when series is finshed.-

I know that for the longest time I have been looking for this set. It was imposible to find, and I can't begin to explain how happy I was to receive this in the mail. I have now watched all of the disks, and yes it's all there. If you are wondering whether you should by this or not, the answer is YES! If you love Digimon, then this is a must. It was awesome to go back and watch the episodes I haven't been able to see in years. The only con is that it does not work well on some DVD players. I ran into some problems on my first, moved to my second where the problems didn't exist at first, but then it glitched a couple of times. The glitches can be worked around, and I do not believe that it is a problem with the disks. But if you do buy this it may require a newer DVD player.

So, buy it! And love it.

Yes, these are bootlegs, but the only thing that gives it away is the japanese video. In the latter episodes the Digimon Analyser is in all japanese, obvious give away.

Many people will complain about the video quality, these people really need to get with the times and upgrade. I have a Samsung LED 40" with a Samsung Blueray Player. ya that's overkill... really just get a decent upconverting dvd player and these episodes look great. the main complaint is that the mouths and fast movement make a funky line effect. this is caused by interlacing. you see all episodes are 480i (all dvds for that matter as well) but when you convert to 1080p or even 480p your dvd player will deinterlace the frames and your picture will be fine.

Yes, this is a bootleg. But that makes it seem like it's sold out of a truck in an alley somewhere. Instead I propose we call this an unofficial release. The box art and construction are top quality and the discs are perfect and pretty to look at. In fact, it wasn't until I saw a one-star negative review of the product that I realized it was a "bootleg". I watched an eighteen-hour marathon of the season and there was not so much as a hiccup. So if the presentation is top quality, the discs work perfectly and it a seasoned TV on DVD collector (That would be me) can be fooled by it, why shouldn't we accept this as the release that Disney never gave us? My only complaint is that the second season is not currently available. Alliance Entertainment should do something about that. And there's no extras, but with fifty-four episode, extras really aren't needed.

In terms of story, Digimon has one of the best. I first watched the series in 1999, when the series first aired, and let me tell you it still stands up today. There is more emotion, action and intrigue than almost any other cartoon show there is. The seven children, later joined by an eighth, journey across a foreign land with their new companions trying to find a way home and then trying save both their world and the digital one they have now come to see as a second home. It's a story of personal growth and friendship. The jokes are a little corny, but come on, it was 1999. There were a lot of corny jokes back then.

I highly recommend the collection if you watched the season when it aired or if you just want a fun show that the whole family can enjoy. And I don't mean that in a corny, salesman way. i mean that in a "I'm an older brother who watched it with his younger brother and parents" way. Trust me. It's worth your time.

I really wanted this product to be official/authentic, and I must say, I am disappointed that it isn't. I grew up watching the series so I was looking forward to receiving it in the mail, but when I looked at the packaging, the front cover looked rather fake, and when I popped the DVD into my MacBook, I could definitely tell that the overall quality of the DVD was pretty poor. It is most definitely a bootleg.

I don't know if it is worth [...] bucks, but it looks decent on my older, early 2000's TV. Buy only if you are feeling really nostalgic. Again, it's a bootleg, and the quality is decent, but don't buy unless you really want to watch the show.

I bought the DVDs and read these reviews and i haven't had any problems. I love the show and really could care less about some crappy bonus features. I paid the money and i got what i wanted, a great show. They play great and the episodes are even better without commercials. :) No problems 5 stars

The entire dubbed season was released in Australia on DVD. NOW! If you're a diehard fan like me, you'll have to buy a region free or a universal dvd or blu-ray player to watch because it's gonna be in PAL format and not in NTSC. And that can cost about $200 on ebay.
BUY THE OFFICIAL RELEASE HERE:
http://www.madman.com.au/series/home/16377/digimon-digital-monsters-1999
The show is split in two collections. Collection 1 has episodes 1-27 for $49.95 Australian dollars and Collection 2 has episodes 29-54 for the same price.
THERE IS NO OFFICIAL RELEASE OF DUBBED ADVENTURE 02, Digimon Tamers, and Digimon Frontier. As of 1/13/12.

Digimon fans are in Great Desire For this digimon DVD i think so to It has 54 Episodes I saw this with tai matt sora Joe izzy mimi TK and Kari get this DVD IT IS AWWWWWWWWWWWSOME!