An Honest Review Of Digimon Seekers | The New Series For Adults
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- Опубліковано 26 лип 2024
- Digimon Seekers Review: a confusing new series that is having its reputation damaged by translation issues, rollout strategy, and confusing marketing.
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This should've been a show or video game. It doesn't work as solely a novelization.
There is a possibility that it might get an anime adaption. The vast majority of newer anime is from light novels these days. I doubt it will though. Multimedia franchises like digimon usually keep their light novel and manga stories separate from their anime and video game bread and butter. Its treated as side content and is rarely used outside of that.
It could've worked, if it had a better translation and a denser release schedule.
Not that it's an unmitigated disaster or anything, but like the video says, it has problems.
Hard agree not that novelization is particularly bad but the "mani" story should've been a show/game with the novels be side stories in my opinion.
Even a shitty gacha mobile game like rearize would've been much better than this.
I miss rearize
The whole machine translated thing really does show how little Bandai actually cared for fans outside of Japan. I realize that Japan is where they market Digimon the most, but man it comes off so poorly after saying "This is an international release!*"
*That we will put minimal effort into
The "Tales of" franchise wasn't enough of a clue?
I agree, its ridiculous that a company with billions in revenue has a list of erratas every set because they cant translate a sentence that people on Reddit can in less than 5 minutes
I wouldnt even say theyre meeting the minimum. The autotranslation aspect is pathetic.
@@libra365 they squeeze all profit they can have mwahahaha
Yeah, I'm extremely disappointed.
I dipped out when I realized Seekers was machine translated. That's just unacceptable. I'm either going to read it when my Japanese is good enough, or wait for fan translations.
Seekers seems like a really great concept, it has so much promise. It deserves so much more than a drip-fed web novel only offered outside Japan via machine translation.
This is billed as the 25th Anniversary Project, but... why does it feel like a side project that only just barely got funded?
I thought the DMC's were the 25th anniversary project.
There's people on this app that have translated it.
@@aikou2886 Digimon Color is one of a few 25th anniversary celebration items, but if you go look at any official materials for Digimon Seekers, you'll see it proudly labeled as "Digimon 25th Project." It's part of the official logo for the series.
@@the_echoYT Ah, that's disappointing.
I was hyped for Seekers until I realized it was just some web novel to promote the vital bracelet, whicj I have no interest in.
@@yusheitslv100 Bless you sir.
Honestly, Cybersleuth was the closest to an adult cyberpunk themed Digimon story, I like what Seekers is doing and Commandramon has been gradually one my favorite Digimon too..
Been trying to write one of these myself. I'm upset they managed to do it before me 😅
I see similar comments getting made pretty often, but I really can't get behind this. As someone who loves serious fiction, Digimon and detective stories, I've gotta say that Cyber Sleuth was lacking. Deffinetely showed potential, though.
Cybersleuth and Hackers Memory are easy one of the best game ever made. Not quite as good as Witcher 3 or the Persona Series.. but still easily top 5
@@jonnjones8263Aww, it would be awesome to be able to read yours, too, though, if you'd still like to continue it! ^^ I'm sure it would be awesome!
@@PriestessOfSlaanesh You need to play more video games lol
You know it would be so cool if some company out there like the people who created Pokemon go or ingress would create a game where you can choose your Digimon and have it work works with your phone so your Digimon can sit in the back screen give you information it could be easily hooked up to it like a chat GPT allowing you to get some information and giving you reminder is about certain things it's basically your personal AI at that point and if you can it basically becomes your friend
Not caring about the death of a Tyrannomon!? Heinous, sinful, unforgivable! All main line Tyrannomon are good precious bois who deserve love and respect 🥰
they shouldve focused more on what made Cyber Sleuth so good; Hackers fighting amongst hackers, stealing information, the black market and turf wars all the while facing a major threat
If digimon are digital, does that mean someone can hack your digimon?
@@elishafollet5347 they themselves can't be hacked but are susceptible to viruses and can be controlled through those means
@@elishafollet5347yes
@@elishafollet5347as a toon expert i can confirm that toons can be hacked i actually met this tobucatmon who was hacked by someone who hates x antibodies
I actually love everything about the setting of Seekers.
The "Tamers" having a V-Pet feel to raising them tickles my Digimon World 1 nostalgia, The Digital World actually being a digital world is always my favorite form of it, they way humans react to the Digimon as not real until you begin looking into them deeper has me interested.
This really is my perfect setting for a Digimon story...
IF ONLY READING IT WAS A MASSIVE SLOG!
Seriously I don't mind a novelization, I actually like that as well, but the translation is probably the biggest turn off for me as I am pretty sure I am missing context or even complete sentences while reading it.
They could've made it into short live action web series instead, kinda like how Tsuburaya is doing with a few ultraman series
Eveytime they do this, it baffles me anew, Bandai can't stop fumbling this franchise at any corner, for every good thing we get 10 horrible decisions. To be honest, some days I'm surprised (and a bit relieved) that Bandai didn't put Digimon to rest becuase of low sales and engagement.
Well that's the thing, the series had basically stopped localizing content for a while in the west, but the numbers of fans screaming outside of Japan were huge and convinced Bandai Namco to give it another go. The Cyber Sleuth games did really well and Next Order, while not as well still sold enough to justify a port to another platform. The series can put up numbers but they don't want to put the money into it.
@Yunglex313 I'm glad that there's some sort of resurgence, the colored vpets, cyber sleuth and digimon survive are all pointing at the right direction. I'm just thinking that if they invested in localization correctly from the beginning, we could've had so much more/bigger projects.
if bandai treated this franchise with half the "Love" that Konami treats Yu-Gi-Oh! (interpret "love" however you like, yugioh has its issues but I think GameFreak is more "lazier" with Pokemon) it would be more relevant both outside and inside Japan, but the sad reality is that Dragon Ball will always be the franchise with the most spotlight in the world world and Japan that Bandai has on hand.
Whenever a project gets MTL'd, it feels like the creator is just slapping their fans across the face. I was hyped for Seekers, even subbed to the official channel. But after the first release I decided to wait till an arc or two finishes.
What's it mean to be "MTL'd"?
@@elegantelegy1597 MTL stands for Machine Translation. Projects that use the technology usually end up with garbage text: poor grammar, wrong word use, etc. Basically it makes reading a painful experience.
@@_trott Thank you for the explanation. That's dispiriting. :/
Tried to read it when the first chapter dropped. The sloppy machine translation and how little we get each chapter made me decide to wait until chapters stack up and fan translations are available. Just got caught up recently and its far better when read in batches and probably best if i were to wait a year or so until its all out and go through it in one sitting. Definitely made a good choice by waiting tho and as per usual with anime, manga and light novels etc, the fan translations beat out the official releases.
I feel like if seekers released as a complete book rather than a chapter a week, the pacing problem would be less upsetting.
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I'm gonna wait until it's all done before I read it
This is beautiful thank you for something so indepth slowly getting into the new card game been noticing it's a bit easier then the original one.
Your video inspired me (or maybe just reminded me) to go and have another go at reading Seekers after I gave up trying to make any sense of 1.5. I still found it impossible to make any real sense of but I did find a very good fan translation on twitter and have now read through all of that and really enjoyed it! The story and ideas are actually really interesting and it's quite a different take on the ideas on the digital world.
I love digimon digital monsters a digimon UA-cam series and a UA-cam digimon movie and a digimon new video game
I’ll never give up on the digimon
I like Loogamon, the new adorable wolf Digimon.
In this case, I didn’t even give it a try 😔
The delivery method just doesn’t fit with my preferences, and listening to your experience/opinions, simply reinforces my point of view.
I might actually give it a try in Japanese, not just to practice my language and see how bad they did in the translation.
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I remember first hearing about this, and for a second, I assumed it was gonna be a manga. I really wish that's the way it went tbh. Getting weekly paragraphs to read through is painful. Just as each part gets interesting it ends, and the next part releases with little to no pay off. just more questions. I dropped off quite early and it's hard to say if I'd pick it up again, but you're right CS and Survive will fill in most of the blanks for anyone interested in Digimon Lore that Seekers may come out with.
Agree with every word you said. Fortunately, there's a fan translated project to my language (spanish) that brings quickly the chapters, so the monday i read it while i listen the japanese audio version. I'm enjoying it a lot, and is a waste that they took so many bad decisions, that won't let this story to reach a massive audience.
I like the concepts of this story, I think it should've been a movie or next Story series game.
I got into the Digimon fandom just recently because I’m a sucker for monster catching and converting type genre’s (Pokémon and Shin Megami Tensei). But to see how much potential this franchise has but having little to no effort put into it saddens me. 😭
And to think how much lore and information they have on the servers, Digimon, etc. yet they still don't use much of those is baffling.
So true. Welcome to the Digimon Fanbase... That's how we all feel. :|
It felt like a scam when they say they'll get it in english when they don't even payed actual translators. It was a clearly dishonest advertisement that needs to be addressed by them. MTL it's just a tool for translators
I agree. They should've hired some translators for this "global project." I was really dissatisfied about the translation while checking out the first chapter.
Also, also, it's interesting that they are tying this into the Digimon TCG with lots of the cards from the upcoming Japanese set featuring the Digimon and Tamers from Seekers.
More specifically, it's 14 parts (now 15) of Chapter 1. It's been nearly 2 months and we're still not past the first chapter yet. What bothers me is waiting weekly for so little content that right now to me it doesn't feel like it's worth waiting for. And the fact nothing of interest happening also doesn't help. Honestly, Cyber Sleuth does what this does but better and you can actually finish it as of now. I really wanted this to be good, but I'm starting to have doubts. At least Loogamon is cool.
I'm a fan that only really "discovered" Digimon as an adult when I watched Digimon Tamers in Japanese, so I might have a bit of an unusual perspective. Atop that, I work in information security, and I just recently finished CyberSleuth and am starting on Hacker's Memory (100+ hours so far), I love it. But Seekers sounds grossly mis-aimed, as do most modern Digimon projects. If I'm an outlier here, please let me know, but...
Even as an adult, I got into the series because I appreciated the sense of wonder and the "coming of age" storylines afforded by the fact that the main cast were kids. It's not that Digimon can't have young-adult/late-teen characters, I think that's great, but why is this the new normal for a show that endeared itself to many with original series starring kid characters back in the 90s/2000s when most of the audience were themselves kids? After all, it's also not the case that you can't have younger characters and a serious/mature storyline.
I can't get into it in a youtube comment, but having the protagonists being adults changes things up immensely. A 19yo university educated "freelance hacker" (ok) has vastly more avenues to tackle a problem than a kid, especially if they're aligned with the status-quo authorities. It's much harder to justify them as the "fish out of water" character, leading to awkward ways of communicating information to the viewer (like verbal exposition dumps). Importantly, it's hard to bring in new fans, since something like Digimon is so obviously keyed for younger audiences that you're going to have a hard time convincing a 30 year old that this series with cute digital monsters is actually worth their time. They could just go back to kid characters, but write them well and with respect for both people that age and the target audience (which can be whatever age). They're zeroing in on this very specific fandom of adults who grew up with Digimon, but can't/won't relate to kid characters - remember you can have young characters and yet be as dark/gritty/serious as you want, even still have an adult target audience, and possibly even attract new young fans - and that's a small, ageing population.
I won't touch on the issues I have with the portrayal of "hacking" in this or CyberSleuth, and I don't just mean technical mistakes or technobabble.
Also, as with Cybersleuth, the fact that these Digimon aren't sentient and completely not "like Siri" is so obvious that it's ridiculous any "hacker" wouldn't know it. It's just a lazy way to declare that the main character "gets along with" Digimon in some special way. That they have some special relationship to it. These settings where Digimon are ubiquitous and somehow a staple part of cybersecurity just don't work. I'd be the best hacker in the world because I'm a damn sap who cried when my Tamagotchi died because my teacher confiscated it. That's Pokemon-level dumbness, and before anyone says it: yeah, Pokemon is still insanely popular! ... It still has kid protagonists and markets to a young, fresh audience every release, while still exploiting the nostalgia of older players. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Seekers pacing and translation really hold it back. Then again I've seen enough localization gaffs in current year to make people prefer Babelfish from 2002.
i think the best that comeout from seekers are the new commandramon evo, and then loogamon, and the fact that they made it immediately into the TCG. playability aside, the artworks were sick, man!
This video already has more views in 5 hours than every narrated chapter (excluding the first 5) of seekers has on youtube in the last month....
😬😬😬
@@thedigiknow Meaning digimon fan is giving up. and Pokemon fan is more dedicated base....Because pokemon games does not squeeze every fan base. they just want returning customer every 2 year (console game), or TCG Game. Even newly yearly anime etc
I’m not giving up on it I really love reading the chapters
Same
The problem with Digimon is that it is such a simple and marketable ip, yet somehow they over do it to the point it misses.
The last Digimon product I consider consistently good is Appmon. After that, it has been many ups and downs in my opinion.
Appmon was so good
I didn't even know about it. Will check it out.
I dunno about Appmon. It had some potential, but I feel like it didn't really live up to it and kinda wandered after they got the Seven Code Appmon. Like they sort of backed off exploring the setting.
I'm still reading every chapter so far and I'm liking it. I do try to fix the wording that's being made in the chapter from time to time
Definitely Cyber sleuth influenced Digimon seekers with how humans view Digimons as Programs and mistreatment of their Partners.
It has strong core world-building, and develops the character interactions to sell each personality fast without feeling forced. Eiji is a bum who is phenomenally adaptable and hard to hate, letting him get away with far more than most would allow a quasi-legal individual. Both of these are notably stronger than Cyber Sleuth, which focused more on the style and visual impact.
Did we need TWO netrunner digimon universes? Not really, but we also have appmon so it's actually three anyway.
I haven't had a lot of time to continue working on it, but for a while after episode 50 of Digimon Ghost Game I was writing my own episodes of Ghost Game that goes in a whole different direction than the actual series went and I have so far seven completed episodes or I guess parts/ chapters to it that has enough content to fit a Digimon episode in them in Fanfiction net that I called Digimon Ghost Game Alternate Universe. Because of work I barely had much time to continue with what I was doing and I am never really decisive on end goal and progression. However, I do have an idea on how I want to conclude it. With that said, while I went a different direction with the characters such as the relationship between Hiro and Gammamon falling about, I still enjoy quite a few concepts from Ghost Game that I intend to draw from in my own way.
It’s a format that seems to be more popular for a Japanese audience but they tried to market it for an international audience.
To make it more appealing to an international audience, this needed to be a full on localized novel. Exactly how Star Wars has a ton of novels and how Avatar has the Avatar Kyoshi novels.
If they were going for a weekly release schedule, the international audience would have been more receptive to a manga.
If they really wanted to appeal to the international audience, then make it an anime or videogame.
Seekers is an add for the Vital bracelet and as such it’s something made for the Japanese audience primarily. So, I don’t know why they wanted to pretend this was made with the international audience in mind.
Funny enough I’ve been reading the Kiyoshi novel and some Star Wars books and I would have loved if seekers was like that
Great review, I think I'll give this a look once it's finished and then read it all in one go. However, I think if people want to experience something similar to the themes and setting of Seekers, just play Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth and its expansion Hacker's Memory. The game is multiplatform as well and probably even now very cheap to buy (and then get yourselves Digimon World: Next Order which finally became multiplatform a few months ago). And yes, would also recommend Digimon Survive but only if you're someone that likes the idea of visual novels.
Speaking of Digimon World: Next Order, are you planning to play it or have already? I definately recommend it.
I actually finally got around to reading this last night actually (seeing Looga's mega gave me the push to continue). I had seen the machine translation of chapter 1 a long time ago and that's why I put it down for so long. However, this time I'm reading the fan translation. Fans have to do a lot of heavy lifting here, but it ends up making it actually readable and the underlying story and characters are pretty good so far.
The way Bandai treats Digimon is both confusing and inexcusable though.. Digimon does better with game, merch, and card sales in the US than Japan, and yet all of their stuff is always so poorly translated. You'd think they'd put more care into it. I mean for the card game they hire superfans as the artists, why not hire superfans for translations too?
I mean.. just as an example of how out of touch these translations are, let's look to set EX3 (Draconic Roar). Fans translated this set months before the official release and they already made sure to future proof potential localization errors such as including ceratopsian and etc into several cards. The blueprint and solution was already there. Bandai literally had a cheatsheet available for months. Then Bandai finally releases the official cards, and, of course, they got so much wrong. Over a third of the set was errata'd. It was the biggest embarrassment I've ever seen for an established card game.
Bandai just doesn't give Digimon any budget and it's honestly infuriating. They're too busy giving budget to their third party Pokemon games I guess? Sigh. Digimon will always be a red headed step child to Bandai..
..... Bandai doesn't treat Kamen Rider any better. I'm terrified of the angle they're going for.
Maybe it has something to do with the fact that KingOhger, the latest Sentai series, is all done on CG.
Which translation are you reading
@@zephyrias The one by Onkeikun
If it's not Dragon Ball or Gundam then they don't really care
@@NexusOptimusor one piece.
But let's be honest business, Bandai seems to keep to the rotten core of seeking all of the money, not just some of it.
Waiting for the reveal that it was all written by AI.
Jokes aside, I really liked the cybersleuth vibes at the beginning and a digimon light novel sounded uncomplicated enough but I couldn't get past the machine translations. As some other commenter put it, they clearly don't care so why should we? I rather check out Survive when I have the time.
Well, when we first got survive, digitally, the translation was also outsourced to a Hispanic speaking country and with many mistakes, until the updates?
So right now, other than the translation being bad, my main issue is that the pacing is kinda irky. As expected of chapter one, it's full of exposition which is fine for the most part? But when chapter one is split into parts, and split in a way that doesn't work for this release format, and most of it is exposition on various areas and things that won't possibly matter in the long run, it feels slower than it should be. They really should've just done it in chunks, maybe every few weeks, instead of a small part every week.
So far i like it. But the Translation is difficult because its from a Machine and makes it even harder to read if youre from a different Country. The Ideas and Story seem interesting especially with SoC and Loogamons Past. Especially when we get Chaosdramon and other Digimon from the Crack Team. And we seem to have many Digimon from the D-Brigade too. I hope for it to become a Show would make it easier to watch and translate too.
Second comment here, but I heard that you're playing through Tears of the Kingdom. I hope you're enjoying the game!
In all seriousness, I don't think Digimon is gonna die. There's a new video game being produced that'll be released in the future (however vague that future is), the 02 movie is coming up, the recent card game is still doing well as well as a lot of other merchandise, and there will always be fan content. And to be honest, fan content is where it's at because fan translations for Seekers are more polished, plus fanfiction has actually explored things that _most_ Digimon shows don't explore. Also, there's even modding communities for official games (ex: there's a Dawn/Dusk 2.0 fan mod being worked on). I don't wanna be entirely pessimistic because there's still hope
There , it's mostly fans doing the heavy lifting. I'm very worried about Bandai shoving it back in the eternal freezer at this point.
One thing I'd like to say is Loogamon has an awesome line. Yes, it has all been revealed.
What you mean even his Perfect and Mega Level?
@@michaelbarrett8141 yep. Line goes
Loogamon
Loogarmon
HelLoogarmon/SolLoogarmon
FenrirLoogarmon
@@michaeldaniels642 looked it up so i was right he has a Dark Digivolution because of the Muzzle and that his Mega would be Fenrir. No real Artwork out yet tough. But we will see from what i read its already cool. Basically most North Mythology Wolfs are used. We also have Nidhoggmon. Now the Final Boss needs to be something like North God like Odin or Loki. Altough Loki would be more interesting a Digimon with Shapeshifting Abilities. Excited what we get. Hicommandramon Was also mentioned a new Form like the Captain of Commandramon?
@@michaelbarrett8141 another form has been revealed FenrirLoogarmon Takemikazuchi. It's got a sword in it's mouth. Vital Bracelet image only though.
I watched that live action trailer when it was released, and I completely forgot about it immediately.
The concept of Seekers was super interesting to me. But like many others, after reading the first 3 or 4 chapters (releases?) I dropped it. Between the awkward machine-translated texts and very slow moving pace, I was just not enjoying it. Will definitely give it a full go probably once the whole thing is out, especially if there is better translations or maybe even an English reading of the story.
Seekers strikes me as a similar project to Digimon: Survive. A cool concept that just misses the mark of what a lot of Digimon fans want from the franchise. A online web novel is cool but fans clearly want more animated shows/movies. Similarly, Survive, while I enjoyed my one playthrough of it, is not for everyone and a Visual Novel game doesn't do much for fans expecting more traditional Digimon video games.
I have not paid any attention to this project as I had thought that it would be a new video game. I thought that it would happen immediately after hacker's memory and cyber-sleuth. What I understand of the story at the moment, in the Digimon Seekers story is that it is set after these 2 previous games.
I wasn't even aware this was a thing. May have to remind myself to check it out.
As someone who is just getting back into the world of Digimon slowly recently. I don't care on how bad the translation is. I would give any translation job on storytelling a chance. Story and plot so far has sounding very interesting.
Honestly, my recommendation?
Wait on superior fan translations, and binge read when it's finished.
Seeing how digimon is gaining momentum. They should probably make a sequel to tamers, that world was already kinda cyber punky.
Nah, after what they did last year with the Tamers Anniversary and the last two anime series, I don't trust Toei to handle a sequel of Tamers anymore.
@@theabsolutetrashman3708 don't get me wrong I'm also kinda skeptical. Outta of the last 8 years of content only Kizuna was good. If they somehow started to follow that kinda of standard
@@strife9878 02's epilogue still being canon makes Kizuna a pointless mistake. Ghost Game is the only competent modern Digimon anime, and it has no plot.
I’m more excited about the card adaptations of characters/Digimon coming to the TCG.
If you like the GranDracmon deck, the 3 currently revealed cards fit right in.
Also, whilst I don't think this needed to be an anime, it would have been a really good one-shot film.
I've still not even read the first part... that's how out of it I am with this
Decent story
Possibly the worst possible medium they could have released it in
they could had made a Webtoon of it with pics and all that people would read it, Webtoons are fun to read. They could have made an actual manga, or even save it for a future anime. But a novel it was not the best idea for this
The rough part is there's only one voice actor and the graphics are so minimal that it doesn't keep viewers engaged.
@@symphonixbladesit being an actual novel would help! The Internet novel hurts it A LOT!
Wait this was a series? I thought it was a new game, well shit there goes my smile ;(. Honestly give me a remake of Digimon World 1, i'd be happy.
I think I'll wait for everything to come out and then read the fan translation. Unlike an anime where I can tolerate getting one episode a week getting a couple pages every week reading a novel sounds pretty awful. So I think I'll just wait. Honestly if the idea wasn't strong enough to warrant an anime OVA at the very least I'm kind of curious how good it can actually be. Something tells me they're just putting this out to pass time between Ghost Game and the next anime.
For the time being I am enjoying Run for the Money the Great Mission which took Ghost Game's time slot and has a some Digimon pedigree behind it. It's not amazing, but it is quite a bit of fun.
That has an anime?! I should look it up then. I thought it was just a VB only kind of thing.
@@hickknight The main character has goggles and a similar bracelet to the VB is used to enter the competition, but it is definitely different from Digimon.
Hadn't even heard of this till now.
Grew up loving digimon and watching the show, and was sad to see it basically disappear from the west, but have been gobbling up all the new games and tcg releases lately (and a little bit of the shows). I read a lot of online webcomics and manga, so I'll give it a shot.
That would be a sick game in smt style where based on your choices you can side with the corporation or the extremists harckers or a neutral route
This is why I still watch season 1 and 2 primarily to this day. Even though it lacks in comparison in regards to recent animation still there was so much substance. Whoever is in charge is flopping.
Adventure and 02? I'm at the start of the latter, but I've heard it had production issues.
I listened to a fan read every chapter well at work with an ear piece in. Besides some typos or translation error most like, it was a decent story that I enjoyed. I would have loved if they made it a live action or even a dubbed anime for sure.
When I saw the Digimon Seekers trailer, I just assumed it was gonna be a phone app so I tuned out immediately. I spent a few minutes trying to parse this videos title because of that
I'm still looking forward for digimon seeker and see how it goes.
I actually really love Seekers, despite it's issues. I particularly like listening to the Japanese audiobook while I read the translation. Helps give it life and characterization when there's a voice. Also like watching a sub with no visuals.
Also, it's better than Survive lol
Despite the errors I'm actually pretty invested in seekers right know but ya it is slow with how little it releases each week. I just read all the current chapters and in my opinion they managed to keep my interest but then I realized that they aren't that long and that only once a week makes it really slow.
Where can I find these fan translations?
The machine translations is awful. I tried reading it and couldn't get very far.
The digimon IP is as well managed as overwatch. Coherent thought-out marketing plans and great scheduling. 🙃
I do listen to it on DigiTubers and it does seem good as an audiobook.
I was already feeling that this project was just to advertize vital braclet and putting just one new exclusive digimon doesnt help either. Even the project itself was mishandled telling was both of the styles but in the end was ai generated translated with no parent effort by an real human being. What they are showing is like an concept art for an potential anime / game that probaly never came.
Such a shame that the translation wasn’t more polished lol
There’s an unofficial translation out there that polished. It does read much better than the official one
@@RamonGJ Where can I find this translation?
I don't mind the premise or having to read it, it's just how slow it is keeping up with it. I'll be happy to read through when it's done though, and I like the digimon and tamer designs if nothing else.
Seekers might give it a go. Hmm might give me some inspiration for my WB. Thanks for making this.
If it was an anime, game or even just a manga it would work so much better, I get that they want to try new things but yea we fans don't want a book
Gotta give it love i need it animated
Any recommended fan translations? Ones I find with a google search seem to be only slightly less awkward than the "official" robot translation.
If this was a manga it could had worked but as it is I'm ok never learning about it
Now this should've been a game... Or a movie. But I'm just glad that we have Loogamon now. And that he's coming to the TCG.
Great timing a chapter just dropped lol
I also agree with every single comment you shared from Twitter. Digimon is such a strange series. The fans really just want SOMETHING that has true effort in it but we keep getting part way.
In before the Seekers character's cards in the TCG are more satisfying and interesting than Seekers itself
Bandai Namco needs to expand the Vital Bracelet some more. It's price point definitely commands at least bluetooth functionality for a more reliable connection.
I always need n want more Digimon
I like the concept of Seekers but I still wish it was a video game or anime.
I was heavily interested in this but because they did nothing with it only to showcase new digimon for the VB it kinda fell off since it was only a web novel without a soul. Digimon had soul behind it this just felt like they had no idea what they wanted out of the first chapter and to stall as much as possible. It doesn't take much to garner attention to keep people interested in the web novel. I think it would have Done better if it was in manga format sold in all languages. I could barely finish the first part because of so much reading and it not being grammar and spell checked kinda pushed me off even more. If they had videos in different languages reading it to me I would have stayed on it. Love digimon but this was definitely a missed opportunity to bridge the community together.
I never knew this series was out there
I hate to be that one guy once again Digiknow, but this was exactly what I was predicting during the closing confusing hours of Ghost game that without a followup anime and being left with a webnovel that is narratively even slower than Ghost Game (which is already saying a lot for those familiar with the controversy), it will just not garner much interest, Period. I wouldn't care if we got a Sequal to Ghost game to exist be equally have bad writing, it would be at least something to actually chew on alongside with this.
If Seekers was already well crafted and told like an audiobook by someone that knows how to read, just maybe it will be fine but its a tough pill to swallow with no anime in sight aside from the English version of adventure 2020 and Next Order Port Game, but who really cares at this point?
Again it feels like Seekers should have been better off as the next Anime with what it has going for it if you can even call it that, but alas, we have to deal with it or just accept that Digimon at this time period feels hallow now and move on until the franchise decides to get its head straight.
I cant stop spouting this negativity in these comments simply because there just isn't anything really positive to talk about, for the longest time I been holding out for something good even during the closing hours of Ghost game. However, this is where I started to strongly believe this could be an end point of the franchise for so may people and it probably has...
I predicted the same thing when I heard the Digimom anime was being replaced with the great chase. A lot of people were like "Seekers is the future guys! It's going to be the best Digimon thing to come out since slice bread! Stop complaining. Digimom's future is FINE! " But I knew it's never a good sign when an anime franchise meant to sell toys gets replaced by another anime designed to sell the exact same toy. That means Bandai figured Digimon isn't a strong enough IP to push the VB line anymore via mainstream anime. I just hope Seekers bombing like this doesn't help inspire Bandai to put Digimon in another dark age. Hopefully, the other Digimon projects coming up do better.
@@darkarai5241 Im fine with the new show the Great chase all things considered, however I already am thinking Digimon already has reached a dark age for fans unable to figure out what to do with themselves other than to move on to the next thing like a dying fad. Its sad to see things go down like this but real life doesnt provide the things we love forever.
for me it looks like that bandai doesnt want digimon to be sucessful as a series but more as a product that sells toys/gadget and merch
Which is even stupider, since having successful games, anime and so on, would give a gigantic boost to selling toys, gadgets and merch
Almost like treating it properly could give good results in return
@@Shakzor1 yes ghost game is kinda the prime example for it the whole show is more build around to advertise the vital bracelet that is the digivice in the anime bandai should stop building an anime around their newest toy and start to make a good anime and THEN selling stuff about it
Im gonna let most of it run its course, hopefully get a proper translation, then give it a shot!
once I found out it was machine translation I was like fuck this. Pay someone to actually translate this and make it a book. They like we showing trailers as a project and Im just like you couldnt idk just use the funds on an actual Digimon game project? this couldnt have just been an anime or something? bandai be fucking up digimon every turn they get just to prove it doesnt make money.
The Digiworld = Unconscious reflection of our world through what we share on the internet
It's so simple, it's stupid. Idk why they're always switching gears with this franchise; it needed consistency 20 years ago...
A darker story? Like having your best friend kill himself to save everyone else after being transformed from a cute orange puffy blob with wings into an angelic powerhouse?
most of my luggage I bring from Asia tends to be Digimon items not available in the west :( (Speaking of your sponsor) hehe, but yes fully agreed, Seekers is wasting its potential and needs budget/help to succeed.
to note: translation is fixed and i believe the story is moving into part/chapter 4
I dislike how slow it is, the chapters being released only weekly and being short doesn't help at all
I was interested back when they first announced it. Then I forgot about it... Then remembered of it after seeing all of the criticism...
I am yet to read any of it
That website doesn’t have it but where can I a Digimon crest necklace ??
Maybe if they had released it as an actual book, or i dont know how light novels are released, but maybe use that model instead?
Yeah I would have supported a 20 dollar light novel I could own that was actually translated / localized by a human being. I’ve been reading a bunch of novels based on big IP (the last airbender, Star Wars) lately and enjoying those
or even a manga or Webtoon or an actual anime. Any of those options would have been better than a machine translated novel
I legitimately did not know this series even started. I saw the first trailer and felt like it was a "more information to come" type of trailer
oh god so it's not a live action thing, I'm so happy to learn that is the case lmao I was so turned off by that idea.
I read like 10 chapters and decided to wait for more chapters to release. I liked those chapters, but I agree that it shouldn't be translated by a machine. It shouldn't have bad orthography.
Machine translation only works with formal or simplistic writing. If you get too complex or rely on context, the machine translation will produce garbage instead.