Digimon Xros Wars: Aku no Death General to Nanatsu no Oukoku

Technically, this is the second arc/part of the sixth season so you really need to watch the first one before you can hope to understand everything that's happening here.

STORY
The story continues from where the first part left off and Taiki has returned to the Digimon World (from the real world) in order to stop bad guy Baguramon from destroying everything. He arrives to find that quite a few months have passed in the Digimon World since his departure(since time passes differently between the worlds) and Baguramon, during this time has reshaped the entire world to his liking and is preparing to initiate D5(kinda like a ... digimon apocalypse) which would result in him gaining control of both the Real/Digimon worlds and all dimensions.

His lackeys, called the Death Generals, have each been appointed a certain area of the Digimon World where they will reigns supreme and each of them must be defeated before Taiki and his friends can even hope to face and stop Baguramon.

The rest of the story is about how Taiki and his friends defeat the big baddy and save the worlds. Pretty cliche but executed nicely.

ART
Art is crisp as before and is basically a blend of the style of the older seasons and mecha shows in general. Since this series is focused on mecha fusion action, don't be surprised to see some of the ridiculous fusions/monsters you would find here. Also, unlike the first part, basic FANSERVICE is present in this one. Though, it must be added that it doesn't get in the way of important things.

SOUND
Sound is much, much better than before. The new tracks are very much likable and the opening "New World" is pretty good. Like the part before it, this part also lacks an ending song. Most of the fusion insert songs are really good.

CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT
Not really the main focus of the story but yeah, there is character development. However, it is limited to the main cast and not every minor character but you won't miss that. And it is pretty basic at best so if you're going into this show for the character development, you might as well not watch it.

ENJOYMENT
Honestly, I've enjoyed it so much that I could swear the ending was better than the other Digimon seasons I've watched but your experience will vary. Depending on how much you know about Digimon and its monsters. You'd only appreciate it if you are somewhat familiar with Digimon/monster shows in general. It is not exactly made for someone new to the series so If you're new to Digimon, you're better off watching the earlier seasons.If however you are on the lookout for ridiculous/overblown action of the likes of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann(TTGL), you'd do well to check the series out.

OVERALL
A nice series to get into if you're familiar with Digimon. Also, this is part 2 with regards to continuity so you'd need to watch the other part before heading here. If you don't care much about the monsters and are looking for overblown action in TTGL fashion, this one's for you!

I was 7 years old when Digimon Adventure (the season that started it all) was released. I'm now 28 as I'm writting this review. I've watched every single Digimon anime, special, OVA and move there is until to this point. I've also played a few Digimon games. The point is: I'm a Digimon fan.

This is a direct sequel to the Digimon Xros Wars and this review will take that into consideration since I've already expressed a lot of flaws of this show on that anime's review section.

One the main flaws was the lack of creativity in character design. This time we get a few ... more examples of new digimon and not all of them are mecha and/dragon types. However, there were still a lot of old digimon.

The animation gets a little bit worse for some odd reason and but the audio gets better.

Now, let's talk about story: it still moves at a very fast pace, always focusing on the main plot points but this time around it's not as repetive. Battles are decided through strategy and different Digimon combinations and moves... or so it seems during the first half of each of the first 12 or so episodes. There's always some stupid reason breaking that beautiful and satisfying victory about to happen and so we get the usual fight we've seen a thousand times already. Despite this, Kuriha and Nene play a more decisive role and we get to see different Digifusions of quite a few different Digimon. Despite this, I feel that there a lot of missed opportunities to see awesome fusions between some of the bosses and our heroes.

SPOILERS:
1) Kuriha is nothing but a bipolar sun of a rotten egg. This guy has two moods in life: smug tsundere or outright villain. I could not care less about his backstory and anytime he has the spotlight, I just roll my eyes
2) Yuu's role in the story is cringe at its finest and it's a shame that it takes so long for his arc to end
3) The fact that Beelzebubmon is the only Digimon never used in any fusion this particular season makes it too obvious that he would eventually die
4) Olegmon should've been used to fuse with Kuriha's, Nene's or Taiki's team. Anything would be better than the usual cliché sacrifice route.


Overall, this season showed a lot of potencial in a few episodes but Yuu, Kiriha and the lack of creativity in battles on the 2nd part of this sequel are too much for me to fully enjoy it.

Final score: 6/10

Somehow, this turned out worse than the first season and it all has to do with the fact that it can’t take character development seriously. The main character Taiki is routinely confronted with the fact that he is naive and yet it makes no lasting efforts to change this annoying aspect of the character. Not to mention, Nene struggles with the fact that her little brother is evidently a psychopath and all the main characters want to do is save him. But the most conceited character development storyline is when Kiriha literally murders one of his own Digimon and then experiences no lasting consequences for ... this, instead it’s used as a moment to help him realize his own goodness… he just murdered his friend and yet he is still treated like a good guy despite him being very clearly a villain up to this point. I thought it would improve when they introduced Digivolution… but it didn’t because, A, the actors can’t even get the terminology right, and B, all it is is essentially Golden Armor Digivolution that still opens doors to DigiXros. Fusion just doesn’t work as a show… and it’s disappointing that no one has realized it.