Ranked #1808

Digimon Savers

Digimon Savers - the newest installment of the Digimon franchise. After a few years without Digimon, I was a little skeptical as to what this season would be like.

For starters, I wouldn't recommend watching this if you are unfamiliar with past seasons of Digimon. They fail to explain basic facts that would leave newcomers perplexed.

Character - Like all Digimon seasons, we have our main team of protagonists who set out to defeat the evil Digimon and save their own world as well as the Digital World. This time we get a cocky leader, Marcus, the more-mature and smart guy, Thomas, and the older female lead, Yoshino. Yes, I watched the dub, so I'm unfamiliar with their original names. The character's can become rather annoying to watch, especially their useless arguments every other episode. It just gets old...fast. Not my favorite batch of DigiDestined...that's for sure.

Story - Digimon Savers started out in the worst possible way. They spend over 10 episodes on the same concept: an evil Digimon appears in the human world and our protagonists fend them off while growing in power and battle experience. I understand that they wanted to show off their Digimon's forms, but we don't need to see the same thing numerous times that has almost nothing to do with a plot of some sort. It was extremely boring. When the real story finally starts, it can be a little confusing. Like all seasons, we get our first bad guy "boss" and then we get the true enemy. I suppose towards the end that the story gets more shocking, but it isn't anything special.

Art & Sound - The art is alright. I actually preferred the style used in previous seasons, but it isn't anything to complain about. The sound can get annoying, though.

But anyway, Digimon Savers is probably the season that you would either love or hate. I, personally, hated it, but that's just me. read more

I absolutely loved this anime, and everything about it, I can't help but give everything a 10, for some though, if I could, I'd give more than a 10, as I'll have in my reasons below

This review is being given after watching the Japanese version of this anime

Story: 10/10
You could say that this anime starts out a little slow, with the meeting of the main character, Masaru, and Agumon (once more the main characters digimon) and the introduction of all the other characters that will later play a big part in the series. I had this anime on-hold at episode 14, and when I started it back up again, I became completely addicted to the series. Though I remember the beginning being slow (which is why I put it on-hold for such a long time), once I began watching it again I couldn't stop. I non-stopped watched the series and it's action-packed plot.
The whole storyline mainly focuses on the 'main' main character, Masaru Daimon and his digimon with some of the side main character, Yoshino Fujieda and her digimon, Raramon, Touma Norstein and his digimon, Gaomon, as well as the later introduced character, Ikuto Noguchi and his digimon, Falcomon, as they all aim to help protect the Human World as well as the Digital World from both attacks from Digimon, and even other humans.

Art: 10/10
Unlike the other Digimon series, Digimon Savers (or Data Squad as it is known in English) doesn't focus on young kids getting Digimon, this time it's older teens who get/have Digimon. The age of Masaru, Yoshino, and Touma would average around 17 years of age, with Ikuto being the youngest main character at the age of 10. With teens getting Digimon this time around, the art is a bit different in terms of the art of each of the human characters.
And yet again, the art for every time the Digimon evolve is excellent as it takes on a totally different form from the normal images that are seen during the viewing of each episode.

Sound: 11/10
This is one of the ones that I couldn't help but give it a higher rating than what's aloud here. I found myself absolutely addicted to the both of the opening and ending theme songs as well as some of the music that was played during the episodes. Sometimes I would even dance to the music while it was playing on the episode. Which was hard when I was trying to read the subs on my iPod ^^;
Anyway, the music was absolutely amazing and all the voices for the characters fit them perfectly, I have no complaints at all.

Characters: 11/10
The personalities of each character were well planned (in my opinion) and there were no 'split-personality' characters in this anime.
Each character was unique and had pasts that would later on become a large part of the series. (at least most of them)
By the end of the series, I had become extremely attached to almost each and every character, especially Ikuto, Falcomon, and Masaru, and was crying at the end because of the fact that the series was ending and it would be the last time I'd get to see them unless I rewatched it.

Enjoyment: 11/10
I couldn't say I have enjoyed a series THIS much in a long time!! Being a fan of not only Digimon, but action-packed, adventure, and comedy animes, I loved this series!! It has a nice balance of action, adventure, as well as even it's bit of comedy that almost every anime needs to succeed!

Overall: 50/50
If I kept the normal ratings of 10 for each, I'd end up with a 50 out of 50 score for overall. The anime was great, the characters couldn't be better, the music is absolutely addicting. I couldn't ask for anything better than what this anime managed to pack into its 48 episodes.

If you're looking for an action-packed, adventure, comedy, and something that you'll enjoy even if you've never watched a Digimon episode before, I know you'll want to watch this series!! Go on! Try it out, you won't be regretting it. read more