Digimon Xros Wars (Digimon Fusion)

The Digital World is in a state of war, with the evil Bagra Army attempting to collect fragments of the Code Crown. Whoever manages to collect all 108 fragments will become king of the Digital World. An evil group of Digimon, known as the Bagra Army, are determined to get their hands on the Code Crown.

Digimon Xros Wars features Taiki Kudou, a soccer-loving middle schooler who will always go out of his way to help people in need. When out with his friends Akari Hinomoto and Zenjirou Tsurugi one day, he hears a voice calling out for help. Investigating the situation, he meets a Digimon named Shoutmon who has been severely wounded in a nearby alley. Using the power of a strange device called a Xros Loader, Taiki manages to save Shoutmon's life, but is pulled into the Digital World alongside Akari and Zenjirou.

Determined not to let the evil Bagra have their way, Taiki and his friends join with Shoutmon and other local Digimon to form their own army known as Xros Heart. Now Xros Heart must fight their way across the Digital World to collect Code Crown fragments and defeat the Bagra Army, but Taiki and his friends are not the only humans caught up in this war of monsters…

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Adaptation:	Digimon Xros Wars
Spin-off:	Digimon Adventure, Digimon Savers, Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier, Digimon Adventure 02
Sequel:	Digimon Xros Wars: Aku no Death General to Nanatsu no Oukoku

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Kudou, Taiki

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Takayama, Minami
Japanese

Shoutmon

Main

Sakamoto, Chika
Japanese

Amano, Nene

Main

Kuwashima, Houko
Japanese

Aonuma, Kiriha

Main

Kusao, Takeshi
Japanese

Hinomoto, Akari

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Shiraishi, Ryouko
Japanese

Tsurugi, Zenjirou

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Kishio, Daisuke
Japanese

Beelzebumon

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Kishio, Daisuke
Japanese

Omegamon

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Shimada, Bin
Japanese

Etemon

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Angemon

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Kobayashi, Michitaka
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Sakurada, Hiroyuki

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Kakudou, Hiroyuki

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Endou, Tetsuya

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Nakamura, Ryouta

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"Never Give Up! (ネバギバ!)" by Sonar Pocket

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Apr 3, 2011

Nyron

Recommended

Digimon Cross Wars is done.
Well actually it isn't, this shitty website split it up into two entries, but whatever. For now I'm going to review the first part of the series.

Cross Wars is the best non-Mazinkaiser SKL mecha series that Japan's made since Gurren Lagann. The title says it's Digimon, but really it's something entirely different that is neither better or worse than what all the cool kids enjoyed so many years ago. It carries over Adventure 01/02's themes of our childhood monster fighting fantasy quests, but adds a twist of righteousness and giant combining robots that only Japan is capable of delivering properly. ...

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May 1, 2020

CataOrShane

Mixed Feelings

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.

I'm going to start off by talking about the character design. Years pass but it's still the same "kid goggles on his forehead and has a dragon-mon". I've seen it times and times before and this lack of creativity cannot be ignored. Speaking of other examples of the same lack of ... creativity, the overall monster design is super lazy: either we have the same old digimon from past seasons with a chance of a different color scheme OR the new ones are mostly Mobile Suit Gundam-based dragon-mons. I kid you not, a more accurate name for this anime would be "Gundamon!"

Speaking of sound, I have awesome news and terrible news. Starting off with the bad stuff, the volume given to Taiki and Shoutmon (main characters) is a lot louder than the rest of the cast, which means that either become deaf whenever they speak so I can listen to the others or they're all I'll hear and then have to rely 100% on subtitles to be sure I don't misheard them. It's that bad. Another thing is that the OP only comes half-way through the episode and I hated that. However, there is good news as I've said before. The Digimon battle song is an explosion of Diginostalgia and will make you sing along to it in no time. I've experienced goosebumps everytime it came on.

The story's pace is very fast with the series skipping ahead whenever necessary to get to the important stuff but each episode was still very repetitive with the same formula being used over and over again: fuse the same digimon, use the same attack, pretend you're in trouble, still win. I wish the other kids had their own Digimon and be creative with fusions and strategies. For example: there's an episode when (SPOILERS) Taiki is fighting a fire Digimon. Taiki has a water Digimon on his party but despite being considered by every character an incredible smart kid, never does he ever think of using the water Digimon. Also, the same guy doesn't use his signature goggles when diving underwater. WTF????

Moving on to characters, Akari and Zenjirou's existence is a waste of time and space. They don't have Digimons, they can't fight (obviously), they're not smart. They don't add anything to the anime, not even in terms of comic relief. There were a couple of instances where the story tries to give them a feel of "it's a good thing they're there" but honestly it's all BS because at the end of the day, they were utterly pointless.

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1) this show breaks its own rules, for example: it's said that Digimon heal up when stored on the Digi-device, even if they're close to dying. However, Shoutmon got poisoned and the series made it seem that he needed an antidote or he would die.
2) legendary Digimon are basically popular Digimon from older seasons. You'd expect that when summoning creatures with "legendary" on their name would be something badass, with impact and really useful on key moments like boss fights. But not. They're nothing but an excuse to have these 2 second long cameos of our favourite Digimon from past seasons.
3) Shoutmon begins to have issues with fusing with other Digimons around episode 25 due to fatigue and lack of strength. The problem with this scenario is that it happens 25 episodes in, when all Digifusions have been established and used and there hadn't been issues until then.
4) Nene and Kuriha have both Digimon of their own but once again it's all up to the goggles kid.

All things considered, this season didn't amaze me as it could've done. The idea where Digimon fuse together to create new and powerful Digimon is good but only if you add the concept of strategy and set a percentage limit to the end result: Say if I fuse a Gabumon and an Agumon, the end result shouldn't just be a different color scheme, you know? Both Digimon should have an equal impact on the new Digimon. That's how I feel anyways.

Final score: 6/10

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Jun 18, 2013

Were_Vampire

Not Recommended

This is my 6th Digimon review, and the hardest one to write: I always try to be as objective as possible, but there is always a bit of taste and personal like in every single review, not just mine but everyone's; still, I like to think that at every time I re-watch a Digimon series (or in this case, to finish something I dropped) I do it with an observant eye, trying to see everything good in it, what works and what doesn't work, and Digimon Xross Wars had a handful of things that worked on early going, the first episodes showed potential and were ...

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