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Well fine, Digimon Xros Wars thread. I'm trying it again to see if it works. With the first season done, I think it should be enough warrant to watch it now that that season is finished.

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This is the sixth title of the Digimon anime franchise. It defies a lot of what the older seasons have done as a norm (especially the first three), and honestly it ends up being unique on its own. The series has been subbed, and its second season is being subbed still, so you can watch it to decide whether it is good or not.

Please don't let nostalgia ruin this for you. It did the following that pretty much shakes a lot of things:

- "Evolutionary levels" are ignored here. Digimon Xros Wars have no "evolutionary levels" (like Shoutmon), and even then this show pretty much has people slamming Digimon that are normally considered "world breakers". Evolution is also treated more like age than anything.
- Evolution takes a backseat for combination. The show still uses evolution, but it appears only halfway through the first season, and they still combine towards the end. It is reverse for the second season however.
- No more 1:1 ratio of Digimon and partner. A human (called General) has an army of Digimon. Surprisingly enough, the Digimon here had more character development over the seasons with 1:1 Digimon ratio.
- A bigger deal of Digimon World over Human World. Then again Adventure was sort of like this too.

Watch Xros Wars for the following:

A different perspective

This series actively tries to give a different feel compared to the older shows. The lead human, Taiki, isn't a dunderhead. Rather, he is smart, actually calm, and very observant. The only time he loses his cool is when his beliefs of helping everyone are pushed. And while he doesn't develop much (since he pretty much already is "ideal"), this leads to another point.

Shoutmon is brash, hot-headed and hot-blooded. He is known for rushing into fights. It just so happens that Taiki is his General, and there his loyalty towards him is formed through the story. He develops into a hero - the ideal personality of the Digimon King, the thing he aspires. In a way, Shoutmon is the main hero of the story while Taiki serves as a mentor and the supporting protagonist.

The series excels on actually developing Digimon moreso than the humans. Even the "cute" character Cutemon shows his character growth, and shows that he isn't just there for being eye candy. Even the taciturn Ballistamon gets his dues, and damn what a great episode that was. Even characters like Greymon who didn't get any backstory have ways of showing how much he changed through his interaction with Shoutmon.

Great action involving super robots and power armor

This show doesn't shy away from the fact that it is a robot show. With that said, it pretty much is your standard fare of super robots blasting enemy grunts while having a great battle against boss enemies. While the design at first might be a turn off, the action really pays well. The intensity really reaches out in decisive battles, especially with stuff like the Great Xros.

The lack of filler in the series helps a lot too. It starts off slow like most Digimon shows, but soon enough it picks itself up that it may end up even being too fast.

Villains

From the Three Bagra Generals to DarkKnightmon to even Bagramon himself, there really is an interesting element with them. They manage to remain a threat despite the backsides on the events. The Bagra Generals in particular despite being villains have rather nice quirks in them, especially Blastmon (a popular one in /m/ even). DarkKnightmon is a great villain who knows how to manipulate things (to which I won't divulge), and Bagramon, despite his ass glued to his throne for a whole season, manage to be really efficient at his task.

Fanservice

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digimon has boobs now damn i might watch this :p

the last digimon i watched might be the one after tamers. but tamers was my favorite the card gimmick was godlike
 
Tobe1 said:
digimon has boobs now damn i might watch this :p

the last digimon i watched might be the one after tamers. but tamers was my favorite the card gimmick was godlike

When has Digimon never had boobs? :P

Desmond said:
Couldn't stomach Part 2, Part 3 looks even worse

OH AND:

''WANNA BE THE BIGGEST DREAMER''

Well everyone agrees 02 was shit though. Tamers you should forgive if you can ignore its attempts at being dark.
 
Ookami-kun said:
When has Digimon never had boobs? :P



Well everyone agrees 02 was shit though. Tamers you should forgive if you can ignore its attempts at being dark.
Nah xROS WARS Part 2 episode 30+
 
Desmond said:
Nah xROS WARS Part 2 episode 30+

Wut?!

That's like second half of season 1. And it is AWESOME. Yeah it was slow at first, but it picks up right after the NeoVamdemon arc. Really makes Shoutmon a bro hero, and has those moments where you'd feel something (even side characters like Deckerdramon).
 
1st and 3rd seasons are good, 2nd was meh. Later seasons have not aired over here so can't say for them.

Also whats up with US localization with censoring and raping music?
 
DonMigs85 said:
There is still no villain as cool as VAMDEMON-SAMA

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I raise you to this!

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Acid08 said:
Numemon still in this? Dude shot shit out of his mouth.

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Closest to one - he's a robot shaped like a poop... and he becomes a super ninja with Engrish skills!

Napalm_Frank said:
1st and 3rd seasons are good, 2nd was meh. Later seasons have not aired over here so can't say for them.

Also whats up with US localization with censoring and raping music?

Actually frontier (4th) and savers (5th) made it out. Only this one is pending.
 
Super robot show? Only one tamer? Digimon army? Level doesn't matter?...eh. I like change as much as the next guy but this sounds like a bit much. But I guess I'm not part of the demo, so it doesn't matter.
 
GAF, I walking in the street when I saw some lights in the sky. Everyone was laughing at me as I raised my digivice toward the sky, but I knew what it was.

I blacked out when someone hit me in the head. Did I go to the digiworld?

First season and tamers were the best. Xros actually sounds interesting!
 
Crewnh said:
Super robot show? Only one tamer? Digimon army? Level doesn't matter?...eh. I like change as much as the next guy but this sounds like a bit much. But I guess I'm not part of the demo, so it doesn't matter.

To be honest older series are also guilty of the "levels don't matter" thing. It's just this show is a bit more honest.

DonMigs85 said:

Well, Vamdemon has no awesome song dedicated to his evilness!


Desmond said:
well 4 and 5 never came here (UK and Eire)

Fake edit: wait 5 did 'bout a year ago

I always thought they did =/

likeGdid said:
First season and tamers were the best. Xros actually sounds interesting!

Yeah, try it out at least.
 
Heard both season 5 and 6 were pretty good, think I'll watch both when I have the free time. Another Adventure/Tamers fan here.

likeGdid said:
GAF, I walking in the street when I saw some lights in the sky. Everyone was laughing at me as I raised my digivice toward the sky, but I knew what it was.

Psh, that's nothing. I raised my hands in the air in order to help Goku charge his spirit bomb and defeat Frieza.
 
By the way, Mervamon has an attack called Heartbreak Shot where laser shoots out from her boobs.

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And there's Sexy Dynamite, where she uses her ass to pound an enemy into an explosive slam.

Takao said:
I want Digimon World Re: Digitize.

Too bad we'll never get it in a language I can comprehend.

Maybe XSeed or such will bring it over, since Solatorobo was brought over too!
 
Ookami-kun said:
Maybe XSeed or such will bring it over, since Solatorobo was brought over too!

Scamco owns the Digimon IP, so I doubt they'll let a third party handle it given they've touched it in the past.
 
Takao said:
Scamco owns the Digimon IP, so I doubt they'll let a third party handle it given they've touched it in the past.

Bandai side, actually. Namco has no right to touch it with their dirty claws :P

And like I said - Solatorobo is an example.
 
Ookami-kun said:
By the way, Mervamon has an attack called Heartbreak Shot where laser shoots out from her boobs.

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And there's Sexy Dynamite, where she uses her ass to pound an enemy into an explosive slam

amazing.
 
Ookami-kun said:
Bandai side, actually. Namco has no right to touch it with their dirty claws :P

And like I said - Solatorobo is an example.

I'd say Digimon has more in common with Tales to Scamco than Solatorobo. Digimon is a franchise that Scamco likely will have involvement in the west in the future, where as Solatorobo is a tangentially related DS sequel to a niche PSone game they published like 12 years ago.
 
Takao said:
I'd say Digimon has more in common with Tales to Scamco than Solatorobo. Digimon is a franchise that Scamco likely will have involvement in the west in the future, where as Solatorobo is a tangentially related DS sequel to a niche PSone game they published like 12 years ago.

That's why XSeed will do the publishing if Bandai refuses.

There's still lack of news of bringing Xros Wars to US even though it has already been trademarked in English...
 
Omnimon and Machinedramon are two of the most badass character designs ever in anything anytime ever. EVER.
 
Ookami-kun said:
That's why XSeed will do the publishing if Bandai refuses.

There's still lack of news of bringing Xros Wars to US even though it has already been trademarked in English...

lol What I'm saying is that Scamco will likely deny another company a shot at localizing it because they've handled the property in the west in the past, and likely will do so again in the future.

As for Xros Wars, we know there were pilot dubs commissioned. Toei's probably waiting on buyers.
 
Xros Wars was probably done by the local Toei Philippines studio in Eastwood. I wonder how the artists felt about drawing all those bazoombas bouncing around.
 
besides the wargreymon and metalgarurumon transformation, i went nuts when i saw this
easily one of my favorite digimon
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How do you even say Xros? Interesting changes, but I haven't watched since the second season (first two were fucking awesome). I was always interested in checking out the later stuff, I should get around to that if it is that good.
 
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