Ratings: 8/10
The story follows a 7th grade boy, kudo taiki. His ordinary life change when he heard a mytserious melody and follow it into an alley. A mysterious device also known as the xros loader then appear before him and his 2 friends, akari and zenjiro which dragged them into another dimension which is also known as the digital world inhabited by creatures known as Digimon. Shoutmon the first digimon that they met then told them that the digital world is now slowly taken over by an evil empire also known as the bagra army that is led by Bagramon. The digital world is separated into different zone with a ''code crown'' place in each zone. The one who has all the code crown will have the power to rule the entire digital world. Now kudo taki together with his friends must join hands with shoutmon and gang forming a team , ''Xros heart''. They must now go on an dangerous adventure to collect all the code crown before the bagra army to save the digital world. Along the way, they met many new friends and also crisis that they have never seen before...
Okay now time for the reveiw!!! Like i say, digimon xros wars is really very different from the other Digimon series.. Other than digivolving, it has a whole new add on that is known as ''Digi xros'' in the series. It actually combines 2 or more Digimon together with one of them acting as the core. They are not really fuse together.. It is sort of like megazords like what you see in power rangers...However this add on is still great:D This is something that you can never get bored of it as there are tons of combination waiting for you to explore as you go along!! However, they actually took away the traditional concepts of digivolving to different levels away.. This is really something sad.. As the digimon in this series are no longer categorise into different levels (rookie, champion, ultimate, mega). I not saying that they don't digivolve at all.. just that they don't digivolve into many different levels. Sadly to say, at the very most they are only able to digivolve one level above where most of the time you can only see them digi xros-ing....
something good for a change is that the tradition of the main character having goggles is back.. If you are a big fan of Digimon, you should be able to notice that for all of the main character in the different Digimon series, they actually has a goggle with ''Digimon data squat'' as the only exception... Like i say just mow, even it only has one season, in fact it is separated into 2 parts. It will has a clear transition between episode 54 and 55... Not to mention that the focus will actually shift into another new character... so you can in fact say that there is a total of 2 main character in this series.. This is the only Digimon series that has 2 main characters... Defintely something new but i am not that fond of it... I am not saying that it is bad, just that i prefer the traditional way of having one main character per series...
Okay now time for the spoiler part... In the later episode of the series towards the end, characters together with their Digimon partner from the past Digimon series will actually make their appearance in this series.. This is definitely my favourite element of this series.. I mean like you don't really see different Digimon series coming together...This is definitely something awesome!! So it actually creates a strong impression and impact as it is the only Digimon series who does this.. You can definitely expect something fun, exciting, superior evolution and fighting when so many series joining hands!!! So xros wars is sort of like a Digimon anniversary where it showcase and recall the characters and Digimon from past series. Definitely something very memorable :D
Now time for the song part.. It actually only has 3 opening with no ending... It also has many inserts.. So i will just list the one that i really like.. so here goes:
1. Never give up by sonar rocket (OP 1)
2. New world by Twill (OP 2)
3. Stand up by Twill (OP 3)
4. We are Xros heart by Koji Wada (Insert)
By convention, the opening song of Digimon is always sang by Koji wada.. However in this case, it is not... So yeah kind disappointing... The soundtrack are quite alright, but then i will say it is pale comparing to the songs from other series...
All in all, ''Digimon xros wars'' is something with a decent plot and many new concepts inserted.. This series is like a breakthrough of the tradition Digimon series where digivolving is not the main concern here... The start of this series maybe boring and dull... However if you are able to persevere, the later episodes will be your reward.. For people who always dream of seeing Digimon from all the series coming together and fight, then ''Digimon Xros wars'' will be a dream come true for you!!!! Well stay tune for more :D
