No I'm not deliberately skipping series of Digimon I just really need to get this one out the way as we review Digimon Xros Wars.
Mikey Kudo finds an injured Digimon called Shoutmon, (really appropriate, he never shuts up) and feeling the need to help him ends up being dragged into the Digital World along with his friends in order to save it from the evils of the Bagra Army but other humans lead their own groups to try and stop the Bagra Army for their own gains.
Now I'm going to start by addressing the elephant in the room first, why does Mikey have friends with him that do nothing? The setup is similar to how groups of samurai act during what seems like a warring states scenario and it actually works well but neither Jeremy nor Angie actually do anything as Mikey seems to do everything from fusing his Digimon to activating power ups, while it's not unusual for a main character to steal most of the limelight it is unusual for ally humans especially in a franchise like Digimon not to have their own fusing Digimon, to make matters worst come season 3 they do a complete line up change and relegate every female protagonist to bit part players in a move I now call the Gormiti Scenario which involves ridding the show of anything remotely female to focus on what is essentially a bro fest thinking that an average male viewer doesn't want to watch female characters, it's never been done right and wastes the characters that were on offer in the first two seasons a trick also done with newer seasons of Beyblade and Yu-Gi-Oh; it's a shame that it had to come to that because the stuff it does right, the setup, the variety of the zones and the Digimon themselves are really good and it's one of the few dubs in the so called Children's anime tier to actually be good, it's just a pity that some decisions by the creators worked against them.
Final Verdict: It's worth a try but stupid decisions by the creators leave you questioning why certain characters are there and should you make it to the third season you wonder why those characters are suddenly cut.
Digimon Xros Wars Review
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