So basically this is a first. I think this is the first group of chosen/digidestined/Tamers that I've actually liked, as in I liked all these characters. The digimon of this season and the evolution gimmick... follows suit of what I felt about since Frontier. It's fucking stupid and I'd wish they just keep evolutionary lines.

Honestly I don't hate the digimon. I hate the fucking the fucking evolutions. Basically instead of mixing digimon with Power Rangers, we have digimon and gundam. I mean seriously as far as this idea goes, I'd like to point out that digimon are more interesting when they're animals. Robot digimon had a tendency of being full of suck.

But as the anime goes, it's solid. Like I said I like the group of humans or rather, I really like Taiki. Despite his name sounding a little too much like Taichi, I honestly like this character. Which is weird because w/exception of Takato, I have never initially liked any of the main characters in Digimon. Hopefully he won't suck later on the line because I think this series has for better or for worse a lot of potential.

As for the episode. They've gone back to the standard of an introduction sequence showcasing the new children, Taiki, Akari (Taichi and Hikari, haha I see what you did there) and Zenjiro though it's pretty long and then they called into the digital world from the titular digimon of the series (for help due to death this time), sucked into a portal and end up in the digital world.

Shoutmon, Ballistamon, Starmon, and Pickmons is introduced and we find out that he's been saved due to his melody (???) loaded in the the Xross Loader, The first baddie and his army shows up and they fight.

Only this time they finally outright put a Leomon (albiet he's evil) as the first baddie. This is jading because Leomon have a habit of, you know, having short life expectancy. Shoutmon and company being to whoop the ass of Mammons and Shoutmon makes a remark about how he'll be Digimon King... okay then. So they fight and then it's at this point when we see just how weird this situation is. Basically MadLeomon is an adult level digimon, he kills/loads the data of his comrade Mammon... who are Perfect level... what?! He evolves into Perfect level and then whoops the ass of the team. Then Shoutmon and Ballistamon DigiXross into... a gundam and whoops MadLeomon's ass. Then Madleomon gets the upper hand and then their friend Starmon and Pickmons DigiXross into... a giant sword which Shoutmon uses to cleave MadLeomon in half... uh huh. MadLeomon loses but is forced to retreat due to his commanders.

So far they've managed to make evolutionary levels arbitrary, bring a new style of evolution that doesn't really make sense beyond gundam/zord logic and systematically proven that Shoutmon (whom we're supposed to believe is child level) is kick ass. Not to shabby though it leads me to say WHAT?! There's not that much logic going on here so I'm not gonna bitch about it. If anything I'd like to say that they caught my attention which is good.

So they move on to the evil general/commanders as they talk about evil villainy things showcasing only sillouett... holy shit Lilithmon shadow.

Then we see the not named 2 rival characters show up and remark about Taiki and friends and then the episode is over.

Uh huh...