Digimon Xros Wars Manga: Digimon Human Forms?!

In the 12th Chapter of the on-going Digimon Xros Wars Manga (which for starters, follows a different story compared to the anime), Xros Heart is back in the Human World and for the Digimons not to look suspicious, Wizardmon turned them into humans!

From left to right: Cutemon, Dorulumon, Shoutmon, Tailmon/Gatomon, Wizardmon and at the bottom, Balistamon. The top picture by the way is composed of three scans, cut, pasted and compressed for them to fit in this picture. For the actual scans from the manga, you can check it in this blog.

So what can you say about their human forms? Tailmon's human form kinda reminded me of Hikari's appearance in Digimon 02. Also, Dorulumon and Wizardmon's human forms are my personal faves.

Special thanks to Bokutachi wa Digimon World for the pics.

Digimon Xros Wars Mega Update

Now that we are in the second half of Digimon Xros Wars, asides from the re-introduction of the Digivolutions and Bagra Army having the entire Digital World in his hands, here are some updates about the series.

First up, Digimon Xros Wars is now registed by Toei Animation Company, Ltd. in the US as Digimon Fusion Battles. As of now, news about it when will it air in the US is still unknown. Second, TV-Asahi has released the episode summaries for episodes 41-43:

Spoiler alert! Read at your own risk!

Episode 41: The Laugh of Olegmon! Farewell Xros Heart! (6/12)
Balistamon becomes Gold Land's Death General, Olegmon of Gold Thief's minion, and transform into the Ultimate Destruction Weapon, DarkVolumon! DarkVolumon obeys Olegmon's order and attacks Taiki and OmegaShoutmon continuously. Right away they capture Taiki, and force him to become his Nakama again. Taiki refuses, Olegmon uses DarkVolumon's Speaker starts to create suffer for Nene who's hiding. Then Kiriha and Shoutmon save Taiki and Nene.

Then, Shoutmon decided to re-fix Balistamon and turns him back. But, Dark Volumon is stubborn and refuse to open his heart out. Then Shoutmon decided to DigiXros with DarkVolumon, so they can have hear to heart talk. Shoutmon begs Taiki, let them DigiXros into "X2". And Shoutmon tries his best to talk to DarkVolumon to wake up! So will Shoutmon's voice in his heart be able to turn Balistamon back again? Digimon Xros Wars will have a break on June 19th.

Episode 42: Whisper to Kiriha! The Invitation of the Devil from The Earth Gold General of Canyon. (6/26)
Taiki and others arrive in the 6th Kingdom, Canyon Land. Gravimon who rules this Kingdom has combine all the giant castles together as strategy, and waiting for Taiki and others to appear. Kiriha suggest that his tacti will be go straight ahead, and divide his forces into 4, and then give out surprise attack.

But the forces that's responsible as Decoy, has high risk of becoming the sacrifices. With such extreme tacti, but Kiriha didn't sound like he cares, Taiki is puzzled. Then Kiriha confides to everyone his reason of fighting.

Episode 43: The Mighty Love! Deckerdramon's Final Scream!! (7/3)
Towards Kiriha is getting tired from holding such strong darkness within his heart. Gravimon decided to let him fight his former friend (Taiki), in order to become stronger,and Kiriha starts to attack Taiki with full power.

Taiki hesitates, but he has no choice but fight back since Kiriha is non-stop attacking. Deckderamon can't stand looking at this anymore, he refuses to obey Kiriha's order of attacking, he wants to persuade him to stop the fight.

Lastly, music updates. Twill who performs Digimon Xros Wars' second opening theme, NEW WORLD will have a live event on June 11th to promote the single and Kouji Wada and Shoutmon will appear as special guest. Also, the next single for the series called, Evolution & DigiXros and to most fans surprise, Ayumi Miyazaki who sang the song, Brave Heart for Digimon Adventure returns! Along with Kouji Wada and Takayoshi Tanimoto, they will sing the song called, WE ARE Xros Heart ver. x7! The single will be released this June 22 so pre-order it while supplies last!

Source: Bokutachi no Digimon World (link 2) via 4chan's /m/

Ex-Morning Musume Member Designs New Digimon!

Former Morning Musume member, Mari Yaguchi designed a new Digimon called Panbachimon which will appear in 25th episode of Digimon Xros Wars on February 1! She also recorded the voice for the new character last January 19, the day before her birthday and is a big fan of the said anime and wanted to try becoming a voice actress.

The opportunity to work on Digimon began with Yaguchi's appearance on the Anime Seisaku Senyū Tour!! Digimon ga Dekiru Made program last October. Panbachimon's body has the top half of a panda and the bottom half of a bee. Its special moves include Bamboo Leaf Cutter and Poison Stinger, although Panbachimon does not use these moves in the said episode.

Source: Oricon via ANN

Digimon Xros Wars 14 – Baalmon changes to… BEELZEBUMON!

To those who are wondering what’s with the title, there is one English dub of Digimon Adventure that didn’t use the term, digivolve but changes. If you are living in the Philippines, I am sure you are familiar with this dub that aired opposite with Pokemon! In this episode, we are continued with the arc in Sand Zone and it seems that Baalmon will die.

The episode was good and at the same time bad. Why good? Aside from how they introduce Beelzebumon (Which up until now, I still don’t get it on why they decide calling him that since Beelzebub is a name of a demon and Baal is a name of a false god as warriors of light), it is one of the rare instances that all Digimons are out from the X Loader!

Baalmon’s resurrection as Beelzebumon was awesome. Aside that after learning that there is more than to power; he wears the goddess’s mask, and protects Shoutmon X4K, then after that before dying, he SHOOTS Mugendramon’s cannons! Epic, yes. Awesome, absolutely!

When Baalmon transforms into Beelzebumon, it felt heavenly in a sense with the number of feathers that appeared. While it is happening, the first song for Digivolution from Digimon Adventure started playing in my head. Aside from that, his introduction as Beelzebumon is good. So good, that his pose while shooting someone looks good!

Taiki here is just the same Taiki we know, nothing much. But this episode has something interesting for Shoutmon. This is one rare instance that Shoutmon questioned his General. Why he should save Baalmon since he is their enemy? Yes, why save a guy who kills his comrades who are mind controlled instead of trying to find a way on removing the control out of their minds.

Aside from that, this is where Baalmon finally makes his final development as a character. Like I have stated earlier that he realized that there is more than to power, we saw that he doesn’t want Taiki to end up like him. Someone who lost his friends because he can’t do anything to save them.

All Digimons out from the Digivice fighting alongside with everyone was one of the best things in this episode! Too bad, Bastemon is still one useless princess even if she participated a little in the fight. Seriously, when we will see this sleepy princess fight properly, or better yet, DigiXros her with some Digimon to give her some use!

Why bad? Because Beelzebumon had minor exposure and Shoutmon X4K has more screen time! I mean, this episode highlights Beelzebumon’s first appearance with a strong pre-introduction to begin with! I know, Shoutmon X4K is the strongest around, but why not let him do the earlier blows and let Beelzebumon do the finisher? That would make a good impact to viewers!

Overall, the episode was fun to watch especially when all Taiki’s Digimons fight against the Bugra Army and when Baalmon is doing one of his finest moments in this series that leads us to him, resurrecting into Beelzebumon. Why resurrection? Digivolution is not an appropriate term considering that if it is Digivolution, Beelzebumon would revert into Baalmon

[SINGLE] Sonar Pocket - Never Give Up!

[Full Single] SONAR POCKET - NEVER GIVE UP!
7 Music Tracks + 4 Scans
Size: 37 MB (RAR) | 39 MB (Extracted)
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Never Give Up! PV Preview

For Digimon Xros Wars fans (Like me), here's the preview of music video, Never Give Up! by Sonar Pocket, the opening theme of Digimon Xros Wars.

Based on what I remember, this is the first time Digimon theme song had a music video.