Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Leaping Through Time: Difference between revisions

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Set one year after the end of the ''[[Digimon Xros Wars the Evil Death Generals And The Seven Kingdoms]]'' arc, Taiki Kudou and Yuu Amano have gone on to form the Xros Heart street basketball team; joining them is the [[Keet|incredibly eager]] Tagiru Akashi, who stumbles into the alternate dimension of DigiQuartz, a world between the Human and Digital Worlds. There, Tagiru meets his [[Bond Creature|Digimon partner]] Gumdramon, as well as three adversaries: Ryouma Mogami, Airu Suzaki, and Ren Tobari, along with their Digimon partners Psychemon, Opossumon, and Dracumon. Shoutmon and Damemon return to fight alongside their old partners Taiki and Yuu. What is the secret of DigiQuartz, and what does it mean to be a "Digimon Hunter?"

The arc is different from other arcs in this season, in that there's much less focus on a plot; most episodes focus on Tagiru (and occasionally other characters) instead of just Taiki dealing with a [[Monster of the Week]]. However, there is a story running quietly in the background. The hunt right now is all fun and games, but it turns out that the {{spoiler|1=DigiQuartz is spreading, endangering the rest of the world.}}

 

 

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* [[Affably Evil]]: So far, the rival Hunters, even though they're all clearly jerks (some moreso than others), have been kind of worried about Tagiru facing MetalTyrannomon alone, and Airu Suzaki even hinted that they might have helped him out.

* [[Alternate Universe]]: And for once, it's not the Digital World! Rather, it's an area between the two worlds called DigiQuartz.

* [[Animation Bump]]: The dogfight sequence in episode 10 is spontaneously gorgeously animated.

** The [[Grand Finale]]. While the animation for the rest of the arc was rather unremarkable, the final episode looked ''so'' much better than the rest that one almost has to wonder if Toei had saved up half the series' budget for that episode alone.

** Also inverted: the animation gets noticeably poorer as the series neared its end. The final episode did get a big [[Animation Bump]], however.

* [[Artistic License Geography]]: In episode sixty-seven, no matter where Kiichi takes people on Locomon, it's always nighttime, even when they've clearly crossed several time zones.

* [[Book Ends]]: In a very meta-sense. Vamdemon was a constant threat to the Chosen back in ''Digimon Adventure/02'', and in 79 of this arc an army of Vamdemon appear in all his established forms.

* [[Call Back]]: The beginning of this arc opens with a basketball game, much like the first episode of ''Xros Wars.'' This serves both to re-introduce Taiki and Yuu, and to show us Tagiru... and how different he is from Taiki.

** In episode sixty-three, Akari and Taiki have a conversation that is a direct call back to the same one they had in the first episode of the series, with Taiki thanking Akari, Akari repeating him and saying she doesn't want to hear it, finally ending with her scolding him to take better care of himself.

** In the following episode, Tokio, the student focused on in the previous story, is seen in the background as a member of Tagiru and Yuu's class.

** Episode sixty-one has Gumdramon lead the Pagumon to the location in DigiQuartz of the same pool that Sagomon was based in the fifty-six episode.

** Episode seventy-one has the same Gargoylemon and Piximon from Heaven Zone in the first arc policing the Digital World.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: Every time "Chou Shinka!" is screamed twice during an evolution sequence.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Tagiru's capture of Dagomon in episode 73.

** {{spoiler|1=Masaru introduces himself by punching a VenomVamdemon and dominoing two others behind it in episode 78. He punches some BelialVamdemon as well later in the same episode.}}

* [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity]]: The Watchman, a mysterious old man with a Clockmon, who produces the Xros Loaders used by the children participating in the Digimon Hunts.

** Technically this is true in the previous seasons for early digimon stages from digitama/digiegg to Baby II/Intraining but not true, but its quite as true for child and above.

** In the episode in Hong Kong, Airu and Ren can be seen in the background in the tram that the boys take early in the episode. Exactly why they're there is a mystery, as they have no other appearances or role in the episode.

* [[Fusion Dance]]: DigiXros is still in effect here, as Hunters can Xros their partners with Digimon captured during hunts.

* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: In addition to Tagiru and Taiki, Gumdramon's ''evolution'' Arresterdramon gets in on the act, being the first partner Digimon to sport goggles himself.

** Tagiru later adds FlaWizarmon to his team, who also wears goggles.

* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Episode 71, involving Betsumon, who main attack is to tell a really bad joke to freeze his opponents. This trope crops up around the 3/4 point.

* [[Imagine Spot]]: Tagiru and Gumdramon have one when [http://i52.tinypic.com/212e6wg.jpg imagining what Gumdramon's DigiXros with a miscellaneous Digimon would be like.]

* [[Internal Homage]]: Plenty of them.

** Before the title shot, the original "Digital Monsters" logo from the virtual pets is effectively recreated.

*** It goes even further than that; the opening also features the shadows of Digimon passing across real world buildings, which is another iconic shot from the ''Tamers'' opening animation.

*** Gumdramon's evolution sequence is very similar to those from ''Tamers'', specifically the whole "data is peeled off the Digimon's skin and replaced with the new form" thing.

*** Arresterdramon's {{spoiler|evolution into Superior Mode}} incoporates several evolution scenes from previous series. A ring of light appears around Tagiru's arm, similar to the Digicode from Frontier, a burst of light shoots out from his Xros Loader, similar to Burst Evolution from Savers, and a blue Chinese dragon is seen, similar to Imperialdramon's evolution scene from 02.

*** And yet again, we have the final shot of the opening with everyone standing together in a circle... just like the end of ''Frontier's'' opening animation. This may be due to the fact that all three series share a director.

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Tagiru was ''incredibly'' eager to enter the Digimon Hunts from the moment he wandered into DigiQuartz.

* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Used occasionally to give the character of the week a reason to ally with a Digimon. Most noticeable in the card game episode, where some bullies pick on a kid for having weak cards, throw him from his seat so that they can take a turn, and laugh at him when all his good cards are stolen from him despite the fact that he's obviously weakened and shellshocked at that point.

* [[The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday]]: The Watchmaker's shop is never in the same place twice...

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: {{spoiler|1=You can only bring out one Digimon per time and DigiXros only two of them. Taiki quickly figures out that he can overlook this rule by sending Ballistamon and Dorulumon to Yuu's XrosLoader and use DoubleXros to bring Shoutmon X4 to the battle.}}

* [[Nerf]]: Xros Loaders in this series are much more limited than they were in the previous series, only able to reload one Digimon at a time and only able to DigiXros up to two at a time. {{spoiler|1=However, DoubleXros and GreatXros are still effective, allowing Yuu and Taiki to bring forth Shoutmon X4 and later Shoutmon X7 with Kiriha and Nene.}}

** Considering that Digimon hunting is considered a "game" in universe (with an actual rulebook to boot), these rules are likely in place specifically to keep returning characters like Taiki from [[Game Breaker|completely wrecking the game balance]].<ref> Which he still does anyway because he's, y'know, the guy whose [[Asskicking Equals Authority|partner is the Digimon King.]]</ref><ref> Also the above mentioned [[Loophole Abuse]]</ref>

** [[Justified Trope|Justified]] by the fact that this limitation {{spoiler|is revealed to be caused by Quartzmon's power}}.

* [[Ocular Gushers]]: In episode seven, Pagumon ends up producing these... with them pouring out of ''Tagiru's Xros Loader.''

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: Episode 5 sets up a badass fight where Taiki takes on Ryouma and Ren one-on-two... then the plot goes off to follow Yuu, Tagiru, and Airu, and the epic offscreen fight is never referred to in the rest of the episode.

* [[Omake]]: Continuing from ''Xros Wars'' is the "Digimon Introduction Corner", which spotlights a different Digimon at the end of every episode, followed by a "joke" DigiXros between the subject of the segment and another Digimon.

* [[Overly Long Title]]

* [[Power Creep, Power Seep]]: Lets just say when {{spoiler|the 5 heroes from past seasons come back, they're not guaranteed to be as strong (or weak) as you remember them}}

* [[Power Trio]]

* [[Red Herring]]: In a poster, the Xros of Arresterdramon and Dobermon was shown {{spoiler|fighting alongside the past heroes' Digimon against Quartzmon}}. Despite this, said Xros was actually never used in the show a second time after is debut.

* [[Sequel Hook]]: In the final scene, the old watchmaker {{spoiler|reveals himself to be a reincarnated Bagramon... somehow}} and implies that he's searching for {{spoiler|1=his brother, DarkKnightmon, somewhere in the world}}.

** The series' title is, itself, a reference to ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]].''

** Shoutmon's new design is a walking homage to both ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' and ''[[Getter Robo]]'', the latter finally completing his evolution into a walking [[Super Robot]] homage.

** Meanwhile, his "Fire Vortex" technique is basically [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic the Hedgehog's]] Spin Dash technique. That, or [[Pokémon|Flame Wheel]].

** When Tagiru [[Gremlins|feeds Pagumon, he starts producing evil duplicates that cause havoc all over town.]]

** Episode thirteen is an homage to ''[[The Polar Express]]''. Fitting, in that said episode aired on [[Christmas Episode|Christmas]].

* [[Taken for Granite]]: Tagiru, Arresterdramon, and OmegaShoutmon in episode 15. [[The Power of Friendship]] saves them.

* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: Much like the various Shoutmon forms and army themes in the previous series, Tagiru, Taiki, and Yuu and their respective digimon individually have their own.<ref>"Tagiru Chikara" for Tagiru, "We are Xros Heart" for Taiki, and "Shining Dreamers" for Yuu</ref>.

* [[Unusually Uninteresting Sight]]: In the middle of a kendo match, Taiguru and his opponent are visibly whisked away into DigiQuartz. After resolving the plot there, they return to the same spot and manage to persuade the referee to continue the match as though nothing happened. Indeed, most of the plots don't seem to launch investigations despite people turning into trees or disappearing for days at a time, and to drive it home, during the trading card game episode, players who were pulled into DigiQuartz seemed to be more concerned that their cards were being stolen than they were about the fact that they were just dragged into another dimension.

* [[Voodoo Doll]]: Airu makes one of Yuu after failing to capture Cutemon from him.

* [[Warrior Therapist]]: The main trio use a variation of this trope to resolve the [[Monster of the Week|incidents]] in the early episodes, addressing the emotional problems of the people who accidentally summoned the Digimon and subsequently taming the Digimon. This approach seperates the main trio from [[The Rival|the rival trio]], who only care about hunting Digimon.

* [[Whack a Monster]]: Episode seven has this portrayed, literally, with Gumdramon (complete with tail hammer) and the mole-like Jagamon.

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