The amount of ass Omegamon kicks in X-Evolution just makes me wonder how Dynasmon and Crusadermon/LordKnightmon/LoadKnightmon got reduced to Lucemon's bitches in Frontier...

So I watched the first episode of Digimon Savers.
It feels like I just watched 5 episodes. Jeez, slow down a little.

Yes yes yes, characters have to be introduced, and because it's a shonen series, there has to be some action, but I didn't remember Agumon evolving in the first episode...For an intro, it tried to do way too much in far too little time.

What stood out to me:
Masaru is kind of hitting every check for the brash action hero. I do not like that.
Yoshino's voice actress is gawd awful.
I have no idea what DATS is trying to accomplish with Masaru.

Anyway, this beginning sucked.

It gets better... I promise. :)

I'm not going to recap every episode I watch, but I will post about Savers when something sticks out to me in some fashion. So I just finished episode 2.

I just realized that Geogreymon and (So far) the entirety of Lalamon's evolution line's voice acting sucks. Geogreymon's VA sounds bored and anti-climatic, and Lalamon's high pitched voice just...Blah.

Also, it really annoys me when an anime designs a mother character who looks like she's in high school. This isn't a strike against Savers in particular, but it just really dislike when they design mothers who look like they can be the main female protagonist with how young they look (Here it's seriously an issue though. Unless she had Masaru when she was flipping 6, she looks way too damn young).

Right now an issue I'm having is evolution.
In Adventure, they only evolved after establishing a bond with their partners to literally show their growth as friends. In 02, they literally couldn't evolve for the first half, and used the DigiArmors marked with the symbols of the previous characters to evolve, typically in a 'passing the torch' moment for the new cast. In Tamers, they could only evolve during a moment of great duress, putting their human partner in danger, but also after establishing enough of a connection similar to Adventure. In Frontier, they had to at least prove themselves and find the armor.
Here?
You wanna evolve? Then just evolve. Kind of kills what made it special...

first of the beast king is the best digimon move.

Eh. It's in the Top 10.

what if the best mega digimon uses it?

Yeah, I'll be honest the way Data Squad/Savers handles rookie-champion evolution is kind of anti climatic. However in the series defense the put the emotional growth evolution into Ultimate, Mega and the eventual Burst Mode which are a few of the highlights from the series.

Also, yeah Marcus' mom does look a bit young but what can you do?

But Dukemon uses a lance. Why would he ever need to use that attack?

I don't doubt that they do. It just seems that they reduced the significance of it. I do hope that the next level is used a lot better.

Trust me, they will be. :)