Digimon Fusion

"Digimon: monsters who are born in the digital world. Although they're made up of data, they can also cry, laugh, and fight like we do. They're our important friends! Let's gather up as many teammates as we can! Come along with us in our adventure through this world!"

- Narrator

Digimon Fusion (デジモンクロスウォーズ), Japanese name pronounced Digimon Cross Wars, is the sixth anime series in the Digimon franchise by Akiyoshi Hongo. It is divided into three seasons, with the second titled The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms (悪のデスジェネラルと七人の王国), and the third titled The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time (時を駆ける少年ハンターたち). The third season is considered a separate series by Crunchyroll. It is the first Digimon anime series to not have an associated movie.

Its first episode aired on July 6, 2010 on, making it the first season in the series to air on another network in Japan ( aired all other seasons prior to Xros Wars). Three and a quarter years after the end of the fifth season, a new sixth series was confirmed by Bandai for the Digimon anime. The official name of the series was revealed in the June issue of Shueisha's V-Jump magazine. The art style for the series is more like the first four seasons than that of Digimon Data Squad, and traditions such as the Goggles have been brought back. It is also the first Digimon series to be broadcast in and in. Toei filed a trademark for a "Digimon Fusion Battles" with the, while began pre-releasing English subbed versions on November 21, 2011. Bandai announced in a press release on September 25, 2012 that it had acquired and would debut the series on October 8-11 at MIPCOM in,.

The premiere of Digimon Xros Wars in Japan coincided with the release of a broad range of merchandise, such as the Super Digica Taisen card game, the Digimon X Arena arcade game, the Digimon Xros Loader virtual pet, the Digimon Xros Figure Series toys, and a series of straps that were sold in capsule toy vending machines. The name of The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time is a reference to the Japanese film, .

The third season is a nominee for the 2012 Kids Awards for "Best Animation".

Plot summary
Multiple armies are fighting for dominance of the Digital World. Xros Heart, Blue Flare, Twilight, and the Bagra Army are each searching for the 108 Code Crowns that grant control of Zones, fractured pieces of the Digital World, and whoever gathers each of the Code Crowns will be able to combine them into their original form and become the "Digimon King", able to bend the entire Digital World to their will. The Bagra Army's goal is to transform the Digital World into a hellish realm of suffering, and Xros Heart, led by Mikey Kudō, must stop them.

Mikey decides to help Shoutmon and their friends and together, they form their own army, "Team Xros Heart", and depart to travel through the Digital World, collecting the Code Crowns by themselves. During their travels they meet many friendly Digimon who join their cause and they face the evil minions of the Bagra Army, including the three Head Officers, Tactimon, Lilithmon and Blastmon. They also encounter rival armies Blue Flare, led by Kiriha, and Twilight, secretly led by DarkKnightmon with Nene as a tool in his schemes. After Nene is rescued from DarkKnightmon, who created the Darkness Loader to execute DigiXros without her help, and she and her Digimon companions also join Xros Heart.
 * Digimon Xros Wars (2010)

After all 108 Code Crowns were claimed, Tactimon manages to steal Mikey and Kiriha's Code Crowns. Though Tactimon is defeated by teamwork by the rival groups, Bagramon uses a dimensional warp to take the Code Crowns for himself, which sends Mikey, Akari, Zenjirou, Shoutmon and Tactimon to the human world. With Xros Heart's core members disposed of, Bagramon is reunited with his brother DarkKnightmon as he begins his reign over the Digital World. In the real world, Tactimon attempts to wreak havoc before his attempts are thwarted by Mikey and Shoutmon, who uses the power of human emotions to digivolve into OmegaShoutmon, defeating Tactimon and returning to the Digital World with Mikey.

Upon returning to the Digital World, Mikey and Shoutmon learn that Bagramon had it reconstructed into a realm surrounding by Seven Kingdoms, each ruled by a "Death General" possessing their own Darkness Loader. Reunited with their Xros Heart allies, Mikey and Nene convince Kiriha to join forces with them and they set to travel together through the Kingdoms to challenge the generals and liberate the Digital World from the Bagra Army's oppression. Along the way, they also try to discover the fate of Nene's lost brother, Yuu. As they defeat the Generals, they learn that Yuu has actually joined DarkKnightmon and the Bagra Army out of a belief that in the Digital World he is free to let his fettered hostility out, but by the time the Xros Heart United Army finally challenges the gestalt DarknessBagramon, Yuu has realized the truth and joins them. Together, and with all of the Digimon of the Digital World fighting with them, the Xros Heart United Army finally defeats DarknessBagramon and restores the Digital World.
 * The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms

A year has passed since Mikey and his friends saved the Digital World and the Real World from DarknessBagramon. Now Digimon from DigiQuartz, a space between the human and Digital World, are being corrupted by human hearts and causing trouble in the human world. Furthermore, a group of three called the Digimon Hunters appear and hunt these Digimon by fighting and capturing them. Once captured the Hunters can use them to DigiXros with their partners to make them stronger so they can capture even stronger Digimon. Eventually, with their new friend Tagiru Akashi, Mikey Kudō and Yuu Amano begin to get involve with the mysterious Digimon Hunt and the three Digimon Hunters themselves. After demonstrating their worth hunting escaped Digimon, the Old Clock Shop Man reveals that the true purpose of the Hunt is to determine the best candidate to stand alongside legendary heroes from other universes and fight, an immensely powerful remnant of DarknessBagramon's data.
 * The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time

Episodes

 * For a list of episodes, see List of Digimon Fusion episodes

Digimon Xros Wars first aired on in  on July 6, 2010. Its second part, The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms, began airing on April 3, 2011, and the third, The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time, began airing on October 2, 2011.

Bagra Army

 * : The Emperor of the Bagra Army whose goal is rule both the and then the Human World through the power of the Code Crown in his D5 master plan.
 * : Bagramon's younger brother, the actual leader of Twilight before rejoining him. However, he has his own agenda involving the Darkness Loader. He is the second-in-command and admiral in the Bagra Army since his return.


 * Three Head Officers: Bagramon's mighty generals who are assigned the task of gathering the Code Crown fragments. They are composed of ', ', and . After their purpose is over, with Tactimon destroyed, Lilithmon and Blastmon are transfered to Twilight to serve under Yuu and his strikeforce army.


 * Seven Death Generals: Bagramon's elite warriors who run the Digital World after he reformatted it in his image. Each possess their own personalized Darkness Loader and Army as well as a Kingdom and are even more powerful than their predecessors, the Head Officers. They are composed of, , , , , , and.

Twilight

 * : An infiltration expert who DarkKnightmon assigned to serve as Yuu's bodyguard.

Xros Heart (basketball team)

 * Allied Hunters
 * Mashimo Hideaki (真下ヒデアキ): A Digimon Hunter who hunts to earn funds to open a takoyaki shop. His Digimon partner is.


 * Kiichi Funabashi (船橋キイチ): A classmate of Tagiru who loves trains and railroads. His Digimon Partner is . He often provides Xros Heart a means of transportation.


 * Aonuma Kiriha (蒼沼キリハ): Former General of the Blue Flare army. He's currently investigating on his own about the purpose of the Digimon Hunt and DigiQuartz. His Partners are and.


 * (ミズキ): A Treasure Hunter. Her Digimon Partner is.

Other Hunters

 * Ryouma's team


 * Ken's team
 * (ケン): A participant in the Digimon Hunt whose partner is.


 * (ハルキ): A participant in the Digimon Hunt whose partner is.


 * (ノボル): A participant in the Digimon Hunt whose partner is.

Crossovers
The threat that Quartzmon posed was so great that DigiDestined, Tamers, DATS agents and the like had to be brought from other universes in order to combat Quartzmon on multiple fronts. The purpose of the Digimon Hunt was to pick a Hunter Representative to join the greatest heroes of the multiverse in the final battle against Quartzmon with the fate of all creation at stake.

Other characters

 * Tokeiya no Oyaji (時計屋のおやじ): The owner of a clock shop who presides over Digimon Hunts and gives X Loaders to Hunters. His Digimon Partner is.


 * Hinomoto Akari (陽ノ本アカリ): A childhood friend of Mikey who is a year younger but acts like his big sister. She was a member of Xros Heart during the war against the Bagra Army, but now lives in a different city. Her partners are and.


 * Tsurugi Zenjirou (剣ゼンジロウ): A self-proclaimed rival of Mikey who practices kendo and is very knowledgeable about machinery. He was a member of Xros Heart during the war against the Bagra Army. His partner is.


 * Amano Nene (天野ネネ): Yuu's sister and a former ally of Mikey's during the war against the Bagra Army. She is now acting as an idol in Hong Kong. Her Digimon Partners are and.


 * : The creator of DigiQuartz and the ultimate purpose of the Digimon Hunt is to hunt him.

Digital World
As opposed to previous series, the Digital World of Digimon Fusion has existed since before the invention of digital technology, and it's only recently that the Human World has become able to tap into and influence a small percentage of the Digital World's data. The Digital World is split into one hundred eight Zones, which are equivalent to countries. The Green Zone is the area that Mikey and crew first arrive in and where 's home the Village of Smiles is located, and the group explores many more Zones as they obtain the Code Crowns. However, once Bagramon obtains the completed Code Crown, he reformats the Digital World into seven Lands, each based off of one of the days of the week.

DigiQuartz
The DigiQuartz is the place where the Digimon Hunts take place. It is a space between the Human World and Digital World, acting as a digital mirror of the Human World. It is quite fragile, and the matter within can disintegrate into data at a touch. Due to the DigiQuartz's connection to the Human World, the events within it often play out in the Human World through various analogues, such as windows blowing out or objects moving around.

Various Digimon manage to find their way into DigiQuartz and are lost there before being drawn to and corrupted by the power of human emotions. While Mikey attempts to get to the bottom of it at his end, Shoutmon has been attempting stop his fellow Digimon from traversing into DigiQuartz. Hunters must use a "Time Shift" with their X Loaders to enter the DigiQuartz, but many of the corrupted Digimon can simply draw in human victims from the other side.

The DigiQuartz imposes several rules on Hunters, most of which limit their power. For example, it is impossible within the DigiQuartz for a Hunter to realize more than one of his Digimon at a time, and they can only DigiXros two Digimon together at a time.

Japanese
Opening 1 Theme: Never Give Up!
 * Artist: Sonar Pocket

Opening 2 Theme: New world
 * Artist: Twill

Insert Song: WE ARE Xros Heart!
 * Artist: Wada Kouji
 * Songwriter: Sanjou Riku
 * Composer: Yamashita Kousuke
 * Arranger: Yamashita Kousuke

Insert Song: X4B The Guardian!
 * Artist: Wada Kouji

Insert Song: Sora Mau Yuusha! X5
 * Artist: Wada Kouji

Insert Song: Dark Knight ~Fujimi no Ousha
 * Artist: Takayoshi Tanimoto

Insert Song: Evolution & Digixros ver. TAIKI
 * Artist: Kouji Wada & Takayoshi Tanimoto

Insert Song: Evolution & Digixros ver. KIRIHA
 * Artist: Takayoshi Tanimoto & Kouji Wada

Insert Song: WE ARE Xros Heart! ver. x7 Opening Theme: Stand Up
 * Artist: Kouji Wada, Takayoshi Tanimoto & Ayumi Miyazaki
 * Artist: Twill

Insert Song: Tagiru Chikara
 * Artist: Psychic Lover

Insert Song: Shining Dreamers
 * Artist: Takafumi Iwasaki

Insert Song: BLAZING BLUE FLARE
 * Artist: Hideaki Takatori

Insert Song: Legend Xros Wars
 * Artist:YOFFY & Takafumi Iwasaki

Insert Song: Brave Beaten
 * Artist:Oodira Soul