Digimon Savers

Japanese anime television series, and the fifth series produced as part of the Digimon franchise. It is currently in production by Toei Animation, and airing every Sunday at 9:00 AM on the Fuji TV network. In addition, a tie-in movie called Ultimate Power! Burst Mode Invoke! was released on December 9, 2006. [2] Savers is the first Digimon program to be produced in three years, following 2002's Digimon Frontier. With a change on character designs and a more elaborate storyline, this season is considered by some people to be focused on a wider audience than previous seasons have been.

The Digivice used in this series is the "Digivice iC", and its upgraded version, the "Digivice Burst". Some antagonists also are humans possessing a different kind of Digivice yet unnamed.

It is not yet confirmed whether Bandai will bring Digimon Savers to the U.S.

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plot summary

A fourteen year old boy, Masaru Daimon, an undefeated street fighter, meets Agumon, who has escaped from DATS, a secret government organization set up to defend the human world from invading wild Digimon. After fighting each other, the two quickly become friends, and through a series of events, are inducted into DATS, where they hope to grow in strength.

Masaru's team-mates include Tohma H. Norstein, a young prodigy, with his partner Gaomon, and Yoshino Fujieda who has Lalamon for her partner. As the series progresses, Touma discovers that Digimon respond to the "darkness" in humans, putting them at odds with monsters who seek to use humanity's own vices to bolster their own power.

The plot thickens with the introduction of Mercurimon, one of the rulers of the Digital World, and the human boy Ikuto, who serves him along his partner Falcomon. The DATS team tried to unfold the reason for their hatred of humankind, until is revealed that the real enemy was Akihiro Kurata, a scientist who led an attack on the Digital World years before that resulted in the death of many Digimon, including Ikuto's adoptive mother Frigimon.

Kurata counted with the support of the Japanese government and important businessmen like Tohma's father on his plan to destroy all Digimon in the Digital World, claiming they were a threat to mankind. But this was only a facade to occult his main objective. To harness the energy of the Digimon he destroyed to power-up Belphemon, one of the Seven Great Demon Lords and use it to conquer the Human World, but his ambitions were shattered by the efforts of Masaru and his allies.

With Kurata's defeat, there was hope that the conflict between the Human and Digital worlds would finally end, but Yggdrasil, the god of the Digital World decides that to preserve peace among the Digimon, the Human world must be destroyed. The DATS team rush to stop him, but first they must face Yggdrasil's elite guard, the Royal Knights.