Digimon Data Squad (Savers): The "Grown Up" Season | Billiam 

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Other Digimon seasons: "My Digimon is hurt. Let me help them by crying" Marcus: "Hey you! You touched my Digimon?! Come here for your ass whooping "

I totally disagree about the Digimon partners, at least where Marcus is concerned. I thought that his Agumon felt more like a family member than partners typically do. Since Marcus' mother is aware of Digimon from the start, they didn't have to keep her at an arm's length from the plot for too long. So Agumon was quickly welcomed into the home, and spends time with Marcus' mother and sister. Even eating with them at the dinner table and fighting with Marcus over the last scraps of food, as if he were another son. In the original cut, Agumon also refers to Marcus as "Aniki" (whether he's Agumon or Shine Greymon xD). I also like the nature of their partnership, because Agumon has a bit more agency as a character than the earliest partners did. He and Marcus are introduced to us in a fist-fight that ends in a draw. That sets them apart as equals, and lets us know that Agumon doesn't actually need to be here (a detail which sort of dovetails with the end of the series, where the Digimon all decide to go back home). They weren't destined to be partners, and there's no real obligation to stick around. But he follows Marcus anyway out of respect and admiration. There's something strangely grounded about that to me...

I really like that, they changed in the german dub Marcus nickname "boss" to "brother". so they called each other brothers. This felt a lot more like a tighter bond.

"Marcus never got his ass beat" You've...never watched the show, have you?

And then there's Rosemon, who doesn't have a five-hundred dollar figure... *YET*

Wait Marcus and Thomas are 14? I always thought they were 18 or 19

Data Squad was always like the “Yugioh 5D’s” of Digimon shows to me. It stars an older cast and is still very enjoyable.

“He never got his ass kicked” Yeah tell that to miragegaomon who kicked Shinegreymon’s ass and turned him back into an egg

Marcus DOES get his ass kicked. More than once.

I unironically love data squad.

There's a very big thing that makes it stand out. Having a human character that actually gets their hand's dirty in the fights. Just the guts to fight almost anything with their own body. That stuff won me over big time in Monster Rancher/Monster Farm! Who wants to get drop kicked by a person wearing inline skates? Not a single monster. You just don't see anything like it in shows like this often. They either have to fuse, give an order to their monster companion, spring a trap, or use something that would _kinda_ get an okay from Peta or something. Honestly its the best part of this season that kind of transcends this from being your averaged animation aimed at children and the new character art direction helps a bunch too. Its just about doing what you can in general- and the main character gets his fair share of beat downs as well. In a nutshell, its really, Digimon: *_"Catch these hands"_* And that blows my _mind._ When is some dude gonna drop kick a pokemon outside of Smash?

Digimon Savers had so many redeeming qualities, I think Kurata was a really well developed antagonist and he got exactly what he deserved. But after Kurata, it took a really strange turn

Data Squad was amazing. Also "Marcus never got his ass beat" ....Were you paying much attention?

I think the Japanese version does a better job with agumon and marcus. They treat marcus like a yakuza and Agumon looking up to him as such calling him aniki which is a respectful way to refer to him a big brother.

Data Squad will always have a place in my heart. While recovering from surgery when I was 8, the tiny little TVs in the hospital rooms only had one channel that I was interested in - Jettix. And it pretty much exclusively showed Data Squad while I was there.

I loved data squad, Kurata to me is the best villain in the whole franchise, why? because he proved why humans are the real monsters not to mention i just wanted to strangle that bastard and beat the shit out of him. Marcus was a total badass, how many humans could take down a Digimon with a single punch? him wearing goggles would not have suited his personality. This series got incredibly dark and disturbing midway.

My only genuine flaws in this show are Yoshi's lack of character development and not exploring the Thomas \Gaomon relationship more. Apart from that it's perfect. Amazing pacing, amazing action, amazing plot, amazing villian, amazing ost in both versions. Generally it's just epic.

Dude, did you miss an episode? Marcus totally got his ass handed to him during his obligatory epiphany moment when he decided to ditch Agumon to try and prove his worth. No amount of punching flaming sabretooth lions in the face could get him anywhere, and, IIRC, we saw him, clothes in tatters, beaten to the point of being unable to move and lying on a train track basically awaiting death by the time that Agumon found him. The relationship between Marcus and Agumon may not have been the best due to Agumon's weird subservience but that moment really sold me on Marcus' determination and seeing both of them fight individually did the same for the show's whole teamwork = power element. Plus, that fight also changed Marcus' perspective and turned him into a team player. It was, in my opinion, rather more of an effective character turning point than the standard going home episodes that came before it. Then we also had Marcus' relationship with his sister's digimon, the digital world itself being the enemy and everything being resolved without just digivolving as much as possible. All unique and excellent elements to Data Squad/Savers. You argued previously for Frontier being shallow, and I'm somewhat inclined to agree, but Savers was a cheese-filled fun fest from start to finish and I refuse to be swayed. It was the last of the good Digimon seasons.

9:12 in the clip *you played*, he said "how do you know about my father"... So he got the info he needed and ended the conversation

I never despised anyone more in the Digimon franchise than Akihiro Kurata. Biggest coward, hypocrite and mass murderer in the series.After all this genocide, manipulating everyone around him, creating his abominations that erased so many Digimons, unnatural human-digimon hybrids and his final act with Belphemon under his control he didn't even get a satisfying death. Final arc of Data Squad didn't look so great by comparasing. Also can anyone remind me why King Drasil didn't take care of Kurata earlier? I forgot that, because I watched this show so long ago.

I actually liked this season, I think I was in eh...10th grade or higher when it came on TV? Maybe because the team was older than kids is why I connected with it kinda like Ben 10: Alien Force.

I don't know what the problem is, Data Squad was fantastic. You have a main character that punches Digimon, how can you hate that?

I unironically loved Data Squad. It brought me back to the OG season in terms of feel with a dash of Tamers. Especially the final arc. Hella good ending.

Despite what everyone else says, this is actually one of my favorite, if not my favorite Digimon out of them all. The soundtrack legit makes it for me, but just the fact that someone is ballsy enough to actually PUNCH one of those fuckers seemed beyond refreshing to me.

You forgot to mention that the scientist made his own digimon from stolen data of other digimon and he made a weapon capable of killing digimon permanently. Digimon are living data so when a digimon normally dies it comes back. Data squad was the only series to make a way to permanently delete a digimon.

Only thing I remember enjoying about Savers was the Royal Knights and King Drasil, the burst modes (and Shinegreymon Ruin Mode), Marcus punching Digimon, and the fact that Bantyo Leomon is literally Jotaro.

This is the Digimon I grew up with so I really love it because of the nostalgia ...

funfact, in the german dub calls agumon his partner "big brother" wich was adorable and one on the main reasons I loved it. Also for me gaomon saw thomas more as a master (since he called him this way) so he can learn from him or something. I was rather surprised to see how the english dub handled this

“Never surrender, never be out done. Because the challenge ain’t over, we’ve only just begun”! DIGIMON!

I don't care what anyone says, I love data squad.

Data squad was decent and I liked it. And I watched the dub. Sue me. Also, Yoshi was bae.

Digimon: *exist* Marcus: Lemme punch that

This was honestly my second favorite season behind Tamers personally

ya know... I found marcus punching digimon hilarious! digimon : BEHOLD! I AM HUGE AND MADE OF METAL! marcus: ... I'M GONNA PUNCH IT! me: (hysterical laughter).

I really like this show, mostly because of the relationship between Ogumon and Marcus. It's probably because I watched this first (illegally on you-tube, ah the good old days) before I watched tamers (illegally on you-tube, ah the good old days). Tamers had what I liked about deta squad (the human and digimon dynamic) but more of it, that being said it will never diminish my good memory for this show.

I freaking loved Digimon Savers. If I had to recommend just one season of Digimon to someone, I would have them watch Savers.

"Digimon Data Squad: The worst Season?" Nope, that's Xros Wars Young Hunters, you'll see if you get to it.

The WORST season. Screw that! It was the BEST season! Great characters and story, the last TV series with normal Digivolutions, plenty of cool Digimon throughout, and the most badass main character of any Digimon season. To me, it felt like a mix of great elements from past seasons with it's own added twist that made it really stand out

i love data squad so much and nothing anybody says will change that 🤯💖

"Grown up" season >has nothing mature Great.

Loved the video but kinda disappointed you didn't mention how DS was the 2nd series where everyone got their maximum evolution line, the ludicrous but somehow awesome idea that Marcus is such a meathead that his first thought when seeing a giant tiger man is to punch him in his jaw, or how this was the only series besides X Evo that straight up introduces the Royal Knights and their "duty". The soulless part is understandable but the Japanese OST was pretty awesome (of course this is Wada Kouji) and at the end of the day you kinda said it yourself this was a weird return to form after Frontier. Even though some stuff didn't hit all the right points I say Data Squad overall was one of the more funner and cooler series. We got some of the coolest Digimon in this season (BanchoLeomon is the best). Unfortunately I doubt the dub really expresses how the whole "Boss" relationship works, in JP its sort of like a Yakuza-gang style relationship, where they follow the Boss and treat each other like family. Anyways this is way too long, but I really hope you decide to watch Xros Wars opposed to Fusion for your next one.

I liked data squad due to one of the most badass digimon being in it: Bantyou Leomon.

In the german version agumon calls marcus "big brother"

I honestly loved that Marcus punches digimon just because no other human does and the fact that he gets anything from that action is an added bonus though now that I think about it is kinda odd that the digimon didn't try to fight back against Marcus whenever he punches them though another point is that Marcus feels like he's the first human to actually fight alongside his partner digimon rather just standing on the sidelines ;D

Data Squad if anything is average, but it's somehow ridiculously entertaining. Marcus is a annoying hotshot, but, as much the 'punching digital monsters with above-human power' sounds idiot, it's fun and makes the 'goggle head' more prominient. It has great action scenes and I remember that BanchoLeomon was just badass. I'm also really fond of the Brazilian theme songs and Gaomon, which is in my opinion the best character in the season.

Digimon Adventure: The new Adventure Digimon Adventure 02: The second one Digimon Tamers: That one season you like Digimon Frontier: PowerRangers Digimon Data Squad: Men in black Digimon Xros Wars: That one Digimon season that fucked up everything but still was enjoyable

in my country the translation makes it so that agumon calls marcus "bro" and just that and a few lines changed just a bit makes it so much better as it makes it seem as marcus and agumon have an even deeper connection than other characters as instead of being friends they treat each other as family, but even then gaogamon still calls thomas sir.

Bill: Marcus goes around punching Digimon in the face Me: How are you saying one of the most badass things, "going around punching KAIJU in the face" and now sound excited?

"Savers/Data Squad" was a mostly solid season in my book. While it may have been a little slow at first and some characters like Yoshi didn't have interesting development, it still had some cool action, a good second act with Kurata, and some likable characters (my favorites being Thomas/Touma, Kristy/Chika and Captain Sampson/Satsuma). Plus, I remember being glad that this season brought back the partner method after "Frontier" disposed of it. Hopefully, things will get better for you with "Xros Wars/Fusion." At least until "Young Hunters," the anime's TRUE worst season (okay, it's technically another arc in "Xros Wars," but either way it's awful).

I actually really like this series. it was cheaply made hut I very much enjoyed it.

Digimon Cyber Sleuth did a good job with adding detective work and mystery to Digimon.

Ah yes the glory years of youtube without too much copyright restrictions. I actually was able to see all seasons of digimon in this platform, couldn't have known this franchise without RU-vid.

I actually really liked it as a kid. Probably my favorite still to this day.

Okay the season might not have been good but you can't disagree that that theme song is a banger

My best friend and I watched Digimon Data Squad, then Savers over the past summer. Since we were also watching videos about the atomic bombs and how they affected Japan, we watched Savers under the lens of "is this what it was like for Japan before and after the atomic bombs?" It is a perspective that I have not forgotten.

I really enjoyed watching Savers, though I admit that some characters(Yoshino) don't get a lot of development and more could be done with the Royal Knights arc. Masaru actually is one of the main characters I liked the most in Digimon.

Guys, he's not a "Believer" Note: "Believer" is the evolution theme song in digimon savers aka data squad

Let's not forget that data squad generation brought us some of the best digimons games. Digimon DS and Digimon Dusk and Dawn.

3:53 I don't think a main character needs to have goggles to be a good character, but A; you have bias due to nostalgia and B; I have bias due to data squad being the only digimon series I've seen the entirety of, fusion had a short run here in Australia and in my opinion it was OK but that is mainly because I only have the digimon adventure movie and data squad to compare it too Also I have watched adventure tri and I liked it, I think the main reason I prefer tri and data squad is because they are a bit more mature than fusion and the digimon movie. In conclusion goggles are not necessary for a good character and almost non of the digimon seasons made it to Australia at least in my experience

I just wish we got to see more of marcus and agumon. I loved that show as a kid, and I remember how much I cried when it ended.

I actually quite agree that Savers focus more on its "shounen-ish" tension, especially when it goes into fighting. It's never bored to watch bcos the tension is usually pumped up. But I admit that the main concept of digimon is quite convoluted. They didn't show digimon as a digital creature made by human or creatures that are parallel to human. But I like the fact that the digimon in Savers had more personality rather than Adventure's alter ego. I mean, you can often see clashes between Masaru and Agumon. It's the relationship we never really see on previous digimon series, mainly on center protagonist. The fact that Agumon was kind of babyborn stupid is usually funny to watch. One of gripe on Savers is probably the weak presence of girl protagonist. I know Yoshino is the oldest, but her background was quite shallow and she never really developed. It's as if she's not as important as other character, though she has digimon which evolved equally to other protagonists. But what I appreciated the most is that Kurata is a sly villain, he's very clever, but he's honest. At least we knew why he went evil, so it's not the superficial level of Adventure villain which are just "pure evil" without understandable reason. The moment when we saw Kurata got his ass kicked is very very satisfying as fuck, especially with Believer played. I would take Savers as my 2nd favorite season, on par with adventure, though they had their own plus and minus. But I will never say Savers is worse than 02 or Frontier, coz IMO they're worse. Also, note, Masaru isn't that really OP in the series, surely he faced many ups and downs. I'm afraid you didn't look at it deeper

Data squad or Savers is one of my favorite season. Cheesy? Yes, but that what made it unique from the other season. It brings something new to the connection between Digimon and the tamers. The story itself also pretty good and the characters personality are believable.

No, it wasn't the worst.That would be Xros/Fusion. Masaru/Marcus punching even mega levels was always funny for me.

I think Data Squad is valid as heck, but that's because I love Digimon, I never got why Data Squad tried the edgier art style and older characters (marcus and thomas are 14 anyways, and future Digimon series made older protagonists without changing the art style or really changing how the characters are structured at all) because I don't feel like Digimon is physically capable of appealing to people who don't want to watch a "kid's show". It's funny tho, because all these years later and they're still just trying to ride off the coattails of Adventure with Tri and the new recent project that was announced. And yet, the most acclaimed seasons besides Adventure (Tamers mainly, but Appmon's got a good following out of anyone who didn't shun Frontier solely for its concept) are the ones that try to stay clear of Adventure as much as possible. Unless you count Fusion, but its third season/sequel (we still dont know which one it is) definitely doesn't avoid Adventure. Hoo man am I worried about you if you try to watch Fusion though. I don't think you're gonna be able to stay awake. It's not bad, it's just Data Squad but more underwhelming and more soulless. Deadass I get the names of the two Edgy Blonde Kids from each series mixed up.

I'm surprised you didn't talk about the major differences between the Japanese, and the dub versions.

Marcus also has the same voice actor as Axel from Kingdom Hearts

I didn't even watch fusion or data squad. I got into a personal phase when I wasn't really into mangas or anime anymore. I just recently started watching stuff again as a matter of a nice and quick escape and refuge from reality....

I love when digimon dive into darker topics like fear of losing someone even death sometimes which you will not get from Pokémon

The Data Squad gets calls about Digimon causing trouble.... So it's the anime version of Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth? XD

Data squad wasn't the absolute worst (had to wait for fusion for that) but it wasn't the best either. And please know that ive only seen the dub of xros wars aka digimon fusion as for the sub ive only seen a part of its ending.

In a world where BanchoLeomon exists Data Squad is best series.

With regard to how the Digimon call their partners, Agumon originally referred to Masaru as "aniki" in the Japanese version, which means something to the effect of "big bro", and is literally a informal way to call your actual brother. But this also played off the context that gang members in Japan also often refer to seniors as "aniki". This is why the closest direct english translation was "boss". "Aniki", however, reflects what was supposed to be the progression of their relationship as beginning from seniority and authority towards a more brotherly bond, so that's pretty much lost in translation. With Gaomon, the original Japanese had him refer to Touma as "Master" (yes, in english but with the accompanying engrished pronunciation), meant to reflect Touma's aristocratic background. This is more straightforward in how Gaomon serves as the loyal servant that always maintains a dignified respectful distance from his master, but that the two nevertheless grow close despite the formalities. It's debatable in either case whether the intention played out well to depict the relational development, but that at least is the actual context behind why the Digimon referred to their partners that way.

I love data squad with a passion

Digimon data squads is still my favorite season

Let’s not forget about the bio-hybrids, human villains who turn into Digimon, which feels like an idea ripped straight from Frontier

I feel like data squad was more of a 50/50 season in the community Because I see equal amounts of people praise it while also hate it

Keenen was raised by Digimon, speaks like them and has a hard time relating with humans? N from pokemon, is that you?

Digimon data squad is great in my opinion. it's the only season of digimon I can watch the dub of. in fact I actually prefer the ost and voice direction of the English dub. I just didn't like the ending. It wasn't bad but I feel like it could have been better. All the characters imo are spot on. One thing that weirds me out tho is how massive the digimon are. ALSO Yoshino is 4 years older than Thomas and Marcus... thats a little weird to think about.

Saviors felt like it was trying to be the gurren lagann of Digimon, and honestly it kind of works... I mean it wasn't as good as gurren lagann or season 1 or 3, but it was still a blast to watch. Also Kurata is easily my favorite Digimon villain. And Xwars was the worst season.

You know when you think about the lore of Digimon Marcus has pulled off some of the most badass feats of strength, one primary example of this is destroying Craniamon's shield which is made of black digizoid specifically made from King Drasil's data just like his armor, which is supposed to make it indestructible, then there's the fact that he stopped Craniamon's sword (a sword that he uses to cut space itself) with his fist as well. So Marcus is like the single most badass human in Digimon.

If we don’t take Xros Wars into account. How would the cast of the other Digimon series (Adventure, 02, Tamers and Frontier react to Marcus punching a Digimon? Especially the villains.

I see that Marcus is the Digimon equivalent of Carter Grayson from Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue

Also, Marcus never really looked 14 to me

As much as I can see your points on the matter, I must defend Data Squad. As I love this show's meathead protag, but even more so I really enjoyed the Main Human Villain this series: Dr. Akihiro Kurata. While he certainly isn't the first Human character that held an antagonistic outlook on Digimon (Yamaki from Tamers). Kurata's planning, manipulation, and malice towards Digimon basically blows Yamaki's hatred towards Digimon right out of the part as he goes above and beyond to commit Mass Genocide! He's a Villain that used the Data Squad Organization against their MVP members! Erased the Main Heroes Memories, Destroyed and Collected Data from various Digimon! Forced Thomas to fight against his teammates! And ended up causing a Chain of events that nearly wiped out both Earth and the Digital World (even after he dies)! He was a Villain I loved to hate and it's clear he was what made Data Squad an interesting departure as he even help agument 3 Human characters to change and Digivolve into Various monsters! The show may not have been ground-breaking, but when it came to have a central Villain, well Kurata was probably one of the best. Though it's obvious the D-Reaper still tops that list.

But I love this season :( And Marcus gets his ass kicked many times XD Oh and Ikuto speak completely fine human language it's just the dub which makes his voice like that

Seriously why isn't Digimon Data Squad on Hulu or Netflix I could only find the first episode on RU-vid

Fun Fact: the English voice actor of Marcus Damen is Axel from Kingdom Hearts!

Data squad, was the first digimon series I ever saw, and in my opinnion, the best one!!!! I love the action scenes, the emotion that they put in some characters, the backstory!!!! It was amazing!!! also how they took digievolution so seriously!!!! For me one of the best seasons of all digimon series!

When I first watched it, I didn't like it much but I rewatched few years ago and the story is quite good

Aww dangit, i quite enjoyed Ddatasquad, but your right it was kinda digimon teen angst edition, booted in safe mode... But Frontier was kind of fun, Buuuut i will admit Tamers is the best at least in my opinion, I mean they made me love an AI boat, THE ONLY OTHER SHOW EVER TO MAKE ME FEEL LOVE FOR A BOAT WAS ONE PIECE

“It ends up playing it safe” that’s actually a really good way of putting it

I watched data squad when I was a kid and haven’t come across it till now. It was so good

Wow data squad was always my second favorite

When I was a kid I cried when Keenan lost Fridgimon.... For some reason i remember it was so fucking sad.

Data Squad's theme was fucking amazing. It got me so hyped while the Digimon were digivolving.

Gaomon's breed? BOXER! I fucking love him and his digivolutions

surprising this is my favorite season (more like a tie with tamers, hard to decide) i liked the plot and the unique relationship they had with the digimon. also liked the story progression and the kurata psychopathic personality. also savers for me was good until the yggdrassil arc, for me that took it to another level and probably one of my favorite arcs in the entire franchise.

The first one I watched wars frontier my favorite was tamers and I really liked Data Squad

Digimon data squad was my first Digimon show i watched so it was an intro for me to the series thats why I like it 💗 and it gives me nostalgia of my childhood although I was a kid and the show was for teenager.