Digimon Beatbreak has surprised more than one fan of Digimon, with its mixture of adult and dark topics that put it quite far from a simple coming-of-age adventure. A Cyberpunk setting, with lots of shady and dark characters moving the threads behind the curtains of a world that is as broken as the Sapotamas they hold.

With so many questions left unanswered, the series has reached a point of no return, where things take a turn for the worse, and now fans are wondering: Where is this leading to? The answer will shock even the most hardcore of Digimon fans.

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The Setting Pushes The Boundaries Of Coexistence Between Digimon And People

A Call-back To The Past: Disaster Led To Humans Despising Digimon

The characters of the series are all people who have lost something precious
Conflicts of the past and prejudice lead to an insidious conflict between humans and Digimon.

When the series begins, one thing is left clear as day: People and Digimon do not get along. The reasons for this are the shocking reveal of Digimon actually feeding on Humans and their vital energy (E-Pulse), and having a Digimon hatch from a Sapotama (Support-Tama AKA: Support Egg) is a synonym of being a pariah.

Humans who have a Digimon hatching from their Sapotama Digital Companion (an AI device that controls everything for them) often see their Digimons not as companions, but a burden, a blemish, something that ruins their 'perfect life,' and forces them to live in the outskirts (slums) while the Elite live in the Shangri-La Egg (a utopia inside a less than perfect world). The Sapotama itself is a coercion method that constantly bombards them with propaganda to strive to reach that faraway utopia.

Those who decide to keep their Digimon around and see them as partners instead of parasites are bound to become 'Cleaners,' humans that work alongside other humans and their partner Digimon to capture Rogue Digimon going around stealing E-Pulse (aka, Eating Humans Alive). With all of that happening around, it is no wonder people see Digimon as dangerous monsters.

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The Cyberpunk component of the series, and its Dystopian setting, collide in a mixture that is way too mature for younger audiences. And the series is going from dark to darker. With the reveal of Shademon (Haruko Yamada's unwanted partner), it is revealed that Digimons originate from human desire, even if those desires are broken or corrupted.

But there's a subplot that has been pushed below the rug as fast as it was presented: During the same episode, it is revealed that the City where the protagonists live was struck by a disaster caused by Digimon years back. If fans analyze the vistas and what has been revealed, the place seems to be an isolated patch of land, surrounded by water.

The buildings of the slums are far too familiar to ignore: They are quite similar to the designs of houses where Digimon live in the Digital World. This leads to another question: Are the protagonists in the Real World, or are they a society of stranded humans that has grown inside the Digital World?

A Theory Begins To Take Shape

What Is The Ministry Of Civil Protection Doing With Captured Digimon?

While Cleaners try to survive with their partner Digimon, others outright reject them
There's a mysterious force taking Digimon to some place unknown. Soon, the secret of the False Utopia will be revealed.

If Digimon cannot live without humans, and there's a shortcoming of E-Pulse source for them to feed on, there's bound to be trouble. That is made clear by the fact that various 'rejected' Digimon go on a rampage and attack human beings.

The closer the Digimon are to running out of E-Pulse, the more likely they are to go on a rampage (and even undergo a Dark Evolution). Some, like Black Gaogamon reject this desire to feed on E-Pulse and decide it's best to disappear than to hurt others, but, in time, their survival instinct kicks in and makes them lose control. There's no escape from hunger, another dark analogy that Digimon Beatbreak presents like a rotten apple on a golden platter.

The Ministry of Civil Protection is the entity that offers bounties for the Cleaners to collect: They need to stop dangerous rogue Digimon and surrender them to the Ministry in a 'Baby' state. Digimon are then imprisoned with the purpose of 'studying the Cold Heart' syndrome: something that happens when a Digimon depletes all the E-Pulse from a human.

Digimon feeding on human emotions wouldn't be the strangest phenomenon that happens in a Digimon series, but the way in which it happens is what sets Digimon Beatbreak apart from other series. But the mysterious agenda of those ruling over the Shangri-La Egg is what makes the plot of the series such an intense thriller.

The correlation between Digimon and 'broken' Sapotamas also opens the door to a sub-plot, and the real source behind all the incidents of Rampaging Digimon across the City. Every trail of blood leads to the Shangri-La Egg, and to those hidden in the tall towers of this broken Utopia. Their perfect society, built on the desperation of both humans and Digimon, is showing its ugliest face.

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What is the Ministry of Civil Protection doing with the Digimon they capture? And what happens with humans who purposely commit crimes and attack others with their Digimon? And above all else: What happens when a human is forcibly separated from their 'parasite/partner.' Those are the questions that remain to be solved. Let's hope some of these are answered soon, before the story takes the audience into a deeper, even darker plot.

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