New year, new Savers

Greetings everyone! You all had a good new year’s celebration? Good to hear! Well we here at Digimon Zone have had some thoughts on how we want to handle this year. With Applimon finished in Japan and the final Tri movie is coming out later this year, we decided to do something we have been meaning to do for the longest while.

See this group started over a decade ago and Savers was the first story we adapted. However, due to our lack of foresight and restraint, it was a plain mess. True there were elements we enjoyed, but we recognise that the adaptation is not up to the level as our Xross wars or Applimon material. As such, after much discussion, we are going to do a complete reboot of Zone Savers.

A few things to not about this reboot:

1) The removal of all “subplots”
Now this doesn’t mean all filler will be gone, we have to adapt the intro arc after all. However, when looking through the old Savers stuff, one of the biggest issues was the over-saturation of stories that added nothing to what we wanted to do. This mean the removal of many of these stories, possibly remodelling them to better fit with Savers. Speaking of which…

2) Hindsight helping
Not only are we updating the story, but also adding in relevant parts to the “future” of Zone. Aspects like Barmy’s and Kaiju’s characters were thought out after Xross Wars started to come out, even though they were retconned as important moments in Savers. It also helps that since we have been doing the adaptation stuff for years, the better writing will hopefully help out. Now for a more pressing matter to at hand.

3) Removal of several members
This somewhat relates to point one, but more specific. See one of the biggest issues we came across was the poor writing and overall ignorance of Hewy, the guy who made Heroes. We found that their involvement has hurt Zone more than helped, so as such we are removing them from not only Zone continuity, but the group as a whole.

4) Taking our time
We don’t want to rush into this reboot, otherwise we will just be ending up right back where we were all those years ago. The first thing you will see is a huge chunk of Saver’s work removed from the group, either archived or deleted all together. Then, slowly but surely, we will be adding that fresh new content right back in.

This is what we have been wanting to do for years, and now is the best time to get the work going. We thank you all for continuing your support for this fan project and hope that 2018 will be a grand year for Zone!