Beatbreak Digimon might be the darkest Digimon series ever made

Digimon Beatbreak surprised many fans Digimonwith his a mix of mature and dark themes which places him far from a simple coming-of-age adventure. A cyberpunk setting with lots of shadowy and dark characters moving the threads behind the curtains of a world as broken as the Sapotamas it holds.

With so many questions left unanswered, the series has reached a point of no return where things are about to take off and now fans are asking: Where is this going? The answer will shock even the most die-hard Digimon fans.

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The environment pushes the boundaries of coexistence between Digimon and humans

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 past and prejudice lead to an insidious conflict between humans and Digimon.

As the series begins, one thing is clear as day: Humans and Digimon don't get along. This is due to the shocking revelation that Digimon actually feed on humans and their life energy (E-Pulse) and the hatching of Sapotama Digimon (Support-Tama AKA: Support Egg) is synonym of being an outcast.

People whose Digimon hatched from their digital companion Sapotam (an AI devices that manage everything for them) often do not see their Digimon as companions, but as a burden, a stain, something that destroys their “perfect life” and forces them to live in outskirts (slums), while Elita lives in Egg Shangri-La (utopia inside a less perfect world). Sapotama itself is a coercive method that constantly bombards them with propaganda strive to achieve that distant utopia.

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

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The Cyberpunk part of the seriesand his Dystopian settingto coagulate in the mixture which is too mature for a younger audience. And the series goes from dark to dark. With the reveal of Shademon (Haruko Yamada's unwanted partner), it is revealed that Digimon originate from human desire, though those desires are broken or corrupted.

But there's a subplot that was swept under the rug as quickly as it was presented: During the same episode, it was revealed that the town where the protagonists live he was hit by a disaster caused by Digimon years ago. If fans analyze the views and what was revealed, the location appears to be an isolated piece of land surrounded by water.

Slum buildings are too familiar to ignore: they are quite similar designs of houses where Digimon live in the Digital World. This leads to another question: Are they protagonists in the real world, or are they a society of stranded people who grew up in the digital world?

A theory is beginning to take shape

What does the Department of Civil Defense do with captured Digimon?

While the Purifiers try to survive with their partner Digimon, the others outright reject them
There is a mysterious force that takes the Digimon to an unknown place. Soon the secret of the false utopia will be revealed.

If Digimon can't live without humans and there is a lack of E-Pulse source to feed off of, there must be trouble. This is evident from the fact that various “rejected” Digimon go on a rampage and attack human beings.

The closer Digimon are to depleting their E-Pulse, the more likely they are to go on a rampage (and even undergo Dark Evolution). Some like Black Gaogamon reject this desire to feed on E-Pulse and decide that it is better to disappear than harm others, but over time their survival instinct kicks in and they lose control. There is no escape from hungeranother dark analogy that Digimon Beatbreak presents as a rotten apple on a golden platter.

The Ministry of Civil Protection is an entity that offers the Purifiers rewards to collect: They need to stop dangerous rogue Digimon and turn them over to the Ministry in a 'Baby' state. The Digimon are then imprisoned to “study Cold Heart Syndrome”: something that happens when a Digimon drains all of the E-Pulse from a human.

Digimon feeding off of human emotions wouldn't be the strangest phenomenon to come across Digimon series, but the way it happens is what sets it up Digimon Beatbreak in addition to other series. But the mysterious agenda of those who rule the Shangri-La Egg is what makes the plot of the series such an intense thriller.

The correlation between Digimon and “broken” Sapotamas it also opens the door to a subplot and the real source behind all the Ramaging Digimon incidents across town. Every trail of blood leads to the egg of Shangri-La and to those who are hidden in the high towers of this broken utopia. Their perfect companybuilt on the desperation of both humans and Digimon, it shows its ugliest face.

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What does the Department of Civil Defense do with the Digimon they capture? And what happens to people who intentionally commit crimes and attack others with their Digimon? And above all: What happens when a person is forcibly separated from their “parasite/partner”. These are the questions that remain to be resolved. Hopefully, some of these will be answered soon before the story takes viewers into a deeper, even darker plot.