This is Digimon doing a tech-paranoia reboot, and the hook lands immediately: your own emotions are the battery, and the second that battery leaks, a Digimon crawls out of your phone. Gekkomon bursting out of Tomoro's Sapotama isn't a cute partner-reveal, it's a system failure made flesh, and the show treats it that way. Glowing Dawn isn't some found-family adventure squad, it's a containment unit investigating a corrupted infrastructure that's been quietly feeding on people's feelings the whole time. That's a sharper premise than nostalgia-bait sequels usually bother with, and 49 episodes gives it room to actually dig into what e-Pulse corruption does to a society instead of resolving it in a two-parter. If you've ever wanted Digimon to admit the Digital World was always a metaphor for exploitation, this is the version that finally says it out loud.

Tomoro Tenma's world runs on emotion. Human thoughts and feelings produce e-Pulse, the energy behind the egg-shaped AI devices called Sapotama that support everyday life. That order starts to crack when Digimon, creatures born from errors in Sapotama, begin emerging and feeding on e-Pulse. Some drain people so completely that they sink into a coma known as Cold Heart. When a Digimon named Gekkomon appears from Tomoro's own device, his life takes a sharp turn, and after his older brother Asuka falls victim to Cold Heart, Tomoro swears to avenge him. He crosses paths with Glowing Dawn, a secret group of Digimon users who track down rogue Digimon for bounties. Their leader, Kyou Sawashiro, suggests Asuka might still be saved. Wary of these strangers but aware he cannot rescue his brother alone, Tomoro signs on, and the team's work begins to uncover a dark truth about a system powered and corrupted by emotion.