Main article: Appli Monsters: Appmon Academy!! Digimon has multiple video games over the course of the franchise, some of which form their own series, such as Digimon World and Digimon Story . The Digimon Collectible Card Game is a collectible card game based on Digimon, first introduced in Japan in 1997 and published by Bandai.
Digimon first appeared in narrative form in the one-shot manga "C'mon Digimon", released in the summer of 1997. C'mon Digimon spawned the popular Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga, written by Hiroshi Izawa,which began serialization on November 21, 1998.
The first Digimon anime introduces the Digimon life cycle: They age in a similar fashion to real organisms, but do not die under normal circumstances because they are made of reconfigurable data. Old Digimon and Digimon who receive fatal wounds dissolve into infinitesimal bits of data.
After another three year hiatus, a sixth Digimon series was produced. Digimon Xros Wars (デジモンクロスウォーズ Dejimon Kurosu Wōzu?) was released in July, and stars Mikey Kudo and Shoutmon as leaders of the Fusion Fighters fighting the imperialistic Bagra Army.
Credited with the creation of Digimon is Akiyoshi Hongo, a name that fans will likely recognize. What some fans may not realize, however, is that Akiyoshi Hongo is not actually a real person, but rather an alias comprised of three separate people. This pseudonym was created by Bandai, a Japanese toy manufacturer and anime production company, and is used to credit three of the minds behind the franchise – Aki Maita, Hiroshi Izawa, and Takeichi Hongo. By combining parts of each of these creator's names, Bandai Co. invented the assumed pen name Akiyoshi Hongo.
Bandai USA may be the company responsible for the creation and distribution of Digimon toys and products in the United States, but Saban Entertainment was charged with the tasks of importing and dubbing for the first three seasons of the franchise's anime. If the name Saban sounds familiar, that is likely due to the fact that the distribution company was also responsible for the '90s X-Men and Spider-Man cartoons, along with the uber popular live-action children's television program Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.
The Dark Ocean refers to a world that is inhabited by darkness and has the ability to bring twisted thoughts to the surface and even make them a reality. In the second season of Digimon, both Kari and Ken are brought to the Dark Ocean, albeit at different times. Ken went to there after his brother died, and it is credited with transforming him into the nefarious Digimon Emperor, while Kari struggled with her own emotions and was placed there due to a brief bout with depression and loneliness.
In order to fight the power of the Digimon Emperor, the aforementioned villain-turned-hero Ken, the team of DigiDestined children in season 2 found an all-new form of Digivolution: Armor Digivolution. Veemon, Gatomon, Patamon, Armadillomon, and Hawkmon all had the power to transform into legendary warrior Digimon through the power of Digi-Eggs. The only problem is that late addition Ken, along with his partner Wormmon, never got the opportunity to utilize Armor Digivolutions. That was not always the writer's intentions, however.
Part of the reason for this was a differing of ideologies between the team of writers responsible for season 2. Due to the amazing success of season 2's predecessor, its follow-up began production before the first season's conclusion, and as a result, there were a lot of ideas and story arcs that ended up on the cutting room floor. Even worse still, fragments of some of those ideas actually ended up in the series with little to no explanation whatsoever.
These episodes produced a creepy and thrilling story that brought Kari's DigiDestined powers to light. While this brief arc was, of course, fictional, it was actually based on true events.
Impmon is a small, feisty, and fast-talking Digimon from the series' third season, Digimon Tamers. Over the course of the 51 episode season, the auxiliary character – at least in the beginning – made quite the transformation from comedic relief to a major baddie, and even back to redeemed hero. With such an interesting arc, it probably should come as no surprise that the character was reportedly supposed to be the original protagonist for the series.
The Digimon Collectible Card Game is a card game based on Digimon, first introduced in Japan in 1997 and published by Bandai. The third season ( Digimon Tamers) utilized this aspect of the franchise by making the card game an integral part of the season.
In the United States, Digimon Adventure premiered in August 1999 on the Fox Broadcasting Company. An English-language adaptation of the series produced by Saban Entertainment (later Sensation Animation ), the series was broadcast on Fox Kids. Saban would dub the first four anime series in the franchise, which were collectively retitled Digimon: Digital Monsters. Some scenes from the original version were modified or omitted in order to comply with Fox's standards and practices. The show also featured more jokes and added dialogue, along with a completely different musical score. As a cross-promotional stunt, 2001 and 2002 saw Digi-Bowl specials co-produced with Fox Sports; NFL on Fox commentator Terry Bradshaw provided interstitial segments in-between episodes as if the episodes were actually a football game.
This adaptation covers Digimon Adventure in five volumes, Digimon Adventure 02 in two, Digimon Tamers in four, and Digimon Frontier in three. The original stories are heavily abridged, though on rare occasions events play out differently from the anime.
International. In Canada, the English versions of Digimon were broadcast on YTV , with the exception of Data Squad, which aired in Family Channel 's Jetix block. YTV would eventually acquire Digimon Fusion, but only the first 26 episodes were shown. In the United Kingdom, Digimon first aired on Fox Kids.
Each player starts with a baby-level digital creature that has a limited number of attacks and transformations and to make the creature stronger by training and nourishing the creature; when the player is successful in a workout, the Digimon becomes strong , when the player fails, the Digimon becomes weak.
Digimon hatch from types of eggs which are called Digi-Eggs (デジタマ, Dejitama). In the English iterations of the franchise there is another type of Digi-Egg that can be used to digivolve, or transform, Digimon. This second type of Digi-Egg is called a Digimental (デジメンタル, Dejimentaru) in Japanese.
Some examples of the different versions of the Digimon CCG. In 2011, a new entry in the Digimon World series was announced after a seven-year hiatus, titled Digimon World Re:Digitize. The game would be released in Japan on July 19, 2012, followed by an enhanced version for Nintendo 3DS released in 2013.
Digimon started out as a digital pet called " Digital Monster ", similar in style and concept to the Tamagotchi. It was planned by Wiz and released by Bandai on June 26, 1997. The toy began as the simple concept of a Tamagotchi for boys (as Bandai was also the creator of the Tamagotchi). The v-pet is similar to its predecessors, with the exceptions of being much harder and being able to connect to fight other Digimon v-pets. Every owner would start with a Baby Digimon, train it, evolve it, take care of it, and then have battles with other Digimon owners to see who was stronger. The Digimon pet had several evolution capabilities and abilities too, so many owners had many different Digimon. In December, the second generation of Digital Monster was released, followed by a third edition in 1998. Now the new Tamagotchi Digimon is Pendulum that has a total of 9 in the series. Bandai also has released a Non Related Digimon Tamagotchi.
The first Digimon television series, which began airing on March 7, 1999. Its premise is a group of young humans who, while at summer camp, travel to the Digital World, inhabited by creatures known as Digimon, where they become the "DigiDestined" and are forced to save both the Digital and Real World from evil.
It has two sub seasons: Digimon Xros Wars: The Evil Death Generals and the Seven Kingdoms (デジモンクロスウォーズ~悪のデスジェネラルと七人の王国~#N#,#N#Dejimon Kurosu Wōzu: Aku no Desu Jeneraru to Nanajin no Oukoku?) and Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time (デジモンクロスウォーズ~時を駆ける少年ハンターたち~#N#,#N#Dejimon Kurosu Wōzu: Toki wo Kakeru Shounen Hantā-tachi?). Only the first two seasons were dubbed.
The animated series is easily the best-known segment of the Digimon universe and responsible for the majority of its popularity. "Digimon" are "Digital Monsters".
This new evolutionary process, dubbed Armor Digivolution, helps the new DigiDestined to defeat evil lurking in the Digital World. Eventually, the DigiDestined defeat the Digimon Emperor, otherwise known as Ken Ichijouji, only with the great sacrifice of Ken's own Digimon, Wormmon.
Main article: Digimon Adventure 02. The second Digimon series is direct continuation of the first one, and began airing on April 2, 2000. Three years later, with most of the original DigiDestined now in high school at age fourteen, the Digital World was supposedly secure and peaceful.
However, if a Digimon's data is completely destroyed, they will die.