Japanese media franchise
Digimon
(
Japanese
:
デジモン
,
Hepburn
:
Dejimon
, branded as
Digimon: Digital Monsters
, stylized as
DIGIMON
)
, short for "Digital Monsters" (
デジタルモンスタ?
Dejitaru Monsut?
), is a Japanese
media franchise
, which encompasses
virtual pet
toys,
anime
,
manga
,
video games
, films, and a
trading card game
. The franchise focuses on the eponymous creatures that inhabit a "
Digital World
", which is a
parallel universe
that originated from Earth's various communication networks.
The franchise was created in 1997 as a
series of virtual pets
, and it was intended as the masculine counterpart to
Tamagotchi
. The creatures were first designed to look cute and iconic even on the devices' small screens. Later developments had them created with a harder-edged style, which was influenced by American
comics
. The franchise gained momentum with an early video game,
Digimon World
, released only in Japan in January 1999. Several anime series and films, including its first anime incarnation,
Digimon Adventure
that was based on both video game and digital pet, have been released;
the video game series
has expanded into genres, such as
role-playing
,
racing
,
fighting
, and
MMORPGs
.
Conception and creation
Virtual pet
model distributed on the Japanese market by
Bandai
,
[1]
that allowed the popularization of
Digimon
in
Japan
.
The
Digimon
franchise began as a series of virtual pets created by WiZ and Bandai, intended as a masculine counterpart to the more female-oriented
Tamagotchi
pets.
[2]
[3]
It was released in June 1997
[1]
[4]
with the name
Digimon
,
[5]
short for
Digital Monster
.
[6]
[7]
This device shows to players a
virtual pet
composed entirely of data and designed to play and fight.
[1]
[5]
[8]
[9]
In February 1998, the
DigiMon
fighting game, compatible with
Windows 95
and developed by Rapture Technologies, Inc., was announced.
[10]
The
one-shot
manga
C'mon Digimon
, designed by Tenya Yabuno, was published in the Japanese magazine
V-Jump
by
Shueisha
in 1997.
[11]
[12]
A second generation of
virtual pets
was marketed six months after the launch of the first, followed by a third in 1998.
[13]
Each player starts with a baby-level digital creature that has a limited number of attacks and transformations
[14]
and to make the creature stronger by training and nourishing the creature;
[1]
[5]
when the player is successful in a workout, the Digimon becomes strong, when the player fails, the Digimon becomes weak.
[1]
[5]
Two devices can be connected, allowing two players to battle with their respective creatures, an innovation at the time,
[1]
however, the battle is only possible from the moment the creature is in the child level or bigger.
[1]
Playgrounds and subways were where the majority of users of the apparatus were concentrated; the virtual pet was banned in some Asian schools, being considered by parents and teachers as very noisy and violent.
[15]
The first Digimon were created by Japanese designer Kenji Watanabe, influenced by American
comics
, which were beginning to gain popularity in Japan, and as such began to make his characters look stronger and "cool." Other types of Digimon, which until the year 2000 totalled 279,
[16]
[17]
came from extensive discussions and collaborations between the Bandai company members.
[18]
The original Digital Monster model that was released in 1997 sold
14 million
units worldwide, including 13 million units in Japan and 1 million overseas, up until March 2004.
[19]
By 2005, more than
24 million
Digital Monster units had been sold worldwide.
[20]
Premise
Several media in the franchise are contained within their own
continuity
; however, they all share a similar setting and premise. For instance, most
Digimon
stories begin with a human child, who comes into contact with a Digimon. This generally occurs either through an accidental entrance into the so-called Digital World
[21]
or an encounter with a Digimon who has come into the human world.
[22]
The child or children then often find themselves equipped with a "digivice", which is a device modelled after the series' virtual pets; this device enables them to empower their partner Digimon.
While some Digimon act like wild beasts, there are many who form small societies and follow governing bodies.
[23]
[24]
Digimon can change through evolution (or "digivolution" in most English-language dubs), where they absorb additional data that allows them to change forms. This process is normally linear, but there are other methods, depending upon the media within the franchise. For example, "Jogress" (a
portmanteau
of "joint progress"; "DNA Digivolution" in most English-language dubs)
[25]
is when two or more Digimon combine into a single being. Though evolution can occur naturally, Digimon can progress into stronger forms more quickly, when they are partnered with a human.
Media
Anime
Television series
Multiple
Digimon
anime series have been produced by
Toei Animation
since 1999. The first of these was
Digimon Adventure
; it began as a short film, but after its storyboard was finished, a request for the film to become a television series was made.
[26]
The film debuted in theaters a day before the series debuted on TV.
The first six
Digimon
series were
adapted
into English for release in Western markets, with the first four treated as a single show under the collective title
Digimon: Digital Monsters
.
[27]
The sixth series,
Digimon Fusion
, was only partially localized; its third season was never adapted into English.
No.
|
Title
|
Episodes
|
Originally aired
|
Network
|
First aired
|
Last aired
|
|
1
|
Digimon Adventure
(1999)
|
54
|
March 7, 1999
(
1999-03-07
)
|
March 26, 2000
(
2000-03-26
)
|
Fuji TV
|
2
|
Digimon Adventure 02
|
50
|
April 2, 2000
(
2000-04-02
)
|
March 25, 2001
(
2001-03-25
)
|
|
3
|
Digimon Tamers
|
51
|
April 1, 2001
(
2001-04-01
)
|
March 31, 2002
(
2002-03-31
)
|
|
4
|
Digimon Frontier
|
50
|
April 7, 2002
(
2002-04-07
)
|
March 30, 2003
(
2003-03-30
)
|
|
5
|
Digimon Data Squad
|
48
|
April 2, 2006
(
2006-04-02
)
|
March 25, 2007
(
2007-03-25
)
|
|
6
|
Digimon Fusion
|
79
|
July 6, 2010
(
2010-07-06
)
|
March 25, 2012
(
2012-03-25
)
|
TV Asahi
|
|
7
|
Digimon Universe: App Monsters
|
52
|
October 1, 2016
(
2016-10-01
)
|
September 30, 2017
(
2017-09-30
)
|
TV Tokyo
|
|
8
|
Digimon Adventure
(2020)
|
67
|
April 5, 2020
(
2020-04-05
)
|
September 26, 2021
(
2021-09-26
)
|
Fuji TV
|
|
9
|
Digimon Ghost Game
|
67+1 special
|
October 3, 2021
(
2021-10-03
)
|
March 26, 2023
(
2023-03-26
)
|
Total
|
519 episodes
|
|
|
|
Films
Several
Digimon
featurette films were released in Japan, with some of them seasonal tie-ins for their respective television series. Footage from the first three films was used for the American-produced
Digimon: The Movie
.
|
Title
|
Originally released
|
|
Digimon Adventure
|
March 6, 1999
(
1999-03-06
)
|
Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!
|
March 4, 2000
(
2000-03-04
)
|
Digimon Adventure 02: Part 1: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! /
Part 2: Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals
|
July 8, 2000
(
2000-07-08
)
|
Digimon Adventure 3D: Digimon Grand Prix!
|
July 20, 2000
(
2000-07-20
)
|
Digimon: The Movie
|
October 6, 2000
(
2000-10-06
)
|
Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon
|
March 3, 2001
(
2001-03-03
)
|
|
Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers
|
July 14, 2001
(
2001-07-14
)
|
Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon
|
March 2, 2002
(
2002-03-02
)
|
|
Digimon Frontier: Island of Lost Digimon
|
July 20, 2002
(
2002-07-20
)
|
|
Digital Monster X-Evolution
|
January 3, 2005
(
2005-01-03
)
|
|
Digimon Savers 3D: The Digital World in Imminent Danger!
|
July 8, 2006
(
2006-07-08
)
|
Digimon Savers: Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!
|
December 9, 2006
(
2006-12-09
)
|
|
Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter 1: Reunion
|
November 21, 2015
(
2015-11-21
)
|
Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter 2: Determination
|
March 12, 2016
(
2016-03-12
)
|
Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter 3: Confession
|
September 24, 2016
(
2016-09-24
)
|
Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter 4: Loss
|
February 25, 2017
(
2017-02-25
)
|
Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter 5: Coexistence
|
September 30, 2017
(
2017-09-30
)
|
Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter 6: Future
|
May 5, 2018
(
2018-05-05
)
|
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
|
February 21, 2020
(
2020-02-21
)
|
Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning
|
October 5, 2023
(
2023-10-05
)
|
OVA
Distribution and localization
In the United States, the first three series that made up
Digimon: Digital Monsters
first aired on
Fox Kids
from August 14, 1999 to June 8, 2002. The localized series was produced by
Saban Entertainment
, which would be acquired by
The Walt Disney Company
during the show's Fox Kids run. Some scenes from the original shows 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.
[28]
Disney's acquisition of Saban would result in
Digimon
airing on Disney's TV networks and programming blocks. Reruns of the show would begin airing on the
cable network
ABC Family
on March 4, 2002,
[29]
while the fourth series,
Digimon Frontier
, premiered on
UPN
's
Disney's One Too
block.
[30]
UPN aired the series until late August 2003, when they severed their ties to Disney.
[30]
Frontier
would also air in reruns on ABC Family and on
Toon Disney
under the
Jetix
branding. An English version of
Digimon Data Squad
, produced by Studiopolis, would premiere October 1, 2007, on Toon Disney. Around this time, the remaining Digimon Adventure 02 movie, both Tamers movies and the Frontier movie would also be dubbed and aired on Toon Disney in the US, with most actors from the TV series reprising their roles. The Data Squad/Savers movie however would not get a North American localised English dub produced.
In September 2012,
Saban Brands
, a successor to Saban Entertainment, announced it had acquired the
Digimon
anime franchise.
[31]
[32]
[33]
Saban would announce that they would be producing an English dub for
Digimon Xros Wars
, retitled
Digimon Fusion
, for broadcast on
Nickelodeon
in the United States starting September 7, 2013.
[34]
Saban Capital Group
would later sell most of Saban Brands' entertainment properties to
Hasbro
in 2018 and shutter the division in July of that year.
[35]
[36]
The
Digimon Adventure tri.
series would be distributed in North America by
Eleven Arts
. The English dub would utilize localized names from Saban's original dub, reunite several voice actors from the original cast, and feature a remixed version of the English opening theme,
[37]
while retaining the original Japanese score.
[38]
Shout! Factory
would acquire the broadcast and home media distribution rights for the films.
[39]
[40]
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.
[
citation needed
]
In the United Kingdom,
Digimon
first aired on
Fox Kids
.
ITV
's children's slot
CITV
would broadcast
Adventure
,
Adventure 02
and several episodes of
Tamers
during after school hours from 2001?2002. The rest of
Tamers
aired on
Fox Kids
from 2002?03.
[
citation needed
]
Digimon Frontier
was originally announced to be broadcast on Jetix, but the series was later dropped.
[
citation needed
]
The series eventually saw a release on October 29, 2018.
[41]
In 2011,
Digimon Data Squad
aired on
Kix!
.
According to Fox Kids' (2000?03) and Kix's (2010?)
BARB
Television ratings,
Adventure
,
Adventure 02
&
Tamers
have been the most popular series'/seasons in the United Kingdom and was consistently in the weekly top 10 broadcasts for both channels for new episodes.
[42]
Broadcast rights and merchandising sub-licensing rights for
Digimon Fusion
in the UK have been acquired by
ITV Studios Global Entertainment
.
Digimon Fusion
had aired since Spring 2014 on digital terrestrial channel, CITV.
[43]
[44]
In the Philippines,
Digimon
was first aired on
ABS-CBN
in Filipino English language from June 2, 2000 to October 21, 2001. And later, it was shift to Filipino in April 6, 2002.
Manga
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 following are the known
Digimon
manga:
Digimon Next
Written by Tatsuya Hamazaki and illustrated by Takeshi Okano,
Digimon Next
(
デジモンネクスト
,
Dejimon Nekusuto
)
was serialized in
Shueisha
's magazine
V Jump
from 2005 to 2008.
[45]
Shueisha collected its chapters in four
tank?bon
volumes, released from July 4, 2006, to February 4, 2008.
[46]
[47]
[48]
[49]
The story follow Tsurugi Tatsuno and his digimon partner,
Greymon
(later Agumon). Tsurugi makes contact with the Digital World through his virtual pet device called Digimon Mini and a "Battle Terminal", a virtual reality interface. Digimon can use the technology to materialize in the human world as well.
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In 2021, a manga called
Digimon Dreamers
was announced.
[50]
Yuen Wong Yu manhua
A Chinese
manhua
was written and drawn by
Yuen Wong Yu
[
zh
]
(余 遠?
Yu Yuen-wong
), who based its storyline on the television series. 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. The Chinese-language version was published by
Rightman Publishing Ltd.
in Hong Kong. Yu also wrote
D-Cyber
.
Two English versions were also released. The first one was published by
Chuang Yi
in Singapore. The second one, which was adapted by
Lianne Sentar
,
[51]
was released by
Tokyopop
in North America.
The three volumes for
Digimon Frontier
have been released by Chuang Yi in English. These have not been released by TOKYOPOP in North America or Europe. However, the Chuang Yi releases of
Digimon Frontier
were distributed by
Madman Entertainment
in Australia.
Dark Horse
Dark Horse Comics
published American-style Digimon
comic books
, adapting the first thirteen episodes of the English
dub
of
Digimon Adventure
in 2001. The story was written by Daniel Horn and Ryan Hill, and illustrated by Daniel Horn and Cara L. Niece.
[52]
Panini
The Italian publishing company,
Panini
, approached Digimon in different ways in different countries. While Germany created their own adaptations of episodes, the United Kingdom (UK) reprinted the Dark Horse titles, then translated some of the German adaptations of
Adventure 02
episodes. Eventually the UK comics were given their own original stories, which appeared in both the UK's official
Digimon Magazine
and the official UK Fox Kids companion magazine,
Wickid
. These original stories only roughly followed the
continuity
of
Adventure 02
. When the comic switched to the
Tamers
series the storylines adhered to continuity more strictly; sometimes it would expand on subject matter not covered by the original Japanese anime (such as
Mitsuo Yamaki
's past) or the English adaptations of the television shows and movies (such as Ryo's story or the movies that remained undubbed until 2005). In a money saving venture, the original stories were later removed from
Digimon Magazine
, which returned to printing translated German adaptations of
Tamers
episodes. Eventually, both magazines were cancelled.
Video games
The
Digimon
series has inspired various video games, including the
Digimon World
and
Digimon Story
sub-series of
role-playing games
. Other genres have included
life simulation
,
adventure
, video
card game
,
strategy
, and
racing
games.
By March 2001, Bandai had sold approximately
1 million
video games worldwide, including 400,000 in Japan.
[53]
In February 2010, a website for the
MMORPG
Digimon Battle Online
was launched.
[54]
On September 22, 2011, online game publisher
Joymax
announced the release of an MMORPG game called
Digimon Masters
, which was developed by the Korean publisher
DIGITALIC
.
[55]
In June 2021 it was announced that they were developing a new MMORPG titled
Digimon Super Rumble
.
[56]
In 2011, a new entry in the
Digimon World
series was announced after a seven-year hiatus, titled
Digimon World Re:Digitize
.
[57]
The game would be released in Japan on July 19, 2012, followed by an enhanced version for
Nintendo 3DS
released in 2013.
[58]
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
was first released in Japan in 2015.
[59]
It would be the first game in the
Digimon Story
series to be released in North America under its original title;
Digimon World DS
and
Digimon World Dawn and Dusk
were originally marketed as entries in the
Digimon World
series, with the latter game being the last to be released in the West for nine years until
Cyber Sleuth'
s release on February 2, 2016.
[60]
There have also been several mobile games.
Digimon Links
was active from March 2016 to July 2019, and was similar to the
Story
games in that the player raised digimon in a farm and fought enemies using a team of three of their Digimon. It was succeeded by
Digimon ReArise
, which launched June 2018 in Japan and October 2019 in America.
[61]
Web novel
In February 2023, Bandai announced a
web novel
titled
Digimon Seekers
(
デジモンシ?カ?ズ
,
Dejimon Sh?k?zu
)
to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the franchise. The novel will serialize on the Digimon Web website for about a year, starting on April 3, simultaneously in English, Chinese, and Japanese.
[62]
Webcomic
In December 2023, Bandai announced a webcomic titled
Digimon Liberator
for Spring 2024.
[63]
Card game
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. Versions of the card game are also included in some of the Digimon video games including
Digital Card Battle
and
Digimon World 3
.
During the fourth anime (
Digimon Frontier
), Bandai created the
D-Tector Card Game
to tie in to their own D-Tector virtual pet toys. This was a West-only card game. From February 25, 2011 to September 28, 2012,
Digimon Jintrix
was an online card game supported by physical card releases. It was followed up by the mobile game
Digimon Crusader
, which lasted from December 2012 to December 2017.
[64]
In 2020 a new card game was launched to coincide with
Digimon Adventure:
using a new system, this was released in the West in January 2021.
[65]
Some examples of the different versions of the Digimon CCG.
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