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DigimonDigimon hatch from eggs called Digi-Eggs/Digitamas. (In the English language 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" in Japanese.) They age via a process called "Digivolution" which changes their appearance and increases their powers. Some Digimon act feral, like. Most, however, possess large amounts of intelligence, and human speech.
Virtual pet toyDigimon 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 hardier and being able to connect to fight other Digimon v-pets. Every owner would start off 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 ablities 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.[1] TV seriesOn March 6, 1999, the franchise was given animated form as the first of the Digimon movies aired in theaters in Japan. On March 7, they began airing a television counterpart titled Digimon Adventure. Four further series would follow, each with their own tie-in movies, and the series was dubbed for release in western markets in the fall of the same year. The show spawned card games, with Hyper Colosseum in Japan and later Digi-Battle in America, and more video games. The animated series is easily the best-known segment of the Digimon universe and responsible for the majority of its popularity worldwide. "Digimon" are "Digital Monsters". According to the stories, they are creatures who inhabit the "Digital World", a parallel universe that is in part a manifestation of Earth's communication network. The stories tell of a group of mostly pre-teens, the "Chosen Children" (DigiDestined in the English version), who accompany special Digimon born to defend their world (and ours) from various evil forces. To help them overcome the most difficult obstacles found within both realms, the Digimon have the ability to evolve (Digivolve). In this process, the Digimon change appearance and become much stronger, often changing in personality as well. The group of children who come in contact with the Digital World changes from season to season.
Digimon is produced by Toei Animation and Bandai of Japan. The series are broadcast in Japan by Fuji Television. Digimon Adventure (season one)The first Digimon television series, which began airing on March 7, 1999. Its premise is a group of young pre-teens who, while at summer camp, travel to the Digital World, were they become the "DigiDestined" and are forced to save both the Digital and Real World from evil. Each child was given a "Digivice" which selected them to be "transported" to the Digital World and was destined to be paired up with a Digimon Partner. The Digivices help their Digimon allies to "Digivolve" into stronger creatures in times of peril. The Digimon usually reached higher forms when their human partners are placed in dangerous situations. The group consisted of seven original characters: Tai Kamiya, Matt Ishida, Sora Takenouchi, Izzy Izumi, Mimi Tachikawa, Joe Kido, and T.K. Takaishi. Later on in the season, an eighth character was introduced: Kari Kamiya (who is Tai's younger sister). Digimon Adventure 02 (season two)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 characters now in high school at age 14, the Digital World was supposedly secure and peaceful. However, a new evil has appeared in the form of the Digimon Emperor (Digimon Kaiser) who as opposed to previous enemies is a human just like the Digi-Destined. The Digimon Emperor has been enslaving Digimon with Black Rings/Control Spires and towers and has somehow made regular Digivolution impossible. However, five set Digi-Eggs with engraved emblems had been appointed to three new Digi-Destined along with T.K and Kari, two of the Digi-Destined from the previous season. This new evolutionary process, dubbed armor digivolution, help the new Digi-Destined to defeat evil lurking in the Digital World. Eventually, the Digi-Destined overcome the Digimon Emperor, more commonly known as Ken Ichijouji in the real world, only with the great sacrifice of Ken's own Digimon, Wormmon. Just when things where thought to be settled, new Digimon enemies created from the de-activated towers start to appear an cause trouble in the Digital World. To atone for his past mistakes, Ken joins the Digi-Destined with his Partner Wormmon revived to fight against them. Digimon Tamers (season three)The third Digimon series, which began airing on April 1, 2001, is set largely in a "real world" where the Adventure and Adventure 02 series are television shows, and where Digimon game merchandise (based on actual items) become key to provide power boosts to real Digimon which appeared in that world. The plot revolves around three Tamers, Takato Matsuki, Rika Nonaka, and Henry Wong. It started out with Takato creating his very own Digimon by sliding a mysterious blue card on his D-Arc. Guilmon took form from his Tamers sketchings drawn before his very existence. (Tamers' only human connection to the Adventure series is Ryo Akiyama, a character featured in some of the Digimon video games and who made an appearance in some occasions of the Adventure storyline). Digimon Frontier (season four)The fourth Digimon series, which began airing on April 7, 2002. After prompted to do so by unusual phone messages, the five main characters go to a subway station and take a train to the Digital World, to fight the antagonist, Cherubimon and his Legendary Warrior servants before they succeed in dominating the world. Later facing a greater ordeal and threat from Lucemon and the two Royal Knights: Crusadermon and Dynasmon. Contrary to the other Digimon series, the characters do not have Digimon Partners and use their Digivices to transform themselves into powerful Digimon to fight their enemies. Digimon Savers (Data Squad)After a three year hiatus, a fifth Digimon series began airing on April 2, 2006. Like Frontier, Savers has no connection with the previous installments, and also marks a new start for the Digimon franchise, with a drastic change in character designs and storyline, in order to reach a broader audience. The story focus on the challenges faced by the members of DATS ("Digital Accident Tactics Squad"), an organization created to conceal the existence of the Digital World and Digimons from the rest of mankind, and solve any Digimon related incidents occurred in the Human World in secret. Later the DATS team is dragged between a massive conflict between the Human and the Digital Worlds triggered by an ambitious human scientist determined to make use of the Digimon to his own personal gains. MoviesThere have been nine Digimon movies released in Japan. The first seven were directly connected to their respective anime series; Digital Monster X-Evolution originated from the Digimon Chronicle merchandise line. All movies except X-Evolution and Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode have been released and distributed internationally. International versionsIn the United States, the series premiered in August 1999 on the Fox Television Network. It was dubbed by Saban (now called Sensation Animation), and was initially broadcasted through Fox Network's Fox Kids and Fox Family. The first four seasons were retitled Digimon: Digital Monsters. After Disney acquired Saban during the third series, the first three series moved to ABC Family, while the fourth premiered on UPN and PAX in other areas. This was due to a deal between Disney and UPN, which concluded with Digimon Frontier. Frontier was syndicated on ABC Family shortly after that. Digimon continues to run in syndication on the U.S. JETIX block daily on Toon Disney. The show also premiered in North America. In Canada, the show was broadcast on YTV under the Saban version. In the U.S. insular area of Puerto Rico, the show was redubbed in Spanish, and in Quebec (Where Digimon Adventure aired on TQS, and Digimon Adventure 02 on Teletoon), the show was redubbed in French. A French version of Digimon Tamers was aired in France, but not in North America. Internationally, it premiered as well. In the United Kingdom, Digimon aired on the UK Fox Kids (now JETIX) cable/satellite channel and also on CiTV, as well as countries such as Ireland, South Africa, Malaysia, Australia, Mexico, Argentina, Chile and others. However, due to poor ratings and licensing mix-ups in the change from Fox Kids to Jetix, Digimon Frontier (the fourth season) has not been shown in any shape or form in the UK, and has been absent from the schedules of Jetix's UK incarnation since the beginning of 2005. The Latin America is cool version of all the seasons of Digimon are the original Japanese edition without any censorship or cuts. Arabic dubs of all four Digimon shows were released in Arabic speaking countries under the name Arabic: أبطال الديجيتال (Abtal El Digital; "Digital Heroes") in the Middle Eastern countries. While its title was kept as "Digimon" in Lebanese TV Stations.[citation needed] This show also aired in the Philippines in early 2000 on ABS-CBN. It would air Friday nights at 7:30PM. ABS-CBN hired Filipino voice actors to dub the show in English. The dubbing has also stuck true to the original, almost. Though they used the original Japanese show as the medium for the dub, some of the voices almost tried to sound like the US version (i.e. Taichi having a teenage voice instead of a kid's) or the dubbing crew decided to voice the characters the way they wanted it (i.e. Gabumon's deep, grumbly voice). The entire first season of Digimon Adventure was dubbed in English, along with Digimon Adventure 02. The second season aired on a new Saturday morning block at 10AM two weeks after the first season finale. This time, only 1/3 of the season was dubbed in English, then later was dubbed in Tagalog, so that it would be compatible with the other shows in the block. Though, the "tagalized" remaining 2/3's of the show we're also still dubbed in English. Later, Cartoon Network Philippines began airing Digimon Tamers around 2003, then Digimon Frontier late 2004. This time they were dubbed by Singaporeans, along with some of the other anime that aired with it. Digimon Savers is yet to be shown.[citation needed] CastMangaDigimon 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, which began serialization on November 21, 1998. The Author of maga digimon, is Hiroshi Izawa. C'mon DigimonDigimon Adventure V-Tamer 01Digimon ChronicleDigimon NextYuen Wong Yu (Chuang Yi/TOKYOPOP) manhuaA Chinese manhua was released by Chuang Yi in Singapore and by TOKYOPOP in North America. It was written and drawn by Yuen Wong Yu, who based its storyline on the television series. Covering Digimon Adventure in five volumes, Digimon Adventure 02 in two and Digimon Tamers in four, the original stories are heavily abridged, though on rare occasions events play out differently than the anime. Three volumes for Digimon Frontier exist and have been released by Chuang Yi in English. These have not been released by TOKYOPOP in North America or Europe, but were released in Australia. D-CyberDark HorseDark 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. [2] PaniniThe European 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 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 un-dubbed 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 (United States)In the United States, there are eleven digimon games. The earliest ones are for the Sony PlayStation console. (See Digimon World, Digimon World 2, Digimon World 3, Digimon World 4, Digimon Digital Card Battle, Digimon Rumble Arena, Digimon Rumble Arena 2, Digimon Battle Spirit, Digimon Battle Spirit 2, Digimon Racing and Digimon World DS.) Card gameThe Digimon Collectible Card Game is a collectible card game based on Digimon, first introduced in Japan in 1997 and published by Bandai. Pokémon and Digimon
The Digimon franchise has been criticized as being a clone of the more popular Pokémon title, as both properties are aimed at children and feature interaction between humans and imaginary monsters. Although their basic concepts are similar, their respective media thematically bear little in common. For example, Pokémon video games and anime are centered around the idea of friendly competition for Pokémon and Pokémon Trainers. Some Digimon video games also center on sportsmanship, but in the anime Digimon fight to survive or to destroy enemies, counter to Pokémon battles where the killing of Pokémon is prohibited. In addition, once a Pokémon evolves it has no way to go back to its original state, while the DigiDestined's Digimon can. It has also been confirmed that Digimon was already in development in 1995[citation needed], while Pokémon was released in 1996 (however, Satoshi Tajiri had already started to work on it in 1990[citation needed].) Notable people
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