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===Digimon Frontier===
===Digimon Frontier===
* [[Takuya Kanbara]] (Digimon Form: Agunimon/[[[Agnimon]])
* [[Takuya Kanbara]] (Digimon Form: Agunimon/[[Agnimon]])
* [[Koji Minamoto|Kouji/Koji Minamoto]] (Digimon Form: Wolfmon/[[Lobomon]])
* [[Koji Minamoto|Kouji/Koji Minamoto]] (Digimon Form: Wolfmon/[[Lobomon]])
* [[Zoe Orimoto|Izumi/Zoe Orimoto]] (Digimon Form: Fairymon/[[Kazemon]])
* [[Zoe Orimoto|Izumi/Zoe Orimoto]] (Digimon Form: Fairymon/[[Kazemon]])

Revision as of 19:48, 11 February 2006

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Digimon (デジモン, dejimon) (short for Digital Monster) is a Japanese series of children's merchandise, including toys, manga and anime, featuring monsters of various forms living in a "Digital World". Digimon contains many of the typical themes associated with mon (monster).

Overview

Digimon started out as a dueling digital pet or Tamagotchi called "Digital Monster" that was released by Bandai on June 26, 1997. The Digital Monster toy was enormously successful, and four different colors of the toy were released in November of the same year. In December of the same year, the second generation of "Digital Monster" was released.

Digimon first appeared in illustrated form with the advent of the one-shot manga C'mon Digimon, which was released in summer 1997. C'mon Digimon spawned the popular Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga series, which began on November 21, 1998. Digimon first appeared in game form on January 28, 1999 with the release of the popular Digimon World game for PlayStation and made its first foray into animation a few months later.

TV series

Main article: Digimon: Digital Monsters (anime)

Following the release of the first Digimon movie in Japan in 1999, the first Digimon television series, Digimon Adventure began airing on Fuji TV in March of the same year; three other series followed in consecutive years: Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers and Digimon Frontier. Adventure 02 is a continuation of Adventure. Tamers' only connection to the Adventure series is the character Ryou, whose story was explained through the Digimon games for Bandai's WonderSwan. Frontier has no connections to the other three series. Additionally, there have been eight individual Digimon films released in Japan with all but the eighth spinning out of the assorted TV series. All the movies, except the eighth, have been dubbed and distributed internationally. The Digimon run ended with Frontier's 50th Episode (205th overall), End of the Line. There is also now news that Frontier is not the final anime series; at Jump Festa 2006, it was confirmed that a fifth series will air sometime in April 2006 on Fuji TV, tentatively titled Digimon Savers.

Characters

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Digidestined from first season
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Digidestined from second season.

Digimon Adventure

Digimon Adventure 02

Digimon Tamers

Digimon Frontier

Digimon Savers

Songs

OP Themes

  • Digimon Adventure: "Butter-Fly" by Wada Kouji
  • Digimon Adventure 02: "Target ~Akai Shougeki~" by Wada Kouji
  • Digimon Tamers: "The Biggest Dreamer" by Wada Kouji
  • Digimon Frontier: "FIRE!!" by Wada Kouji

ED Themes

  • Digimon Adventure ED1: "I wish" by Ai Maeda
  • Digimon Adventure ED2: "keep on" by Ai Maeda
  • Digimon Adventure 02 ED1: "Ashita wa Atashi no Kaze ga Fuku" by Ai Maeda (as AiM)
  • Digimon Adventure 02 ED2: "Itsumo Itsudemo" by Ai Maeda (as AiM)
  • Digimon Tamers ED1: "My Tomorrow" by Ai Maeda (as AiM)
  • Digimon Tamers ED2: "Days-Aijou to Nichijou-" by Ai Maeda (as AiM)
  • Digimon Frontier ED1: "Innocent~Mujaki na Mama de~" by Wada Kouji
  • Digimon Frontier ED2: "an Endless tale" by Wada Kouji and Ai Maeda (as AiM)

Comics

C'mon Digimon

In summer 1997, a one-shot manga involving battles between more-or-less holographic Digimon was planned, but apparently never got off the ground. However, this manga was published as a special in volume two of V-Tamer, and there it was revealed the hero of this manga, Kentarou, was the source and inspiration for the design and character of Taichi, the hero of V-Tamer and the leader of the Chosen Children in Digimon Adventure.

Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01

V-Tamer was the first and longest-running Digimon manga, printed in the pages of V-Jump magazine. Starting on November 21 1998, it ran to fifty-eight chapters and ended on August 21 2003. This manga introduces the character of Taichi - although it must be noted that he is not the same Taichi that features in the Digimon Adventure TV series even though both are quite similar in appearance and personality. V-Tamer takes place in an alternate universe.

In this universe, Taichi is involved in a V-Pet tournament, where he is told he cannot play because the Digimon in his V-Pet isn't recognized as being a real Digimon. However, after the tournament is over, Taichi plays the winner of the tournament, a boy named Neo Saiba, and their battle ends in a tie - something that is supposed to be impossible. Later, Taichi is summoned to the Digital World by a HolyAngemon called Lord HolyAngemon, and there he meets the mysterious Digimon in his V-Pet, Zeromaru the V-dramon. Taichi and Zeromaru travel to Lord HolyAngemon's castle with the aid of Gabo the Gabumon, and there Lord HolyAngemon begs Taichi to find the five Tamer Tags and defeat the evil Demon, who has disrupted the peace of the Digital World.

Along the way, more humans are brought to the Digital World by Demon, including Neo Saiba, Rei Saiba, Sigma, Mari, and Hideto. Neo is chosen to raise the Digimon that will hatch from the Super Ultimate egg Demon is raising. Rei Saiba, Neo's sister, has a Digimental that will allow the Demon's experimental Digimon to evolve to a level beyond Ultimate. The others, called the Alias III, are to help Neo and Demon with their Digimon. Hideto's Partner is Omegamon, formed by the Jogress of Org and Meluuga, a WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon respectively. Mari's Partner is a Rosemon and Sigma's is a Piemon. They are all villains that eventually reform except Rei, who has no Digimon Partner or evil intentions.

Digimon Next

Digimon Next is the second and most recent Digimon manga to be printed in the pages of V-Jump magazine, starting on December 17 2005. The main character is called Tsurugi Tatsuno and is partnered with a Greymon. Tsurugi makes contact with the Digital World through his Digimon Mini virtual pet device and a "Battle Terminal", a virtual reality interface. Digimon can use the technology to materialise in the human world as well.

Dark Horse

Dark Horse Comics published American-style Digimon comic books, adapting the first dubbed 13 episodes of the first animated season. The conclusion to the story arc, however, was never released.

Panini

The European publishing company, Panini, approached Digimon in different ways in different countries. While Germany created their own adaptations of episodes, the United Kingdom reprinted the Dark Horse titles, then translated some of the German adaptations of second-season episodes, and finally began to print their own original stories, which appeared in both the UK's Official Digimon Magazine, and the official Fox Kids companion magazine, Wickid. These original tales danced in and around the continuity of the second animated season, before shifting to the third season, where the stories were more carefully thought out to fit between the tight storytelling of the animated series and would sometimes focusing on subject matter not covered by the show (such as Yamaki's past) or in the west (such as Ryo's story or the undubbed movies). Eventually, in a money saving venture, the original stories were removed from Digimon Magazine, which returned to printing translated German adaptations, this time of Tamers episodes. Eventually, both magazines were cancelled.

TOKYOPOP manga

The TOKYOPOP Digimon manga is a Chinese manhua written and drawn by Yuen Wong Yu, based on the television series and brought to North America, translated by Lianne Sentar. Covering Digimon Adventure in five volumes, Digimon Adventure 02 in two and Digimon Tamers in four, it is heavily abridged, though in rare occasions plays through events differently to the anime. This is the main attraction of the series. Three additional volumes exist, covering Digimon Frontier, but these have not been released in English by TOKYOPOP.

Digimon Chronicle

Digimon Chronicle was the storyline accompanying the 2004 Digimon product line. Originally rumoured to be a new, full-blown manga to replace V-Tamer 01, it eventually transpired to be mostly prose text, printed in the booklets which accompanied the "Pendulum" digital pets. These booklets also contained short, non-sequiter six-page mangas. There are four "chapters", one sold with the Pendulum X 1.0, another with the Pendulum X 1.5, another with the Pendulum X 2.0, and the final chapter with the Pendulum X 3.0.

This fiction tells the story of a Digital World controlled by a sentient computer named Yggdrasil. Because Digimon had multiplied so much in the past, Yggdrasil, the host computer, was unable to handle the load and the Digital Hazard occurred. Yggdrasil then created the "New Digital World", consisting of three layers for the past, present, and future - Urd, Versandi, and Skuld, respectively, and then let loose with Project Ark and the X Program to eliminate any Digimon Yggdrasil no longer wanted. However, the Digimon adapted by obtaining a program called the X Antibody, which strengthened them, changed their form, and made them immune to the X Program. Yggdrasil sent in the Royal Knights, thirteen Digimon devoted to keeping order in the Digital World, and at this point Kouta, Yuuji, and Shinji, three humans, somehow found their way into the Digital World and met their partner Digimon, Dorumon for Kouta and Ryuudamon for Yuuji. Kouta and Yuuji resisted Yggdrasil and the Royal Knights, but Shinji apparently sided with Yggdrasil.

D-Cyber

The D-Cyber manga is another Chinese Digimon manhua based on the adventures of Hikaru, Masuken, and Teru. It introduces the concept of X Digimon, but their origin is different from that in the Japanese Digimon Chronicle. In short, an evil MetalPhantomon seeks to steal the Dragon Spirit from Hikaru's Digimon and use it to revive a powerful evil Digimon. In the end, it takes the power of the three Holy Knights (Omegamon, Dukemon, and Magnamon) and the power of the three Tamers to put a stop to MetalPhantomon and what he's done.

Fan Influence

As Digimon continues to grow in popularity internationally, the fanbase around the show and manga continues to grow with it in a manner akin to other fandoms. As with most anime, this includes extensive shipping. Digimon fanshippers popularized the jargon of their specific brand of shipping by combining the first and last syllables of the relevant characters names, rather than the standard American "/" or "X". This is most often done with the Japanese names rather then the English ones. For example, a relationship between Hikari (Kari) and Takeru (TK) would be Takari; whilst a relationship between Taichi (Tai)and Yamato (Matt) might be called Taito or Yamachi.

Due to the relative quickness and more accurate translation of the dubbing of the third season, American and Japanese fandoms were somewhat aware of each other and contributed to each others fandoms.

Many fandoms sprouted from Digimon, including a popular fandom called "FDD" (Fictional Digimon and Digidestined) that had a large fandom for Digimon from 1998 onwards and is still alive today. Their purpose was to create fictional Digimon and Digidestined teams (or now Tamers) and exchange stories, ideas and drawn images. The fandom is still active in select websites. They would create their own Digimon and Digidestined and write stories about their adventures.

Notable people

Movie Cast (Japanese version)

Movie Cast (English version)

See also

External links

English

Japanese

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