In some cases, as in the first series, the DigiDestined ( known as the ' Chosen Children ' in the original Japanese ) had to find some special items such as crests and tags so the Digimon could digivolve into further stages of evolution known as Ultimate and Mega in the dub.

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.

It was planned by Wiz and released by Bandai on June 26, 1997 Digimon: The Movie, released in the U. S. and Canada territory by Fox Kids through 20th Century Fox on October 6, 2000, consists of the union of the first three Japanese movies.

The first four series were collectively retitled Digimon: Digital Monsters.

In Latin America, the first four series were aired on Fox Kids and later on Jetix and later on Disney XD ( Latin America ), which also aired the fifth series, Digimon Data Squad.

The entire first series of Digimon Adventure was dubbed in English ( in order to compete with the 4Kids version of Pokémon which aired on the rival network GMA 7 on the same day and time ), along with Digimon Adventure 02.

The first season was taken from America, it had the same dialogues and the soundtrack was just translated ( instead of " Digimon, digital monsters, digimon are the championa " it was " Digimon, digitální monstra, digimoních strážců šampion " and so on ).

Dark Horse Comics published American-style Digimon comic books, adapting the first thirteen episodes of the English dub of Digimon Adventure in 2001.

The Digimon Collectible Card Game is a card game based on Digimon, first introduced in Japan in 1997 and published by Bandai.

* In the 13th episode of the first season of the anime Digimon Adventure ( エンジェモン覚醒 !, " Angemon's Awakening!

* In the Digimon multimedia franchise, a puppet Digimon by the name of Monzaemon-an obvious homage to Chikamatsu-was one of the first characters in the original line of virtual pets.

At first, the devious Digimon Emperor ( Digimon Kaiser in the Japanese version ), Ken tried hard to atone for his wicked acts and eventually is helped along the way by Davis and the others.

, known outside of Japan as the first season of Digimon: Digital Monsters, is a Japanese anime television series created by Akiyoshi Hongo and produced by Toei Animation in cooperation with Bandai and Fuji Television.

It is the first anime installment in the Digimon media franchise, based on the virtual pet.

The eight DigiDestined children are listed first, followed by their Digimon partners.

The logo used for the first two seasons of the English dub of the Digimon anime ( known as Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 in Japan ).

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.

He has also written a number of episodes for the animated TV show Digimon: Digital Monsters, has appeared on the game show Jeopardy !, and has written and provided voices for the English dubbed versions of several Japanese anime works.

The effect of Digivolution, however, is not permanent in the partner Digimon of the main characters in the anime, and Digimon who have digivolved will most of the time revert back to their previous form after a battle or if they are too weak to continue.

They destroy all but one of the Devas ( Antylamon turned to the side of good and became Suzie's Digimon partner ) and confront Impmon, who had digivolved to his mega form, Beelzemon, after making a deal with the Sovereign for more power, in exchange for eliminating the Tamers.

The gameplay revolves around raising a single Digimon from its Digiegg form, hatching into a Fresh, up through In-Training, Rookie, Champion, and with work, Ultimate.

The creatures were similar to Pokémon or Digimon in that, in addition to their collectivity, they originate as small, cute creatures, who can evolve into much stronger forms ( usually they had two evolutions, an evil one induced by Dark Lord's magic in the form of the Petra Stamp or Uglinator's mark, and a good one later induced by Flint and company ) before reverting back again.

C ' mon Digimon spawned the popular Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga, written by Hiroshi Izawa, which began serialization on November 21, 1998.

The Digimon series has a large number of video games which usually have their own independent storylines with a few sometimes tying into the stories of the anime series or manga series.

* Hiroshi Izawa: Author of the Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga.

* Tenya Yabuno: Illustrator of the Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 manga.

* Yamato " Matt " Ishida, a fictional character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02

* D3 Digivice, a device from the fictional anime / manga Digimon series

Apart from Saint Seiya, many popular anime, manga and tokusatsu series has been made into Carddass, the most famous ones being Bleach, Toriko, Hunter x Hunter, Digimon, Dr. Slump, Dragon Ball, Kinnikuman, Gin Tama, Black Butler, Code Geass, Soul Eater, Fullmetal Alchemist, Gundam, Kamen Rider, Naruto, Neon Genesis Evangelion, One Piece, Revolutionary Girl Utena, YuYu Hakusho,

" Takaishi ( タケル ), a character in the anime and manga Digimon

* Shinji, an antagonist of the manga Digimon Chronicle, partnered with Omnimon X

Not even the Digimon movie was dubbed or released.

The second one, which was adapted by Lianne Sentar, was released by TOKYOPOP in North America. The three volumes for Digimon Frontier have been released by Chuang Yi in English.

The games released in North America are: 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, Digimon World DS, Digimon World Data Squad, Digimon World Dawn and Dusk, Digimon World Championship, and Digimon Masters.

In late 2009, Bandai created a webpage in Japanese showing a new game to be released in 2010 called Digimon Story: Lost Evolution, which uses the same engine as their predecessors Digimon World DS and Digimon World Dawn and Dusk and was released on July 1, 2010.

Tapir baku appear in Pokémon in the character Drowzee and Munna / Musharna and in Digimon, which features a character called Bakumon or Tapirmon.

English version logo for Digimon.

Digimon hatch from eggs called.

In the English iterations of the franchise there is another type of Digi-Egg that can be used to digivolve, or transform, Digimon.

Some Digimon act feral.

Any Digimon that receives a fatal wound will dissolve into infinitesimal bits of data.

The data then recomposes itself as a Digi-Egg, which will hatch when rubbed gently, and the Digimon goes through its life cycle again.

Digimon who are reincarnated in this way will sometimes retain some or all their memories of their previous life.

Digimon started out as a digital pet called " Digital Monster ", similar in style and concept to the Tamagotchi.

Another noticeable change in the dub is using different voice actors for different forms of a certain Digimon, whereas in Japan, the voice actor merely changes the tone of his / her voice, sometimes being altered for effect.

This was due to a deal between Disney and UPN which concluded with Digimon Frontier.

Digimon continues to run in syndication on the new channel after Toon Disney, Disney XD.

Digimon Data Squad had started to air on Disney XD.

Disney eventually lost the license to Digimon.

Funimation Entertainment has online streaming rights to subtitled version of Digimon Adventure 02 and Digimon Tamers.