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 four series were collectively retitled Digimon: Digital Monsters.

In September 2012, Saban Brands announced it had acquired the Digimon franchise and MarVista Entertainment will distribute the series outside of Asia.

Digimon Frontier ( the fourth series / season ) never aired in the UK as the shows ( then ) provider Jetix took it off the air, which shortly after, Jetix ended.

As of 2011, Digimon Data Squad ( the fifth series / season ) recently began airing in the UK on Kix ( the shows sole provider ).

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.

However, in January 2008, Hero started to broadcast the Digimon series with Digimon Adventure.

The series which is currently shown on Hero is Digimon Savers ( January 2011 )

Battling is an integral concept of the Digimon video game series and media franchise.

Once the countdown was finished, it revealed a reboot of the Digimon World series titled Digimon World Re: Digitize.

* Yuen Wong Wu: Writer and illustrator for the Digimon manhua series.

In another anime series, Digimon, there is parallel universe called " digital world ".

* Digimon Sovereigns, fictional creatures from the anime series Digimon Adventure 02 and Digimon Tamers

* Crests, a set of fictional items from the animated TV series Digimon Adventure which allow the titular creatures to evolve to stronger forms

Such well-known fictional Kitsune include the fox demon Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho and Kyubimon from the Digimon Tamers series.

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

Digimon Savers began airing in the country on September 8, 2008 and has currently ended.

* In Digimon, the Digimon Nohemon, a scarecrow Digimon, has henohenomoheji on its face.

The idea of an animal companion composed of technology rather than flesh has also inspired several works of fiction, such as the anime based loosely on the " Digimon " virtual pets ( itself a contraction of " Digital Monster ").

In the Digimon Adventure anime, one of the main villains, Etemon has the character of an Elvis impersonator.

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 song has been featured numerous times in other media, including the films Digimon: The Movie, American Pie,

An Aquatic Digimon that has a long, serpentine body.

They also encounter two more Digimon, who become regular characters in the series: Calumon, a mysterious Digimon that has the power to make other Digimon digivolve, but dislikes fighting, and only wants to play and eat junk food, and Impmon, a Digimon that left his Tamers because he was sick of their bickering and selfishness, and thinks that all Digimon with Tamers are a disgrace.

Digimon have been losing their memories and becoming feral and the city has fallen into disarray.

A Digimon partner will die with age, and return to an egg eventually, so the player has to raise it again.

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,

* Digimon Adventure 02 ( 2000 ), also commonly written as Digimon 02 / Digimon Zero Two, involves the main enemy the Digi-destined thought they had destroyed in the previous season, but has been putting in practice his evil schemes even after his defeat.

Cheez TV aired a number of Marvel based cartoons such as X-Men, The Marvel Action Hour, The Incredible Hulk ( 1982 series ), and Spider-Man: The Animated Series plus several anime series, including Teknoman, Transformers, Eagle Riders, Medabots and in more recent years Pokémon, Beyblade, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Sonic X, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh.

Ken returned to the Digital World and, through the subtle, unseen manipulations of Arukenimon, assumed the mantle of the Digimon Emperor / Kaiser and took over the Digimon using Dark Rings with which he enslaved a number of Digimon, similar to the Black Gears that Devimon used on the Digimon in File Island.

Some of Tekken characters have been featured as guest characters in other video games, such as Digimon World Re: Digitize, Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 2, Pac-Man Fever, Smash Court Tennis Pro Tournament 2, Soulcalibur II, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Ridge Racer 6 and Urban Reign, as well as in some crossover role-playing video games, including Cross Edge, Namco × Capcom and the upcoming Project X Zone.

* Digimon World, a video game

* List of Digimon video games

This logo was also used on video games, toys, card games, and other related Digimon merchandise at the time.

The story takes place initially in a " alternative " universe, on a world much like Earth where Digimon is just a franchise, composed of video games, and a collectible card game.

is a video game by Bandai on the PlayStation, released in 1999, about the Digimon virtual pets.

Category: Digimon video games

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.

The genre Monster Rancher occupies is shared by other simulation virtual pet games such as Digimon and games based on raising horses for racing, like in the Gallop Racer series also by Tecmo.

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

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

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

In the United Kingdom, Digimon gained most popularity on ITV1's children's slot CITV from 2001-2004, which aired Adventure, Adventure 02 and a short amount of Tamers airing during after school hours.

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

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.

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.

In a money saving venture, the original stories were later removed from Digimon Magazine, which returned to printing translated German adaptations of Tamers episodes.

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.

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.

Prior to this, the only connectable Tamagotchi toys were the Osutchi and Mesutchi pairs, which used interlocking top-mounted metal contacts similar to Bandai's original Digimon toys.

Despite high production values, the show's ratings faced an abrupt decline near the end of the season ( in part because of the success of Saban's acquisition of Digimon ), which led fans to believe that the studio wrapped up the series earlier than planned in order to cover their costs.

Jetix aired various programs since its debut on the network in 2002, which included Metabots, Beyblade, Digimon: Digital Monsters, Daigunder, Get Ed, and many others.

Aired various children's programs since its debut on the network in September 2002, which included Medabots, Beyblade, Digimon: Digital Monsters, Daigunder, Get Ed, and many others.

In Digimon Tamers, Grani was the name of the refitted ' Ark ', which was used as a steed by Dukemon late in the series.