16 Facts About Digimon

Digimon, short for "Digital Monsters", is a Japanese media franchise encompassing virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films and a trading card game.

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.

The one-shot manga C'mon Digimon, designed by Tenya Yabuno, was published in the Japanese magazine V-Jump by Shueisha in 1997.

Each player starts with a baby-level digital creature that has a limited number of attacks and transformations and to make the creature stronger by training and nourishing the creature; when the player is successful in a workout, the Digimon becomes strong, when the player fails, the Digimon becomes weak.

Digimon can grow through evolution by absorbing additional data and changing forms; the process is normally linear but there are other methods.

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The sixth series, Digimon Fusion, was only partially localized; its third season was never adapted into English.

Disney's acquisition of Saban would result in Digimon airing on Disney's TV networks and programming blocks.

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.

Digimon Frontier was originally announced to be broadcast on Jetix, but the series was later dropped.

Digimon Fusion had aired since Spring 2014 on digital terrestrial channel, CITV.

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.

However, the Chuang Yi releases of Digimon Frontier were distributed by Madman Entertainment in Australia.

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

From February 25,2011 to September 28,2012, Digimon Jintrix was an online card game supported by physical card releases.

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.