Digimon
Digimon is a
media franchise encompassing anime, manga, toys, video games, trading
card games and other media. The first Digimon television series, which
began airing on March 7, 1999 in Japan on Fuji TV and Kids Station and
on August 14, 1999 in the United States on Fox Kids dubbed by Saban
Entertainment for the North American English version.
Its premise is a group of seven kids who, while at summer camp,
travel to the Digital World, inhabited by creatures known as Digimon,
where they become the DigiDestined and are forced to save both the
Digital and Real World from evil. Each Kid 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, such as Tai being paired up with
Agumon and Matt with Gabumon. The children are helped by a mysterious
man/digimon named Gennai, who helps them via hologram. The franchise
also had comic books; C'mon
Digimon is a one-shot manga, made in summer 1997, involving
battles between more-or-less holographic Digimon. It 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. The franchise was big enough to handle
other medias like the; anime, manga, toys, video games, trading card
games.
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. The games consists of a
number of genres including Life Simulation, Adventure, Video card game,
Strategy and Racing games though they are mainly Action role-playing
game.
