The Digimon Movie got made because the Pokemon movie was a huge hit and Digimon was popular when it was airing on TV. Saban was like "If Pokemon can do well in theaters, so can Digimon!". It's like how the Doug movie was released in theaters because the Rugrats movie did so well.

I knew about the Digimon Movie coming out as a kid because one anime magazine was promoting it. I knew about the other two movies from Japan because I would go to collector shops as a kid and one Japanese collector shop that I would always vist had new Digimon stuff being imported before the US got it. (I also used the Internet at home to find this stuff as well). I was lucky enough to own some Japanese Digimon toys and cards that would be imported.

So here's a random question. Digivolving Spirits Nanimon or Digivolving Spirits Numemon. Which would you rather buy.

Neither as they don’t digivolve into anything feasible for a transforming toy to work.

Your original question was more interesting, I'd buy an articulated Nanimon, in all of its veiny, hairy weirdness.

Yeah, but imagine the WhatBlasphemyIsThis of it all if both went from Agumon to both of those. :lolol

Since Detective Pikachu did well, do you think Hollywood will try to do a live action Digimon movie?

I doubt it, the series just doesn't have as much recognition with the general public as pokemon does and the series just doesn't lend itself to a movie as well as pokemon does.

I disagree. For one Digimon does have recognition with the general public. Unfortunately non-fans see it as a Pokemon knockoff or just "another one of those animes." Two the series has several dozens of arcs and deep lore to explore in not just one but many films. If done right it could be one of the most successful film franchises ever.

Any franchise could become successful. Marvel took Iron Man, a B-tier hero for non comic readers, and made him the face of the franchise, something thought impossible considering the dominance of Spider-Man and Wolverine.

The problem with the Digimon story is just that there isn't one that lends it to a movie. Digimon is about the adventure through the strange and surreal Digital World. With only 2 hours, you'd just end up with another one of those lame "Portal to another world" movies like Smurfs or Beastmaster 2.

The more self contained Digimon stories have the problem of relying on the audience already being large enough fans to know what is going on beforehand, such as X-Evolution.

Pokemon is a franchise where the, in their set world, Pokemon have co-existed with people for millennia. Digimon, meanwhile, were canonically created in, like, 1992, and to most of the world, they're one massive secret that they're real, thus requiring time of the film to establish what they are. As a live action film, Digimon just doesn't work since they can't just jump into it like Detective Pikachu.

If they do a live action Digimon movie, they could do their own original story or adapt one of the video games that does not have a Japanese setting. If we get a Hollywood version of Adventure 01, there is going to be a big issue with the casting.

Digimon catalog update, new X-Antibody forms revealed

Not gonna lie, Myotismon X looks like something straight out of Castlevania.

10/10 would whip

Reminds me of Bat Fangire with a slightly different paint job.

I'd argue Tamers does. It's grounded in our reality and spends most of the time in our reality. The trek to the Digital World can be rewritten to taking place in our reality or possibly exploring virtual reality.

However, I am not opposed to the idea of "portal to another world" scenario for Digimon. The difference between that and say Smurfs is Digimon is primarily set in the Digital World and with human children being the "chosen ones" or "digidestineds" thus portals are kinda necessary. At least the use of portals serve a purpose to the narrative and are creative ones at that. The portals used in movies such as Smurfs is they happen to come across it with virtually no explanation, it doesn't exist in the source material, and it serves solely as a plot device to unite the familiar characters with newly created human characters (from "our" world trope) to interact with the established characters because the studio has no faith in those characters carrying a movie on their own. Digimon already has established human characters for the Digimon to interact with and strong enough character development to carry a film. It really just comes down to picking the right story arch to adapt.

Tamers could work in theory, but part of Tamers' charm comes from properly establishing things first. It's a story that doesn't really adapt to a film properly because they'd have to cut out a good majority of it. A focus on Takato and Guilmon's relationship budding from a kid and his pet to true friends sounds simple, but there's so many small details that it works best as a series simply because it's afforded the time it needs.

Digimon does do a semi decent job at creating completely unique stories for the games, so if they build a story from the ground up exclusively for a film, rather than adapting anything specific, there is the possibility for it to work well with the time it has.

Could do a live action series of Tamers, however just about every season of Digimon lends itself out to a trilogy of films. Tamers a perfect example. It has the Chinese Zodiac arc, the Digital World arc, and the Lovecraft-inspired arc. The Chinese Zodiac arc can serve as character development for the main heroes while being a contained enough story by expelling the threat from Earth, but leaving the door open to a sequel that takes place in the Digital World. It's all laid out like a film trilogy already. The filler just needs to be cut out and some plot points reworked.

Apparently there's a Crowdfunding campaign being launched to produce a Digimon Memorial mini-series.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...ial-miniseries

If it were literally any other series but Adventure, I'd be interested.

I wish they would do something with Tamers or do a new season set in either Adventure or Tamers world but following new characters.

I know I mentioned this in another thread, but I feel a more proper statement belongs here.

Michael Lindsay, the English dub voice actor for Joe Kido and Greymon passed away over the weekend. Aside from Digimon he also voiced Kankuro in Naruto, Kisuke Urahara in Bleach, and many other characters. He retired from voice acting back in 2012. Fellow voice actor Joshua Seth (Tai from Digimon) made a statement regarding the death of his coworker. See link below.

https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-ne...ay-passes-away

There'll have a new show ?

Sad to hear he is gone.

So I got a package today!! It was my rewards for backing the New File Island Kickstarer.
https://twitter.com/ChameleonKnigh1/...62981944123392
And it was because of these being done that I finished my Digimon partner's chart.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachmen...ution_Line.png

What's the best Digimon wikipedia site? I tend to use Wikimon but I see a lot of people use DigimonWiki, and just the other day I came across a different site called Digimon World Championship Wiki.

Wikimon and Digimon are good for different things, but are generally just as good as each other. The only difference is that Wikimon uses Japanese terms (Evolve, Chosen Children) and the Digimon Wiki uses the English terms (Digivolve, DigiDestined).

I've noticed that. It's kinda nice but it would also be nice if Wikimon would include the English terms in (), not in each link but in each main article with that name change. I prefer using Wikimon due to there being no ads. Have you used the third one I've mentioned?

Digimon ReArise launched in the USA yesterday after a soft launch in Canada the day before.

Digimon Universe: App Monsters to stream on Crunchyroll!

https://comicbook.com/anime/2019/10/...e-crunchyroll/

I saw that. Interesting. I wonder if we'll ever get to see the rest of Xros Wars/Fusion?

Unless you mean the dub Fusion then no, if you meant the sub then it's already all up.

I just bought the Digimon Spirits Tentomon/Altur Kabuterimon last night for my birthday. It should arrive today.

And I shall be there to steal it. Mwahahaha

And I will find you and take it back.

You can try for I am a biter.

I got my toy before you could. Now it's locked away somewhere where you'll never find it.

Damn work getting in the way! You wont be able to hide that toy from me for long.

Oh I'm sure I'll be able to.

I haven't played any Digimon game since Digimon Battle Spirit on the GBA (I did play a bit of DW4 on the PS2 and hated it). Are the ones on the PS4 worth playing?

The Digimon games tend to be turn base otherwise they try to be very different from each other. The Cyber Sleuth games are fun and worth it, now Next Order is a game you want to play with a computer/laptop on standby to look shit up. It is still a fun game but damn can it be tedious.

I’m waiting for Digimon ReArise to finish its daily download.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand your game is now full of Keramons.