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Digimon (デジモン, dejimon^?) (short for "Digital Monster") is a popular Japanese series of children's merchandise, including anime, manga, toys, video games, trading card games and other media. Digimon are monsters of various forms living in a "Digital World," a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks.

Overview

Digimon started out as a digital pet called "Digital Monster," similar in style and concept to the Tamagotchi. It was released by Bandai on June 26, 1997. The Digital Monster toy was enormously popular, and four additional varieties were released in November of the same year. In December the second generation of Digital Monster was released, followed by a third edition in 1998.

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, which began serialization on November 21, 1998. The first Digimon video game, Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers, was released September 23, 1998 for the Sega Saturn game console.

TV series

Digimon Adventure, the first Digimon television series, began airing on Fuji TV on March 7, 1999, a day after the first Digimon film was released in movie theaters. Three additional series followed in consecutive years and one several years after: Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier and Digimon Savers. Adventure 02 is a continuation of Adventure. Digimon Tamers' only human connection to the Adventure series is Ryo Akiyama, a character who was put into Tamers due to his immense popularity as the main character of many Digimon video games on the WonderSwan handheld game system. He briefly appears in a flashback sequence in Adventure 02 but has no connection to its actual plot. The Adventure and Adventure 02 series are television shows in the Tamers world, with an attached line of merchandise similar to what the Digimon franchise offers in reality. Frontier and Savers have no continuity connections to any other series. (Savers, however, features many species of Digimon that appeared in the first four series.) There have been eight Digimon movies released in Japan. The first seven were directly connected to their respective anime series; Digital Monster X-Evolution originated from the Digimon Chronicle merchandise line. All movies except X-Evolution have been released and distributed internationally. The Digimon series was thought to have ended with Frontier's 50th Episode (the 205th episode overall at that time), End of the Line. Three years passed before the existence of a fifth series was confirmed at the 2006 Jump Festa, an annual exposition of upcoming anime and manga franchises. The new series, Digimon Savers, premiered on April 2, 2006 on Fuji TV.

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