The ENTIRE History of Digimon Anime EXPLAINED!

0:00 this video happened because of my sovereign ZD k14 and jmon over on patreon.com EX and everyone else who gives me their money over there to make stupid Digimon and non Digimon videos thanks Digimon animation is 25 years old this year and I am 5 years older than it and toy and band Namco are seemingly celebrating Digimon con this year's promotion was mainly about aguman and gabumon so just like every other year then so join me Welshman McGee as I look back at the entire history of Digimon animation to get you all caught up in time for whatever Nostalgia hash Grabber they do next generally I'm going to be talking about these in Japanese release order as tons of them are JP exclusive anyway but some stuff will cater to the Americans

0:45 and the brids sorry also this is a very Abridged history don't expect a deep dive on every single season I'm just catching you up on what you might have missed if you haven't been as active as a fan as my dumbass for the past 25 years the adventure begins technically with a movie on March 6th 1999 this movie is Iconic and did you know that it was one of three Japanese movies that were all edited this movie showed taii and hik discovering their first Digis Sumer that hatches into a botamon a machine and two Monster Hunter quests it all ends with fried chicken the setup for the Digimon Adventure anime and still one of the most melancholic end credits in all of Digimon then the heat came in how could I sum up the plot of Digimon Adventure go to camp for the sum okay and then what wind up living in a digital land pretty crazy but what happens next where everybody gets to meet his own digim monster a digital

1:30 companion a digital friend that's crazy dude Digimon Adventure is so loved for a reason it's got Digimon it's got guns in Japan it's got apocon the pizza man The Echoes of this anime would go on to shape the entire Digimon franchise for 25 godamn years and while I don't love all of it call me a random Tokyo woman the way this show got its fangs into me I think some standouts of course of the iconic devimon and anamon handing him his ass only to get glass cannoned into scrambled eggs the entire myotest Monarch in the real world to me is what Digimon was as a kid that's my strongest memories of this show and also when tyan M got just a kick out of a giant vampire demon oh yeah but Ash catch him turned to stone for 10 seconds w w I know which spiky head Japanese boy is the bravest in my heart Ash get out of here don't [ __ ] with me the power of God and enemy

2:18 on my side wait the year 2000 we survived the Y2K bug no one's computer went crazy unless of course you're in the Digimon World Digimon children's war game AKA plagiarism is okay as long as you make a dope anime out of it AKA summer War zero AKA Bell if she wasn't afraid to swap hands is probably the most iconic piece of Digimon media we got coron and sumon we got cool internet turn of the century Christ I'm old stuff with little aguman emails and Digimon surfing the web and even a look at other kids across the world becoming aware of Digimon hey who's that kid nah I'm sure she doesn't matter do You' all remember that one Fox kids flash game oh my God take me back I don't want to be 30 anymore and of course introduce the world to omnimon The Echoes of which can be felt in every corner of the Digimon franchise to this day and absolutely no no one has any issues with it everyone loves all the omnimon milk oh for God's

3:03 sake another omnimon card game set give me a break the year 2000 also gave us Digimon Adventure 02 AKA Digimon shien it was perfect perfect everything down to the last minute details TK and Ki aren't annoying ass kids anymore and they're joined by new kids who can be annoying instead oh hey it's that kid from our war game yep Yoli or makako is a digidestined because she witnessed the diaboromon versus omnimon epic rap battle of history which means all of these people are destined the tldr of this show is that a kid has become just like the absolute worst person ever and is enslaving Digimon and doing really awful that was someone's favorite character they must be an absolute psychopath but now we follow a new generation of Digi destined as they initially tried to stop the dark towers and the Digimon Emperor and eventually transition to stopping a

3:49 virus made of literal evil from consuming all the children in Tokyo and the vampire is back I'm back at the [ __ ] building again anyway Digimon Adventure 02 gave us armor dig Evolution prominent DNA dig Evolution and the entire career of KH ex this season is often punched down on by fans due to its Messier ending but honestly this season was Peak to me as someone who just loves sequels with time skips shout out to Jojo's Apollo Justice and those Simpsons episodes by Lisa's president and Bart smokes Weeden crazy Digimon Adventure 02 has blackw greymond and the sexiest spider I ever seen in my life Peak fiction also in the year 2000 we got the movie Hurricane touchdown that's why he's the goat the goat honestly this is probably one of the Lesser love Digimon movies but talking specifically about the Japanese version it's honestly kind

4:35 of great the movie really captures summer especially first seeing dice K iodi and makako on the beach with their Digimon and this movie gave us Simon and magnadramon and magnamon and rapidmon plus almost the whole lmon line held the ramifications of teron and lmon in this movie seem to directly affect the entire next season of Digimon plus the movie poster is the most America thing Digimon has ever done besides Gund Dramon and at the same time in 2000 they also gave us Digimon Adventure 3D Digimon Grand Prix I mean it's all right listen this wasn't supposed to be a big release according to wikimon Digimon Adventure 3D Digimon Grand Prix is a 7 minute CG short produced by to animation that was originally screened at the time machine of dreams that sounds cool as [ __ ] theme park attraction at San Rio Pand from July 20th 2000 to June 23rd 2002 and

5:20 Harmony land oh no I've gone crosseyed so this was a 3D Digimon short that played at Hello Kitty's house okay neat Hello Kitty Digimon Partners win that's you that's what you sound like this whole thing is basically Digimon Wacky Races and I guess its two main things are being in 3D CG and being about Digimon racing two things that sound like great directions for the franchise to go in this also didn't get released in theaters outside of San Rio Pand until 9 years later alongside the 3D Digimon Sabers movie wow what a treat and then the year 2000 Fox kids and Scar music played polymerization to create the single most early 2000s piece of media ever made Digimon the movie spawning a generation of annoying dub fans and an even more vocal generation of really annoying sub purists Digimon the movie has its faults

6:05 of course it does it's three Japanese movies stitch together to make so yes of course we have to acknowledge the elements of the Digimon dub overall are not faithful to the original if you absolutely want the pure Creative Vision of Digimon you should always watch the original I'm sorry I can't hear you over the voice of God Davis's abrupt crying one of the best soundtracks in movie history guest including the digi rap poke rap btfo and honestly some pretty ingenious ways of connecting three largely unconnected stories Digimon the movie may not be pure but ooh as a dirty little [ __ ] I will love it forever unlike that one kid's parents after the Angelina condo sh March 2001 Digimon Adventure 02 revenge of diab boron diaboromon returned yeah we're in the year 2001 everything is great until

6:52 diaboromon starts doxing the digi Destin this movie honestly doesn't get enough love it's born some of the best gifts the Digimon fandom has ever had and it's even a huge callback to our war game the kids are going back in the internet diaboromon and omnimon here it's all the member berries you wanted right and then diaboromon dies and reboot chips to armagedon and in a really cool moment omnimon passes the torch down to Imperial Alon yato and taichi pass down the torch to Dy and Ken and produce a form that is several factors less cool than omnimon in every way thanks wow a movie that really ends on the 02 kids fully being passed down the torch cementing them as the next generation of Digi Destin can't wait for them to get another season game over reset reality Digimon season 3 can you see it

7:38 April 2001 Digimon Tamers exploded onto the scene helmed by a really cool and normal guy this would change Digimon forever and generate that one dude bro nerd who always talks about how the show fell off after season 3 and that Frontiers with an S was lame but the same person is also exclusively a fan of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers anyway yeah Digimon Tamers is amazing and it scratched an itch I was always looking for for kids cartoons trauma you know thinking about it my love of death no anohana AR raised any anime that makes me want to pull a menma maybe it's Digimon Tam's fault Digimon tus follows takato R Henry the Power Rangers Ninja Storm of Digimon as they get thrown into a new world where the Digimon they considered to be a multimedia franchise are real creatures committing domestic terrorism throughout the show they discovered the real nature of Digimon find new Digi destined and also discovered that literally every adult ever is a huge no- good piece of there's

8:25 so much to love about Digimon tame is in this video can't even begin to cover it but it has Beamon and motorbike and the card SL mechanic Rest In Peace So I'd really struggle to find a reason to criticize this season actually I just remembered what happens if you Google image search renom onto the show is terrible and I hates it and then in the second half of 2001 something happened that would devastate the world forever Digimon Tam's Battle of Adventures listen this movie is fine but Miami is the most pointless chosen child ever and they gave her a card before the hacker memory or rearise kids I hate Digimon actually I'm going to make yo-kai watch videos anyway this is like a fun Little Summer movie tato and Co apart from R who's doing side quest in Tokyo head to Okinawa where they meet Minami and labramon who become camon and have a pretty lowkey fight with a normal Digimon it's me the devil I'm here to convince you to do sin oh in spoilers

9:11 manami's dog dies twice basically epic I hate anime and in March of 2002 we got Digimon Tamers The Runaway Digimon Express a train movie well not my bag really it was a sequel movie without kanaka for better R where after that big sad Melancholy ending of Tamers the Digimon just back uh still we got locomon and Grand loon and parasimon and literally no new forms for any of the Digimon and Tamers moving on dig Digimon Frontier came onto the scene in April of 2002 and would fundamentally alter my friend Tom's brain chemistry for the rest of his life a season full of familiarity with Adventure send UPS revisits from Digimon used in past Seasons but also fundamentally different in that this time the kids became the Digimon Partners it was Digimon STI Frontier J I initially did not Vibe with Frontier I don't remember it airing in the UK when I was a kid and when I found

9:57 out they had no Partners I kicked up a sting like the big diaper babby I was but I've really grown to appreciate Frontier for its well-rounded characters potentially very deep lore and for other reasons it's criminal to me Frontier hasn't been Revisited in years and I really think deserved one more movie than it got let's make it the next major celebration please that 20th anniversary celebration was shocking Frontier did get one more movie though Digimon Frontier Revival of the ancient Digimon and it was honestly this movie is so mid there's some birds being evil it was actually all mmus Monon and ancient Greymon and ancient G Ron show up cool well at least Digimon was still popular at this point we wouldn't have to wait long for more Digimon anime 3 years later yeah get used to that next came Digimon X evolution in 2005 a fully 3D

10:43 CG movie all about the X antibody that unfortunately was not released outside of Japan but that's fine I'm sure its contents in the X antibody won't have any importance in the franchise over the next 20 oh my god oh oh my Christ This is a rare Digimon only movie there's no humans at all it's like the anti- Digimon Frontier the story is kind of wild It's actually an adaptation of a digimon manga called Digimon Chronicles but who cares about reading like a nerd oh the subtitles damn it basically IG is like the guy who owns the Digimon server goes n you guys are taking it too far now what the hell is a shaku on and decides to make digic to wipe out a turna digimon understandably some Digimon aren't so happy about this and what begins is a bunch of Digimon adapting to this X Program developing their X antibody which transforms them and their digiore into new forms neat

11:29 also basically put the entire Dorimon branching Evolution line on the center stage which is someone who spent a lot of time on Digimon forums in the early to mid 2000s I can tell you was the Stanley Cup of Digimon Partners well I totally get the appeal but why does everyone have one now and then a full year later in 2006 we got Digimon Savers the most slapped on Digimon season I think CU it didn't introduce any crazy new gimmicks didn't have anything insanely cool visually to call back to what it did have is honestly one of the most cohesive and satisfying stories in Digimon history maseru Damon not the dangun rumper fell joins a government organization that are trying to keep the peace between Digimon and humans and keeping Digimon away from humans all right anyway what's cool about this season is that it continues the themes explored in the past that sometimes adults are just [ __ ] and while marimon is an initial threat the real bad guy is Professor Hojo I mean Dr

12:15 karata this guy is like such a bad guy it feels great to see him get pushed in this season also gave us Bano Leomon and the chess lesbians so honestly might be my second favorite below 02 G masu how come to let you have two movies the first of those movies came in July 2006 Digimon Savers 3D the digital world in imminent danger this is another one of those theme park movies though it's in 3D animation and actual 3D but honestly aside from that it's a total nonstarter it does have Kuman crossing over with the Savers Partners though and they fight armagedon so that kind of rips even though alagon is defeated by two Champion levels what the hell then they got a real ass movie with ultimate power burst mode activated this movie does my head in so basically there's this girl Rhythm and she knows all about alamon they alga Rhythm get it basically this

13:01 entire movie is everyone takes a nap the wake up alaman is a bad guy shine greymond stabs him and then this Rhythm chick kisses aguman and takes alon's egg back to the digital world also she isn't human you can tell why they stopped doing Digimon season movies after a while and then we got another time skip 4 years later in 2010 with Digimon crossw Wars AKA Digimon Fusion sequence has been initiated Digimon once again shifted up the formula in 2010 Digimon crossw Wars had one of the biggest longevities in Digimon since Digimon Adventure getting three seasons which even Adventure couldn't technically must by that point there's a lot that didn't gel with crossw Wars for me but it's also inative and just so watchable it's obviously a crying shame this didn't get a movie but I feel like season also getting a tie-in movie just stopped being a thing so yeah get used to that y'all ready to get depressed listen

13:47 let's get real for a second me and Digimon try have a complicated history try is like part of the reason I got heavily back into Digimon again I was always a fan I played Digimon Masters for like a decade I rewatch watched older Seasons that I legally bought but I definitely wasn't keeping up with the Vets or whatever for a good decade there and then I saw that first Digimon TR teaser with aguman and thae and I was like oh my God Digimon I love Digimon and what we got was six movies of is it rude to say out the edge there is a lot I still love about try and I encourage you all to watch it but my God what a bummer and the weird amount of Cheesecake also made me uncomfortable they're all still in high school anyway that's not the point we finally saw all the adventure mega forms in the anime so that that's cool they also basically wrote the 02 kids out for the whole thing which I have healed from kind of

14:34 now that the 02 kids are back in stuff but a rough moment but during all that depression we got an even more slapped on season of the anime in 2016 with Digimon Universe Appley monsters at monsters had this crazy idea to make Digimon that were partnered with humans who went to a digital world and merged with other Digimon to create new forms and why the hell are people so mad about how different this was again like almost every season of Digimon is different 02 introduced armors and DNA Tamers was a reboot or a new universe with card slash and biomerge Frontier has kids becoming Digimon Savers was actually good crossw Wars had Digi cross but Aton being apps was too much of a departure for people I still not finished Aton admittedly I want to but I'm just too busy with all three equalizer movies and playing super hot VR but the idea that Aton is some kind of crazy fundamentally different

15:20 season is just crazy pills you're all on crazy pills new Aton movie please thank you then all the way through 2017 and into 2018 the TR Saga ended almost 3 years after it began and there was some really cool moments in that second batch of try movies I think the story of May and meuman while a little bit too much of a focus was still an enjoyable story and the kids all uniting at the end was really cool even if I don't love omnimon merciful mode but Digimon Adventure try future did leave us with like 15 more questions than we had before TR started and answered maybe three questions we had before it nice to know who the original Digi destined were though I guess then they announced a j Adventure last evolution Kisa and then as Kisa was being created they CR funded five short films to kind of catch everyone up on where the kids have been between try and Kiser five people who contributed to

16:05 that crowdfunded even got their own fan-made Digimon made officially which is incredibly cool there's actually no proper way to watch these shorts bar one but I'd recommend checking out my palori the digimo video on these shorts cuz they are wacky what if your childhood was over and everything was terrible and it's hard to see any positivity in growing up yeah imagine Digimon last evolution Kiser AKA Digimon nah this isn't the last one can you imagine is the story of growing up Tai Matt and the other 10 Digi destined who are they again doesn't matter face a new threat in the Internet aoson it's just like diaboromon a countdown begins just like diaboromon but this countdown isn't for nukes no no no this is for the ending of Tamers but even more emotionally devastating K has some really dope battles lovely nods to the past and some

16:51 truly baffling decisions but the 02 epilog is still Cannon right and then 2 months after Digimon Adventure last evolution Kisa a reboot of Digimon Adventure came out when this was announced we genuinely thought that last evolution Kiser was going to do some time travel like Jojo stuff where it was going to reboot the entire universe for a new continuity they didn't do that thankfully instead what we got was something entirely different a show that resembled Digimon Adventure but honestly if you changed all the names of the protagonists and gave them different partners it would feel almost nothing like the original Digimon Adventure it is a reboot in as much that it is fundamentally different over all though for me it was a bit too long with not enough plot for my liking but it had banging music and in October of 2021 we got Digimon ghost game overall though

17:38 for me it was a bit too long with not enough plot for my liking but it had banging music ghost game is really cool conceptually a monster of the week type show very dark spooky feeling like gagin or kit makes Digimon Tamers there's a lot to like there ultimately for me I'm always looking for a show with overarching narratives but apparently Digimon creative thought that most people wanted Lar unconnected episodes with a little bit of overarching plot but listen gamon's cute and Goron is me he says Champion instead of chocolate isn't that fine still should have got a season two or a movie though if I'm honest with you that brings us to 2023 and the most recent piece of Digimon anime media Digimon Adventure 02 the beginning which is not legally available in my country so I haven't watched it yet the 02 kids are getting their own movie aren't you excited to see armad dig Evolution and new dig evolutions for

18:24 them this instead is apparently the story of uko and Louie just what we wanted just like we wanted in try right we wanted the story of moo and meuman and why do all these adventure movies have such a boner for just being like hey forget about these kids that you like what if there was another kid isn't this kid cool okay admittedly Willis was really cool but who the hell is manowa apparently this movie is pretty divisive maybe the most divisive and not saying something given we have try and Kisa some people Lov this and some people did not like this I cannot wait to legally watch it in my country one day although they still haven't done that congratulations to Canada and Australia though and America obviously America gets everything I'm not bitter so I can finally see the new Evolution that Imperial algon got right right guys where are you going but that is it the entire history of the Digimon franchise summed up in a way that only my eloquent

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