Digimon: Digital Monsters (Universe)

Boom

tri-Crescendo

Fighting

The **Digimon: Digital Monsters** refers to the Smash Bros. series' collection of characters, stages and properties that hail from the series of media that derive from the Digimon: Digital Monsters series. Similar to Pokemon, the Digimon series revolve around the 1000+ monsters that live on the internet, known as the Digital World. Starting as a spin-off of Bandai's (Now Bandai Namco) Tamagotchi virtual pet series, Digimon has grown to critical acclaim and has garnered a long-running Anime series and a multitude of video games and other media. The logo is a sprite of the series' mascot, Agumon, from the first iteration of the Digimon Virtual Pet.

## Francise Description

In the year 1996 came the Tamagotchi, created by Akihiro Yokoi, Aki Maita and Takeichi Hongo, which was one of the inspirations for the first release of the franchise,[3][4] a device marketed in June 1997[1][5] with the name Digimon,[6] a short for *Digital Monster*.[7][8] Aiming at the male audience and created by Akiyoshi Hongo (a pseudonym that refers to the creators of *Tamagotchi*),[3] this device shows to players a virtual petcomposed entirely of data and designed to play and fight.[1][6][9][10] In February 1998, the *DigiMmn* fighting game, compatible with Windows 95and developed by Rapture Technologies, Inc., was announced.[11] The one-shot manga *C'mon Digimon*, designed by Tenya Yabuno, was published in the Japanese magazine V-Jump by Shueisha in 1997.[12][13]

A second generation of *virtual pets* was marketed six months after the launch of the first, followed by a third in 1998.[14] Each player starts with a baby-level digital creature that has a limited number of attacks and transformations[15] and to make the creature stronger by training and nourishing the creature;[1][6] when the player is successful in a workout, the Digimon becomes strong, when the player fails, the Digimon becomes weak.[1][6] Two devices can be connected, allowing two players to battle with their respective creatures, an innovation at the time,[1]however, the battle is only possible from the moment the creature is in the child level or bigger.[1] Playgrounds and subways were where the majority of users of the apparatus were concentrated; The virtual pet was banned in some Asian schools by being considered by parents and teachers as very noisy and violent.[16] The first Digimon werasreated by Japanese designer Kenji Watanabe, influenced by American comics, which were beginning to gain popularity in Japan, and as such began to make his characters look stronger and "cool." Other types of Digimon, which until the year 2000 totaled 279,[17][18] came from extensive discussions and collaborations between the Bandai company members.[19] There are currently over 1300 Digimon.

Digimon hatch from types of eggs which are called Digi-Eggs (デジタマ *Dejitama*). In the English iterations of the franchise there is another type of Digi-Egg that can be used to digivolve, or transform, Digimon. This second type of Digi-Egg is called a Digimental (デジメンタル *Dejimentaru*) in Japanese. (This type of Digi-Egg was also featured as a major object throughout season 2 as a way of Digivolution available only to certain characters at certain points throughout the season.) They age via a process called "Digivolution" which changes their appearance and increases their powers. The effect of Digivolution, however, is not permanent in the partner Digimon of the main characters in the anime, and Digimon who have digivolved will most of the time revert to their previous form after a battle or if they are too weak to continue. Some Digimon act feral. Most, however, are capable of intelligence and human speech. They are able to digivolve by the use of Digivices that their human partners have. In some cases, as in the first series, the DigiDestined (known as the 'Chosen Children' in the original Japanese) had to find some special items such as crests and tags so the Digimon could digivolve into further stages of evolution known as *Ultimate*and *Mega* in the dub.

The first Digimon anime introduced the Digimon life cycle: They age in a similar fashion to real organisms but do not die under normal circumstances because they are made of reconfigurable data, which can be seen throughout the show. Any Digimon that receives a fatal wound will dissolve into infinitesimal bits of data. The data then recomposes itself as a Digi-Egg, which will hatch when rubbed gently, and the Digimon goes through its life cycle again. Digimon who are reincarnated in this way will sometimes retain some or all their memories of their previous life. However, if a Digimon's data is completely destroyed, they will die. An exception is partner Digimon, as whilst they can be reborn as many times as needed during their life span, should their partner die - the Digimon permanently dies as well. This is shown with Yukio Oikawa and his Datirimon in Digimon Adventure 02.

## In Super Smash Bros. For Nintendo Switch

The Digimon series has made a fairly decent debut in the Smash Bros. series.

#### Characters

* **Agumon:** One of the most popular Digimon, and arguably, the mascot of the series after being the partner of the main character of the first anime series, Tai Kamiya, who joins Agumon from the sidelines, similarly to how Pokemon Trainer, and Neo Pokemon Trainer work. He was one of the first characters to be annoucned, and is the first Digimon rep to be announced, being the first character to come from a Virtual Pet. Agumon is able to digivolve after fighting for a while to transform into stronger versions of himself. His final smash is Omni Finisher, where he DNA Digivolves with Gabumon to transform into Omnimon.
* **Guilmon**ε**:** The Echo of Agumon, Guilmon joins the fray alongside his tamer, Takato. He is a bigger, slightly slower, yet stronger clone of Agumon, sharing a lot of the same animations as his parent character, but his attacks have differing properties. He's also one of the few characters who's taunts power himself up. His final smash has him teaming up with Terriermon (or his evolution) and performing a destructive attack called Omega Duo.
* **Shoutmon:** The newest Digimon character to be included in the series and the only one without a partner. Shoutmon is a pretty powerful character, and along with his Mic, he has wonderful disjoints. His final smash is Twin Fireball Strike, where he evolves into OmniShoutmon and throws two strong fireballs.

Stages

* **Toy Kingdom** - This stage is set in the Toy Kingdom, an area first seen in the Digimon Adventure anime, and has become a popular location. In this game, Toy Kingdom is a recreation of a Terriermon's stage in the Gameboy Advance title, Digimon Battle Spirit, which was based off of Toy Kingdom itself. It is a stage filled with block platforms with multiple smaller Digimon walking back and forth. Occasionally, a Motimon can be seen crawling across the stage, and touching one can give the player a random item.

#### Items

* **Digivice** - The digital device that usually in the Digimon franchise, can raise various Digimon, normally used by the Tamer of said Digimon. In Smash Bros, this item works similar to the Assist Trophy item, where it can cause a random helper Digimon to pop out and assist the player. Unlike the Pokeball item, where each Pokemon does different things, most Digimon will follow the summoner and will attack any opponent that gets near them before disappearing.