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Pagumon

Zurumon then evolves into Pagumon, likewise the first Baby II Digimon to be given a vicious, spiteful personality, said to mercilessly bully other baby digimon and work together to prank even stronger monsters. It's also still poisonous, producing the same bubble attack as most other Baby II stages but laced with toxins that result from its sheer "spite." That's adorable.

By now, of course, Pagumon can evolve into over a dozen different Digimon across various games and cards, but originally, it was designed for only two possible child stages.

## Digivolves From:

* Zurumon

or

* SnowBotamon

## Digivolves To:

* Gazimon
* DemiDevimon
* Goblimon
* Sharmamon
* SnowAgumon
Zudomon

The next stage actually drops any immediate resemblance to arctic wildlife or aquatic mammals, but still manages to feel like both. It's got a real "mythological" look and feel to it, especially with the huge hammer, but it's the spiky turtle shell I find the coolest, even if it appears to be something Zudomon is just wearing rather than grew.

## Digivolves from

* Ikkakumon

or

1. Allomon
2. Baromon
3. Centarumon
4. Dolphmon
5. Golemon
6. Hookmon
7. Mikemon
8. Numemon
9. Raidramon

## Digivolves to

* Vikemon
* AncientMegatheriummon

or

1. Callismon
2. MarineAngemon
3. Plesiomon
4. SaberLeomon
Chaos Of Mana

Chaos Of Mana is the first game of Champions Of Chaos trilogy.

## Description

Your mission in this cool fighting game is to lead your warrior to the victory. At the beginning choose your hero's Name and adjust his hair style and facial detail. Then select if he will be a warrior, a mage or a charmer and start your journey. Follow up the in-game tutorial to learn basics of the gameplay. Level up by winning fights in the arena. For every 2 fights in the arena your level will rise and you will get 3 extra points to improve your characters attributes. You can spend your hard earned money on the Shopping street, where you can buy some war guild, your wife or learn something. You can also bet some money on the llama races. Use YOUR MOUSE to control the game. Do not forget to save your progress! Have fun!

## Links

* Newgrounds: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/482887
* Kongregate: https://www.kongregate.com/games/EpicLLama/chaos-of-mana
Swanmon

...Eh. I'm not a fan of Gatomon getting so many of these animals with a weaker, daintier reputation, even if that reputation is highly unfounded. Just because she's a white cat and can evolve into a blonde angel doesn't mean she has to get stuck with swans and bunnies! Fortunately it's not too big of a trend throughout these. I might also just be feeling this way because Swanmon is so incredibly boring to me in general.

## Digivolves from

* Biyomon

or

1. Betamon
2. Gatomon
3. Patamon
4. Penguinmon
5. Salamon

## Digivolves to

* Sirenmon

or

1. Etemon
2. MagnaAngemon
3. Makuramon
4. Sinduramon
5. SuperStarmon
Titamon

Titamon here is a Digimon especially conceived to be the Ultimate stage Ogremon can evolve into, and I really do love that they chose Digitamamon to be the bridge between the two. Ogremon cocoons himself as an egg monster full of pure darkness, and what comes out is this kaiju-sized green man with a cool as heck face, a studded green jacket, an eyeball codpiece, giant skulls for shoulders and an oversized sword fashioned from a Skullgreymon.

Did we also mention the dozens of more human-sized skulls contained within his armored forearms? We don't get to see this happen in anything yet, but one of Titamon's secret attacks is said to revive these skulls as an entire undead army!

In his first video game appearance, one of Titamon's possible opening lines is simply: "I AM KNOWN AS THE GOD BEHEADER."

## Digivolves from

* Digitamamon

or

1. Minotarumon
Annorstädes vals

**Annorstädes vals** är en melodi som framfördes av Ingvar Wixell i Svensk sångfestival 1965. Låten slutade på en 1:a plats med 50 poäng.

## Sångtext

* Svenska
* Engelska

En vårens kväll är en ljuvlig tid

Men denna kväll ger mig ingen frid

Och längtan och trånad bor i den

Och häggen och slån slår ut igen

Och jag är ensam och långt från dig

Och du hör alls inte mig

Jag undrar just vad du gör ikväll

Jag undrar just var du är ikväll

Var är du ikväll?

Jag undrar vart dina tankar bär

Och jag undrar: är jag dig kär?

Och med oro undrar jag här

Var du är, var du är

Vi borde vandra tillsammans nu

Bland hägg och gullvivor, jag och du

Och du skulle le med tillförsikt

Och vi skulle kyssas innerligt

Men jag vet inte om du minns mig

Och jag är fjärran från dig

Jag undrar just vad du gör ikväll

Jag undrar just var du är ikväll

Var är du ikväll?

Jag undrar vart dina tankar bär

Och jag undrar: är jag dig kär?

Och med oro undrar jag här var du är

Var du är ikväll

**Absent Friend**

A night of spring is a lovely thing

But I feel sad in this night of spring

For this is the time the sloe gets bright

And this is a most bewitching night

And I am lonely and you are far

And you can't hear what I sing

I wish I knew where you are tonight

I wish you're thinking of me tonight

Where are you tonight?

I wish you feel how I long for you

And I wish you're missing me too

And I wish I knew where to go

Knowing you

Knowing you

We ought to walk where the cowslips grow

Behind the hedge of candescent sloe

And you ought to smile and look at me

And I ought to kiss you tenderly

But I don't know if you still are mine

This lovely evening of spring

I wish I knew where you are tonight

I wish you're thinking of me tonight

Where are you tonight?

I wish you feel how I long for you

And I wish you're missing me too

And I wish I knew where to go

Knowing you

Knowing you

Tonight
Terriermon

But now, I must be brutally honest: this fairly beloved digimon is the exact moment a younger me became a digimon "genwunner." This is the digimon I took one look and and finally thought "digimon don't really feel like digimon anymore." Digimon's visual style had, up to then, felt immediately distinct from that of Pokemon and other competitors, but this rather generically cute, clean design could have been the token mascot critter for any anime ever made, and that really made me sad back in the day.

Even after all this time has passed, I still can't get interested at all in this thing. It still feels like it was drawn to be the safest, most broadly marketable anime mascot they could come up with. Only its personality in the anime stands out much, as I recall Terriermon being kind of a little jerk at times.

## Digivolves to

* Gargomon
* BlackGargomon

or

1. DarkTyrannomon
2. Devimon
3. Dogmon
4. Ebidramon
5. Gargoylemon
6. Gatomon
7. GoldRapidmon
8. Gorillamon
9. Greymon
10. Growlmon
11. Halsemon
12. Ikkakumon
13. Maildramon
14. Prairiemon
15. Stegomon
16. Togemogumon
17. Turuiemon
18. Wendigomon
19. Witchmon
Pumpkinmon

Then, we've got Pumpkinmon, a puppet type Perfect level digimon with a lovely stitched-up rag doll body, a Jack O' Lantern head and an embedded axe for good measure, the Halloweenest digimon there could ever conceivably be. Is it odd for a perfect level to be best friends with a child level? Is that the digimon equivalent of a first grader and a middle aged man running around together? I guess not in digimon logic, since we've even seen villages with "elderly" versions of child stage species. I have no idea how it works.

Pumpkinmon, or just Pumpmon, is admittedly not the most original design out there as a digimon or even as a pumpkin creature. I have seen a LOT of pumpkin creatures in my day, possibly more than any other human being alive, and after a while there isn't all that much you can do to set them apart. Pumpkinmon is, however, still a digimon and pumpkin creature devoid of flaw. There is nothing I would add or change, no "improvement" I can conceive of. It's another of those cases where I wish we didn't even have an additional evolutionary stage, because this absolutely deserves to be a final form.

Not to say there isn't a fairly decent selection of creatures Pumpkinmon can evolve from and evolve into. You KNOW it can morph out of a Bakemon, that goes without saying. Other options include Devimon, Garurumon, Meramon, Wizardmon and Dokugumon, while further evolutions include Boltmon, the upcoming Puppetmon, and the much, much later to come Parasimon (as a very, very peculiar fusion evolution we'll get to talking about when we review that one). It may be lacking in any other haunted vegetables, but they made sure Pumpkinmon's family tree would be a veritable Digital Monster Mash.

## Digivolves from

* Ponchomon

or

1. Apemon
2. Bakemon
3. Devimon
4. Garurumon
5. Soulmon
6. Yanmamon

## Digivolves to

* Boltmon
* NoblePumpkinon

or

1. Parasimon
2. Puppetmon
Submarimon

From a seed, to an axolotl, to an armadillo, to either a mole cricket or a narwhal. Armadillomon's kid sure got some of the weirdest options of the series, especially since he could actually enter submarimon's cockpit and ride around in his best friend's cybernetic skull.

## Digivolves from

* Digmon

or

1. Armadillomon
2. Crabmon
3. Tentomon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. MarineDevimon
2. MegaSeadramon
Taomon

Whatmon? Taomon? My brain seems to have scrubbed the entire existence of this digimon from all memory. I feel like this is my first time ever gazing on this thing. It's visually a little more interesting and odd than its predecessor, at least, but still nothing I'm particularly into.

## Digivolves from

* Kyubimon

or

1. Birdramon
2. Chrysalimon
3. Deputymon
4. Garurumon
5. Kazemon
6. Prairiemon
7. Rinkmon
8. Seasarmon
9. Snimon
10. Toucanmon
11. Youkomon

## Digivolves to

* Sakuyamon

or

1. Boltmon
2. Gulfmon
3. Kuzuhamon
4. Valkyrimon
Myotismon

Guess we've put this guy off long enough. The anime artwork really doesn't look as good as most official digimon art, but it's the only larger-sized illustration I can find, and such a major villain of the series kind of demands more than a 320-pixel square. Myotismon is actually a possible perfect level evolution of Devimon, but more vampire-themed than demon-themed, despite the Japanese name Vamdemon. It's hard to pick a favorite between his two possible names; they didn't want to call something a "demon" for English-speaking audiences I guess, even after "Devimon" was apparently fine, so they named him after Myotis, the genus that includes all mouse-eared bats but not, ironically, the vampire bats. Poser!

Myotismon is the first digimon villain to attempt an invasion of the real world, which raises a lot of questions about how exactly this stuff works. Digimon are made of computer data and their entire world is supposed to be a sort of metaphysical realm formed by our internet, or something, but apparently they can manifest in our world as physical matter anyway. Physical enough that Myotismon is even actually seen stalking, biting and draining blood from human beings!

I've not that much to say about Myotismon's design. He's got that fun early Digimon lankiness but he's otherwise just a vampire man. He seems to be considered one of the sexiest humanlike Digimon guys, but if I were gonna judge that myself I'd rank some of the Devimons and Wizardmon higher on that scale.

## Digivolves from

* Pipismon

or

1. Aurumon
2. Bakemon
3. DarkTyrannomon
4. Devidramon
5. Devimon
6. Guardromon
7. Hyogamon
8. J-Mojyamon
9. Kokatorimon
10. Kyubimon
11. Musyamon
12. Octomon
13. Roachmon
14. Snimon
15. Soulmon
16. Vilemon

## Digivolves to

* VenomMyotismon
* MaloMyotismon

or

1. MetalGarurumon
2. Piedmon
3. SkullMammothmon
Pabumon

The first baby stage is an exceptionally good one, since it's just a bubbling puddle of green mucus that makes a lot of bubbles. The official Bandai description actually adds a whole little story in which Pabumon's ability to multiply its bubbles was used for "computer virus development," but that the experiments were unsuccessful due to Pabumon's "weak life force." Obviously, this means whoever was trying to engineer them into a disease noticed that doing so was dangerous to Pabumon and felt so bad they let all of the Pabumon go and decided not to do that again. Whew!
Zhuqiaomon

The last of the holy beasts, the "Vermilion Bird of the South," is the last of the four primary holy beasts, and I guess we should mention by now that they're based on four Chinese mythical beasts with the same titles, representing the same four directions. The Vermilion bird, just like its digimon counterpart, is master of all birds and always bathed in flames, bearing some resemblance to the Western Phoenix.

Zhuqiaomon is one of those digimon with a little too much chunky "armor" for my taste, but as far as those designs go, you could do worse than a menacing, four-eyed, eight-winged, lizard-tailed avian.

## Digivolves from

* Sinduramon

or

1. Indramon
2. Pajiramon
3. Sandiramon
Togemogumon

OH COME ON! Another burrowing animal, already known for its defenses and ability to roll up, and it's also unrelated to the Armadillo!? This is just silly. Apparently the spines are ice crystals, whatever, why is this a Wormmon armor.

## Digivolves from

* Spadamon

or

1. Crabmon
2. Kumamon
3. Mushroomon
4. Terriermon
5. Wormmon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. IceLeomon
2. Kimeramon
3. Mammothmon
4. MetalGreymon
5. SkullSatamon
Piedmon

Scary clowns seem like they're more popular than ever right now, and I'm sure there'd be a lot of crossover between fans of 2017 Pennywise and this Ultimate stage digimon if the two debuted concurrently. Piemon seems to be widely regarded as one of the most attractive of the humanoid male Digimon villains, and yeah, I can see it. He feels a little more like the villain Kefka from Final Fantasy VI than what we usually think when somebody says "evil clown," he has an interestingly exaggerated body shape and his outfit is pretty snazzy, even if I think the green pants really clash with the rest.

Piemon is another possible final form for the Devimons and other demon digimon, and he's our last member of The Dark Masters, the boss of Puppetmon, Machinedramon and Metalseadramon. Ladydevimon was also first introduced by the anime as Piemon's highest-ranking minion and personal bodyguard, which has of course led to some degree of shipping the two.

Piemon's official description only talks about how nobody knows how or why he came to exist, or even what his "true form" might be. Personally I think it'd be awesome of his true form was that spooky gothic teddy bear he's often shown holding, but no such luck, as far as I know.

## Digivolves from

* Phantomon

or

1. BlueMeramon
2. Doumon
3. LadyDevimon
4. Makuramon
5. Minotarumon
6. Myotismon
7. Piximon
Tekkamon

A little later, in the sixth virtual pet, a variant on Giromon showed up by the name of Tekkamon, but all we know about this one is that it was apparently created by an evil hacker as a virus-type rival to the real Giromon. It's funny that the "evil version" would be so much less scary, armed with only a machete and lacking even horns. They're supposed to be evenly matched regardless, but instead of a bombing attack, Tekkamon just has a headbutt. I want to say I'm less impressed, but that has to be some headbutt.

Unfortunately, these are yet another case in which some very cool and interesting perfect-level Digimon have nothing appropriate to evolve into. You can probably tell by now that most "perfect" Digimon were originally conceived as just what they sound like, a complete and final evolutionary form, but they just had to go and add another level to hook more fans, I guess, and the result is a whole lot of great concepts reduced to nothing but nonsensical intermediate stages. Giromon and Tekkamon tend to evolve mostly into things like Angemon or other humanoids dominating the Ultimate-level pool, and the more these reviews go on, the more feel like the addition of this level did nothing but screw up the whole franchise.

## Digivolves from

* NiseDrimogemon

or

1. Chuchidarumon
2. Gladimon
3. Gorillamon
4. Hyogamon
5. Kougamon
6. Ninjamon
7. Snimon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Boltmon
2. HerculesKabuterimon
3. HiAndromon
4. PrinceMamemon
5. Puppetmon
6. Reapermon
MetalGreymon

See? There's another rocket-shark! Metalgreymon isn't nearly as interesting as Skullgreymon, but it is the more accepted, more stable "perfect" stage of the Agumon line. In the west, this stage was known as "ultimate," but then Japan went and added a sixth stage of Digimon evolution they call the "ultimate" one, and the west was left calling that stage the "mega" stage. This is what you get when you make completely arbitrary dub changes, guys.

Another interesting thing about this one? In the original virtual pet, it had a blue-skinned, more sinister design and was said to have been corrupted by its attempt to evolve into a machine. It wasn't until the anime that they decided to make a somewhat healthier version, but they'd keep this one around anyway as a "virus" version.

...Did I neglect to mention so far that Digimon are sorted into three groups? "Viruses" are destructive, "vaccines" are more protective, and "data" are more neutral, though these categories do not necessarily indicate a Digimon's moral compass. There are plenty of villainous vaccines, heroic viruses, and more politically aware data monsters.

## Digivolves from

* Greymon

or

1. BlackGargomon
2. DarkTyrannomon
3. Deltamon
4. Deputymon
5. Dogmon
6. Drimogemon
7. Garurumon
8. Golemon
9. Gorillamon
10. Growlmon
11. Halsemon
12. Soulmon
13. Stingmon
14. Togemogumon
15. Tuskmon
16. Tyrannomon
17. Veedramon

## Digivolves to

* WarGreymon
* VictoryGreymon
* AncientGreymon

or

1. Chaosdramon
2. Cherubimon
3. Eaglemon
4. Gallantmon
5. Imperialdramon
6. Machinedramon
7. MetalGarurumon
8. VenomMyotismon
9. Zanbamon
Wisemon

Eventually, a wizardly Digimon was released that all three of these nerds could evolve into, and it's such a pretty design, isn't it? It doesn't have all the flair of its predecessors, but it has an elegant simplicity with pleasant, muted colors, creepily clawed hands and everybody's favorite kind of non-face.

Wisemon's giant book is also a part of its form, and kind of implied to be some sort of sacred bible of the Digital World that exists as countless copies Wisemon can freely pass between. Despite being considered a "holy" Digimon, however, Wisemon is a virus type with unknown motivations!

Now, there is a higher-level relative to Wisemon, but it's part of a series of monsters I'm saving for later. It's also not as good looking, but it's related to another Digimon that's really interesting. We'll cross that bridge when we come to it!

## Digivolves from

* Sorcermon

or

1. Darcmon
2. Deputymon
3. FlaWizarmon
4. Mojyamon
5. Witchmon
6. Wizardmon

## Digivolves to

* Lampmon
* AncientWisemon

or

1. ChaosGallantmon
2. Jijimon
Paomon

This digimon was created especially for the Digimon Tamers movie, Battle of Adventures. I'm still disappointed that baby forms tend to be less the "larval slimes" they once were and so strongly resemble their evolutions now, but in this case we at least have a sound explanation; Paomon is apparently the only baby stage digimon modified by humans to be a more appealing pet...though it still spits the acidic bubbles classic to Baby I stages.
Andreas "Giri" Lindbergh

**Andreas "Giri" Lindbergh**, född 16 augusti 1974 på Sri Lanka, är en svensk sångare, gitarrist, keyboardist, trummis, musikproducent och låtskrivare. Han har drivit det egna bandet Giri.

## Medverkan i Melodifestivalen

### Bidrag

 "Six Feet Under"
 2024 | "Heroes Are Calling"

## Externa länkar

* Andreas "Giri" Lindbergh på svenskspråkiga Wikipedia
* Andreas "Giri" Lindbergh på Discogs
* Andreas "Giri" Lindbergh på Spotify
* Andreas "Giri" Lindbergh på Instagram
* Andreas "Giri" Lindbergh på Popfakta
SkullMammothmon

Mammothmon is gracious enough to dive even deeper into horror territory, too, as its canon Ultimate evolution is an undead, mostly skeletonized mammoth known as SKULLMAMMOTHMON! A fun way to play with the fact that this is supposed to be an "extinct" creature, and despite being undead, it's also a vaccine type, ostensibly the more "heroic" category of Digimon. It's said that a computer virus is what decomposed it down to bones, and left it with nothing but a mindless, violent obsession with fighting more virus-type digimon.

I also neglected to mention this on some of our previous undead, but that big sphere in Skullmammothmon's rib cage is called a "digicore," it's supposed to be the real heart and soul of a digimon, and it can be seen in the chest cavity of several other skeletal monsters. It's a bit of worldbuilding they'd eventually forget about and not do a whole lot with, but it's always fun to spot it again.

## Digivolves from

* Mammothmon

or

1. Minotarumon
2. Myotismon
Beatles

**Beatles** är en melodi som framfördes av Forbes i Melodifestival 1977. Låten slutade på en 1:a plats med 117 poäng.

## Sångtext

### Svensk version

Beatles gav oss sin musik
"Yesterday", vad den var fin
Alla älska' melodin
Yeah yeah yeah

När skivor kom då gick det larm
Grammofonen den gick varm
Alla föll för Beatles charm
Yeah yeah yeah

Många gick och nynna' på
"A Hard Day's Night" fast de var små
Farfars far kan ge svar vem de var
Beatles, Beatles

Världen var en stor estrad
Och där stod vi rad i rad
Njöt av varje fin ballad
Yeah yeah yeah

Beatles gav oss sin musik
Flickor tjöt i vilda skrik
Alla skivor har vi kvar
Vi ska minnas Ringo Starr
Och George, och Paul, och John

Farfars far kan ge svar vem de var
Beatles, Beatles

Världen var en stor estrad
Och där stod vi rad i rad
Njöt av varje fin ballad
Yeah yeah yeah

Beatles gav oss sin musik
Flickor tjöt i vilda skrik
Alla skivor har vi kvar
Vi ska minnas Ringo Starr
Och George, och Paul, och John

### Engelsk version

The Beatles gave us all their songs
"Yesterday"s a lovely one
Like all the others, they have gone
Yeah yeah yeah

The Beatles' songs we knew by heart
In music they could work it out
Oh we loved to hear them shout
Yeah yeah yeah

All the kids were humming on
"A Hard Day's Night" just all along
Grandma said they're not bad, go ahead
Beatles, Beatles

The world turned out to be a stage
Their songs were loved by any age
In music did they turn a page
Yeah yeah yeah

The Beatles gave us all their songs
At sixty-four we'll sing along
Thanks for all the things you are
We'll remember Ringo Starr
And George, and Paul, and John

Grandma said they're not bad, go ahead
Beatles, Beatles

The world turned out to be a stage
Their songs were loved by any age
In music did they turn a page
Yeah yeah yeah

The Beatles gave us all their songs
At sixty-four we'll sing along
Thanks for all the things you are
We'll remember Ringo Starr
And George, and Paul, and John
Triceramon

A "truer" evolution of Monochromon is the perfect level Triceramon here, and I do really enjoy how even the herbivorous dinosaurs get to look like vicious bruisers in this series, or used to anyway. I think Monochromon is still slightly more interesting for looking a little less like a particular dinosaur and more like a fantastic beast, but I really enjoy this bipedal ceratopsian, and this is an evolution option with a very pleasing color palette!

## Digivolves from

* Monochromon

or

1. FlareRizamon
2. Greymon
3. MoriShellmon
4. Starmon

## Digivolves to

* Dinorexmon

or

1. Cannondramon
2. Devitamamon
3. Dynasmon
4. Imperialdramon
5. SaberLeomon
6. Spinomon
Majiramon

Dragon Deva and servant of Azulongmon. I actually find this a pretty nice looking dragon. It has a classical, mythical feel without looking much like any other dragon I'm too familiar with, let alone the many, many more toyetic dragons of this series. I like the little outfit on its upper body, the golden moose antlers, the nicely groomed facial hear and how huge those weird lizard arms are. Much cooler looking than his boss!

Majiramon is apparently a highly calculating digimon with a fixation on money, and will describe all sorts of things in terms of a symbolic monetary cost.

## Digivolves from

* Dinohumon

or

1. Flamedramon
2. Hookmon
3. Mikemon
4. Quetzalmon

## Digivolves to

* Fujinmon

or

1. Azulongmon
2. Beelzemon
3. Hououmon
Shellmon

While the cephalopods are cool, I feel like Shellmon is the most appropriate evolution of Syakomon. It was also one of the first couple enemy Digimon the kids ever encountered in the anime, and it feels highly overlooked for how cool and unique it is. How often do you see a dinosaur-shaped gastropod?

The interlocking ridges of Shellmon's mouth are a pretty common design feature in a lot of monsters out there, but it's usually only a stylistic choice that represents having actual teeth. In Shellmon's case, I think it's more obvious that those cool chomping lips are its more literal anatomy, and I like the strands of flesh in the corners of its jaws that push its gooiness just a little further. Add to that its sucker-like fingers and anemone-like hairdo and it's obvious we're not really looking at a reptile.

Shellmon's shell is that of a turbanshell snail, the same inspiration as Slowbro and the Youkai Sazaeoni, though Shellmon is said to borrow these shells in the same manner as a hermit crab. Borrow them from where, we don't know, except that Digimon can steal and repurpose "data" in any way they want, so while it's possible the shell comes from some unknown giant sea-snail Digimon, it may also simply scavenge them from the shells of old Syakomon, who knows.

## Digivolves from

* Crabmon

or

1. Betamon
2. Floramon
3. Gizamon
4. Kunemon
5. ModokiBetamon
6. Monmon
7. Otamamon
8. Penguinmon
9. Syakomon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Andromon
2. Asuramon
3. Blossomon
4. HerculesKabuterimon
5. MegaSeadramon
6. Mermaimon
7. Scorpiomon
8. ShogunGekomon
9. Vademon
Shakkoumon

ALRIGHT! NOW we're talking! Shakkoumon here is an alternative to Magnaangemon, though both of them represent Angemon fusing with an Ankylosaur Digimon we'll get to later.

Shakkoumon was introduced first in the anime, and I'm told fans were actually pissed off at the time that Angemon's next evolution was this thing, so yes, Digimon does suffer from the same kinds of fans who think the odder Pokemon are simply "stupid."

I'm sure most of you, however, recognize Shakkoumon as a dogu statue, the same basis as Claydol, and an artifact often associated with "ancient alien" theories. I think it's an extremely clever, interesting and cool way for Angemon to go.

Unfortunately, there's no particular Ultimate form meant for Shakkoumon the way Magnaangemon can evolve into Seraphimon...but there is at least one pretty interesting Digimon, aesthetically and thematically appropriate in a twisted sense, that can evolve from Shakkoumon according to just one TCG card...

## Digivolves from

* Ankylomon

or

1. Angemon
2. Kuwagamon
3. Snimon
4. Sorcermon
5. Yanmamon

## Digivolves to

* ClavisAngemon

or

1. GranKuwagamon
2. GuardiAngemon
3. Lampmon
4. Reapermon
5. Vikemon
Monzaemon

Don't worry, folks: this is actually still a Numemon! It's 100% canon that one of the coprophilic gastropoda is operating this gigantic teddy bear from the inside, and in some games, you even "evolve" Numemon to this form by finding it an empty mascot suit to slither into.

In the virtual pet, on the other hand, this evolution requires the same care and effort as any other "Perfect" Digimon, so I like to think the overall idea here is that this new form represents your unconditional bond with a creature many others would have only given up on, and they really lay the heartbreak on thick with the fact that Monzaemon is quite the powerhouse in battle...but also has the shortest lifespan of the original Perfect stages.

To end up with a Numemon, you have to neglect your poor Digimon completely. To evolve it, you have to accept the abomination you created, buckle down, and start caring about it. The result is a Numemon dressing up as something it isn't and pushing itself to the absolute limit for you. If that's not one of the most powerful things you've ever heard in association with something called "Digimon: Digital Monsters," I don't know what is.

So, while we can't quite see our beautiful slug child anymore, I still give Monzaemon a 5/5, though if you DO want your Digimon's slugginess to hang out proud and free, you're in luck!

## Digivolves From:

* Frigimon
* Numemon

or

1. Grizzlymon
2. MudFrigimon

## Digivolves To:

1. Babamon
2. Callismon
3. GoldNumemon
4. Jijimon
5. SaberLeomon
6. Vikemon
Tyrannomon

So, after doing ten of these review pages, I decided to go back and expand a bit on this one. I know I said I'd be trying to keep these reviews simple, but I don't think there's any more appropriate place to talk about the Tyrannomons than here, since they were exclusively evolutions of Agumon and counterparts to the Greymon line in their original appearance.

Greymon's beetle-like helmet is more interesting than anything Tyrannomon's got going on, but I do like that Tyrannomon has such massive, scary claws, and I kinda just feel bad for it, having the spotlight so thoroughly ripped away by the Greymons.

## Digivolves from

* Agumon

or

1. Gabumon
2. Hawkmon
3. Monodramon
4. Patamon
5. ToyAgumon
6. Veemon

## Digivolves to

* MasterTyrannomon
* Mametyramon

or

1. BlackMetalGreymon
2. ExTyrannomon
3. Megadramon
4. MetalGreymon
5. MetalTyrannomon
6. SkullGreymon
7. Vademon
Lynxmon

The little kitty cat's courage armor form is a flaming lynx, and its description focuses on it being seen as the "opposite" to the cold-loving wolf, Garurumon, even having a more carefree, lazy personality to Garurumon's fierce fighting spirit. Like I said...this really feels like a depository for some extra digimon they didn't know what else to do with.

## Digivolves from

* Liamon

or

1. Gatomon
2. Gazimon
3. Lopmon

## Digivolves to

* Marsmon

or

1. BlueMeramon
2. Knightmon
3. Mihiramon
Ponchomon

Oh yes. For real. When the flying hamster meets the power of purity, it can evolve into a Mexican-themed cactus ghost. "Armor level" digimon are alternately treated as equivalent to adult stage digimon and kind of their own thing, but Togemon, the adult level boxing-glove cactus, is said to sometimes "evolve" into Ponchomon by literally dying.

Why can Patamon evolve into Togemon's ghost?!

Ponchomon's description says that it's always, always dancing and generating music, and that its fellow ghost, Bakemon, tends to really enjoy grooving along to the same tune. I gotta say I like everything about the idea of a happy, musical cactus phantom.

## Digivolves from

* Mushroomon

or

1. Aruraumon
2. Bearmon
3. Floramon
4. Patamon

## Digivolves to

* Pumpkinmon

or

1. Deramon
2. Phelesmon
3. Vajramon
SnowAgumon

This playful cold-adapted variation of Agumon loves to romp in the snow. They often hide behind snow drifts and throw snowballs at passers-by, and hide before anyone finds them.

## Digivolves From:

* Nyaromon
* Pagumon

or

1. Bukamon
2. DemiVeemon
3. Koromon
4. Moonmon

## Digivolves To:

* Frigimon

or

1. Hyogamon
2. Icemon
3. Ikkakumon
4. Kumamon
5. Moosemon
6. Sorcermon
7. Yasyamon
Sepikmon

A weird one. This "demon man" or "wizard" digimon is just a monkey with a tiki mask and a gigantic boomerang. I guess they were going for a really jungle-ey theme, but the boomerang would be Australian, and Australia doesn't have monkeys, damn it!

## Digivolves from

* Monmon

or

1. Agumon
2. Armadillomon
3. Floramon
4. Sharmamon

## Digivolves to

* Makuramon

or

1. Vademon
ToyAgumon

Today's Digimon is a bit of a sad one, because a fake Agumon made out of big lego blocks - complete with a plastic fireball it can spit from its mouth! - is a charming concept fully worthy of an entire toy-themed evolutionary line, but for twenty-some long years, this poor little thing has received virtually no attention and nothing resembling a thematic evolution. For singular digimon, it's hardly even worth repeating their name or designating their evolutionary level like we usually do, suffice to say that this is a child-level evolution just like the real Agumon.

Toyagumon's lore is pretty charming as well; apparently designed by a child on the internet and brought to life by the power of the digital world, it continues using the internet to reach out to human children and entertain them any way it can, but doesn't have much strength when it comes to actually protecting anyone from more dangerous Digimon and will simply fall apart when startled enough.

The one thing Toyagumon does have going for it is that, at least according to an episode of Digimon Frontier, it can reassemble its pieces into any form it wants, and enough of them together can form fully functional vehicles, buildings and even giant robots! This was demonstrated specifically by the black, virus-type Toyagumon variants, who were also responsible in this same episode for transforming a Monzaemon into a Warumonzaemon. Pretty nasty little legos!

Or...wait...lego? It's DUPLO blocks that have those eyes, now that I think about it!

## Digivolves from

* DemiMeramon

or

1. Kapurimon
2. Koromon

## Digivolves to

* Nanimon
* Mercurymon
* Deputymon

or

1. Airdramon
2. Clockmon
3. DarkTyrannomon
4. Deltamon
5. Devimon
6. Dogmon
7. Garurumon
8. Gatomon
9. Greymon
10. Guardromon
11. Tankmon
12. Thunderballmon
13. Trailmon
14. Tyrannomon
Mojyamon

So, you might think this shaggy yeti would be related in some way by evolution to Frigimon, but alas, both are adult stages, introduced in different virtual pets. I review them together because they're still typically seen in the same environments and they're both creatures we call "snowmen."

Personally, I think it would have been ideal if Frigimon were the Perfect Level evolution of Mojyamon. Maybe some would argue that it should be the other way around, that a snowman should "come to life" into a yeti, but I more like the idea of a yeti becoming one with its element, becoming pure ice and snow.

## Digivolves from

* SnowGoburimon

or

1. Monmon
2. Palmon
3. Penguinmon

## Digivolves to

* IceLeomon

or

1. Armormon
2. Karatenmon
3. Mamemon
4. MetalMamemon
5. Piximon
6. SkullGreymon
7. Vademon
8. WereGarurumon
9. Wisemon
Tankmon

I never really stopped to think one way or another about this adult digimon, but I think I actually really love this thing. It's IN a tank and it is the tank! The central cannon ends up feeling like either a long cranial horn or a big, goofy proboscis on this mutant humanoid with just the sort of eyes that used to get painted onto military vehicles.

There's also that whole second face on tankmon's lower body, with its own little red eyes and giant, metal underbite. Is that functional? Can Tankmon see out of that? Could those even be the only real eyes?

## Digivolves from

* Solarmon

or

1. Kokuwamon
2. Psychemon
3. ToyAgumon
4. Tsukaimon
5. Veemon

## Digivolves to

* Tankdramon

or

1. Locomon
2. MetalKabuterimon
3. MetalMamemon
4. MetalTyrannomon
5. Tinmon
6. WaruMonzaemon
Puppetmon

Well, originally Pinnochimon, but Puppetmon was the name I knew him by as another of the villainous Dark Masters, and the first one we've reviewed since we covered Machinedramon and Metalseadramon at almost the beginning of these reviews!

Puppetmon is one of those more complex, later-style, humanoid designs I wish hadn't become so, so overdone, but it's one with a lot more personality and goofiness to it. I love the needle-like metal nose, the jagged mouth, the creepy hat with that radiation skull certain digimon sport, the little gears on his chest, the cartoon gloves...he's got basically everything going on that you'd want from an evil wooden puppet digimon, and his hammer seems bizarrely crafted from a gigantic gun barrel!

Where this guy really shines, though, is the amount of personality in his anime incarnation.

I dare you to have ever seen this expressive little creep in action and not fall in love with his adorable voice (in Japanese or English) or earnest drive to "play," even if he has positively no regard for the feelings or safety of others. He's even got GUNS!!! Though his mansion is filled with deadly booby traps disguised as toys, he eventually pulls real, actual firearms out of his toy box, apparently his favorite things to play with, and forces T.K, the youngest of the kids, to play a deadly game of tag. This all was pretty carefully (sometimes cleverly) edited out of most overseas versions for fear that it might make guns look more appealing to child viewers, which is a valid concern, though I think the episode hammers home an idea that guns are a pretty ugly and frightening thing to treat as playthings.

The sad thing about Puppetmon is that we're repeatedly reminded he doesn't have any "friends," though in Japanese, that's "nakama," a broader term that can also simply include "allies." I'm not just spewing trivia here; the other Dark Masters definitely have "allies" at the very least, or minions that appear to respect them, whereas Puppetmon's various associates all seem fairly willing to sell him out if they know they can get away with it.

Whether he was always such a rat bastard or a victim of circumstance, Puppetmon's life had to have been pretty sad to witness, considering that as a fully evolved digimon, he basically "matured" into a child. A child with no empathy and way more power than it could handle. Why wasn't he the main villain? He's certainly the most complex.

It bears mentioning that another, entirely different Puppetmon eventually appears in Digimon Fusion, and as more of a troubled antihero, but as cool as that is, I'm always going to remember this digimon as a murderous little brat that nobody loves.

## Digivolves from

* Cherrymon

or

1. Garbagemon
2. Jagamon
3. Pumpkinmon
4. Tekkamon
Lillymon

...And, I know what you're expecting. You're expecting me to hate that this is the next stage in the line.

Would I have rather Palmon's "perfect" stage resemble some kind of big dinosaur-fly-trap or pitcher plant or something? Sure, obviously, duh, but the idea of a boxing cactus blooming into a plant-fairy is fairly novel. It's drastic enough to be more interesting than other evolutions we've seen thus far, and to be honest, I'm just a sucker for fairy creatures in general, especially when they're associated with plant life, and she still has that sort of alien-looking face going for her. I also just noticed how her original art has sharp, claw-like fingernails, which I really wish they'd kept in the anime model and onward, though they did give her two tiny fangs for teeth you can see now and then.

Also, I can't believe I forgot this the first time I uploaded this review, but Lilymon's primary attack just turns her hands into a gun.

## Digivolves from

* Togemon

or

1. Angemon
2. Kiwimon
3. Piddomon
4. Pucchiemon
5. Yanmamon

## Digivolves to

* Rosemon

or

1. BanchoLillymon
2. Magnadramon
3. MarineAngemon
Syakomon

Numemons aren't the only Digimon mollusks! That honor also goes to this swell child-level bivalve with a pretty novel design. I love when a monster has a shell with natural eye holes, giving it two totally different faces whether the shell is open or closed. It looks a lot cooler with the shell closed, of course, but that's pretty much the point. The fact that its inner slime-blob has a sort of kitty cat face is charmingly strange, and at least the shell still has its own teeth and cool purple flesh on the inside. You might also notice that the shell has the same "radioactive skull" insignia as Phantomon and several other Digimon. It doesn't mean anything, it's just cool.

## Digivolves from

* Bukamon

or

1. Pagumon

## Digivolves to

* Octomon
* Ranamon
* KaratsukiNumemon

or

1. Archelomon
2. Coelamon
3. Frogmon
4. Gesomon
5. Ikkakumon
6. Mantaraymon
7. Raremon
8. Seadramon
9. Shellmon
10. Tylomon
11. Whamon
MetalTyrannomon

And then, we've got the Tyrannomon version of Metalgreymon, and it goes even harder with the "cybernetics gone awry" aspect, looking almost like it's ready to fall apart in a heap of rotten meat and scrap!

## Digivolves from

* DarkTyrannomon

or

1. Agunimon
2. Airdramon
3. DarkLizardmon
4. Devidramon
5. Flamedramon
6. FlareRizamon
7. Golemon
8. Raidramon
9. Tankmon
10. Tyrannomon
11. Yasyamon

## Digivolves to

* RustTyrannomon

or

1. BlackMegaGargomon
2. BlackMetalGarurumon
3. Chaosdramon
4. Machinedramon
5. Megidramon
6. WarGreymon
7. Zanbamon
Rosemon

And again, you probably expect me to dislike this, but if we must do flower-themed human thingies here, I can't deny that Rosemon is an incredibly snazzy one. She has a more coherent color theory and motif than a lot of other humanlike Digimon, no extraneous metal or plastic-looking pieces glued onto her, and the lack of eyes goes a really long way. Covered or absent eyes are actually a trend throughout humanlike Digimon, and it makes them look easily twice as cool as they otherwise would have.

If only Lilymon didn't have eyes either, she'd probably have gotten a higher rating herself, just like certain pokemon.

Unfortunately, the topic of Rosemon also brings us to another, fairly divisive subject in Digimon fan circles, and you can probably guess it from just one gif:

Mimi's Palmon never actually evolves this far in the original series, but if she did, it would've probably been animated with a little more subtlety. By the time a Rosemon would appear on TV, almost every female Digimon had been turned into a non-stop fanservice delivery system, and I'm not shaming anybody for liking cartoon boobers here; I'm overall more boober-positive than negative myself, but I wasn't especially clamoring for boobers to flail all over hell and creation while I'm just trying to watch some Digimans, a franchise still ostensibly aimed at children with primarily children as main characters.

Again, not judging, I can admit this is a fairly sexy vegetable even if this kind of artwork sure looks greasy, but maaaaaaaaybe things were getting just a smidge excessive by the time they were hiring hentai illustrators for this stuff, which is seriously what they really did, and these two trading cards are even some of the tamer examples I felt I could get away with showing here.

Maybe it's not that big a deal, but it sure does feel like a desperate corporate attempt to make a floundering franchise appear edgier than its competitors.

ALL THAT ASIDE, I'd still like to reiterate that I think Rosemon is a genuinely slick and stylish design, even if it is rather harder than it should be to find any artwork or screenshots that treat her very seriously, and even if I do still wish we had more monstrous ultimate-level plant creatures. There's one, but it's very specifically tied to a completely different Digimon we're going to be checking out quite a bit later.

As a final point in Rosemon's favor, this sort of seductive flower person with a thorny whip is already a classic trope of monsters in countless Magical Girl and Sentai series already...so maybe this Digimon evolved this way because she's just as big a nerd as Gabumon.

## Digivolves from

* Lillymon

or

1. Blossomon
2. Garbagemon
3. LadyDevimon
4. Lilamon
5. Pajiramon
6. Vermillimon
Tokomon

THE BEST Baby II stage in the franchise, no contest whatsoever. Just look at those horrendous, gummy teeth! According to an interview with designer Kenji Watanabe, this was inspired directly by Fizzgig from The Dark Crystal, though I honestly think Tokomon does even better with the concept. Fizzgig already looks like some kind of carnivore, but Tokomon just looks like a goofy little marshmallow-piggy before it opens that lovely maw.

I like it so much, I wish it was a "child" level just so it could be the default monster partner of this line.

## Digivolves to

* Patamon
* Tsukaimon
* Gizamon
* Bakumon

or

1. Biyomon
2. DemiDevimon
3. Dokunemon
4. Kunemon
5. PetitMamon
Monochromon

This classic adult digimon has probably been mentioned in the comments here more times than...well, more times than I expected, anyway, probably at least five different times, which is a lot more than any of the other long-forgotten digisauruses. People really seem fond of this one, and I can see why, if dinosaurian beasties are one of your favorite things. It's loosely based on a ceratopsian, but exaggerated into a much more lizardy monster, a sort of rhinoceros-armadillo with an oversized head and jaws, and a pretty cool color scheme. Its name references the fact that it's almost entirely black and white, except for the red highlights on its horns and its pretty green eyes. I think it might have been even cooler if it was TRULY only shown in shades of grey, but we can't have it all I guess.

Monochromon is oddly one of the only digimon that evolves into a higher-leveled palette swap of itself, which is known as Vermillimon. I guess it got tired of being grey and felt like looking worse. Sorry, Vermillimon, but black and grey is just a whole a lot nicer than that sort of Old Ketchup look you've got going. Still a whole lot better than just evolving into a guy in a weird suit, though. It might have been interesting if there were a whole range of differently colored evolutions here, maybe with a matching range of subtly different elemental attacks...sort of like dragons and their breath weapons in D&D?

## Digivolves from

* Gotsumon

or

1. Agumon
2. Bakumon
3. Biyomon
4. BlackAgumon
5. Gabumon
6. Guilmon
7. ModokiBetamon
8. Monodramon
9. Penguinmon
10. SnowGoburimon

## Digivolves to

* Triceramon

or

1. Angewomon
2. BlackMetalGreymon
3. Jagamon
4. Megadramon
5. MetalMamemon
6. Piximon
7. ShogunGekomon
8. Vademon
9. Vermillimon
Salamandermon

Of the original Digimon Adventure partners, only Patamon and Gatomon get a full set of armor evolutions...but this absolutely wonderful flaming salamander was given as an armor form to Agumon, and more intriguingly, to some of the more underloved child digimon including Gazimon, Otamamon, and even Chuumon!

It's a perfect salamander design; nice and broad and flattened like a proper giant 'mander, with the addition of pointed brow ridges to give it a more menacing streak and a stitched mouth for no reason other than it's super cool.

## Digivolves from

* Otamamon (Red)

or

1. Chuumon
2. Tentomon
Whamon

We mentioned Whamon earlier as a possible evolution for Raremon, though strangely enough, Whamon began as an Adult stage and was later retconned into a Perfect level. Both are kind of treated as still "canon," so Whamon is one of several Digimon that can, technically, digivolve into the same exact thing with higher stats.

Whamon is another great example of how gritty Digimon used to be, regardless of their animal basis or even their role. This is basically a cetacean xenomorph with a body that appears to be in the process of decomposing, yet it's typically been cast as a fairly friendly Digimon and even had a kindly voice in its early anime appearances. I know I'm biased towards it and all, but I feel like Raremon makes a whole lot of sense for this to evolve from. Raremon is pretty much a globster and globsters are usually just decaying whale remains. It's like Gizamon erupted into a huge mass of rotten blubber to then sort itself back into an only kinda rotten whale monster.

## Digivolves from

* Dolphmon

or

1. Betamon
2. Elecmon
3. Gomamon
4. Ikkakumon
5. Mantaraymon
6. Otamamon
7. Palmon
8. Penguinmon
9. Syakomon
10. Tylomon

## Digivolves to

* Neptunemon
* Surfymon

or

1. Divermon
2. Mamemon
3. MarineAngemon
4. MegaSeadramon
5. MetalMamemon
6. MetalSeadramon
7. Plesiomon
8. Vademon
9. Vikemon
Sethmon

Finally. Something actually interesting. The power of love, previously connected with Sora and her bird pal, turns V-mon into this tusked beast with a wickedly beaked and bladed helmet, eerie eyes and a spooky, broken goth heart insignia?

This design is actually a sort of distortion of a digimon we'll see on the next page, and what's really wild is that the digi-egg of love is supposedly far too much for V-mon to handle, so in evolving this form, it gets corrupted and twisted into an entity of pure hate.

That's a pretty novel idea...but unfortunately, this form would never appear in Digimon Adventure 02. An amazing plot twist was staring them in the face, and they left it out completely.

## Digivolves from

* Phascomon

or

1. Guilmon
2. Tsukaimon
3. Veemon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Paildramon
2. WarGrowlmon