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Hub Park

**Hub Park** is the final hub in Speed Prix. It is a Speed Prix theme park with NASCAR-styled tracks. Unlike the other four hubs, there are no Trophy Races, and the Token Challenges and Relic Races have special requirements for entering.

## Tracks

1. Race Arena - Unlocked after collecting all five shields.
2. Slide Stadium - Unlocked after collecting all the badges.
3. Stunt Gym - Unlocked after collecting all five flags
4. Final Coliseum - Token Challenge unlocked after collecting nineteen medals. Time Attack unlocked after collecting all five cups.
Ремесло

**Ремесло** - Комплекс научных и/или магических навыков и знаний что позволяет создавать различные предметы. Эта статья в основном посвящена магическому способу и части этого дела.

**Ремесло** - Это кузнечное дело, портное мастерство, химические/алхимические ремесла, кукольное/марионеточное дело, артефакторика и прочее. Куда реже что-то вроде кулинарии или скажем гончарства и архитектуры.

**Методы работы:**

**Создание** - Способ, который так или иначе может содержать что угодно, но предполагает участие создателя напрямую в процессе. Часто создаются более сложные артефакты, вещи, произведения, впрочем это может быть и скажем - просто ковка меча. Часто такой метод может быть ограничен в бою тем что он требует особого материала, занимает много времени, отнимает силы создателя (если как основу нужно вложить часть души/жизненной силы/маны). Поэтому он в основном представляет собой опасность при подготовке.

**Модификация** - Улучшение существующего предмета, вещи, произведения и т.д.

**Часто встречаются:**

* **Живые артефакты с разными возможностями** (живые марионетки по сути представляют собой живой артефакт, говорящие мечи, книги и т.д.).
* Ключи, что служат допуском к какой либо силе, месту, способности или возможности.
* Протезы, что заменяют утерянные конечности.
Высокоразмерное существование

**Высокоразмерное существование** - Это принадлежность к мирам, высшим (с большим количеством размерностей) по отношению к обычным трёхмерным вселенным (обладают телами, распространяющимися как минимум на 4 размерности). Разница между такими существами и существами из обычного пространства-времени, соответствует разнице между объектами с разным количеством размерностей, то есть она бесконечна, причем не только количественно, но и качественно. Существа высших измерений часто показаны богоподобными по отношению к низшим измерениям, не только из-за превосходства в силе, но и за счёт существования по совершенно иным законам физики и логики, не поддающимся разуму трёхмерных существ.

**Способности, свойственные высокоразмерному существованию:**

* Бесконечная/выше бесконечной/неизмеримая сила (трёхмерная концепция массы не имеет значения)
* Акаузальность (существование вне нормального пространства и времени)
* Манипуляции реальностью
* Концептуальная защита (существование по иным концепциям, либо аналогичным, но бесконечно более сложным и объёмным, чем трёхмерные)
* Огромный размер (технически дополнительная размерность делает объект бесконечно больше)
* Космическая осведомленность (подобно тому, как мы можем наблюдать "внутреннюю" структуру двухмерных объектов, существа из высших миров так могли бы смотреть на трёхмерные объекты)
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Metal Phantomon

The official Bandai art of this one is a little tough to make out, so here's a collector's card! This advanced Phantomon, like most Ultimates, isn't as charming to me as either regular Phantomon or the weaker Bakemon, but it still deserves appreciation for its metal skull face, rib cage fangs, electricity arms, nicely detailed spinal column and the fact that it just has a plasma sphere thingy instead of legs.

Metalphantomon has seen no real play in Digimon video games or virtual pets, but it did get to appear in an episode of one of the more recent anime series, and as one of those villains with power over dreams and nightmares!

* Digivolves from: Soulmon
* Digivolves to: Reapermon
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: Nise Drimogemon
Giromon

In the third version of the Digimon Virtual Pet, this little guy took over the role of Mamemon and Metalmamemon as the "tiny but powerful" Perfect evolution option, but while Giromon has been seen working with Mamemon in the anime, they aren't technically considered the same family of monsters. Instead, Giromon is a fully mechanized vaccine Digimon whose job is to defend computer networks from all potentially harmful intruders.

I generally really like how menacing Giromon is, especially for an anti-viral Digimon. With its chainsaw, bombs and devilish face, it feels like it should have the personality of an edgy 90's antihero like the *Punisher* or something, going totally overboard with violence usually unbefitting one of the good guys. In its original appearance, Giromon could even evolve from *Bakemon,* which means that a sadistic hunter of viruses used to *be* one of the most pathetic virus types out there, and also sort of rose from the dead in the process.

* Digivolves from: Drimogemon
Birdramon

It comes as a pretty magnificent surprise, then, that the pudgy pink budgie has what is easily the second scariest looking evolution among the main characters. *Look* at that thing!

Even the anime, softening and simplifying a lot of Digimon designs for ease of animation as well as marketability, couldn't do much to make this hellbird any less intimidating. She's explicitly said to have been born from an "internet firewall," hence her phoenix-like appearance, and she *supposedly*specializes in counterattacks rather than taking any offensive initiative, though this is never really mentioned or utilized in the anime itself. Instead, she'll just go straight to pelting enemies with fireball-like feathers.

It's the snaggly, interlocking teeth that are probably the coolest part of Birdramon, of course, straight off some ancient, prehistoric feathered reptile! So just what's this thing evolve into, given how much beastlier Greymon and Garurumon went??

* Digivolves from: Biyomon
* Digivolves to: Garudamon
Metal Seadramon

Things get pretty interesting now with the Ultimate dragons, because BOTH of them that we're about to look at were major villains in the original anime, and even both on the same team of four "Dark Masters!" Guess Betamon really *was* pissed at getting so shafted.

Metalseadramon's design is the expected roboticization most Digimon go through at this stage, and not terrible, but the gold and silver is pretty eye-burning. All I can really say about this one is how hilarious his English dubbing is. Just listen to the voice they decided should come out of a giant, murderous dragon, and enjoy his dorky *Anomalocarimon* minion, too ("Scorpiomon" in the dub):

* Digivolves from: Waru Seadramon
Bukamon

The Baby II stage of this line is the one I'm most prone to forgetting the entire existence of, for whatever reason. It should be harder to forget a little dinosaur critter with flippers, which honestly looks more like a child-level than baby-level Digimon.

* Digivolves from: Pichimon
* Digivolves to: Gomamon, Syakomon, Crabmon, Otamamon
Salamon

Here's where this line gets a little peculiar, because the kind of forgettable Salamon here is a *dog*Digimon that evolves from a cat and then straight *back* into a cat. Maybe if we got to see a little more of Salamon, I could give it a real rating, but the design isn't particularly interesting, and this is one child stage we almost *never* see in the anime.

* Digivolves from: Nyaromon
* Digivolves to: Gatomon, Black Gatomon, Mikemon
Metal Koromon

Today, let's look at some robot Digimon that evolve from each other! One of the only mechanoid baby Digimon is Choromon here, translated in English versions as MetalKoromon even though Koromon is a Baby II Digimon.

This cute little thing is said to run on a program that moves in reaction to light, and goes motionless in darkness. A digimon based on an extremely simple robot, the kind someone might put together as an early test!

* Digivolves to: Kapurimon
Hououmon

At least the "most canon" ultimate stage is a step back toward a feathered sky-terror, even if Hououmon or "phoenixmon" in the West still isn't *quite* as kickass looking, to me, as plain old Birdramon. The idea behind Hououmon is that it's the absolute ultimate god-beast of all bird Digimon, though this would be sort of contradicted later by other bird monsters.

* Digivolves from: Garudamon
Devitamamon

Many years after its debut, Digitamamon was also given a further, final evolution, so we can STILL say that this Digimon both begins and ends as an egg, and this 17-eyed hellbeast is just plain killer! It'd honestly like it a bit more if its head was typically retracted, still just showing its eyes in the darkness off the egg, but those long, jagged jaws aren't too bad of a look either.

Devitamamon is actually one of many Digimon added to the canon from a fan-art contest, though the original creator's design was quite a bit different:

It probably sucks to win a contest like this only for your design to get completely overhauled, but I'm still a sucker for the many-eyed nightmare they ultimately went with. If there's anything I like more about the original, it's the black sockets for eyes in what's apparently more of a skull-like head.

I believe Devitamamon's official profile still comes from the original contest entry, at least, and its creator loaded it with a loving degree of dramatic horror. The contents of its shell are likened to a "Pandora's box" of all things evil, it's said to use a lost programming language to cast wicked digital spells, and its main attack is known as the "Black Death Cloud," which "robs opponents of their sight, gnaws at their spirit, and decomposes their body."

**CALM DOWN, EGG!!!!!**

* Digivolves from: Digitamamon
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
Ornismon

I said I wouldn't review every possible evolution of every Digimon, but whenever there's a thematically logical choice I like more than the "most canon" path for a main Digimon, I think it'd be fun to include it too, but *just the one* or this is going to get sucked down a rabbit hole like you would not **believe.**

Ornismon is given as an alternate evolution of Garudamon in the TCG, and I *still* like Birdramon a little more, but this thing dives even further into prehistoric avian territory with a beautiful color scheme to boot. It's also said to be one of the mightiest Digimon that has ever existed, *moreso than Hououmon,* to the point that in one anime, Ornismon was basically an ancient, sealed horror unleashed by a villain to wreak grand-scale destruction!

* Digivolves from: Karatenmon
Vikemon

The final stage, I gotta say, feels like it should have been swapped around with Zudomon. This looks more obviously like an older, beefier, more anthropomorphic Ikkakumon, while Zudomon looks like a more monstrous mutation of *this* being, even losing most of its fur in the process. As a final stage, I kinda find Vikemon disappointing compared to Zudomon.

* Digivolves from: Zudomon
Agumon

Now we get to the main event, the little yellow dinosaur and "child stage" Digimon most recognize as the entire face of the series. Even compared to today, almost nothing flew off the toy shelves of the 90's quite like any kind of carnivorous dinosaur, and Agumon really distills the "ugly-cute" vibe that sold so many on Digimon's debut.

Agumon shows off several design quirks that actually remain signature to the franchise even today, notably the colorful irises and the flaring, mole-claw forelimbs they stick on virtually everything they possibly can.

In the anime, of course, Agumon's uncanny veins and muscles were a little toned down, but he still had that hilarious little beer-bellied human body with freaky dinosaur limbs on it. He was, if you hadn't guessed, the Digimon partner of our main hero and leader of the "digidestined," both of them basically the same sort of naive, over-eager but pure-hearted hero figure, which I know sounds super boring and is usually super boring, but they really did a good job of making every single kid and every single monster in the show incredibly likeable.

It's especially nice how the characters, no matter how cookie-cutter they may seem, show off a whole lot of carefully planned emotional growth over the course of the original series, with Tai and Agumon helping one another mature into more responsible leaders by the end of it all.

This statement will also be completely meaningless and devoid of myriad in-jokes to the majority of you, but my spouse and I at least were fairly delighted to discover that Agumon has the same Japanese voice actor, performing the same voice, as *Anpanman's* friend *Tendonman* here, and you only have to listen to his song once to know that we say "friend" in more of a "grudgingly tolerated" sense, the only sense in which anybody has ever been Tendonman's friend.

Anyway, I'm gonna rate Agumon a three out of five, because it's pretty much the most basic possible measure of a Digimon you could point to.

* Digivolves from: Koromon
* Digivolves to: Greymon, Geo Greymon, Tyrannomon
Machinedramon

Much, much easier on the eyes than Metalseadramon. Any primarily black and grey robot is going to look cool, and it's interesting that the aidramon line actually loses flight when it reaches its final form. Machinedramon even keeps one of those cool claws from Megadramon, while the other is a more Metalgreymon-like set of talons.

And, unlike Metalseadramon, the dub voice for the "Dark Master" Machinedramon is actually fairly frightening. SPOILER WARNINGS, obviously, if you were only just going to start watching this show, and you may also want to brace yourself for Agumon's English voice if you weren't already familiar with it, not to mention that series theme song they replay for every single evolution sequence:

There's a few other variations on the dramons and even directly on Machinedramon, but I physically can't ever be thorough with every one of these and I can't think of a whole lot to say about those variations, so we'll leave these here.

* Digivolves from: Skull Greymon
Dean Jess Feathervane

Mother: Unknown

An independent, strong-willed woman who grew up on the coasts of Gandria, interested in magic
from a very young age she was lucky to live closer to the north than most,
where magic was appreciated and accepted as a tool.

Feathervane became
a scholar, studying the arcane in her adolescence, where she became the adept of
a great sorcerer, **Master Ka’ Zel.**

Her master
being a Dragonborn was of no significance to the young mage nor her peers.

**Early Life**

Jess
Feathervane grew up in a farmstead town with only her father and brother to
care for her, a traveling band of scholars picked up on her extraordinary aura
one summer as they passed through. Their Master, **Ka’ Zel.** A gentle dragonborn sorcerer, convinced her father that
she could do wondrous things and that he had seen it in the ever-watching eye.

Her father,
a firm believer of free will and magic, allowed the dragonborn to test his
daughter.

After a minor
display of surprisingly powerful magic, Ka’ Zel insisted she be taken to Stormcloud
keep to study at his *Society of Knowledge*
and Magic.

His father
agreed and sent her with the scholars.

**Early Teens**

Feathervane
was an adventurous teenager but not always an obedient one. She would often
ignore the warnings of her Master, but not to a point where she was putting
anyone else in danger.

She was taught
how to master her magic and how to sense others. A skill that would prove very
useful.

At an early
age she was asked to accompany her Master on a quest, a venture that would
change the way she used and harnessed her magic powers.

She saved
the life of Ka’ Zel and returned the victor in the battle to come.

**Late years**

Feathervane
became an esteemed sorceress who now runs the *Society of Knowledge and Magic* in Stormcloud.

She’s inclined
to help anyone who desperately needs her help and isn’t afraid to fight for
what she believes in.
Senar City

Location of Senar City

Housing the holy Temple of Ran, a monument to the Gods. The capitol of Elithin also houses the Pharaoh of this Kingdom.

The city is comprised of Four districts:

Old town where the poor and several other races live although the class separation of poor Gani and other races is crystal clear.

The temple district where the Temple of Ran is located and people of belief dwell.

The Elithian market where most of the kingdoms wares are for sale, many shops and barters remain here during the day to sell their wares to travelers and other Gani.

Finally, the Hanging Gardens where the elite of Senar lives. The chancellors live in this area.
Airdramon

The flying counterpart to Seadramon is a little more elaborate. Serpentine leglessness is always an excellent choice when it comes to draconic beasts, and I really like the intense, regal colors they gave to this beastly sky-snake. Can you believe most newer Digimon have NO rotten holes in their wings *or* varicose veins?! The way its head is armored by an external or possibly stolen skull just tops the whole thing off.

* Digivolves from: Modoki Betamon
* Digivolves to: Megadramon, Gigadramon
Toy Agumon

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: Demi Meramon
* Digivolves to: Nanimon, Mercurymon, Deputymon
Goblimon

A proper child stage for Ogremon would only come later, though I can't say I really like Goblimon as much, and I think it's just because the muzzle, more like a cartoon ape, just looks too dorky combined with those Sonic the Hedgehog eyes and little shock of hair. You looked like an utter goof as a kid, Ogremon. No wonder you overcompensate so hard now.

* Digivolves from: Pagumon
* Digivolves to: Ogremon, Grumblemon, Boarmon
Thunderballmon

Yeah, this Mamemon is an *adult* stage, one down from every other Mamemon, and doesn't even get "mame" in its name! It can evolve into the original three Mamemon variants, which I guess is why it was created, but it's *really* not as interesting to me as any of the others. It just doesn't have that creepy-cute charm and the sense of a bigger monster collapsing in on itself.

* Digivolves from: Vi Elecmon
* Digivolves to: Thunderbirmon
Kabuterimon

...And when the going gets rough, the brainiac beetle can explode into a freakin' *two-story xenomorph*. What was I just saying about arthropod protagonists? This was what I meant when I called Birdramon only the second most terrifying hero Digimon. I **never** witnessed a "good guy" half this monstrous and menacing until this series, unless it was also some kind of antihero or antivillain or villain-turned-antihero or something else with a "dark" twist to excuse a "dark" appearance.

None of that here. Kabuterimon is **just** a huge, black and blue, eyeless nightmare with a slavering red maw who happens to be the same sweet, virtuous hero he was as a Tentomon. Horned beetles are pretty widely thought of as heroic in Japanese culture, but even other anime and manga rarely make a hero beetle this immediately grisly, and I do believe I mentioned that the lead Digimon designer is a huge fan of Western horror.

* Digivolves from: Tentomon
* Digivolves to: Mega Kabuterimon
Gomamon

As a matter of fact, this entire line is the one I'm most prone to forgetting from the mains, which is totally unfair, because Gomamon is a perfectly adorable, charming Digimon, intended to resemble a baby sea lion of some sort, though it's a little hard to parse that at first glance when almost *all* the Digimon thus far have had flippers for limbs anyway.

Like *Aquaman,* Gomamon's only attack is to communicate with fish, though the anime was often sure to include a convenient pond or stream close enough to every battle he got into.

What does set Gomamon apart from the other characters in *Adventure* is the fact that, while most of the Digimon are still loosely similar in some way to their human counterparts, Gomamon is the direct *inverse* of his partner in almost every way. He's endlessly enthusiastic, optimistic, fun-loving, curious and always willing to crack a joke in even the most dire of circumstances...whereas *Joe*, the oldest of the kids, is a panicky worry-wart who values order, safety and responsibility above all else; the kind of kid whose idea of "fun" is making sure that nobody else has enough fun to potentially get hurt.

Joe and Gomamon end up bickering a lot more than any other monster-child pair, but in the process, Joe learns how to loosen up when he needs to and Gomamon, in turn, learns more about restraint. We even find out that, post-series, Joe becomes a doctor...treating both humans *and* Digimon.

* Digivolves from: Bukamon
* Digivolves to: Ikkakumon, Mantaraymon, Gesomon
Candlemon

Speaking of ghostly things, I always loved the Haunted House feel of Candlemon here, with its dripping white wax, menacing red eyes, fully organic teeth, spiky candlestick foot and the fact that a whole Demimeramon still serves as its flame, albeit without the stitches! A solid design all around, though it looks even better drawn by Mucchi Tsubura, winner of a fan-art contest whose entries were used on official TCG cards:

MAN that's good! I wish the official design was even closer to these proportions!

* Digivolves from: Demi Meramon
* Digivolves to: Meramon, Flare Rizamon
Marine Devimon

Nautical-flavored Devimon surprisingly never evolves from regular Devimon, but it does evolve in some instances from "Icedevimon," which is really just Devimon colored blue.

Surprisingly, I kind of overlooked this one until doing this review, and now I see how much there is to really love about Marinedevimon beyond merely the addition of tentacles. His gnarlier, more hunched build, animal feet, goth squid-mntle head and third eye are all really menacing and cool, plus I like how every tentacle is decorated differently, the single cephalopod arm for a *tail,* the pressure gauge he wears for no reason other than to look even more nautical, and best of all, the fact that all skull markings have been swapped out for skeleton fish!

On another note, Marindevimon's first anime appearance puts him at roughly a hundred feet tall, probably worth mentioning that.

* Digivolves from: Gesomon
* Digivolves to: Parallelmon
Blossomon

If you'd still rather Togemon evolve into a more monstrous vegetable, you're in luck! Blossomon has never been portrayed as an especially powerful Digimon, sadly, sometimes even smaller *and*weaker than Togemon depending on the anime or game, but it does follow pretty nicely from the line. What's not to love about *any* Audrey II expy?

There are, unfortunately, not a lot of other plant-like Digimon that make any sense for this line, so let's move on to the ultimate stage....

* Digivolves from: Kabukimon
* Digivolves to: Bancho Lillymon
Guardromon

Not one of my top favorites, but not bad at all. This simple, chunky humanoid robot has a nice antique look and feel to it, like it was built with salvage from an old submarine or a boiler, it wouldn't look out of place in a Megaman game and you know how I feel about eye-hole faces by now. The little robot bullet with the baton and the whistle is also hilarious.

* Digivolves from: Hagurumon
* Digivolves to: Andromon
Gatomon

...That's because, unlike our other seven heroes, this Digimon spends most of her downtime in her *adult* stage, never reverting back to child form. It doesn't effectively make much of a difference, since this is an adult stage that looks and acts like a child stage anyway, but we never do find out exactly how this works.

Does this mean our other heroes COULD remain in their kaiju-size battle modes if they really wanted to? That's certainly not what we're shown. They quite often "run out of power" and revert back whether they like it or not. Is it that Gatomon has a whole lot more experience than the others? That hasn't been applied to the rest of the gang either.

It seems like we just have to chalk this up to "the writers wanted it that way," but if you want my personal theory, I think it's probably a mix of both experience and personal identity. An experienced enough Digimon can hold the same form indefinitely, as we see with most of the non-focal Digimon, but whenever possible, returns to just whatever form it's the most comfortable with.

I'm also not sure why on earth they changed "Tailmon" to "Gatomon" outside of Japan, but we're going by Gatomon because that's what I knew first.

As for her role in the show, Gatomon is initially introduced to us as a villain, and that's not really a spoiler, because we're already told a new team member is coming before this highly marketable kitty cat shows up and the whole narrative zeroes straight in on her.

Gatomon's human ends up being Tai's baby sister, Kari, and there isn't a whole lot more to her personality besides the fact that she's a quiet, nice little kid, but I guess that suits their relationship well enough. This is the one partnership in which the Digimon is already significantly stronger and more experienced than her human, but at the same time, the one partnership in which the Digimon is the only one learning and growing from that relationship, with Kari helping this hardened, tormented, formerly evil feline rediscover kindness and forgive herself for all the horrible things she supposedly had to do in the employ of the real villain, *Myotismon*, who we'll review in due time.

It's an interesting setup, at least, even if she's not as interesting to me as some of the other Digimon.

* Digivolves from: Salamon
* Digivolves to: Angewomon, Nefertimon
Were Garurumon

On the other hand, it's explicitly stated that a lot of Digimon are born from our own world's computer data, such as programs, video games, viruses, image files and entire websites, so uh, yeah. I doubt anyone involved with Digimon thought of this at the time, but by their own rules and simple logical deduction, it's entirely likely that Gabumon and its evolutions are living manifestations of the internet's furry fandom presence.

Take that any way you want. I'm neither a furry nor somebody bothered in any way by furries, but I think even most furries themselves would have to admit that a lonely naked lizard in cosplay could easily be their entire subculture's mascot.

So, as Weregarurumon, our little buddy finally takes his roleplay to its logical conclusion.

* Digivolves from: Garurumon, Gururumon
* Digivolves to: Metal Garurumon, Zeed Garurumon, Ancient Garurumon, Cres Garurumon, Merukimon
Devidramon

Like Devimon, this demonic dragon-man appeared before Demidevimon ever existed, as a possible evolution of a few different Digimon. I'm kind of surprised it's not actually a Perfect Level *evolution*for Devimon, but I guess the idea here is that Devimon is the Digimon Satan of the humanoids while Devidramon is the Digimon Satan for the beastlier monsters to evolve into, though we all know Digimon doesn't stick close to that kind of logic.

I like this design primarily because it's more than just a scary dragon in latex. It still looks just unwholesomely human enough that it feels like a person stretched out *into* a dragon, and that they decided to give it a second pair of eyes really brings an alien feel to this messed up dinoguy.

* Digivolves from: Demi Devimon
* Digivolves to: Kimeramon
Seadramon

What's also cool about Betamon is that, while Agumon evolves into multiple flavors of *dinosaur,*Betamon evolves into various *dragons.* Seadramon here is a rather bare-bones, classic sort of sea serpent, but I like the garish color scheme, almost like it's advertising how badly it tastes to still larger Digimon, and I especially enjoy the tiny, reduced flippers on its otherwise perfectly snake-like form; the sea dragon equivalent of one of those nearly-legless skinks.

Would you be surprised to know I actually had a dragon phase as a kid? I was genuinely ALL ABOUT dragons, even conventional dragons, for a good couple of years straight, even if I still loved arthropods and plant monsters on a deeper personal level, and while they missed Digimon by a good few years, dragon-phase me would have probably adored this thing here.

* Digivolves from: Betamon
* Digivolves to: Mega Seadramon, Waru Seadramon
Mekanorimon

Actually one of my favorite adult Digimon, this creepy thing has the flat, segmented arms and long, skeletal fingers that make some of those oddball Gundam robots look so cool, the "teeth" give its face an alien skull quality and of *course* I love that it has just one eerily organic eye, surrounded by exposed flesh!

What's really interesting about this Digimon, though, is that it's a *brainless vehicle.* Everything it evolves from is sapient, and everything it can evolve into is sapient, but it has absolutely no mind of its own and no ability to function without a **pilot**. This is a Digimon that actually evolved into a mobile suit, and I'm glad that didn't become a major norm for Digimon or it could have easily taken over a whole chunk of the franchise, but it's really neat to have at least one digital monster that works this way.

In the anime, we've even seen *bakemon* piloting these things!

* Digivolves from: Hagurumon
* Digivolves to: Datamon
Ogremon

As with Devimon, we're going to place Ogremon at the start of this review, since he's considered an important series character and appeared years before any related evolutionary stages, and you have to admit he's pretty boss. I can't imagine you feeling disappointed by this Digimon if ogres, orcs and trolls are your favorite thing, with pretty much every hallmark of the goblinoid archetype; muscles, battle scars, tats, piercings, horns, a big bone that he hits things with, and of course a lack of any shirt.

Ogremon is also another nod to American entertainment, though it's an easy one to miss at first:

Ogremon's entire facial structure, from his eye shape to the tip of his oversized jaw, is pretty much lifted straight from *Violator,* the demonic enemy of Todd McFarlane's *Spawn,* and it won't even be the last time a Digimon borrows this look either!

Unlike his infernal lookalike, Ogremon isn't *entirely* a bad guy. He begins Digimon Adventure as a minion of Devimon, but by the second season, he's more of a rowdy antihero willing to work together with the kids to defeat still greater villains, and solidified himself as a fan favorite. Who doesn't love a big, loud, violent asshole who's really a big softie?

Best of all, Ogremon has a totally ROCKIN' theme song that he alternately sings and just plain *yells*his way through:

* Digivolves from: Goblimon
* Digivolves to: Digitamamon
Phantomon

Bakemon can evolve into all sorts of Halloweeny Digimon, including a particularly special one we'll get to later, but its most direct evolution is this neat little Grim Reaper. I miss the teeth, but you can never go wrong with glowing eyes in a hood, and Phantomon has a lot of cool accessories going on, like the eyeball around its neck, the proportionately MASSIVE scythe, the cosmic inner lining of its cloak and the odd radiation-skull-warning on its forehead.

A single Phantomon appeared in Myotismon's employ, naturally as a sort of "general" to the many Bakemon.

* Digivolves from: Bakemon
* Digivolves to: Piedmon
Mametyramon

Mamemon can already evolve from dinosaur and dragon digimon, but they decided to throw in a reptilian version for good measure, which is pretty cute. It just looks like such a nasty little troublemaker, like it's probably swung from a chandelier or two in its life and wouldn't be averse to picking pieces of an airplane. Still, the Mamemon concept is beginning to wear out a little right around this point.

* Digivolves from: Tyrannomon
Prince Mamemon

Likewise, the first Ultimate stage ever devised for the beans sacrifices their monstrous qualities for a gag that kind of falls flat, for me. Nothing against this guy, he seems like a funny character and all, but the Mamemons really deserved something more frightening to evolve into, maybe something with the same exact regular Mamemon body but even bigger, awfuller arms and legs than any of them.

* Digivolves from: Big Mamemon
Piximon

Hey digifans, how irritating is it that I use the original (arguably only correct) Digimon names just sort of whenever and the English names just sort of also whenever? Sorry. I'm gonna maybe try to be more consistent. Or not. Whatever! I like the name Piccolomon better than the English Pixiemon for this one, the last of our mini-size ball-shaped Perfect Digimon. In the anime, this little creep was giving a Yoda-like role of a mysterious, all-knowing trainer who lived in his own isolated palace and loaded the kids up with chores.

As a design, I'm kinda indifferent to this one, but I do respect that even a "cute" concept such as this pink fuzzball has a bit of an edge in the classic Digimon style, with claws and muscles and those cool stitched-together angel wings. Early artwork also seems to indicate that the whole species can be fairly violent, burning other Digimon either for some kind of ritualistic offering or perhaps because they're flesh-eaters. Maybe it's both, like the *Ewoks*, who were really pretty sick little bastards.

* Digivolves from: Pucchiemon
* Digivolves to: Babamon
Tanemon

The second baby stage isn't quite as delightful as the first, or quite as cute to me as *Yokomon*, which would have actually fit into this line a whole lot better, though the really odd part is that both Palmon and Biyomon were first introduced as branched evolutions of *this* little critter. The even-more-plant-like Yokomon was introduced *later,* and then brought into the anime to evolve into the bird.

I don't get it either, but it's not Tanemon's fault!

* Digivolves from: Yuramon
* Digivolves to: Palmon, Aruraumon, Floramon, Mushroomon
Rust Tyrannomon

Finally, we have this relatively recent addition to the franchise, a final stage for the Tyrannomon line that may be almost an *unreadable mess* of Transformer-like detail, but certainly beastlier and more interesting to me than Wargreymon. The fact that it's specifically a *rusty* mechasaurus is far more appealing to me than some clean, bland non-rusty mechasaurus.

Besides, I already like *Dinotrux*.

* Digivolves from: Metal Tyrannomon
Botamon

This begins with a freshly hatched, almost defenseless Botamon. In Japan, this stage is known as "BABY I." In English translations, it's known as "fresh." I think we're gonna stick with the Japanese terms.

Botamon is one of the most adorable of the baby Digimon, in my honest opinion, but I am fairly biased towards very dark things with luminous eyes and especially to things with extremely minimal facial features. I would want 5,000 Botamons and I would never ever want most of them to stop being Botamons.

* Digivolves to: Koromon
Plesiomon

I kind of still find Zudomon cooler, but the first video game to feature *Plesiomon* here had it evolve primarily from Zudomon, and it even has a color scheme and markings more reminiscent of Gomamon, so if you ask me, it makes a lot of sense as the final form. You go from seal, to bigger seal, to...muscular walrus dog man...and finally a prehistoric sea monster. Makes at least as much sense as a flower to a cactus to a fairy, doesn't it?

* Digivolves from: Tylomon
Syldria, Heart Of Mountains

Syldria is one of the **Elder Dragons** of **Elandria.**

This dragon slumbered beneath **Mount Skylin** for thousands of years until the **Mithrilsworn** tribe of Dwarves dug too deep and reached her chambers.

As they did, they went blind by greed and began pillaging the elder dragons essence.

Doing so woke the dragon from her slumber and she laid waste to all of the mountain, along with most of **Sorrow's Landing.**

The dragon has yet to be seen since and many believe she has found another place to rest.
Requip

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**Requip** (換装 *Kansō*) is a Caster Magic and a type of Spatial Magic related to the summoning of various types of equipment.

## Description

This Magic allows the users to store items in a pocket dimension

## Information

### Type

Caster Magic

so they can easily summon it at any time, even during battle, which gives them a high level of flexibility in combat. However, there is a limit to how much the pocket dimension can store. Requip can be used for simple or combat-related purposes. Some users may just choose to use it to change their clothing. More skilled users are able to Requip different weapons in battle, and it is even possible to Requip armors in the midst of battle, although the only known Mages to ever do this are Erza Scarlet and Coordinator. Requip users can also project a holographic inventory screen where they can view and organize items in their pocket dimension, as well as add items without the user equipping it on themselves.

## Styles

Requip.jpgThe KnightBisca requipping her gun.pngThe Gunner
Datamon

It's another of my personal favorites today, though this Digimon only really grew on me when I found out what it could evolve from and into in *Digimon World: Dawn and Dusk,* games I'm going to be playing for myself soon for the first time ever! Those evolutionary stages have little overtly in common with it, but we'll be reviewing them on their own down the road, and you already know what they are if you ever read any of my older Digimon articles.

Like the subjects of our last two reviews, Datamon was the "tiny" Perfect-level in one of the original virtual pets, appropriately known as *Nanomon* in Japan but probably changed to Datamon in English to avoid confusion with *Nanimon*. The idea is that this Digimon represents "nanotechnology," even if that really refers to microscopic robotics and Datamon is still at least a couple of feet tall. It *does*produce even smaller digital "bugs" from its virus-riddled body, but even those are visible to the naked eye, so maybe they deliver *even tinier* machines themselves?

Whatever the case, I love just how screwed up this little guy is. He's supposed to be a vaccine Digimon that was transformed into a virus type, and he really looks like a robot that's been busted and repaired one or two or ten too many times, with those same grotesque organic features we've seen in a few other machine types. My favorite feature of course is the organic eye, but I think I'd like him even with two of those glowing yellow robot ones; he's just that cool.

Datamon is also, apparently, a big ol' nerd, having appeared in the anime as a maniacal one-off villain and later as a somewhat friendlier but still antisocial shopkeep who plays video games in a dingy back room.

* Digivolves from: Mekanorimon
* Digivolves to: Quartzmon
Megadramon

We drop even the "air" designation for Megadramon, which as you can see is almost the same thing as *Metalgreymon*, just with much cooler looking claws, a snakey tail instead of legs, and uh...nipple tats, I guess.

..........*Majestic.*

I actually think this one is pretty damn cool though. The snakey tail and tripartate claws really go a long way!

* Digivolves from: Airdramon
* Digivolves to: Megidramon
Mega Kabuterimon

Fortunately, these Gigeresque monstrosities happen to have the most consistent evolutionary chain of the original mains, or almost any central hero Digimon for that matter. This is a HUGE sigh of relief if you liked exactly what Kabuterimon already had going on, even if, admittedly, it gives us a little less to talk about.

I do like Megakabuterimon's rib cage and especially its *arms* a whole lot. Those bendy, many-segmented tubes just look too cool!

* Digivolves from: Kabuterimon
* Digivolves to: Hercules Kabuterimon, Ancient Beetlemon
Tentomon

And then, we get TENTOMON! Look at him! Look at how rad he is! He's obviously supposed to be a ladybug, and that's really interesting to me as a lifelong insect nerd, because a "cute" ladybug is a fairly predictable choice for an arthropod protagonist, but Tentomon does *not* shy away from a truly insect-like appearance, and while that's not completely unheard of in Japanese media - thanks largely to *Kamen Rider* - it was novel as *hell* to me back when the Digimon dub first premiered.

It was pretty much Tentomon who hooked me into the series first, and I tuned in to the first few episodes just to see what the little beetle would say or do next. It helped that I found (and still find) his English voice completely endearing, which you can listen to for almost three solid minutes in **this old interactive short from the official Fox Kids website.**

That's not to say Japanese Tentomon isn't also lovable, which you can listen to for ANOTHER three minutes of your life in this **official song**, because oh yeah, tons of early Digimon also have official songs.

Tentomon's dorky voice and mannerisms are part of his characterisation as a "scholarly" digital monster, and this is also a reflection of his human partner, another one a lot of us little geeks related to *all too well:*

Fascinated by computers, video games and scientific trivia, "Izzy" was probably the #1 person you would want tagging along on an adventure through anything called a "digital world," but as an introvert with niche interests and a lot of difficulty reading social cues, he often came across as cold and distant to the other children.

These days, we all know that a kid like Izzy probably falls somewhere on the autism spectrum, but that was barely a concept anyone had heard of in the mid-90's. Instead, kids like Izzy were just considered "weird" or "antisocial," appearing in countless cartoons as insufferable know-it-alls, comedic sidekicks or even skeevy little *villains*.

Not Izzy, though. Not *Digimon Adventure!* While Izzy does have to learn how to show more sensitivity towards the differing needs and feelings of others, he never has to change who he is to be accepted in turn. Instead, Izzy's bug pal encourages him to fully embrace his interests and talents, seeing through Izzy's "weirdness" to a bright kid with a good heart and always willing to stick up for him, just the way he is.

* Digivolves from: Motimon
* Digivolves to: Kabuterimon, Kuwagamon