I remember having the toy, but I don’t know what the broad plot is for Digimon.
like for Pokémon, there’s a kid who wants to be the best and collect them all.
what’s the Digimon story?
should I be reading the manga or watching the anime or what’s like the canon storyline?
In the digimon adventure 1 and 2 storyline, digimon are digital lifeforms created by a team of researchers and grew on their own from there.
Outside of that, at least as far as I’ve seen, kids get partnered up with a single digimon who through their bond can make their partner digivolve into different forms with distict levels, but their normal state is generally the rookie level, so after a fight they’ll de-digivolve back to rookie regardless of what level they went up to.
oh, that’s interesting. so a key difference between this in Pokémon is that instead of a team they just have one Digimon who’s like their best virtual pet pal.
huh cool.
very interesting about the researchers creating the Digimon also, thanks. That’s the stuff I’m looking for!
Just to clarify a bit: Digimon are not pets. They’re always treated as friends. Well, in Digimon Ghost Game the main Digimon Gammamon (best boi) is more treated as a little brother. He is very young though, and has the mind and mannerisms of a young child. When he Digivolves he gets more mature, but after fights he’s back to young little Gammamon.
huh, okay. what do you mean he’s back to Young gammamon after he fights.
he matures into an adult but only for the fights?
are all Digimon like that?
He Digivolves into the next stage, like BetelGammamon, and gets more mature and intelligent. After the fight he reverts back to Gammamon and is like a child again.
Digivolution happens on a set scale:
Fresh -> In-Training -> Rookie -> Champion -> Ultimate -> Mega
Most partner Digimon are Rookies. Their bond with their human partner allows them to climb that ladder.
Edit:
Not all Digimon are as child-like as Gammamon. He is especially young for a partner Digimon. Like, Agumon is also a Rookie, but he’s more like a teen or young adult. Gammamon is like a 5 year old. As Digimon age they naturally Digivolve, but most of their cognitive development seems to happen during their In-Training and Rookie stages. Fresh are just babies so they don’t really do much.
so as Digimon age they evolve, but whenever they fight they revert back to their base form?
Only partner Digimon can revert. The natural Digivolution is seemingly permanent. I’ve never seen an episode where a Digimon reverted without a Digivice involved.
A Digivice is a tool that the human partner has. It’s what allows the partner Digimon to access higher forms earlier.
okay, thanks.
I wonder what the real world correlation is for that plot device of only having the partner Digimon revert.