Digimon (Japanese: デジモン, Hepburn: Dejimon, branded as Digimon: Digital Monsters, stylized as DIGIMON), short for "Digital Monsters" (デジタルモンスター Dejitaru Monsutā), is a Japanese media franchise, which encompasses virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films, and a trading card game. The franchise focuses on the eponymous creatures that inhabit a "Digital World", which is a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks.
The franchise was created in 1997 as a series of digital pets, and it was intended as the masculine counterpart to Tamagotchi. The creatures were first designed to look cute and iconic even on the devices' small screens. Later developments had them created with a harder-edged style, which was influenced by American comics. The franchise gained momentum with an early video game, Digimon World, originally released in Japan in January 1999. Several anime series and films have been released; the video game series has expanded into genres, such as role-playing, racing, fighting, and MMORPGs.
Digimon Adventure (1999 TV series)
Digimon Adventure (Japanese: デジモンアドベンチャー, Hepburn: Dejimon Adobenchā), also known as Digimon: Digital Monsters Season 1 in English-speaking territories, is a 1999 Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation in cooperation with WiZ, Bandai and Fuji Television. It is the first anime series in the Digimon media franchise, based on the Digital Monster virtual pet released in 1997.
Digimon Adventure began production 1.5 months after the film of the same name was being produced, and it began broadcast in Japan a day after the film's theatrical release on March 7, 1999, airing until its conclusion on March 26, 2000. It was then followed up with the 2000 film Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!. Both films were adapted and released in North America as Digimon: The Movie on October 6, 2000.
With the success of Digimon Adventure, a sequel television series, Digimon Adventure 02, was broadcast from 2000 to 2001. For the series' 15th anniversary, a six-part film series titled Digimon Adventure tri. was released between 2015 and 2018, and a final film titled Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna was released in 2020. In 2020, the series was reboot and released under the title Digimon Adventure.
Animated series
On March 6, 1999, the franchise was given an anime as the first of the Digimon movies aired in theaters in Japan. On March 7, 1999 they began airing a television counterpart titled Digimon Adventure. 6 further series would follow, but so far not all of them have their own tie-in movies, and the series was dubbed for release in western markets in the fall of the same year. The show spawned card games, with Hyper Colosseum in Japan and later Digi-Battle in America, and more video games. The animated series is easily the best-known segment of the Digimon universe and responsible for the majority of its popularity.
"Digimon" are "Digital Monsters". According to the stories, they are inhabitants of the "Digital World", a manifestation of Earth's communication network. The stories tell of a group of mostly pre-teens, the "Chosen Children" (DigiDestined in the English version), who accompany special Digimon born to defend their world (and ours) from various evil forces. To help them surmount the most difficult obstacles found within both realms, the Digimon have the ability to evolve (Digivolve). In this process, the Digimon change appearance and become much stronger, often changing in personality as well. The group of children who come in contact with the Digital World changes from season to season.
As of 2012, there have been six series — Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier, Digimon Savers, and Digimon Xros Wars. As is obvious from their titles, the first two seasons take place in the same fictional universe, but the third, fourth, and fifth each occupy their own unique world (in the case of Digimon Tamers, the Adventure universe is referred to as a television and commercial enterprise). In addition, each series has spawned assorted feature films. Digimon still shows popularity, as new card series, video games, and movies are still being produced and released: new card series include Eternal Courage, Hybrid Warriors, Generations, and Operation X; the video game, Digimon Rumble Arena 2; and the previously unreleased movies Revenge of Diaboromon, Runaway Locomon, Battle of Adventurers, and Island of Lost Digimon. In Japan, Digital Monster X-Evolution, the eighth TV movie, was released, and on December 23, 2005 at Jump Festa 2006, the fifth series, Digimon Savers was announced for Japan to begin airing after a three year hiatus of the show.
Digimon is produced by Toei Animation and Bandai of Japan. The first five series were broadcast in Japan by Fuji Television, and Xros Wars by TV Asahi.
Conception and creation
The Digimon franchise began as a series of virtual pets created by WiZ and Bandai, intended as a masculine counterpart to the more female-oriented Tamagotchi pets. It was released in June 1997 with the name Digimon, short for Digital Monster. This device shows to players a virtual pet composed entirely of data and designed to play and fight. In February 1998, the DigiMon fighting game, compatible with Windows 95 and developed by Rapture Technologies, Inc., was announced. The one-shot manga C'mon Digimon, designed by Tenya Yabuno, was published in the Japanese magazine V-Jump by Shueisha in 1997.
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At the risk of sounding weird, I have to admit that on occasion I’ll look up the latest results on this website for ‘fascis’ in hopes that maybe I’ll see somebody whom I can educate about history. I’m with @muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml: I think that we tend to deploy the term ‘fascist’ too easily. When we say things like ‘liberals are fascist’, ‘Joe Biden is a fascist’, ‘social democracy is the moderate wing of fascism’, or even apply the terms anachronistically, I get the impression that we have a narrow understanding of how oppression works, almost as if something isn’t wrong unless it is fascist.
That being said, I don’t spend time explicitly addressing overuse of the term because A. it would exhaust me, B. it would make me look like a pathetic nerd, and C. as lower‐class people our anger is justified even if our terminology to express that anger is imprecise. I could patiently explain why Joe Biden and most other rich antisocialists aren’t neofascists, but at the end of the day they remain our worst oppressors. What good would it do? Calling them ‘fascist’ may be inaccurate, but it isn’t unfair either. Not really.
Rather than quibbling over the terminology or the analogies, I tend to use them as opportunities to enlighten others with some pretty damning examples or anecdotes relevant to their case. I said a few months ago that many of us are impressed when we learn about the Fascist–Zionist collaboration of the 1930s, because it’s evidence for Frankenstein’s monster coming to life.
My take would be something likey; the west has developed a post-fascism that fixes some of fascisms internal problems. But we don't really have a word or a cultural awareness of this and we're somewhat inappropriately calling it all fascist for lack of a better term. We've got intense nationalism, racism, various imperialisms, ruthless social controls, but we lack other features of historical fascisms.
Fascism with Madison Avenue characteristics.
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Yeah. I feel like fascist learned from the mistakes of the germany, japan, and italy. Its quite clear that crypto-fascism was rife amongst the ruling classes for most of the last century and their influence has been a driving factor in imperialism and western cultural programing.
I feel like there is a form of proto-fascsim or a autocrypto-fascism where people have been primed by media and education to gladly accept fascist ideas like racial supremacy, anti-immigration, imperialism, queer hate, anti-communism, jingoism, etc. while not recognising their ideals are essentially the same as the ideals powering nazi germany.
You can see this manifested in the state of israel. They "educate" children with the idea that "arabs" (they wont even call them Palestinian) are a lesser race. There's the 2014 video of the settlers watching the bombing of Gaza and the NYT interview where the isisraeli says "I'm a bit of a fascist." None of that is by mistake. The crypto-fascist ruling class built a testing ground to see how to get an entire society to support ethnic cleansing. And if they can engineer that in Western Asia why wouldn't they be trying to build something similar at home?
Biden is a fascist. He has said "I am a zionist." zionism is a fascist ideology as much as Nazism. It is racial supremacist, it is genocidal, it is repressive and militant.
If someone tells you they are a nazi do you doubt they are a fascist?
Are you really curious to see what I think or are you looking to have a debate?