Digimon

Page updated: 8 December 2025

nostalgia factor

Digimon, digital monsters, Digimon are the champions!

I feel like that's the main thing people remember about Digimon -- whenever I bring it up, that's usually the first thing people recite lol.

the 2000s

It's kinda crazy to me that everyone knew about Digimon when I was kid in the 2000s, now it's just one of those "oh yeah, I heard of that once" things that has long since been phased out of popularity. Like, I feel everyone knows that Digimon exists to some extent, maybe they can recognise Agumon, but that's about the extent of it. And to be honest, I was also guilty of this until fairly recent -- I literally fuckin forgot Digimon existed until September 2024, in which I then proceeded to spiral down a deep, dark hole.

So, I was a huge fan of monster raising/creature collecting things when I was a young lad back in the early 2000s. HUGE. I was of course super into Pokemon and that was my main thing, but unlike a lot of kids I somehow never developed the true hardcore brand loyalty and I was open to other franchises. Over time I ended up becoming familiar with other ones like Digimon and Monster Rancher, and because my dad thought Digimon was cool too (way moreso than Pokemon) I ended up being around it way more than anything else.

Anyway, my main exposure to it was probably the following:

Digimon World (the PS1 game, I actually still have it)

Digimon World DS

Digimon World Dusk (I was an edgy bitch so of course I had Dusk)

Random cards from the original English TCG

Random episodes of the OG Adventure dub on VHS

Many, many AMVs on Youtube (sadly none of the ones I remember are still up)

Sadly I don't think any of the AMVs I truly loved are still up, but the ones that I most notably remember were 1) a Culumon AMV to the Lazy Town cake song, and 2) a Beelzemon AMV to U Can't Touch This. I was obsessed with these and it's a genuine loss to society...

I had a friend in elementary school whose favourite series was Frontier, and we were always going to toe-to-toe on what series or Digimon were the best. Notably I remember he had Takuya's D-Scanner, and like the genius children we were we would go around trying to scan random crap such as... grass at recess, with the 1000 IQ underlying thought of "well, grass is a line right?" (For context, the D-Scanner gimmick was that you could scan barcodes for stuff). Sometimes I wonder if that guy is still around, and if he still likes stuff like Digimon at all. Weird shit to reiminisce about.

present day, present time

Late 2024, sometime in September I think, I saw a random post on my Tumblr dashboard that reminded me of the existence of Digimon. This inspired me to start looking up random stuff I remembered, and I decided to watch Digimon X-Evolution, a full CGI movie from 2005 that has always eluded me as a child bc I was too dumb and inexperienced to know how to torrent movies (I was too busy installing random .exes on our family computer).

Cover image for the movie

X-Evolution is actually a weird as fuck, and I'm glad I watched it as an adult, bc I barely understood it as an adult and absolutely would not have understood shit as a child. It's fine, it was kinda all over the place but I wasn't bored. The CGI is kinda jank and ugly, but does work for the "digital world" they're going for, especially at the end. If anything, I think it felt too fast and there wasn't really any time spent on developing the plot coherently.

However, I felt complete after finally getting to watch it after over 15 years, as Dorumon has always had one of my favourite evo lines (with the Death-X designs being especially cool, yeah I'm edgy), but I never got to experience the bizarre media it actually came from before.

This then reignited a long deep-seated passion within, and I've been on a strange Digimon media binge ever since.

favs ='w'=

Obligatory Lucemon section

So I don't know when it happened or why. I can't explain it.

I've always loved the Satan Mode design, I thought it was a sick as fuck top tier dragon as a kid and I still think it's a sick as fuck top tier dragon as an adult. I love this thing. I am impartial to child Luce, and I actually used to dislike Falldown Mode bc I thought it was lame that the coolest fucking dragon in the world evolved from literally just a guy. Why couldn't there have been more dragons??

Satan Mode

Falldown Mode

Child/rookie Lucemon

Now my life has been flipped on its head. If Lucemon Falldown Mode has a million fans, I'm one of them. If Lucemon Falldown Mode has 5 fans, I'm one of them. If Lucemon Falldown Mode has 1 fan, that one is me. If Lucemon Falldown Mode has no fans, I'm no longer alive. If the world is against Lucemon Falldown Mode, I'm against the entire world. Til my last breath, I'll support Lucemon Falldown Mode.

If you know me personally, you probably know about my raw, unhinged obsession with FM already. If you don't know me personally: I have a raw, unhinged obession with FM. I will choose to leave it at that for now and save my rambling for another page...

Other mons

Hilariously, the ones that I like the most have not really changed since I was a kid (with the exception of Jesmon/Hackmon, since it just didn't exist back then). In addition to Lucemon, here's some of my other favs: