[Digimon] Digital Monster (Original Terminology)

[@Digimonology]

Just realized that we haven't made a content covering what are actually Digimon, despite calling ourselves Digimonology, so here we have it, a video explains and illustrates the traits of Digimon, with extensive visuals. In the making of this, we also enhanced our production quality, now with voiceover that has more proper pronunciation (no more Digi...men, min, mun, and less mispronunciation, hopefully), and finally the first video of ours to have full high definition, hopefully it does improve visual experience. Coming up next, after this, for the lore content, "It's no monster, it's god(s)." We are currently working on another lore content pertaining to the Digital Gods, particularly, God, and the many core computers/host computers/systems and/or god-like entities; Atanasoff, Eniac, Homeostasis, Yggdrasill, and Homeros. Stay tuned for more to come. And thank you for stopping by.

[@gustyko8668]

As a small addition to the anime evolution being temporary: that is explained in the Digimon Adventure novelization written by the anime's director Hiroyuki Kakudou, he explained that the evolution we see in the anime is temporary because it is actually an artificial evolution triggered by the children's emotions and bond with their digimon, this is also the reason why the Leomon they befriended in the first season could also evolve into Saberleomon thanks to him being exposed to the power of the kid's digivice, but he couldn't stay in that form permanently; and this is also why the wild digimon they encounter don't return to their previous forms. As for the "no level" digimon, that is explained in the manga version of Xros Wars, that evolution was blocked thanks to Yggdrasill being on "sleep mode" because of it's encounter with Masaru in the Savers universe, and at the end of the manga they manage to unlock evolution so everyone could evolve once again.

[@zeiitgeist]

what a way to save from plotholes

[@rakryann.w.5733]

Finally... I can understand the basic of digimon

[@ghostshrimp5006]

It’s about time someone gave it to me straight. Nostalgia 95 is great, but his work is mainly about what the digimon MEANS more than what the digimon IS

[@swordkingx4874]

Fantastic work on this video. This type of video should be used to help people understand digimon a bit better than before.

[@ray_b0mb]

Great! This will serve to educate on the awesomeness of japanese naming conventions. Hopefully someday we'll see dubbed products using the original terminology.

[@angel89legna]

Very informative video. There's even stuff that I didn't know about.

[@missionpawmarshall6375]

Wow, can't wait to see this

[@ovoss89]

Man that is a great Video!

[@missionpawmarshall6375]

Speaking about Digital Monster. Are you planning of doing a video about Digital Lifeforms in digimon like the D-reaper

[@Digimonology]

That's actually one of our plans for the future. Or perhaps we will do it after the Digimon's Gods. It would be interesting to make video(s) about other Digital Lifeforms like the D-Reaper, Eater, Eraser, Vitium, Chronocore, etc. But I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon as now we are very much occupied by other projects.

[@obnoxiosefe2180]

I will use this video to explain digimon to non digimon fans to understand digimon better

[@Raptor8415]

Thanks for pointing out that Digimon in Xros Wars do have biological genders and reproduce sexually. A lot of Digimon fans seem to forget this. It's also worth noting that in other seasons, Digimon can fall in love with each other, which implicates some sort of romantic or sex drive.

[@Necvi-C]

This is so good 👍

[@alinaufal9461]

I would like you to make videos about digimon back setting,the reason why some digimon can be interpreted as spiritual and digital being,also about the influence of the Agents,and priest in digimon

[@Digimonology]

Our latest video about the DigiLab, Digimon Universe Chronicle, Null Canon Timeline Theory, got the Digimon worldviews and settings covered, hopefully it can be worthwhile.

[@luiddmonteiro4912]

Great explanation

[@Giffsen]

That'll be good

[@digirally97]

Nice👍

[@king_vergil2273]

R u planning on adding more to the Digimon lore playlist??

[@Digimonology]

New video added to the Digimon lore playlist. kzbin.info/aero/PLV8HA8zSNFlTh4z-eIpEfoRUmdyGqTKFg

[@velvetchord.]

Digi-History time!!!

[@Netsuki]

"This video uses the original Japanese terms for characters and concepts rather than the localized alternatives" - I see this as an absolute win. In Pokemon, the localized english terms seem to be more official and done well. In Digimon, though, those terms are so random and often just completely stupid, without a reason. Change Yagami to Kamiya, because Yagami is IMAGAY read reversely. Shinka is digivolution, instead of evolution. This isn't bad though. But the names of certain digimon are just bad. Because it seem some people who translated them didn't know how Japanese works. I would do a better job translating Japanese names to English. Examples are everywhere. Why they couldn't just call Cockatrimon Cockatrimon, but they literally used the romaji spelling of the name - Kokatorimon. Didn't the translators know how it works? I also remember them changing Mercuremon to Mercurymon... for *no reason*. So when the Mercurymon appeared later, they had to change his name to Merukimon. It makes so many confusions, especially if someone tells You that he likes Mercurymon and You are trying to guess if he's talking about the japanese one or the english one, which is Mercuremon actually... I really hate stupid translations. Or DORUmon. Why they removed caps from the name? It's crucial part. Because it's an acronym. Digital OR Unknown monster. Literally that's his full name. DORUmon is like a short name. If the names made sense, I would like english versions. But they don't. As I mentioned, I use only english pokemon names. But I wouldn't dare to use english names of digimons. Because the quality of those localized terms are different.

[@ErmacRoxx]

Awesome!!

[@Majin_Lee]

im going to sound ignorant but what is the game in some of the scenes like 12:51 example? I feel like its a Chinese digimon app game or something. or have i just not played Air rise?

[@Digimonology]

The evolution and attack scenes of that timestamp are from Digimon Universe Appli Monster episode 45. We used various scenes from all sort of Digimon animes and games. Feel free to ask about them.

[@Majin_Lee]

@@Digimonology thanks I appreciate it 🤘🏻

[@richierich9539]

Can wait for new installments after D2020

[@farhansyabibi170]

Soo, is Rookie - Champion - Ultimate - Mega naming come from the original or Western translation? In this video we got Child - Adult - Perfect - Ultimate, which i have truly never known before.

[@Kobolds_in_a_trenchcoat]

Rookie to mega is English dub, child to ultimate is Japanese. Worth noting that even in the Japanese, this isn't really about age. We've seen an old rookie or child level digimon in frontier with kokuwamon. It's weird

[@alinaufal9461]

How about you make some videos about digimon worldview? You can read from ravel montero blog about them

[@Digimonology]

The Digimon worldviews and settings are covered in our latest video about the DigiLab, Digimon Universe Chronicle, Null Canon Timeline Theory. We often refer to Ravel Monte's works for our contents.

[@alinaufal9461]

@@Digimonology omigosh you are alive

[@Canti89]

I miss digimen

[@MarcusRalphson]

not gonna mention this is just reading out a wiki page?

[@Digimonology]

Well, it's known that our contents are all based on Wikimon, and occasionally other Digimon wikis. This video is actually reading out texts mixed up from different sources. The main objective or distinction is to attempt to visualize the information with appropriate appealing visuals.

[@MarcusRalphson]

@@Digimonology I just find it annoying when people are making content from shit ive written word for word and isnt even crediting it.

[@Digimonology]

I have to say, thank you for your contribution, the texts are like the framework of our lore contents. We are really sorry for that we have not credited the sources properly. We'll take note of this next times.

[@ideuseidolon]

Digimon is for sure an inconsistent franchise, the inconsistency in the origins, in the universes, in digivolution, digixros, levels, in the genders, basically the inconsistency in everything.

[@saphiriathebluedragonknight375]

Probably why people began to leave.

[@marygraceoyangorin8918]

It's inconsistent because, said in the video, the creators have different interpretation on the franchise

[@Hakaishi00]

Not really, digimon do have gender. Digixros is possible because of crossloader because they lost the meaning to evolve.

[@marygraceoyangorin8918]

@@Hakaishi00 fair point but In my opinion, genders are only canon on digimon xros wars.

[@Hakaishi00]

@@marygraceoyangorin8918 that got retconned already, also the digimon multiverse are expanding.

[@evilhag420]

Man I hate these robotic narrator voices

[@huriyahya4797]

In original logic: rockie->champoin->ultimated->mega->ultra In appmon logic: rockie->champion->ultimated->ultra Me: is real logic

[@ray_b0mb]

Nah... In original terms, it goes like this: Baby I > Baby II > Child > Adult > Perfect > Ultimate.

[@marygraceoyangorin8918]

What the hell are you saying?