Our Friends HATE Guessing Digimon Names

[@Luan._.Mark1]

Long story short; Footmon came from a competition, fans drew some digimon and some were chosen to be official digimons

[@giannixx]

And his name is also short for "football", since the line is based on sports and exercises.

[@xinhayman6019]

Also Soccer is called Football in just about every other country

[@FierceDietyLink100]

also one of pulsemon evos

[@webbowser8834]

I mean, it could be worse... You could have been asked to spend half an hour trying to painstakingly draw what Soulmon looked like before being shown a photomash that was probably completed in 5 minutes. Poor Julia... she didn't deserve that.

[@MitchFromFBS]

Poor, poor Julia. One of my all time favorite Drawfee moments

[@webbowser8834]

@@MitchFromFBS If you haven't already seen it, Deep Blue Ink has done a wonderful fan animation of said moment.

[@gregorymirabella1423]

what are you talking about?

[@SuperZergMan]

@@gregorymirabella1423 The youtube channel Drawfee makes videos where the hosts draw various things. In one episode, where they were tasked with drawing digimon they had never heard of, the events described in webbowser8832's comment occurred.

[@michaelmann7816]

​@@gregorymirabella1423There's a KZbin show/channel called Drawfee. (look it up if you like really good drawings about really silly things) One episode a bit back was "guess the Digimon based on what it evolves from" and the final picture (following two that follow the frequent Digimon logic of "vague and tenuous connection") was Soulmon from Bakemon, given to their resident nightmare crafter and "monster mom" Julia. You've presumably watched the whole video and as such know what both of those look like...

[@smeatar]

I really wish one of the options for the last one was "Bakemon hat mode"

[@ace0719]

True!

[@EmiyaHikari]

but it's not bakemon

[@Snowmon89]

In other countries (including Japan) "soccer" is known as "FOOTball". So Footmon is a double reference, not just what body part is used, but the name of the sport. (For those who don't know what we call "football" is known as "American Football")

[@RabblesTheBinx]

Soccer is called "サッカー", pronounced "sakkā", in Japan, mostly due to American influences after WW2. Also, the proper name of "American football" is actually "gridiron football".

[@lizzer1176]

I knew Bearmon messed me up for a reason. In Digimon World 3, his name was Kumamon and he was in a starter team with Guilmon and Patamon

[@Cyril86]

Kuma is japanese for Bear, and I'm pretty sure Digimon World 3 came out before it showed up in an english-translated anime. Probably why. Even more confusing when you realize there was a digimon in Season 4 that they localized as Kumamon(Chackmon in japan).

[@Cyril86]

Oops, Season 4, not 2, so not as confusing.

[@Skullkaiser]

@@Cyril86 And then there is Kumamon the town mascot in Japan.

[@imranzaidi1486]

I already knew that they're called Bearmon in future English releases, but I'm still calling it Kumamon because DMW3 was my childhood game. Plus, Kumamon just sounds cooler imo..

[@DemonRaticate]

@@imranzaidi1486 Yeah... they ran into an issue since Kumamon is the localized name of Chackmon, the Human Spirit if Ice. Due to the fact that Kumamon was used in Digimon World 3 and then months later in the same year, Kumamon was used in Digimon Frontier... they had to choose between them and Frontier won. Then they made him Bearmon in English. I guess they though, Chackmon was a stretch. It comes from Chakuhyou, which means Ice Accretion in JP. Ice Accretion is how layers of ice form on objects in cold weather. They couldn't come up with anything to translate, so they came up with Kumamon... its unfortunate since the game localization and the anime localization most likely worked on the project at the same time and nothing was shared between the teams since it seemed like a non problem.

[@Kenichi2002]

Bakemon is a wordgame, not only is Obake, a yokai, the japanese word "Bakemono" means, Ghost, Monster too

[@thomasmorato5098]

I love this segment. Hope the next ones are the royal knights, demon lords or any of the Eldritch horrors digimon came up with.

[@Cumrel]

Oh my god, I want Pure Evilmon to be Vaccine variant of Evilmon

[@monarchschwoop52]

Footmon was made by a child in a Digimon creating contest. The winner of the contest got their Digimon to become canonized

[@chrisa.2323]

Pure Evilmon is the absolute sickest fake name I've ever heard.

[@JDReC100]

If you like that, you'll be happy to know that SkullSatanmon and DeathXmon are real Digimon names.

[@tadeolaguarda6965]

5:45 to be fair, since canonically only a few digimon have an devolution line made especifically for them and almost any digimon can evolve into any other digimon given the right circunstances, you could say that all digimons are related to each other

[@FierceDietyLink100]

which is kinda lame tbh pyschemon needs a digivolution line past gurururumon, snow agumon too

[@tadeolaguarda6965]

​@@FierceDietyLink100 yhea, it woul be nice to have more direct evolutions for some digimon, personally i want an evolution line for toy agumon

[@mysticdigital5936]

Just wanted to say I've been really loving these as a huge Digimon fan(got every point!)! I'm definitely going to check out the Pokemon vids next. Soulmon is definitely a meme, but Nico was half-right in a way. Witchmon IS an actual Digimon and the lore behind Soulmon is literally that it absorbed "mage data" from a game and became a mage! I'd love to see some more newer Digimon from the Adventure 2020-Ghost Game era. Naming conventions in Digimon are pretty inconsistent and so is a lot of the localization/translation

[@swiftstrike4044]

Watching pokemon fans breakdown over digimon. This will never get old 😂

[@vidmanandrew09]

Wonder what their reactions would be to hearing Salamon’s original name is Plotmon and Gatomon is just called Tailmon.

[@Crunchatize_Me_Senpai]

Mitch’s fucking soul-piercing stare right at me as soon as I clicked the video was not something I was expecting 😂

[@Koel_Hellion]

I didn't get a single point this whole episode 💀

[@NicoOnFBS]

Me neither

[@proximaeon]

I still feel troubled and sad that Footmon of all Figimon doesn't have a proper appearance on any product appart from the TCG. And the sad thing is that Footmon is a winning of an original Digimon contest, it was made by fans and became canon.

[@q-miiproductions878]

Figimon

[@HazeEmry]

That said, the TCG is the best version of Digimon atm. Or at least the one with the most new fans

[@smugsneasel]

Pure Evilmon killed them with laughter...Which makes sense, it's pure evil.

[@DakNJaxter]

Here's an evil suggestion... do the Black Agumon line. Maybe even include the two bonus Omnimon Evolutions. BlackAgumon, Agumon (Black), Agumon Darkness Mode, Agumon (Virus) etc.

[@CaptainObliviousV]

As both a Digimon and Pokémon fan, I’m loving this series😂

[@jacobbrown9894]

Did the well known fact that outside of America soccer is often called Football just get lost when guessing and discussing that first one lol

[@MitchFromFBS]

Our discussion about it ended up getting cut from the video

[@NicoOnFBS]

Yeah no I just straight up forgot that heehoo

[@RabblesTheBinx]

I mean, yeah, but crucially, Japan is _not_ one of those countries. The Japanese word for soccer is "サッカー" "sakkā".

[@algotkristoffersson15]

It’s literally not named soccer at all.

[@RM43]

Can’t wait for them to find out about witchmon

[@JanizMakudomaru]

I lost my shit at the last one. The hat did me in. That is too funny.

[@professorpantherhardraad3921]

I want to see them guess the names of the Three Musketeers

[@Cyril86]

Soulmon is the best evolution in the series, clearly.

[@nexusgiga]

Soulmon is that meme about getting a silly hat

[@hydrocheese4122]

I love you guys. I don’t even know who you are but please keep making these!

[@FanOfMostEverything]

6:49 How dare you assume no one on the Internet would know who Horatio Hornblower is? Also, this was delightful from start to finish.

[@MitchFromFBS]

Believe it or not, when I said Horatiomon, I was actually referring to Captain Crunch, whose full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch hahaha

[@FanOfMostEverything]

@@MitchFromFBS ... Okay, yeah, that one I didn't know. Fair enough.

[@maddogandrew]

Would like to see one with the Olympos 12.

[@CakeofRage]

Everytime I think of Bakemon i think of the non-proofread translation of Cyber Sleuth

[@mewdove]

can't wait for them to see more digimon that look the same but with different colors like the 2 other gabumon lookin' ones (dont wanna say names incase you use it and they see this)

[@MitchFromFBS]

Mitch here: We appreciate your subtlety : )

[@reicherwallace6774]

Bakemon with a big ole hat is silly and also funny.

[@MeowzingerZ]

6:16 Missed opportunity to bring up how Hookmon is a direct evolution of Monmon The MONKEY digimon

[@NovaSaber]

That's because the lines for the Digimon World 3 originals were themed around weapon type than anything else. The other two got fully appropriate champion forms at least, but Monmon's has nothing in common except ranged weapons. Monkey with slingshot - pirate with hand cannon - centaur with machine guns - dinosaur with artillery cannons

[@grapesvine]

I think the first one is called Footmon because the Digimon franchise comes from Japan and soccer is called FOOTball outside the U.S.

[@RabblesTheBinx]

Soccer is called "サッカー" (sakkā) in Japan, and the US is _not_ the only English-speaking country that calls it that. It's also called soccer in Canada, Australia, New Zealand (though "football" has become more popular in NZ within the last 20 years), South Africa, and most of Ireland. Hell, the term "soccer" originated at Oxford University in _England._

[@DemonRaticate]

As a fan of both, I am glad to share some info on these guys. Footmon - Football and was from a children design contest made official. Hookmon - legit a Peter Pan reference. It evolves into CaptainHookmon and forms a core team with Tinkermon and Petermon. Funny that Captainhookmon is the gOod guy of the trio. Petermon wants to take baby Digimon to a land where they can never evolve. Bearmon is Bearmon and Bearmon is a Bear. Mushroomon is Mushroomon and Mushroomon is a Mushroom. It was also called Mushmon Bakemon is a pun off the word Bakemono which is the japanese word for ghost or monster. Soulmon was made as a alt color for Bakemon. It references another Vpet that has to do with magical girls. They actually then made a series of digimon based upon it like Wizardmon.

[@JDReC100]

Huh. About that hookmon/petermon bit.... The anime Ghost Game had an episode about a petermon whisking away human children and baby digimon.

[@DemonRaticate]

One of the things Ghost Game did right is following the lore of the antagonists REALLY well. Petermon in that episode was doing that exactly. It takes the idea of Peter Pan and makes you think... this would be TERRIFYING in real life. CaptainHookmon coming in at the end and being the adult that Petermon could trust is just the cherry on top. Wish Tinkermon was there too just for the trio.

[@robxholicfoxyfan8552]

Drawfee had a great episode with Digimon that involved Bakemon and Soulmon. Karina loves Digimon, YuGiOh, etc. And none of the other Drawfee crew know very much at all about Digimon besides Karina herself. The context is funnier in the video, and the episode I think was one where they drew Digimon they have never seen before based on their name. Karina gave someone Soulmon and gave the context that they Digivolve from Bakemon. But the setup throughout the video makes it sooo funny.

[@FueledBySandwiches]

Tyler here: I told the fellas about that video right after we recorded this episode haha. Drawfee is the best!

[@MitchFromFBS]

Mitch here: Tyler is a bitch. I knew about that video before he told me haha. Drawfee is the best!

[@robxholicfoxyfan8552]

@@FueledBySandwiches Nice! Yeah it is a riot. Plus actually impressive art even if they are like me in terms of learning to draw well in the "wrong" way. I think remember one of them saying it (paraphrased obviously), but cannot remember if it was during a stream or an episode.

[@ladypool1404]

So... Soulmon is NOT a digivolution of Bakemon? It would make sense, it's him with a hat. This ghost is a different digimon i'm sure 😂

[@RabblesTheBinx]

Wow, a lot of people who didn't take five seconds to fact check before running their mouths. The United States is _not_ the only country that calls association football "soccer". In fact, the term originated at Oxford University and is used by pretty much every English-speaking country _except_ the UK, as well as South Africa and most of East Asia. In particular, Japan calls it "サッカー" (sakkā). Try actually learning your shit before talking, people.

[@creditguys1358]

"Afraid they'd say Hookmon is part of the Agumon Line...." Digimon Card St-826 Hookmon can Digivolve from Agumon lol Hookmon however is not listed as Digivolving from Toy Agumon. But can digivolve from Yuki Agumon

[@JDReC100]

Lol

[@sonicboomers122]

Footmon should have been a Gimme if you Remember that these games are from Japan and Everywhere else in the Soccer is Football.

[@MitchFromFBS]

Believe it or not, it's still most commonly referred to as soccer in Japan. They call it サッカー, pronounced "sakkā"

[@ooze448]

Soccer is a sport where the first one to squeeze all their sweat out of their sock into their mouth first wins

[@pat1r1ck]

unironically, Ghostmon is a new digimon who you could say its the pre evo of Bakemon but also can be a pre evo for Wizarmon in my opinion

[@Xynth22]

The answers for Hookmon were just plain dirty.

[@Arvenyte]

I mean, pokemon does the japanese naming as well and it's kept in some translations. Pikachu is the best example. Pika is the word for light, and chu is the onomatopoeia of a mouse's squeak. Bakemon is from Obake and Bakemono, so monster ghost.

[@Calruxio]

16:20 I thought he was gonna end that with "...and sometimes you get Kum spelled backwards."

[@cloudkitsune17]

Footmon made more sense to me, 'cause in Japan and Europe, they don't call the game "soccer", they call it "football." XD

[@zeiitgeist]

Japanese call football, sakka as in soccer

[@TheRichmaster24]

this was pretty fun

[@terryechoes3192]

Footmon had me stumped, and I mistook Soulmon.

[@TheTakato122]

Both Ghostmon and Witchmon are separate Digimon.

[@velvetdarksoul8741]

Oh god never let them know about the other Agumons

[@darksoul1004]

HAHA! I ONLY MISSED THE FIRST ONE!

[@OofyBoofy]

Awesome video!

[@draconis17]

reminder that most of the world calls soccer football

[@RabblesTheBinx]

But not Japan. They call it "サッカー" which is pronounced "sakkā".

[@zerokura]

Yay! I got them all right. Thank you khan ex your digi knowledge saved me with soulmon. I went with footmon because i think only American call it soccer while the rest call it football. Man with bearmon i was wondering if they were going to say Kumamon and bearmon both are right just one is Japanese and am sure was used in digimon world 3. Since that was my first digimon game and am pretty sure they used Kumamon in that game.

[@RabblesTheBinx]

It's not only Americans, it's pretty much all of the former British colonies (because "soccer" is actually a term that originated in England to differentiate between association football and rugby football in everyday speech), and the Japanese call it "サッカー", romanized as "sakkā".

[@JDReC100]

Cool. Nice to know.

[@Chaos_Dragoon]

If you really wanna mess with them: do a What's the next evolution line for Digimon...LOL

[@JDReC100]

Oh yes please

[@Monsteretrope]

Soccermom is my favorite digimon

[@justagundam]

There isn't a Pure Evilmon, but there is a Vilemon.

[@gb4770]

Hey. The 2nd snake in Pokémon is also named "snake" backwards, but in portuguese and probably spanish too, going from "Cobra" to "Arbok".

[@JohnDoe-wl5xm]

kyle seems to be very angry about the fact that digimon isnt like pokemon lmao

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

Was that a Horatio Hornblower reference?

[@MitchFromFBS]

Only by virtue of Captain Crunch being a Horatio Hornblower reference. His full name is Horatio Magellan Crunch, and I played him in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign about cereal mascots a few months prior to our recording of this video.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@MitchFromFBS Shit I didn't know Captain Crunch even had a full name lol

[@MitchFromFBS]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 the Captain Crunch lore is mad bonkers

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@MitchFromFBS Ever read that Watchmen parody webcomic about Count Chocula getting murdered starring Cap'N and Tony?

[@MitchFromFBS]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 I have not, but it sounds wild. Would you believe me if I told you the final boss of the campaign was Count Chocula, and Tony the Tiger was our team's barbarian?

[@DLAlucard]

6:42 Was that mean to be a reference to Horatio Hornblower?

[@dagon7259]

Somebody already mentioned why bakemon is his name and for shinmon, the shin part may be because it means death in japanese. Not sure though

[@Dr.SamCarterPhD]

Evilmon is real (localised as Vilemon) Wtichmon is real Now just waiting for Spiritmon to be real

[@sarafontanini7051]

It's not that digimon names don't make sense, msot of them make sense, its jsut some of them are obtuse and some digimons are fucking weird.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

Digimon's designs have always held it back from Pokemon popularity I think

[@MitchFromFBS]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 Pokemon designs have typically always been a lot more palatable to a wider audience, that's for true.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@MitchFromFBS They just need to drop the 90s X-TREME aesthetic they're still on

[@MitchFromFBS]

@@ChangedMyNameFinally69 you know that ain’t goin nowhere, thats their brand and we’re here for it

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@MitchFromFBS I guess lol, I'd love to redesign the Digimon and do a full on reboot because I feel it needs it

[@Someguyhere111]

Pure Evilmon should've been written PureEvilmon. Spaces don't exist in the Digital World.

[@Calruxio]

Also is this a bad time to mention how the localizers butcher the names half the time until recently as they started going towards the japanese names more and more now. I mean there are 2 Falcomons and there's Hououmon and Phoenixmon which are the same digimon with the japanese name for phoenix (hou ou) and the literal translation of Phoenix.

[@f5673-t1h]

FOOTmon is based on FOOTball.

[@kamdenwilson9340]

Foot on is actually a fan made digimon if I remember correctly

[@HorrorGeek9]

Love Bakemon and Bearmon 💙 🙌🏾

[@MrKakuzukun]

Ah footfetishmon

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

4kids didn't do digimon adventure or any of the digimon localization it was Saban and later Disney

[@garionbeast]

very funny

[@jorgecarranza6555]

For next can you tell a little a bit of description so can be more easy and can be more a little of context.

[@thelosingteam1098]

I made a tabletop of Digimon and would love to throw in some suggestions if interested

[@DudesPlayingVidGames]

....guys football is soccer...footmon makes sense

[@darkmetaknight7]

Witchmon is actually a different digimon and it's a cute witch waifu

[@SirDumplin]

Beamon isn’t it Kumamon

[@lilboygthorns7373]

3:37 it’s football, not soccer, crethens

[@supernova9361]

ngl i only knew about soulmon because of a different channel

[@MitchFromFBS]

Was it Drawfee?

[@supernova9361]

@@MitchFromFBSit was drawfee lmao

[@gonzaloegonzalez8106]

"They make no sense" - most of them are obvious descriptions what you're talking about Also you can totally see this are americans because they didn't understand Footmon comes from "Football".

[@dresdenlancer9012]

Footmon is named after "football," which is what it is called everywhere that isn't the US (aka, in Japan). He was on the Vital Bracelet as part of the Pulsemon evolution line, who has a bunch of Evos based on sports and athletics.

[@RabblesTheBinx]

The Japanese word for soccer is "サッカー": "sakkā", and that's also what the sport is called in most English-speaking countries, including Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This is because the term "soccer" was originally a _British_ term, which led to its use in the former colonies. Japan is the exception, the term "sakkā" came around because of American influences in the aftermath of World War II.

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

Soccer is just called football in Japan btw

[@hermawandon7812]

Only few country call it soccer tho

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@hermawandon7812 That includes Japan though

[@RabblesTheBinx]

No, it isn't. The Japanese name for association football is "サッカー" (sakkā).

[@ChangedMyNameFinally69]

@@RabblesTheBinx Oh my bad, but I imagine a translated name should be that though

[@jtyler9130]

Japan calls it football so Soccermon would never be right. Only Americans call it soccer

[@RabblesTheBinx]

Japan does not call it football, they call it "サッカー" (sakkā). Also, it's not just the U.S. that calls it that. The term "soccer" originated at Oxford University (you know, in England?) and is the primary name for the sport in Canada, Australia, New Zealand (though "football" has come into more common usage in NZ over the last 20 years), South Africa, most of Ireland, and a good chunk of East Asia.

[@Patrick-dogmove]

As someone whos just discovering digimon, I love this content so much!

[@LadyNoriko]

you should do quiz thats just agumon variants

[@FueledBySandwiches]

👀

[@hermawandon7812]

Dat evil

[@simcada4366]

this was too easy because i love digimon so much that i know the names

[@velvetdarksoul8741]

As a digimon fan these make me laugh cause im almost always right god in a nerd XD

[@miloXZ]

Footmon is not soccermon because the sport is called football around the world. And soulmon exist because in the digimon world game your digimon is always with you and to make different the one you got and the wild ones, they make recolors, or in this case, just put a hat on it xD