Takato Matsuki is the goggle-wearing lead of Digimon Tamers (2001), a 10-year-old Shinjuku kid who sketched his own Digimon in a notebook and watched it come to life as Guilmon. His story covers the jump from fan to Tamer, a terrifying dark evolution, and the first Biomerge into Gallantmon. This profile covers who Takato is,…
Saki Fujita (藤田 咲, Fujita Saki in Japanese name order) is the Tokyo-born voice actress whose recordings became the source for Hatsune Miku, the most famous virtual singer on the planet. Anime fans also know her as Ymir in Attack on Titan. In this profile we cover her best-known roles, how the Miku voicebank works,…
The Xros Digimon are the cast of Digimon Xros Wars, the 2010 to 2012 anime that Saban Brands dubbed in English as Digimon Fusion. Shoutmon and Taiki Kudo’s team, Xros Heart, lead the show, opposed by the Bagra Army. This list sorts the major Digimon by team, gives the Japanese and dub names together, and…
Junpei Shibayama is the oldest of the kids pulled into the Digital World in Digimon Frontier. He spirit evolves into Beetlemon and MetalKabuterimon as the Legendary Warrior of Thunder. This profile covers his spirits, his personality, the dub changes that renamed him J.P., and how to follow his arc from start to finish. Which Junpei…
Takehito Koyasu is the Japanese voice actor behind Dio Brando in JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Zeke Yeager in Attack on Titan, Roswaal L Mathers in Re:Zero and the Hand Demon in Demon Slayer. Born in Yokohama on 5 May 1967, he has been working since the late 1980s and runs his own agency, T’s Factory. Below…
Mutant type (突然変異型, “sudden mutation type” in Japanese) is the Digimon Reference Book category for monsters whose data mutated into something that fits no other family: Sukamon, Mamemon, Starmon and their relatives. It has nothing to do with Marvel’s Alpha and Omega level mutants, which is where a lot of the confusion online comes from….
Kirk Thornton is the Los Angeles voice actor behind Gabumon in the English Digimon Adventure dub, Shadow the Hedgehog in the Sonic games and Kisame Hoshigaki in Naruto. This profile walks you through his Digimon work line by line, his biggest anime and game roles, and how to pick out his voice in a credits-free…
Mega is the sixth and highest standard level in the English Digimon franchise, sitting above In-Training, Rookie, Champion and Ultimate, and it carries the Japanese name Ultimate (Kyūkyokutai). You reach it through normal digivolution, Warp Digivolution, DNA Digivolution, Biomerge or Spirit Evolution depending on the series, and every game sets its own level and stat…
Digimon Tamers is the third Digimon anime, a standalone 51-episode series from Toei Animation that aired in Japan from April 2001 to March 2002 and reached the West on Fox Kids as “season 3” of Digimon: Digital Monsters. It drops the Adventure cast entirely, moves the action to a real-feeling Shinjuku and ends with the…
Butter-Fly is the opening theme of Digimon Adventure, sung by Kōji Wada, written and composed by Hidenori Chiwata (千綿偉功) and arranged by Cher Watanabe. It debuted alongside the anime in 1999, returned as Butter-Fly ~tri.Version~ for Digimon Adventure tri. in 2015, and has since become the single most recognisable piece of music in the whole…
