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Digimon: Digital Monsters

Seven young kids find themselves lost in the digital world, a world facing a dire threat. They are the digi-destined, who can save the digital world from Devimon’s corrupting black gears and the almighty Miortismon. To this end they each of the destined are teamed up with their own personalized digimon and set of on the long, hard journey ahead. As they travel they learn the ways of the digital world, gain the trust of their new digimon friends and build the confidence and knowledge to stand up to adversity and digivolve into champions.

The four seasons that made up this series each had a different set of young heroes (or digi-destined as they were known), new enemies and digimon. The third season set the digital world as not a parallel world but as a virtual reality game (in a similar vein to the MMORPG computer game genre), but one which causalities could still affect the real world. The fourth season, rather than hold on to the set traditions of the previous seasons; combined the digi-destined and the digimon so that they became the same entity and digivolve themselves. Even so, references to the previous heroes (and especially the originals) would crop up during the animé’s entire run.