Digimon: Digital Monsters

Episode Count	104* (54 in Original Series)
Season	Spring 1999
Genres	Adventure, Fantasy
Source Material	Other
Rating	TBD
Streaming	TBD

I have a soft spot for these eight adorable, floppy-socked dorks and their digital companions. It goes without saying that Digimon has influenced about 80-90% of my online persona, offline persona, and has inspired me to do so many things like writing, website creation, even the friends I made, many of whom I’m still friends with to this day. It just goes to show just how brilliant and well done this inaugural season was. Digimon was doing things that Pokémon never could—while Ash was out and about having episodic adventures with little to no consequence, our Digi-destined were dealing with real-life things like divorced parents, anxieties, death, and rivalries, and oh, by the way, you also have to save the real world and the digital world from total destruction with these digital monsters at your command. Digimon was not —and to this day is not —afraid to let their characters go through things and, at the end, show them having gotten through it, or at the very least, on the road to recovery. While each subsequent series has contributed to the franchise, you just can’t beat the prodigiousness of the original.

- KhakiBlueSocks

*Just to keep things simple, I left out the additional seasons like Tamers and Frontier that are their own separate stories, but this series page represents the franchise as a whole.