Digimon Adventure

For the short film of the same name, see Digimon Adventure (Movie).
For the 2020 reboot series, see Digimon Adventure:.
For other related media that are also titled "Digimon Adventure," see Digimon Adventure § Related Media.

Director Kakudou Hiroyuki Screenwriter Nishizono Satoru Character Design Animator Character Designer Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi Animation Director Miyahara Naoki Producer Seki Hiromi Planning Assistant Fujiyama Taichirō Composer Arisawa Takanori Studio Toei Animation Network Fuji TV Duration March 7, 1999 - March 26, 2000 August 14, 1999 - June 24, 2000 Official Site Digimon Adventure Official Site Next Series Digimon Adventure 02 Previous Series N/A Episodes

Digimon Adventure (デジモンアドベンチャー Dejimon Adobenchā) is a 1999 television anime series. It was the first television anime adaptation of the Digimon franchise.

Summary

Premise

In the summer of 1999, seven children attending summer camp are unexpectedly taken into a new and unfamiliar world, where they meet seven Digimon who have been waiting for them. The children and their Digimon set out to figure out where they are and find a way home, fighting for survival against the other hostile Digimon who inhabit the world, but when they learn that have been brought into the Digital World for a higher purpose, they accept the responsibility of resolving the crisis facing it, as well as the role of the "Chosen Children." Even as their travels continue and they face the powerful evil Digimon who threaten both the Digital World and their own world, they also face their own inner demons and begin to mature, and as they do, their partner Digimon become able to evolve into stronger and stronger forms.

Synopsis

"File Island Arc" (Episodes 1-13)

After Landing in the Digital World, they found their partner Digimon. During a fight with Kuwagamon, Their Digimon Evolved. Gomamon Called upon some fish, and saved the children. After a long walk to the beach, they found phone booths. After finding they were fake, they ate emergency food thatJoe had in his bag. After, Shellmon Attacked them. When it was squeezing Taichi, Agumon Evolved into Greymon. After many similar scenarios, all Digimon but Patamon had Evolved. During these times, the Black Gears were found to be angering Digimon into attacking them. When Leomon was freed from the black gears, he told the Children and Digimon about a prophecy. Sent up to defeat Devimon, all the adult Digimon were taken out. After TK was taken by Devimon, Patamon finally evolved into Angemon. He defeated him, but lost himself in the process. His Digitama was returned, and after quick message from Gennai they were off to find the Crests on the continent of Server.

Characters

Main Characters

Yagami Taichi			Agumon
八神 太一			アグモン
	Voice Actor	Crest		Voice Actor	Evolution Stage
	Fujita Toshiko (藤田 淑子)	Crest of Courage		Sakamoto Chika (坂本 千夏)	Child
	Joshua Seth			Tom Fahn
	A sporty boy who is like, "I'm not great at studying, but when it comes to athletics, I'm your guy!" Extremely active, he's the type to take action rather than talk things through. He does occasionally bite off more than he can chew and fail for it, but, never letting it get him down, he boldly leads the way for the others with his innate courage and initiative. He was part of the elementary school soccer club where, despite just being in 5th grade, he was their ace striker.			Taichi's partner. A bipedal Reptile Digimon. Its Special Move is spitting a ball of fire from its mouth, Baby Flame. With a go-getter personality taking after (?) Taichi, it frequently dashes impulsively into battle in order to protect Taichi. However, normally, it is laid-back and endlessly cheerful, and will often cozy up to other humans besides Taichi as well, eager to be friends.
Botamon ⇒ Koromon ⇒ Agumon ⇒ Greymon ⇒ Metal Greymon ⇒ War Greymon                       ⇒ Skull Greymon
Takenouchi Sora			Piyomon
武之内 空			ピヨモン
	Voice Actor	Crest		Voice Actor	Evolution Stage
	Mizutani Yūko (水谷 優子)	Crest of Love		Shigematsu Atori (重松 花鳥)	Child
	Colleen O'Shaughnessey			Tifanie Christun
	An energetic girl with short-cut hair. She always has a boyish look to her, never wearing skirts. With her excellent reflexes, she and Taichi made up a two-top formation in the soccer club. But while she is on one hand strong-willed, she is simultaneously also a sensitive soul who frets over her friends, and is frequently put in the position of acting as something of a big sister to this discordant group.			Sora's partner. A Chick Digimon whose wings have developed to become like arms. Its Special Move is a strike using ethereal flames, Magical Fire. It is very needy and absolutely adores its partner, Sora. Meek by nature, it also gets dejected when Sora scolds it. It is actually poor at flying, and is in a perpetual rivalry with Patamon, who is in the same boat.
Nyokimon ⇒ Pyocomon ⇒ Piyomon ⇒ Birdramon ⇒ Garudamon
Ishida Yamato			Gabumon
石田 ヤマト			ガブモン
	Voice Actor	Crest		Voice Actor	Evolution Stage
	Kazama Yūto (風間 勇刀)	Crest of Friendship		Yamaguchi Mayumi (山口 眞弓)	Child
	Michael Reisz			Kirk Thornton
	A cool boy who excels at both smarts and action. His parents divorced three years ago, and now he lives with his father. He has a strong sense of responsibility and is overly serious, which may explain the somewhat excessively cautious side that he shows in the adventure in the Digital World. This could be why he frequently butts heads with the instinct-driven Taichi. He is also rather overprotective of Takaishi Takeru, his younger brother of whom his mother has custody. He has a talent for the harmonica.			Yamato's partner. It wears the pelt of a Garurumon, but is actually a Reptile Digimon, like Agumon. Its Special Move is an attack with a small fireball, Petit Fire. It puts on a tough act for its fellow Digimon and the humans, but deep down, it is very, very shy and will not take off its Garurumon pelt under any circumstances (how it looks without it is a secret).
Punimon ⇒ Tunomon ⇒ Gabumon ⇒ Garurumon ⇒ Were Garurumon ⇒ Metal Garurumon
Izumi Kōshirō			Tentomon
泉 光子郎			テントモン
	Voice Actor	Crest		Voice Actor	Evolution Stage
	Tenjin Umi (天神 有海)	Crest of Knowledge		Sakurai Takahiro (櫻井 孝宏)	Child
	Mona Marshall			Jeff Nimoy
	A "computer boy" who is constantly lugging his laptop around, whose biggest hobby is the internet. Fiercely intellectually curious, when he comes across a mystery, he becomes totally absorbed in solving it. The problem is, he hyperfocuses so much that he can no longer see other problems or the dangers right under his nose, sometimes angering the others. He is socially awkward and unfailingly refers to others with the honorific "-san." Predictably(?), he isn't much of an athlete.			Kōshirō's partner. An Insect Digimon with a tough carapace and six limbs. Its Special Move is firing a jolt of static electricity from its antennae, Petit Thunder. Its laid-back and friendly-to-all disposition might pair surprisingly well with Kōshirō's poor social skills. It is knowledgeable about Digimon and frequently steps up as a commentator on the subject, but its information can often be rather useless. For some reason, it speaks in the Kansai dialect.
Bubbmon ⇒ Mochimon ⇒ Tentomon ⇒ Kabuterimon ⇒ Atlur Kabuterimon
Tachikawa Mimi			Palmon
太刀川ミミ			パルモン
	Voice Actor	Crest		Voice Actor	Evolution Stage
	Maeda Ai (前田 愛)	Crest of Purity		Mizowaki Shihomi (溝脇 しほみ)	Child
	Philece Sampler			Anna Garduno
	A grade-A pretty girl who is a classmate of Kōshirō's. She's essentially a pampered princess type with an agreeable disposition who is well liked by others, but as a consequence of growing up wanting for nothing in her well-off family, she has a selfish and irresponsible side. Having never known hardship, she has a bad habit of immediately bursting into tears and being dependent on others when she is faced with difficulty. Bluntly put, she's incompetent, but is innocent and oddly hard-to-dislike by nature.			Mimi's partner. A Vegetation Digimon with a tropical flower blooming on its head. Its Special Move strikes with poisonous ivy, Poison Ivy. By nature it takes life at its own pace and wears its emotions plainly on its sleeve, and much like Mimi, it has a spoiled and selfish side. The flower on its head emits all sorts of scents depending on its mood, and it can photosynthesize by spreading its leaf-like arms.
Yuramon ⇒ Tanemon ⇒ Palmon ⇒ Togemon ⇒ Lilimon
Kido Jo			Gomamon
城戸 丈			ゴマモン
	Voice Actor	Crest		Voice Actor	Evolution Stage
	Kikuchi Masami (菊池 正美)	Crest of Sincerity		Takeuchi Junko (竹内 順子)	Child
	Michael Lindsay			R. Martin Klein
	An honors student with a reliable and deeply sincere disposition. Born into an elite family, his goal for his future is to himself qualify to enter a top university. Being the eldest of the group, his sense of duty constantly burdens him with the belief that he must lead them. Because of his indecisiveness and lack of ability, though, it all amount to nothing but a load of hot air, making him look ridiculous to the others.			Jo's partner. A Marine Animal Digimon with a warm coat of fur, who excels at swimming. When angered, the red fur running down its back stands up on end. Its Special Move, Marching Fishes, controls its fish minions as it sees fit. It's a rascal who messes with everything in sight, and of course, it virtually never listens to any of Jo's objections in the course of its monkeying around.
Pichimon ⇒ Pukamon ⇒ Gomamon ⇒ Ikkakumon ⇒ Zudomon
Takaishi Takeru			Patamon
高石 タケル			パタモン
	Voice Actor	Crest		Voice Actor	Evolution Stage
	Konishi Hiroko (小西 寛子)	Crest of Hope		Matsumoto Miwa (松本 美和)	Child
	Wendee Lee			Laura Summer
	Yamato's younger brother. Since their parents' divorce, he has lived with their mother. As a result, he greatly idolizes Yamato and believes that everything will work out for the best as long as his big brother handles it all. He is kind and meek by nature, but from time to time he unwittingly irritates Yamato, in all of his overprotectiveness, by heeding Taichi's point of view over Yamato's own.			Takeru's partner. A Mammal Digimon distinguished by its enormous ears. Its Special Move, Air Shot, spits out all of the air that it has inhaled all at once. It has a laudable disposition where it is especially meek compared to the other Digimon, and reliably obeys commands. It can also use its ears to fly, but it can't fly faster than 1 km/h, so really, it's always faster for it to just walk.
Poyomon ⇒ Tokomon ⇒ Patamon ⇒ Angemon ⇒ Holy Angemon
Yagami Hikari			Tailmon
八神 ヒカリ			テイルモン
	Voice Actor	Crest		Voice Actor	Evolution Stage
	Araki Kae (荒木 香恵)	Crest of Light		Tokumitsu Yuka (徳光 由香)	Adult
	Lara Jill Miller			Edie Mirman
	Taichi's younger sister; the eighth Chosen Child. She was actually supposed to have attended the camp and been sent to the Digimon world with Taichi and the others, but because she had come down with a cold and stayed at home, she is the only one who remained behind in the real world. Her disposition is usually very kind and deeply caring for her brother, but she also has great fortitude such that, when push comes to shove, she is undaunted by even the greatest of enemies.			Hikari's partner. A Mammal Digimon who resembles a small cat. Its Special Move, Neko Punch, strikes with its long, pointed claws. One would never guess from its cute appearance, but it is actually so strong that Greymon and the others are like lightweight beanbags to it. It originally served Vamdemon and was an enemy of Taichi and company, but with Wizarmon's help, it recovered its memories of its past of awaiting Hikari. Since it used to command squads of Digimon, it has the disposition of a strong-minded elder sister, and it is known to address its allies with a commanding tone.
Nyaromon ⇒ Plotmon ⇒ Tailmon ⇒ Angewomon

Other Characters

Ishida Hiroaki Izumi Kae Izumi Masami Kido Shin Tachikawa Keisuke

Tachikawa Satoe Takaishi Natsuko Takenouchi Toshiko Yagami Yuuko Yagami Susumu

File Island arc: Devimon Leomon Orgemon Andromon Elecmon	Server Continent arc: Etemon Nanomon Gazimon Whamon Piccolomon	Tokyo arc: Vamdemon Pico Devimon Wizarmon	Final showdown arc: The Dark Masters Piemon Pinochimon Mugendramon Metal Seadramon Apocalymon
Kuwagamon Shellmon Seadramon Meramon Monzaemon Unimon Yukidarumon Mojyamon Centalmon Bakemon	Drimogemon Pagumon Monochromon Greymon Cockatrimon Tyranomon Vegimon Digitamamon Vademon Fantomon Devidramon Nanimon	Mammon Gesomon Raremon Death Meramon Dark Tyranomon Gizamon Mega Seadramon Tuskmon Snimon	Anomalocarimon Hangyomon Kiwimon Mushmon Blossomon Jyureimon Gerbemon Red Vegimon Hagurumon Mechanorimon Tankmon Megadramon Gigadramon Waru Monzaemon Guardromon Mechanorimon Lady Devimon Evilmon

Gennai Homeostasis

Episodes

Main article: List of Digimon Adventure episodes

Related Media

See also: Digimon Adventure 02 § Related Media, Digimon Adventure tri. § Related Media, and Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna § In Other Media

Anime

Original continuity

Digimon Adventure anime only original continuity chronology

1995 Digimon Adventure (short film tie-in to Adventure, 1999) 1996 Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning (flashback/time travel scenes in feature film, 2023) 1997 1998 1999 Digimon Adventure (television series, 1999-2000) 2000 Digimon Adventure: Our War Game! (short film tie-in to Adventure, 2000) 2001 2002 Digimon Adventure 02 (television series, 2000-2001; +1 short film) 2003 Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back (short film tie-in to Adventure 02, 2001) 2004 2005 Digimon Adventure tri. (Film series, 2015-2018) 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna (feature film, 2020) 2011 2012 Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning (feature film, 2023) 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 Digimon Adventure 02: "Our Digital World" (epilogue of television series episode, 2001)

Unlike other Digimon anime series, Digimon Adventure has spawned an extensive number of sequel and tie-in films and television series, which all continue the story of Adventure's characters across decades.

• Digimon Adventure (Movie)
  A short film that was shown as part of the '99 Spring Toei Anime Fair.
• Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!
  A short film sequel to Adventure that was shown as part of the 2000 Spring Toei Anime Fair.
• Digimon Adventure 02
  A television anime series that is a direct sequel to Adventure.
  • Digimon Adventure 02: Vol. 1: Digimon Hurricane Landing!! and Vol. 2: Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals
    A pair of short films tying into Adventure 02, which were shown as part of the 2000 Summer Toei Anime Fair.
  • Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back
    A short film sequel to Our War Game! and Adventure 02 that was shown as part of the 2001 Spring Toei Anime Fair.
• Digimon Adventure tri.
  A sequel series of six films, set after Adventure 02.
• Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
  A theatrical feature film sequel, set after tri.
  • Digimon Adventure 20th Anniversary Memorial Story Project
    A series of five crowdfunded anime shorts produced as a tie-in to Kizuna, featuring the casts of Adventure and Adventure 02.
• Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning
  A theatrical feature film sequel to Kizuna, focusing on the cast of Adventure 02.

Other

• Digimon Xros Wars: The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time
  The third season of the Digimon Xros Wars television anime series, which features crossover guest appearances by characters from Adventure and Adventure 02.
• Digimon Adventure:
  A television anime series; a reboot of the original Adventure.

Manga

Japanese Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 A manga which, while its story and setting are not actually connected to those of Adventure at all, stars a different Yagami Taichi.

Other Digimon Adventure A heavily abridged manhua adaptation of Adventure from Hong Kong, by Yu Yuen-wong. Digimon Adventure A Taiwanese manhua adaptation of Adventure by Lu Shui-shi, whose story diverges significantly from that of the series.

Drama CDs

• Digimon Adventure - Character Song - Mini Drama 1
• Digimon Adventure - Character Song - Mini Drama 2
• Digimon Adventure - Character Song - Mini Drama 3
• Digimon Adventure: Original Story - The 2½ Year Break
• Digimon Adventure 15th Blu-ray BOX Special Drama CD

Prose Fiction

• Digimon Adventure (Novelization)
  A set of three junior novels adapting the story of Adventure, with added detail and some changes to the events of the story.

Video Games

Digimon Adventure A role-playing game adaptation of Adventure and Our War Game!, produced for the series' 10th anniversary. Digimon Adventure: Anode Tamer & Cathode Tamer The first game in the Akiyama Ryo series of role-playing games; a tie-in sequel to Adventure. The other three games in the series also feature Adventure and Adventure 02 characters. Digimon World: Digital Card Arena A trading card-centric role-playing game which features characters from Adventure and (primarily) Adventure 02. Digimon Super Rumble A Korean massively multiplayer online RPG, set in the world of Adventure.

Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley A role-playing game which includes levels based on selected episodes of Adventure (and Adventure 02). Digimon World Re:Digitize & Decode A role-playing game in which characters from Adventure (and Adventure 02) make crossover guest appearances. Digimon New Century A Chinese mobile role-playing game which includes an adaptation of Adventure as part of its secondary story mode.

Digimon Tamers: Battle Evolution A fighting game that features some playable characters from Adventure (and Adventure 02). Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit & Ver. 1.5 A fighting game that features playable characters from Adventure (and Adventure 02). Digimon Battle Chronicle An American fighting game that features playable characters from Adventure (and Adventure 02). Digimon All-Star Rumble An American fighting game that features playable characters from Adventure (and Adventure 02).

Tabletop Games

Digimon Adventure Divine Project A Chinese jubensha set in the world of Adventure.

Credits

Position	Name	Kanji/Kana
Production	Takaiwa Tan (Toei) Tomari Tsutomu (Toei Animation) Tamamura Teruo (Shueisha) Mittsui Yasushi (Fuji Television) Shibasaki Makoto (Bandai)	高岩淡（東映） 泊懋（東映アニメーション） 玉村輝雄(集英社) 三ッ井康（フジテレビジョン） 柴崎誠（バンダイ）
Planning	Seki Hiromi	関 弘美
Original Concept	Hongo Akiyoshi (Serialized in Shueisha's "Monthly V-Jump")	本郷あきよし （集英社「月刊Ｖジャンプ」連載）
Screenplay	Yoshida Reiko	吉田玲子
Music	Arisawa Takanori	有澤孝紀
Production Manager	Takanashi Yoichi	高梨洋一
Editor	Fukumitsu Shinichi	福光伸一
Audio Recording	Kuramoto Teiji	蔵元貞司
Digital Director of Photography	Takahashi Motoi	高橋基
Color Design	Itasaka Yasue	板坂泰江
Art Director	Tamura Seiki	田村せいき
Digital Art Director	Yoshino Mitsuo	芳野満雄
Character Design & Animation Director	Yamashita Takaaki Nakayama Hisashi	山下高明 中山久司
Director	Hosoda Mamoru	細田守

Seiyū	Kanji/Kana	Character	Voice Actor
Fujita Toshiko	藤田淑子	Yagami Taichi	Joshua Seth
Mizutani Yūko	水谷優子	Takenouchi Sora	Colleen O'Shaughnessey
Kazama Yūto	風間勇刀	Ishida Yamato	Michael Reisz
Tenjin Umi	天神有海	Izumi Kōshirō	Mona Marshall
Maeda Ai	前田愛	Tachikawa Mimi	Philece Sampler
Konishi Hiroko	小西寛子	Takaishi Takeru	Wendee Lee
Kikuchi Masami	菊池正美	Kido Jo	Michael Lindsay
Araki Kae	荒木香恵	Hikari	Lara Jill Miller
Sakamoto Chika	坂本千夏	Agumon	Brianne Siddall
Shigematsu Atori	重松花鳥	Piyomon	Tifanie Christun
Yamaguchi Mayumi	山口眞弓	Gabumon	Kirk Thornton
Sakurai Takahiro	櫻井孝宏	Tentomon	Jeff Nimoy
Mizowaki Shihomi	溝脇しほみ	Palmon	Anna Garduno
Matsumoto Miwa	松本美和	Patamon	Laura Summer
Takeuchi Junko	竹内順子	Gomamon	R. Martin Klein
Tokumitsu Yuka	徳光由禾	Tailmon	Edie Mirman
Hirata Hiroaki	平田広明	Narrator
Yanami Jouji	八奈見乗児	Gennai	Mike Reynolds

Soundtrack

Opening Theme: "Butter-Fly" Songwriter/Composer: Chiwata Hidenori (千綿 偉功) Arranger: Watanabe Cher (渡部 チェル) Artist(s): Wada Kouji (和田 光司) (NEC Interchannel)	Insert Song: "brave heart" Songwriter: Ōmori Shouko (大森祥子) Composer/Arranger: Ōta Michihiko (太田美知彦) Artist(s): Miyazaki Ayumi (宮崎歩) (NEC Interchannel)
Insert Song: "Seven" Songwriter/Composer: Koyama Kōhei (小山 晃平) Arranger: Watanabe Cher (渡部 チェル) Artist(s): Wada Kouji (和田 光司) (NEC Interchannel)	Insert Song: "Yūki o Tsubasa ni Shite" 「勇気を翼にして」 Songwriter: Koyama Kōhei (小山 晃平) Composer/Arranger: Ōta Michihiko (太田美知彦) Artist(s): Fujita Toshiko (藤田 淑子) (NEC Interchannel)
Ending Theme (eps. #1-26): "I wish" Songwriter: Miura Yoshiko (三浦 徳子) Composer: Shirakawa Yoshihisa (白川 善久) Arranger: Horī Katsumi (堀井 勝美) Artist(s): AiM (NEC Interchannel)	Ending Theme (eps. #27-54): "keep on" Songwriter/Composer: Kite Naoto (木根 尚登) Arranger: Kite Naoto (木根 尚登) & Yuasa Kōichi (湯浅 公一) Artist(s): AiM (NEC Interchannel)

Production

Digimon Adventure was the first of what producer Seki Hiromi has since nicknamed "the four brothers" 「四兄弟」: the first four Digimon anime series, produced back-to-back over the course of four years, with significant crossover in their production crews.

Early development

In early 1998, circa February-March, Bandai approached Toei Animation with a project proposal for a television anime tie-in to their Digital Monster line, and Seki was approached for the producer position. The only premise established in the proposal was that the Digimon creatures themselves would be part of the series, and it had no further requests for which Digimon species would appear or any other content.

Thoughts of having a broader multimedia franchising project running alongside the anime began around the summer of 1998, around which time it was decided that both the television series and a theatrical film would be produced simultaneously. The notion of having a manga as part of this multimedia project arose circa fall 1998, resulting in Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01.

As "Digital Monster"

One early concept for the series, referred to as just Digital Monster in planning materials dated to August 1998, would have featured a fifth-grader protagonist (apparently known at different points in planning as "Yūsuke" and "Kou") who raises Digimon virtual pets, who is recruited by Jijimon to raise Digimon strong enough to fight back against an organization that threatens both worlds. The Toei Anime Fair film project that eventually developed into the Digimon Adventure short film was also at one time intended as a prequel to this concept, starring this protagonist's father.

As "Digimon Adventure"

Production on the series was greenlit in the fall of 1998. According to Hosoda Mamoru, this decision was only made some time after the theatrical film project had also been greenlit.

The chosen final concept for the series was given the working title Digimon Island Adventure Chronicle (「デジモン島冒険記」), prior to the title of "Digimon Adventure" being chosen. This title appears on a series proposal document which, by Kakudou Hiroyuki's estimation, dates to the fall of 1998; as of this proposal, there were only five lead characters, who went by tentative early names rather than their names in the final version of the series.

Seki recruited Kakudou as series director around July/August 1998, based on his demonstrated ability to balance a large cast of characters in his work on Bikkuriman. Head writer Nishizono Satoru was also approached with the proposal for the project in the summer of 1998. WiZ representatives Watanabe Kenji and Kitagawara Makoto were involved in the early stages of Adventure's production, and contributed to selecting the species of Digimon that would appear in the series. Kitagawara also designed the Digivice; prior to that name being chosen, the device had been tentatively named the "DigiRaider" (「デジレイダー」), and the toy based on it was even showcased under this name at the Tokyo International Toy Show in March 1999, a few weeks into the series' first airing.

A later, undated series proposal document for Adventure—speculated by Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning assistant producer Shimomura to have been intended to pitch the series outside of Toei Animation once its production was underway—essentially describes the series in its final form, and lays out its premise, intended themes, influences, and characterization and character development points.

Characters

Prior to initiating talks with Toei Animation, Bandai representatives had already approached V Jump to seek character designers for an anime series. In particular, they sought Toriyama Akira, but he was not available due to ongoing work commitments. This led Bandai to turn to Toei, as they were aware that Toei's Nakatsuru Katsuyoshi, who contributed character designs to Toei's anime adaptations of Toriyama's Dragon Ball franchise, had a similar art style to Toriyama.

Around the fall of 1998, as the concept of Adventure was being finalized, it was agreed that both Adventure and Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01 would share a main protagonist as part of the multimedia project push. Out of respect for the fact that V-Tamer was scheduled to be the first of the two to debut, Nakatsuru chose to adopt Yabuno Tenya's design for said protagonist, and Seki named the character "Yagami Taichi." The rest of the main cast were conceptualized around Yabuno's Taichi design.

When Nishizono was brought onto the project, he was given rough descriptions of each of the main characters and tasked with developing them into fleshed-out characters that incorporated familiar troubles experienced by children. Except for Taichi and Agumon, he was given the freedom to ignore the descriptions he was given if he had other ideas for the character. Masaki Hiro also contributed extensively to Izumi Kōshirō's background.

The size of the main cast was debated; suggestions ranged from three to seven, with Kakudou favoring seven. However, it was agreed that there should be two girls. Given that the norm in children's action media at the time, such as Super Sentai, was for groups of five heroes to only have one female member, a group of seven was chosen in order to fit the two girls (the decision was also partly modeled on the boy band SMAP, which had five male members). The group was designed with variety in ages, personalities and interests in mind, to give each a unique perspective, skill set, strengths and weaknesses. This was motivated by a desire for realism, balance and variety in their use in the story; for broad appeal to ensure that the cast had something for everyone; and to model to children that every member of a class matters as much as each other, including the children who sit at the back of the class. Tachikawa Mimi in particular was conceived as an exploration of how an "ordinary" (if spoiled) child would likely actually cope with being thrust into an alien situation; she was aimed to especially resonate as a character with the child audience, for which reason she was made the last to say her farewells in "A New World". Kakudou has characterized the approach of making the Chosen Children flawed as people as helping to make them realistic.

One of Kakudou's foundational decisions was to regard all seven of the Chosen Children to equally be the protagonists, and to keep the amount of focus and action that each would receive roughly equal. Stemming from his frustration at other series' habit of having their lead character be the only one to solve every problem, he liked the idea of giving "ordinary" characters time in the spotlight and the potential to resolve adverse situations with their respective skill sets and strengths. The arc from episodes 10 to 12, where the Chosen Children are separated from each other for the first time, was intended by Kakudou to highlight the characters and their equal importance to the series.

Yagami Hikari was not initially planned to be a Chosen Child. The idea arose when breaking the storyline of Taichi's first, solo return to the real world, during which the Adventure short film was brought up. This inspired the reintroduction of, and focus upon, Hikari in "Koromon, the Great Clash in Tokyo!" A reference art document concerning the Crests (pictured right), which does not include Hikari at all, suggests that a side effect of this change of plans to include Hikari was a minor reshuffling of the others' Crest colors: originally, Takenouchi Sora's Crest of Love and Kōshirō's Crest of Knowledge were pink and red respectively, but the color pink was ultimately given to Hikari's Crest of Light instead of Sora's. To compensate for this, the color red was reassigned from Kōshirō to Sora, while Kōshirō was given the previously absent color of purple. (Kido Jo's Crest of Sincerity was, unrelatedly, also changed from a light blue to silver.)

The question of which Digimon would be featured, and how they would evolve, was left for after the question of the human cast's size was settled. For the most part, the production crew was able to freely pick Digimon to use in the series. Seki has described their choices as striking a balance with the human cast. There is some disagreement as to whether this includes Agumon; Seki has at different times described the inclusion of Agumon as a requirement, and as Kakudou's choice for the main character's partner. Selections were partly motivated by the Digimon's types.

Individual staff writers tended to be assigned particular characters to focus upon, and would often have a significant role in developing that character. Known cases include:

• Nishizono Satoru: Taichi
• Urasawa Yoshio: Mimi
• Masaki Hiro: Kōshirō
• Yoshimura Genki: Wizarmon, villains (including Pinochimon)

Some thought was also given to having a female writer write for Sora, but they discovered that Yoshimura was instead better suited to writing action for the male characters.

Casting

Fujita Toshiko was Seki's first choice to play Taichi; following the custom at Toei Animation at the time, she directly solicited Fujita for the role without an audition process, out of respect for her extensive history with the studio's anime. The rest of the principal characters were cast from auditions, and the casting decisions were made with Fujita's voice in mind. At Kakudou's request, a variety of actors were auditioned, with the thinking that new and unfamiliar voice talent would help the show stand out. The result was a "balance" of veteran actors and new talent.

Writing

At the time that the Adventure project was initiated, the Digimon franchise as a whole had next to no story material and no characters other than the Digimon themselves, and even the question of whether Digimon were capable of speech had not been settled in the source material. As a result, the Adventure production team worked with an effectively blank slate when devising the story and characters. One of Seki's first decisions was to give them the ability to speak, which she saw as necessary for the audience to empathize with the story, and for the story to feature humans and Digimon side by side.

Among the few details to work with in the source material was the existence of File Island, which was chosen as the series' setting by mid-late August 1998. Although they still struggled to develop story ideas out of the setting at first, the production crew came upon the plot framework of children being marooned in a foreign land, inspired by stories like Two Years' Vacation and Robinson Crusoe. They conceived of the plot as a way to explore how such an experience would affect children, and how they would mature as people in response. While contemplating how evolution would work, they thought of tying each partner Digimon's ability to evolve to the character growth and personal dramas of their human partner, so as to both heighten the human cast's prominence and increase the appeal of the scarier Digimon species.

It was decided that despite the concept of the franchise, the virtual nature of the Digital World and the Digimon would not be emphasized much, in order to evoke the feeling that Digimon are real life-forms that actually exist. As part of this, the visual design of the Digital World focuses largely on Earth-like natural scenery.

The decision to set Adventure in the summer of 1999 was influenced by Nostradamus's Les Prophéties, which had gained some notoriety in the late 1990s due to his prediction that a "King of Terror" would descend on the world in July 1999. They had originally intended to date the summer camp to July 25, the last Sunday of the month cited in the prophecy, but the addition of another episode to the middle of the series' schedule resulted in the dating being pushed back to the next Sunday, August 1, instead.

It was decided from the beginning that the cast would be brought back to the real world at some point; for cast balance reasons, this developed into the return of the entire group of seven being reserved for later in the series, with Taichi first returning alone (which led to the introduction of Hikari into the series). The complete group's return was originally planned to only take up three episodes, but it rapidly ballooned into an 11-episode arc in order to fit all of the necessary story beats. Extensive location scouting was conducted for locations within Tokyo to be featured in the arc, motivated by both a desire on Kakudou's part to depict Tokyo as realistically as possible and to bring out the contrast between the worlds, but also largely for the production crew's own enjoyment. The use of fog as part of Vamdemon's conquest of Odaiba in the story was inspired by one such scouting expedition to Odaiba which was foiled by the sudden onset of fog.

Adventure's target audience was the "slightly older" 10-12 demographic—by their own admission, children who had "aged out" of Pokémon—although Kakudou endeavored to ensure that adults, such as parents watching the show with their children, would also be able to appreciate it.

According to Kakudou, the idea of Adventure being framed as the reminiscences of Takaishi Takeru as a novelist 28 years later, and his adult self's identity as the series' narrator, was established as early as late January 1999. This framing was among the details that the production crew shared around this time with the voice cast during post-recording for "Adrift?! The Island of Adventure" to inform their performances, although they did not reveal to the cast which of the Chosen Children would grow up to become the narrator. At that point, it was planned that the series' final episode would end with an epilogue set 28 years later, but when Digimon Adventure 02 entered production midway through Adventure's run, the epilogue was dropped from the plans for Adventure and instead saved for 02's finale, "Our Digital World".

Animation

Around the same time that Adventure entered production, Toei Animation had only just established its CG animation department, but since they were uninterested in budgeting for it any further at the time, the department was not able to independently produce CG animation. Due to limitations on their own budget and resources, the lack of a proper system, and the assumption that having Adventure's animation production team attempt to direct the CG department's work would be inconvenient under the circumstances, Kakudou decided that that their only option was to produce the CG animation himself. All of the CG animation in Adventure's evolution stock footage, opening and end credits has been credited to Kakudou, and he has commented that the process consumed so much of his time that he got barely any regular sleep until the series had been airing for at least two months. Kakudou was also responsible for some visual design work, such as the Digimon Analyzer screen layout.

The idea of using evolution stock footage was also Kakudou's. He reasoned that, given how much its tone would vary between its light-hearted and serious episodes, the series as a whole ought to have a distinctive feature that would be present in every episode regardless of tone, and that evolution stock footage would fulfill that purpose. The need for the stock footage to stand out as such a distinctive feature also motivated the decision to use CG animation in its production.

The first two episodes of Adventure accompany their closing narration with a circuit board visual motif, which was intended to help convey the digital nature of the setting to an audience who still predated the total saturation of computers and the Internet in day-to-day life, and were not accustomed to digital world metaphors in anime. Since it quickly became apparent that this was not relevant to the story, the circuit board motif was dropped after the second episode.

According to Nakatsuru, the production crew did not emphasize power or realism in when depicting fights in Adventure. He credits this decision with enabling the series to be aired in parts of the world which are more sensitive to how violence is depicted in media.

Marketing

Bandai and WiZ did not initially plan to produce any tie-in merchandise for Adventure. Toei Animation objected to this, as they perceived this as meaning that their work on the series would only benefit Bandai and WiZ, so they changed course. However, they were not able to produce any merchandise within the half-year window between the confirmation that Adventure would enter production, and the debut of the series.

In an unusual move for Toei Animation at the time, a press conference promoting Adventure was held shortly before the series began airing. The conference featured both a briefing from an unidentified producer, and clips from the first and second episodes (the latter of which still had not yet been finished at the time).

A promotional exhibition titled the "Summer Vacation Digimon Adventure Gathering" (「夏休みデジモンアドベンチャー大会」) was held at Tokyo Tower in July 1999. Among the attendees was Han Megumi, then still a child, who would later take over the role of Takeru's eight-year-old self from Konishi Hiroko (among other Digimon roles) in later spinoffs and follow-ups to Adventure.

Image Gallery

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Digimon Adventure Vol. 7 (VHS, 2000)	Digimon Adventure Vol. 8 (VHS, 2000)	Digimon Adventure Vol. 9 (VHS, 2000)	Digimon Adventure Vol. 10 (VHS, 2000)	Digimon Adventure Vol. 11 (VHS, 2000)	Digimon Adventure Vol. 12 (VHS, 2000)
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Broadcast History

• March 7, 1999 - March 26, 2000: The first run of Digimon Adventure aired on Fuji TV on Sundays at 9:00 AM (UTC+9). It replaced Toei Animation's 1998 adaptation of Himitsu no Akko-chan in this timeslot, and when it ended, it was replaced in this timeslot by Digimon Adventure 02.
• August 14, 1999 - June 8, 2002: The first run of "Digimon: Digital Monsters season 1," Saban Entertainment's American English dub of Adventure, aired on the Fox Kids programming block.
• August 14, 2000 - December 26, 2000: The first run of "Digimon: Die Serie," the German dub of Adventure, aired on RTL II's "Pl@net Zone" programming block at 4:10 PM (UTC+1/UTC+2) daily (with breaks).

Home Media Releases

Image	Name	ID No.	Format	RRP	Release Date	Notes
		Running Time	Picture Track	Audio Track	Distributor
	Digimon Adventure DVD-Box 「デジモンアドベンチャー DVD-BOX」	BCBA-1903	DVD	¥52,500	July 23, 2004	Limited-edition nine-disc box set of the complete television series.
		1252 minutes	4:3 standard, color	| Dolby Digital stereo sound	Emotion (Bandai Visual)
	—Digimon Adventure— Digimon Chronicle Box-04 a.k.a. Digimon Adventure DVD-Box 「デジモンアドベンチャー DVD-BOX」	BIBA-9231	DVD	¥52,500	December 21, 2007	Nine-disc box set of the complete television series. Bonus Pack-ins: DVD box with new artwork "Memories Of Our DIGIMON ADVENTURE" booklet "Summer Vacation Adventure Journal" 「夏休み冒険日誌」 booklet Picture labels
		1242 minutes	4:3 standard, color	| Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound	Happinet Pictures
	Digimon Adventure 15th Anniversary Blu-ray Box 「デジモンアドベンチャー 15th Anniversary Blu-ray BOX」	BIXA-9470	Blu-ray Disc	¥54,800	March 3, 2015	Box set of the complete television series. Bonus Features: Credit-less opening titles 2x credit-less end titles 3x end cards Television commercial First-run airing notices (#9, #27, #50-#54) Bonus Pack-ins: Transparent sleeve and tri-fold box with new artwork 2x "Digi-Stack" cases with new artwork Special Booklet (edited from the "Digimon Chronicle Box 04" booklets) Picture labels Special Drama CD (1st print run only)
		1242 minutes	4:3 1080i, color	| Linear PCM stereo sound	Happinet Pictures
	Digimon Adventure 1999-2001 Blu-ray Box 「デジモンアドベンチャー 1999-2001 Blu-ray BOX」	BIXA-9613	Blu-ray Disc	¥39,800	March 6, 2021	Box set of Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02, and both series' Toei Anime Fair films. Consists of reissued discs from the Digimon Adventure 15th Anniversary Blu-ray Box and its Adventure 02 counterpart, and reissues of Discs 1 and 2 of the Digimon THE MOVIES Blu-ray series.
		2553 minutes	4:3 1080i, color (Adventure)	| Linear PCM stereo sound (Adventure)	Happinet Pictures
	Digimon Adventure - English-Language Version - Season 1	(TBA)	Blu-ray Disc	$79.95 USD	December 27, 2022	Digital remaster and upscale of the "Digimon: Digital Monsters season 1" dub of Adventure. Produced by With the Will administrator MarcFBR.
		1100 minutes (total)	(TBA)	| (TBA)	Discotek Media
	Digimon Adventure - Original Japanese Version - Series 1	(TBA)	Blu-ray Disc	$69.95 USD	July 25, 2023	Digital remaster and upscale of Adventure. The first home media release of the series in its original, uncut form in the United States. Produced by With the Will administrator MarcFBR; subtitled into English by onkeikun, who previously wrote fansubs for the series in the 2000s. Bonus Features: Credit-less opening and end titles Episode ending cards Alternate next-episode previews Promos Art galleries
		1200 minutes (total)	1.33:1 4:3 1080p, color	| Linear PCM 2.0 stereo sound	Discotek Media
	Digimon Collectors Blu-ray BOX –Adventure–	BIXA-9093	Blu-ray Disc	¥19,000	September 6, 2023	Reissue of the contents of the Digimon Adventure 15th Anniversary Blu-ray Box release at a cheaper price point. Bonus Features: Credit-less opening titles 2x credit-less end titles 3x end cards Television commercial First-run airing notices (#9, #27, #50-#54)
		1242 minutes	4:3 1080i, color	| Linear PCM stereo sound	Happinet Pictures

Edits

American English

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English logo of the "Digimon: Digital Monsters season 1" dub

The American English dub of Digimon Adventure——rebranded as "season 1" of "Digimon: Digital Monsters" (also just referred to by the original "Digimon Adventure" title in some modern home media and streaming re-releases)——was produced by Saban Entertainment, with writing and voice direction duties from episode 14 onward contracted out to Spliced Bread Productions. It aired from 1999-2000 at a delay of between three and five months from the airing of the original version.

The following are general edits that apply to the series dub as a whole. For more specific edits, see individual episode articles.

• As usual for American English dubbed Digimon productions prior to Digimon Adventure tri., the score is totally replaced and nothing remains of the Japanese soundtrack.
  • "Butter-Fly," "Brave heart," "I Wish" and "keep on" are all replaced by the "Digimon Theme" as the opening theme, insert song for evolution scenes, and (as an instrumental) the closing credits theme.
    The Adventure dub establishes the standard American dub practice of almost exclusively using its designated theme songs or leitmotifs for every evolution scene.
  • Unlike "Brave heart," the "Digimon Theme" is only played over the evolution stock footage itself and never continues into any scenes that follow the stock footage. Instead, later dubbed episodes use several other songs composed for the dub as insert songs for fight sequences.
  • The original sound effects are replaced or removed entirely. In particular, the Japanese version's use of the opening riff of "Brave heart" as the sound effect for an evolution activating is replaced in the dub with a robotic voice saying "Digimon."
• As usual for contemporary American English Digimon dubs, dialogue is modified to include things such non-existent jokes and tends to add dialogue that were originally moments of silence.
  • Early dubbed episodes also have a habit of adding in made-up biographical details that contradict not only the original series, but also later episodes of the dub, such as the third episode's assertion that Matt Ishida (Ishida Yamato) and T.K. Takaishi (Takaishi Takeru) are half-brothers rather than full brothers, or the tenth episode's claim that Mimi Tachikawa (Tachikawa Mimi) is not an only child.
• Footage from the Japanese "Butter-fly" opening titles is recut into a new, shorter opening titles sequence.
• The Japanese title cards are not used at all. Instead, the dub's episode titles are superimposed over the first few seconds of footage in each episode.
• For the most part, the role of the original version's narrator (i.e. Takeru as an adult, as later revealed in Digimon Adventure 02) is dropped from the dub. Instead, the dub is usually narrated by members of the main cast, in-character.
• Regarding Digimon Analyzer screens:
  • In the original version, the narrator non-diegetically introduces the featured Digimon to the audience in the original version with their lore information. In the dub, this is replaced with voiceover from a main character (or the featured Digimon itself) diegetically sharing what they know about the featured Digimon with jokes being used from time to time.
  • While the dub edits the screens to replace the featured Digimon's name in Japanese with its name in English, the rest of the screens' stat data is left unedited, in Japanese, without any translation at all.
• Whereas in the Japanese version, a single voice actor voices all of the forms of a given partner Digimon, the dub routinely casts multiple actors to voice different forms of a single partner Digimon; Agumon, for instance, has five different regular dub voice actors across his six forms. Only Gabumon, Tentomon and Gatomon (Tailmon) are each still regularly voiced by a single actor in every one of their forms in the dub.
• Both versions of the Japanese closing credits are replaced with a split-screen setup, in which credits roll over black next to clips taken from early episodes.
• The Japanese version's post-credits preview reels for the next episode are omitted from the dub, in favor of adding brief "tune in next time" narration voiceover to the end of episodes before the credits roll.

Fillipino English

An alternate English dub was produced for airing on Animax in various Asian countries, recorded in the Phillipines. Unlike the American dub, this dub is much more faithful to the original, leaving the original names intact, as well as the original music and sound effects.

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