Digimon

Digimon (Japanese: デジモン, Hepburn: Dejimon, branded as Digimon: Digital Monsters, stylized as DIGIMON), short for Digital Monsters (デジタルモンスター Dejitaru Monsuta), is a Japanese media franchise encompassing virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films and a trading card game. The franchise focuses on the eponymous creatures, who inhabit a Digital World, a parallel universe that originated from Earths various communication networks.