20 years... it sure has been a while.

I can't pretend that I was there from the beginning or anything. In fact, this day 20 years ago I was only three years old and probably just sitting in a sandpit throwing dirt around.

However, the moment the first Digimon V-pet was released, heavenly light engulfed me and I received a Revelation sent by God himself. In it, the choir of angels proclaimed:"This is a special announcement: All creation has been finalized as humanity has finally reached its peak; The ultimate culmination of human civilization and culture the absolute and unsurpassable work of art called DIGIMON has just been unveiled somewhere in Japan. All of history has been designed to lead to this very event. So... check it out!"

And thus I was enlightened.



...Okay, most of that was a lie except the part about the sandpit. Later, while I occasionally caught a random episode of Adventure through Tamers on TV (My parents didn't want me to watch it because it was "too violent" since we all know Digimon is hardcore as hell) I only properly got into the fandom about a decade later, through the internet which provided a potent mix of Digimon Savers, X-Evolution, V-Tamer, horrible encodes of the older Digimon movies and whatever else I could find that convinced me of the potential of the franchise, including lots of, now probably very dated, Digimon AMVs on youtube.



It has been a good 20 years so far. I hope that the franchise carries on for another 20 years, continues to survive the eventual decline and extinction of the human species and keeps on delivering high quality products and anime until the heat death of the universe.