Written by Jonathan Wojcik with the aid of With the Will, Digimon Wiki and Wikimon


THE NAVI TYPE APPMON



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NAVIMON

The quintessential Navi Type appmon, obviously, and I really enjoy this squat little Tokusatsu looking guy made up of GPS imagery, with arrows and map lines and even map markers for arms!

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MCMON

Are we gonna have one of these bunny guys in every type? Eh, whatever. I don't want to take a point away for repetition alone, since I'm going in an arbitrary order and this could have just as easily been the first or second one we saw here. Its power is to boost others through motivational speaking. I'm not sure what that has to do with "navigation."

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COMPASSMON

Awwwww. This little compass with super long arms is just adorable, almost making me think of a barn owl with those eyes on a white face. Sadly, Compassmon hates Navimon for being able to do everything a "compass app" can do and a whole lot more.

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TUTOMON

This "commentary app" loves to explain things to people, and it's so small that only its voice is heard. Cute idea, not entirely sure why it's a hamster. Is that a reference to something?

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ROCKETMON

I feel like it's a little odd for this robot shark with four rockets on it to be the same evolutionary stage as a smart hamster, but that's Digimon (and Appmon) for you I guess. Nice classical "cyborg digimon" helmet going on there.

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RESSHAMON

Oh, it's Appmon's equivalent to Locomon! A little train monster that knows all about trains! Cute!!! I love its little face! I also like its hands holding onto its wheels like that.

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WEATHERMON

Very fun design for a weather Appmon, a lion-like cartoon sun monster who also evokes the thunderstorm Oni and rides that cool, stitchy cloud.

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YADOMON

OH MY GOSH, get a load of this little hermit crab fella!! TOO damn cute! Where has a crab digimon with little eyestalks like this been all our lives?! And its shell is a hotel! That's so funny! That's pretty much what a hermit crab's shell is anyway! It's a fully functioning Hotel, too. This is a digital realm, so size pretty much means nothing.

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NEWSMON

Another one that's just too cute! This news app is entirely a newspaper with arms, legs, and serene little eyes, ultimately resembling the wall Youkai Nurikabe.

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JETMON

A good old fashioned prehistoric cyborg, now! I was wondering where those went off to. It's also got sentient ammunition, another Digimon tradition. So do a few other Appmon already, but these little missile guys stand out especially.

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SUPER GRADE


WEATHERDRAMON

So Appmon has its own "dramons," too, where appropriate, and it makes sense for a weather app I guess. Otherwise a pretty standard dragony design.

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TRIPMON

"A capricious wandrer that loves to travel," eh? Thought you could hide in another series eh SNUFKIN? Thought Moomin wouldn't find you??

I already liked this one enough, but then I noticed the bag had teeth and is probably Tripmon's actual mouth. It also has the ability to teleport into anybody else's bag!

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ULTIMATE GRADE


COMETMON

One of the very few nonhumanoid Ultimate appmon, Cometmon interestingly combines some sort of fiery, rocky meteor kaiju with a ripoff of the death star! Ominous!

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SATERAMON

This other Ultimate is just another GPS app, so I guess the final form that CAN be taken by Navimon. It's got a little bit of personality for one of the humanoids, at least, some kind of weird....cowboy? Mobster? Wish it didn't have a human face though.

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