Fan:Digiversum

Digimon: The Digiversum (simply known as The Digiversum) is a fanon media franchise idea created by CAJH to be the replacement of Digimon Cinematic Sagas. The franchise is planned to be combination of live-action media and anime media, inspired by a vision of how Digimon would look like if it would be co-produced by Japan and Western countries or as a shared universe. This continuity will be darker and larger than the Cinematic Sagas. Though it started as a project of one man, ideas and requests to join the project are welcome.

Digimon
Digimon: Digital Monsters (simply known as Digimon) tells how a Japanese middle school student Tadao Deguchi finds another world inside computer network and meets the Digimon, a digital life form that needs help from mankind. Tadao and his two friends meet other people who are aware of the existence of the Digimon, and end up fighting for the survival of the two worlds.

The five main human characters are three Japanese teenagers Tadao Deguchi, Keisuke Ishimura and Nori Fujima, an American exchange student Alisha Jones and a Danish-born young genius Sven Vestergaard. The planned Partner Digimon roster includes Agumon, Gabumon, Piyomon, Tentomon, Lalamon and unrevealed sixth Digimon (someone very familiar). The human antagonist is named Ronald Yeoman, and the Digimon antagonist will be a new species. The story will be set in Tokyo, New York and the Digital World.

Future installments
The current plan consists of at least 14 films (five main saga films and nine spin-off films) and one television series. All the main saga films will be idealized as live-action, but at least one spin-off film and the planned television series will be anime.

Development

 * "After working with the Cinematic Sagas for some time I realized that some of its vision went into less realistic way. I was wondering if some of it would be almost inconsiderable in real life. There were also certain elements I never had a chance to use. I'm going to start a new, but I wish to retire from creating any more Digimon fan fictions after this one is complete. However, I can work as an advisor for possible users who would wish to continue this franchise after me." — CAJH

Rebooting the Cinematic Sagas was envisioned in August 2015, when CAJH released his first idea about how would Digimon look as a shared universe, like separating certain mythologies and Digivolution methods into separate media, but later uniting them into one massive crossover story. The franchise would also include elements and characters that were never used in the Cinematic Sagas. But certain elements of the Cinematic Sagas will be included in this franchise too, like name changes. The two main differences are the origin of the Digimon species and the lifestyle and alignment of the main characters. But Crests and Armor Digivolution will not appear.

On March 2016, most of the remaining planned ideas for the Cinematic Sagas were cancelled and reduced to be released as mere idea lists. It was made to accelerate the plan regarding the new franchise. The previous working titles were Digimon Crossverse and DigiVerse. On April 1, 2016, the final name of the project was decided to be "Digiversum", since the term "Digiverse" has been used even outside of the Digimon franchise.

Due to traditional style of real-life Digimon media, main characters start as children and teenagers, but will grow up into young adults. But unlike in the Cinematic Sagas, growing up will be used in the Digiversum as one of the themes in the upcoming installments.


 * "Shared universe had been one of my favorite forms for a film series, ever since Marvel Cinematic Universe started. The existence of other respective projects from DC, Transformers and Godzilla/King Kong made my interest in them grow even stronger." — CAJH

The original plan was each spin-off character would eventually join the main saga, after appearing at least in two standalone films. Although certain characters were originally planned to appear only in the main saga, some of them are planned to have their own solo films.