Digimon Tamers 1984



Digimon Tamers 1984 is a short story written by Chiaki J. Konaka, the screenwriter for Digimon Tamers, and illustrated by Kenji Watanabe. It was published in Volume 5 of SF Japan in 2002.

It was written more for the adult fans of the Tamers saga, and revolves around the creation of the original Digimon by the Monster Makers at Palo Alto University in the late 1980's. It focused on the roles and thoughts of each Monster Maker in the project and dealt largely with the philosophical and technological issues surrounding the creation of artificial intelligence.