The Show
Digimon Tamers is the unofficial season 3 although it is a completely new show that has no connections to the previous 2 seasons. Tamers revolves around the digibattle card game and digivolving is significantly harder than in previous shows. The characters carry the new generation of digivice, the "D-Arc". The D-Arc is the essential Tamer gear. It is a multifunction tool that can locate a Tamer's digimon, analyse opponent digimon, and allow the Tamers to make use of their new powerups known as Digibattle cards. These are not your everyday cards, they have a special strip on the left side which allows any card reader to identify the cards. In the case of the D-Arc, the ability on the cards is activated when the card is "Slashed". This enables the digimon to gain additional abilities such as health, speed, attacks, and even flying.

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The Digimon
Guilmon:
STATS:
Level: Rookie
Type: Virus
Japanese Attcks: Fireball-ExhaustFlame-AtomicBlaster
English Attcks: PyroSphere-PyroBlaster-AtomicBlaster
Japanese Evolution Chart: ??-Guilmon-Growmon-MegaloGrowmon-Dukemon
English Evolution Chart: ??-Guilmon-Growlmon-WarGrowlmon-
Takato's digimon partner is Guilmon. Guilmon was created when Takato drew a picture of Guilmon. The picture and acocmpanied pages were sucked through the D-Arc creating a digiegg with Guilmon inside. Takato and Guilmon share a phycic link that lets Takato digivolve Guilmon without the use of a "real" blue card, however, Takato also feels the battle damage that Guilmon recieves.


Terriermon:
STATS:
Level: Rookie
Type: Vaccine
Attacks: Petit Twister, Blazing Fire-DumDeDumDeUpper
Evolution Chart: Terriermon-Galgomon-Rapidmon-SaintGalgomon
Terriermon is Lee's partner. They first meet when Lee is playing a digimon game for the PC and chooses Terriermon as his character.


Renamon:
STATS:
Level: Rookie
Type: Data
Japanese Attack: Koyousetsu-
Evolution Chart: Renamon-Kyuubimon-Taomon-Sakuyamon
Ruki's digimon partner is Renamon. Of the three digimon, Renamon has the most battle experiance.


Leomon:
STATS:
Level: Champion
Type: Vaccine
English Attack: Fist of the Beast King
Evolution Chart: Leomon
Leomon is Juri's partner, Leomon is a brave warrior and is deleted in episode 35.


Guardromon:
STATS:
Level: Champion
Type: Data
English Attack: ??
Evolution Chart: Guardromon-Andromon
Guardromon is Hirokazu's partner


MarineAngemon:
STATS:
Level: Mega
Type: ??
English Attack: ??
Evolution Chart: MarineAngemon
MarineAngemon is Kenta's partner.


Cyberdramon:
STATS:
Level: Ultimate
Type: ??
English Attack: ??
Evolution Chart: Cyberdramon
Cyberdramon is Ryo's partner. Wild and ruthless, Ryo sometimes has problems maintainning control of the beast.


Culumon:
STATS:
Level: In-Trainning
Type: Unknown
Attack: Evolution
Evolution Chart: Unknown
Culumon is an orphan digimon who Takato finds in episode 5. Culumon enables the Digimon to digivolve to their higher forms. Culumon has no Tamer partner. Culumon is required for digivolution to occur except in special circumstances where blue cards, or evolution plug-in cards are employed.


Impmon:
STATS:
Level: Unknown
Type: Virus
Attack: Unknown
Evolution Chart: Unknown
Impmon is the evil digimon that has appeared in the show.


Wild Ones:
The wild ones are the digimon without human partners. They are called Wild ones for a lack of better name and are the digimon "de jour" that the Tamers have to beat.


Devas:
The devas are digimon who represent each of the 12 chinese zodiac symbols. Each are much stronger than the wild ones and have caused the Matrix Evolution to become necessary in all 3 digimon. The primary function of the devas are to capture Culumon. In the dub, the are trying to conquer the world. Each Deva has a different profile, but I don't want to write one up for each of them. While 8 Devas have been destroyed in the real world, and one is known to them, they have yet to defeat them all.

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The Kids and Other Humans:

Name: Matsuda Takato
Age: 10
Digimon: Gillmon
Cards Used: White Wings, Agility, Various Power-Up cards, Blue Card
Siblings: None
Takato is the new goggle headed character. His digimon, Gillmon was created when he drew him on a notepad page which was later read by his newly created D-Arc. Unlike the other Digimon shows, Takato was the last character to have their digimon digivolve. Takato and Lee goto the same school together and become good friends. Takato's parents run a bakery below their house and Takato ussually takes advantage of this by sneaking bread to Gillmon.


Name: Lee Jenrya
Age: 10
Digimon: Terriermon
Cards Used: Expanding Universe, Various Power-Up cards, Blue Card
Siblings: 3
Lee is the passifist of the group. He feels digimon should be friends rather than fighters. He arrives in time to break up a fight between Takato and Ruki. His experiance with Gargomon leaves him with a phobia against digivolving. Lee's sister thinks Terriermon is a doll and doesn't always treat Terriermon with respect (see episode 11). Lee aquired Terriermon when he was playing his new digimon game on his PC. His grief over the injured Terriermon cause one of his cards to become a blue card and brought Terriermon through the computer screen. Lee and Terriermon are terrific pals.


Name: Makino Ruki
Age: 10
Digimon: Renamon
Cards Used: Snimon, Heavy Metal, Alias, Various Power-Up and Function cards, Blue Card
Siblings: None
Ruki is the violent battle enshrined character of the show. She is agressive and believes digimon are used for fighting. As soon as she discoved Takato was a Tamer, she challenged him to a battle. This battle was broken up by Terriermon and Lee who arrived on seen. Ruki does not particularily like the other 2 kids and goes to a private school.

Name: Katou Juri
Age: 10
Digimon: Leomon
Juri is in the same class as Takato and has a crush on him. Her trademark is the sock puppet that she carries around and sometimes uses to talk to Takato. Juri gets to meet Gillmon in episode 12 and thinks Gillmon looks cute. Juri does not play digibattle cards. However, in later episodes does become a digimon Tamer. Juri gets her D-power in episode 23.

Name: Shiota Hirokazu
Age: 10
Digimon: Guardromon
Name: Kitagawa Kenta
Age: 10
Digimon: MarineAngemon
Hirokazu and Kenta are Takato's friends who he plays digibattle cards with. They are good friends with Takato and want to become Digimon Tamers as well after finally meeting the Digimon in person. It is assumed that they will get their wish in an upcomming episode as Juri has already become a Tamer.


Name: Ryo (Can't remember his last name right now)
Age: 10
Digimon: Cyberdramon
Takato and Co meet Ryo in the digital world. He's been there many months with his partner Cyberdramon who has difficulty being controlled. Ryo holds claim to 5 special modify cards.


Name: Yamaki and Hypnos
Yamaki is the leader of an organization known as the hypnos, or some government agency with a very generic name. Their purpose is to erradicate the digital phenomena appearing around the city before the data can form into a wild one. Yamaki's trademark move is openning and closing his lighter. Yamaki has also designed a hunter program called Yuggoth who hunts down and deletes the digital data bytes. This program was eradicated by Musyamon in episode 11. It is unkown if this program will later make a comeback. Yamaki is now aware of Lee and Takato and has warned them to keep away from the digimon. It is not known what his intentions are at this point or how his organisation is evolving.

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Other Things:

Blue Card: The blue cards are mysterious cards that first enabled the kids to become Tamers and later allows Matrix evolution without the aid of Culumon (Culumon must be present for the first evolution only). It is unknown who fabricated the blue cards or what they can potentially do.
D-Arc: This is the digivice of season 3, these handy devices can be worn pretty much any way you want and allows the kids to use certain functions such as locators, Digimon analyser, Card Slash, etc.
Matrix Evolution: Like an evolution, this is when the digimon digivolves to a higher level. While evolving takes the digimon to the Champion level, Matrix Evolutions are the digivolutions to Ultimate.