Koromon

What we called an "in-training" Digimon in the west is known as "Baby II" in Japan, which isn't terribly creative, but has a special sort of charm. It would be so much funnier if we did this with actual babies, like instead of calling it a "toddler" once it starts walking. "Oh yeah, this is my son, as you can see he's a Baby II."

It's kind of unfair to call these things babies, though, when it's at exactly this stage that a Digimon becomes capable of fully fluent conversation.

I like Koromon, because it's an adorable little bunny-eared pink blob-head, but it's still kind of fearsome looking with the protruding fangs and red eyes. If you saw that TV spot on the last page, you know this franchise was saturated in "THIS IS FOR ROUGH AND TUMBLE BOYS" advertising, but all us kids and teens at the time were honestly still suckers for cute shit regardless of what capitalism tried to tell us. Everybody wanted something like Koromon to give a big fat hug to, don't none of you lie to me.

Digivolves from

 * Botamon

Digivolves to

 * Agumon
 * BlackAgumon
 * Betamon
 * ModokiBetamon