This past weekend, Digimon Card Game players from all over made their way to the L.A. Convention Center for some Digimon action in celebration of the franchise’s 25th anniversary.

While the North America Championship Finals were going down at the center, fans packed the spot for a special Digimon Fan Meetup, which featured over 140 pieces of Digimon artwork previously shown at the Digimon Musuem in Japan last summer. Aside from artwork, fans lined up for an autograph session with Digimon character designers Kenji Watanabe and Fumiya Kobayashi.

2023 is a busy year for Digimon fans worldwide. Earlier this month, Digimon World: Next Order was released on the Nintendo Switch and PC. The RPG was originally released on the PlayStation Vita in Japan in 2016 and the PlayStation 4 globally in 2017. A new Digimon Seekers web novel will debut on April 3 here.

A synopsis for the web novel reads:

The Digital World—a land entirely unlike that which humans call the real world. This cyberspace built upon the network is home to digital monsters known as Digimon. The discovery of these AI lifeforms is both a blessing and a curse to human society, which relies on the network to manage everything in their world.
Eiji Nagasumi is 19 years old, a "loser" cracker who earns daily money with dangerous work related to the Digital World. One day, Professor Ryusenji of the Tokyo Cyber University, entrusts Eiji with a Digimon Linker, the newest model of Digimon dock—along with a Digimon. When Eiji meets Loogamon, a Wolf Digimon with a mysterious interface on its head, his life is changed completely.
JUDGE, a righteous hacker who hates crackers. DIGIPOLICE, Investigative Unit Eleven of the Metropolitan Police Department's Cybercrimes Division whose mission is to stop Digimon crimes. As well as SoC: Sons of Chaos, an extremist crack team led by legendary cracker TARTARUS...
Ryusenji sends Eiji to infiltrate and investigate SoC. He discovers that they are planning a widescale cyberterror attack. What is the special skill known as Mind Link? What are the answers to Loogamon's missing past and true specs? Will Eiji come out on top in the Digital World and turn his life around...?
This is the beginning of a Digimon story steeped in chaos.

On the anime side of things, the 2020 reboot of Digimon Adventure will gain an English dub this spring. An anime film titled Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning is also in development.

Our photos from the Digimon Fan Meetup can be seen below.