Digimon’s Monster Hunter Virtual Pets Let You Raise Your Own Rathalos

In honor of its twentieth anniversary, Monster Hunter is crossing over with Digimon for one of many coolest items of official Monster Hunter merch we have seen but: Monster Hunter-themed Digimon Digital Pets. This crossover makes a variety of sense, which is one thing we will not actually say for the upcoming Monster Hunter-themed Fender Telecaster electrical guitar (it appears to be like superior, although).

There are two Monster Hunter V-Pet Shade units accessible, and each are themed on iconic Monster Hunter creatures: A pink system based mostly on Rathalos, and a blue system that includes Zinogre. Each monsters additionally characteristic distinctive variants that mix them with a traditional Digimon, with Rathalos combining with the Digimon Greymon to turn out to be RathalosGreymon and Zinogre and Garurumon changing into ZinoGarurumon. These particular kinds are obtainable by way of the pet-raising mini-games and battles included on the system.

You’ll be able to accumulate and stage up over 30 different monsters within the sport, together with different Monster Hunter creatures like Mizutsune, Rajaang, Nargacuga, Tigrex, Gore Magala, and Khezu. Like different V-Pet Shade units, these measure roughly 1.75 inches tall by 2.5 inches huge and have full colour mini LCD screens, buttons, and audio system. You’ll be able to preorder the Monster Hunter V-Pets for $100 every at Huge Unhealthy Toy Retailer. We might count on preorders to go dwell at different retailers quickly. Each fashions are anticipated to launch subsequent February.

• Monster Hunter x Digimon V-Pet Shade – Rathalos — $100
• Monster Hunter x Digimon V-Pet Shade – Zinogre — $100

Sure, these are very expensive little gadgets–the V-Pets with full-color shows price considerably greater than the common V-Pets with cheap low-pixel LCDs. They’re additionally fairly scarce in North America. At Amazon, you should buy a Japanese import V-Pet with a full-color display for $105 from resellers (this mannequin was $70 at launch).

For these unfamiliar with V-Pet units, the digital, pet-raising keychain video games have been how the Digimon collection first started. Nowadays, Digimon is greatest identified for its anime, buying and selling card sport, and online game diversifications, however the franchise began again within the late ’90s with the Digital Monster line of digital pets. Later rebranded as Digimon V-Pets, the keychain toys launched shortly after Bandai’s different common digital pet: Tamagotchi. As a substitute of merely elevating a small alien creature, V-Pet monsters are raised for battle–both within the sport and in opposition to different gamers.

For those who’re taken with elevating a monster for battle with out spending $100, you will get the fashionable variations of the unique for lower than $15 at Amazon.

Digimon Digital Pets

Tamagotchi Digital Pets

Bandai has additionally revived Tamagotchi in an enormous means with a bunch of various crossovers with common franchises.

Monster Hunter Wilds, the following sport is Capcom’s common action-RPG franchise, is slated for February 28, 2025. Take a look at L3B7’s preorder information for particulars on the varied editions and preorder bonuses.