(Child Level/Data Attribute/Beast Type)
There are many dog-themed Digimon, but among them Gaomon stands out as a personal favourite (something about that blue-and-red colour scheme combined with its cute "plucky kid trying boxing for the first time" vibe, I think.) Its official description states that it wears those big boxing gloves to protect the claws on its hands which are still growing in, and indeed with their thick padding they do kind-of resemble bag gloves (a type of boxing glove used for training, but which aren't generally used for actually fighting.) It's also apparently a relative of Gazimon, which I suppose implies that Gazimon is a dog as opposed to some sort of cat/springhare/monkey... thing?
(Bag gloves are made to protect your hands when training with punching bags. That Agumon's hands are basically unprotected, but then I supposed that's clearly not the biggest breach of punching best-practice its committing here...)
Gaomon debuted in 2006 in the Digivice iC 10X VPet, but is probably best known for its prominent role in the Anime Digimon Savers/Digimon Data Squad which debuted later that same year (where a Gaomon serves as the partner of Thoma/Thomas Norstein, and one of the main non-human characters.) Gaomon made another major appearance in the 2012 game Digimon Word Re:Digitize (where a named Gaomon, Sashenka, features as the partner of major supporting character Nicolai Petrov) and has since made frequent appearances in Digimon games, cards and merch. Its nice to see this funny little punch-pup getting some love!
Favourite Gaomon Art: This early Gaomon design, which is as silly as it is cute. It looks like early on Gaomon was intended to be more of a baby version of its "official" evolution, Gaogamon.
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