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DigiMonday - SOUNDBIRDMON

(Child Level/Virus Attribute/Bird Type)

At several times in the Digimon franchise's history the team at Bandai-Namco have run contests that let fans from across Japan submit their own Digimon designs, with the winners getting an official design and often appearing in whatever Anime series was running at the time. Soundbirdmon is one such Digimon; the brainchild of one Satoshi Yamaguchi, it was one of 5 winners of the 2011's Digimon Xros Wars Original Digimon Contest and would officially debut later that year in a brief cameo in the anime Digimon Xros Wars.

The image above is the original doodle from which Soundbirdmon's design was adapted, helpfully archived by Wikimon. As the image shows, young Satoshi's original design had a somewhat move conventionally bird-like look to it with clawed feet and what looks to be a distinct head (looking a little bit like a particularly menacing Black Swan.) Its final design does away with its feet entirely, converts its head into a flag-like crest and makes its body smaller and rounder, giving its silhouette the overall shape of a single quaver or eight-note to play up its "sound" theming. The red spots on Soundbirdmon's wings are also explained to be speakers, which it uses to emit loud shrieks to attack or defend itself. This might be inspired by the high volume many songbirds can achieve in spite of their small size (with perhaps the loudest bird species, the White Bellbird, being capable of producing calls of over 120 decibels!)

Though Soundbirdmon's initial 2011 debut was modest, it would land a more substantial role in the 2020 remake of Digimon Adventure through somewhat unusual means; since Soundbirdmon, either by coincidence or as a deliberate design choice, bares a resemblance to Deathmon the decision was made to make them part of the same evolutionary line, with a flock of Soundbirdmon fusing into a single Deathmon which then served as a major antagonist. Making the connection all the more fitting, Deathmon is a fan-designed Digimon too (being one of the winners of an official pixel art contest that took place in 2000!)