Bandai Announces Digimon Kenji Watanabe Edition Digimon V-Pet at 2023 DIGIMON CON
DIGIMON CON sure had a lot of surprises in store, and that even included new Digimon virtual pets! The new Digimon Kenji Watanabe edition called version MetalGreymon and version Numemon are designed by Kenji Wantanbe. Kenji is the chief designer responsible for designing a variety of Digimon.
His newest art is graffiti styling featuring moments of like sprite assets, the Diigimon logo, and more! The design was made so that it moves between all 6 sizes as one piece of art, how cool is that?
UV printing was used to cure the art onto the plastic shells, and the back of the LCD panel features the DIGIMON CON logo. Programming on both is identical to the US Digimon Original virtual pet re-release, rather than the Japanese programming, indicating that this device will be fully in English. MetalGreymon uses the programming from the Brown version of the Digimon, and Numemon uses the programming from the Gray version of Digimon.
Preorders are already available at Premium Bandai Japan for 5,500 yen and they are set to close on March 13th, 2023. These Digimon virtual pets will ship in July 2023. The appeal of these two are the designs featured on the shells, and you know they will be a collector’s item, they’re just gorgeous!