Written by Jonathan Wojcik with the aid of With the Will, Digimon Wiki and Wikimon


THE LIFE TYPE APPMON<

STANDARD LEVEL


AIDMON

Lot of fun ones in the "life" type, and we start off with one of my very favorite Appmon! How can you not love this freaky, stitched-up, bandaged nurse monster?? I like the red heart logo intersected by the pulse readout, too. It's hard to come up with generic, original medical symbols that read as well as the red cross, which you actually aren't allowed to portray in any media. Anyway, this spooky blue zombie mummy nurse is a big ol' cutie.

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AUCTIOMON

Less exciting is this reskin of the chef appmon we saw a few pages back. Just an auction app? Mehhh.

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JISHOMON

NOW we get just a recolor of bookmon. I thought I said this type had a lot of good ones?? You're making me look like a liar here, Appmon.

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KAIMON

A shopping app, which I guess is supposed to be evocative of a mom out getting groceries. Her body is a coin purse! That's something!

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KAKEIMON

Kaimon has a "darker" counterpart who's apparently more focused on haggling and bargaining. I gave Kaimon a three so I guess I'm obligated to give Kakeimon a three, since we're also seeing them at roughly the same time.

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DOPEMON

No official art of this guy? Huh. Well, Dopemon is literally just a giant pill full of pills, and its profile even calls it an "unsettling" pharmacist Appmon. Its eyes and mouth are just slots for dispending tablets, and it can apparently produce drugs with both good and bad effects. SHADY!

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MONEYMON

Alright, so this is just a modification of the gambling machine Appmon we saw before, but I'm a sucker for the jagged teeth and dollar sign eyes.

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MUSCLEMON

A muscle training Appmon who brings to mind the good old Mamemon line, but with jacked up arms and jagged teeth. Fun! Not so fun is the fact that, according to its profile, it can forcibly pump up the muscles of others against their will, which is just sounding unpleasantly fetishistic.

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SLEEPMON

Heyyy, we've seen this before! Kinda! It's sort of less demonic take on Belphemon sleep mode, and in fact, its profile says it's rumored to become a "terrifying figure" if ever forced awake! The egg timer on its head is especially cute.

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SPAMON

HELL YEAH another hermit crab! BRING EM ON! This one is an app for locating and presumably rating hot springs or bath houses, which is probably a pretty common app in Japan.

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SUPPLEMON

A color swap of Dopemon, but this one's not supposed to be creepy or shifty; it just gives out healthy vitamin supplements. That's BORING, but I guess it must exist in order to have that darker counterpart up there, and both of them are still just so gosh darn cute.

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VIRUSMON

HECK YEAHHH!!! This might be my actual favorite Appmon ever! How could it possibly not be? It's a virus monster taking the form of a freakin' gas mask octopus. It PAINS me that this is just a Standard type. Why oh why can't we have an Ultimate even a fiftieth this perfect. This is like the Raremon of the Appmon for me. My god, it's even got little germ pals with stitches AND creepy eyes AND little gas masks of their own!!! Babies upon babies!!!!

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SUPER GRADE


LIBRAMON

A more powerful than usual book-themed Appmon, and a very nice design! Extremely stylish with snazzy as hell colors, I love the weird mask with sharp teeth but no real eyes, the wacky tie and just the fact that it has a gigantic bookshelf on its head, like that's its friggin brain. What a DORK!

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MEDICMON

We haven't really been talking about where some of these Appmon can come from; like I said, there's so much crossover that it'd just get confusing. However, it's worth noting this one evolves from Aidmon when it combines with either Supplemon or Spamon. Not nearly as great a design as the nurse monster, way less of a Silent Hill kind of vibe, but it's still a very cool medical robot guy, and the gas mask helps the design a lot. I like the eye shape, too.

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CONSULMON

Okay, this is TOTALLY just an Inkling! Just a nerdy Inkling! Not bad though, you never can go wrong with tentacle hair or swirly glasses. Apparently it's a money-saving app though. I don't know how the cephalopod aspect factors in here. An obscure Japanese joke?

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DOCMON

RAD! This vampiric demon-looking digimon is a "mad" doctor said to treat injuries technically well, but with "eccentric" operations that can be more painful than the original injury itself. Naturally, it evolves from Dopemon with the addition of either Aidmon or Virusmon. Really like the syringe arms, but not so much the fact that only the lowest-level medical Appmon is an evidently female one. LAME!

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ULTIMATE GRADE


BEAUTYMON

Bleh. Super boring after all those spooky doctors and stuff. This is just Appmon's Angewomon I guess...a valid niche, but still, not my thing.

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BIOMON

Sadly not as big on the final medical Appmon either. It's cool, yes, I like that this alien looking robot thing is apparently a master surgeon and physician with "an all-encompassing knowledge of living organisms," it's interesting that it comes only from Docmon fused with Medicmon, but its design just visually doesn't have as charming a personality to me, and it doesn't visually look that much like it's a medical-themed being.

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