Our next "orphaned baby" digimon from 2010 is my personal favorite, a metallic sea urchin that, like yesterday's Bombmon, explodes when it's upset. Despite being a simple, explosive, spiny ball, I feel like it's given a lot of personality by no more than the fact that one spine resembles a "nose," and the red lens eyes are pretty cool looking. It looks kind of undeniably related to Troopmon, but Troopmon was introduced as an empty suit full of Digimon ghosts, rather than a normal "evolutionary stage," and whether it "naturally" evolved from Chikurimon was never explicitly indicated.

...Not until a few years after I first put this review up, at least. Look at that heartwarming image! A loving mommy hazmat suit and her baby explosives! Since reviewing these two, Troopmon has officially appeared as a regular adult stage, and Chikurimon, surprisingly, has been permanently canonized as child stage!

They sure LOOKED like baby stages, didn't they? Just little spike-balls with eyes, actually as simplistic as we typically see in the first of the two Digimon baby stages. But no, these spiky bombs that apparently barely move and cannot speak are officially at the same stage of development as an Agumon or Renamon, and would therefore also be viable as a human's "main partner" Digimon, which has honestly propelled them straight into my top favorites. If not for the even later introduction of child-stage Algomon, Chikurimon might have even become my own first choice for partner, another that feels like a natural fit for evolving into Raremon.

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