
Additionally, this manga's interpretation of Greymon's appearance was adapted into the Veedramon species. Taichi Yagami ( both of him) was directly inspired by Kentaro, Shinichiro resembles Neo Saiba (and by extension Ryouma Mogami by way of recursive expies), and Makoto resembles Kenta Kitagawa (and also shares a name with a different Tamers character). Expy: This manga is confirmed to have later influenced Digimon V-Tamer 01, and by extension everything else Digimon ever.Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Only Makoto's Digimon and Bun are referred to as something other than their species name.This is given a nod in the Cold Open of the first "V-Tamer", where Taichi comments that living breathing monsters look different than the holographic projections. As such, the mangaka just interpreted them his way based on the V-Pets, so most Digimon featured don't look all that much like their appearances in other material, even that written just a year later.

Early Installment Character-Design Difference: At the time of the manga's writing, most designs for Digimon weren't well-defined or known.Instead, their owner orders the attacks by calling them for the Digimon. Calling Your Attacks: One of the few adaptations where Digimon don't do this.Badass Adorable: Bun is cute, small and not very powerful, but is more capable than all but Kamon initially realize.All Animals Are Dogs: Bun has the personality of a puppy.Furious, Kentaro and Bun swear to defeat him in ten days' time. However, Makato has been kidnapped by Shinichiro, who defeats his Greymon and, after revealing he extensively researches the background and strength of his V-Pet opponents, destroys the V-Pet. Not happy in being strong-armed into owning Bun, Kentaro intends to hand him back to Makoto. Makoto uses a 3D virtual projection machine constructed by his brother to bring to life the V-Pet's contents, a so-called defective "Damemon" by the name of Bun, and Kentaro reluctantly adopts it. Makoto discovers he picked up a V-Pet on the street, though Kentaro insists that he hates the things and tries to press it onto Makoto.

Meanwhile, after a friendly V-Pet battle with some friends, Makoto Abe encounters Kentaro Kamon, well-known for his apparent disdain of animals, being the only person without a V-Pet and for getting into a fight with some high schoolers. His hobby is to challenge people to Digimon V-Pet battles, defeats them ruthlessly with his Deathmon, and rub his victory in by crushing the opponent's V-Pets under his foot. Shinichiro Josaki is the privileged son of the owner of Josaki Electronis. C'mon Digimon, penned by Hiroshi Izawa and released in mid-1997 for Akamaru Jump shortly before the debut of its first virtual pet, was a sort of " beta version" of Digimon V-Tamer 01, eventually released as a bonus chapter in its second volume.
