Hello, Digimon
Find the Secret Key
The Unchosen Child
It's okay, you can evolve again.
Isn't the world too small?
My sentences won't shine
The world is a refuge
My Old and Young Digimon
There is a black gear in the villain's heart.
What are you going to do tomorrow?

What was waiting for the young 'me' in an unfamiliar world

At the age of eleven, I was in turmoil due to my father's overseas business trip and a sudden move, with whom I was close friends.
During a time when she “didn’t know if I was sad or the world was sad, I was just sad all around,” and “all I could do was look at the pond that had turned black with tadpoles,” [Digimon Adventure] was a refuge for Cheon Seon-ran.
He said that the moment he first saw [Digimon Adventure], he felt not only the excitement of starting an adventure and the joy of seeing a new cartoon, but also a sense of relief.
“There really is another world!”

After learning about [Digimon Adventure], the author desperately wanted to go to the digital world.
“I wanted to go there alone.
I wanted to just burst out of the world, like punching a hole through a window.
Without a trace.
Now that I think about it, I think I wanted revenge on my loneliness back then.” “Anyway, Digimon” is a story about the strength to overcome the frustration and loneliness of childhood.
And for the writer, that power was nothing other than imagining another world, another story.
So he continued to imagine other worlds.
Although that talent sometimes distanced the writer from the real world, the beautiful world he encountered thanks to it became the spark for the stories that created the world of Cheon Seon-ran today.

“I first realized my talent when I was twelve.
First of all, before we get into this story, I want to say that we need to think less critically about the word talent.
Society attributes genius to talent, but talent without the flashy shell is nothing more than the power to 'continue' something that suddenly appears one day, without anyone telling you to.
If I keep doing something without anyone telling me to, then I guess I have talent for it.
To me it was a story.
“A rawer story, one that could be called a delusion, before it was formalized into writing.”

“Here is my mother.
“My mother is like a new human, like an alien, like a Digimon I’ve just met.”

When I was twenty-one, my mother suddenly collapsed from a cerebral hemorrhage.
The author, who met his mother again a few days later while she was in the intensive care unit after undergoing major surgery, remembers that his mother looked at him with a face like “a Digimon that had landed on a strange planet.”
“My old and young Digimon, who fought the world alone and exhausted all of its data, returning to its infancy.” He had been hoping for a Digimon to appear until his late teens, and now he has a Digimon to protect, care for, and grow up with.
But the reality of care is scary.
“That’s how I turned from twenty-one to twenty-six.
There was nothing inside me.
There was no sentence to shine.
“The world was flat and colorless.” A time when all the stories within oneself had disappeared, and all the doors that could have led to other dimensions were closed.
A time when I couldn't write anything.
But the door opens elsewhere.
"Anyway, Digimon" is a story about growing up (again) with a (disappeared) mother.
The author encounters another reason for living as she faces her mother, who suffers from dementia of unknown cause, and “the girl who strangely desperately searched for a reason for existence finally finds it.”


“Here is my mother.
Here is the mother who always told her daughter to live a little longer, and who would take her to the beach in the car at dawn whenever she seemed to be having a hard time.
I step into reality and see my mother.
“My mother is like a new human, like an alien, like a Digimon I’ve just met.”

"You leave childhood without saying goodbye, without even realizing it's gone."

The final scene of the [Digimon Adventure] movie is often talked about in the 'Digimon Generation'.
This is because it contains a story of the chosen children and Digimon who have become adults, joining forces for the last time to defeat evil, and then parting ways.
Once all missions are completed and the children become 'adults', they will face eternal banishment from the Digital World, meaning eternal separation from their Digimon friends.
This separation happens without a goodbye, at an unprepared moment.
Just as we, as adults, cannot remember the last time we had precious moments from our childhood, and as if those moments will never come again.

"Anyway, Digimon" is a story about such a separation.
This is a story of parting with the “digital world that gave me life” and my first refuge, in order to take care of my mother, who has become a child like a Digimon in the real world, that is, a Digimon that has exhausted all of its power and reverted to an infant, and it will become the farewell message of the “Digimon generation” to their childhood.

“I smile as if nothing happened, but when I think about the world I left behind and the fact that I can’t go any further, my heart sinks.
But the engraving of my mind will be a relief when viewed from the other side, and I write using that type as a woodblock.
“I write novels about my longing for the world I grew up dreaming of.”