The 50-episode anime series ''

Digimon Frontier is the fourth anime television series in the ''Digimon'' franchise, produced by Toei Animation. Unlike the previous series, the main characters can merge with ancient spirits known as the "Legendary Warriors" to become Digimon themselves. T ...

'', produced by

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in 2002, is the fourth series in the Digimon franchise. It does not follow the plot of any of its three predecessors, '' Digimon Adventure'' and ''

Digimon Adventure 02 , originally released as ''Digimon: Digital Monsters Season 2'' in English-speaking territories, is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation. It is the sequel to ''Digimon Adventure (1999 TV series), Digimon Adventure'', ...

'' and ''

Digimon Tamers is a Japanese anime television series and the third television series in the ''Digimon'' franchise, produced by Toei Animation. The series takes place in a new setting separate from the preceding series, '' Digimon Adventure'' and ''Digimon ...

''. Instead, the story features five children who are prompted by unusual phone messages to go to a subway station and take a train to the Digital World. After two secondary characters, Bokomon and Neemon, reveal that the Digital World is in danger, the children gain the power to transform into Digimon in order to stop the forces seeking to destroy the Digital World. The series was directed by Yukio Kaikawa and written by Sukehiro Tomita and Akatsuki Yamatoya, featuring music by Takanori Arisawa. The season aired 50 episodes on

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from April 7, 2002, to March 30, 2003. Unlike the previous three series, ''Digimon Frontier'' aired on

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and

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in the

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, beginning on September 9, 2002, to July 14, 2003, and later re-aired on

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. In Canada, the series aired on YTV. The series was also scheduled to air in the

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UK, though the scheduling plans were eventually cancelled and never aired on the programming block, being instead taken over by '' Transformers Armada''. On 27 February 2007, this series of Digimon was first aired in

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on Toasted TV despite that it was already shown on Cheez TV in 2003. The Latino American version was first aired from March to June 2003 on weekdays at 8:30 p.m. (-4 GMT) on

. The first four episodes were aired on Sunday during the ''

'' marathon. Kōji Wada's song "FIRE!!" was used as the opening theme for the series. The two ending themes were "Innocent ~Mujaki na Mama de~", by Kōji Wada, and "an Endless tale" by Kōji Wada and Ai Maeda. The fourth season of ''Digimon: Digital Monsters'' (aka ''Digimon Frontier'') was formerly licensed by Disney's

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in North America, and was also formerly distributed by

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and

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, also in North America, when it aired on Disney's Animation Weekdays on UPN, ABC Kids on ABC, Toon Disney, and ABC Family. After the first four seasons of ''Digimon'', Disney and BVS Entertainment had lost the rights to continue dubbing Digimon, the rest of Digimon was handled and dubbed in English by Studiopolis before

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’s acquisition of Digimon, for Example, the un-dubbed four Digimon movies were dubbed by Studiopolis: ''Revenge of Diaboromon'' (DA02), ''Battle of Adventurers'' (DT), ''Runaway Locomon'' (DT) and ''Island of the Lost Digimon'' (DF) in 2005 and the fifth TV season, ''

Digimon Data Squad ''Digimon Data Squad'', known in Japan as , is the fifth anime television series in the ''Digimon'' franchise, produced by Toei Animation. The series aired in Japan on Fuji TV from April 2006 to March 2007. A standalone film based on the se ...

'' in 2007.

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Group released a complete DVD box set release of ''Frontier'' on September 10, 2013. Like previous releases, it is an 8-disc, English dub collection.

Japanese Release

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