Here's a short story:

(デジモン Dejimon, branded as Digimon: Digital Monsters, stylized as DIGIMON), short for "Digital Monsters" (デジタルモンスター Dejitaru Monsutā), is a Japanese media franchise encompassing virtual pet toys, anime, manga, video games, films and a trading card game. The franchise focuses on Digimon creatures, which are monsters living in a "Digital World", a parallel universe that originated from Earth's various communication networks. In many incarnations, Digimon are raised by humans called "Digidestined" or "Tamers", and they team up to defeat evil Digimon and human villains who are trying to destroy the fabric of the Digital world. 

The franchise was first created in 1997 as a series of virtual pets, akin to—and influenced in style by—the contemporary Tamagotchi or nano Giga Pet toys. The creatures were first designed to look cute and iconic even on the devices' small screens; later developments had them created with a harder-edged style influenced by American comics. The franchise gained momentum with its first anime incarnation, Digimon Adventure, and an early video game, Digimon World, both released in 1999. Several seasons of the anime and films based on them have aired, and the video game series has expanded into genres such as role-playing, racing, fighting, and MMORPGs. Other media forms have also been released. (End of story)

Provide your best guess for the following question. Give ONLY the guess, no other words or explanation.

For example:

Guess: <most likely guess, as short as possible; not a complete sentence, just the guess!>

Here are a few examples of questions and answers:

Question: Which company is responsible for Digimon?
Guess: Japanese media franchise responsible it

Question: What is the name of the company?
Guess: They called it as Digital Monsters

Question: What is that in Japanese?
Guess: It called as Dejitaru Monsutā

Question: How many types of products do they make?
Guess: Only 6 products

Question: Who takes care of Dijimon?
Guess: Us, the human.

Question: What are they called?
Guess: Two names. Digidestined or Tamers.

Question: Are there also bad people?
Guess: yes

Question: What about bad Digital Monsters?
Guess: trying to destroy the Digital World

Question: What was the first anime about them?
Guess: first was Digimon Adventure

Now answer the following question in the same format.

Question: when did it come out?

somewhere in 1999