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The new Digimon Adventure project will be the deserved sequel for Adventure 02. Tell me otherwise

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When somebody tells me to stop posting about Digimon on Odaiba Day.

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Odaiba Day (1999-2018)

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Tell me how you celebrate Odaiba Day!

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★ 夏木 ☆ ⊳ digimon adventure ✔ republished w/permission

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[ transparent version of this little pattern thing I made for Odaiba Day 2018. Feel free to use. Click for best quality ]

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It’s that time again for digimon art

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WHY. Why is Yamato an astronaut?

Why does Digimon have this tendency to pull things out of their ass without any lead up to it? I’ve been salty about the 02 ending for years now (I could write an entire dissertation on it, trust me) and yet still, to this day, they insist on Yamato being an astronaut.

If anyone has a prerequisite for going to space, it’s Koushiro: the literal computer and technology genius. He is exactly the kind of person that JAXA looks for.

I understand that the message the writing staff was trying to convey was that you can accomplish anything you set your mind to and that your future is what you make of it, but that same message would hold JUST as strong if Yamato pursued a career in music, like becoming a famous music artist or composing songs for movies.

Yes, this bothers me way more than it should. 

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Hiroyuki Kakudou (@kakudou)

(x) In regards to the new Digimon project: Since it’s proceeding with the current universe, I was requested to supervise the script and was working on it from last year or so, but the plot seemed to be going in a direction where it ended up too incompatible with the setting of the TV series and so when the producer ended up going with it anyway I decided to pull out. I heard that they’re still going with that, so it seems like that really was for the best.

(x) The producer has acknowledged me pulling out.

(x) The series director wasn’t involved in the original production to begin with, and in any case we never actually compiled proper documentation on the TV series’ setting. And even in regards to the theatrical movies that were released so far, since they were made without my involvement, I think there are many ways you could enjoy them even regardless of the setting.

(x) So as for the new project, unless something major changes, I’m not going to be involved with it anymore and I’m not going to tweet anything else about it, but as far as requests related to music, games, or figures are concerned, I’ll be glad to help.

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Incase you missed it, yesterday Hiroyuki Kakudou talked about his resignation from the new Digimon project. If you want to see the details, check WtW for Onkeikun’s translations of the tweets, but the TL:DR;

Kakudou had been invited to work on the new project

The project has been in production since last year

Kakudou has now left it and won’t be involved any further due to unknown creative differences between him and the studio

The first thing we can take from this is that since the 20th Anniversary Project has been in production since last year (aka it didn’t go into production when tri. ended) we can be sure to hear something about it in the Digimon Thanksgiving event in July. Trailer? Probably not. Concept art? Possibly.

The other thing we can take away is that while Kakudou doesn’t explicitly state it, we can be very sure that the new project is indeed going to be Adventure-related. Kakudou’s grievances with the new project and the reason he left was that something about the setting of the new project contradicts what has been previously established “in the TV series” (and the fact that the story/ideas he submitted got rejected over what Toei ended up accepting).

There is no TV series Kakudou knows better than Adventure and Zero Two; he may have been in the staff for Tamers and Frontier, but Adv+02 are his babies, it’s safe to assume Toei asked him to help because the project is Adv-related and he’s the most familiar with them.

Now… people have taken kind of an “abandon ship”-attitude over the 20th Anniversary Project after Kakudou’s tweets, and yeah, I just want everybody to calm down a bit. Kakudou leaving the project doesn’t mean it’s all already going to hell.

As much as I love Adventure, we all must admit that Adventure’s lore is not flawless without holes or that it makes perfect sense all the time. Kakudou has had a pretty damn fluid view of the Adverse’s lore, you can see it in Adventure, Zero Two, the CD Dramas and the novels. So his lack of involvement in the new project doesn’t mean the project will suck. If anything it might mean the writing could turn out more consistent even.

It is still concerning however since, yeah, Kakudou’s view of Adventure IS fluid. So the fact that he wanted to leave the project because of some kind of continuity errors is somewhat alarming to a degree. Either the something truly awful is brewing in Toei’s studio, something so out there that even Kakudou was like “aww hell naw”, or it might just be a petty fight over artistic vision.

The thing is; we have no idea where the consistency error is.

The new project could be planning on changing or retconning important events established in Adventure/Zero Two, it could be planning on changing rules we’ve come to expect as facts about the world, or a crucial part of the new project might be completely OOC for some of the characters.

The issue in the new project could be that they’re changing how evolution works. Or it could be a “Luke Skywalker tried to kill Ben Solo” situation.

We don’t know where the issue lies, and thus we don’t know how severe it is. And not all of these issues are equally bad.

Kakudou did say that he thinks some fans will be able to enjoy the new project despite the issue he sees in it. Kakudou leaving the project this early doesn’t mean it already sucks. Yes, treading with caution is for the best, but there is still hope, the 20th Anniversary Project isn’t doomed yet.

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Digimon Adventure (1999)

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