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they go together real bad

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a lot of great ideas came from @pettyartist‘s streams the other day

shortly after this shogungekomon formed a matt fanclub

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I think Agumon Bond of Courage and Gabumon Bond of Friendship should jogress into Omnimon - Bond of Homosexuality

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TaiYama fic masterlist

I thought I might as well make this, since this is the only pairing I'm actively writing these days.

It's so wild to me that this is now almost like a niche pairing?? Back when I first joined this fandom as a baby slash shipper, everyone was all about that Taichi x Yamato...

But this is still the OTP of my heart. So, here I am repping for it. Totally normal over here...

TaiYama fics

1. Imprint Rated E, oneshot, 6,821 words

Some things leave their mark.

Read on AO3 2. High Rated M, drabble, 2,036 words

Yamato puts his hands in his pockets and tries to look inconspicuous. This would be easier if he wasn’t hanging in some deserted parking lot with three other guys, all quite obviously waiting there to meet a dealer.

Read on Tumblr or AO3

3. Bite the Lightning Rated M, multichapter, 22,662 words Additional pairings: mostly one-sided Taichi/Koushiro; Yamato/OMC; Koushiro/OMC

The day that Taichi comes out to them is the coldest day on record.

Read on AO3

4. Not Asking for a Storm Rated M, oneshot, 7,816 words Companion fic to Bite the Lightning

Things between them have always been complicated.

Read on AO3

5. Rule the World Rated E, multichapter, 41,599 words Additional pairings: Taichi/OFC; Yamato/OFC; Yamato/OMC

“What are we doing?” Yamato says, and Taichi lifts his eyebrows in question. “In our relationship? Or in general?” Or: why being friends with benefits is so much harder than saving humanity.

Read on AO3

6. Endgame Rated E, multichapter, 39,347 words Additional pairings: Taichi/OMC; Yamato/OMC

The universe has been forcing them together since they were eleven years old. Yamato’s not going to let it force this too.

Read on AO3

7. Tender Rated E, multichapter, 52,162 words Additional pairings: Yamato/Jou

When Taichi leaves Tokyo, he and Yamato have to learn to live without each other.

Read on AO3

8. A Shot in the Dark Rated E, multichapter, WIP

In another life, Taichi and Yamato still meet.

Read on AO3

Annnnndddd...

If you're tired of the sight of my fanfic, you can also check out my old TaiYama nostalgia fic rec post from way back. That thing is full of traysure.

ENJOY, MY PRETTIES.

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Some things about the BEYOND PV

So, let's quickly (well, you know how "quick" I am in these) talk about Digimon Adventure BEYOND, aka the PV that they dropped at the Digimon Con yesterday. Before I talk about anything else, let's quickly address again what this is and what it isn't.

This is not a trailer. This is a PV meant to release and stand on its own. According to @ayukaze's translations of the website, this is basically based on some stuff that once upon a time was planned to tie into the final episode of 02 but in the end did not make it into the actual show. Though, obviously there is some fanservice in regards to the stuff that released since then going on with possible cameos of both Meiko and Rui.

But general, yeah, it is not really surprising that some of what we see does not line up with events from tri., Kizuna and The Beginning, because if what the site says is true, and right now there is no reason to doubt it, this is based on stuff that was written or at least pitched long before tri., Kizuna and The Beginning were written or even thought of.

Now, again, this is not a trailer for either a Trailer or OVA. Though, let's be fully honest: If fandom eats this up, chances are that Toei & Bandai might milk the Digimon Adventure cow a bit more and make this into a movie or OVA or something else. I mean, let's face it. Even with this just being a darn PV, they probably are going to make some merchandise of the designs of the adult kids in this video. lol

This being based on ideas thrown around in 2000 also explains why there are some call backs to some stuff that has been brought up in 02 and never mentioned again.

Before I am starting with overanalyzing this thing, let me quickly once more invite everyone to the Digimon Rewatch Discord Server. A general SFW Digimon Discord Server - mainly for a community rewatch, but you can also just join to discuss the show and games.

But let's go through some of the stuff we can see here, and what we can tell from it.

We start with the intro calling back to the epilogue of 02 with Takeru's novels and him writing. I did a translation of this writing of his yesterday. No guarantees of the correctness, my Japanese sucks ass. But I let a friend check it, so I guess it is not totally wrong.

“It's okay, you don't need to worry about it from now on [...] The Digimon next to you is [...] [...] is the Digimon behind me. [...] They look completely different, and [...] [...] me and you have partner Digimon. [...] I heard that you can't go back to your family [...] [...] and that you've been going through a tough time. But it's okay now. [...] I'll take you to a place where you can live safely. [...] [...] They'll be here soon. [...] They're really reliable people. [...] They've saved the world from danger many times before [...] I'm not much older than you, but [...] do you know the country of Japan? I'm from there. [...]

This is where the video cuts over to Kuwagamon flying away while a car is on the road.

With the Kuwagamon we hear some thanks to "Yuri", which will obviously is a reference to the Russian Chosen Child Yuri, whose partner is Kuwagamon.

If you look at the license plate of the car this also confirms that we are in Russia right now and this is happening in Russia. (And yes, the license plate is an easter egg: DM 2581B - Digimon 2025-8-1 Beyond. No, do not expect them to release anything related to this on August 1st. It is just because we have the year 2025 and August 1st is Odaiba Memorial.)

Referencing the translation by @ayukaze again, there was apparently this idea that with more and more Chosen Children appearing, some militaries would try to forcefully recruit those kids and their Digimon. And it makes sense in this regard that the dialogue above is Iori talking to the kid he and possibly Yuri and maybe the other Russian chosen have just rescued.

It is kinda ironic, if this idea had been around forever, given how rosy the actual epilogue let the entire "everyone has a Digimon partner" thing seem. Because, yeah, I absolutely do agree with this idea. The militaries trying to recruit those kids who might or might not end up with a nuclear missile shooting dinosaur makes a hella lot of sense. lol

The kid in question has a Kyaromon as their partner. The kid seems to be probably between like 10 and 13 years old - it is kinda hard to say in this artstyle. Just as the gender is not quite clear, though given they do not have eyelashes, I guess they might be a boy.

Kyaromon obviously would not have featured in the anime in 2000 or 2001 (when that last episode aired) given it was only introduced in 2005.

While they are driving, Taichi and Yamato talk. Apparently Yamato got himself an international driver's license, and also calls out Taichi for still not being good with English. Mind you, this is something I will still give 02 credit for back in the day: While with some of the kids the language issue did not come up (especially in America, where they just handwaved the issue with "Oh, Mimi taught everyone Japanese") they generally addressed the issue of cooperating with folks who speak another language. That was neat.

Taichi also mentions that he has recently learning some French from Yamato's grandpa. Which is a nice callback. Though if I am understanding the way Yamato speaks in his reply correctly, it sounds as if said grandpa has very recently passed away.

They then get attacked by a Digimon - Yatagaramon to be exact. Yatagaramon like Kyaromon was introduced in the Digimon Accel in 2005, so yeah, it also would not have been around back then. But I guess in general those enemy Digimon are quite exchangable. I guess if something like this would have featured in 02, it would have been Airdramon, which was kinda 02's go-to Digimon for "random flying Digimon to fight" lol

Something I found cute though, as Taichi pulls out a smartphone for Iori to open a portal to the Digital World, the phone has the Pinable Logo on it.

For context: Back when Adventure was written, it was really super hard in Japan to bring in actual brands into anime and manga. That was also why you would regularly see "WcDonalds" in anime, as they could not just use "McDonalds". So Koshiro has technically a MAC, but they could not use the Apple brand. So they turned it into a pineapple. Which is adorable and a nice callpack with the iPhone here.

Obviously I am going to argue that very likely this smartphone would not have featured either in a possible version in the last episode, given that they probably did not see the smartphone coming.

Though I really enjoyed this little thing, given that just days ago I had been talking to a friend on whether or not it would be possible to open the Digital Gate from a modern smartphone or not.

What follows is Iori and the Russian Chosen child disappearing into the Digital World, while Agumon and Gabumon evolve into Greymon and Garurumon. Not much to say here, other than that I really liked how they designed the evolution sequence here. It is neat. :D

From there we cut a bit more.

We have this scene with Takeru and Shuu who seem to be meeting in the real world somewhere. I base this on the fact that the Digital World in this trailer once more uses this kinda aquarell look that they had been using for it in the Adventure/02 series.

I am honestly kinda psyched to see Shuu here (as well as later on Shin and Daisuke's sister Jun), given that I always was a big fan of the siblings and families in the series.

As some of you might know: Back in the day there was one of the Drama CDs that also featured Shuu, Jun, as well as Miyako's sister Chizuru and Momoe meeting their partners. Which obviously then was fully ignored by tri., Kizuna and The Beginning. Yes, I get that I am probably one of like three people who cared about those characters, but man, I really would have loved to see their partners. xD

They are also turning around in this scene to a figure that might be Lui? Though given again that Lui definitely was not thought off back when 02 aired, this obviously would not have been a part of that episode.

It obviously could also be another character, given we only see the legs.

We have then some shots of Koshiro in a labcoat with "Izumi Labs" written on it clearly doing some research that also involves Kabuterimon firing an attack into some technical thingie.

The only thing I really can say here is that him having his own lab makes me wonder about the epilogue, where it seemed he was working for some international organization. Though I absolutely see Koshiro having his own research lab.

Still: no idea how this is connected to anything else we see going on.

We also see Jyou on Ikkakumon putting on his Doctor's coat, which makes me think he gets ready to take care of some other kid or maybe some Digimon. Notably this seems to be happening in the real world as well - as once more there is not this "aquarell" effect either.

And also notable: There is a rope around Ikkakumon's horn, meaning they seem to be transporting something across the water.

Again, given the lack of context - and knowing the context only exists probably in some notes that Kakudo has taken many, many years ago (clearly being more organized about his notes than Konaka, mind you, but that is a story for another day)... Ah, it is frustrating, eh?

We also see Mimi and Sora with Togemon and Birdramon - both clearly in the Digital World given here we see the aquarelly dots in the background.

I have seen a lot of posts since this was dropped yesterday noting how both look a whole lot more like their Adventure and 02 designs than they did in either tri., Kizuna or The Beginning. Which makes a whole lot of sense though if you think that this was originally based on something that might have featured in 02.

Though it also makes a whole lot of sense that it did ultimately not feature in 02, given that 02 was struggling for time and budget at times, and asking the animators and designers to design some "20-somethings designs" for the characters additionally to the epilogue designs for like one episode worth of content or something would probably have send someone over the edge.

There is however one thing I do note.

Mind you, I have currently a post scheduled for the Tuesday after next where I am ranting about that accursed epilogue. And part of the rant is also me going into the girls being reduced to their feminity.

Now, one of my big beefs with Kakudo has always been his tendency to defend the decisions for certain... traditionalist aspects both in regards to the epilogue and generally some of the writing in Adventure/02. And he will obviously again and again maintain that the epilogue had always planned and was always planned and is always considered and Kizuna and The Beginning totally did not contradict the epilogue whatsoever, which makes me just roll my eyes - because obviously it does.

Like, I do not doubt that certain aspects of the epilogue were being thrown around all along and it was talked about during the making of Adventure, but not for a minute I am going to buy that every single aspect of it was planned all along.

And one thing here that is noticable and has been called out by quite a few folks: Sora is a lot more tomboyish again, while basically everything since tri. worked very hard to make her more a girls' girl, given that is where she eventually ends up in the epilogue. Which makes me do a bit of a doubletake here.

Then we have this shot of Mimi and Togemon facing a cloud of black somethings (I mean this is Adventure-verse where "Black XYZ" was a very usual plot device to make Digimon go evil, so there is definitely that) in the Digital World. Though something I find a whole lot more interesting is the apparently falling tree-thingie in the background.

This made me instantly go "Yggdrasil". Which is ironic, because Yggdrasil was only added to the Digimon lore in 2003.

This might just be a freakishly large tree in the weird Digital World. But the association is still there.

And then we have a scene that possibly features Arachnemon in a hospital where seemingly both Shin and Jun are working by the looks of it. It is not quite clear if the nurse is Jun, but it definitely looks like her, I gotta say. Especially given that the red hair color was not particularly common in Digimon.

And again: I love Jun. She is annoying, but in a cute way. She is just this typical teenage girl, but in a way that I actually found quite amusing.

Then we have this shot of Sora and Birdramon again in the Digital World fighting seemingly again against "Black Somethings" - though here it is a bit easier to see that those things seem to be some sort of hexagons. Does this mean anything? Nope, for now it doesn't, but yeah, seems to be hexagons.

Also we see some large thingies behind the clouds, that also might be really big trees? I don't know. Just wanted to note that.

Then there is this scene of Taichi, Agumon, Yamato and Gabumon jumping into the light. Which... Uhm...

Okay, frankly, I have no clue what is going on there. But something clearly is going on.

First association obviously is kinda the Internet scene from Bokura no Wargame, as it featured the shadows being quite similar, but that is just a very typical design for very harsh shadows in animation, so... yeah, that might be nothing. *shrug*

Certainly mysterious. Which is great for a standalone PV that is not a trailer for anything... lol

Then there is this shot of some folks standing around in the Digital World. Those folks clearly are international children. We do see some familiar faces among them, too. Most notably Yuehon, Mina, a boy that might be Yuri, and a guy who at least has the same scarf as Steve. Not sure about the others. (Kinda sad we do not see Chicos or Catherine.)

Those Chosen stand in front of a hill or something on which we see then Daisuke and Ken in their adult designs. (No screenshots for them due to tumblr limiting the amount of pictures I can post.)

It is noticable that while V-mon and Wormmon are with Daisuke and Ken, the international Chosen... uhm... Young Adults are without their partners it seems.

Then we get this shot of Hikari and Miyako flying on Nefermon and Horusmon in the Digital World, which clearly is a callback to the 02 Opening - of which we have a couple of call backs happening in the next few seconds. lol

The two of them are dragging also some sort of line or something along, which we see more off in the next shot.

They seem to be opening up some sort of portal - though the weird thing about this shot most certainly is that there is like several Horusmon. Sure, like, there can be, but... This does seem weird, right?

I mean, we have seen the Digimon multiplying in the finale of 02 of course - and who knows what kind of portal they are opening... But yeah.

Given that we see a similar effect to this portal with Koshiro and Kabuterimon in the lab sequence before, I am somehow assuming this is related to Koshiro's research, but... Again, we do not have a whole lot of context for any of this.

And then we get the really weird stuff. We see Daisuke rising along in a clear callback to the opening of 02 again on Lighdramon. However, it is not just Lighdramon, but also Boarmon (Armadimon's evolution with the Digimebtal of Courage), Elephamon (Armadimon's evolution with the Digimebtal of Miracles out of all things), Goatmon (Tailmon and the Digimebtal of Hope), Lynxmon (Tailmon and the Digimebtal of Courage), and Bullmon (Wormmon and the Digimebtal of Hope).

Most notably: While in the coming two shots we see more Armor Digimon, these have only the common through line of "they are all named [animal]mon" lol This is a really weird collection.

Then we have Ken and Puchiemon (who was tradionally Wormmon and the Digimetal of Kindness) with some more Armor Digimon: Pipismon (Patamon and the Digimental of Love), Searchmon (Wormmon and the Digimetal of Knowledge), Harpiemon (Hawkmon and the Digimental of Light), Thunderbirmon (a really weird one because it was not part of the original Armor Digimon but released only when Frontier came out, so it is either Gottsumon or Impmon and the Digimental of Friendship), Flybeemon (Hawkmon and the Digimental of Knowledge), Pteranomon (Armadimon and the Digimental of Love) and Honeybeemon (V-mon and the Digimental of Knowledge).

(If you wanna hear something sad: I knew most of these without looking them up. Thank you brain, for holding onto this information for 25 years. I guarantee you, it was more important than French.)

And lastly we see Iori and Submarimon surrounded by even more Armor Digimon: Orcamon (Hawkmon and the Digimental of Reliability), Manbomon (Patamon and the Digimental of Light), Depthmon (V-mon and the Digimental of Reliability), Mantaraymon (Patamon and the Digimental of Reliability), Seahomon (Armadimon and the Digimental of Light), Tylomon (Tailmon and the Digimental of Reliability), and finally Archelomon (Wormmon and the Digimental of Reliability).

Why are there so many of the Armor Digimon?

I have no clue in hell. Especially as sometimes Armor evolutions of the same Digimon can be seen in these shots. Sure, most of these Armor Digimon can also be another Digimon either as an adult evolution, or an another one using the same Digimental... But it is still hella weird.

But then again, we never saw the Digimentals being used in anything that took place post the end of 02, so... Yeah, there is that, I guess.

We also have these shots of Hikari closing this door on Meiko before being attacked by a dark cloud that then gets dispearsed by Tailmon. Note that this clearly takes place in the Digital World once more, given that we see the splotches of aquarel in here.

Again: Whenever this was originally conceived Meiko clearly was not part of it. But yeah, whatever. xD

And we also have this shot of Takeru and Patamon going into what certainly looks like the Dark Ocean - another thing that we have not heard from since it was a concept fully underexplored by 02. Which certainly is a choice here.

Lastly we have a shot of Imperialdramon Dragon Mode flying over a dark forest towards a castle, that clearly is a callback to the Imperialdramon evolution sequence, where we see exactly the same thing happen. The castle looks a bit different, sure, but to be fair, the evolution sequence is a 3D thing that has aged horribly on the basis of being 3D created in the year of our lord 2000.

From this we basically zoom out into this shot of the goggles, where we see the goggles of Taichi/Daisuke, Takato, Takuya, Taiki and Taiki/Tagiru (in Hunters). Which probably does not really mean much other than being some symbolism that this is also something that lay beyond the ending of 02, I guess.

All in all, as I said: This is a standalone short film so to speak, not a trailer. However, let's face it, there was at least some thought to hope that folks would be begging to get the full story now in the hope to milk the DIgimon Adventure cow further dry.

And I mean, like many people I am kinda sick of everything being about Digimon Adventure and stuff - though I will also say, that I am actually kinda relieved we did not get a whole lot of post-canon DIgimon Tamers stuff. And be it just because I have my own very established headcanon for that.

Still, even being sick of Adventure getting more and more stuff... I kinda would watch a movie or OVA of this, I gotta say. Preferably an OVA, I think.

Especially as this has a lot of the stuff that I wanted to see in tri., Kizuna and The Beginning and never did: More of the international kids, Shuu, Shin and Jun (possibly also Momoe and Chizuru), and some more evolutions than just again and again Omegamon and Imperialdramon.

So yeah, if they should decide to turn this into something real... I would probably not hate it.

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Uenoyama Ritsuka & Satou Mafuyu ; Given ☆ Orange Rouge

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Yamato in Episode 2:

What we see in this episode:

Yamato's primary goal is still everyone's safety

This episode shows Yamato's difference in personality and opinion with Jyou

This episod shows us that Yamato can and will listen to Taichi if he doesn't consider his opinion dangerous or if other members of the group convince Yamato

This episode shows us that Taichi will listen to Yamato as well

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First thing we see Yamato do in the episode, is tell everyone that they are now safe which is what Yamato cares about the most

After the chosen children get introduced to the concept of "digimon evilution", Yamato is the first one asking everyone's opinion about their next target

This question, leads to a series of suggestions (mostly by Jyou) about going back and trying to find the adults.

This time around, Yamato doesn't agree with him because going back to the cliff they fell from seems dangerous to Yamato and too far away.

Something that I've noticed about Jyou is that in these two episodes he seems stuck on one opinion and can't be flexible as others. He desperately wants to find the adults one way or another.

While Yamato is still the most concerned about their safety and directly voices that he doesn't want to put anyone in danger.

The interesting part of this episode, is Yamato's and Taichi's ability to listen to each other despite almost always having clashes in their ideologies.

Taichi is the first one after Jyou, who comes up with a solution: to go and search the area for the oceaon.

Yamato , being the pessimist, is unsure of Taichi's idea but decides to follow after he asks Sora's opinion on the matter.

After they find the ocean and they end up seeing the phone booths, two things happen.

One is that Jyou, who is stuck on the idea of finding the adults, doesn't give up on trying to call them. This is interesting for understanding Jyou's character

Another interesting thing is that Taichi ends up agreeing with Yamato to stay and let the kids rest.

Taichi who always wants to move on, automatically calls for the children to give up on the telephone booth and move on. Yamato disagrees (as he always does lol) and tells Taichi about how tired everyone is. Taichi is convinced by Yamato and Koushiro and decides to stay as well.

The rest of this episode is basically Agumon's fight and evolution vs shellmon with minimum Yamato interaction so I won't focus on it.

The thing about these episodes, is that half of the times people who complain about Yamato do not realize or even remember all these mellow arguments that Taichi and Yamato has always had and how half of the times they manage to convince one another.

People always look at Yamato and only remember that one cherrymon episode without remembering anything else about him or why and how his ideology to save others clashes with Taichi's ideology to always move on and take risks

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OMG OMG OMG

Japan is so lucky that I'm not there otherwise they wouldn't be able to stop me from kissing Yamato and Gabumon on the cheeks!

They're so cute (Gabumon) and handsome (Yamato)😍

And Taichi and Agumon are there too 😊

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Still not over how they didn’t let Yamato have a single scene in good lighting or with good angles 💔 I guess they new we wouldn’t make it out alive 🥹

But I just love how dry and sarcastic he was towards Taichi “you may find a career in the animation industry” like lmfao 🤣🤣🤣 that is exactly how I imagine him to be as an adult, absolutely no mercy with his tongue (in many ways 😳)

Also he’s such a sweet and dutiful kid, he only got the international driving licence for the sake of his grandfather 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

And then the minute trouble came calling, the instant switch up to protective friend mode 🥺🤲🏻 Iori wasn’t sure if it was okay to leave Taichi and Yamato alone to deal with the intrusion, but Yamato, while driving like the pro he is, made sure that Iori left with the kid!!

AND THEN HE INSTANTLY TURNED UP HIS LIPS INTO THAT SMUG ASS SMILE“WELL ISNT IT OBVIOUS” like yessir everything becomes so clear and obvious to me when YOU say it 😩😩😩

Oh Yamato was such a big Yamato vibe in Beyond, Peak Yamato behaviour really, only Yamato could ever

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Digimon Beyond Year

Iori introduces himself as a high school student in Digimon Beyond. Can we use that to date the PV?

Digimon Kizuna takes place in: summer 2010. According to the novelization, Iori is a second year high school student and 17 years old.

I'm using this Digimon Channel age chart for the year of Kizuna, but you can also work your way to the date by Iori's current age vs his age in 2002. To my knowledge, except for the Kizuna novelization that lists everyone's age, we roughly base everyone's age on their stated school year when they are introduced in Adventure and 02.

Digimon The Beginning takes place in: February 2012, and Iori is... somehow a third year student? Let me think, here. The Japanese school year rolls over in April, so...

April 2010: Iori becomes a second year

Summer 2010: Kizuna

April 2011: Iori becomes a third year

February 2012: The Beginning

March/April 2012: Iori graduates

Okay, so in February of 2012, he should, in fact, be a third year student, just 1-2 months away from graduating. He is theoretically about 19, but that will depend on when his birthday falls.

So uh IF we assume that Beyond happens after The Beginning, based on what look like Lui's legs in the shot with Takeru and Jyou (actually I think that is one of the Kido bros),

That means the PV takes place between Feb 2012 and March/April 2012.

More realistically, I think that means that the PV only loosely follows what happened in Kizuna and The Beginning. It's hard to imagine that the 02 kids changed their appearances that much in such a short time frame.

Personally, I find this frustrating, both as a fic writer who is trying to follow the plot and as an audience member who was emotionally invested, only to have things dropped. However, it's also an invitation to engage with the story however you want. Don't like that the partner bond and Chosen role were dissolved in previous movies? IGNORE IT BABEY. This is also really common for anime movies in general. I say, make what you want of it, since Toei/Bandai is clearly doing the same.

Thanks to @twilightrequiem for pointing out that Iori mentions he is still in high school in Beyond, which places Beyond in a very slim window if it's compliant with The Beginning, and a wider window (2009-2012 ish) if it's not compliant with The Beginning.

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So... I completely overheard that Iori said he was a Japanese high schooler. Which really would mean this takes place around 2008-2010, so it'd be prior to Kizuna's events, making Taichi and Yamato 20-22 in Beyond. Which would explain why the Digivices and partnerships still exist, regardless of the split timeline theory.

... But then we get Rui (whom Takeru should only meet in 2012, so there COULD be a timeskip WITHIN the PV) and there also is a "blink and you'll miss it" shot of someone who could be Maki Himekawa... Implying that they actually managed to bring her back.

My brain hurts.

Edit:

Who would have thought that Iori's age would throw me for a complete loop here.

So let's break this down. He's in his second year in high school in 2010 - let's ignore the hair inconsistencies for now.

In Beyond, he says, he is "a Japanese high schooler". Japanese high school has three years, he's 17 in Kizuna... So the range for Beyond shall be: between 2009 and 2011 then (and not 2008 like I initially thought).

If Beyond takes place before Kizuna (minus the potential time skip when Takeru and Shuu meet Rui, minus the hair inconsistencies), it'd be around 2009-10ish, putting the characters' ages here:

Taichi, Yamato, Sora: 21/22

Koushirou, Mimi: 20/21

Jyou: 22/23

Hikari, Takeru, Daisuke, Ken: 18/19

Miyako: 19/20

Iori: 16/17

Edit 2.0: I'm gonna give up, maybe this is really just a split timeline and I am overthinking it all.

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If Beyond got turned into a full blown series or a movie or even a manga or audio drama, what do you think the plot would be?

We do have at least the implication that there is going to be a novelization of the story - and let's be real, considering the following paragraph(s), even if Kakudou narrowed this down to a (quite incoherent) 4-minute-PV (that took over a year to make!!!), he said it himself: It was VERY selective and since he's been brewing up ideas for probably 30+ years at this point... There'd be enough plot for at least 54 more episodes.

We DO have a short synopsis for the part with Taichi, Yamato and Iori, but we can see that there is a lot more to it:

Considering the amount of cameos and nudges within the PV, one has to ask the question how much of what we've seen is SOLELY Kakudou's vision - and where he had to make "compromises". (I'm quoting a Japanese Twitter account moping about the hints towards Tri onwards, claiming that "we don't know if those were really Maki and Rui - and Meiko may really just be a random Chosen Child in this universe." We really don't know anything here, they may as well just have been cameos and nothing else!).

@jamesthedigidestined has come up with a general plot idea that I'm gonna post and elaborate on just a little bit!

"So, Jap government already has a Digimon research division, being the epicenter, but USA wouldn't want to lag behind on a new field of research, and would basically hunt for the American Chosen, leading to Japan/Koushirou (possibly as 1337 hackerman) to locate them, while Taichi, Yamato, and Iori are out recovering children. Taito because brawn + marketing and Iori because gatehop + Engrish.

This leads to America to build a supercomputer in an attempt to take over the Digital World, as the Digital World servers naturally migrate to the strongest computer of that era, and the current strongest (Yggdrasil) is an anonymous supercomputer that they can’t locate, leading to Digital World: Liberty (WIP title) and the attempt of Liberty to overthrow Homeostasis as the master controller, which is when Koushirou attacks and this is when the supercomputer Liberty reveals its its own consciousness now and can project AT Fields. The gears are Liberty’s attempt at forcibly controlling Digital World: Yggdrasil, specifically the Digimon."

Having the military involved was already a little nod towards Takeru's little drama fanfiction after the events of The Beginning (which also mentions the Evangelion-esque AT Field we see, coincidentally, with Koushirou and Kabuterimon in Beyond). Even if that drama was not authorized by Kakudou himself, we KNOW that higher-scale-involvement HAD been a thing in Kakudou's previous epilogue-related ideas:

Of course that doesn't really help us plot-wise overall, because these are all very loose ideas, but I'd narrow this down to three separate POTENTIAL main-plot-strings:

1.) The "Liberty" plot outlined above (or something similar along those lines).

2.) Everything that could be a 02 leftover, such as, but not limited to: Armor evolution (as seen with Daisuke, Ken and Iori), Arukenimon (maybe having a Wizardmon-esque cameo since she somehow survived?), the whole Dark Ocean aspect. Hikari being affected by those dark particles could be either a nod towards the Dark Ocean, or, as James pointed out, may have been Liberty trying to enter Hikari's mind. Also, as posted above, SOME kind of space-related involvement.

3.) Leftover plots from Tri/The Beginning - IF that was Rui, Dark Gennai or someone entirely else. Some people on Twitter speculated that Takeru got Maki back from the Dark Ocean and in my opinion, the whole reason Meiko showed up in this context would be to show the connection between this subplot (Meiko+Maki/Tri) to the original cast (Hikari being affected by it and Takeru going to act on it - thus, they'd finally get something to do in the forefront).

So yeah... Lots of stuff to figure out and focus on!

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