#digifes 2022

[jadeazora]

New Digimon 02 movie (The Beginning) stuff! I had heard that they showed the beginning of the movie for their audience, but couldn't find it on YT, so hopefully they'll upload it later.

The new cast members are Rui Owada (voiced by Megumi Ogata) and Ukkomon (voiced by Rie Kugimiya.) Rui also states that he is the first human to partner with a Digimon.

The Yumeta Company, who animated the Digimon Kizuna movie, returns to animate this one.

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DigiFes 2022 updates: Key visual released, with information about goods for sale, and a sneak peek into the upcoming 02 movie for attendees.

More information here.

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My finger slipped.

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Hiya, everyone!! I was able to get a ticket to watch the online streaming of DigiFes 2022! The evening event had the whole Frontier Cast reading a new audio drama together, which takes place about 2 years after the series ends. Here are the details of what happens in the drama (whatever I understood, anyway! Please excuse any translation errors; my Japanese is still a work in progress):

Tagging @citrus-cactus, and anyone else who’d like to read this! I’ll write about the talk event in a separate post later on!

After becoming a middle schooler, Takuya gets an email telling him to come to that elevator area in Shibuya at 17:45…but when he goes, that mysterious elevator isn’t there

Izumi and Tomoki appear, and Takuya assumes they sent the mail to prank him, but it turns out they also got the same email

Junpei and Kouji also show up, with the latter seemingly enjoying teasing Takuya once or twice

Izumi’s kouhai gave her a stomach band (haramaki) as an elementary school graduation present (Junpei sounds jealous)

Tomoki is now the same age as “Takuya-oniichan” when they had the original adventure

Junpei and Kouji didn’t send the email either, so Takuya assumes it’s Kouichi, and states he may have come into contact with some dark and corrupt file or organisation and they may have to fight said organisation (Izumi thinks he may just be planning a surprise party or something)

But nobody believes him, not even Tomoki LMAO

Kouji spills some TEA: apparently Kouichi went out for tea…WITH A GIRL

Btw, the twins canonically attend the same middle school

So the girl wanted to confess to Kouichi, BUT SHE CONFESSED TO KOUJI BY ACCIDENT

He told Kouichi about it, but he apparently made a promise on his behalf to meet with her later

Kouichi suddenly appears and is like “Kouji, what the HELL did you do????”

Apparently Kouichi wanted to turn the girl down, but couldn’t, and somehow ended up meeting the girl’s PARENTS (comparing it to an arranged marriage meeting or something like that), because Kouji seemed to have made some pretty grand promises to the girl about “our future” (I didn’t fully catch what they said in this bit, sorry!)

The twins collectively share one (1) braincell, and apparently the twin with permanent custody is NOT Kouji

But they seem to have gotten used to being brothers - they get into a MASSIVE argument about the miscommunication involving the confession

“KOUICHIIIIII!!!” “KOUJIIIIIII!!”

Tomoki: “Twins…they’re really something, aren’t they?” (He used the word 大変 which refers to then situation being unfortunate)

Back to the mysterious email, the gang wonders who sent it, as the culprit could only be someone who knows about their adventure. Tomoki speculates about it being Katsuharu or one of the others from his group, but they don’t have the gang’s emails

Junpei comes to the conclusion that one of the gang is therefore lying: hence, the reveal of “Detective Junpei Shibayama”

Izumi: “when the heck did you become a detective”

“Detective Junpei Shibayama’s Case Files: Season 3, will now begin!”

Kouji: “Season 3?” Kouichi: “When was this series even confirmed?”

Junpei labels everyone as a suspect, and accuses the twins of being the culprits behind the email, because they could have alibis for each other, and there is a history of the twins impersonating each other, and therefore they used the girl’s confession to their advantage (and presumably sent the email from her phone? Idk, I couldn’t keep up with the technical details of Junpei’s “evidence”)

Junpei accuses the twins of currently impersonating each other, and they’re the culprits

Kouji: “Nope, you’re wrong” Kouichi: “Our faces are the same, but our voices are very different - shouldn’t you know that much?”

Everyone else starts getting into Detective Mode from then on, starting with Takuya, who suspects Izumi due to something about the haramaki from earlier (didn’t catch the explanation)

But absolutely nobody even takes his accusation seriously

The twins: 😑😑

Next is Tomoki’s investigation- his suspect is Junpei, because the culprit needs electricity to manipulate radio waves and send the email, and the only one who could do that is Blitzmon, Junpei’s spirit

Junpei: “My spirit isn’t that of electricity, it’s thunder” Tomoki: “Oh yeah” Junpei: “Don’t ‘oh yeah’ me!”

Izumi gives it a shot: her suspect is Tomoki

Tomoki, very straightforwardly: “Nope” Izumi: *goes on anyway*

Izumi: “The reason is that Tomoki is shy and embarrassed!” Tomoki: “I have never been embarrassed”

Izumi: “ The mail is anonymous, meaning the sender didn’t want to be known. Why would that be? Well, Tomoki wanted to see us and missed us all so bad, but he was too shy to say so. So he sent this email to have us gather together!”

A couple of them are convinced, with Kouichi saying that this is the closest thing to the truth so far

Everyone starts arguing about it, but Kouji jumps right in and accuses Takuya of being the culprit (unsurprisingly)

But since Takuya only recently got a cellphone of his own, he states that he has no idea how to send an email like that

Junpei: *attempts to bribe the culprit into revealing themselves using chocolate* (some detective you are)

Takuya: *yells at the culprit to reveal themselves, because it’s getting late and everyone’s tired*

No culprit is revealed, and Takuya is MISERABLE

Izumi: “But…I had fun. Seeing everyone’s faces after so long, having conversations with everyone…I feel good.”

Everyone agrees, and decides to go out and eat soba

They go to the restaurant, and everyone’s phones notify them of another email - and then the phones start glowing like they did when they turned into Digivices last time

Takuya: *laughs* “So that’s what it is…the culprits are you guys, right? Agnimon…”

Everyone’s respective spirits send them a message, checking in on them after so long (In order: Agnimon, Wolfmon, Fairymon, Chakmon, Blitzmon, Löwemon)

THE END

[citrus-cactus]

Overanalyzing/gushing about the details on the Frontier half of the new promo image, since I’ve already seen a couple of posts talking about the 02 half!

1. Not a lot of “twinning” compared to the 02 side, which is interesting since two of these characters are literal twins, rotfl. But Tomoki is maybe mirroring his surrogate big brother Takuya by waving at us ☺️

2. They’re all wearing colored wristbands on their left arms! Except for Kouji who’s wearing his on his right! WHAT DOES THIS MEAN??? My best guess is he’s either left-handed(!!) or just doing it to be different (Kouji, you’re valid).

3. Kouji’s looking at Tomoki and smiling, which I think is really nice! Only because I always wanted to see them interact more after their family histories were better known. Nothing deep to say here, other than the placement makes me happy!

4. ALL THE HATS ARE GOOD HATS, wow <3 <3 <3

5. Kouichi aren’t you going to overheat wearing all that black outdoors at DigiFes. What are you doing also please watch where you’re going you’re on stairs 😂😂😂

6. Izumi’s hair~! And boots~!! 💖

7. TOMOKI’S BACKPACK. How do I get one for myself 😭

8. I love the Blitzmon towel but TOEI YOU COWARDS. LET US SEE JUNPEI’S FULL OUTFIT😤😤😤 (I love his suspenders!!!!)

I AM IN LOVE with the fact that we have gotten not just one, but TWO promo images of the Frontier kids in different outfits! Brb drawing all of them

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I’ve looked up details about the Frontier drama reading at DigiFes 2022 and everything about it sounds delightful

After the absolute mess that happened last year, I’m so happy this year is so positive and drama-free and the only reasons Digimon is trending today are good and happy

The curse has been lifted and evil has been defeated

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Bandai Drops Additional Digifes 2022 Details

Officially announced back in April, now more details have dropped! The popular Digifes event is back on for 2021 and we finally have some more details. The event will be taking place on July 30th at Tachikawa Stage Garden in Tokyo with two shows.

The main cast will gather to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the television animation Digimon Frontier which began airing in April of 2022. The cast from the new theater film Digimon Adventure 02 will also be present at the evening show and there is much anticipation for the films further news!

Digimon Singers Miyazaki Ayumi and AiM will perform this at this years Digifes, and the event will be more powerful than in previous years, with some of the content changing between the daytime and evening performances to make it a grand success!

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Here's the opening part of the 02 movie!