Is Digimon Lastly Getting a New Anime Collection?

This can be a fairly essential week for Digimon followers. Digimon Con is nearly to occur, and as followers everywhere in the world gear as much as uncover what thrilling bulletins the franchise will make within the occasion, a brand new improvement may simply hinted at an enormous announcement that might be made within the coming days. This week, it was revealed that Bandai filed a trademark for the title Digimon Alysion, which is greater than sufficient to get the rumor mill going.

The most important wager is that Digimon Alysion is the title of a brand new anime collection within the franchise. The final entry, titled Digimon Ghost Sport, ended its run in early 2025. Digimon has just lately rolled out a wave of anime tasks that celebrated the franchise’s legacy. 2020’s Digimon Journey retold the story of the unique collection with adjustments to some particulars and Digimon Journey Tri was a slate of OVAs that revisited the primary season’s eight Digi-Destined and takes place six years after the occasions of the debut season. Because the franchise tends to diversify its protagonists and tales, Digimon Alysion might be a completely new story with characters we have by no means met.

However, it might be none of that. The Digimon franchise has additionally been bulking up on its sport content material, with a brand new one titled Digimon Story: Time Stranger introduced for later this yr. Throughout Digimon Con, followers are additionally anticipating additional particulars from the Digimon Buying and selling Card Sport, which was additionally teased this week on Twitter/X. So, there’s a likelihood that Digimon Alysion is one other sport that can develop the franchise even additional within the gaming world — one thing that followers have been demanding for fairly some time.

Is ‘Digimon Alysion’ a Reboot?

Since Digimon has already celebrated its anniversary with Digimon Journey Tri and the Digimon Journey remake, it is unlikely that Digimon Alysion is related to the primary two seasons of the anime franchise. It will be fairly stunning, nevertheless, if entries like Digimon Tamers and Digimon Frontier all of the sudden acquired sequels or comebacks. Since Tamers focuses on buying and selling playing cards, it could be an attention-grabbing connection to make with the upcoming on-line sport. Fortunately we’ll discover all the pieces out in lower than two days.

Digimon was initially launched in 1999, and it has since stretched to seven seasons that differ wildly. Regardless of not placing out as many episodes as a number of different celebrated franchises, the collection has been pretty according to its entries, with gaps between seasons by no means stretching previous 4 years. The collection is widly considered the gateway tiled that launched anime to a complete era together with different titles like Pokémon and Dragon Ball.

Digimon Con will occur this Thursday, March 20, at 12 midday JST. You may try the occasion on this YouTube livestream.

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