I love Digimon. Let’s put that on the table.

Months ago it was announced that a new series would be releasing in 2015 focused on the original cast of the show titled Digimon Adventure: Tri. Of course I was crazy excited for another fifty episode season of a show that really was a big part of my childhood.

Today we got a trailer for the new project and first I’ll just say it wasn’t anything special in my book. It just showed a couple images of the main cast with their digimon and some cool action clips. In regards to revealing plot, we didn’t get anything.

What WAS revealed were two big twists. The first one being that the series that we hoped would begin to air this spring, or at least early summer, won’t actually be coming to us until late November of this year. Yes, I groaned with frustration. The second twist that came as quite a surprise was that this isn’t a television anime series at all but rather a SIX PART FILM series.

At first I was mortified.

I was looking forward to seeing a new episode once a week and feeling like I was a nine year old kid again. Then I allowed myself to think and asked some very key questions and made some fair observations.

1. As much as I loved Digimon growing up we are all aware that every episode, though they would give us advancement in the fun plot, were stuffed with recycled attack shots and digivolution sequences (which got me hyped every week so I’m not really complaining). Thinking back to the Digimon movies I remember that the action was so fresh and so appealing to the eye. If the series is going to be made into films then it’s safe to say we won’t be getting recycled attack shots but rather real and exciting fight sequences.

2. After thinking about the Digimon movies from the past I began to worry a bit. Each of those were roughly about thirty minutes each. The Digimon movie that released here in the states was made up of three different films totaling an hour and a half. I am praying to Seraphimon that what we’ll be getting this fall is not a thirty minute segment. If they are going to turn this into a film series then MAKE THEM FILMS.

3. In the case that they really do treat the series with respect and not like a tool to just rank in the money for merchandise, then we could be looking at six movies at about an hour and a half each. These are still kids shows after all so we can’t expect it to run too much longer than that. Though, I would LOVE IT if each was a solid two hour film. Spirited Away was two hours so one can dream.

4. In the case that we do get six ‘one and a half hour’ movies then we are going to be getting the equivalent of a twenty-five episode season. Now if I was asked would I like fifty alright episodes or twenty-five amazing episodes I would be very tempted to respond with the latter.

5. Movie form means we are not going to be getting installments as frequently as we would like. I think this is the way that they are trying to reinvigorate the franchise and at the same time give the fans who loved the original characters a longer period of time to revisit them. Looking at Attack On Titan (might be a horrible reference here but go with me) we know that the first film was released last November and the second will release this June. The first installment of Digimon Adventure Tri will release this November so perhaps we will see the same seven month gap pattern between installments. This would mean that all six films would release within three years.

6. Lastly, since it is going to be a six part film series I am a little more confident now that the cast members from the second Digimon Adventure will find their way into the plot at some point.

I am still a bit dissapointed but I am not closed off to this creative and daring new attempt to present the franchise. Is it risky? Yes. But looking at the trailer I have to say I am loving the artwork and I think it has all the chances to be a really great evolution for the franchise. Unfortunately we have to wait until this November to give it a fair judgement.