I love that Keito's Elecmon will end up as GrapLeomon (at least temporarily). I'm not expecting too much from the characters but at least this time one of my favorite leomon subspecies will get at least a bit of spotlight.Overall the opening features an ...interesting assortment of styles. Most of it utilizes the in-game models but with various amounts of post processing. Erismon's baby form and agumon at the beginning feature a cel-shaded style while the Digimon partners appearing on the screens behind their partners don't have much shading applied at all (probably most closely resembling the graphics of the actual game). Then, in the big battle the models are basically cleaned up as nicely as they can be, with some very fancy lighting and ambient occlusion effects. But it is the final montage of the characters that has the most interesting aesthetic to me, in that itlooks like traditional illustrations (and in the case of a few pieces of artwork taken from the key art it indeed is) while a closer look reveals them to be clearly traced from the game models as well (this is especially apparent from Erismon's movement). Some or the new artwork on the website uses this style well and it's just something incredibly fancy to look at, trying to find the divide between the computer generated and the hand-drawn. And I'm quite convinced that the cell shading and the shadows in the last part of the trailer and the images on the websites were added by hand (unless bandai namco somehow developed more advanced cell shading algorithms than the studios producing full cg anime): Algorithms tend to become "confused" with where to end an outline in a skin fold for example, those exact and even lines between Agumon's toes isn't something that you arrive at with simple angle calculations, so that is almost guaranteed to be a manual addition. The shadows are another give away as automating shading tends to result in very "bland" shadows that cling exactly to the geometry of the model, but in traditional animation shaded areas are often exaggerated or stylized and in many cases seem to be projected in a very "flat" way that doesn't necessarily correspond with the actual curvature.Now maybe I've been rambling on for too long but those images and the trailer in general really ought to be seen as a great reference to anyone who likes to play around with the Cyber Sleuth models, showing some nice stylistic approaches to using those models as a base for really nice looking animation going beyond rendering them as-is with Blender.But even after all that praise... they really went out of the way to only have to draw the absolute minimal amount of animation by hand lol. Gotta feel bad for people talking about how they were "going all out" with a fully animated opening when in truth they scaled things down significantly from for example the amount of animation in the opening movie for Digimon crusaders.I'm partial about the song... it's nice but it's almost surprisingly somber until the halfway mark, which reminds me of Appmon's second ending which kind of had a similar structure.My opinion on the new Erismon forms is that I adore the Perfect form but the Adult one just leaves me completely cold. The Perfect form has just the right amount of interesting detail like the typical belts, the drill spikes and the over the top DBZ hair but the Adult form is just a very awkward in-between state that doesn't really have much of an own identity design wise, basically the same problem I have with Digimon like Lekismon and BaoHackmon. I would havepreferred it if they stuck to the old fashioned way of having the Adult from be a more bestial, quadrupedal design before reintroducing more humanoid traits in the later stages. Sure, that would have been somewhat of a cliche in its own way, but it's a standard that has actually. If Gabumon's adult form was not Garurumon but simply a bigger, more anthropomorphic Gabumon, the eventual evolution to WereGarurumon would not nearly be as impactful. It is the contrast to Garurumon that made the design stand out. So yeah, give me a more colorful and leaner Togemogumon subspecies over what we actually got any day of the week.