DIGIMON is coming back to the United States. The reunion film series DIGIMON ADVENTURE TRI., which launched in Japan last year to commemorate the original anime’s fifteenth anniversary, is getting an American release this fall. While the long-running anime franchise had its American heyday during its late 90’s/early 00’s run on Fox Kids, it has maintained a diehard fanbase. Initially that fanbase had no way to experience Tri. other than an official subtitled release on the streaming website Crunchyroll. That’s all changing thanks to Los Angeles film distribution company Eleven Arts, who’ve partnered with Toei Animation to release an officially sanctioned English Dub of the first TRI. installment, REUNION. The film will first be shown in a series of special Fathom Events screenings across 300 U.S. theaters in September before getting a wide release in October.

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Recently I had the opportunity to speak with Eleven Arts CEO Ko Mori about the film and the overall DIGIMON franchise.

ComicsVerse: Why do you feel that 2016 is the right time to return DIGIMON to the American marketplace?