I had originally made this Yamaki account to announce stuff like "The Tamers BD box is coming out" or "We made a CD Drama," and write extra material about it here and there, but that's become a nuisance so I'm just going to come out and say this. For the time being, these words will be written as Konaka Chiaki.

Unfortunately, some tweets will be broken up because they're so long.



The anime series was 16 years ago. I had thought that [doing this extra CD Drama thing] would be nice for the nostalgia, but as I was plotting out the CD Drama, I got the feeling that the world of Tamers was not in fact shut off since its ending, but has been continuing even to this day.



Because I had published my email account on my website, I received messages from many overseas fans. A lot of them were Tamers fans. After the last episode, there were a lot of girls who asked me to explain the ending.



I'm of the belief that the imagination of "what happens after" in any series expands within each viewer in their own individual way. That's why, to those questions, I would always answer that I could not explain any further. This attitude isn't just how I feel about Tamers, it's my basic thinking for any commercial product that I release to a public audience.



Once the work has been released to an audience/viewers, it no longer belongs to the author. That's the basic principle. However, for Tamers, I had written a sequel in the form of the CD Drama "Message In The Packet" that takes place a year later. In it, I wrote it with the feeling that Takato and co. still had yet to reunite with their Digimon.



At the time of one year later, no other story beyond that ["Message in the Packet" Drama] existed within me. However, it's been 15 years since then. Since so much has been imagined about "what happens from there," it would be all right if we, the original staff, made something on it, right?



That shift of thought [from not seeing a continuation to seeing a continuation] surprised me as well. If we wanted to depict "what happens after" with the original cast, it would make a good balance to do something that takes place a couple of years later. However, the story for Tamers was made in close correlation with the aspects of the internet business [at that time] in real time.



If the story is to be released in the year 2018, then it must take place in 2018. Also, we weren't making a new anime, since the plan was to have it only as a special addition to the Blu-ray BOX. There was a limit to which cast members to summon. There's also the fact that Imai Yuka-san [**Renamon's voice actor] has taken leave from voice acting.



With that reality in mind, I came up with something so as not to disappoint those people who loved Tamers. I assume that it will be pretty different from what those people who thought a Tamers sequel SHOULD be like (there were also people who made videos and drew art).



I'll write here about what's okay to reveal, now that I've arranged what's appropriate to say with Happinet. The story begins in 2003 with Takato and Juri. The characters that will appear have already been announced. Renamon's existence itself will not be treated lightly.



I had some doubts of whether a 4:3 SD digital anime could withstand as HD, but after seeing the special broadcast of the first episode, I found it to be surprisingly well-detailed. This is something that I could say with pride to please buy at once for your shelf.



Anyway, it doesn't change that [the Blu-ray box] is a very high-quality product. I'd suggested to the people I'd met in the summer event for "Ghost Hound" to put aside some money every month in order to afford it. Even if you started now, I think you'd be able to make it.

To be frank, there is absolutely zero talk right now about a Tamers sequel as an animation. I do want to do it, though...





Ugh, short message posting sites are not to my taste. Go write it on my blog? Like I said (etc etc). Anyway, that's all from me.