DigiFes 2021 pamphlet — Cast and staff comments

The official DigiFes 2021 event (held at the Yokosuka Arts Theater on August 1, 2021) had a pamphlet sold on-site, containing comments from various members of predominantly Digimon Tamers-related cast and staff:

  • Comments from the Digimon Tamers voice actors
    • Makoto Tsumura (Takato Matsuda)
    • Masako Nozawa (Guilmon)
    • Mayumi Yamaguchi (Jianliang Lee)
    • Aoi Tada (Terriermon)
    • Fumiko Orikasa (Ruki Makino)
    • Youko Asada (Juri Katou)
    • Susumu Chiba (Mitsuo Yamaki)
    • Hiroki Takahashi (Impmon)
    • Tomoko Kaneda (Culumon)
  • Comments from other event attendees
    • Ayumi Miyazaki (musician)
    • AiM (musician)
    • WILD CHILD BOUND as Masataka Fujishige (musician)
    • Takayoshi Tanimoto (musician)
    • Michihiko Ohta (musician)
    • Fukujuurou Katayama (event MC, voice of Daisuke Motomiya in Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna)
    • Junko Noda (event MC, voice of V-mon in Digimon Adventure 02 and Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna)
    • Arthur Lounsbery (event MC, voice of Ken Ichijouji in Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna)
    • Naozumi Takahashi (event MC, voice of Wormmon in Digimon Adventure 02 and Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna)
  • Interview with Digimon Tamers lead writer Chiaki Konaka
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Digimon Girls Festival — Bedtime and Early Morning Calls

A translation of the “Bedtime” and “Early Morning” calls included on the Digimon Girls Festival character song album (originally released February 6, 2002), featuring characters from Adventure (Sora Takenouchi and Mimi Tachikawa), Adventure 02 (Miyako Inoue and Hikari Yagami), and Tamers (Ruki Makino, Shaochung Lee, and Juri Katou).

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Digimon Tamers DVD-Box — Memories of Our Digimon Tamers

A series of cast and staff interviews from the booklet included with the Digimon Tamers DVD-Box (released April 25, 2007), which featured interviews with the following:

  • Voice actors Makoto Tsumura (Takato Matsuda), Mayumi Yamaguchi (Jianliang Lee), and Fumiko Orikasa (Ruki Makino)
  • CGI designer Shinji Aramaki
  • Director Yukio Kaizawa
  • Lead writer Chiaki J. Konaka
  • Producer Hiromi Seki
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Digimon Tamers 20th Anniversary Chat: Makoto Tsumura × Hiromi Seki

A translation of an interview posted on the Digimon Partners website on May 21, 2021, held with Takato Matsuda voice actress Makoto Tsumura and series producer Hiromi Seki, commemorating the announcement of various Digimon Tamers voice actors attending the 2021 DigiFes event, and the 20th anniversary of the series.

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About Tamers’s OP, EDs, and insert songs

A translation of this post from Digimon Tamers lead writer Chiaki Konaka’s Digimon Tamers 2021 Blog, regarding Tamers‘s vocal music and the “Days -Information and the Extraordinary-” drama CD. (The text was originally posted on his Twitter in December 2017, and reformatted for this blog post and posted on April 2, 2021.)

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About “The Call of Dagomon”

A translation of this post from Digimon Adventure 02 episode writer and Digimon Tamers lead writer Chiaki Konaka’s Digimon Tamers 2021 Blog, regarding the episode he wrote for Adventure 02, “The Call of Dagomon” (episode 13). (The text was originally posted on his Twitter in December 2017, and reformatted for this blog post and posted on March 31, 2021.)

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Hypnos Meeting 2019 Q&A with Chiaki Konaka

(Chiaki Konaka Q&A | Yuuki Nakashima Q&A)

The Digimon fan event organizer DIGIMADO held an event named “Hypnos Meeting 2019” on March 17, 2019 at the Shinjuku Loft/Plus One, which included Digimon Tamers lead writer Chiaki Konaka and Digimon Xros Wars manga artist and writer Yuuki Nakashima. Questions were taken through the website, and posted there afterwards. The below is a translation of Konaka’s portion of the Q&A.

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Digimon THE MOVIES 1999-2006 Special Staff Comments!!

A translation of the staff comments included in the “Digimon THE MOVIES 1999-2006” Blu-ray collection released on January 9, 2015, featuring comments from the following:

  • Shigeyasu Yamauchi (director for Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!!/Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals)
  • Takahiro Imamura (director for Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back and Digimon Frontier: Revival of the Ancient Digimon, Ornithmon!!
  • Tetsuo Imazawa (director for Digimon Tamers: The Adventurers’ Battle)
  • Tetsuya Nagamine (director for Digimon Savers THE MOVIE: Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!)
  • Hiromi Seki (producer for the Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier series, and movies Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!, and Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!!/Transcendent Evolution! The Golden Digimentals)
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