We Love DiGiMONMUSiC Memorial Booklet comments (K-M)

A translation of the “100 Comments” left by voice actors and staff members for animation and music production from Digimon Adventure, Adventure 02, Tamers, and Frontier, which were included in a booklet from the DiGiMONMUSiC 100 Title Commemoration Release: We Love DiGiMONMUSiC (デジモンミュージック100タイトル記念作品 We Love DiGiMONMUSIC) album collection, originally released December 25, 2002. This also includes both versions of the addendum comment left by music producer Shintarou Matsui in both the original version and the December 25, 2013 rerelease.

With the exception of Producer Matsui’s comments, the original booklets organized all of the commenters by name in gojuuon order. For the sake of easier reading for English speakers, I’ve reorganized the comments in English alphabetical order by surname (or, in the case of pseudonyms without surnames, by pseudonym), and have split the list into portions.

Note that some names have never had official readings provided, so in such cases I made my best guess at how their names are read.

(A-I | K-M | N-S | T-W | Shintarou Matsui’s comments)

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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 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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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 Tamers Blu-ray Box — Special Cast and Staff Interview 2018

A translation of the voice cast and staff interviews from the booklet included with the Digimon Tamers Blu-ray Box (released April 3, 2018), which featured group interviews with the following:

  • Voice actors Masako Nozawa (Guilmon), Makoto Tsumura (Takato Matsuda), Aoi Tada (Terriermon), Mayumi Yamaguchi (Jianliang Lee), Fumiko Orikasa (Ruki Makino), Youko Asada (Juri Katou), and Susumu Chiba (Mitsuo Yamaki)
  • Staff members Hiromi Seki (producer), Chiaki Konaka (lead writer), Yukio Kaizawa (series director), and Hiroyuki Kakudou (episode director)
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