08-31-2003, 11:06 AM
Hey everyone. While I can't give any real info on season 5, I can give info on the future of Digimon here in the States.
Disney's contract with UPN has now expired, meaning that the Disney properties which made up the UPN programming block (Digimon, Buzz Lightyear, Recess, and a few others) are now totally up to Disney to distribute. As a result, Digimon is coming home to ABC Family, home of some of the better Anime this side of Shaman King.
Next Saturday ABC family is running the Digimon Digivolution Marathon from 7:00 until 12 Noon (EDT) -- 5 hours of the major 'digivolution' episodes. After that comes the new season of programming, with great news for everyone who missed Frontier during the UPN blocks.
Digimon will air on weekdays at 7:00 (Eastern) on ABC family with the first three seasons. I can't say for certain yet whether this will be in a "Best of" format, a scattered random episodes format, or if it will be sequential, but Monday-Friday (possibly on Saturday as well, though I'm not certain of that) at 7 AM Digimon will be on.
Digimon: Season 4 (aka: Digimon Frontier) will air on Saturday Mornings at 10:00 Eastern time. I only hope that's not interfering with Shaman King or Sonic X, because I missed a lot during Frontier, and I do need to catch up. The most beneficial thing is it gives us a season of break from new stuff, and it will probably end at the end of next season through some sort of multiple episode days thing.
But it also means that if Digimon's fifth season starts this spring in Japan, it will be well timed for the dub to start at the beginning of the 2004-05 season next September. So let's all keep our fingers crossed and make that wish that we don't lose the show yet.
For everyone who hasn't seen Frontier, give it a solid chance before you accept all the nay-saying that's being thrown about. The dub isn't perfect, and the Spirit Evolution sequences may get really annoying after a while, but I was among those who didn't like the Sentai-esque direction (I'm not a big fan of the Power Rangers series either), but I ended up enjoying Frontier. Besides, hearing what Emperor Izzy (End Game series) would sound like is pretty cool -- Luccemon sounds exactly like I imagine he'd sound if End Game ever got animated.
Disney's contract with UPN has now expired, meaning that the Disney properties which made up the UPN programming block (Digimon, Buzz Lightyear, Recess, and a few others) are now totally up to Disney to distribute. As a result, Digimon is coming home to ABC Family, home of some of the better Anime this side of Shaman King.
Next Saturday ABC family is running the Digimon Digivolution Marathon from 7:00 until 12 Noon (EDT) -- 5 hours of the major 'digivolution' episodes. After that comes the new season of programming, with great news for everyone who missed Frontier during the UPN blocks.
Digimon will air on weekdays at 7:00 (Eastern) on ABC family with the first three seasons. I can't say for certain yet whether this will be in a "Best of" format, a scattered random episodes format, or if it will be sequential, but Monday-Friday (possibly on Saturday as well, though I'm not certain of that) at 7 AM Digimon will be on.
Digimon: Season 4 (aka: Digimon Frontier) will air on Saturday Mornings at 10:00 Eastern time. I only hope that's not interfering with Shaman King or Sonic X, because I missed a lot during Frontier, and I do need to catch up. The most beneficial thing is it gives us a season of break from new stuff, and it will probably end at the end of next season through some sort of multiple episode days thing.
But it also means that if Digimon's fifth season starts this spring in Japan, it will be well timed for the dub to start at the beginning of the 2004-05 season next September. So let's all keep our fingers crossed and make that wish that we don't lose the show yet.
For everyone who hasn't seen Frontier, give it a solid chance before you accept all the nay-saying that's being thrown about. The dub isn't perfect, and the Spirit Evolution sequences may get really annoying after a while, but I was among those who didn't like the Sentai-esque direction (I'm not a big fan of the Power Rangers series either), but I ended up enjoying Frontier. Besides, hearing what Emperor Izzy (End Game series) would sound like is pretty cool -- Luccemon sounds exactly like I imagine he'd sound if End Game ever got animated.