I'm going to address this point by point. "R::" means "Rumor", "F::" means "Fact".
R:: I just called up Mr.John Louie (the creator of digimon).
F:: Whoever Mr. John Louie is, he did not create Digimon. The creator of Digimon is Akiyoshi Hongo, and his name appears on every proper copyright from the series, toys, cards, and anything else related to Digimon. Mr. John Louie sounds like a liar or an artificial name.
R:: He [Mr John Louie] said that they are working on season 5 right now. The show will be released next summer.
F:: If the show is currently in the works, official word will come from Japan within approximately two months. The show will not premiere in America during the summer, because American TV companies don't premiere new children's shows during the summer -- they start them during the beginning of other seasons, from Late August through the beginning of November (when ratings are taken). Alternately they will premiere them in January or February, after the Christmas holidays (ratings are also taken during February).
R:: There will be new characters, new worlds, new boost cards, new digimon, and more!
F::
New characters: Obvious.
New worlds: Probably.
New Boost Cards: I highly doubt it, even if the following info (Digimon: Force 3) is correct, I doubt this is a continuance of Tamers, and with the Cards being fairly limited to that world it's unlikely we'll see cards again., at least in the show.
New Digimon: Again this is a given, every season introduces some new Digimon.
... And More!: Well, they do need to make it fresh and new.
R:: He said that Digimon Force: 3 was supposed to be season 4, not season 5.
F:: No, This is completely false. Digimon: Force 3 is only a line of toys targeting American fans of the Power Rangers-like Season Four (Digimon Frontier) after it had premiered. There have been only rumors of Force 3 being the subtitle of Digimon Series 5, and noen of those even from Japan.
R:: It was because when the first episode reached Japan, no one liked it and he didn't have many producers helping him.
F:: Shows are not dubbed from English animators into Japanese and then dubbed from that into English. Very few shows even achieve being dubbed from English into Japanese, and most of those are cable or satellite programs, since Japanese Network Television is filled with plenty of native programs.
R:: But since season 4 became a big hit, more producers applied to help make Digimon Force: 3.
F:: It's not a matter of producers. It's a matter of whether TOEI liked it or not. If they were making it, it would be produced by animation studios/groups within TOEI.
R:: It's showing in Japan right now but I'm not sure of the channel. The company is currently translating the whole show to English and is not far right now.
F:: This contradicts the earlier statement that the show won't come until Summer. Even assuming Summer 2004 to be close to now, the show has not begun in Japan, or else RAW and Fansubbed episodes would be available online by now.
R:: The show is estimated to be about 124 episodes.
F:: For a Japanese animated series that's more than two full seasons -- in fact, it's Two seasons and half of a third, at the best. Many televised animations in Japan only get around half that many episodes or less over a season, only the most popular (and thus those divided among different animation teams) get a new episode every week for a full year.
Renafan Wrote:As we know, Digimon Force:3 is a toyline from Bandai but could this be true at all? What do you guys think...fact or horsecrap?
This is bigger crap than my brother churns out, and that's saying a lot. It's as reliable as my season five rumor, but at least I made the effort to avoid making any flaws in mine this obvious.