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Crunchyroll Streams 'Digimon Adventure:' Reboot Anime
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anime on Saturday at 10:30 p.m. EDT in North America, Central America, the Carribean, South America, Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, the Commonwealth of Independent States, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Launch times will vary by language.
The anime will premiere in Japan on Sunday.
The new anime will take place in 2020 and will feature an all-new story centering on Taichi Yagami when he is in his fifth year in elementary school. His partner is Agumon. The story begins in Tokyo when a large-scale network malfunction occurs. Taichi is preparing for his weekend summer camping trip when the incident happens. Taichi's mother and his younger sister Hikari get stuck on a train that won't stop moving, and Taichi heads to Shibuya in order to help them. However, on his way there, he encounters a strange phenomenon and sweeps him up into the Digital World along with the other DigiDestined.
Hiroyuki Sakurada are the producers.
A new trading card game for the franchise will also launch this spring.
The first Digimon Adventure: television anime series premiered in 1999, and the Digimon Adventure 02 television anime series (pictured at left) then aired in 2000-2001.
The first film in the six-part Shout! Factory released all the films on home video.
The postponed its screening. The film features Taichi as a university student.
Source: Crunchyroll
