{"id":1624,"date":"2007-08-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/20\/ask-john-will-digimon-ever-reach-american-dvd\/"},"modified":"2007-08-20T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T14:00:00","slug":"ask-john-will-digimon-ever-reach-american-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-will-digimon-ever-reach-american-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Will Digimon Ever Reach American DVD?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nTaking any possible factor into account, is there any chance at all that the Digimon series, even dub-only, will ever see the light of day in the R1 market, or is it really just a pipe dream at this point?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\nThis one is difficult to predict.  If this question had been submitted a few weeks ago I would have said, &#8220;No.&#8221;  However, right now the answer isn&#8217;t quite as obvious.<\/p>\n<p>Toei Animation has recently made some public inquiries about digitally distributing a number of its anime titles in America, including Digimon.  If there&#8217;s enough interest in that prospect, Toei may decide to go further and even attempt DVD releases.<\/p>\n<p>Presently there&#8217;s really no sign of an American DVD release for Digimon and no reason to expect a future release. But considering that the Toon Disney has licensed &#8220;Digimon Data Squad&#8221; (Digimon Savers) for American television broadcast, proving that there&#8217;s still some interest in the franchise among American viewers, and the fact that Toei is still eager to distribute its anime franchises in America, the possibility of a future Digimon DVD release in America isn&#8217;t zero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Taking any possible factor into account, is there any chance at all that the Digimon series, even dub-only, will ever see the light of day in the R1 market, or is it really just a pipe dream at this point?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}