Hiya, everyone!! I was able to get a ticket to watch the online streaming of DigiFes 2022! The evening event had the whole Frontier Cast reading a new audio drama together, which takes place about 2 years after the series ends. Here are the details of what happens in the drama (whatever I understood, anyway! Please excuse any translation errors; my Japanese is still a work in progress):

Tagging @citrus-cactus, and anyone else who’d like to read this! I’ll write about the talk event in a separate post later on!

• After becoming a middle schooler, Takuya gets an email telling him to come to that elevator area in Shibuya at 17:45…but when he goes, that mysterious elevator isn’t there
• Izumi and Tomoki appear, and Takuya assumes they sent the mail to prank him, but it turns out they also got the same email
• Junpei and Kouji also show up, with the latter seemingly enjoying teasing Takuya once or twice
• Izumi’s kouhai gave her a stomach band (haramaki) as an elementary school graduation present (Junpei sounds jealous)
• Tomoki is now the same age as “Takuya-oniichan” when they had the original adventure
• Junpei and Kouji didn’t send the email either, so Takuya assumes it’s Kouichi, and states he may have come into contact with some dark and corrupt file or organisation and they may have to fight said organisation (Izumi thinks he may just be planning a surprise party or something)
• But nobody believes him, not even Tomoki LMAO
• Kouji spills some TEA: apparently Kouichi went out for tea…WITH A GIRL
• Btw, the twins canonically attend the same middle school
• So the girl wanted to confess to Kouichi, BUT SHE CONFESSED TO KOUJI BY ACCIDENT
• He told Kouichi about it, but he apparently made a promise on his behalf to meet with her later
• Kouichi suddenly appears and is like “Kouji, what the HELL did you do????”
• Apparently Kouichi wanted to turn the girl down, but couldn’t, and somehow ended up meeting the girl’s PARENTS (comparing it to an arranged marriage meeting or something like that), because Kouji seemed to have made some pretty grand promises to the girl about “our future” (I didn’t fully catch what they said in this bit, sorry!)
• The twins collectively share one (1) braincell, and apparently the twin with permanent custody is NOT Kouji
• But they seem to have gotten used to being brothers - they get into a MASSIVE argument about the miscommunication involving the confession
• “KOUICHIIIIII!!!” “KOUJIIIIIII!!”
• Tomoki: “Twins…they’re really something, aren’t they?” (He used the word 大変 which refers to then situation being unfortunate)
• Back to the mysterious email, the gang wonders who sent it, as the culprit could only be someone who knows about their adventure. Tomoki speculates about it being Katsuharu or one of the others from his group, but they don’t have the gang’s emails
• Junpei comes to the conclusion that one of the gang is therefore lying: hence, the reveal of “Detective Junpei Shibayama”
• Izumi: “when the heck did you become a detective”
• “Detective Junpei Shibayama’s Case Files: Season 3, will now begin!”
• Kouji: “Season 3?” Kouichi: “When was this series even confirmed?”
• Junpei labels everyone as a suspect, and accuses the twins of being the culprits behind the email, because they could have alibis for each other, and there is a history of the twins impersonating each other, and therefore they used the girl’s confession to their advantage (and presumably sent the email from her phone? Idk, I couldn’t keep up with the technical details of Junpei’s “evidence”)
• Junpei accuses the twins of currently impersonating each other, and they’re the culprits
• Kouji: “Nope, you’re wrong” Kouichi: “Our faces are the same, but our voices are very different - shouldn’t you know that much?”
• Everyone else starts getting into Detective Mode from then on, starting with Takuya, who suspects Izumi due to something about the haramaki from earlier (didn’t catch the explanation)
• But absolutely nobody even takes his accusation seriously
• The twins: 😑😑
• Next is Tomoki’s investigation- his suspect is Junpei, because the culprit needs electricity to manipulate radio waves and send the email, and the only one who could do that is Blitzmon, Junpei’s spirit
• Junpei: “My spirit isn’t that of electricity, it’s thunder” Tomoki: “Oh yeah” Junpei: “Don’t ‘oh yeah’ me!”
• Izumi gives it a shot: her suspect is Tomoki
• Tomoki, very straightforwardly: “Nope” Izumi: *goes on anyway*
• Izumi: “The reason is that Tomoki is shy and embarrassed!” Tomoki: “I have never been embarrassed”
• Izumi: “ The mail is anonymous, meaning the sender didn’t want to be known. Why would that be? Well, Tomoki wanted to see us and missed us all so bad, but he was too shy to say so. So he sent this email to have us gather together!”
• A couple of them are convinced, with Kouichi saying that this is the closest thing to the truth so far
• Everyone starts arguing about it, but Kouji jumps right in and accuses Takuya of being the culprit (unsurprisingly)
• But since Takuya only recently got a cellphone of his own, he states that he has no idea how to send an email like that
• Junpei: *attempts to bribe the culprit into revealing themselves using chocolate* (some detective you are)
• Takuya: *yells at the culprit to reveal themselves, because it’s getting late and everyone’s tired*
• No culprit is revealed, and Takuya is MISERABLE
• Izumi: “But…I had fun. Seeing everyone’s faces after so long, having conversations with everyone…I feel good.”
• Everyone agrees, and decides to go out and eat soba
• They go to the restaurant, and everyone’s phones notify them of another email - and then the phones start glowing like they did when they turned into Digivices last time
• Takuya: *laughs* “So that’s what it is…the culprits are you guys, right? Agnimon…”
• Everyone’s respective spirits send them a message, checking in on them after so long (In order: Agnimon, Wolfmon, Fairymon, Chakmon, Blitzmon, Löwemon)

THE END