Anime/Manga Digimon New Series 2015 !

[ggctuk]

Tai looks a lot better in that picture, but that could just be down to the angle. As for Agumon... he somehow looks more cutesy than he did before.

 

[pkmin3033]

...what new design? He looks slightly thinner, and his head is slightly bigger. That's it. In some ways, I find that comforting though - the kids change, but the Digimon don't. Since they're packets of data, that'd make sense. The image of Tai looks a lot like the artwork from the movies now to my eyes...which works for me.

 

[JVS]

What may scare me the most are the new character's design. They look so strange and different comparing to their young selfs. Either way, I am so excited for this.

 

[Leviathan]

I don't know. Tai sorta looks like how he appeared in 02, imo, so I'm fine with that.

About the Augumon thing, though, what's sorta freaky is that that's the exact same pose from before;

Side by side comparison, anyone? Aside from a few odd tweaks here and there, he's (thankfully) essentially the same Digimon Adventure Augumon of yesteryear. I was afraid in case they were gonna go with a more Data Squad-ish design. Glad to have my fears allayed anyway.

 

[saifors]

woah agumon, you er... okay? I remember your size to be a bit more consistent throughout your body... instead of the huge head, tiny everything else. And I guess the fingers are also pretty big... hope this isn't the final design.
I don't have any problems with Tai though.

 

[Leviathan]

I suppose he seems like he lost a few pounds, yes. I can live with it as long as the overall animation is great.

 

[Arylett Charnoa]

Finally, a Digimon!

I'm indifferent to Agumon. I was to his first incarnation and I am to his current. In this style, he does look slightly more... cutesy and polished up, which is something I'm not too fond of. But I prefer the duller coloring as that yellow looked obnoxious before. So either way, eh. I personally am more excited for when he starts Digivolving into Greymon. Really want to see all that.

And Tai? I do agree he looks like he did in the movies, so it doesn't bother me either.

 

[Skip Class]

Thought I'd just chuck this up

Spoiler:

Although I disagree that he looks the same in the movie. Similar, I guess sort of, but it's definitely not the same:

1st Movie

2nd Movie

The character designers are certainly different with the original movie having Akiyoshi Hongo, Katsuhiro Nakatsuru, Hisashi Nakayama and Masahiro Aizawa with Kazuto Nakazawa taking on the Revenge of Diaboromon movie. The new character designer for DigiTri is Atsuya Uki who did the designs for Tsuritama. The new digimon designs look incredibly similar to the design of Tsuritama and more similar to it that in comparison to the old movies.

Spoiler:

 

[Meadow]

I wonder if Tai and the others will remember the events of Hunters, but I have a slight feeling that the writers are gonna ignore the fact that Hunters even happened.

Heck, it might even be possible that all of the old characters who returned at the end of Hunters could've been super-advanced DigiMemories or something along those lines.

 

[saifors]

So remember whe Sukamon was suddenly "Hey guys I'm gonna block the counter now so you have to do another 500000 clicks" Well looks like DemiDevimon wanted be cool and did the same adding over 700000 clicks needed for the next piece of info *sigh* Really Toei?

 

[Kenchiin]

I wonder if Tai and the others will remember the events of Hunters, but I have a slight feeling that the writers are gonna ignore the fact that Hunters even happened.

Heck, it might even be possible that all of the old characters who returned at the end of Hunters could've been super-advanced DigiMemories or something along those lines.

I hardly believe what happened on hunters can be considered canon for any of the Digimon spin-offs. They will just make as if it never happened (or not happened yet at least).

 

[Meadow]

I hardly believe what happened on hunters can be considered canon for any of the Digimon spin-offs. They will just make as if it never happened (or not happened yet at least).

True... it WAS weird how Tai acted like he was good friends Davis/Daisuke even though that was his 01 incarnation. For all we know, everyone could've been made out of data (or they could've just been DigiMemories).

In fact, I'm pretty sure Toei only made Hunters for the sole purpose of stalling for Saint Seiya Omega, because Xros Wars explicitly ended at episode 54.

 

[Skip Class]

Yeah I highly doubt they would remember and will probably forget about the whole hunters arc.
There's already so much going for Tri itself in terms of bringing the original digidestined back, a whole new story to be developed and the development of the characters themselves. I think having any knowledge of what happened in Hunters would be somewhat out of sync (and will be buried) with the rest of what's going to happen. To how they ended up in the end of 02 and "how to face problems when humans and digimon come together and show the union between humans and digimon.". The introduction and cameos of original characters from the other seasons felt pretty forced and chucked in for all the old time fans.


One thing that's kinda popped up recently in my mind that I'd like to know more about and to somewhat be shown in is the digidestined and the events that happened prior to Adventure.
It was said that their were 5 original digidestined before the eight that came in Adventure. Somewhat been intrigued by the whole theory/conspiracy that Frontier was actually a prequel to Adventure and Adventure 02. Of course, it may not be true, but I would love to see something a little more on the original 5. - Although a series or movie or something on it's own would probably suit it more I guess?

Just going to chuck these things up here which I found quite interesting on tumblr:

Digimon Adventure tri. — what we know so far
Since the new Digimon Adventure series was announced in August 2014, the internet has been buzzing with announcements, rumors, theories, and semi-official information. Sometimes it becomes difficult to separate fact from fiction or distinguish between official information and fan speculation, especially for people who are coming back to the fandom. There's a lot of misinformation going around the web, so I think some clarity is much needed at this point.

Here are the facts we know about the new Digimon series:

• The series will begin in Spring 2015 (a specific date or month has not been confirmed yet).
• The plot is 'a new story' - a continuation (not a reboot) of Digimon Adventure.
• The main characters are 8 original chosen children from the first series, who will meet at the beginning of the story.
• Yagami Taichi is a 17-year-old High School student.
• The series' name is デジモンアドベンチャーｔｒｉ. / Digimon Adventure tri. (pronounced 'torai' or 'try').
• Keitaro Montaga is the series director.
• Yuuko Kakihara will handle the series composition.
• Atsuya Uki is the character designer.
• The series will be a TV anime.
• 'tri.' represents the number 3, and 3 is an important keyword in the series.
• The story will take place 3 years after the previous adventure.
• The story will be more oriented towards adult audiences, specifically the people who watched Digimon Adventure 15 years ago but also to new viewers.
• A clue for the new series is hidden in the final story of Digimon Adventure 02.
• Some of the words in the final monologue are a main theme of the new series: how to face problems when humans and digimon come together and show the union between humans and digimon.

Information that has not been revealed or confirmed yet:

• The series premiere date (not even the month)
• The series length and number of episodes
• The timeslot and TV channel in which the series it will air
• The cast
• Episode names and screenwriters
• The music (including a new composer, since Takanori Arisawa died in 2005)
• An official synopsis
• If the 02 protagonists will appear or not (already confirmed)
• When the next eggs on the official website will hatch
• What will be announced when the eggs do hatch

Reliable sources of information are usually:

digimon-adventure.net
Digimon 15th Anniversary official twitter account
magazine scans, including those from V-Jump
officially released merchandising, such as the Blu-Ray Box
Everything else should be taken with a huge pinch of salt.

Meanwhile, don't forget to nade-nade so we get more official details! We're almost half-way there!

SOURCE: [x] (All the sources for what's been said have been linked)

Also more in depth speculation/ theories of what could happen for Tri which was a nice read:

Spoiler:

Here are some of my thoughts on some of the things we still don't know about Digimon Adventure tri. These are my personal theories and opinions, and there is nothing remotely official about any of this. It's just fun to speculate.

1. The meaning behind "tri."

Most likely, it's short for triangle.

On the one hand, it's a pun on the fact that it this the third series of Digimon Adventure. Similarly, 02 refers to the year in which the second series takes place — it is not an ordinal. Which is why it's completely wrong to call the other series "01" or "03". ETA: They probably also want to avoid any confusion with Tamers, which was known as "Digimon 3" in many markets.

On the other hand, it might be a clue about the plot. We've been told to pay attention to all the "threes" in the story. People have been speculating that we could be looking at some sort of "triple evolution" (like jogress evolution involving 3 characters), while others have brought up the idea that the series will focus on romantic triangles. Both theories create some interesting questions, but I feel that the former is much more likely.

2. Nade-nade

There are 2 batches of eggs left, which means we should get 2 sets of official announcements. Sora and Mimi's eggs should hatch in late January / early February. The final egg is Koushirou's, but we don't know when it would be put up on the website; most likely, it will hatch much closer to the premiere date.

Lots of people are expecting some sort of preview or trailer next, but I'm doubtful. To start with, with each egg we seem to get increasingly important announcements. If they release a full trailer with the penultimate eggs, how are they going to top that later? Personally, I find it more likely that we are getting the remaining silhouettes (including the digimon partners) plus the cast list and/or the premiere date. The trailer is still a possibility, of course, although I've read that anime trailers are usually released around a month before the start of a series. (Maybe someone who is more knowledgable about Japan can confirm this.)

With the final egg, the nade-nade thing will probably end. At that point, we will hopefully get a proper official website that includes official character profiles.

3. Premiere date, TV Channel, and timeslot

Nothing has been announced so far. Digimon Adventure and 02's former Fuji TV timeslot (Sundays, 9:00) is currently occupied by the final episodes of Dragonball Kai. We know tri will start in the Spring (so late April, at most), so in theory it could be replacing Dragonball Kai after it ends.

However, it's still unclear if Dragonball Kai will even finish in time. We could very well see tri. going to a different timeslot and/or channel. It would be a pity, since Fuji TV and its building play a prominent part in the Adventure canon (for example, Hiroaki, Yamato and Takeru's dad, works there).

4. Series length & Number of episodes

Considering that the previous series had 50+ episodes, and after all this hype, I admit that it would be disappointing if tri. was only 13 or 26 episodes. Still, and although no information has been released so far, we should all be prepared for the possibility of tri. being a single-arc short series. Honestly, it would not be surprised if it was conceived as a short 15th anniversary special rather than a full-blown, year-long epic like Adventure and 02. Either way, ideally tri becomes so successful that they'll give us a fourth series afterwards.

5. Genre

In his recent interview, producer Shuhei Arai said that they want tri. to appeal to grown-up fans. This, along with the updated character designs, the staff's résumé and the characters's ages, has lead some people to think tri. will be more of a "Slice of Life" anime, focusing on aspects like school life, relationships, and romance.

However, considering that the main purpose of Digimon anime has always been to sell merchandising, the idea that they will push aside the action-adventure and "digital monsters" aspect of the series seems far-fetched. While tri. might want to appeal to more sophisticated audiences, including western fans (let's not forget that anime for children is no longer as popular in the West as it was in the 90s) I doubt it will stop being a classic Digimon story. They want to cash in keep nostalgic adult fans, but they I don't think they'll alienate younger audiences completely.

6. The Cast

It seems very likely that most of the original cast will return. Over the years, the Adventure voice actors have reprised their roles in sporadic projects, such as the 2014 PSP game. Most recently, the Digimon Adventure Blu-ray Box (to be released on 03.03.2015) includes a brand new Drama CD that features the vast majority of the cast.

As it has been pointed out, the Drama CD has two notable absences: Toshiko Fujita (Taichi) and any of Takeru's voice actors. This means that either Taichi and Takeru will not appear in that story (strange, considering that Augumon and Patamon will) or that both characters might be getting new voice actors. Of course, no one knows if or how this will translate in tri. Personally, I'd love to see 14-year-old Takeru being voiced by Hirata Hiroaki, who plays Narrator/adult Takeru (and also appears in the CD Drama). As for Taichi, the creators might have decided that it was time for him to have a new (male) voice, even though Fujita's voice is very iconic. Time will tell.

7. The music

I'm sure everyone is expecting Kouji Wada, AiM, and Ayumi Miyazaki to sing a new Opening, Ending, and Insert Song (or a new version of the old ones). Considering that they performed on the event where Digimon Adventure tri. was annouced, I imagine that their participation in the new series is a strong possibility. AiM (Ai Maeda) is also Mimi's voice actor, so she seems the most likely candidate.

Another interesting question concerns the serie's instrumental score. Adventure's original soundtrack is an iconic part of the series. Sadly, the original composer, Takanori Arisawa, died in 2005. It seems unlikely that a new composer will be able to use Arisawa's songs, so we are probably looking at a brand new original soundtrack for tri.

8. The Year

Digimon Adventure tri. will take place 3 years after Digimon Adventure 02, which took place in 2002. Assuming they don't update the timeline, this means that the year is probably 2005.

The Chosen Children's school years are now:

Takeru and Hikari: 2nd Year of Middle School (8th grade)
Mimi and Koushirou: 1st Year of High School (10th grade)
Taichi, Yamato, and Sora: 2nd Year of High School (11th grade)
Jou: 3rd Year of High School (12th grade) - unlike what many people are saying, Jou is not a university student yet. His school uniform is different from the others because he most likely goes to a private school (like he did in 02).
According to the teaser, the story should start in the summer. In Japan, summer lasts from May to August. However, since the official key visual shows the characters wearing their school uniforms, we can assume that the story beings before the summer holidays, so probably somewhere between May and July 2005. This is also supported by Taichi's confirmed age — canonically, he is 16 on April 1st, 2005 (at the start of his 2nd year of High School) but apparently he has already turned 17 at the beginning of tri.

9. Daisuke, Miyako, Iori, and Ken

If and when the 02 protagonists appear, they will probably be reduced to background characters or even brief cameos. Athough 02 is not being retconned, the focus of Digimon Adventure tri. is on the original 8 chosen children. This explains why there have been zero mentions of Daisuke, Miyako, Iori, and Ken until now — and why it's unlikely that we will see any promotional materials of them.

Lots of people have questioned how tri is going to explain the absence of Daisuke & co without retconning 02. It's actually quite easy — they will simply come up with some plot point to explain why are no longer useful for the story, like they did to Taichi and the others in 02. My guess is that now that there are numerous Chosen Children around the world, they will portray the 8 original chosen as "special" in some way.

10. Digivices

In 02, Takeru and Hikari's digivices were upgraded to a D-3, which means that the 8 protagonists of tri have different digivice models among them. How will the series handle this situation? There are several possibilities:

Everyone's digivice stays the same (Takeru and Hikari will keep their D-3);
Taichi and the others' digivices are upgraded to D-3;
Takeru and Hikari's D-3 will revert back to their original digivices;
Everyone gets a brand new digivice.
I find the final scenario to be the most likely. First of all, every Digimon series ever made had its own unique digivice/iten. Obviously, a new digivice means more toys sold and consequently more money for Bandai (the new design might be similar to the original, if they want to appeal to Adventure nostalgia). On the other hand, a new digivice might be important for the plot, by introducing different properties and even new evolutions.

11. The Epilogue

Although the 02 Epilogue is unpopular among many Western Digimon fans, it appears that Digimon Adventure tri. will not only keep it canon but also make it a fundamental part of the story. This makes it unlikely that some aspects of it will be retconed, but it also doesn't mean that tri. will be a slave to the Epilogue or constantly refer to the distant future any more than Adventure or 02 did. The epilogue takes place in 2027, 22 years after tri. — that's a long time, enough to change pretty much every situation imaginable. There's virtually nothing they can do that will directly render the Epilogue uncanonical, apart from killing off a character (which, let's face it, was probably never going to happen in the first place).

My thoughts on how they might handle some of the implications of the Epilogue:

"Everyone has a digimon partner": This is true in 2027, but it doesn't mean that it happened at once. It seems clear from the series, the 4th Digimon Adventure film, and post-02 Drama CDs that it was a gradual process that took several years and was by no means completed by 2005. As we have seen, tri. is going to explore how this happened and the difficulties everyone faced to get to that point.
Future careers: The characters are middle and high school students. This means that while we might get some glimpses of why they chose their epilogue jobs, this doesn't mean that everyone has decided their future professions by 2005. For example, it's quite possible that Yamato is still pursuing a music career at this point in his life.
Relationships: Just because the characters ended up/did not end up together in the Epilogue, this doesn't mean that all romantic relationships are settled in tri. It's quite possible that they'll show Yamato and Sora break up (and getting back together), or have Takeru and Hikari date (and later break up) — this could actually make for interesting plot elements and a source of character development. That being said, it is very unlikely that they would retcon Sorato. For one, it would turn Sora and Yamato's future children a plot hole. Furthermore, not only was the relationship between Yamato and Sora treated as a fait accompli in post-02 stories (the 4th movie and the Drama CD Michi e no Armor Shinka), but it was conceived as an important conclusion to those two character's storylines. Hopefully we can avoid the tiring and pointless shipping wars in tri.

12. Ultimate levels for everyone not named Taichi or Yamato

Those leaked images probably mean that this is going to happen in tri., especially since those Ultimates were also featured in last year's PSP game (though of course, this pics could be a dream sequence for all that we know). The real question is wether we will get other evolutions, like the potential "triangle/triple evolution". The number and scale of evolutions will probably depend on the number of episodes.

13. Parallel worlds

It would be very interesting to see the characters visit the parallel worlds that are briefly seen and mentioned in 02, such as the infamous Dark World visited by Hikari and Takeru in The Call of Dagomon (Episode 2.13). Again, this would depend on the length and tone of Digimon Adventure tri. A slice of life 13 episode series would probably not have a lot of room to explore this.

14. New characters

This theory seems to be very popular online. Indeed, both Adventure and 02 included a new chosen child who joined the team later in the story (Hikari and Ken). Could we see a repetition of this pattern in Digimon Adventure tri.?

Some people have also pointed out that a new character would be needed if they wanted to divide the group into "triangles". Obviously, the current series has 8 protagonists, and 8 isn't a multiple of 3. Introducing a 9th character would allow for 3 groups of 3 and settle this problem nicely.

However, I don't completely agree with this theory. To start with, you can still have "triple fusions" without introducing new characters. For example, Taichi and Yamato's partners already fused in previous stories. You could take the other six characters and still have 2 different triple fusions, for example SoraxMimixHikari and KoushirouxJouxTakeru. They could also introduce a system where anyone could jogress with anyone, depending on what was necessary at a particular point. So in one episode you could have TaichixYamatoxSora, on the other TaichixKoushirouxMimi, and so on. On the other hand, if they want the original Adventure characters to shine (to the point where they are willing to push the former protagonists to the side) I don't think it would be very logical to introduce a new character who will steal a lot of precious screentime from them. It seems like a waste to spend time developing a new character and exploring how she adapts to such a tight-knit group, especially if that means less minutes with the characters people actually want to see. This sounds even more unlikely if tri. is only 13 or 26 episodes long. But who knows?

However, if they do introduce a new character, I hope it will be a girl in order to correct the gender imbalance in the Adventure team. If you count all the protagonists, that's 8 boys and 4 girls.

SOURCE: [x] [x]

Thoughts?

 

[Anti-Venom]

I am so freaking happy about this!
Childhood reactivated!

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

It's Spring 2015, it's obviously March. There's no need to mention the month when they mentioned cour =)

 

[Meadow]

One thing that's kinda popped up recently in my mind that I'd like to know more about and to somewhat be shown in is the digidestined and the events that happened prior to Adventure.
It was said that their were 5 original digidestined before the eight that came in Adventure. Somewhat been intrigued by the whole theory/conspiracy that Frontier was actually a prequel to Adventure and Adventure 02. Of course, it may not be true, but I would love to see something a little more on the original 5.

Oh. My. God. Why did I not think of this sooner?! That pretty much almost explains everything, and I also found it suspicious that the Digital World in Frontier felt as if it had just been created. Jeez, this is like The Legend of Zelda all over again. <_<

On the one hand, it's a pun on the fact that it this the third series of Digimon Adventure. Similarly, 02 refers to the year in which the second series takes place — it is not an ordinal. Which is why it's completely wrong to call the other series "01" or "03". ETA: They probably also want to avoid any confusion with Tamers, which was known as "Digimon 3" in many markets.

Ehehehehe... I must confess that I was always guilty of using "01" when referring to the first series and its incarnation of characters. I guess it's because I'm too lazy to type up "Adventure," haha.

As it has been pointed out, the Drama CD has two notable absences: Toshiko Fujita (Taichi) and any of Takeru's voice actors. This means that either Taichi and Takeru will not appear in that story (strange, considering that Augumon and Patamon will) or that both characters might be getting new voice actors. Of course, no one knows if or how this will translate in tri. Personally, I'd love to see 14-year-old Takeru being voiced by Hirata Hiroaki, who plays Narrator/adult Takeru (and also appears in the CD Drama). As for Taichi, the creators might have decided that it was time for him to have a new (male) voice, even though Fujita's voice is very iconic. Time will tell.

Aw, darn... I'm really gonna miss Taichi's old voice, but I guess he does have to grow up, after all.

7. The music

I'm sure everyone is expecting Kouji Wada, AiM, and Ayumi Miyazaki to sing a new Opening, Ending, and Insert Song (or a new version of the old ones). Considering that they performed on the event where Digimon Adventure tri. was annouced, I imagine that their participation in the new series is a strong possibility. AiM (Ai Maeda) is also Mimi's voice actor, so she seems the most likely candidate.

Another interesting question concerns the serie's instrumental score. Adventure's original soundtrack is an iconic part of the series. Sadly, the original composer, Takanori Arisawa, died in 2005. It seems unlikely that a new composer will be able to use Arisawa's songs, so we are probably looking at a brand new original soundtrack for tri.

It's really sad to hear that the original composer died.

I'm hoping that Yamashita Kousuke (the composer of Xros Wars) will be able to work on this series' OST.

9. Daisuke, Miyako, Iori, and Ken

If and when the 02 protagonists appear, they will probably be reduced to background characters or even brief cameos. Athough 02 is not being retconned, the focus of Digimon Adventure tri. is on the original 8 chosen children. This explains why there have been zero mentions of Daisuke, Miyako, Iori, and Ken until now — and why it's unlikely that we will see any promotional materials of them.

Lots of people have questioned how tri is going to explain the absence of Daisuke & co without retconning 02. It's actually quite easy — they will simply come up with some plot point to explain why are no longer useful for the story, like they did to Taichi and the others in 02. My guess is that now that there are numerous Chosen Children around the world, they will portray the 8 original chosen as "special" in some way.

Honestly, this is for the best. Taichi and the others were shafted too hard in 02, so I don't think the 02 characters deserve to leech off any more of their screentime. Then again, Takeru and Hikari noticeably received TOO much screentime, but I guess I shouldn't let that bother me. xD

Ultimate levels for everyone not named Taichi or Yamato

Ultimate? Oh... right. The dub (and English video games) completely screwed with my mind by turning Perfect into Ultimate and Ultimate into Mega... xD

I know I'm gonna get yelled at for this, but I really hope that the concept of DigiXrosing still exists somewhere in this series, even though that would be next to impossible. xD

 

[Skip Class]

It's Spring 2015, it's obviously March. There's no need to mention the month when they mentioned cour =)

Nah, most Spring anime is released in April. In the past few Spring seasons, they usually come out on the first or second week of April. Especially since this current season started in January, everything else will be ending in March (unless of course they just do a yolo and let it show at the end of march xD) .

Oh. My. God. Why did I not think of this sooner?! That pretty much almost explains everything, and I also found it suspicious that the Digital World in Frontier felt as if it had just been created. Jeez, this is like The Legend of Zelda all over again. <_<

I guess I also found it a bit weird that they were the only non-adventure season to use DigiDestined (even if there wasn't much of a difference between what a Tamer and what a DigiDestined was except their process in digivolution and the name itself).

I know I'm gonna get yelled at for this, but I really hope that the concept of DigiXrosing still exists somewhere in this series, even though that would be next to impossible. xD

I did like the concept of DigiXros, but it would be weird for DigiXros to be in this series without questioning why the other forms of digivolution like the DNA Charge, spirit form and the D-Power scans aren't. However, of the 4, being able to DigiXros seems the most... easiest (I guess?) to put into the Adventure Universe. But Adventure 02 already had DNA digivolution and they are pretty similar on it's on so I can't really see how it would work.

 

[Satoshi Ookami]

Nah, most Spring anime is released in April. In the past few Spring seasons, they usually come out on the first or second week of April. Especially since this current season started in January, everything else will be ending in March (unless of course they just do a yolo and let it show at the end of march xD) .

Most are. But considering this is Digimon and we can presume it will be more cour anime, I wouldn't be surprised if it started in March.
So to sum it up, last week of March or first week of April, I would guess.

 

[Meadow]

I did like the concept of DigiXros, but it would be weird for DigiXros to be in this series without questioning why the other forms of digivolution like the DNA Charge, spirit form and the D-Power scans aren't. However, of the 4, being able to DigiXros seems the most... easiest (I guess?) to put into the Adventure Universe. But Adventure 02 already had DNA digivolution and they are pretty similar on it's on so I can't really see how it would work.

Hmm... I can't remember from the top of my head, but has there ever been a triple (or higher) DNA Digivolution? Because if it's limited to two Digimon, then I think DigiXros might be a good way to combine three or more... that is, IF it happens. xD

 

[Skip Class]

Hmm... I can't remember from the top of my head, but has there ever been a triple (or higher) DNA Digivolution? Because if it's limited to two Digimon, then I think DigiXros might be a good way to combine three or more... that is, IF it happens. xD

As far as I know they've only done two.
I think the main difference between DigiXros and DNA digivolution, is that DigiXros literally takes certain and noticeable features of two/multiple digimon and merges them together.
Like for example:

Spoiler:

XrosUpArresterdramon (Dobermon) has Dobermon's bottom half and Arresterdramon's upper half and then being able to use Dobermon's speed with his legs.

Spoiler:

and XrosUpArresterdramon (Astamon) he obtains his Hellfire and Maverick Abilities.

DNA evolution on the other hand has features based off the two digimon, but are not always exact like a DigiXros

Imperialdramon Dragon Mode is probably the less noticeable out of them, but they take a new form which DigiXros doesn't do, and that's what I liked most about DNA digivolution in comparison. I liked DigiXros, but Arresterdramon has some pretty weird looking XrosUps xD

Im just curious to see if they'll include some new form of digivolution in general.