Due to yesterday tweet, I decided to do this small thread. About Adventure and Tamers, "the connections that were intended by the main staff team".
By reading the timeline of "Digimon Tamers" written by Konaka, the main writer of Tamers and the one who main developed the world of Tamers, one of the various details in that timeline is the inclusion that "Adventure" and "02" were TV shows in the world of Tamers.
In the early planning of the series, Konaka said that even with Tamers not having direct connections to Adventure, 02 or V-Tamer the characters of the two seasons are seen as "heroes" from the point of view of Tamers characters, and maybe they could appear in the future.
As said in a interview of Tamers' BD-Box (Translated by @kazakazarinn) that was a part of Tamers' setting that was a bit hard to express since they wanted to reveal that without saying directly. So the references would be something that someone could imply just by seeing the show
The most clear evidence would be Takato having a Agumon toy in his room. Other evidence could include Takato using goggles, making more references to Digimon that appeared in the TV Show and so on.
Some other connections in the Anime were even less specific about it and more abstract. For example, Konaka says that in some way, Leomon is responsible for a meta connection with the worldview (世界観) of Digimon Adventure.
Other connection could be seen with the D-Reaper and the mystery of how its program evolved so quickly. One of the in-universe theories is that the D-Reaper connected with another world, and Konaka said that "isn't really wrong to theorize that the world was like the Dark Ocean".
Other connection occurred in the game "Digimon Medley" (Translated by @Envy_Plays ) when Takato's soul was sent to the Digital World that ended up showing to him the events of Digimon Adventure and 02.
According to Konaka, the game was made with the original plan of Digimon Tamers, so maybe this was made before the decision to make the connection of Tamers and Adventure only subtle was made.
Other products also tried to be more clear about the connection. The manhua adaptation of "Digimon Tamers" included Takato making a direct reference to "Takato saw Taichi in the TV" when Guilmon evolved into Megidramon comparing this to Agumon evolving into SkullGreymon.
A less clear reference to that occured in Digimon Xros Wars, when Takato seems very happy to see Taichi and Daisuke together.
But the clearest time that this happened was in "Digimon Adventure (PSP)". It started more subtle with Takato simply saying that they share the name of someone famous in their world, and Guilmon making reference to the Agumon toy.
However, in the truth Takato really know who Taichi and Agumon are, making reference of how "Digimon" is a famous product in his home world.
In the end, Takato was happy to be close to someone that he admired so much.
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