My 1 concern is it gets put on Nick, mostly cause nick seems to utterly hate 3rd party stuff. LIke NIck shows get what feel like a bajillion episodes a year. While for example the PR contract only allowed for 20+2 per fiscal year or w/e. 22 epiosdes with 2 being specials while their IPs get like 30+ easily per year.
While I dont think we have any clue what the Digimon fusion deal was the fact that 54 epiosdes took OVER 2 YEARS to be aired definitely makes it feel like they did a similar limitation.
EP 1- september 7, 2013
EP 30 (end of first arc) - June 15, 2014...
so 9 months for 30 episodes thats about right, roughly 36 weeks for 30 episodes not terrible. Especially when you look at the fact that they took 2 1 month breaks from Dec 22>Feb 17, and April 6>June 1
Part 2 didnt start until MARCH 2015, the first 11 episodes running 2 episodes a week with april 5 being 3 episodes.
Then 3 month break resuming july 5th (April 5-May 5, May5-june5, June5-july5). Again 2 episodes a week ending with the final episode on its own august 16th 2015...
So nearly 2 years to finish around 1 year worth of episodes. And they even waited until it was done airing to start airing episodes so its not like they had caught up to where japan was at any point in time and had to wait for a new batch or anything like that. I mean i can assume they did the first 15 episodes and used the first month and a half break to work on the tail end of the 2nd batch (16-24) I know dubbing isn't exactly easy, and the edits that went into fusion had to be done.
But yeah I tihnk the fact that Fusion took nearly 2 years to air 1 year worth we probably would of tacked on another year for Young hunters.
So yeah Seeing as they annoucned the dub feb 2022, and its not airing until Spring 2023... I would hope they have MOST of it done, otherwise what were they doing with their time for the past year? If they only have like 1/3 of it ready to go after a year that just feels like really bad time management. Since we can at least use Digimon con as a rough "Starting point" for the work obviously they had to dub the ep 1 clip before that, but seems odd to dub a teaser then wait months after you reveal said teaser to work on the series proper. SO I think using Digimon con as a rough starting point for the dub work is fair.
Again the big question is HOW will this be distributed.
Edit- i dont mind them breakign it into 3 release batches for digestablity and such. I just feel since we've known about it for over a year before we got a release window that they should have a good chunk of it ready to go.
3, 22 episode batches could make sense. Though i think if we had to do batches we'd probably all prefer like 1-34, 35-67 since i think 35 was blitzgrey so thatd be an ok point to leave off right before.
