Another dud month for Field Guide updates? I would think we'd get more than two Digimon.
Yeah, the latest poll (your favourite RB addition of 2021) and its description pretty much put a nail into more 2021 entries.
The last few months have been a bit 'meh', in terms of quantity mostly. Anime partner-Digimon aren't surprising additions, for them it's always a matter of 'when', not 'if'. This is different for a few old and obscure favourites, which inclusion might come as a legitimate surprise.
EDIT: Anyway, a little look at December's additions and what January could offer us:
December:
- Even though there were holidays, December wasn't skipped.
- 2 Anime-related Digimon (Tesla Jellymon and Symbare Angoramon), as predicted (Anime-related entries for protagonist Digimon).
- Sadly, no 'random' Profile-entries or others.
January:
- January has never been skipped.
- 2008-2017 almost always had weekly updates, mostly on fridays. So, 3-5 updates/entries a month.
- 2017 Changed to irregular updates mid-year, until December.
- 2018-2019 Changed to a regular pattern again, with an update once a month consisting of several entries (January added 8 entries in one go in 2018, and 4 in 2019).
- 2020 Was a lot more irregular again, with January adding 2 entries.
- 2021's Entries dealt with the anime (Komondomon) and the new Vital Bracelet Digimon (some of Pulsemon's evolutionary lines). No other 'random' Digimon.
- The 6th of January has been the earliest day for an entry, so there's no clear pattern of 'free' days.
All in all very hard to speculate what could happen. They could continue on this road: Focus on anime-related entries and a sporadic 'random' entry dealing with Profile-updates, or something different altogether. We probably won't know about a lot of products (thus, new Digimon) until the end of February (Digimon Con). So, probably no new Vital Bracelet Digimon for a while. January could be quite a 'dry' (ha) month, if this is the case. So, 2 new entries is my guess.