Thread:KrytenKoro/@comment-35109290-20180716165043/@comment-35109290-20190730195530

(By the way, I asked the translator, who also translates the novels, if excerpts were all right to repost with credit and they told me "yes", so you might want to ask them or credit them somewhere for their translation as well.)

The 3rd Digimon Adventure novel had also finally been completed by them after many, many years and can be read in full here:

http://digitalscratch.pmsinfirm.org/4125

There is a ton of information from the 3rd novel that could be added to profiles too (backstory information, etc. as it pertains to the novels universe.) A good example is all the notes on the parents/families.

http://digitalscratch.pmsinfirm.org/7967

Here Koushiro's backstory information was finally revealed as well (to clarify on the issues I noted above at an earlier timeframe before this was translated):

Koushiro’s real father, who was a distant relative of Masami Izumi, was a university lecturer and genius mathematician. His wife, Koushiro’s real mother, was an assistant professor, but despite having such a promising future, they died in a car accident almost right after Koushiro was born. Around the same time, the boy that had been born to the Izumi couple had died young from illness. When asked if they could take Koushiro, it was Yoshie who had accepted first. “To us, you are our real son,” she said now. “We raised you as if you were our own.” “…Is that so.” “We were planning to tell you when you were a bit older.”

So that partially solves the mystery of when Koushiro's parents died in the Japanese version, technically (as this isn't stated directly in Adventure's Japanese version of episode 38 itself, only the novels, which are also a different continuity...). It also contained backstory info on Koushiro's biological mother, who was never described prior to this translation. Koushiro's 02 profile from the Memorial Book also states they were planning to tell them when he was "an adult", even though here it's described as "a bit older".

other interesting timeline notes: - in "Revenge of Diablomon", Daisuke's profile for that movie states he is "ABOUT" to "enter the new school year as a 6th grader", implying it takes place just around or before April, as the Japanese school year begins around April 1st. (I'm not sure if a specific timeline point was clarified for this movie otherwise?)

– Oikawa Yukio — 3 years ago — Around age 25 — In 7th grade (this header-like information, states Oikawa was "around age 25" at some point of the series when shown younger. "7th grade" was also mentioned for his design where he's still in Junior high school, it seems.)

- Sora's 02 profile described here states that, yes, she is 14 in 02, not 13, presumed to be during her first appearance around Spring 2002. Do what you will with that information due to her conflicting birthday issue.

I was wondering if eventually I could go around and add some of these profile descriptions to profile pages of characters who lack them (such as some of the family members), so hopefully it's ok. If I mess up adding a reference, please feel free to correct it, though it'd be nice if the information wasn't outright removed if so unless there was a reason for that.