Three minutes of Digimon finally admitting the franchise has teeth. The tonal shift lands harder than a decade of lighter entries because it doesn't announce itself, just drops you into a world where these kids look genuinely afraid. This is a teaser that proves the game it's selling might actually matter.

Digimon Survive: Prologue Movie is a single-episode web release that serves as a prologue to the Digimon Survive video game, which was slated for a 2020 launch. The short premiered during a panel called "The Future of Digimon" at Anime Expo before Bandai Namco uploaded it to its official YouTube channels. It mixes adventure, fantasy and science fiction.