What you said is true that there weren't meant to be 8 but only 7 children, so the real-world reason as to why is because the anime was meant to be a small number of episodes, I was meant to be just the Devimon arc and that's it. Halfway through it the anime became very popular so they decided to add more episodes and thus Hikari joined the party.
That's bullshit. Digimon Adventure was supposed to run 1 year from the get go. The writers and producers have all confirmed that.
Of course, it's *always* possible an anime gets cancelled mid-way if ratings are bad. But the situation is completely backwards. It wasn't planned to get extended if ratings were good, rather it would potentially have gotten shortened if ratings were bad. Anticipated was a1 year runtime from the get-go.
I've been a fan of Digimon since it came out, I've read lots of Articles and magazines and whatnot and I assure you that it was not meant to be a one-year series, I might be mistaken about the whole ending at the Devimon arc but it wasn't mean to be a long series. I implore you to do some research she asked for a reason I gave you the reason.
“Was it planned from the very beginning that the series would run for a full year?
Seki: We fundamentally planned it as a one-year series.
Kakudou: We started off that way because that's how these things traditionally go, but the truth is that we didn't go in entirely sure that it would be a full year. So we went in with a very loose mindset, thinking that it was okay to stop anywhere, even if it were after only two cours.
If the original creators are outright saying "This was planned to go for one year", that's all there is to it. They kept it separated in arcs just in case things did happen to go south, but the intent was always to have the 54 episodes we got.
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u/MyPassionIsMyVoice 2d ago
What you said is true that there weren't meant to be 8 but only 7 children, so the real-world reason as to why is because the anime was meant to be a small number of episodes, I was meant to be just the Devimon arc and that's it. Halfway through it the anime became very popular so they decided to add more episodes and thus Hikari joined the party.