Digimon Adventure Tri Review

Although it brought many Digimon fans pain and heartbreak, Digimon Adventure Tri is in equal parts inspiring and motivational as well as humorous at times. It manages to combine anime films like Your Name and Wolf Children with action-packed essences of such anime like Naruto. I haven't watched the first film yet, but I'm glad I moved onto the second one, which saw the Digimon exploring Japanese culture such as onsens and school festivals. The onsen scene in the film will make you want to lie back in the warm water with the Digimon and worship cat statues now and again, although in my opinion, it really can hurt to try to throw ninja stars at a platform. Mimi, Sora, Kari and Meiko dressing up for the school festival is totally out of place in my opinion.

The next film, Confession, sees the Digimon quarantine from a deadly infection, until Patamon gets infected. While many fans of the character may be upset to find him suffering alongside all his other friends, it doesn't help when Tentomon along with all the other Digimon go into reboot mode to save themselves and stop Meicoomon from being infected. Just by watching this, happy memories of watching Digimon on Fox Kids during youth spring into mind, even at the ending cliffhanger when the Digimon return to their partners with no memory of who they are.

Loss begins with a flashback to the first two Digidestined and their Digimon, which can tug at your heart as they lose their Digimon and one of them says something about water, which will remind you of the bit in the trailer for Tarzan where Kala tells Tarzan to look inside his heart, with gentle splashes of water inserted in the background. As the film progresses, we see the Digidestined exploring the Digital World with their amnesiac Digimon partners in tow, hoping to find out why Meicoomon is losing sight of Meiko. Even seeing my new favourite Digimon in the show, Gatomon, lose all her memories and revert back to her In Training form, makes me sad inside. Luckily, my mum told me she was just an actress with multiple different actors playing her forms, so everything is okay.

Coexistence is really boring, and I almost looked away from it. The spooky story scene, with the characters expressing themselves through hilarious faces and anime effects, is enough to get a laugh out of its teenage audience, as the Digidestined have grown up with their viewers and been through what they have been through - heartbreak, danger and tears. Their Digimon may have been through it too. The Digimon Adventure Tri series relies on sadness and tragedy to give viewers a different look at their favourite anime series, which rivalled Pokemon the moment it premiered on Fox Kids in 1999. Those who have grown up with the show will realise that the newest incarnations of Digimon aren't aimed for kids at all, with alcoholic references, more violence and a little blood, but due to the PG rating it was given in the UK, parents may want to watch it with kids after checking. If it's not for kids, well...DIIBS!

Finally, there's Our Future, where Meicoomon spirals out of control and turns into a huge menacing Digimon with suggestive cleavage and destructive behaviour, which turns all of Japan into a darkness-fuelled hellhole which only the Digimon must stop. Meanwhile, throughout all six movies, Kari is experiencing visions and nightmares that might suggest what her future might hold for her and my babe Gatomon. This is revealed when she has a mysterious dream where another of my favourite Digimon, Wizardmon, leads her into a white void where a tamed Meicoomon returns to her via memories of her playing with Meiko, and Gatomon suddenly turns into an angel to remind Kari of what she must do to save the world and her Digimon friends. Go Gatomon...*sniff*

Anyway, towards the end of the film our favourite group of Digimon get their memories back in the same white void, including Agumon, a faithful friend to Tai, the leader of the Digidestined who knows it really is Tai when he sees him. The ending, set at Christmas and conveying Agumon's friendship with Tai, can send any person sobbing into oblivion and can remind one of the upsetting tearjerker of an ending of Digimon: Last Evolution Kizuna, where Gabumon and Agumon leave their partners Tai and Matt behind after a countdown timer counts down the minutes until it's time for them to leave due to their partners growing up.

Even if you listen to the final version of Koji Wada's 'Butter-Fly', it'll break your heart into a million pieces to see the Digimon you know and love become socialised. By watching it, it just hit me: Digimon has turned from a cool and awesome cartoon to a typical anime drama. The cel-shaded CGI used in the Digivolving sequences throughout the movie are slowed paced and showcase the Digimon's cocooned transformations into their ultimate forms in a neo-techno way. Each movie has a different ending. For example, chapter 3 has an ending where the Digidestined turn into the Digimon having fun on the streets, while chapter 4 sees a cartoony bus carrying the Digimon and Digidestined home.

Now, let's all pray for Gatomon. Let's hope she survived these cinematic painshows, and now she's going to survive forthcoming Digimon Adventure. She survived Last Evolution Kizuna, she survived Adventure:, she survived 02: The Beginning.

She will survive for real life...won't she?