"Are more friends coming over? I'll make 3 bean salad." "Nobody's coming over, Mom." "That's alright, I only have 2 beans anyway."

Ash won the world championship after 25 years . Tai and Matt had to watch their Digi-partner fade into nothingness as their Digivice turned into stones . There's no just in this world .

What's even more sad that gets over looked is that Sora lost Biyomon long before Tai & Matt did. She was the first one to be an adult in the group and had to be because the group needed a mother figure.

I'm just glad that 02's ending still gets respected, they'll see each other and work together and live on

This movie was actually the reason why I didn't get upset over the reboot being so different. The Last Evolution was the ending of the digimon I knew. Digimon 2020 wasn't for me, and I was okay with that. If nothing else, even if everything were to go downhill from here, I still have my memories and the connections I made with the original digidestined from a long time ago.

That last Agumon line just hit me like a ton of bricks T_T

(Long ass comment) Digimon Adventure is a love letter to childhood. It’s a love letter from to how we as people grow up. I remember watching Digimon in the land of Mexico many years ago. I remember crying when Wizardmon died. When the chosen children left their partners. Related to Matt most of all. The main message of Kizuna is, to not forget your childhood. There’s always a special place for all the things you loved as a child. Sure things change, and that’s fine. But completely forgetting where you came from should not be one of them. Digimon Adventure tells the story of 8 kids. The relationship they have with themselves, their partners and their parents. And ultimately how they grew up. When the reboot was announced everyone was excited. What would it be like? Would the 02 cast make an appearance? What kind of plot will it have? The answers to these questions where, very mixed. I remember watching the reboot and tried to compare it to the original. I now realized that was a bad choice. The reboot wasn’t made for me anymore. It wasn’t made for fans of Digimon. It was made for new ones. So instead of bashing the reboot, I gave it the respect it should have. I love Digimon. I collect the cards, buy figures, cosplayed as some of the characters. Digimon is a franchise that I hope keeps going in the future. I hope new fans adore and cherish it the same way we have.

Damn, this movie broke me worse than I was able to imagine. I started watching Digimon Adventure when I was in elementary school, I used to watch it in the mornings before I had to leave for school. I greatly liked Pokémon too, but it never hooked me the same way Digimon did. Even to this day, as a 32 year old I have not let Digimon go. It'll always have that special place in my heart. And so, I was very much a wreck during the first few minutes of Kizuna, and it was, in addition to following my childhood characters, who very much felt like friends, again, hugely thanks to the soundtrack! Just hearing those familiar songs again meant so much. But, naturally it was the ending of the movie that really destroyed me once and for all. I cried with Taichi and Yamato, and spent a good while crying my eyes out even after the movie had ended. Digimon has destroyed me quite a few times over the years. And, funnily enough I'm grateful for it all. I'm just.. so thankful for the connection I got to form with the first three seasons of Digimon (those are the ones I hold really close to my heart) and all these characters.

I know I'm an outlier, but I love digimon TRI. They basically took the non canon Willis story, and made it better. They also gave us confirmed megas for the rest of the cast, and revealed the original digidestined in an awesome silent noir flashback. I know there are flaws, but they don't take away from the overall story.

The way this movie handled that lull we all feel when we move towards adulthood and responsibility is honestly not talked about enough. It masterfully covers that uncertainty through the 2 main heros, and honestly bought me to tears.

what makes digimon adventure better than pokemon is how the character grow and resonate with the audience how the narrative and genre change with each iteration to revolve around problems that the audience face during that time. their biggest strength is obviously nostalgia but unlike of just giving an endless fanservice nostalgia is actually being used as the plot and their true biggest strength is how it serve as metaphor as growing up to their viewers

kizuna last evolution is not the end btw. were getting an adventure 02 movie. also it confirmed that the ending of adventure 02 is still canon so they all eventually get their digimon back

I absolutely love your commentary. TK and Kari belong together!!!! I also longed for Sora and Tai to get together. But Digimon is known for their great character development so I think it mas more interesting to tell a story where the guy does not get the girl. I couldn’t help but relate to Tai. Having feelings that aren’t reciprocated is something many of us can relate to. He’s a champ for how he handled it all in Digimon Aventure 02

What I find so impressive about your video essays is that, as well as being well-written, they're beautiful aesthetic objects that stand alongside, and compliment the work you're discussing. If there were like, a Criterion release of any of the shows you discuss, your essays would make an excellent special feature.

Wow... just wow. Watching you editing this video many streams and finally watching as a cohesive finished "product" gave me a sense of closure somehow. When the harmonica started playing and the final part with Butterfly, even knowing what was coming, didn't matter, the goosebumps came in hard. Great video again, Sooin!

Thank you for your take on the movie! It really sparked up some feelings for me!

Great review! Really captures the essence I enjoyed so much about the original.

The Final Digivoltion is one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the franchise. IT HURTS!😭

The beeping at the beginning... It brought out the lost memories from long ago.. from back when I first discovered the digital world.

But in digimon adventure 02 in the end we saw them as adults and parents with their digimon partners didn't we??

R.I.P. wizardmon voice actor who also play O.G. Lord Zedd, you brought characters to life.

After the Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna, Digimon Adventure: 2020 was aired on April 5, 2020 until September 26, 2021 in Japan and Upcoming for a sequel to the Digimon Adventure 2020 Anime Series and 02 Characters Return!!!!

Glad I stumbled across this video, I had no idea this movie existed!

I refuse to believe that TK and Kari wont end together.

Nice video. Well edited and professionally presented. Personally I fundamentally disagree with nearly all of it. lol The themes in Last Evolution as well as the ending are pretty much identical to Tri. Main theme is still positive emotions beat negative ones, a carry over from the original series, and that ultimately Digimon leave and the kids have to become normal adults and 'move on' with their lives. The analogy is pretty severe misinterpretation of Puff the Magic Dragon. Instead of romanticizing imagination and creativity it is actively telling fans not to watch digimon anymore and get a job (assuming we didn't have one). Throughout the series the children are forced to not only face adult situations that forced them to grow up quickly, it also put the entire world in danger more than once. Yet these kids, which are basically child soldiers, don't get any recognition for it. No support whatsoever from the real world. All while another digital Kaiju battle is inevitable, and more children are 'drafted' into being digidestined. We're basically presented with this epic sprawling story and then told to forget about it, there are groceries to bag. Ignore all the people that make a living with their creativity, like artists, writers, directors, and so on. Imagination and creativity are strictly make believe and have no place in the real world. The main difference between Tri and Evolution was the former threw in a bunch of flashy fight scenes to cater to fan service, where as the latter is meant to be entirely introspective. It's the same message presented at different speeds. The message in the end is the same. It isn't a tribute or a homage to nostalgia. It's literally telling people who are still fans to quit and move on with their life, assuming we haven't been making a living all along. People get nostalgia mixed up with creativity and think it's a deep messsage when really they are just telling you to buzz off so they can focus on making kids shows.

I loved this review!!! Very, very much!

I watched tri and last evolution for the first time back to back and i think I enjoyed tri more but that could also just be the fact that tri had more time to give for other characters because of the nature of length. I think i would have enjoyed last evolution more if it kept the dark gennai story going still added in the adventure 02 team and let me see the ken vs fake digimon emperor faceoff.

TK and Kari could have been a relationship of all time.

The original ending with the kids and digimon together is canon. So the recent stuff means that after the tears the real happy endings already known.

you as a kid watching them as kids then you as an adult watching them becoming adult ending the anime just beautiful ....

Sora had to grow up. Faster than everyone else. Broke my heart

Nastalgia done right” the films a massive retcon to everything aventure and aventure 02 told us about how digimon work and evolve the entire plot relies on invalidating both seasons

As Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen used to say: "Nothing ever really ends, Adrian."

The end of your childhood and the beginning of your adulthood

This movie was something special to me. It came out around the time I was going through a lot of life changes and "growing up" . Digimon was my favorite show growing up so much I have the crest of friendship tattooed on me. To me this movie represented the exact struggle I was going through, the thought that growing up means forgetting things I care about, when that's not it at all. Sometimes things happen in which you have to move on. You shouldn't struggle to keep it going, you should enjoy the time you have, and when it's gone cherish the memories. It spoke to me about life, and about the loss of life. I haven't cried at a movie like that in a while. It was a core emotion. Not even one of pure sadness. It was understanding. Acceptance? I'm not sure. But it helped me clarify my feelings. It helped me to understand my own grieving at the time too. Leave it to digimon to still be teaching me 20 years later.

It's crazy to see all of them grown up now . And VA for Izzy is Kyle mom in South Park .

I was born in 2007 but my cousin showed me this show and ever since then i loved this show so much it bring me back to my childhood

I didn't really like Kizuna at all... I also don't really get the Tri hate (although the ending was kinda meh and Meiko is terrible). First: focusing on only 2 characters was like a slap in the face since the tv-series is an ensemble cast where you love every single character for different reasons. And Matt and Tai always gets the main spotlight anyway. The villain was terribly boring and uninteresting and while I LOVE angst and a more realistic/grown up worldview for characters that we had followed since they were kids, I only liked the more quiet scenes with the main characters. Too bad there were too few of those scenes and way more with the digimons which, honestly, are not really interesting at all and are also for some reason getting worse with every new season/film. And talking about keeping the original ending from 02... the ending for Kizuna literally made me feel nothing. Since we know the digimons are coming back if they are keeping the original ending?? I don't know, I just rolled my eyes at the crying, it felt more annoying than anything. I feel the loss of the very first season of adventure much harder, when they are leaving the digital world and not knowing if they will meet each other again. Even though I in hindsight know they will, but it was just so better crafted.

This is the same feeling as saying goodbye to my Dog. My Best Friend for 13 years. It tore me apart..but it needed to happen. Sadly.

Your editing and production has come a long way since the old Jtaku days. Also, gotta give LE a try now.

Amazing video

the thing that threw me off about this movie is that we saw the digidestined as adults and with kids interacting with their partner digimon

Beautiful video 🩷🩷

Digimon adventure will forever be one of the best teachers in life, that being said. I think for me personally tri still pretty good, what I loved about tri was that it was more about acceptance. Teaching us that sometimes things change (rebot) and we have to accept that change, no matter how dificult it may seem. As for this movie, I think it teaches us that letting go is okay. Things change all the time, and we cant stop the change we just have to keep moving forward. At least that's the msg I got from both Tri and last evolution. From adventure the OG ❤ it's the beginning that even as a kid, you still have ur struggles but you can still move forward.

Ah fuk... I got some dust in my eyes...alot of it.

A deserved and masterfully done DigiEnd to our DigiAdventure.

I am part of the crowd that wants to see a sequel to tamers. Season three was amazing.

Why is it that my two friends and I are the only people that I know that liked Tri? I think it was actually good, yes it missed the mark but it was still good and fun.

i mean the 02 ending still exists

Honestly, I disagree from title alone. I didn't like they went with the weird messaging of being older = less potential (i.e. no digimon). Makes it seem being older is bad or somehow limiting As the main fanbase of the original digimon show is at the older side now, it's basically saying "dude stop caring about this franchise" which is a very backwards-compliment Tri was good but it's main flaw from fully appreciating it was that despite having 6 films. Not much happens in progressing the plot of the films as a whole at least enough in the sense that you as the audience can feel it's moving at a good pace

Atleast they ate at Burger Queen before the End...

can't wait for 02 movie :)

I enjoyed the movie, but had tears in my eyes at the end.

it made me cry and i finally in march on the 8th or 9th, got AUGUMON and LILLYMON and TK signed posters from a convention I went too.

I just watched Kizuna and man was I not expecting the feelings like sheesh. I freaked out so many times during it. The last evolution scene, the realization of Sora loosing Biyomon during the final fight, as I saw her digivice looking stone-like I was like noooo no no no, the Willis cameo, and more. My gosh did the disappearance of Augumon and Gubumon hit so hard. Whyyy why is Digimon making me cry. I think I cried a bit during Tri’s ending too.

I don't even like digimon much but I love your editing and explanations of things lol

We got 2 great and 1 decent nostalgic anime movies in the span of 4-5 years. I can't be happier that I kept following the series. It truly feels like my dedication to the franchise payed off somehow! (If you wonder which movies I speak of, it's Digimon: Last Evolution Kizuna, Yu-Gi-Oh: Dark Side of Dimensions and the 3D remake of the first Pokemon Movie)

Ok, you convince me. I'm on my way yo watch the movie

oh wow this made me tear up

This felt like an AI digimon trying to start a new season.

Made me cry again

BRO I MAY BE 16 but hear me out i grew up with an old family so we had vhs adn i remeber watching digimon on those vhs especially the one when metal greymon and weregarurumon were fighting venommyotismon and their parents were there watching oh and i totally forgot that wizardmon sacrificed himself for i think kari but maybe it was for gatomon but i cant remember but yeah the bad cgi that was wargreymon and metalgarurumon's transfromation sorry what i mean to say is i grew up on this as my number 1 childhood show i was there from kinda the start to the very end

Yeah this movie send me straight into my feels❤

1:48 I have to admit all the call outs were great.

I loved tri

this movie was just so good for every reason (except the dub having a few different VA’s which is an understandable thing)

Tri started out well, but went down hill from like the 2nd section. I’m surprised Joe didn’t loose his digimon.

nope, it is clashing with original series, and they put something that isnt suppose to be around, definetley Nostalgia Done Wrong.

can anyone point me towards a full list digimon movies and tv seasons. I watched through tamers but havent seen anything else. I also heard they rebooted the original???

I honestly love tri!!! Everything 01 and 02 is my shit!!! heculesmon and izzy moment 😢😢

Idc Tai and Sora is canon for me

Ok so i get that people in the US dont really understant digimon and are mainly in because of nostalgia but to put it simple this last few movies were so bad that the director of the original series (who basically created the characters, story and lore ) said that this movies were garbage and he quit because he didnt want to be part of that crap

I really enjoyed Tri and own them all on blu-rey.

Tri is very messy, both in terms of visuals and general story telling. They are flawed, but I appreciate a lot of the concepts it was trying to go for. Just wish it had an actual sequel to conclude what it started setting up. Last Evolution Kizuna is very well executed movie, but I hate the "Digimon are Fairly God Parents" retcon and "you stop caring about Digimon as an adult" themes that it makes me appreciate Tri much more. Kizuna also just recycles so much from past Digimon stories that very little feels original, which isn't something I can say about even the worst of Digimon. The either way one of the best parts of both Kizuna and Tri is that they have decent English dubs didn't remove character development and depth like the awful dubs of Digimon Adventure, 02, and Fusion did. It's sucks how I always have to defend liking Daisuke, Mimi, etc. because they're completely different and actually good characters in the original scripts.

But this makes no sense because this movie goes against the whole ending of season 2 and for those who say this movie represents how people put away their childhood as adults, we don't all do that so why lose the digimon?

Devil's advocate and I'll use the dub names since you're using them. To me it felt that the TK/Kari ship felt like the remnants of the team that was pushed together to be shipped.

The ending of this, does not follow up with the epilogue from the end of season 2.

Everyone at the end of Adventure 02: Why didn't Tk and Kari end up together? best way they could have done that: let them be a couple in the beginning of tri, breakup und become friends again... and I'm sure, if Kizuna had more time, this would have been there way to go

Good review, fun seeing an English fan view on Digimon... But I grew up with Spanish Digimon and Matt x Sora felt like end game. Did English dub do something to make you think Tai x Sora was a thing?

about sora...her digimon already disappeared before the movie even started. you can see her digivice in the intro if I remember correctly

I honestly hated the end. Kizuna was the gut punch I didn't need.

How in the seven hells is Takeru and Hikari not a couple. Its literally been like 20 years.

Even though angelea anoconda is entirely unrelated i like how it's mow part of the cannon

Ima be honest. I didn't realize that digimon tri is hated by the community. I actually loved the reboot but I can only find reviews saying it's bad.

It's still milking by way of nostalgia. Every other group of digimon tamers after 02 had little to no staying power, which is why we're back at drawing from the same well of the first digimon group.

Nostalgia For Agumon and the other dude

Digimon is everything to me but I'm still salty it's been like 20 years and they still to make Takari official

I liked Tri, i just hated how the release worked. It should have been a season, rather than a few movies

I've said it to my non fan digimon friend and digimon fan friends. "Tri was them trying to reignite the series, Kizuna is a good bye telling us its okay to grow up." I found digimon when I was like 4 off pirated cds my parents bought for my sister from a old market in the 2000s, the SEA dub too. When 4 year old me saw them, I knew I wanted to create something like it someday. Eventually the SEA dub started playing on my country's public access and I just never let go, have books of scribbles and doodles that sadly my mom threw away (you know asian moms and their desires for doctors and not artists) I'm 23 now, in art school and learning the fundamentals of designs and how they apply to characters and world building, how to draw good illustrations, using references well, creating my own references with 3d programs. These things 4 year old me would have never considered when scribbling out greymon on a piece of paper. But I think despite everything, this franchise and the memories I've made with them will always linger in me as I create other thme would have never considered when scribbling out greymon on a piece of paper. But I think despite everything, this franchise and the memories I've made with them will always linger in me as I create other things into the world.

Why all the hate for adventure tri. It was good, not perfect, but good.

I still couldnt bringt myself to watch this move, too scared....

Anyone know the Digimon canon? Which series to watch in what order etc?

Oh hey Sooin, wonderful video as always :) I may be confused, but did you used to go to UC Davis? I recall ancient videos of you talking about that... but maybe I've just been forgetting things lately..

Well if you ignore the original ending in Digimon Adventures 2 that shows the main cast fates both the Digimon Tri, and this movie could be enjoyable, but for me it's more of a spin off series. Personaly I wasn't a big fan of Digmon tri anime, or Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna movie, since they unnecessary retcon such a good ending for every major character in original Digimon series. Ps. Digimon 2020 was a pretty good remake anime sure people did get mad when they show mega evolution so early, but newer fans never saw the orginal series, so this was probably done to encourage them to watch the older series.

Digimon :D

Great video. I also grew up watching the anime, but I found the movie quite underwhelming. Yet, I’m glad I got to hear why you enjoyed the movie. I also hope that the true pairings will become real. I hope they will learn from the error of their ways.

Last Kizuna is Fairly Oddparents! 😂

I actually enjoy Tri but last evolution is far superior

OUtside of Maeko, am I the only one who didnt completely hate Tri?

While riddled with flaws, I still really enjoy Tri. The smallest reason, but i think it has the best art style of the Adventure series. I also have a different sort of nostalgia for it than the original series. I watched the original as a kid and really liked digimon but I wasn't *into* it. I didn't watch the whole series or play the games or anything but i had toys and watched the movie a million times. I knew just enough to know I liked it. Then about two years ago I just happened to see a pic of the cast from Tri and thought "well thats neat they all grew up, but surely this is just fan art." But it wasn't, AND Tri was free on KZfaq in english. So I binged all 6 movies over a couple days. Since then I've been all about Digimon again. Watched the original and 02 on Hulu, watched Tri AGAIN and then finally Last Evolution. While Tri has many writing issues, many more on the second viewing when I know the preceding events, it was my gateway back into the characters I loved and that still give me the nostalgia butterflies to this day. I cried when Agumon and Gabumon passed, though I'm sure I'm not the only one 😅