Digimon Adventure (film)

Anime movie
title	Digimon Adventure
Original title	デ ジ モ ン ア ド ベ ン チ ャ ー
transcription	Dejimon Adobenchā
Country of production	Japan
original language	Japanese
Publishing year	1999
Studio	Toei animation
length	20 minutes
Rod
Director	Mamoru Hosoda
script	Reiko Yoshida
music	Takanori Arisawa
synchronization

Digimon Adventure ( Jap. デジモンアドベンチャー, Dejimon Adobenchā ) is an anime - film from 1999. It is the first of nine films for Digimon - Franchise belong or to the first film to the same first Digimon series . It is considered the prologue of the plot around the anime series Digimon and its successor in terms of content. The animation studio Tōei Animation produced the film.

action

Set in 1995, four years before the first series, the film draws on the incidents in Hikarigaoka (West End District), a district in Tokyo's Nerima district, where the chosen ones (Digiritter) meet Digimon for the first time . It all starts when four-year-old Hikari Yagami (Kari) discovers one night how a Digiei appears on her parents' computer. When the seven-year-old Taichi Yagami (Tai), Hikari's big brother, also appears, the egg comes out of the screen. The siblings decide to keep the egg. The following morning a botamon hatches out of the egg. At first it is completely shy and hides under the children's bed. After Hikari feeds the little Digimon, it develops (digests) into Koromon. In the middle of the night Taichi is woken up by his sister. Something seems to be wrong with Koromon. It begins to grow again and transforms into a relatively oversized agumon. Agumon jumps through the window of the children's room with Hikari on his shoulders. Taichi immediately sets off to find his little sister. The reptilian digimon causes uncontrolled damage in Hikarigaoko, while Hikari watches nervously as Agumon attacks everything around him. Suddenly a huge Digiei appears in the sky from which a parrotmon hatches. The bird digimon immediately attacks Agumon and Hikari. Taichi finds the two at the scene. Agumon, which both siblings refer to as "Koromon" throughout the film, develops one more time. It becomes a greymon. Taichi and Hikari watch the fight between the two Digimon together. Unfortunately, the dinosaur digimon seems to be the loser and goes down. But with the help of Hikari's whistle, Taichi manages to rouse Greymon again. The dinosaur digimon starts an all-important attack against the enemy and can ultimately decide the battle for himself. After the fight at dawn, the two colossi disappeared without a trace. Desperate, Hikari calls for her boyfriend, but he doesn't come back.

Publications

Together with the two anime films Yu-Gi-Oh! (not to be confused with the Yu-Gi-Oh! The film released in Germany ) and Dr. Slump - Arale no Bikkuri Bān , Digimon Adventure hit Japanese cinemas on March 6, 1999 as part of the Tōei Spring Anime Fair 99 . One day before the series premiered under the same title. The Tōei Spring Anime Fair 99 grossed about 650 million yen .

Digimon Adventure was released in Japan on August 6, 1999 as a rental version (code: VRTM-02362) for 5670 yen , and as a retail version (code: VCTM-02362) for 2940 yen on VHS cassette on December 10, 1999. The DVD edition was released together with the second Digimon film, Digimon Adventure: Bokura no War Game! Released on a disc on October 13, 2000 as a rental medium (code: DRTD-02003) for 8400 yen, and on January 21, 2001 as a commercial medium (code: DSTD-02003) for 4725 yen. As bonus material on the DVD there is an interview with the director Mamoru Hosoda , a look behind the scenes, trailers and commercials .

The film was made together with the two subsequent Digimon films Digimon Adventure: Bokura no War Game! and Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Jōriku !! & Chōzetsu Shinka !! Ōgon no Digimental edited by the former US dubbing studio Saban Entertainment . The resulting film, which was distributed outside of Asia by 20th Century Fox and Fox Kids , was called Digimon: The Movie . This compilation was released in North American cinemas on October 6, 2000. To the displeasure of the die-hard German-speaking fans of the franchise , the cut version was subsequently translated into German, dubbed, and released in German cinemas on March 8, 2001, and in cinemas in the German-speaking region of Switzerland on April 12, 2001 , under the title Digimon - The Movie .

synchronization

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū )
Taichi Yagami	Toshiko Fujita
Hikari Yagami	Kae Araki
Koromon	Chika Sakamoto
Susumu Yagami	Susumu Chiba
Yūko Yagami	Yūko Mizutani
Neko no Miiko	Yumi Toma

music

In Digimon Adventure only the Boléro is playing as background music .

For the end credits of the film, an approximately 30-second “Theater Size” version of the opening credits for the first Digimon series Butter-Fly by Kōji Wada was used.

Notes and individual references

1. ↑ biglobe.ne.jp/~MINEO/kougyou (Japanese).
2. ↑ ob.aitai.ne.jp/~nitoro (Japanese).
3. ↑ ob.aitai.ne.jp/~nitoro (Japanese).
4. ↑ ob.aitai.ne.jp/~nitoro (Japanese).
5. ↑ ob.aitai.ne.jp/~nitoro (Japanese).
6. ↑ cdjapan.co.jp (English).
7. ↑ neowing.co.jp (Japanese).
8. ↑ SAZUMA.com (English).
9. ↑ Anime News Network entry on Digimon: The Movie .
10. ↑ PosterDB.de
11. ↑ KulturInfo.ch

Web links

• Digimon Adventure (film) in the Japanese Movie Database (Japanese).
• Anime News Network for Digimon Adventure (film) (English).
• Digimon Adventure in the Internet Movie Database (English)