No, literally, he hacks into the Pentagon and directs a ballistic missile towards their home city. This is the part where it gets good.ĭiablomon manages to duplicate himself, and gives our heroes a 10-minute ultimatum to destroy him, or else he’ll drop a nuke on their arses. From that point on, things begin to look bleak, as his powerful abilities prove to be superior to everyone else, even the overpowered Wargreymon and Metalgarurumon, and he defeats them.
Agumon and Gabumon Digivolve to their respective Mega forms, Wargreymon and MetalGarurumon, and in spite of an initially successful battle against him, Infermon Digivolves into its most powerful form – Diablomon. After the latter two manage to find a computer within the confines of their rural town and connect with their partners Gabumon and Patamon, the four prepare to make one final standoff against Infermon. Thanks to the use of an emergency voicemail system though, Taichi manages to land two other Digidestined to their cause Yamato and TK. Infermon continues to glitch its way across Japan, causing a takedown of the country’s phone system, and overloads Taichi’s Internet connection with a massive email spam campaign.
This is a little movie about a quartet of kids who think they’ll beat a simple computer bug, but only in their dreams… Thus, Taichi/Agumon and Koushiro/Tentomon are left to take on the monster, but horribly lose after it involves to a spider-like creature named Infermon and incapacitates the two Digimon – even to the point of disrupting their Ultimate-level Digivolution process. Taichi attempts to gather the rest of the Digidestined, but to no avail Joe’s taking an exam for cram school, Mimi’s on vacation in Hawaii, Hikari’s at a friend’s birthday party, Yamato and TK are in Shimane visiting their grandparents, and Sora, still pissed off at him, ignores his calls. This prompts a visit from Gennai and their Digimon partners who rally to take down this menace. Not long after, the creature Digivolves into a Keramon, and proceeds to wreak havoc across the country, causing massive glitches within computer systems nationwide and causing discord amongst the populace. Alarmed, he rushes off to his friend Taichi’s house – currently in the middle of an ongoing feud with Sora over a birthday gift flunk – and warns him about the impending dangers posed by his new discovery. While surfing the Internet one day, Koushiro (Izzy) discovers a new breed of Digimon circulating around the Internet known as a Kuramon. I never got the time to look into it until around summer of 2016, just after I finished the 54-episode run of the original anime series, and today I’ll be revisiting all the components that made up this film.ħ months after the defeat of Apocalymon, the Digidestined have returned to their normal lives as kids in 21st-century Japan.
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Not too short, but that’s not to say that the film won’t provide any thrilling matchups as a result the film itself explores a completely different storyline unrelated to anything from TV series. Unlike those films though, which run for at least an hour, Bokura No War Game spans at least the length of two episodes of Digimon Adventure 40 minutes in total.
Arguably, my favorite section of that movie was the middle part, which was entirely ripped straight out of the original Japanese release, titled Bokura No War Game (“Our War Game” in English).ĭIGIMON ADVENTURE: BOKURA NO WAR GAME Something something evil computer virus, Cold War, girl problems, and Digimonĭigimon Adventure: Bokura No War Game was released on 4 March 2000, and was directed by Mamoru Hosoda, the principal animator at Toei Animation who would later go on to work with Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli the following year – unsurprisingly enough, the visuals in the film are largely reminiscent of the semi-grainy vibes present in the latter studio’s films – and would later direct Summer Wars in 2009, the alleged result of this Digimon film and its influence. The third part of that film… I don’t know, it’s something having to do with the characters from Digimon Adventure 02 trying to help out some kid get his destruction-crazy Digimon partner back from an infection or whatnot.
The second part saw them go up against a digital abomination hell-bent on causing drama on the Internet long before Twitter was a thing, and, of all things, a nuclear war. The first part of the movie focused on an origin story setting, behind how the main characters first came across Digimon. Apart from the abomination of an opening theme known as the Digi-Rap, the semi-confusing plot, and the corny jokes typical of dubbed anime at that time, what many people don’t seem to realize is that this was a conglomeration of not one, but three separate Digimon movies. 20 years ago, FOX Kids announced that they were going to be releasing a movie called Digimon: The Movie.