Digimon Adventure tri. Part 1: Reunion

Years have passed. The children who once saved the digital world are in high school now; they went to different schools, drifted apart, and their partnership is in the past. The link with their digimon is broken too. Then a creature appears in the city; nobody knows what it is, the traffic stops and buildings come down. Taichi is caught in the crowd and thinks something for the first time: this fighting harms other people. The old friends come back one by one. But something is wrong in the digital world and those who return are not as they were. Keitaro Motonaga directs. The film is the first part of a six part continuation of the Digimon series. It is a Japanese production. The narrative is built as the sequel to the first television series and is written for people who watched it. The matter it treats is growing up; the solidarity that was easy as children is now hard work. The film takes the damage the fighting does to the city as a subject for the first time and opens heroism to question. The character designs were redrawn in a line different from the original series, and the change was argued over among viewers. The narrative opens slowly; the first part is largely spent gathering the characters. There are few fights and the large transformations the series is known for come late. Because it is the first part of a whole in six pieces, it does not close on its own. The ending finishes on a question. Its limit is independence; watched alone it is incomplete, the pace is slow, and a newcomer to the series cannot get in. Who it is for: people who grew up with Digimon and follow the series. Who it is not for: it is slow, it does not close, and the ending is open.