Brief Summary
This video is a retrospective on Digimon Adventure tri, released in six parts starting in 2015. The video discusses the initial excitement surrounding the series, its impact on the Digimon franchise, and personal experiences of the video creator and fans. Despite its flaws, Digimon Adventure tri is credited with reigniting interest in Digimon, leading to new games, trading cards, and anime series.
- The release of Digimon Adventure tri reignited the Digimon franchise and brought it back into the pop culture spotlight.
- The series had a significant personal impact on the creator and many fans, evoking nostalgia and shared viewing experiences.
- Despite criticisms, Digimon Adventure tri is credited with paving the way for subsequent Digimon projects like Kizuna and Adventure 2020.
The video begins by recalling the excitement surrounding the release of Digimon Adventure tri in November 2015, a continuation of the original Digimon Adventure series. The return of familiar characters like Taichi and Sora, now older and more stylized, generated significant anticipation. The updated rendition of "Butterfly" symbolized the maturity and modernization of the series, appealing to fans who had grown up with the original.
The video creator shares a personal anecdote about experiencing Digimon Adventure tri during university. The shared excitement with roommates, all of whom were closet Digimon fans, created memorable viewing parties. The series allowed the creator to relate to the characters' adolescent anxieties and joys, creating a unique connection.
The video creator recounts watching Digimon Adventure tri Movie Six in a Japanese theater during a graduation trip to Tokyo. Despite language barriers and plot complexities, the experience was incredibly cool. The creator reflects on how the experience would have blown the mind of their younger self who watched the original Digimon movie in 2000.
The video acknowledges the flaws of Digimon Adventure tri, including unresolved plot points and the challenges of releasing the series in six parts over three years. The extended release schedule led to viewer burnout and frustration, diminishing the initial excitement. The creator notes that the magical viewing parties waned by movie four.
Despite its flaws, Digimon Adventure tri is credited with reigniting the Digimon franchise. The series' success led to increased ticket sales, merchandise, and international hype, signaling to IP holders that there was still significant interest in Digimon. This resurgence paved the way for new games, trading cards, and anime series like Last Evolution Kizuna and Digimon Adventure 2020.
The video emphasizes that the appeal of Digimon lies not in its perfect plots or scripts, but in its human characters, their bonds with their Digimon, and the personal memories attached to the series. The creator shares personal anecdotes about Digimon Adventure 02 and Digimon Adventure tri, highlighting the unique experiences and connections formed with each series.
The video includes comments from viewers who share their thoughts on Digimon Adventure tri, highlighting its slice-of-life elements, character development, and impact on the franchise. The creator concludes by reiterating their inability to hate on Digimon Adventure tri, emphasizing its positive contributions to the Digimon world.
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0:00 five years ago this week on november 21st 2015 the story of taichi yamado sora and the rest of the original digidestine continued with the release of digimon adventure try part 1 reunion the first of a six part movie series or a 26 episode television series the anticipation and arrival of try was magical this franchise and these characters that had sat dormant in the back of so many of our minds like old friends from childhood suddenly shot back to the front page of our crunchyroll home screens and youtube recommended feeds that 2015 rendition of butterfly you know the one with the new guitar outro and more modern drums signaled maturity and modernism from these characters we hadn't seen since 2002. taichi and friends were shown to us in these preview images much taller more stylized rocking these amazing new fashion looks the gang was in the back
0:46 half of high school and inching towards adulthood like so many of us had already digimon adventure try arrived at a special time in my life and my relationship to it is a special one i feel i was attending university and living with a bunch of new friends in a five bedroom apartment one day one of us came home and shared their excitement about a digimon continuation and was surprised to learn the other roommates didn't just say oh cool man i'm happy for you instead we were all super excited about this news it turned out that all of us were digimon fans from back in the day we loved the show the characters we had our digivice toys but we never thought to bring it up with our fellow roommates we weren't hiding our love for the series or anything like that it's just that nobody was talking about digimon in the 2010s not until tri showed up anyway when november 21st 2015 came around we all watched the first new digimon adventure film in over 10 years
1:32 losing our minds seeing our favorite characters all grown up teasing new relationships lending evidence to existing ships sporting new outfits being in situations we've been through in our real lives something to consider when i watched digimon tai and his friends who were around age 11 they were the older kids compared to me now i was in my early 20s watching these guys navigate high school and go through all the anxieties and joys of adolescence the same way i had it was kind of cool to flip the script the movie was not perfect and there are a million valid criticisms to hold against try as a series but those premier parties in my apartment were just magical then came the english dub which came to theaters here in canada and i got to watch the movie again in a theater full of digimon super fans as we all cheered hearing the voices like joshua seth as ty reprising his iconic role don't even get me started the first time thomas vaughn the voice of agumon
2:18 exclaimed hey ty again just absolutely magical stuff three years later movie six was coming out and i had graduated university i went on a graduation trip to tokyo with some friends and we happened to be in town the same week digimon try movie six came out we couldn't understand a word of the exposition about homeostasis and idris ill and reboots not that english subtitles would have helped us understand the plot anyways but we got the general sentiment and seeing the film in theaters in japan was just the coolest experience ever i kept thinking that if you took the kid who saw the digimon movie from 2000 you know with the angela anaconda short at the beginning and told that kid hey in 18 years you're going to be watching a new digimon movie in a theater in japan that kid's brain would have just imploded and again try was not perfect it set up a lot of pins and knocked down a few but left a lot standing dark
3:04 gennai idrisil all the zero two kid stuff taichi's ptsd i think that compared to something like last evolution kizuna that was allowed to be a singular digimon story try being six movies suffered from needing to always leave the viewer anticipating the next movie this meant that the films often felt unresolved or left us scratching our heads the thing is it's okay to leave the viewers scratching their head for one week until the next episode but when your product isn't returning for another six months eight months between movie five and six mind you it's hard to stay invested with a substantial lack of information or clarity by movie four those magical viewing parties weren't really happening anymore in my apartment i was still watching but my roommates kind of phased out fewer and fewer friends were getting hyped by the trailers and the folks i found online talking about tri on reddit and youtube were becoming more and more frustrated with the series
3:49 releasing try in chunks was an interesting experiment but i think it ultimately was not for the best viewers burned out and lost interest and it took three years for 26 episodes to release part of the reason it's so hard to believe digimon tri is five years old is because movie six released only two years ago i personally feel that movie six was a strong ending and don't worry i rewatched it in english after seeing it in the japanese theater so that i could understand the dialogue but i understand why people find themselves upset with try as a whole but the thing is i just can't find it in myself to be upset by digimon adventure try it's the series that reignited digimon for me but also for the wider pop culture world digimon is for all intents and purposes back in 2020 and i truly don't believe we'd be where we were without try reigniting the flame the ticket sales the merchandise the
4:35 international hype for try it clearly sent a message to the ip holders that people do care about digimon games started getting localized and released outside of japan again a new trading card game just made its way to the west and of course we now have the incredibly strong last evolution kizuna and the super promising digimon adventure 2020 tv reboot digimon adventure tri walked so that kizuna could run and so that adventure 2020 can soar tries not perfect but no digimon series really is i dare you to go back and watch adventure 99 and with an honest face tell me it's not without its flaws what we love about digimon isn't the plot or the scripts it was never about that it's about the human characters their monsters the bonds between them and the memories we attach to digimon that makes us love it digimon adventure 0-2 is important to me because i remember running around my
5:21 backyard with my friend chris both wearing ski goggles like a bunch of dummies digimon adventure try is special to me because i got to crack open beers and scream with my roommates when omegamon fought alphamon in my living room back in 2015. i fell in love with digimon cybersleuth when i played it in 2017. i teared up multiple times throughout kisena when i saw these characters from my childhood wrestle with finding a purpose in life just like i did a few years prior i connected with literally thousands of you viewers watching this channel because i was interested enough in adventure 2020 to take a crack at reviewing the show weekly here on youtube if tried didn't happen digimon would have remained in my past i wouldn't have played cyber sleuth i wouldn't have bothered with kizuna and i would have rode off adventure 2020 as a kid show these are just a few of the comments that you left on my most recent community post about your thoughts on digimon adventure try
6:06 i figured i'd include a bunch of yours as well the slice of life and drama is what made digimon great to me especially when the digivolutions were more used as a way to show the human characters mature rather than being generic shown in power up with the power of friendship nonsense people like to talk about its flaws but never where it excels there's good and bad to everything even the original series but as far as sequels go it added a lot to the overall lore so i enjoyed it it definitely has a place in the franchise digimon adventure try was pretty good to me and it was exciting seeing the adventure kids back grown up so we can grow up with them and see the experiences that some of us have went through tri is not exactly a great series but it's still very important to me i teared up watching part 1 and part 3 after all i was 18 by the time tri finally came out and i'd spent a bit as a very hyped 17 year old dealing with tai being my age prior to the release of
6:52 part one try got me back in a digimon of course but the way it hit me is hard to describe it felt like adventure grew up with me and was coming back for me i still appreciate it to this day for all the things it did its success also brought us kizuna and the reboot anime both of which are amazing i'm never gonna tell someone they're not allowed to be angry at try or to share their opinions on pitches on how to improve it you can head to the comments and you can tell me why you don't like it but i will just never have it in me to hate on try it did so much for me for us for digimon i hope that i've explained well enough why i feel that is in this little retrospective essay but also they should have put the zero two kids in the movies or not shown their silhouettes at all okay bye
