Digimon Adventure - Last Evolution - Kizuna (Rating: 9/10)

 

Taichi and the other chosen children spend their everyday lives balancing regular live with stopping while digimon that come though random digital gates from destroying everything in their path. But once people start falling into comas they realize that something very bad is happening. And they are right. But it’s not what they expected. Sometimes growing up means having to leave things behind. Things you cherished as a child.

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Holy fucking shit! This is it. This is what I wanted. A fantastic Digimon Adventure movie. I absolutely loved it. It had everything I could have asked for. The plot was engaging. The characters acted like they should have. The battles were meaningful. The message was powerful. TOEI can actually pull it off. What a sendoff. What a finale!
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Now that we got that out of the way… This was a great movie, on all accounts. Sure, it’s only 90 minutes long, but what a ride. From start to finish it played with my heart. Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t exactly a happy movie. But even so, they managed to insert some great humor. Bad place to put that stuff, Taichi. The directing this time was on spot. The reveal of Neverland gave me chills, as did the titular last evolution. I can’t believe I’m praising this so much after the disaster that TRI was. BTW, it’s still canon. This takes place after the supposed resolution of the TRI story line. Doubt they’ll ever make that though. All in all, I enjoyed this far more they I thought I would.

About the subtitles, I used @bgette0&ok&sekkusu&ISSOUj&Eosmon as a base, and made the following changes:

• added missing lines. There were a lot of missing lines. I mean like… a lot. Small, short… but some very important. Including the actual final line in the show.
• corrected badly translated lines. There were a lot of lines that were straight up wrong. Some changed the entire meaning of the conversation.
• corrected poorly translated line. Some lines read like they were made of an English dub, filled with slang that characters wouldn’t use.
• corrected the names and terminology. Used the original Japanese names and terminology. None of that DigiDestined crap. They are chosen children.
• split lines. There were a lot of lines that were not split correctly. Like when two character were talking at once.
• fixed timing. Many lines had terrible timing. This was a pain for me because I hate timing.
• fixed OCR errors. There were a few of these as well.
  

Digimon Tamers (Series rating: 10/10)

Takato loves Digimon. He loves it so much that he even made up his own Digimon: Guilmon. He drew it and everything. One day though a miracle happened. Gilmon came to life, straight out of the drawing. How is this possible? Well, it turns out that Digimon are real. And now they’re making their way into the real world. Problem is most of them are not so peaceful. But would you be calm if you were suddenly teleported into a different world? Keep in mind that most Digimon are basically wild animals. It’s up to Takato and his new friends to try and keep the peace, as Digimon Tamers. But that’s not as easy when you not only have to watch out for wild Digimon but also for a shadowy government agency that is hell bent on destroying any Digimon that appears in the real world.

Holy damn, is this show good! I don’t mean it’s a good Digimon anime. I mean it’s a good anime, period. Almost everything about this anime is fantastic, except the animation sometimes (thank you, TOEI, as usual). The characterization is some of the best I’ve ever seen in anime, and the story is gripping. It’s also the bleakest of the Digimon anime, in my opinion. It threw its share of gut punches out of nowhere, let me tell you. Also… love Cthulhu Mythos much, mister writer, Chiaki J. Konaka? You can tell he wrote Serial Experiments Lain. If you like Digimon. Watch this. If you don’t like Digimon, also watch this.

https://anidb.net/anime/562

Digimon Adventure 02 - Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals (Rating: 5/10)

This movie makes LESS sense then the English dub. At least they made up a bullshit explanation as to what was going on. The original has nothing. Stuff just happens, and then it's over.

Digimon Adventure 02 - Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! (Rating: 6/10)

First part of the story. Was also featured in the SHITTY American chop-job, but the original actually makes sense. I stand corrected. It doesn't make any goddamn sense in Japanese either.

Digimon Tamers - Movie II - The Digimon Runaway Express (Rating: 7/10)

This is one of the two remaining Digimon films that does not have a decent release. I will rectify that.