Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna

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Japanese: デジモンアドベンチャー LAST EVOLUTION 絆

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Feb 21, 2020

Producers: Toei Animation

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: Yumeta Company

Source: Original

Genres: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Duration: 1 hr. 34 min.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 8.18¹ (scored by 18,825 users)

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Ranked: #398²

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Popularity: #3322

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As the Chosen Children and their partner Digimon live happily together in the human world, Taichi Yagami and Yamato Ishida, alongside their friends, dedicate themselves to maintaining this hard-earned peace. Though united by this innate responsibility, each one has already started to take their first steps toward a future beyond being a Chosen Child.

However, this new journey is interrupted by the appearance of Menoa Bellucci, an American professor specializing in Digimon research. She bears news of several Chosen Children from around the world being found comatose, with their partner Digimon nowhere to be found. Menoa's investigations indicate that a new breed of Digimon is behind the alarming phenomenon: Eosmon, who hides within the internet's depths.

To succeed in this mission, the team must endeavor through the growing distance between them and band together one last time.

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Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna commemorates the 20th Anniversary of the franchise.

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Related Anime

Adaptation:	Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
Prequel:	Digimon Adventure: 20-shuunen Memorial Story
Sequel:	Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning

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Characters & Voice Actors

Yagami, Taichi

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Hanae, Natsuki
Japanese

Ishida, Yamato

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Hosoya, Yoshimasa
Japanese

Yagami, Hikari

Main

Ichimichi, Mao
Japanese

Takaishi, Takeru

Main

Enoki, Junya
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Sakamoto, Chika
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Izumi, Koushirou

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Tamura, Mutsumi
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Tachikawa, Mimi

Main

Yoshida, Hitomi
Japanese

Tailmon

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Tokumitsu, Yuka
Japanese

Takenouchi, Sora

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Mimori, Suzuko
Japanese

Patamon

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Matsumoto, Miwa
Japanese

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Simone, Jamie

Producer

Taguchi, Tomohisa

Director, Storyboard

Iida, Satoki

Sound Director

Oohashi, Kazuki

Episode Director

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Opening Theme

"Butter-Fly" by Kouji Wada

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Ending Theme

"Hanareteite mo (離れていても)" by AiM

Reviews

May 12, 2021

Fotsuan

Recommended

Digimon Adventure is a 1999 kids anime show. Twenty years later, it has become a classic so Toei decides to give us - people who most likely watched this show as kids - a huge dose of nostalgia and a beautiful end of story. But, surprisingly, Last Evolution Kizuna is much more than that. It is a movie full of allegory, passion and all kinds of emotions. And definitely far from a kids movie; it is aimed at a mature audience. It is a unique, flawless piece of art that will stay in our Digimon Adventure fans' hearts forever.

With Taichi and his friends in their ... early twenties, Kizuna is the perfect example of a coming of age / growing up movie. You can see them talk about university or job hunting, when some moments later they encounter a powerful, unknown enemy Digimon, Eosmon. Unable to instantly defeat it, they meet Menoa Bellucci; a girl who is a Digimon researcher and offers her help. She tells them that, because they are growing up, their time with their Digimon is limited and that sooner or later their digital partners will disappear. Not spoiling you the rest, but get prepared for a chain of unpredictable events and many meaningful messages.

The now grown-up characters we loved as kids, show clear character development and are true to their beliefs until the end, especially Yamato and Taichi who are the main protagonists. Daisuke and his gang from Digimon Adventure 02 play a role too, and seeing all the Chosen Children / DigiDestined fight together is pleasing. The main antagonist of the movie is what I would call a well-written villain, or maybe anti-hero, which is a big plus. There is no good and bad guy in this movie, there are just Chosen Children fighting against their own coming of age, each in their own way.

It is indisputable that Toei Animation put a great effort into this movie, because it is spectacular, full of detail and amazing soundtrack. Starting off with nostalgic "Butter-Fly" and "Brave Heart" to hit us in the feels, with a well-animated battle and beautiful scenery, they make it clear we are going to watch a great movie. As time passes, there is always a different soundtrack playing. It feels like each one is better than the previous one - and they all fit the atmosphere perfectly. The animation is great from beginning to end, the Japanese voice actors did an amazing job so it is inarguably a great audiovisual experience. Special credits to Natsuki Hanae (Taichi), Yoshimasa Hosoya (Yamato) and our guest star Daisuke Ono whose addition was a pleasant surprise to the Digimon world.

Closing the review, I would like to note that Last Evolution Kizuna is not only for Digimon Adventure fans, but for all audiences. That's because it is not a typical Digimon work and it holds special meaning for everyone. Its theme is something everyone can relate to, therefore I highly recommend it to all of you reading.

Thank you!

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Sep 3, 2020

Veldazik

Mixed Feelings

I really don't understand why there's so many reviews praising this to high heavens. But I will chip in for the first time to share my thoughts on why I don't think this is an amazing "final" installment in the saga.

I'll get this out of the way as everyone else does: I've been a fan of Digimon since I was a smol boi. Though granted, I didn't get to see them until about 2005. And certainly well after I became a fan of Pokemon.~
But that's beside the point. Basically, I love the heck out of Digimon despite its failures and faults, and have been for ... a long time. (Can't even help but have some merch and games, including the actual V-pet)
So let's dive into it

Digimon: Last Evolution Kizuna feels like a dead horse we've already beat once or twice before. The main driving force of the plot (the point of contention/villain/dark force) ironically feels like it was an idea stolen from Summer Wars, but with a twist. In fact, the movie from the start felt like it was trying to be the climax of Summer Wars' original inspiration, Digimon: Our War Game, while also mildly trying to keep the feel of Digimon tri. (as in, the characters we know being grown up and trying to find themselves). While overall an interesting enough idea, it doesn't feel too epic or like the villain is that big a threat since we know exactly what's going to happen. There's too much plot armor and predictability, and it is revealed/resolved too quickly. (Funny enough too, while I didn't particularly like Summer Wars, at least this aspect was handled better in that movie)
As far as the message and making Digimon go away because you grow up...well, it seems a bit contrived just so there'd be a sense of finality. It's understandable for them to do this, but it feels like they didn't make it feel very impactful.

And actually, that's my main problem with the movie. There's not enough buildup and payoff. At least in Digimon tri., I actually felt something. That series somehow hammered in the finality of losing the Digimon pretty dang hard. Say what you will about tri., but there was more to it than there was here. Certainly more development and heart. At the end of tri. (and in fact, even once or twice more in the earlier parts because of certain Digimon probably dying) I bawled so hard I thought my eyes would fall out. But not here. I'm so baffled at how anti-climactic and lacking in feels the ending was. Taichi and Yamato did have a bit of a cute moment, but there wasn't much to it. They cried, but there wasn't any room for us to cry with them. Maybe because we're supposed to understand the nature of the parting and say "well it's understandable, now you can go make your life and live, you're all grown up now. *pats on head*"
*sigh*

Overall, the animation is good, the action is cool as always, there's some nice callbacks to earlier memorable Digimon moments of the past to pull it all full-circle. Even showing the digidestined as their younger selves and all. (And there's digimon! Though to be honest, they didn't focus all too heavily on them compared to tri. /sadface) I do like that you really get to see the original cast all grown up and doing adult things like drinking and having their porn stashes, etc. (yeah that happened, haha) We're not quite sure what path the main two, Taichi and Yamato are headed in, but we know they'll figure it out now they aren't stuck in the past. It's just a shame that didn't feel too impactful, we just kind of accept that it happened.
Maybe the way you take this movie depends on you. Perhaps I am stuck in the past and unwilling to let go, which is why I expected it to make an effort to pull at my heartstrings like it should. But that's not quite what happened. It was final for sure, but not final *enough*. But, in a way I feel at the very least content that some of my childhood heroes I grew up with found themselves in this crazy world in the end.

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Dec 30, 2020

lethargilistic

Not Recommended

Kizuna is a deeply personal insult to people who grew up enjoying Digimon and still feel enough lingering affection for it that they would watch Kizuna after the atrocity that Tri was. It is not merely worse than Tri was: it is one of the worst, most mean-spirited, most VILE movies I've ever seen, period. While Tri was ultimately about how "growing up" means casting aside childish things—a conclusion it seems to abruptly pivots away from because that long series was unpopular—Kizuna is about how enjoying childish things as an adult makes you a psychopath. This review could only contain spoilers for the entire thing.

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