Digimon Adventure tri. 2: Ketsui

Infected Digimon—digital monsters who have begun acting in a berserk manner and experiencing a bizarre increase in power—are invading the real world. While Maki Himekawa and Daigo Nishijima, agents of the mysterious Incorporated Administrative Agency, attempt to learn more about these disruptive appearances, most of the Chosen Children are busy preparing for Tsukishima General High School's summer festival.

Mimi Tachikawa, having recently returned to Japan after living in the United States for years, struggles to find her footing among her classmates and fellow Chosen Children. Meanwhile, by throwing himself into his studies, Jou Kido has been deliberately avoiding all issues related to Digimon, causing his partner Gomamon to run away. Mimi and Jou's individual actions cause friction within the group even as the threat of infected Digimon still looms over them. Will the two resolve their personal conflicts in time to help their friends fight off the latest threat?

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Yagami, Taichi Main

Hanae, Natsuki Japanese

Ishida, Yamato Main

Hosoya, Yoshimasa Japanese

Yagami, Hikari Main

Ichimichi, Mao Japanese

Takaishi, Takeru Main

Enoki, Junya Japanese

Agumon Main

Sakamoto, Chika Japanese

Tachikawa, Mimi Main

Yoshida, Hitomi Japanese

Izumi, Koushirou Main

Tamura, Mutsumi Japanese

Tailmon Main

Tokumitsu, Yuka Japanese

Takenouchi, Sora Main

Mimori, Suzuko Japanese

Patamon Main

Matsumoto, Miwa Japanese

Arai, Shuuhei Producer

Motokawa, Kouhei Producer

Kubo, Miyuki Assistant Producer

Motonaga, Keitarou Director, Episode Director, Storyboard, Key Animation

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Aug 18, 2025

fh1478

Recommended

Mimi's Genius Idea For School, Hooters!!!

Digimon Adventure Tri: Chapter 2 - Determination Is a good chapter 2 story wise and character wise, but the animation budget died.

Chapter 2 builds really well on the characters, We saw in chapter 1. their friendship Dynamics are believable, It's nice to see them together being at spa talking to each other, they have believable friendships.

the character conflict that are inside them are delivered well, and feel like good extensions of the original TV show. We still have the great concept that they have to tackle with themselves, for the Digimons to evolve.
and the Digimon designs are still helicute.

The biggest ... minus with the movie was the animation or the lack of it. There were so many times when me and my friend was just looking at the screen, cheering on when they finally move. it was so funny buttdistracting. When watching an animated movie I expect more out of the animation.

On paper, it's a seven but the animation brings it down to a six. would still recommend.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Mar 18, 2016

Frankies_Monster

Mixed Feelings

Animated Series Review No.15
Digimon Adventure tri 1: Saikai and Digimon Adventure tri 2: Ketsui

I do remember watching a certain novel adaptation called Kara no Kyoukai: The Garden of Sinners, whose source material was written by Kinoko Nasu (Its series of novels is also in my "Planned to Read" list in Manga List at the time of this review) several years ago and overall it is a challenging series to watch as everything requires full attention in order to understand the real story of the series. After all, the series was played out in a non-chronological order and should be watched on that order, which resulted ... to the show being too complex or too confusing, which is understandable as the show is not for everyone, just like everything else in the world of anime. Overall, it is a well-worth series to watch as it played its story quite good enough specifically on the relationship between Mikiya Kokuto and Shiki Ryogi (or more accurately, Mikiya's influence towards Shiki's development). That relationship is one of the core points of the entire storyline of Kara no Kyoukai. This series of movies can be evaluated either as per individual movie or as a whole, resulting in different opinions from just about anyone when one will evaluate this series.

This is quite the same thing as giving different opinions about each season of a certain animated series (even if some of them acted as an immediate continuation of the previous show of the same title rather than as a second season of that certain series, like how Ufotable worked for the anime adaptations of Gen Urobuchi's Fate/Zero in 2011-2012 and Kinoko Nasu's Fate/stay night in 2014-2015), which is especially true here on this site unless a certain reviewer would say that the series is evaluated/reviewed according to the entirety of the storyline of that series.

As for me, I had different opinions on certain shows for that certain series even if they had the same titles and rated them differently (like the three Shakugan no Shana animated series), but my overall evaluation about that certain series should be taken as a whole for as long as the main character/s of that one season are the same as the main character/s of another season of that series (in Shakugan no Shana's case, it has Yuji Sakai and Shana as its main characters [and like Kara no Kyoukai's Shiki and Mikiya, it revolves pretty much on their relationship at its core]). Although there are some few exceptions to this rule... like Baka to Test to Shokanjuu, where it is quite difficult to do an anime adaptation for its potential third season (while KonoSuba anime immediately announces its second season right after the tenth episode ended... with EXPLOSIONS!) due to the entire series being independent on its timeline in related to that of its source material. But that's for another story though.

For now, I will be dealing with another series in the Digimon franchise called Digimon Adventure tri, which is a series of movies that is considered a sequel to Digimon Adventure and to Digimon Adventure 02. I am aware that this is not yet finished, so everything that I will be dealing here will be focused on the first two of the six movies. For that matter though, I will be re-evaluating the series again after the fourth movie came out, and followed by another re-evaluation after the last movie came out (which is a long time considering the third movie will be released in September this year).

I will start with the obvious... This series is created to be a sequel for the first two Digimon Adventure series in terms of its characters and timeline, set three years after the events of Digimon Adventure 02. This means the knowledge from the two Digimon Adventure series is required in order to understand its characters but not necessarily its story though. This series however made a strange plot twist (Digimon Adventure series really loved plot twists) that is not going to reveal for now right in the beginning of the first movie which create possibilities about the abnormal events that happened in this series.

Also, there is also the fact that there are some characters exclusive to this series added to the story like a new Chosen Child named Meiko Mochizuke and her Digimon, Meicoomon (Digimon Tamers' Culumon's negative counterpart), Maki Himekawa, Daigo Nakajima, Alphamon Ouryuken, Huckmon (soon-to-be Jesmon?), as well as an organization that seemingly functioned like Digimon Tamers' HYPNOS or Digimon Savers' DATS, where the Maki and Daigo belonged, investigating the actions of the Digital World in relation to the real world. The organization even created weapons that would possibly weaken Digimon, although not as dangerous as the Juggernaut Program of Digimon Tamers. This made the show had grown mature enough in comparison to its prequels (but in my opinion, not as much as Digimon Tamers does). Whether these characters compliment a lot to the storyline, the focus will still be on the eight Chosen Children.

Another thing to be noticed here is that this series puts quite a lot of references from the previous Digimon storylines, such as the already mentioned organization being similar to HYPNOS and DATS, the focused pairing per each of possibly first four movies (Taichi Yagami and Yamato Ishida, and Mimi Tachikawa and Jo Kido in related to their interactions in the Dark Masters arc in Digimon Adventure as well as Takeru Takaishi and Koshiro Izumi, and Hikari Yagami and Sora Takenouchi as reference to Takeru and Iori Hida's partnership and Hikari and Miyako Inoue's partnership in Digimon Adventure 02), the Royal Knights traidition (currently have Omegamon, Alphamon and possibly, Jesmon), the Leomon tradition, etc.

Lastly, this series now had the eight Chosen Children will now undergo in dealing with their certain angst towards a certain situation they are currently facing while also facing the fact that they are young adults already (and teenagers, in the case of the two youngest original CC), which can be related somehow to the growth of its target audience (especially the fans of Digimon Adventure series). Add the fact that the real world faced a lot of crisis in dealing with the monsters called Digimon, as they had been considered a threat into the society, which made Taichi had been delved himself into thinking about this situation deeply almost allthroughout these first two movies. In short, as far as the first two movies go, Digimon Adventure tri delved itself into more of being a character-driven storyline like Digimon Tamers than of being a plot-driven storyline where its predecessors belonged, as the series generally made the characters to be responsible with what they are dealing with right now (or, possibly, so it seemed to be). After all, our main characters happened to be the Chosen Ones of the Digital World. This is especially true since the fights are less often to happen than its prequels do. I admit most of their angst is pretty quite relatable to teenagers and young adults, really.

There should be no problems about this series, right? Well... If I don't count its possible plotholes, the entire series can get problematic even if the series is just two movies in.

As such, Digimon Adventure tri is still following the episodic approach of character development that its prequels always do, and that will be going to work on for the first four of its six movies. Because this series is set into movie format, the overall storytelling is quite too slow not because of the plot being too slow (there is the plot but it is still vague for us to know what it is. Is this series trying hard to be Digimon Tamers really?), but because the series is still going to utilize this approach in addition to the fact that some other events such as the two of the four episodes of the second movie are unnecessary to be that long just because it tried to expand the characters of Meiko Mochizuke and Meicoomon, which is, for now, quite lacking especially considering the fact that the series is focusing more on the Chosen Children's dilemma on their lives and them taking responsibilities being young adults and Chosen Children. With that in mind, the last event of the second movie is quite lacking on tension to tell that revelation to its audience, even if there is Huckmon spying on Meicoomon all throughout the first two movies to show to the audience that the latter is what it is being revealed in that last event.

This approach will possibly harm the overall storytelling if this could go on like this for the first four movies, leaving the last two movies for the Chosen Children acting together as they faced a certain dilemma centered to the relationship between the inhabitants of both the real world and the Digital World (after all, this series will try to assume that everyone in the real world is on good terms with the ones in the Digital World as shown in the 02 Epilogue [well-known one by its shipping fans]), with Taichi's development being centered on his decision to possibly become an ambassador in the future (after all, he lacked that Courage to tell about that problem to other Chosen Children as of this point). Unless, the last two movies will be two hours long each, that is. The real issue about this approach is whether it can create a concrete storyline for something pretty straightforward, something I had been feared that this series will not going to take care especially when this series is subjected for a rewatch as if each movie can possibly stand on their own without the others, but once the six movies were put together, the potential character development of certain Chosen Children will be deemed insignificant in the long run.

Speaking of the Chosen Children, I had certain issues with the development of those CC that had gotten focused on this series as far as the two movies are concerned (and I will be bypassed the lack of development of their Digimon partners, even if Gomamon felt developed a bit but that is really more of its concern towards Jo's personal dilemma since Gomamon is Jo's Digimon partner than a real Digimon. This problem is one glaring flaw of Digimon Adventure storyline regardless of which season one will picked and this series is not safe for that glaring flaw). Jo's and Mimi's development to become responsible Chosen Children seemed to be compelling since it fits with their pre-determined characterisation here in tri as well as the fact that it is connected with their Crests (of Faithfulness and of Sincerity) but that development will be going to become underwhelming once the other four movies are released in the future since their development happened all of a sudden, just because of plot progression in relation to the intrigue of the evolution of their Digimon into their Ultimate forms (Vikemon for Gomamon and Rosemon for Palmon). It is quite underwhelming too since it will make the two (and possibly, the other four remaining Chosen not picked) to be actually developed into responsible Chosen Children once the actual plot kicked in.

Taichi's development is quite a different case compared the others as his dilemma extends even in the second movie (and will be extending in the future movies, that's for sure). For the most part, it is more of the reason Taichi will become an ambassador for the relationship between the inhabitants of both the Digital World and the real world in the future so that seemed natural to the development that he had went now. That kind of development Taichi had is quite sudden that it is more of plot convenience in order for him to be developed into someone that will become an ambassador in the future like in 02 Epilogue and the fact that he is the leader of the original Chosen Chosen, but that in itself is not really bad (it is quite good to see Taichi realized something can be considered neither right or wrong). Personally, I had a thought that this had something to do with his seiyuu (Natsuki Hanae) also voiced the main protagonist of Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, Kousei Arima...

That one aside, the real problem on this kind of development given to Taichi is that it happened all of a sudden throughout the first movie. I understand that Taichi needed to be responsible to his surroundings (so do the other Chosen Children) as he grew old which is touching for its audience (new and old) but the fact that he only did that once he sees the city being wreak havoc by their own Digimon partners and the enemy Digimon. There is also the fact that it lacked a good background about his character on why he became like that, which is especially true considering the number of times that same flashback reflected into his mind all throughout the last event of the first movie. Lastly, in my personal opinion, considering the lack of actual background about this issue towards Taichi's character, the kind of development given to Taichi is not really something being reflected towards Taichi but that is something the Lawful Good Takeru had faced due to his experiences in the past adventures as well as due to him someone who created his own blog about the issues relating to the Digital World in Saikai, along with Koshiro. In my thoughts, I always wanted him to become someone like Digimon Tamers' Lawful Neutral Mitsuo Yamaki because of his worldview, and not because they are similar with one another in appearance.

That being said, for some reason, Takeru has seemed to relegated to be someone who has a possible romantic interest towards Hikari (and possibly vice-versa, depending on which Digimon fan to be asked). This is also true with Koshiro having blatant crush on Mimi with his interest on fashion as an evidence on his actions he had as well as showing his honest opinion to Mimi about that certain situation in the second movie. These kinds of interaction can be treated as fanservice for the shipping fans, although with Koshiro and Takeru being the focused Chosen Children for the third movie, these kinds of interactions they had can become a potential dilemma to them especially in the case of Takeru towards Hikari, considering Takeru's family background. But that should be something I will be possibly talking about when the third movie came out and the series focused on that.

Then there are the other characters like Daigo Nakajima who is clearly on the good side and despite him being a member of that organization, he is still a teacher of the school Taichi attended; Maki Himekawa, who is quite intriguing considering her actions in the last event of the second movie, unless she tried to be Mitsuo Yamaki of all things...

And then there is Meiko Mochizuke... as far as I can tell, the only thing I could think of a description about her character is that she is the Chosen Child taking care of Meicoomon as her Digimon partner. She is pretty much like Kara no Kyoukai's Mikiya Kokuto in terms of how normal they are in comparison with the other members of the cast of the respective movies. The difference is that Mikiya's very normal personality is what makes him very special in Kara no Kyoukai movies, while Meiko's normal personality never lets herself shine regardless of which part of the two movies have to be focused. Really, it is more of Meicoomon than of Meiko in this series, unless Meiko herself is a special being.

Finally, the plot... What's the plot? I guess more mysteries can be revealed later so I will not talking about that matter at this point but for now, I always felt that the series is trying to be unique and special on its potential plot, considering how the introduction of the first movie played out. The problem is that the character development of Jo and Mimi (and possibly, the other CC in the future) really had nothing to do with facing with that actual plot and that is more of being a responsible Chosen Children that they used to be, because they need to do and because Digimon Adventure tri really tried to be a character-driven storyline. And as such, the kind of character development Jo and Mimi had in Ketsui is more of a triggered power-up to evolve their Digimon into Ultimate forms, just like with everything in the previous Digimon Adventure storyline (where a certain character development (or character interactions in the case of 02, due to the main characters lacking actual character development bar 02!Ken Ichijoji and 02!Iori Hida) will trigger an evolution to their Digimon partners). Kind of not bad really, but also not that good though considering the lack of interactions between the Chosen Children and their Digimon partners except Jo and Gomamon during the second movie (but even then, their interactions is not really that impactful to make Gomamon to evolve into Vikemon because of that).

As of this point, I will not be going to talk about the production values of the first two movies that much as they aren't really that impressive overall, but not really that distracting (visuals)/forgettable (sounds). The short-lived action sequences on these movies however are quite underwhelming because the motion felt rushed in order for the battle to end at a certain point so the story had to continue somehow, mainly because its targeted audience are "mature" enough not to care about dragged-out battles, and anything should have focused on what the fights had done it seems. To be frank though, the animation of DEEN's Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuru wo!'s is a lot better than that of this series, not only because KonoSuba's animation really fits the tone of its storyline but also there is the fact that Toei's Digimon Adventure tri is a series of movies in comparison to KonoSuba being a TV series.(I am not going to put Ufotable's Kara no Kyoukai's animation (2007-2013) over this series' animation (2015-?) for comparison. That is not going to be anything better).

For now, I will still be watching the other four movies in the future to see some development for this series' actual plot especially considering that vague idea it tried to work out in the beginning of the series (which made me felt I am watching Madoka Magica than a Digimon series. I hope this is not something that had to happen here) as well as the fact the series is really eager to put some awareness to everyone around the main cast as one of its intent focuses. But I will still be having low expectations on watching the next four movies, especially the last two since the next two are focusing on the characterisation of the other four Chosen Children. I am also hoping that the Digimon themselves were given some real character development independent on their attachment with their partners (whether they had human partners or not). After all, Alphamon and Huckmon appeared because of Meicoomon but we do not know who they really are, because these first two movies focused a lot on the Chosen Children for mostly anyone watching not to take care on Alphamon's and Huckmon's motives other than set themselves as foreshadowed characters in the future. Lastly, I understand that this series was meant to be watched by its targeted audience (the Digimon fans, especially Digimon Adventure fans), however, considering my thoughts about how messy the storytelling it may potentially looked like once the series ended, I only hoped that the series should do a lot better in terms of overall writing such as more plot development and more focus on the worldviews of some of the characters.

This ends my review about the first two Digimon Adventure tri movies. As for my personal rating:

Three-and-one-fourth images of Leomon fell in love with Meicoomon acting like Puss in the Boots out of five. (6.5/10)

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jun 18, 2017

ThymeCatcher

Not Recommended

Warning: much spoilers, much don't care, much proceed at your own risk.

But honestly, it's a good thing the Digimon franchise has a bunch of long-term enthusiastic fans; otherwise these movies wouldn't make nearly enough to be a good investment.

Needless to say, as a avid fan, I enjoyed the movie. ONLY because it was a continuation of the Digidestined story.

But I just can't help but be UTTERLY ANNOYED about the lack of explanation about the 02 cast. Or, at least explain why the Digidestined aren't even the least bit curious as to where the 02 cast are. Even a lame explanation like a out-of-the-blue, totally-not-skipping-weeks-of-school camping ... trip would've been better than pretending they don't exist. Even if this was an alternative universe instead of a sequel (which can't be true b/c the Digidestined knew Ken by name and said "him again"), the least Toei could do was hint us in on that.

And now, when the Digimon Emperor Ken Ichijouji himself appears OUT OF THE BLUE and kidnaps A PARTNER DIGIMON (shush I said spoilers), NO ONE even wonders for more than a few moments about the situation (a situation in which I can't even pinpoint a question the Digidestined would be wondering because WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON WITH THE 02 CAST) And, yes, I understand that it was the end of the movie and "there wasn't enough time to get in-depth about Ken". But, considering that he was this movie's only villain (other than the contrived melodrama) and totally acted like it (by which I mean not acknowledging any of the Digidestined and standing aloof like the mysterious, sneering, mute asshole he never was), I'd think the Ken situation would be more addressed than a simple "Him again...? Why?" Like, legit, that was the most confusion over Ken the Digidestined showed the whole movie. Hello? Koushiro the genius? Taichi the tactician? Are y'all awake??

Yeah, this has turned into quite the rant.

But, seriously Toei, please fire all your writing staff. And your directing staff. And possibly your whole Digimon staff.

About the whole "surpassing darkness will bring greater power" or whatever leading to a Mega form, that's ridiculous. Back in season 1, Taichi and Yamato didn't have any "surpassing darkness" moments when they were about to warp-digivolve; it was thanks to Angemon and Angewomon piercing them with special arrows.

Oh, and, as a nitpick, please bring back those warp-evolution animations, Toei. That's the least you can do in improving the evolution sequences. Otherwise you're cutting out half the hype.

I don't know if I should be happy about the one consistency in the show or sad about Leomon dying yet again.

And yeah there's so much more I could rant about (like, Joe's 5-second change-of-heart (thus "solving" half the "character development" in the entire movie), killing Imperialdramon, Imperialdramon being there in the first place, the low production values, etc. etc. etc.), but I'll just leave the rest to the other non-nostalgia-blinded, discontent Digimon fans. ;)

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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	Poll: Digimon Adventure tri. 2: Ketsui Discussion ( 1 2 3 ) Stark700 - Mar 11, 2016	142 replies	by JackCompletes »» Feb 6, 9:43 PM
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