Ready your feelings, fellow Digimon fans, as the newest trailer for the upcoming Digimon Adventure: The Last Evolution Kizuna serves up major doses of nostalgia and feels we never really knew we needed.
The trailer announces that the movie’s opening theme song will be none other than “Butter-Fly”, the original OP song from the first Digimon anime series. The film is using the original 1999 version by the late singer Kouji Wada, with no new arrangements whatsoever (yours truly got goosebumps while hearing the song).
In addition to “Butter-Fly”, two new songs were also announced for the film to be performed by Digimon veterans themselves, Ayumi Miyazaki and Aim (Ai Maeda).
A new poster was also revealed for the film, which features all the DigiDestined.
The trailer is set in the year 2010, with the DigiDestined all grown up but are still together with their partner Digimon. A new character, a Digimon researcher named Menoa Bellucci tells them that now that they are all grown up, their partner Digimon will soon disappear. But before that happens, Taichi, Yamato, and the rest of DigiDestined have one final mission with their beloved Digimon. Check out the English-subbed trailer here!
It was previously revealed that the movie will follow the original DigiDestined at age 22, their ages in line with the franchise’s 20th anniversary (Digimon was created in 1997, with the anime series launched two years later). Later on it was also revealed that the 02 Digidestined will be making an appearance in the movie as well.
The film will be directed by Tomohisa Taguchi (Kino’s Journey – the Beautiful World -), with the script to be penned by Akatsuki Yamatoya (Gintama). Yamatoya wrote the scripts for Digimon Adventure and for later seasons as well. Series creator Hiromi Seki returns as supervisor of the film. Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru and Kenji Watanabe are also returning as the film’s original character and monster designers, respectfully. The film will be produced by Toei Animation.
Launched in 1997, Digimon was conceived by Bandai, Toei Animation and Wiz to capitalize on the Tamagotchi craze. An anime series was launched in 1999 about a group of children called the DigiDestined who were sent to the Digimon world to fight evil creatures. The franchise has since spawned several series and films.
Source: Anime News Network