Digimon Adventure (2020 TV series) facts for kids
| Digimon Adventure | |
Promotional poster
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Quick facts for kids デジモンアドベンチャー:(Dejimon Adobenchā:) |
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| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masato Mitsuka |
| Produced by | Hiroyuki Sakurada |
| Music by | Toshihiko Sahashi |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
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| Network | FNS (Fuji TV) |
| Original run | April 5, 2020 – ongoing |
| Episodes | 66 |
| Digimon franchise | |
Digimon Adventure (Japanese: デジモンアドベンチャー:, Hepburn: Dejimon Adobenchā, stylized as Digimon Adventure:) is a Japanese anime television series. It is the eighth anime series in the Digimon franchise and a reboot of the original 1999 anime television series of the same name. The series premiered on Fuji TV in April 2020.
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Plot
In the year 2020, a series of cyber-attacks across Tokyo are the result of catastrophic events in another world within the internet, the Digital World, where creatures called Digimon roam. While getting ready for summer camp, seven children are transported to the Digital World where they acquire Digivices and Digimon partners while learning that they have been chosen to stop the unknown threats to their worlds.
Characters
| Character | Voice actor |
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| Taichi Yagami | Yūko Sanpei |
| Agumon | Chika Sakamoto |
| Yamato Ishida | Daisuke Namikawa |
| Gabumon | Mayumi Yamaguchi |
| Koshiro Izumi | Yumiko Kobayashi |
| Tentomon | Takahiro Sakurai |
| Sora Takenouchi | Ryoko Shiraishi |
| Piyomon | Atori Shigematsu |
| Joe Kido | Takeshi Kusao |
| Gomamon | Junko Takeuchi |
| Mimi Tachikawa | Marika Kouno |
| Palmon | Kinoko Yamada |
| Takeru Takaishi | Megumi Han |
| Patamon | Miwa Matsumoto |
| Hikari Yagami | Misaki Watada |
| Tailmon | Mie Sonozaki |
| Narrator | Masako Nozawa |
| Argomon | Takashi Matsuyama |
| Andromon | Kensuke Ōta |
| Neamon | Masami Kikuchi |
| Funbeemon | Rie Kugimiya |
| Devimon | Ryōtarō Okiayu |
| Nidhoggmon | Kensuke Ōta |
| Woodmon | Kensuke Ōta |
| Ogremon | Hisao Egawa |
| Leomon | Hiroaki Hirata |
| Minotaurmon | Katsuhisa Hōki |
| Spadamon | Asami Sanada |
| Newscaster | Ryūsei Ikuta |
| Brachimon | Kensuke Ōta |
| Valdurmon | Ai Maeda |
| Yūto Kazama | |
| Komondomon | Daisuke Yokoyama |
| Lopmon | Chinami Nishimura |
| Vademon | Yasuhiro Takato |
| MarineAngemon | Yukana |
| Manbomon | Masaya Takatsuka |
| DarkKnightmon | Mie Sonozaki |
| Golemon | Kensuke Ōta |
| Gogmamon | Kenji Nomura |
| Mephismon | Mitsuo Iwata |
| Troopmon | Chihaya Terasaki |
| Kōki Nakamura | |
| Naoki Katakai | |
| Shūki Imagawa |
Broadcast and distribution
On March 6, the first trailer for the series was released, announcing the series' April 5, 2020 premiere date. Digimon Adventure: has been broadcast on Fuji Television, and became available for streaming on Netflix, U-NEXT, Bandai Channel, Anime Hodai and Docomo Anime Store in Japan.
Crunchyroll began streaming the series starting April 4. The series is distributed simultaneously by Crunchyroll in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Europe, the MENA and CIS zones, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa with English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Italian, German and Russian subtitles. The anime is also available on Hulu, VRV and iQIYI with English subtitles, AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand. In France, the anime is also available on Anime Digital Network and J-One.
On April 19, Toei Animation announced new episodes would be delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Episodes were rebroadcast from Episode 1 beginning June 7. Toei Animation later announced on June 19 that the series will resume broadcasting new episodes starting with Episode 4 on June 28. According to Toei Animation Europe, Adventure: will run for 66 episodes.
Soundtrack
The opening theme for the series is "Mikakunin Hikousen", performed by Takayoshi Tanimoto.
Tanimoto also plays three insert songs. The first is "Be The Winners", which is the theme song for the Champion level evolutions, the second is "X-treme Fight", which is the theme song for the Ultimate level evolutions and the third is "Break the Chain", which is the theme song for the Mega level evolutions.
The first ending theme during episodes 1-13 is "Kuyashisa wa Tane" by Chiai Fujikawa. The second ending theme during episodes 14-26 is "Q?" by Reol. The third ending theme during episodes 27-38 is "Mind Game" by Maica_n. The fourth ending theme since episode 39 is "Overseas Highway" by Wolpis Carter and Orangestar.
DVD/Blu-Ray
Digimon Adventure: is distributed in Japan on DVD and Blu-Ray by Happinet: In a first box set on December 2, 2020 containing the first 12 episodes. Episodes 13 to 24 are released in a second box set on March 3, 2021. Episodes 25 to 36 will be released in a third box set on June 2, 2021.
TV Ratings
Two episodes can be seen in the TV Rankings of Japanese Animation: Episode 6 "The Targeted Kingdom", on July 12, 2020 (for 2.9% rating) and episode 11 "The Wolf Standing Atop the Desert", on August 16, 2020 (for 2.3% rating). The anime does not reach on average ~2% audience rating on Fuji TV to appear in the weekend TV rankings. Due to the spread of the coronavirus, the broadcast was temporarily suspended on April 26, 2020. A delay of about two months until the return of the show. As an alternative measure during this interruption period, from April 26 to May 31, GeGeGe no Kitarō was rerun. All five episodes of Kitaro ranked (3.6%, 3.4%, 3.9%, 3.6%, 3.8%), the repeats of the first episodes of Digimon Adventure: and its pilot from June 7, 2020 will bring the ratings below 2% and thus out of the charts.
Critics
Digimon Adventure: is "The Worst Anime of 2020" for Anime News Network; according to Christopher Farris of the editorial team, the anime is a "shallow, rudderless effort. It brings me no joy to declare the reboot as being this kind of failure; [...] a wasted attempt. Digimon Adventure: tosses out so much of the exploration, weird mystery, and quirky character work that defined the 1999 classic in favor of exhaustingly escalating fight scenes and unearned power-ups. A series set to run for 60+ episodes must have some degree of planning behind it, but this show regularly feels like the staff have no idea what they're doing and just stalling for time."
For Laura Thornton of Comic Book Resources, Digimon Adventure: has a "fatigued story"; "a show with a single-minded focus: getting its characters from point A to point B while creating spectacle through life-or-death battles... Every. Episode. And it gets tiring, not just for the characters, but for the audience as well.", by highlighting more than 16 episodes straight [out of 30] of non-stop battles, she explains the importance of the fun, light-hearted episodes in the original series "that allowed the first series to be so memorable -- by leveraging the juxtaposition between the fierce fights and silly situations, the original Digimon Adventure was able to make us cry, cheer and laugh within the space of a single episode without it seeming out of place.", but also with more modern models such as My Hero Academia or Avatar: The Last Airbender; "the constant spectacle of over-the-top fights has long grown stale."; "While finally reintroducing some talking Digimon -- rather than making them proper characters with a culture or unique problem -- the show basically turns into damsels in distress, victims who must be protected by Taichi."; she also mentions "many questionable choices", including "the hyper-focusing on Taichi, sidelining the other DigiDestined in favor of episode after episode of showdowns.".
See also
In Spanish: Digimon Adventure (serie de televisión de 2020) para niños
