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Once upon a time (2 years ago but whose counting) I gave the first two Digimon tri movies the benefit of the doubt. I had faith that Toei would answer my questions and create a satisfying follow up to their beloved original two seasons. I was wrong.

Digimon tri is trash. Absolute trash that only exists so Toei can grub some money out of a franchise that's been on the decline for over a decade. The first movie pulls you in with a good balance of fanservice and some intrigue surrounding the 02 cast going missing and it all sharply goes downhill from there.

Meiko feels like ... some 13 year olds attempt at a Digimon OC which fits since this whole thing comes off as someone who didn't like 02's bitter fanfiction. Honestly if you took her out of the movie and made Meicoomon some random Digimon nothing would change plotwise.

As for the Season 1 crew, non of them really change or develop at all through the series. If anything they regress at points just so they can rehash character growth they had years ago. And let's not even talk about how not only is the 02 cast shafted offscreen for the entire 6 movies but noone in the Season one cast ever concerned about their friends/comrades who have been missing for weeks, maybe even months.

It really does feel like the writer hates season 2 and is really only barely willing to acknowledge it exists.

And let's not forget the "villain" Dark Gennai who is absolute trash. Despite this series clearly wanting to tug you in by doing bad things to these characters you care about they give you the most cartoonishly evil bad guy I've seen in a Digimon series. I could take Leviathan from Applimon more seriously than this shmuck.

But worst of all is the homogenization of the Digimon partners who all basically became the same overly childish, loud, and obnoxious group of sidekicks since the fucking Minions. Ya know, except for the brief few minutes where the movie needed to remind you that Biyomon "caaaaaaaares about Sora".

The story comes across as super muddled too cramming in things like Homeostasis, universal reboots, amnesia and a very unsatisfying rendition of the "original Digidestined" that were briefly mentioned in the original show. It's almost like this was meant to be a full TV show that got ponded into a movie series mold in order to scrape a few more dollary doos out of it. Also, Crunchyroll's awful choice to then awkwardly chop those "movies" back into episodes in order to scrape together some extra ad hits is also egregious.

The soundtrack really pales in comparison to the original show too. While the Butterfly and Brave Heart remixes are fine, Brave Heart gets dropped completely at some point leading to really unfitting evolution/battle scenes with Butterfly draped over them.

There's also some very heavy plotholes with the story. Like Agumon having memories of the OG special from before season 1 despite it being stated in season 1 that that was a different Koromon. Or the part where they need their memories to hit the Mega stage despite Biyomon and Patamon doing that already without their memories.

There's more I could say about how much this movie does wrong in my eyes but I think I'll leave it here for now. Tri as a whole gets like a 3.5/10 from and this last movie gets a 2/10.