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Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna Film Reveals Cast, Designs for Adult Digimon Adventure 02 Characters
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Toei revealed more characters and cast members on Sunday for the Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna anime film. The new characters are the adult versions of the main characters of the Digimon Adventure 02 anime, as well as their partner Digimon. Digimon Adventure 02 aired for 50 episodes in 2000 to 2001. The voice actors for the Digimon are reprising their roles.
Fukujūrō Katayama as Daisuke Motomiya (Davis Motomiya)
Junko Noda as V-Mon
Arthur Lounsbery as Ken Ichijōji
Naozumi Takahashi as Wormmon
Ayaka Asai as Miyako Inoue (Yolei Inoue)
Kouichi Toochika as Hawkmon
Yoshitaka Yamaya as Iori Hida (Cody Hida)
Megumi Urawa as Armadimon
The film will open in Japan on February 21, 2020. Toei teases the film as "Taichi and Agumon's final adventure." The taglines on the teaser visual below read, "We will always be together," and, "We walk together with Digimon, toward all the 'children.'"
Tomohisa Taguchi (four-part Persona 3 the Movie film series, Kino's Journey - The Beautiful World, Twin Star Exorcists) is directing the film at Yumeta Company. Akatsuki Yamatoya (Digimon Adventure, Digimon Frontier, Digimon: Data Squad) is writing the screenplay, and Seiji Tachikawa (Kino's Journey - The Beautiful World, Blue Spring Ride) is the chief animation director. Toei Animation is credited for production.
Hiromi Seki, Toei Animation's original producer for the Digimon anime projects, is serving as the supervisor of the new film project. Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru is also returning from the first Digimon anime projects as the new film project's character designer. Kenji Watanabe is designing the Digimon monsters for the new project, as he has done for the previous Digimon projects.
Other cast members are reprising their roles from the Digimon Adventure tri. anime film series.
- Natsuki Hanae as Taichi Yagami
- Yoshimasa Hosoya as Yamato Ishida
- Suzuko Mimori as Sora Takenouchi
- Mutsumi Tamura as Kōshirō Izumi
- Hitomi Yoshida as Mimi Tachikawa
- Junya Ikeda as Jō Kido
- Junya Enoki as Takeru Takaishi
- M.A.O as Hikari Yagami
- Chika Sakamoto as Agumon
- Mayumi Yamaguchi as Gabumon
- Atori Shigematsu as Piyomon
- Takahiro Sakurai as Tentomon
- Kinoko Yamada as Palmon
- Junko Takeuchi as Gomamon
- Miwa Matsumoto as Patamon
- Yuka Tokumitsu as Tailmon
The new film project is part of the overall 20th anniversary celebration of the franchise.
Source: Press release
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