Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning (Movie) - Character Art, Cast, Story Details, & New Characters

From DigiFes, and associated press materials, we finally have a good bit of early details for the next Digimon movie:
Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning

First up, the official site is up.

We knew that Tomohisa Taguchi and Akatsuki Yamatoya were returning as director and writer respectively were returning from Kizuna. Yumeta Company will also be returning for animation production.

They have now confirmed all 12 cast members for the 02 cast from Kizuna are also, which minus 1 who is semi-retired, isn't a wild shock:
Fukujuro Katayama as Daisuke Motomiya
Junko Noda as V-Mon
Arthur Lounsbery as Ken Ichijouji
Naozumi Takahashi as Wormmon
Ayaka Asai as Miyako Inoue
Kouichi Toochika as Hawkmon
Yoshitaka Yamaya as Iori Hida
Megumi Urawa as Armadimon
Junya Enoki as Takeru Takaishi
Miwa Matsumoto as Patamon
M.A.O as Hikari Yagami
Yuka Tokumitsu as Tailmon

We also have an early story synopsis/teaser...
The story if described as...
The title foreshadows the beginning of 'something', and takes place in February 2012. It is a story set slightly later than Digimon Advneture tri. & Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna. The main characters in the film, shown in new images, have changed from that film.

The main character, Daisuke Motomiya, and his friends, are now 20 years old, and the visuals of the characters shows fine changes that only the reality-conscious Digimon can make.

It is a sequel of Last Evolution Kizuna.

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And details for a couple new characters, which we previously saw in the teaser poster from last year...

Megumi Ogata will play the new character Rui Owada. A mysterious young man who was saved by Daisuke and the others when he fell from Tokyo Tower, he says he's the first chosen child. This is the first appearance of Ogata in Digimon, and they trust the director quite a bit saying "I love the images that Director Taguchi creates"

Ogata is an extremely well known voice actor, with some of their better known roles being... Yukitoin Cardcaptor Sakura, Shinji in Evangelion, Sailor Uranus in Sailor Moon, and Kurama in Yu Yu Hakusho.


Rie Kugimiya has been chosen to play Ukkomon, the Digimon that holds the key to this story. Ukkomon looks and sounds like a cute & slippery marine creature, but it's an important DIgimon with many mysteries. Kugimiya commented they were perplexe dby the strong impact of the name, but she played it like a cute Digimon, like an angel.
Not mentioned is Kugimiya's connection to Digimon, she's played a few different roles most notible Ikuto in Savers.

And character details:

Daisuke- While attending culinary school, he has already begun to training at a ramen ship. On days when the store is closed, he is allowed to use the store as it is and serves family-style ramen as the owner. He spends his days researching ramen with V-mon, even though he lives alone at home.

V-mon- Special Move: V-mon Head- Daisuke's partner, a small dragon-type Digimon. They have had many fights over the years, but their bond is strong because they are in complete agreement on their favorite ramens. They have trained together in ramen and always work together to make the restaurant a success.

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Ken- As the winter of his sophmore year of college approaches, the brilliant & talented Ken is gradually beginning to look more to his future, and he continues to study for the police officer's exam. On campus, he continues to be the object of heated attention from those around him, but not one can get in the way of her leasurely reading time with Wormmon.

Wormmon- Special Move: Nebaneba Net- A larval type Digimon that looks like a caterpillar, Wormmon is Ken's partner. Thanks to the devoted Wormmon, who has always been close to Ken's heart, Ken has grown into a kind young man, and Wormmon is proud of him.

Miyako- After completing her studies in Spain, Miyako is now studying programming in India. Because Koushiro is extrmeley busy, the 'Digimon Connected' community is mainly run by her. She still likes to wear brightly colored clothing.

Hawkmon- Special Move: Feather Slash- A bird-type Digimon who is Miyako's partner. Normally, he acts as a gentleman and has a polite tone, but when Miyako's playfulness gets the better of him, of when he is in a pinch, he shows his temperamental side.

Iori- Iori, the youngest member of the group, has already decided to go to law school and has started working part-time at a lawyer's office, although doing simple tasks. He continues to practice kendo, which he learned from his grandfather, and while he has a serious side, he values the relaxed time he can spend with the cheerful and optimistic Armadimon.

Armadimon- Special Move: Rolling Stone- Iori's partner, a mammal type Digimon with an armadilo-like body. It has a cheerful personality and accepts Iori for who he is, to the point of being too honest. He speaks in a unique Nagoya dialect and is also good at singing.

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Takeru- He is a sophomore in the department of literature. He enjoys spending days with everyone, male and female alike, but when it comes time to get to his computer, he's serious about his writing. However, when it comes time to play with Patamon, he thinks nothing of it.

Patamon- Takeru's partner Digimon, a mammal-type DIgimon with large ears. Since Takery is surrounded by friends at university, he wants to at least play with Takeru when he is home, but tries to not disturb him while he is working on his novels.

Hikari- While studying early childhood education at a junior college, she also works part-time at a daycare center and plays with children in the field. In place of her busy older brother, she works hand-in-hand with Tailmon in Digimon related activities and serves as a hub for her friends.

Tailmon- Hikari's partner Digimon. It is a holy beast type Digimon that looks like a small cat. She's as strong minded as ever, willing to stand up to any opponent for Hikari's sake. When they spend time together, they are very honest and sweet to each other.

Rui Owada- He was rescued by Daisuke and friends when he fell from Tokyo Tower. he claims to be 'the world's first chosen child' and has a Digivice, but no partner Digimon is there.

Ukkomon- A cute-looking Digimon that looks like a slippery marine creature. It is said that it's voice is also cute, but nothing else is currently known about it.

Lots more to come.

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>02 was bad
>Tri and the reboot are pure garbage
>kizuna was mediocre at best
I have no hope that this movie will end up being good

>Tomohisa Taguchi and Akatsuki Yamatoya were returning as director and writer respectively were returning from Kizuna.
FUCK

This Digimon will die, this Digidestined will have sad. No-one cares for them in next movie.

After ghost game I'm actually hopeful they'd learn but I doubt it. We probably won't even know what happened in Tri since those writers didn't think ahead

>It is a sequel of Last Evolution Kizuna.

Why? It feels like everything related to tri. should be left behind in a file storage somewhere and never brought up again.

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>Rui Owada

A New threat to Takari.

The more adventure shit they do, the more it delays them ruining Tamers. So I'm happy this is happening. Remake 02 as a tv show next.

>After ghost game I'm actually hopeful they'd learn
Ghost Game literally has the same problems you fags complained about Colon only it actually looks worse in comparison but it gets a pass because MUH CHILDHOOD.

Why is takeru cosplaying as the MC from Digimon world?

>gets a pass because MUH CHILDHOOD
This point made in ref to Colon or GG?

He's saying that people are too caught up in nostalgia to seperate the reboot from the original while that's not the case with GG

People can just see GG for what it is a generic MOTW kodomo anime while the reboot brought to many ADVENTURE comparisons to not be seen as a shallow follow up

Ghost Game has no overaching plot foe them to butcher, so it can be treated lighter than colon which tried being serious but ended up a mess.

Thanks, had to check. Saw one dude make the point that people only like GG because of nostalgia- which didn't make sense. If that is in ref to the background or reused Digimon, they've done that in every series. Can't just recreate 200 new Digimonn from scratch-unless you're Appmon but that didn't work out for them.

People always get this part wrong. GG has an overarching plot- the Gulus mystery. The problem is GG develops the plot slower than a snail in a snail race, and they choose to focus on MoTWs. Imagine if the early MoTWs in every Digimon series just never end after the 10th episode. The other problem is that most people have probably figured out the Gulus mystery by now- he was bad, now he is good.

I can only hope Hikari and Takeru have more leading roles in this, because I really dont care about the rest of the cast.

I hope they have barely any relevance, they've been part of the last 7 movies

>It is a sequel of Last Evolution Kizuna.
Then why do they still have digimon?

nobody asked for a shitty 02 movie
NOBODY
why does this exist?

Because the writers could not make their 'system' functional so it actually works however they want.

Full potential, want to be an academic=Lose it
Not full potential, graduate with no job yet=Lose it
Start a company before you turn 20=Don't lose it???

>Rui Owada

He looks like a "Sasuke" clone, Meiko was a "Hinata" clone. Why are so many anime are obsessed with pushing "Sasuke" & "Hinata" archetype?

they realized that they have to sell merch
and the
>YOU HAVE TO GROW UP AND GIVE UP ON YOUR DIGIMON
crap doesn't sell

damn no one will be happy about this.

If you look closely you can see what looks like the strap of an eyepatch on his covered up eye.

The only thing people will get out of this is more fucking incest memes, just like every product of the Adventure continuity after the original.