Opening theme (English) - Rap remix of the Digimon Theme (referred to by fans as the “DigiRap”) However, due to the pilot’s importance to the plot and its short length, it has the largest amount of footage retained from the original. In order to have the three movies able to show in the time presented, a large deal of footage was cut. The result was Digimon: The Movie, an film slightly under eighty-five minutes that was the three entities pasted together with plot details edited to make a singular plot. However, despite the pilot’s importance to the plot, it wasn’t dubbed until after the first season had already aired in the US. While the second season of Digimon was running on Fox Kids, it was decided that there should be a theatrical movie released for Digimon, but the only material available to make a movie was this pilot and two short anime films shown at Toei Animation’s anime fairs: Adventure‘s Our War Game! and Adventure 02's Digimon Hurricane Landing!!/ Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals. It’s very much canon, as events are referred to repeatedly in Digimon Adventure and it’s a major plot point.
Info: This was originally the pilot to the anime series that would eventually become Digimon Adventure and was broadcast on TV on March 6, 1999, one day before the series’ airing. Jeff Nimoy and Bob Buchholz were the primary dub writers for the first two seasons. You probably recognize Hosoda Mamoru as the one behind those great anime films of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, and (more recently) Wolf Children Ame and Yuki. Writer: Yoshida Reiko (original), Jeff Nimoy and Bob Buchholz (dub)
Original title: Digimon Adventure (デジモンアドベンチャー)ĭub title: “Highton View Terrace, Japan - 8 years ago” (first part of Digimon: The Movie)ĭirector: Hosoda Mamoru (original), Jeff Nimoy and Bob Buchholz (dub)