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0:02 yeah this is billiam i don't know if i've made this clear but i like digimon i like it quite a bit i think digimon as a series has continued to resonate with me through adulthood because it's always been so real not like the giant monsters that's not too real but because of its cast of characters kids who have family issues feel pressure to succeed and have to learn to get along with each other and take on responsibility these touching character arcs are paired with tiny monsters the kids are partnered to who transform into increasingly more powerful giant monsters which creates this great visual representation of the kids growth the cool part about the original digimon series digimon adventure is it's had many sequels where the audience has gotten to watch this cast of characters grow up becoming middle schoolers then high schoolers and finally in the latest film entry digimon adventure last evolution kazuna growing
0:48 up and taking their first steps on into adulthood while digimon adventure had a really solid finale its sequels haven't really always been the case the last entry in the series digimon adventure try seemed to advocate for this never-ending digimon adventure series where the cast of characters get to go on adventures for years to come and maybe they did but like all things in life that would have eventually come to an end this film was surprisingly announced pretty close to the end of digimon adventure try which is kind of funny because digimon adventure try was supposed to celebrate digimon's 15th anniversary but it took so long to come out and then conclude that by the time it was over they were already announcing their project for the 20th anniversary well it's finally out of north america because earlier this year it had its theatrical plans for release here kind
1:34 of cancelled because of the world but i got to watch it the first day it was out on digital and i was a wreck for some reason i chose to watch this film right at 11 a.m and uh you know i couldn't do anything for the rest of the day yeah i may have cried but in reality that's really no different than any other tuesday at 11 a.m it's a pretty satisfying conclusion to the series it made me ready to say goodbye to these characters and it had a really interesting storyline that satisfied my desire to see a more grown-up story with these characters so i'm going to talk about this film and unpack it here because therapy is expensive once again there will not be any major spoilers but i am going to be breaking down the premise of the plot so i can talk about it a little bit uh and speaking of segways what as somebody who likes preserving the integrity of my face when it comes
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3:53 getting ready to go off to college just like the characters in that series and last evolution came out right as i'm getting ready to finish my undergrad just like ty and matt it's almost like this was on purpose it felt like this movie was announced pretty quickly after try but it came just as soon as adulthood came into my life last evolution takes place 11 years after the finale of digimon adventure and sees matt and ty the two focused characters getting ready to finish college and not really knowing what they want to do with their lives of the other digidestined their age matt and ty are the only two still regularly fighting alongside their digimon partners using their powers to stop the occasional rampant digimon who's able to slip into the human world from the digital world while they get attention in the press as sort of heroes their lives are a different story they're lost with less
4:39 purpose than ever before tai is unable to decide on his thesis topic and matt thinks he might go to grad school or maybe join japan's defense forces he's not really sure the only thing they're still putting passion into is their digimon which is something they're finding less and less time for it's kind of a bummer they go out drinking together and try to pawn off watching each other's digimon so their lives won't totally be inconvenienced when they step into the next chapter the group from the original series is not as close as they used to be tai's digivice and his iconic goggles sit in a drawer untouched matt is no longer pursuing music but he misses it he really really misses it however they soon find out they will not be able to hold on to their digimon forever tai mat izzy tk and kari are asked to pursue the mysterious eos mon two researchers from america believe this new digimon is tied
5:25 to a global aurora phenomenon which has been linked to a series of comas affecting digi destined around the world the battle gets tense so ty and matt have agu monogamon fused into omnimon a powerful transformation the duo only brings out as a last resort for the first time ever the fusion breaks eosman gets away and ty and matt notice a ring around their digivices which they are told is a countdown to an inevitable fate for all digidestined as digimon partners grow up their bond with their digimon will eventually break ending their partnership and leaving the digimon to an unknown fate with the never ending stress of adulthood and such sad consequences on full display it's pretty surprising that the film is able to not be super depressing if you watched try and were disappointed by its apathetic tone and stoic characters you'll be happy with last evolution despite the darker plot elements this is still digimon and it takes the time to
6:11 remind us hollywood a cracker it also has real stakes none of that oh my god i'm so sad that this building got destroyed even though no people were hurt weird mellow drama that digimon try had yeah it displays a lot of the depressing aspects and worries of adult life but that doesn't mean there's not fun to be had with it what are these things this scene is so funny but it's also honest and then it's kind of a bummer as they say in the films they keep growing up but the digimons stay the same and there is this melancholy tone watching them struggling as adults this is a story that works really well for its format an hour and a half film there is some good moments and life updates with the rest of the cast but this is a story focused on matt and ty and that's okay
6:57 it makes sense that matt and ty would be the ones still having trouble deciding what they want to do as adults and that they'd be the ones who need an extra push to figure it out in a story sense after try dragged on for six movies and took three years to come out it's kind of a breath of fresh air to see a really tightly written hour and a half movie it's a good way to wrap things up and i don't really see myself revisiting try just for fun but i can totally see myself watching last kazuna alongside the other digimon adventure films if i ever needed a little digimon fix and while it does touch upon some identical plot lines that tri has i find it to be more thematically relevant here and it's executed way better so i'm not upset about it if you're gonna go back and try to recycle old ideas i'm always a fan of
7:42 going back and retrying something that didn't quite work rather than trying to top something that did work well try is canon last evolution does not pick up the plot threads left by try which i think is for the best it assumes part of its audience is casual viewership this is a story about the characters not deep digimon lore nerd junk i'll be so okay if i never hear the name homeostasis or idrisal again the action is good it's excellent at times actually but i do wish they did some more fan service i don't mean fan service but i have to admit that opening sequence with andrew woman looking badass as hell made me really happy i mean more fan service like recreating the original digivolving sequences i wanted to see wargreymon and metal guru vermont i love seeing the zero two kids have such a prominent role
8:28 but show me some more fusions show me piledramon these are really small things that i kind of just wanted because the film did leave me satisfied it would have just been nice if they indulged fans just a little bit more right before they asked them to say goodbye but this doesn't really affect the quality of the film the film is satisfying and it left an impression on me it has a good message that i think will resonate with people especially if they grew up watching digimon so if you wanted my recommendation before watching it go watch it i also highly recommend that you watch the sora short that toei put out as well there's supposed to be four more of these shorts but there hasn't really been a lot of announcements on whether or not we're ever gonna see them in north america officially so go watch it then please come back here and watch this because now it's spoiler time
9:24 this movie wrecked me like that hard cut and they're just gone to the extended cry with no musical score realizing sora already lost be oman seeing omni [ __ ] up oh but at least we got that jazzy braveheart rendition the whistle matt's new harmonica so first i want to talk about why i think this is a good definitive finale for digimon adventure than some personal takeaways so digimon adventure community futurama these things are connected because they all have about ten different finales digimon zero two's finale a million points of light and digimon adventure tries finale a million plot lines might make our series all right we're both very different adventure zero two chose to end the series with a time skip where we saw characters who were so far off and distant from the ones we knew their life
10:10 decisions seemed out of character tai becomes a lawyer and matt becomes the first astronaut to land on mars even as a kid i was like that's dumbest try almost tried to ignore zero two's controversial decisions but last evolution wants to make sense of them for the first time ever i can sort of see the steps that led to a 20 year old finale that has left me bitter for 20 years and not just because ty and sora don't kiss something that's a little bit more clear than matt just deciding to go to space one day you know that thing we all do at one point or another in our lives but while the movie is a satisfying ending as a fan it also has a good message about letting things go and the difficult yet inevitable moment where you have to enter into a new stage of life adulthood is here as suddenly as
10:58 aguman and disappear we make friends just to get too busy to see them and grow apart life gets so chaotic that we don't even have time to notice it and as soon as we do everything has already changed we hear that digimon grow apart from their partners because as kids grow up their potential slowly shrinks until it's gone matt isn't going to become a rock star tai doesn't get to play soccer forever the final fight is brutal seeing omnimod get destroyed brings back that same feeling of helplessness watching wargreymon and metal gurumon get [ __ ] up in our war game thai bleeding badly brings this level of danger and desperation and the whole setting this pocket dimension where no one has to grow up no one has to say goodbye to their digimon matt tai gabumon and agumon know they have to say goodbye
11:43 sooner so they can save their friends letting go and admitting they have to move on with their lives is what makes that awesome final evolution so worth it i i know some people are going to be asking my opinion of the new digimon uh they're fine they serve their purpose in the story and it's a satisfying moment but i'm not like a fan of the digimon themselves i don't hate them or anything it's just the neutral reaction at the end of the film matt buys a new harmonica and soothes my soul before the inevitable disappearance of the digimon and while the film reuses a lot of auditorial and visual iconography from digimon this moment is important and not just as a callback he's not pursuing a music career anymore but the things we love from our youth will always be there for us to lean on in one way or another
12:30 the ending of zero two is important to remember because at the end of the film when tri says we'll see each other again someday we know it's true moving on growing up entering a new stage of life it's a scary thing it feels like we lose our potential as we grow out of childhood because the world seems to get more and more narrow but there's always room to grow it just becomes something that we have to take our time to try to find again i want to learn piano i want to take an improv class i want to learn portuguese and i don't think i'm going to want to do youtube forever i want to start a podcast i have no idea what i'm doing and if i fail i fall down flat on my face in front of 300 000 people that's a little nerve-wracking but we're practicing with a watch-through of the
13:15 new digimon series over on my second channel and despite starting off a little rough we're getting better and better every single episode and pursuing all of those new interests that's gonna be hard but i think i'll do it one day just as one day i'll have to make a decision for what my next step in my life is gonna be digimon was really important to me growing up and i celebrated and have thoroughly analyzed why i have loved and not so much loved so many of these shows but in an age of never ending franchises it was inevitable there was going to be a time where it wasn't made for me anymore the new digimon adventure reboot series is really fun it's pretty good but so far it hasn't gotten real with the kids as much as i would have liked when compared to the original series but that doesn't mean it's without its own merit and that
14:01 doesn't mean it won't be important to kids who are growing up now watching it the things we loved as kids will always be there for us to lean on but that doesn't mean we have to indulge in them forever moving on growing up trying new things these things are important too so overall this movie just really sucked like i really wish they put in some you know music from popular 2000s bands like check this out is
14:47 so anyways i've been streaming on the purple uh streaming website the youtube algorithm doesn't like creators to say in videos their competition sunday's at 6 p.m eastern standard time that link is in the description down below i'm trying something new and i'm going to try to keep this schedule up for at least until the end of the year then try to find a new schedule that works with my new schedule for next year uh but besides that i'm tired i'm stressed i'll see you next week [Music]
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