Digimon Adventures ~ Japanese version
+ IMPORTANT MOMENTS / DIALOGUES / QUOTES
+ PARALLELS / REFERENCES to other past Adventures media
+ THEORIES / {POSSIBLE} POTENTIAL / FUTURE CALLBACKS?
Hey, Agumon? Why am I here? You said something about help?
Agumon: It was supposed to be all over! Mugendramon {MACHINEDRAMON (in US)} {Adventure} and Chimeramon {02} became one! The Digital World’s time axis slipped and revived the defeated Devimon and Etemon [into the current timeline]! […]
Agumon: So… The Network’s time axis went screwy and made another world and Chimeramon and Mugendramon… […]
Ryo: This is a computer world, right? Something’s making it go strange and Agumon and his friends’ venture, which was supposed to have ended,
began again?
Agumon (happy): That’s it, you got it.
Gennai: Agumon did not explain to satisfaction. I’ll have to explain.
(full screen of SEASON 1 VILLAINS)
Gennai: Once, evil digimon such as Devimon and Etemon were trying to take over the world. However, from the world of humans came the Chosen Children who, together with the power of Agumon, Gabumon, Patamon, and others, brought peace back to the world. But that defeat would not last.
(full screen of MILLENNIUMON)
Gennai: Chimeramon and Mugendramon. Originally, these two accidentally created an unnatural FUSION digimon. After being defeated by Taichi and the others, they {Chimeramon and Mugendramon} fused in order to survive and were reborn into something new and ABNORMAL *:
*Two things: Gennai uses the masculine {form of Japanese} to refer to them, and it’s implied that the fusion was mutually done. It’s also implied that the result of the fusion is distinct from Chimeramon and Mugendramon.
Ryo: That means they turned into a terrible digimon, right?
Gennai: His name is Millenniumon! He is the root of all evil. Millenniumon’s dark power is incomparable. His disruption of time is destroying this world!
Agumon: So, the evil digimon truly should have been defeated and it was all over, but now our battles have to restart!
Gennai: By all rights, those Digimon who were defeated in battles should have stayed defeated. Taichi and the others are trapped. The only one I could warp here was Agumon.
Agumon: In the hopes of finding someone, I used Taichi’s name to access the human world. I needed someone with enough faith to touch the digivice.
Ryo. What will you do?
Ryo: I see. I’m the substitute. Chimeramon and Mugendramon fused into Millenniumon, who remains undefeated and trapped Taichi-kun and the others, who need to be saved. Agumon asked for my help for this.
Agumon (begging): Ryo! You’re our only hope! Please! Help us!
Gennai: In the summer of 1999, Taichi, Yamato, and the others, along with Agumon and others, came to save the Digital World. The Digital World became peaceful AFTER the defeat of Apocalymon.
However, Mugendramon and Chimeramon, barely surviving, became a new Digimon.
They became Millenniumon.
By going back in time,
Millenniumon would throw the adventure of Taichi and the others into chaos.
That you prevented.
Gennai: Millenniumon was destroyed by your power, but he revived again and again. However, through the efforts of you and the Digimon, he has been obstructed every time. That’s right. You fought together with
the Digimon Kaiser– rather, Ichijouji Ken.
However, during the last battle, you and Millenniumon were blown away in an explosion. You to the world of the past, him to the world of the FUTURE.
(Millenniumon revives and a Dark Seed shoots forth. Ken shouts:)
Ken: Watch out!
(Ken runs up and gets hit by the Dark Seed and collapses.
Wormmon races to his side.)
Wormmon: Ken!
(Everyone else rushes to Ken’s side)
Wormmon: Aaah! Ken! KEN!!
Millenniumon: Hahhahha… I cannot die… Your {*Ryo’s} holy power may persist. I too… my dark power too is eternal… Absorbed… spirit…
(Millenniumon disintegrates. There is a fade-out and the scene cuts to Gennai’s house, where everyone surrounds a sleeping Ken. Wormmon monologues.)
Wormmon: Ken… Ken… In order to save us, he… in order to save… Ohhh… Ken… I’m sorry. I’m so sorry… Ken…
(Everyone is happy he’s awake)
Wormmon: Ken!
(Scene fades out to a series of full-screen images
and Wormmon monologues again.)
Wormmon: Thus our adventure was over. Through the courage and efforts of Ryo and Ken, all evil vanished. Taichi and Ryo went back to the real world. If something happens to the Digital World, they’ll come back. Ken stayed in this world to rest until the wound he received healed. After a while it healed. However, Ken has changed a bit. The black mass that hit him that time… Ken became cold. But I believe, surely Ken will become gentle again someday. Ken was injured for our sake. Now I… I will protect Ken. I believe someday the three of us might go on an adventure again. I believe…
(The credits roll and then comes an epilogue. The only epilogue in the 4-game Ryo vs Millenniumon cycle. The scene: the Kaiser and Wormmon walk up to a cliff overlooking what’s probably the Dark Ocean.)
Digimon Kaiser: I have returned to show this world… I am different from Millenniumon. I am… I am… I am the Digimon Kaiser!
(The screen scrolls up to a starry sky and “The End” in English.
*This is, however, only the second game in four.)
{Ken begins to hear DEVIMONS’ echoing evil laughter}
{Ken begins to scream in his terror after he looks}
It’s said that Millenniumon ALREADY
DOMINATES THE WORLD OF THE FUTURE.
{translation of Wonderswan games via site “Yesterday”}
{various cards depicting the various forms of MILLENNIUMMON.
Note the middle cards showing him in the same form
of a being with two heads and glowing red eyes
encased inside a Crystal.}
But for complete dominance,
the source of the Digital World, the ENIAC,
must be completely destroyed so that he may remake history to his liking and achieve total domination.
“THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY” “THE NEXT OPPORTUNITY”
“The next opportunity” “The next opportunity.”
(Interviewer): –Incidentally,
is Ryou Akiyama {Tamers} THE SAME as the Ryou from 02…?
Hiromi Seki: Of course he is (laughs).
Hiroyuki Kakudou: I’ve said this before in some other interview, but I was really shocked. Like, wait, really? (laughs)
Kaizawa: He appeared in 02 based on what was going on at the time, right?
Seki: He did, he did.
Kaizawa: We cast (Junichi) Kanemaru-san as Ryou Akiyama’s voice actor. He had a really bright and refreshing voice, so as soon as we’d casted him, we ended up deciding to give him that kind of personality. Like, “oh, that refreshing guy” (laughs).
Seki: If Ryou-kun had actually been in the 2000 summer movie, {*Hurricane Touchdown/The Golden Digimentals, as they had once originally planned for Ryo[u]} he might not have ended up with that kind of refreshing personality.
Kaizawa: We had some kind of trouble with voice acting when it came to Ryou Akiyama. Cyberdramon was voiced by (Ikkei) Seta-san, so normally, when Cyberdramon evolves into Justimon, Seta-san should be the one to do the voice. But in actuality, Ryou Akiyama’s voice actor, Kanemaru-san, was the one to do it. The reason for this is that when Justimon shows up, he’s a really “cool” character, and he’s kind of like some kind of transforming hero…so we thought, if he’s going to greet them with that refreshing “hey guys!”, that’s more of a thing suited to Kanemaru-san’s voice. Seta-san was like, “why not me?…” It’s a pretty funny story.
–Ken’s recollection scene had a certain character named Ryou appear in it.
Seki: I think it had some kind of relation to one of the second series’s movies. When we were working on the second series’s summer movie with (Director) Yamauchi-san, we actually had a lot of different proposals for the plot. One of the first proposals we came up with had Ryou-kun appear in it, and I’m certain the theme of the movie even had some slogan like “there’s a Digimon waiting for you.” Think of it like some kind of imaginary plot that’s since vanished. So we were planning to go with this until the beginning of February {2000}, but then it all eventually fell through. We figured, okay, this is probably too sad for a summer movie. Somewhere along the line there it must have ended up picking up a really sad aura…
[…] Terriermon’s popularity was incredible. I said earlier that “the plot with Ryou-kun fell through~”, but Terriermon was actually still planned to be in that one too. So Ryou-kun’s partner Digimon might have actually been Terriermon…
- above interview text from Digimon Official Super Encyclopedia —
Interview with Hiromi Seki, Hiroyuki Kakudou, and Yukio Kaizawa
{translation via and with credit to Digi-Lab Blog}
(check comments for link!)
“Early morning in the small mountains of Turkey.
Ryo is typing into his laptop while a native boy looks on.”
- Digimon Adventure: Childrens’ War Game
Storyboards Book
{translation via and with credit to Onkei of website Digital Scratch}
(check comments for link!)
{from the Tag Tamers summary by site “Yesterday”}:
At the end of New Year’s Eve of 1999, two chimera-type digimon
fused together to survive. The resulting digimon, Millenniumon, then
generated a time slip that resurrected many of the evil digimon
deleted in the summer of 1999 and captured the Chosen Children. In a last-ditch effort to rescue the Chosen Children and defeat
Millenniumon, a young boy with no digivice or digimon partner of his
own was summoned into the Digital World.
With the aid of Agumon and the other Chosen Childrens’ digimon, he defeated Millenniumon and released the Chosen. He was then sent back.
Several months later, the game begins anew as he and his friend,
Ken, watch the Omegamon vs. Diablomon battle
of the Bokura no War Game movie.
Once Diablomon is defeated, however, Ryo and Ken are called to the Digital World to take out a Diablomon clone. It soon proves to be a trap laid by Millenniumon to lure Ryo back into the Digital World, then the world splits in two and Ryo and Ken must tag team to
defeat Millenniumon on both halves of the world.
(Yes, in games, 02!Ryo was involved in “Our War Game” canon.
Seki confirms he’s the same Ryo as the one in the games and Tamers.)
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