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CGV Blitz to Open Digimon Adventure tri. Anime Film in Indonesia
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Indonesian film chain CGV Blitz announced on Friday that it will open the Digimon Adventure tri.: Reunion (Digimon Adventure tri. Saikai) anime film. CGV Blitz did not provide an opening date for the film, but noted that it will open "soon."
The first film in the planned six-part anime film series, Digimon Adventure tri. Saikai is the sequel to the Digimon Adventure 1999 television anime series. The film opened in Japan last November, earning 59 million yen in 10 theaters in its opening weekend. As of January 4, the film has earned 229 million yen and sold 146,671 tickets.
The cast for the human characters in Digimon Adventure tri. is completely different from the original Digimon Adventure series, and includes:
Suzuko Mimori as Sora Takenouchi
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Yamato Ishida
Mutsumi Tamura as Kōshirō Izumi
Hitomi Yoshida as Mimi Tachikawa
Junya Ikeda as Jō Kido
Junya Enoki as Takeru Takaishi
MAO as Hikari Yagami
Daisuke Namikawa as Daigo Nishijima, a part-time teacher who serves as a substitute homeroom teacher
Additionally, Hiroaki Hirata narrates the films, and Chiaki Matsuzawa plays a news announcer.
The original cast for the Digimon partners returned for the new anime. Atsuya Uki (Cencoroll, tsuritama) provided the character designs, Yuuko Kakihara (Heaven's Lost Property) is acting as series script supervisor, and Keitaro Motonaga (Rayearth) is directing the films.
AiM (Ai Maeda) returned for the first part's ending theme "I wish." Kōji Wada returned to perform the original opening theme song "Butter-Fly," while Ayumi Miyazaki also returned to perform the insert song "Brave Heart." All three songs are new recordings of songs from the original Digimon Adventure series, and the CDs for all three shipped in Japan in November.
The second film is slated to open in Japan on March 12 for limited three-week run.
Television channel Indosiar aired the original Digimon Adventure television anime in Indonesia.
[Via Kaori Nusantara]