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Digimon Adventure 02 The Beginning Anime Film Streams Opening Video (Updated)

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The anime will get a special program featuring of the cast and the film's first four minutes on Thursday. The special will stream on YouTube in Japanese and English. Update: The first four minutes of the film are available now with English subtitles at 32:00 in the below video.

The film will open in Japan on Friday.

The film will dub on November 8 and in Japanese with subtitles on November 9 at 7:00 p.m. local time.

The film's story is set in February 2012, a little after the stories in the Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna anime film. The film will feature main lead Daisuke Motomiya (Davis Motomiya in English) and other main characters at 20 years old.

Returning cast include:

• Fukujūrō Katayama as Daisuke Motomiya
• Junko Noda as V-Mon
• Arthur Lounsbery as Ken Ichijōji
• Naozumi Takahashi as Wormmon
• Ayaka Asai as Miyako Inoue
• Kouichi Toochika as Hawkmon
• Hida
• Megumi Urawa as Armadimon
• Junya Enoki as Takeru Takaishi
• Miwa Matsumoto as Patamon
• M.A.O as Hikari Yagami
• Yuka Tokumitsu as Tailmon

New cast include:

• Megumi Ogata as Rui Ōwada, a mysterious youth who descended from Tokyo Tower and says, "I was the first in the world to become a DigiDestined"
• Rie Kugimiya as Ukkomon, a Digimon who looks like a slippery marine creature and who is the key to the plot

Director Toei Animation are returning from Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna.

Digimon Adventure 02 was the first direct television anime sequel to the first Digimon Adventure series, although it featured a new set of main characters. The show aired from April 2000 to March 2001 in Japan, and then it aired from August 2000 to May 2001 in the United States. announced on July 29 that it will release the anime in English and then in Japanese.

The Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna sequel opened in Japan in February 2020, and then got a release outside Japan in 2020-2021.

Source: Press release