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Digimon Adventure tri. Part I's Newest Video Features "Butter-Fly" Song

posted on by Egan Loo
6-part anime to launch in theaters, on Blu-ray, on iTunes on November 21

Toei Animation began streaming the latest advance video for the first part of the Digimon Adventure tri. anime on Saturday. The same video, which features the theme song "Butter-Fly" by Kōji Wada, debuted at the Digimon Adventure Fes. 2015 event that same day.

AiM (Ai Maeda) is returning for the first part's ending theme "I wish." Kōji Wada returns to perform the original opening theme song, "Butter-Fly," while Ayumi Miyazaki also returns 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 will go on sale on November 25.

The event also debuted a new poster visual:

The anime was first announced to be a "sequel anime series" premiering in spring. It will be a 6-part film series, with the first film titled "Saikai" (Reunion) starting a limited three-week engagement in 10 theaters on November 21. The Blu-ray Disc for the first part will initially go on sale at the theaters on November 21, and iTunes will also sell the first part on the same day. The retail Blu-ray and DVD releases will follow on December 18. The earlier Digimon Adventure 02 television anime will receive a 15th Anniversary Blu-ray Box in Regular and "Jogress" Editions on March 2.

The cast for the human characters in Digimon Adventure tri. is completely different from the original series, and will star:

Natsuki Hanae as Taichi Yagami
Yoshimasa Hosoya as Yamato Ishida
Suzuko Mimori as Sora Takenouchi
Mutsumi Tamura as Kōshirō Izumi
Hitomi Yoshida as Mimi Tachikawa
Junya Ikeda as Jō Kido
Junya Enoki as Takeru Takaishi
MAO as Hikari Yagami

The original cast for the Digimon partners are returning for the new anime. Atsuya Uki (Cencoroll, tsuritama) will provide the character designs, Yuuko Kakihara (Heaven's Lost Property) will act as series script supervisor, and Keitaro Motonaga (Rayearth) will direct. The rest of the staff includes:

  

Thanks to Dennis R. for the news tip

Source: Animate.tv (link 2)


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