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CGV Blitz to Open Digimon Adventure tri. Anime Film in Indonesia

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:

Natsuki Hanae as Taichi Yagami

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

Yūko Kaida as Maki Himekawa, a mysterious woman who appears before the DigiDestined

Miho Morikawa as Meiko Mochizuki, a shy and quiet girl who transfers into the same class as Taichi

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]