So since yesterday I'm on a nostalgic Digimon-trip which resulted in me finally watching the complete Japanese version of "Our War Game!". I knew I would like this version better since I saw Omnimon's Japanese transformation sequence a good time ago on YouTube and was blown away by it.

The music is so much better and fitting than the stupid pop-rock they put in the American dub (and thus German, since it was based on the American dub). I still like the German version a lot because I grew up with these voices and saw them in the cinema, but I like the Japanese voices too.

I was surprised to find out about the differences in the plot as well. Correct if I'm wrong, but in this version Willis is never mentioned and Diaboromon has nothing to do with Kokomon, right? The more I think about it the more sense it makes to me. This movie was aired in a two-pack with the Adventure 02-Movie in the west, so the western people tried to tie them together by mentioning Willis in "Our War Game!" and giving Diaboromon these weird "Turn back time"-quotes when in the original version he was just a cruel virus-baby that only wanted to eat and play and only communicated via E-Mail.

The only other difference I noticed is that Taichi's fight with Sora is a little bit different. In the dub Taichi barfed in Soras hat or something, in the original it's just about Taichi giving her a hair-clip as a birthday present, which makes Sora mad because she thinks Taichi hates her hat.

And another thing: The Digimon never scream the names of their attacks in the Japanese version. Is that just something from the movie or do they never do that, even in the show? I don't believe that since this fashion has to come from Japan, but in the movie they never say their attacks, only in the dubs.

Either way it was a fantastic experience, I love that movie. The visuals are still really good looking, even the crappy 3D-Models they use sometimes are not too bad. It's also really great to see this movie again after having seen Summer Wars, you really notice where the director wanted to redo his ideas in a more serious (or at least Digimon-free) environment.

Think I'll watch "Diaboromons Revenge" next, I have never seen that one, think it was never dubbed in German. I know about Imperialdramon Paladin Mode and stuff, but I've never seen the full movie.

The throwing up in the hat is mentioned in the dub, but the fight itself is still about the hair clip in both versions.

I haven't seen the Japanese version of Adventure, but the Digimon do scream their attacks out in the series I have seen subbed (Tamers, Frontier, Savers, Xros Wars, and X-Evolution). I think the lack of attack names is just for the movie.

My girlfriend and I picked up Digimon World Dawn and Dusk so we could play together (because she couldn't keep up with my skillz in monster hunter) and it's pretty cool. Maybe not my favorite Digimon World title, but definitely the most polished, because as cool as the older titles were...they were all a bit clunky with their mechanics.

Excited to see where this game goes.

if you like War Game, then check out Summer Wars.

made by the same guy, and the story is almost the same to a T, but the non-digital stuff going on is way better in Summer Wars than it is in War Game.

Summer Wars will make you cry man and feel good about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIGc...ature=youtu.be

well first full on trailer of tri reunion

Ah, good to know.

Interesting. I thought so, but still interesting that they dropped it in this movie.

Eh...

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;)

Meh... too much characters who look the same except the different hair. The Digimon action looks fun, would like to see more of that.

Especially where Alphamon fits into this. But since this is a movie series he could appear in the very last one for what I know.

i could tell who who more by face this time.

Am I the only one that had a slight fangasm?

Probably not, sadly I'm not among those people.