[Kiwami]

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.