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And the next 4 parts of Tri are out.

More of the same, the Digimon are still as amusing as ever, do remember to use spoiler tags.

Won't even pretend I remembered Seven as a song, so not that nostalgic in that end, and well, these felt even more like episodes than a movie.

Episode 5 was perfectly pointless, or at the very least mostly pointless, it'd have made no difference if they made the onsen part a single 5 minute sequence, there's some foreshadowing here and there and no more.

6 was pretty good! I love how they used Mimi as the element to tie everything together, from Joe's own doubts to getting to know Meiko better as well as the risk the Digimon present to the city, which goes back to the rift between Tai and Matt. Probably my favorite of the four, the ending was touching, and I quite liked how they animated the fight between Togemon and Ogremon.

7 was a continuation of the character arcs, and a lot of humor. Leomon-senpai was glorious, and I hope you find Meiko cute because the staff sure does. It reminds me of what I said about the last set of episodes, the Digimon are really amusing, maybe it's because they keep separating the Mon and Human parts, but the Digimon carry that old school humor most of the time and it is lovely.

8 is the obligatory fight episode. The Kaiser is in fact Ken, or at least everybody assumes so, Imperialdramon shows up, Palmon, Leomon and Gomamon have to fight him with no help because reasons. Mimi and Joe solve their problem in somewhat sudden but logical ways, there's no way Joe would put Gomamon at risk, so it makes sense. Always liked how of the original duos those two had the most differences.

Their new evolutions sort of just happen and Izzy assumes they are related to a cryptic message he got, it seems to be character growth related once again. Zudamon and Lillymon don't get the short end like MetalGreymon in the past episodes and get new evolution sequences, I really, really like them. The digital egg evolutions of the past one are pretty meh for me, but these ones are great, Lillymon's is gorgeous.

We get a brief but cool fight with requisite Brave Heart for hype, Imperialdramon goes down... rather easily, wether it was a fake or a side effect of it's state is never really told.

Coming to think of it, everybody is either shellshocked or developed nerves of steel in this episode, because they don't bat an eye to anything, Ken being the Kaiser again, having to fight Imperialdramon, or even defeating him. Kari and Meiko are the ones that react the most to the cliffhanger too.

Basically, it answered none of the 02 questions, which was the most exciting prospect of the trailers.
The character scenes and comedy ones were still good, and it was enjoyable, but not the most exctiing set per se.

But seriously, that Lillymon evolution sequence.