Digimon Adventure tri. Future
デジモンアドベンチャーtri.（トライ）第６章「ぼくらの未来」 (Digimon Adventure tri. 6: Bokura no Mirai)
- Action
- Adventure
- Comedy
- Drama
- Adult Cast
- Pets
- Psychological
- Super Power
- Episodes
- 1
- Duration
- 1 hr 38 min
- Aired
- May 5, 2018
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
Reeling from a devastating loss, the Chosen Children are left shaken and uncertain as Ordinemon tears through everything in its path. With time running out and options dwindling, the group looks to Yamato Ishida to lead them forward—only to find that even he is struggling to see a clear answer.
Still, Yamato and the others refuse to give up. Facing a fierce opponent while some of them are separated from their Digimon partners, the odds are stacked against them, yet they choose to stand together and fight on—determined to protect what remains and secure a future for their friends.
Otaku Consensus
Digimon Adventure tri. Future lands as an emotionally charged but uneven finale: Keitarou Motonaga's direction works best when it treats the original Adventure cast as older, guiltier people rather than nostalgia mascots, and the 01-meets-Tamers tone gives the climax a sharper psychological edge. The recurring complaint is not affection but execution, with critics and fans repeatedly pointing to pacing issues, unanswered questions, and animation/story consistency that falls short of the three-year buildup.
Why You Should Watch
Watch Future if you want Digimon nostalgia with consequences instead of a frictionless anniversary lap. It is built for viewers who grew up with Adventure and now want the partnership fantasy tested by grief, responsibility, and impossible decisions, closer in emotional temperature to Digimon Tamers than to a Saturday-morning reset. The appeal is not just seeing Agumon and Gabumon again; it is seeing Toei Animation stage a finale around older versions of familiar kids, a kaiju-scale threat, artificial-intelligence anxieties, and the discomfort of leadership when no answer feels clean. If you can tolerate the tri. project's uneven pacing, this last film delivers the kind of franchise closure that values bruised character moments as much as super-powered spectacle.
Key Characters
- AAgumon(VA: Chika Sakamoto)
Agumon remains the emotional shorthand of the Adventure era, a partner whose familiar voice and mannerisms make tri.'s heavier tone feel deliberately personal rather than merely grim.
- GGabumon(VA: Mayumi Yamaguchi)
Gabumon's quiet loyalty gives Yamato's leadership doubts a warmer counterweight, making their bond one of the finale's most reliable emotional anchors.
- YYamato Ishida(VA: Yoshimasa Hosoya)
Yamato is compelling here because the film pushes him away from cool-headed rival iconography and into the pressure of being the person others expect to move first.
- KKoushirou Izumi(VA: Mutsumi Tamura)
Koushirou brings the franchise's tech-brain perspective into a story tagged as artificial intelligence and virtual-world drama, giving the crisis an analytical texture beyond combat.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
This is the sixth and final Digimon Adventure tri. film, released on May 5, 2018, closing a project that began in 2015 and unfolded across a multi-film format rather than a weekly TV run.
- 2
Toei Animation produces the film with Atsuya Uki on character design, giving the returning Adventure ensemble a distinct tri. identity instead of simply reproducing the late-1990s television designs.
- 3
Gou Sakabe's music is part of the finale's identity, supporting a register that critics and fans describe as more dramatic and emotionally heavy than a straightforward action reunion.
- 4
The tri. reception is unusually split for a legacy sequel: it holds a 7.22 MAL score from 26,170 votes and a 69/100 AniList score, while web criticism often frames it as enjoyable but disappointing relative to expectations.
- 5
AniList's high-percentage tags place Virtual World, Kaiju, Animals, and Artificial Intelligence all at 79%, which neatly captures how the film fuses creature-partner sentiment with large-scale sci-fi disaster imagery.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Yuuko Kakihara is credited for both series composition and screenplay, meaning the finale's structural direction and script-level execution share the same named writer.
- Fun fact 2
- Akiyoshi Hongou is credited as the original creator, preserving the core Digimon franchise attribution even as tri. brings in a new film-series staff configuration.
- Fun fact 3
- The web review sample shows how divided the project became: 2DAniCritic rated the overall tri. series 2.57 out of 5, with acting scoring highest at 3.50 and story and animation both marked at 2.00.
- Fun fact 4
- A fan review cited the tri. tone as a mix of Digimon Adventure 01 and Digimon Tamers, a useful shorthand for its blend of reunion warmth and heavier psychological drama.
- Fun fact 5
- Among fan-discussion highlights, character plots receive more praise than the overall plotting, with the Koushirou and Mimi dynamic specifically singled out in the research sample as a relationship viewers remembered.
Studios
- Toei Animation
