Digital Monsters Stuff

So I went to go see... there's like 6 Digimon movies, in this new Digimon Adventure Tri series, same continuity as the Digimon Adventure show from when I was a kid with Matt and Tai and Sora and all. And they're serializing the showings of all 6 movies, in theaters, and today's showing was the fourth one, and the fifth one will be in another couple of months and all that-- and looking it up apparently Digimon is a spin-off of Tamagotchi pets but designed to appeal to boys, and the Tri series is geared toward an adult audience (i.e. people who grew up with the original show) because kids apparently aren't as big into Digimon these days, which is sad. 

The Digimon movie from 2000 is on YouTube (I guess legally because you figure it would have been taken down by now if there were a copyright issue,) but it's even weirder than I remember it being. The first couple of sections were directed by Mamoru Hosoda which is totally obvious in retrospect, and the third section follows the Digimon Adventures 02 cast (which takes place canonically in 2002, but the intertitles note the section as taking place in the "present," which is two years off of course); the Tri series reverts to following the cast of the first series but I think the 02 cast are somewhere in this series as well; they could get killed off in the first movie or something might be what happens. 

So I watched two Digimon movies today, and now gosh darn it I'm totally invested in what'll happen in Tri parts five and six, even though I walked in on the series halfway through with only very very vague memories of what happened in the first Digimon Adventures serieses. There's sort of a reboot at the end of the third one, like a literal reboot of the digital world to flush out this virus, and so the fourth one begins with none of the Digimon able to remember anything, like any of it. Well, one of them remembers... so the virus may not be as flushed as we thought...

But Digimon: The Movie has its own issues, like Kokomon comes back after he dies which doesn't make any sense because Digimon only resurrect as DigiEggs if they die in the digital world which Kokomon clearly does not do. Unless-- and this is probably it-- when Angemon and Angewomon kill him, destroy the virus inside of him, the true Kokomon form is inside Wendigomon, a virus-infected digivolution, and that digivolution counts as its own digital environment which means that Kokomon does die in the digital world?? Which means he gets to come back. Totally logical.