Digimon Adventure (Novelization)

A trilogy of novelizations of Digimon Adventure, written by series production staff Kakudou Hiroyuki and Masaki Hiro, were released in 2001. They were published by Shueisha under their imprint.
Although the novelizations adapt the general story of Adventure, they were not intended as an exact retelling. Many scenarios and events play out differently from the original series. They also include an extensive amount of added characterization, motivation, backstory and lore details, including plot points that had first been introduced in Digimon Adventure 02 rather than Adventure, as well as ideas of Kakudou's that made it into neither series.
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==Synopsis==
: Main article: Digimon Adventure
In the summer of 1999, seven children attending summer camp are unexpectedly taken into a new and unfamiliar world, where they meet seven Digimon who have been waiting for them. The children and their Digimon set out to figure out where they are and find a way home, fighting for survival against the other hostile Digimon who inhabit the world, but when they learn that have been brought into the Digital World for a higher purpose, they accept the responsibility of resolving the crisis facing it, as well as the role of the "Chosen Children." Even as their travels continue and they face the powerful evil Digimon who threaten both the Digital World and their own world, they also face their own inner demons and begin to mature, and as they do, their partner Digimon become able to evolve into stronger and stronger forms.
==Differences from the Digimon Adventure anime==
===General===
* The Tags are entirely omitted from the novelizations' version of events. As such, the Crests can be used by themselves.
* Whereas in the anime, all of the Chosen Children (sans Yagami Hikari) find their Crests during the Etemon sub-arc (episodes 15-20), only Yagami Taichi does so during this time in the novelizations. Instead, the others all receive theirs at different points during the novelizations' version of the Vamdemon sub-arc and the Tokyo arc (adapted from episodes 22 to 38), as noted below.
===#1: Now, the Adventure Begins===
Novelization Chapter 	Novelization Subchapter 	Anime Episode(s)	Differences
Prologue 	Prologue 	
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* The prologue opens with an epigraph from the "Digimon Book of Revelations," a new invention for the novelizations, which foretells the sealing of the Four Holy Beasts by the Dark Masters (an event that was first mentioned in the Digimon Adventure 02 episode , not in Adventure itself).
* The prologue consists of a flashback to Gennai's escape from Piemon's attack with the Digivices, Tags and the partner Digimon's Digitamas, as originally depicted in Homeostasis' recording of the past in .
Chapter 1: Drifting Ashore 	#1: That Summer 	N/A 	
* This subchapter consists of two entirely original scenes set before :
** Yagami Taichi and Hikari at home before Taichi leaves for summer camp
** Ishida Yamato and Takaishi Takeru preparing to board the bus to summer camp
* These scenes add and clarify several details only briefly touched on in the anime, including:
** the nature and timing of Hikari's illness (also suggesting a connection between the illness and her seeing Digimon in news reports about the global extreme weather events)
** how and why Takeru was able to attend the camp despite not being a student at Odaiba Elementary
Chapter 1: Drifting Ashore 	#2: On the Other Side of the Aurora 	
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* The subchapter begins with three largely original scenes:
** Tachikawa Mimi and her friends as the buses arrive at the camp grounds (identified in the novelization as Mikami Canyon) and the students are divided into their assigned groups (in Mimi's case, Kido Jo's group)
** Takenouchi Sora and Taichi talking shortly before the snowstorm hits the camp
** All seven of the Chosen Children taking shelter from the snowstorm in the , where Izumi Kōshirō had already been hiding
* Jo attempts to lecture the group on why and how he thinks the snowstorm occurred.
Chapter 1: Drifting Ashore 	#3: Mysterious Animals 	
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* The subchapter opens with a passage adapted from another scene from Homeostasis' recording in "The Clashing Ultimates! War Greymon VS Metal Garurumon," in which the partner Digimon wait for the Chosen Children to arrive and witness them falling from the sky.
* The original episode shows the meeting of the Chosen Children and the partner Digimon entirely from Taichi's perspective. In the novelization, the other six all get their own passages showing their own first interactions with their Digimon before, as in the episode, they regroup with Taichi.
* Taichi and Kōshirō's first encounter with Kuwagamon, before Sora finds them hiding in the tree, is omitted. Instead, everyone except Tachikawa Mimi regroups before Kuwagamon is ever seen.
Chapter 1: Drifting Ashore 	#4: Attack of the Stag Beetle Monster	
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* The fight with Kuwagamon ends with the partner Digimon's attacks immediately driving Kuwagamon away entirely. As such, it does not break off the cliff face or send the Chosen Children and partner Digimon plummeting into the river, as it does in the anime.
Chapter 1: Drifting Ashore 	#5: Where Are We? 	
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* Two new scenes are added between the Chosen Children's arrival at the beach and Shellmon's attack; as of the start of the chapter, the telephone booth scene from the original episode has already occurred. The new scenes include:
** Kōshirō proposing harebrained theories about what happened to the group and where they are
** Jo controlling the rationing of their emergency food supplies, and causing conflict with the others
* Sora and Mimi see a Black Gear flying nearby shortly after Greymon defeats Shellmon.
Chapter 2: File Island 	#1: Black Gears 	
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* The events of the third, fourth, fifth and sixth episodes, including all of the Adult evolutions gained in them, are all said to have occurred off-screen over the preceding few days.
* Most of the first half of is omitted. In its place are two new scenes:
** Kōshirō and Tentomon debating the term "evolution," and Kōshirō reflecting on Taichi being the reason that he attended the summer camp at all.
** Jo snapping at Mimi, and the rest of the group, over what he sees as their constant complaining instead of getting anything done
* Jo and Gomamon do not witness Unimon getting possessed by a Black Gear.
* After the battle with Unimon, the Chosen Children see the mansion and decide to make it their next destination, instead of stumbling upon it after leaving Infinity Mountain.
* The scene of Devimon possessing Leomon is omitted.
* Unlike the original episode, the Chosen Children run into Orgemon first, then Leomon.
Chapter 2: File Island 	#2: The Deceptive Mansion 	
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* The original episode's dinner and bath scenes are only briefly mentioned in passing.
* The exposure of the mansion trap plays out differently:
** Taichi does not wait in the bathroom with Agumon; instead, while waiting outside, he notices that the mansion is actually in a state of decay, at which point Devimon admits to the ruse
** Orgemon still attacks Agumon inside the bathroom, but only after Taichi has already heard from Devimon, so he is not the first to expose the trap
Chapter 2: File Island 	#3: The Village of Beginnings 	
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* The events of the ninth, tenth and eleventh episodes all occur off-screen.
* The first scenes of , in which Patamon worries about his failure to evolve and he and Takeru cry together, are omitted.
* Elecmon is still in the Village of Beginnings when Takeru and Patamon arrive. He does not fight with the two, and shows them around, only after which he goes fishing.
* Takeru recalls different memories of his early life, including a memory of his parents arguing not long before their divorce.
* Orgemon is not part of the attack on Takeru at the Village of Beginnings; only Leomon appears.
* Leomon does not get possessed/powered up by more Black Gears.
* Using the Digivices on Leomon is Taichi's idea, based solely on the encounter at the illusory mansion, as Kōshirō and Mimi have not arrived yet; they use the light of Taichi and Yamato using the Digivices to track their location.
Chapter 2: File Island 	#4: Chosen Children 	
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* The subchapter consists entirely of Leomon's briefing of the Chosen Children, which has been expanded with more information.
** Leomon also tells the story of how Devimon possessed him (per , but omitted from subchapter 1's adaptation of that episode).
* In this version of events, Kōshirō also shares what he learned off-screen from Centalmon (as in the tenth episode); Leomon also indicates that he and Centalmon are acquaintances.
* It is noted that both Yamato and Takeru are reminded of their father by the sound of Leomon's voice (in reference to the two characters sharing the same voice actor).
Chapter 2: File Island 	#5: Light and Dark 	
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* Orgemon is not shown being assimilated into Devimon's body, and gives a more detailed explanation of how it happened during the battle than in the original episode.
* Angemon specifically targets the hole through Devimon's abdomen, left by the expulsion of Orgemon, when he uses his powered-up .
** Instead of trying to stop Angemon by grabbing him, Devimon attempts to cover up the hole, but is too slow.
* Two scenes from the ending of (the reassembling of File Island; Orgemon fleeing from Leomon) are omitted.
* Although is adapted, it is brief and heavily abridged, consisting of only two paragraphs:
** a summary of their first conversation with Gennai
** an overview of the decision to go to the Server Continent, the construction of their raft, and the hatching of Poyomon
* Since the Tags are omitted entirely, so too is the Chosen Children's mission to retrieve them before leaving File Island.
* The chapter and subchapter end with a new scene in which Piemon reacts to the defeat of Devimon while he is working on sealing away Qinglongmon.
Chapter 3: Escape of the Desert	#1: Server Continent 	
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* The opening greatly expands upon a scene from halfway through .
** The failed ambush set by Etemon's forces at the port city of aground ships (identified as "Tonami Town") is depicted in more extensive detail.
** It is noted that they had been going off a sighting of Whamon by a Flymon, instead of mistaken calculations by Etemon.
** Tailmon contacts Etemon to see if he needs reinforcements; it is confirmed that she and Etemon work for the same "organization."
** The location of the Chosen Children in the Koromon Village is brought to Etemon's attention by the Dark Network, instead of a Gazimon coming from there, although the Pagumon switch had already been arranged by another Gazimon.
* Whamon's role in bringing the Chosen Children to Server is recapped, having occurred off-screen.
* The climax of "Etemon! The Stage Mounting of Evil" is greatly extended, with a new plot point of Taichi brashly attempting to keep fighting Etemon despite the group being overpowered, including personally throwing rocks.
* The fight with Etemon is ended by the Crest of Courage, which removes itself from its resting place and slams into Etemon's stomach while flying to Taichi, giving the group an opportunity to escape.
Chapter 3: Escape of the Desert	#2: The Crest of Courage 	
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* The scene where Taichi force-feeds Agumon to try and prepare him to evolve is moved from the oasis to the coliseum, although it otherwise occurs mostly verbatim.
** Jo simply spots the coliseum and the group decides to take a break there, instead of being led to it by Jo's Tag.
* Etemon does not trap the group in a soccer goal, and they do not need to escape.
* The enemy Greymon is said to have black cables attached to it to control it.
* The enemy Greymon's attacks on Taichi's Greymon are more brutal and visceral, including stabbing into his arm.
* Taichi's motivations for wanting to make Agumon evolve to Perfect are explored in greater detail, and are tainted by a lust for glory. Sora blames the Crest of Courage for making him act that way.
* Jo does not find the Crest of Sincerity yet.
* Birdramon and Garurumon do not intervene against the enemy Greymon in time to stop it from attacking Taichi, and at the moment that the Dark Evolution occurs, the enemy Greymon is charging at him.
* Skull Greymon's rampage is rewritten to be more intense and brutal.
** His killing of the enemy Greymon is far more gruesome, as he smashes it to a pulp and sniffs its blood.
** He fixates on Garurumon as his prey, and Garurumon only narrowly escapes being killed when he blows up the western wing of the coliseum.
Chapter 3: Escape of the Desert	#3: Access 	
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* Taichi is more severely impacted by Agumon's Dark Evolution. He becomes depressed, withdrawn and barely speaks in the aftermath, and the forgiveness of the others only makes it worse.
* During this time, Sora encourages Kōshirō to test his idea to intrude on the Dark Network.
** Kōshirō receives an email from Andromon (the events of are recapped, as they had previously been omitted), discussing how Etemon had been jamming Gennai's attempts to contact the group.
** Nanomon notices Kōshirō's intrusion, but allows it to occur and jams the security system, allowing Gennai to contact the group (Andromon assumes this is Kōshirō's doing), with the intent of misusing the information.
* When he contacts the group at the cactus, Gennai attempts to tell them about a trainer he is sending to them, but static in the transmission garbles the trainer's name.
* The encounter with Cockatrimon at the ship is omitted.
* Neither Mimi nor Takeru receive their Crests yet.
Chapter 3: Escape of the Desert	#4: The Pyramid's Trap 	
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* The chapter opens with a new scene in which the Chosen Children fight a Cyclomon in a car scrapyard. (Cyclomon does not appear at all in Adventure, or in any other Digimon anime series to date.)
** Due to a total loss of self-confidence following the Skull Greymon incident, Taichi does not join the fight at all, and continues to feel guilty for it.
* A new scene in which Sora unsuccessfully attempts to talk Taichi through his depression is added.
* Nanomon's email to the group is not a call for help, but an invitation to the pyramid in which he claims to be an acquaintance of Gennai's.
* The wall program that Kōshirō transcribes is found inside Nanomon's chamber in the pyramid; his lecture about the nature of the Digital World and what it means for their lives is omitted.
* Nanomon is not imprisoned, but is lying on the ground, broken. Yamato repairs him, following Nanomon's instructions via email.
* As soon as the repairs are complete, Nanomon drops the pretense, declares his own motivations (to control the world using information) and opposition to Etemon, abducts Sora, and opens a trapdoor beneath the others to get rid of them.
** Unlike the anime, Nanomon does not actually have the Crest of Love, despite claiming to have a Crest in his email. As such, Sora does not receive the Crest yet, nor in the following two chapters.
Chapter 3: Escape of the Desert	#5: Taichi's Trial 	
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* The Chosen Children's plan to save Sora now involves luring Etemon to the pyramid and using his and Nanomon's enmity for each other against both of them, following a suggestion from Takeru and Jo.
* Nanomon's motivations and plan in this version of events are explored in greater detail.
** His ultimate goal is to crack the Wall of Fire and release something from the other side to cause distortions, purely for the sake of revenge on Etemon.
** Nanomon should not be capable of emotion, but due to a thought circuit destroyed by Etemon, he feels vengeful.
** He is aware of Vamdemon and the Dark Masters, and is critical of their plans to bring order to the Digital World by changing the order.
* Taichi is sidelined with Takeru in a bunker while the other four execute the plan, and they are approached by Piccolomon, who puts Taichi through his trial on the spot.
** Piccolomon's comments about the Crest of Courage cause Taichi to reflect on his mistake with Skull Greymon and on the right and wrong kinds of courage.
** Instead of helping his younger self ride his bicycle, Taichi passes the test by letting his younger self struggle through until he figures it out by himself, having learned to accept his own mistakes without obsessing over them.
* Neither Yamato nor Kōshirō receive their Crests yet.
Chapter 3: Escape of the Desert	#6: Perfect Evolution: Metal Greymon 	
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* When Taichi and Agumon reappear from the trial, Agumon has already Super Evolved into Metal Greymon, and the two smash their way into the pyramid to save Sora.
* Nanomon does not attempt to stop Taichi from saving Sora due to his focus on his work.
* Nanomon succeeds in compromising the Wall of Fire's security, but Apocalymon takes over his systems and drags both him and Etemon in; this is what creates the black hole, and Etemon Chaos emerges from it.
* Piccolomon uses his magic to protect the other six Chosen Children from the black hole, while Taichi and Metal Greymon face Etemon.
* Etemon attempts to drag Metal Greymon into the black hole. Metal Greymon fires a to get Etemon off, but in this version of events, the intensifies the black hole and this is what causes Taichi and Metal Greymon to be sucked in.
===#2: The Eighth Chosen Child===
===#3: The Adventure is Not Over Yet===
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=Additional Information=
=External Links=
* Digimon Adventure novelizations on Shueisha's Super Dash Bunko website (Archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine)
* English translations of the novelizations by onkeikun
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