Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna

デジモンアドベンチャー LAST EVOLUTION 絆
*Dejimon Adobenchā LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna*

**Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna** (デジモンアドベンチャー LAST EVOLUTION 絆, *Dejimon Adobenchā LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna*) is the fifth movie of the *Digimon Adventure* series.

## Plot

In July 2010, a mysterious aurora, which was first seen over the skies of the United States West Coast three months prior and has since been seen over various parts of the world, has now appeared over the skies of Japan, triggering extreme weather events and causing disruptions to electronics. On the morning after the aurora's appearance in Japan, a Parrotmon emerges into the streets of Nakano, Tokyo and runs wild, causing property damage and putting lives at risk. Yagami Taichi, Yagami Hikari, Takaishi Takeru and their partner Digimon, with remote support from Izumi Kōshirō, respond to its appearance, assist the locals, and attempt to drive Parrotmon to a pre-arranged point in time for a Digital Gate to transport it back to the Digital World. Kōshirō theorizes that the aurora has driven Parrotmon wild. After Agumon evolves to Greymon, he brawls with Parrotmon through the city, causing property damage. When it threatens to fall and crush a building after Greymon, Angemon and Angewomon's attacks stun it, Ishida Yamato and Garurumon arrive and intervene, with Garurumon pushing Parrotmon clear of the building. Greymon and Garurumon Super Evolve into MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon, who overwhelm Parrotmon with their attacks and slam it into the Digital Gate site. Angewomon uses her Holy Arrows to pin it down while Angemon blocks Parrotmon's attempt to lash out at her with Mjölnir Thunder. Finally, the Gate opens, and Parrotmon is safely sent back to the Digital World. While Taichi laments that nobody else could make it to assist, Takeru offers to take the group to breakfast. Taichi and Yamato are unable to make it as they need to get to class, so Takeru, Hikari, Patamon and Tailmon take Agumon and Gabumon with them to the cafe.

At university, Taichi is still struggling to come up with a graduation thesis subject, and his friends rib him for an evident lack of interest in graduating or finding serious work after university. Meanwhile, a friend of Yamato's ribs him for being "famous", citing a news report about the Parrotmon fight in Nakano and false rumors that he already has a commission with the Japan Self-Defense Forces lined up. After university, Taichi attends his part-time job at a gambling parlor, while Yamato witnesses a child with a harmonica and a busker, and laments that he has turned his back on his former pursuit of music. Taichi invites Yamato out for dinner at a yakiniku restaurant in Asagaya, where he asks him for advice on his own indecisiveness. Yamato reveals that he himself is struggling with the decision to go to graduate school and that the two are virtually alone in that respect, as all of the rest of the Chosen Children seem to have clear future aspirations that they are working toward. They are interrupted when, suddenly, a woman named Ayaka collapses at the table behind them despite, as her friend reports, having not had any alcohol at all. Yamato calls for an ambulance.

While in class the next day, Taichi reads a news report discussing a sudden worldwide wave of comas that resemble Ayaka's case. He receives a text message from Kōshirō, asking him to come to his office. Taichi, Yamato and Takeru gather at Kōshirō's office, where he shows them a video message from Inoue Miyako, who is currently abroad in Spain, in which she shares an email that she has received from Menoa Bellucci, a professor at Liberica University in New York City, who is asking for help in investigating the mass comas around the world. Miyako has referred the issue to Kōshirō, and Kōshirō brings in Menoa herself, along with her assistant, Imura Kyōtarō. Menoa explains that the wave of comas (numbering approximately 300 at last report) is exclusively affecting Chosen Children, even those who are otherwise entirely healthy, and that their partner Digimon are missing; Kōshirō had also independently come to this conclusion, as he has noticed that many of his international Chosen Child contacts have been out of contact for some time. Menoa's investigation has identified that an unknown Digimon species—which she has named "Eosmon", after the Greek dawn goddess Eos—is responsible, as it is stealing the consciousnesses of Chosen Children. She proposes a plan to save the coma victims by entering the site where it is storing this consciousness data in cyberspace and recovering it. She recruits Taichi, Yamato, Kōshirō, and Takeru to perform the recovery.

Taichi, Yamato, Kōshirō, Takeru and their partner Digimon enter the Network and are guided to Eosmon's location by Menoa and Kyōtarō, who have prepared utilities to retake the consciousness data. The group enters an "aquarium" digital space, and Kyōtarō equips Kabuterimon and Angemon with a system to deploy a wide-area net to prevent Eosmon from escaping. The four Digimon attempt to attack Eosmon while Menoa begins backing up the consciousness data, but it is fast enough that they have difficulty catching up to it, until Kabuterimon and Garurumon throw it into a block of data. Before the Digimon can finish it off, however, it evolves into its Perfect form. With its increased speed and power, Eosmon is easily able to outwit and overpower the Digimon, and it sheds scales that deflect attacks and creates honeycomb panels that it uses to drastically accelerate its own mobility around the digital space. Since Menoa's backup is still at only 62% and she needs more time, Taichi and Yamato fuse Greymon and Garurumon into Omegamon. Omegamon opens fire with its Garuru Cannon to destroy the panels and thus inhibit Eosmon's movement. It takes advantage of Eosmon's confusion to hit it with another Garuru Cannon blast, causing it significant damage and breaking one of its legs off, and deploys the Grey Sword to finish it off. Just as in Taichi's apartment a ring of light suddenly projects itself from his original Digivice, Omegamon is immediately paralyzed and unable to retain its form, and it splits back into Koromon and Tsunomon. Eosmon tears a hole through the wide-area net, repels Kabuterimon and Angemon's attempts to stop it, and escapes. Menoa loses track of Eosmon, and her backup of the consciousness data is halted.

Back in Kōshirō's office, Taichi and Yamato regroup and are baffled by what happened to Koromon. Menoa reveals to the group that the dissolution of Taichi and Yamato's partnerships with their Digimon has begun, and explains that this is an inevitable consequence of reaching adulthood and having to make choices about one's life that narrow the limitless possibilities that they had as children. As Kyōtarō quietly slips out, a skeptic Taichi pulls out his smartphone Digivice and is shocked to see the ring of light that counts down to the dissolution of the partnership. The others check their own smartphone Digivices: Yamato also has the ring of light, but Kōshirō and Takeru do not. Yamato is outraged and storms out of the office, refusing to accept this. Before his eyes, Taichi's ring of light counts down by one point. Kōshirō says that he will find a way, but Menoa warns him that he will not succeed. As they leave the building, Yamato and Gabumon spot Kyōtarō taking a phone call and Yamato decides to tail him. Taichi and Agumon walk to Taichi's apartment. Taichi is startled when Agumon bluntly asks whether growing up means that they cannot be together anymore, but when Agumon's stomach growls, he volunteers to take them for something to eat.

Meanwhile, Motomiya Daisuke, Ichijōji Ken, Hida Iori and their partner Digimon are visiting a ramen restaurant in New York City (having traveled there by taking advantage of the Digital Gates), as part of Daisuke's efforts to study his future competition. Daisuke receives a phone call from Yamato, who is calling from a pay phone. Yamato recruits the three to perform background checks on Menoa and Kyōtarō. Ken is already aware of her due to her reputation as a "child prodigy", having earned her PhD at a very young age. After having lunch at a burger restaurant, Taichi and Agumon return to Taichi's apartment. Agumon immediately finds Taichi's adult media stash, to Taichi's absolute horror, but when Taichi declares that the media are only for adults, he stops in his tracks, uncomfortably reminded of how the day's events have changed what it means to be an adult for him. He looks in his drawer and finds that the ring of light is on his old Digivice as well. Taichi somberly promises Agumon that they will always be together, and the two shake hands. At that moment, Taichi's laptop begins glowing, and Gennai emerges. Visiting Liberica University, Daisuke, Ken and Iori are unable to find any information that would be helpful to Yamato at all. Miyako takes a Digital Gate from Spain to join them. In light of their dead end, Iori proposes an alternative approach: infiltrating Menoa's office directly. As Armadimon gets the door open, the group begins searching, and Armadimon notices a picture of the Roman goddess Aurora (the counterpart of the Greek Eos, the namesake of Eosmon) in the center of Menoa's pinboard. In a hotel room in Tokyo, Menoa examines a map and data, while elsewhere in Tokyo, Yamato and Gabumon continue to tail Kyōtarō and witness him exchanging materiel, including a gun, with an anonymous contact. In Taichi's apartment, Gennai reconfirms what Menoa had told Taichi about the dissolution of the partnership. He confirms that the ring of light represents the countdown and that when the countdown reaches zero, Agumon will disappear. He speculates that if the two still have infinite possibilities, then perhaps this can be changed.

Meanwhile, Tachikawa Mimi and Palmon are in their warehouse doing an inventory check; Hikari and Tailmon are riding a train; and Takeru and Patamon are walking home. All three are being watched; Mimi and Hikari through their phones, and Takeru via a surveillance camera. In a library, a sleep-deprived Yamato is examining microfiche records of newspaper articles about Menoa's life when he receives a call. He, Taichi and Kōshirō come to the hospital where Kido Jō works, where they find that Mimi has been afflicted with an Eosmon-induced coma. Jō reports that aside from the coma, nothing is wrong with her. Yamato takes Taichi and Kōshirō aside to the men's bathroom, away from any cameras, gives them burner phones to use instead of their smartphone Digivices, and cautions them to minimize computer time. The three update each other on their progress: Taichi relays what Gennai said to them, while Yamato presents them with copies of newspaper articles and points out that a photo in which Menoa is pictured with a Digimon. While Taichi and Kōshirō are intrigued by the Digimon, Yamato reports that he is more suspicious of Kyōtarō, and points out a newspaper article which indicates that he became Menoa's assistant at the same time that she published a Digimon research paper. Kōshirō reports that he is analyzing the data from Eosmon's broken arm, which he noticed during the fight, but has yet to discover anything. At the same time, Takenouchi Sora and Piyomon, whose end-of-partnership countdown has also already begun, are holed up in Sora's room. as Sora declines to seek help from the others or to engage in the fight, and promises to be with Piyomon until the very end of the countdown.

Back in his own apartment, Taichi turns off and puts away his smartphone Digivice, and retrieves his old Digivice and goggles. Following a tip-off from Kōshirō, he approaches Menoa in her hotel and confronts her about the mystery Digimon. She confirms that the Digimon is her former partner Digimon, Morphomon, and tells the story of their history together, including how their own partnership dissolved eight years prior, when she was just fourteen. She claims that she wants to protect other Chosen Children from going through what she did and that this was her motivation for pursuing Digimon research, but that she has not been able to find a way to avert the dissolution. She admits that she recruited Taichi and Yamato because of their reputation as the "strongest team", and that she feels that if anyone can avert the end of the partnership, it is them. Yamato and Gabumon tail Kyōtarō to a makeshift office in a warehouse, where they find a pin-board with photographs and news articles about Menoa and Taichi's team of Chosen Children, as well as a map of the world with pins stuck into it, and they immediately assume the worst. Daisuke and Miyako call Yamato and share their team's own discoveries, that Kyōtarō's hard drive was virtually empty, with evidence that there had once been data on Eosmon on it that has since been erased. Ken reports that there are no records at all of anyone by the name of "Imura Kyōtarō," suggesting that is an alias. Yamato concludes that Kyōtarō is manipulating Menoa, although Miyako is skeptical that a woman of Menoa's intellect could be manipulated. Armadimon also mentions the Aurora picture, which piques Yamato's curiosity.

In Kōshirō's office, Kōshirō is forming a hypothesis based on his analysis of Eosmon's limb, when he receives an email that is ostensibly from Hikari. However, clicking the link, he is horrified to find that it is a live stream of Takeru and Hikari, slumped in chairs to which they are bound. He contacts Taichi and Yamato and gives them directions to reach the two—Hikari in Hiroo, Shibuya, and Takeru in Nerima. He also reports that Jō can longer be reached, suggesting that Eosmon has also gotten him. Yamato and Gabumon arrive at the warehouse in Hiroo, where they find Kyōtarō waiting for them, armed with a gun. Kyōtarō reveals that he was entirely aware of Yamato's sloppy attempts to tail him the entire time. Meanwhile, In Nerima, Taichi and Agumon find Hikari, who is indeed comatose. Although Yamato and Gabumon assume from Kyōtarō's demeanor and comments about Takeru falling victim to Eosmon that he is the one controlling Eosmon, and prepare to attack him, he presents them with his FBI badge to assuage their concerns. He reveals his true identity and mission: Yamada Kyōtarō, an FBI agent who is conducting an undercover investigation into Menoa, who had come to the warehouse because he, too, had been made aware of Takeru's capture, but had come too late. As Yamato attempts to assist Takeru, Kyōtarō reports that Menoa had been under surveillance from the FBI for years, but her aptitude for covering her tracks prevented them from making any progress. Yamato immediately realizes that Kōshirō is in danger. Meanwhile, after his call with Taichi and Yamato ends, Kōshirō's computer reports that it has located Eosmon and provides a set of coordinates. At that moment, he is visited by Menoa, who initially seems pleased that Eosmon has been located and reports that she has found a way to save everyone, but needs Kōshirō's list of Chosen Children. Kōshirō instead confronts her about his findings from analyzing Eosmon's arm: its composition contains clearly artificial formulae, which on further research match formulae in a paper that Menoa had written, proving that she is the one behind Eosmon. Menoa immediately drops the pretense and claims that she is doing it "for" the Chosen Children, but says nothing more, and summons an Eosmon (Perfect) into the office. Yamato and Kyōtarō hurry to Kōshirō's office, but arrive too late, as Eosmon has already taken Kōshirō's consciousness, and Menoa has stolen the list of Chosen Children. Kyōtarō has no idea where she could have gone, but Taichi and Agumon arrive with a text message that Kōshirō had sent him behind Menoa's back, containing the coordinates. Although Yamato is apprehensive about fighting Menoa and therefore accelerating their countdowns, Taichi is of the opinion that they have to act, regardless of the consequences on the partnership. Kyōtarō opens a Digital Gate to the coordinates, and sends Taichi, Yamato, Agumon and Gabumon in.

Taichi, Yamato, Agumon and Gabumon emerge in a black void which contains a crystal facsimile of the trolley car that they encountered on File Island in 1999. Agumon and Gabumon notice a butterfly, which causes Menoa to appear. She releases a wave of butterflies that reveal the true form and nature of the void: it is Never-Land, and Takeru, Hikari, Kōshirō, Mimi, Jō and Mochizuki Meiko, among many others, are being held here, trapped in their own memories and reverted to their childhood selves, with their partner Digimon. Taichi and Yamato accuse her of abducting the Chosen Children, but she insists that their own desires to not grow up are what brought them there, and that this is the only possible way for Chosen Children to avert the end of their partnerships and to be happy. Menoa summons an Eosmon (Perfect) and invites the two to join Never-Land as well, but Agumon and Gabumon snap them out of it and remind them that Menoa has to be stopped. Agumon and Gabumon evolve into Greymon and Garurumon, consuming a point each from the countdowns, and attack and kill Eosmon. However, Menoa simply summons hundreds more Eosmons. Menoa tells the story of how she created Eosmon to save the Chosen Children. The project had originated as an effort to resurrect Morphomon, but every attempt to do so failed as she was unable to provide the Digimon with the necessary spark of life. However, eventually, on the day that the aurora appeared, it provided the necessary spark of life to generate the Digitama of Eosmon, who was born with the ability to turn human consciousness into data. Menoa felt convinced that she was meant to use this power to save the Chosen Children, as if Morphomon herself were telling her that. To this end, she intends to use the list she stole from Kōshirō to take all Chsoen Children into Never Land. Greymon and Garurumon move to stop her, but Tentomon, Patamon, Gomamon, Palmon and Tailmon attack them. Menoa claims that the Chosen Children are not being controlled, but that they are siding with her over Taichi and Yamato of their own free will. With a press of a button on her phone, Menoa generates hundreds of portals to the Chosen Children from the list and sends her Eosmons after them. Greymon uses his Mega Flame to kick up a wall of water to cover the group's retreat.

All over the world, Eosmons begin emerging from Chosen Children's phones and computers. In New York City, one closes in on a girl and her Yukimi Botamon, but Daisuke and XV-mon intercede and kill that Eosmon. However, another Eosmon immediately appears chasing Miyako who, against Hawkmon's advice, attempted to use the internet to get information. Iori, Ken, Ankylomon and Stingmon arrive and finish off that Eosmon together. The four prepare to defend the city from the Eosmons. In Never-Land, Taichi, Yamato, Agumon and Gabumon take refuge in a crystal mountain. Taichi is convinced that it is all over, but Agumon and Gabumon rally them back into battle, insisting that they know the consequences but see that there is no other way. They express pride at having grown up alongside the two and a feeling that they will always be with them in some fashion, and encourage them to go back into the fray to save the others. Taichi and Yamato return to the center of Never-Land as Menoa addresses the Chosen Children. Menoa marshals the Eosmons to fight to protect their "utopia", and Taichi and Yamato fuse Agumon and Gabumon into Omegamon again, consuming four points each from their countdowns. Omegamon effortlessly destroys all of the Eosmons, while Taichi and Yamato attempt to explain to Menoa that she is only robbing the Chosen Children of their futures. She is distraught at her good intentions and her "utopia" being rejected and snaps, as the thought of losing Never-Land parallels the trauma of losing Morphomon the first time. In response, all of the Eosmons' remains coalesce around her as she declares that she will become the Chosen Children's goddess, and form the Ultimate form of Eosmon, with her held inside a crystal in its chest. Meanwhile, Perfect-level Eosmons keep emerging into the Real World. The Chosen Children of the world evolve their Digimon to fight back, while Daisuke's group in New York City keeps up their fight, but no matter how many they defeat, more arrive. In Never-Land, Eosmon destroys the trolley car facsimile and blasts Taichi and Yamato, drawing blood. Omegamon moves in on Eosmon, but it summons panels to block all of Omegamon's attacks and returns fire, which Omegamon is unable to avoid. It then starts using the panels as offensive weapons, summoning them strategically to cut off Omegamon's left leg and Garuru Cannon arm. Despite this, Omegamon keeps fighting, until Eosmon slices off its Grey Sword arm and blasts it point blank, forcing it to revert into Agumon and Gabumon.

Taichi and Yamato attempt to rush to Agumon and Gabumon's side, but are stopped as Takeru, Hikari, Kōshirō, Mimi and Jō hold them back. Their attempts to reason with their comrades go unheard, and their partner Digimon start attacking and dogpiling them. Meanwhile, Perfect-level Eosmons start returning to Never-Land and depositing Chosen Children that they have captured. Taichi desperately forces his way through the Digimon, grabs Hikari's whistle, and blows it with all of his might, just as he had done back in 1995. The sound of the whistle awakens Agumon and Gabumon and snaps the Chosen Children and partner Digimon out of it. Back in Tokyo, Sora—who is now alone, as her partnership with Piyomon has expired—also hears the whistle, and expresses her faith in the others as she clutchers her fossilized Digivice. Takeru, Hikari, Kōshirō, Mimi and Jō—all now returned to their present day selves—approach Taichi and Yamato and volunteer to join them in the fight against Eosmon. Patamon, Tailmon, Tentomon, Palmon and Gomamon all evolve into Angemon, Angewomon, Kabuterimon, Togemon and Ikkakumon and engage Eosmon, to little effect. Taichi, Yamato, Agumon and Gabumon are all united in their determination to finish their mission, and declare that this will be their "Last Evolution" 「最後の進化」. Taichi and Yamato's Digivices react and crack, emitting powerful light that takes the four into the sky where, while the others, including Eosmon, watch on, Agumon and Gabumon evolve into all-new forms: Agumon -Yuki no Kizuna- and Gabumon -YuJō no Kizuna-. Agumon and Gabumon destroy all the Perfect-level Eosmon, then move in on the Ultimate-level Eosmon, knocking it to the ground, and suppress it with an unrelenting wave of fire. Eosmon wildly lashes out with its beam attacks to try to stop them, but fails to hit them at all and instead tearing apart Never-Land. Agumon and Gabumon deliver punches in unison to Eosmon, and although Eosmon attempts to stop them by erecting panels in their way, they smash through all but one of them, shattering the center of Never-Land.

Menoa's memories of her childhood with Morphomon start replaying on the shards of Never-Land, as the Chosen Children and their Digimon watch on, and they witness the arc that led to her partnership dissolving: she had felt so out of place among other children that she was determined to strike out on her own and grow up, culminating in her receiving special dispensation to go straight to university at age fourteen. However, at the moment that she tries telling Morphomon this, the partnership ends, totally breaking Menoa. She laments that she brought this upon herself with her desire to grow up. Agumon and Gabumon conclude that all along, Menoa has been deeply troubled and has been crying for help. As they break through the last barrier, Taichi and Yamato attempt to reach out to Menoa one last time. They insist that while everyone must live with the consequences of their decisions, they can still forge their own destiny. Taichi and Yamato use their Digivices to release Menoa from Eosmon, and as they do, an apparition of an Adult-level Eosmon appears smiling at her. Never-Land completely dissolves, and all around the Real World, so do all of the remaining Eosmons. Kyōtarō arrests Menoa. Meanwhile, all of the comatose Chosen Children reawaken in their hospital beds, and their partner Digimon reappear with them, although Gomamon and Palmon's memory of what happened is foggy at best. Taichi and Agumon sit together at Tokyo Bay and reminisce, while Yamato and Gabumon look over all of Tokyo from a high-rise balcony. Only one point remains on each of their countdowns. Gabumon requests that Yamato play his harmonica one last time. Agumon looks up at Taichi and remarks that he has grown big. The two Digimon ask their partners what they want to do the next day, and when they turn back to give their Digimon an answer, they find that both have disappeared as two butterflies fly off into the sunset. After their partnerships expire and their Digivices are fossilized both Taichi and Yamato cry.

Sometime later, when the sakura trees are in bloom, Taichi and Yamato travel to university. Taichi has finally come up with a thesis topic: the co-existence of humans and Digimon. To themselves, they promise Agumon and Gabumon that they will someday come for them.

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