Rizza Mae M.
Castro
BSIT-3A
Digimon Tri Stage Play
Story and Plot:
Digimon Tri Stage Play is based on the games, manga(which in English is called comics), and the
Digimon Adventure Tri the latest season of the Digimon Adventure anime series; the latest being aired
last 2015-2016 while the earliest seasons were aired in 1999 until the early 2000s. The story revolves
around the original 8 digidestines, aka chosen children with digital monsters or digimons as partners.
The kids are on their middle and high school years by this time. So at August 1st, it’s a special day for the
digidestines, during summer the first protagonist shown(a 17 year old named Taichi Yagami) to still
getting into his soccer practice when his younger sister, Hikari Yagami suggests that all of them should
go for a camp on the 1st of August. The idea was initially thought of by two 16 year old digidestines
whose names are Mimi Tachikawa and Koushiro Izumi. Despite some of them are busy with exams, and
some are a bit reluctant to go, in the end all of them agreed to come join the camp, relieving the good
old days; the first time they were in camp together and the time they were brought to another world,
which is the Digital World where there digimon partners came from. Although despite the jolly
atmosphere, Mimi forgot to bring the equipments for camp and by that they remembered their time in
camp once more. However, from then on the campsite holds a secret that leads them to another
adventure once again.
Human characters, their digimon partners and Actors:
Taichi Yagami played by : Gaku Matsumoto
Digimon Partner: Agumon voiced by: Chika Sakamoto
Yamato Ishida played by : Shouhei Hashimoto
Digimon Partner: Gabumon voiced by: Mayumi Yamaguchi
Koushirou Izumi played by : Kaisei Kamimura
Digimon Partner: Tentomon voiced by: Takahiro Sakurai
Jo Kido played by : Junya Komatsu
Digimon Partner: Gomamon voiced by: Junko Takeuchi
Takeru Takaishi played by : Kenta Nomiyama
Digimon Partner: Patamon voiced by: Miwa Matsumoto
Sora Takenouchi played by : Suzuka Morita
Digimon Partner: Biyomon voiced by: Atori Shigematsu
Mimi Tachikawa played by : Marina Tanoue
Digimon Partner: Palmon voiced by: Kinoko Yamada
Hikari Yagami played by : Yuuna Shigeishi
Digimon Partner: Gatomon voiced by: Yuka Tokimitsu
Stage:
The stage was maneuvered with 2D or 3D screens to add up for the visual effects.
Since it consists of scenes where the digimons undergo an evolution whenever
the action scenes starts. The stage has just right size for the play itself, enough to
move around the puppets, especially the bigger ones. The puppets used aren’t
just the usual puppets we see, they’re very well detailed having a really good
resemblance to the actual digimons in the anime(or in American cartoon), these
puppets origins came from the traditional puppetry that the Japanese have done
from early live stages up to the present. As the puppets talk, it is matched with
the voices of their voice actors.
Acting:
Acting wise, the actors had to be more like the characters shown in the anime so
their movements and tone of voices are a bit animatic, giving it of atleast a
realistic touch to it. The crying parts, they seem to have difficulties in despite the
fact it sounded so real yet sounded a bit strained. Overall, their delivery of lines,
actions, the shifting of one seen to another is well played.
Sound:
They literally have sounds for every scene. Also, they of course used the anime’s
notable songs when things comes to an exciting feat, action scenes in short the
highlighted scenes. Basically, the songs and sounds were perfectly laid.