Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon

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Digimon Tamers:
Runaway Locomon
Digimon Tamers Runaway Locomon.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Kanji デジモンテイマーズ 暴走デジモン特急
Literal meaningDigimon Tamers: Runaway Digimon Express
Revised Hepburn Dejimon Teimāzu Bōsō Dejimon Tokkyū
Directed byTetsuji Nakamura
Screenplay byHiro Masaki
Based on Digimon
by Akiyoshi Hongo
Starringsee below
Edited byShigeru Nishiyama
Music by Takanori Arisawa
Production
company
Distributed by Toei
Release date
  • March 2, 2002 (2002-03-02)
Running time
30 minutes [1]
CountryJapan
LanguageJapanese
Box officeUS$25.1 million

Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon [a] is a 2002 Japanese animated adventure film based on the Digimon franchise created by Akiyoshi Hongo, and the second film for Digimon Tamers series, following Battle of Adventurers (2001). The film is directed by Tetsuji Nakamura, written by Hiro Masaki, and produced by Toei Animation. The film was released in Japan on March 2, 2002, as part of Toei Animation Spring 2002 Animation Fair, double featuring with One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Strange Island of Animals film. [2]

Contents

In the film, set after the series finale, Tamers try to stop a train Digimon named Locomon on the Real World.

Plot

Six months after the D-Reaper's destruction, the Tamers plan a surprise birthday party for Rika, who learns of the surprise and is displeased. An out-of-control train-Digimon, Locomon, appears and causes havoc as it begins racing around the tracks. In response, Takato has Guilmon digivolve into Growlmon to stop the train, but fails. Takato, Rika, and Renamon manage to board Locomon to find a way to slow it down. The remaining Tamers, except for Suzie, board a freight train to catch up to Locomon.

Mitsuo Yamaki takes command of the rail centre and realizes that Locomon's path is creating a distortion in the digital field that is expanding into the real world. He directs the rail workers to manually divert the tracks to redirect Locomon back to the Digital World. On board Locomon, Rika falls under the control of the train and attacks Takato as she has a vision of her estranged father. Takato discovers that Rika and Locomon are under the control of Parasimon. He and Guilmon biomerge into Gallantmon and destroy Parasimon to free Rika, but it manages to send out a signal to other Parasimon to begin their invasion.

Gallantmon, MegaGargomon, Sakuyamon, Justimon, Guardromon, MarineAngemon and Beelzemon Blast Mode fight back against the Parasimon, but are outnumbered. Gallantmon's determination allows them to change into Gallantmon Crimson Mode, giving them the power to destroy all the Parasimon at once. Locomon returns to the Digital World. All the Tamers attend Rika's birthday party. When Kazu asks Rika to sing since she had been singing a song while under Parasimon's control, she leaves the party. As she watches the sunset, she sings the last line of her song in her head: "You promised me we'd stay for the sunset".

Voice cast

CharacterJapanese voice castEnglish voice cast [3]
Takato Matsuda
(Takato Matsuki)		 Makoto Tsumura Brian Beacock
Guilmon Masako Nozawa Steve Blum
Lee Jianliang
(Henry Wong)		 Mayumi Yamaguchi Dave Wittenberg
Terriermon Aoi Tada Mona Marshall
Ruki Makino
(Rika Nonaka)		 Fumiko Orikasa Melissa Fahn
Renamon Yuka Imai Mari Devon
Culumon
(Calumon)		 Tomoko Kaneda Brianne Siddall
Impmon Hiroki Takahashi Derek Stephen Prince
Juri Kato
(Jeri Kato)		 Yōko Asada Philece Sampler (2005)
Bridget Hoffman (2025)
Hirokazu Shiota
(Kazu Shiota)		 Yukiko Tamaki Brad MacDonald
Guardromon Kiyoyuki Yanada Richard Cansino
Kenta KitagawaTōko AoyamaSteve Blum
MarineAngemon Ai Iwamura Mona Marshall
Ryo Akiyama Jun'ichi Kanemaru Steve Staley
CyberdramonIkkei Seta Lex Lang
LocomonYūta Mochizuki
ParasimonKareta KimotsukiDavid Lodge

Production

The short film is directed by Tetsuji Nakamura at Toei Animation, with Hiro Masaki providing the screenplay, and Ken Ueno providing the animation direction for the film. [4] The theme song for the film is titled "Yūhi no Yakusoku" (夕陽の約束; lit. "The Promise of the Setting Sun"), sung by AiM. [5]

Release

The film was released in Japan on March 2, 2002, as part of Toei Animation Spring 2002 Animation Fair, double featuring with One Piece: Chopper's Kingdom on the Strange Island of Animals film. [2] The film premiered on Jetix in the United States on October 2, 2005. [6]

Discotek Media released the film on Blu-ray as part of the 2nd film collection alongside the Digimon Adventure 02 movie, Revenge of Diaboromon , and the first Tamers movie, Battle of Adventurers . [7]

Notes

  1. ↑ Japanese: デジモンテイマーズ 暴走デジモン特急, Hepburn: Dejimon Teimāzu Bōsō Dejimon Tokkyū; lit. "Digimon Tamers: Runaway Digimon Express"

References

  1. ↑ "デジモンテイマーズ 暴走デジモン特急" ["Digimon Tamers: Runaway Digimon Express"]. eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved March 2, 2018.
  2. 1 2 "Toei Animation Spring 2002 Animation Fair". Toei Animation (in Japanese). Retrieved March 20, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Behind the Voice Actors: "Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon" (2005)". Behind the Voice Actors. Retrieved June 20, 2018.
  4. ↑ ""デジモンテイマーズ 暴走デジモン特急" STAFF". Toei Animation (in Japanese). Retrieved March 20, 2018.
  5. ↑ "夕陽の約束". Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved November 4, 2018.
  6. ↑ Macdonald, Christopher (November 1, 2005). "Digimon on Jetix". Anime News Network . Retrieved November 1, 2005.
  7. ↑ https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2025-08-09/discotek-reveals-monster-shin-aim-for-the-ace-zegapain-6-more-licenses/.227363
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