So apparently if the calendar in the first screencap, and the receipt in the second are to go by, Digimon Adventure: Our War Game takes place on March 4, 2000.
This not only lines up with the film's initial release date, but it also means that it takes place exactly two years before I was born (which was 2002).
In other words, a major Digimon event happened on a day that's also my birthday.
Your resident Taikoura president took over two decades to realize that these two scenes are actually parallels to one another.
Probably because they're not playing out in the exact same way and don't have the same weight in the grand scheme of things; one moment is framing a B plot, the other is sprinkled into the A plot, but more in the back. But in the end, they have, indeed, several things in common:
Taichi Yagami may need a while to get over his own stubbornness, but once it hits him, once he's realized that he was in the wrong, he will take the step to apologize.
Note that in both scenes, he is not being 100% straightforward - in Sora's case, he is sending a mail, in Koushirou's, he can't look him in the eyes. There is a sense of shame, of guilt; it took him a while in both cases (days in the former, minutes in the latter) to realize his wrongs after all, that he may have been insensitive to some degree, so it takes a bit of courage to get out the correct words...
On the other hand, one may want to argue that the "reasons" for their fights seem rather "insignificant" at first glance - but that is the exact point, let's not forget we're talking about 11- and 12-year-olds here. Without going too much into analysis mode here, both scenes are intertwined in their respective arcs: Sora may have gotten mad at Taichi because she is not at peace with herself and struggles with her identity at that point ("Should I dress more feminine or not, should I change my appearance, am I not appreciated and liked for how I always was?"). Koushirou historically struggles with reading the room when he is in hyperfocus mode and him reading e-mails in a tone that may have hit a nerve in Taichi was inevitable - Taichi was on edge already anyway and getting unintentionally "criticized" may have been the tip of the iceberg for him to snap.
Despite both instances being stretched out over several scenes, the most important part is: both Sora and Koushirou are forgiving Taichi eventually. There is no malice, no bad blood, no "break" in their bond, no matter what happens.
And in a very deep, meta, "reading way too much into everything" kind of way, Taichi's bond with Sora and Koushirou is also being mirrored with his bond with Agumon/WarGreymon. Because Taichi was reckless, WarGreymon could not have kept on fighting and got hurt. Hence why Taichi "indirectly" apologizes for that too - because in the end, they will only succeed when they overcome their struggles together.
What really bums me out is that the first digimon movie was so so good for my soul as a kid, and now you can’t even buy it anywhere because it did so bad apparently. I’ll never have an hd version of the movie that honestly saved me from alot as a kid.
Mayhaps make parts of the 8000 years au into a fic? And also the our war game au with virus corrupted taichi one as well? Maybe??? Thinkin about it even though I’ve written some stuff for it hehe
starting this challenge off with a bit of a stretch 😭 so when i think of mail and digimon, i think the Keramon line. and for some reason, when i think of those Cyriak music videos, specifically 7 billion and welcome to kitty city! so i thought id take inspiration from that hfbdbsbd
D I G I M O N Adventure/02/tri./Kizuna/Adventure: {2020}
~ Koushiro{u} Izumi
+ Dynamics
+ Koushiro & Chosen {+02 Chosen} (Mutual S u p p o r t)
+ Koushiro & Taichi (F r i e n d s h i p)/(can be viewed) {Ship}
+ Koushiro & Izumis (P l a t o n i c L o v e)
+ Koushiro & Tentomon (F r i e n d s h i p)
+ A D U L T!Koushiro {Kizuna C r e d i t s}
"F r i e n d s h i p and l o v e is not asked for
but O F F E R E D, LIKE tea."
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