Mimi Tachikawa
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is a fictional character in the anime
and manga
series Digimon Adventure
and Digimon Adventure 02
. First appearing in the film Digimon Adventure (1999), Mimi has made regular appearances in the television series as a main character and also in other supplementary medias.
As one of the DigiDestined, Mimi is partnered with Palmon
and is also the rightful holder of the Crest of Sincerity, known as the in the original version.
and branded as "Daddy's little princess". Unable to cope in the Digital World, she is described as "self-centered, but not selfish." She is in the same class as Izzy Izumi and is the most beautiful girl in the class. Mimi is very blunt and outspoken, and despite her complaining, she has no ill intentions towards others.
Mimi lives with her parents in Odaiba
as an only child. In the English version, there was a dub error where she mentions a baby brother, but was later never mentioned again.
In the sequel, Digimon Adventure 02
, Mimi has become less self-centered and has also moved to New York City
.
(2001) was localized. The film depicts her first encounter with a Digimon as a young child.
(1999). In this series, Mimi is in fourth grade and is ten years old.
In the sequel, Digimon Adventure 02
, Mimi appears less frequently due to moving to New York City
and relinquishing her abilities to Yolei Inoue
. Taking place roughly four years after Digimon Adventure (three years in the original version), Mimi is now in ninth grade and fourteen years old (seventh grade and thirteen years old in the original version). She befriends fellow DigiDestined children in New York such as Michael. In the epilogue, Mimi has become a nutritionist with her own television show and has a son who is partnered with a Tanemon.
game Digimon Adventure: Anode/Cathode Tamer
, where she is captured by Milleniummon and jailed with Izzy until Ryo Akiyama comes to their rescue.
Mimi also appears in the WonderSwan game D-1 Tamers as a contestant in the D-1 Tournament, where she battles Ryo and asks him for a date when she loses.
In the game Digimon Tamers: Brave Tamer, Mimi and Palmon are attacked by Monzaemon, and Ryo has the option to save her over T.K. and Kari. Following the end of the battle, he allows Palmon to join his party.
.
When the film featurette release of Digimon Hurricane Landing! and its second part, Supreme Evolution! The Golden Digimentals, which also made the third part of Digimon: The Movie, Mimi is captured by Wendigomon during his search for Willis and is de-aged until Davis and Willis defeat him. Due to Digimon Hurricane Landing!/Supreme Evolution! The Golden Digimentals being heavily cut when the movie was localized for Digimon: The Movie, this subplot was removed in the English version.
The sequel of Our War Game!, Revenge of Diaboromon (2001), takes place on the spring break after Digimon Adventure 02. Mimi comes back from New York and joins the DigiDestined halfway in the movie.
.
Mimi was also one of the characters who exclusively appeared in the audio drama CD , which was released on October 3, 2001.
In an audio drama released years after the end of Digimon Adventure 02, which takes place between Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02, Mimi documents her new life in New York as well as the September 11 attacks, which took place shortly after she arrived.
that related to "luck."
In Japan, excluding the pilot film Digimon Adventure, all of Mimi's appearances were voiced by Ai Maeda, who originally auditioned for Sora
. Umi Tenjin
had also auditioned for Mimi, but was casted as Izzy instead.
In the English dub, Philece Sampler
provides her voice.
and stayed there for one week.
As Maeda sings the ending theme songs to Digimon Adventure under the name AiM, Mimi's image was used to market her single "I Wish", which had "Itsudemo Aeru Kara" as a b-side.
In the English version, Mimi also had a solo song, known by the title "I Wanna Sing a Song", which she sang to awaken ShogunGekomon in Digimon Adventure. The song was performed by Philece Sampler
.
Digimon website, Mimi was ranked 6th by Japanese voters as Favorite DigiDestined. When the same question was asked two more times, her rank fell to 9th and failed to chart on the final poll. Mimi is ranked 1st as the DigiDestined who voters related the most to.
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
and manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
series Digimon Adventure
Digimon Adventure
is a Japanese animated television series created in 1999 by Toei Animation based on the Digimon virtual pet made by Bandai. It is the first series of the Digimon anime "metaseries"...
and Digimon Adventure 02
Digimon Adventure 02
, also commonly referred as Digimon Zero Two, is the direct sequel to the previous series and takes place three years after the original series. With most of the original characters now in junior high school, the Digital World was supposedly secure and peaceful. However, a new evil has appeared in...
. First appearing in the film Digimon Adventure (1999), Mimi has made regular appearances in the television series as a main character and also in other supplementary medias.
As one of the DigiDestined, Mimi is partnered with Palmon
Palmon
Palmon is a Digimon creature from the Japanese Digimon media franchise that comprises anime, manga, toys, video games, trading card games and other media. She is a plant Digimon with reptile features. The name "Palmon" comes from palm, a family of flowering plant. Palmon also appears in the sequel...
and is also the rightful holder of the Crest of Sincerity, known as the in the original version.
Description
Mimi is a girly girlGirly girl
Girly girl is a slang term for a girl or woman who chooses to dress and behave in a traditionally feminine style, such as wearing dresses, blouses and skirts, and talking about relationships and other activities which are associated with the traditional gender role of a girl.-History:The term is...
and branded as "Daddy's little princess". Unable to cope in the Digital World, she is described as "self-centered, but not selfish." She is in the same class as Izzy Izumi and is the most beautiful girl in the class. Mimi is very blunt and outspoken, and despite her complaining, she has no ill intentions towards others.
Mimi lives with her parents in Odaiba
Odaiba
is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. It was initially built for defensive purposes in the 1850s, dramatically expanded during the late 20th century as a seaport district, and has developed since the 1990s as a major commercial, residential...
as an only child. In the English version, there was a dub error where she mentions a baby brother, but was later never mentioned again.
In the sequel, Digimon Adventure 02
Digimon Adventure 02
, also commonly referred as Digimon Zero Two, is the direct sequel to the previous series and takes place three years after the original series. With most of the original characters now in junior high school, the Digital World was supposedly secure and peaceful. However, a new evil has appeared in...
, Mimi has become less self-centered and has also moved to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
Pilot film
Mimi made her first appearance in the short pilot film Digimon Adventure (1999), which was combined as the first part of Digimon: The MovieDigimon: The Movie
Digimon: The Movie is a 2000 American film adaptation of the first three Japanese Digimon films distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film used footage from the films Digimon Adventure , Our War Game!! , and Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals .In comparison to...
(2001) was localized. The film depicts her first encounter with a Digimon as a young child.
In the television series
Succeeding the film, Mimi is a main character in the television series Digimon AdventureDigimon Adventure
is a Japanese animated television series created in 1999 by Toei Animation based on the Digimon virtual pet made by Bandai. It is the first series of the Digimon anime "metaseries"...
(1999). In this series, Mimi is in fourth grade and is ten years old.
Digimon Adventure 02
, also commonly referred as Digimon Zero Two, is the direct sequel to the previous series and takes place three years after the original series. With most of the original characters now in junior high school, the Digital World was supposedly secure and peaceful. However, a new evil has appeared in...
, Mimi appears less frequently due to moving to New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
and relinquishing her abilities to Yolei Inoue
Yolei Inoue
Yolei Inoue, known in Japan as , is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure 02. Yolei made a brief cameo in the film Our War Game! before debuting as one of the regular characters in Digimon Adventure 02....
. Taking place roughly four years after Digimon Adventure (three years in the original version), Mimi is now in ninth grade and fourteen years old (seventh grade and thirteen years old in the original version). She befriends fellow DigiDestined children in New York such as Michael. In the epilogue, Mimi has become a nutritionist with her own television show and has a son who is partnered with a Tanemon.
In the video games
Mimi makes a cameo as a non-playable character in the WonderSwanWonderSwan
was a line of handheld game consoles produced in Japan by Bandai between 1999 and 2003. It was developed by the late Gunpei Yokoi's company Koto and Bandai...
game Digimon Adventure: Anode/Cathode Tamer
Digimon Adventure: Anode/Cathode Tamer
Digimon: Anode/Cathode Tamer is one of two Digimon WonderSwan games that are available in English. It combines two separate Japanese games, Digimon Adventure: Anode Tamer, and Digimon Adventure: Cathode Tamer, into one...
, where she is captured by Milleniummon and jailed with Izzy until Ryo Akiyama comes to their rescue.
Mimi also appears in the WonderSwan game D-1 Tamers as a contestant in the D-1 Tournament, where she battles Ryo and asks him for a date when she loses.
In the game Digimon Tamers: Brave Tamer, Mimi and Palmon are attacked by Monzaemon, and Ryo has the option to save her over T.K. and Kari. Following the end of the battle, he allows Palmon to join his party.
In other films
In the film Our War Game! (2000), the second part of the localized Digimon: The Movie, which takes place on the spring break after Digimon Adventure, Mimi makes a brief appearance but does not participate in the battle due to vacationing in HawaiiHawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...
.
When the film featurette release of Digimon Hurricane Landing! and its second part, Supreme Evolution! The Golden Digimentals, which also made the third part of Digimon: The Movie, Mimi is captured by Wendigomon during his search for Willis and is de-aged until Davis and Willis defeat him. Due to Digimon Hurricane Landing!/Supreme Evolution! The Golden Digimentals being heavily cut when the movie was localized for Digimon: The Movie, this subplot was removed in the English version.
The sequel of Our War Game!, Revenge of Diaboromon (2001), takes place on the spring break after Digimon Adventure 02. Mimi comes back from New York and joins the DigiDestined halfway in the movie.
In the CD dramas
Mimi is featured in supplementary audio dramas released on CD during the television series' run, most of which consist miscellaneous adventures with the other DigiDestined that do not relate to the overall plot of the show. These include Mimi comically battling Kari over identifying who Izzy's love letter is addressed to and being captured by Boltmon on Valentine's DayValentine's Day
Saint Valentine's Day, commonly shortened to Valentine's Day, is an annual commemoration held on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions. The day is named after one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine, and was established by Pope Gelasius I in 496...
.
Mimi was also one of the characters who exclusively appeared in the audio drama CD , which was released on October 3, 2001.
In an audio drama released years after the end of Digimon Adventure 02, which takes place between Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02, Mimi documents her new life in New York as well as the September 11 attacks, which took place shortly after she arrived.
Development
Mimi's character was designed for the pilot movie storyboard by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru. In an exclusive interview released with the Digimon Adventure DVD box on December 21, 2007, producer Satoru Nishizono revealed that as the staff had agreed on deciding Tai's name, he had tried to name the other characters similarly with kanjiKanji
Kanji are the adopted logographic Chinese characters hanzi that are used in the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana , katakana , Indo Arabic numerals, and the occasional use of the Latin alphabet...
that related to "luck."
In Japan, excluding the pilot film Digimon Adventure, all of Mimi's appearances were voiced by Ai Maeda, who originally auditioned for Sora
Sora Takenouchi
is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02. First appearing in the film Digimon Adventure , Sora has made regular appearances in the television series as a main character and also in other supplementary medias.As one of the DigiDestined, Sora...
. Umi Tenjin
Umi Tenjin
is a Japanese voice actor.-TV:*Battle B-Daman *Cojicoji *Digimon Adventure *Digimon Adventure 02 *Digimon Frontier *Digimon Savers *Digimon Xros Wars...
had also auditioned for Mimi, but was casted as Izzy instead.
In the English dub, Philece Sampler
Philece Sampler
Philece P. Sampler is an American voice actress and television actress, whose credits include various characters in anime. She also goes by the aliases of Sue Beth Arden, Victoria Pryne, and Debra Cunningham...
provides her voice.
Merchandise
During the run of the television series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02, Mimi was included in merchandise such as trading cards. In Japan, her character was also given four theme songs: , , , and "Open Your Heart." All songs were performed by her voice actress, Ai Maeda. Her character CD single, , which also included Palmon's (Shihomi Mizowaki) solo and their duet Happy Smile, was released on June 21, 2000. It debuted at #98 on the Oricon Weekly ChartsOricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan. It started as , which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc...
and stayed there for one week.
As Maeda sings the ending theme songs to Digimon Adventure under the name AiM, Mimi's image was used to market her single "I Wish", which had "Itsudemo Aeru Kara" as a b-side.
In the English version, Mimi also had a solo song, known by the title "I Wanna Sing a Song", which she sang to awaken ShogunGekomon in Digimon Adventure. The song was performed by Philece Sampler
Philece Sampler
Philece P. Sampler is an American voice actress and television actress, whose credits include various characters in anime. She also goes by the aliases of Sue Beth Arden, Victoria Pryne, and Debra Cunningham...
.
Reception
In a series of online polls conducted on Toei Animation'sToei Animation
Toei Animation Co., Ltd. is a Japanese animation studio owned by Toei Co., Ltd. The studio was founded in 1948 as Japan Animated Films . In 1956, Toei purchased the studio and it was reincorporated under its current name...
Digimon website, Mimi was ranked 6th by Japanese voters as Favorite DigiDestined. When the same question was asked two more times, her rank fell to 9th and failed to chart on the final poll. Mimi is ranked 1st as the DigiDestined who voters related the most to.