Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon
2002 30m movie Film Japan

Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon

デジモンテイマーズ 暴走デジモン特急

Synopsis

デジモンテイマーズ 暴走デジモン特急

Six months after the D-Reaper was destroyed, the Tamers are planning to throw Rika a surprise party, but Rika finds out. Suddenly a train-Digimon named Locomon begins to race around the tracks, causing havoc. The Tamers respond to this, as Takato digivolves Guilmon into Growlmon to stop the train Digimon but fails as Takato, Rika and Renamon get on it in an attempt to slow it down. The others, excluding Suzie, use a freight train to catch up with Locomon

Titles With Overlapping Themes

Films and series that share thematic tags with Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.

Other Titles From Toei Animation

The 2001–2003 Japan Window

Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon holds position #111 of 247 Japan films in the 2001–2003 window, below highlighted by audience rating.

  1. Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger
    #1

    Bakuryu Sentai Abaranger

    ★ 9.2 · 2003
  2. Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger
    #2

    Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger

    ★ 9.0 · 2002
  3. My Family
    #3

    My Family

    ★ 9.0 · 2002
  4. The Great White Tower
    #4

    The Great White Tower

    ★ 8.9 · 2003
  5. Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger
    #5

    Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger

    ★ 8.9 · 2001
  6. Shaman King
    #6

    Shaman King

    ★ 8.6 · 2001
  7. Digimon Tamers
    #7

    Digimon Tamers

    ★ 8.6 · 2001
  8. Go Heat Man!
    #8

    Go Heat Man!

    ★ 8.6 · 2001

The 2000s Japan Landscape

Catalog density by release year across the 2000s in Japan, 1020 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon premiered alongside 81 others.

'0064'0180'0282'0385'0496'05117'06134'07113'08125'09124

Position in Catalog

Released alongside 81 other Japan films in 2002.

The 1409th Japan title from Japan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1899).

Our Japan catalog contains 4,579 titles in total (2,908 films).

Audience Engagement

16
Reviews
28th
Review-volume percentile
46th
Popularity percentile

16 audience reviews — more than 28% of Japan films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 46th percentile among Japan films.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • creature · 14
  • digimon · 13
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • anime · 711
  • sequel · 143
  • based on anime · 35

Reception Benchmarks

7.0
TMDB Rating
16
Audience Reviews
Highly Rated
Critical Tier

Ranked #2,252 of 4,579 Japan films indexed here (51st percentile by TMDB audience score).

Among Japan Animation productions specifically: #1,535 of 2,532 (top 61%).

Production Details

Primary CountryJapan
All Production CountriesJapan, United States of America
Original LanguageJapanese
Production CompaniesToei Animation
Runtime30m
Release DateMarch 2, 2002
IMDbtt0810833