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Takato Matsuki (Japanese Name: Takato Matsuda) is the main protagonist of Digimon Tamers. His Digimon partner is Guilmon. and also he Can Biomerge with Guilmon to became Gallantmon Guilmon Mega Level. and he is the Leader of the Tamers. he is The Human Half of Gallantmon.
In the English version, he was voiced by Brian Beacock.
In the Japanese version, he was voiced by Makoto Tsumura.
Appearance[]
Takato is a young boy with light skin, light brown hair and light red eyes. He usually wears a blue hooded shirt over a white t-shirt, with long gray shorts, yellow wristbands on his hands, and green converse sneakers. He usually wears yellow goggles over his forehead, but can be seen occasionally without them. His pajamas consist of a pale yellow button-up shirt and pants. In winter, he sometimes wears a light brown coat with large pockets and brown buttons over his regular outfit.
Personality[]
Takato is a cheerful, happy, carefree person, and loves Digimon, loving to play the Digimon card game and drawing Digimon he made up. His drawing of Guilmon came to life and became his partner. He became fast friends with Henry Wong and his partner Terriermon. He also had a crush on Jeri Katou throughout the series. Takato cares about all of his friends and their Digimon. Takato is considered to the leader of the Tamers by many fans though it was never explicitly stated.
History[]
Digimon Tamers[]
Takato create Guilmon as his Digimon Partner by using a sketch. While Takato went down for dinner, Guilmon's sketch was scanned into Takato's Digivice and started to come to life. Takato found where Guilmon is about to be born. Guilmon then came to life. At first Takato was afraid that his creation was about to attack him, but Guilmon became friendly and the two were instantly best friends.
As time went on, Takato mainly kept Guilmon hidden from his classmates, even after befriending Henry and initially being at odds with fellow Tamer Rika Nonaka. It was during a battle with a Bio-Emerged Devidramon that Guilmon would first Digivolve into Growlmon, his Champion form, to take it down. Later, after Takato and Guilmon took down a DarkLizardmon, they are confronted by Mitsuo Yamaki, head of the secret Hypnos organization dedicated to keeping Digimon out of the Real World, and warned to be careful as this so-called "game" of theirs was not to be taken lightly.
It was after this that Yamaki unleashed his new weapon, Juggernaut, to remove the Digimon from the Real World, only for the Juggernaut to be used to allow the Twelve Devas to Bio-Emerge into the Real World, with the first being the Tiger Deva, Mihiramon. It was during this fight that Takato was able to unlock Guilmon's Ultimate form, WarGrowlmon, to take down the Tiger Deva. After dealing with several more of the Deva, things come to a head when the Pig Deva, Vikaralamon, arrives to lay waste to Shinjuku. Yamaki attempts to use the Juggernaut to send all the Digimon back to the Digital World, but the Monkey Deva, Makuramon, damages the Juggernaut, disabling it and forcing Hypnos to evacuate their base in the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building as it collapsed around them. Although Takato and WarGrowlmon destroy Vikaralamon, Makuramon captures Calumon and escapes back to the Digital World with him.
Takato decides to have the Tamers follow Makuramon back to the Digital World to save Calumon. After some misadventures there, meeting Gorou "Shibumi" Mizuno, Henry's younger sister Suzie becoming a Tamer to the Rabbit Deva Antylamon, and rescuing Calumon, only to lose him again, the Tamers are confronted by Impmon in his Mega form of Beelzemon, having gained his Mega form from a deal with the Dog Deva Caturamon. During the fight, when Leomon tries to interfere and reason with Beelzemon, an angered Beelzemon mortally wounds him with his Darkness Claw, before loading his data to become stronger. Enraged by Leomon's death, Takato becomes consumed in hatred and rage towards Beelzemon, demanding WarGrowlmon to digivolve into his own Mega form to fight Beelzemon on even ground. Unfortunately, Takato's rage causes WarGrowlmon to undergo a Dark Digivolution, becoming his dark Mega form of Megidramon. This is too much for Takato's Digivice, and it cracks and shatters, as if telling him he does not deserve to be a Tamer anymore because of what he did to his partner Digimon. Jeri's accusations that Takato turned Guilmon into a monster only further send Takato into self-guilt and shame for what he's done. After Beelzemon is able to absorb Makuramon, Taomon, and Rapidmon's data to get stronger, he's able to overpower Megidramon and knock him out cold, ironically saving the Digital World from being destroyed by the Digital Hazard on Megidramon's chest before Beelzemon shattered the breastplate it was on.
Devastated by what he's done to Gulimon, Takato has a moment to reflect on being offered the opportunity to start over. Unable to even fathom the thought, Takato's love and affection for Guilmon is able to revert him back from Megidramon, though Guilmon still uses part of his dark Mega form to block an attempt by Beelzemon to kill him and Takato while their guard was down with his Double Impact. With their renewed vigor and friendship, Takato and Guilmon Biomerge Digivolve into Gallantmon to fight Beelzemon. They almost defeat him until Caturamon interferes, forcing Gallantmon to kill him, but Beelzemon absorbs the Dog Deva's data, making himself stronger, and nearly has Gallantmon at his mercy and prepares the final blow, but is stopped by Guardromon, giving Gallantmon the opportunity to use his Aegis Shield and Shield of the Just attack on Beelzemon, defeating him. At Jeri's insistence that Beelzemon not be destroyed as she had seen enough death already, Gallantmon spares Beelzemon, and the Mega departs to seek atonement for his actions. Takato is then awarded a new Digivice for his efforts.
It is after fighting the Digimon Sovereign Zhuqiaomon and meeting his fellow Sovereign Azulongmon that Takato and the others learn of the real threat to the Digital World, the D-Reaper. Calumon helps the Sovereigns by unleashing the Shining Digivolution to help all the Digimon digivolve to fight the D-Reaper, but then the Sovereigns ask the Tamers to return to Earth as this battle is not their fight. Despite wanting to help, the Tamers have no choice but to leave and hope the Sovereigns and the other Digimon can defeat the D-Reaper on their own.
Soon, Yamaki contacts the Tamers to let them know that the Ark to bring them back from the Digital World is coming to get them. Most of them make it aboard, sans Rika, who went back for Impmon, and their new ally, Ryo Akiyama and his partner Cyberdramon. Thanks to Guilmon and Takato pleading with the Ark to wait for everyone to get aboard, it heeds their pleas, and once everyone is safely aboard, it is able to make it back to the Real World, where Yamaki, emergency workers, and the Tamers' families are all waiting for them at the Bio-Emerge point. Takato personally takes whom he believes is Jeri home, but later finds to his horror that the D-Reaper has escaped the Digital World and made it to Earth and is attacking Shinjuku. After being granted the ability to Bioemerge Digivolve again by Dobermon as a gift from the Sovereigns, it is when Takato and Guilmon are pulled into the D-Reaper's quantum bubble that they find the Jeri they brought back was actually a D-Reaper Agent, the ADR-1 Jeri-Type. She attacks them after revealing her true form, but is scared off by MarineAngemon. Nevertheless, the Tamers struggle to fight the D-Reaper's agents until locating the real Jeri in the Kernel Sphere, but any attempt to save her is thwarted by how the D-Reaper is feeding off her negative emotions to become stronger. Soon, the D-Reaper undergoes a metamorphosis into the Mother D-Reaper, forcing Takato and the others to retreat and regroup.
When they return later, using Shibumi's Red Card to enter the quantum bubble to maintain their Mega forms, they watch in horror when the D-Reaper from the Digital World, the Cable Reaper, arrives to finish linking with the Mother D-Reaper to destroy both Earth and the Digital World. Luckily, the Sovereigns intervene with dragging the Cable Reaper, roaring and struggling in anguish, back to the Digital World, while as for Takato and Guilmon, when the Mother D-Reaper uses part of the ADR-1 to stop them from reaching Jeri, Grani arrives to sacrifice itself to allow Gallantmon to become Gallantmon Crimson Mode, destroying the ADR-1's face that stopped them and soon facing off with its body, who nearly pushes and shoves them into the Mother D-Reaper's body to delete them, but Takato and Guilmon fight back, overpower ADR-1, and deliver a powerful punch to her abdomen, finally slaying the abomination once and for all. However, Shibumi's Red Card effects wear off, and despite reverting back, Takato and Guilmon manage to reach Jeri and Calumon, rescue them, and are recovered by MarineAngemon, while Henry and Terriermon use the Juggernaut installed in Terriermon by Yamaki and Henry's father Janyu and his fellow Monster Makers to send the D-Reaper backwards in time into a harmless program again, saving Earth and the Digital World.
Sadly, the effects of the Red Card and Juggernaut means that Guilmon and the other Digimon have to return to the Digital World or they will revert back into Digi-Eggs and possibly cease to exist. Takato and the other Tamers are heartbroken by this, but as life returns to normal in Shinjuku, when Takato visits Guilmon's ld hideout, he finds the portal to the Digital World there having reopened, meaning there's still a chance for him to reunite with Guilmon again.
Quotes[]
- Guilmon You are my best Friends i cant Stad Mad at you and is all my fault not listen to you and turst you Guilmon.
- GuilmonRunaway i Beg you.
- Biomerge Activate.
- For Jeri
- Even though I thought I would never be the same, the world soon went back to normal and after a while so did I. Life became exactly as it was before I met Guilmon. Kazu still made bad jokes and Miss Nami still gave too much homework. Sometimes I go by our old hangouts just to see if he's there. Don't know why I bother, 'cause he's never there. Most times I'm OK but there's this one thing that bugs me: a promise I made to a friend—a promise I don't think I can keep. ... Actually, scratch that! I think I'm going to keep that promise after all!
Trivia[]
- His English Voice Actor Brian Beacock, also voiced Bokomon from Digimon Frontier and Agumon from Digimon Data Squad.
