Ishida Yamato

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Yamato starts out as a secretive loner whose Digimon partner is Gabumon. His younger brother, Takaishi Takeru, is also one of the Chosen Children. He is very protective of Takeru, and often times acts harshly when he is in trouble. He is the bearer of the Crest of Friendship.

Prelude to Digimon Adventure
He witnessed the Greymon/Parrotmon fight.

Yamato's parents divorced before the events of Digimon Adventure. His father took him while his mother took his brother, Takeru. He and his father moved to Odaiba, where his father works at the Fuji TV Network, Inc. building.

Digimon Adventure
Yamato served an odd role during the first season. He was one of the best friends of the group leader Yagami Taichi, but he was also his major rival, which led to a large internal conflict throughout the show and climaxed at the end of the season. It was mainly over whether or not Taichi a better older brother to Takeru than he was, and whether he was a better person than Yamato. Yamato was much more protective and concerned about the group as a whole, causing more conflict compared to Taichi's head-first strategy.

He has one encounter with his mother, which did not go well. Although Takeru. was ecstatic to have his whole family together (if only for a minute), Yamato refused to say much more than "Hi Mom" to her. This encounter revealed lingering resentments in him that continue even after he returns to the Digital World. Upon returning to the Digital World, he becomes angry when he thinks Takeru no longer needs him and decides to leave the group for a while. He returns briefly to save the group from Pinocchimon before disappearing again. Towards the end of the series, he falls into a pit of darkness and is forced to realize that his parents divorce broke his heart and made him resort to solitude. He refused to let anyone see him cry, which made him turn away from his friends. Gabumon gets him to understand that everything would be alright and that he is valuable. Yamato then rejoins the party just in time for the final battle.

Digimon Adventure: Our War Game
When Diablomon begins his rampage over the Internet, Yamato is at his grandmother's place. He and Takeru rush to town and enter a barbershop, the only place that has a computer, and connect to the Internet. With Taichi and Agumon and help from Koushiro, they both battle Diablomon. Takeru is by his side, as is Gabumon as Metal Garurumon. He and Taichi entered the Internet unintentionally and with the help of all of the kids over the net, War Greymon and Metal Garurumon were able to Joress into Omegamon. Omegamon was able to defeat Diablomon (by cleaving it through the head with a sword) and Yamato and Taichi returned back home.

Between Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02
In May 2000, Yamato arrived in the Digital World and gave up his Crest power to free the Four Holy Beasts. As a result, Gabumon lost the power to evolve to Perfect or Ultimate.

On the Original Story Music and CD Drama, track 7 "Bass wo Hiki Nagara" looks at Yamato theme as well as a short story of the creation of Yamato's band.

It listens to Yamato trying to decide which genre of music should they do "Rock, Hard Metal..." and also a name for the band. Yamato wanted to name it after Gabumon and after going though all the evolutions of his digimon partner could not finding a correct one. So he decides as Gabumon has wolf-type evolutions the band will be "The Teenage Wolves".

It also reveals that Yamato's father in his youth also used to be in a band, before he went onto being a TV reporter.

Digimon Adventure 02
Yamato became the vocalist and bass player for a rock band, the Teenage Wolves. He was very popular and girls were always running up to him wanting his autograph. One of his biggest fans was the older sister of Motomiya Daisuke, Motomiya Jun. Some liked this comical relief for this series. But near the finale, Matt developed a relationship with Sora and there are also signs that show this ;for example when Yamato says that he should be jealous of Yuri because Sora kept talking about how Yuri was going to take her and Miyako out for lunch. At one point when Taichi felt he had let down Agumon, Yamato punched him in the face to try and get him to snap out of it. Unlike in the previous season; Taichi said "He needed it." The relationship between Taichi and Yamato on the whole had changed: while they were still rivals they had much more of a mutual respect for each other.

Michi E No Armor Shinka
During a plan to distract Boltmon via tap-dancing, Yamato finally declared his feelings for Sora.

Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back
Yamato and Taichi defeat Diablomon again, with Gabumon and Agumon fusion evolving to Omegamon. He was still good friends with Tai and the rest of the Chosen Children. There was a picture of him and Sora when they were still dating but, apparently, they had a little spat. However, as a joke in the movie, he annoyed Taichi when he told Koushiro she was at her Tennis Club meet by saying, "Can't you remember your own girlfriend's appointments?"

Series finale epilogue
By the year 2027, Yamato has become an astronaut and is married to Sora. He and Gabumon became the first human and Digimon to land on Mars. He has one daughter, a blonde who resembles him, with a Pyocomon; and a son with red hair who resembles more closely his wife, with a Tsunomon. Most fans tend to ignore the epilogue as it made little to no sense and seemed more of a "cop-out" than anything to just end the Adventure series.