Motomiya Daisuke

=Biographical Information=

=Profile= In Digimon Adventure 02, Daisuke took over the position as team leader from his mentor ,Yagami Taichi,, and received his idol's goggles during the handover. Although he often rushes into things and makes mistakes, his courage in the face of outstanding odds cannot be denied. No matter how dire the situation, he always believes that they can somehow make it through. There is certainly no one more suited to the Digimental of Courage than Daisuke. Early on, he claims not to know what friendship is but his later actions prove that he is truly the one worthy of the Digimental of Friendship.

=Appearances=

Digimon Adventure
On August 3rd, 1999, Daisuke was among the kids captured by Vamdemon's minions. As a result, he became a Chosen Child three years later.

Digimon Adventure 02 (First Half)
Daisuke is first seen attending the school with Hikari. When he sees that Takeru being friendly with Hikari he becomes jealous. He soon recived his D-3 and is brought to the Digital World. He finds and lifts the Digimental of Courage freeing V-mon who is overly excited to see Daisuke. They are attacked by a Monochromon under the control of an Evil Ring. Daisuke saves Hikari from being run over by it. By V-mon's instruction he activates the Digimental of Courage armor evolving V-mon to Fladramon who then frees Monochromon from the Evil Ring.

A little later, Daisuke was playing in a soccer match against the famous Ichijouji Ken and injured his ankle in a tackle. In realiation, Ken (as the Digimon Kaiser) had Daisuke degrade himself, threatening to feed the Chosen Children to Deltamon. However, the real Chosen Children appeared, revealing the deception. Ken vows to take over the world, but Daisuke tackles him in a scuffle. During the fight, Daisuke recognizes a familiar cut on the Kaiser's leg. Defeated, Ken reveals that he is the Digimon Kaiser and flies off (on an Airdramon).

When Ken uses an Evil Spiral to control Taichi's Agumon and evolves him into Metal Greymon Daisuke does not want to attack him for fear of hurting him. But Yamato shows him that you have to do what is best for a person. It is then that he gains the Digimental of Friendship.

During the final battle with Chimeramon, Daisuke attempted to locate the engine room and was led there by Wormmon, who was equally determined to save Ken from himself. Daisuke discovered that the base's power source was the Digimental of Miracles, which he used to Armor Evolve V-mon to Magnamon. When Daisuke unlocks the Digimental, V-mon notices that a crest is inside of it, which is later revealed to be Ken's Crest of Kindness. Although Magnamon is powerful, his true power was not revealed until Wormmon sacrifices himself so that he has he energy to defeat Chimeramon using his Extreme Jihad attack. Daisuke and the others finally make Ken realize that Digimon were real, living things, not just computer data.

Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Touchdown
Getting a distress message from Hikari, Daisuke went to the United States with the other Chosen Children to help her and Takeru. On the way, they meet Wallace, a Chosen Child from Colorado, whose rogue Digimon partner Chocomon was the cause of the problems. During the battle with Cherubimon, Daisuke used the Digimental of Miracles, temporarily recreated by Seraphimon and Holydramon, so Magnamon could help Rapidmon defeat Cherubimon and end his pain.

Digimon Adventure 02 (Second Half)
Daisuke was the first of the new Chosen Children to have his partner evolve naturally and befriend Ken. Through hard work, he was able to convince the others to forgive Ken, although Iori took a while and almost put the team in danger from Black War Greymon because of it. On Christmas Day, Daisuke goes to New York City to help Tachikawa Mimi, Michael and the other American Chosen Children send Digimon back to the Digial World, which included tackling a Jureimon in the Rockefeller Center.

Daisuke's moment to shine was in the final battle with Belial Vamdemon. Daisuke was the only one willing to fight, and fueled by Daisuke's courage and determination, XV-mon attacked Belial Vamdemon, causing some damage. While the other children were caught in their dreamworlds by Belial Vamdemon's Mind Illusion, unable to let go of their desires, Daisuke seemed to have remained untouched. Instead he went to each of his friends and helped bring them back to reality. Even then, they were not sure whether they could win or not and were too afraid to try. But Daisuke, ever optimistic, encouraged them to give it a shot. When Belial Vamdemon was curious to know how Daisuke cornered his illusion, the boy revealed he didn't as he has only one desire at the moment: to destroy Belial Vamdemon. Daisuke even cut off Belial Vamdemon's power source when he told the Dark Seed kids about his dream to own a Ramen restaurant.

Digimon Adventure 02: Diablomon Strikes Back
Four years after the events of Our War Game, the evil Diablomon resumed his reign of terror on the Internet. Daisuke was on his way to soccer practice when Koushiro contacted him to fill him in on the situation but on the way, he met some kids who confused him with talk of jellyfish, not knowing that the Kuramon were Realizing via e-mail, so while Taichi, Yamato and their Digimon entered cyberspace to battle Diablomon once more, the others had to track down the Kuramon. But when Daisuke learned that Hikari, Takeru and their Digimon had gone to help their big brothers and Omegamon, he demanded that he should go as well. However, his urge to get in was all part of Diablomon's revenge plan - as the entire Kuramon swarm emerged from the gate before heading to Tokyo Harbour to merge into Armagemon. After Imperialdramon managed to destroy the monster by changing to Imperialdramon Paladin Mode with help of Omegamon, the Chosen Children used their Digivices - spectators' cell phones - to capture the Kuramon, Daisuke remarked how tired he was.

Digimon Adventure 02: Series Finale Epilogue
By the year 2027, Daisuke achieves his dream to open his own noodle cart and it became a huge success. There are now "noodle noodle come get your noodle" carts all over the world. His entrepreneurship earns him a place on magazine covers around the globe. He is rich, married and has one son, who looks exactly like his father, becomes the leader of a second Chosen Children team, inherits Yagami Taichi's goggles and has a Chibimon.

Digimon 02: Michi E No Armor Shinka
In an attempt to get some chocolate from the girls, Daisuke tried to change his image to one the girls adored. He first tried to impersonate Ishida Yamato but he wasn't good at playing bass. Then he posed as Izumi Koushiro but his way of 'fixing' computers annoyed Koushiro. Daisuke eventually decided to use Ken's Digimon Kaiser persona as girls seem to like the "bad boy" look. Problem was, as the girls' Digimon had it, Daisuke was all talk so V-mon yelled at him to take extreme measures to be super-bad. It took Ken's convincing and the power of Pucchiemon to stop Daisuke from reluctantly beating up V-mon to get into character. When Pukumon entered the scene with a Dark Tower, Kido Jou got knocked into the 02 gang and Daisuke ended up with Takeru's D-Terminal, allowing V-mon to Armor Evolve to Sagittarimon. Despite learning an important lesson from the ordeal, he still envies the fact he has no girls going ga-ga over him.

Digimon Adventure 02: Doors to Summer (Natsu e no Tobira)
Second 02 CD drama, it took place in the summer of 2003, when Daisuke and V-mon went to America to visit Mimi and Wallace. But they ended up in a strange dimension, which resembled New York City in winter time. In the cold weather, they encountered a strange girl, who took immediate affections to Daisuke. During introductions, she said that she was nameless so Daisuke gave her the name "Na-chan".

But when Na-Chan turned out to be a Digimon, she was forced by the 'fireflies' to transform into a large roaring creature. The others tried to stop Daisuke from going to her but Daisuke said that she was just lonely and wants a partner. But Na-Chan destroyed herself to protect him. Daisuke was a bit saddened but Chibimon gave a healthy reminder that he's Daisuke's partner as they find her DigiTama.

Wallace and Mimi indicated, the winter was the result of Na-Chan's solitude mixing with Daisuke's regrets, such examples being his lost ar the district soccer competition and his unrequited love for Hikari. In a way, Na-Chan was taking Hikari's place as the object of Daisuke's affection, though she knew it wasn't meant to be.

Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01
During one of his battles, he and the other 02 Chosen Children encountered Parallelmon, who absorbed Miyako, Takeru, Hikari, and Iori as he inadvertently sent Daisuke into the V-Tamer continity where he met the Taichi of that series. After Daisuke made his peace with Taichi, the two worked together to save the others and defeat Parallelmon. With the monster destroyed, Daisuke and his friends returned to their continuity.