Takaishi Takeru

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Takeru, the younger brother of Ishida Yamato, is partnered with Patamon. He is a cheerful, optimistic person who is polite and friendly to everyone, but he seems to develop a grudge towards evil. Takeru was too young to remember his parents' divorce clearly so he is not as affected by it as much as Yamato is.

Prelude to Digimon Adventure
When Takeru was very young and still lived in Hikarigaoka with the rest of his family, he and his older brother witnessed the fight between Greymon and Parrotmon fight.

Takeru's parents divorced before the events of Digimon Adventure. On Yamato's request, his father took him while his mother took Takeru. Takeru lived with his mother in the Sangenjaya district of Setagaya.

Digimon Adventure: Our War Game
Takeru was with Yamato visiting their grandmother out in the country. Taichi and Koushiro managed to get a hold of them and warned them about Diablomon. Following this, the brothers searched the surrounding town for a computer to help fight in the Internet. Takeru, however, could not do much to help in the battle and could only watch in horror as Patamon fell to Diablomon. He was one of the many viewers around the world who watched the final battle between Omegamon and Diablomon.

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

Shortly before he began attending the fifth grade, Takeru and his mother moved to an apartment building in Odaiba.

Digimon Adventure 02
Takeru grew a lot during the years after his first adventure. A very tall boy, around the same height as Koushiro, he was the star member of his basketball team. On his first day of school, Takeru mett Inoue Miyako and Hida Iori, his neighbors. He also started attending Odaiba Elementary in the same class as his old friend Yagami Hikari, as well as Motomiya Daisuke. Because he and Hikari were already good friends, Takeru immediately becomes the rival and friend of a paranoid Daisuke who had a crush on her. Like Hikari, Takeru had a slight advantage compared to the new kids because he has had the most experience with Digimon.

After Paildramon and Silphymon debuted, Iori realized that Takeru would be his Jogress partner eventually. Iori then noticed that Takeru had been acting oddly violent and angry when Black War Greymon was involved, and realized that he had acted the same way about Chimeramon, as well as the Digimon Kaiser after he had unleashed the synthetic Digimon. Desperate to understand Takeru's attitude towards evil, he turned to Takeru's older brother, Yamato, who told him about the battle between Angemon and Devimon and about Angemon's subsequent death, which had affected Takeru more than anyone had realized. This was all Iori needed for Ankylomon and Angemon to Jogress into Shakkoumon.

On Christmas Eve, Takeru went to Ken's Christmas Party with the rest of the younger Chosen, although it ended abruptly as they had to send rampaging Digimon back to the Digital World and destroy a Dark Tower. The next day, the Chosen Children found out that Digital Gates were open in the entire world. Qinglongmon gave the Chosen Children one of his Digicores to help power up the Digimon, and Takeru went with Taichi to Paris to help the Chosen Children of France round up the wild Digimon who had appeared in the Real World.

Back in Japan, the children had to fend off the Demon Corps, a group of evil Digimon led by Demon, as well as Archnemon, Mummymon and their boss, the human Oikawa Yukio. He and the other children helped Ken open a gate to the World of Darkness and banished Demon through the gate. However, Oikawa managed to run away.

Takeru and the others followed the seeded children for the following days, facing Oikawa several times. On December 31st, they followed Oikawa and the children to the world of dreams, where it was revealed that Oikawa Yukio was possessed by the spirit of Belial Vamdemon, who absorbed the power of the Dark Seeds he sowed in the necks of twenty children to gain a corporeal form. He killed Archnemon and Mummymon, which shocked and frightened Takeru and the others. When Daisuke and XV-mon started fighting back, BelialVamdemon subjected the children to an illusion, showing their greatest desire. Iori's desire was for his family to be together again, but it was broken by Patamon's explanation that it wasn't real, and Daisuke appeared to take him back to the other kids. When everyone's illusions were broken, Takeru used the power of the dream dimension against Belial Vamdemon, with Angemon, Holy Angemon, Pegasmon and Shakkoumon appearing all at once to fight Belial Vamdemon. After BelialVamdemon escaped to the Digital World, the light from his D-3 helped weaken BelialVamdemon and power up Imperialdramon Fighter Mode's Giga Death cannon.

Digimon 02: Diablomon Strikes Back
Takeru went with Iori to collect Kuramon and send them to Koushiro's computer. However, he later parted with Iori and went into the Internet with Hikari, to aid their brothers in the battle against Diablomon. After Diablomon was beaten he returned to the Real World to watch the battle against Armagemon.

25 Years Later
By the year 2027, Takeru has become an author. He writes stories based on the adventures he and the other children had. He is married and has a son.

Digimon Adventure 02: Hurricane Touchdown
When he and Hikari visited Mimi in New York, they encountered Wallace, Terriermon and Wendimon. While on a train for Colorado, their train was hindered by Wendimon so they had to continue on foot. He and Hikari managed to join the others during the fight with Cherubimon.

Digimon Adventure 02: Michi e no Armor Shinka
When Pukumon entered the scene with a Dark Tower, Jou knocked into the 02 Chosen Children and Takeru ended up with Hikari's D-Terminal, allowing Patamon to Armor Evolve to Manbomon.