Taichi Kamiya
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| Taichi "Tai" Kamiya | |
 Tai in Digimon Adventure (season one) |
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| English: Voiced by: |
Taichi "Tai" Kamiya Joshua Seth |
| Japanese: Voiced by: |
Yagami Taichi (八神 太一) Toshiko Fujita |
| Series: | Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02 |
| Trait: | Courage |
| Digimon: | Agumon |
| First seen: | Episode one, "And so it Begins..." |
Taichi "Tai" Kamiya, known in Japan as Taichi Yagami (八神 太一 Yagami Taichi), is an 11 year old fictional character from the first two seasons of the anime and manga Digimon Adventure, and Digimon Adventure 02.
He is characterized as an adventurous character that wears a set of goggles, a characteristic that is shared among the leaders of the various DigiDestined (Chosen Children in the Japanese version) in Digimon. He is the older brother to Kari Kamiya (Hikari Yagami in Japan).
As a leader, he often acts first without realizing the consequences of his actions. This has led him to moments of friction and guilt between his friend/rival Matt Ishida (Yamato Ishida in Japan), his oldest friend Sora Takenouchi, as well as his Digimon partner Agumon. However, he manages to do whatever is necessary to rectify the situation, and in times of need, save friends and family from certain doom. He is the bearer of the Crest of Courage. His representative color is Orange and his elemental affinity is fire.
Taichi was voiced by Toshiko Fujita (Japan), Joshua Seth (English), and Jason Spisak (English, Movie 4).
The V-Tamer version is more of a planner and has a partner in Zeromaru (a Veedramon).
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[edit] Prelude to Digimon Adventure
Tai and Kari receive a Digi-Egg, which eventually becomes Botamon. Botamon digivolves quickly, from Koromon to Agumon. He then digivolves into Greymon and battles Parrotmon at Highton View Terrace. Kari also got pneumonia sometime when she was four or five years old, and Tai was punished for his stupidity (this was erased from the dubbed version to avoid controversy), for taking Kari outside. Tai relives these painful memories when Kari gets sick during the Dark Masters saga.
[edit] Digimon Adventure
The adventurous leader of the group, Tai was always the first to jump into action, though it often threw him into the path of danger. Agumon was the first Digimon to digivolve into Champion form (Greymon). However, his ambition to get Agumon to digivolve into Ultimate form soon gets him into trouble. He first overstuffed Agumon with food. During their next battle, Tai deliberately walks into danger, knowing that Greymon would digivolve since he is in trouble. However, Greymon instead digivolves into SkullGreymon, his virus counterpart, and causes disaster, rampaging around and taking out Garurumon, Birdramon and Kabuterimon before regressing into an exhausted Koromon. As a result, both of them lose their confidence until Piximon arrives and helps them out. They realize that they need to stay strong and always come back after suffering defeat.
In the final battle with Etemon, Tai sees his crest of courage glowing and once again walks towards danger. Greymon is right behind him. This time, Greymon succeeds, digivolving into MetalGreymon and destroying Etemon. However, Etemon's destruction results in the formation of a dimensional warp. Tai and MetalGreymon enter the warp, which causes them to go back to the Real World and enables Tai to go home. Tai is having a blast, sitting back and relaxing, but when the news comes on he recognizes several Digimon in the Real World. He receives a message from Izzy, who warns him not to come back to the Digital World, but Tai knows that he must get back to fix the balance. When Tai sees Ogremon, Koromon digivolves into Agumon and a dimensional warp opens. Agumon and Tai get sucked through and once again reenter the Digital World.
Upon his re-entry, Tai finds it in severe disarray. Time moves much quicker, and months have passed in the Digital World. The entire team has broken up and are moving their separate ways. Tai first locates T.K. and later connects with Matt and Joe in a diner. Piece by piece, he gathers the group up together.
By now, Myotismon has emerged as the next great threat, and he is in search of the eighth DigiDestined child. The DigiDestined pursue him to the Real World. Wizardmon finds the crest and the digivice and unites Kari and Gatomon. Gatomon digivolves into Angewomon and defeats Myotismon, but he comes back as VenomMyotismon. One of the DigiDestined believes that the key to defeating VenomMyotismon is to have Angemon and Angewomon shoot Tai and Matt with arrows of light. Both of them agree, and Gabumon and Agumon digivolve into MetalGarurumon and WarGreymon, both of whom defeat VenomMyotismon. The DigiDestined are shocked to see the Digital World appear in the sky. All eight of them open another warp and go back to the Digital World to restore the balance.
The Dark Masters emerge as the major enemy, and it is revealed that they were the ones who warped and rebuilt the Digital World. During this portion, Matt and Tai develop serious rifts in their friendship, which culminates into a major battle involving their Mega level Digimon. Matt leaves the group for a short while to reevaluate his place in it. After defeating three of the four Dark Masters, Tai gets everybody together as one group to battle Piedmon, the last of the four. Showing true foresight, he refuses to allow any of the others digivolve in the battle against LadyDevimon, Piedmon's bodyguard, because he wants to save their strength for the ultimate battle. He also sends Sora and T.K. to round up Mimi, Joe, and Matt, all of whom left the group to find themselves. In the end, they triumph over Piedmon, but it takes the digivolution of Angemon into MagnaAngemon to do it. He leads the group against Apocalymon. Once he is defeated Tai and the others have to say goodbye to their Digimon friends.
During May of 2000, Tai arrived in the Digital World and gave up his Crest power to free the Digimon Sovereigns. As a result, Agumon lost the ability to become MetalGreymon and WarGreymon.
[edit] Our War Game!
Tai was writing an e-mail to Sora to apologize after a fight they had, accidentally signing the letter "Love", instead of "From". Tai's letter, however, wasn't to be received after Kari sent it because of a strange Digimon who had appeared on the Internet. Izzy came over to Tai's house to help. They contacted Gennai, who sent Agumon and Tentomon into the Internet to battle the rapidly evolving Digimon. Matt and T.K. hooked up at a barbershop to connect to the Internet, and soon Patamon and Gabumon were helping Agumon and Tentomon in battling the Digimon, who had since digivolved into Infermon, defeating Greymon and Kabuterimon in the process.
Infermon was an Ultimate Digimon, skipping the Champion stage. When Izzy figures this out, the two Champions attempt to digivolve, but Infermon is too quick and knocks them out before they can finish. Tentomon and Patamon are knocked out of the battle. Agumon and Gabumon warp digivolve into WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon, but by this time Infermon has digivolved into Diaboromon and is multiplying. Millions of kids around the world watching the battle are sending letters to encourage Matt and Tai, but they are only slowing their Digimon down. Diaboromon multiplied and blasted the two Digimon. Tai and Matt entered the Internet to revive their Digimon and they DNA Digivolved to become Omnimon. Tai, Matt and Omnimon then fought Diaboromon in the Internet, destroying him in the nick of time. Tai's e-mail to Sora finally got through and the two made up.
[edit] Digimon Adventure 02
In this series, he has entered high school (though in the original Japanese version, him and all the other older children are only in middle school). Tai has grown emotionally by this time. He is much calmer and less likely to act without thinking.
Tai plays a major role in the first episode ("Enter Flamedramon"). When he senses that Agumon is in trouble, he mysteriously enters the Digital World and tries to help him out. Along with Patamon and Gatomon, he finds a cave that has a Digi-Egg with the Crest of Courage on it. He tries to lift it up (and fails), which causes three points of light to rise and fly off. They are the three Digivices that Davis, Cody, and Yolei receive. After the battle with Monochromon, Tai also gives Davis his goggles, since Davis broke his square goggles in the battle.
In the year 2027, Tai has become a United Nations Diplomat for the Digital World. He has a son, whose partner is a Koromon; Tai's wife is not revealed.
[edit] Hurricane Touchdown/Supreme Evolution! The Golden Digimentals
Tai regressed in age thanks to Wendigomon.
[edit] Revenge of Diaboromon
Tai is the same age as the second series. He is a more experienced leader now, however he still has that ready-for-anything-with-action attitude. In this movie, he seems to be the leader of both generations of DigiDestined now. However, Izzy has more of an understanding of what's going on. So when Tai hears the news of how Diaboromon survived, he is ready to go in the Internet and take him down once and for all.
Tai and Matt head into the Internet to fight Diaboramon. Their Digimon DNA digivolve into Omnimon and they conquer him. After the victory on the Internet, the war in the real world begins, as a huge number of Kuramon break out of the internet and merge into Armageddemon. Thanks to Angewomon, Omnimon blasts his way out of the Internet, yet the blast (whether it was powerful enough to destroy Armageddemon or not) misses the creature by mere inches. Tai and Matt fall off their Digimon's shoulders. When they get up, they can't believe what a monster they are going be fighting. Omnimon is ready and attacks, but even he is not powerful enough and is defeated.
Tai loses hope as he stares at his defeated Digimon, who was, as most believed, the strongest Digimon they had. He and Matt now stand motionless after a powerful blast from their opponent. It was only after Sora shakes them out of it that Tai started to try and give his best confidence and hope to Imperialdramon, the second most powerful Digimon after Omnimon.
However, Imperialdramon was defeated even more quickly. After the Omni Sabre was given and the Paladin Digimon defeated Armageddemon, the Kuramon started to appear. Tai was one of the DigiDestined, along with Sora and Matt, who used their Digivices along with the cell phones of the normal people to delete the Kuramon.
[edit] Video games
- Tai was the last Digidestined to be rescued from the evil Millenniummon by Ryo Akiyama in the Digimon Wonderswan games. He would play a supporting role in the sequels.
- In D1 Tamers (the second-to-last in the Wonderswan series), Tai is one of the many Digidestined recruited by the four Digimon Sovereigns to take part in a bogus tournament that is actually training for Ryo. He is the final opponent in the tournament, after which the deception is revealed.
[edit] Trivia
- Tai has two Japanese image songs, "Yuuki wo Tsubasa ni Shite" ("Turning Courage into Wings") and "Atarashii Taiyou" ("The New Sun"), as well as a third one sung with Agumon (Sakamoto Chika) called "Team."
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| Main characters: | Tai | Matt | Sora | Izzy | Mimi | Joe | T. K. | Kari | |||
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| Digimon: | Agumon | Gabumon | Biyomon | Tentomon | Palmon | Gomamon | Patamon | Gatomon | |||
| Villains: | Devimon | Etemon | Myotismon | Dark Masters | Apocalymon | |||
| Other Characters: | Gennai | Leomon | Ogremon | Wizardmon | other minor characters | |||
| See also: | Digimon | |||
