Yagami Taichi

Yagami Taichi (八神 太一) is the main protagonist in Digimon Adventure. He is a Chosen Child, partnered with Agumon, and holds the Crest of Courage. He is also the older brother of Yagami Hikari, who is also a Chosen Child.

Appearance
Taichi has spiky brown hair, brown eyes and slightly tanned skin. He usually wears light grey goggles with a black strap. In 1995, as a small child, Taichi wears a blue long sleeved shirt with orange stars near the shoulders and a yellow collar, black pants with a gray vertical line on each side, white and blue sneakers with a yellow line in the back. His pajamas are a light blue buttoned shirt with blue buttons and pants. At age 8, he wears a shirt with a star on the chest and two horizontal lines near the bottom, shorts, socks, and sneakers, all of undetermined color.

In 1999, Taichi is taller, and wears his trademark goggles on his forehead over a blue headband and sports a blue T-shirt with orange stars on the sleeves, a yellow pocket on each side of the chest, and three buttons in the top, over a slightly longer yellow T-shirt with a turtleneck collar. He also wears brown cargo shorts, where he keeps his Digivice, a black armband on the left arm, white gloves, white loose socks with blue and white sneakers with yellow triangles on them. His underwear is blue briefs with a white band on the top. His soccer uniform consists of a red T-shirt with a white collar, lines on the sleeves and a white "10" on the back, white shorts with a vertical red line on each side and socks with red borders, and black and red football boots with white marks on them. In 2000, during the battle against Diablomon, he wears similar clothes with a long-sleeved dark blue shirt underneath. He doesn't seem to wear his gloves, wristband, or sneakers, probably due to being indoors.

By 2002, Taichi usually wears the Odaiba Middle School uniform; a white buttoned shirt with long sleeves under an open green blazer jacket, gray pants, white socks, and white and blue sneakers. He gave his goggles to Davis after the latter's goggles broke. During summer, he wears a blue T-shirt with yellow borders and triangles on each sleeve and the front with a green shirt underneath. He also wears yellow wristbands on his hands, light brown shorts, gray socks, and blue and yellow sneakers with white soles. During winter, he wears a blue shirt under a long blue hooded coat with yellow lines on the sleeve and pocket linings, a yellow paw print on the left breast and two yellow paw prints on the bottom back. He also wears blue track pants with white lines along the sides, white socks and white and yellow shoes with blue soles. He also wears his old headband at all times. On March 25, 2003, Taichi wears a dark blue shirt with long sleeves under a blue button-up short-sleeved shirt with yellow stars on the sleeves and a pocket on the left breast, as well as black pants and shoes.

In 2005, Taichi is 17 years old and usually wears the Odaiba High School uniform; a light blue buttoned jacket under an opened white dress shirt with blue tie, navy blue vest, black pants, and sneakers. In a chaotic battle against Kuwagamon and being joined by other two Kuwagamon at the Haneda airport, Taichi wears his blue soccer uniform. During the battle against Alphamon, Taichi wears a casual outfit, an orange short sleeved denim blazer with folded sleeves and a sign "17" in each sides, a white long sleeved undershirt, dark blue capris and black and white high-top sneakers and white socks. He gains a new goggles given by Izzy where he could see the distortions. He often seen wearing the goggles on his head or hanging loose on his neck. During the summer, Taichi wears a summer version of his Odaiba High School uniform, with his short-sleeved button-up shirt loose, his black neck tie.

In 2010, Taichi is 22 years old and his spiky hair became slightly shorter and has a full fringe. His primary appearance has him wearing a medium blue short sleeved openly button shirt with a single left pocket, a white loose T-shirt underneath, black jeans and blue sneakers with white cross designs and white soles. When he takes Agumon to his apartment, he wore a blue, white and black short sleeved loose shirt, and khaki capris with gray folded sleeves at the edge. In the final battle with Eosmon, Taichi wears new goggles on his head and his outfit is similar to his primary appearance with his button shirt and undershirt being replaced with a medium blue short sleeved hoodie with a gray zipper.

By 2027, Taichi wears a yellow shirt under a zipped bluish grey jacket with a blue collar. He also wears blue pants and shoes with yellow soles. At work, he wears white shirt under a black suit, and a blue tie.

Personality
Taichi is energetic and adventurous. He is also acts impulsively and rushes without thinking the consequences, especially when his friends are in danger but is quick to realize and admit he has been wrong, and does whatever it takes to fix his mistakes. Despite his flaws, Taichi is very caring and considerate of others, even if his actions may cause some people to think otherwise. It takes time for him to learn how to be a leader, but eventually he grows into the unifying force that leads all the other Chosen Children and keeps them together. As a teenager, Taichi acts like the mellow and experienced mentor to the new Chosen Children. He is less brash but still easygoing.

Taichi is very close to Hikari and very protective of her, in part because of their past experiences. On her part, Hikari idolizes Taichi and confides in him even when they are older. Taichi and Hikari used to share a room, but sometime between Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 Hikari has moved to another room.

Taichi's oldest friend is Takenouchi Sora, who has been in the same class as him since the first grade. In elementary school, they are both regulars in the soccer club. His closest friend is Izumi Kōshirō, who he met at the soccer club. As the adventurous leader of the group, Taichi is always the first to jump into action, though it often throws him into the path of danger. His ideas often conflict to the more rational and cautious Yamato, which leads them to fight. Despite this, the two are close friends.

In Digimon Adventure tri., Taichi's usual focus on the "big picture" leads him to become more cautious about battling after seeing the destruction caused by the Digimon's battles, and his resolve falters against the risk of collateral damage. When it becomes clear that Digimon like Alphamon will only cause more damage if they aren't stopped, Taichi makes the decision to fight against them, but he still remains reluctant to battle.

History
When they were young, Taichi and his younger sister Hikari lived with their parents in Hikarigaoka. Taichi attended Dai-san Elementary School, and was in the same first grade class as Takenouchi Sora.

Digimon Adventure (Movie)
One night In 1995, Taichi wakes up late at night and sees Hikari looking at their dad's computer. Suddenly, a strange egg comes out of it. The next morning, Taichi realizes that the egg is real. While their mother is out, the egg escapes Hikari's grasp and rolls away. It then hatches into a Botamon and immediately latches onto Taichi's face. Taichi throws it off, and it runs under the nearby bed. Taichi tries to get it out by throwing his googles at it, but that just makes Botamon blow bubbles at him.

Hikari eventually gains its trust with her whistle and begins feeding it chocolate, causing it to evolve into Koromon. Then Hikari steals the food of their cat, Miko, and gives it to Koromon, who thanks her by latching onto her face as well and then Taichi's. Miko soon finds Koromon with its food, however, and lashes out. Taichi tries to protect him and they are both scratched by the cat. Soon after, Koromon introduces himself. He tells Taichi and Hikari that he is a digimon from the Digital World. They don't really understand this and later head to bed, but Koromon suddenly evolves into an Agumon and begins roaming the streets, causing destruction on a small scale, while carrying Hikari on his back. Taichi frantically chases after them.

Before he manages to cause any real casualties, a Parrotmon appears out of a huge egg in the sky. Agumon lashes out, which only angers the bird, causing it to destroy an overhead bridge and covering Agumon and the two kids in rubble. Out of the rubble, Greymon appears in Agumon's place and begins fighting back against Parrotmon. After a few minutes, Greymon is knocked out, and only awakens when Taichi blows Hikari's whistle as loud as he can. He then lets out a blinding fire breath attack, and the two digimon vanish, leaving Taichi and Hikari alone amongst all the destruction.

Interlude
After these events, people were convinced that the destruction was caused by a terrorist bombing. Taichi's family decided to move to Odaiba, like many other families. One day, when Taichi was in second grade, Hikari was sick and stayed at home. When he returned from school he saw her watching TV and thought she was getting better, so he took her outside to play soccer with him. While playing, Hikari collapsed and was taken to the hospital. Their mother was so angry and worried she slapped Taichi. Hikari was in the hospital for three days in critical condition. When she got back home, the first thing she did was apologize that she couldn't play with him, which made him cry and feel even more guilty that she got hurt because of him.

File Island Adventures
On August 1st, Taichi along with Ishida Yamato, Takenouchi Sora, Izumi Kōshirō, Tachikawa Mimi, Kido Jō, and Takaishi Takeru attend a school summer camp, that is hit by a sudden blizzard. The students take shelter, and after it stops all of them step outside and witness an Aurora outside. They are interrupted by what appears to be a meteor strike and discover that small electric devices landed for each member of the group. A portal then opens up in the sky and sucks them into an alternate dimension. Taichi wakes on hearing his name and he is shocked to see a bouncing pink ball-like creature named Koromon. He is then found by Kōshirō with another creature called Motimon who explains they are on File Island. Taichi climbs a tree and is attacked by Kuwagamon, who Koromon attacks back but gets hit in the process. They flee and hide in a holographic entrance of a metal tree until Kuwagamon leaves and hear Sora’s voice. They find that she also has a creature called Pyocomon with her. Soon, they encounter other cretures - Tokomon, followed by Takeru, Tsunomon held by Yamato, and Pukamon chasing after Jō. The creatures introduce themselves as “digimon” and Taichi and his friends introduce themselves as well. On hearing Mimi’s scream, they find her and Tanemon, fleeing Kuwagamon. The group flees again until they reach a cliff. The digimon all attack Kuwagamon at once, but they are hit. The children pick up their Digimon, but Kuwagamon gets back up. Their digimon partners leap out of the children’s arms, evolve to their child form, attack Kuwagamon and eventually knock him behind some trees. The group celebrates but Kuwagamon gets back up and breaks the cliff sending them all plunging into the river.

The Children fall but are saved by Gomamon’s Marching Fishes. They reach a bank and decide to go to the ocean. As the group reaches their destination, they hear a phone ringing and find five telephone booths on the sand. The children try to use them, only to be given bizarre information. A short time later, the children take a break, and they try to assess their supply and food while Taichi and Agumon have already started eating. Suddenly, a geyser of water spits up out of the sand and Shellmon emerges. The digimon try to strike back at him but fail, except for Agumon who is the only one who has eaten. Taichi and Agumon attack Shellmon, but he pins Agumon down and catches Taichi. Shellmon begins to squeeze Taichi as he yells in pain, which causes Agumon to evolve into Greymon freeing Taichi. Greymon then defeats Shellmon, throwing him back into the ocean. After Greymon devolves back into Agumon, Taichi runs to him worried, finding that he is only hungry. After the fight, the children encourage the Digimon to eat in case they need the Digimon to fight.

Later, the children are on top of a ridge when two Monochromon appear to fight over territory, and they run away. Eventually, the group finds a large lake and a trolley car on an island in its center, and they decide to camp there. During dinner, Taichi wonders about Yamato and Takeru’s relationship. Before going to sleep, Taichi teases Gabumon about his fur coat, making Yamato angry and they start to argue until Takeru asks them to stop. They later make amends during Taichi’s first watch, and Yamato tells Taichi about his and Takeru’s family situation. Later in his watch, Taichi pokes the fire, and a few burning coals land on a large red leaf-shaped object, which was Seadramon’s tail. Seadramon emerges and begins to drag the island through the lake. As the digimon’s attacks are not strong enough to harm Seadramon, Taichi tells Agumon to evolve again, but he cannot. During its rampage, Yamato is caught by Seadramon which triggers Gabumon’s evolution into Garurumon and defeats him. Later, on the shore, the children theorize that their digimon evolve when they are in danger, as also happened with Taichi and Agumon. The children then fall asleep while Taichi watches Yamato playing his harmonica with Takeru and their partners by their side.

Sometime later, the children and their digimon are walking through a forest, when they suddenly see a black gear flying in the sky. The children see an opening in the trees and decide to leave the forest and walk out onto a desert-like plain. They walk for some time until Taichi spots a a village with his pocket telescope. When they arrive in the village, the children are surprised to see that it belongs to a large group of Pyocomon. After they look around, they find that the village’s water sources have dried up and burst into flames. The Pyocomon mention that Meramon should be protecting the mountain, but when Taichi looks through his telescope he sees Meramon coming down, screaming he’s burning. Taichi yells for everyone to run and they escape into the boat sunk into the now dry lake. Meramon shows and knocks out Piyomon, but Sora runs and catches her. Wanting to protect Sora, Piyomon evolves into Birdramon and manages to stop Meramon with Meteor Wing, extracting and destroying the black gear. After recovering, Meramon informs the children that he remembers a black gear, but not what happened afterward. He returns to protect the mountain and the Pyocomon serve the group a "feast".

After continuing their journey, the children rest when Taichi sees something in the distance and discovers a large factory. The children go to explore the factory and split up into two groups. Taichi, Sora and Jō go one way with their partners, searching for people. They spot a doorway and inside they find Andromon, a noted good digimon, who is trapped between some gears. The children decide to help him and begin to pull him out. Taichi slips and falls back against a lever and the children manage to drag him out. However, when Andromon wakes he says they are intruders and attacks them. The children manage to escape until they find the others on the roof and yell for them to run, as Andromon attacks. Gabumon and Agumon evolve to fight him. Kōshirō runs a computer program to help Tentomon evolve into Kabuterimon. With his and Kōshirō’s help, the digimon manage to free Andromon from the Black Gear that controlled him. Later, Andromon apologizes for attacking the children, and shows them a way out of the factory in a nearby tunnel to the sewers.

As the group keeps walking in the sewers, singing and talking they are chased down by Numemon, until they reach outside into the sunlight, making the Numemon hide from it. The group reaches a large field with vending machines, however, a horde of Numemon comes out from them and chases the group ant they split up. Soon, Monzaemon finds them (save for Mimi and Palmon), traps them with his Lovely Attack, and erases Taichi and the other children’s emotions, so they will become “toys for the toys” in his Toy Town. They are eventually saved by Mimi and Palmon, who evolves into Togemon and destroys a black gear that was inside of Monzaemon, saving him, their friends, and the Numemon. At sunset, Monzaemon apologizes to the children, and they discover that he was affected by a black gear. He thanks them by using his uncorrupted Lovely Attack, enveloping everyone in a bubble-like red heart.

Later, the children walk in the forest as it gets colder, and they emerge from the trees to a large field covered in snow. The group sees a column of steam coming up from behind some trees, hoping it is a hot spring, but when they get there, they find that the water is boiling, and too hot to take a bath. They also find there a refrigerator full of eggs and decide to make dinner. Later, after the sun has gone down, Taichi and Yamato begin to argue about whether the group should go to Infinity Mountain – Taichi thinks it will provide an excellent view of the area, while Yamato is worried that it will be too dangerous. The next day, as the sun rises, the group discovers that Jō has gone climbing the mountain on his own and they go after him. Taichi, Agumon, Sora, and Birdramon arrive just in time to save Jō and Gomamon from Unimon. Jo tries to pull the black gear out of Unimon, but he throws him off, causing Gomamon to evolve into Ikkakumon to protect him, and he manages to free Unimon from the black gear. Now that they are mostly up the mountain, Taichi, Sora, and Jō continue to the peak, where they discover that they are on an island surrounded by an immense sea.

The children regroup on the mountaintop as Taichi looks through his pocket telescope and tries to make a map, though not a good one. Following a loud sound, the children go back and are attacked by Leomon and Ogremon, who should be mortal enemies. The digimon evolve to fight the two digimon, when a sudden shower of large stones breaks off the cliff above them. After protecting their partners, the digimon revert to their child forms, exhausted, and find that Ogremon and Leomon are gone. The group makes it off the mountain and walks through a forest until they find a large mansion. They start to explore it, finding food and baths. After the baths, the group goes to sleep in a room with eight beds. During the night, Taichi escorts Agumon to the bathroom because he is afraid to go alone. When Agumon comes out, Ogremon bursts out to attack them. Taichi and Agumon run away, only to be met in the hallway by Leomon and Devimon. Devimon makes the mansion dissolve, leaving only ruins. The other children wake up in the beds, and Devimon sends them flying into the air. Agumon tells Taichi he has no energy, despite eating before, and Devimon reveals that the food and baths were illusions and that they are the Chosen Children. Devimon splits the island into many pieces that start to move away. Devimon also reveals that he took over the island using the black gears. Leomon charges, knocking aside Agumon, and grabbing Taichi. Suddenly, Taichi’s bed crashes next to them, and his digivice falls out by Leomon’s foot. It starts glowing and frees Leomon from Devimon’s control. Leomon demands that Taichi and Agumon flee, and pushes them onto a moving island, telling them that they are the only hope for the Digital World.

Taichi and Agumon float on a bit of ice and run into a larger island fragment. The impact throws them into the air, and they sink into the snow. They are soon attacked by a black-gear-controlled Yukidarumon, but they manage to destroy the black gear and free him. Yukidarumon apologizes for attacking them and tells them that he saw another human and a Gabumon land on an island a short distance away. Yukidarumon offers to take them to the island and makes an ice bridge. When arriving at the island, Taichi and Agumon, reunite with Yamato and Gabumon. As they catch up, they talk about what they should do next. Yamato thinks they need to find everyone else, but Taichi points out that it would be difficult. Yamato gets agitated and the two start to fight. Their partner digimon cry for them to stop until Yamato finally reveals that he is worried about Takeru being alone. Suddenly the cliff breaks off, Taichi grabs Yamato’s hand and a tree branch while their digimon climb down trying to help. A black-gear-controlled Mojyamon appears and breaks the cliff further, sending everyone falling. They all land on Yukidarumon, who gives them food. After eating, Agumon and Gabumon evolve to Greymon and Garurumon. They manage to free Mojyamon from the black gear as well as find a wall of interlocking black gears and destroy them. Later, the gears in the wall start moving in the opposite direction, and the island fragment starts to move back towards Infinity Mountain.

Taichi and Yamato arrive at Primary Village in time to protect Takeru from Leomon and Orgemon. As the other children arrive as well, Taichi uses his digivice to free Leomon from the black gears, making Orgemon to retreat. Finally reunited, Leomon tells the group about the legend of the Chosen Children. The children decide to face Devimon in battle with Leomon’s help. They go to Infinity Mountain and fight the well prepared Devimon, and Orgremon. As Devimon is too strong, the children and their digimon begin to lose. Devimon catches Patamon, who evolves into Angemon at the last minute, draws power from all the Digivices, and destroys Devimon with Heaven's Knuckle. They both of them fade as Devimon warns them about the dangers spreading across the sea, and Angemon reverts into a digiegg. As the children talk about Devimon’s last words, the ground fractures and a holographic image pops up of an old man.

Server Continent Mission
The old man greets the group as the “Chosen Children” and introduces himself as Gennai. He tells them how to come to Server Island and defeat their enemy there. Taichi and the children agree that they should go there. The children and their Digimon build a rhapsody with the help of their Digimon friends on file island. The Chosen Children live file Island on the raphsody deep into the ocean. The children were suddenly attacked and swallowed by Whamon. After Taichi frees him from the black gear controlling him, Whamon offers to take them to Server Continent. With his help they find the tags in an underwater cave, guarded by a black-gear-controlled Drimogemon. After freeing him, the children and their digimon return to Whamon with their tags.

After five days of traveling by sea, Taichi spots Server Continent. When they arrive, they head to what should have been Koromon Village but found Pagumon Village instead. However, when Tokomon has disappeared, the children understand that it is truly a Koromon village and that the Pagumon imprisoned them and took over their village. When Taichi finds Agumon, Tokomon, and the imprisoned Koromon, Agumon evolves and drives the Gazimon away. However, they are soon attacked by Etemon and are defeated. The group, along with the freed Koromon, escape into the cave where they find Taichi’s crest and find an opening to a forest.

Later, the children walk in a desert depressed, except Taichi, who is now more confident since he found his crest. Overconfident, Taichi makes Agumon eat everyone’s share of food in order to gain more energy and evolve. With Jo’s tag glowing, the group is headed to the Coliseum to look for his crest. There, they are trapped by Etemon, except for Agumon who is left in the field. Agumon evolves into Greymon and fights another Greymon who is controlled by Etemon but is losing because he ate too much. Luckily, the children find Jo’s crest and manage to escape the cage. Taichi keeps urging Greymon to evolve further, but as a result, he dark evolves into SkullGreymon. SkullGreymon attacks Taichi and the other evolved Digimon and after running berserk for some time he loses energy and devolves into Koromon. Taichi realizes that it is his fault that Greymon dark evolved and apologizes.

Continuing their journey in the hot desert, they encounter Gennai’s hologram again. He explains to them that unless they nurture their Digimon well, they won’t evolve correctly. Before further explaining the connection is cut off and they find a cruise ship heading their way. After running out of the way, the ship stops, and the children manage to find refuge on it from the hot sun. When Taichi, Koromon, Jo, and Gomamon relax at the pool, they are suddenly attacked by the Numemon workers and Cockatorimon, who turns Agumon and Gomamon into stone and ties Taichi and the others in the sun. After being rescued by Sora, Piyomon, Mimi and Togemon, the group escapes the cruise ship until they find Mimi’s crest.

As the children keep moving, Taichi and Agumon are attacked by Kuwagamon. Taichi and Agumon are afraid of dark evolving again, so they are reluctant to fight. Luckily, they are saved by Piccolomon, who takes them to train at his house. Taichi and Agumon were taken to special training in a cave. Suddenly, they found themselves in a boat in the middle of a pond. They kept floating until they reached a bridge where they saw a little Taichi trying to learn how to ride a bike. They are both reminded that they can’t lose heart and that evolving is just like riding a bicycle, so they shouldn’t fear it. After returning, Agumon evolved into Greymon and saved the Chosen Children and Piccolomon from Tyranomon. In the evening, the group leaves Piccolomon’s house.

Later, the children manage to connect to Etemon’s Dark Network and receive an email asking for help in exchange for the rest of the crests. With this mysterious person’s help, the children find Takeru’s crest which was the opening of a cave filled with digimoji. Kōshirō hypothesizes that the Digital World is made of data, and so are they. The next morning, Taichi, Sora, Kōshirō, Jo, and their digimon head to the writer’s location inside Etemon’s pyramid. Taichi keeps acting recklessly because he thinks that he can’t get hurt since they are all made of data. They finally reach Nanomon, who was imprisoned by Etemon. They are soon discovered and attacked by Etemon, but Taichi manages to free Nanomon as their digimon fight him. However, Nanomon attacks the Chosen Children and Etemon and kidnaps Sora and Piyomon. Taichi and the others run after him but reach an electric fence. Taichi wants to try to get through the fence since he doesn’t believe he can get hurt, but Kōshirō tells him that if they die in the Digital World, they will really die. This shocks Taichi and installs fear in him, even when Kōshirō tells him where the safe passage is. However, before they manage to get through, their digimon are defeated. They are soon rescued by Garurumon and Togemon and manage to escape.

Taichi is upset that he couldn’t save Sora and blames himself. The others reassure him that they will save her when they discover Nanomon’s secret room. While the others act as decoys, Taichi, koushiro, and their digimon head to the pyramid. However, they are soon found by Etemon. Kōshirō holds him back while Taichi heads towards Sora. Taichi and Agumon reach the electric fence and Taichi fosters all his courage to pass through it. When he succeeds, his crest glows. Taichi goes through while Greymon helps Kabuterimon to hold off Etemon. Taichi finds Sora and manages to steal back her digivice and crest from Nanomon. He catches her when a hole opens around her and returns her digivice and crest and Piyomon evolves to Birdramon and manages to rescue them. They all manage to escape and reunite with the other children outside the pyramid. However, the pyramid is destroyed by Etemon who was engulfed by his Dark Network and destroying anything in his path. Taichi’s crest is glowing and her and Greymon walk toward Etemon. Greymon then super-evolves into MetalGreymon and defeats Etemon. However, both Taichi and MetalGreymon get sucked into an interdimensional vortex and disappear.

Chosen Children Reunite
Taichi and Koromon find themselves back in the Real World, in Odaiba, Tokyo. They quickly escape to Taichi’s house before people get suspicious about Koromon. Before entering, Taichi wonders for how long he has been gone and if his family remembers him. After entering he notices that it is still August 1st, 1999, the same day they had left for camp. Then Taichi’s sister, Hikari, comes out of her room and greets him. They are surprised that Hikari recognizes Koromon and is not afraid of him. Hikari reminds Taichi that she has a cold and that their parents had gone to visit their grandmother, as he accidentally reveals to her that he had gone to Koromon’s world. Taichi tries to see if the others have come back as well, but after calling them, understands that they didn’t. After eating and resting, Taichi notices that the rift from the digimon’s world causes all the strange weather around the world, but only he and Hikari can see the digimon. Suddenly Taichi receives a message from Koushiro who tells him to not come back to the Digital World. However, Taichi realizes he has to go back as digimon attack in the Real World. Ogremon attacks them, and Koromon evolves to fight him as a rift opens back to the Digital World. Before going back, Taichi promises Hikari he will come back.

Upon returning to the Digital World, Taichi and Agumon look for the others using Taichi’s digivice. They find Tokomon along with Takeru’s digivice and crest. Tokomon tells Taichi that after they had left everyone separated, leaving Takeru to be tricked by PicoDevimon, who made Tokomon and Takeru fight. Taichi decides to look for Takeru and they find him in an amusement park. Taichi tries to reassure Takeru that everyone still cares about him as PicoDevimon arrives with mushrooms to eat. Luckily, Agumon hears a voice that tells him that the mushrooms cause memory loss, and he arrives in time to warn Taichi and the others. Takeru apologizes to Tokomon and Taichi returns his digivice and crest. Tokomon evolves into Patamon and attacks PicoDevimon with Agumon’s help. Eventually, Patamon and the group starts searching for all the others.

Arriving at Digitamamon’s restaurant, they meet Gomamon and Gabumon working in the restaurant along with Jo and Yamato. Taichi suggests they should get out of there while no one is around and search for the others. However, Yamato disagrees and says he doesn’t want to go with Jo because he believes he will drag them down. Then Digitamamon and PicoDevimon appear to stop them, and Yamato and Jo realize that PicoDevimon tricked them. Digitamamon attacks and Gabumon and Gomamon evolve. Vegimon catches Jo after he saves Takeru, which causes Yamato to activate his crest, and Garurumon Super-evolve into WereGarurumon and defeats Digitamamon. Yamato then thanks and apologizes to Jo, but the group soon separates again to look for the others, agreeing on the bottom of the mountain as a rendezvous point.

Taichi and Jo take a swan boat until they reach a castle from which a digivice signal comes. Inside the castle they find Gekomon and Otamamon running around in a hurry to serve their princess. They soon find out that the princess is none other than Mimi. Taichi and Jo try to convince her to come with them, but she refuses and prefers to stay in the comforts of the castle. Upon persisting she comes with them, Mimi orders the Gekomon to throw them out of the castle. However, the Gekomon decide to tell them how Mimi became their princess after they spoiled her too much when she promised to sing to them to awaken the lord of the castle. Taichi, Jo, Agumon, and Gomamon try to sing instead of Mimi to try and wake the lord but fail. Next, with Palmon’s help, they try to trick Mimi and record her singing. Unfortunately, Mimi finds out about their plan and throws them in jail. The next day, however, Mimi releases them, apologizes to the castle’s digimon, and sings to wake their lord. When TonosamaGekomon awakes, he is angry and attacks his people, who didn’t know he was a tyrant. Palmon, Agumon and Gomamon evolve and attack TonosamaGekomon with no success. Then Greymon super-evolve and manages to defeat him.

The children regroup as Taichi and Jo bring Mimi with them, and Yamato and Takeru found Koushiro. Being the only one missing, they decide to look for Sora. The group is later attacked by Flymon but is saved by Birdramon. The children follow Birdramon and find Sora who tries to escape. Demanding an explanation, Sora tells them about PicoDevimon’s conversation she overheard about their crests. She tells them about the crests meaning and traits and that she doesn’t think the Crest of Love suits her because she believes her mother doesn’t love her. Taichi tries to convince her that this is not true and that she shouldn’t pay attention to PicoDevimon’s words, but she only cries. Luckily, Takeru manages to cheer her up a bit. At night, they are attacked by PicoDevmon and then Vamdemon. The digimon try to attack but fail. Finally, Piyomon evolves into Birdramon to attack Vamdemon, but gets hit, making Sora activate her crest and make Birdramon super-evolve into Garudamon. Garudamon attacks Vamdemon and while he is distracted, they all escape united once again.

The Eight Chosen Child
Later, the children receive news from Gennai that there is another Chosen Child living in Japan and that they need to find their new comrade before Vamdemon does. Outside Vamdemon’s castle, Gennai tells the children about the Gate to Earth, as they wait for the disguised Agumon and Palmon to sneak them in. After they get into the confusing castle, the children look for the Gate. However, when they find it, Vamdemon has already opened the Gate and his soldiers delay the children, letting him escape. They are then attacked by Tailmon, one of Vamdemon’s henchmen, and Devidramon. The Gate eventually closes before they manage to pass through.

The children manage to escape the castle and speak with Gennai. In order to open the Gate again, the children go to Gennai’s house. There he gives them the special cards that open the Gate and explains their mission. The next day, the children head to Vamdemon’s castle again to try and open the Gate. As they manage to get to the Gate, they try to figure out how to use the cards to open it. Meanwhile, the castle starts to break apart, and the children appoint Taichi as their leader and decide which cards to use, but Taichi decides that Kōshirō should choose the cards. Koushiro manages to figure out the puzzle, except for two cards. Suddenly they are attacked by Dokugumon. The digimon evolve and attack while Taichi decides which is the last card. The gate opens and the children manage to get through back to their summer camp with their digimon.

The children soon find out that everyone in the camp is sent back home because of the snow. They disguise their digimon as plush toys to avoid unwanted attention. In order to get to Hikarigaoka, where Vamdemon is searching for the eighth child, Taichi and the others convince their teacher to drop them off there, saying they want to see their old home again, and promising to go straight home later. When arriving, the children all discover that all of them used to live in Hikarigaoka at the same time and that all their families move due to a terrorist bombing. Suddenly, they discover Mammon rampaging in the streets. While Birdramon fights Mammon the children remember that it wasn’t a terrorist attack that ruined the city, but two digimon who fought in the street. When Garudamon defeats Mammon, Taichi remembers that one of the digimon was a different Greymon. The children manage to escape the scene before the police arrive and decide to search for the eighth child in Odaiba since they must have lived in Hikarigaoka and moved as well.

To get back to Odaiba, the children take the train. Exhausted, the children fall asleep on the train and miss their station at Nakano and wake up at Shinjuku. After the digimon say they are hungry, Taichi and the others go to a hamburger restaurant. Soon they are joined by Jo and Kōshirō who accidentally separated from them. Since spending all their money on food, the group tries to hitch a ride back to Odaiba. They manage to catch a ride with a van driver but are forced to stop by Tokyo Bay because of Koromon’s dropping. The van driver is upset and pushes Koushiro back who falls into the water but is saved by Tentomon. Suddenly they are attacked by Gesomon. Ikkakumon fights and defeats him, and then takes the children on his back to Odaiba.

As Taichi approaches home, he wonders if Hikari might be the eighth child since she remembers what happened four years ago. When he arrives, he tells his mother camp was canceled and pretends that Koromon is a gift toy for Hikari. He then hugs his parents, bursting into tears, to their confusion. Later, Taichi eats while sneaking food for Koromon. Back in his room, Koromon asks Taichi why he cries, though he won’t answer. Taichi asks Hikari what she remembers from Hikarigaoka and sees that she remembers everything. Koromon asks her if she has a digivice, but she doesn’t, which calms Taichi’s concern that she might be the eighth Chosen Child and he and Koromon immediately fall asleep. After some time, his mother wakes Taichi up after a phone call he missed from Kōshirō. Taichi calls him back, but he wasn’t home, which makes Taichi wonder why he called. Suddenly his digivice is beeping and he runs out to follow its signal, thinking it might be the eight child.

The next day, on August 2nd, Taichi is looking for his first-grade phonebook. Koushiro came over to Taichi and together with their digimon they go to a meeting with the others in the park. Since Koushiro got a signal of the eight digivice in Shiba-ura, the children decide to search the area. They split up to smaller groups to cover more areas. Taichi and Koushiro team up, searching for the eighth child, but get no signal. As they keep searching, they notice Birdramon fighting in Tokyo Tower. They arrive in time on Kabuterimon and discover that both Birdramon and Togemon fight DeathMeramon. Agumon also evolves into MetalGreymon and defeats him.

In the evening, Taichi returns home and gets a phone call from Jo, telling him to find his old phone book. Next, he receives a phone call from Yamato who tells him that he fought Vamdemon at Shibuya and that he killed his own subordinates. Later, Agumon tells Taichi that someone speaks with Hikari outside, and they discover it’s Tailmon and Wizarmon. Taichi warns her about them, but Hikari tries to explain before Agumon fires at Tailmon, who tries to protect Hikari. They tell Taichi that Tailmon is Hikari’s digimon partner and that Hikari is the eighth Chosen Child. Taichi is still suspicious of Wizarmon, even though he found Hikari’s digivice. Wizarmon gives Taichi the digivice so that Vamdemon won’t find her. Then Tailmon and Wizarmon leave them to get Hikari her real crest from Vamdemon’s headquarters. As they watch from the balcony, Taichi decides to go and help them out, telling Hikari to stay put. Taichi and Greymon arrive at the scene but still cannot prevent Vamdemon from kidnapping Tailmon.

At night, Taichi tries to calm Hikari, who is worried about Tailmon, saying they will all save her tomorrow. On the next morning of August 3rd, before his morning soccer practice, Taichi tries to make some calls, but the phone is not working. When they hear the doorbell, they are attacked by a group of Bakemon. Taichi and Hikari are saved by Agumon, but their mother is kidnapped. Agumon evolves into Graymon, breaking a part of the building, while rescuing Taichi and Hikari. He tries to save their mother, but is attacked by Phantomon, forcing him to retreat. They meet up with Yamato and Gabumon at a hideout in Aqua City as they update eachother about the current situation. Taichi tries to cheer Hikari up, who thinks it’s her fault everyone was captured. He tells her to stay hidden with Yamato while he goes to try and save everyone. As Taichi and Agumon ambush a Bakemon, they find Sora. She tells them that Vamdemon holds everyone at the Big Sight center, including, Mimi and his parents. Taichi sends her to get Yamato and Hikari.

Taichi and Agumon head to Big Sight to save Mimi and his parents, as he notices Vamdemon leaving the site with Tailmon. Taichi and Agumon hurry into Big Sight and are attacked by a group of Bakemon. Agumon evolves and destroys them before they meet Mimi, who tells them everyone was put to sleep and Vamdemon has found the eighth child. Understanding something must have happened to Hikari, Taichi and Mimi hurry to Fuji TV headquarters. Taichi appears just in time to bring her the digivice, but PicoDevimon steals it from her. As Phantomon about to attack him, Greymon super-evolves and tries to attack Vamdemon, but his attack fails, just like the others. Vamdemon tries to attack Hikari and Tailmon, but Wizarmon sacrifices himself to protect them. As Hikari cries, her digivice activates and Taichi catches it from PicoDevimon, returning it to Hikari. Tailmon super-evolves into Angewomon, who defeats him using all of the other digimon powers. All the children escape the TV station as it collapses. However, before they manage to properly celebrate, they notice that the fog has not yet lifted.

The children receive an email from Gennai, who tells them how to defeat Vamdemon through a prophecy. Puzzled by this, Taichi and the others return to Big Sight and notice that all the people are still asleep. After some time, all the people start chanting Vamdemon’s name though not regaining full conciseness. The children figure out the part of the prophecy which foretells that at 6:06:06 Vamdemon will resurrect. Taichi and Yamato, with Yamato’s father’s help, have only 6 minutes to get back to the TV station. When they get there, they find VenomVamdemon. Agumon and Gabumon evolve, but VenomVamdemon is too strong even for their Perfect form. Taichi and Yamato go to get reinforcements as MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon hold him off. They go back to the scene with Hikari, Angewomon, Takeru, and Angemon, as well as Koushiro, his parents, and Tentomon. When they return to the site, Agumon and Gabumon have already devolved only to be saved by Angewomon and Angemon. The children figure out the rest of the prophecy that requires Angewomon and Angemon to shoot arrows at Taichi and Yamato. By doing so, Agumon and Gabumon Warp-evolve into WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon, their Ultimate form.

The newly evolved digimon manage to inflict damage on VenomVamdemon, but only making him angrier. Taichi and the others follow the battle from the van, but it is hit by falling rubble. They escape but get separated. Taichi searches for Hikari as the other children and their digimon join the fight. They all attack together and inflict serious damage, but VenomVamdemon is still not defeated. The children’s crests then light up and bind him, allowing WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon to attack him at full force and destroy him. All the people wake up, and the fog has cleared, but the continents from the Digital World started to appear in the skies all over the world. Trying to understand what is happening, Taichi uses his monoculars to check the sky but notices a crashing airplane that is also attacked by a Kuwagamon but is saved by Garudamon and Kabuterimon. Seeing it is the only way to save their world, Taichi suggests they all return to the Digital World using their digivices. As they return, the children say their goodbyes as their parents arrive at the scene.

The Dark Masters
The children and their digimon return to the Digital World. They notice that they can see Earth in the sky, just like they could see the Digital World in Earth’s sky. The children then encounter Chuumon and notice the ground around them breaks and shifts. Chuumon tells them that dark powers enveloped their world which has been ruined reshaped, twisting into Spiral Mountain, from where the Dark Masters control the Digital World. The children are determined they should fight but are soon attacked by MetalSeadramon, one of the Dark Masters. The digimon all evolve to their Adult form but are easily defeated. Koushiro informs them that he is an Ultimate digimon before he blasts them away to another area. There, they are attacked by Mugendramon, another Ultimate digimon. The digimon evolve to their Perfect level, but they still lose. A hole is opened in the ground and the children and their digimon fall into an empty space. Suddenly the digimon start fighting among themselves and they soon find out that this is caused by Pinocchimon, another Ultimate digimon, who controls their bodies. He attacks the digimon who all devolve. They all start falling again until they reach the colosseum. There a strange clown tells them a picture story of their defeat, then revealing himself to be Piemon, who is also an Ultimate digimon. Agumon and Gabumon both Warp-evolve to their Ultimate forms and attack him but are ultimately defeated. Piemon then introduces all the four Dark Masters, before killing Chuumon, who protected Mimi. Luckily, they are saved by Picklemon who holds the Dark Masters off, letting them retreat.

The children find themselves by the ocean where Agumon first evolved into Greymon. They hear someone yelling for help from the water and the children use a canoe to get there. However, they find Shellmon who only tries to attack them. The children are saved by their digimon, who chase Shellmon away. Later they discover a beach hut on the beach, and all the children run inside except for Mimi who Jo tripped. The children inside get trapped and are attacked by Anomalocarimon until they are unconscious. They later wake up and manage to escape with Mimi and Jo’s help before MetalSeadramon burns the hut. Outside they are again attacked by MetalSeadramon. Lylimon distracts him while the others escape on Zudomon’s back. Unmatched, Lylimon and Zudomon devolve. The children are saved by Whamon who lets them hide in his body and escape.

While riding on his back, Whamon tells them that MetalSeadramon controls the oceans. While resting and eating, Kōshirō tells Taichi and the others how WarGreymon might defeat MetalSeadramon, which cheers Taichi up. The fish in the sea warn them that the enemy gets closer, and the children escape with Whamon once again. They are soon found by Hangyomon and Taichi asks Whamon to go up to the surface so they can fight, but Whamon dives deeper instead and the Hangyomon retreat because of the water pressure. However, they are soon discovered by MetalSeadramon who chases them up to the surface. Whamon attack the Hangyomon while Agumon warp-evolves and the children evacuate to the shore. While fighting, WarGreymon gets caught in MetalSeadramon’s jaw, but is saved by Whamon. MetalSeadramon attack Whamon, which gives WarGreymon the chance to attack with a final blow and kill MetalSeadramon. With his final words, Whamon asks the Chosen Children to save their world. With MetalSeadramon’s death, the ocean area of Spiral Mountain disappears.

Seeing the ocean is freed from the Dark Master’s control, the children cheer up as Mimi makes graves for the digimon they lost. Taichi is determined to take down the enemy and avenge them, but he cannot understand Mimi’s fear, which angers Yamato who doesn’t like how Taichi is inconsiderate of their feelings. Taichi claims that stopping every time they lose a friend wouldn’t be able to save the world. The children eventually move away from the site as Taichi questions his own behavior. While walking in the forest, the trees start moving and they understand that the ground they stand on is moving. They manage to climb a tree, but Taichi disappears to another part of the forest. Mimi is transported after him before he disappears again and reappears by Hikari’s side. Hikari disappears and Sora is transported in her stead. Suddenly, Taichi is being turned upside down and falls on his head. Then the ground moves again until the children meet up again and reunite with their digimon. Yamato informs everyone that Takeru was taken by Pinocchimon, but before they can go save him, they are attacked by Kiwimon. The digimon retaliate and a worried Yamato tells Gabumon to evolve, but his crest is not activated. In the end, Birdramon destroys Kiwimon, which angers Yamato. While Taichi tries to calm him, Takeru arrives and tells them about Pinocchimon.

Meanwhile, Yamato and Gabumon disappear, and the others start searching for them. When they worry something might have happened, Jo tells them he saw him leave, which angers and confuses Taichi. The children keep looking as Taichi believes that they are weaker when apart. They suddenly encounter Pinocchimon who orders Garbemon to attack them. The children run as the Garbemon chases them. After disappearing, the evolved digimon attack them, but the Garbemon disappear, only to ambush them later. Finally, two are defeated by lillymon and MetalGreymon. When the last Garbemon attacks the children, he is defeated by MetalGarurumon. Taichi is happy that he is back, however, Yamato demands that Taichi and Agumon fight them.

While the children try to calm Yamato down, Taichi begins to argue with him. Annoyed, Taichi walks away, only to be stopped by MetalGarurumon and challenged to a fight once again. Agumon warp-evolves to WarGreymon and attempts to stop MetalGarurumon. While their digimon fight, Taichi and Yamato start punching each other as well. Taichi still tries to convince Yamato that this is a senseless battle to no avail. Suddenly they are stopped by a bright light. They suddenly see Hikarigaoka and the Greymon and Parrotmon from four years ago. A mysterious being speaking through Hikari tells them about a digiegg that mistakenly passed through a dimensional tear to the Real World and takes them on a tour to the past. The being shows them the place their digieggs, digivices and crests were created and explains how they work and how they chose them. The being also tells them how the Dark Masters attacked and stole the crests, and how Gennai saved their digieggs and digivices. After telling the story of the beginning of their adventure, they all return and Hikari waked up. Taichi tries to reconcile with Yamato, but Yamato decides to go his own path alone. Before they start to move again, Mimi also decides to leave the group and Jo volunteers to join her. The five remaining children move on, separated again.

While walking, the group feels an earthquake caused by a meteor. The children wonder what to do about Pinocchimon, and Taichi decides to investigate before deciding. Noticing her doubt, Taichi reassures Sora that if there is any danger, he and Agumon will protect them while they escape. While investigating Pinocchimon’s mension, Taichi notices only Floramon and Deramon guarding it. Taichi wants to go and investigate further on his own, but the others convince him they should come too. Agumon and Tentomon attack the guards, however, they claim they don’t work for Pinnochimon and hate him. They tell them Pinocchimon is not present and agree to take them in. The digimon guide them into the mansion which is full of booby traps. As Pinocchimon returns the children ask Floramon and Derumon to use a cannon against him. (46) Pinocchimon closes in as they shoot at him and when the children face him, he lures them into a RedVeggiemon ambush. The digimon evolve and attack, defeating the RedVeggiemon. Agumon warp-evolves to WarGreymon who attacks Pinocchimon. However, Pinocchimon uses his strings to control WarGreymon’s movements and attack Taichi and his friends. The other digimon evolve to their Perfect form and manage to corner Pinocchimon, but he uses his own mansion to attack them. The children run as their digimon hold the mansion off when suddenly it breaks apart. They find that Yamato destroyed Pinocchimon as the ground starts shaking and reforming. As the forest disappears, the children escape.

Continuing their journey in Mugendramon’s domain, Hikari becomes sick and falls. Worried, Taichi wonders if he should have brought her to the Digital World. They fly on top of Kabuterimon and find a big city that looks like different cities from the Real World. As Hikari gets worse, Taichi demands they land and find a place to rest. They get to a house and start searching for medicine but cannot find any. Taichi and Koushiro go to search further in the city. They manage to find the nearest hospital but only by connecting to the network, they manage to find the right medicine. They are soon attacked by Machidramon’s army, but they manage to escape to another building. When trying to find the best route to go back using Koushiro’s computer, they notice that the army surrounds them again, and realize that they are tracking their location through their network access. Attacked by Megadramon they escape on MetalGreymon who manages to get them to safety in a church. There Taichi gets angry at Koushiro for being reckless, and then tells them about the time Hikari was taken to the hospital because he made her play soccer when she was sick. He expresses that he must look after her because she wouldn’t mind sacrificing herself for others. Later, Koushiro uses a computer program that disguises their true location, allowing them to escape. However, it seems that the digimon army decided to level down the whole city instead of searching for them. Worried, they return to the house where the others were left, but it was destroyed before Taichi could enter. Another missile that was heading toward Taichi was intercepted by Angemon as they discover that Hikari and the others weren’t in the house when it was destroyed. However, they are soon attacked by Mugendramon and the children fall into the darkness.

When reaching the surface, Taichi, Agumon, Koushiro, and Tentomon start looking for the others. Worried, Taichi calls for Hikari, even though Agumon and Tentomon are exhausted. Koushiro tries to stop Taichi, but they start to fight. Pretending to hit him, Taichi tells koushiro someone’s tailing them. So they pretend to keep fighting until they hideaway. The digimon try to evolve but fail because they are too tired. Taichi apologizes to Koushiro about the fight, before Adromon comes into sight. Andromon tells them that he is a lone soldier, trying to free the cities from Mugendramon’s control. Andromon tries to help them find Hikari, but Mugendramon appears and Andromon holds him off while the children take shelter. During the fight, a glowing Hikari and the others appear. The children watch as Birdramon, Angemon, Angewomon, and Andromon fight Mugendramon, though they are not strong enough. A horde of Numemon engulfs Mugendramon, but he kills them, which makes Hikari release her light energy, and help Agumon warp-evolve. While WarGreymon engages in battle, Taichi holds an unconscious Hikari, calling her name. In one move, WarGraymon manages to defeat and destroy Mugendramon which causes his controlled area to deconstruct, and the children fly to the next domain.

Taichi and the others reach the top of Spiral Mountain. Connecting Koushiro’s computer to Andromon’s network, the children get data about Spiral Mountain and the Dark Master’s base. They are soon confronted by LadyDevimon, one of Piemon’s Nightmare Soldiers. All the digimon evolve and are attacked by her. They retaliate back, but their attacks have no effect except for Angewomon’s Holy Arrow. Agumon wants to join the fight, but Taichi stops him. After looking at Ladydevimon’s data, Taichi tells Sora and Takeru to go and find Yamato and the others and bring them back, and that Angewomon and Kabuterimon should be able to take her down. He notes that they are about to face the last Dark Master and that they need everyone’s power to defeat him. After Sora and Takeru leave, Taichi and the others watch as Angewomon and LadyDevimon face off. In the end, Angewomon defeats LadyDevimon with UltraKabuterimon’s help, and Piemon emerges. Taichi tells Agumon to evolve as Piemon approaches them.

WarGreymon fights Piemon, but his attacks don’t seem to have an effect. Taichi tells the others to wait until Yamato and the others return and regain their strength. WarGreymon is hit by Piemon’s swords, but Taichi still insists that they don’t join the fight. Next, Piemon aims at Taichi who falls as WarGreymon tries to shield him. Taichi tells the others to stay back before he is hit again. WarGreymon falls after being hit, and Taichi collapses as well. Suddenly he hears Yamato’s voice and wakes up, telling him he knew he would come. As their friendship is repaired, Yamato’s crest glows and allows Garurumon to restore WarGreymon’s strength. As Taichi is taken to safety, Gabumon warp-evolves to MetalGarurumonoth and both Ultimate digimon attack together. Working together, the two manage to inflict damage on Piemon and Taichi tells everyone to evolve, but before they can do so, Piemon makes WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon disappear. Taichi and Yamato run toward them, only to disappear as well, turning into keychain puppets. Luckily, the newly super-evolved HolyAngemon manages to push back Piemon and restore the others to their original form. Piemon then reappears with an army of Evilmon. Just as Mimi returns with many digimon allies, the rest of the digimon evolve to their Perfect form and join the fight. Working together, the Chosen Children and their digimon manage to defeat Piemon, and his domain disappears.

Later, the children receive an email from Gennai saying their real enemy is not yet defeated, but before getting more information, the ground shakes and the children fall into the darkness. When the children finally stop, they receive a video call from Gennai, who explains they must beat the source of evil plaguing the digital world. He also tells them about this evil’s origin, and the original Chosen Children. Trying to understand what they are going to fight, a digimon named Apocalimon emerges, a manifestation of the dark hearts of the digimon who have disappeared through the evolution process. He attacks the Chosen Children, who are shielded by their partners, and then uses his Death Evolution to devolve their digimon. Before they manage to evolve once more, Apocalimon steals the crests from the children and destroys them. As some of them begin to lose hope, Taichi is certain there must be a way to win. However, the children and their digimon suddenly begin to dissolve and disappear. The children find themselves in a world of pure data, and wonder if they had lost. But soon the children realize they cannot give up, and that the power of their crests is still within them, which allows their digimon to evolve again.

Reappearing in front of Apocalimon, the group works together and they manage to defeat Apocalimon’s physical body. However, Apocalimon self destructs, trying to take the children with him. But before the explosion reaches them the children’s digivices activate and create a forcefield that contains and dissolves it. After their victory, the children are approached by their digimon allies and Gennai. They tell them that the Digital World will now be recreated along with the digimon who perished. They all head back to the Village of beginnings, which has been restored, and take a picture together. Later, the children rest by the lake and think they can stay in the Digital World for the rest of their summer vacation, however, Gennai tells them that the Gate to the Human World is about to be closed and that time is now synchronized in both worlds, therefore they have to prepare to leave. While saying goodbye to their partners, Taichi and Agumon reminisce old memories from their early adventures and laugh. Saddened the time has come, the children get on the trolly and say goodbye to their digimon partners as they leave.

Anode/Cathode Tamer
During December of 1999, the Chosen Children and their partners are captured by Millenniummon and held hostage. Only Agumon is spared, and it is he who brings Akiyama Ryō to the Digital World. Taichi is the last to be rescued, being saved only when Ryō finally defeats Millenniummon in his Lair. Taichi reunites with Agumon and thanks Ryō for his help before returning to the Real World.

Our War Game!
On March 4, 2000, Taichi was writing an apology e-mail to Sora, when he was suddenly approached by Hikari who startled him. He accidentally put a heart at the end of the letter and Hikari tells him she was going to a friend's birthday, and clicks the send button thinking she was helping. Horrified, Taichi watches as the letter is being sent, however, he received a notification that it was rejected which angers him, thinking Sora doesn't want to receive his messages. Later, Complaining there is nothing to eat, Taichi's mother suggest she'd make a cake, asking him to get her some eggs. The doorbell rings, and Koushiro is at the door, telling him about a digiegg that hatched. They notice it evolves and consumes data to grow. They hurry to connect through Taichi's father's computer and see it has evolved again. Wishing Agumon was with them, Taichi starts hearing his voice, and suddenly realize that they were contacted by Gennai, Agumon, and the other digimon. Gennai sends Agumon and Tentomon into the Internet, while Taichi tries to contact the others, but fails.

Returning to the computer, Agumon and Tentomon are ready to battle the digimon and attack him, though not inflicting much damage. The two evolve and attack him again, but he manages to further evolve. Greymon and Kabuterimon attack him again, but he is too strong. Realizing he is a Perfect-level digimon, Greymon and Kabuterimon try to super-evolve, but before the evolution is completed, he attacks them, making them devolve back to Child form. Taichi and Koushiro recieve many emails from children all over, among them an incoherent email from the digimon who is in the NTT system. Taichi tries to contact everyone again, but everyone's phone is busy. Suddenly, Taichi recieves a phone call from the digimon who has hacked all the phone switches and calls all the phone numbers, trying to shut the system down. Suddenly the internet disconnects and Koushiro immediately leaves Taichi's house. Taichi sees on TV that they reccoment using the voice mail system, which doesn't use the phone switches, and he starts to leave messages to all the others. When Koushiro is back, they reconnect to the internet using a satellite cell phone. Then they finally manage to contact Yamato and Takeru through voice messages and tell them to find a computer and join the fight.

When Yamato and Takeru finally manage to connect to the internet, Gabumon and Patamon join the fight. When entering the network, Agumon and Gabumon emmediatly warp-evolve, and attack the digimon. However, it evolved to Diablomon again and hits Patamon and Tentomon. WarGraymon and MetalGarurumon keep attacking, when suddenly Taichi's computer froze, immobilizing WarGreymon. When finally reconnecting, they find their digimon lost and can barely move. Koushiro reads email from around the world, angering Taichi, as Diablomon start replicating and launches a nuclear missile from a US military base. Understanding that the only way to prevent the fuse from activating is destroying Diablomon, WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon head to fight him, but they are not fast enough to avoid his attacks. They realise their movement has been slowed down due to all the emails that have been sent to them, and Koushiro tries to send everyone back to stop sending them. However, it is too late, and the digimon stop moving. Taichi and Yamato manage to enter the network and revive their digimon and they fuse to become Omegamon. This new evolution gave Omegamon the strenght to fight Diablomon and destroy his replicas. After sending him all the emails they recived, Diablomon slowed down and they manage to destroy him at the last possible second. Taichi got back and his e-mail was finally sent to Sora, who replied an apology and thanked him for her birthday present.

Tag Tamers
Not long afterward, Ryō is called to the Digital World to take care of the last remaining Diablomon clone, but the task is actually a ruse by Millenniummon to call Ryō back to the Digital World. Millenniummon tears the Digital World in two, petrifying Taichi and Agumon in the process. Once Millenniummon and his final MoonMillenniummon is defeated, Taichi and Agumon are released.

D-1 Tamers
A short time later, Ryō is recalled to the Digital World to participate in the D-1 Tournament. Taichi is the master of Grade 1, fielding WarGreymon, Triceramon, and Cyclomon. After Ryō defeats Taichi, he reveals that the entire tournament was organized by the Harmonious Ones in order to train Ryō to defeat Millenniummon, who has revived once more. Taichi asks Ryō to forgive them for the deception, despite the fact that he didn't know of the lie in the first place, and to not blame the Harmonious Ones. He only recieves stony silence in response, and he leaves with the other Chosen Children and Tamers.

Interlude
Taichi and the other Chosen Children were called back to the Digital World by Gennai. He told them that even though they defeated Apocalymon, the Digital World was still trapped by the power of darkness. The children had to release the force that protects the Digital World, using their crests, in order to fully fix its distortion. The power of their crests restored the Digital World, but without it, their digimon partners lost the ability to evolve to their Perfect and Ultimate level.

The Digimon Kaizer
One day, on 2002, Taichi’s gets a signal on digivice from the Digital World, where he finds Agumon and the other digimon under attack. When he sees Agumon can't evolve, they run, until Tailmon leads them into a cave, and he sends an email calling for help. Inside the cave they find a strange object with the Crest of Courage on it. When Taichi tries to pick it up, it glows and releases three lights that fly away. After a while, he meets with Hikari, Takeru, and surprisingly, Motomiya Daisuke. Back in the cave, Taichi witnesses Daisuke’s digivice and he wonders if Daisuke is a Chosen Child. Tailmon informs them that the Digimon Kaiser has a similar digivice, which prevents them from evolving. Taichi tells them about the object, and when Daisuke succeeds in removing it, a Child-level digimon named V-mon appears from inside the light, introduces himself, and thanks Daisuke for lifting the Digimental of Courage. Suddenly, they are attacked by a Monochromon and run out of the cave. Daisuke eventually activates the Digimental, and V-mon armor-evolves into Fladramon, who releases Monochromon from the Black Ring controlling him. Taichi congratulates Daisuke and gives him his own goggles, to replace Daisuke’s broken ones, before returning home. In the evening, Taichi and the other original Chosen Children, save for Mimi, meet up in the park to discuss the situation. The next day he decides to return to the digital world, along with Sora and Kōsirō, but Taichi has to stay behind to distract their old teacher, Mr. Fujiyama. When he finally managed to get rid of him, it is evening, and the others returned.

Later on, Taichi and Agumon help the new children successfully rescue a group of Gotsumon from the Digimon Kaiser and they return to the Real World with them. The next day, Taichi returns with them to find that Gabumon was able to evolve after damaging the Dark Tower. The children destroy it, thus freeing the digimon from the Black Rings’ control in the area. Taichi returns the Gotsumon to their area, where they destroy the Dark Tower. Sometimes later, Taichi gets a call from Iori, who informs him that Hikari is trapped in the Digital World. Lying to his mother that he’s going to pick up Hikari from a friend, he heads to Digital World. When he reaches Hikari, he notices Andromon who is under control of a Black Ring. Taichi confronts Andromon, who becomes more confused, and lifts Hikari up. She manages to free him from the Black Ring using her digivice, and he destroys the Dark Tower in the city and frees the digimon. Returning home late, they find an angry Koushiro who kept the lights on for them. As Taichi tries to calm him Koushiro tries to tell them about the new digivices' analysis, but Taichi tells him to explain it all tomorrow since they are all late for dinner. On another day, Taichi attends Daisuke’s soccer practice. Later, he and the children read about the prodigy, Ichijouji Ken, who will play against Daisuke’s team on Sunday. Taichi attends the game on Sunday, cheering and advising Daisuke. They watch the game as Daisuke’s team is in lead, until Ken arrives to help his team, which eventually wins 9-1. As they return home in the evening, Taichi tries to motivate Daisuke to do better, though he didn’t feel bad for losing.

Later, Taichi was notified that Agumon is enslaved by the Digimon Emperor, who has been revealed as Ken Ichijouji. After school, he goes to Odaiba elementary and waits for the new Chosen Children to arrive. When seeing Miyako’s reluctance to come, he decides to let her stay behind. Hikari opens the gate, and they meet with Tentomon trying to gather information. Thanks to Wormmon, Agumon is freed and finds Taichi at Locomotown. Before managing to get Agumon to safety they are found and attacked by the Digimon Kaiser. As the digimon armor-evolve, Agumon wants to fight to, but is enslaved again by an Evil Spiral and attacks Taichi, who is saved by Daisuke. The Digimon Kaiser makes Agumon dark-evolve into a virus MetalGraymon. As Taichi tries to approach him, MetalGreymon attacks them. Daisuke tries to hold Taichi back, while the other digimon try to stop him, but fail as he is taken away. Miyako then arrives with Yamato, who punches the indecisive Taichi, knocking him to his senses. Taichi then asks them to not hold back when fighting Agumon before they move on.

On their way, Daisuke and Takeru get into a fight, which Taichi and Yamato surprisingly encourage. Soon they receive a single of a digimental and find the Digimental of Friendship. After all the children try to list it and fail, Taichi and Yamato push Daisuke to try and pull it, but he seemingly can’t. Suddenly they are attacked by a Flymon, who snatches Patamon. MetalGreymon reappears and the Digimon Kaiser Tries to put an Evil Spiral on Patamon, as Takeru insists that they stop him, even at the cost of hurting Patamon. Luckily he is saved by Garurumon, who joins the fight. Even though Taichi tells the younger Chosen Children to fight MetalGreymon, Daisuke is reluctant to hurt him. Taichi and Yamato explain to him that he must believe in his friends, teaching him an important lesson leading to the activation of the new digimental. V-mon armor evolves to Lighdramon and with his help, they manage to free Agumon. Taichi hugs Agumon before they return home.

Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!!
Sometime later, during summer, when Taichi is at soccer practice, he and all the other original Chosen Children mysteriously vanish into thin air; abducted and trapped in another dimension by Chocomon. They find themselves inside a cold, dark space, as their mind gets clouded. As they slowly regress in age, they feel their captor’s feelings change. They witness little Chocomon searching for Wallace, thinking they might be him. They were released with Chocomon’s defeat.

The Digimon Kaizer cont.
On August 1st, Taichi and all the original Chosen Children meet with the new generation for their anniversary as Chosen Children. They all sit in the park, sharing stories about their adventures in the Digital World until evening. On August 2nd, Koshiro, Daisuke, and Iori come to Taichi and Hikari’s house. Following Kōshirō’s theory, they manage to open the Digital Gate in the computer in Taichi’s room. Before they manage to go, Taichi’s mother comes back home, seeing all their shoes, therefore they decide not to go. They realize that using the Digital Gate from home may be problematic if they want to keep it a secret. On August 3rd, Odaiba Memorial Day, all 12 children visit the TV station, when suddenly it is struck by lightning. Sensing something, Tailmon rushes in and everyone follows her until they reach a room where they see a shadow on the ceiling. They soon find out it is Wizarmon’s ghost, which shocks them. He tells them they do not yet have enough power to defeat their true enemy, and of a “golden light” that they should use. He disappears soon after, leaving the children to mourn him again.

After hearing Wizarmon’s warning, Taichi and the Chosen Children start to scout the Digital World. After coming back, they manage to locate the Digimon Kaiser’s base, and decide to come up with a plan to take him down. Taichi suggests the new Chosen Children go to the Digital World under the guise of camping, while he, Yamato, and Kōshirō will be their alibi in case their parents call. The next day, after seeing off the children, Taichi and the others head out, with Yamato’s father as a chaperone. Surprisingly, Daisuke’s sister, Jun, appears and asks them to join, but they manage to get rid of her. While on camp, Taichi and the others analyze Chimeramon’s data sent to them by Hikari. They then exchange emails with Iori concerning a plan to stop the Digimon Kaiser’s base. When the plan succeeds and the children head into the base, Taichi calms Yamato’s concerns, saying all they can do is believe in them. The next day, Jun suddenly arrives, surprising the three of them. When she asks about her brother and his friends’ whereabouts, they try to buy time as Kōshirō says he’ll look for them. While she keeps questioning them, Taichi and Yamato claim they must be in the forest, and to their surprise and relief, they just came back. As they prepare to leave, they notice there are not enough sits in the car with Jun, forcing Yamato to take the bus. On their way home, they hear that Ken returned home as the new Chosen Children sleep in the car.

Oikawa Yukio's Plan
As Christmas approaches, Taichi and the rest of the DigiDestined go to one of Yamato's concerts but are interrupted by a full scale invasion on the Real World. The DigiDestined are then empowered by the Harmonious One Azulongmon so that their Digimon can once again reach their highest forms. Taichi, T.K., Agumon, and Patamon go to France where they meet fellow DigiDestined Catherine and her Floramon partner; together they take care of Mamemon, BigMamemon, MetalMamemon, and Giromon as well as the Control Spire and are rewarded with a kiss from Catherine.

As the Dark Spore children are harvested by Yukio Oikawa, Taichi and the rest of the older DigiDestined in Japan return to the summer camp where they first began their journey, remaining Dark Spore children and families in tow. When the lights of the world's DigiDestined begin to shine, a portal opens up, and Taichi and the rest take the wave back to the Digital World and the final battle site, where they stand witness as MaloMyotismon is defeated once and for all.

Episodes 38-50

Diablomon Strikes Back
During the events of this movie, he was the leader of both generations of Chosen Children, though Koushiro had more of an understanding of what was going on. Taichi and Yamato went into the Internet to defeat Diablomon once and for all. After they defeated Diablomon, Omegamon blasted his way out of the Internet to fight Armagemon. The gargantuan Digimon managed to deplete Omegamon's strength and defeat him, causing Taichi to nearly lost hope until Imperialdramon came. After Imperialdramon became Imperialdramon Paladin Mode by way of the last of Omegamon's strength and defeated Armagemon. When the Kuramon started to appear following Armagemon's defeat, Taichi and the others used their Digivices, along with the spectators' cellphones, to delete the Kuramon.

Prologue
In 2027, Taichi is a United Nations diplomat for the Digital World. He also has a son, who has a Koromon for a partner.

Trivia

 * Yagami (八神) is a Japanese surname that means "eight gods", and Taichi (太一) means "magnificent one".
 * In the English version, Taichi's name was changed to "Tai Kamiya"; his first name "Tai" was derived from "Taichi", and his last name "Kamiya" is Yagami written backwards (神八).