I swear, if I hear one more person call Daisuke and Takeru the Taichi and Yamato of their season I will explode.
Now, I just want to say that everyone has their own opinion and they can have their opinion.
Yet, when people don't know basic storytelling principles and character archetypes it annoys me.
This is just a example of people not knowing character archetypes and how one tells a story, and a problem of mischaracterization.
I'm not trying to shame people for not knowing, it's just that storytelling is not being taught the right way even though illiteracy is a such an important thing in just about everything.
I am just hear to here to teach people.
So, let me teach out about character archetypes and storytelling, time for class.
Now, I'm not saying that Daisuke isn't like Taichi, that is literally the whole point of his character.
Daisuke is meant to be like Taichi, he gets the Digimental of Courage and Daisuke often acts a lot like Taichi.
He runs into things without thinking, doesn't fear enemies that are stronger then him, and he's the leader of his team and is pretty good at it.
I'm not getting into if Daisuke is a good leader that's a conversation for another day, this is about Daisuke and Takeru.
Daisuke is a lot like Taichi, but he's also like Yamato, because Daisuke is meant to be mix of Taichi and Yamato.
Daisuke acts a lot like Yamato too. He doesn't want to hurt in friends, very evident in the episode that this screen shot is from.
Daisuke also cares about his friends greatly, openly sacrificing himself to the Kaiser is it meant his friends would be okay.
Daisuke saves them from Belial Vamdemon at the end of the season, he doesn't even get tricked by Belial Vamdemon because he isn't scared and he bealives in is friends.
Daisuke is a mix of the Chosen Child of Courage and Friendship, so he's like Taichi and Yamato which already makes it hard to call him the Taichi of the season since he is both the Yamato and the Taichi.
Now, onto Takeru. Takeru is nothing like his brother, that's why he's not his brother and his own character.
Takeru is his own person, and doesn't handle things like his brother did. Takeru openly cares about his friends when they meet and doesn't act like a lone wolf
He doesn't get into fights with them or yells at them for anything, sure, he gets made at Ken when he's the Kaiser but that's because of something else that will not be talked about here.
Takeru trusts Daisuke's decisions when it comes what they should do because Daisuke is the leader and is better at leading the team than Takeru would ever be.
Again, this is also not a talk about how some people think that Takeru should have been the leader and not Daisuke, let's get back on track people.
There is only one time in the whole 50 episode anime where Daisuke and Takeru get even close to fighting like Taichi and Yamato did.
It's in this episode where they fight about attacking Agumon and Daisuke doesn't want to hurt one of his friends when Takeru knows fighting is the only way to save Agumon.
They don't even fight, they just insult each other and start pulling at each other's shirts. They don't fight like Taichi and Yamato did, cause their not Taichi and Yamato
They get along better at the start then Yamato and Taichi did, and never once do they yell or fight each other across the season.
Now, that doesn't mean that Takeru and Daisuke doesn't butt heads, I'm not saying that they don't.
They often but heads because of Hikari and the fact that Takeru and Hikari are friends and Daisuke has a crush on her.
So they butt heads and argue often and if they have to be together for an extended time they tease each other and fight over Hikari.
Yet they never fight to the level that Taichi or Yamato did, they only really tease each other and then go back to fighting. They never get angry at each other, only annoyed.
Another thing is that Takeru doesn't serve the same purpose in 02 that Yamato served in Adventure.
Yamato is the OG rivel character in digimon, ever other rivel used the same base that Bandai and Toei used for Yamato.
The rivel, or more commonly called the lancer, is meant to be an exact opposite of the the gogglehead, or the leader character.
They are meant to challenge what the leader said, they challenge the leaders dictions and often butt heads with them to create drama and make the leader think about their dictions.
Takeru is not that, Takeru is not the rivel, Takeru is not the lancer character archetype.
If I had to give Takeru an archetype in 02 I would either give him the mentor or boundless optimist archetype.
Either one is good, Takeru does have the Crests and Hope and always believes that they can win and that everything will be fine in the end, which is the archetype boundless optimist.
Takeru also does have experience with the Digital World and often helps the other kids learn about it along with Hikari, but any of the original eight digidestined could have the mentor archetype so I prefer the boundless optimist archetype.
Not even Ken is the lancer archetype.
When he's the Kaiser he's just the enemy, the thing that the protagonist have to defeat to get to their goal.
Then when he's Ken and no longer evil he was the classic seventh ranger trope. Just like Hikari was in Adventure.
I've seen people call Ken the rivel, and he's also not that archetype, sorry to say but their isn't a rivel in 02.
The archetype doesn't exist in Digimon Adventure 02. No characters fit it, not Takeru nor Ken, nor anyone.
I love Takeru and Daisuke's relationship. Whether you see it as romantic or platonic I love it.
I love the progression from how they dislike each other and butted heads to being great friends and respecting each other.
Yet they are not the Taichi and Yamato of their season, while Daisuke is the leader archetype, Takeru is not the lancer or rivel, Ken isn't the lancer or rivel.
Nobody is. The archetype does not exist in Digimon Adventure 02.
Again, I'm not trying to shame people, if you don't like this then you are intitled to your opinion but I am also intitled to mine.
Like I said, this is a problem of people not knowing storytelling and character archetypes and mischaracterization.
I just hope this taught you something that you didn't know.
