Takuya Kanbara

Digimon Infobox
name=Takuya Kanbara
katakana=神原拓
japname=Kanbara Takuya
actors=Junko Takeuchi (Japanese)
Michael Reisz (English)
Dave Wittenberg (English, Movie)


Hybrid (Rookie)=Flamemon
Hybrid (Human)=Agunimon
Hybrid (Beast)=BurningGreymon
Hybrid (Fusion)=Aldamon
Hybrid (Unified)=EmperorGreymon
Hybrid (Mega)=Susanoomon

nihongo|Takuya Kanbara|神原 拓|Kanbara Takuya is the main character in the Digimon anime series "Digimon Frontier". In this series, a group of chosen human children are given the ability to turn into Digimon. Takuya is the leader of this group, and is given the "Spirits of Flame" at the beginning of the series. He is in the fifth grade (sixth grade in the dubbed version).

Description

Takuya's story starts when he receives a mysterious SMS message on his mobile phone one afternoon, on his brother's birthday, conviently. The message instructs him to go to a subway station, where a Trailmon took him and four other human children into the Digital World.

Takuya begins the series as a typical "goggle boy", (only he wears a hat underneath his gray and square goggles)—energetic and athletic, but tending to act without thinking and very stubborn. He has a strong sense of justice, and tries to use his power to do what he believes is right. His hot-headed personality often leads to him arguing with Koji Minamoto, another of Digimon Frontier's main characters, however they learn to respect each other toward the middle of the series, after their first encounter with Duskmon, and become good friends and partners in battle. He acts like an older brother to Tommy Himi, who reminds him of his real brother Shinya.

Takuya also makes an appearance in a special chapter of the Digimon manga V-Tamer 01, where he teams up with Tai to fight Metamormon.

Digimon forms

Takuya wields AncientGreymon's power through the "Spirits of Flame".

Trivia

*Takuya's theme-song is called: "Salamander", and is sung by his Japanese seiyuu, Junko Takeuchi. In the Digimon 10th Anniversary CD, he contributes another theme song, Secret Rendezvous.
*Takuya is ten years old, according to a conversation he had with Zoe Orimoto in the Japanese version, in which he states, "But I'm almost eleven!"
*Takuya was the only child in Frontier to exhibit a "Rookie" form, Flamon (though Koji is listed of having one as well, Strabimon, though it never appeared in the anime). He was also the first to gain his Human Spirit.
*Takuya's goggles are cracked in the middle of a battle with ShadowSeraphimon, and inexplicably, they are repaired after he achieves Fusion Evolution.