T. K. Takaishi

Infobox animanga character
name = Takeru "T. K." Takaishi
color = Gold
series = Digimon


caption = T.K. in Digimon Adventure (season 1)
first = Episode one, "And so it Begins..."
last =
creator =
voiced by = Hiroko Konishi (01)
Taisuke Yamamoto (02) (Japanese)
Wendee Lee (01)
Doug Erholtz (02) (English)
Lupita Leal (Spanish / Latin American)
age = Adventure: 8Fact|date=May 2008
Adv. 02: 11 (original)
12 (dub)Fact|date=May 2008
aux1 name = Grade
aux1 = Adventure: 2ndFact|date=May 2008
Adv. 02: 5th (original)
7th (dub)Fact|date=May 2008
aux2 name = Trait
aux2 = Hope
aux3 name = Digimon
aux3 = Patamonnihongo|Takeru "T.K." Takaishi|高石 タケル|Takaishi Takeru is a character in the anime and manga series Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02. T.K. was voiced by Hiroko Konishi (Adventure) and Taisuke Yamamoto (Adventure 02), while Wendee Lee and Doug Erholtz provided the English voices for him in the two series respectively.

T.K., the younger brother of Matt Ishida, is partnered with Patamon. T.K. was too young to remember his parents' divorce clearly so he is not as affected by it as much as Matt. TK is glad when he gets to see his dad and he doesn't mind living with his mom. He is the Bearer of the Crest of Hope.

Prelude to Digimon Adventure

He witnessed the Greymon/Parrotmon fight.

Digimon Adventure

T.K. was the youngest DigiDestined when the first original seven were transported into the Digital World. However, he was fairly independent on his own, rebuffing his older brother Matt's attempts to comfort and coddle him. He was the first of the children to suffer the loss of his Digimon when Patamon digivolved into Angemon and sacrificing himself in order to defeat Devimon. Though Patamon's data reformed into a DigiEgg, the event traumatized T.K. severely to the point where three years later he still possessed an utter hatred of "the powers of darkness," along with nightmares about losing Angemon again in combat.

T.K. played a critical role in the fight with Puppetmon, when he was kidnapped to be Puppetmon's playmate. Relying on his own power, T.K. managed to escape after taking advantage of Puppetmon's lack of friends. During the fight with Piedmon, after their friends were all turned into key chains, T.K. and Kari attempt to outrun him as Angemon tries to hold off the evil Digimon before being easily defeated. When Piedmon cuts a rope holding up T.K. and Kari, T.K. recalls something Matt had said to him earlier, giving him the hope he needed to finally evoke his crest and to allow Angemon to digivolve into MagnaAngemon in order to save them and restore the others after defeating Piedmon without difficulty.

Our War Game!

T.K. was with Matt visiting their grandmother out in the country. Tai and Izzy managed to get a hold of them and warned them about Diaboromon. Following this, the brothers searched the surrounding town for a computer to help fight in the Internet. T.K., however, could not do much to help in the battle and could only watch in horror as Patamon fell to Diaboromon. He was one of the many viewers around the world who watched the final battle between Omnimon and Diaboromon.

In May 2000, T.K. arrived in the Digital World and gave up his Crest power to free the Digimon Sovereigns. As a result, Patamon lost the power to become MagnaAngemon.

Digimon Adventure 02

T.K. has grown a lot during the last years after his first adventure. He is 11 (12 in the dub) and in the fifth grade (seventh grade in the dub). He's also the star member of his basketball team. At the start of April 2002, he and his mother moved to Odaiba, with T.K. attending Odaiba Elementary in the same class as Davis and his good friend Kari. Because he and Kari are already good friends, T.K. immediately becomes the rival of a paranoid Davis. Like Kari, T.K. has the advantage compared to the new kids because he has had the most experience with Digimon. When the digidestined come to the digital world, their outfits change. While Davis, Yolei and Cody change their whole outfit, T.K. and Kari only change footwear.

After Paildramon and Silphymon debut, Cody sees that he and T.K. would have to have their Digimon DNA Digivolve. He soon learns that there is another, darker side to T.K., learning of how the events of Angemon's previous death affected him and how he doesn't want to see Patamon die again, which is made clear to Cody when BlackWargreymon attacks one of the destiny stones. In the middle of the battle, Angemon is grabbed by the throat and tells T.K. not to worry about him and to save the stone. T.K. then sees the glow of the destiny stone and yells for Angemon to digivolve, which he does successfully to the DigiDestined and BlackWargreymon's surprise.

On Christmas Day, T.K., Tai and their Digimon go to Paris to help the DigiDestined of France round up the wild Digimon who had appeared in the Real World as a result of Arukenimon opening all the Digi-Ports. In the Other World, T.K. was subjected to MaloMyotismon's illusion: his desire for his family to be together again. But Patamon and Davis broke him free of the illusion and he then joined with the other kids, who were in the process of breaking free of their illusions too. T.K. used the power of the dream dimension against MaloMyotismon, his dream for no one to suffer as he had, with Angemon, MagnaAngemon, Pegasusmon and Shakkoumon appearing all at once.

Digimon Adventure 02 Series Finale Epilogue

In the epilogue T.K. gives at the end of the series, set 25 years in the future (year 2027), he has become a successful author. He writes various stories based on the adventures he and the other Digidestined children had all those years ago. He is married WITH Kari and has two son, who has a Tokomon and nyaromon.

Hurricane Touchdown/Supreme Evolution! The Golden Digimentals

When he and Kari visited Mimi in New York, they encountered Willis, Terriermon and Wendigomon. While on a train for Colorado, their train was hindered by Wendigomon so they had to continue on foot. He and Kari managed to join the others during the fight with Cherubimon.

Michi e no Armor Shinka

When Pukumon entered the scene with a Control Spire, Joe knocked into the 02 DigiDestined and T.K. ended up with Kari's D-Terminal, allowing Patamon to Armor Digivolve to Manbomon.

Revenge of Diaboromon

Three years after the events of "Our War Game", the evil Diaboromon resumed his reign of terror on the Internet. The Kuramon were bio-emerging via e-mail, so while Tai, Matt and their Digimon entered cyberspace to battle Diaboromon once more, the others had to track down the Kuramon. T.K. and Cody found one on a soccer ball and caught it for Izzy for him to examine it. When Omnimon couldn't get a clear shot at Diaboromon thanks to all the Kuramon, T.K., Kari and their Digimon went to help their big brothers. T.K. was soon forced to watch the battle between Imperialdramon and Armageddemon.

Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01

During one of his battles as a child, he and the other 02 DigiDestined encountered Parallelmon, who absorbed him, Yolei, Cody, and Kari, as inadvertently sent Davis into the V-Tamer 01 world. There, Davis meets Tai and Zeromaru, and T.K. and the others helped Davis from inside the monster by recreating the Digi-Egg of Miracles. With the monster destroyed, Davis and his friends returned to their continuity.

ongs

* T.K. has two Japanese image songs, "Be All Right...", sung by Hiroko Konishi, and "Focus," sung by Taisuke Yamamoto, as well as a third one sung by Yamamoto with Miwa Matsumoto as Patamon called "Steppin' Out."