11-29-2003, 12:30 PM
Gnostic Metatron Prime Wrote:Hmm...
Daisuke. Definitely Daisuke. How the fuck did he get made leader? He's annoying, he's stupid, and he has less experience with Digimon than Takeru or Hikari. Maybe if he weren't the leader, he'd be more likable, but since he is the leader, he sucks.
Personally, I thought that the series showed pretty well why he became the leader of the 02 team. It's not like 01 and Taichi, in my opinion. He and Takeru are my least favorite characters in all four seasons of Digimon.
With Taichi, it felt as if an awful lot of effort had to be made to develop his character further than Designated Ass-Kicker - and that it required lots of external influence to do that at points. You say that Daisuke is annoying and stupid, but in my opinion he doesn't even begin to compare with his first season counterpart. I halfway suspect that the creative team (Hongo et al) behind Adventures didn't have much experience with monster trainer shows, and that this inexperience was really showing with the first season and the characters used. However, 02 Taichi is awesome and easily among my favorite characters for that season.
Takeru in 02 just annoyed me to no end, and the American fandom's reaction to TakeHika and Daisuke (another of my favorite characters) definitely did not help things