Daisuke 'Davis' Motomiya (本宮 大輔)
Japanese name: Daisuke Motomiya (本宮 大輔)English name: Davis Motomiya
German name: Davis Motomiya
Armor Eggs: Courage, Friendship, Miracles (episode 21, movie 3)
Digimon: Veemon
Age: 11 (S02) / 14 (Digimon Tri) / 19 (DA:LEK) / 21 (The Beginning)
Grade: 5th (Odaiba Elementary ~ Class A)
Basic Info
"Davis Motomiya (本宮大輔) is a main character in the Digimon Adventure 02 anime series. He is partnered to Veemon. He's extremely stubborn in personality. He also has a ditzy and cheerful older sister named Jun, who has a fangirly crush on Matt Ishida but backs off when she learns that he has feelings for Sora Takenouchi, crushing on Joe Kido's older brother Shuu instead." (Digimon Wiki)
"5th grader in Odaiba elementary school. 11 years old. He is a "Chosen Child" with the blue D-3. His Digimentals are "Courage," "Friendship," and at one point, "Miracles." His Jogress partner is Ichijouji Ken. Rather than think first, he is the reckless hot-blooded type who acts with all of his power. He has a strong heart that refuses to ever give up, and he is very loyal to his friends. Daisuke was the first to accept Ken, who was once their enemy, into their group.
In the movie, he also shows kindness when he sheds tears for Wallace whom he had only met recently. At school, he is in
the same A-class with Takeru and Hikari. Due to his attraction for Hikari, he views Takeru as a tough rival. A soccer boy,
he has a senpai-kouhai relationship with Taichi in the soccer club. His dream is to become the world's best ramen shop
owner. (Has pictures of Daisuke in his Digital World costume/normal clothes/his own goggles/winter + summer
clothes/pajamas/bookbag/at 7 years old)
Daisuke's family - Motomiya Jun. Daisuke's older sister, who is to become an 11th grader. Apart by 6 years in age, she often fights with her brother and apparently spreads bad rumors about him wherever she goes. She can act somewhat like a fangirl, and her hobby is chasing after Yamato's band. (Has pictures of Jun in her school uniform/normal clothes/pajamas)
Father (unnamed). Daisuke and Jun's father. His job is in publishing and he is an acquaintance of Takeru's mother, who is an investigative reporter. When Vamdemon came three years ago, it is revealed that the Motomiyas were still living in Odaiba at the time. (Has pictures of father in normal/winter clothes)
Mother (unnamed). Daisuke and Jun's mother. When Ken visited their house, both she and her husband were in high spirits as if a celebrity had come. Apparently Jun's fangirl personality came from her. (Has pictures of mother in normal/winter clothes)" (Digimon Series Memorial Book: Digimon animation chronicle ~ Digital Scratch)
Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna: A freshman who attends a technical school. Daisuke studies every day so he can obtain his chef license. He's chosen to train at a ramen restaurant, and he uses Digital Gates to jump all over the world, eating noodles as research. (TOEI)
Digimon Adventure: The Beginning: While attending culinary school, he has already begun to training at a ramen ship. On days when the store is closed, he is allowed to use the store as it is and serves family-style ramen as the owner. He spends his days researching ramen with V-mon, even though he lives alone at home. (TOEI)
"ヒカリと同じクラスのスポーツが得意な元気印の少年。喜怒哀楽が激しくてすぐにカッとなるのが欠点だが、誰にも負けない行動力と熱いハートを持っている。ひたいにつけたゴーグルは、サッカークラブの先輩で憧れだった太一から勇気の証として譲り受けた宝物。ヒカリに好意を持っているので、ヒカリと仲の良いタケルをライバル視している。" (Toei Animation)
TRANSLATION: A lively boy who is good at sports and in the same class as Hikari. Although he has intense emotional swings and tends to get angry quickly, he possesses
unmatched initiative and a passionate heart. The goggles on his forehead are a treasured item that he received from his admired soccer club senior, Taichi, as a symbol of courage.
He has feelings for Hikari, so he views Takeru, who is close to Hikari, as a rival.
Season 01 (デジモンアドベンチャー)
In the year 1999 (time of the first season) Davis wasn't a DigiDestined yet and he hadn't a digivice. Besides that, he wasn't shown in season 1, but in season 2 he mentioned that he was there where Myotismon attacked the real world.
Davis and the DigiDestined company went in the digital world on a lunch. Not long after their lunch Mimi came from to the Digital world too. With her she brought her friend Michael and he had the old digivice (the same as Tai and the others have). He told them that he saw a huge Digimon and that that's the reason why he became a DigiDestined in the year 2001.
After this all of DigiDestined told how they saw a Digimon. In the first season Myotismon captured a lot of people with the help of Bakemons in one Odaiba's building (that building is called Tokyo Big Sight). And in there was also Davis with his family. And that's all we knew about him from that age. He looked the same as he does when he grows up - just without the goggles.
I watched that episode from season 1 again and I was really really concentrating on the people captured in Big Sight. Unfortunately I couldn't see him (:P), but there was one with the same hair but its color was different and he was much older than Davis should be at that time. And there were a lot of people with brown hair! ;)
Season 02 (デジモンアドベンチャー02)
Davis takes the leadership from Tai, who he knows from a football club, they were visiting together. Tai actually introduced Digimon to Davis, but since Davis didn't know anything about it, he didn't pay attention to it. Davis is very stubborn and he never wants to quit or lose - just like Tai in season 1, when he was the leader. This quality brings other DigiDestined often in danger but in the end it shows up it was worth risking. He loses his temper easily, especially because of T.K., or when the innocent ones suffer (xD). He doesn't get along that well with T.K. because of his jealousy (Kari), but they still are good friends. Their relationship isn't the same as Matt's and Tai's because T.K. hasn't got anything against Davis. He also likes to eat (that's often a characteristic of the main anime characters), he loves soup the most and his great wish is to become the best soup-cook someday (and 25 years later he actually does!).
Digimon Tri (デジモンアドベンチャーtri)
In Digimon Tri Davis, Yolei, Ken, and Cody are defeated by Alphamon and go missing. Nishijima and Tai find them in an underground laboratory inside capsules. Nishijima explains that the kids had gone missing but he had to be quiet about it because of Himekawa. They were captured after they had found out about King Drasil's plan. The capsules they are in are giving them life support and when Gennai comes and turns them off he gives Tai an option to save them by sending them back to the real world. Since there is only one capsule left Tai is tricked by Nishijima and is transported to the real world with 02 DigiDestined before the laboratory explodes. Izzy mentioned they were sent to a hospital and after 3 months the four of them finally recovered after being hospitalized.
Digimon Last Evolution Kizuna (デジモンアドベンチャー Last Evolution 絆)
Even though this is a movie and not a whole new season I decided to put this here too since it's a different time period than other seasons and movies. In last evolution Kizuna Davis is 19 years old and a freshmen who attends a technical school. Davis decided he wants to become a ramen shop owner in the future and that's why he attends the school to become the certificated chef and to get some experience. He travels around the country and the world and tries as many ramen as he can to learn more and more about the food. By his friends support he goes to New York (together with Ken and Cody) in order to research on a new kind of ramen free of preconceived ideas just before DigiDestined around the world are attacked by Eosmon.
Tai: Even Hikari and Daisuke seem to know exactly what they're doing.*
Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning (デジモンアドベンチャー02 THE BEGINNING)
Similar to The Last Evolution Kizuna, I’ve categorized this under the "Seasons" section because it represents a different time period from the previous movies and seasons. The events of The Beginning take place two years after The Last Evolution Kizuna, which means Davis is now 21 years old. He currently lives alone in a small apartment with V-mon. Davis is attending a cooking school while also training at a ramen restaurant. He has a unique arrangement with his boss, allowing him to sell his signature lekei ramen (a rich and flavorful ramen featuring a pork marrow and soy sauce broth and thick with a unique blend of spices and ingredients) during the restaurant's off-hours once a week. Davis' life revolves around ramen—studying it, preparing it, and perfecting his recipes. V-mon fully supports Davis in his culinary pursuits, and they both share an enthusiastic passion for ramen. Together, they get excited about everything ramen-related and enjoy working in the ramen shop.
Digimon Xros Wars / Digimon Hunters (デジモンクロスウォーズ)
Davis' first appearance in Xros Wars is in episode 78. He came there with V-mon to help Digimon Hunters with Myotismons. Davis is in the same age as Tai, even though we know that Tai is older than Davis. That's because they came there from different dimensions and also from different times. So they are in the same age in Xros Wars. In episode 78 the old man (who was actually Bugramon) explained why all these different people were suddenly in the same world and the same time.
The old man: I've used Clockmon's abilities to call together heroes of different times and different dimensions. They are heroes who have once saved their own worlds years ago. It will be necessary for all six of its leaders to combine their powers.*
Later in that episode Ken came too. He came so that Davis' Digimon V-mon and Stingmon could digivolve together in Imperialdramon. In the last episode (79) Davis (and others) lend their powers to Tagiru so that he could pull out the Brave Snatcher (their only weapon). The Brave Snatcher is really heavy so Tagiru decided to go to him and get it (if the snatcher won't come out). Davis and the others go with them. In the end they get the Brave Snatcher and they defeat the enemy!
The Brave Snatcher has our power ... The power of all generations fused together!**
** - Digimon Xros Wars (Digimon Hunters); Episode 79 - Now Burn Up Tagiru! The Glorious Digimon Hunt!
After they defeated MaloMyotismon
DRAMA CD: Digimon adventure 02: original story, spring 2003 (デジモンアドベンチャー０２ オリジナルストーリー ２００３年 -春-)
This Drama CD is happening in spring 2003 (At many pages I saw that they write the name of the drama as Summer 2003, but on the
CD there's a Japanese kanji for spring and not summer). So, this Drama is actually after season 2 but before the epilogue. This happens
one year after they became a Digidestined (Davis, Yolei, and Cody).
In Davis' part he talks about goggles, power, Tai ... He said that he remembered a little from that time when he and his family were captured in a Tokyo Big Sight. He remembers Tai on a dinosaur, he remembers his goggles. He was really happy when Tai gave it to him. He said that they make him motivated and he can feel all the power. There is also the voice who is asking him about these goggles and bad Digimon and all that stuff. Davis is answering him - that Tai gave him goggles, that for beating evil Digimon you have to have something more than power - you have to know which Digimon are bad ... After this Davis said that only their group can open the Digital world and that they still have a lot of things to do there and that he had to pass his goggles to another child to motivate him ~ he did that in an epilogue - he gave his goggles to his son.
(Credits: Digital Scratch)
One year after Movie 3
DRAMA CD: Digimon adventure 02: the door to summer (デジモンアドベンチャー０２ドラマＣＤ 夏への扉)
This Drama CD is happening in summer 2003! Davis and his partner DemiVeemon went to New York because they wanted to see
New York and they hoped that this year will be better than last year - last year they fought Wallace's Digimon partner and they had
to save Tai and his company ...
In the beginning, we found out that this summer wasn't really "nice" to Davis. Kari rejected him (she just refused his invitation to the beach) and he was really sad about it and also he failed at a soccer match. He was also "depressed" because even Cody had a girlfriend - first he wanted to hang out with him.
He met in New York with Mimi (and I didn't know that they have a really good relationship ;D) and Wallace. They were really happy to meet again - I don't know how long Davis didn't see Mimi, but he didn't see Wallace for one year.
Davis started to hear some voices (others didn't hear a thing) and suddenly the entire city falls under the winter. Davis still heard some voices, he followed them and he found a really cute girl who was more interested in Davis than Wallace (he really couldn't understand why is that so). They gave her name - Nat-chan (first DemiVeemon wanted to name her Hikari, but Davis was against it). Nat was really jealous of their relationship - between humans and Digimon. She was really interested in Davis but when he said didn't want to leave DemiVeemon and others she started to be interested in Wallace. After Davis' getting into a fight with DemiVeemon he went walking. Nat came after him and she was really nice. She also said to him that he is really nice and Davis was really happy because she was the first girl who said that. DemiVeemon interrupted them and he also falls in the river and Davis saved him. They both went back to Mimi and Wallace without Nat. They started to search for her and they found her. She started evolving and roaring. Davis realised that she wanted him as a partner and that she fell really lonely. Davis managed to calm her and after an explosion this winter weather disappeared and there was a DigiEgg (that was Nat). Davis and the others decided to look for her human partner ~ their Digimon partners complained about the heat all the time.
(Credits: Digital Scratch)
Family
UNNAMED MOTHER
We don't know her name and a lot of things about her. She isn't shown that much. But when she is I really don't know what to think about her. She loves her kids like every
other mother (she thanked Shu (Joe's older brother) for driving him home and in the last episode she said to believe in Davis and the rest of the DigiDestined. But once
when Davis introduced Ken to her (and the rest of his family) she acts totally different. She was very excited that her son is hanging out with so brilliant guy and she
wanted to order some sushi and Davis' father begged Ken to tutor Davis.
UNNAMED FATHER
We don't know his name either. His job is in publishing and he is an acquaintance of T.K.'s mother, who is an investigative reporter. I think that he thinks that Davis' stupid. I mean, when Davis brought Ken to his house, Davis' father begged Ken to tutor his stupid son.
(He actually used this word). But he loves his family. When Davis and his family were captured 3 years ago (season 1), his father (and also his mother) was very protective.
And even in the last episode of season 2, Davis' parents (and Jun) were there together with all the other parents and they all really cared for their children.
CHILD ~ SON
25 years after Season 02 Davis has one child - son. He looks just like his father when he was young. We don't know his name and we don't even know
who his mother is. As all children in the world he also has his own Digimon partner. You guessed right, his Digimon partner is DemiVeemon! And on his shirt is written "son" in
Japanese language. So that you don't mistake him for Davis ;P
JUN MOTOMIYA
Jun is Davis' older sister. She is 17 years old and that makes her 6 years older. She and Davis don't get along very well. They fight all the time which is actually not a big deal.
In the beginning Jun is obsessed with Matt (in forth movie she also has a "Matt chain" on her mobile). She goes to his concert and she also gets an autograph. She doesn't think that Davis is cute like Matt or T.K. are. She wished that T.K. and
Matt were her brothers. When T.K. mentioned to Davis that he met his sister Davis was sure that she was talking bad things about him - because she usually does. Because Davis said that
they don't care about each other and that she is a stupid girl/sister he got in a fight with Matt. Jun said that she really envy him because he doesn't do anything and he doesn't think
that much. She tried to talk to him, but Davis didn't listen to her and she unplugged his play station because she was talking to him.
On the Christmas concert, Jun bought Matt a lot of presents. After the concert she saw
Matt and Sora together and got over him. Her new "victim" was Joe's older brother Shuu. She said that older boys are better than younger (Shuu is in college and Matt is 3 years younger than Jun).
Jun remembers the Digital monsters from 3 years ago and even though that she "doesn't" like Davis she was supporting and believing in him in the last episode of season 2. And she also gets a Digimon partner
(that's mentioned in CD drama).
Voice Actors
♥ Reiko Kiuchi - Japanese VA
♥ Fukujuro Katayama - Japanese VA (Digimon Last Evolution Kizuna)
♥ Brian Donovan - English VA
♥ Griffin Burns - English VA (Digimon Last Evolution Kizuna)
♥ Fabian Hollwitz - German VA
♥ Patrick van Balen - Dutch VA
♥ Bruno Pontes - Portuguese VA
♥ Paola Majano - Italian VA
♥ Marta Sainz - Spanish VA
♥ Fabrice Trojani - French VA