Takari

Takari is the het ship between Takeru Takaishi and Hikari Yagami from the Digimon fandom.

Canon
Even right after meeting, the two are often seen together. Takeru and the rest of the group help in rescue Hikari from Vamdemon. During the fight with Piemon both Taichi and Sora trust Takeru with Hikari. After all of the others are captured Takeru goes to great lengths to protect Hikari. He activates his Crest of Hope for the first time evolving his partner to HolyAngemon who defeats Piemon.

Throughout Digimon Adventure 02 the two hang out a lot, often putting Takeru at odds with Daisuke who had a crush on Hikari. In Episode 13 Hikari ends up in the Dark Ocean Takeru panics for awhile becoming distressed. He eventually is able to go there through a portal that forms and helps her escape.

In A Very Digi Christmas, Sora implies that Takeru and Hikari kissed under the mistletoe. In the Chinese dub, after Davis made his comment about kissing Kari and Tai made his on Davis would never learn, Sora says "hey Davis, you know a girl can't be kissed twice under the mistletoe?", to which Davis responded with "What does that got to do with anything?" earning a laugh from the rest of the DigiDestined, especially Kari, Yolei and T.K.

In ''Digimon Hurricane Landing!! Transcendent Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals'' movie Takeru and Hikari both go to New York together and visit Mimi. In Digimon Adventure Tri. Takeru again tries to help Hikari when she is depressed and "wanting to disappear". He also saves her from an embarrassing moment in the boys' locker room.

In the Filipino dub, Taichi's son refers to Takeru as "Uncle Takeru" in the epilogue.

Takeru sings the song Focus where he describes someone who is strongly implied to be Hikari, where he asks, "Am I the focus of your heart?" Hikari sings the follow up song Reflection in response where she sings about someone who is strongly implied to be Takeru, where she sings how she is always watching him.

Fanon
Takari is one of the most popular shippings in all of anime, and the most popular ship in the entire Digimon franchise. Even in the first season many fans paired them together in "future fics". Many fans believe that they ended up together, even though it was not stated in the series epilogue. It became more popular in Adventure 02. It rivals Daikari and Kenkari.

Fans often point to parallels and similarities between Takeru and Hikari's as proof of compatibility, such as their crests being Hope and Light respectively, the holy symbolism of their Digimon's evolutions and the fact they are counterparts (Ex: Angemon and Angewomon), and how they are the younger siblings of Yamato and Taichi who are foils to each other.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Takeru/Hikari tag on FanFiction.Net

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