Kanbara, Takuya

神原拓也

Takuya Kanbara is the protagonist of the Digimon anime series "Digimon Frontier". In this series, a group of chosen human children are granted the ability to transform into Digimon. Takuya serves as the leader of this group and receives the "Spirits of Flame" at the start of the series. He is in the fifth grade (sixth grade in the dubbed version).
Takuya's story begins when he receives a mysterious SMS message on his mobile phone one afternoon, coincidentally on his brother's birthday. The message instructs him to go to a subway station, where a Trailmon takes him and four other human children into the Digital World.
Takuya starts the series as a typical "goggle boy" (though he wears a hat underneath his gray, square goggles)—energetic and athletic, but prone to acting without thinking and very stubborn. He possesses a strong sense of justice and strives to use his power to do what he believes is right. His hot-headed personality often leads to arguments with Koji Minamoto, another main character in Digimon Frontier. However, they learn to respect each other toward the middle of the series, after their first encounter with Duskmon, and become good friends and battle partners. He acts like an older brother to Tommy Himi, who reminds him of his real brother Shinya.
Takuya also appears in a special chapter of the Digimon manga V-Tamer 01, where he teams up with Tai to fight Metamormon.