The good guys are sent out to fight him with their newly discovered Digimentals/Digieggs that allow Armor evolutions within the influence of the towers. The fight goes on for awhile, with the Kaiser creating the dark spiral which doesn't need a tower to work and can control Perfect level digimon. Unsatisfied with the results of the war so far, Ken starts putting together a digimon 'strong' enough to get rid of the pests. It ends up developing into a knockdown drag out fight where Ken starts losing it and Wormmon develops a backbone and gets himself killed. The Crest of Kindness shows up at this point (Ajora: and man does the Kindness symbol look fruity).

From there Ken does some soul searching about himself and his deceased brother, Osamu/Sam (Meimi: Ajora is a huge Osamu fan) (Ajora: And damn proud of it!). Eventually, he regains the newly resurrected Wormmon and starts cleaning up his mess in the Digital World. New enemies show up... some that are really creepy (Meimi & Ajora: DIE OIKAWA DIE!)... and Ken forms a friendship bond with Daisuke/Davis which helps them discover the Jogress form of evolution. In the meantime, there are a lot of hints at just how screwed up Ken actually is. (Meimi: Screwed up doesn't even begin to describe it.)

As the Kaiser, Ken is cruel, manipulative, cunning and vicious. As one of the Chosen Children/Digi-Destined, Ken is hesitant, shy, depressed, reclusive and very, very angsty. (Meimi: Angst! Yay!) It's not that hard to figure out why we like him. (Ajora: though his prettiness is an easy excuse)

During the first season Takeru is much like any other little kid, he's whiny, cute, dependent on the others to take care of him and easily hurt emotionally. He does end up saving everybody's bacon in two of the really big fights, though. (Meimi: Angemon can kick most people's asses) (Ajora: But Patamon still wins the cutest digimon award)

In the second season, Takeru has grown up a bit and is easier on the eye... even with the hat (Meimi: It's Gilligan!). He's best friends with Hikari/Kari (Meimi: Like we didn't see that one coming.) and the perfect foil to Daisuke/Davis's advances on Hikari. In the Digital World he acquires the Digimental/Digiegg of Hope and joins in the fight against Ken during the Kaiser story arc.

All throughout the war, Takeru is just basically there, getting picked on by Daisuke, picking on Daisuke, saving Hikari from the 'dark ocean', impressing Daisuke with Angemon and finally, picking a fight with Ken (Meimi: Go baby go!) (Ajora: I'm a bad Kaiser fan, I was cheering Takeru on...). During Daisuke's attempts to get the others to accept Ken into the ranks after Wormmon's death, Takeru is perhaps the most sympathetic out of the bunch (Meimi: Score!). Later on in the series, Takeru takes the sidelines most of the time with the others while Daisuke and Ken take most of the limelight. Eventually Takeru gains a Jogress with Iori/Cody, Shakkoumon (Meimi: Ultimatemaidmon with suck and blow action!).

Takeru is sweet, caring, understanding, cheerful and pretty much the angel of the series, the goody goody. With Ken basically shown as the child with the fallen angel/demon motif it's not hard to see why we like them as a couple. (Meimi: Ken likes angel food!)