Koji Minamoto (Digimon Frontier)
In every season of Digimon, there’s that one character among the Digidestined who’s the archetype of the cool guy: a loner who only really joins up with the others because the plot demands that they do so. During that time with the others, they look at their antics with general apathy before slowly coming around to realize that friendship and working with others makes you strong because that’s true in life, and this is an anime intended for kids. With the fourth season, just by looking at the cast of characters, you could tell that Koji would fill that spot. He’s decked in blue, wears a bandana with stripes on it, and rocks a ponytail. He just screams “total emo,” making it all the more ironic that he becomes the wielder of the Spirits of Light.
While Koji is definitely the Loner of Digimon Frontier, he comes to grow for the others over the course of the season. Once he’s settled in with the rest of the DigiDestined, he’s quick to throw himself in the way of oncoming attacks, and the revelation that Duskmon was his twin brother Koichi didn’t hurt either. Through him, Koji was able to loosen up and relax, and even reconnect their separated families. Friendship is magic, as they say.
