Rivalshipping

Friendship and Courage
Matt and Tai's love

Yeah, I like to call it Rivalshipping instead of Taito...long story. Anyways, this couple is actually the reason I started watching Digimon in the first place, and is probably still my favorite part of the show. I had read about Taito on a site, so I figured I'd check out Digimon. The first few eps I saw didn't have much in the way of hinting, so for a while I didn't know what these people were talking about. But once I saw the three major Taito-hinting eps, I was a believer, and I totally fell in love with couple.

Sub Zero Ice Punch- Even though they fight a lot in this ep, there's also a lot of major touchy-feeliness; they hug and hold hands both at the begining and the end of the ep.

Plus, in this ep Matt cries in front of Tai. Matt is usually very closed off, the fact that he could open up to Tai like that definitely means something IMO!

The Prophecy- Matt and Tai stand there holding hands while they get shot by what Izzy's mother calls "Cupid's Arrow." That's just GOT to be implying something.

The Crest of Freindship- This is just the most touching episode for Taito. When you see how Tai never gives up hope that Matt will come to help him, and then Matt shows up and holds Tai in his arms and they start talking about how much they mean to each other, you could just cry.

The strength of thier freindship actually causes thier crests to glow and heals the Digimon, and when the two run off thier arms are still around each other.

Official art from the creators of Digimon; Matt and Tai are all over each other! Kawaii!

At least as far as 01 is concerned, Matt and Tai are just the most beatiful couple; I love how they have that combonation of a strong freindship and a rivarly dynamic. To me, they go perfectly together; I can't see either one with anyone else. Of course, there's this whole Sorato thing that happened at the end of 02...but I had to notice that it was actually NEVER said, either in the English version OR the Japanese version, that Matt and Sora were married; even though it was specifically stated that Ken and Miyako married. Also Ken and Miyako were standing really close to each other in both pics of the older DD, while there was a huge gap between Matt and Sora, and Matt was actually standing really close to...Tai! OK, so it's a stretch, but you just have to think that maybe the writers wanted to leave it a bit open, especially since this whole Sorato thing came REALLY out of left field, I mean Matt and Sora had barely even spoken to each other before this! For all we know, Matt and Sora got divorced and Matt ended up with Tai anyways. But my personal favorite theory is that Sora was the surrogate mother for Matt and Tai's kids. Farfetched, I know, but hey; it could happen! Either way at least Tai didn't end up with Sora; sorry but I got annoyed with all those smug Taiora people who were just SO positive that that coupling was the only possiblity, even though there were NO hints for it throughout the entire show! The only evidence they really had was that hint from the movie, but guess what, it was totally dub added! In the origional Japanese version that whole part with Tai debating whether to write "love" or "from" on his letter to Sora never happened! And so, Taito lives on...