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Kouichi Kimura ( 木村輝一 )

AKA: Koichi

Spirit: Darkness

Digimon Evolutions:

• Lowemon
• KaiserLeomon

Kouichi is Kouji's twin brother and they therefore both look similar towards each other. Like his brother he is wise and is open minded. He is quite caring and nice, especially towards his mother back in the human world. His mother and father were divorced, and Kouichi stayed with his mother while Kouji stayed with his father, which brought about many complications.

Appearance

Kouichi's clothes have a green, grey and maroon theme, which don't exactly match his evolutions. Possibly because he never intended to arrive in the Digital World in the first place, and was chosen by Cherubimon at first.

Accessories: A blue hat with a symbol on it, which was worn back in the human world.

Head: Black hair and blue eyes.

Body: A maroon long-sleeve shirt with a green short sleeve jacket, as well as a pair of grey trousers.

Hands: Nothing are worn on his hands.

Legs: Blue socks.

Shoes: Green and yellow coloured shoes with standard laces.

History

Kouichi didn't arrive in the Digital World on a Trailmon like the other Digidestined. When he first arrived at the Digital World, the evil Cherubimon offered Kouichi the spirits of Darkness, as to possess them one must have a very dark heart. Cherubimon took advantage of Kouichi by manipulating his memories of his mother and his brother, creating the illusion that they abandoned him despite him seeking them out.

As a result, when Kouichi inherited the spirits of darkness, evil had corrupted and tainted his spirits which created his Digimon hybrid forms Duskmon and Velgmon. He then joined Grottomon, Ranamon and Arbormon under Cherubimon's command to eliminate the Digidestined.

After some time, the Digidestined were able to cleanse the evil from Kouichi. But shortly after freeing Kouichi, Cherubimon ambushed the Digidestined once more. Despite the Digidestined's best efforts they could not defeat Cherubimon, leaving him to confront Kouichi directly. He was offered to reclaim the spirits of darkness again and serve under his rule again. Knowing that his brother Kouji was now not his enemy, Kouchi refused to reclaim the spirits stating he would rather choose death than to betray his brother.

It seemed imminent that Kouichi would not escape Cherubimon's wrath. Just when things seemed hopeless, Kouji's D-Tector engulfed Kouichi with a stream of light, cleansing his spirits of darkness to Lowemon and KaiserLeomon. Kouichi then realised that the powers of darkness could be used for good instead of for evil.

Kouichi believed that he caused a significant amount of pain and suffering for the Digidestined during his evil forms. Even at times he has trouble forgiving himself for the things he had done. As the group comforted him, he was able to forgive himself as time passed. Kouichi took this opportunity to discuss his mother and grandmother back in the human world with Kouji, along with his desires to all reunite together should they return back home.

In their battle against Lucemon Falldown Mode, Kouichi in his human hybrid form Lowemon fought valiantly against him and was able to save the other Digidestined from being obliterated. He sacrificed himself and surrendered his spirits of darkness to Kouji. This noble sacrifice allowed the Digidestined to form a new hybrid evolution, Susanoomon and subsequently defeat Lucemon. When Kouichi awoke back in the human world, it turned out that he existed in the Digital World only as a spirit, and was never physically there.

Memorable Moments

Kouichi's Life in the Human World

Just as it seemed Velgmon would kill Kouji, Ofanimon was able to make Velgmon hesitate by infusing his mind with the memories of Kouichi Kimura's life back in the human world through Kouji's D-Tector. This caused Velgmon to become confused and fled to recuperate his thoughts.