Every season of Digimon enjoys tugging at the audience's heartstrings. While sad moments in series like Digimon Adventure and Digimon Frontier are few and far between, giving fans time to breathe, Digimon Tamers takes delight in breaking hearts at every opportunity.

Digimon Tamers contains many of the saddest moments in the franchise, some of them defining the entire season's reputation. Takato, Henry, Rika, Jeri, and their Digimon Partners endure one painful hardship after another in their quest to save two worlds, and even the season's ending is bittersweet at best.

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Takato Matsuki, the main hero of Digimon Tamers, is initially characterized as a Digimon fanboy. He loves the previous Digimon anime as much as anyone watching this season, he's an avid player of the card game, and he...