DM-100 Sakuyamon

Card Type: Digimon Digimon Level: Mega Digimon Group: Wizard Attack Name: Kongou Kaimandara Special Effect: When Sakuyamon is in your Attack Row, add 500 Data Points to your total at the start of each player's turn. Attack Power: 1500 Defense Power: 1700 Rarity: Holo Digivolves from: Taomon Digivolves to: none Other Sakuyamon Cards: True Line: Renamon to Kyubimon to Taomon to Sakuyamon

SAKUYAMON

Group: Shaman – Level: Mega – Type: Data – Attack Techniques: Spirit Strike, Amethyst Wind, Amethyst Mandala, Crystal Sphere

Sakuyamon is the Mega form of Renamon, created when she and Rika Biomerge. Sakuyamon is a very spiritual Digimon, possessed of an immeasurable compassion for life, which she protects with her ability to summon various forms of energy, including elemental spirits of fire, water, wind and lightning, through chanting spells. Gentle but forceful, Sakuyamon is also capable of flight.

Sakuyamon made her first appearance when the Tamers encountered the deadly D-Reaper for the first time. The beast’s chaos was rising up through the pit in which Calumon had been kept by Zhuqiaomon, and Rika, headstrong as ever, ventured down on her own to find him, followed by Renamon. After finding Calumon, Rika was pulled aside by Ryo, while Cyberdramon held the chaos back momentarily. But Rika realised that to run away was merely to kid themselves – they had to face it here and now, and so, she and Renamon took a literal leap of faith, off the pit wall, and Biomerged into Sakuyamon for the first time. Rika was nearly overwhelmed by the feeling of compassion that came over her, but Sakuyamon used her powers to draw the chaos in, and obliterated it with energy rings from her staff. Everyone escaped from the pit, and Sakuyamon then separated back into Rika and Renamon – but their victory was but a temporary one, as the D-Reaper re-emerged, and followed the Tamers as they returned to the real world.

At first the Tamers were no match for the D-Reaper’s Agents, as they were unable to Biomerge in the real world – but this was changed by the arrival of Dobermon, who brought them energy from the Digimon Sovereign that allowed them merge with their Digimon on Earth. While MegaGargomon battled a Creep Hands, Sakuyamon and Gallantmon destroyed swarms of Bubbles. Sakuyamon also used her Spirit Strike on a number of Pendulum Feet, but then, Gallantmon was pulled into the D-Reaper’s mass, as Sakuyamon tried to save him in vain. Justimon, Kazu and Guardromon then arrived, and took up the battle against a Horn Striker while Sakuyamon and MegaGargomon headed into the D-Reaper’s chaos to rescue Gallantmon., the two of them protected by one of Sakuyamon’s spells. Sakuyamon was injured by a flock of Searchers, but was then healed by MarineAngemon and his Kahuna Waves. Everyone returned to the battle with the Horn Striker, but Sakuyamon’s Spirit Strike had no effect on the beast, which was destroyed by Justimon and Antylamon.

Rika and Renamon next Biomerged into Sakuyamon to protect Tadashi Katou, Jeri’s father, from a Paratice Head Agent, but wound up entwined in it’s tentacles, only to be discarded as the Agent turned on Tadashi again. After Justimon and Guardromon destroyed it, and Gallantmon and Grani defeated the Optimizer that emerged after it, Sakuyamon split back into Rika and Renamon.

When it was deduced that Jeri was being held in the Kernel Sphere, Rika and Renamon became Sakuyamon to battle Agents while Gallantmon and Beelzemon struggled to rescue her. The rescue attempted failed, however, and Sakuyamon and the others were forced to retreat when the D-Reaper evolved into the Mother D-Reaper. Rika and Renamon withdrew to Tsukuba with most of the other Tamers, the Monster Makers and the Hypnos crew, but after a meal in a restaurant with her family, she and Renamon received a signal from Henry, and merged into Sakuyamon to fly to Shinjuku, where they separated, slashed the Red Card, then merged again and entered the D-Reaper’s chaos to wage the final battle. During the conflict, Sakuyamon destroyed an Optimizer, then focused on holding off the Cable Reaper while Gallantmon struggled to rescue Jeri. The Cable Reaper shrugged off all their attacks, and Justimon urged Sakuyamon to transfer her power into his Voltage Blade. Using one of her spells, Sakuyamon transformed her armour and staff into energy, which she channelled into the blade, enhancing it – but even this was not enough to take the Cable Reaper down, as it reconstituted itself after being hacked in two. Thankfully, the Digimon Sovereign removed the Cable Reaper from the fight from the other side of the portal, enabling MegaGargomon to activate the Juggernaut and start the D-Reaper’s devolution. However, as this happened, the effects of the Red Card began to wear off – Sakuyamon and Justimon were the first to feel the debilitating effects, as they split back into their component parts. MarineAngemon then arrived to carry everyone to safety in a bubble as the D-Reaper was sucked back to the Digital World and reverted into it’s harmless original state – by the victory came with a price, as the effects of the Juggernaut were felt on the Digimon, who reverted to their In-Training forms and had to return to the Digital World.

Subsequently, however, Takato discovered a portal to the Digital World, which allowed the Tamers and their partners to be reunited. Months later, when Locomon appeared in Tokyo on Rika's birthday, Rika fell prey to Parasimon, who was controlling Locomon's mind, and did the same to Rika, making her attack Takato and Renamon. She was freed, and Gallantmon was able to destroy Parasimon, but not before he sent a signal into a rift that had opened between Earth and the Digital World, summoning a massive swarm of his kind to Earth. Rika and Renamon Biomerged into Sakuyamon and battled the Parasimon alongside the other Digimon, finding it easy to destroy the individuals, but nigh impossible to stop the constantly-growing swarm. She and Justimon were seized by the creatures' tentacles as Gallantmon assumed his Crimson Mode and flew into the heart of the rift, obliterating all the Parasimon with one attack. With the battle won, Sakuyamon split back into Rika and Renamon, and the Tamers then threw Rika her birthday party.

Sakuyamon first appears in “Song of Sakuyamon.” Her voice is supplied by Mari Devon and Melissa Fahn. It’s possible that you missed it – but most times when Sakuyamon recites a spell, she’s saying a haiku (traditional three-line Japanese poem with lines of 5, 7 and 5 syllables). In the original version, she sang her spells, but with two voice actresses working separately in the US version, this wasn’t viable.

Name: From Princess Konohana no Sakuya, a character from the Kojiki, a book of ancient Japanese myths.