Daigo Nishijima

Daigo Nishijima (西島 大吾) is a character in Digimon Adventure tri.. He is a member of the Incorporated Administrative Agency. He is one of the original DigiDestined.

Appearance
Daigo is a young man with fair skin, short greenish black hair, and brown eyes. He wears a beige shirt with a light blue star in the chest, brown shorts, pink slippers with white soles, and white coat. The coat has a pocket on each side of the waist and another in the left side of the chest, three white buttons, and Daigo wears it with the sleeves rolled upto the elbows.

Etymologies
Name used in Digimon Adventure tri.. Officially romanized in the official site's profile.
 * Daigo Nishijima (西島 大吾)
 * Ja: Nishijima (西島). Japanese surname that means "west island". Possibly a reference to, the of west.
 * Ja: Daigo (大吾) Japanese male name that combines the kanji for "large" (大) and "my" (吾).

Fiction
Daigo was one of the original DigiDestined, and his Partner was. During a climatic battle with the, when the DigiDestined were losing, a collapsed Daigo was about to give up, even as Maki Himekawa tried to tell him to continue. When Homeostasis used Maki's to make the Digimon digivolve, and Maki begged that  was the only one left, Daigo told her they had no time. He then watches as the four Digimon become the while Megadramon was sacrificed to defeat the Dark Masters.

Years later, Daigo and Maki attend the same college. Maki told Daigo about rebooting the  to bring  back. Daigo tries to dissuade her from it, and asks to be her "new partner". Although Maki laughs at the love confession's wording, she agrees to date him.

At some point Daigo and Maki broke up. Both also became coworkers at the Incorporated Administrative Agency.

In 2005, Daigo went undercover as a calligraphy teacher at the Tsukishima General High School's 11th grade, monitoring the second group of. Two of them, Taichi "Tai" Kamiya and Sora Takenouchi, attend his class. One day, in the week before June 19, he talks to a student at the stairs in the school's entrance in the morning. Some time after that, he approaches Tai in the hallway, calling him out for being the only one of his students who hasn't delivered his career planning form, and orders to go to his office during lunch time. At lunch time, Daigo asks Tai about what he's interested in. Tai talks about friends living far away, with Daigo asking if they're overseas. He then suggests the boy study languages, and encourges him to chase his dreans. At sunset, he talks to Maki about witnesses of the infected Digimon.

On June 19, after attacks Tokyo, Daigo shows up and takes Tai to Haneda Airport.