Matt Ishida (Adventure:)

This article is about the 2020 Adventure: character. For for the 1999 Adventure character, see Yamato "Matt" Ishida.

Matt Ishida (石田 ヤマト Ishida Yamato)
General information
Appears in:	Digimon Adventure:
First appearance	"Tokyo Digital Crisis" [01]
Actor(s):	(Ja:) Daisuke Namikawa (En:) AJ Beckles
Other actor(s)
(Ind:) Tri Adi Setiawan
Partner(s):	Gabumon
Digivice(s):	Digivice: (Blue when activated)
Profile
Grade	5th
Gender	Male
Known relatives	Unnamed Father Unnamed Mother T.K. Takaishi (younger brother)
Nationality	Japanese

Matt Ishida (石田 ヤマト, Ishida Yamato^?) is a DigiDestined in Digimon Adventure:.

Appearance

Matt is a young boy with sharp blue eyes and spiky blond hair. He wears a turtlenecked purple shirt with short sleeves, grey pants, a green bandana tied on the left wrist, white socks, and black sneakers with white soles and laces.

Etymologies

Yamato Ishida (石田 ヤマト)

Japanese name used in Digimon Adventure:. Officially romanized in the official site.

• Ja: Ishida (石田, Ishida^?). Japanese surname that means "stone field". "Ishi" is shared with "Takaishi".
• Ja: Yamato (ヤマト, Yamato^?). A Japanese masculine name. With Takeru, it is a reference to Yamato Takeru.

Matt Ishida

Name used in the American English release of the Digimon Card Game.

• Matt. Derived from "Yamato".

Personality

Matt is somber and terse, as well as slightly ruthless, willing to keep moving ahead with the DigiDestined's mission and leaving Digimon to fend for themselves. However, Matt does have a softer side. He cares deeply for his brother TK and partner Gabumon, and would do anything to help them. This goes to the point of going off on his own and disregarding his own safety. At first, Matt thought little of the other DigiDestined, but after they helped him raid the fortress on the Cloud Continent, he valued his teammates, willing to stop their mission to care for Sora when she's hurt.

Fiction

After Tai Kamiya and Greymon defeat Argomon, Matt shows up mounted on Garurumon. Tokyo Digital Crisis