That's enough, you two! Now use your current position to kiss and make up!
Taichi and Yamato (Tai and Matt)
- If you believe that constant arguing escalating to physical violence and a lot of exacerbating each's other insecurities equals Belligerent Sexual Tension...
- And the freaking angelic "arrows of love," with an explicit "like Cupid" comparison, combined with manful hand-holding before their first digimon warp digivolve to Mega level in "Prophecy."
- In the Japanese version, when Taichi is separated from everyone else in the real world, he talks about Yamato nearly exclusively. After calling all of the other chosen children, Taichi also goes to sleep. When the phone rings, he jumps up shouting "Is it Yamato?" before rushing to grab the phone out of Hikari's hand.
- Jureimon (Cherrymon) convinces Yamato that Taichi is his rival by telling Yamato that the "lake reflects whoever lies within the heart of the person who looks into it", which is when Yamato starts listening to Jureimon. Also, adding the comment later, "that's how big of an existence Taichi has become within your heart."
- In the Final Battle, even though Yamato has long left the group, Taichi's plan is to hold off Piedmon on his own until Yamato arrives — in spite of everything that happened between them, he has complete faith that his friend will return. He's not disappointed — Yamato returns, runs right to his side, holds Taichi in his arms, apologizes and promises nothing will ever come between them again, which causes his Crest of Friendship to glow and heal Taichi's Digimon.
- These two are first kids whose Digimon partners fuse in Our War Game!, along with all the romantic subtext that entails.
Yamato (Matt) and Joe
- In episode 3 when Yamato plays the harmonica, Joe ends up in his hands
and even inside his head — paralleling a moment near the end of the series where Joe sees himself in the harmonica. - When Yamato tries to break up an argument between Joe and Gomamon by grabbing onto Joe, it's (again) one of the rarer times he doesn't have gloves on. When Joe tells him to shut up (equally uncharacteristically), Yamato actually looks hurt, rather than indifferent or angry... probably leading to the infamous bathhouse incident not long after.
- Yamato was the one who specifically had an issue with Joe wearing a towel in the bathhouse (namely, while the other three boys are relaxing and don't even notice, instead looks at him, gives him an evil smirk and talks about how he can't stand guys who cover themselves when there are no girls around...)note . He quite literally wanted Joe naked and started shit because of it; Taichi just went along for fun. For further irony points, we see Gabumon (who is always covered up) cowering out in the hall because he doesn't want the same thing to happen to him!
- WereGarurumon's Diner then has Matt volunteer to get stuck with and help Joe... while T.K. is somewhere out there alone. It's Joe who helps him activate the Crest of Friendship, and Matt ends up blushing as he asks for forgiveness for having doubted him.
- In the same episode ("A Friend! WereGarurumon"), there's a Bilingual Bonus when Picodevimon chats to Yamato; despite all his lies and manipulations, he nonchalantly calls Yamato "seijitsu na hito", a sincere, honest, reliable person, which is true... except that Seijitsu is Joe's Crest and this is the episode dealing with another one entirely. It's also the only time in the entire series any of the kids are specifically referred to by another's quality – although it's impossible to have real Yuujou (friendship) without Seijitsu (honesty/reliability/trustworthiness), which might explain why Yamato and Joe are particularly connected to begin with.
- Joe is the only one who has a couple moments of noticing Matt's growing breakdown in the last arc, and abruptly decides to leave Mimi when he finds Matt's harmonica — to go search for Matt. Gomamon teases him with admiration in both Japanese and English about how the whole 'running through some huge part of the Digiworld looking for Matt' quest has coincided with Joe seeming like more of a ('real') man.
- He's absolutely elated when he does find Matt and returns the harmonica, who genuinely smiles when he thanks him.
Sora and Mimi
- The Sora and Mimi duo were awfully... eager to strip off and shower together in one episode.
- In one scene, Sora comforts Mimi after she wakes up from a nightmare and holds her hand. Mimi is scared that her friends are going to leave her behind because she treated them very unfairly, but Sora encourages her by calling her a "very nice girl."
Other
- Ogremon's only desire is to duke it out with Leomon, and he visibly tears up when Leomon passes away.
- Jeff Nimoy (the writer, story editor and director for the English translation) has stated (joked?) that he wrote Izzy and Tentomon's dialogue together as if they were gay lovers.
- More fuel was added when Matt's English voice, Michael Reisz, came out in 2017.
- Tai[chi] and Izzy (Koushiro) have a lot of moments too, particularly when Matt's not around.
