A couple of days after the release of his latest Digimon Adventure book, a bored and curious Takaishi Takeru clicked his way over to a popular digimon message board.

There were countless threads on the forums – comparisions to shounen manga and Pokemon, speculation about his next novel - but it was the conversations about romance which caught the writer's attention.

They took different sides on so many topics. Did Miyako love Ken, or did she have stronger feelings for Hikari, Daisuke, Hawkmon, Sora, or even him? When Yamato held hands with Taichi before the arrows of hope and light struck, was it a scared little boy clinging to a friend for support? Or was he really just showing affection to the boy he loved? When he ran with such intensity into the dark ocean to free Hikari, was it because his lover was in peril? Or were the events of three years before - between his call of "I like you" to Sora and his reluctance to leave her to Piemon and escape - what demonstrated his true feelings?

They were making countless, solid points, and yet (save a couple exceptions) the fanbase was just so wrong.

Had he messed something up?

No, that wasn't it. If there was anything in his life that Takeru remembered well, it was his travels in the digital world. Sure, his memory had faded over the years- the same as everyone else in this world. And maybe he hadn't experienced everything firsthand. But he had filled the holes in his knowledge through interviews, conducted so thoroughly that he learned about Miyako's Revolutionary Girl Utena inspired fantasies. Takeru was certain that he had chronicled their adventure accurately and hadn't left anything out.

Yet there were still so many misunderstandings.