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The children have no idea what's going on after they meet their Digimon partners, yet they still have to fight to protect themselves. However, as time passes and the series starts to evolve, new subjects and concepts are presented. It covered such difficulties the children face when growing up, such as making friends, being courageous and taking a stand against evil, lending a supportive hand to others even though they may be different, saying goodbye to the ones you love, and much more. This has been displayed best by the collection of "crests" the children collect in the first season to make their Digimon partners evolve into stronger Digimon and help them stop the evil forces.

They embody virtues such as Courage for Taichi Kamiya, Friendship for Matt Ishida, Love for Sora Takenouchi, Sincerity for Mimi Tachikawa, Knowledge for Izzy Izumi, Reliability for Joe Kido, and Hope for T.K. Takaishi. The crests won't work unless their bearers exhibit the quality their crest represents. This has lead the children to express the traits they didn't know they had, which sometimes comes with interesting emotional and dramatic results.

The children realized that the world they were in was not a game, and that the creatures there had feelings and could feel pain. Digimon express every quality that humans do; only they aren't human. They decided without much thought that they had to defend the noble creatures in the Digital World because they didn't want them to suffer, and they were the only ones that could help. The DigiDestined made efforts on not having to destroy any Digimon, unless they were perverse (usually of the "virus" kind) and gave them no other choice.

Later in the season, the gang went back to Odaiba, where Tai's little sister Kari Kamiya joins the group with her own Crest of Light. Her involvement expanded the scope of the show as a new dark world was introduced, and a description on how the Digital World got besieged by the "Dark Masters" was added. There was even a reference to the first movie, showing the events that preceded the happenings of the story and the way every DigiDestined entered in contact with Digimon for the first time.