Don Wada

Don-chan

“	Let's play one more song Ta-don!	”
	— Don Wada

Don Wada (和田どん), usually refers to as Don-chan (どんちゃん), is the main character of the Taiko no Tatsujin series. He is the protagonist and the playable character. His brother is Katsu.

Appearance

He is an anthropomorphic taiko drum. His face and body is red and blue respectively. Like other characters, he appears to be cute.

Background

Don, along with his twin Katsu, were born on March 3rd, 2000, when a pair of tamashii were fused into the taiko drums.

Still the infants, Don and Katsu were being taking care of by Bachi-sensei and learning taiko drum skill. He and Katsu, who grows up and want to realize their dream to shares the beauty of the taiko drums to the world, settled on staying in Wada household.

When Kodama arrived into the Wada house, she reveal that Don's tamashii is in fact the one she accidentally silp into the human world. Don's tamashii was ultimately taken away by the tennyo and the body become the static normal taiko drum. That was until a year later, Don't tamashii was sent back into the taiko drum and Don was revived. He cries, and is happy that he came back to the world.

Personality

While he is mainly childish, he is also very cheerful. He has a monsterous appedite, and has expensive shopping at the Wada House which may take over for the worst. He also can't think very complicating things.

His specialty is handicraft, and he's known for crafting items related to summer festival. His favorite foods are takoyaki and sushi. He is unaware that Donko have a crush on him.

He usually ends his sentences with "Ta-don" and "Kat".

Voice actress

In early Taiko no Tatsujin games prior to Taiko no Tatsujin: Atsumare! Matsuri da! Yondaime!, he is voiced by Fushigi Yamada. Since then, he is voices by Miki Narahashi.

In Clay Anime, he is voiced by Youko Teppouzuka.

Interestly, he's shared the same voices as his brother Katsu.

Cameo

Sometimes, Don also makes cameo in other series as follows:

• Accessories that based on Don and Katsu appears in the Idolm@ster series.
• Don appeared in Kotoba no Puzzle: Mojipittan.
• Don, along with Katsu and Master Bachi, appeared in Klonoa Heroes.
• Don and Katsu appeared in Tales of the World: Narikiri Dungeon 3.
• Don and Katsu appeared in Mitsuiro blood.
• Don, along with Katsu, Donko and Masked Kid, appeared in several Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune titles as the parody to Wangan Midnight.
• In Keroro RPG: Kishi to Musha to Densetsu no Kaizoku, Don appear as support character.
• In several titles in R.B.I. Baseball franchise, one of the pre-registered scorer's name is Don Wada, named after the titular character.
• Don appeared in Mario Kart Arcade GP DX as a playable racer.
• Don appeared as a yo-kai in Yo-kai Watch 2 as well as Yo-kai Watch 3, where he can be recruited. This is ironic as in Dororon! Yokai Great Decisive Battle! he is mistaken for a yokai by old ninja Master.
  • Yo-kai Watch 3 also features a minigame where player must catch the don and kat notes using the rotatable curve block which can be rotated by player via rotating the disk on the touchscreen. The Namco Original song Fuunshishi was used in the minigame.
• Don was summons randomly by Pac-Man during his Namco Roulette taunt in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS.

Quotes

"Dongyaa--!!" - Don's usual screaming, whenever he was being sent into different worlds through various means in the beginning of some games' story mode,, when he was surprised by something, or when he got zapped.

"Wahh! That's not what I mean..." - Said the frightened Don toward the angry and jealous Donko after he said Alumi is cute.