Menoa Bellucci

メノア・ベルッチ, *Menoa Berucchi*

**Menoa Bellucci** (メノア・ベルッチ, *Menoa Berucchi*) is an Associate professor in the field of Digimon research at Liberica University in New York City. She is also a Chosen Child, partnered with Morphomon.

## Appearance

Menoa is a young woman with fair skin, blue eyes, and shoulder-length brown-red hair, which she usually wears in a braided ponytail, tied with a Morpho-shaped hairpin. She wears a collared white shirt with short sleeves, a black pencil skirt, and red sneakers.

## Personality

As a child prodigy, Menoa is very smart, goal-oriented, and confident. She speaks in a peculiar mix of both English and Japanese. Traumatized by the loss of her partnership with Morphomon, she put all her efforts into, what she believed, was saving the Chosen Children.

## History

At the age of 9, Menoa met Morphomon, her Partner Digimon, and they became inseparable best friends. Their partnership ended when Menoa was 14, when Menoa happily told Morphomon that she had skipped enough grades to be allowed to start College and that she could finally live her own life. Morphomon's disappearance impacted Menoa's life, who spent the next 8 years researching Digimon. She would try to restore life to Morphomon, however she failed every time. In July 2010 an aurora appeared in the United States and Morphomon's data suddenly reconfigured into a Digitama. Menoa claimed that Morphomon, from within her Digitama, telepathically told her to use her data to help save all the Chosen Children in the World from having to suffer the same fate they had, and so Menoa re-configured Morphomon's data, turning it into the artificial Digimon, Eosmon.

## Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna

Putting her plan into action, Menoa emails Miyako under the pretense of providing information about the comatose Chosen Children. After Kōshirō agrees to help, she travels to Japan along with Imura, her assistant. On July 20th they meet with Taichi, Yamato, Takeru and Kōshirō and explain that they had found that a Digimon named Eosmon is responsible for stealing the Chosen Children’s consciousness and Partner Digimon. By defeating Eosmon they would be able to free all the Chosen Children and their Digimon. They open a Digital Gate to the Cyber Space in an attempt to fight Eosmon, however Omnimon suddenly devolves, and Eosmon is able to break through the barrier and escape. Menoa explains that the reason for that is that a Digimon's power comes from the potential of youth, meaning that as the Chosen Child gets older, their Digimon gets weaker, until eventually their bond will come to an end and the Chosen Child will lose their Digimon forever.

After Yamato finds out that Menoa used to be a Chosen Child and tells the others, Taichi confronts her with the information and she admits that she used to have a partner, and explains what had happened to her. Later, Kōshirō confronts her about her plan, having found out that a human had edited Eosmon's data, and Menoa confirms that she had created Eosmon. She has an Eosmon steal his consciousness and successfully steals the database, using it to kidnap thousands more Chosen Children around the World, bringing them to her Never Land.

Taichi, Agumon, Yamato, and Gabumon arrive in the Never World and fight Menoa, who summons thousands of Eosmon that fuse together into Eosmon's Mega form while she is trapped within its body, locked away insider her own memories. Although Eosmon defeats Omnimon, Taichi manages to awaken all the Chosen Children using Hikari's whistle and they all team up to fight the Eosmon. Agumon and Gabumon evolve into Agumon (Bond of Bravery) and Gabumon (Bond of Friendship), defeat Eosmon, and free Menoa, reverting Eosmon back into its Champion form. Eosmon and Menoa have one final moment together and Eosmon dies smiling, Menoa once again bidding a tearful goodbye to her partner Digimon. She is then arrested by Kyotaro and taken into custody by the FBI.

## Trivia

* Menoa's name might derive from the Morpho menelaus, as a reference to her Partner Digimon, Morphomon. It might also derive from the mythological Memnon, son of Eos, as a reference for Eosmon. Bellucci is an Italian surname, derived from the word 'bello' which means 'handsome'. It is possible that her name is a reference to Italian actress Monica Bellucci.
* Menoa's design was based on Anne of Green Gables.
* The staff had her speaking so much English they cut down on the amount for the final version.