

Weapons See More: Basontou | Bâo-Lèi SwordĪt the beginning of the series, Ren fights with the Basontou, a guandao that Bason used to wield and had been passed down in the Tao Family for generations. There it is revealed that his Furyoku level is about 100,001. While fighting his way through the Plants, Kyōyama Anna looked through the Furyoku values of Ren and the others. Ren becomes one of the Five Elemental Warriors and attunes his Furyoku to that of lightning, giving him the skills to move and attack in the blink of an eye. It is mentioned that Ren is skilled in more than one area of combat and is a powerful shaman capable of performing feats most shamans of his age would not be able to, such as staring straight into the heart of the Great Spirit without fainting, a feat only a handful of shamans could do. He is very skilled in martial arts and sword fighting, in addition to also learning techniques by just watching them as he was able to learn many of Asakura Mikihisa's techniques simply by experiencing them firsthand, and also learning to use Over Soul by just seeing Chrome use his. However, after Ren was fatally impaled by Peyote Diaz, it becomes apparent that they really do care for one another as Horohoro tried his best to protect Ren until the rest could help him.Īs a normal human being, Ren has a very strong body as evidenced by his tough and constant training. Out of all his friends, his bonds with Chocolove and Horohoro seem to be the strongest even though Ren often fights with Horohoro. Before and during the process in which he befriended with Asakura Yoh, he was even bold enough to disobey his father on various occasions.Īs the Shaman Fight progresses, Ren begins to trust others even more. He rarely listens to what anyone says or takes their instructions. In addition, Ren is also very intuitive, quick-witted, sometimes quite stubborn and he can also be very defiant. He even named his own team, Team "The Ren", much to the annoyance of his teammate, Usui Horokeu. Ren is an egotistical person and usually does not care that people think that he is overly proud. Forced to train and study at a very youthful age, Ren had his childhood stolen from him and thus, hated his father for all of his suffering. Ren's anger and hatred came from his father Tao Yúan. He also believed that his guardian ghost Bason, was only meant to be used as a tool and would to treat him as a friend would only result in the spirit taking highly advantage over him. Because of how he was raised amongst dead corpses and spirits he began applying the survival of the fittest rule as a way of overcoming death. Ren is a particularly impatient person with a short temper and is not afraid to hurt the source of the anger.

He tries hard to maintain a tough and confident exterior, but deep down would risk his own life for his allies.

Ren is serious, logical, and quite aloof. In his adult years, he commonly wears a black suit with a purple shirt and a yellow necktie. In the seven years that passed, he reluctantly grew tall and his long hair was braided into a three-pronged Tongari. Even though he brought it with him from before the start of the Shaman Fight, he never wore it during the fights in America because they were all so sudden, that he never had the chance to change. The vest also has an opening in the back outlining his Tao tattoo. Both the pants and the vest are black and both have a triangular pattern with a yellow lining, and the pants are tied with a white silk belt. When he left for America, he also brought with him a new battle uniform, that is inspired by kung fu cloth. While traveling to America, Ren began wearing long pants and a yellow scarf and as his old jacket was worn out, his mother gave him a new similar one. Like Yoh, Ren wears his school clothes as a casual outfit during the Second Rounds of the Shaman Fights. His casual clothes were his school uniform a pair of short black pants, a tucked in, white dress shirt, a yellow school jacket, dark green tie and a pair of brown leather shoes. However, in the manga colored pages series, they are usually gold, brown, or the same color as his hair color. Ren's eye color is golden yellow in the 2001 anime series. He has a relatively thin yet muscular build with visible abs. Tao Ren was shorter than Yoh and most of his friends but he seems to look taller when the spike of his purple hair (a hairstyle called "Tongari") is added up.
