Tao Ren

Tao Ren is a male anime and manga character who features in Shaman King.

Biography

Tao Ren in Shaman King v1 #9.

Tao Ren (Japanese: 道蓮タオ レン, Tao Ren, Chinese pinyin: Dào Lián) was born on January 1, 1986 and was the main heir to the Tao Family. Hailing from Guizhou, China, he was the 43rd heir to the Tao Family and had an older sister named Tao Jun. His family were an ancient shamanic clan whose history spanned 2000 years where they had guided and assisted the people of China. However, they came to be ostracized for their abilities and hunted down which forcing them to retreat to the outskirts of the country. Their clan faced a resurgence under Tao Yúan (道円タオ エン Tao En) who married Tao Ran (道蘭タオ ラン Tao Ran) where they had two children namely Tao Jun and Tao Ren both of whom had the ability to see spirits and control their Furyoku. Tao Yúan came to see his children as tools to regain his clan's lost honor and made his son undergo unusually harsh training in order for him to become the world's next Shaman King which he believed would help restore the Tao Family. As a shaman from China, he came to Japan to fight in the Shaman Tournament where his entry into it was determined by fighting an officiant of the Patch Tribe. During the Shaman Tournaments qualifications rounds Ren was tested by the Patch Chrom (クロム Kuromu) in Tokyo where Ren had to defeat his foe to acquire his Oracle Bell. In their fight, Tao Ren came to outfight his foe with Chrom being impressed at his opponent who had easily learned how to use an oversoul and place a hit on the Patch Tribesmen. This saw Chrom declaring Ren to be the victor but the young shaman was not satisfied so he furiously attacked Chrom thus dealing a fatal blow on the Patch Tribe officiant and killing him in the process. Tao Ren said that did not need anyone's approval and that no one could doubt his abilities now. He left the scene laughing at what he had accomplished and how ruthlessly he had killed his opponent.

In the aftermath, he came to take an interest in a young Japanese shaman named Yoh Asakura who was also a contender to be Shaman King. This saw him attempting to steal Yoh's guardian ghost who was the swordsmen Amidamaru. He would face Yoh soon and defeated him once but Yoh got right back up and used 100% of his ghost's power defeating Ren. When Yoh was about to be attacked by Faust's skeleton giant, Ren interfered, not wanting his next opponent to be killed, and to show off his oversoul. At that time he revealed that he had already won and lost one fight meaning that he would have to win against Yoh to proceed in the tournament. He and Yoh met up again and was ready to fight. Ren went straight in striking Yoh but he dodged. Ren commented that Yoh's new oversoul was pretty good. Ren powered up his oversoul and went in for an attack. Ren started to wear down Yoh's oversoul but eventually Yoh came back and destroyed Ren's oversoul. Ren grew increasing furious that nothing he tried worked. Yoh said that the attacks were landing but it really didn't matter. Ren used his full power and placed the spirit of Bason's horse inside his personal horse and put all of his spiritual power into Bason completely materializing his entire upper body. Yoh did the same with Amidimaru and they both clashed. When the battle ended they both ran out of power at the same time. Silva came in and announced that both of them have passed to the second round.

As he gains the friendship of Yoh and the others, he realizes that everything he once believed about the world was not true. He learned to trust others and that humans weren't as awful as he thought they were because Yoh and the others showed him that some people truly are kind. A new will to change himself took over. He wanted to let go of his hatred so he could be able to move on with his life, so he returned to China to defeat his father. There he and Bason was met with an army of zombie warriors from corpses freshly killed by Yúan. Ren quickly smashes through all the zombies with little problem then his father appears. His father welcomes him home with blast of furyoku. Yúan says that he did expect both his children to revolt against him. Two zombies bring Tao Jun and what is left of Pai-Long. Yúan then captures Ren and throws him in the Tao dungeon to be torture for ten days. Jun laments her misery but Ren uses the line Yoh uses constantly; "It will work out" to calm Jun. Yoh finally arrives at the dungeon area and frees Ren. Ren tells Yoh to go home but Yoh stays. Ren tells the reason why he must do this in the fact that he came to defeat the evil inside himself. The two zombies that control the torture area come and they both kill the zombies. They head back upstairs and find Yúan's final bodyguard about to kill Horhoro and Ryu. The zombie goes behind the two and hits them with Pai-Long's moves. Manta guesses correctly that the final zombie is Pai-Long's master. The zombie reveals its face and Ren says that Yúan probably placed the master's ghost into a freshly dead body. The zombie gets behind Yoh but Pai-Long stops it. Jun and Pai-Long take it down by cutting it half. The gang moves on and encounters Yúan himself. Ryu and Horohoro cut off Yúan's arms but they grow back and they are slammed down. Ren attacks Yúan but only dismembers him and Yuan still lives. Yúan attacks Ren and Yoh takes the blow. Pai-Long kicks Yúan in the head but Pai-Long is thrown into a wall. Ren starts listening to his father for a bit but knows that he is only doing this because he is weak. The gang gets up and face Yúan. Yúan is surprised that they would do this for Ren and he loses his temper. Yúan attacks but he goes right through Ren revealing that the father they knew was a oversoul. Yúan reveals his armor of memorial tablets and forms a dragon. Ren oversouls and defeats Yúan. This finally allows Ren to move on from his hatred and try to do something good for a change. Ren's mother and grandfather appear and manage to stop Yúan from taking it farther. They invite the gang to dinner and they are happy to go. Ren tells his family he must leave and he can not stay longer due to the shaman fight. They leave and Ren gains the Bo-lei sword from his father. His father tells him to be safe and Ren promises to be by the boundless lands of China. Ren is next seen at the gathering of the shaman at the military base. He is eating food that it is provided by the Patch. The gang takes a break and meet Hao. The spirit of fire attack Horohoro and Ren catches him. He in turn attacks Hao but is stopped by he spirit of fire. Ren boards the plane and when it disappears Ren explains that the test is not about how well the shamans fly but if they can stay calm under pressure. The gang power up their oversouls and hit the ground.

Ren, Yoh, Ryu, and Horohoro landed on Route 66 safe where Ryu summoned Billy to go to the nearest town. Ren, Yoh, Ryu, and Horohoro ran into Lilirara and witnessed the Patch Hao's past. He encountered Lyserg the next day. Lyserg then gives a full introduction about himself and asks to join the group, to which Yoh suddenly politely greets him to the shock of the Horohoro and Tao Ren. After a brief debate about him by Horohoro and Ren, Ryu shockingly notes that horohoro addresses Lyserg with "he" and asks if Lyserg is a guy to which Lyserg pulls down his pants which in turn freaks out all of them. Lyserg then goes on to explain his dowsing abilities and reveal his spirit Morphine. After a schuffle between Lyserg and Horohoro, Horohoro prepares his snowboard for an attack against Lyserg, to which he shows off his oversoul and strikes Horohoro, who barely dodges. Suddenly appearing in front of Lyserg, Horohoro reveals his own Over Soul, but suddenly the Pendulum Over Soul appears next to him and suddenly the pendulum tip is right at his face. Ren prepares to cut the wire with his own fully charged Over Soul, but Lyserg easily incapacitates both Ren and Horohoro by cutting them with the wire and crushing their mediums. The gang later encountered Boris and Ryu defeated him. The gang entered the Patch village. Ren entered the Patch village with a power increase but unlike other people he actually stared straight into the Great Spirit with out fainting. Chocolove encountered the group and explained the team stipulation to Ren. Ren quickly put his team together of himself, Chocolove McDonell, and Horohoro. He named his team "the Ren" without saying anything to his team. They were paired against Hao's Earth team. Chocolove handled most of the battle. When Chocolove ran out of power Ren took over defeating the Earth team in one blow. Hao talked to Ren after Yoh's match and destroyed Ren's kwan dao. Ren did not like the idea of being trained by Asakura Yoh's father, so he fought him but was knocked out and, in the process, he revealed his new Bao-Lei sword Over Soul. Hao's followers attacked, and Chocolove and Horohoro held them off for some time. Ren decided to go in and fight. He did that and was winning when Peyote Diaz, wanting revenge from earlier, pulled out the calevera Phantasma, impaling Ren with the small knife it carried. Chocolove and Horohoro quickly rushed in and sealed the massive wound on Ren. Yoh arrived and defeated Hao's followers. Yoh had made a deal with Iron Maiden Jeanne to revive Ren in exchange for Yoh having to drop out of the tournament. Tamao arrived and after preparing a ceremony, had her spirit Shamash kiss Ren, bringing him back to life, though he was utterly disgusted with it.

Ren and the group enter the volcano plant and face off against Magna. Magnascope attacks and they both oversoul. Magna crushes Jeanne's Iron Maiden but nothing was inside. Ren oversouls and strikes Magna with the full force of his lightning based attacks. Magna, however, uses the Patch Song and readies himself to kill. A long clash then stars where both fightsers would constantly dodge or block the others attack. Suddenly a large amount of smoke blows up in between them something Magna uses to suddenly disappear and hide from Ren. There he explains the abilities of his guardian ghost, Magnescope, and how he strikes unseen and unheard in a similar way. Suddenly appearing to strike Ren, Ren disappears before he can make a clean hit. Ren reappears in the blink of and eye behind Magna and explains how he had become fast a lighting. Suddenly Magna realizes that he needs to warn Nichrome about this but is killed with a massive lighting bolt attack Ren calls "ElecBang, allowing Yoh and company to move on to the next plant. When the group reached the 7th Plant of the Cave, Nichrom quickly revealed his medium and spirit and Over Souled Yellow Whip. He the proceeded to attack Ren with the scorpion tail whip, only to have the tail wrap itself the arm of Bason in his Full Body O.S. Ren then uses the Over Soul to slam Nichrom to the ground and punch him with the massive Over Soul. Ren then used 100 %Hyoi Gattai, to the surprise and shock of Nichrom, to rapidly attack Nichrom with the Vorpal Dance(Zhong Hua Zhan Wu) leaving him a bloody mess and his patch cloak tattered Walking over to him, Ren pulled the angered Nichrom by his long ponytail. Ren then kicked Nichrom in the chin and away from him. Nichrom still wanting to fight slowly rose up and thinkin that Ren was now open for an attack, he, in a state of insanity, tried to attack Ren yet again, to which Ren easily grabbed the scorpion tail by the brod himself. Ren then tells Nichrom to go against him with everything he got or he would die. Taking in Ren's words Nichrom throws away his tattered cloak and reveals a new Over Soul on his legs, made with the spirit of his deceased brothers Guardian Ghost, Purple Kick saying that he is a coward for still carrying the precious guardian ghost of his dead brother. Nichrom thanks Ren for his words and reveal that with this new Over Soul he gains an incredible speed and is able to appear behind Ren and then kick him into a wall. Using the speed, Nichrom charges towards Ren and grabs him with the claw of his Yellow Whip Over Soul while punching him in the gut with the brod of his scorpion tail. Nichrom reveals to Ren that his body is now dying of a poison that will not disappear as long as he is still alive. Seeing that Nichrom is now going all out, Ren prepares his own Armour Over Soul and both of them have one final clash. The result of the fight is not seen, but as Ren is later seen being patched up by Asakura Yoh using the ghost of Faust VIII, it would seem that Ren was the winner. The group then proceeds on to the 8th plant of the Ocean, where Thalim of the Ten Patch Officiants are awaiting them. Thalim greets them politely remembering the tip Yoh gave earlier at the Patch Cafe and they seemingly have a friendly conversation. Ren is however unfaced by all of this and quickly oversouls his Armour Over Soul and attacks Thalim with "ElecBang" only to have it blocked by a gigantic tree that suddenly grows up around Thalim. Thalim then reveals that Ren's lightning is largely ineffective against him as the tree would just disperse the electricity into the ground. After Horohoro also fails against Thalim plants, bot Ren and Horohoro is tied up by Thalim's Clematic Over Soul. As the group finally arrives at the 10th and final "Plant of the Universe" they realize that there is no oxygen and no gravity and begin to wonder how they are supposed to fight in there. At first Lyserg suggest that they all protect themself with their own personal O.S. but Ryu suddenly interrtups and suggest that they all use the heads of his O.S. Yamato No Orochi so that the rest can fight at full strength. As Ren questions the responsibility he would suddenly have he says that he wants to be useful too as the seven is currently his best place.

Ren was given the Spirit of Thunder and became one of the Five Elemental Warriors. After the tournament, Ren studied at Tsinghua University and after graduating, Ren, together with Bill Burton and Hang Zang-Ching, formed the Leidi Group, beginning as a large electronics manufacturing company. The company would eventually expand into a conglomerate with Ren as the CEO. He met Iron Maiden Jeanne while she was traveling Europe, eventually marrying her and together they had a son, Tao Men. After she gave birth to Men, she went on maternity leave and left Ren as the leader of X-Charity (X慈善団体). When Ryunosuke Umemiya and Hana Asakura ventured out to gather the Five Elemental Warriors, they found Ren living in the Funbari Mountains of China. When Horohoro, Joco (Chocolove), and Lyserg arrive for their reunion with Yoh and Anna, they all suddenly notice the appearance of a horse driven carriage. Horohoro comments that it was so typical of Ren to be so stubborn that he would refuse to use a car. At first his small son came out, and seeing the resemblance, Usui Horokeu, Lyserg Diethel and Joco thought that the little boy was Ren, until Ren came out of the carriage himself and picked up his son. As his boy stepped out, Ren complained about the fact Tokyo was always messy and that no matter where you went there where always crowds and traffic jams, oblivious to the fact that he had caused the crowd and traffic jam by arriving in a carriage. As he steps out he is seen wearing a tux and has longer hair set in the same fashion as his sister Jun. Ren announces that the boy is his son, Tao Men, and doesn't understand why they are all shocked. Later while waiting for Yoh and Anna, Horohoro asks Ren who the mother of the child is, only for Ren to refuse to answer. Lyserg however tells that he has already deduced who it was. He points the child's silver hair, and red eyes, hinting the Iron Maiden. And his name's pattern is the same with Hana (Yoh and Anna). When Ryu later arrives and tells that Yoh and Anna was delayed Ren stood up angry and shouted resulting in all three of his spikes of hair to grow.

Overview

Personality and attributes

In appearance, Tao Ren was a male human who was the same height as Yoh and most of his friends, at 5' 7", but he seems to look taller when the length of the spike in his hair is added up. This spike is a part of his hairstyle called tongari. He was relatively thin, and his spiked hair is a shade of dark purple. Ren's eyes are golden in the anime, but in the manga's colored pages, they usually appear golden, brown or the same color as his hair. His street clothes are his school uniform; a pair of black shorts, a tucked-in, white dress shirt, a yellow jacket, a dark green tie and a pair of brown shoes. When he was to travel to America, his old jacket was worn-out, so his mother gave him a similar one. When traveling through the country he wears a black coat, a yellow scarf, long pants and brown leather shoes. When he left to America, he also brought with him a new battle uniform, that is inspired by Kung Fu cloth. It consists of black pants, with an open triangular pattern along both sides and yellow lining, that are tied with a thin white scarf. He also wears a black vest tied together in a triangular pattern that also has yellow lining with a midsection revealing his midriff. The vest also has an opening in the back outlining his Tao tattoo. Even though he brought it with him from before the start of the Shaman Fight, the reason why he never wore it during the fights in America was because they were all so sudden, that he never had the chance to change. In the anime he wears a similar battle uniform during the second round of the Shaman Fight, only difference being that he wore a red vest, and simple black pants. Although of this, he is still seen a couple of times wearing this suit in the manga series as a casual outfit during the Second Rounds of the Shaman Fights. When he was 21 years old, he maintained the same hairstyle but it had grown longer, with two bangs in the front over the chest and the rest tied together in the back just like sister Jun has hers. He now wears a traditional Chinese Formal Han Chinese Cloth (漢服Hanfu) Robes, similar to his father. His clothes consist of a robe and a hanfu skirt tied together with a sash around his waist. He also wears some sort of black silk cape over his shoulders.

His family had taught him that spirits were simply tools and that one should not befriend them as they could take advantage of their shaman. As such, he used to show no respect to his guardian ghost Bason who he treated simply as a weapon that he commanded into action.

He was serious, logical, and emotionally aloof. He has become like this because of how he was raised. Because of his father Tao Yúan (Tao En), Ren had adapted a deep hatred towards humanity and a strong yearning to eliminate them all. He also believed that his spirit companion, Bason, was only meant to be used as a tool and to treat him as a friend would only result in the spirit taking advantage over him. Ren's anger and hatred came from his father (or uncle in the English anime). Forced to train and study at a very young age, Ren had his childhood stolen from him. He hated Tao En for all of his suffering. Ren tried hard to maintain a tough and confident exterior and is aloof, but deep down would risk his life for his allies. Ren is a particularly impatient person with a very short temper, and isn't afraid to hurt the source of the anger. Ren was an egotistical person and usually doesn't care that people think that he's overly proud. He even named his own team, Team "The Ren", much to the annoyance of his teammate, Horohoro. His overflowing self-confidence annoys some of the other characters.

In addition, Ren is also very intuitive, quick-witted, and sometimes stubborn. Yoh came to comment that Ren was as stubborn if not more so than his own father. He is also very defiant. He rarely listens to what anyone says or takes their instructions. Before and during the process in which he befriended Asakura Yoh, he even was bold enough to disobey his father on various occasions. As the Shaman Fight progresses, Ren begins to trust others more. Out of all his friends, his bonds with Yoh and Horohoro seem to be the strongest. Ren often fights with Horohoro and the two do not seem to get along at all. However, after Ren is fatally stabbed by Peyote Diaz, it becomes apparent that they really do care for one another. As Faust VIII worked to try to save Ren's life after the incident, Horohoro did his best to protect the dying Ren.

After his defeat by Asakura, Ren came to experience a gradual change in his persona. This saw him becoming more compassionate though on the surface he would not show such feelings. He also came to regret his past and the more ruthless acts he had done as a shaman. Among these in particular was the murder of the Patch Tribesman Chrom which became apparent when he met the man's younger brother.

Ren was a member of the prestigious Tao Family(朝倉道, Dào-shi) who were an ancient Chinese family known for their shaman capabilities. As history went on, they become ostracized for their abilities and hunted down. As a result, the Tao family became bitter and lost their belief in the kindness of humanity. He was the son of Tao Yúan (道円タオ エン Tao En) and Tao Ran (道蘭タオ ラン Tao Ran) that were responsible for revitalising the family. He had an older sister named Tao Jun (道 潤タオ ジュン Dào Jun, Chinese pinyin: Dào Rùn) who came to be trained as a Dao-Shi. Ren and his sister Jun were raised with these beliefs in mind. Ren was named as being the current heir to the family. He cared a lot about her which was evident when he tried to save her from their father's wrath upon his return to China. Ren and Jun are utterly dominated by their father until they are both changed by Yoh's views of the world. They rebel and with the help of Yoh and his friends defeat Tao En. En consults the Tao ancestors and sees that it is time for a change in attitude; he entrusts the family's heirloom, a sword called Houraiken (Jewelled Thunder, known as the Sword of Thunder in the English Anime), as well as the hopes for the future of the Tao family to Ren.

His grandfather was Tao Ching (道珍タオ チン Tao Chin, Chinese pinyin: Dào Ching) who was the oldest living member of the family.

He later came to marry the Iron Maiden Jeanne who came to be known as Tao Jeanne, the Iron Maiden (道アイアン・メイデン・ジャンヌ Dao Aian Meiden Jannu). The couple later came to have a son together who was named Tao Men (道タオ黽メン Tao Men, Chinese pinyin: Dào Mǐn). His son was shown to greatly resemble his younger self, though he has styled his hair similar to Jun's.

By adulthood, he seemed to have a pet Panda just like his father once had.

Powers and abilities

As a normal human being, Ren had a very strong body that was achieved through tough and constant physical training. He also came to be skilled in martial arts and sword fighting. Tao Ren was a human born with the ability to see spirits and the power to control Furyoku. As a human Ren has a very strong body as evidence by his tough and constant training. 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 Mikihisa Asakura's techniques simply by experiencing them firsthand, and also learning to use Oversoul by just seeing Chrome use his. It is mentioned that Ren is skilled in more than one area of combat. He is a powerful shaman capable of doing things most shamans his age would not be able to. He is one of only a handful of shamans that can actually stare straight into the heart of the Great Spirit without fainting. It was noted that he had a Furyoku level of about 100,001

Among the weapons that he used as part of his arsenal included:

• Basontou : a guandao that Bason used to wield and had been passed down in the Tao Family for generations. Ren used it for both his Hyōi-Gattai and later as a medium for his first Over Soul.
• Bâo-Lèi Sword : a silver sword and the most treasured heirloom of the Tao Family. It was given to Ren by his father. After Asakura Hao incinerated his guandao, Ren switched to the Bâo-Lèi Sword.

The ultimate control over his Furyoku was through the manifestation of an Over Soul (オーバーソウル Ōbā Souru) (O.S.). This involved fashioning the spirit into a metaphysical construct.

As a shaman, his guardian ghost was Bason (馬孫バソン , Chinese pinyin: Mǎsūn) who had been Chinese military general and a fierce warrior from the era of Kublai Khan. The spirit had always served the Tao family even in death. Like Amidamaru, he was a supremely powerful spirit, capable of destroying an army with ease. His skills were on par with those of Amidamaru. In terms of personality, he wa rather submissive but extremely loyal to Ren, and rarely overstepped his boundaries unless Ren was in grave danger.

Among the techniques known to him included:

• 100% Hyōi-Gattai (100% 憑依合体, 100% Spirit Fusion) :
• Chūka Zanmai (中華斬舞, Chinese Slash Dance) :
• Chūka Zanmai (中華斬舞, Chinese Slash Dance) :
• Golden Chūka Zanmai (ゴールデン中華斬舞, Golden Chinese Slash Dance) :
• Golden Punch (ゴールデンパンチ, Gōruden Panchi) :

He came to use the Bâo-Lèi Sword as a medium for his Over Soul which increased the strength of Bason several times and evolved him into a Seirei Class spirit.

In the beginning of the series, Ren fights with a kwan dao, a Chinese spear-like weapon. However, as he begins to face more powerful enemies, he switches to the Hou Rai Ken (Bâo-Lèi), the Tao's family most treasured heirloom sword. Although another reason, for changing his medium, could be that Hao burned his Kwan dao to a crisp and he was unable to gain another at the time. With this sword, he creates a variety of over souls, such as the Super Bushin Bushin. Hou Rai Ken has the special ability of purifying and refining the spirit being integrated into it, making the spirit recall all of its past techniques from when it was still alive. This, in turn, increases the strength of Bason several times making him the ultimate fighting machine, and evolving him into a seirei-class spirit, as explained by Ren himself in Volume 17 when he was battling Mikihisa Asakura.

Ren's most powerful attack is called the Vorpal Dance, or Zhong Hua Zhan Wu, in the English manga. The attack is later called the "Golden Vorpal Dance". The attack is called the Rapid Tempo Assault in the English anime. In the Japanese anime, it's called Chuuka Zanmai (Chinese Slash Dance) and later on, Golden Chuuka Zanmai. In the manga, this attack results in the spike of Ren's hair growing outrageously long. In the manga, he is also capable of releasing a strong Armor Oversoul called Bushin Yuchi, roughly translated into Bushin Fish Fin, and can convert his furyoku into powerful lightning bolts, in an attack known as Rasiou.

After becoming one of the Five Elemental Warriors, Ren came to gain the power of the Spirit of Thunder (スピリット・オブ・サンダー, "Supiritto Obu Sandā"). The spirit was one of the Five Grand Elemental Spirits (五大精霊 Godaiseirei) that had been created by the Great Spirit. Its use came to be reflected in Ren's use of the Hou Rai Ken (Jewel Thunder) sword with Pascal Avaf claiming that the Spirit of Thunder followed the way of taoism. Among the techniques he gained with this spirit included:

• Jiu Long Bao Lei (九龍爆雷, Nine Dragon Exploding Thunder) :
• Magnetic Field (磁場マグネティックフィールド, "Magunetikku Fīrudo") :

He was a member of the Tao Family (道タオ家 Tao-ke, Chinese pinyin: Dàojiā) that were an ancient Chinese family known for their shamanic capabilities. By adulthood, he came to be a successful businessman after studying at Tsinghua University and formed an electronics manufacturing company called the Raitei Group (雷帝グループ).

By adulthood, he was seen living in the mountains, near a hot spring.

Notes

• Tao Ren was created by Hiroyuki Takei where he featured in the setting of the Shaman King universe.
• Ren's name in Japanese means "benevolent", "tough", and "edge of a knife", all of which are reflected in his character. His actual Chinese name, Lián, means "lotus" and is actually a girl's name.
• Ren has an obsession with milk and the number 3.
• A running gag in the series is that Ren's tongari grows longer whenever he gets irritated or shocked.
• It is mentioned in the interview part in the official Shaman King character book, that he would like a girl if she is smaller than him and not very annoying, resulting that he married Iron Maiden Jeanne, and had a son.
• Ren's name sometimes was seen in Western order, Ren Tao, in artwork in the Shaman King manga.

In other media

Television

• In Shaman King, Tao Ren appeared in the setting of the 2001 anime television series adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actress Romi Park and English actor Andrew Rannells in the dub. In the 4Kidsdub he was given a British accent and his name was change to Tao Len.
• In Shaman King, Tao Ren appeared in the setting of the 2021 anime television series adaptation where he was voiced by Japanese actress Romi Park and English actress Laura Stahl in the dub.

Appearances

• Shaman King:

External Links

• Shaman King Wiki Entry
• Comicvine Entry

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