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1 / 2- 1EP 1
Rai discovers a mysterious box while returning home with prize money after winning a card competition.
Apr 29, 2007Rai remembers his mother's birthday and travels to the city to buy a gift. He is challenged by an old rival to a card stacking competition, where he meets the Tigeroid and Tai Chi Chaser, Tori. Tori withdraws, allowing Rai to win by default. While walking home with his prize money, Rai finds a box in an antique store. He rushes home to show it to his mother but encounters his first Dragonoid adversary, Luka. In a strange sequence of events, Rai's house is destroyed and his mother vanishes without explanation. Overcome with hysteria, Rai is knocked unconscious by Tori using the "sleep" character. The Tigeroids then transport Rai back to the Tigeroid Airship.
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Rai meets Tigeroid Elder Komorka and boards the airship
May 6, 2007Rai encounters Komorka, who is identified as one of the three Tigeroid Elders. Following this meeting, Rai boards the Tigeroid Airship. During this sequence, it is revealed that Rai is a Tigeroid. He also meets two Dragonoid characters named Ave and Jahara. The episode focuses on these initial interactions and the disclosure of Rai's heritage within the context of the airship setting.
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Rai faces difficulties adapting to daily existence on the Tigeroid Airship
May 13, 2007The narrative focuses on Rai's personal journey as he attempts to integrate into the unique environment of the Tigeroid Airship. He encounters various challenges while trying to establish a sense of belonging and routine among the crew and surroundings. The story highlights the friction between his previous experiences and the new demands of life at sea. Through these interactions, the episode explores the complexities of social adaptation and the emotional weight of being an outsider in a tightly-knit community. Rai's efforts to navigate these unfamiliar social dynamics form the central conflict, showcasing his resilience and determination to find his place within this distinct setting.
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Rai and Donha search for a tai chi character card
May 20, 2007In this episode, the characters Rai and Donha engage in an effort to locate a specific tai chi character card. The narrative focuses on their joint attempt to find this item, highlighting their interaction as they pursue this goal. The plot centers entirely on this search activity without introducing additional subplots or external conflicts beyond the immediate objective of retrieving the card.
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Rai and Sena discover a spherical space surrounded by a strange aura from a Tai Chi Character.
May 27, 2007The characters Rai and Sena encounter a unique spherical area that is encircled by an unusual aura. This peculiar energy field originates directly from a Tai Chi Character. The discovery highlights a mysterious phenomenon within their environment, drawing their attention to the source of the power. The narrative focuses on their observation of this distinct spatial anomaly and the specific entity responsible for generating the surrounding effects.
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The Tai Chi Chasers engage in combat against the Dragonoid robots
Jun 3, 2007The narrative focuses on the intense confrontation between the Tai Chi Chasers and the Dragonoid robots. This episode highlights the direct battle between these two opposing forces, showcasing the skills and strategies employed by the Tai Chi Chasers as they face off against the mechanical adversaries. The sequence centers entirely on this specific clash, detailing the actions and reactions of the characters involved in this significant encounter without introducing unrelated plot points or external conflicts.
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The Chasers dive underwater to retrieve a tai chi card despite warnings.
Jun 10, 2007The Chasers venture underwater with the objective of retrieving a tai chi card. During this mission, Rai carelessly disobeys Sena's orders. This reckless behavior leads to a direct confrontation between Luka and Rai. The group faces challenges as they navigate the underwater environment to secure the card while dealing with the consequences of ignoring established commands.
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Rai becomes frustrated after losing challenges to Finn and later causes Tori's disappearance.
Jun 17, 2007Frustrated by consistently losing to Finn, Rai believes his rival lacks empathy. During a mission, Rai disregards Finn’s warnings and employs a Tai chi technique, resulting in Tori vanishing. To rescue her, Finn acts as bait, allowing Rai to save Tori from their adversaries. The episode concludes with Rai apologizing to Finn for his actions, though he remains determined to eventually defeat him in future challenges.
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Hannah Returns to the Airship and Demands to Become a Tai Chi Chaser
Jun 24, 2007Sena's younger sister, Hannah, arrives at the Tigeroid airship and insists on joining the Tai Chi Chasers. After her request is denied, she decides to leave the ship independently to find a Tai Chi character on her own.
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Rai quits the team after a conflict with Sena and returns to his hometown.
Jul 1, 2007Sena argues that saving his mother is less important than his duties, causing Rai to angrily quit the team. Riding a flying board, he spots an enemy plotting against the ship but ignores the threat due to his resignation. Seeking his old life, Rai returns to his town and competes in challenges against Keith. Keith then asks if Rai truly moved neighborhoods, prompting a visit to his former home. Rai discovers a new house and family occupy the site, leading him to realize his team is his true family. He rushes to aid his team during an attack, unaware that he is being watched.
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Rai Discovers Sena's Father Is General Aidan During Rescue Mission
Jul 8, 2007The Chasers respond to an urgent distress signal, leading Rai to discover that the captain is Sena's father. Despite Sena's heroic efforts during the mission, General Aidan remains unconvinced that she possesses the necessary qualities to become a Tigeroid leader. This revelation shocks Rai and highlights the doubts surrounding Sena's potential within the leadership structure. The encounter underscores the tension between Sena's actions and her father's expectations, casting a shadow over her aspirations. The episode focuses on this critical interaction and the immediate aftermath of the rescue operation.
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Sena doubts her leadership while Vicious fails his attack on the Tigeroid airship.
Jul 15, 2007Sena loses confidence in her leadership skills. Meanwhile General Vicious launches a full-scale attack on the Tigeroid airship, with the help of his forbidden "Ghost" Tai Chi Character. However, Vicious fails, when Komorka uses a combination of Tai Chi Characters to create a powerful storm. The impact of the ship causes Vicious's Ghost character to wear off, and then he orders the Dragonoids to retreat. Back at the Dragonoid base, Vicious is sent back to Sunn by Emperor Diga, where he is transformed as a punishment, in order to set an example for the other Dragonoids. While Vicious is transformed into something terrible by an unknown Tai Chi Character, Duran looks on in fear, as General Vicious screams in fear and agony.
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Chasers face giant beetles in a Tai Chi forest before new Dragonoid general arrives
Jul 22, 2007The chasers enter a forest transformed by a converging Tai Chi Character, where Ave attacks them with giant beetles under his control. The beetle leader assists Rai and the others after escaping Ave's influence. After Ave is defeated, the beetles return to normal once the Tai Chi card is obtained. Komorka departs to meet two Tigeroid Elders regarding the converging characters, which are suspected to result from Diga's actions in Sunn. She appoints Rai and Sena as leaders of the Tai Chi Chasers until her return. Meanwhile, at the Lukedrake, the Dragonoid team questions Ave about his injuries. Emperor Diga activates a communication portal to send General Mishka to Earth to replace Vicious. The Dragonoids, including Luka, react with shock and fear upon recognizing their new general.
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Mishka tortures Ave with a Tai Chi card while Hak and Duran reunite after leaving their teams.
Jul 29, 2007General Mishka, the ruthless replacement for General Vicious, sarcastically comments on his new team's reaction. When Ave refuses to obey due to his young age and small size, Mishka tortures him with a Tai Chi card that magnifies sound around Ave's ears by 10 times. Mishka taunts Ave, wagging his finger while he screams in agony until Ave gives in. Later, the dragon Duran recalls Mishka calling him a "useless reptile." Feeling useless to the Dragonoids, Duran jumps ship and goes through a lot of city troubles until a girl named Yuri rescues him and calls him "Blackie." Meanwhile, Hak thinks that he doesn't belong with the chasers anymore and feels useless to them, so Hak leaves the team. He ends up in the street like a stray cat. Later, Yuri finds him and takes him home. Yuri says she has another pet "friend" for him, but the friend is Duran. It is later revealed that both Hak and Duran used to be friends before the current Dragonoid-Tigeroid War began. However, they quickly become friends again. Soon afterwards, both the Dragonoids and the Tigeroids figure out that their friend is missing and start to look for them. Jahara leaves the Dragonoid ship to look for Duran. At Yuri's house, both pets fight over trying to get Yuri's attention, thinking if Yuri doesn't like them much, then they will end up on the streets again. The Dragonoid Jahara finds them and tries to kill Hak. However, Duran stalls her and defends Hak until the Chasers could rescue him, while telling Jahara about his friendship with Hak. The Tai Chi Chasers team then shows up, and Finn says that there is a Tai Chi card nearby. However, Yuri has the card, and it is the "like" card. After Rai obtains the card, Yuri runs away from both pets, feeling afraid. Then, both the Dragonoid and Tigeroid teams fight after Yuri leaves, and the Chasers win, which allows both "pets" to go to their rightful home. For failing to kill Hak, General Mishka decides to punish Jahara, since she did not return with the Tai Chi card, but instead returned with the "pathetic creature" (Duran). Mishka coldly attacks Jahara with a powerful Tai Chi blast, which knocks her to the floor in pain. However, this angers Duran, since he believes that Jahara saved his life. Later, Jahara talks to Duran alone, telling him that she likes having him around, even though he is annoying.
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Mishka's Airship Crash and the Sisterly Race for the Tai Chi Character
Aug 5, 2007General Mishka single-handedly destroys a Tigeroid Airship using Tai Chi cards and retrieves the characters from the wreckage. He questions his new team about their inability to defeat the Tai Chi Chasers, dismissing them as a ragtag group. Meanwhile, Hannah informs Sena of an upcoming family reunion, which Tori describes as war rather than a gathering. The Chasers and Sena's sisters compete to find a Tai Chi Character, but the sisters become trapped by Ave. The Chasers rescue them, leading to cooperation between the teams. Consequently, Ave is sent back to Sunn by General Mishka to face punishment for the failure.
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Rai confronts nightmares as dream tai chi threatens to manifest terrifying realities.
Aug 12, 2007A mission activates dream tai chi, trapping townsfolk and Dragonoid troops in their aspirations. Chasers use a bubble to resist, but it bursts, exposing Rai to the dreams of Tori, Sena, and Donha. Rai possesses the bubble-making card yet fails to wake them. Finn remains unaffected, claiming he has no dreams. Hawk warns that dreams will become nightmares, which cards will absorb to make real. A camera appears, causing Rai to lose his card. Finn is the sole unaffected individual until a tiger-masked woman intervenes, snapping Rai from his dream and providing the card necessary to halt the dream tai chi.
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Tai Chi Chasers visit orphanage where Tori's friends mistake him for a superstar during a convergence event.
Aug 19, 2007The Tai Chi Chasers visit the orphanage where Tori grew up, only to discover that his young friends think Tori's a world-renowned superstar. To make matters worse, the "sad" Tai Chi Character converges during Tori's performance, making everybody sad except for Tori, even as Garnia attacks, with his new "slow" Tai Chi card. Because of this, only Tori is able to stop the convergence and retrieve the card. Refusing to give up, Tori manages to stop the convergence and is able to obtain the Tai Chi Character. This causes everybody to stop crying, although they can't remember what they were so upset about. After obtaining the character, Rai's attack sets Garnia's "skirt" on fire, after tossing him over the orphanage boundary, causing Garnia to retreat in a panic. Believing all of this to be part of the performance, Tori's friends cheer him on and ask him to continue his songs, which the Chasers secretly believe need improvement.
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Memory loss strikes Tai Chi Chasers while Ave becomes a monster under Mishka's control
Aug 26, 2007The Tai Chi Chasers encounter a card that erases memories, affecting everyone except Rai and Donha. Meanwhile, Ave returns to the dragonoids under General Mishka’s control, who uses the forbidden Mong "monster" Character to warp him into a powerful monster. Ave demands the Tigeroids' characters from Jahara, but she refuses, citing Mishka’s actions against him. Mishka orders Ave to kill Rai and Jahara. The Tigeroids fail to defeat Ave, and Rai is knocked off the Tigeroid Airship. Rai retrieves the character to stop the convergence, surprising Mishka. Jahara uses the Tai Chi Yeon "smoke" Character to cover their retreat back to base. Mishka punishes Jahara for treason despite Luka’s protests. Before her punishment, Jahara asks Luka to remember her, then cries out in dismay as Mishka applies the punishment character.
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Jahara returns to Sunn while Rai and Luka face dimensional dangers
Sep 2, 2007At the Lukedrake, General Mishka sends Jahara, who fainted from her punishment, back to Sunn to receive her real punishment from Emperor Diga. Meanwhile, while searching for a tai chi card, both Rai and Luka get trapped in another dimension. They must work together to escape the situation, even as Ave attacks them.
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Tai Chi Chasers travel to the past during a battle with Ave
Sep 9, 2007A battle with Ave causes the Time Tai Chi card to converge, sending Donha, Finn, Tori, and Hak to prehistoric times while Rai, Sena, and Ave remain in a more recent past. There, they encounter Rai's parents, Kirva and his mother. Ave attacks Rai and Sena, but Kirva reveals an incomplete painting of a fighting Tiger and Dragon. Using his special Xin Tai Chi card without an activator, Kirva reverses the monstrous Mong character controlling Ave just before it destroys her body. The Time card converges again, returning the group to the present with Rai holding the card. Ave is transformed into a child with no memory of being a Dragonoid. Back at Rai's house, Kirva's painting is now complete, showing the Tai Chi King between the Dragon and Tiger.
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Chasers Deliver Tai Chi Characters to Tigeroid Base Amidst New Enemy Attack
Sep 16, 2007The Chasers transport their Tai Chi characters to the highly classified Tigeroid base, where they interact with their fellow Dragonoids. However, the gathering is abruptly interrupted when the Tigeroids face an assault from a formidable new opposing force known as the Dragon Assault Squad. This unexpected attack disrupts the social interaction and introduces a significant threat to the group's safety at the secret location.
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Tai Chi Chasers secure Suh to stop city convergence while facing attacks from Luka, Garnia, and controlled Jahara.
Sep 23, 2007The Tai Chi Chasers acquire Suh, the final Tai Chi Character held by the Tigeroids, excluding those seized by General Mishka in Episode 15. This acquisition enables them to prevent a convergence event that would have destroyed an entire city. Following this success, the group is tasked with escorting Elder Sid to the Sage's conference. However, their journey is interrupted when they are ambushed by Luka and Garnia. Additionally, Jahara reappears, but she is now under the control of the Mong "hideous" character inflicted upon her by General Mishka. Consequently, Jahara turns hostile and attacks both the Tigeroids and the Dragonoids, complicating the mission to reach the conference safely.
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The Tai Chi Chasers face the Lightening Shield protecting Lukedrake while the Dragon Assult Squad attacks Tigeroids' Airships.
Sep 30, 2007The Tai Chi Chasers are tasked with finding a method to destroy the Lightening Shield that surrounds Lukedrake, which serves as the Dragonoid base on Earth. This mission is complicated by the intense lightening that actively protects the shield generator. Simultaneously, the Dragon Assult Squad initiates an offensive against the Tigeroids' Airships. The narrative focuses on these two concurrent threats, requiring the Chasers to overcome the formidable defensive barriers of the enemy base while the Tigeroids deal with the aerial assault. The source of this information is the Tai-Chi Senjimon Wiki.
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Tigeroids invade Dragonoid base after Mishka steals Tai Chi characters
Oct 7, 2007Tigeroids attack the Dragonoid headquarters and are surprised to find that Mishka has taken all the Tai Chi characters. Consequently, the Chasers, along with Luka, Garnia, Duran, and Sena’s sisters, become trapped as prisoners inside the largest Dragonoid booby trap.
Frequently asked questions
- How many episodes does Taichi Senjimon have?
- Taichi Senjimon has 39 episodes.
- When did Taichi Senjimon come out?
- Taichi Senjimon came out in 2007.
- Which studio made Taichi Senjimon?
- Taichi Senjimon was produced by Toei Animation.
- Who directed Taichi Senjimon?
- Taichi Senjimon was directed by Hiroki Shibata.
- Is Taichi Senjimon finished?
- Current status of Taichi Senjimon: Finished.