Aichi Sendou



Aichi Sendou is the main protagonist of [http://cardfight.wikia.com/wiki/Cardfight%21%21_Vanguard_Anime Cardfight!! Vanguard]. He is a somewhat shy and timid young man who wishes to be a Vanguard Fighter, but has never had the chance to have a real battle until his second encounter with Kai Toshiki. His first defeat was against the Oracle Think Tank user Misaki Tokura. When starting to play Vanguard, he believes more in himself, becoming a powerful Vanguard Fighter. {| class="toc" id="toc"

Contents
[hide]*1 Name
 * 1.1 History
 * 2 Added by Aichi SendoSeason 1
 * 2.1 Biography
 * 2.2 Personality
 * 3 Season 2
 * 4 Deck
 * 4.1 Season 1
 * 4.2 Season 2
 * 5 Battles
 * 6 Gallery
 * 7 Comments
 * }

NameEdit
According to KeroKero Ace September 2011, Aichi's surname is written with the kanji for vanguard (先導), the forward element in a military formation (and, of course, a reference to the title of the franchise). His forename primarily refers to the Aichi prefecture of Chubu, Japan. This follows a general trend in Vanguard of using historical names for characters. "Aichi" as a name originates from the third volume of the Man'yōshū, Japan's oldest collection of poetry, where it was referred to as Ayuchi, the Ayuchi-gata tidal flats.

HistoryEdit
Not much information about Aichi's past has been revealed in the series so far, except that he met Kai Toshiki when he was younger and at that time he was always bullied by others. During the fateful encounter with Kai, who was still a friendly teenager, he gave him the card Blaster Blade, telling him to imagine himself big and strong, like the royal knight depicted on the card. Aichi couldn't picture himself any stronger at that moment, but the card gave him courage. He constructed a deck in the hopes of finding Kai and having a cardfight with him, but shortly after their encounter, Kai had apparently moved away. Aichi also lacks a father figure, for whatever reason, but lives with his mother and little sister, Emi. It is shown that Aichi isn't interested in school and his sister always woke him up, though this behavior disappears after he starts playing Cardfight!! Vanguard.

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Added by Aichi SendoSeason 1]]Edit

BiographyEdit
Aichi is a student in Hitsue Middle School. He is introduced as a self-contained boy with low self-esteem, as seen when he is asked by his teacher to base an opinion, to which he gives an answer that makes him seem cowardly in appearance to the other students. When starting to play Vanguard, he gains a lot of friends like Morikawa, Miwa and Izaki, and later his teamates that becomes his best friends - Kai Toshiki, Misaki Tokura and Kamui Katsuragi.

When Q4 begins to play in the Regionals, he becomes friend with members of teams like Handsome, and when they forward to Nationals, he become friend with members of Team Caesar. Maybe Aichi is weak, but he is respected by other Fighters, like the members of Team Jurassic Army.

PersonalityEdit
At first, he is a shy, taciturn and timid boy who doesn't stand out. He is always kind and nice to everyone. Later in the series, he appears to be more confident in himself and it resulted a boost on his Cardfight skills. Added by Aichi SendoAfter the Training Summer Camp, Aichi gains PSY Qualia, which manifests as him having a vision of that fight's result while his eyes glow. Like Ren, using this power normally gives Aichi strong headaches, and occasional fainting. Kai became worried that Aichi might be consumed by this power like Ren did. Aichi's power soon overcomes him as Kai predicted, and starts to turn like Ren Suzugamori. Ultra Rare identified this power as "PSY Qualia". Ren gave him a Shadow Paladin deck, which appears to fuel his PSY Qualia, and changed the color of the lights during his Rides and Calls from blue to dark blue combined with black.

Later in the series, after Team Q4 calify trough the Preliminaries of they're second National Championship, Kai fights Aichi. When the fight is almost over, Aichi has a vision of Blaster Blade that tells him that he has a big strenght that he almost had, and he doesn't need a perfect constructed deck to win. After recognizing Blaster Blade as his only and true Avatar, Aichi stops using his PSY Qualia, although his cards answered his call during his fight with Kenji Mitsusada. However, Ren noted that Aichi won without Psy Qualia, as did Kai.

Later, Aichi goes to Foo Fighters' headquarters with Ultra-Rare to watch the fight between Kai and Ren, with the former losing. Ren noted that he received Phantom Blaster Overlord from Suiko in the process. After the battle, Aichi tries to comfort Kai, but Kai tells Aichi to get away from and storms off. Suiko then manifests to spheres of energy, one of darkness and the other of light, and says that Ren chose the path of darkness and now Aichi must choose his path, and presumably a new card.

After the battle between Kai and Ren, Aichi and Q4 (minus Kai) return to the statium for the finals of the National Tournament to fight Team Foo Fighter AL4. Aichi remains on the sidelines while Kamui fights Tetsu and Misaki fights Asaka. After these battles Aichi takes the field to battle Ren in the final match of the tournament. Throughout the match Ren tempts Aichi to use his Psyqualia ability but Aichi constantly refuses while Ren constantly uses Psyqualia to cause Aichi to feel the pain of each of Ren's attacks. Aichi succumbs to the temptation after he calls Blaster Dark to his Rear Guard. Using Psyqualia's power, he then begins to unleash his full power on Ren, causing Ren to feel the attack from Aichi's units just as Ren had done to Aichi previously. From the stands Kai shouts to Aichi to not fall back into Psyqualia's grasp and brings Aichi back again from the brink. After Ren Crossrides Phantom Blaster Overlord Aichi is backed into a corner when his guard is broken and Phantom Blaster Overlord's attack hits. After checking a Heal Trigger Aichi proceeds to ride Majesty Lord Blaster and defeat Ren using Majesty's skill as well as removing the power of Psyqualia from Ren. After the match Aichi and Team Q4 are crowned the National Champions. A few days after the tournament Aichi runs to Card Capital to see his friends while saying that he can no longer use Psyqualia. As he enters Card Capital all his friends are there waiting for him, including Kai who has been waiting to battle him. Aichi then proceeds to start a battle with Kai.

Season 2Edit
During season 2, he uses a Gold Paladin deck. Aichi will be taking part in Asia Circuit and will travel around Asia to fight different fighters, along with the rest of Team Q4.

In episode 66, he fought Takuto Tatsunagi, who has a Gold Paladin deck. After the fight, he realizes his deck consisted of Gold Paladin units instead of Royal Paladin. In the second episode, he will learn about the new Limit Break ability.

In episode 68, Aichi takes on Kamui and battles with his Gold Paladin deck and utilizes the Limit Break for the first time.

Episode 69 has Aichi going along with Kamui and Misaki to PSY where he witnesses Misaki fighting Rekka in which Misaki loses. Afterwards Aichi, Misaki and Kamui gain more drive to succed in the Circut.

Once Aichi and Q4 land in Singapore in they meet up with Kenji Mitsusada and Team Caesar by chance and then meet with a boy named Chris Falo and his teammates: Lee Shenlon and Pajeel Ali. After parting ways with Team Caeser and the young boys Aichi sees Takuto in a car driving away and proceedes to give chase. After being denied and audience with Takuto he walks through town until Kourin finds him and proceeds to give him his new trump card, Incandescent Lion, Blond Ezel. He then returns to the hotel Q4 is staying at and proceeds to modify his deck. The next day the Circut begins with Q4 going up against Team Shinobi with Aichi going up against Jack. During his match Kamui beats his opponent while Misaki loses to hers. Aichi is backed into a corner by Jack and his Murakumo deck until he rides Incandescent Lion, Blond Ezel. With Ezel and the help of his Gold Paladin's Aichi is able to overcome Jack's Murakumo and enable Q4 to advance to the next round of the Circut.

Season 1Edit
At the beginning of the series, Aichi is revealed to possess a Royal Paladin deck, based mostly on human knights and their dog companions. It is revealed that this deck is not quite strong, as it lacks Grade 3 Units, and it is rather all over the place. Aichi comes to rely on a combination of Blaster Blade and Wingal to pull through his first few fights, but Tokura Misaki stops his winning streak. Aichi manages to upgrade his deck with the introduction of the Grade 3 Unit, Solitary Knight Gancelot, which he tries to use unsuccessfully to defeat Katsuragi Kamui and Kourin. Finally, he receives King Of Knights, Alfred from Suiko, which, especially when combined with Barkgal, becomes his major ace for a large part of the series, and leads him to the semi-finals of the shop tournament. In preparation for the regionals Aichi upgrades his deck with units from the new booster pack, namely Knight Of Truth, Gordon, Gigantic Charger and more importantly Soul Savior Dragon. He uses this Units masterfully despite not having tested them, an early hint that he possesses some sort of supernatural power when Soul Savior Dragon answers his need during the regional finals against Gouki. Blaster Blade still remains a prominent Unit in his deck, even though he begins focusing on Soul Savior Dragon. After Q4's defeat at the nationals, Aichi goes to a training camp with Team Ceasar, where he fights against Yuri Usui. He is completely defeated, and Yuri advises him to restructure his deck. With a little help from the manager, and the spirits of the Royal Paladin cards, he creates a powerful deck based around Soul Savior Dragon, Hi-Dog Breeder Akane and Pongal. However, at the same time, the PSY Qualia begin advancing, and he starts trusting the voice of his cards over his own ability. Therefore, he uses that deck in the next shop and regional tournament, winning all of his matches, even against former AL4 member Kyou Yahagi, with apparent ease. Kai still refuses to acknowledge him, though, since he knows that the power of the PSY Qualia is not Aichi's own power. Seeking more power, Aichi visits the card shop PSY, where he is confronted by Suzugamori Ren. Ren gives him the Shadow Paladin deck, which completely corrupts him and causes him to abandon his Royal Paladins in favor of the new clan. His first match using this deck is against Kourin - he displays a great mastery in using it thanks to the power of the PSY Qualia, and delivers a crippling defeat to Kourin via Phantom Blaster Dragon's Damned Charging Lance. His new ace becomes Blaster Dark, and his Deck is focused on sacrificing his own units for power, more specifically at the hands of Phantom Blaster Dragon. This is totally unlike him, a fact noticed by most characters. Aichi's original Royal Paladin Deck was themed around the color blue, to contrast Kai's mostly red-based units. His Shadow Paladin Deck ranges from dark blue, to dark grey, to black. The color of his PSY Qualia has also shifted to a much darker hue. After he acquired the Shadow Paladin deck, he abandoned his old deck at card shop PSY. Kourin retrieved it, and presumably gave it to Kai later. After the fight between Kai and Aichi, in which Aichi gave up after hearing Blaster Blade's words, he starts to play with his Royal Paladin Deck again. In his final confrontation with Ren, Aichi adjusts his deck so that Blaster Dark is mixed in with his Royal Paladins so that he could use Majesty Lord Blaster's abilities to the fullest.

Season 2Edit
In the Asia Circuit Hen, Aichi is forcefully given a Gold Paladin deck to use instead of his Royal Paladins.

Royal Paladin

Shadow Paladin

Gold Paladin

GalleryEdit
Younger Aichi  Aichi performing his PSY Qualia power. Aichi in Season 2. Aichi versus Kai Toshiki. Aichi planning his next move. Aichi`s two personalities, Light & Dark. Aichi teaching Takuto about Vanguard.