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.
History
When he was younger, Aichi was a very shy and lonely boy who was frequenlty bullied at school. 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. He eventually transferred to a different school after his mom got upset over the constant bullying.
Aichi lives with his mother and little sister, Emi. It is shown that Aichi isn't interested in school that much and his sister always woke him up, though this behavior disappears after he starts playing Cardfight!! Vanguard.
Personality
At first, he is a shy, taciturn and timid boy who doesn't stand out, but is always kind and nice to everyone. After he starts playing Vanguard, he starts to come out of his shell and appears more confident in himself, resulting in a boost on his Cardfight skills. During the regional tournament, he doubted his ability when Misaki wouldn't make it in time for most of the tournament, and again when he was paired up to fight Gouki in the finals, but through winning the team's first match, and some encouragement from Kai, he regained his confidence and grew determined to win.
After Aichi gains PSY Qualia, he begins to act very much like Ren Suzugamori; arrogant and obsessed with growing stronger, yet staying eerily polite throughout, which he frequently displayed once Ren gave him a Shadow Paladin deck, which appears to fuel his PSY Qualia. Aichi starts to doubt himself, but quickly get's over it after seeing his friends having fun during a shop tournament at Card Capital.
During Season 2, he displays more of his calm and determined personality while he was fighting with other fighters, even when he was in the brink of losing against Christopher Lo after the latter got PSY Qualia powers. However, he grows increasingly worried when his Royal Paladins were replaced by the Gold Paladins, and despreate for answers as to what happened. This starts to lessen after fighting with the new clan and learning to respect it. After facing fighters like Kourin and Jun, he begins to forge his own path, growing stronger with each fight. He refuses to leave his friends in trouble if he can help them, even when the circumstances dictate that it is a waste of valuable time, as shown when he accepted Christopher's rematch to try and break him out of his Psyqualia-induced madness, even when Cray and Earth were in danger.
In Season 3, it is shown that Aichi, outside of any Cardfight!! Vanguard-related event, is still quite unsure and nervous, but this side of him completely vanishes whenever he plays. He also starts to act more like a leader in the Cardfight Club. Naoki, Rekka, and Kourin have all noted that during their fights with him, he seems like a different person, only looking forward and having his sights set on winning.
Based on his Card Fighting Ability and place in Miyaji, Aichi is highly intelligent and perceptive, though this is mostly hidden by his shyness. His intellgence is seen in his cardfight stratgies and ability to keep his deck evolving, and his perceptiveness allowed him to see Naoki had been reversed even if he didn't know what was actually wrong with his friend.
In Season 4 after waking up under the influence of Link Joker, Aichi is show to have become cold and cruel under it's effects, striking Kourin and Neve with his dark power. He also fought ruthlessly during his cardfight against Kai, showing determination to be sealed away again.At that time,he felt that there was no other way to save Earth and Cray from Link Joker other than to disappear from the world. However, he had a slight change of heart when he realized that everybody was willing to take his burden in order to end his misery of being the host of the Seed. He had also shown more care and concern towards Kourin, during the times when she tried to take more of his agony and when he saved her from the Link Joker miasma.
Appearance
Aichi is a boy with long blue hair with a right hair bang which is his signature style. He is first seen in his Hitsue Middle School uniform which is mostly all gray with white linings along with a red sweater under it. His civillian clothes varies with the change in season particularly wearing a short green jacket with a red sweater under it for cold seasons while sporting a white double sleeved shirt for warm seasons. He is quite particularly short compared to other characters of the same grade.
By the start of the second season, he still wears his middle school uniform but he is mostly seen in his civillian clothes by the time of the VF Circuit which is a white jacket with a red sweater beneath it.
In the start of the third season, he is now a highschool student at Miyaji Academy wearing the basic male uniform which is a black blazer with red linings along with a white formal shirt underneath it and a red necktie. By this time, he has short hair but still maintaining his signature right hair bang and has significantly grown taller. His civillian clothing shown so far is a varying colored jacket of dark purple and white while having a light purple sweater underneath.
In the fourth season, not much is seen. The only thing seen is a general coat schemed with red & black. After finally appearing he is shown to have shorter hair, dull eyes and he may have possibly grown slightly taller. He also has a cold and cruel look on his face due to Link Joker's effects, and the signature black and red aura. He was also shown to become physically stronger despite his looks,when he saves Kourin from the Link Joker miasma and carrying her to the throne.
Abilities
He is shown to have PSY Qualia,which was later revealed that this power is a key to link the fighter to Planet Cray. After the Link Joker invasion, in between the events of season 3 and 4,he was able to meet the respective Quatre Knights locations,even though it was unexplained on how he was able to arrive there. Before the arrival of the Quatre Knights to the Sanctuary,some of his powers were transferred to Kourin and a card Companion Star Star-vader, Photon appears as Kourin's avatar,showing his ability to create cards like Sukio and giving Kourin the ability to use Link Joker on her own free will,despite being under Link Joker's control himself during the cardfight against Philippe Neve. He was able to turn the respective Quatre Knights's cards to talismans,which reflect their type of prisons they have. Like Takuto,he also possesses an ability to erase any memory of his existence,even though Kai was not affected by it and till the Sanctuary breaks down,as it was connected to his will after his loss to Kai.
Season 1
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 Kai introduced him to play Vanguard, he gained a lot of friends like Morikawa, Miwa and Izaki, and later his teammates that becomes his best friends - Kai Toshiki, Misaki Tokura and Kamui Katsuragi.
Aichi continues to play Vanguard with his friends at Card Shop Capital, thus progressively getting better at the game until he places fourth in the Card Shop Tournament. As a result, he joins Team Quadrofolio (Q4) to invest more into the game.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. He loses the Nationals to the Teams Jurassic Park and AL4 in the third match, but gained a lot of experience because of it.
However, as the series progresses, Aichi discovers PSY Qualia, an unusual power that allows him to hear the voices of his cards and see his path to victory. Placing his trust in these voices, Aichi begins to rely on his own skill less and more in favour of PSY Qualia. Kai leaves Aichi, partially out of guilt over what happened to Ren, but not without coldly telling Aichi he has only gotten weaker.
Confused over Kai's words, Aichi stumbles into Card Shop PSY, where he meets Ren again. Ren gives Aichi a Shadow Paladin deck and tells him that it will give him the strength he needs. He takes the deck because he believes that he can use it to show Kai that Aichi indeed had grown stronger, when in reality the deck fueled the dark intentions of his power. Aichi then uses this deck to utterly defeat Kourin.
Later in the series, after Team Q4 qualify through the Preliminaries of their second National Championship, Kai fights Aichi, in order to try and prevent PSY Qualia from totally consuming him as it did Ren. When the fight is almost over, Aichi has a vision of Blaster Blade that tells him that he has a big strength that he's always had, and he doesn't need a perfect constructed deck to win. After recognizing Blaster Blade as his 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 him and storms off. Suiko then manifests two 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 stadium 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 eventually succumbs to the temptation after he calls Blaster Dark to his Rear Guard.
Majesty Lord Blaster and Blasters
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 not to fall back into Psyqualia's grasp and brings Aichi back to his senses once more. 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 its 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 2
During season 2, he uses a Gold Paladin deck. Aichi is taking part in Asia Circuit and travels 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 Paladins. Aichi is told that Shadow Paladin, Royal Paladin, and Kagero have been sealed away. Eventually, Aichi finds Kai, and discovers that his deck has changed too, although Kai is unaware of the change, unlike Aichi. Kai and Aichi then start a battle, in order to try and determine what really has happened. However, Aichi is unsure without his old deck to play with and is swiftly defeated by Kai's new ace, Dragonic Kaiser Vermillion, who demonstrates the new Limit Break ability.
In episode 68, Aichi takes on Kamui, in order to try and convince him to come to the VF Circuit with him, and battles with his Gold Paladin deck, even using the Limit Break for the first time.
Once Aichi and Q4 land in Singapore, 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 an audience with Takuto, he walks through town until Kourin finds him and proceeds to give him his new trump card, Incandescent Lion, Blond Ezel.
Aichi's quest to see Takuto again, however, is brought to a halt, when Takuto appears in the middle of Aichi's fight with Christopher Lo. Takuto grants both players the power of Psyqualia, which Christopher uses to defeat Aichi before he can begin to re-understand his new power.
Although Q4 have also recieved invitations to participate in the circuit in other countries, Q4 are denied their finals victories by the newly re-formed Team AL4, now led by Kai, and Team Dreadnought, led by Leon Soryu, who entered the circuit in order to revive a legendary clan known as Aqua Force.
Later on, Aichi realises that his lack of progress is due to his own hesitation regarding the correct use of Psyqualia, but he learns to overcome them after a match with Ultra-Rare. His new resolve results in the acceptance of a new ace card, Blazing Lion, Platina Ezel. With this card, Q4 are finally able to win the Japan leg of the VF Circuit.
However, he and the other finalists are drawn to Cray via a portal connecting Cray to Earth, where he learns the VF Circuit's true purpose; Cray is in danger of a threat known as Void, and is responsible for the sealing of the clans who united the others. The whole tournament was held in order to find chosen cardfighters who could save Cray from Void.
Leon Soryu, however, reveals that he made a deal with Void in order to revive the Aqua Force in exchange for eliminated all threats to Void. With his wildly-evolved PSY Qualia and mastery of the powers that Void handed to him, Soryu betrays Tatsunagi, draining him of his own powers and leaving the boy for dead. He then seperates each team who made the finals, and Aichi is forced to look for Leon and stop him. While searching, he finds the spirit of his lost Avatar, Blaster Blade, and it manifests in the form of a beam of light, pointing towards Leon, and a Blaster Blade Spirit.
Q4 then bump into Team S.I.T Genius, where Aichi discovers that Christopher Lo has been completely consumed by Psyqualia. Seeing himself in Christopher, Aichi decides to try and snap him out of it, as Kai did for him. Aichi succeeds in winning the fight, banishing Team S.I.T Genius from Cray, as only the winners can remain. However, this fight delays Aichi, and he is too late to stop Leon from defeating Kai and banishing Team new AL4 from the space as well. Aichi fights Leon to avenge Kai and stop Leon's plot. After a hard-fought fight, which results in the return of his Avatar and the Crossride of Platina Ezel, Aichi narrowly escapes defeat and succeeds in saving Cray.
Afterwards, when he re-discovers the Royal Paladins, Aichi realises that he has forged a bond with his Gold Paladin allies and cannot bear the thought of simply abandoning them. Understanding his feelings, Blaster Blade, as well as the other Royal Paladins he fought with, manifest in the form of new Gold Paladins.
Aichi then makes the true finals of the VF Circuit, where he officially defeats Christopher Lo, ending in Q4 becoming the champions of the tournament.
Season 3
Aichi re-enrolls in Miyaji Academy with Misaki. However, when he settles into his old school again, it becomes apparent that his hobby has little place in a school where the primary concern is college. At the end of school, he goes to Card Capital and a regular student, Naoki Ishida, follows him. Aichi teaches him how to play Vanguard, and introduces his new deck. Although Aichi wins, he notices that Naoki bought a Trial Deck, which means he is now interested in Vanguard. He then decides to keep an eye on him.
He tries to start a Cardfight Club at his school, but many people only wanted to join because Kourin was a member, so it resulted in there only being three Members so far, being Naoki Ishida, Kourin Tatsunagi, and Aichi. In addition, the student council, who disaproves the formation of such a club, frequently spred rumors and a bounty on the Cardfight Club to dismantle them. Eventually they add Shingo Komoi and Misaki Tokura competing the Cardfight Club but was not approved as they also do not have a teacher to advise them. As an alternative, The Student Council President challenges them to face Hisui High's Cardfight Club rewarding them with aproval and an advisor should they win. By the time Aichi fights, the results are tied up leaving it up to Aichi to save the Cardfight Club. He faces off against Morikawa whose deck was switched out in favor of Kai's Kagero deck which utilized Dragonic Overlord The End and the Kagero's new Break Ride as a way for Kai to test him. Aichi manages to break through impressing even Kai with how strong he has become. This victory establishes the Cardfight Club within Miyaji Academy as Aichi is named President and Captain of the club.
During the regionals for the High School VF Circuit, his team begins the tournament defeating Hisui High with Aichi coming out victorious against a strong willed Izaki. By the finals, Aichi faces off against Ren to decide the fate of both schools but in the end, Aichi fails to defeat Ren and knocks them out of the next stage of the Circuit.
He returns to his duties as club president only to find himself getting a strange premonition about his friends. Soon he faces against Naoki who is being controlled by Link Joker defeats him. He also starts getting strange feelings as Kourin has not attended school for a while and Kai has not shown up to Card Capital as well.
Later on, he is shown to lead his club on a hike trip around the camp site that the whole academy is taking as a relaxing trip. He and his team made it first out of everyone and the other students are rather impressed at that. At night, the whole club gathered around to watch the high school cardfight tournamet, they were joined by other students along with the Football club and the Paranormal Research Society though Kourin was a no show. He with Naoki and Shingo made a vow to win the next tournament. The next day, he and the others worked together to enjoy their time on the trip. At night, Kourin asked Aichi to walk with her to the legendary tree next to the lake. When they reached there, Kourin told Aichi to fight her in a cardfight. Not wanting to disappoint her, he agreed to it while Miskai calmly watched from a far. During the fight, she displayed a sign of being Reversed, however, at the last minute, she was able to break free of it. She, then, ran off without a word while Aichi and Misaki wondered what was happening. When on the bus back to school, he wondered and worried for what is happening to Kourin. When Aichi returned to Miyaji High School, he felt bad premonitions during the bus ride back and immediately ran out only to find Kamui who was just defeated by Kourin and in the process of getting Reversed and the Student Council Secretary, Maki Nagashiro, showing a video of the Reversed Takuto who declared it to be the beginning of the destruction of the world.
Upon returning to Card Capital, Miwa shows himself and reveals that Kai has been reversed all for the sake of facing Aichi. Soon after Miwa leaves, he is confronted by Leon who plans on facing Kai and Takuto. He challenges Aichi for the sake of seeing if both are prepared for the threat but after Aichi rides Blaster Blade Liberator, Leon suddenly stops the Cardfight stating that Aichi is hesitating to fight Kai saying that the strong wind from when he usually brings out Blaster Blade isn't there. Aichi realizes this hesitation and reflects on his doubts. Soon he hears of Naoki and Shingo missing for a day realizing that the both of them are attempting to liberate Miyaji Academy. When Aichi and Misaki head over, they find that the black ring hovering over the school is disappearing. As they find an exhausted Shingo and Naoki, Naoki having just defeated Maki, Shingo revealed that Naoki decided to take on all of these cardfighters for Aichi. Inspired by Naoki's passion and courage, Aichi decides to storm the Tatsunagi Corporation with the intent to defeat Kamui, Kai, Takuto and whoever else stands in his way in defeating the Link Joker.
Upon making his way there with Misaki, Naoki and Shingo, he encounters Kamui who challenges him. Kamui reminds him that when they formed Team Q4, Aichi was barely keeping up against Kamui, slowly becoming equals but soon enough, it became obvious that Aichi became much stronger than Kamui. Kamui manages to get his Crossbreak Ride off with Ethics Buster Reverse delivering a full eight attacks but combined with a couple Quintet Walls and a strong guard, he holds out stating that it's through the bonds of Q4 that he was able to get as far as he is now and that Kamui is one of his strongest rivals. He solidifies this by Crossbreak Riding Gancelot Zenith and after superior calling Blaster Blade Liberator, defeats Kamui and returns him to normal as he now is accompanying the group. He watches the Misaki's fight against Miwa and ultimately ends up fighting Kai as well. Confident that he can bring back Kai, he does well against Link Joker for the first time. However, Aichi fails to defeat him as Kai ends the fight by break riding Star Vader, Chaos Breaker Dragon and breaking Aichi's Quintet Wall. Upon being defeated, Aichi would have ended up being Reversed, prolonging the process through his own willpower, but Leon with Sharlene and Jillian luckily came in time with a mirror holding Takuto, who helps Aichi tap into his Psyqualia and temporarily suppressing the Reverse process. However, the strain of holding back such a power has affected him as Aichi cannot engage in a cardfight otherwise the power would rush out all at once and would threaten his life, thus benching him for the time being. However, Aichi, not wanting to sit out while his friends are in trouble, rushes in only to arrive as soon as Takuto is absorbed by the Reversed Takuto. Unwavering, he challenges Reversed Takuto to a cardfight.
However before he gets a chance to, Takuto has Kourin fight Aichi instead, Aichi deciding fight to free Kourin from the reverse. However, during the fight, he is clearly seen struggling to hold himself together but with his desire not to lose his friends to darkness, he manages to defeat Kourin with his new card, Liberator, Monarch Sanctuary Alfred. He confronts Takuto with this deck, however Takuto begins to slowly lock his field during the cardfight until he locks his open spot on the field with a unit in his deck setting up for Star-vader, "Omega" Glendios' Ultimate Break all the while chipping away at his damage. Takuto taunts Aichi that in defeating him, he releases everyone from the reverse, Aichi's suppresed reverse included, but in doing so, he denies cardfighters their strength and would also deny Kourin her memories of her time with him and his friends. But when he sees images of his friends fighting the incoming Link Joker army, he gets his second wind saying that they will find their own strength eventually and even if Kourin loses her memories, he'll find her again and make new ones.
Aichi solidifies this hope by riding Alfred against Takuto and shows off Alfred's ability to liberate his locked units. With a full field, he defeats Takuto and liberates the world from reverse and Link Joker. As Takuto is being absorbed back into the void, he tries to take Aichi with him but the real Takuto regains control of the body and drags him into the void with him. As things appear to be back to normal, he is challenged by a still reversed Kai impressed by his strength and resolve, but a little disppointed to know that his fated final opponent is actually Aichi whom he already beaten. However, as Kai is about to be unreversed, he wants to see how Aichi does at his full strength before he loses his reversed Kagero deck.
Aichi used the Limit Break Skill of Liberator, Monarch Sanctuary Alfred which he proclaimed as "Liberate the Lock"
As the fighters clash, Kai states that he knew what he was doing the entire time and that by nature, a cardfighter's job is always to find new strength, no matter the cost, and upon finishing this cardfight, win or lose, he will leave and dissapear from everyone's lives. Not satisfied with Kai's self alienation, says that Kai is his idol, and without him, he wouldn't be the man he is today. He states that Kai should stay with his friends in that case and instead of walking away from them. Aichi then rides Blaster Blade, the card that began his journey, a unit which Kai says defines Aichi. In response Kai rides the unit that defines himself, Dragonic Overlord but soon takes it a step further by Crossbreak Riding Dragonic Overlord "The Яe-birth" and demonstrate to him the power Link Joker had given him.
Aichi manages to hold off long enough in order to Ride Alfred and fill up his field and superior calling Blaster Blade for Alfred's Ultimate Break. He finished the match by finishing Kai off with Blaster Blade who sees that Aichi became strong through his allies and friends while Kai tried to become strong by shutting everyone away from his life.
Season 4
A few days after saving the world from Link Joker and saving Kai from himself and from the will to use the power of Link Joker, Aichi mysteriously disappears not only from school and the card shop but also from everyone's memories including his family relatives. Aichi is seen at the end of episode 164, sitting on a throne at an unknown location.
In episode 166, he is seen in Ishida's dream telling him he cannot be with them. Later in episode 169, it said that Aichi is in a supposed slumber and that the Quatre Knights inherited his will. In episode 174, Gaillard states that if Aichi wishes it, the Quatre Knights will show no mercy to Aichi's so-called mates. In episode 177, Aichi is seen seating on his throne, addressing his mates. Aichi ordered his mates to stop trying to rescue him and wished them "Goodbye" for he does not want to see them.
As revealed by Ren and Leon in episode 179, that Aichi had approached them both and offered each of them a position as one his Quatre Knights. Though Ren and Leon both declined the offer and they decided to stay neutral due to their own reasons. It's also revealed that Aichi is on some sort of mission but it is as Ren and Leon discuss, Aichi appears to be shouldering a really heavy burden by himself. So he made a decision of picking the four best players of the world and formed the Quatre Knights in order to seal him up and protect him from the Seed of the Void.
When two of the seals were frozen by Cera's powers in episode 185, Aichi was possessed by Link Joker, striking Kourin with his dark powers. Afterwards, he ended up in a cardfight against Neve in his Steel Wall Prison in episode 186 and 187, using a Link Joker deck. During the cardfight, he managed to break out of Link Joker's control in brief moments thanks to Neve who tried to reach his feelings, only to be taken over again and ultimately won. He finally was able to completely snap out of Link Joker's possession when Neve received Judgement from his own prison and fainted after he was carried back to the throne.
After Ratie's seal was down due to her loss to Cera in episode 189, Aichi tried to hold back Link Joker. It was then Kourin uses her deck to absorb his dark powers, allowing him to relax. When he realized what she was doing, he held up his hand to her deck to stop her from absorbing more of his powers before he lost consciousness again. In episode 191, he woke up and saved Kourin from the Link Joker miasma after her loss to Naoki and commented to her on how she had taken on his suffering again. He then carried her to the throne for her to rest and absorbed the miasma from her deck. He agreed to let Gaillard have one last cardfight with Kai to redeem himself and witnessed Kai and Gaillard's final battle, commenting that both of them are having fun.
In episode 193, he then explained to Kai on why he had chosen to seal himself away. When he learned that Kai was guided by Blaster Blade, he showed him the card, only to be corrupted by Link Joker, as Star-vader, Blaster Joker. He then cardfight against Kai to determine his own fate and future. When Kai mentioned on how his precious mates had went through all of this just to take him back, he ignored his words and replied that no matter how strong the bonds are, they won't be able to save him. He then rides Blaster Joker, using his Legion skill to push Kai to a tough spot. However, Kai barely managed to delay his victory, frustrating him in the process. When Kai uses Aichi's own plan to seal himself against him, he was shaken by Kai's question and became doubtful of his own thought of sacrificing oneself to
In episode 194, Aichi was having problems in writing the graduation ceremony speech but was still glad that everything went well in school as the Cardfight Club has gotten some new freshmen members and it was revealed that they won the VF high school tournament. After a few fights at Hitsue and Fukuhara, the next day Aichi and Naoki were on to school when they met with Kai who was fighting some tough fighters while talking about the major CardCapital shop tournament.
In episode 195, during the ceremony Aichi was called to deliver his speech whereby after it was mentioned he did not said it well as he felt depress over it. After the ceremony they all went to CardCapital and participated in the tournament. They were surprised to meet up with AL4, Dreadnought, and Genius. Towards the end of the episode, Kai told Aichi he will be going to Europe and wouldn't be back for a while but Aichi assured him as long as they play the game they will meet up in time as they open up their vanguards.
