Despite continuous reference to 'Kai' both in-series and out, Kai's given name is in fact Toshiki. Going with Japanese rules of etiquette, none of the characters in Vanguard refer to Kai by his given name because none of them are close enough to him socially to speak to him as such, much like how Mr. Mark only refers to Aichi as Sendou, and Katsumi Morikawa refers to Kamui as Katsuragi.
Personality
Kai is a serious person and doesn't like to joke around like other people his age. He doesn't talk much or to anyone. When cardfighting, he is shown to be more serious and confident on winning the game without any need of support. Despite his selective mute personality, he has a best friend, who is Taishi Miwa.
Kai and Miwa
There is also some speculation and various scenes in the anime that suggest Kai may have a soft spot for Aichi, even though he refuses to admit it. Often times, his friend Miwa will tease him about it. According to Miwa, Kai used to be more friendly before he moved away.
Kai is shown to have some knowledge when it comes to cooking and especially like onions. Whether this stems from him living alone and having to fend for himself remains to be seen.
He shares the popular phrase, "Final Turn!" with Ren Suzugamori, though Aichi recently adopted it as well as he got corrupted by PSY Qualia. This probably came from the fact that Ren and Kai were once on the same team.
After the VF Circut, Kai adopts friendly personality towards Miwa and the rest of his friends at Card Capital, which he goes to a lot now, but still retains his seriousness and confidence. He is shown to be more supportive and helpful with his school's Cardfight Club; he loaned Morikawa his old Kagero deck and helped Izaki train for the Highschool Vanguard Championships, showing he now tolerates the two. This extends outside of the club, shown with Aichi when he gives him advice, and Naoki after their fight. However, while watching how Aichi was able to defeat his old Kagero deck, and his match against Ren, he starts to feel inferior after witnessing how much their skills have grown, lamenting that he would probably lose if he fought them as he is currently.
After he became Reversed, Kai becomes obsessed with challenging strong fighters so Link Joker will become stronger. When facing such a fighter, for example Kenji, Kai will remark on that strength, saying that it is what he has been looking for.
His manga counterpart personality differs from his anime counterpart. He still is very much a serious person and is quite confident of him winning cardfight battles. Although he retains his seriouses, he actually enjoys going to Card Capital and smiles quite often. He seems more friendly and supportive towards Aichi. Also, he appears to talk more towards Miwa.
In Episode 162, however, Kai shows a different side to him. Horrified by what he's done, Kai challenges Aichi and reveals that what he's done hasn't caused anyone any happiness, and attempts to go into self-exile or even suicide in order for Aichi to find joy.
In Season 4, he starts to open up more and becomes friendlier.
Story
Kai was first seen in the local card shop, cardfighting with Morikawa and won him easily as he rides his trump card, Dragonic Overlord. Then Morikawa requested a rematch, at first Kai rejected it, reasoning that he was not strong enough but accepted when he bet a card which attracted his attention, Blaster Blade, a card he stole from Aichi. Kai disposed him easily and took the card, then Aichi came and challenge him to claim back his card. Kai accepted the challenge and teaches him the rules because Aichi was a beginner in Cardfight!! Vanguard. Before the cardfight start, Kai returned the card to Aichi, hoped that he will use it effectively against him. Throughout the fight, Aichi learned that Kai was the one who gave the card to him during his childhood. Eventually, Kai lost the game and returned the card to Aichi, though he purposely held back during the fight.
Kai was seen again when Aichi and his friends spotted him walking back to his home. They decided to follow him secretly due to their curiosity. But soon, Kai found out they were tailing him. Aichi apologizes and asks him for another battle, but he declines it. However, when Kamui challenged him, he accepted it with an askance look. The next day, the two commence their fight. At first, Kai took the upper hand by riding a Grade 3 card very quickly, but shortly afterwards, Kamui countered it with his own Grade 3 card. However, Kai once again proved that he was the strongest as he rode Vortex Dragon, proceeding to activate its Mega Blast to retire the rear-guard units controlled by Kamui, leaving Kamui defenseless for the final attack from Kai. He left the scene after he defeated Kamui, but not before Aichi told him he vowed to become a stronger and more worthy opponent in order to challenge Kai again.
After that, he entered the Local Shop Tournament, with a hope that he would find some strong opponent. However, he easily reached the Semi-Final in the tournament. After the setup of the Semi-Final round, he was selected to be the next opponent of Misaki. Kai announced "Final Turn" before he easily claimed victory against Misaki. During the final round, he once again defeated Kamui effortlessly and took the champion title. After the tournament, he was invited into the Regional Tournament with Kamui, Misaki and Aichi as a team, calls Team Q4 , short for Team Quadrifoglio.
In the First Round of the Regional Tournament, he annihilates his opponent without even breaking a sweat. Team Q4 easily won the second and third round. During the Finals of the Regional Tournament, he had a close fight against Kaoru but he still won the cardfight with two critical triggers on Blazing Flare Dragon. However, it was shown that Kai purposely let his opponent take the lead before crushing him, hoping to motivate Aichi's will to fight.
During Kai's match with Kyou Yahagi, he taunts him with the fact that him and Ren both say, "Final Turn!" It, however, failed and Kai turns the tables on Kyou shortly after and takes back his phrase.
After the first Regional championship, Kai starts suspecting that Aichi might have the same ability as Ren. During Aichi's fight with Kyou, Kai confirmed it. Kai, not wanting to suffer what happened with Ren again, he told Aichi that he is not getting stronger, but weaker, and quits Team Q4. He also appears to blame himself for this and for the currently unknown incident that happened with Ren, as shown by how after quitting Team Q4 he said "he made the same mistake again."
Kai later fought against Kourin, who was looking for him and suspecting he also had PSY Qualia, but confirmed he doesn't. Kai also said it is his fault that Aichi obtained PSY Qualia, and that he wants to exceed it. Then he accepted to help stop Aichi before he fully turns into Ren.
Kai cardfights Aichi and talks about his past, how Aichi showed him that Vanguard fights are supposed to be fun and not all about power, later convincing him to abandon using PSY Qualia that true strength does not comes from that power but oneself.
Before the final match of the nationals, he challenges Ren for a fight in order to bring his former self back. Kai draws the card that will be the trump card to beat Ren and crossrides Dragonic Overlord the End saying that he will bring Ren back with this card. But Ren crossrides Phantom Blaster Overlord and wins. Later, he is seen in the match between Aichi vs Ren, where he helps Aichi snap out of PSY Qualia's influence. After the match, he gives Ren and Aichi a smile and thanks Aichi for saving Ren. At the end of the season, Kai finally challenges Aichi to a proper cardfight.
Season 2
Kai in Season 2.
During this season, he uses a Narukami deck. Kai will be taking part in Asia Circuit and will travel around Asia to fight different fighters.
Kai is first shown fighting against Takuto Tatsunagi, who was using a Gold Paladin deck. Towards the end of the fight, Takuto rides an Great Silver Wolf, Garmore that transforms Kai's Kagero deck into a Narukami deck. The next day, Kai spots Aichi in the park and challenges him to a fight and during the battle, Kai does reveal he believes Aichi's story and starts to have certain memory flashes of Aichi's Blaster Blade.
Kai starts training to become stronger, and fights Kyou on a mountain, and wins the fight, triggering an avalanche, which Kai saves Kyou from it.
During the Seoul Stage, he is seen with Ren and Asaka in his new team, Team New Asteroid, who wins all of their battles against Team Movie Stars in the first round of the Seoul Stage. He fights Kamui in the next match-up against Team Q4, winning the match by taking advantage of the special rule, using Dragonic Kaiser Vermillion's Limit Break twice in the match. He appears beside Tetsu after the match, watching Ren's and Asaka's match. Kai does not have any recollection of PSY Qualia as he did not react when Ren says that the power is incredible. In the final round of the Seoul Stage, he wins the match against Team Caesar's Gai Usui.
Team New Asteroid is invited to a summer resort island to train by the Tatsunagi Financial Group. He watches Aichi and his friends training on the beach. He paired up with Aichi for the Test of Courage and tells him that their paths will cross. Next morning, Kai is asked by Ren to play beach volleyball with him and Asaka, but declines, and asked Miwa out to cardfight with him. Later in the afternoon, he sees Q4 off from land as they go back to Japan, in preparation for the next stage.
Kai and the rest of the winners of each stage gather in Japan, the last stage of the VF Circuit. New Asteroid wanders around the amusement park where the final stage is held. After the winning ceremony, all the teams gather in a room that has a portal that creates a space connected between Cray and Earth to fight a mysterious empty power, Void. New Asteroid gets seperated with the other teams by Leon Soryu not long after their arrival in the space. Ren uses his PSY Qualia to track Leon's whereabouts. After finding Leon, Kai challenges Leon and expresses his anger about "sacrificing" the three clans to bring back Aqua Force. He crossrides Dragonic Kaiser Vermillion "THE BLOOD" to counter Leon's Aqua Force units, but Leon managed to survive and crossrides Blue Storm Supreme Dragon, Glory Maelstrom and takes the win. Kai and his team were sent back to Earth as defeated cardfighters cannot exist in that space.
Season 3
Toshiki Kai in Season 3
He is now a second-year student at his high school and is a part of his school's cardfight club. He is seen briefly in episode 107, battling a kid in Card Capital.
During the intermural fight against Aichi's school, he is matched up against Naoki Ishida. He acknowledges his skill in Vanguard as Naoki pushes Kai to 5 damage. However, Kai manages to win the match with Eradicator, Dragonic Descendant and agreed to fight Naoki again. Later in the matchup, he swapped Morikawa's deck with his old Kagero deck. Through that cardfight, he sees Aichi grow even stronger as a player, commenting that even Dragonic Overlord The End could not reach him anymore.
During the tournament, he fights against Shingo crushing him completely commenting that he wanted to fight Aichi instead. But after his team fails to advance and after ywatching Ren and Aichi's Cardfight, Kai soon realizes that their skills have grown to the point where not even he can reach them anymore. He is later seen in Episode 126: The Mystery Dragon, where he witnesses a Reversed Naoki Ishida cardfight Aichi. After the fight, Kai picks up the mysterious card Eradicator, Vowing Saber Dragon "Reverse," which burns right before his very eyes. He then confronts Takuto Tatsunagi about "Reverse," and ends up cardfighting Takuto's other side, who uses the Link Joker clan in an attempt to Reverse him. Tempting Kai with the power of Link Joker, the agent of Void, he accepts the power of Reverse and becomes a catalyst of what is to come.
The next day, he goes to see Ren to fight him, only to be told by Tetsu that he is not there, so, as an alternative, he decides to fight Tetsu instead with his new power, which Tetsu assumes is a new Narukami unit (as no one other than Takuto and Kai know about Link Joker at the time). He defeats and Reverses Tetsu Shinjou, and walks out Fukuhara High saying he hasn't mastered Link Joker yet. In his quest to master the Link Joker deck, he decides to leave the country running into Kenji Mitsusada, defeating and Reversing him as an unexpected bonus. He is later seen on a plane that is heading towards New York in America, possibly looking for stronger fighters. But it was later revealed that Kai went to New York to reverse countless of cardfighters around the world.
In episode 147, after Kai returned to Japan, Takuto's secretary was sent to drive Kai to meet Takuto but his journey was intercepted by Miwa who seeked answers from Kai. Kai managed to reverse Miwa, revealing that he became a reversed fighter by his own will to be able to fight Aichi and Ren as their equal. He is later seen observing a fight between Miwa and Misaki on top of a building. After witnessing Miwa's loss against Misaki, he now gets into a cardfight with Aichi, saying how he has waited for this moment. He confidently wins the fight, entering the building satisfied with what he had accomplished.
After Aichi and Ren storm the Tatsunagi building, Takuto has Kai fight Ren, a match both has been looking forward to since their fight from Season 1, finally understanding why Ren would ever be tempted by such a power like Psyqualia due to his experience with the Link Joker power. Ren revealed his new crossbreak ride, Revenger, Dragruler Phantom in an attempt to win on final turn. However, Kai manages to hold out and reveals his newest ace card, Dragonic Overlord "The Яe-birth", a Reverse unit that even Takuto did not know existed, and manages to attack him up to three times, the final attack ending on a triple critical. Both knew from the start that Ren could not heal enough times to save himself but continued to damage check anyway because of how much they both enjoyed their cardfight managing to heal twice before submitting. With this victory, Kai became truely satisfied as when Takuto ordered Kai to fight Aichi, he refused because he already defeated him before and thus sidelines himself to observe Aichi and Takuto's fight. After Aichi and Takuto's fight, Kai appears in front of Aichi still reversed saying that he was the opponent he was looking for and challenged him to a cardfight.
Kai states that he is in the middle of being un-Reversed and declares that, at his strongest, he wants to face Aichi at his strongest before he becomes completely un-Reversed a
Season 4
A while after the end of Link Joker's failed invasion, Kai headed over to Card Capital to see Aichi only for Shin to wonder who he is. Upon asking Emi and later Misaki, they both say that they do not know Aichi and he realizes that something is wrong. Upon entering the Physics room where Aichi would hold his Cardfight club, he is given a Royal Paladin deck with Blaster Blade Seeker. He encounters Naoki who was curious about Kai having forgotten about Aichi as well. He challenges him to a cardfight as he notices that Naoki is getting a reaction upon seeing the deck. Upon riding Blaster Blade, Naoki finally remembers Aichi as they vow to find him. He then challenges Misaki as she got a reaction from seeing Blaster Blade and hopes to trigger that memory with a cardfight. As they fight, Kai attempts to drop subtle hints towards her past when she was using Oracle Think Tank. At the end of the fight, Kai demonstrates Seeker, Sacred Wingal's ability to Legion with Blaster Blade Seeker finally unlocking Misaki's memories of Aichi. Seeing as how these effects triggered both Naoki and Misaki's memories of Aichi, Kai now sees a way to gain allies in search of the missing Aichi.
He seeks Ren as a potential mate but after showing him Blaster Blade, it doesn't trigger any hidden memories and Kai gives up for now. During Kai and Miwa's club meeting (which Morikawa and Izaki are not apart of), he challenges Miwa by giving him his Kagero deck and engage in a match similar to Kai and Aichi's first cardfight. Upon riding Seeker, Sing Saver Dragon and using Blaster Blade to Legion with it, he unlocks Miwa's memories of Aichi.
Upon seeing Ultra Rare on the television, Kai remembers Aichi telling him of a cardshop called Psy that the idol group runs. Hoping to find clues about Aichi's disappearance as well as Kourin's, he goes there. However, instead of finding what he was looking for, he met a mysterious young man named Olivier Gaillard who introduced himself as a Quatre Knight. Gaillard tells Kai to forget about looking for Aichi, but the latter refuses. They engaged in a match with Gaillaird triumphing in the end. Kai suffers judgement after he had lost, which is going through a fire the burns away the person's fighting will, from the result of the Holy Prominence Prison. Galliard then warns Kai that there are other Quatre Knights besides him and that they will destroy anyone that gets in the way, including Kai's mates. Gaillard disappers in a blaze of blue fire afterwards, leaving Kai flat on the ground, agonizing over the the situation in hand. He struggles to get to the others in time as he catches up to Ishida after facing judgement and together finds Miwa in the same way realizing that this may be an enemy they are not ready for. Upon realizing that the Quatre Knights are just going to keep going after Kai's group, he decides to abandon his mates and go after Aichi alone. But Kamui, not wanting Kai to act alone anymore, defeats him in a cardfight saying that as his mates, they are willing to go into these dangerous situations knowing the consequences. Kai relents and accepts the group's help in the end. Then, as Misaki and Kamui are at the airport, he challenges Ren to fight him and learn everything he knows. He defeats him and reveals a stone circle formation which lead them to a portal area which they are greeted by Gaillard who defeats Naoki easily. As Kai gets ready to fight, they are surprised by an appearance by Kourin who allies herself not only with the Quatre Knights, but now uses the Link Joker clan. During their fight, Kai is shown an image of Aichi who tells them to forget about him and leave. While the others believe they are being tricked, Kai acknowledges that this is the real Aichi as his words burn deep as he loses to Kourin. While undergoing Judgement, Kourin takes Blaster Blade Seeker to give back to Aichi as the por
Needing to train, everyone decides to visit Leon Soryu's island as Kai watches Leon fight Naoki. Leon decides to fight Kai to figure out his thoughts as Kai loses. Leon does not detect any wind behind his actions meaning Kai seems to be lacking something important. Miwa then tosses a Kagero deck to him and realizes that if he wants to get Aichi back, Kai has to be true to himself, which includes going back to his Kageros.
After Naoki finds the entrance to their base, they storm their base in hopes of defeating the Quatre Knights, but under the risk that if they lose, their memories of Aichi are purged as well. Unwavered Kai continues on until he reaches Gaillard after defeating Kamui, he challenges him with his new Legion Perdition Dragon, Vortex Dragonewt, Kai's flames overwhelming Gaillard's. However after defeating him, Kai, Gaillard and Naoki are all trapped in Raul Cera's ice prision with Gaillard's flames beaing too weak after recieving Judgement. With the help of Leon and Ren, they manage to escape. After witnessing Gaillard defeat Raul and enacting Memory Judgement upon him, Kai and Gaillard fight once more unveiling his reborn avatar Perdition Emperor Dragon, Dragonic Overlord the Great and overwhelming him in a heated battle.
He then sets his sights upon Aichi who reveals his corrupted avatar, Star-vader, Blaster Joker and asks that if Kai loses, he become a Quatre Knight, which he agrees on. During the fight Kai kept trying to convince Aichi not to isolate himself from his mates, but Aichi doesn't listen and rides his avatar, Blaster Joker. He then performs Legion with Kourin's avatar Photon. He then demonstrates his Legion's ability Absolute Break that Locked all of Kai's Rear Guards and retires his Mate Neo-Flame. Kai is astounded by this abillity but does not waver, riding Overlord again and performing Legion once more. He trys to win that turn, but Aichi stops his second Legion attack. Aichi once more used Absolute Lock and Break again, retiring Neo-Flame and locking Kai's units. Kai then senses the good part within Blaster Joker and blocks the attack. Kai then declares Final Turn and rides Overlord for the third time, performing Legion once more. Ren notes that Kai was "milking" Legion, but Leon said that it is showing his bond with his mates. Kai has Overlord attack Imaginary Plane Dragon, pulling a Double Critical drive check. He then stands his Legion and attacked Aichi's Legion. Aichi guards, but Kai pulls a Double Critical drive check, breaking through with 5 Critical and leaving Aichi no chance of recovering, thus winning the game.
After the fight, the Seed of Link Joker attacks Kai but Kai calls out to Blaster Blade. Blaster Joker then returns to normal, cutting through the Seed. Then all of Aichi's friends appear as the avatar of Blaster Blade, breaking the Seed into fragments. Then the fragments enter everyone who witnessed the fight. Blaster Blade then says that the Seed will now enter fighters who know forgiveness, saying that one day Link Joker will be accepted by Cray as a new Clan instead of an invader. He then invisions himself sparing with Blaster Dark and Blaster Joker.
The next day after the incident, Kai waits for Aichi at Cardfight Capital after defeating Miwa several times. Once Aichi comes, he then challenges Aichi to a cardfight.
In Episode 194, he was mentioned that several pro collage and leagues were planning on recruiting him but he has not made any plans yet until he appeared at the end meeting Aichi and Naoki at the place the former two first met.
In episode 195, after the graduation ceremony he was finally more interactive with others as he sighed an autograph for a girl who asked for it. At the tournament he was shocked to see Ren wearing his trench coat again and mentioned during his fight with him that he "hated" that Ren's look. In the final round he was about to fight Aichi as he mentioned that he will be going to Europe to fight and train with Gaillard and wouldn't be able to fight with him for a while but Aichi assured him as long as they play the game they will fight each other again as they both open up their vanguards.
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