Tadashi Sakura

Tadashi Sakura is the main protagonist of the Sazeku-Ba! series and is the main rival of Riku.

Background Information
Tadashi was born with a mark that differentiates him from the rest of his family tree. He is a Zynx, as his whole family are Zyphx. He is given the gift of unmatched willpower and incredible inner strength that not many people are capable of using properly. He was given the sole purpose to protect Sakabei Village along with the other protectors when he was given the task, the moment he was born. Now at the age of sixteen, Tadashi has sworn his loyalty to protect Sakabei Village from anybody.

Marking
Tadashi's marking is the Zynx, which represents the Draco-Monkey. The mark shows that he is equipt to be swift on his feet, a powerhouse when called for and even a healer when needed. Despite a Zynx's legacy of being a low-class marking, it's beholder is gifted with extraordinary power, beyond superhuman standards.

Terror of Puki-Puki Saga
Tadashi was helping his parents with the gardening but it was attacked by a group of thugs. After witnessing his father getting defeated, Tadashi fights the thugs head on and is losing until using his Gauuae. This defeats them all and Tadashi helps his father. Sometime later, he is given the task of fetching some Hyezu Berries for his mother's important dinner. When searching for it, he comes across it inside of a fighting dojo. There, it is in the possession of Sayuri Wanatabe. Tadashi challenges her in a fight in exchange for the berries if he wins or his humiliation if he is to lose. Both Tadashi and Sayuri fights their best and they are about even. However, Tadashi lands the finishing blow with an electerized blast from his sword, using it as a lightningrod. He goes to check up on Sayuri and she allows him to take the berries.

When leaving the dojo, Tadashi is stopped by Roku, Yizuma and Ketoa. They all are angry that a mere upstart was able to defeat Sayuri in such a manner. Confused, Tadashi continues onward. However, they attack him and so Tadashi spends more time defeating them. After exiting the place, Tadashi walks home for a while until he is struck down by an unknown face. Tadashi then wakes up in his own house to find that Sayuri spotted him outside of her dojo about 6 minutes away. When Tadashi awakens, he remembers clearly what happened to him and sets out with Sayuri to go retrieve his mother's berries. After searching for hours, Tadashi and Sayuri comes across Puki-Puki once more. As they try to fight him, he dodges their every attack and then subdues them both.

Before dying, the duo were saved by King Neptune, who nurses them back to health and tells them the tale of the assassin, Puki-Puki. Afterwards, King Neptune decides to train and spar with both Tadashi and Sayuri. He teaches them new attacks and how to progress in their own individual training. When going back on the search, the duo finds Puki-Puki and manages to easily beat him down. Tadashi then seemingly kills him using his Flaming Blade Slice. Tadashi and Sayuri then heads back to Neptune's Castle to train with him some more. After some sparring, King Neptune tells both Tadashi and Sayuri about a mini-tournament in a dojo that they should go to. When they go, Tadashi is able to easily defeat Yuzeni, Ugami, Tsubeka, and Cosi. However, he reaches the final round against his newly found main rival, Riku Hiroki! The two fights each other using their own tremendous attacks. However, it is only doing but so much. Eventually, Tadashi unleashes his Flaming Blade Slice on Riku's Shining Wind Blade. This knocks them both down and it is a draw.

Riku departs, vowing to kill Tadashi then next time. Tadashi then meets up with Sayuri and walks her home. A few days later, Tadashi and Sayuri are at his house, helping his parents with moving things and setting up for dinner. When it gets late at night, they are haunted by a strange sihlouette. They then discover it is Puki-Puki who seeks revenge. They fight on the rooftop until they move from rooftop to rooftop. However, Tadashi and Sayuri are slowly getting killed. Just before Tadashi is killed, Riku comes and saves him by injuring Puki-Puki. Tadashi and Sayuri are then told the story of how both Riku and Puki-Puki met. After hearing it, he questioned why Puki-Puki had to kill him in the first place. Tadashi and Sayuri then witnesses first hand Riku killing Puki-Puki with a Shining Wind Blade. When Riku leaves, Tadashi wonders why he did not kill them then and there. Sayuri then tells him about th strange wind and so they go towards it.

Reign of Lord Tetsei Saga
Tadashi is helping his family out by doing some hard larbor to help out for the Sakabei Village Fair. Sayuri tells him to come by and visit her booth when he's on break. When on break, he goes to find Sayuri's booth but meets a teen named Suna Makiyato. When puzzled, Sayuri screams his name and tells him about her booth. Excited, Tadashi goes up against Bejieung. Right before time ran out, Tadashi was able to easily take him out. He then went up against Roku, who has improved. However, Tadashi still prevails. He then fights Yizuma who makes a proposition for him. As Yizuma has Tadashi on the ropes, Tadashi manages to think of a plan and stillc claims victory. In the process, he earned an ancient Talisman that was said to have been stored with great power. Promising to return, Tadashi goes to venture around all the other booths until he spots Riku in the distance. He stares at him for a moment. Tadashi then continues to walk before he could notice him. Tadashi then fights Ederu, another protector to save the girl. Eventually, Tadashi manages to out-maneuver him and saves the girl.

A day after the fair, King Neptune passes both Tadashi and Sayuri and tells them to go search for a new mentor until they are skilled enough to learn the techniques he has in store for them. The duo heads to Sasiko Town and struggles to find a mentor but stumbles across a quite old man. Tadashi accepts the invitation for both him and Sayuri to be the Old Hermit's pupil. Tadashi then struggles to lay 3 hits on Usama as the old man is moving at tremendous speed and beating down on Tadashi left and right. Eventually, Tadashi is all worned out but Usama still grants him and Sayuri the right to train under them. When Ayano Umaka finds both Tadashi and Usama, she tells them of the news about Sayuri getting captured by Lord Tetsei. Shocked, Tadashi plans to go get her back. Tadashi and Ayano goes through the army to search for Sayuri. They search high and low for her and everywhere. Eventually, they get circled by a gang of soldiers. However, they were able to overwhelm them. After they continuously beat on the soldiers, the duo comes across one of Lord Tetsei's top henchmen, Pui.

The two are out of their league when facing off against Pui. They are hardly a challenge and are getting knocked left and right. Pui is then double teamed and so he uses his Gaozar Gum to paralyze the two. Just before they were killed, Tadashi and Ayano are saved by a girl named Meika Tsageru. After he was killed, she frees the two and they tells her what's going on. She decides to help them and they prepare to leave but are stopped by both Riku and Suna. Tadashi then fights Riku once again and they are equally matched for most of the fight. However, Riku is defeated when he gets distracted by Meika, who seems to remember him from way back. Tadashi then convinces Riku to join them temporarily to help stop Lord Tetsei and his reign of terror. Riku reluctantly agrees to help and Tadashi helps him up. He then points out to the Daimazou Fleet! When they all reach the fleet, Tadashi makes a successful plan to get on the fleet. When they board the fleet, Tadashi decides to go head on and take the frontal approach. Tadashi continues on through the center of the fleet and manages to fight off many of the soldiers. However, he ends up on the Sky Deck. Before continuing on, he runs into Kyoti, Minamo & Caboa.

Tadashi is getting dominated by the three's special tri-attack. This proves to be more than enough to defeat him. Before Tadashi dies, he is saved by both Riku and Meika.

Relationships

 * Sayuri Wanatabe: The two are shown to be best friends. They met at a dojo where they were practically even. However, Tadashi had the edge and was able to come out on top. Ever since, Sayuri and Tadashi was best friends. They would always look out for one another. In addition, Tadashi was the only one who got Sayuri's humor. Tadashi has saved Sayuri's life countless times. She is always the most saddened when something terrible happens to him and rushes to his safety. When seeing Tadashi die, Sayuri could hardly cope with it. With Tadashi's absence, Sayuri became all depressed and trained harder than ever so she could avenge her fallen comrade. When Tadashi was wished back, Sayuri was overjoyed. She became so happy that she was willing to do anything for him, even giver her life up if he was in danger.
 * Riku Hiroki: Riku's main role is to serve as Tadashi's main rival throughout the series. He is cunning, manipulative and is a warrior that would not hesitate to kill somebody. Riku serves as the foil for Tadashi in the beginning of the series as they were on very bad terms, both showing nothing but hostility and disdain towards one another. Riku would usually take charge in the conflict by insulting Tadashi or challenging him. Tadashi in turn would insult him back or attempt to prove him wrong (whether is was a success or a failure). Near season two, Riku and Tadashi's conflict slowly shifts to an intense rivalry. They have calmed down from their dispute and actually values one another as friends (despite them not showing it all of the time). After Tadashi's death, Riku begins to have a change of heart, accepting Tadashi as a friend. That is when the two of them begins to have an understanding with each other. Despite this spiritual bond, their conflict has nowhere near simmered down. If anything, the rivalry has shot up even higher as Riku is now more than determined to prove that he is the strongest of the two. In turn, Tadashi tries to cope with Riku having the responsibility of guarding the Afterlife. By late season 3, the two's friendship can best be described as complicated. As they show signs of friendship but the signs are very subtle (mostly coming from Riku's side). After realizing how much more powerful Tadashi is in comparison, Riku strives to become better and to defeat him once and for all. Riku's death only strengthen his thirst for power. Tadashi on the other hand was saddened by his death. Tadashi was also confused when Riku turned down the chance to be wished back to life. Riku however, used the Afterlife as a way of catching up with Tadashi in terms of skill, knowing that he went through the same training as the latter did. When Tadashi's not around, Riku usually takes the role of leader.

Sazeku-Ba!: Null Void
After the kidnapping of King Neptune, Tadashi and Sayuri both comes in. They notice and discover that he has been captured and the two sets out to find him and seek revenge on his kidnappers. Before King Neptune is defeated, Tadashi and Sayuri shows up and defies Basil Jr. He then gets his henchman to fight the two. As they fight, Mustard, Spice and Celary are way too powerful for Tadashi and Sayuri. They are then about to get pounded on until they are saved by Riku. Tadashi goes head on with Spice. At first, they are tied and then Spice takes over the fight. However, Tadashi manages to repel the last few attacjs of Spice and kills him with a Flaming Blade Slice. Afterwards, Tadashi asks Sayuri to take King Neptune and leave. Meanwhile, Tadashi and Riku fights Basil Jr. They are able to overwhelm him, defeating him. However, he transforms into Super Basil Jr. and starts to dominate the two. They are no match for him and his incredible speed and strength. However, when they got serious, they were able to keep up with him. However, Basil Jr. then unleashes the Null Void and Tadashi along with everyone else were about to get taken in until Sayuri saves them all. Tadashi, Sayuri and King Neptune then all heads back to Sakabei Village.

Sazeku-Ba!: The World's Greatest
Tadashi is with both Ayano and Meika and so he decides to go out and look for them. His parents gives him the last of the Genzu Herbs and so he heads out with the two. When they get to the polar caps, Tadashi tells them to split up. Tadashi continues to look until he is attacked by the 6 Bio-Warriors. However, he manages to make quick work of them. Once Tadashi finds the base, he enters and Dr. Kochan tells him that he is in a test. He first fights Hyezu, Imafgyu & Tasagaragu. He manages to kill both Imafgyu and Tasagargu easily with the Body Massx2. He then killed Hyezu with his Body Massx3-Multi Clone. When Tadashi arrives, he finds his friends in chains. When he tries to save them, he gets captured himself. Dr. Kochan then prepares the body switching chamber for Dr. Nefario. However, Tadashi manages to break out using the Full Body Mass. However, he was then fighting with a controlled Riku. After Riku comes back to normal, Tadashi, him, Meika & Sayuri all fights Dr. Nefario. After a lengthy battle, it is just down to both Tadashi and Riku. After Riku gets beat, Tadashi and Dr. Nefario keeps going at it. Eventually, Dr. Nefario planned on blowing up the world. However, Tadashi manages to kill him using the Flaming Blade Slice-Multi Clone Attack. When everything is fine, everyone (except Riku) congratulates Tadashi. They then collect the Genzu Herbs and arrive at Tadashi's house for some hot chocolate.

Sazeku-Ba!: The Fruit of Caimito
After both Ayano and Suna tells Tadashi and friends of what happened, Tadashi goes outside to notice that their plants are starting to die. He then gathers Sayuri, Amu and Usagi and heads to the source of the planet's destruction. There, they meet up with both Meika and Riku and they all team up once again. They all then travels up the Tree Tower and finds five guys. As the others took care of the henchman, Tadashi went straight for the ship. When Tadashi reaches the top of the ship, he interacts in conversation with the leader of the space pirates, Yarrow. Yarrow explains to him what his motives are and what the Fruit of Caimito is going to do to Planet Earth. After witnessing Riku getting hurt, Tadashi fights Yarrow and they are tied. Yarrow then sets off a chain reaction and Tadashi must think fast. When trying to get to the Big Tree Tower, Tadashi is stopped by Yarrow's Calamity Corpse. He then gets angry and kills them all easily. He then heads to the Big Tree Tower and fights Yarrow. As they are equal, they trade punches and whatnot. However, Tadashi starts to take over the fight until Yarrow eats one of the Caimito Fruits. He then beats down on Tadashi left and right until Tadashi faints. Tadashi is able to gather all of his power together for an all-out Shattering Blade Slice, which kills Yarrow and destroys the Big Tree Tower. With the help of Amu, Tadashi manages to destroy the Mother Caimito Fruit. With everything back the way it was, Tadashi and his friends has a picnic.

List of Attacks/Abilities

 * Flaming Blade Slice: A powerful fire coated blade that is struck at the opponent with tremendous power.
 * Clone: The user clones themself to make a single doppleganger.
 * Multi-Clone: The user focuses their chi to summon at least 2 or more dopplegangers.