Tao Ran (
Appearance[]
Ran's battle outfit
Ran is a striking woman and like all other Tao woman, she is quite beautiful. Ran wears her hair tied into two spikes and she wears decorated Chinese robes and carries a Chinese fan with her at all times.
When Ran and her husband saved Jun from an attack by the Dong Clan, she swore a rather skimpy battle outfit, decorated with animal bones, such as ribcages and a bull skull over her crotch.[4]
Personality[]
She is a loving and humoristic woman who will put tradition above everything else. Despite her devotion to tradition, she still loves and cares for her family, stopping her husband before he could get himself killed and happily greeting her son's new friends with a feast.
Abilities and Powers[]
Ran is an extremely skilled dàoshì and one of the best in the Tao Family. She passed down her skills with Jiang Shi to her daughter.[2]
Spirit[]
Her personal Jiang Shi are a pair of handsome zombies who have served the Tao Family for many years, back to the time of the dynasties.
History[]
Past[]
Ran was born on April 12, 1960 in Guizhou, China.[1] As the main heir to the Tao Family, she was forced to find herself a husband. However, only the strongest shamans deserved to bear the last name Tao, thus making it difficult to find a suitable husband for Ran. To determine who was worthy, her suitors would go through a formal marriage interview and would then fight against her and win. Those who lost would be turned into Jiang Shi, and if she did not like someone who won, they would be forced to go back home.
Eventually, she faced Tao En, a member of the branch Tao Family. He challenged her and won with one hit, and she fell in love instantly.[2] She later give birth to two children. First was a girl, Jun, and later a son and the main heir to the family, Ren.
Shaman Fights in Tokyo[]
When her husband was losing the fight with her son, Ran appeared together with her father to stop En. She encouraged her husband to stop when Chin said that his only choice was to stop or face death. She was present at the feast were she teased Usui Horokeu when he was afraid that something was wrong with the food, and later offered her son's friends some Jiang Shi horses to help them get home.[3]
Shaman Fights Second Round[]
She was later seen towards the end of Team "The Ren"'s first fight, sitting together with her husband in his large Dà Dào Wáng Over Soul, daughter, and father alongside several Jiang-Shis cheering on Ren.[5]
She and her husband were visibly upset when Asakura Keiko and Asakura Mikihisa came to deliver a message about Ren and even offered to train him.[6]
Invading the Plants[]
When the Shaman Fights were moved to the Continent of Mu, the Asakura Family, the Tao Family and the Usui Family had a barbecue party at the beach, awaiting the results of the fight and hoping that their children would make it. After Anna offers to reveal their current Furyoku to ease them all, Ran was seen preparing the food together with Keiko and said that they should remain calm after both Asakura Kino and En called the numbers pointless.
She later appeared on board the train of souls together with the rest of Tao Family.
Flowers[]
Anime/Manga Difference[]
Ran in the Shaman Files
In the manga and anime series, Ran is En's wife and the mother of Jun and Ren; however, in 4Kids' English dubbing of the 2001 anime series, Ran remained Jun and Ren's mother but was not En's wife because the dub made him into Jun and Ren's uncle. The dub does not mention who her husband is.
In the 2001 anime series, Ran has black hair, but in the Kang Zeng Bang Shaman Files, she is drawn with dark green hair.[2]
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