Season 4 (The Oni Masks)
In an attempt to free himself from prison, Daolon Wong attempts to summon the Shadowkhan, only to awaken Tarakudo, the Lord of all Oni and King of the Shadowkhan. Jackie and co must now locate the nine oni masks which contain the souls of Tarukudo's generals and therefore allows the wearer to summon a tribe of Shadowkhan. This season also introduces Drago, Shendu's son from the future who seeks to fulfill his father's goals by bringing forth the Age of Dragons, as well as Strikemaster Ice and his two cronies DJ Fist and MC Cobra. A running joke in this season is that Hak Foo wanted the masks but someone else always got them, and when he did get one his shadowkhan were tiny.
| Episode# | Episode title | Air date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70 (01) | "The Masks of the Shadowkhan" | September 13, 2003 (2003-09-13) | ||
| While attempting to summon the Shadowkhan, Daolon Wong accidentally summons Tarakudo, King of the Shadowkhan. With the enforcers in tow, Tarakudo sets out for Shendu's palace. The Chans find themselves outmatched, and Tohru is reminded of the Oni demons of Japan. At the palace, Tarakudo finds the mask that Shendu used to control the Shadowkhan. It ends up on Chow, but not before Tarakudo reveals himself as Lord of the Oni. Using a new incantation, Uncle creates a removal spell to take off Chow's mask. Tohru then reads the script of a tablet in the palace. It tells of the 9 Oni generals, each with their own tribe of Shadowkhan. Each was imprisoned in a different masks, and if brought together, can summon enough Shadowkhan to cover the world in eternal darkness. | ||||
| 71 (02) | "Samurai Ratso" | September 20, 2003 (2003-09-20) | ||
| Traveling to Japan, the Chans discover a second Oni mask. After Ratso puts it on and summons a new breed of Shadowkhan, Uncle discovers that each mask requires a different removal ingredient. Tohru reads about the Hana Fuda cards, which can be used to locate Oni masks and discover their ingredients. Tarakudo attacks, but they escape after Tohru attacks Tarakudo with the bane of the Oni: onions. As they make their way to the shrine of the Hana Fuda, Uncle leaves, feeling that Tohru has replaced him. Arriving at the shrine, the Chans discover that it has become a car factory, and that the president owns the cards. Ratso arrives with his Shadowkhan, and Jade and Tohru use the cards to discover the removal ingredient. Just as they are about to be overwhelmed, Uncle returns, using Tohru's new stun spell to combat the Shadowkhan. He then uses the Japanese silk in the president's tie to activate the removal spell. Uncle then follows up on Tohru's idea and creates an onion spell barrier around Section 13 to keep Tarakudo away from Oni Masks in the vault. | ||||
| 72 (03) | "The Amazing T-Troop" | September 27, 2003 (2003-09-27) | ||
| Jade's dog Scruffy joins Jackie and Jade in the search for an Oni mask, and ends up wearing it. Tarakudo controls him, and uses him to summon a new breed of Shadowkhan. Jade, compelled to rescue her dog, forms the T-Troop: T-Girl, (Jade) with the strength of the ox; Super Moose, animated by the Rat talisman; and Morticai the pig and Eggbert the rooster (visiting town at the time) with their respective talisman powers. Jade ends up captured, and the Troop teams up with Jackie to rescue both her and Scruffy. This episode features the return of the Dog, Pig, and Rooster that were previously the Noble Animals that were infused with their respective Talisman powers from Season 3. | ||||
| 73 (04) | "Black Magic" | October 4, 2003 (2003-10-04) | ||
| While aiding the Chans in obtaining an Oni mask, Captain Black ends up wearing it. While Uncle and Tohru search for the removal ingredient, Black grows more and more evil under the mask's influence and tries to give the masks to Finn, Ratso and Chow but is stopped by Jade using the Tiger Talisman on Captain Black and using the Rabbit Talisman to get the rest of the masks from Black's dark side. | ||||
| 74 (05) | "The Demon Behind" | October 11, 2003 (2003-10-11) | ||
| After recovering an important Oni mask, Tohru gets fed up with Uncle's bossieness, and the two stop speaking to each other. Jade uses the rat talisman to bring the mask to life, so they can interrogate it. However, it escapes with the intention of attaching itself to Tohru. The mask is accidentally sat on by Finn, and ends up stuck to his butt. Undeterred, the mask summons its samurai-like Shadowkhan, and captures Tohru, who has the mask removal spell with him. Uncle, unwilling to let his apprentice down, uses shadow magic to take Jackie and himself to Tohru. They fight off the Shadowkhan, and Finn uses the removal spell to evict the mask from his hindquarters, because he had enough of the busybody and noisy mask commanding a Shadowkhan keep carrying and turning him when the mask(Ikazuki) wants to talk. | ||||
| 75 (06) | "Fright Fight Night" | October 25, 2003 (2003-10-25) | ||
| Paco and El Toro arrive in town to celebrate Halloween, and Paco is discouraged by the way the others treat him. He then attempts to outdo Jade in scariness by putting on the latest Oni mask. Setting out to be the scariest, he finds Tarakudo, who teaches him how to summon Shadowkhan with elastic abilities. He captures Jade, and is about to injure her when the Chans and El Toro arrive with the removal potion. El Toro faces Paco in a wrestling match, but ends up trapped. He then convinces Paco to remove the mask himself. | ||||
| 76 (07) | "The Shadow Eaters" | November 15, 2003 (2003-11-15) | ||
| The Chans discover the next Oni mask in a psychic's swamp shack, but lose the Hana Fuda card that contains the Mask removal ingredient in the process and the mask ends up on Hak Foo, who summons tiny Shadowkhan. Jade and Jackie capture one, but it later eats Tohru's shadow, growing larger and leaving him in a comatose state. Jackie and Jade go after Hak Foo's Shadowkhan army Ghost Buster-style, sucking up the Shadowkhan until they encounter a rather large one. While it confronts Jackie, Jade chases another one, which ends up Godzilla-size. Uncle is forced to turn to the psychic for help with the removal ingredient, and phones Jackie to tell him that it is fish. They remove Hak Foo's mask, and the shadows are returned. Tohru wakes up to find himself the subject of Uncle's latest hobby: oil-painting. | ||||
| 77 (08) | "Half a Mask of Kung-Fu" | November 1, 2003 (2003-11-01) | ||
| After losing a new Oni mask to an auction manager, the Chans and the Dark Hand attempt to win it in the auction. However, both teams are beaten by Valmont. He plans to use the mask to summon an army of Shadowkhan thieves, but in the ensuing fight the mask is broken in half. Valmont puts on one half, and can only summon half-Shadowkhan. The removal potion ends up in a mail truck, and the Chans go after it. However, when Valmont attacks, Jade puts on the other mask half to summon aid. As Jade and Valmont both start to succumb to the masks, they meet up in the post office where the spell has ended up. The two demon halves join forces, gluing their Shadowkhan together through darkness. However, Jade and Valmont manage to get the potion, and together get their masks off. Valmont ditches his mask half for a box of diamonds, but ends up packaged and on his way to Mexico. | ||||
| 78 (09) | "The Good Guys" | November 22, 2003 (2003-11-22) | ||
| After a failed attempt at stealing a valuable statue, the Enforcers arrive at Uncle's shop seeking reform. They are granted a chance, and are employed at Uncle's shop with Tohru. When Jackie goes to transport a rare jewel to the museum, he faces three masked thugs and assumes that they are the Enforcers. When the Enforcers arrive with Jade in tow, however, they are pitted against the real thieves: Strikemaster Ice and his two cronies MC Cobra and DJ Fist. | ||||
| 79 (10) | "J2" | January 31, 2004 (2004-01-31) | ||
| Uncle is searching for a large source of dark Chi when the Chans encounter a mysterious girl in the junkyard. This woman reveals herself as Jade from the future, who has come back to stop the revival of Shendu by the hands of his son Drago, who has taken over in the future and now tries to secure a set of magic dragon teeth hidden in the present to ensure his father's resurrection. | ||||
| 80 (11) | "The J-Tots" | February 7, 2004 (2004-02-07) | ||
| Chang escapes from prison with his Chang Gang, a group of evil counterparts to the J-Team. Meanwhile, Jade wants to be recognized as a J-Team member, and places a seniority spell over the others. This backfires when, during the J-Team/Chang Gang confrontation, the J-Team members become toddlers. | ||||
| 81 (12) | "Déjà Vu" | January 17, 2004 (2004-01-17) | ||
| The Chans arrive at an old temple in search of Daolon Wong, who has been released for good behaviour and seeks to use the magical Deja Vu stone to return to the past and reclaim his lost power. Jackie and Wong both end up reliving their pasts, until Jackie gets the stone and Wong is captured by the past Dark Hand. Jackie is about to undo the future by sending Jade home the day she arrives, but realizes what a help she has been. During the flashbacks, you can see Daolon Wong getting hurt from previous episodes like in the Christmas episode where he gets hit from the sleigh. Also him lying on a volcano rock flying from a volcano and other funny moments like that. | ||||
| 82 (13) | "Ninja Twilight" | February 14, 2004 (2004-02-14) | ||
| Jackie and Jade find the last Oni mask underwater and are surprised to find no opposition. However, when they put the mask in the vault, the masks all shatter and release the 9 Oni Generals! The demons unleash their Shadowkhan armies, who begin to cover the world in darkness. Tohru studies the legend of the Oni, and discovers a warning indicating never to bring the masks together. Viper and El Toro arrive to help, and the J-Team takes on the Oni. However, Tarakudo grabs the Talismans, and locks them in the conquered Section 13. As the Team searches for an escape route, they discover on the Hana Fuda cards the location of a tenth Oni mask: the one meant for Tarakudo! Using a Shadowkhan symbol tattoo, the Team sends Tohru into the Shadow Realm to recover the mask. Despite Tohru's success, he is corrupted by the tattoo's evil. Taking Tohru's hair, the Team activates the spell, but instead of trapping Tarakudo, they restore him to his humanoid form. Tarakudo overpowers them, but Jade slaps the mask on his face. The Shadowkhan and the Oni are all pulled into the mask, and Tohru is returned to normal. | ||||
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