Supernatural Swordsmanship

Enhanced

Supernatural

Supernatural Swordsmanship
Gen (Saga Frontier) is such a master with the blade that he can easily do the impossible with it.
Power/Ability to:	Possess supernatural sword skills.

"People believe that the reason for mastering swordsmanship is to be able to cut down one’s enemies. For myself, however I seek to master swordsmanship because through it I seek divine principle. If once I attain this, my heart will be as still water, calm and quite, like a clear mirror lucid and bright, able to cope instantly with any situation."

― Yamaoka Tesshu, 19th century swordsman

The power to be supernaturally proficient in the way of the sword. Advanced version of Enhanced Swordsmanship. Variation of Supernatural Combat.

Also Called

• Supernatural Swordplay
• The World's Greatest Sword Master

Capabilities

User is able to wield a sword with supernatural proficiency in speed, power, and skill, allowing them to perform seemingly impossible feats with ease, such as cutting through nigh-invulnerable or intangible materials, blocking or deflecting things that should be impossible to block/deflect and even slash targets from any distance.

The user's skill with a blade is so great that they can wield blades they shouldn't be able to such as Empathic and Bound weapons.

Applications

• Absolute Piercing
• Absolute Slicing
• Attack Movement Manipulation
• Counter
• Deflection
• Defense Break
• Dual Wielding/Multi-Weapon Wielding
• Efficient Combat
• Enhanced Quick-Draw
• Precise Strike
• Pulverization
• Razor Wind
• Raw Power
• Slash Projection
• Speed Cutting
• Supernatural Precision

Associations

• Absolute Combat
• Absolute Weapon Proficiency
• Adoptive Muscle Memory
• Demonic Weaponry
• Divine Weaponry
• Empathic Weaponry
• Enhanced Swordsmanship
• Intuitive Aptitude
• Magic Weaponry
• One-Man Army
• One Hit Kill
• Sentient Weaponry
• Soul-Bound Weapon
• Supernatural Combat
• Sword Manipulation
• Weapon Creation
• Weapon Empowerment
• Weapon Enhancement
• Weapon Manipulation
• Weapon Mode
• Weapon Physiology
• Weapon Proficiency Touch
• Weapon State

Known Users

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Sephiria Arks (Black Cat)
• Creed Diskenth (Black Cat)
• Shigekuni Yamamoto Genryusai (Bleach)
• Kenpachi Zaraki (Bleach)
• Yachiru/Retsu Unohana (Bleach)
• Edelweiss (Chivalry of a Failed Knight)
• Assassin (Fate/Stay Night)
• Inu no Taisho (Inuyasha)
• Shigure Kosaka (Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple)
• Yoriichi Tsugikuni (Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Goemon Ishikawa XIII (Lupin III series)
• Mangetsu Hōzuki (Naruto)
• Ryuma (Monsters)
• Jubei Kibagami (Ninja Scroll)
• Certain swordsmen/women (One Piece)
  • Dracule Mihawk
  • Shanks
  • Gol D. Roger
  • Kozuki Oden
  • Cavendish
  • Roronoa Zoro
  • Brook
  • Shimotsuki Ryuma
  • Kin'emon
  • Denjiro
  • Ashura Doji
  • Fujitora
  • Trafalgar D. Water Law
• Kamikaze/Atomic Samurai (One-Punch Man)
• Sejiuro Hiko XIII (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Miya Asama (Sekirei)
• Sabrac (Shakugan no Shana)
• Tenmoku Ikko (Shakugan no Shana)
• Cal Shekar (Taboo Tattoo)
• Kishou Arima (Tokyo ghoul)
• Arie Hon (Tower of God)
• Users of Arie Swordsmanship (Tower of God)
  • White
• Gearfried the Swordmaster (Yu-Gi-Oh!)
• Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Kazuma Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho)
• Juuzou Shishimi (UQ Holder)

Literature

• Nicholas St. North/Santa Claus (The Guardians of Childhood)

Video Games

• Meta Knight (Kirby, Super Smash Bros. series)
• Ryu Hayabusa ( Ninja Gaiden series)
• Gen (Saga Frontier)
• Ramirez (Skies of Arcadia)
• Servants (Type Moon)
• Sword Master (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Takemikazuchi (Valkyrie Crusade)
• Sparda (Devil May Cry)
• Vergil (Devil May Cry)
• Dante (Devil May Cry)

Web Series/Animation

• Fighter (8-Bit Theater)
• Soh Jinhong (Gosu)

Known Items

• Lightning God's Blue Dragon Sword (Yongbi the Invincible)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

Sephiria Arks (Black Cat) is a master swordswoman, enough to completely atomize her target with her ultimate technique, Mekkai.

Creed Diskenth (Black Cat) using his Imagine Blade ability to create a supernatural blade that can allow him to perform devastating feats such as slicing through the nigh-unbreakable orichalcum.

Genryūsai Shigekuni Yamamoto (Bleach) possesses the Zanpakuto with the highest offensive power, which allows cutting anything out of existence.

Retsu Unohana (Bleach) was once feared in Soul Society for her absolute mastery of swordsmanship.

Kenpachi Zaraki (Bleach) is a tremendously powerful master swordsman, even without practically any formal training.

Inu no Taisho (Inuyasha) was a powerful demonic swordsmaster with complete mastery of both Tessaiga and Tenseiga, he was also the only one who can fully control Sō'unga the sword of hell which can destroy the world.

Known as a miraculous child born with the Demon Slayer Mark and See-Through the World, Yoriichi Tsugikuni (Kimetsu no Yaiba) was able to defeat and injure a swordsman as a child without no formal training. Later becoming the progenitor of the Breath Styles and creator of the more powerful style, Breath of the Sun…

…as he was the first Demon Slayer to both wound and almost kill Muzan Kibutsuji forcing him to retreat and leaving scars that were burned into his cells.

Shigure Kosaka (Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple) has mastered the art of the sword to the point that not only can she become one with her sword but even become one with other peoples swords too.

Goemon Ishikawa XIII (Lupin III) is the thirteenth generation of renegade samurai, a descendant of the historical figure Ishikawa Goemon. A lifelong adherent of a number of Japanese martial arts, including Kenjutsu and Iaidō, Goemon posesses extraordinary swordsmanship to cut a bus in two with litte effort...

...cut through a lightning bolt...

...and cut a shooting star in half from a distance, an impossible feat as noted by Lupin.

An extremely powerful samurai from the land of Wano in the Grand Line's New World, Ryuma (Monsters) was perhaps the greatest swordsman of his era...

...slicing clean through a bronze statue with no effort...

...and became famous for slaying a dragon within a single slash.

A master of the shinobi's style swordsmanship, Jubei Kibagami (Ninja Scroll) can...

...defeat foes such as samurai with little trouble...

...fight on the same level and equal Ninpo casting shinobi...

...and in spite of him having no supernatural abilities, he has reached a level of skill with the blade that has allowed him to cut the very air itself with his Wind Slash Technique.

As a man who aims to be the strongest swordsman in the world, Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) is a powerful master swordsman of the highest caliber...

..., having invented and mastered his own unique style of swordsmanship known as Santoryu/Three Swords Style in which he multi-wields three swords...

...easily cutting through materials like iron cannonballs...

...and Daz Bones/Mr.1's Dice Dice Fruit steel body with expert finesse and precision...

...utilizie the very air itself to create a Slash Effect attack from a distance...

...and as classified by Brook, he is a user of the Strong Blade swordsmanship with the Power of Destruction, demonstrating his one of his greatest feats with Santoryu Ogi: Ichidai Sanzen Daisen Sekai (Three Blade Style Secret Skill: Great Three Thousand Great Thousand Worlds) to slice through Pica's giant stone golem form...

Capable of destroying entire fleets of ships with compressed air slash attacks and cut apart giant icebergs with immense power, Dracule "Hawk-Eye" Mihawk (One Piece) is known as the World's Greatest Swordsman,...

...with just the subtle movements of his blade, he can deflect the course of bullets...

...easily defeat weaker opponents with a small, simple dagger...

A former battle convoy leader and pirate captain with years of experience in the Grand Line, Brook (One Piece) is an extremely skilled Gentle Blade Type master swordsman,...

...his swordsmanship is a combination of classical fencing...

...and Iaidō as he coats his Soul Solid with the cold of the Underworld.

Wielding his Nodachi Kikoku with the precision of a surgeon, Trafalgar D. Water Law (One Piece) combines his Ope Ope no Mi powers with his swordplay to cut at a great distance and without killing his opponents...

...and with his ROOM providing the range, he performs feats like slice apart one of Fujitora's gravity summoned meteors...

A blind master swordsman, Admiral Issho/Fujitora (One Piece) combines his powerful skills with the dangerous ability of his Devil Fruit powers...

While Cavendish (One Piece) is a genius of the sword by himself when taken over by Hakuba,...

...he is able to cut down the strongest enemies without any effort at all.

Kozuki Oden (One Piece) was one of if not the strongest samurai that was born in the Wano able to beat master samurai even as a child. A master of his Oden Nitoryu and his favored swords, Enma and Ame-no-Habakiri…

…he could defeat the enormous Mountain God and quell the lost cause region, defeating Ashura Doji and the numerous ronin and criminals in a single night…

…clashed against Whitebeard in his prime, the latter described him as something incredible...

...and would later become the only person to wound the long-thought invincible Kaido, something, not even the Yonko has done in their fights.

Ryuma Shimotsuki (One Piece) is hailed as a Legendary Samurai in Wano, preferring the Strong Blade Form, the strongest swordsman of his time for slaying a dragon. He wielded and turned Shusui into a black blade, turning it into one of the 21 Great Grade/O Wazamono Swords, then became known as a Sword God…

…postmortem his corpse was stolen by Moria then infused with Brook's shadow, postmortem he furthered his Gentle Sword Style, turning it into a more powerful and destructive variant used with his enhanced physique and Shusui.

Kin'emon (One Piece) imbuing his blades with flames of his Kitsunebi-ryu/Foxfire Style to perform supernatural attacks.

Saga (One Piece) wielding the Shichiseiken, allows him to perform supernatural feats of swordsmanship skills and techniques.

Kamikaze, the Atomic Samurai (One-Punch Man)

The most powerful swordsman of his time, Hiko Seijuro XIII's (Rurouni Kenshin) fighting proficiency goes beyond high-level master samurai, even that of his student Kenshin...

...easily turning a grown man into literal pieces.

Despite being nothing more then a mere Mystes, Tenmoku Ikko (Shakugan no Shana) is the most feared being in both the crimson realm and human world as he is such a master of the blade, that he can easily do things that are said to be impossible with it. And his skill is so great that neither Crimson Lords nor the most powerful Flame Hazes are able to stop him or even halt his progress.

Juuzou Shishimi (UQ Holder) is an incredible master swordsman with unreal skill in swordsmanship who uses a self-taught style he dubbed Shishimi-ryū able to slice anything and everything like curses, karma, and even concepts.

Gearfried the Swordmaster (Yu-Gi-Oh!) possesses such godlike skill with the sword that he is capable of wielding empathetic and soul-bound weapons with ease, as well draw out the absolute potential of any blade he wields.

A powerful master swordsman, Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho) is able to execute multiple, precise strikes at lightning-fast speed as seen when slashed Seiryu sixteen times in the blink of an eye.

Though his physical skills wielding a blade are rather amateurish, Kazuma Kuwabara (Yu Yu Hakusho) wields the Dimension Sword, which allows him supernatural feats of slicing even intangible dimensional barriers.

Edelweiss (Rakudai Kishi no Cavalry) is the Strongest Swordsmen in the World known as the Twin-Wings feared at the worst criminal too strong to capture and has a sword skill that is referred to as a godly technique...

...that boasts the greatest attack power, which doesn't leave the tiniest vibration in the air and is sharp enough to leave a scar in the air creating a vacuum blade.

Video Games

Fighter (8-Bit Theater) can do impossible and physics breaking things with swords.

Ramirez (Skies of Arcadia) has supernatural skills with a blade.

Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden series)

Assassin (Fate/Stay Night)

Sword Master (Valkyrie Crusade) is a master of all sword techniques, which includes all supernatural sword techniques, giving to her supernatural skill with a sword.

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Takemikazuchi (Valkyrie Crusade) as the goddess of swords, has godlike skill with swords.

Sparda (Devil May Cry) before his retaliation was a powerful demon swordsman and right-hand to the former Demon King, Mundus. After rebelling, he defeated hordes of demons and the Demon Emperor himself becoming the Legendary Dark Knight.

His oldest son, Vergil (Devil May Cry) has proven to be a powerful master swordsman in his own right able to make masterful use of his demonic power and beloved sword Yamato, which embodies the God of Death…

…created the Dark Slayer Style, which employs both precise and fast slashes akin to Iaijutsu being able to slice through dimensions and opponents with relative ease.

Much like his older twin brother, Dante (Devil May Cry) is a master swordsman in his own right able to make use of his own abilities and beloved sword, Rebellion, which embodies retaliation…

…creating his own Swordmaster Style, which expands his overall versatility in combat rivaling his brother's Dark Slayer Style…

…soon gaining his Devil Sword, Dante, a powerful fusion between his Rebellion and Sparda.

As Dante and Vergil continued to achieve greater heights despite being hybrids, both their powers and skills has soon far exceeded the Dark Knight and Demon Kings til the only ones who were able to rival them were each other.