Supernatural Katana Proficiency

Peak Human

Enhanced

Supernatural

Absolute

Supernatural Katana Proficiency
Sasaki Koujirou (TYPE-MOON) is such a master of the blade, that his ultimate technique Tsubame Gaeshi can bend time and space to attack from 3 directions at the same time, was acquired only through his godlike skill.
Power/Ability to:	Possess transcendent mastery in wielding katanas.

"There is nothing I cannot cut."

― Kamikaze/Atomic Samurai (One-Punch Man)

"As I am now, I would cut down the Gods. En garde."

― Juuzou Shishimi to his former teacher, Jinbei (UQ Holder)

The power to possess transcendent mastery in wielding katanas. Advanced version of Peak Human Katana Proficiency/Enhanced. Variation of Supernatural Swordsmanship.

Also Called

• Transcendent Kenjutsu/Katana Aptitude/Combat/Expertise/Intuition/Mastery/Proficiency

Capabilities

Users are able to wield a katana with supernatural proficiency in speed, power, dexterity, 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 may even be so great that they can wield blades they shouldn't be able to such as Empathic and Bound weapons.

Applications

• Attack Movement Manipulation - The user can manipulate, redirect or transfer their attack from an opponent to other targets as they can even disable attacks aimed towards them as a target and can transfer the attack to anyone/anything they desire.
  • Counter - User can reverse the moves of opponents and attack with the user's own counter moves with their blade.
  • Deflection - The user is capable of deflecting attacks, normally projectiles or blunt force, away from themselves.
• Defense Break - With their blade, the user is capable of breaking and overcoming almost every type of defense.
• Efficient Combat - With extensive knowledge and skill in swordplay, users can fight intensively with less energy/force than what is usually required.
• Enhanced Quick-Draw - With a katana, the user can draw their sword(s) and cut their opponent faster than they can register, slashing them before they have a chance to even react.
• Multi-Katana Proficiency - With supernatural swordsmanship skill, users are usually capable of wielding two different/or same type of blades with ease in combat and in other cases, the user is also capable of wielding multiple different blades.
• Precise Strike - The user can land accurate strikes on their opponents, allowing them to damage exactly whoever and whatever they want with utmost precision.
• Razor Wind - The user can project air/wind or sound in a way that allows them to cut through matter from a distance.
  • Flaying Wind
  • Slash Effect/Projection
  • Tornado Creation
• Speed Cutting - The user can cut anything using only speed.
  • Pulverization - The user is able to pulverize or turn anything to dust using only their blade.

Levels

• Peak Human Katana Proficiency
• Enhanced Katana Proficiency
• Supernatural Katana Proficiency
• Absolute Katana Proficiency

Associations

• Enhanced Katana Proficiency
• Supernatural Weapon Proficiency

Limitations

• Completely outmatched by users of Absolute Katana Proficiency.

Known Users

See Also: Implausible Fencing Powers and Master Swordsman.

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

• Various Characters (Bleach)
• Kokushibo (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• High-level demon slayers(Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
  • Katana-wielding Hashira
  • Tanjiro Kamado
  • Zenitsu Agatsuma
  • Inosuke Hashibira
  • Kanao Tsuyuri
• Kaigaku (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
• Yuta Okkotsu (Jujutsu Kaisen)
• Goemon Ishikawa XIII (Lupin III Series)
• Killer Bee (Naruto)
• Mangetsu Hōzuki (Naruto)
• Sasuke Uchiha (Naruto)
• Boruto Uzumaki (Boruto: Naruto Next Generations)
• Jubei Kibagami (Ninja Scroll)
• Various Swordsmen/Swordswomen (One Piece)
• Kamikaze/Atomic Samurai (One-Punch Man)
• Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin)
• Takamura (Sakamoto Days)
• Miya Asama (Sekirei)
• Match (Toriko)
• Juuzou Shishimi (UQ Holder)
• Hiei (Yu Yu Hakusho)

Video Games

• Viola (Bayonetta)
• Vergil (Devil May Cry)
• Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII series)
• Weiss the Immaculate (Final Fantasy VII series)
• Zenos yae Galvus (Final Fantasy XIV)
• Ryu Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden/Dead or Alive)
• Iori Miyamoto (TYPE-MOON)

Web Animation/Comics/Original/Series

• Andrea Thomas (Ordeal)
• Che Heart (Ordeal)
• Sabito Heart (Ordeal)
• The Shadow (Ordeal)

Known Swords

• Kyokokukamusari/Hollow Cry of the Godless (Kimetsu no Yaiba)

Gallery

Anime/Manga/Manhwa

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

Honed from childhood through countless battles, Kenpachi Zaraki (Bleach) is one of the most powerful Zanjutsu masters in Soul Society...

...his true strength surpassing that of the supreme master swordswoman Unohana, the First Kenpachi.

Sōsuke Aizen (Bleach) is an exceptionally powerful master swordsman, able to destroy Shikai and even Bankai of powerful Shinigamis relying solely on his sword skills...

...and cut down some of the finest Shinigami warriors of Soul Society with lethally precise and destructive strikes.

Ōetsu Nimaiya (Bleach) is a master swordsman who swiftly defeated four of Yhwach's most powerful Quincy, deflecting city-destroying bullets from Lille's rifle, all the while wielding a sword with a weakened forte due to long-time inactivity.

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 people's swords too.

...

Kokushibo (Kimetsu no Yaiba) being a former Hashira when the Demon Slayer Corps was at its Golden Age and creating and mastering his own Breath Style, the Moon Breathing to the extent of overpowering and subduing the numerous Hashira.

After mastering the Sun Breathing, Tanjiro Kamado (Kimetsu no Yaiba) was able to blitz Muzan and later fight on equal ground with him while also protecting his allies.

The Hashiras (Kimetsu no Yaiba) are the most powerful and skilled swordsmen in the entire Demon Slayer Corps.

The Water Hashira, Giyu Tomioka (Kimetsu no Yaiba) is a master of the Water Breathing...

...and with his Mark, he is able to go toe-to-toe against Upper Moon 3, Akaza.

The Insect Hashira, Shinobu Kocho (Kimetsu no Yaiba) is a master of the Insect Breathing, utilizing her superhuman agility and speed to deliver imperceptible thrusts with her stinger-like blade as well as coating Wisteria poison on it to make up for her inability to decapitate demons.

The Flame Hashira, Kyojuro Rengoku (Kimetsu no Yaiba) is a master of the Flame Breathing and later fought toe-to-toe against Upper Moon 3, Akaza.

The Mist Hashira, Muichiro Tokito (Kimetsu no Yaiba) is a master of the Mist Breathing.

The Lover Hashira, Mitsuri Kanroji (Kimetsu no Yaiba) is a master of the Love Breathing.

The Wind Hashira, Sanemi Shinazugawa (Kimetsu no Yaiba) is a master of the Wind Breathing.

The Serpent Hashira, Obanai Iguro (Kimetsu no Yaiba) is a master of the Serpents Breathing.

Goemon Ishikawa XIII (Lupin III) is a 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 possesses extraordinary swordsmanship to cut a bus in two with little 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...

...and shinobi 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 such a level of skill with the blade that he can cut the very air itself with his Wind Slash Technique.

As a man who aims to become the strongest swordsman in the world, Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) is a powerful master swordsman of the highest caliber, inventing and mastered his own unique swordsmanship known as Santoryu in which he multi-wields three swords...

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

...by sheer willpower he inventing a spiritual swordsmanship, Kyutoryu, letting him seemingly attaining three heads and six arms...

...with the Power of Destruction demonstrated one of his greatest feats with Santoryu Ogi: Ichidai Sanzen Daisen Sekai to slice through Pica's giant stone golem form.

With a legend saying he can cut down over 100 enemies with each strike of his sword, Kamikaze/Atomic Samurai (One-Punch Man) is a formidable master swordsman, being one of the greatest in Japan...

...with his signature technique Atomic Slash, he can perform over 100 quick sword slashes within a second, leaving his opponents literally in pieces.

...destroy opponents while creating a powerful shock wave with a single slash with his sword.

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.

Gen (Saga Frontier) is unparalleled in swordsmanship, accomplishing legendary feats like cutting esoteric or conceptual flames, killing transcendent beings with a slash and cutting things that cannot be cut with blades lacking an edge.

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.

Bonzo/Comics

Snake Eyes (G.I. Joe)

Eric Brooks/Blade (Marvel Comics)

Shredder (Teenage mutant Ninja Turtles)

Colin King/Ninjak (Valiant Entertainment)

Video Games

Vergil (Devil May Cry) has proven himself 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…

...and as he and his brother Dante continued to achieve greater heights despite being hybrids, both their powers and skills soon far exceeded and suppress their legendary father's ability and Demon Kings till they were the only ones who are able to rival each other.

As a former 1st class SOLDIER and superhumanly enhanced since birth, Sephiroth (Final Fantasy VII) has tremendous skill in swordplay with his extra-long katana Masasume...

...he can cut foes multiple times at within the blink of an eye'...

...easily match other powerful swordsmen like Angeal and Genesis at the same time...

...and repeatedly match blades with his nemesis Cloud in swordplay.

Miyamoto Iori (TYPE-MOON) has dedicated himself to the sword and uses magecraft to enhance his skill. By the end of the Waxing Moon Grail War, his swordsmanship was enough for him to surpass sword saints like Musashi.

Web Animation/Comics/Original/Series

Andrea Thomas (Ordeal)

Che Heart (Ordeal)

Sabito Heart (Ordeal)

The Shadow (Ordeal)

Videos

One piece - Whitebeard meets Oden for the first time - Oden Vs Whitebeard full fight-2

Oden vs Kaido - One Piece-2

Zoro's Attack - Asura

Purgatory Onigiri - One Piece

Zoro Defeats King - One Piece-2

Sasuke vs Killer Bee - Naruto Shippuden-2

Devil May Cry 3- Special Edition Dante VS Vergil Final Boss Battle-2

Pretty duel Vergil vs Dante - Stylish gameplay showcase Cinematic Cut - Devil May Cry 5 DLC-2

Kokushibou vs Gyomei & Sanemi - Fan Animation - Demon Slayer

Kokushibou vs Gyomei & Sanemi Part 2 - Fan Animation - Demon Slayer-2

The Last Order- FFVII Zack & Cloud vs Sephiroth

Limit break clash Cloud and Sephiroth-2

Final Fantasy VII Advent children Complete Cloud vs Sephiroth-2

Zoro VS Erza (One Piece VS Fairy Tail) DEATH BATTLE!

Ryu Hayabusa VS Strider Hiryu - DEATH BATTLE!

Dante VS Bayonetta DEATH BATTLE!

Sephiroth VS Vergil (Final Fantasy VS Devil May Cry) DEATH BATTLE!

Madara VS Aizen (Naruto VS Bleach) - DEATH BATTLE!

One Minute Melee - Roronoa Zoro Vs Rurouni Kenshin (One Piece vs Samurai X)

Aizen vs Madara (Bleach vs Naruto) - One Minute Melee S6 Finale