- "It is possible to be fast enough to cause slicing winds..."
- ― Kalifa describing Rankyaku/Tempest Kick (One Piece)
The ability to use the air/wind to slice objects. Sub-power of Air Attacks, Sound Attacks, and Vacuum Manipulation. Variation of Elemental Cutting.
Also Called
- Aerial Blade
- Air Blades/Cutter/Razor/Scar/Sickle/Slash/Slicing
- Cleaving Wind
- Cutting Wind
- Flying Slash Attack (One Piece)
- Rankyaku/Tempest Kick (One Piece)
- Kuretsusen
- Razor Wind Generation/Projection
- Vacuum Blade/Cut
- Wind Blades/Cutter/Razor/Scar/Sickle/Slash/Slicing
Capabilities
The user can project air/wind or sound in a way that allows them to cut through matter from a distance. Although this attack does usually slashing damage, some users are able to focus it into single piercing stab like an immaterial bullet.
Applications
Variations
Associations
- Aerokinetic Blade Construction
- Aerokinetic Claws
- Blade Projection
- Enhanced Swordsmanship
- Pressure Strike
- Sharpness Manipulation
- Slash Effect
- Slash Projection
- Sword Beam Emission
Known Users
See Also: Razor Wind.
Folklore/Mythology
- Kamaitachi (Japanese Mythology)
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
- Enshin (Akame Ga Kill!)
- Kenichirō Morio (Alive: The Final Evolution)
- Worton (Bakugan)
- Koshirō Chikuma (Basilisk)
- Serpico (Berserk); via Sylph Sword
- Yuno (Black Clover)
- Kensei Muguruma (Bleach)
- Kōji (Code:Breaker)
- Dabura (Dragon Ball Z)
- Aiz Wallenstein (DanMachi); via Magic Infusion
- Pikkon (Dragon Ball Z)
- Vegito (Dragon Ball Z)
- Oceanus Shenron (Dragon Ball GT)
- Fused Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super)
- Kyogai (Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba)
- Ikaruga (Fairy Tail)
- Erigor (Fairy Tail)
- Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail)
- August (Fairy Tail)
- Kris Rutherford (Edens Zero)
- Wamuu (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency)
- Nanto Suicho Ken Practitioners (Fist of the North Star)
- Yuda (Fist of the North Star)
- Shu (Fist of the North Star)
- Fūko Kirisawa (Flame of Recca)
- Neptune/Purple Heart (Hyperdimension Neptunia series)
- Nepgear/Purple Sister (Hyperdimension Neptunia series)
- Kagura the Wind Sorceress (InuYasha)
- InuYasha (InuYasha)
- Seri Awashima (K Project)
- Kazuma Yagami (Kaze no Stigma)
- Fuu Hououji (Magic Knight Rayearth)
- Diana (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Dorothy (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Fuugi (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Orb of Caldia (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Rapunzel (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Chimera (Marchen Awakens Romance)
- Users of Wind Release (Naruto)
- Elaine (Nanatsu no Taizai)
- Sariel (Nanatsu no Taizai)
- Jubei Kibagami (Ninja Scroll)
- Users of Rankyaku (One Piece)
- Roronoa Zoro (One Piece)
- Dracule Mihawk (One Piece)
- Ryuma (One Piece)
- Shiki (One Piece)
- Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece)
- Diamante (One Piece)
- Eric (One Piece)
- Tatewaki Kuno (Ranma ½)
- Ryū Kumon (Ranma ½)
- Raijūta Isurugi (Rurouni Kenshin)
- Amidamaru (Shaman King)
- Zebra (Toriko)
- Randō (Yu Yu Hakusho)
- Roto (Yu Yu Hakusho)
Video Games
- Yasha (Asura's Wrath)
- Lehvak-Kal (Bionicle)
- Sephiroth (Compilation of Final Fantasy VII)
- Dante (Devil May Cry)
- Vergil (Devil May Cry)
- Nero (Devil May Cry)
- Harpymon (Digimon)
- Various types of dinosaurs (Dinosaur King)
- Skilled Swordsmen (Disgaea: Hour of Darkness)
- Vildred (Epic Seven)
- Bellona Moune (Epic Seven)
- Goenitz (King of Fighters)
- Kirby (Kirby)
- Meta Knight (Kirby)
- Riven (League of Legends)
- Ryū Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden)
- Flying-type Pokémon (Pokémon)
- Rance (Rance series)
- Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog)
- Yuri Lowell (Tales of Vesperia)
- Link (The Legend of Zelda)
- Youmu Konpaku (Touhou Project)
- Komachi Onozuka (Touhou Project)
- Arcueid Brunestud (TYPE-MOON)
- Rena (Elsword)
Cartoons
- Airbenders (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
- Avatars (Avatar: The Last Airbender)
- Walter Shreeve (Batman Beyond)
- Mia Watanabe (Power Rangers Samurai)
- Leonardo (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles)
Other
- Stormtiger (Worm)
- Kazikli Bey (Worm)
Known Objects
- Sylph Sword (Berserk)
- Vortex-Beam Ring/Spin (Marvel Comics)
- Byakko (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003)
Gallery
Anime/Manga/Manhwa
Enshin (Akame Ga Kill!) using the Teigu, Moonlight Sword Dance: Shamshir, which creates aerial blades.
Kenichirō Morio (Alive: The Final Evolution) manipulating wind to create a razor-sharp Kamaitachi.
Koshirō Chikuma (Basilisk) breathes out Kamaitachi, a vacuum that sucks in the target and shreds them to pieces.
Leon Elliott (Black Cat) firing off Aero Slash, a blade of pressurized air.
Shunsui Kyōraku (Bleach) using Bushōgoma to slice in a whirlwind style.
Kensei Muguruma (Bleach) generating explosive air blades with Tachikaze.
Tōshirō Hitsugaya (Bleach) uses Vacuum Ice Blade to combine ice blades with a vacuum wave to cut through anything against Bazz-B (Bleach).
Kōji (Code:Breaker) using Divine Storm to send a vacuum storm that slices everything in his path.
Kazekiri (D.Gray-Man) using Wind Blades to fire off a massive barrage of air blades.
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Kyogai (Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba)
Ceratosaurus (Dinosaur King), one of ceratosaurs therapod dinosaurs that can swipe their tails through a tornado, creating knives of wind that slice their opponent.
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Vegito (Dragon Ball) using his Kiai to create a razor-sharp gust of wind to cut open Super Buu's cheek.
Using Divine Hammer, Fused Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super) swings his arm with such force that he projects winds that can slash through buildings.
Oceanus Shenron (Dragon Ball GT) using Gale Vacuum Cutter to create razor-sharp whirlwinds.
Erza Scarlet (Fairy Tail) slashing through metal with the mere air pressure of her sword swings.
Practitioners of South Dipper Holy Fist (Fist of the North Star) can generate air pressure to cut the victims from the outside...
...Rei with his Nanto Suicho Ken/South Dipper Waterfowl Fist...
...Shu's Nanto Hakuro Ken (South Dipper White Heron Fist)...
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...Yuda's Nanto Kokaku Ken (South Dipper Flamingo Fist).
...Souther's Nanto Hōō Ken (South Dipper Phoenix Fist).
Fūko Kirisawa (Flame of Recca) has Fūjin focus wind into blades for the Wind Cutter.
Tōga (InuYasha) using the Wind Scar.
Inuyasha (InuYasha) sends energy into the rift of demonic energy between himself and his opponent's swirling in the wind to fire off the Wind Scar.
Aiz Wallenstein (DanMachi) can infuse wind magic into her sword strikes, creating blades of wind that slash targets.
Kagura (InuYasha) swinging her fan to fire off the Dance of the Wind Blades.
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Seri Awashima (K Project) using her famed Arrow Attack.
The Air-Cutting Flash (Love Hina, Negima!, UQ Holder) is one of the signature technique of the Gods' Cry School.
Fuu Hououji (Magic Knight Rayearth) using Emerald Cyclone to project wind blades.
Fuugi (Marchen Awakens Romance) using Vindalva to fire off his Wind Cutter blades.
One of Orb’s (Marchen Awakens Romance) ÄRM, let's him create slicing waves of air.
Rapunzel (Marchen Awakens Romance) is able to concentrate her magical power to her sharp nails to create slicing waves of air. She exclusively used this technique to execute her War Games teammates as punishment for losing.
Dorothy (Marchen Awakens Romance) can create slicing waves of air with her Broom of Zephyrus
Kiba Inuzuka and Akamaru (Naruto) using Fang Wolf Fang to spin so ferociously they create a vacuum vortex that cuts without touching.
Danzō Shimura (Naruto) firing Wind Release: Vacuum Wave blades to viciously slice through his assailants.
Baki (Naruto) using Wind Release: Blade of Wind, attack that incorporates sharpness and pinpoint accuracy.
Temari (Naruto) can use her Giant Folding Fan for Sickle Weasel Technique and its stronger variants, releasing countless sharp vacuum pockets.
Zaku Abumi's (Naruto) Decapitating Air Wave contains supersonic blades within.
An ANBU (Naruto) using Wind Release: Wind Cutter Technique to generate a sharp blade of wind.
Naruto Uzumaki (Naruto) producing Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, air blades that damage an opponent's nerve channels.
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Shojoji (Naruto) uses Wind Release: Sword of the Wind Count to release a sharp wave of compressed wind from his hands.
Ryū Hayabusa (Ninja Gaiden) using the Art of the Wind Blades to create vacuum blades that bifurcate all in its path.
Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) using his 36 Pound Cannon , a powerful compressed slashing strike...
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...and Kokujo: O Tatsumaki to create a tornado that cuts anything in its path.
Masters of Six Powers/Rokushiki (One Piece) can kick the air so fast that they create a sharp compressed blast of air called Rankyaku/Tempest Kick...
...Kaku using his strongest variant Rankyaku: Amane Dachi, a rotating kick that sends a 360-degree slicing shock wave...
Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece) kicking so hard that he caused a shock wave slicing through his palace's towers.
Ryū Kumon (Ranma ½) using the Demon-God Multiple Strike to tear the air apart, creating vacuum blades.
Raijūta Isurugi (Rurouni Kenshin) using Izuna, creating a vacuum blade that severed Yutarō's nerves but left with no bleeding...
...Matoi Izuna" to send a vacuum blade through the ground...
...and Tobi Izuna, sending a razor-sharp vacuum through the air.
Zebra (Toriko) using Voice Cutter to generate thin blades of sound.
Scyther (Pokémon) using Razor Wind.
Pidove (Pokémon) uses "Air Cutter" which is razor-sharp wind.
Tornadus (Pokémon) using "Air Slash" to fire off razor-sharp buzzsaw of air.
Riolu (Pokémon) using "Vacuum Wave" to send a razor-sharp wave of a pure vacuum.
Randō/Shōrin (Yu Yu Hakusho) using Slicing Gale Aegis attack that can easily slice skin.
Roto (Yu Yu Hakusho) creating razor-sharp vacuum blades with his finger scythe.
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Wamuu (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency) using his Divine Sandstorm, razor-sharp winds generated from his own body that is capable of shredding a human being to pieces.
Add a photo to this galleryCartoons
Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) releasing an air swipe, sharp enough to slice stone.
Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003) wielding Byakko, which can create air blades that slice through steel.
Video Games
Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) using Sonic Wind to create a wind vortex to cut his target.
Youmu Konpaku (Touhou) makes a cutting remark.
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