Razor Wind

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

• Air Generation/Wind Generation
• Cutting
• Death Inducement
• Sound Wave Generation

Variations

• Flaying Wind

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

Video Games

Known Objects

• Sylph Sword (Berserk)
• Byakko (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003)

Gallery

Enshin (Akame Ga Kill!) using the Teigu, Moonlight Sword Dance: Shamshir, which creates aerial blades.

Aang (Avatar: The Last Airbender) releasing an air swipe, sharp enough to slice stone.

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 Lazy Spinning Top 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 blade with a vacuum wave to cut through anything.

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.

Ceratosaurus (Dinosaur King), one of ceratosauria therapod dinosaurs that can swipe their tails through a tornado, creating knives of wind that slice their opponent.

Oceanus Shenron (Dragon Ball GT) using Gale Vacuum Cutter to create razor-sharp whirlwinds.

Vegito (Dragon Ball Z) using Kiai to fire razor-sharp wind at Super Buu...

...which hits Buu's cheek...

...and cuts it open.

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)...

...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.

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.

Kagura (InuYasha) swinging her fan to fire off the Dance of the Wind Blades.

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.

a 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.

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.

Dracule Mihawk (One Piece) slicing through immensely long distances with his Kokuto Kogetsu technique.

Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) using his 36 Pound Cannon , a powerful compressed slashing strike....

...and Kokujo: O Tatsumaki to create a tornado that cuts its targets.

Masters of Rokushiki (One Piece) can kick the air so fast that they create a sharp compressed blast of air called Rankyaku.

Kaku (One Piece) 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.

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 pure vacuum.

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.

Sonic the Hedgehog (Sonic the Hedgehog) using Sonic Wind to create a wind vortex to cut his target.

Donatello (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003) wielding Byakko, which can create air blades that slice through steel.

Zebra (Toriko) using Voice Cutter to generate thin blades of sound.

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.

Aiz Wallenstein (DanMachi) can infuse wind magic into her sword strikes, creating blades of wind that slash targets.

Using Divine Hammer, Fused Zamasu (Dragon Ball Super) swings his arm with such force that he projects winds that can slash through buildings.

Wamuu (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part II: Battle Tendency) using his Divine Sandstorm, razor sharp winds generated from his own body that are capable of shredding a human being to pieces.

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