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"Eat this, from my master! A sword technique created by Kenzaki Ryūsei― Secret Style Sword Technique, Zaneizan!!"
—Hayato using Zaneizan

Zaneizan (残影斬(ざんえいざん) Zaneizan, lit. "Tracing Slash") is a secret technique in the Kenzaki Dōjō and created by Ryusei Kenzaki.

Description[]

"What I created is, the destruction by the application of natural vibration."
—Ryusei explaining Zaneizan

In the middle of the Second Attack in Yamato when neither of their conventional weapons could wound savages and/or dent their steel-like shells. At that point, Hokuto Kenzaki, the older brother of Ryusei forged a katana by using the variable stone that the Yamato armed forces found from a piece of meteorite since neither brothers could get it to react to them.

Once Ryusei was soon chosen to wield the pitch-black sword that his brother forged, it failed to eliminate the savages and it caused nothing more than dents. Soon enough, he decided to create a special technique, which causes destruction by using natural vibrations.

In the initial strike, the first long sword, the user strikes their intended target causing vibrations from the resistance; then in the second strike, the second long sword, the user causes the same vibrations resonating with the "first long sword" and amplifies it more than three times causing a strike that is able to break apart the steel-like shells of savages without issues.

This sequence of sword strikes is normally done in an instant, making it seem as if it were all in a single simultaneous strike. Touka had later explained that despite their major differences, a similar technique could be created using their fists instead of a sword like normal.

Weaknesses[]

Despite the power of this technique, if it were to be used with a normal sword, then it would be shipped unable to endure it, but sword made using variable stones and/or Hundreds can endure it without breaking.

Variations[]

Zanizan Nishiki[]

Zaneizan Nishiki (斬影斬・弐式(ざんえいざん にしき) Zaneizan Nishiki, lit. "Tracing Slash Second Style") is another technique, where Ryusei performs a series of strikes drawing an X-shaped cut line before their intended target is pulverized but the destructive power of this technique is decreased a bit compared to normal.

Doryuusen[]

Doryuusen (土龍閃(どりゅうせん) Doryūsen, lit. "Earth Dragon Flash") is a technique, which Touka created by using the same concept as the usual Zaneizan, where she strikes the ground resulting in a cloud of dust as a smokescreen.

Zanshouken[]

Zanshouken (残衝拳(ざんしょうこぶし) Zanshōken, lit. "Over-Turning Fist") is a technique, which Rebecca Martin devised under the tutelage of Touka Kenzaki, which uses her fists to cause vibrations instead of a sword.

Trivia[]

  • The kanji for Zanizan was originally (斬影斬, lit. Murder Shadow).
  • Touka has created the most variations for the original Zanizan.
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