Kidō

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Kidō (鬼道; lit. "demon way", or "spirit way" sometimes translated as Demon Arts) is the technique that Shinigami and Ninja use to focus their Spiritual Energy into magic spells of various powers. These spells serve a wide variety of uses such as healing, defense, or combat.

These spells are graded on a scale of 1 to 99, the latter being the most powerful and the most difficult to perform. In order to use Kidō one must recite the incantation, state the name of the spell, and call its number. For someone skilled enough in a particular Kidō spell, the incantation is not necessary, but reciting it will increase the potential power of the spell. There are three main types of Kidō: binding spells, destruction spells, and healing spells. Binding spells are a broad category referring to anything designed to halt or deter an enemy, destructive spells refer to anything designed to specifically harm an enemy, and healing spells, which do not require names, numbers, or incantations to cast, simply heal the Shinigami's comrades. Even a lower-level Destructive Spell, such as Byakurai, can be utterly devastating when used by a skilled and powerful user. Kido can also be strengthened by certain methods, such as concentration, training, and transformations.

Binding(縛道, bakudō, literally "way of binding") Spells

1. Restrain

• Effect: Locks a target's arms in place behind their back.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

2. Block

• Effect: Gathers Kido energy into the user's hand to halt one physical attack by catching it. It cannot catch attacks of too much force.
• Incantation: "Let mine glove glow with a grip of steel! Let mine digits shine with the force of stone!"

3. First Aid

• Effect: Relieves pain and heals minor wounds such as nicks, scratches, scrapes, and bruises. Cannot be used on oneself.
• Incantation: "Let the Nightengale descend from her place at the lord's side to heal the minor wounds of my comrade!"

4. Crawling Rope

• Effect: An energy rope entangles a target's arms.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

5. Guard

• Effect: Essentially the double version of Bakudo 2. It gathers Kido energy to the hands to catch an attack with both hands. It can also catch attacks with much more force.
• Incantation: "Let mine gauntlets sparkle with the hardness of diamonds! Let mine forearms hold fast with the steadiness of a mountain!"

7. Steadfast

• Effect: An alternative to Bakudo 2 and 5. This gathers Kido energy to the caster's forearms and legs. The user then bends their arms forward and bends their elbows so their forearms stick up so that their forearms block their face. With the Kido energy applied to the forearms, an attack can be blocked. The Kido energy applied to the legs makes sure that the force of the blow does not move the caster from the spot they are standing. Their feet remain firmly planted to the ground. Attacks of too much force can and will be able to push the caster back slightly, but rarely will they be harmed.
• Incantation: "May the bucklers of the Holy Knight grace my forearms! May the boots of ten tons grace my feet! May these Angel's Arms hold me in my place so I may stand steady against all odds!"

8. Repulse

• Effect: Creates a round shield that seems to temporarily paralyze and repel whatever strikes it.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

9. Strike

• Effect: Engulfs a target in red light, completely paralyzing them.
• Incantation: "Disintegrate, you black dog of Rondanini! Look upon yourself with horror and then claw out your own throat!"

10. Detox

• Effect: Removes the effects of poison on an ally. Cannot be used on oneself.
• Incantation: "May the poison coursing through this child's veins be banished! May a purifying arrow of light shatter the venomous glare of the cobra!"

12. Ambush Flare

• Effect: Constructs a net of Kido energy around the area to entrap enemies. However, the net has to be laid out by the caster dispersing Kido energy as the run around the area. And the net is visible as it's being laid out. But if the caster manages to set it up without the enemy noticing, any enemies within the field will be trapped. Depending on where the user runs, the net can even have a save zone in the center for any allies present.
• Incantation: Uknown/None

26. Curving Light

• Effect: Hides the target from sight, presumably by bending light.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

29. Royal Medicine

• Effect: Heals moderate wounds such as cuts, gashes, and broken bones. It even restores small extremities that have been cut or blown off, such as fingers and ears, but only if the loss of the part was recent. Cannot be used on oneself.
• Incantation: "May the bedside manner of the Holy Mother reside within me! May I care for this child through his nightmares!"

30. Beak-Stab Triple Beam

• Effect: Shoots three beams of light that pin the target to one place on a surface, slamming into his/her body in three places in a shape of a perfect triangle.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

35. Mirror Door

• Effect: Creates a glass-like barrier within a doorway which is difficult to break from the outside, but quite simple to break from the inside.
• Incantation: "Oh ye lord! Seal this gateway with a mirror's heavenly sheen! Let the angel of death pass over upon seeing the blood of a lamb, sparing the firstborn child!"

37. Suspending Star

• Effect: Creates a star-shaped cushion of Spiritual Energy, which anchors it to nearby objects with "ropes" of spirit particles. It can stop falling objects, acting like a safety net.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

39. Arc Shield

• Effect: Summons a shield of condensed Reiatsu to block opponents' attacks.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

58. Summoning of the Tracking Sparrows

• Effect: Tracks and locates any spiritual force the user focuses on. To activate it, the user must draw a circle on the ground, cut into four parts with a specific character in each. The incantation animates the circle, causing various numbers to appear within until the specific set is found. The number set seems to be a variation on longitude and latitude.
• Incantation: "Heart of the south, eye of the north, finger of the west, foot of the east, arrive with the wind and depart with the rain."

59. Natural Cure

• Effect: Heals major wounds, and can even restore missing organs and lost limbs, but only if the removal of the limbs or organs was recent. Cannot be used on oneself.
• Incantation: "Oh Angels! Descend upon this wounded mortal! Let his wounds heal and his pain be eased!"

61. Six Rods Prison of Light

• Effect: Summons six thin, but wide, beams of light that slam into a target's midsection, holding them in place.
• Incantation: "Carriage of Thunder. Bridge of a spinning wheel. With light, divide this into six!"

62. Hundred Steps Fence

• Effect: A rod formed of energy is thrown towards the target before it disintegrates into numerous short rods which are used to pin the target to the surroundings and render them immobile.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

63. Locking Bondage Stripes

• Effect: Binds the arms of a target. According to Hachigen Ushōda, physical strength alone should not be enough to break out of a level 60 Bakudō, however Kensei Muguruma was able to free himself from this Kidō while in his Hollow form.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

73. Tozansho

• Effect: Creates a pyramid-shaped barrier around the caster.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

75. Quintet of 1 kan Iron Pillars

• Effect: Summons five incredibly tall and thick pillars to pin a target to the ground.
• Incantation: "Walls of ironsand, a priestly pagoda, glowing ironclad fireflies. Standing upright, silent to the end."

77. Heavenly Rickshaws in Silken Air

• Effect: Transmits messages to anyone within Soul Society. In addition to reciting the spell, the user must draw specific markings on their arms, which are animated by the spell to convey the messages.
• Incantation: "Black and white net. Twenty-two bridges, sixty-six crowns and belts. Footprints, distant thunder, sharp peak, engulfing land, hidden in the night, sea of clouds, blue line. Form a circle and fly though the heavens."

81. Splitting Void

• Effect: Creates an energy barrier in the form of a rectangular wall. According to Byakuya, it is capable of stopping destructive spells up to #89. This is seen also when Aizen uses it to block Tessai's hado #88.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

86. Eternal Sonata

• Effect: Sends the target into a temporary coma. The victim will dream while in the coma. The length of the coma depends on the caster's strength with the spell. It is activated by tapping the target's forehead with the index and middle fingers.
• Incantation: "May this poor distraught soul find temporary peace in the confines of his dreams..."

89. Reverse Demon

• Effect: Nullifies an opponent's Kidō spell by hitting them with a perfectly equal yet opposite surge of energy.
• Incantation: "Demons of Hell! Let that which is about to pass halt in it's tracks!"

90. Fifth Reflect

• Effect: Erects a temporary wall in front of the caster that can send projectile energy-based attacks back at the attacker.
• Incantation: "May the five corners of Creation, Birth, Life, Death, and Rebirth gather before me to protect mine mortal body and strike back at mine enemy!"

93. Edge Of Reality

• Effect: Sends the victim into a dream world where they live out their life like usual. They will have no memory of what they were doing prior to the Kido being casted, so the transition from reality to the dream world is completely unnoticable. However, anything that happens in the dream world is based upon what has already happened in the victim's life. No one in the dream world can tell the victim anything he or she does not already know. If he or she asks anyone a question with an answer they don't know, the dream person will ignore the question. The victim is also unable to travel to any place they have not been to before. If they try to go someplace they have never been, such as a certain part of town, they will find themself someplace else they have been before in the nearby area. Due to these factors, it is easy for the victim to realize that it is a dream realm. Once the victim realizes EXACTLY what is going on (that is, that this is a dream world, nothing can happen that hasn't already happened, no one can tell the victim anything he or she doesn't already know, the victim can't go anywhere they haven't been to before, and that the dream world is induced by a Kido), they will awaken. The victim will also immediately awaken if they are somehow killed within the dream world.
• Incantation: "The place between sleep and awake where you still remember your dreams... Go there."

96. Phoenix Revive

• Effect: Completely heals a wounded ally, even from the brink of death. Cannot be used on oneself.
• Incantation: "Let the soul of this poor child arise from the River Styx like a Phoenix from the ashes!"

97. Spatial Displacement

• Effect: Teleports a specified portion of space from one point to another, transporting even other active Kidō spells.
• Incantation: "Space! Be my comrade! Land, Ocean, Sky! Let the object before me be banished to another location!"

98. Temporal Stasis

• Effect: Halts time in a specific area.
• Incantation: "Time! Be my ally! Past, Present, Future! Let the flowing current be halted, so that only the echoes can be heard!"

99, Part 1. Seal

• Effect: Binds the arms of a target with spiritual fabric and iron shafts.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

99, Part 2. Great Seal

• Effect:
  • First Song: Covers a target from head to toe with spiritual fabric.
  • Second Song: Stabs target with numerous metal blades.
  • Final Song: Smashes target with an immense metal cube.
• Incantation:
  • First Fong: "First song! Halting fabric!"
  • Second Song: "Second song! Hundred linked bolts!"
  • Final Song: "Final song! Great seal of 10,000 forbiddings!"

Destructive (破道, hadō, literally "way of destruction") Spells

1. Thrust

• Effect: Pushes the target away from the caster.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

4. Pale Lightning

• Effect: The user fires a concentrated, powerful lightning bolt from their finger.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

11. Reading Lightning

• Effect: Electric current flows through any object the user touches and is able to lead electricity, damaging any target that is in contact with the object the current runs through.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

20. White Crawl

• Effect: Destroys everything within a certain radius of the user and knocks out any living thing within that radius.
• Incantation: "Destruction! Surround my body! Send any around me to the realm of the the unconscious, where dreams do not reach!"

21. White Lunar Spear Shot

• Effect: a technique where the user shoots a blast of spiritual energy in the sky. Then the spiritual energy takes the shape of a moon. It pin points a location and shoots a spear at the target.
• Incantation: "Oh the crescent moon of the lunar eclipse, where one of the purist of light and the shadows of darkness, show me your holy light"

27. Reshi Blade

• Effect: Forms the users spiritual energy around their arm or arms in the form of a blade. It's capable of delivering a fatal blow if the users has a high ammount of spiritual energy.
• Incantation: "Let my energy flow and cut my opponent to ribbons. May his remains be scattered by the winds."

31. Shot of Red Fire

• Effect: Fires a ball of red energy at a target. It's been showed in Bleach filler that this red energy generates enough heat to evaporate water, but is still extinguished by water at the same time.
• Incantation: "Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Inferno and pandemonium, the sea barrier surges, march on to the south!"

33. Blue Fire, Crash Down

• Effect: Fires a burst of blue spiritual energy at a target in a similar manner to 31, but over a wider area and with more power.
• Incantation: "Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws."

54. Abolishing Flames

• Effect: Fires a blast of purple spiritual energy that will incinerate a target completely when it makes contact.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

58. Orchid Sky

• Effect: A widening tornado-like blast is fired towards the target.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

62. Blue Nova Wind Storm

• Effect: the user shoots wind from his hand into a dragon like attack at the opponent.
• Incantation: "A call on apon of the darkest of night, send out the storm god in order to shake the world"

63. Thunder Roar Cannon

• Effect: Fires a massive wave of yellow energy at a target.
• Incantation: "Sprinkled on the bones of the beast! Sharp tower, red crystal, steel ring. Move and become the wind, stop and become the calm. The sound of warring spears fills the empty castle!"

73. Twin Lotus Blue Fire, Crash Down

• Effect: Essentially a doubled version of #33, this spell fires two shots of blue fire with greater potency than the single-shot variety.
• Incantation: "Ye lord! Mask of blood and flesh, all creation, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! On the wall of blue flame, inscribe a twin lotus. In the abyss of conflagration, wait at the far heavens."

74. Black Demon Fang

• Effect: the user puts their hands together and shoots a black and red fang at the opponent.
• Incantation: "On darkest day and brightest light, let the demon god answer my call, with my right arm and let the flames of hell come to me.."

88. Flying Dragon-Striking Heaven-Shaking Thunder Cannon

• Effect: Fires a gigantic blast of spiritual energy resulting in a truly enormous explosion.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

90. Black Coffin

• Effect: Forms a box of black energy around a target, which is then pierced by dozens of energy "spears", lacerating the one inside from head to toe. Its appearance and function is reminiscent of a common magician's trick, as well as certain torture devices used during the Spanish Inquisition.
• Incantation: Unknown/None

91. White Red Dragon Fire Cannon

• Effect: the user uses spiritual energy and moves their two fingers like a dragon and shoots out a red fire attack at the opponent. The power of this attack really depends on the balance of spiritual energy is used, too much and it will explode right at you or too little and it doesn’t work at all.
• Incantation: "In the darkest of night when the crimson sky appers with the blood of the foes that died against the sky king. Lend us your relentent furry as your red dragon comes from the heavens and on to this world"

92. Strike of the Seven Star

• Effect: seven balls of light are made at the users hands when placed together horizontal. The seven stars are launched at the opponent.
• Incantation: "Will of the great cosmos, the solar world where all is unknown. Let us call forth the stars that guards the planets order. Let them judge your faith with their raining shower "

96. Cherry Blossom Barrage

• Effect: Unknown
• Incantation: "Chilling flames engulf the entire world!

Pitch-dark flower, set into bloom!

97. Stardust Destroyer

• Effect: Unknown
• Incantation: "Clustering hopes become a new shining star, become the path its light shines upon!"

98. Chaos Devour

• Effect: Unknown
• Incantation: "The ruler's heartbeats will now file through here, take witness to its creation-shaking power!"

99. Fade To Black

• Effect: This is a self-destruct Kido. It summons a truly gigantic explosion from the caster's own body that completely annihilates anyone and anything within the blast radius. It's unblockable because the blast consumes anything in it's path. It's unavoidable because the explosion is so great that it actually draws anything around it in. The explosion is even so loud that everything is silenced. However, the Kido kills the caster. And due to the caster being at the center of the blast, it destroys their soul as well.
• Incantation: "I call upon the power of the gods to inhabit my body. Let their power flow through my veins so that all will be consumed in the mighty supernova. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. All must eventually fade to black. Goodbye..."

Known Users

• Byakko Kurohitsugi
• Seireitou Hyuga
• Litou Raignoko
• Hikaru "Shadow" Kurosaki (Presumed)