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Kido

 

Kido is the technique that Shinigami 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 say the incantation and state the name of the spell and it's number. For someone skilled enough in Kidō, the incantation is not necessary. There are three main types of Kido: 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.
Kido is the technique that Shinigami uses by concentrating their Spiritual abilities to create great spells. They 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 Kido one must say the incantation and state the name of the spell and its number. For someone skilled enough in Kido, the incantation is not necessary. There are three main types of Kido: 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.
Incantation Classes

 

Kido Classification

There are three main types of Kido: binding spells, destruction spells, and healing spells.

 

• Bakudo (Way of Binding): Supplementary spells which can immobilize an enemy or have an effect besides a direct strike. They may seem subtle, but these spells can give their users a tactical advantage when used properly. These are a broad category of defensive spells which block/repel attacks or freezes enemies in place. This class of spells include Kido Barriers & Seals.

 

• Barriers (Kekkai): Focused spiritual energy formed into a solid form of energy. This energy can take on many shapes or colors as determined by the user. Barriers are protective in nature, and can be as simple as a barrier only protecting one direction or encompassing all sides of an area. Barriers can be used for containment, and some barriers can be used offensively. Barriers can mask spiritual pressure and can make one spiritually and physically invisible. The strength of a barrier is dependent upon the power of the user. Weak barriers are easily breakable, while strong ones can last for centuries. Barriers created by noble blood are said to be unbreakable by those of lesser status. Certain barriers can be placed beforehand and activated later, while others require certain artifacts and time to activate.

• Seals (Fu): Somewhat similar to barriers, but far more powerful and require far more preparation to create. Seals can only be used by those of sufficient spiritual power, and are meant to hold the most powerful and/or dangerous artifacts or beings. Seals are usually hard to break.

 

• Hado (Way of Destruction): Offensive spells which inflict direct damage to the enemy. Their effectiveness differs depending on the user. It is said the effectiveness of the higher-ranked spells are beyond imagination.

 

• Gisei Hado (Sacrificial Way of Destruction): A particular offensive spell like Itto Kaso that requires the user to sacrifice a certain portion of themselves in order use it.

 

• Kaido (Turn Way): Also known as healing Kido (,chiryoyo kido). These spells do not have known names, numbers, or incantations to cast, and simply heal the target. As the user holds his/her hands above the patient's wounds, his/her palms glow with green spiritual energy to facilitate healing. When one heals with regular healing kido, they perform Reiatsu restoration first. By doing so, one can attempt to recover the physical body using the patient's restored Reiatsu and the healer's external Reiatsu. Therefore, restoring the Reiatsu when the physical body is in a fully healed state is no trouble at all.

 

•    Eishohaki ("Incantation Abandonment"): a class of Kido Incantation where the Kido practitioner forgoes using a spoken incantation at all. While it decreases the time needed to release the Kido, it drastically weakens the spell.  While anyone well versed in Kido can use this technique, it is most effective when done by a skilled practitioner, otherwise the spell could utterly fail (i.e.: the spell explodes in the user's face). The most skilled experts are capable of using this technique to amazing effect.

 

•    Niju Eisho ("Twofold Incantation"): a class of Kido Incantation where the Kidō practitioner mixes the incantations of two entirely separate Kidō spells together to save time and confuse ones' opponent at the same time.

 

•    Kojutsu Eisho ("Spoken-After Incantation"): a class of Kido Incantation where the incantation is recited after initiating the spell in order to power it up.

Kido is commonly seen used in instances of surprise attacks, rather than all-out assaults, being most effective when one's opponent doesn't see it coming. Kido is also usable with just the spell name and no incantation or spell number.
 
Known Kido spells

Binding (bakudo) Spells