Spirit Reduction
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Spirit Reduction is a fictional combat technique in the anime and manga by Hiroyuki Takei. The technique was never named save by Mikihisa's technique, Spirit Reduction is a fan-term.
[edit] Introduction
When they entered the Shaman fight, Yoh and his friends were all of a quite high power level : they were all able to use Giant Over Soul and in Yoh's case, Double Medium. However, they were still to the eyes of all no match against Hao Asakura, whose power was stronger than it ever was. It was these circumstances that brought Mikihisa Asakura, Yoh's father, to try to teach them how to be stronger. He showed them how his own very small spirits could easily disrupt their gigantic forms of Giant Over Soul, and made them meditate thereupon.
Only Yoh and Ren will benefit from this teaching, effectively reducing the size of their spiritual weapons without changing the amount of Furyoku externalized (for such is the secret of Spirit Reduction), thus bringing more power to their strikes.
However, Hao showed that he was also a master of this technique, as shown in the utter defeat of Yoh as he tried to stop Hao in a one on one fight.
They will abandon this technique completely during the final fight against Hao Asakura, Yoh found the larger sword more effective against Hao Asakura and Ren managed to merge his two Giant Over Soul forms.
[edit] Usage
- Spirit : Amidamaru
- Focuses : Katana and Antiquity combined in Double Medium.
- Reduced Form : The giant blue-glowing armour-hilted Katana will shrink down to a more proportionate size, instead of the ten foot tall form produced by Double Medium
Tao Ren :
- Spirit : Bason
- Focus : Kwan Dao, in Giant Kwan Dao form with extra blades and armour reinforced.
- Reduced Form : Ren, after being thoroughly beaten by Yoh's Reduced Double Medium will himself apply the Reduction to his Giant Kwan Dao. The same effects apply : it will become more proportionate in size.
| Shaman King |
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| Techniques |
| Over Soul (Spirit Control)| Giant Over Soul (Giant Spirit Control) |Double Medium | Spirit Reduction |
| Characters |
| Asakura Family:Yoh Asakura | Anna Kyōyama | Kino Asakura | Yohmei Asakura | Hana Asakura | Yohken Asakura |
| Allies/Teammates: Horohoro (Trey Racer) | Manta Oyamada (Morty) | Chocolove McDaniel (Joco) | Faust VIII | "Wooden Sword" Ryu (Rio) | Tamao Tamamura (Tamara) |
| Spirits: Amidamaru | Bason | Lee Bailong | Tokagero |
| Native American Shamans: Silva | Kalim |
| Tao Family: Tao Jun (Jun) | Tao Ren (Len) | Tao Yúan (En) |
| X-Laws: Iron Maiden Jeanne | Lyserg Diethel | Marco |
| Enemies: Hao Asakura (Zeke) | The Hanagumi | Opacho |
