Watanabe Jouji

***"You don't really know a man till you have crossed swords with him",*** Jouji to Ranma

## Introduction

Jouji Watanabe is a former Shinigami and wondering Ronin. He was originally born and raised in Zaraki, but ended up picking a fight with Justice Ashikage. After getting his ass kicked he was dragged around the Rokangai as his retainer. Eventually he was entered into Shino Academy and joined the 6th squad. He served as a member of the 6th till the death of Kuchiki Ranma's Grandfather. Unwilling to serve under Ranma he left the sixth squad and took up post as a retainer for the Ashikage Clan. He served there till Sakura vanished. With no lord he left and began wondering the Rokangai selling out his services.

## Appearance

Jouji stands six feet tall and has broad shoulders. He wears a white jacket and white pants.

## Personality

Jouji obsessed with the way of the sword, Kenjutsu. He spends almost his every waking moment trying to figure out how to be a better swordsmen, and finding new ways to fight with the blade. Since he left his post with the Ashikage clan he has fought at least two hundred duels a year, and has not lost a single one of them. The only thing that can overcome his obsession was his wife. However after her death, he threw everything into the way of the sword as a way to wash away his grief

## Abilities and Powers

### Physical Abilities

* Great Strength
* Great Durability.
* Great Endurance
* Great Flexibility
* Great Agility
* Great Speed
* Great Spiritual Pressure

### Dodomeki

Jouji gained the Dodomeki in his youth in Zaraki. His father was a Shinobi before he was killed and trained him in the way of the Ninja. Gaining access to the Dodomeki Jouji could sense the emotions of people around him, pin point their locations, and predict their moves by reading their emotions. Jouji is so good with it that he can see flashes of peoples memories that are connected to strong emotions.

With his Kōnogan (Kanji: 紅の眼; English: Crimson Eyes) Jouji is able to attack emotions to specific memories. He can make a certain attack combination become hated, or make a opponent favor one.

### Zanjutsu

* **Edge Alignment**: The most fundamental and versatile technique of Zanjutsu, edge alignment as its name implies, requires a shinigami to align the flow of their reiatsu with the slashing motion of their blade, thus adding their reiatsu to the edge of their Zanpakuto. This simple technique greatly increases the attack power of any blow, and mastering it to work with every strike is the most fundamental and important training a shinigami can undertake.
	+ **Ha** (*Edge*): A simple and natural improvement of the edge alignment technique where a shinigami will focus their reiatsu to cover the edge of the blade rather than the entirety of it to preserve reiatsu and to focus the cutting power of their reiatsu on the zanpakuto's edge.
	+ **Mune** (*Back*): A more complex evolution of the Edge alignment technique where a shinigami will exert their spiritual pressure in alignment with their sword but focusing it on the back of the sword, using that surface as a "sail" and their reiatsu as wind, pushing the sword with more power and speed than a normal swing. This serves as the basis of **Ryodan-Ryu**.
* **Hadakaha** (*裸刃, Naked Edge*): A basic technique where a user will endow the super-majority if not the entirety of their Reiatsu into their blade, foregoing defense entirely to increase their offense using their zanpakuto. This technique is rarely practiced because most shinigami fight using reiryoku and reiatsu intensive shikais and using this technique considerably weakens non melee type zanpakuto. This technique is a "supplemental" technique because it can be used to strengthen other techniques.

* **Bunki** (*分岐, Bifurcation*): An intermediate technique of Zanjutsu where a user will perform edge alignment and use **Ha** and **Mune** simultaneously to add power, speed and sharpness to their attacks. It is named "Bifurcation" because the user needs to split their reiatsu control in 2 and because this technique was famously used by a Kenpachi of the past famous for his clean Bifurcations of adjuchas.
* **Kōsoku** (*拘束, Restraint*): An evolution of Edge Alignment where a shinigami will perform Edge Alignment but narrow down the area even further to multiply the pressure of the reiatsu for even greater effect, masters can narrow down all their pressure into a single point. This technique is a "supplemental" technique because it can be used to strengthen other techniques, namely Ha and Mune.
	+ **Kisaki** (*Point*): The technique name for when a shinigami performs Kosoku and Ha at only the tip of their blade, granting it sharpness of incomparable level which is capable of piercing through Hierro of all strenghts.
* **Self-Edge Alignment** [Zanpakuto Technique]: An intermediate technique of Zanjutsu and a technique most melee type zanpakuto perform by themselves by default. Self-Edge Alignment consist in the Zanpakuto using and manipulating their *own* unique reiatsu to align itself with their edge. This confers the benefit of 2 edge alignment effects onto a single strike, notably a zanpakuto is unable to use certain "evolutions" of this technique due to their shape, the most obvious example being **Mune** (*Back*). Because Zanpakuto can perform both *Ha* and *Kosoku* they normally default to using those techniques to assist.

* **Daiken** (*大剣, Great Sword*) [Zanpakuto Technique]: The generic name for the school of techniques where a shinigami will perform their own technique while their zanpakuto focuses on using **Self-Edge Alignment** to perform **Ha** and thus grant immense cutting power to every strike without the shinigami even doing anything. Nearly all masters of zanjutsu are defined by their ability to make every single one of their strikes a Daiken strike.
* **Yureru** (*揺れる, Sway*): An advanced technique where a shinigami will perform **Mune** and **Ha** in quick succession in a single strike, due to the order of the technique this will provide the benefit of both techniques by speeding up the strike with **Mune** and granting it increased sharpness and power with **Ha** at the moment of impact. Ame Sawada is a proponent of this technique and categorizes styles which make use of Yureru as **Hyper-Offensive** in nature, only those with great talent can learn this technique.

* **Kyoshin** (*共振, Resonance*): Less of a technique and more of a phenomenon, Kyosin is what occurs when a zanpakuto and a shinigami's **Kosoku Ha** (*Restrained Edge*) align with absolute perfection, when this event occurs *constructive resonance* will occur on both reiatsus causing them to both multiply in effectiveness, if used on a perfect sword swing that uses the entire body this technique can generate tremendous destructive power comparable even to weak bankais. Being able to perform **Kyoshin** on demand is the mark of a **Kensei** (*剣聖, Sword Saint*).

### Zanpakuto

Senshi (戦士, Fighter) is the name of Jouji's Zanpakuto. It is released with the phrase "Dance on the battlefield." When this line is spoken his blade transforms from a Katana into a Muramasa. The blade comes extraordinary sharp and can cut thought almost anything. Not even himself is safe from the edge of his blade. His reitsu that is sent thought the blade gains a cutting aura. It cuts like a sword itself and can act as blades on it's own.

Densetsu no senshi (伝説の戦士, Warrior of Legend) is the Bankai. When it is activated his sword transforms form a katana into a giant sword. It then comes down with a force of his rest energy multiplied by his his reitsu amount. After the strike is finished however the Bankai is resealed.