Ninja Art

Taimanin Art Users

**Ninja Arts** (Taima Arts) are supernatural abilities that Taimanin are able to use, some of them are unique to their clan.

Taimanin are limited to one Ninja Art by their genetics, but can learn other General Ninja Techniques. Ninja Arts use "Taima Particles" and are highly effective against demons.

## Application

A Ninja Art is the supernatural effects Taimanins can create. Unique to the user, they are highly effective against demons and useful against modern weapons. Combination attacks can also be dangerous to even noble demons that otherwise seem immortal.

Taimanin, Ninja Arts are not magic, as it is understood by Demons or Spiritual Energy as used by Onmyoji. Based on statements of Edwin Black, the Taimanin Arts and particles in fact disrupt demonic powers, magic and unique skills. The fire cast by an art, which is infused with Taima Particles will be far more destructive to demonic cells, as one created from normal means.

How an art is created by Taima Particles, is not 100% understood but possibly is connected to other dimensions as particles cross between them and create phenomena.

### Classification

Arts fall in some overarching categories like elemental (Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Wood or Metal), and exelemental. (Beast, Beast Tamer, Paper, Puppet, Soul, Void). These separation lines are currently not fully explained and, for example, "Explosion Art" could be a subsection of Fire or Wind Art or its own exelemental type.

Subsection types, would be the Elec Art of Uehara Shikanosuke, which is a weaker version of the Lighting Art of Uehara Rin and Yukikaze. The "Evil Eye" is a Ninja Art, which holds a number of abilities based on the caster closing or opening their eyes, with glowing irises and visual contact, being part of the activation requirements. Freezing Eye, Yaksha's Skull, Circle Motion, Deadly Gaze or Demonic Gate are completely different in their effect but all fall into what is considered to be an Evil Eye.

Certain Ninja Arts, also are more common than others, with Fire Art, appearing often enough to justify a "Fire Squad Unit", while Wave Art, is so rare, only a single member of it is currently known.

### Inheritability

A Taimanin can only awaken to abilities that have appeared in their own lineage. Meaning, a family with only Fire Users will never awaken to a Water User. However, if a water and a fire user have a child, it or its children, could one day awaken to **either** a water or fire art. If people with the same type of art have children in a long line, offspring will be more likely to awaken to that art type as well.

Some Ninja Arts awaken very rarely, and it takes generations for them to emerge in only a single individual. Even shared main element arts tend to have specific versions, which are still rare.

A "Half-Demon" will typically first learn the "Magic" of their demonic side but can also awaken to Ninja Art, which can be completely different. (Example: Onisaki Kirara)

People, like Fürst, have shown the ability to transplant Ninja Arts from corpses. (Example: Oboro and Sawaki Kosuke)

The UFS also constantly tries to do experimentation infusing demonic cells, but the results tend to be far from stable, with people more often than not just becoming demons. The Chinese Union tried to clone Taimanin but discovered that clones do not inherit the Taimanin ability and have so far not awoken to a single one. Though some gain similar abilities with external help of cyborg enhancements.

### Learning and Mastery

A Taimanin is not born with an awoken ability, in fact, numerous Taimanins never awake to them. Mastering only the skill to use Taima Particles to buff their bodies attributes.

Mental Stress can help in awakening an art, but the process is not fully understood and highly individualistic. Some Taimanin despair about the fact they have not awoken but stay motivated by the stories of late bloomers that in their later adulthood awoke to their arts. Once awoken, typically a Taimanin chose a fitting weapon, to benefit their ability and train it next to other skills in Gosha Academy. Those with arts that are very hard to control and dangerous, require Limiters, as they would otherwise be too dangerous.

Though not many, some reach a level of mastery in their preferred art, which enables them to use their skills in many creative ways far beyond what they could do originally.

## History

Ninja Arts have been mentioned since Taimanin Asagi and the entire main series.

Sakura mentioned to her sister, Asagi, that she has awoken recently to her own shadow art. Something Sakura kept hidden from Oboro, when both sisters were captured to find the ideal moment to use it. Oboro herself used a mind controlling ability, which interrupted Asagi's movements, while Asagi herself has an art which gives her super speed, assuming by manipulating time.

Yukikaze is known later to be one of the strongest Lighting art users but requires a Limiter. While Rinko is a Void Art users, that can manipulate space.

Kurenai, Ayame, Tatsuro and Asuka are Wind Art users. However, Kurenai also has an additional Evil Eye Art ability in her main game.

The brothers Kyousuke and Kosuke never awoke to an art until Kosuke had a "Bedroom Art" implanted into him. However, after some struggle, he awoke to his own Metal Art.

Both Murasaki and her brother Kuro have a regeneration art, which makes them immortal unless heart and brain are destroyed.

Shiranui the mother of Yukikaze is a skilled Water Art user which also can cast illusions and doppelganger with her water.

Shizuru is a user of the Wood Art and can control roots and plants.

Fuuma Kotaro of the online games is a user of a rare "Evil Eye" that enables him to steal abilities. While in RPGX and Action Taimanin he can not use his evil eye since he also is called the Blind Fuuma.

## Appearance

In some cases used with finger signs, but more often very uncomplicated and just cast without.

## Trivia

* Why clones don't show the same abilities, is not known, but it is possible that a Ninja Art is connected to the person's individual soul and are not just genetics.
* As Koukawa Oboro's body Oboro did not share her original's power, this might also be connected to the soul being important.
* In the main series, ignoring online games, most main characters are Wind Users. While Fire Art users only appear in the online games.
* Ninja Arts of Taimanin, can be compared to the "Mutant Power" of the X-man or "Quirk" of My Hero Academia. Unlike these, combination of arts is not possible.
* The only characters known to have multiple Ninja Arts are Sawaki Kosuke and Fuuma Yukiharu, both had their Ninja Art being grafted onto them at first. Later on, they awoke to their own real abilities. Shinganji Kurenai might also be in this spot, but how her "Wind Art" and "God Eye" work or if they are the same is unclear.

## Gallery

Mizuki Yukikaze using Lighting Art.Kamimura Maika using Fire Art.Hoshino Mitsuki using Wind Art.Igawa Asagi using Falcon/Hawk Art.Igawa Sakura using Shadow Art.Nanase Mai using Paper Art.Aishu Hebiko Beast Art transformation.Lydia Baretta using Magnet Art.Shijima Mugi using Art giving her armor.Akiyama Rinko using Void Art.Yoimachi Akari using a type of Clone Art.