Amano Shōgun

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**Amano Shōgun** (天の将軍, *General of Heaven*) is the manifestation of Enkai Yamakaze's Zanpakutō.

## Appearance

Amano Shōgun bears a strong resemblance to his master, Enkai Yamakaze. Both are considered to be fairly handsome men with black hair and fair skin. Amano Shōgun even stands at the exact same height as Enkai in his normal form. However, their are distinct differences. Unlike Enkai, Amano Shōgun has no scars on his face. His hair is far spikier and longer. Amano Shōgun also does not tie his hair into any fashion, allowing it to hand long. Perhaps his most distinct feature is his eyes, which possess no whites. Instead, his eyes are fully purple with black ripples throughout it and small, black pupils. He has creases under his eyes as well.

For clothing, Amano Shōgun wore a black high-collared, long sleeve shirt that splits down the lower half into a long tail of sorts. He wore similarly black pants with bandages wrapping on his legs and covering his shins. He further wore black sandals and gloves. Over this, he wore crimson armor made of many metallic plates along his chest, waist, shoulders and thighs. This gave him the appearance of an war general from a bygone era.

In his **Bankai** form of **Kishin Amano Shōgun**, his physical being would disperse into the massive tengu-like silver spectral samurai that Enkai summoned with his Bankai. He would wear armor and simple robes, as well as possessing four arms in this form. One of the sets of arms could transform into a pair of wings, making his tengu-esque appearance even stronger. His hair in this form becomes like roaring flames, but doesn't appear to produce any actual heat.

## Personality

Unlike Enkai Yamakaze, Amano Shōgun is a much more militant figure. He seeks to grow stronger and to make Enkai grow stronger as a result. While he does respect the power and capability of Enkai, Amano Shōgun calls him lazy and too focused on other affairs to make use of their full power. This puts Amano Shōgun into a drill sergeant-esque role, befitting of his name. Enkai has commented that at times he can even hear the spirit shouting commands at him in battle, though this may be an exaggeration. All this said, Amano Shōgun does care for his master deeply, understanding the two are two sides of the same coin. He respects his master for putting in the effort to grow stronger and master many skills, though he seems to wish Enkai would rely on his power more. This also casts Amano Shōgun in a jealous light, though Amano Shōgun disavows this as simply wanting his power expressed more over other abilities.

## Powers and Abilities

**Immense Spiritual Power**: As the Zanpakutō of a Captain-class Shinigami, Amano Shōgun possesses a similar level of spiritual power to Enkai Yamakaze. When he lets it run wild, even Enkai has noted he feels a great deal of pressure on himself during one of their training sessions in his inner world.

* **Shock Wave**: Amano Shōgun can control his spiritual pressure with high focus and then unleash reiatsu in the form of a powerful shockwave. The shockwave can cause great destruction, and is increased the more he focuses his reiatsu. Amano Shōgun generally releases these shock waves in a circular-form by stomping one of his feet, copying his master im doing so.

**Master Swordsman**: Amano Shōgun is a strong swordsman. In his training with Enkai, he has shown himself to be able to go toe-to-toe with his master, even outperforming him on several occasions. His enjoyment of battles has caused him to fight in a far more refined style than Enkai as well, with Enkai even commenting the spirit would be right at home with the Eleventh Division if he were manifested.

**Enhanced Speed**: Amano Shōgun is quite fast, being able to keep up with the shunpō-enhanced speed of his master and counter many of his attacks as such. The spirit was able to outmaneuver Enkai on several occasions during their first few times meeting and training to have Enkai learn of the power he wielded within himself.

**Enhanced Strength**: Amano Shōgun has shown himself to be quite strong, being able to fling Enkai with ease. He was also able to shatter his own **Shikai** form that Enkai summoned to aid himself in one of their training sessions.

* **Sandbag Beat** (サンドバッグ・ビート, *Sandobaggu Bīto*): During his bouts with Enkai, Amano Shōgun was able to recreate this technique. This sees the manifestation throw punches in an unending assault. It is a strong attack that can break even very strong defenses.

### Zanpakutō Abilities

**Sword Manifestation**: Amano Shōgun can manifest the sealed form of his sword form at will. It is a katana with a round tsuba, a cross guard, that appears to be made of bronze. In the cross guard, four crescent-shaped holes are in it, two in the middle on either side of the blade and two closer to the back side of the sword. Unlike Enkai's, it does not have the white fabric tied on it.

* **Shikai**: To awaken his **Shikai** abilities, Amano Shōgun simply wills the power to activate. If he is holding the sealed form of his blade, he will hold it out in front of of himself and let it disperse. Otherwise, energy flows directly from his body to form his **Shikai** abilities.

**Shikai Special Ability**: The energy from Amano Shōgun forms into a large ribcage with two skeletal arms. These skeletal arms could be controlled mentally by Amano Shōgun, possessing strength far greater than his own. This would allow him to fight with them in the place of his sword, using them for striking foes of grappling them. Finally, being shrouded in his own spiritual energy, the ribcage acted as a barrier to protect Amano Shōgun, though it could be broken with sufficient force.
* **Gunshin no Ken** (軍神の剣, *Sword of the War God*): Amano Shōgun uses this technique to arm the spectral guardian with one or two swords for each hand. While being made of spiritual energy, they possess the full cutting, slashing, and lunging potential of the sealed blade, perhaps even greater. Further, due to the enhanced size, the wounds they inflict are much larger as a result. The construct can launch these weapons for a ranged attack and reform a new one in a matter of moments, with the discarded blade dissipating soon after it lands.

* **Bankai**: **Kishin Amano Shōgun** (鬼神天の将軍, *Fierce Deity General of Heaven*): Amano Shōgun has the guardian put its hands together, as if the construct was praying, before yelling out **Bankai**. This causes a massive swell of spiritual energy. Amano Shōgun's humanoid form disperses into energy as the ribcage fills out into a much larger spiritual armor.

**Bankai Special Ability**: Kishin Amano Shōgun grows rapidly into a full-bodied form. In this form, Kishin Amano Shōgun becomes a towering samurai-like warrior that wears tengu-like armor. It possesses long tengu nose with a carved-out mouth with two lines that run into the chin along with robes, pointed shoes, and armor on its shoulder and waist. It is a four-armed warrior, with the extra set of arms being behind the traditional ones. They have a plated appearance compared to the front set, and extend upwards to give them a wing-like appearance.
* **Fūjin Tobuzora** (風神飛ぶ空, *Wind God Soaring in the Skies*): With this technique, Kishin Amano Shōgun's back set of arms becomes a pair of wings. Switching in and out of this form is relatively fast. This allows Kishin Amano Shōgun to take flight, allowing for aerial combat and increased agility. Despite his large size, he can fly remarkably fast. Further, with his massive wings, Kishin Amano Shōgun can create gusts of wind that cause a good deal of damage to Enkai's inner world. The drawback of the technique, of course, is it loses some level of strength from lacking the four arms.

## Trivia

* Amano Shōgun is considered to be a stronger relative to Sajin Komamura's own Zanpakutō, **Tenken**.
	+ Tenken is amongst Amano Shōgun's author's favorite canon Zanpakutō.
* Much of the abilities associated with Amano Shōgun were previously used for a Quincy character created by the author. They were retooled to fit a Shinigami while following **Tenken** as a template.

## Quotes

* *"You and I are one and the same Enkai. I am just the version of you who doesn't hold back."*
* *"Stand up and be strong, you fight for both of our prides."*