Beast Breathing

Beast Breathing (の) is a Breathing Style that is distantly derived from Wind Breathing.

Overview
Beast Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics beasts/wild animals, specifically their unpredictable, ferocious and wild nature, including movements, attacks and senses, and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms are simple, straight-forward yet wild, unpredictable and animalistic movements and attacks, although one of them utilizes the powerful sense of touch to replicate an animal's primal senses. Users of Beast Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly manifesting the fangs and claw slashes of a wild animal when unleashing its techniques.

Since this Breathing Style is personally created and self-taught by Inosuke Hashibira after living in the mountains and fighting for survival, it can be assumed that it can only be utilized by someone with dual Nichirin katanas and an extremely acute sense of touch.

Known Techniques
Beast Breathing has ten known techniques with an improvisation technique created during Inosuke's fight with Doma. Unlike other Breathing techniques, only supplement moves are called "Forms", as assaulting Beast Breathing moves are called "Fangs" instead.


 * First Fang: Pierce (ノ　ちき) - The user stabs the target's neck with both blades.


 * Second Fang: Slice (ノ　りき) - The user unleashes a double slash with two blades in an X-shaped cut.


 * Third Fang: Devour (ノ　いき) - The user releases simultaneous horizontal slashes towards the target's throat to decapitate them.


 * Fourth Fang: Slice 'n' Dice (ノ　き) - The user delivers multiple diagonal double slashes with both swords.


 * Fifth Fang: Crazy Cutting (ノ　いき) - The user slices everything in all directions while in mid-air.


 * Sixth Fang: Palisade Bite (ノ　み) - The user releases simultaneous slashes with two swords from both directions in a saw-like movement.


 * Seventh Form: Spatial Awareness (ノ) - The user utilizes their sense of touch to identify the position of enemies and their weaknesses by feeling small disturbances in the air. This technique was so strong that Inosuke Hashibira could sense all the demons spread out through a whole mountain.


 * Eighth Form: Explosive Rush (ノ) - The user charges towards their opponent at blinding speeds, ignoring all incoming attacks.


 * Ninth Fang: Extending Bendy Slash (ノ　・うねりき) - The user dislocates the joints of their arm to increase the range of their attack, and then unleashing a fast swinging forward strike.


 * Tenth Fang: Whirling Fangs (ノ) - The user rapidly spins their swords in a circular motion, deflecting enemy attacks such as projectiles.


 * Sudden Throwing Strike (いつきのげき) - The user throws both of their blades in a spinning motion at an enemy.

Game Exclusive Techniques

 * Boar Rush - The user relentlessly charges towards their opponent ignoring practically all attacks thrown at them.


 * Third Fang: Devour Rush (ノ　・いき) - The user rushes towards their opponent and stabs them with both blades, dragging them along the ground with their momentum. They then turn and throw them high up into the air, readying the Third Fang: Devour as they slice them in an X-like pattern above them at the falling opponent.
 * Sixth Fang: Palisade Bite, Feral Rush (ノ　み・) - The user performs a charging headbutt at the opponent to knock them away then uses Eighth Form: Explosive Rush to close the distance between them, followed up with Sixth Fang: Palisade Bite and a few more slashes to top it off.

Demonstrations

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Trivia

 * In the Manga, whenever a Beast Breathing user performs their techniques, they visualize themselves creating slashes that are bright gray in color with a black outline. However in the anime adaptation, the slashes are bright white fading to light blue in color with the same black outlines instead.
 * In the Manga, Second Fang: Slice (ノ　りき) creates an actual X-shaped cut whereas in the videogame and anime adaptation, they don't and instead creates two overhead slashes as Inosuke seems to perform the technique in a similar fashion as Sound Breathing's First Form: Roar (ノ).