Flame Breathing

Flame Breathing (の) is one of the five main Breathing Styles directly derived from Sun Breathing.

Overview
Flame Breathing is a Breathing Style that mimics flames and replicates it with the user's movements, techniques and abilities. Most, if not all, known techniques and forms involve extremely powerful singular strikes which 'burn' their opponents, with most attacks being initiated from a high stance. Users of Flame Breathing also visualize themselves seemingly creating and manipulating fire when unleashing its techniques.

This Breathing Style was created from one of Yoriichi Tsugikuni's students who attempted to learn Sun Breathing, but due to not being as innately powerful as Yoriichi, they were instead taught an alternated personalized Breathing Style that focused on their individual strengths and weaknesses, which eventually evolved into Flame Breathing.

Known Techniques
Flame Breathing has 9 techniques in total, with six known forms. Among these, the Ninth Form: Rengoku is an "Esoteric Art" exclusive to the Rengoku family.


 * First Form: Unknowing Fire (ノ) - The user dashes towards the target at tremendous speeds, often making rotational movements to generate momentum before unleashing a singular horizontal slash directed at the targets neck for a decapitation.


 * Second Form: Rising Scorching Sun (ノ　り) - The user unleashes an arcing vertical slash in an upwards motion, often brought up from a tail guard.


 * Third Form: Blazing Universe (ノ) - The user performs an arcing downwards vertical slash, often brought down from a high guard.


 * Fourth Form: Blooming Flame Undulation (ノ　のうねり) - The user performs a singular slash or multiple if needed, in a fluid circular motion to defend from incoming attacks and decapitate multiple targets.


 * Fifth Form: Flame Tiger (ノ) - The user dashes forth, bringing their blade downwards into a high guard before performing a series of sword slashes which take the form of a flaming tiger enveloping the user.


 * Ninth Form: Rengoku (ノ) - The most powerful Flame Breathing technique. The user assumes a high stance before performing an extremely high-speed dash towards the target and unleashing a singular, devastating slash. The technique is powerful enough to completely carve out the ground in its wake. In the movie and anime adaptation, this technique seemingly took the form of a flaming Japanese dragon that envelopes the user as they are charging towards the target.

Demonstrations

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Trivia

 * It is implied that the reason Flame Breathing (の) should never be referred to as Fire Breathing (の) is because its pronunciation is exactly the same as Sun Breathing (の).
 * It is implied that Ninth Form: Rengoku (ノ) can only be performed by members of the Rengoku family since it was referred to as an "Esoteric Art" by Kyojuro Rengoku.
 * Third Form: Blazing Universe (ノ) is an anime-original form, as it was never mentioned nor shown in the manga.