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Summary
Shinobu Oshino (忍野 忍, Oshino Shinobu) is a main protagonist of the series; Monogatari.
She is a powerful 599-year-old vampire and was easily the most powerful being in the series while she was in her prime. Her true name is Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade (キスショット・アセロラオリオン・ハートアンダーブレード). After the events at the end of Kizumonogatari, Kiss-shot was left in a significantly weakened condition (in the form of an eight-year-old girl) with very little of her original power. She later adopted the name Shinobu Oshino.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 10-B | Varies. At least 9-A, possibly higher | At least 6-B, possibly 5-B
Key: Princess Beauty | Quasi-Vampire form | Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade
Name: Princess Beauty, Laura | Shinobu Oshino | Kiss-shot Acerola-orion Heart-under-blade
Origin: Monogatari
Gender: Female
Age: Early 20s | 599 years mentally, 27 physically | 599 years mentally, Varies physically
Classification: Human, Princess | Quasi-Vampire | Legendary Vampire
Powers and Abilities:
Mind Manipulation (People who look at or speak to her are overwhelmed by her glory and start wanting to die or to take the lives of their loved ones, people who enter her presence instinctively kneel), Limited Resurrection (Her tears brought a witch's severed head back to life for a moment)
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Shapeshifting, Matter Manipulation, Weapon Creation, Immortality (Types 1 and 3), Regeneration (Varies, Low to High-Low, Can casually reattach her arm), Enhanced Senses, Darkness Manipulation, Healing, Absorption, Creation, Cloth Manipulation, Time Manipulation, Portal Creation, Weight Manipulation, Life Manipulation and Regeneration Nullification with Energy Drain (Should be superior to a Meddlecat's energy drain, which can stop Low-Mid regen), Durability Negation, Death Manipulation, and Non-Physical Interaction with Kokorowatari sword (Can cut through any supernatural being and kill them with a single scratch, including ghosts and selectively tangible beings, useless otherwise, as it simply phases through targets without dealing any harm to them), Weapon Mastery, Body Control, Limited Memory Manipulation, Duplication (Created a second equally powerful copy of herself in Shinobu Figure), Surface Scaling, Limited Flight (Created a weak pair of wings and flew at a slower speed than usual), Extrasensory Perception (Aberrations can see and interact with other aberrations, including ghosts that are normally invisible), possibly Resistance to Death Manipulation (Vampires can recover from Kokorowatari's induced death through sheer regeneration), Disease Manipulation (Can resist diseases with vampiric regeneration), and Fire Manipulation (Aberrations can survive high temperatures)
All Quasi-Vampire abilities plus Regeneration (At least High-Mid, Mid-High over time. Should be greater than or at least comparable to Seishirou Shishirui who can regenerate after being burnt to ashes), Telekinesis, Flight, Intangibility (As fog), Corruption (Type 1), Enhanced Absorption (Can easily absorb everyone inside of a store in a blink of an eye, as a full vampire), Resistance to Death Manipulation (Vampires can recover from Kokorowatari's induced death through sheer regeneration), Poison Manipulation (Regenerates from poison as it takes effect, or even before it does), and Fire Manipulation (Can regenerate from high temperatures to a normal one, even able to swim in a volcano)
Attack Potency: Human level | Varies (Becomes more powerful as she sucks more of Koyomi's blood). At least Small Building level+ (Superior to Suruga Kanbaru and comparable to Black Hanekawa. Stated to be capable of devouring a whole classroom), possibly higher | At least Country level+ (Kiss-Shot traveled from Antarctica to Japan with a single jump, the recoil of which nearly destroyed the continent of Antarctica. The impact of her landing obliterated a lake. She emits powerful shockwaves just by laughing. Dragged clouds from the sea to cause rain. Extremely casually created a shrine and turned it to dust on a whim), possibly Planet level (All these feats are casual and the true extent of her powers when serious is unknown, claimed she could destroy the Earth but not the sun)
Speed: Average Human | Superhuman flight speed (Flew at a little over 119 kph), At least Supersonic otherwise (Easily broke the sound barrier when jumping over a thousand feet in the blink of an eye, fought an unnamed oddity alongside Black Hanekawa) | At least Supersonic (Casually blitzed Koyomi, should be faster than her weakened quasi-vampire form), likely Massively Hypersonic (Traveled from Antarctica to Japan with a single jump, which would be Mach 682, assuming the jump took an entire minute), possibly Speed of Light (Araragi claims that at the height of her power she'd been able to circle the globe seven and a half times in a second, something Kiss-Shot herself claimed earlier in the story)
Lifting Strength: Average Human | At least Average Human (Can lift Koyomi Araragi with ease) | At least Class G (Brought rain clouds inland with her bare hands), likely higher (That feat is casual and the true extent of her powers when serious is unknown)
Striking Strength: Human level | Varies. At least Small Building level+, possibly higher | At least Country level+ (The recoil of her jump nearly destroyed the continent of Antarctica), possibly Planet level
Durability: Human level | Varies. At least Small Building level+ (Took several attacks from Black Hanewaka without much significant damage), possibly higher | Varies (Able to be killed by anyone if she wishes, when trying to die was able to be damaged by Dramaturgy, Episode, Guillotine Cutter, and Koyomi, yet is able to survive far stronger attacks without a scratch when she wants to), up to at least Country level+, possibly Planet level
Stamina: Normal | High (Her regeneration further compliments her stamina.)
Range: Standard Melee Range normally, far higher with mind manipulation (Capable of affecting entire armies) | Standard melee range normally, several meters with Kokorowatari, tens of meters via throwing swords | Standard melee range normally, several meters with Kokorowatari, much higher via throwing swords, shockwaves, shapeshifting, etc
Standard Equipment: Nothing | Demon sword Kokorowatari
Intelligence: Average normally, Gifted when it comes to supernatural related things.
Weaknesses: None notable | While she is technically vulnerable to most vampire weaknesses, such as being weak to the sun, garlic, crosses, and the like, she can nullify them with her regeneration or simply by choosing to overcome them. Kokorowatari sword only works against supernatural beings; it cannot harm ordinary people or objects. Certain special rituals can prevent her from regenerating. Vampires and other aberrations slowly stop existing if they stop being observed and recalled, though this process would take almost a century to complete for Kiss-shot.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
- Regeneration: As immortal beings, most injuries have little significance to vampires due to their intense regeneration skills. While the speed depends on the vampire, almost any wound can be healed within minutes. If a body part becomes decapitated, it will evaporate and begin to grow back from where it was cut off. In addition, the application of vampire blood or saliva can also heal wounds on humans. Seishirou Shishirui, one of her minions, was able to regenerate himself from just a severed piece of his hand and later attempted suicide by jumping in front of sunlight only to regenerated later from nothingness, albeit it took him several centuries to recover fully. Kiss-shot being the most powerful vampire in the world should have unparalleled regenerative abilities. Kiss-Shot is virtually immortal. An alternate-timeline version Kiss-Shot attempted suicide by burning herself in the sunlight, but her regeneration made her unable to die.
- Shape Shifting and Matter Generation: Vampires can not only generate matter of their own but can also shapeshift their bodies. Dramaturgy uses this ability to forge his arms and legs into swords for combat, while Episode transforms into a fog. During one fight, Koyomi uses this ability to turn his arms into tree branches. Kiss-shot can easily do the same feats mentioned above and more, she casually created a shrine and several buildings with her powers. The demon sword Kokorowatari commonly seen in the show is a replica built through matter generation. She can also create wings to fly. In Koyomimonogatari, she made a pistol. However, any matter created will eventually break down on a molecular level if it gets too far away from Shinobu (Nekomonogatari Kuro, ch. 12).
- Shadow Submergence: This ability allows vampires to go inside shadows. Once inside a shadow, she is free from outside physical shocks and stimuli, the area within is supposedly; however, the vampire inside perceives it to be. Shinobu has a royal couch inside the shadow she resides in.
- Ceiling Walking: Vampires can stand and walk on ceilings as if they're on the floor. Shinobu sometimes does this in Araragi's room.
- Mind Searching: Vampires can search for memories that they can't remember by forcing their hand into their brain, a somewhat messy process where blood and spinal fluid constantly spurt out, though the liquids evaporate instantly. She can use this same technique to forget memories, although she can eventually be reminded of those forgotten events, causing her brain cells to regenerate back.
- Night Vision: Vampires can see in the dark.
- Telekinesis (also called "Eye Power"): Crumples an iron door like aluminum foil just by looking at it.
- Time Travel: Shinobu was able to manipulate the spiritual energy at Kitashirahebi Shrine to open up a dimensional portal which brought her and Koyomi 11 years into the past. This feat is made more impressive by the fact that she did this on the first try, while mostly depowered. "This was the first time I tried it, but it sure went well. As expected of myself, even after becoming a little girl and having lost most of my power." (Kabukimonogatari, ch. 5).
- Energy Drain: Shinobu can drain the energy from living creatures by sucking their blood.
- Weight Manipulation: Shinobu can freely manipulate her weight.
- Body Control: Shinobu can control her body as she pleases. She can change the length of her hair at will, and extend her fingernails into claws.
- Demon Sword Kokorowatari: Koyomi describes it as a sword that surpasses human understanding, A sword which can cut through all oddities, it is said to be an unstoppable weapon in front of anything supernatural but useless in front of anything normal. Being cut by it made an oddity like Black Hanekawa scream in intense pain and terror. The Kokorowatari (translates to "Heart Span"), also called the Kaii Killer, is created specifically to kill kaii (supernatural beings, such as ghosts, vampires, etc.). The sword originally belonged to a samurai 400 years before the start of the series. The original Kokorowatari has been destroyed, but Shinobu can replicate it using her matter creation power. "The demon sword "Kokorowatari," the Kaii Killer—as the name implied, was a blade for killing the kaii. Just the kaii. A deadly weapon for killing only the kaii. To put it the other way around, it was a deadly weapon that couldn't kill humans. The Kaii Killer couldn't slice any lifeforms or objects that weren't kaii. An unparalleled sword in front of a kaii, but if you weren't in front of one, it was equivalent to a blunt blade. Someone could say it was even worse than a blunt sword—it didn't even physically collide with what was not a kaii. Just like an incorporeal ghost, it slipped through. It passed by." "Not debilitation. Not incapacitation. It didn't produce those kinds of half-hearted results. There was no salvation faced with it. A single scratch from it could kill an aberration -- that was the enchanted blade Kokorowatari."
(Nekomonogatari: Kuro, ch. 12).
NOTE: The only reason the vampire hunters were able to defeat/steal her limbs was that she was suicidal and was just looking for a place to die (which she, despite trying, was unable to do). Therefore, she was immensely holding back in most of these fights. To provide some context, the vampire exorcists had used a special ritual to prevent her from regenerating (this is why her limbs didn't grow back after they were stolen). Also, the only reason why the exorcist's attack on Kiss-Shot was successful was because Kiss-Shot's heart had previously been taken out of her body by Oshino Meme. Kiss-Shot didn't even notice that her heart was missing until it was pointed out to her.
Gallery
Notable Matchups
Notable Victories:
Notable Losses:
Samurai Jack (Samurai Jack (Verse)) Jack's Profile (Jack had all optional equipment and had witnessed some of Shinobu’s abilities and had 3 minutes of preparation time, Shinobu had all optional equipment and was in her prime. Speed was unequalized and the fight took place in Aku’s Lair)
Slayer of Demons (Demon's Souls) Slayer's Profile (Speed was equalized and they started 700 meters away apart. The fight took place in Snake Shrine, Slayer of Demons had all equipment, both were in character and were willing to kill (No suicidal shinobu), both had prior knowledge of each other’s abilities and 5-B keys were used)
Guts (Berserk (Verse)) Guts' Profile (9-A keys used, speed was equalized)
Batman (Post-Crisis) (DC Comics) Batman's Profile (9-A keys were used. Both had standard equipment and speed was equalized)
Boa Hancock (One Piece) Boa Hancock's Profile (Kiss-Shot was used and speed was equalized)
Inconclusive Matches:
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