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Iaijutsu Practitioner

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Iaijutsu Practitioner	comment	Katanas Are Just Better, or so they say. Slightly less well-known is that the Quick Draw is pretty damn awesome in its own way. If you find a person who is good at combining them, then you have an Iaijutsu Practitioner. Iaijutsu is a catch-all name for several martial art schools which center on drawing and attacking in one move. The technique often includes multiple slashes, swiping the blade off, and the subsequent re-sheathing of the blade. The names Battoujutsu and Iaido are often used interchangeably, although the words have nuances in the Japanese language. Although usually associated with Japanese swordsmanship, there are similar western versions for cavalry sabers. Another variant dates back to Italian swordmaster Fiore de'i Liberi, who taught swordsmen how to block weapons with a sheathed sword and then dual wield the scabbard and blade for powerful combo attacks. The use of a weaponized draw makes sense as a reaction to a surprise attack, or if a character avoids drawing his sword until the opponent attacks so he can claim self-defense. Rule of Cool kicks in if a swordsman refuses to draw his sword ahead of time in open battle, since the sword can be used more quickly and in a greater number of ways if it’s already drawn. Even sillier is when an Iaijutsu practitioner goes through a battle repeatedly sheathing his sword so that he can use the cut from the scabbard on every single enemy, despite this being a huge waste of effort and dangerously predictable. That could be justified, however, if the scabbard has some special ability to charge up the sword with energy, or increase the power of the cut by shooting the blade out at high speed. Users of this trope can often create Sword Beams, or just strike and re-sheathe so fast that it looks like a Sword Beam. See also: Quick Draw, Single-Stroke Battle, One-Hit Kill.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_10ddd3d5	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Link can learn the "Mortal Draw" technique (though it uses a Western sword instead of a katana). It requires him to keep his sword sheathed while moving close to the enemy without Z-Targeting, then draw it with the perfect timing, but will One-Hit Kill pretty much anything that isn't a boss (and severely damage anything that is) if executed correctly. If he returns it to the sheath just after, he uses the same flourish as after killing a boss.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact: Both of the Kamisato siblings, Ayaka and Ayato, have swordplay styles focusing on quick slashes and resheathing between attacks. Ayaka in particular is often regarded by fans an an expy of the aforementioned Vergil for this reason.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_145d9b29	comment	Star Ocean: The Second Story: Dias Flac is one. He contrasts the other characters by his skills rarely doing more than one hit. His most comboish attack deals four hits, as opposed to the 10 of his counterparts. Unfortunately, this greatly decreases his usefulness in the endgame since his attacks have slow startup and his normal attack isn't affected by items that would normally make everyone's normal attacks his several times. He also however, uses his sword out of its sheath during the cutscenes (in the anime and remake) as another contrast. Even though his very first Killer Move follows this to a tee, it takes the title of most spammable in the game. More interestingly, his best weapon, the Crimson Diabolos may exist to circumvent his one hit style as it has the hidden ability to double his Attack Power.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_1622155	comment	Spoofed in Kirby Super Star, where the "Samurai Kirby" Mini-Game is based around a Iaijutsu duel against Waddle Dee, King Dedede, and the deadliest of all, Meta-Knight. The duels are fought with paper fans, mallets, and pies.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_1869a077	comment	In the Samurai Jack episode "The Princess and the Bounty Hunters", Princess Mira is shown practicing her quick draw. She repeatedly slashes the drops of water falling from an icicle, to the other bounty hunters' amazement.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_187d570a	comment	In Devil May Cry 4, Dante uses iaijutsu himself when wielding Yamato. In one of his cutscenes, he slices through a huge slab of stone, several hundred meters away from him.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_18ce5aab	comment	Ukyo Tachibana, of Samurai Shodown. Yumeji Kurokouchi, when he/she isn't Power Copying other characters' techniques, fights with a carbon copy of Ukyo's iaijutsu style. According to canon, Yumeji trained under Ukyo's old master, resulting in the similarity. Another character from the series who uses such techniques is Yoshitora Tokugawa. His badassery is compounded by the fact that not only does he sheath his swords in between attacks, but he fights with seven of them at the same time.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_1c1ceec7	comment	With most types of melee weapons in the Monster Hunter series, you can unsheathe your weapon while moving forward to do a draw attack, bringing it out and striking in the same motion. It's an important move for weapons like great swords and hammers due to their slower attack speed otherwise, and there's even an Armor Skill that boosts the power of draw attacks. In Monster Hunter: World Iceborne, longswords get a "special sheathe" move; the hunter moves the sheath to the hip instead of the back and sheathes, and can then use one of two quickdraw moves.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_1c25dba1	comment	Georg from Suikoden V is also an iaijutsu practitioner, sheathing his sword in between strikes. Georg is actually quite famous for this in-universe. It's said that he only draws his blade when he's sure that he can take the enemy down with one strike, earning him the nickname "Deathblow" Georg. In a case of Gameplay and Story Integration, he is permanently equipped with the Killer Rune, which boosts his Critical Hit chance by 50% and has a 10% chance of inflicting instant death.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_1cc09117	comment	Subverted in Bleach anime Episodes 136-137. An arrancar named Patros always sheathes his sword after using it to send out a blast of power. He's just showing off his iajutsu skills, right? Nope. Urahara's mod souls figure out that he has to resheathe his sword after every blast in order to recharge it, and they render him helpless by preventing him from doing so. Played straight earlier in the Soul Society arc. Head-Captain Yamamoto prepares to battle Captains Kyoraku Shunsui and Ukitake Jushiro. In this case, it's a battle of who can do this first. Yamamoto wins and unleashes a Sword Beam which blows them back. Played straight even earlier than that when Byakuya pulls this off twice in combination with his Flash Step, once to cut off the blade of Ichigo's sword, and again when he stabs Ichigo to remove the powers he borrowed from Rukia. Renji, who is at this point more experienced at following high-speed movement, is barely able to follow the second attack, but can't even see the first one at all. Ichigo on the other hand has absolutely no idea what happened. Isshin Kurosaki uses this style to kill Grand Fisher in one strike. Renji would also utilize a variant of this, defeating his enemy by ramming them with the pommel of his sword as he drew it.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_1ee8851d	comment	Wild ARMs has Jack Van Burace, who specializes in the Fast/Quick Draw sword technique. While it isn't too obvious in the original, the Video Game Remake with its updated graphics makes it clear that it's the series' name for the Iaijutsu style.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_1f76648	comment	Kanzaki Kaori from A Certain Magical Index fakes iaido when performing her nanasen technique. While her opponent tries to track her drawing her sword, they are distracted from the real attack: Razor Wire that she controls like a marionette. She actually can perform iaido, but doesn't do it very often.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_223c2a48	comment	In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, performing a charged attack while wielding a katana-type sword (such as the Eightfold Blade or the Windcleaver) will have Link perform a single powerful slash with the weapon from its sheath, rather than a Spin Attack like with other sword types. It isn't any more significantly powerful than a charged attack from any other weapon of similar power, however.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_255e22be	comment	Elazul from Legend of Mana has an exclusive special move based on this principle. In addition, one of the very first special moves you'll learn for the one-hand sword is the Iai Strike, which evidently involves hitting the enemy hard enough to knock them to the other side of the battlefield (you never really have a sheath).
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_28d65c89	comment	Due to the entirely different combat mechanics, Asbel's appearances in spin-off titles such as Tales Of The Rays instead resemble the Devil May Cry example above, where he fights primarily in his Assault style and only draws, then returns, the blade for a few specific moves. Notably, you're expected to cancel the animations of such attacks because his re-sheathing animation is the slightly slower and more realistic animation when switching from Burst to Assault style in his source game, which can leave you open in the heat of battle. Burial Blade still has him return the blade too fast to see.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_295048d5	comment	In Bloodborne, Chikage is a Sabre/Katana hybrid weapon which acts like Iaito katana once covered with the Old Blood, the said rite drains the health from the wielder. Its history can trace back to the blood of Yharnam, the Pthumerian Queen as well as the origin of Cainhurst Vileblood.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	In Heroes, Future Hiro is a Battoujutsu master.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_2ef7cb74	comment	Lyrical Nanoha: Signum uses a few iaijutsu techniques in her battles, though she wields a broadsword rather than a katana. And while she uses the techniques, her actual fighting style is much more varied. There's also her Flying Dragon Flash technique, a variant that has her transforming her sword in the middle of the sword draw so it comes out as a flaming Whip Sword heading straight towards her opponent. Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid introduces Micaiah Chevelle, who specializes in this. This makes her a Fragile Speedster Glass Cannon who can deliver speedy One Hit KOs against anyone unprepared, but who has trouble against opponents who can slip past her blade and pummel her nigh-defenseless form.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_309d7300	comment	In Sonic and the Secret Rings, Erazor Djinn has a straight razor-style sword that he can fold and strike out with.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_32c541e6	comment	Fürher King Bradley aka the homunculus Wrath from Fullmetal Alchemist can do it so fast you can't even see it.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_33acebd8	comment	Guilty Gear series: Johnny, especially with his Mist Finer special move. Baiken is a minor example; which is quite impressive for someone with only one working arm.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_34170b02	comment	Samurai Warriors series offer us Mitsuhide Akechi, a Samurai In Shining Armor who uses Iaijutsu with his katana for flash-slices, counterattacks and Razor Wind. There's also Munenori Yagyu, who only draws the blade for certain attacks, and otherwise just swings his sheathed sword around like a giant club.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: In Chapter 6 of the original, Hugh uses an iajutsu move to behead a goblin with his Chikage.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: Two characters are using such techniques thus far, Adam Taurus and Raven Branwen, both of whom wield Japanese-stylenote note that there is no Japan in the world of RWBY swords. It is worth noting that whilst Raven wields a more traditionally curved O-katana which is perfect for incorporating this technique, Adam wields a far older style of blade called a Chokuto with a straight blade, making his incredible swordsmanship even more impressive. Adam also uses Iaijutsu with his Semblance, which allows him to absorb energy from attacks that he blocks with his sword and unleash said energy via a quickdraw strike. He uses this technique to disintegrate a giant robot in the Black trailer, as well as sever Yang's right arm in Episode 11 of Volume 3. It's worth noting that, per Word of God, his attack was actually strong enough to instantly deplete Yang's Aura and harm her through it in one blow.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_3aa95d7a	comment	In Hakuouki, Saito Hajime practices iai. When asked, he explains that he prefers it because it's a skill that can reliably cut the enemy on the first strike, allowing him to end most of his battles before his opponent knows they've begun.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_3d0806b2	comment	In Winter War, Shirogane is an expert in iaido. She gives Isane a quick lesson in the basics- it doesn't make Isane an Instant Expert, but it does shake her out of her depression to the point where she can play a useful role in the battle.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_3e6efd69	comment	It is revisited, a few years later... or earlier, actually, in Episode II. Obi Wan is "having a drink" at the bar of a club, luring his target, a female shape-shifting assassin into a false sense of security. When she comes in for the kill, Obi Wan turns around and in a split second disarms her — quite literally — with his lightsaber.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_4150349a	comment	The title character of Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter, notably in the bar fight. He draws his katana, strikes twice, and sheathes it, all in under two seconds. It takes longer for his three opponents to realize that they're dead than it took for him to kill them.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_43a9c333	comment	In Cowboy Bebop, Vicious uses this to kill a mook during his overthrow of the Red Dragon leadership. He tries it again with Spike, who manages to parry with his pistol.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_46514f8a	comment	In Millionaires' Express, the three unnamed samurai proves themselves a force not to be reckoned with when their leader performs this trope while meditating... on a fly. Cue a dead fly dropping out the air.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_46aac2a3	comment	Elden Ring: "Unsheathe" is default weapon art of the uchigatana, but can also be applied to most other katana-class weapons. Activating it requires you to hold down a button to sheathe your katana and to assume a waiting stance, then to tap the basic or heavy attack button to lunge forward with a powerful sideways or downward sweep, respectively. As the Samurai "class" starts the game with an uchigatana equipped, mastering this technique is paramount for it to beat enemies with few openings, but its low FP cost, short wind-up, and good damage scaling all make it a viable move well into the endgame. The unique katana Moonveil's weapon art, Transient Moonlight, is exactly the same as Unsheathe, except it also fires a magical Sword Beam that deals just as if not more damage than actually connecting with the slash and can be spammed from range, making Moonveil an extremely popular weapon.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_49a88442	comment	The Stormblood expansion of Final Fantasy XIV adds the Samurai class, which naturally boasts Iaijutsu as one of its signature techniques; in fact, Samurai's Arms are the only weapon type in the game with a visible sheathe (everything else just sits on your back or hip without a holster). The skill produces one of three different attacks depending on how many how many Sen (combinations of other weapon skills) you use before unleashing it: Higanbana, a long-lasting Damage Over Time effect for one; Tenka Goken, a conal Herd-Hitting Attack for two; and Midare Setsugekka, an extremely powerful single-target strike for three. Just as naturally, this is also a trademark of Musosai, the trainer of the job. Shadowbringers adds in Tsubame-gaeshi, which allows the previous skill to be immediately cast a second time with greater potency, but has a 60-second cooldown. In the game's lore, iaijutsu techniques work by collecting aether in the scabard while fighting, then sheathing the katana to bathe the blade in the aether before unleashing it in powerful attacks.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_4ac424b4	comment	Reiji's fighting style includes this in Namco × Capcom, and Saya's focuses very heavily on it. The twist is that they both carry a weapon rack in one hand that holds swords of different lengths and elements (and in Reiji's case, a shotgun), and they tend to switch weapons between each strike.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_4c363bcc	comment	Sentinels of the Multiverse: In the team villain gameplay mode, the Operative has a card that explicitly dubs her an Iaido Practitioner, with art showing her cutting some poor sucker into pieces and sheathing her sword afterwards. Presumably she picked it during her time with either the Chairman or Zhu Long, since her early martial arts training at Mr Fixer's dojo wrapped up by the age of ten, and it's hard to see him teaching a sword-based fighting style to an eight-year-old.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_4c746380	comment	Inuyasha: Sesshomaru usually doesn't draw his sword unless he can pull this off. As the story's resident Master Swordsman, when he meets someone he cannot do this to (his brother and the Big Bad are the only two), you know the fight just went up a level.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_4d97191f	comment	In Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, Soma Cruz will do this with any katana-type weapon.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_4f68cd38	comment	He also does it in the 2003 film directed by/starring Takeshi Kitano, often to much Bloody Hilarious effect.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_4fcbe146	comment	Strider: According to the original scenario written for the Arcade game, Hiryu's lineage of Striders were experts at the Iaijutsu technique, with each generation perfecting the quick-drawing ability to even bigger superhuman levels. One of Hiryu's ancestors was said to be so fast it appeared her strikes shattered light as if were glass, while another perfected her technique to the point she could strike before the enemy even thought about attacking. This seems to imply Hiryu's rapid-fire Cypher slashes in the actual game were meant to be an even better/faster version of his family's Iaijutsu. In the NES version, the Big Bad Matic attacks using this technique, and is part of his Puzzle Boss gimmick: Matic will never attack the player directly, but stand in front of them with his hand hovering over his Cypher. Striking at him at any point makes Matic counter with a blinding-fast slash of his own, throwing Hiryu's weapon off his hand and leaving him defenseless until he picks it back. Instead, using any of the many projectile technique in Hiryu's arsenal will instead throw Matic's Cypher off his hands and leave him vulnerable until he recovers it.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_500bac67	comment	Sayaka Miki gains this ability in Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion, doing tricks like slashing through Homura's bonds and then sheathing her sword in a split second.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_50555681	comment	Uneri Ginkaku from Katanagatari specializes in iaijutsu, which is enhanced by his demonic blade Namakura, allowing him to strike five times a second.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_50bcf7a6	comment	The Rex Duodecim Angelus fan-animation has (legally-)Blind Weaponmaster Terezi demonstrate this technique with her dual Sword Cane against the tentacles of the Black King. An interesting variation in that each sword is sheathed in the part of the cane that functions as the handle of the other, thus allowing her to make the standard (and cool) motion of gripping the sheath to draw while still leaving her holding both swords once she's done so.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_51455a02	comment	In Claymore the Quicksword and Wind Cutter techniques are similar examples of invisibly fast Blade Spam iaijutsu. Ilena, the creator of the Quicksword technique, is so skilled at its use that she can block attacks "undetected"; that is, her arm moves at such a speed that it looks like any attack against her is hitting some kind of invisible barrier rather than her sword, which is being drawn, used, and sheathed so quickly that literally no motion is detected.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5261d625	comment	In the opening credits of Samurai Champloo, we see Jin practicing Iaijutsu. The series' Big Bad also gets a little of it in, but by and large he calmly draws his sword and lets his opponents do the same before fighting.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5319ce6c	comment	Spy X Family has the unnamed swordsman during the cruise ship arc. He's a professional killer that managed to get the drop on Yor's superior and then knocked him out with one swift strike of his sword's scabbard. Yor notes that he's in a league of his own compared to the other assassins, and he's skilled enough that he manages to not only leave visible wounds on Yor, but also came the closest to actually killing her. He would have succeeded, had Yor not gotten her Epiphany Comeback.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5b08c386	comment	The player's nameless samurai could be one of these in Way of the Samurai. In the first game, it was simply a single special move found on certain side stance swords, but the second game introduces 'Draw' stance weapons, which are explicitly iaijutsu styled attacks, drawing and returning the blade to its sheath between combos. Some weapons that use this stance are straightforward and sensible (traditional katana or short bladed swords, for instance). This stance could be combined with some positively ludicrous sword designs, and lead to the player draw-slashing with a Buster Sword Expy. 3 was notorious for this.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5bd9e7b7	comment	The Alonne Knights in Dark Souls II attack with quick sword draws with katana—they're even wearing what's essentially metal kendo armor. The knights are named after Sir Alonne, an eastern warrior who helped the Iron King's rise to power.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5bfa9c98	comment	The Tenno of Warframe pretty much specialize in this, as they have a quick-melee button just in case an enemy Butcher gets too close when they were reloading that expensive assault rifle. Special mention goes to, of course, the Nikanas, literally "space katana", which always fully resheathe at the end of a combo even if the weapon is being held ready and equipped.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5e150650	comment	Exalted has a fairly potent Terrestrial Martial Art that is basically focused around this sort of thing: Even Blade Style. The capstone Charm of Master Zu Rat Te's variant is perhaps the ultimate version of it — Impossible Unseen Strike is pretty much Exactly What It Says on the Tin, an attack that is so supernaturally fast and precise that nobody even notices it until the target's bleeding, the attacker never seeming to move an inch. 3rd Edition has now introduced Single Point Shining Into the Void Style, which explicitly mentions that it is customary for practitioners fighting with the style's form Charm active to sheathe their sword after each strike and then draw it again for the next.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5e16d550	comment	Black Clover: Yami's spell Dark Cloaked Iai Slash which has him sheathe his sword while he condenses his Black Moon, then coating his sword in his Dark Magic and drawing it to attack.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5ea98a2e	comment	Kamui Den: Matsubayashi Kenpu. Kamui himself also counts: his signature "kasumi-giri" technique involves some unorthodox sword drawing
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5efbf032	comment	The Asterisk War: In Volume 6 (anime episode 2x12), Kirin Toudou uses an iaijutsu move combining sword and sheath straight out of Rurouni Kenshin to defeat a group of skeleton warriors summoned by Psycho for Hire Gustave Malraux, before knocking him unconscious with the blunt side of her katana.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_5ff059fa	comment	Yukio from The Wolverine. We barely see her unsheathe her sword and then the sword's already back on sheath. Cue sliced objects collapsing.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_6348f5cf	comment	Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha ViVid introduces Micaiah Chevelle, who specializes in this. This makes her a Fragile Speedster Glass Cannon who can deliver speedy One Hit KOs against anyone unprepared, but who has trouble against opponents who can slip past her blade and pummel her nigh-defenseless form.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: The Sword Saint is an archetype for the Samurai class, trading its usual mount and banner abilities for an entire tree of Quick Draw skills. By level 14 a Sword Saint's quick draw stacks a ton of bonus damage onto its target, scares the tar out of nearby enemies and causes a sonic boom that deafens enemies. The Path of War 3rd party supplement has the Mithral Current discipline, which gives many of its moves a bonus if the person draws a weapon as part of doing it, explaining this feature as "The Fine Art of Iaijutsu". The Bushi class template specializes in Mithral Current, and grants the ability to recover one of your maneuvers whenever you sheathe a weapon.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_684610	comment	Jin Kisaragi from BlazBlue uses this style frequently.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_69484cdd	comment	Supernatural example in Ushio and Tora: Shinno, the leader of the Western Monsters, uses this style not with a katana but rather with a massive, double-edged broadsword. What's more, said giant sword, called "Rubashiri", is normally invisible when "sheated", appearing in sight only when "draw".
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_6a20facd	comment	Willard H. Wright fights with some semblance of this in Ougon Musou Kyoku CROSS (a Spin-off game of Umineko: When They Cry), in particular with his 214 Iai Strikes special.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: 1st Edition Oriental Adventures had the Iaijutsu proficiency, which allowed automatic and instant drawing or sheathing of your weapon. 3.0 has the "Iaijutsu Focus" skill from Oriental Adventures (a supplement created after Wizards bought the rights to Legend of the Five Rings) that gives you bonus damage when you strike after drawing your weapon but is only a class skill for some rather poor classes. There is also an "Iaijutsu Master" Prestige Class which grants additional benefits when using Iaijutsu Focus with a katana. From edition 3.5: The Samurai class from Complete Warrior has a class feature called "Iaijutsu", which grants the Quick Draw feat and a bonus to Initiative. The "Mercurial Strike" feat from Dragon Magazine allows you to draw a melee weapon as part of making an attack of opportunity, as long as you were previously unarmed. When you do, the speed of your attack catches your opponent flat-footed (which among other things allows rogues to treat the attack as a sneak attack). While no 3.5 classes list 3.0's Iaijutsu Focus as a class skill, it is still legal material, thus making it popular in builds for the Factotum (a class that gets every skill as a class skill) — this includes specialists in the gnome quickrazor (a Hidden Blade-like weapon that sheaths itself after every attack), as well as builds that multiclass into Master Thrower and Bloodstorm Blade in order to use katanas as projectiles.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_6ae6b4c7	comment	Mako Mori does this in her sparring match with Raleigh Becket in Pacific Rim. She wields a quarterstaff instead of a sword, but the move set is clearly identifiable, including "re-sheating" the staff on her hip after every round. Also an example of The Cast Showoff — Rinko Kikuchi is a known practitioner of the art in Real Life.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_6ba9a84a	comment	You play as one in Sakura Samurai.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_6c47db4e	comment	Impa from Dynasty Warriors-esque Hyrule Warriors carries a large sword, keeping it sheathed in between attacks. Her intro cutscene involves her meditating in front of three swinging pendulums, waiting for them to line up, and slashing them in one swipe without her sword visibly out of its sheathe. Her Focus Spirit finisher attack has her unsheathe her blade, swing it to send out a large sword beam, and then sheath it. The sword beam doesn't detonate until the blade is sheathed.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_6d10ab0b	comment	Mortal Kombat 9: All sword-wielding characters will draw and replace them as part of combos, this is most apparent with Kenshi and Scorpion. It is subverted with Sub-Zero, who materialises and often shatters his ice weapons on the field.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: Guts' Dragonslayer is between six and seven feet long, a foot wide, and he carries it on his back. Many a mook has thought it used to protect his back at best, not seeing how it could be grabbed, drawn (one-handed) and◊ and swung, in less than a second.◊
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_70a86caa	comment	Vralgo Kentauri from The Five Star Stories is a respected iaido master, demonstrated most dramatically when he nearly kills a young King Colus III in a flashback scene.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_717c5f25	comment	Several characters from Gamaran. Most noticeably, the Kannari Ryu (one of the oldest and strongest) is all about iaijutsu. Other swordsmen (Gama, Iori and Shinnojo) are frequently shown using these attacks in battle, along with the other techniques.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_72262aee	comment	Zuko from Avatar: The Last Airbender occasionally uses this technique in his sword fights. In one particularly impressive example from "Zuko Alone", he knocks a guy back without even taking the sword all the way out of the scabbard.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_74e330bb	comment	An example with a Chinese sword instead of a Japanese katana, Fatal Move have Wu Jing's character, a triad enforcer who uses a Jian as his weapon of choice, which he can draw, slice up enemies, and sheathe in seconds. In one scene a triad boss with two bodyguards tries intimidating him, but in four seconds he whipped out his weapon, slashed the throats of both bodyguards, hack off the triad boss' arm which is in the middle of drawing a pistol, and re-sheathes his weapon.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_74f7210c	comment	The Legend of Zelda: The attack animations of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask depict Link drawing his sword and striking with one motion. The only exception to this is when he uses two-handed swords. In The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Link can learn the "Mortal Draw" technique (though it uses a Western sword instead of a katana). It requires him to keep his sword sheathed while moving close to the enemy without Z-Targeting, then draw it with the perfect timing, but will One-Hit Kill pretty much anything that isn't a boss (and severely damage anything that is) if executed correctly. If he returns it to the sheath just after, he uses the same flourish as after killing a boss. In The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, performing a charged attack while wielding a katana-type sword (such as the Eightfold Blade or the Windcleaver) will have Link perform a single powerful slash with the weapon from its sheath, rather than a Spin Attack like with other sword types. It isn't any more significantly powerful than a charged attack from any other weapon of similar power, however. Impa from Dynasty Warriors-esque Hyrule Warriors carries a large sword, keeping it sheathed in between attacks. Her intro cutscene involves her meditating in front of three swinging pendulums, waiting for them to line up, and slashing them in one swipe without her sword visibly out of its sheathe. Her Focus Spirit finisher attack has her unsheathe her blade, swing it to send out a large sword beam, and then sheath it. The sword beam doesn't detonate until the blade is sheathed. Sooga from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity combines this fighting style with Dual Wielding, including the ability to create an X-shaped projectile attack by drawing both of his swords at once.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_7668653b	comment	Mass Effect 3 introduces this technique as a part of the revamped melee options added to the game, as most heavy attacks are made by the player character winding back, materializing an Omni-blade (a short, superheated dagger formed over the wrist of the user) and thrusting it forward as it's being created. While not literally unsheating, the weapon only turns up as the attack is started. A more straight example would be the Shadow Infiltrator and Slayer Vanguard Class from the Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer DLC Earth, who actually both carries a very sharp tanto, who they'll unsheath and strike with at the same time and sheat it again just after. In fact, you can't keep the weapons drawn at all.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_76b91d49	comment	Kizami from Shinobi (2002). Gets bonus points for being an Iaijutsu Master AND a blind swordsman.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_76dcbaa7	comment	Yuzuriha in Under Night In-Birth, done with a oodachi (a very long katana). In her case, she can enter a stance where she's holding her sheathed sword at her hip, which can be continued into sword strikes at different angles. Yuzu also appears as a playable character in BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle, where she comments that a true Iai master can draw the sword as fast as lightning, but, despite not being that good, she still can cut down an opponent before they realize she drew.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_78e27fa7	comment	Lyn from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade fights this way, resheathing her katana after every blow. Her appearances as an assist trophy in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and U/3DS have her attack this way, as well (crouching in position for a few seconds with sheathed katana, before attacking with a single slash).
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_797793b1	comment	Amidamaru and Yoh of Shaman King does something like this with the Shinkuu Buddha Giri technique in which they draw the Harusame so fast they create a projectile of razor sharp wind.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_7a0fa029	comment	Used in one of the strongest spells of Earth from Zatch Bell!.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_7aefccf3	comment	The Ninja Girl that serves as the bodyguard for the final boss of Jacket's storyline in Hotline Miami. If you let her get too close or try to melee her, she'll slice you right in half with one draw. You need to take her down by throwing the trophy at her and then doing a finisher on her while she's on the ground.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_7afc24b0	comment	Samurai Deeper Kyo has a variant called "hien ken" which crosses this trope with Blade Spam (draw sword and strike three times in an eyeblink). One of Kyo's early opponents is a practitioner, but Kyo beats him at his own game.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_7b2ca7a2	comment	In Bayonetta, the Shuraba allows you to perform this.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_7d8c61a2	comment	Imperial Agents in Star Wars: The Old Republic do a minor example of this with their vibroknives, when they don't simply just backfist it with the knife appearing out of nowhere. Notably, Operatives may sometimes appear to pull a knife out, stab, and then place it right back where it belongs before getting back to their normal rotation.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_836b2295	comment	In Grand Chase, Lass' fourth job (Evan Striper / Striker / Slasher) has him using iaido.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_843f6f3f	comment	Gegaro, of Bushido Blade, has several iaijutsu-type moves.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_84f3f987	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V, whenever Chojiro Tokumatsu is about to draw a card, he goes into an iaido stance, which others comment on. He draws his cards so powerfully it makes a gust of wind.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_86814e56	comment	Cyan Garamonde has effectively the same attack as his level 8 Bushido attack, by the name of Oblivion. For bonus points, the monsters unlucky enough to be hit by it are cloven into pieces.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_88fce462	comment	In an odd example, Benimaru Nikaido from the Japan Team in The King of Fighters has a move called the Iaido Kick, where he throws an extremely fast, almost invisible kick before returning his leg back to his stance. It's about as close to an iai draw as you can get with a kick.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_8bc62500	comment	Zatoichi the blind swordsman tends to use his Sword Cane in this way, either for one-hit kills or intimidation demonstrations. One example of the latter: he throws a single die into a long-necked bottle being held by a mook. While the mook is still holding the bottle, Zatoichi whips out the sword, slashes, and slips it back into the scabbard. The bottom of the bottle fell apart, and so does the die inside. He also does it in the 2003 film directed by/starring Takeshi Kitano, often to much Bloody Hilarious effect.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_8d81bb26	comment	In the infamous NCIS episode "The Immortals", the Victim of the Week is found to have been teaching himself swordsmanship using a book on Iaido... for use with his straight-bladed Navy officer's sword.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_8ec33a86	comment	Shulk doesn't do this at all in his game of origin, but oddly, he does so with every attack in both Smash Bros. appearances he's made, to the point where fans joke that he'd be S-tier if he didn't stop to put his sword away between his sluggish attacks.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_8ec33a88	comment	Moebius N in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 wields the Sword of the End in this fashion, handily taking on the Ouroboros' Interlink forms with single strikes as they approach.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_8f578d93	comment	This is Anna's fighting style in the first Mana Khemia, whether she's performing normal attacks, sword beams, or slicing open dimensional holes to either attack from several directions at once or...increase everyone's elemental resistance?
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_9124e931	comment	Kamui Tokinomiya from the Arcana Heart series fights with iaijutsu, obsessively resheathing her sword after every strike.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_918c5a7e	comment	The rogue samurai Jubei in Evil Genius always sheathes his sword after a melee attack, resulting in a fighting style of slow but powerful attacks.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_924b6d63	comment	Citan in Xenogears after he's taken up arms again. He even makes a point to resheathe his sword with a large flourish. His combo attacks include quick-drawing and re-sheathing his sword repeatedly. Especially impressive because he uses a Chinese Jian instead of a katana.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_9284ad43	comment	In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, the samurai-themed prosecutor Simon Blackquill strikes the side-turned stance with hand on sword and performs quick "swipes" during trials. Despite just using his fingers, he can use this technique to perform Razor Wind attacks that are capable of cutting small objects from across the other side of the courtroom. He can even parry the phantom's grappling-hook-shuriken-thing.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_93fdfb2f	comment	In Street Fighter V, Zeku's special move Bushin Gram allows him to create blades of energy with his kicks, and this ability is likened to the Iaijutsu quick-drawing technique. As Zeku is a big walking Continuity Nod to Strider Hiryu, this ability is a direct reference to Hiryu's basic attacks as explained below.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_984982f6	comment	The Samurai / Fencer classes in the Ogre Battle series have a move called Iainuki. Depending on the game and class, this is either a quick melee slash or a mighty sonic attack that inflicts recoil damage on the user.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_985806ed	comment	In Truth and Consequences, Chat Noir receives Fang, a magic katana that is always sharpest the moment it's drawn.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_9bb5aad4	comment	In Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, the card Slash Draw (One-Strike Kill! Sword Draw in the Japanese version) shows a picture of a samurai crouching and about to draw his sword. If it is used correctly, its effect can defeat the opponent in a single turn.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_9db1766a	comment	Devil May Cry: While Vergil has occasional stints with other weapons, his stylish trademark is the demonic katana named Yamato, which he fights with using iaijutsu exclusively. In Devil May Cry 4, Dante uses iaijutsu himself when wielding Yamato. In one of his cutscenes, he slices through a huge slab of stone, several hundred meters away from him.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_9e202b7b	comment	Kenichi: The Mightiest Disciple: Kii Kagerou, and how! His draw is characterized in-series as "supersonic," and he can draw and resheathe multiple times faster than the untrained eye (or rather, Kenichi's eye, which is not entirely untrained by that point) can see.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Some of Zoro's most powerful attacks are iaido, such as Shishi Sonson and Rashomon, the latter of which uses two swords. And later, this is clearly seen in the signature move of Brook, whose sword is so fast that it looks like Brook was just walking past the enemy, before they get all cut up when he stops walking. While humming. Although it is possible that it was the sword doing the humming just because it was being swung around so fast.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_9f19f7b1	comment	Some duels in the manga version of Lone Wolf and Cub are between two of this type; which leads to several pages worth of Beat Panels as they wait for the most advantageous moment to draw.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_9f89a5f0	comment	Pokémon has the move Cut, which is known as Iai Cut in the Japanese versions.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_a3910c6f	comment	Xionic Madness: Xero's Cool Sword, the Aeroblade, combined with Razor Wind, operates on this principle. The Aeroblade itself has no physical blade, but instead has a built in turbine that cuts like any sword thanks to rapidly unsheathing and sheathing the blade, slicing enemies apart with high-pressure slashes made of wind. Overcharging it for a second allows for Xero to enter Bullet Time and rapidly slice multiple enemies at once. Combined with his suit's Super-Speed, he becomes a "maniacal hurricane."
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_a3eb1343	comment	In Chivalry of a Failed Knight, Touka Toudou's ultimate attack, Raikiri, uses her power over electricity and magnetism to accelerate her sword draw. It's so powerful that it can destroy a massive wall of ice.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_a6a79412	comment	Aden and Sonia from Rune Factory Oceans fights this way if you opt to use a katana instead of any other weapon.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_a7c9f8e9	comment	In Legend of the Five Rings, the Kakita family of the Crane is incredibly skilled at iaijutsu dueling; the family's namesake is widely considered the first Emerald Champion, and the position fills its vacancy through an iaijutsu dueling tournament. Duels between bushi in Rokugan almost always take the form of iaijutsu, mostly thanks to Crane Clan influence in Imperial culture. They're usually only to first blood, though — one has to have special dispensation from one's lord in order to have a full-blown Duel to the Death.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Ghi Yeghi, and to that extent all Parivirs, in Final Fantasy Tactics A2. It takes the trope rather seriously in a sense, since the actual skill Parivirs can learn - which is aptly named the Iai Blow - is explained quite well in-game (specifically saying that the skill sheathes and draws the sword suddenly and quickly against the enemy), and has a chance to instantly kill your target, much in the same way a real-life practitioner of Iaijutsu would if done correctly. The Dissidia Final Fantasy games reference this with the equippable ability "Iai Strike", which has a small chance (about 1 or 2 percent, before any multipliers) of instantly putting your opponent into "Break Mode" (basically rendering them unable to inflict HP damage on you until they either land another HP strike or wait it out; in either case, their Bravery points return to their default number. It's a slightly tricky system.). Firion has this move in both games with his Swordslash Bravery Attack. Justified because each of Firion's attacks uses a different weapon, and by drawing-and-resheathing his sword in the iaijustu style, Firion leaves his hands free to perform a different attack when Swordslash is finished. Gilgamesh in 012 also has this ability as standard, but it involves him drawing Zantetsuken (out of 8 possible weapons) with an attack, which the player has no control over. Final Fantasy V has Iainuki, the final power granted to Samurai. The move has them charge across the battlefield, presumably in a draw-and-re-sheath attack that attempts to slay all enemies instantly. Cyan Garamonde has effectively the same attack as his level 8 Bushido attack, by the name of Oblivion. For bonus points, the monsters unlucky enough to be hit by it are cloven into pieces. Final Fantasy Tactics has a rather strange variation for its Samurai class, in which they draw a katana other than the one they're currently equipped with and in the process somehow cause the sword's "spirit" to be released as if it were Summon Magic. This results in some nice effects, but also runs the risk of breaking the sword. In Final Fantasy X, Yojimbo uses his wakizashi in this style. The Stormblood expansion of Final Fantasy XIV adds the Samurai class, which naturally boasts Iaijutsu as one of its signature techniques; in fact, Samurai's Arms are the only weapon type in the game with a visible sheathe (everything else just sits on your back or hip without a holster). The skill produces one of three different attacks depending on how many how many Sen (combinations of other weapon skills) you use before unleashing it: Higanbana, a long-lasting Damage Over Time effect for one; Tenka Goken, a conal Herd-Hitting Attack for two; and Midare Setsugekka, an extremely powerful single-target strike for three. Just as naturally, this is also a trademark of Musosai, the trainer of the job. Shadowbringers adds in Tsubame-gaeshi, which allows the previous skill to be immediately cast a second time with greater potency, but has a 60-second cooldown. In the game's lore, iaijutsu techniques work by collecting aether in the scabard while fighting, then sheathing the katana to bathe the blade in the aether before unleashing it in powerful attacks. Zenos yae Galvus, a prominent FFXIV recurring villain introduced in Stormblood, is also a Samurai until he trades in his katana for a scythe to become a Reaper in Endwalker, and is so serious about getting his iaijutsu just right that he's got a special motorised scabbard for his three swords to ensure he can always draw the blade of his choice from the perfect angle.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_a9ed3f17	comment	Street Fighter X Mega Man has a very annoying Mook that uses this in Ryu's stage. The only time you can attack it is when it stops spinning its sword to get ready to attack (not during the attack itself).
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_aa57824b	comment	How Not to Summon a Demon Lord: Chester Ray Galford is so fast that when Alicia tries to threaten him with her sword, he slices it in half in a split second. Only Diablo is fast enough to barely track him drawing his sword, slicing Alicia's sword, then sheathing his sword.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_aba7ffb9	comment	In The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel, the fifth form of the Eight Leaves One Blade style, Morning Moon, involves this. Also featured prominently whenever Rean uses Arc Slash and Autumn Leaf Cutter.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_ad34ca69	comment	Ghi Yeghi, and to that extent all Parivirs, in Final Fantasy Tactics A2. It takes the trope rather seriously in a sense, since the actual skill Parivirs can learn - which is aptly named the Iai Blow - is explained quite well in-game (specifically saying that the skill sheathes and draws the sword suddenly and quickly against the enemy), and has a chance to instantly kill your target, much in the same way a real-life practitioner of Iaijutsu would if done correctly.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_ae050a9f	comment	The attack animations of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask depict Link drawing his sword and striking with one motion. The only exception to this is when he uses two-handed swords.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_afbc40fb	comment	Prayer of the Faithless: Mia practices an iaijutsu-like sword style that gives her sheathed and unsheathed stances, which change her moveset. All of her Bladelord skills in her sheathed stance will cause her to change to her unsheathed stance, and vice-versa.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_b0ec0986	comment	In Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, this is how Terra does his version of the Zantetsuken, a powerful attack that can potentially instakill.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_b1df22ec	comment	Asbel from Tales of Graces has a particularly varied take on this fighting style. Compared to other characters in the game, his moveset is split into two stances. His sword remains sheathed in his Assault style, preferring to use punches, kicks and blunt strikes with the scabbard, with only the final artes in his arte tree involving drawing, then re-sheathing his sword (including Bural Blade, the most direct example of this.) He also has Burst Style, which has him fight with the sword drawn like a more standard swordsman. However, transitioning from Assault to Burst style will cause him to do an Iai draw, just without re-sheathing his sword, and switching back will cause him to resheath his sword. The game incentivizes you remain in Burst Style for as long as you can before re-sheathing the sword by having him regenerate health based on how long he fought in Burst style before returning to Assault style. There are also several moves in either style that cause him to draw or re-sheathe his blade as part of the attack, allowing him to naturally flow between styles while resembling this trope. Due to the entirely different combat mechanics, Asbel's appearances in spin-off titles such as Tales Of The Rays instead resemble the Devil May Cry example above, where he fights primarily in his Assault style and only draws, then returns, the blade for a few specific moves. Notably, you're expected to cancel the animations of such attacks because his re-sheathing animation is the slightly slower and more realistic animation when switching from Burst to Assault style in his source game, which can leave you open in the heat of battle. Burial Blade still has him return the blade too fast to see.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_b24467b3	comment	Onigiri's movesets in Onmyoji suggest this. Keep in mind that he is the personification of a real-life tachi, a sword type unsuitable for this art to begin with, and is seemingly upgraded into an ōdachi judging by his character design.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_b5ab36eb	comment	You Only Live Twice. While James Bond is attending a ninja school we see a martial arts expert do a fast draw, pretend to slice up several students and then sheath his sword just as quickly.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_b6d1e59b	comment	Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice: Oddly, there aren't too many examples of this, despite the enormous number of katanas present in a game taking place in Sengoku era Japan. Only the Ashina Elite samurai, their clan patriach Isshin Ashina, and Isshin's pupil/doctor Emma really use the style, though the player character can unlock the ability as a hidden technique.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_b86954d5	comment	In Marvel vs. Capcom 3, Deadpool's Katana-Rama attack is this, where he leans and then draws his katana from his back and immediately slashes at an angle before sheathing back. It can be followed up with his "Chimichangas!" move where he unsheathes 2 katanas at once from his back for a powerful slash that blows the enemy far away.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_b962c879	comment	The villain Ikaruga from Fairy Tail combines this with Razor Wind to slash her opponents to pieces without taking a single step. She can draw and resheathe her sword so fast that even Erza can't follow it.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_be0c33a5	comment	In Ghost of Tsushima, this is a possible opening move for Jin if the player decides to use a Standoff at the start of the battle, where you wait for the enemy to make the first move and then strike them down. It can be upgraded to chain into three more enemies, and the right armour can expand this by two more, making it an effective way to cut through a group of enemies and then mop up the rest. The Straw Hats can also attack the player like this during Standoffs and normal combat.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_c2463c53	comment	Final Fantasy V has Iainuki, the final power granted to Samurai. The move has them charge across the battlefield, presumably in a draw-and-re-sheath attack that attempts to slay all enemies instantly.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_c2463c55	comment	In Final Fantasy X, Yojimbo uses his wakizashi in this style.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_cc2b38ea	comment	Azuu from Elijah and Azuu attempts this stance at one point, but because his sword doesn't actually have a scabbard he just ends up with a big gash on his palm.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_ce50887e	comment	In Dragon Ball, Yajirobe ends his fight with Cymbal by using iaijutsu.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_ce9bf544	comment	Hibiki from The Last Blade series fights using this style, even though her disposition is warm and cheerful (usually...). Moriya, from the same series, has a handful of special moves that require him to sheath his sword. While he's not a pure iaijutsu stylist, his character definitely fits the Blue Oni bill, complete with a Red Oni nemesis, so he deserves a spot on this list regardless.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_cfd1e6d	comment	In the NES version, the Big Bad Matic attacks using this technique, and is part of his Puzzle Boss gimmick: Matic will never attack the player directly, but stand in front of them with his hand hovering over his Cypher. Striking at him at any point makes Matic counter with a blinding-fast slash of his own, throwing Hiryu's weapon off his hand and leaving him defenseless until he picks it back. Instead, using any of the many projectile technique in Hiryu's arsenal will instead throw Matic's Cypher off his hands and leave him vulnerable until he recovers it.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d2bb929d	comment	In the Soul Series: Setsuka keeps a sword inside of her umbrella, and has many iaijutsu-type moves. Mitsurugi sheathes his sword when he enters his "Relic" stance, and from this stance can perform some of his most powerful moves. This was removed from his move set in Soul Calibur V, though. After IV, Setsuka moves to Istanbul and renames herself Neve. There she gives fighting lessons to orphans, including Sophitia's son Patrokolos, explaining why Alpha Patrokolos uses a similar fighting style.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d328cd69	comment	Dungeon Fighter Online attempts to go here despite the lack of sheaths. At the minor level, a female Slayer's class passive, "Composure", charges while not fighting to increase the odds of an initial strike being a critical hit. This evolves into a core part (and for some reason, a forbidden art) of her Sword Master subclass — aside from the attack speed boost the first visible effect of gaining the subclass will likely be the replacement of her basic attack combo while using a katana-type weapon into a rapid but clumsy-looking series of Reverse Grip stabs and drawing cuts. However, close examination will show this isn't a reverse grip at all; between every attack she changes forward foot and stance while "drawing" the weapon into her other hand, attacks, and changes back — so quickly almost all of this is invisible other than the weapon catching glints of light.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d3b17858	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics has a rather strange variation for its Samurai class, in which they draw a katana other than the one they're currently equipped with and in the process somehow cause the sword's "spirit" to be released as if it were Summon Magic. This results in some nice effects, but also runs the risk of breaking the sword.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d47715d9	comment	Sooga from Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity combines this fighting style with Dual Wielding, including the ability to create an X-shaped projectile attack by drawing both of his swords at once.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d616724d	comment	The League of Legends champion Yasuo, the Unforgiven, toys with this trope. In addition to returning it to the sheath, he also enjoys posing with the blade in one hand and the sheath in the other.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d62356da	comment	In the Naruto fanfiction Sugar Plums the main character Ume uses this sword style to compliment her status as a Fragile Speedster.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d7e44c10	comment	Katanas in Ga-Rei and Ga-Rei -Zero- are typically used this way in combat. Kagura's (and later Kensuke's) "Michael" katanas actually use pneumatic pressure inside the sheath to increase cutting force when using these technique.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d81ed288	comment	Parodied with Saya in Keijo!!!!!!!!, who uses her bikini top as a sheath in order to pull off iaijutsu strikes with her breasts.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d8e24914	comment	Onimaru's Yoko Ichimoji's technique from Yaiba combines this with Razor Wind to increase the range. Later, Yaiba manages to master the technique.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_d908efc	comment	In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, at least when he's asleep, Zenitsu can draw his sword, slice, and sheathe it so fast that you can barely even see it leave the scabbard, as seen during his "fight" against the tongue demon: one moment, Zenitsu's hand slightly twitches and exposes only a tiny bit of the blade, the very next instant, the demon's tongue is already severed. He then finishes things off by combining this with a Flash Step to decapitate his foe. Anyone who uses the same "Thunder Breathing" fighting style as Zenitsu would count as well, as Thunder Breathing is predominantly modeled after iaijutsu, except Kaigaku as he noticeably forsake the iaijutsu stance due never learning the first form, with that Kaigaku keeps his sword on his back, using all remaining forms without relying on fast sword drawing.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_dba1e8d8	comment	Akatsuki Blitzkampf: Though Fritz is not ethnically Japanese, he uses his katana to fight like this. A good example is his Super, the Hissatsu Kirikomi Touhou, in which he dashes forward and if it connects, he delivers eleven brutal slashes to the enemy, and then calmly sheathes his katana back as the rival falls to the ground. To a lesser degree, there's Murakumo. He uses his katana quite less than Fritz does since he relays more in lighting, illusions and setting mines - but when he does use it, he either unleashes one powerful upwards strike (his Denkoudan and its EX version), or slices the enemy upwards a few times before striking them back to the ground (his Super, Hakku Ichiu). Then, he immediately slides the katana back into its sheath.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_dd6c417	comment	Genta Umemori, ShinkenGold of Samurai Sentai Shinkenger, mastered this way of fighting — self-taught with a Reverse Grip no less. The same goes for his counterpart Antonio of Power Rangers Samurai. His quickdraw ability is such that by resheathing his sword after each strike, he is able to spam it, making a dozen strikes before he even appears to have done anything.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_df238852	comment	Muramasa: The Demon Blade has Quick Draw attacks: if you wait long enough before switching swords (the amount of time required can be reduced by collecting souls and possibly by getting hit a lot), their icons will flash and switching to another one will hit every enemy on the screen for large amounts of damage.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e26a4546	comment	Two bosses from Tenchu: From Tenchu 3: Wrath of Heaven, there are the assassin Sibling Team the Jinnai brothers. While Jinnai Ukyo fights with a normal Quick Draw technique whenever the player approaches him, his brother Sakyo can perform a Razor Wind attack to strike at long range alongside the close-range strikes. From Tenchu: Fatal Shadows, there's Nasu, basically a perverted evil Zatoichi, this blind masseuse can strike with his Sword Cane with great speed and power, usually sending the player character flying back if he manages to connect. This and the small room he's faced makes him a rather difficult boss, but thankfully the player has the option to Stealth Kill him instead, bypassing the whole battle.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e4d8e0b3	comment	In Yatagarasu, both Hina and Shimo use Iaijutsu, resehathing their swords between strikes.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e5d7e9e1	comment	The title character of _iCEY._ fights this way, with her most notable attack being a charged screen-killing move.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e5da4767	comment	Nioh can have William learn this not just for his Sword skills, but also for Odachi. More points into it allow him to charge it up faster and stronger, with the Tiger Sprint letting him do it while moving.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e6065630	comment	Ziyi from Oriental Legend 2 have her sword constantly sheathed, but she can unsheathe it and deliver a Blade Spam on her enemies within seconds, and then sheathe it back as quickly as she reveals it.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends (i.e., the pre-The Force Awakens Expanded Universe) has Trakata, which is this style applied to lightsabers. Its point is to activate a lightsaber quickly when it's needed to deal an unblockable blow and then turn it off. It also takes advantage of the unique lightsaber feature that the blade can be triggered or extinguished at any point. So a Jedi using trakata can swing at an opponent and switch the saber on and off with perfect timing to pass through an opponent's defense unhindered.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e67a7d6c	comment	Setsuna from Negima! Magister Negi Magi uses magic to make iai attacks with a nodachi (like a katana, but bigger, made for cavalry) several times, starting in Chapter 28. Takamichi also uses what is called "iaiken"; in other words, pulling his fist out of his pocket, attacking and putting it back so fast it looks like he's just standing there. And he can use it to create Fist Beams. Lost in Translation: "Ken" can mean both "sword" and "fist" in Japanese. This is a pun.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e735e9e0	comment	Dead Winter: In a dream sequence, Liz draws her sword and slices a leaping wolf-monster in one continuous motion.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e863cc41	comment	The Iai Form chip (Known as Slasher in the US version) in the Mega Man Battle Network series invokes this, making MegaMan pause for as long as the A button is held, during which time he'll instantly slash the first enemy foolish enough to enter his side of the field.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e8d19c42	comment	Katanas in Phantasy Star Online 2 are wielded in this manner. In fact, they happen to be the only weapons that have a sheath. Phantoms can take it one step further with the Quick Cut skill, which allows them to Flash Step to an enemy if they perform a weapon action the moment they sheath the blade.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e8e80e95	comment	While no 3.5 classes list 3.0's Iaijutsu Focus as a class skill, it is still legal material, thus making it popular in builds for the Factotum (a class that gets every skill as a class skill) — this includes specialists in the gnome quickrazor (a Hidden Blade-like weapon that sheaths itself after every attack), as well as builds that multiclass into Master Thrower and Bloodstorm Blade in order to use katanas as projectiles.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_e9c7b01b	comment	The Dissidia Final Fantasy games reference this with the equippable ability "Iai Strike", which has a small chance (about 1 or 2 percent, before any multipliers) of instantly putting your opponent into "Break Mode" (basically rendering them unable to inflict HP damage on you until they either land another HP strike or wait it out; in either case, their Bravery points return to their default number. It's a slightly tricky system.). Firion has this move in both games with his Swordslash Bravery Attack. Justified because each of Firion's attacks uses a different weapon, and by drawing-and-resheathing his sword in the iaijustu style, Firion leaves his hands free to perform a different attack when Swordslash is finished. Gilgamesh in 012 also has this ability as standard, but it involves him drawing Zantetsuken (out of 8 possible weapons) with an attack, which the player has no control over.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_ea505892	comment	In World Trigger, attackers who use the Kogetsu trigger have access to an optional trigger that allows them to shoot sword beams which have greater range and speed the faster the sword is drawn (the standart is 15 meters at 1 second). B-Rank-Captain Tatsuhito Ikoma specializes in this and can draw his sword in 0.2 seconds, giving him a range of 40 meters!
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_ec1fba76	comment	Honoka from The Third: The Girl with the Blue Eye fights primarily with Iaijutsu, enhanced with Chi for more cutting power.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_ed2a7866	comment	In Sword Art Online, "Iai" is the ultimate katana-class Sword Skill, and one of the few high-level attacks to rely on a single powerful strike rather than a chain of weaker ones. One of Aincrad's unreleased Unique Skills was "Battoujutsu", which presumably specialises in this trope.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_eef5470a	comment	The sword style of Kenshin Himura and his master, Seijuro Hiko XIII, from Rurouni Kenshin focuses on this. Although an all-around Master Swordsman, Kenshin was called "Hitokiri Battousai" (Quick-Draw Assassin; the Japanese characters literally read "Man-killing Sword-drawing-purification", if that is any indication of how far one should stay away from Kenshin when he's angry) during the Bakumatsu period by being just that good at battoujutsu and is occasionally referred to as "Himura Battousai" afterwards. Their Hiten Mitsurugi Style pointedly incorporates the scabbard into nearly all its iai moves: in the first one introduced, Kenshin's opponent Udo Jin-e barely dodges the katana slash but is done in by the following Sheath Strike, which shatters his elbow.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_f13f681e	comment	A Drop of Poison: Naruto's clones have to fight a man wielding a "flawed masterpiece" sword that can extend and bend like a whip to bypass regular defences — but only five times in a row, after which it must be re-sheathed, if only for a moment. The clones eventually defeat him by stealing the scabbard, leaving the sword to become soft and useless.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_f3ae2950	comment	In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Raiden can use this through an unlockable skill called "Quick Draw" which allows near-instantaneous draws, but doesn't help while fighting. Another character, Samuel Rodrigues/Jetstream Sam/Minuano, heavily incorporates this into his fighting style, and his weapon, a High-Frequency "Murasama" blade, was built with this in mind; his sword's scabbard contains a modified AR-15 rifle receiver that can shoot his sword out of the sheath for a lightning-fast draw, as shown up close in the first chapter when Sam sheathes his sword mid-fight to fool Raiden and chop his arm off. Samuel's version is also used in his DLC, including as a Charged Attack and an in-story use to chop Senator Armstrong's arm off, which doesn't work out as well when Armstrong hardens the stump with his nanomachines, using the resulting point to take Sam's arm in return.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_f4857d3	comment	Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai: The Sky Slash, one of the three fundamental techniques of the Avan school, is executed by striking as the user draws their sword from its sheath. It's by far the hardest part of the school to master, being a Supernatural Martial Arts technique which must be aimed with the third eye and strikes directly at the spirit of the opponent. The Sky Slash is, however, ultimately a stepping stone to the Avan Strash (a Finishing Move which combines the principles of all three techniques into a single blow) and is rarely used on its own once mastered. Late in the series, Dai's final technique "Giga Strash" is used in this way - sheathing the Sword of Dai while it channels a lightning spell so that the magic grows stronger and stronger over time, then unleashing it through a draw-cut version of the Avan Strash. This function was added to the sheath to give Dai a match for Baran's "Giga Break", a similar Spell Blade technique which channels higher-level lightning magic than Dai can cast normally.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_f7d93e4a	comment	Non-katana example: Assassin's Creed's Altair and Ezio are capable of striking while drawing swords.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_f84c42c0	comment	Goemon of Lupin III has trained in many fighting styles, but uses primarily a form of Iaijutsu. Referenced in Lupin III: Stolen Lupin, where Goemon's Rival for the special points out that Goemon's style requires him to draw and sheath his sword to be the most effective. A manga-only chapter has a singular example in which Goemon and Lupin challenge an old man for the possession of his treasured sword, which hungs by a chain and can seemingly move on its own to slice anyone and anything trying to take the blade. Goemon eventually defeats the sword by pointing out that it has to return to its scabbard and proceeds to smash the scabbard with a chain, leaving the sword stuck in midair.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_f8705c18	comment	Yumie in Hellsing is a battoujutsu practitioner. During the final battle in London, she tries to kill Dark Walter this way, but is killed herself instead as she has to charge within range of his Razor Floss, resulting in her getting sliced to pieces.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_f8956ef3	comment	YuYu Hakusho: Shishiwakamaru is one. Though he will sometimes take several swipes at a time with his sword, he returns it to its sheathe after each combo if not after each strike.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_fa132e37	comment	In Dark Devotion, Elemiah the Crow Lady has an attack where she sheathes her giant katana before drawing it in a quick, lunging slash.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_fb092f55	comment	Tales of the Undiscovered Swords: Sasanoyuki's being an uchigatana makes him perfect for the art. Since he places importance on efficiency, he's prone to fast-drawing in even the most unnecessary situations, like when making paper snowflakes and chopping cabbages. At his most badass, he can behead an entire group of Kebiishi in one draw without his blade being visible.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_fcf43f47	comment	This is one of the special skills on offer in the Fighting Fantasy book Sword of the Samurai. It has the result that the player will automatically hit their opponent in the first round of combat and do 3 (rather than the usual 2) points of stamina damage. In one battle can be used for a crowning moment of awesome; your opponent takes massive damage and is weakened by their arm being crippled. And that's because he used it to block a one-hit-kill decapitation...
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_fdd11c1b	comment	In Eternal Fighter Zero, Mai Kawasumi is a master of this technique, drawing and attacking at lightning fast speed, and resheathing her sword after each strike; fighting style-wise, she's pretty similar to Hibiki from The Last Blade, with shades of other iaijutsu practitioners in the mix, such as Johnny and Baiken, for example.
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Iaijutsu Practitioner / int_fe83990a	comment	Aldebaran from Saint Seiya does this with his bare fists. He keeps his arms crossed across his chest when he is facing an adversary, and then he whips them out with such strength and speed his enemy has been crushed on the ground or thrown through several walls before even realizing what has happened. When Seiya fights him, Marin (Seiya's master) blatantly tells him Aldebaran's technique uses the same principle than a Iaijutsu Practitioner.
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Katana ZERO (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Kengo (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Kirby Super Star (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Muramasa: The Demon Blade (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Nioh (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Nioh 2 (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Prayer of the Faithless (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Sin and Punishment: Star Successor (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Soul of the Samurai (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Street Fighter X Mega Man (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Streets of Rage (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
The Last Story (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
The Messenger (2018) (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
The Mysterious Murasame Castle (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Under Night In-Birth (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Visions of Mana (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Way of the Samurai (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Wuthering Waves (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
YuuYuu Jiteki no Yuukarin (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Demonsteele (Video Game) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Princess Lover! (Visual Novel) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Holo-Chronicles (Web Animation) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
The Cynical Brit (Web Video) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
Chanda (Webcomic) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner
No Need for Bushido (Webcomic) / int_77494699	type	Iaijutsu Practitioner

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